Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 20, 1874, Page 1

The Ehicage Bailpy Teibnne, ® VOLUME 27. - SURURBAN REAL ESTATE. GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. Grand Anction Salg| . 100 BSYAUTIFUL BUILDING LOTS - GLENCOE! WEDNESDAY, JULY 22. ‘Thoee lots are each 5 FEET FRONT BY 172 FEET DREP, and are surrounded by good, new sidawalks, many of them fenced, and all on gradod atrests, with sowers; o conventont to Publie School, Stors, Poat-Offies, Chureh, and $o the Dopotof the Milwaukeo Divislon of tha Northwostern Railroad, where twonty trains oall each day, alfording means , mos ample and complate for rost~ donts to resch tho olty, aud homs agaln. GLERCOE is beautifal new town, sottled by sa sxcel- Jent and wealthy class of poople, s evidenoed from fhe fach that for tho 300 inhabitanta some $300,000 worth of ‘bulldings ave erooted. The houses are all new, and of baadsome desigus. The eleration of Gloncos ia from 80 te 100 foot above the Inks, and the land i rolling and cov- eryd with a lovely grove, furnishing many piotarsaque Wullding sites. B SPROIAL FRER TEAIN loaves Kinzio-st. Dapot at #:X o'clook. Nevans & Dean's Dand is engaged to fur- mish the musio. An exoellont lunch will be erved. TERMB OF SALE-Payments may be made in MONTHLY, QUARTERLY, or ANNUAL INSTALL- MENTS, or X oask; balauco tnl, % and 8 years, at8 por ceat; oe’( cash, balanoe inland Syoars, atéperoent; or3 cash, balanoo inlyoar, withont interost, ecper oont discount forall cash, as purchaser may seloct. A depositof $35 will be required om sachlot. Title abeo- lutely porfact. No Incumbrancer. Maps, plats, and fn- formation furnished at Room 4 Metropolitan Block, morthwost corner of Randolph and LaSalle-sts., Chicago, offios of the ewners, MORTON CULVER, JAMES N, JORNSON, and A.'D. BINGHAN, ELISON, POMEROY & 00, AUCTIONBEERRS. BASE BALL: BASE BALL. PHILADELPHLAS, o Pl WHITE STOCKINGS, of Chitap MONDAY, JULY 20. Tickets for aale at Kelloy Bros'., 88 Madisou-st., and alse at 117 Twenty-second-at, ¢ rain should interfore the game will he played on the dag followlug. and no posters will bo on the stroat cars. LAKE NAVIGATION. GOODRIGH' STEAMERS. ¥or Rooine, Milwaukes, Sheboygan, Manito- woa, eta., dally (Sundaya oxceptad)... - ¥ar-Saturday's bost don't I For Grand Haven, Muskegon, Traverss Gity, Mackinss, ots,, dally (Suadays excoptod; 7 p.m. For Bl. Josaph dally (Sunday ex00pted)..veersrs 10 8. me Satorday’s Boat don't loava until 11 For Manistos aud Ludington, Tuesday and Thursdsy,. viaree D 8T For Green Bay and Intormodiate ports, Tassday and Friday,.. weoe T Doz For Bscauaba and Lake Buporior ports, Mon. day and Thareds; e D mmm, 80foo aud Docks, foot Miohigan-ar. REAL ESTATE, RICH FARMING LANDS IN WEBRASEKA, Now For Sale Very Cheap! YEN YEARB' OREDIT, INTEREST ONLY 6 PER OENT Send for “The Pioneer,” hande 0: Hlluntrated paper, contalni Hi thend T N ROMRR oot ublates, they Ao Ties o Rl parts f this world. - Addrgss L0 Land Commisaloner U, P, It, R, Omaha, Nob. BUILDING STONE. ~TO BUILDERS, To put onr buaineas on a cash basis, we will well RUBBLE BT from date at $6.50 r cord in the yard. Oorren;{omung reduc- mn in Dimension 8tono, Vault Oovers, and ogging, on short notice. Oash must ac- zumpnnydorder in every case or no reduc- ons made, THR EXOELSIOR 8STONH CO, 964 & 360 Markel-at. Ohicngo, July 20, 1874. h TO RENT. _TO RENT. i 1t 432120 lghted thres B Ay S M iR cor: fl{fim‘?fl ‘Siorue 1€ desired: Wil ‘aiso fodt aso ror °* GALEGY & PEABODY, 194 Doarborn-at. LUMBER OR COAL DOCK £O RENT ORFOR SALY, 150 feet front ‘on Twelfth-at., running back to the Empire railroad connections, near. Da.m. 8p, Blip, with ritteat. brdga. Apply to M, PETRIE, .83 Washington.st.. Basement. ; FINANCIAL. oAR X, TUORNTON, WM. T. TIHORNTON, (8o of Judge Thoratan,) W. F. TEIORINTON & sow, Bapbors and Drokers, Shollrvile, Tl, Eatablished 1850, sations mads (o :hffl‘lbyn?nd adlolatng countios. aud peoce: o 5 - PoudontTeaders' Nationsl Bhake -+ Clicago corres ROBERT WINTHROP & CO, DANEERS AND BROKERS, . 18 Wall-st., Now York, oxecnte ard OGN DR, "AND GOLD, ai o Cr Sont torons oA DR D&IITH, and transact a goneral Banking and Brokersge Cainons. REAL ESTATE, MUST BE SOLD. d Lot No, 471 North Clark.s near I 3 o et Vit o sol buew salupialon OHAOE & AUELL, 184 Dearborn.st, MISCELLANEOUS, ATTENTION!—T0 FROPERTY-OWNERS, Woshall, dato, make Renting aud the Clollea. Al & pars o4 oo Enarsosrs” Hopts. uu:k;ul::y ' i e Parties who hi B oy e wold 30 oomme wad ves s Tiring wamo iu hands of ol Awuwb waa‘fi.fld‘“‘b‘fl’lk E et a1 -5 TR G P, Lter & Co, Direct SPECIAL ATTENTION to ' GENTS’ FURNISHING DEPARTMENT, ‘Which embraces every. variety of Bilk, Merino, Gauze, Lisle Thread, . and Gossamer Underwear; Silk, Lisle Thread, Cotton, and Merino Hosiery; elegant lines of Fancy 1-2 Hose; Gents’. Jewelry, Sus- penders, Silk, Alpaca, and Ging- ham Umbrellas; a 'superb article Gents’ Silk Serge Umbrellas, &ec., &c,, all at UNIFORMLY LOW PRICES. N. B.---Agents for the Popular QUAKER CITY SHIRT, orders for which are promptly executed. SHIRTS! WILSON BROS, 67 Washington-st., Chicago, And Fourth-st., Pike's Opera Nouss, Cincinnuti, —_— BOOTS AND SHOES. .M HENDERSONGGO. NOT BURNED! Having learned that the impres- sion has gone abroad that our Store . and Fagtory were burned .on Tues- day night, we wish to inform our friends that wewere NOT BURNED, and wo are now prepared for the Fall Trade with the Largest Stock of EASTERN and CUSTO%I—MADE BOOTR & SHOES EVER OFFERED IN CEICAGO, C.M.HENDERSON & CO. COor, Madison and Franklin-sts, PIANOS AND ORGANS. PIANOS AND ORGANS KIMBALLS, At Great Bargains! Tostrumients saved. from the firo, ‘with slightly damaged cases, will ho sold vory low, to make room’ for now atack, Instramonta for ront and for sale on installments, W. W: KIMBALL, Cor. State & Adams-sts.,Chicago, OCEAN NAVIGATIOH, WEW YORK TO OARDIEE, ThBonth Walos Atlantio Steamship Uompany's New Firstoolass, Null-powared, Oao.Dulll Stoamins Wik nali from Bounsyivenia fiallroatl \Waast, Jerser Oily: GEAMORGAN.....July 18] PEMBIOKE .......Aug1 Garrying kood Dgors at through ratos f a1l parta of tho Unitod Statos and Cansda 16 ports i The $irihiol Chanael- and all othor nolnts in Eaglend, ‘Theaso steamships, built expressiy for the trade, arepro. ided with all tho I5test improvomionts for the doiatortand convonionae of CABIN AND STEERAGE PASSENGERS, Tirit Cabla, 873 aad 89 curronoy, - Beoond Gabio, 356 eurroncy.. Htaorage, $3 outrency. FreraiTateorage serufeaton romn Gardi.., 8%, Drafta for £1and upwards. “or furthor partiouiurs, apply o Cardlf,at the Com- 2 o. 1 Dook niaimbiors, and 14 Now ¥orkto R B ALD DA TR e, No. 1 iffoadwas. THE STATE LINE, SPEOIAL NOTIOE.