Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1873, Page 5

> ERAN THE C]IICAGO: DAILY "I'RABUNK TLTLUAGS A & 8TV Laava tey f ot GUR LIBRARY. Another Grand Chicago Enterprise Estab- lished. (Continued from the First Page.) storo thelr minds with usoful primary informa- tion, and to learn how to think and reason; but EDUCATION BHOULD NOT END WITI BOIOOL-DAYS ; it shonld bo continued through lifo, Bohool- hood should only bo the oponiug chaptor, tho profaco of tho volumo of lito, Mnan must dopond on study, not on instinct, for kuowlodgo and wisdom,” Ideas aro not funate ; but aro the pro- duct of provions information obtained by por- coption and investigation. Tho brain, whon un- Enmyghit, 18 n blank ; it lies inert and’ dormant and mtist bo roused to action by oxtornal appil- Zation and intornal offort, Wo ean think cor- roctly only within tho eircumforenco of our in- formation ; outsido of that line all is orror, uoss-work, superstition, and vain imagination, E!m)\m aro the magazinos and storohousos of materinl thought and information. Educa- tion Iy tho process of transferring idons, £nacts, and knowlodgo ocontained [n Looks to tho mind of tho loarner or studont. IHo that lias transforrad nono in an ignoramus; ho that hny trausforred much isn scholar; ho that has trang- forred a little is n smattoror. 'Tho powor of Ehiniing mnd roasoniug dopoid upon ths absorp- tion of thoughts evelved from the brains of others, Wo light our lamp from otliors, and in- crouso its tlamo in proportion to tho material we draw from thom for the support of tho moutal combustion; for tha mind msy bo compared to tho siors of oxyou Iyiuglinort, whioh will only ivo forth light and heat Dy countnct with carbon, ;‘hlu carbon iy tho thonghts of thinkers hyought n contact with tha brain, and producing tho epnrks nud flames enllod ; IDEAS AND REASOX, o fneronsa thoso sparks, aud brighten tho flame, wo must bring the mind into continual ontact with the produced thoughts of othors, ‘boro ig no limit to tho strongth and sizo of the flamo of thought that may bo thus evolvad. Tho Jess wo know, tho noarer wo appronch the plano of tho bonsts and birds; tho more wo know, Rho noaror we approach the plano of the angels end our Maker, +_ Tho power of man over Naturo and hia acci- donty isin proportion to his mental dovelop- suent. Thointluence and onwur of city, Btato, ‘or uation is not mensured { its numbers or 1ts gommorco, bub by its enlightenment, by it thinkers, Ifit bo ssid that tho wealth of a cit; or uation mensures its powor and _influenco, xeply tht its woclth s the product of its intelli- gonco. A ignovant nation in mevor rich; mnd what riches it may ossesd it knows not how to uso to securo influenco or command rospect. Truly, ‘‘knowledgo iy powor "—poywer for every purposo under tho sun, AN EDUOATED FEOPLE, RIr. Chairman, aro always o freo people, Thoy gan nover bo conquered nor deprived of thoiv Kights and liberty ; their resourcos for dofonco ogainst attack nro infinito, and thoir courdyo ;;;n‘ur fails, It is tho ignorant who aro cowards Uio strgglo for tho broservation of liborty pnd indopondenco; for thoy do not appreciafo #ho valuo of freedom, and do not know Low to dofond it. An cduented pasplo sro_ tomparnt mnd virtuous, decont and industrious in their liyes, respectabloc and onorgetic, benovo- fout and wealthy, They ato freo from want, and oscapo tho F“g of pov- orty and tho woes of wrotchodnoes, Jnvontion, and improvement, and labor-savin, machinery aro tho Rrudums of intelligonce, an ®ro thoir hand-maidens. - Whatovor, thon, incroasos the stook of knowl- edge in & commuuity, adds to the thinking powor of tho pooplo, and Taat in proportion to thoir thinking powor will bo tholr wealth and pros- gority, Woix influence_and_nuthority In the aworld. Now, I bold, AMr. OChsirman, that no singlo agency will contributo moro to this most importuant desideratum than a groat publie libra~ xy, amply supported and comprehcnsively con- ducted,—n library whose books will find' their avay into overv housohold, and their contents $nto every mind. You want o contral library of standard and roferonco volumes, covering the holo domain of highor liternture, and art and science, with xeading rooms which will accommodate hundreds ;12 h\wmmm'“ tho samo time. You must estab- TRANCIL LIBRARIES in various paris of the eity, for the convenfent distribution of books. Xvery inducement and tcmptation should be held out by the manage- neut to the e‘oupg peoplo of tho'city to patron- 420 the Public Library and its branchos. Thoro should bo a course of free lecturos givon overy “rintor on all useful, intoresting, aud instructivo subjocts. [Applouse.] And our own scholnrs aud thinkers should bo inducad to address those nudicnces, and thoy should Lo compensated thorefor. ‘I'hero aro growing up in this city thousands of ‘noglected young men of immatura aud inchoato amind. Thoy are diawn in by tho catorors of li- centiousnese and disgipation, aud are rup- idly created into roughs and rowdios and grog-shop habilues. “They learned to read at the public schools, but since lenving thom mothing Iins been placed in thoir hands in the shepo of o decent or moral book or periodical, They Lave made no advancement in usoful in- formation, and without gome extornul influenco 36 brouglt to bear upon them which will chango thoir thoughts into botter chaunels, thoy will drift farthor und farther from the walkis of vir- tuo aud knowlodgo undor tho influonco of tho <vicious temptations of city lifo, I have stroug hopes that one Public. Library, whon woll ostablished, nnd its books well oircultod, will ' bo tho moans of se- curing many young men from the downward zond thoy aro now travelling, and proventng thousauds of othors from entoring upon paths of vico and siu, This library can be mado THE LITERARY BEADQUARTERS und intollectual focus of our city and tho North- wost. It should become tho most attractivo aesort for strangers sojourning among us. A book is an nuthor talking to the reader, toll- 4ng what Lo knows upon_n particular subjoot in ‘i boat stylo of exprossion, Tho addross is to ho oyo instoad of tho onr, and throngh that seuso tho thoughts of the author_are conveyed to tho mind moro agourately and conncctodly, nnd leavo & doopor impronsion than whon tranie anitted orally, bocauso tho attention is not hur- iod, and portions of tho wonso lost in verual dolivery. “A _great library _containg myriudy of thoso flesbloss locturors, Who aro nover biclk, absont, or dsing. Tho body of tho author may Dnve crumblod into dust long ages ago, but his thoughts still live. Horo you