Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 1, 1874, Page 2

HE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1874, AGAINST FIRE, Lottor from the Hon. Joseph Medill, - How Ohioago Onn Bs Made Praoti- cally Five-Proof. PROTECTION Tho Measuro Within the Control of the Insurance Companies Lot Whem Domand that AN Bxisting « Wooen - Structuros Shall Lo Provided with -Non-Combus- tiblo Roofs, And thet Their Sides Shall Bo Coated ) wilh~ Drick. Rofusing Invuranco upon All Buildings Mot Adjusted - in Accordarice with These Demands, WizEnADEN, Germany, Aug, 8, 1874, The Hon, W, F, Cadlbaugh ‘ DEan Bin: 'Tho Amorican papors ara begin- ning to sxrivo, giving full accounts of the recent oxtonsivo firo in tho South Divisiou of Chicago. nppily, tho valug of tho' proporty destroyed fall far bolow what the firat telographic cablo ro~ ports mndicatad, and it would scem that the'in- suranco pretty nearly covors tho nctyal valuo of tho things consunied. In some respects the firo is ungbubtodly a public **bloseing in disguise,” . In thiat it Lins romoved, by tho destruction of thousand combustiblo rookories, a atanding metinco’ to the busincss-district from that quar- tor; and I suppose thonaked ground of tho burnt district would soll for moro now than'it would boforo the firo with tho miscrablo build- fvgs theroon,—oxcopting; of course, tho woll- improvod lata on Wabash and Michigan avenues. Tt thoro is auothor sido of the cnse, anothor aspoct of the matter, to be cousidered, which shows that the firo 1148 DOKE CIIICAGO GREAT ITATM, It has given a eovere shock to tho confidenco of tho outside world in tho safoly of prop- erty in tho Quoen City of thio Great Weat, Tt has manitestly creatcd a fecling of insceurity, and o Joss of confidenco in the futuro oxemption of our city from furthor visitations of (ho sanie kind. Al the European papers have beon dig- cunging tho subject, and their conclusions aro the samo; that Chicago ‘will continuo {o ho teourged by torribla conflagrations until tho mass of wooden houses aro all eonsumed out of existence. They all scem (o understand that ihora are whola square miles of those piue tono- mouts with shingle roofs, lying oxactly south- weet of tho busiuess heart of tho great eity; and they rpecniate on the conisequences of fira break- ivg out in these dangerous scctions, and swoep- ing all Bofora it. I bavo road tho procecdings of tho mooting over which you prealdid, and the ‘rosolutions that woro adopted suggesting monsures for the tuturo saféfy ; ‘and T have also perased various plaus Aud 'devices profiosed in” tho publio jour- nnls having the sanie cud in view. 'But, in my Judgmeont, thoy all mi¢s. tho mark, and fall far short of what s abrolutely mecéssary to be dono. Tho time bas como to Jook this groatest of all loea! qaestions fairly in tho-face. Thora should be no moro neglect or deley, paltering or quack- ery. Tho xight thing SHOULD DE DOME AT ONCE ; for, sooner or Iater, Wwe must como to it ' whother wo Mko 1t or not. Undor the eflect of the sbarp smart and healthy scaro from the Iato scoreh, I amn prepared to loarn thiat romething liko the following hias bean resolved upon by the City Goverument and Insuranco companies: 1, Tho latter haye demanded & roorganization of the Fire Depnrtmont, with a now Chief Tire Marshal, Jarger srater-pipea’in tho business por- tions of the-city, more fire-ongines, a powder- brigade, floating onginas on tho river, an oxton- pion-of tho fire-limita ; aud thoy have then com- loted thoir efforta by making & largo advance rn their rates of insurance, in order to- recoup * thotr companies for their lato protty severo log- eon aa quickly a8 possibie. e 2. I'am propared to lyarn thot the Council lave- complicd with mnst of those domands, oxcopt thoeo touching tho organization of the Yiro Department, which will bo declined. Tha Council will vote libornl additions to tho fnxes for the professed purpose of oxtinguishing fires, beesuso:nll this can vo done in the pleasant and profitablo direction of incrensod patronage, jobs, aud oxpondituro. ‘The protection of the city boing thua providod for (7), the carcloss public will rosumo their sloep, which the recent coutlagration so unduly disturbed, and they will enooze away until they wako up some mght finding T WHOLE CITY ENGULYED IN FLANLS, with the red torch of aunibilation Dlotting for tho second time thio grand polaces, banks, stores, sud - hotels, out of osistence. Dut, beforo that calamity occurs, tho firc-laws ~will bo gradually, but persistently, nndermined by the * poor mon ” and their demngogues, until thoy begome littlo better than a doad-lotter. I sincoroly trust that such will not be the not result and woful finale of -all the present high- stopping resolves. But the Puxbuml, solflsh in- torest of a maltitude of individaals, pressing un- ceasingly in one “direction, will protty surely aw tho honrt out of the present purposcs of Lo wisor classes, ~ Pooplo ‘cool down rapidly after great oxcitoments, and tho reaction of care- Jers indifference now succoeds them, But, sssuming that:tho fire-lmits are extend- ed to the city boundarios, aud that 500,000 extra i8 ndded to tho annunt taxes or flonting dobt of the city, in Inying additiounl water-pipes, build- ing and equipping river fire-stoamers for sum- mgr servien, and for-a “large reinforcowent of machines and meu, and sappers and miners, what then ? Will the futwro enfoty of the eity thou bo gnarnntoed 7 Will the inexorable and unchang- able Iaws of combustion bo placated? Will tho confidence of capitalists in uxcmguon from swaeping fire-vigitations bo restored Al thieso questions I am forced to ANSWEN IN TIHY NEGATIVE. “Lhe ity will not be sate or secure, but will con- tinuo to bo in peril while the business contro ro- wnnsg encirclod by pino structures, milos doep, ready cocked ard primed “ to go off " with the noxt southwest sirocco-wind, ‘The indispensable precaution eannot be found in tha represmye forco of kloam-ongines and the counter-irritants of tho guupowder-brignde, bub only in mensures of provoution, an ounco of which is worth & ton of cure, Tho best romedy for small-pox is vaccination, sud not iu attompting to curo the diseaso oftor it is cought. ‘Put a town in such sunitary condition that tho cholera will not ountor it, or, when it doos, that it finds no suxiliary aid in the shiapo of Alth to Telp it spread, rather than dopend on doctors Lo cure it. Ho with fire, ** veocinate ™ .tho - woodon tonements with's shacting of tilo, slate, comont, or othor non-combustible .roof, and their pino sdes with o coating of brick, ~ A single thick- ness of brick built outsido of tho westherboards, and an inch of good eoment on tho shinglos, will defy fulling sparks or moderato sheots of flame, sud eunble Lire-Dopartment to speadily subduo any fire which could break out in the wuoden porlions of the city., This is tho BINPLE AND EFFICACIOUS REMEDY agningt tho oversbadowing dauger ; this Is the ounco of prevention which will in future save the eity againgt the buruing up_of 50,000 framo- Loutes, ‘and the probable (uud nearly cortain) destruction of tho