—After Satardsy, June 10, the Sleamors of this Line will be dispatched ‘svory altornate WEDNESDAY until July 2, whion rogular weokly sail- ings, evary WEDNESDAY, will commonce. STATE LINE. . To Glasgow, Belfust, Liverpool, Londonderry, &c, STAL'E OF GEO] " We 7, July 13 RTATE 01 MVADA ey, Joy B HBTATHE OF PENNSYLVANIA, .Wadueaday, Aug. & FROM PIRR 26, NORTH RIVER, N, Y. Ratos of prssage: Gabln, 870 and 380, clicrency ; Steer. g0, 88 low a3 by suy firat-ofass liny, Drafts atlowost rates. or further patticulars apply to AUSTIN BALDWIN & QO., Agsuts, T Broadway, Now York. JOHN E. EANLE, Gaal Westorn Agont, @ Olark-st., Obip Notional Line of Steamships, NOTICH. Tuemont soatherly routo Lss (ot U o Atoid oo LTLTs, boca adopted by Satling drom Now Xork for LIV EHEODand QUENS- Ballfog from N, Yark lor London (diroct) svery fortnlght, ‘Gablh passngo, $10, €50, surronoy’ stensa oaLly e e T e C N et dor b, B LARRON, Wi A Nogthenst cornor Oaik tnd Tandalphimse: (oppaens new ruman House), Ohioago. Grent Western Stenmship Line, ‘ X to Bristol (Eugland) diroot. Lo Nom ke ":’( ] Ol Aot o e g Iniermediato, Passago, 810 0 $45: Bloorako, 450, Lizoursion tickots ¥1%0. Apuly ab (funfi 1'm.mb5wg Lake 8hore aud Al " GEO. MODONALD, Agont. BITTERS. P ERILCITON! BOKER'S BITTERS. Beware of Counterfeits. e RAILROADS, Via MICH, CENT. 0, W. & ERIERY'S Pullman Through Palace Sleeping Coach * . i kT e FOR NEW YORK, 8:10 p. . CHICAGO, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1874. THE FIRE. What Notice Was Taken of It in the Pulpit Yesterday, The Rev. E. G Holland Dis- courses on Its Lessons. Sermon by Dr. Everts, of the Tirst Baptist Church. Thanksgiving for the Preservation of St Mary’s. Open-Air Services---The Bethel Church, - List of the Members of the Oitizens' Uommittes. Conference of the Relief and Aid Society with the Hebrew Association, Insurance in Hllinois: Correspondents, Press Commeonts. THE PREACHERS. THE LATE OHICAGO FIRE, Sormen by the Rov. E. (. Molland nt tho First Methodist Church, The Rey. K. G. Holland, of New York, who is temporazily filling the pulpit of the Rov. Dr. Thomas during the absence of the latter from the city, preachod the following sermon yester— day morning : Behold bow great & matter s litils fire kindleth! ~James, fil., B, Thiu city gained its firat renown by its aston- inhing growth and prosperity, 'Then, in a briof space of time, in tho autumn of 1871, its namo wan engravod on the memory of the civilized world, imporishably, by the most destruotive fire evor known in the history of Amorican cities. The heartof the world opened in magnificont sympathy to this rocognized capltal of the Woet; itw calamity and sufforing, roaching the polnt of wublimity, made an ovorlasting record in the hoart of humanity, and rovealed tho ourrents of goodness that ever circulate boueath the surfaca of sooisty. t > Tho text was used by 8t. James as » materlal metaphor for a moral truth, namely: that the tongue, under the controlling iuspiration of an ovil principle within, kindles from small be- ginnings great conflagrationa of discord, gon- tagious fires of ungoverned passion, as dangor- ous to the moral intorosts of socloty s vast materinl burnings are o propoerty interests. This truth is read in the history of mnny revo- Intions in States, and of convulsions in churchos. The same instrument, the tongue, and its mighty ally, tho pou, when inspired by a good heart, hava kindled great fires for the world's bonofit,—reforming and illaminating fircs, which, whilst they purify humsnity and enlighten it, do not consumo its faculties, and aro like tho flames Mosos saw in the burning bush, Allthat the niuatoonth contury may call by the namo of seionce, or art, 50 far as theso apply to man's mastory ovor tho elements, become, agaln and again, o mockery in tho prosonce of the savage forces tho clomenta contam. This is truo of the atmosphere in ita most violent moods, and of “tho wators of the ocoun,’ of tho solid oarth when shaken by subterrancan convulsion, and of the dovouring firos when their small begiunings are not ate tncked, aod thoy bave gathorad power by tho contigity of tho burning buildings of & gront city. ~ Man, refrain thy bonst! Thou art still a child boforo tho majesty of nature's simplo forces. Nodoubtitis man's desliny to com- maud these sufliciently, through scionco and art, but bio s yot a groat way off from tho end. Ships still burn up on tho vory bosom of the wators, and cltios in tho prosonce of the clement, which from overlasting Lad tho quality of quenching firo and flame, because, as yot, man hias no adequate ability for bringing the one slo- mont, apeodily and in’ suficient’ quantity, on to thoe other, . This, thank God, cannot always be. Naturo has givon sens of wafor ngainst soos of flame, and tho mostory of the humsn mind over matorial conditions is, and must continue, on tho ascondant scale. Wo aro choerful accopt- ants of the doctrino that tho various orders of animal existeuce on Lhe planet, that tho relig- ious, tho sciences, and tho arts have boon on tho, nacending scals, but wo do not wish this view to be eatublishod ih rogard to Chicago fires, and, in the midat of & calamity, rejoico thut the de- scending grado in alrondy mamfost. When we witnoss the Josses and miseries oc- casioncd by a few Lours of fire-devastions, it is bard tp bolieve that there aro, or evor word, auy such devotecs as_Firo-Worshipora, But when, on the other hand, we witncss the boneficont ef- fects of the firo-oloment a4 it relgns in the suw, illuminating worlds, and devoloping the endless serios of lifo on the earth, it seews inovitnblo that Divimty should not have beeu recognized in tho fires God kindled in His firmament, and which man has kindled on bis domestio hearth, and in #o many placos, for millions of practical uecs, Whon on this line of thought, wo cannot wonder that Zoroastor permitted bis disciples in anciont Porsia to worsbip God under the cheer- ing emblem of fire, Yos, for untold ages bofors Judaism