can st down amidat the groat masters of Tenson, poetry, fic- tion, hintory, physics, and hold converso with thomn, You can linve an audience with Homer, Virgil, Plato, Domosthenos or Confacius; you may travel over the ancient world with Horod- otus; study the oxact sciencos with Euclid and Archiroodes, nud moral philosoply with Bocratos; or descand - tho_strenm of timo ‘and onter tho inferno with Dante; or observe tho inmost resources of tho henrt with Shakspenro, Goothe and Raelno; ‘or range throngh thestarry fields of kenven, and atndy the forces which control and -Influonco, with Nowton and Keplor; and invey- Eignto tho nll\lfflll\%\ of tho earlh with Lyell, “Hiteheocl, Millor, Murchison; or the composi~ itlon of ifs matoriels with Davy, Liohig, Lar- visior, Shiol, Iuxloy, snd Tyndali; and to fn- -diontg othor flolds of thought sonrehed hy brill- iaut intelleots, I have ouly to mention wuch) ‘Tamos oy Looke, Paloy, Bacon, Mongoiduiow, Gil- Do, Qroto, Carlyls, Bohillor, Whowell, Do TTocquoville, TTumbalaf, Agnesiz, Davwin, Spon- eor, Heott,” Macaulny, Comto, Mill, Irving, _Franklin, Qreeloy, Eineraon, Burko, Wobator, ‘Joffernon, Hamillon, Longfollow, Batclay, Bans croft, and Clauning, But I must -voubifo no Yurthor into £ THE CATALOOUE OF MIGITY THINKERS, and in calling this roll of fame, for their name is loglon. Thonigh it in & tempting path to traval, 18 eacli numo, when snggestod, brings baok to tho memory tho grout thoughts of thoso great Jmon, T must bring thoso remarks to n clogo. When a list of books is presentod to the ronder, thoir tiflcs, and many or most of thom may bo strango and new to him, but ki ourlosi- 3y i8 excited to find out something nbout them, and to discover how thoy disenss somo topics Kith which ho I8 moro or less familiar, or with which he dosires to becoma acquaintod. Thus, whon an om:nrtnnfly of finding any author on sny subject iy prosented, it id ombraced y multitudos of persons who otherwise would novor hayo knowi anything of oither subjeat or writor, Ilanco it ia ‘that evory library cronton rondors, and romarkably extords the Informa- tion of the communltiy, and perpotun!ly Incroasos tho tasto and desiro for reuding, and with this ho powor of thinking and rensoning. TFew per- Jponi have tha monas {0 purchinso or tho ability to soloct an extonsive private library. It iy ‘most likogll capital; it i liablo to bo dostroyed Dy firo or wator, or scattorod by loss, by tho Aonth of the ownor. 'hon, again, it 'Is only yond by ono man or family, and most of tho Yooks uro raroly, and many of them novor, ‘opened, LARGE PRIVATE LIDRARIES +070 nearly alwavs idlo books, Nobody I3 rond- ing them, and thoy aro dong no good, DBut put thom togathor in & publio lihrary to bo porused Dy the wholo city and its vlitors, and thoy Lo- como llko money In nelive ciroulation, doing good daily, And this{s o bank, whose vaunits aro ptorod with tronsures of thought, richor and hottor than greoubnoks or gold. 'Tt mnay bo chocked wpon without fear of broaking or om- Darrassing it, and the move ita trensurca aro borrowed, tho richer fn thought and purer In moraly ity customors becomo, It chargos uo intorost for using ita loans, and no ropaymont for Ideas and_fnols dorivad thorofrom. Xor all practical pucposos, tho Lublic Library will bo tho private proporty of oach eltizen,” It ench oraon_ownell n duplicate copy of {ts contonts Jia ooutd oty spend 1w npare tmo i toading thom, and that ho may do horeaftor with tho books of the Publio Library. And thon Lo has this great advantago, ho is not subject to the ox- }mum of laking care’ of thom, providing » placo or them, or purchasing new books ana poriodl- cals as fast ae thoy aro fsaued. A OREAT PUBLIO LIDRARY, with its branchos, Is liko a groat publie park, with its conneoting small parla, Tho parks aro for tho recreation and onjoyment of tho wholo people, for the improvemont of thoir health and rotnotion of tholr happiness; o tho public- ibrary will bo for the improvemount of their minds and promotion of thoir intolleotunl enjoy- ‘mont, with this superiority over tha parke, that inimproving and_dovoloping tho minds of tho ‘munsuos, it ndds to thelr atrongth and powor to meot and surmount tho ills of lifo, to banish misory and povorty, to open up highor and bot- tor opportunitics for success, and to resoue its .votarios from vico and vulgarity, sin, and igno- rauco. [Applnuse.] DR. RYDER'S ADDRESS. The Rov. Dr. Rydor thon spoko ag follows ¢ M=, PRESIDENT AND Frrrow-Crrizens: Ihad not tho romotost oxpoetation of boing caliod to {his platfornt. I havo no spocch to mako, oithor oxtewpora or written. Icauonly eay -while I stand horo for a single momont, thet I am heart- ily in sym{mthy with this ontorpriso, and that nuything I ean do to mako it o succoda in this commuuity, I shall do, out of an earnest and honest hoart. I rojoice in tho auspicious open- ing of this public library; I sympalize with you in tho fimnd oddrosses io which wo have stoned, and I hope wo shall il give hood to thoe golid, ronsible talk- ing to which wo bave just listenad from the lipn of our Mayor. Now gontlemon, romembor this Library, Lolp it whiloyou live, givo it to yourtima and your ympathy, and you that havo monoy, if you do not givo it to this mstitution boforo you dio, givo it to this dnstitutiou thon, that it may bo built up a_tower of strongth In this groat city, and & token of our ;irm municipal pro- gross in tho Northwest. May tho blessing of tho Infinite Tather rest upon ihe sorvices of this hour. [Cheors}. PROFESSOR FISK'S REMARKS, Professor Fisk was noxt introduced, and Baid : 1 thonght when tho benediction camo, sir, wo ought to leavo church, [Laughtor.] Icamo horo, Mr. Chnirman, to listen, not to spoak, sud yob I will sy ono word to shotv my sympathy for this groat and good ontorpriss which wo aro horo to-dny to inaughrate. We hinve first, always, in thin rising land of ours thio material ‘sgo, which wo nra now reproducing in our noble city,—an ora of pork, and of grain, and of lumbor, and all ‘material products. 1€ iu right that wo havo thom, for, after ull, they aro the foundation of our rokpority hora; but thero will como an ora of ooks for the intellectual man, and o we havo rightly come lioro to-day, on ihis oponing of n now yoar, to lay tho foundation of a now library, nnd- T could mot but thiuk, whon listoning to the. cloquent and vory ablo addresses with which we have boen favorad, of .