beact of tho city for the second or third tume, , * Thao buildiugs in all the eitios "and villages of Eaurope have onter wallw of brick or_atono, and iroofs covered with sinto or tilo. Mout of .the centtngo-houses i tho villages consiat of but one thicknonu of brick, built botweon the studding uud wooden framo of tho building, This, with 8 tilo roof, 1s fourd to bo amplo pratootion auninet the wpreed uf fires by pparks from ono awolling to nuother, Buch u thing usa wooden yoof in pwkuown, Tt would bo deomed nn incondiary L to put on any, efincbite—shod or any~ thing eléo—thab wos fnllammablo, ‘Lho Chicago City Governmont has not tho law- Furopo in ful suthority, I supposo, fa compol- {lio otnora of "tho 50,000 ©pimo. tonemonts which o oompnes tho busineks-contra to briok QI:Lnl)n up, and put on tilo or alato roofs, or comont oVor thie hinglos; but it'ts’ in'the powor of the insirance compaules * to caueo them to do i by o vory simplo and porfoctly logal procosn, viz, 1 Lot tho insuranco companies glve every owner ofn framo-house in- Chieago- duo “notico that, aflor & worlnin day,—uay six or nino months,— NOT A DOLLAR OF INSURANOE, at any rate, will bo issnod or continued on any building, ‘or thy contents thereof, which has oit that day o woodon roof or \ooden sides exposold to wparkn and firo ; that all pinc-shinglo and woudon roofs must bo covored with comont to n snfo and sufliciont thickness, or bo roplaced with tite, nlato, or molal (not by' tar nnd felt) ; thas all woodon ootinge-Lonses must bo lined on tho outsida with at 10ast ono courso’of brick Inid in good mortar, or with somo other cqually non- combustible lining of propor thickness ; that ull twvo-slory framo buildings must bo proteoted ou thio ontaida by o brick wail of: doublo'thnt thiok- nowy, ond highor framo buildings must have n foot-thiol brick wall on tho outslda of thoirlow- orstory and 8 inches for tho othors, Alwo, hav all brick, stone, or iron buildiugs, now cov- arod with tar and felt roofs, must have sprend over the samo an ample contiug of first-clany comeont, or, hottor still, bo replaced with roofs covered with 1llo, slato, or metal ; tho penalty of rofusal to bothe samo, viz,: No Insurance on the strueturo or any of its contents. Buch au ultimnatum as tho foregoing would uickly bring tho reckleds olassos of clttzens to their sonses. Whilo protesting and denouncing tho compnnios for tho condition impoyed, they would quy nearly all comply therowith at tha carlicst practicablo date. It you would trans- forin the woadlen distrlels into A SAEE CONDITION, A honse-ownors would hasten o' comply, simply beeauso - it would - bo (helr obvious - torest to do so. As teurnts could pro- cwro ho insurance in unbricked and wooden, or tar-and-felt-roof hiouses and stores, thoy would domand of their laudlords fo put the dyelling or shop into a vafo and protected cou~ ‘dition ; whilo thoso -wlio owned tho tonomonts oceupied by thomsolves could ‘not' afford to do without insuranco in their combustible atruct~ ures, -So, in both cases, tho wooden buildings would bo incased with brick, and their piue- shinglo roofs coverad with' comeut or othorwiso brotected. “'Uho cost of 'protecting thom would 0 a nicre triflo na compared’ with ‘tho resulting safoty (o the proporty-owners thomselves indi- viduatly, and to tho city in its entiroty. 'I'ie ro- duction of insurauco, and in tho outlay for fuel, would twice over cqualthe jutorost on tho money exponded. Such houses would be mueh warmor in wintor, coolor in summier, and hoalthier at all timos, than a mere decaying, wooden shell. T'ho saving in ropairs is another large ilom not to be ovorlooked. 'AND ONLY DY TRIS JMEARS can tho cnormous ant ‘raplitly-inéronsing public cost of maintaining the ‘Hire-Dopartinont bo chiecked or redueed. A cottngo of owdinary dimensions—say 20 foet front, 85 feot docp, aud 16 feot' high—after de- ducting for windowa and doors, will require only about 10,000 brick'to incase it all around. - Briek aud-limo- are vory- cheap, 'and 8o is labor, A contiug of comont of a shingle roof would cost Imt a small sum. A commou-sized cottngo can bo thua rondeved sccuro ‘agafust catching firo from ‘sparke, or communleating it to other buildings, for a sum porhaps not excoeding $200; snd Inrger structures . witl only cost in the samo proportion. -Ouo yoar's tentat is moro than suf- ficient to put auy” frame-building in a safo con- dition. Is it not vastly botterto oxpénd that amount at ouco, and theraalter avoid being caten up with insarauce and ropairs, with the moral cateinty of being burnod outb sooner or later? Who ean deny tho soundness of tho proposition from n busmioss or pradentinl point of view? The plan or system of protoction by provention herao #hotched, would afford infinitely groator so- eurity againat torriblo conflagrations thuu ean’ bo furnished by 100 stoamers, and the expenditure of miltions annually - for their support, sud the enlargemont of wafer-pipes. But it moy bo objected. by some that the com- mon pooplo and poorer -class” of ‘ownéry could not obtain even the smnll amount of motioy nec- eugary to mako tho proposod improvements. But fs it not g fact that thoro aro hundrads of bauks and capitnlists who wonld malka loans to persons for such a purpose of public and individual safe. ty? Would it not bo to thelr owi intorest to lond money at reasonablo. interdst to'carry out that object? Cortainly it would. TIENE, WILL B X0 DIFFICULTY in obtaining tho necessury money, I am ne- quaiuted with one man who will leid. enough to pub a hundred poor men's cotlages in n conditlon of sufoty, and tuere are plouty of others who will do tho same. ¥ Rolinblo safety cannat bo found in multiplying nppliances aud machinory to combat orarront a firo in tho wooden distiicts, when coptous sparks anad {laming brands nra carried Ligh over the lioads of the firomen by-tho hot broath of tho southwest- orn galo, and, alighting on tho pina-roofs of tinderbox-houses, sot thom_instantly in a bl T'he coudemnation of n wide strip of ground for o bhoutevard encompassing tho greas buasincus “centro of the city, if thickly plantod in tho miu- dlo with a_dozen rows of fall trooy, would' un- doubtly afford much protection thoroto; but it would cost many millions of dollars to condomn tho nocestary laud and pay for thoimprovonionts thereon, and the onter zono might stronuously object to beoing taxed to pay for that avhich yicided them mno protection.” And, even if laid out and planted with tall trees to cateh and stop tho flying cindors and sparks,, it would not be ablo to arrest tho dash of s mighly wave or sheot of fiames, propolled by thatterrible south- weat wind, and pressod onward by tho conflagrae tiou of & quarc-mile of wooden toiiemonts in the rear of it. TIE TRUE AND DEST SATEGARD is that beforo atated, viz.: to compel the ownor of each woodon building to enclose it with britls, and coment-or-tilo-cover its roof, under “the penalty of no further insuranco upon the ntruct- ure or its contents, 1t is, thorefore, within tho cosy powor of tho insurance-companics’ to Mft Chicago out of her coustant peril, and, by