or Christianity had dawned on_mon, thoy mado prayers and chanted adoring hymns to tho elements of fire, ar, eatth, and waler, in that systom of Nnture-worelilp which precoded Polytheism, evon na Polytheism procedod the Monothoism of tho Oldand tho Now L'estamonts, Fire, as tho old proverb bad 1t, 18 tho good servant, and the pad mastor, Lot us look at tho' loading facts of tho late fire, and thon educe the proper lossons for tho hour. - Every ealamity, whother individual or public, is meant to be » toncher, sud is that to all who aro able aud willing to loarn_from that untitled yot ableat of all toacbors, Experionco, It hins beon advceated by ominent thinkers that exporlonco is not only the contirmation, but the origin, of all the wisdom possiblo to mankind., I tako exporionce to bo the mast positivo and safo guide, when it is correctly intorprotod, About 4 o'clock, in the afterncon of Tuesday, July 14, in an oil-mill, it waa eaid, on Fourth ave- nue, or Clark streot, the *littlo fre,” which soon “indlod a groat mattor," bogan, ' For a swift race, I suppose & fire could not find a much bot- tor starting-place than an ofl-mill, Novertho- losn, liko nearly all firos, it liad its’ small bogin- ning, when no Fignmiu proportions bade dofiance to the powor of water. ~ Why is 1t that the firo- king eanuot oftenor bo !nmim when he i young and small? That, indoad, I8 & great queation, nover to bo forgotten; but time, which the philosopliors sa; ‘iu no aubstance or ontity, is the grontest fuctor In thie problom. T'he fire out~ runs the firemon, aud, by the time that thoy ar- rive, tho child has grown to & glant, doflos & mustor, und plainly enough sayy, “I recognizo but ono director, and follow but uhe guide. That guldois tho wind," Ho that tho fory lino of mutch b judioatod with wome cortuinty by the dirostion of this acriat summunndor snd ibspiror aud Chicago may bo thankful to Eolus that i was the southwostorly wind that took charge of tho conflagration that raged so torribly Tuon- dmy afternoon sud w part of the night, for a strong wind in a difforent diroction might Lave araliolod the awful tragody of Ootober, 1671, 'v*m 16 nooidont, or chanoe, Jolned tho event Suggestions from. famod Wellingtons in our midst,—tho born lead- Ay of a firs with the svont of & southwost wind on the aftornoon snd evening of the 14tn? Was it ohiance that ohanged the conrne of Columbus and Lua littlo floet from & wosterly to a southiwostor- kd!rwl.loll, iu 1492, by the evidonce affordod to lonzo Pinzon, that the southwesterly flight of & flook of snrmu, obsorvod toward evening, proved that land was niot far off it thoy followed those winged-pilota? Was this blind accident? It dotermined, 1t may bo, the nocial fato of Houth Amorica, and of North_Americs, according to Washington Irving, John Caivin, porhaps, never spoko more wisely than when ho said, “Thore aro no accidents with God.” The winds and the flight of birda have thoir law, and conucction with all else_thero is in the univoree, The Iand, though of the more stable and solid structure, is no moro subject to natural law than in tho volatile and changeful clomont of the alr, Tha origin of tho fire, a0 cortain for tho firat day aftor its occurronce, bogins to dim in tha twilight of uncoriainty. Whother stupidity or cupldity lay at ita source nobody positively knois. In the fire-march of “the 14th, from ita origin on Fourth avouuo to the borders of Jackson ntroet, in northonstorly courss, making thor- ough dostruction ou Fourth and Third svenuos, Btate stroot, Wabash avonue, and a small por- tion of Michigan avonuo, it is said that bonefit as woll as domage must be taken into the account. Judgo Wright, through tho Zimes of Friday mornng, is mado to ssy, and that in viow of tho fmm safoty of thacity heroaftor: *‘Indeed, regrot that tho firo did not sweop out all State stroet, down to 'I'wonty-second .strect. That atreot,” continuos the Judge, *‘wan fast bogom- ing m rookery worse aven than the Five Points in New York City.” Firo a8 a Roformer, a Regon- orator, holds no mean repule if it is axamined in relalion to the history of cities; nor oan wo al- logo any fault in the analogy ‘which anciontly mado thio agonoy of Firo the symbol of llefionur- ation. Not only in Judaimmn and Chrlstisnity was this common, but in India, tho oldest sont of human oulture, I think, and conturics before Christianity appearod in Palostine, Brahmnnism mado Siva the God of Dostruction and the God of Rogenoration alao, and dealared fira to Lo his nymbolio elomont, Tho grand distinction of the coming Messiali, according to Jobn the Baptist, was to bo that Ie should baptizo with **the Holy Bpirit and with Fire,” and-that in His Fire tho chaff should bo burned up, whilst the whont should bo safely garnerod, I have often noticod in cities, that fho robuilding of burned dietricts prescots ofton, on brosdoned stroots, blocks of buildings far saporior to thoso the flre had- destroyed, I do mot romombor & singlo ex- coption to this rulo, cither in Europs or in Amorica. The fire-baptism, whother viowed on the matorial or on tho apiritual Klnnu, is no ordinary or fruitless rito, o 'assured; ' that on the mntorial plane is not wholly - materinl since tho offects so deeply. ponetrato tho soul's powors aud deptbe, touching on solf-roliance, and sooinl relianco ; making Lumaliation where pride hiad Emvlnuaiy ralgued ; causiug distrust in tho sta- ility of oxternal posuassious, and opening & by artesian wolls tho doop fountaln-curronls of sympathy in tho heart of human natnre. No, thero i8 no matorial nspoct of things which is not rolated to tho moral uuguct of tuings, tho marriago-bond botween them being as vital and interconneoting as that which holds the soul and tha_body in consctous unity. Chicago has had its firo-baptism, and grosn the stronger in char- nator by tho ordeal, Tho area of tho burnt district, recontly cro- atod, is snid to be twico the size of that orented by tho Boston fire, Tho loss, in the way of capi- tal, roported to be about £4,000,000, of couras must ba felt, though the ground that man; buildings staod on i worth mora to-day than it 'was bofors they were consumed. But it is 1o trifle to becomo suddenly home- less, to tho hundrods who exclumively dopond on their daily toil to secare thoir daily brond, thoir nightly eheltor for reat, and