- .. BEVENTEEN POOR MEN, who fearod God nnd loved their' country, and who acted upon the nobla address of our worthy Mayor though they did not hear it, and who, in 1700, camo to & little town in Connecticut and 1nid upon n table, oach one, one book from his very ecanty library, esying solomnly: “I ivo this ~ book to found a library in ‘nlo Collego,” jnat as some of us have brought out of our poor libraries n book or two_here. ‘What is tho rosult, Mr. Chairman, to-day? Yale Collega ks s library of about 80,000 volumes, aud ono of tho bost eelectod libraries on this continent. That is what camo of thoee .sevon- teon men bringing each his littlo volume and lnying {t-upon tha table as o foundation for o noble library. 8o did .tho ancients. * From small things gront thinga arigo"—¢ parvis ori- wntur magna, 8o iv is from this mnall bogin- ning that'tho groat library of Chieago is to ariso, As, o fow months ago, I stood in 3 TIHE DRITIBH MUSED, and saw there over a million of bound volumes, nnd slmrllx aftorwards in the Royal Library ol Paris, and saw o colloction almost equally ng large, and thon a8 I waw in Borlin that rogal, tlint royal library, worthy of that groat capitol of that gront ompito, just nboutas large aa the othors, and thought of tho life-growing iufluen- cen of tha life-quickening influencos of thoss mighty contros of influenca upon thoso great bations, oh, how I longed that wo in Chicago,—tor am o Chicagosn, from centro to oriphery of my t hr.'lngh[chcnn} , that o, iu this noblo city, that had beon laid in ashes whila I was away, and which was to bo roproducod agalu moro spiondid then over by the timo I returnad, could Lave such & libracy, or such o beginning of things horo, I should feal that T could say, *Lord, lot now Thy sorvant depart in pouce, for mino cyes havo seen Thy ealyation,” and I rojolcod whan I honrd of tho oponing to-day. Now lot moe give my 3 WELCOME TO THIS LIBRATY, which I bolieve, though I may not live to sco it, and you may not live to seo it, in to bo in the future, and that not in tho romoto, but the near futuro, I irust, *what thoao éplendid libraries ara now, for tho wholo world secms to beaching to give un out of ity benovolanco, to fill our shelves. I beliove the timo will soon come when we shall have a library which will not bo a disgrace, but anhenor, tous, Lot mo say, on this New Yenr's Day, A hap, by Now Year to this the firat New Year of the Hublio Library of Cbicago, tho noblo child of o noblo motlior. May it livo to sco many such yoars ; muy it go ou incronsing in strongli and influonco and power, with tho noblo city in which it is located. Tho Chairman then declared the Reading Room sufticiently dedicated, and tho sudionco goparated, CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LIBRARY. To the Editor of he Chicazo Tribune : Bin: Boing intorested in tho succees of our Public Library, I would suggost that tho appenl to our citizons to contribulo to the shelves will ‘o much moro fruitful it thp managors will re- quest contributors to notify them whero thelr contributions can bo ealled for, and, »° * tho reports aro all in, sepd &_man nrounu With o horso and wagon and collect them. Most persons who would be willing to givo a fow books find tho trouble attendant upon car- rying or sonding the books to thio Library onough to discourago them from their good intountions, After that rosolution passed by tho Directors, in roforonco to Gorman contributors, givors wil Lo modest about lugging thoir books to the Li- brary, for fear thoy would bo called *trash.” I don't aoo how tho Directors could bo guilty of such o violation of ordinary good maunors, o8 to indorse such a resolution. iut it bo amonded, in the namo of all deconcy, #o that waphan't al posg for boors in the opiuiun of all Europo. 138, Ciucaao, Jan, 1, 1873, . e — Axknnsas Flgares—¢ Farce v No Namo g For 11, . The Washington (Ark,) Zelegraph thue roforu to the statomont—not oflicial roturns—on filo in tho Saorclary of Blate's ofiice, tho figuros of which were countad in moking up the Bocrota- ry's abstract, iustoad of tho rogular returns: “The Gazetle of tho 18th publishes n tabular statemont of tho Voto, which it saya s oflicial, Laving been tekon from tho roturns on filo in the ofiico of tho Bocrotary of Btato. Lotus take our: own county (uomrutnud,) and noo how far thoy “are’ oficial, “or, rathor, how for thoy arc Jrom official, ‘The Gazelle tablo shown Baxtor to have rocoived 1,350 and Brooks (61, while tho cortifiod ubstract of tho voto cnat in'this county, now on filo in the Olerl’s offics of this connty, shows Daxtor to havo roceived 1,480 and Lrook 1,283, T'he actual returns ay cortifled show Baxtor's majority to bo 456, whilo the doctored roturns, from which tho Urzelle's (ablo is made up, give him 695, thus adding 437 to his majority. And all this doctor- ing haw been dono at Little Rock, for the Clork of this county made an houwest abstract of the procinict_raturns, as it was lis duty to do without prosuming to throw out the miustrol votos of the hundrod miuors, and the hundrod fictitions votos, and without counting any of ho voten caut undor tho BEnforcoment not at the sido hoxes, but only taking them as cortified by tho judgen and clorka of tho regular polls, Ths roturns on filo in tho oftico of tlhn Hecrotary of Btate, as cortifiod Ly Lho Clork of this county, whow’ 1o stich thing o tho” (azello s pub: lished, And by such means Daxtor, and tho wholo minstrel craw, oxcept pour tool Brudly, aro to bo doclared cloated ! Aud the honest Sr) crowd will accept! Farce is no name for it Froud is too mild n word to express it, Who in- diguntion of the decont pooplo ls exliaustod.” THE OLD WATER TOWER. How kt was Built, and Sconés at Iis Inauguration. What the People Saw---How Mo- Alpine Uamo to Grief, A Commentary on Human Pride and Expectations. Tiwonty yoara ago, the Oity of Chiongo, having only newly replaced tho log conduits of tho Ghi- eago Hydraulic Company by tho iron mains of tho Ohioago Water Workns, began the resorvoir systom. Up to n short timo provious, tho anth- matic pumps in tho old rod wooden mill on Michignu avenuo, Intor tho sito of tho Adams Houwo, had carried forward the work begun by Anton Borg in 1834 for the water supply of tho community, Anton used ono horse nnd o puucheon mounted on .two wheols, and was an inatitution outgrown when fhe old rod mill be- gan its functions. So tho timo camo for n rescrvolr to moot tho third ora of tho water supply of Chieago. O. J. McAlpino, Oity Englneor, was sot at work on tho plans, and a vigorous hunt commenced for asito. It must bo r littlo suburbon, for tho town might grow. Among other locnlitios suggosted, & alico from tho properiy of tho lato P. I W. Pock, on Adama stroet, wost of Clark, was disouased. It was not a