the s#amo act, guard thomselves from tho equal dnn- grer of baing any day wiped out of existenco. Will thoy obey the Inw of sell-preservation, and rrntucb themsclves from nnnieilation whilo hoy socuro tho city against future destruction. Yory rospectfully yours, J. MEpILL. —_———— MESSRS. JIIOYNE AND GLOVER. Thelr Denial of the Ohargos Preferred by John Wrenn and Othors. Tre Stxpay Trnuse contained nn acéount of the alleged extortion of United States District Attornoy Glover cud Commissionor Iloyne in tho matter of foos éxacted from' porsons arraigned for infractions of tho Rovenue law, the charges agninat them being disminsed upon the ‘payment of “couts,” Ar. Wronn complainod to tho Trensury Dopartment of tho practice, and 8u- porvisor Munm, of Calro, recoivod instrnctions to luvestigato tho allogations and learn if they wore well fonnded. In order Lo givo tho gontlo- men accusod an opportuuity for explauation, o roporter intorviewed thom yesterday to this offect, 3R, HOYNE bolng first questioned : Reporter—Whnt have yau to say sbont tho clinrges preferrod ugainst 3. Glovor and your- self by Wrenn and othors? Mr. Hoyno—IL novor diemlss a caso; Mr. Grover dous'it. My duty in, if thoro las boon violation of I, to hold the oifender to bail, Roportor—Whois Wronu? Mr. Hoyno—Ho is a ward bummor, and Leops o grocery-stors at No. 260 Stato stroot, * Iteportor—\hat motive hus hoe for making the allegations ? N, lfoyne—I do not -know, The timo ho was nrrestod Ollicor Campboll choarged Lim with have ing 100 cignr-boxes and - seven tobaceo-tubs with uucanoolod -stampu on thom, Tho ovidenco was concluyive, aud 1 held him to bail fur trinl, but aftorwards Mr. Glover, at Wronn's requost, dis- mlaug[z]l tho caso upon his puying tho aotual costs, 20,50, Reporter—ITow were thowo costs mle up ? r. Ioyno—~There 'wa4 -the Marsual's feo of £0 for sorving the warrnot and smbpann ; threo witnennos at #1.60 unch ;. tho District Attorney's fosof ¥5, nnd my own. Toporter—What did your fee amount to ? Hr, loyno—~1I got 5 n day, and komething ad- ditioual for jusuing the wariaug und paperd,—in sl 46 or 67 in & cavo. Homothnos T do’ ot chargo that much, I throw off: somothing when tho partics-are poor, Tioporter—Whint proportion of tha fess goos to tho Tronsury Departmont 7 Mr.' Hoyne—Tho liconss monoy, tlon of disminsal that the neonsad pay that ; nnd if ho "did not ' puy -tho costs - the Goyernment would liwve o, -und that -would not. bo right, 8lnco tho cosita follow on’ aecount of the man's noglect to take out wliconne, + Raporter—You requira the pernon who has no licento to tako out one? Mr. loyuo—Yeu: to comply with the law, eérately tha stampn, und pay all the expenson arising from his nvg\lgaucu. v v . Roporior—1low mueh'is your offico ns Come misdonor worth ? Mr, ‘Hoyno—Home yeara 81,000, and others moro, Reyportor —In cago you 145 u condi- ‘hold & man for trial, "IRecord of Musite: i""\ ho was dlhohnrgm] in iho Unitod Binten ¥ Coutt, who pays tho costa? A, ogno—The Government, Roportor~ITas Mr. Munn ehllod on you yot? qulfl-l Hoyne~~llo enmo i nid madod. fuly in-- rics, 2 Y Tiopurtor—Do you know Low he is golug to in- voslignto the nm)uur? it el ML ALOVER, At thls momont the District-Attornoy came Into the roow, and, honring thd quoation Mr, Olover maid ;' 1To has nothing Lo Invonti- gata oxcopt tha simplo quentlon s to whollior any rvonno lias boen coblloctad atid nob ncsount- od for. Tha Commissiouot of. Intonful Revenuo hns nolhing to do: with :Mr..iloyno, Lojan membor of tho Judiclary Department, and 18 di- reotly: responsiblo to the two Judges who ap- polutod Lim, * Roporter—What oxplanation have yout to mako concorning the'ohargod 7 * Mr, Glovor—Thore is no oxplanation: to ho mindo excopt ‘that tho ‘man . (Wrenn) had 100 boxos of olgars, and no mntiy tuba, nud when ha camo horo ho begpod like o dnfi'm Do lot off without boing tned 360, for oyery box, and im- prisonod for thirly days for onch ‘of thom; and he wmnde “mo’ beliove that o _pore tion “of ‘tho’ boxes 'wore in”'the- Btors whon ha boiught It and T'cosentod Lo lob him off on- the payniont'of ‘costs,~not to puali the prosecution to tine and imprisonmont, * Hé now says that ighad hut ono 'box,—-thnt thoe rost bo~ lotied to huy wifn, Reportor—Is it within ,misn & caso? "M, Glovor—Yos ; that is tho law in this clr- enlt, [Mr. Glover proved this by a roleroheo to tho atatute, which authorizes him to. decide whothor justico roquires that procoedings shall bo fustitutad.] Mr. Munn told e thin mornlng _that o ind waited i Lie Judgos, and thoy told Tiitn that that waa Lho *Jaw, nnd- wonld “bo until chinged by tha" Suprowio Coutt of the United States.. This is really tho poiut : whother 1 shonld, In ovory caso whore thore is au infraction of “tha Iny, go for blood and hide, or whothor I shonld act on the snpposition thinl tho stamps havo heon *cancsled, and” allow - the acciised (o pay tho costs whicti i 'ndgldck hins occasioned, or take it ont of tho"Trensuty, Tho eation I, swhetlior that'is right or \wrong, ‘sivd that is'all theta s of it. £ Roportor—\Yho are tho othor persons srho np- hold Wrenn ? Mr. Glavor—Thoy aro all men who bagged for thg chanco to Keop out of court, Roporter—Ando tho ' propoeition to- pay tha costs thotaolves ? 2 . Glover—1n overy caso, 8o faras I ‘romom~ your diseration to dig- ber, Reportor—~It is allegod that the fees charged aro oxorbitant, * ; - ‘Mr, Qlover—They are the rogular’fees - fixed by law. 1f auyons will telinio where iflegal feed havo Leon chihrged, I will eall tho atfesition of “tho Giand Jury to it, *if' by Ar.- Hoydo or by anvbody'clao, ' Teporter—TIn it trno” that spics aro q_m);lnynd 1o bt up violations of tho Rovenuo Iaws Mr. Hoyno—Na} thoy ato ‘mado by rogular ofticors; * Somotimes an’ouldidor cames i1 with a complaint,—any ono hins tha right to do it,—~but u‘ ‘complaitits are gonerally dincountenanced Dy the Colicctor. " “Mr. Glover—Tho Judges hayo told me if T did not dismiss theso* potty ' ‘thero Would boa thoisand eascs for the Arand Turs to consider, and it woald “Yeep thom ‘busy for flva“or six niouths, besldes involving an ‘expenas ‘of 41,000 or 10,000, 11 da ot propowo. atepping 1t afistil Your feos amount to tho highest authority comniunds. Teportor—1low much do in the courso of n'yoar ? 3 Mr., Glover-+I'get only §200 na o ‘salary,-and I would sell the emoluticnts of the ollice for 84,000 4 yoar. Some yonrs the fees do not rénch £3,000. ‘o queition in this mattor is, whether I khall putR2,60into theI'ronsury—liconso monsy—with iny right*hand, and: tako out'from %20 to" §30 coste, 1 follow up'altthie violatord 6f tho'law-— the big ones as woll a8 tho little fellows, ‘I wos all ethor’ of ‘ the 'géntlamon had to 1 tha reportor therefore bid them adicu. Alr.duon s quiotly waking inquirios of-tha, posplo who clait that they prid exorbitant foos, and, s thero nro o gront many sch, it is proba- Dlo thut ho will not reach o' conelusion until tho Iattor part of tlto predontwealk, — i THE COULTS. Transacted Wese RLTES ) 5 B LIONTNING DIVORCE, Yesterday morniog Mrs, Savah B. Newbury filed n bl in'tho Circult Conrt aeking: far'a di- vorca from her' husband, Georgo' G, Nowbury, on the ground of desertion for tivo yoars, A summons was pracured, 'servéd, and“tho camo tried, nnd bofors 12 o’clack yestorday ndon Mrs. Nowbury swas releasod from tha bouds of makri- mony herotaloro, oxisting, otc., and vosted with thac&mtml of “Ler "daughtor. No stimony was nuked. ! i TII BTATE INSURANCE COMPAXY, Tho Assiguco of the Stato Insurance Comvany filed a Toport yesterday showing tlio stitus of that Company to by “es +.