their I(YPIH‘B'. Hundreds of homoless ones woro tho product of Tucaday's conflagration, and O, how thankful must we all be, for thoir sakes, that this calamn- ity camo in the summer mstond of winter, that ovor $300,000 of the £5,000,000 which tho sym- pathy of tho world created attor tho preat firo of -1871, still rompins to mitigato the distress of tho hour among tho recont sufferers! I walked ovor tho charred ground the morntug aftor the lnrid glaro of the night had died out, and was amazed at tlio genoral soronity of thoe dispossessed and homoloes. . It {8 n part of the ‘noral plan of the uni- vorso that occasions for sympathy should often occur on the planct, = Otherwise, tho power of sympathy would dio out. Evil is Eormmerl to cxist that human aature may ho ovaloped in greater power by overcoming it. The world focls that thevo is sublimity in o great calamity, nnd it rosponds sccordingly. So thought Whittior, when ponning theso stanzss on tho great firo: A suddon fmpulso thrilled each wire, That aignaled round that sea of fire} Bwift words of cheer, warm heart-throbs camo; * Iu tearn of pity died the flame, From East, from West, from Sonth, and North, ‘The messnges of Lope shot forth, And, underneath the soveriug wove, Tho world, full-handod, reached ta save. Alil uot In vain the flames that tossed Above thy dreadful holocanst ; o Olirist again bas preachod through thos “Tho Goupel of humanity, Thero s always an angel in tho human heart, but to bring him out in his natural radiance re- uires tho fit occasion, e np!mmred divinely at tho call of the flery hurficano that unhoused the multitudes in 1871, But how shall Ohicago prevont the raonr- ronco of hor flery tragodics, 1t belug alrendy un- derstood that even the prayers of faith will not oxtinguish flame. I supposo that, in addition to the more rigid practice of caution on the part of our poople, the mosthurried and venturo- some, and, I bad almoat said, the most onroloss, Puuplo in’ tho world,~youth is more carcless hau ago, 80 nmong nations,—we must rely on the plain old fact that wator ig the enemy of firo, and this encmy must bo rallied in greater . forco, and & more perfoot genoralship than bitherto, Machinory may bo smple and fault- less, water may be convoniont and abundant enough to drown a nation or quench the flames of & thousaud Moscows, sud the flromen may bo sufliciently numerous and ns brave as tho men of Leonidn at the pass of Thormopylae, and yet fail entirely of success, if tho Fire Darsbal is not a Gonoral. What was the army of Napoleon without Napoleon at tha hoad ofit7? What avails thoe best muscle and sgility in any content without a cool and penctrating brain to quickly comprobond the facts of tho situation, and a will to urge forward, with tho right means, ou tho right points, at the right moment? I agrin gay that & Fire Marshal ucods all the qual- ities of o trua Goneral, For his worlk. s o battlo taxing stratogy, courage, colority, and boldnesy of execution to the utmost. Whoovor will vote for such an ofticer for mere political reasons, or because ho is a *clovor fetlow,” desorvos to bo thirown into the vory noxt confiagration tuuznnP- pons! Do engincers on our stenmers snd rail- ways, and lu our munufactories, got thelr nF- pointmonts becauss they can drink oc uins well? or brcanso they voto for or against the adminis- tration ? Fidelity o# men, with scienco, ability, and exporience iu the depariment of engineer- ing, is supposod to detormino his fitness forsuch a trust, Noin the firo dopartmonts s in addition to all thooretio knowlodgs, welost the yot un- orf of men, for auch thoro arc in ovary groatclty and State. After conceding rectitude of purposo and will-force,let us call for more bralns ingreat positions, T'ho greatost power of tho inward man, in theso aud in othor directious, will bo found to consort with the largest magnanimity aud trustwopthinoss. Lo see tho time, in ad- vance of tho flamos, whore buildings may bo suddenly removed and vacant spaco created, across which tho flames may beliopt from pass- ing, this is, as overy onc kuows, oue of the chlef points of this Generalship, which surveys the whole fiold and issuos the ordors to bo _exceuted attho difforert points. Chiongo necods a hoad liko Napoloon the Firat to deyise and wicld tha forces that shinll so moet the Fire-King that hiy enrly advances may ba turned ‘into rotroat and surrender, 2 ‘The Turlka do not bolleve in our Fire Depart- ments, nor in any yory earnort offort of men to suppress it. ‘Choy bollove in Fate, and that tho will of God has boforchand sot the limit boyond which the flamo esunot go. Our travolors are amazod 0 seo thom stand, uunioved as etatues, aud bohold the progress of firos which consume thoir own proporty, Our lnsuranco companios sud policles thoy noither havo hind hitherto, nor | belleved fn, 'They rest socuroly iu their ono artiolo of faith, so often reitorated,—* God iy God 1™ And though wo uuile at the simplicity of this nonresisting form of bolief, I have yot to loarn that thoy oxporiongs any groator losios by fires and conflagrations than do we, who stand in the moro active form of religious {alth, and who put far more confidence in jmmedinte and officlent causes than they, It was 1o Orien- tallut who sald, * Truat u Providonce and keep your powdor dryt " o 'zejolos Lhat & MAD of MOAerats moana oan now build s brick house about as cheap ashe can l ono of wood, and though none of the mor: d bulldings can renist the progress of the groatest fires, thoy cannot spread so rapidly among thoss of brick and stons, nor do thoy take firo no easily {from tho same causes, Now in the time to heed the Beriptural admonition in the litoral aa well $ho moral seuse, not to build of **liny, wood, or stubblo,” but on rock-foundation, of such ma- torial a8 shll bost ouduro when tho fire shall try uvurg man's work of what goré it fs. Jesus wrought till he was thirty yoars of ngo st the earpoutor's trade, and, among the many honsca lio may tave boon cngaged in orooting, thero may bo somo of thom atanding to this day, as thoy were all built of stone, a kind of froestono it is anid, to the duration of which time sots no dofinite limit. Josus, who grow up m this novls brauch of industry, doca not #o vory often slludo to it, and then always in the way of motaphor; but ihen evary allusion he doss