cornor lot, for LaSallo streot endod at Madison, though the project was oven then in ita first stages to open it to Van Buren. It took ton yenra to accomplish thia stroot oponing,—n font that noarly drove tho asscssors distractods and 1aid tho foundation of flourishing practico for goveral Iawyors, who always grow well in theso woll watored crovicen in tho lodgo of human society. Thoro boing no LaSallo ntroot nt that polnt, tha Watorfi"owor, whon built, wae in tho contro of a long block, strotching from Clark to Wolls stroot, since Fifth avenuo. Boveral faots helped to fix the sito. It was ru- ral, troe-cmbowered, with grass all about it, and tho whito-foncod onclosures of citizous, and patohen of kitchen gardon, and nltogothor such a BpOt 08 you may drive miles awny from the pros- ont Public Library, iu ecithor direction, north, south, and wost, beforo, you find its match to- Olark stroot, south of Washington, whoso two corners woro lhold by the sol- i brick ‘churchos and tall spires of tho Firat Presbytorian, the good Dr. Curlis, Pas- tor, and tho Clark Btroot Methodist, was, south of that polnt, n stroot of quiot and cosy homos, with neatly-kept front yards, and all the village aspeots. Clark strool was busy and bad tho omnibus line of 8. B. & M, 0. Walker conneot- ing tho contro of businoss with the new Micli- gan Southorn Dopot, ono mile mouth, at Twolfth stroot. Clark stroot was planked also, and was bocoming noisy, and some of ita residonts began to mourn for the quiot old days. But thoro woro bosutiful homesteads in largo lots. Tho late Btarr Foot occupied with his cottago a quartor block at tho corner of Monrso. Two cronm-colored cottages, tho onvy of all houss-huntors, looked oub on Olark strect bolow Adams, on tho * Captain Bigalow Proporty,” among great heds of vor- bonas aud potunias, snd clumps of lilac. And boyond stood the residenco of P. T.W. Pock. Thego lnst-named buildings, sfter ihe sad vicis- situdes of shabbiness that wore tho lator destiny of tho whole neighborhood, wers removed in clonring tho sito of the first Pacific Hotel, DIr. Peck had boeon tho original ownor of tho present ontiro block now bounded by Lo Salle, Adams, Clark, and Jackson streots, which he purchased at o oarly salo of Canal lands. He had mado Iargo purchaes of well-selected real estato, for Mr, Peck suw, with o clear oyo, the future of the city. Ho rarcly sold xeal estato, and only for some spoeial reason, like that whick induced bim to part with twoadjncont quartors of tho block in quostion. e oaw in those tranefers fentures securod to the noighborhood of his home of permuncat beauty and valuo. One of these pur- chnses was mado by tho Northwostorn Univor- pity, just thon in swaddling clothes, in the Dends of Dr. John Evans and othor prominont Mothodists. On this proporly, now a portion of tho Pacific Hotel sito, thoy woro to plant an alegant, quiot suburban institution of learning, with ground enough to give it the surrvundings of trces and bowers, Buch a neighbor Iir. Peok was willing to entortnin. ‘Then MoAlpine showed Mr. Peclk his plans for tho Water Towor. It was to bo a marvel of con- struction, and the loonl editors of tho day wont into ecstrcics over ita merits. It was fo bo model effnir, & composito superimposed struc- turo of prossod brick, with hondsome stono frimmings, on the top of which was to stond the tonk (the lm)snnt Library room) whilo tha two stories bolow woro to be the offices of the Chicago ity Wator Works Board, looking out upon a groon lawn and gravol walks, a thing of Loauty and a joy forover. Property ndvanced two dollars por front foot in that vicinity ot the remote prospeot of such a consummation, Mr. Pecksold tho property. Mr. McAlpino was 08 busy asnbee in o bonnet, for public structurcs of such a eless wore & novolty in - our city, Ground was broken. Tho streect mains wero lnid, Tho walls grew apace. 1'ho opponents to tho opening of LaSalle streot hwd o tough timo of it, and were rogarded se publia onomies. But thoy stood theiv ground,and their moral upldurmin heing mado iron-clad with the Janyore’ parchmont, tlioy fought tho thing in all tho'courts, and held the last hen-house to its wito until yoars aftor tho catastroplio of the Water Tower. % Tor n cateatropho there wns., 'Aud this is hov it happonod. Wo shall not attompt to givo .| our rondors o lesson in architecture, but inerely stato ay & generalproposition, that, if you oroct of human maeonry o hollow, central, standing ohalt for tho wator-mains, and from :the top of this sheft turn o circular arch to tho walls of tho surronnding structuro, and loaye a funnol- shiaped depression on Lop, and thon superimposo an jrop water-tank, eapacity somo million gal- lons, moro or loss, in such & way that it becomos a desconding wodgo into your annular aroh,— [nlnnus imngine whint will happen, and you will bon undoratund what did happen, MoAlpine's work wag dono. ‘Thoro was & da appointod,—a Enln day, Tuoh daily paper doublod its local force by taking on one reporter, The Tiro Dopartmont turned out with their hand-on- gines. The dauntless “Lorrent” and_tho “Phonix" camo. 8o also camo tho siylish Hoso Companies, quite the ton in those primeval days, brave with paint and bright brami, and ribbons on tho drag-ropes, manned by Chicago boya who, only a fow years later, “with tho same espril dw corps, took their bright brasa gung to whore thoy wero beumirched with the smoko of actual battlo, whon thoy wont to put out n five gome of our orring brothors kindled, ‘The Mayor was ou hand, and his Aldermon, and tho citizons and their dames wero out in forco. Adame stroot was o mass of poople. Tho Aquare surrounding the tower was s sen of human honds. And tho pumps nt the new Water-Works on the noith loke shoro, whore our groat fira found them, having burned a wholo eity botwaon, wero got to work to flll tho tank, 8o that tho ond might crown the worlk, ‘rosantly, somobody saw water npurting from thoatonacornico of the tower, Lhe spurt incroased to a stroam. 