$32,015.49 UNITED STATES COURTS, Honry M. Kotchuin, Assignco of the estate of D, Herman Lomer, began o suit agalnst Oncar 3L Harria to rocover forty crates of crockery nl- loged tobolong to tho bankrupt, and valued-'at £8,000, TKetchem alio commencéd’ nuotlier ugninat Hoory B, Sawyer Lo récover 124 eratos, worth: §9,000; and a third i Wational Bank to get back valued nt 5,000 N BUPERIOR COURT IN DRIEF, Javot Meldrum hegan an action in trespnss nu i;_‘mg Edwird Mangen, loying' dawmages -ab 10,000, I, (+, Powers began n suit for 83,000 ngainat August P, Sharp, anothor for 1,200 gainst Swan & March, nud o third for 1,700 sgainst’A, Wallbaum, CINCUIT COURT. “Tinlah Mooro and Charlos Moore began a suit againgt Johm 8. Gould and Witllam K. Gould, cluiming 1,000, T'redericle A, Brown commonced a suit in tres- pnes agaivst -Willinm 1, Wilson .and- William Bwinburne, laying damages at §5,000. TILE COUNLY COURT. Grant of guardiavship was issued to Gott~ leibien iohler na guardian of John Fritz Sichler, and lor indavidual bond of £20,000 wasapproved. Inthe- wattor of tho cetato of Johu A. Will- {amson, grant of administration to Mary I, Will- inmson under an approved bond of 24,4930, Tho will of Chloo D. Bradloy was provon, and ordars grinting lottors toutargentary to Willum I nnd Goeorge D. Bradley, approving bond and invontory July 7, 1874, wore sot asido and lattors ravoked, for the ronson that thoy wera not rasi- donts of tho Stato of Iilinois.” Lottors: of nd- ministration with tho will annexed wore issucd to Edward Dradley, undor un’ npproved boud of §12,000, . Grant of adiinistration to Nicholas Barro wag issitod as administrator of ‘tha estato of Rliza- beth Barre, undor an approvod bond of 312,000, ‘The following persons wore adjudged insane : Currio Jouyolson, Yatrick MoGourk, Abraham Wanstein, and Georgo L. Wilson, The jury, in the last-mentioned ‘care, recommended that he bo temporarily deprived of nis liberty, and givon in chargo of the Sheriff, as he manifosts lomi- cldul tondoncios, In tho maticr of tho eatato of dichael James Grogan,. grant of administration, to Mary Ann Grogan, nuder an approved hond of $6,000, Alfrod Swadking wis sppolntod ndmlnistrator of tho eatate of Dlargaret Bwadking, under an nu})ruvsd bond of §60U, . n tho matter of tho ostate of Lucy A. Mooro, her will was proven, and loLters tostnmontary wora issued to 'Mhomas Moore, and his individusl bond of ©19,300 was approved. 3 Lihzaboth Carroll was anpointed administras trix of tho eétnte of Charies Carroll, under an npblmvod Lond of $7,000. rant of administration was {ssued to L. T, Dickinson ns_administratrix of tho ostato of Sophronia 8, Dickinson, undor an approved bond of 4,000, JUDAMENTS, Aurenion Count—CoxvesioNs—Fredorick Moyer Ve, B, Portnn. und Adum Frederlek, $321,83,—Chi- cago L'oat and Mail Compuny va, Jumes Montgomory and Fmily J, Montgomery, ndusky” Whies] Company ve, 3,' 31, Carson, $01. ———— Dlcd of Obesity, From the New York World, A colored mun wumod Churles Crook died & borrible death at Riverhoad oft Tuesday night Inst, 1o wasn man-of prodigions sizo and in - confoquonco of n great acoumilntion of fat ho lind forsomo time been hiardly ablo to got aboht, For tho twvo weeks precoding his doath he was in a constant, terrblo strugple for breath, the air-passngo heing nearly closed by the incroasivg fat, und Lo was at last litorally suffocatod from this cauuo, For days and nighta o was com- rolled to romain constautly on “his huoda and mooy, and this wou tha enfy position in which ho could brontho at ull, nnd at the end oven (his rozort fuiled him, His woight was'800 pounds, i Sttt iy —Tha graalte tablet whith i to borlnund over tho westurn portal of tha iloouno 'aunel ar- rived at North Adwms, Masw., from DMleridon, Conn,, recontly, Tho slab is 4 foot wido, 2 fuot thiol, and 18 foot long, sud woighs over 16 tons, At in to hs fuco-dresucd, and will boar tho Jusoripe Hon, ** HoousoL'unucl, 1674, = 1 +Asylum, and the Hospital, iLOCAL MISCELLANY. e Ton gallons . sictip t 85 conta; mo much prico thin lfinmpt. and a scoond defent gqamo upo: hin, i "1““" ‘I:I?MFI“I; {08 8t 48 contnycozikragt pel k.“lud. ;lllxlu“ all but u}u:a of‘:lhi |f0!l“zg"i,','m“'|‘;:“ i I + Ton Ibs raspbortion af contsy contrs Tico -T'ho survivors mada thelr way E s LIRUT.-GOV. ANTOINE, OF LOUISI- | for %rod ranphorrion s 65 conts: - aud oo lost sight of. o noxh heard . A Onbd-catio. 8" 1bd poschos, §2.85; not .oon~ |'of = Lnssallo was in .n _duel,” which ho Liout.-Goy. Asitolne, .0f Loulslnna, has boon | tractod for, ) provoked by somo dorogatory. publieation. -In in tho eity during £lio past fow days, and yostor- 5 I‘ikt,;rs lh&lfiuhnlfl potatoss at 98 centa; eohtrnob :Im ilulnl, nm%u oosurrad Alxlug.x 0, ‘1!80-1‘ 1;::’ e day aftornoon a 'utnune reportor, aftor along | Prico, BLIG, ovorely woundod. ‘Tho following dny I L e i 5g him at the ronle | 4 L0 brls wintor whoni-flonr at-$11,50 § not. in [.The. Bocialiats_and . tho . Communists of . this. roarch, guccoeded in finding” him at the ronl- | 4o contrpct, = ) couniry avo aver. ainco solobentod tho anuil- ‘dancs .of Commisatonor’ John ‘Jonos, ' ITe had [ found the right man, but ovidootly in tho wrong | againet sevoral b placo, an the appopranco of tho raporfor hnd a vory bariofil Inflilonco upon tho Commmisaionor's hired girl, who, puiting Lor arms akimbo, ad- drossad thie - following dolicatoly-oligaon” worda to tho companlon of tho Licifonaut-Governor ¢ ‘* Bny, Masa Whito, yor's ono ob yor roportaha wanty, tor goo do ‘Gabuor. Sy, Masen Whito, »l whatam doso litlo tings dat stick to do bottom | prive, 7 conta, m(;nu-hnl( brl mnckerol, 813; contract prico, “Ton Iy wvity with whicl' the Lioutonant- | tracto ob do ohip, somotlng or " oddor’ nicolos, yen arniceles, dnt's do wad.”