make implics stons as the matorial for house building. The poor of the peoople, in his day, lved. in stond honses, and oven now the poorer olass in Byria livo In honses of atono, though it is sald that tho material in rather loosely put togathor sud without the uso of cement. Fires, then, must bo raror with thom than with the moro scientific people of the Ocoident, undor. which name I inciude the nations of the Old West, Turope, and the pooplo of the Now West, Amor- ica, Cortainly nobody mots fira to his own or to i landlord’s proporty for the purpase of mak- h"f mouey by collecting tho insurance he mr:( hold in his own name, for this impious word, *Innuranco,” is not among the words thoy use, but in lieu of such human safogusrd, thoy, with emphasia assert, * God is God!" and iu- torforence {# non-admiasiblo. T am not sure that ail our institutions are, a8 et, wisoly adopted to tho prosent status of nman nature. The community of a city are nevor safo 8o long a8 men may insure proporty In such a way asto acquire the motivo of nd- vancing thoir individual interest by dostroying it. Tho rolation of the individual to socioty is rocognized in its mncrodnoss only by s cortain part of tho social aggrogate; in an abundanco of onsos in all large commuilties tho {ndividual intorest is all in all, and only the hazard of con- coaling tho erlmo could provent thom from sacrifloing the largest amount of proporty be- longing to othors to socura potty advantagos to thomaelves. Thero iy, too, the dangorous clnss who rojoico in great fires, who scom interiorly to have afinity with confiagrations; who scont thom from afar, and hoaton to the aceno, to mingle in the crowds and plunder whera thoy can, Out of this class tho myntery which often hangs ovor tho aflfiin of lircs might find ita solution it truth could be known. Asan Ameri- can I am not sorry to know that our institatious have not rearod 80 very many of this olnsa. The very groat mojority of them came to us from the Old World, and woro educated undor tuo monarchical govornments of Europo; sad though many may have hoard the chontings of ranss, noue "of thom evor atudied or pondored for an'hour in early lifs over the glorious Ser- mon on tho Mouut. I sce that one of tho ablo papers of . this ocity, in_ speaking of tho or- ganization of 'tho Fire Dopartment, said but yestorday morning these words: ** Mon wero wsclocted now for what? Not for their manhood, intolligence, and capability, but for thoir ignorance, stupidity, and their {:oh’tlcnl and, national opinions and projudices.” * If the city liad had propor and efticient men i the Xiro and Police Department, do you suppose thatithe firo, which originated in a fow shuntics, would have swopt ovor from Kixty to sovonty acres, and de- stroyed $4,000,000 or $5,000,000 worth of prop- orty?” - Domocracy i#, indeed, a curse, whon under the namo of the Poople’s’ Ruls, tho basor alements from tho groat mass take tho highest functions, which are thoso of goverument : and woo {0 tho community whose best capacity and character are eclipsed by domagogues and place- huntora! Woe to tho city where intogrity and capncity, in the most regponsiblo stations, are ovor at” tho morcy of the shifting sands of me- tropolitan politics! A stablo basis must be sought aod found for these, and I rejoice that oll the facts and dangors of the situation «aro bolug understood in due time. Who would burn a world to savo or to destroy a party ? Bolf-interost has & sharpor vision and a quick- er nervo for tho protaction of proparty than may bo oxpocted from philantbropy or publio foeling. 8o lot evory man provido his own buildinga wit tha menns of rapldly mostoning their roofs and sidos, that tho origins of fire may be aunihilato ‘before thoy becoms irrosistible. : No Stato I have ever scon ia o woll leveled and looated for a systom of raifronds as Illinois, the natural converging point of which is Chica~ g0. But iunot tho dunger somowhat heighton- ad, In cao of . fires, by tho unbroken mwosp of the winds over such vast tracts of sven surface ? The forco of winds very much modifled and broken by hills, mountain-ranges, snd by thick foreuts of large trocs, rocoive no modifying re- sistance hero' excopt Ly such atrooturos as man bas raised. And do not vast plains absorb the moisture of showors and dewa moro rapidly than do tho replons of alternate milland-vale? In the absonce of rain, a few days of hent makes tho woodwork so dvy that itie tinder to tho. touch of fire, 'The ascondiug foga and gracoful rivers that bolong to_valleys aro moro porma- nently moistoning. Tho grent desort of Sahara, 3,000 miles long, and from 500 to 700 milos wide, now an even arid plaiu of amazing heat, could soon bo restored to feriility, if threo mountain ridges were thrown up at equal distancos, and oxtendod along ita wholo longih, with the tranverso spurs that commonly attend mountain ranges ; for tho showers which do not neglect the dosert, would ®oon form springs, the springs rills and brooks, aud thoss forming rtvers, would veriy in tho most literal mannor the. words of the prophat, “The desert shall rejoico and blossom as tho rose.” But thors must bo_*‘clties of tho Plain,” now agof old, Berlin, Prussia’s Capital, a town of which ‘Chicago has ofton rominded e, lics on & anuai' plain, a5 Jovel as that on which our own dwollings stand, and wo do not hear of groat Gros in Betlin, Wo must multiply caution, and deolino to bo the City of Magniflcont Ruina, Wo will covot othor atiractions, - But tho rolation wnich theso outward firos bear to certain inward flros in the form of in- temperanco is altogethor too much overlooked, though it is concoden that mon who drink chain- Ilfhtning aro_poor custodinna of their own and of othora’ safoty. loreln, in the whisky foun- tain, lies the onomy to bo watohed, dreaded, and supdued. Under intuxication whera is caution? Qone, Will they whom bubits of inebrioty im- povorish provido and uso the means of self-pro- tection just alluded to? It cannot bo expocted. In 1871, the story traveled to Now Yorlk that the great Chicago fire {began in tho sorvico of Bacchus ; that to get millc wherowith to mnke milk-punch_a party alroady elntod wont into the ‘barn and milked a cow, tho light that aided thom mosanvwhile setting fira to the building, I never yet board this version contradicted. Fires ocour