'I'ho cornico parted. Fho brick work rended, and tho dismal ilow bogan, Then thoro was arush. Wator {8 a good thing., It bas done 1muoh for navigation. — Dut to stand and bs drowned on & gatn dey this orpwd would not, It left—loft without tho speechen. Loft. tor homo, Dragged away the howo carts, the vory wrinklog on their hogo-rools crls])ln% iuton. grin. Jomo wont the *‘Torrent,” the ¥ Phoonix,” and ““ No, 7," A shablby maon in o, sad hat, who had ovidonfly beon absiaining from. walor that morning, in ordor that thero miglt bo, onough to fill tha tank, proforod thin advice to tho crostfallon MeAlping: ¢ Turn the durned) thing over ; put yor building onto tho tank., Then she'll stand, bot yora dollar.,” T'liore wora: uo takors, 8o tho_ promised rnlmy days of tho Waterr Towor ondod beforo_ they bogan. Yor months ifs stood @ solumu laughing-stock, oxposod oven to. bio waggary of thio Wallory loan Clark stroot} omnibus horno, maolancholy livoh by affecting to sliy at it in pass + ing, Tropoity n that vicuity foll off $1.50 foot, and Culvin D'Wolf, who lived just over tho ‘way, and had Intondod to build'w bay win+ dow solely for coniemplation of the Watoe )y “Lower, diduw't build i, Aftor o whiln a bove of whio usod often to eulivon thely: || | "ho | Bradfor :| Chisholn gnd wife, Toronto; W. C\muinfi!ml}l, dojected masons went at work and bricked '“l‘ tho structure within, ~braced it with iron rods, ultorly dostroying tho pos- sibllity. and ouco bright futuro of tho dostined offices for tho Water Toard, and in tho courso of timo, always in & lamo tort of wiy, tho Wator Tewer passod intouso, It way docroplt’ and dropsical, novor had n srong stonncl: for wator, novor was trustod with mora than hnlf itsintonded capneity, aud novor pariod with tho polonn soars of it ill-starred inaugu- ration. It foll atrafghtway into ovil companion- ship, Tho sewer builders surzounded it withtho rubl ;lnh of earthen pipes aud the fumou of tar kottlow, . But tho wheols of time stand not for human structuros, tho pyramids of tho Ramasos or tho Wator' Lower™ of ‘MeAlpine. Etornit; movos on, ond ovon brings with it stroot oponings, And whon LaSallo stroot camo down to Van Buron streot, thors to moot tho Michigan Southern IRiailrond, nlroady ar- rived at its prosent torminus, the ' whole nolgh- borhood east of Clark and south of BMadison bad fallon from lts virgin estato,—ihe rural sym- liclty which wan ita sotting out in lifo, "On Fhouu Bquares woro massed tho coarsost lifo of n rowing city, To theso squarea crawled overy d unrnpk’i woodon structure displaced by improve- monts in tho hoart of tho city, until it tamo to paas that Lhese woodon buildinga stood roof to To0f on overy lot, filling oach block from atroet to stroot. Moy bocamo tho haunt of the low and the vilo, tho shame-Jost womnn and tho shamolosh vagabond, and smong thesa tho onforced homoa of tho poor. And hero tho Firo found thom, aud theso dousely-packed gquercs of old wooden buildings kindled the flamo that swopt tho city, 'Lho Old Water Tower stood, It had had its own griot, aud was voof against Fato. Tho late Pacitio Hotol foll Eculdn it, and the city burned beyond it ; but tho great tank, strippod of its woodon casing, slood on its shabby podostnl of brick on tho morniug aftor the Tiro, an if aveugod for all the snecry put upon it, in tho namo of tho buildings passed awny. And now its now dostiny hns bogui. Ty TRIDUNE reports of to-dsy aro authorily on tho mattor. — ®SIMPSON & CO.” AT M'VICKER'S, Tho first dny of 1878 will long bo romombered in Chicago as the dato of ono of tho most notablo thoatrioal performances on record, audwill here- aftor bo roferred to as tho day whon Oliarlotte Oushman apposred in comody at McVickor's Thontre. Au immeonso audience wns present yosterday afterncon, crowding tho theatro to its utmost capacity, and nearly two thousand poople bogan tlio New Yoor with ono of the hoartiost laughsof theirlives. Probably somanyladies and gontlomen woronovor befora 8o tiehly amused ate minglositting in Chicago, Cortainly, o dramatio performanco so absolutely complote in overy de- tnil has not been witnossed fn this city, A brill- inut, “roaring, side-aphiting comedy to begin with—so full of witty-dialogue and ludicrous sit- uation ag to amount almost to o farco—and play- ed by sugh'd cadt! OCharlotto Cushman, J. IL. MoVickor, Milnes Lovick, Octavia Allen, Clara Stoneall, and Mary Myers, a1l with splendid conm~ edy roles, all evidontly given overto the frolic of tlio oceasiop, and all bout upon smusing and en- tortaining the oudionco to the last dogreo. Thero was no oxcoption. Tho rollicking spirit of gonuino comedy ruled tho lour, and tho risibilitios of tho spoctators woro taxed ovon to aching sides. *Simpson & Co." Luog ‘beon 8o ravely givon in Chicago, it ub all during tho past fiftoon years, that it 18 practically thorough novelty. It is brim-full of fun from bogioning to cnd, there boing scarcoly a line or sn incidont which is not mirth-provoking. Tho plot donls with tho domestio affairs of Sgimpson & Co." comsisting of Peler Stinpson (Mr. MoVicker) and Charles Bromley (Mr. Levick), Tho former, who I8 in roality ono of tho most oxemplary of husbands, by & skilfully-devised combination of events, is made tobonr for o time tho odium of his partnor's littlo ** irregularitics,” of which Mrs, Fitzallen (rs. Myors), n handsomo widow, and o school-girl friend of Ars. DBromley (s, Alln), is the unconscious snd unwilling objest. Tho most saliont for- ture is the effect produced upon Afrs. Simp- son (Miss Cushman) by tho supposed discovery of hor hmsband's falseness, for tho mistakon bo- stowal of which upen him Madame La Trippe (Mra. Stoneall), n gossipy French deslor in emugglad goods, is rosponsible. Tho eloaring up of tholudicrous muddlo, and the reconciliation of Mr.and Mrs. Simpson, occupy the play, tho conclusion being roached with admirable neat- neso and ingenuity. *As the joslous wife, Miss Cushman's part gives scope for tho richont of comady ncting, and to sy that sho ia ovory, whit o pro-ominently gront in tho role of Mrs. np- son ns she is a8 Meg Merrilies and Lady Macheth, is to embody the whole range of commont ina nutshell. That she should lhumor #o rich, geuerous, and uuctuous would &eem to bo inconcaivable, or would hovo seomed 80 previous to yesterday nftoruoon. Nothingmoro oxquisitoly funuy could bo imagined than the mixturo of injured suiff-and-soivol which her faco dopicts in tho oponing seeno, and through= out tho ontire comedy, wlhather in tous, facial oxpression, or by-pliy, tho impersonation is wonderfully humorous. And that she onjoysa little fun on her own nccount was manifested In the confrelemps which aroso from tho sudden disapposranco of Mr, Lovick's whiskers, which got looso aud had to baadroitly chucked into his pockot. Referring to Afi-s, Bromiey’sblinsfuligno- iranco of hor husband’s littlo intrigne, Ars.Simp- o upsot the gravity of tho entirocast by tho im- promptu romark : © Sho littlo suspools’ what o Shaverlois1” Not loss than Miss Cushman, Mr. Loyick showed that ho could drop the tragio ‘strido and sccont, nnd give s charming morael of gontool comedy, Mr. McVickor, apparently improssod with tho fact that