. Woll, dis yor'a'ono ob yor barnicclos, In dis yor roportatil Yah, yah, yh " The y Goyorpor rotdived this oxtremely witty sally to be found up ,North, - As tho WOmRM Was ovi- dgiitly gotting roady. for anothor -diuplay of wit tho roportor withdraw, after haying mado an ap- pointinent to macttho Lioutonaut-Uovornor Into n'tho dftornoon at the rosidenco of Mr. Whito, No. -6 Falton ° plrect, At “ tho _ap+ nointed tima tho Licutenbut-Governor appentod, antd was found to bo n'vory ngrocable, woll< spokon youtg colored mian of 87 yeara of nago. Belng a uantive.of tho Stato orLoufllmm. ho ex- prosuod himooi? no woll ploased at baving an op- ortunily afforded Limn to give hin opinion ‘upon lio utate of affuird, social and ‘politicnl, of that Biatd ; ‘hnd, lbaugil coming from ' a_part of tho cauntry whoro the interviower is ‘witknown, an~ swered the quastions put to bim with the utmost rendiuosy, as followa : Rtonortor—What'do you think nhout : THE WHITE LEsQUE? Tdout,-Gov.Autoine-iifs ofeinization wos gob o' Lok tho purpioss of “tufimidating tho 'colored Tiepublicans of” tho South, It hin boon encour- aged by recont Demooralic victorlos {n tho North, by the recoguition of Dastor,of Arleannas, and Coofk, ‘of Toxas, which have’ ‘eausod ' the White Lenafie ta get up n reign of Loriof, perso- cuting Lotl'white nud colbrad Itep: ng. In Norlhain Lovisiana ‘it {a fracly owned Ly tho Teaguers that tho issue in ‘not botweon Domo- cratic and Roptiblican, but _botweon whites and nogroes, and thoy invite ‘all Ropublican whites cither Lo join the Loaguo or'loavn tho ‘country, ‘[iogo who andert their manhood ' the fuen of thiin ovder uro thredtonod with death by shootlug or hanging. al ed A WAR OF RACES. | . Teportor—Ta it Lrue'that n'1egular war of races 18 likely to ocour in the South 7 Lisut.-Gov, Antoino—A war of races in tho. South, edpecinlly in Louisinna, in an impovsi-" bility, for tho negroes hayo no .disposilion dithor Lo fight or othorwiso disturb their while nolghbors, and if they did thoy have no moans of gotting ammunition or armsa. ~ Nor could thoir fricnds tho white Ropublienns henr ‘of such & thiuz, Inasniuch a3 o Jargo ‘majority of thoe calorad population of the South uro dependent for subsistenee upon their lnhor a8 tillors of the #oil, thoy wonld.ba the very first to exposo any unch conspiracy if it oxisted. £ Lieportor—liow ia it that wo hear so much about tho hostility betwoen whito snd black in the South? Liout.-Goy. Autoino—Thorumors are gotup by |* tho Associnted Iress ngents, who_ers, genozally sponking, in tho intorest of the Donoeracy il barrel or tho pound. i ," $2.60 8 bu ; contraot price, proposals thore.wora throo pricos,— 923 in the 8,06, 82.40, and $1,00, woro furnishied soveral Ll tioned above. or. 81, Ono barrol driéd applos, contract price, 7 conts; tho proposals containod prices from 7 to 915 centu. Tivo gallons bluoing at $2.25; not, contracted . Bome moro of the oxl Dbills, mud the o'¢gluck this ovening, Soilh Divisio Adata elreot, Adams gtrect, ““haal"avent, Adams atrect, from * gan avenio. ., Clark st T4on, . Tho cornmanl hotlior thia articlos woro to bo furnishied by tho Ono brl ** beang Ouc hundrod tha Uorolina rico at.93¢ conts ; contragt price, 9 couts. .codfish at 7 cents; contract Uno hundred lbg for, Ono oy cints. Ono caso lyo s 87.50 4 Ong dox gerubsbrushies, z6n 3 contract prico, §10, q;au’ Dot Bat Uiel, 81505 con Ono hunflred and fifty,Ibs bray at 91.35: not contracted for.. Y Tour cages oxiract of bo 44 contract price; $10 ut the anno price, ' This endod the Coinnii [ INSURAYCUE NEWS, INCREANSD NATES ON TIE UOULH SIDE. Tho following tablo, shoiing tho "diamotor of is PIpos in that portion’ of tho bofnded by " tho rivor, Michigan fiveiuo, ntid Van'Buron strdal, has just “hoon is- ‘unéd by thie Doard of Uitegwritors + diutrilin . Size, alcharge. Tiches, ~ Cenfe, o ‘ntrect Bluto airect, & [ t, frotn Boyth Walor to Sadt Inon atrcat. Whito Lunguto:: Ono of thostrongent proafa of tho | ¥Iftiavenus, from Mo "To. Aision peacoablo aud law-abiding eharacter of the no- | Fyriy avenie, from Adsma io" Van groe is tho fack that whon a fight does ‘oceur it i lways found out the nogroes are beaten, and that tho numbor of slaln negroes always ox- caeds that of slain whitos, Tho ronson: of this in as follows: In certain porishes tlfo Winto Leaguo have taken upen Lhomselvos tho reapou- eibility of domaudivg the rosiguation of tho Nopublican ofticials, When this demand has Lieon mot with tho walling out by the Sheritr of n posse-comitatus to preiorve aud maintain the dignity of tho law, tho whites will not nceopt tho responsibility of coming out in its dafons. ‘I'ho negroes, howevor,,being loyal to the Goy~ ernmeut and to tho Republican purty, nud, boing lnw-abiding *altizens, ~ slways rnsyimnd to tlo sumnmons of the authoritics. It is this readi- ness Lo aid m supporting tho lnw that has given the,Whito Lenguo tho oxcuse for hornlding it through tho country that tho negroos are rising, and talking war' of races, ote. As n easo in _point, in Cgquehattn, in tho Farish of Rted . Blver, tha White League demanded _the regignation of all Ropublican ofticialy, The Sherift called for n possn to preserve tho ponco, and ont of sixty-five citizons called out only fiftcen wero white, the rost being colored. 'Fhc presonce-of oven theno fiftacn white mon proved tho fallacy of tha White Longuo's nsrortions, ‘ns, it thoro wore ronlly & ‘war of rnées, it wonld beimpousiblo to got fificon men to combine with tho negroea. . TRoporter—\What is your opinion of THE CONDITION OF LOUISIANA? Lieut.~Gov. Antoino—Ths prezout condition of tho State is very bad, nnd, unloss the Presidont and the North frown _down ‘tho M M turbulent spivit of tho Whito Leaguo, it will continue wso. Tho stato of nffwirs: bns o great tendoney to Leop -eapital:|- nway from tho Biate that could otherwise find an investmont thore, Noithorn enpitalists aro seaking iuvestments in. Lonisiana, convincod that, it only peaco could bo ussured, the country will prove splondid ows in which to i veat, Roportor—What do you think about GRANT'S THIRD TLRM ? Lieut.-Gov. - Antoine—Tho Demaecracy has Fraukliu stepot, from Hoi Frankilu_etroot, from Jaskson streot, LaSalloatrect, Boureo strect, froin Sisrit uifeck Rl svenno, from diciaoil aifecd io Quliicy street, fron Quiney strezt, a1l on Ltandolph slreot, wholo, length, Rivor trect, wliolo fengtl. .. Bohlti Wator sireet; from Murlol utrceb South W; South South Wister rtreet, from A Duron stroet, S L Water to Madleon, coesenier 4 MBuron., , ot gLl ‘trom Soutli W 10 Lako ptrect.... . .6 Latiallo slicet, from Lako atroet, to “Madlzol.,ees. aanes Lagallo etreol, from Madison streot to Vi Buren... Lakontreot, from Mariot siroct o La Bali i Michigan® avéaue Ll YOO, uvv s oiroo_atrect, from | iy "avenns fo” Michiian uvehuoe: p Market stroot, from Lako nirect 1o ftatie dolpb Market of 3 febigain ayonne, 'from this ryer to Washington street higan” avenue, from Washington reot o Yan Buren, Vau Buren, , fth averluo.... to Clark.,... Wals 1o {0, dMlchigan, Bopot, herman atrect, from J; nue to Contrl 8 boon encouraged with tho iden that they could Van Buren, ., 4 do auythiug thoy clioso, commit all sortw of dop- | Stato alr rodations, it thoy could convinca Gon, Grant | _Mudison. o 8 ulmd thoy ‘Emm x:"mflmh m_ml for tho, Stfifl:&l‘flb frow Madieon A thard torm. own South the colored poo- | g s e pase lo holioved fiemly in. Gront, espcomiy | Stalo sticet (o Adsins sireet fo Vay n Louisinbn,whora thoy tatglit their childron to support Graut. . At the samo time thoy il folt that Gront should protect them from’ outragos which wero beiny committed upou thom by tho White Longue. IS Reportor—Iow s tho Civil-Rights bill ro- gorded down Bouth ? Licut.