in housies whera men aro so intoxicated thnt thoy can save nothing, and have to bo takon out tuemeclves! Though very much fuchned to morcey, I nould suggost, ss'a monns of reforma-~ tion, that honcoforth in such oases tho pianos and chairs bo takon out first, the bost artivles boiny ontitled to the firat effort at conservation| * Bohold how groat a matter a little firo kin- dleth!" The dovout of untiquity, by eotornal vigilanes, watohed the fire from respoot fo its divinity ; we, from deforence to its dangor. Ju- dalem " charishied the bollof that the world itself should undergo a qrnud trausformation by the agenoy of fira; and in tho socoud opistle of {’uwr the idea Is put forward that the Lionvons shallba on fire, and the earth shall melt with forvent hent, and tho cloments thereofshall bo dissolved, Jonving as o final rosult now bheavens and a now earth, whercin dwelleth righteousness. The most epintnally-minded men and womon of tho prosent day aro tuklng this instruction in a piritual sonwo, tho oarth having passed through ita burning stages millions of yoars bofore hu. manity appearod on its arcna, “Man Is orgenized ou the sume plan 1 the univorse. In him thoro s hon\'on!f and aa earthly naturo, which only reach thelr divino state by xaflfnorntlon. Tho hoavens or heavenly naturs in him bulu’( on fire by the agency spokon of in the words, ‘‘Hlo shall baptizo you with the Holy Ghost and with flre— tho éarthly nature also molting in the sarha ** fer. vent-heat," and tho olements of its boing dis- tolved for the formation of tha new wman, loav- mg in him o fizmament of new moral constelln- tions and an carth of purified elemonts, ‘Fhin is & upiritunl contlagration, which I would might 0 ovor all tho earth consuming of ho orrors and sinw thoroof, ~ Tor tha great Itogonorator Aaid, “I came to sond fire on tha earth, and what wonld I wore it alroady kindlad?" Inthe good aud unlorl( sonse of tha word tho heat of fire ropresents divino love, and thelight thoraof reproncuts divine wisdom, and thets conjoined work for the rogeneration of mankind, " Our God is 8 consuming fire,” saith tho Sacred Word, and on the dross.whioh mingles with the moral gold wo rejoica that Ho'is that, We refoloo, thon, that thoru {5 » heavenly five, s Rofinor's fire,' we noed not dread, forming an alembla fn whiok we may be prepaved for new oastingn; and we refolos that no external devas- tations oan harm ‘the hops, the character, or aplritual trensure of the true Christian. R atior THE FIRST BAPTIST CHUROH. Scrmon by the Rev. Dr. Everts. The ongregation of the First Baptist Church, haviug beon driven from thoir own handsome templo by the flamea of Tuosday night, assom- bled to worship yostorday morning in the Mothodist Cburch, cornor of Wabash avonne and Fourtoonth streot, whore thoy woro ad- drossod by the Rov. Dr. Kverts, thelr pastor. The attendance at the morning mervico wau re- markably Iargo. .Thoe services commenced with the usual proliminary exercises of prayor and pralso. Provious Lo the sermon the hymn No. 997 was sung ¢ ‘Tlicre {8 an hour of poscaful rest "To mourning wand'rora givon Thore In & Joy for soula din resacil A balm for evory wounded brenat, *Tis found above ju heaven, Dr. Everts choso as his toxt: * Ifo openoth alsa thoeir oars to discipline,”—Job xxxvi., 10, A deaf man might' walk unconcernod across # railroad track, might ail in & concert hall with no sympathy with tho costasy of thoe assembly, would be untouched by the orator. The Borip- tures doclared that mankind was afioted with moral doafness ; that man knew not that God was wanting to converse with him. And God somotimos arreated the aitontion of man by means of afiliction, He would thorefore spoak of the beneflcence of calamity in perfecting life. Itwas benoflcont by arousing and eooreing tho attention of mon- kind. The nrmy, boforo the battlo, was drawn up, and tho oflicer cried, *atten- tion, batealion.” ‘fhere waa .no instraction in tho sohool-room without attontlon, An- lagous to this was tho giving of tho law to the Hobrews, 'Chey wore gatherod bofore Mount Soai ; tho monutain tromblod; thoy at- tonded to the volco of God. All calamity waa tho Binal blazing, trombling, and quukiug. Earthiquale, wars, and pestilence wera tho volco of God summoning mankind to attention. Not only waa thia truo in grest _events, but in the uarrow oirolo of the family, Thoy hoard the voice in bueinoss troubles, of frionds, loss of proporty, How often hiad it boen esid thst war had wept low aud dograded racos up to o Dhighor manbood by arresting their attontion, Many a man laying up treasure in this world had boou lod to think of his tressaro in Hoaven as bo saw his property burning, Calamity was boneficeut ; it was ossontial fo tho govormnont of she world; wo could not go on without it. It enforced the obsorvance of those laws of naturo through whose transgrossion noarly all our ealamitios cameo. A obild was odu- cated by pain to dread the fire; by exporionco, was educated against drowning, Nearly all our troublos came from igmoranco of nature. It a8 no uee to dony the fact of & genoral reign of Inw. This argument was prossod too far by ma~ torialists, who argued sgainst an overruling Providouce, but no orthodox man would deny tho roign of Iaw in » measurs, Great ovils, lile oppression and intomperance, croated a reaction which swopt thomn away. By thess calamitios mon were educatod, Mankind waa gathering more and more in the cition, Wo grow too fmst, built onr’screa of buildings of bovfires, and we were beginuing to think this mast ood. ' Ho was boginning to foar tolive in tho city; hore woro men burned out four or five times. Amorican cities would all go to deosy if somo higher polico wore not eatabe lished. * Insecurity prevailod around us, because wo had neglectod the lawas of natura, Thoy must woko and roalize tho truth of what jour- nalism was thundering in thoir ears, and build pormauently. There must bo avenues bolting tho oity. It would cost only one-half of the Inte fira; must have tho firo™ limite oxtonded ; must have floating enginos; must have the alloys cleared of combustiblo material; mus: not sllow smoking on the public streats, Tivo or three fanatics could, with » box of matchos, burndown the city in s day. Thore wero thousandsof fanntics and madmon, made 83 by socioty, ready to do it. Hocioly