tho 18t of January comes but onco o yoar, and that Charlotto Cush- on in comedy comes till moro rarcly, wes in faia vory beat mood, nud out of th puzzied, half- | distracted, consciously-innocent vietim of mis- plncad audpieion, ho Kuccoeded in working up .one of the finest imporsonations of his lifo— which is saylng n great doal for Mr, MoVicker, el Olierzo " Kuews, The . iutensaly pro-Raphaclito vigor “with which ho | ho nearly #ghook tho daylights” out of tho Jucklesn clerk, brought down the house and tho «lork too, Mrs, Stonoall's role was o pncu\hrlfr 2 d practing ono, and sho acquittod hersclf wit signal dintinotion and credit. Tho snma shoul ‘bo suid of Alrs. Allon and Mrs. Myers, for both ‘svoro fully alive Lo the spirit of tho occasion, snd played ab their vory bost. “Simpaon & Co.” wos such o magnificent succoas that Mr, Me- Vickor must ropoat it before the the tormination of Miss Cushmen’s engagoment, Nothing ho could doviso would moro thoroughly amuso and entertain so largo an audionce as might with cor- tginty bo countod npon in caso of anothor por- formauca of the comedy. —_— PERSONAL. . Ralph J. Hughos, Esq.,, England, is at tho Tromont, Fon, H. B. Davis, of Kentucky, was ai tho Gardner yesterdny. Goorgo m{fluy, Esq,, of England, was ab the Bhiorman yostorday. Hon. Charles Marmon, of Missonri, was attho Bherman yesterday. . Colonel Richard J. Dodgo, United States Army, was at tho Tromont yosterdsy. By actunl count, 8,787 porsons visited Chapin & Goro's art gallory yosierday, between tho " hiours of 8 4, m. and 11 p. m, Mr. W. B, Morso, of No. 138 Lincoln avenuo, reported missing in yosterday's I'Rynuxg, on the authority of anxious frionds, has returned, and reports a sudden business call Lo tho country ag tho oceaglon of abronco. ¥ Tho following were st Anderaon's Europenn | Motol yastordsy: 1L\ W, ‘Nixon, Bt Luuit; Poter J, Puivor, Hudson, N.Y.; H. Lyaaw, Minmiesota ; L G. Parkor, Glovelund, 0.5 T, 1. IIydo Cluzy, Now York ; I, D, Viels, Evanevillo, nd, Tho following were among the arrivals b tho Tromont yostovduy: W. E, Allis, Jnmon Xt ok mor, Now York; Goorgo 11, Noblo, Hurtford, Conn.; W. A. Johnson, Wonttlold, Maas, 3 We Palmor, Maiuo; W. 8, Harmon, J.' @. Gribblo, Now Zoaland ; It A, Beoloy, St. Louis, The fo)lowluf woro ab tho Drlgg]'n yeatorday : T, Toate, Houghton, Mok, ; iT. D, Tyone. Marquatto ; . B. Yox, Boston; . N, Penrson, Hpringflold; . 1. otk B1. Louls ; J, W, M- Donald, Lowoll, Mass, ;' N, Vitkin, Delavaro, Muss.; M. J. Arnick, San Franelwco; W. 1 Poarco, Knueas City, Mo, “Iha tollowing woro nt tho Grand Contral yos- 1. B. Wilson, Now York; 4. B, Doylo, Sharlos 1) Fostor, Dubugue; T. O, Atlants, 1L, ; F. 1t Hoopor, Boaton; ‘Thompgon, Cinefunutl, 4 Tho following woro at tho Shorman yostordav: dovelop a vein of Johm Y. Floming, dobllo, Aln.; R. Gro yon, Miliaukea W, Barncs, Gaiifornla; J. 0. Witkon, DenMolhos, Towas W. A, MoGrau, A, O MoGran, Dofroit; I'. I, Mann, Roston; O, IL Tiatos, Yonkton, Daliotn; F. L. Bartiott, Aurors, Tho following were among tho arrivels at tho Gardnor yestorday: D). N. Lyous, .Cinoinnat 5 7. . Dobbine, Fuffalo; 1 D. Dinir, Grand Huvon . 8. J; Koaton, wito and dsughter, Mo- Ino ; W, Irving, Burlington ; John I, Manuy, Tlookford, Illinols ; O. A. Blake, Mondota, Illi TRobort Elliott, Hannibal, Mo, A Now Yonr's dinner was ye!tnl‘dn{ glyen tho ‘,f““”l“ of the Graud Conéral, by tho Moasrs, Tungon, which for varloly and ologance was buxdly whpnasod. fu tho clty, Tho most tompt- ing dolicacion woro offered,ns woll ra things sub- atautinl. Tho tablos were tnstefully ornament- od and hend-waitors and sub-walters woro attir- od in whito vasts and nock-cloths, Tha propri- otorn meomed dotermined that their gnosts should bogin thoe yonr with a bountiful dinnor, THE GREAT PYRAMID. s Sclontific 'Fhoorys Tho finest spocimen of one of the nnofent cas- ing stones of Lho groat pyramid known at prosent to oxist, either in Europo or even in Lgypt, was rocelvod In Edinburgh from Mr, Waynman Dix- on, nriaing_ young engineor of Noweastlo-on- Tyno, who has recontly complotod an {ron bridgo across tho Nilo botweon Cairo and Jeezoh. Esploriug among tho now notorlous rubblsh mounds on tho northorn foot ¢-the Groat Pyra- mid—nud_especially among, + o parts of thom ‘which hind beon extensivoly cul 1nto by tho Khe- dive's workmon, a. fow years .ago, in ordor to supply orude matorinls for tho now road whereby tlm&’rhwfl and Princess of Wales drove out soon aftorward one fine morning to visit the vonera- blo primoval monument--Mr. Wayman Dixon discovored this looso_specitnon just in tima to avo its boing earriod off among olhor largo lumps of stone preparing to bo broken up and usod by tho Arngn in building themeoclves a now villago nont tho pyramid. Tho specimen was illustrious in his oyes, though not at all in theirs, by its possonsing, though in moro or lus injurad condition, fivo o tho anclently worked sidos of the block, includ- ing, fortunntoly, smong them the upper and lowor lorizontal surfucos, togethor iith tho bovoled aurfaco botweon. Tho oxact anglo of that boveled slops (common to all tho Ciront Pyramid's easing stones, whonovor thoy havo boon alighted on) lod tho lato John Taylor, of Gower strcot, London, to the immortal archmo- logieal truth, nover dreamt of in tho phllflno]l:hy of all tho Fegular 1in§mauc and iorological Egyptologists ; viz., that tho nhn%u of tho ontira monument (sinco then doclared by tho lonrned Lopsius to bo tho oldeat architectural monument Btill oxisting abovo tho surface of the enrth, and tho ono o which the first linlk, not only of Bgyp- tian, but of univorsal, history s soouroly fas- tonod) was cnmlullg o adjustod and oxactly tashionod in its own day to procisely such n figuro that itedoos domonstrato in tho right way tho truo and practical squaring of tho circle, Whother that shapo Wi givon to the proat Pyramid for that purposo is n difforont affair, and may servo as o question for the schoolmon t0 go on disputing over, if thoy liko. But thoro i another notoworthy fact for moro practical mon, touching this matorinl stono fo bappily savod by My, Waynman Dixon, and it ia this, viz, that tho length of tho front foot of tho stono, or that most important lino or edgo from which tho angular slopo of tho whole stone com= mencos to rieo, and which may, therefore, pos- sibly have boon rogarded gs & radical longth for the’ thoory of tho great pyramid, is found in this cnso to messura o ‘vory romarkablo length. And what length may that bo ? Not tho ordi- nary profanc cubit of old Egypt, nor any oxtraor- dinary profano one oithier, nor anything what- over that the modorn Egyptologists of Europs have ovor suspectod, bub, within tho limits of ‘mensuration error now unavoidablo, the numbor of just twonty-flve pyramid inches, neithor loss nor moro, And twenty-fivo Wrnmld inches have been shownito be tho ton millionth part of of tho longth ofithe- onrth’s somi-axis of rota- tion, as yell ag to have boon tho longth of tho cubit of Nonh, Mosos, and Solomon ; or, in the words of Moses to tho 1Iebrows before Sinai— # tho cubit of the Lord their God."