-Gov. Antoine—ThoSouthern peoplo have no objection to eivil rights, as wns shown in tho rosolitions paused at the upifiention meuuufi. ;wblfh woro strongor~ than the Civil-Rights bill thell. . Moro tho intorview was suddonly anded by tho unaveldable departure of the Lieutonaut-Goy- ernor to koop an éngagoment, ¥ - COUNTY SUPPLIES. The Joint Committee on Hospital and Public Buildings of thé County Conimissionéraresiimed 1det ‘ovaiiing thelr lnvostigation into tho' alloged overcliurging of Jamoa Forsylh & Co. for gro- ceries, otc., supplied to the Poor-oues, Iusauc- Wi TH GRAND JURY Thavo concludod uot to examine Iutothis, mattor, sinco the Cominittcos havo it inder ' considora- tion, agrecing to lonve it to the cognizance of tho noxt Grand Jury, which'body, in caso anything criminating is davoloped, will decido s to whathor tho guilty parties aro to ba indlctod, At the dpruvxbun sognions the bills for articles furnisbiod tho Poor-Hougo nnd lusnno- ‘ Were compared with the contract, and while nian; sinll avercharges wors found, the underchargos overbalancod thom, tud showed the'couty to bo reully indebtad to the contractors, Qommissionor Burdick oceupied tha chair, and there wore prekent Comnussioners Jonos, Herting, Busso, Johuson, and Lonergau, and Couunty-Attorusy Rountrae. : * MOHPITAL DILLA, Tho bills for {mmla furnishod tho IHbdapital wora talen up, und compurod with the conpract, Alwost the tirst itom encounterod was this ono: Two huundred aud fifly pounds Maracalbo coffes at 8134 cont, ¥ B No'such gradoe of coffas was montioned in tho contraot, though it was in thie proposul. * Commissionor Johnson stated -that' the Com- mittoo on Public ‘Charilied had authorizod' the purchaseof auy-articlo in the proposal that was needed, at tho price stated thoroin, “Phon this itom wag como neross; al One huudred 1bs of Oolong tow at 92 conts. No sueh priced tos had beon contraoted for. Comnissionor Jonos snid - tho B6-cent ted' wns gont to tho Hospltal, but the phyuicluui;rojoctod it, and tho 92-cont ton was substituted, -~ "o Cliairman’ romarked that thero wero six grades of Oolang ten iu the contract ot 94, 81, 84, 27, 21, nnd 17 conts & pound. Jilso aninéxod itoms wero also disclosad Ton pounda raspberriea at 50 conts. The con. tract called for rod rasplorrics at 63 conts, i a Bt Ty -ive pounds greon tow b @15 no such | it to lecturo in'tho Intorest of workingmon. wé ‘\‘v‘n;:lzafl:rnEWI fnr-e d ; soon mado for himsolf & roputation ny au ‘oratar, Twolve bogs tablo-snltnt 25 conts. Balt wos | and; at tho timo of his donth, whilo contractod for by tho bavrol -at 45, -dowpised by mauny for his prinoiples Ono box §-pound ‘perchos, 2+ doxen, nt 82,60, in tha contract. © N"’Jfi\v:mm.ulx pounds mincemont at 20 conta, 0 coutract, Nll’l\‘!o‘:::'m“acuba coffec aud Qolovg Lloa, ut tho prices givou aboye, were met with, % Qno hundred and twonty-five 1bs swmnmor- i flsh nb 7 conts ; contract prico, T¢ conts, | tho 'subsequent three months iu ] ““Bfi"gfl Nla,l horo maclkerol, *200 ll?»‘!, 8203 [ Av tho ° ‘of t&\nm mnnHLu ho oftedtod tho controct cally for kalf barvols, 100 1bs, 13, | Lils oben nd , ndawsited by, <half barrol shoro herring, 86; tho con- ug.i"énfi‘m for Labrador borcing. at-93,35 & half- barrel, s Van Buren ‘Washington street, l;rmn 1 Washington atraot, that politica from tho Deji ta patronago out of thelr contrdl, sclvch of much of thelr power und . perqisitos; and ol politiclns ‘think twico’and offenor before’ thoy QOct, 118 tho dato fixod by tho fnurnuce campanton for withdrawat from tha olty un- Iesa thelr conditions aro grauted. ‘The companfos sent thelr turnik t0.0biéago oA Tar back as July 21, and up to fhis dato Havo reeplved no anewer,” favorably or athorwlss, ' Thioy have now mude austher appeal for a definita reply ouo way’or the other, Tho thip 5 3t prosont confurring with thy priveipal fusur- 1o biopey, fu {his way, o brin n Dressuro fa bear on tho eity ‘antliorltiva which will B ey thoromiuly 1 Sixhesty ud au. Hok & 1" thay worw thoroujhly 1o carnest, tobo i g, Tho great firea. of mnke thosa sacifices, . to bo suspocted of mers 1 Chicagoadmonlsh thom of tho dingor of longer tak- fugg any risks 10 o city which mafntains Guo of the worat Firo Departmenia on this contineut, Klings, Chiristophor “toln yéars 'ago. itro seereesaen Third nvorue, from Jackson streot to Vau Duren... seeseare veas & stroct, ‘from Meriel atrect to Taurtly aveniiet .. 8 on Buwron atrect, f , froi Sluto utvect (o Dichigan avenue, - ¥ TiE NATIONAL BOARD, The Now York Journal of Commerce of tho 20t nit. oy the following regarding the future action of tho" National’ Doard of 1'ire Utider- ritors in reforenco to Chicago: Diire 0 of all, and tlors would koouer givo all ouo polnt, .16, thoy U} ice mon of Ohicago, . et FERDINAND LASSALLE. Tho _nuniversary.of tho death of the great Gorman Soclalist, or labor-roformer, Fordinaud Lautallo, was proporty obsorved m this city last Tho, Commuuists assombled at 8 o'clock in tho basomont of No. 9t Market t to_listen to speochies from Alesurs, Oarl e Tr. Kerauian, and Ja00b Wine nen. Tho walls wore fittingly decdratod with flags, mattoos, and’ portraits of hiin whom thoy Il “assombled to respoct ‘nnd commemorito, Quite'n number of Indios manifosted their fntor- out in tho ocension by tholr prosonce, dinand Lassallo was born b Broslau, Gor- pril 11, 1835,and died Aug, 81, 186i—just “Yhen quito "youug lo i n[l))reullce(l‘nt'u trado, but fu lntor vears ho ovening, and: thoovies, ho wan lgoked ‘up to by Qernian worklugmon'on keedur y From lecturer ho soon bucnma. léador of Haclale lsty, and in 1848 wms ono of tho Lioads of thnt In this he sufTerod do- fout at tho hands of tho natlonal traopy, Tlis ‘dofdnt lodt "to his ‘urreut, ‘and ‘ho spont of' hig cmorablo. rovolution. 4 driod chorrlos at 40 conta; ot con- . ) y 3 Itog 8al wodn. st 43 conts a pound ; ' don- ahoad thint all'tho hiblite colored “mon_ woro not | tract price, 834 f Pty Mincoment, potatoos, cheoso, and peachos imos at tho pricos mon- contract prico, 87,60, . $4.265 not_contracted IMeDonald'& Wall ‘ore to'furnish serub- brushes at $2.25 & doz. Fifty 1us oxtra’ bolted ‘Cannda oatmoal at 7 conta; contract price, 737 couts, Ona cnro extract of 'badl, 4 1bs, 24 doz, nt B4 a n dozon for quartorn, of, quarters, 96 dozon, tract of boe€ was furnish- examination of the,. Mospital i ?mo‘ adjolirhod uu{fl 7 cea' botwenn ‘fho Nutionu! Board of Fire Underwritors nuil tlie Ohfeago authoritics' emuln uu- sottled, We foar tiat, in fhelir naturo, somo’ of .littrancea are_frreconcilable, . All or. nearly. oll. tho refort asied for might bo poscd reorganizatlon of ‘tho und {ty' ensknelpiation” from” poltieal inllucuce, Lhat radlcal ¢hange Su 8 slumbliug-block in the negobin- tionw, Tho Firo Uddorwriters cannot consfituntly ubnudon ther demand for tho ‘greatest and most indixpenssbio * retorm felded” excopt tha pro- | Ihicago Pire Dopartimcnt tha Chiengo D thiugs than Itorally dissciciute Deartnient, =nd put 4t aud alt oy dopriva’ thein- Tho insuraieo companies o nttnimnonts, 3 i js Into rovorse and punishimont, st ougp orgavized & winilar rovolution in anothor part of "the country, 1le musterod but ‘twenty-six ‘falthful followoers in prico, 914 conta a pound; Addition- 12 L] 0 26 25 0 25 .60 2 % K] and oatmonl snngs were run | voranty of his denth with the samo prida that Aimos, but tho itoms wore passod, tho Cormitteo s(ill’ bolng unablo to dotormine the 4th of July hau beon obuerved by tho Ameri- ©an pooplo. v s Mr. XKlings, tha leador of thio, Communists in thin clty, waa the first orator- Inat ovoning, Ho spola for ovor. ow HLoiir,.and;was loudly ap- plauded throughout, o pofited to the motto on the wall, **Bo united workingmen ot all ‘na- tions,* and paid s glowlng. Wibute'to. the many oxcollonolon of tho dopnrtod. Ho olaimed. thnt the’, yovplution ; in Frouce wam but tha frult of. Lagnallo’s Inbors, snd admonished his honr- ord to live closo by tho rulos aud principlos laid down by, tho dophrted, Ho said tho working- men's patty originated in this country from tho tonchingd of Lassalle, who taught workingmon Ahab thoy bad, tho,right.to- hold ofice. +Tho spoakor , advised | workingrilen to bo cliprit- nglu' to quo snotlior, and to. uso overy posalblo mepns. to weld, themselves togother by tho tiog of nffoction, 118 prodicted that, at mo distaint day, tho' wafldn‘;mon would be strong onpugh to tako caroof themsolvos, and Lhat the , prinaiplos and Ideas of Lastallo.would permonte ?lm univorse, Tho noxt, speaker wns_Chris IT, Krauss, stho bahi] }1::‘0::1: lity that by this thno they will bo AT It the object of theso nenssins wan monep, thoy mgunlly failed. Mr, Tollor liad for noriq fmuu:mcu accumulating money to pay ik ehara of 0 BukosHmont for paving West Indiana stroot, but whon he was nitacked hnd only 81.50 iulhlu pockek, and of this amount 35 conts waa left on the floor of the water-closat, and found by, he policonion whon thoy arrived, Thoro i3 something vory atral wron .in‘thl’s Whole mattor, . Citlzonn of tha Tourteonth Ward now kuow what thoy hinvo long batloved—thny that ward waa, and :{u vory ine adeiuntoly furnlshed witly pul'lce. 1415 indood & VOry raro occwrenco Lo woe ono wost of Lincoln and nnr,lh of Kinzlo atroots, ofthor bt or, day., . Thuradny evaning Inst, tho Yriter wns roturning homo from MoVickor'n ‘Thontre in ccmpany with his wifo, and, when n¢ tha cornor of Hoyno avenuo and Fourth etroot, disturbad threo mon who oro langing around thoro, and who took to thoir heel and ifed nerons tho prairie, About ! o'clack -Baturday morning threa mon woro datocted (Lut not by the olico) attompting to drive awny kovaral cows Auvl)thmn or, four flocks of georo. ~ 8o for the sacond thno in'bistory Lha nolso of a flock of geosn lig boon udoful in provonting,n.surpriso, ‘Tho Inhiabitanta of tho distriot nlluded to ro. spectfully eall tho attention . of Suporintendont liolun to'those facts, and urgo thnt axation aud police protection go hand iv band, ; —_— TOE-NEWSBOYS' HOME, and vory abounded with humor, and succoeded in ovnklnk; ‘the hout. of fooling., Ho wns.listoned to_with ninrkod attontion. - e was followed by Jacob Winnon, oditor of . tho Vorbote, publishod in the Intorost of tho workingmon, At s luto hour tho meoting adjournod. THE ATLANTIC & PACIFIO. . . . .ATPOINTMENT OF,A BEGEIVEN. N Tho motion for o Recoiver in tho caso of the Peoplo ¢ \ etc., va. tho Atlantie & Pacific Liigurnnco Comipany Gamo up again, aftor many postpononisuts, - boforo Judge Mooro yosterday. morning, ..A protracted discussion . was had without much boing gaid. Among tho namos of partios suggostod -for Rocelvor wero thoss of ex-Comptroller Burloy, who was objceted to on tho ground that he was too polite, D. L, Hough, - B, R, Paul, Judgo Von Higgins, T. O. Wille inmo, T, C. Ingalls, and Merril Lmhl.’ Iiach of those . gentlomen Lad supporters in' ‘somo.one or moro stockholdors,. and . their re- speclivo cluima wers loudly urged. Tho argu- tnents made in the two suits siready commoncod were roadvancod, ,and flually Judge Moore took tho, meattor undor adviscmont, pmmlulufi 0 ap- ]mluq & Recolyer to-morrow morning, ang fixing hls bond at $300,000. It was ndmitted by tho Compnny that it could not make good tho doicit whicl tho Auditer- bnd declored, existed in ite stock, and the only point in'dispute’ was ns to who should be Ro- cotver, Tho stock of .tho Company wam sup- Euaud to bo paid up, but many of tho.stock- joldors Lmd paid in_notes, or mort-' gnges, or collatorals. ‘Tbis made threo principal parties in tho Company, one boing composed of . thosie who hiad paid up their stock: in full in cash, who hoped that o Roceiyer could® save enougli to pay a dividend back on tho stock ; socond -comprising the stookholders who hind givon acouritios in payment of their stock, nod who wish to . withdraw “thom, and thus reduce their. linbilitics ; and tho third class boing the. craditors_or policy-holders who hnd sustained .lossos, Eoch of ,thaso, of courio, ;had their 25! 50 LC 0 [) i 25; o 48 60 thieso oaror of [ evidesiced AR mnn, and . theso partics wero furthor split up by -porsonal likes or disliltos, iu favor of .somo par- ticular poson or friend whom they wished to bave appoiutod Reosiyor. TFOLICYIQLDERS' MICLTING. A numboer of the policyhiolders of tho Atlan-- tic & P'acific Insuranco Company of this city mot' Inst ovéning at No. 616 outh Stato streot for the purpose of taling sowne action in regard to tho" appotutnient of & Recelvor by Judgo Moore, ‘Lho moeting was not regularly organized, -but- il thoge present woro in favor of ~ongaging a En%] Iawyor to guard tho interests of tho policy~ oldors. It wns finally decided . that all thono present ehould nct., a3 & committoo, aud seo somop mon who woro fully posted on euch .mattors, aud ro- ork to & meoting to bo licld this eveniug at Sebroeder’s Iall, noruheast corner of | Clarlc and ¢ Van Buren streets. It was also docided :to re- quost o prominout Iawyer to be prosent at Lho wooting. It seomed, to Lo the opinion of those preeent thatBr. A, 11, Burley would b the most -available man for a Recelver, and thero is;lard- * Iy/a doubt “that this gentlemaa wiill bo recom- mended to the Court to-morrew morning, pesscein Jrequeati : {ri L e, and closod ‘up tho protty’ waitor-girl saldons, the | proprietois'of thase sub-rosa brothels acquiescod in tho decision 8o readily that tho suspicion of ‘|'tho ordinrily astuto wes erouscd, aud they looked forward to an early reappearauce of tho avil, sby .tho fact that _quite a number of these places _havo _sinco re- oponed, - lhough their ‘nefarious busincss .ok mow conducted with tho sumo.opon disregard of decency an bofore. 