muat orise nnd proteot itsolf, We wore sowing the wind to renp tho whirlwind., God wonld destroy the city if we did not take cara. Ouly bysweoping awny the combustible matorial, boards, aud shaviugs, by using brick snd iron, could we be made ssoure. He rojoicad to sas tho public awake and motive; rejoiced ot tho utterances of the preas. It was.not strange that all ages felt that calamitios and aftlictions Luvo moral diselpline. Poor man awoke to a consoiousness of absolute weaknoss 88 ho saw his propeity burn ; as it struck man's solf-dopondence, (et dluenco toward regeueration. Man owed his wrotehedness to his own imperfeot, sinful nature. Nine men in & hundred felt in the relation bo- twaon their sufferings and their sinful nature. Doath onme into the world by sin ; every man would admit it. Among tho Pagnns whon war or pestilonco came, they thronged their tenples; 8o smong the Hebrews; so in all ages of human bistory. Wore thogo men crazy, or tbo fow philosophors who tried to séultify humane- naturo ? Rich or poor, bond or free, when in troubls thought of their sive. Wo were none of ua too rightoous ; none too wise, When in trouble wo turnad to God, Ho could not underatand how men could try to argue God' out of oxistence. Ho admitted tho fanaticism of thoe interprotors of God, in explaining the motives of God. Ho did pot believe that one oity was destroyed for its full menyuro of wiokedness, and nnother dpared for its goodnoss. His hearors could uot hold that thoso were more accidents without bo- ing Athoists. Avy man 'who roasoned against God's baving a hand in thesa contlagrations must fing away his Bible, The poor mun who would not hoar the tendor Yoice of God was alarmod at tho thundors of Biuai, The benoficonce of calamity could bo #eon in tho tendor disploy of Christian oharity. Redemption was to glorify God in thoso tondor sympathios whioch could ‘nover have beon ox- pressed but for ;tho}fall of man?; and eo, by the grentost of calamitlos, the fall”of mau, came tho grestest of gloricy, the redemption of the woxlg. We saw all our revelations in troubles, Call out the womst criminal on earth in torture, aud the impulse of all would be todo some- thiog for him. How the world came to unin our troubla! The benoficience which overspread tho world made it rich far boyond tho losa of tho “fire, 'Theso noble le‘ lses of humanity wore worth moro than wealth, ‘Thoso calamitios ‘woro marvelously beseeching iu thoir tenden- oles to virtua, Anplying this thought to thelr own church- Listory, would this bo n blossing? o falt ovor- oworad with ocalamity. Last yonr ho was in \Visconsin, and mot & loading ‘citizen who told him that ko owod all ho was co the inspirations of the worship and disciplina of the First Chureh. Gad bad blessed tho old church, If tho sialk bind boon blown down, the seeds woro sontiered, aud tho fruitago would be more plentiful, Tho old church was gouo, and they must be allowed to mourn ovor it & liltls, Virgil's horo brought from burning Troy what was moro preclous than old, the love of hls ngad fathor. Let tholr Troy urn, thon, if thoy had brought with thom thelr Futher's love, Houses, aod ordinancos, and policies wora straw and chaff, but the straw and ohaff must not be ignored. IHo could not undoratand splritual ouituro without por- sonal contact, It was tho straw that was burnad ; hed thoy saved tho whoat? Io hoped so, It would now bo necertaiued, ITe had becamo con- cornod about tho spiritual wolfare of some who attonded clurch nfrequontly. Porhaps this calamlity would bring thom to tho Church again, Mon could not love Christ if they did not love his Church., Tho maun who bud no rogiment bo- louged nowhere. Alan muat have a brothore hood and a pluco of prayor. The rogiment was soattored for w moment, but it would bo re- united. Torliaps not ull, for in thoarmy there woro not wanting' mon who were absont just boforoe mud at the battlo, ‘I'his wug a good time for thoso who did not lovo tho church to join some other, Soms people talked of geography and church momber- ship. Tlo thought tho love of the church was & mightier power than googruphy. Those who loved the “church wero invited (o discuss and adviso the quostion of polioy, Ifo prayed for a grout rovival after this digastor, It their houso was burnod let themn think of tho tomplo ot Luilt with hands, He awked tho prayors and conusels of all tho sister olurohes in this troublo, If wo woro to bo maved in loaven it wins to bo by the wreok of this world, Mr, B, F\ Jacobn was called upou tomake a otatorsont. 1l said that a fow iuonths sgo tho #um of 1,000 was to hiave boen raised, but was deferred for some time, To maka up this de- floienoy it was nacossary to isve the pow-roats continuo, There wers no powa tosit in now, but that did not mater, In addition to bhis, the sum Of §5,000 Liad to bo xaised, There wore cards in . NUMBER 331. the paws which were to be regarded siating tho time at which s pmi:lund !fi‘l‘n ::u“e‘é De paid. Monoy was noeded for the Bunday. sohool, Biblos, i - il o, singing-books, and library ware ‘The amount was ralsod. it s BT, MARY’S CHURUKR. Remnrksby the Rt. Rov., Blshop Foley, Tho servicos st St. Mary's Catholis Oburch corner of Wabash avenuo sad Eldridge court, yoatorday morning, partook somowhat of a thanksylving coazactor, onnccount of the almost miraculous oscaps of the odifice from destruo- tion in the groat fire oA Tuocaday ovening, The congregation was not vory large, owing doubtloss to tho fact that many mombors were burned out, and conmoquontly compelled to take up their abodo in localitics distant from tha church, The ordinary high =ass waacolobrated by tho paator, thoRov. Fatls ‘oonnn, assisted by two-Doacons, sndtho Rt Bishop Foley oceupied a soat in tho sancluary :.d pronounced tho benediction, “])urlng the cas he spoke Dbriefly, from the altar ateps, o reat danger through the church by egud nnunthgnd. hg m‘lv:):r?