—dAthenaum. SPECIAL NOTICES, The Ceutaur Liniment—Hos curad—docs curo, and will curo moro cases of rhoumatism—stilf joluts, nwoll- ingsand lamoness upon manand boast, in ono day than all othor artlcles have ina bundrod years. Onosays: *'I havo 1% %n g2 ¥ ‘nmall right." Anothor that, **tho SRAS_bwS Gontatr Lintment curod a frightful KEHTATP™ hurn without a scar;” another, It rostared to nso & hopalessly Tamo horso, worth $460," ota. 1a 0 wonderful thing, Clark- hot hold & pon In sovon monthd=nowT | FUR ~ GOLDEN. The golden opportunity ¢ bu, FURS is now, for our large and clegant stock is offered AT ACTUAL COST, and must be sold previous to removal, BREWSTER, v Furirier. 38 West Madison-st., op- 'posite Shorman Ilouse. QUARTERLY STATEMEN® OF THF CONDITION OF The State Savines Tnstitution OF CEICAGO, Wednesday Morning, Jan.1,1873. United Btatos Tonds, 0,000.00 Tilinola and Miasourd Bintd Band.. i 00 ) H8.000.00 BTOL2 073 ity, and Park Bonda,. 2 Re E8ALo. Domand Lonus on Collator: ’Il‘{lomu Loans on Uollatoral 210 a3 N (] FEhva l'l'lfi“‘ 11 ,000.00 1,007,9)82.30 84,842,006,16 105,000.00 4,020,807.66 006,15 JOUN 0. DORE, Persldent. OHAS. 1. BICKTORD. Cashior, NEW PUBLICATIONS. A CHARMING NEW NOVEL, EXPIATION. By Mrs. JULIA C.R. 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Frank Lawloy mmoneo - NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS, LIEUTENANT KINGSTON. .00 sveven " . Afkon Mondnp—JOSTPH PROCTOR fa “THE RED PUOKET-BOUK, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, SUCCESS! SUCCESS! SUCCESS! Thuraday, Jan, 2, ovory avening during tho wocek, and Saturday Matinoo, Will iy prenctsted, In anwwor {6 8° ganoral dosirn to nen ST TOHN. DILLON foish aharactor, Falcos Boauiifui romantio deama, PEIEE O’ID.AY With tho full strangth of tho company in tho cast, sconor, brilllant ollcots, suporl appointmonts, 1 = a it nor's H now " MoVICKER'S THEATRE, Thursday, Fridar and Saturday, and Saturday Matineo, 188 ORARLOTTH CUSTMAN, jn hor great randition of QUEEN UAT“II'JUI"Z, in Bhakspoaro's Hlstorical Play of EL ENRY VIII. OARDINAT, WOOLSEY ML LEVIOK, Mondny, Tuesdny, W nd Fimraday noxt, 188 OUSHMAN AS ME( MERRILIES, Boata van bo sveurad. £i7-Carriago Lintratico from Monroe-st., alley cast 0! tho Theatra. ATKEN'S THEATRE, Wabash-ny. and Congrosa-st. e BRI GBS, etaen DON CZESAR DE BAZAN. DON OESAR... +Mr. F. . 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Election Notice. - Tho aonusl monting of tho atackboldors of tho Chicago Gan ulll.n!(“yl(oflnm‘pnny\vlll by hold at the oltice of tho Company, on Moaday, Jan. 13, betwoon tho, hours of Jand 4 n., for tho eloction of Directors {o werva tho Dusning sont, and tho tranmatiun of sucki other businoss aa'may come beforu Lo Micechi WANES 1€, BURTIS, Soorotary. NOTICTH. Tho annual maoting of tho stockholdars of the Fifth Natfonal Bank of Ohicaga, for tho eloction of dircctora for thio onauing year, will bo hold &t thn oftico of said Dbank, In Chicago, on Tucsday, Jan. 14, 1873, betwoen tho 6 pe RoursofGand s e 1) 4 3, LOMBARD Gashior. Chiongo, Dec 10, 167 /THE CENTRATL NATIONAT, BANK - Cittoaco, Dec, 14, 187, Tho annual meeting of tho Biocklldors of thls Bank for thin slection of Diroctors for the onyning soar, il by Children Cry for Pitchor’s Cas- torka, It roguiatos the stomnch, curos wind colio and causes natural sleop, I8 a aubstitute for castoroll. KEMPER EALIL. A solect school for girls and young ladles, reopens JAN. 15th. “Tho elegant comforls, (ho thoroughness of train- ing, and disciplinn as to mannors and charactor, and the suporlor modo and courso of instruction have attractod for {tx patrons.macy feading people of Chicago and tho Northwast. Tor particulars apply to GEO. M. EVERIIART, D.D., Roctor, Kenosha, Wis. OCEAN NAVIGATION, White Star Line. NEW YORK AND LIVERPOOL—Now and fult-powerod Alonmabips; tho six Iargost in tha warld, OQEANIC, o REPUBLIQ, ATLANTIY, BALSC, ADRIATIC, 000 tons hutdon--3,000 Ui . uaeh. Safling from Now York on SATURDAYS, from Litorpoo} on THURS- DAYS, calling at Cork Tiarbor tha day following. From Ao Whita Ster Dock, Payonia Frrl‘, WJorsoy Clty, Tassongor acconmodations | for all’ classos) uarivallad, combining safety, specd comiort, Saloons, stato- Tooms, smoking-foom, and bath-rors in midallip soc- tlon, wwhoro loast wmutlon 1s folt, Surgoon Aud stoward- company thiero atuam Saloon, #40, gold; steorngn, 3%, currncy, Those wlsliing to sond for frionds frou thu ‘old country nobain sicrago propald vozilfeaten. Passopgors booked to or from all ’mrkl of Amorien, Paris, 1 Norway, Swodon, Indin, Austeal hina, olo, “Jizcursion tickets granted at tho ratos. | Dralta from £1upward, For inspecilon of nod other information, apply at the Coinpany's of No. 19 Brondway, Now York. . IL'SPATRY Or to tho Whita Star Liuy Oice, § ulcawo.” AL and Towe Jinas icus, bold at th Banking oflioo, on Tuosday, tio lith day of January, 1870, betwoon the hours of 12 and 2 o'elock, Ju MCIC, SANGER, Cashlor, Notice. Tho annual moetlng of tho atockholdors of tho Flrst Natioual Bank of Chicago, for tho oluctlon of Directors for tho ouaulng year, will bo hold at the offico of said Bank in Chicago on Tucsday, Jan, 14, 1873, botwoon tho bours of 10 &, m, and 12m, L. J. GAGE, Cashlor, Ohlcago, Dac; 41, 15 : GENERAL NOTICES. To Land Owners. A laargo manufacturee of Yorns aud Knit Woratod Guods, who would bring with him a turgo numbor of peo- pln who would ba good citizens, iy destrous of loeatlng {u Ta vietnity of Ciltago, pravhilig sudielont induonasnts shoutd bo ulferud 1 huiky i g ohicet Kor porticulara addrass 165 Fifthoav., Cl Flection Notice Notle I3 lozoby givon that thero will o & menting of tho stockholders of tho Morchants' Savings Loan & Trust Company, at thelr office, in tha clly of Chiicago, on Tuosday, Jan, 7, 1973, hotween tho hours of 16 o'slocka. m. and 13 o'clock m., for tho oloction uf clovon Prustess, to sorve durlng; tha ensulng yoar, and for tho transaotion of suclt othur Lusinexs as mny como befaro tho meollng. "CIARLES HENROTIN, g hivr. = Cs DISSOLUTION NOTIC " NATIONAL L Bailing from New York for Queons- town and Liverpool every Wodnes- day, and for London direct every fortnight. : CABLY PASSAGE, $65 AHD 875, Stearaga to and from Tiritish poini 29 giarrond . Btoorage to or from Gorman point B curroncy. Btourago 1o ar from Bromeir or vian poluta. . 87 curronos. Tho Stcamabips of thls lina aro tho Inrgost fn the trado, WILLIAM MACALISTER, 55 _DEavlcetast., Chlengo. FOR EUROPE. INMAN LINE ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS, Wil sall from Now York nu follows gITY OF NEW YOR turdag, Ji GII'Y OF BIISTOL, puraday, Jou, §. 30 Gy O it BROO) Saturday, 'Jan. 11, CITY OF MONTREAL, <Baturdey, S»" 18, 9 A. M, And each succceding BATURDAY ant AHU‘I(EDAY, from Plor No, 45, Narth River. ATES OF PASSAQE. To or fram Drltish Pocts ‘I'o or from German For . o or freun Broman or Sct A “ BIGITT DICAILS for snlo al lak raton, FRANCI3 0. BROWN, Gonoral Westorn Ageut, 86 South Markot-st., Chicago. FINANOCIAL, Loans Neg otiated On roul estate, fa tho olty or suburbs, at current ratos, 4. 8. IUBBARD, Jr., 168 ISant Wanhington-at, Mason & Hamiin Organ Co, 281 Wabauh-nv., cornor Van Buran-st, hess Organs aro LUSTRATED A’ UIROU: 5e DISSOCLUMLON. Tho Copartnershlp herotoforo exlsting betwveon tho undersigned under tho firm namo of KNIGKT, BAKER & 00, s this day dissolved by mitusl consont, Either ‘member of the lnto firm {s nutkorizad to sign ln liqli\hl.\-1 tloa, | A KNIGET, TH. T, BAKER, W. F, C0BB. Obicago, Jam, 1, 1873, COPARTNERSIIIP. Tho nndorslgned, suecassors of Knight, Baker & Co, havo this day Toruazd & Uopartucrshlp under tha Gt namo of WAL T, BAKE. & C, for tho trnnsction of o gonral Commnission buslucsa iu Grain, Provislons, &ov Liberal advaices mado on property in Etora or shipe ments to Bastern ports, W, T. BAKLR, WL ¥, COBB, Ohloago, Jou, 1, 1873, DISSOLUTION. Notieoa Lorahy glean, that tho pactnarship Intoly ox- isting between J, B, Lyon, Thomas I3, Riec J. 1o, nndor fha'fifn ame. of oxpirod by limitation. ATl dehts oy nership aro toho rocoived by J. B, Rico, and all domands on sald past; sentad to ther for paymoat. 3. LYON, THOMAS 1. RTOR, RGHE ), BRINE, " OFFICES IN THE e Building Are nearly finished. Scveral arve yet uitaken. Tire-proof, with vaults. English tile floorsthrough- out., No oflices in the city equal theso in every t-clasy respect. Plans of the Tribune Building ean bo seen at the office of v FAIRBANKS STANDARD ;o ] = SCALRS OF ALL BIZ18, FTATRBDANKS, MONSE &CO ‘“5 WEST WASUINGTON-8T. acknowdadged fobo wielvallod 'in ozcollonon, Boo M DOW, TALUGUR AND TESTIMONIAL 2. LAR,” Orizana (o ront. Room No. 1, Nevada - Block, FURNITURE. Furniture. JOILY KRAUS, 219 Hluo lsland-sv, Groat Oloslnk- Out Safo. Intending to discontinne the rotail branch ot Insirioss by tho firat of January, 1973, awl t dovoty only ta thy manufacturiug and, wholosslo trado, 1 NIXON'S, THMHENSE SUCCTSS 11 TREMENDOUS APPLAUSE!!! Kovisal of tho great omotional drama UNCLIE TOM’'S CABIN. or, IAfo Amang tho Lowly, Mille. Marie Zoe. In her great charcter of TOPSEY, introducing her famious Camp-Monting Song. Urand ZOK matineo on Saturday aftornnon. MYERS' OPERA HOUSE, Monroo-st., botswuen Dearborn and Statosta, ‘Arlngton Cotton & Kemble's Minstrels, A Tinppy Now Yoar to Al A Monstor Bl for tho Hol. tdaye, 'Tho great Song and Panco Artists, Mackin and Wilean, Chicago in 1673, Tho 3 o'clock Tralu, Tricks and Telals. Anontira chango of programma. NOTIU Ourmnuinrh tingo this week will bs glvon on Wednowday inatand of Saturday, Werlnoadny—GRAND NEW YEAR'S MATINEE. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. SIX KIGHTS, NEW YEAR'S AND SATURDAY MATINEES, ENGAGEMENT OF Robert McWade, Tho grontost natural actor in hia wondarful poraonation of RIP VAN WINKLE. NO ADVANCE IN PRICES. GLOBE THEATRE. Monday Tvontng, Doc. fn. ovars uight aod Wednosdsy aud Satuiday Matinacs, s . VL, AL a, And his boya, The Guneral, Mastor Eddlo and Littlo Dick, LBON BROTEHERS, ¢ Miea Lucy Adsme, o Swilt,” and tho olca hill, concluding DICK TUR® Bobh; "7500,000 SUBSCRIBERS SCRIBNER'S HIONTHLY, “Tho Best Mugnzing in the Workl.” Tao NOVEMBER and DECEABRR numbors, coataln. In; the boglaning of i ' 2 Axthur Bonnicastle; DR, HOLLAND'S GREAT AMERIOAN SERIAL, " " Sont rco to all subseribiors for 187 = Price, B4 n Venrs 85 Conts ber, ve SCRIBNER & CO,, 651 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, W. C. TOTT'S PATENT AUTOMATIC STEAM Clothiom UVaskor. Nat n hot. watur or bifling machino, hut tho only washor avor fnvontod it guettocu K6 work by Ui agoicy of atou. Very 1ty fual raquired ty averato it: will &ny garmont, frous tho conrsest to- thn ln:as toxlure: no Iabor roiiedd 10 uporatu i, and saves threnfouctie the timo ol tho eld mathod. 1€ anves noarly half the sap., 16 #aves tho woar of th clotlies on tho rubbiog bosrd and swashos cloanar than by ans othee motlod, 1L swvoy tio Tiealth and pationco of fuisewives, 11 Uglitons tho drudy- ozy of housckooning, 1LE o in conatructlon and can hournd by any ono. Solis Tapldly whorovor introducnd, xiving nnlsoraal ol eonploty satistaction, 1t offors a nors manaat and Incrativo busino s O I wnll muans. State aud connty sigh in all pacts of tho Unlted efroular, Uallor addre ol Delers, Altention! BALE-10 (oot by 1200 tno sircols, bolng 20 four ralloads, on oaut rida .~ For o larga wholas i3 unaurnassol; AGR. DiLiir, i., edrnor Fhitoh.gt: MEDICAL CARDS. NO CURI! Dr Kea‘n it b wwash FOR SALE. foot front, adjolnlng of Wustorn.nv., south of Ki aato aud rotatl dopot this propo NO PAY 1! 360 South Clark-st,, Chicago, May bo confidontinlly conmltod, porsonatly or by mall, frove of r:llnrflu on all ehironic or nervons dlseases, DR, b, KEAN Is tho only physleian iu tho eity who wae- rants GUTe8 07 10 puy. Dr, Townsend, 160 South Halsted-at,, 118 the most extenalvo practicu in all Chronlo, Norvons, and Special Diseancs ol huthi aoxes, of any shicisliv Ubleago, Can ba conenitad s ‘or by mnall, frew of chiargu, * His Medicat Troatise Houltivs tronted with safoty an Dr, Stono, Oonfidentinl Physician, {Eocular geadunto In modiolng) cures all cliranlo andt ‘0 ulal Dlsoases" at runsouablo pricos, Modiciuos, fur- ik, No morenry wsod. Consulfation frec. = Curss tood, "All feinialo **Qitfcultios” troated with Circulars froo, Olhioo, 112 Wit 5 oo, Al fopla i~ couss, (Ihieago, : Dr. A. G. Olin, Olifeagy, the vt lrlec_nlll\ll npociuling s giraisn ifs-loug spucial attouiion 10 1 Uhronte, Boaualand Noryous disgasus, can offer to the r\lbllu ulinu of iino Farniture, Chamber s, Parlor Nults, o, nbgvully roduced pricos, JOUN KIHADS. Vurnituro Manufacturors s wocks and jietgs for yooraelt, xent Gonfidentinl consulintions, porsondlly ue d tvited, Ladics send foc clruulary