- gation, he 1 oght, shoutd expross the most profound gra “de {o Divino Providance for the interposition _ch had avortod another diro cae lamity, auds _ Td apply tho lesson it taught to thoir various tlona in life. In the presonce of auch groa aaters the omnipotence of the Creator, and:~ > wisdom of His every action, ‘woro manifea, ,'moro fully, and from them tue true Obristian should take waming, that the things of lifo are ephemeral, aud that the affairs of the soul only are of grost moment. Tho Rt ey, Dl!ho& then road the Gospel of tho day, which way tho parable of thoe unjast steward, contained in the Gospol of St. Lulks, He naid the moral i tnught was an obvious ons, and should ba um(ull{ moditatod on by all, no matter what tholr stalion. The losson of 'the qunint parable incnlcated tho atrictost upright~ Dessin the affairs of tho world and in thoso of re- ligion, and was particnlacly valuablo to paront because it cloarly nxg}nlnud tho groat duty whl:& they owe to tholr children, and, through thom, to I'flclolyTlchrgu- At the eon:hmlnn of the eervicos a To Deum twas surg, and the cangrega tion disperaed. R —— OPEN-AIR SERVICES: Tho Congregntion of the First Churck Awmid tho Ruins, At 7 o'clock yosterday evening s portion of tho First Baptist Church congrogation met amid the ruins of tholr once elogant and mpacious odifico. A woek ago littla aid that good pooph antloipato the change that has come, and atill loss did thoy dream that as thoir noxt meoting they would be aurrounded with the smoldering ruina of their church, and tunt the atops would take the place of the altar, , and ashos that of thoir rich carpoting. .But e+ tho ivy, reducod to a crisp by the angry blazos, still clings to the ghastly walla of tho churoh, : 60 tho hearts of tho eongrogation cling to the spot hallowed by 8o many ploasant associations, religious and social. The esrnestnesa of the meeting Inst evoning, thon, caunot be mensured by its sizo. It was uudor the direction of Mr. B. F. Jacoba, Super- intendent of the Bunday-school of this ehurch, in tha abseuce of Dr. Evorts, the tor. Ea- toring the gato fo the south yard Dme olrurch, he said, *Come in, good peoplo.” He atoncs $ook position om tho steps, and announced the borutiful hymn, J Rook of a cloft for mq Let 106 bido fayaslt 1 it which was sung with great zost by the crowd, led by Mo. DAkor. Ho then offercd a solemn. aud forvont prayor, aftor which ho announced the familiar hyau, commencing : Thers ia s fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immauuols veina, This wna sung very foelingly, snd was follow- ed by ronding rom the 9th ot Hobrawa and tha 218t of Ravelation. ) 3lr, Norton thon led in prayer, after which Mr. Jacobs mado & fow romarks portinent to the occusion, Among othor things, he mought to impress upon tho meeting the impartance of staudiog us under the afictions of "the nuur, Ho thnufih tho doatruction of the church would tond to direct tho congrogation’s attontion to that hlgher Church not mado with hands. The Alrut tabarnacle evor roared was in tho wildor- noss. God waa thore, sud Ho would be with thiseongregatfon, lot their osrthly fatos be what thoy might.” At the conclusion of hix ro- marks he announced : Jesus| lover of my soul, Lot mo to thy bosom fly, which was suog with great carnostness, and fol« lowed with prayer by Mr. Norton. After the singing of anather hymu, and prayoy by AMr. Baker, the exorcisos wore alosod with the doxology. ‘Lhoe congrogation is yot unaettled about re- building or even a place of worship, Kingsbury's Hall has boen very kindly offored them. but the objection 0 1t s its location. 'The old church was roally not far emough south to moet the oonvonicnco of the congrogation. One thing urgod, however, iu favor of Kingsbury Hall, in that service thore would fill a great vold, by supplying utmm}um with & uonvonluntnrlm of worship. This 1a a viow soveral praminont membory of the congrogation take of it. This question, howevor, will be settled Friday, at o mooting 'to be held on the corner of Thlrtictia streot aud Indinua avonue. The rogular sorvicos uext Sabbath will be hold at Staudard Hall. This evening a strangers’ meoting will bo bold in_the samo place. It is yuite probablo that the roar of tho old church will be rebuilt at ouce, simply to accom= madate tho Bunday-school. ‘Ihe question of re- building Lhe ontire edifico on the old sito ig also agitated, and it is weid tho plans havo alrendy boen sketched. The plaus aro somowhat after the style of tho Methodiat Ohurch Block, cornor of Clark and Washiugton, the auditorium to be ou the second floor, and the flrat loors to bo de- voted to storea aud ofiices. —_———— THE BEIHEL CHUROH. Its Pastor Declines Sl!'..‘yllnt Anything Abont the ros The Bothel Methodist Episcopal Church So- clety, composod oxclusivoly of colored poople, whowe ehuroh was burned in the recent fire, sasemblod for worslup vesterday morning in the Common QCouncil Chamber. The attondancs was not large, but tho lack in numbers was fully mado up in earnestnoss and unction. Tha sorvices hnd no spocial reference to the calamity suffered by the church, and many of its mem- bora thought tho hymus woro ovidently seleoted with ap oye to their approprintences, Thoy wore of tho good old Methodist sork : And ure wa yo ativo, Aud seo each other's face ¥ and God movos Ju a mysterions Tils wondern to porforin, | T The text woa from the 16th chapter and 224 varse of the Gospel according to St. John: “And ye now have sorrow, but I will ses you again, and your heart shall rojoice, and your joy no 1nan tukoth from you,” 'Che pastor, ‘tho Kov. J. W. Malone, whose descont is unmistakably Af- rican, nnd not Hiberolan, as tho name would suggost, maid it might bo oxgeeted by some that ho would choose for his subject tho late fire, its causes, incidents, snd rosults; but he should speak of lomumx‘ng roator and’ of more ipportance than tho fire, * Who s Je- sus,” as ho abruptly oxplalned, To consame tlmb, ho said, by preaching & sormon on the flre would bo like sonie persons who used to b fond of talking to tho colored poople about Slavery and itw evils—a subjoct not vory agrocable to the vary porsons who hiad drank ita bitter drogs. Bo wltfl ho fira; it woa a disagrooable subjoet to those who had passed through it; and so ho should make po furthor mention of it, but call the attention of his hearors to Ilim who was able to comfort thom in all their trials, allictions, and sufforioga. ———— THE LAYMEN, THE OITIZENS' OOMMITTEE, Liat of the GGentlcmen Wha Wil Waikt ea the Couucll Thiy Evenlug. Under the resolutions adopted by the mosting at McOormiok 1all Baturdwy night, the following gentlomon have been appolntod a commitice Lo ‘wait upoa tho Common Qounsil. Thay are requostod fe meol at the Mapor's L "