'Tho way in which tho new-stylo protty waiter girl" plies her accupation is 80 unique asto be worthy ol deseription, Tho old Labituo who for ton or | cloven days lins beon forceyl to take his lagor or “whialy " without tho appotizing concomitant of appreciativo smilo, from Jenny, or a knowing wink from Agnes, or a languishing leer from - Laura, may probably fromn sheor forco of habit or from a desire to rovisis the scone of his form- er conquosts drop in again npon.one of {he 1. W. G. saloops for a sip of the balmy. If he docs . g0 " ho ‘will "at first glauco . find {tho-place, @3 comparod with what it onco had been, the yory opitome of all that is melanchioly and ‘digpiriting. Not & eolitary P, W, G. is in view, aud na ho glances vound tho room to foass i ongtho univorsal saduces of tha -scene, lio notices n huge ourtain which etrotchos acrong Mhé rqom, bisocting it. As lio looks at it, nnd wouders what ity object 'is, it, wondorful to re- Inte, ofiens intho mildlo, and tho faco of a full- | fledirod, icrepressiblo protey waior-| i1 wearing an'irrenistihle loer of invitation pops through, . tho old " hobitue bo too stupid to understand the meaning of tho leor, the - protly waitor-girl waives her hand invitingly, and ho follows her bahind.tho curtain, Noro ho finds dverything to bis lkipg, ITore arp Luura, and Joony, and Kate, and Agnes, and n-host of ‘othéry, handing-round beor ns usupl and dresuod—woll, it Tooks os though tho curfain hag beon proyided for by o lovy on thowardrobe, ..too scant already inmany cases, thoy ownad dur- dng tho fitat ara.pf protty waltor-girls' suloon- K " As miitht bp oxpocted, With curtnin so- ing tho protty wWaitec-girls nud their patrons ;| the publio, tho,decornm of the B na ulight as tho dress of somo “1t is utatod that” thoe - propriguors of tho saloons loak upon tho curtain-hid wino- rooms g quito, 8 coup-d 'otat, aspecially ns for the oxtra privileges which tho utter oxelusion nasures tham the patrons of thoso saloons are sothing Joth Lo pay double prico for what thoy drinl"and moke. It is a mattor of con- grotulation “in the, promises to Lnow that ‘wo - bave a -Mayor jn Cbluago who 1f ho puts his fool down'on an avil thing, and it wriggles from undorneath iy, will keop puttingit down, and uhunylnu until tho evil thing is uttor- Iy obliterated. “Iho Mayor rofrainod long from taliyg steni mensures with tho -protty waiter- {gul #aloons, yoi when. Lo did intorfore o did so n o manner which showed ' that Lio meant busi- ness, And thoro s no doubt that ho moans business still, and that he will wipo out the se- cluded wino-rooms at his carliost possible con- vonienco. e WHERI ARE THE POLIOEP About 2 o'clock yestorduy morning J. J. Bollor, who koops a euloon at No. 648 Wost Indinnn stroet, ind noed to poy a visit to tho wator-closet 1 tho rdar of Lis promisos, Wullo there, two o prison, mgn rushod upon Lim, andono of thom held him while tho othor atruck him in the bronst with knifo sovoral times, Thon choy attompt- od to rob him of whnt Lio hiad in his pockots, and aftorwards decamped, loaving thoir vietlm woak ln;m.n losw of Llood in tho place whore they fouud him, ‘I'no long absenca of hor husband alarmed Mra, Bollar, and sho wont in soarch of him, Whon sho found him sho ralsed an alarm, and, as Olfi- cers lutehing (876) and Cluott (415) happoned tu bo pumslug with o captured thief, thoy “tool’ matters in charge. Dr, Conoy, ‘tho ncarest physiclan, was sont for, “and aftorwards — auother physician ‘whose namo was not learned cama on the scone, On _axamiuation of the woundod mun, it waa fonnd that thora wore six t{uuhnu, all of thom on tho loft sido of thio chout, in tho rogion of tho heurt, and runnipg in a dlveotion nourly down- wards, with an_obliquo variation from vight to lofl. Opo of tho wounds was iid, anothor 214, inchon long. Though Br, Boller Iy sumcrcd grontly from loss of Dlood, it is thouglt thab Iow corrcet thewo suspicions woro s Truo charlty recognizos fully tho prinelplo of -onabling Its rocipionts to help thomuelyos. - Upony this priuciplo & yoarago waa oatablished tho *“Nowsboys' omo," a charitablo ingtitucion in tho truoat souso of tho torm, whono objoct way to take from the streots tho fathorloss and moth. orless waifs, and onable thom to obtain for {hom- _molves. wholosome sholtor and food; to- divect their.effortain thelr atrugglo for indopondont maiuterance ; to tonch thom tho pringiplos aud advantages of cconomy and Industry contrasted with tho perils and dlscomforts of .atmless indo~ lonce and dishonosty, and thus robour, prisons ot o moloty at least of thoir victims. Lvorybody ia familiar with the lucky it by which Mr, Billinga was onablod, through the"genorosity of Mr, Mo- Vicker, to clear.§3,000 o yearago for this hustitu .tion, and ‘nvorybm‘y 1s -mora or loss nousiblo of the succoss of tho undertaking. Encouraged by their success, tho Directors hiavo by a stronuous offort orectod a commodious .and handsome four-story \basemont brick edifica on Quincy stroot, near Flfth avenuo, whero in tho futura will be located the.Home. A TrinuNe ragartur wed aliown ovor thabuild- ing yostorday by Mr.VW. B. Billings, Ingross being mado through tho boys' eutranco on tho oast .sido of tho -basemont, tho roportor was shown tho cnsh offico, whera tho boys will pry their ** hotol bills ;" tho bath-room and lavatory, dining-room, kitchou, laundry, snd drying-room, fitted up with all modorn improvementa ; furnnce-room for generating stoam for heate ing = purposes; and privato dining-room for the Buperintondont - and help. Evory oflice of this departmont is admirably adapted to-its .purpose. On the first floor ara tha boys' siting= «xoom, fitted with closots for clothes, caps, olc., commuulcating with tho library .and reading~ room ; the gymnasipm, fitted and furnishoed with applinnces for calpsthenio and gymuustic oxer- cises, wharo alio aro lockers for tho boys' black- ing or othar worlfing-kits, ‘There aro also privata sitting-rooms and tlie main ofilco, the latter haye Lnlik‘l"mb communications with all parfa of the uilding. @ On tho second floor are two domestic elaopinge rooms, the school-roont, 40 foet square, and two largo olnsy-rooms. ‘'he .third fidor I entirely occipiod by ono’ chawber -for ‘Superintend~ dent’s room, oud .an immenso dormitory which s to be furmshed : with- singla iton bedsteads, On - tho fourth floor ara thow orkshops, in “whioh type-sottiog, shooe mnking, chnir-bottoming, and baskot-moking will be taught thoso desirous of Joarning. "Chio Boys' Homo is a substantially built struc. ture aud excallently arraugod for t8 purpose ; o -tho samo time it could iu case of -poceauity bo caelly converted to nuy other use, Aw,especicl fenture in it is tho _adwmirablo anitary arrange- monts of closets (on overy floor), vontilation, and abundance of light. 'Tho total cost.of tho bpild~ Jdng will be §19,000, $8,000 of which is yat .to' ba wniged. Dounntions in matorial, suoh ;na limo, brick, lead piping, ete., ranging in value from 310 to §200 hayo heen” contributed to tho oxtont of #4,000, Mr. Thilings exprossing to. tho roe vorter Lis sonso of tho gencrous manner in whiclt he publié has ausisted the .undartulking.” ‘o offect a eaving of somo $500 & onth whilo -the building was . orecting, .tho promises lately occupicd by:the iuntitution ware given up fo Juno lnst, and the inmates provided with homes temporanly in othor natitutios; aud in Dr. Billings' own home. Iu auswer Lo 1o res porter's nquiries, Mr. Billingd stated that o rig- .orous discipline will ho.enforced, aud stringont -| ‘rules mado for tho inculeation of cloanly . Linbitz eud industrious ways, and for the suppreaglon f if looso aud irrcgular vroclivities. .The chiof aim .of tha justitution is, while onnbling theso. une enrod-for waifss to carn thoir maintenanco, to pro- vida for thoir comfort and hoalbh, nud to instruct and prepere thom for taking--upon themselves '| the redpoasiblo dutios of trua and loyal - citizen- ship. During tho past yoar the inatitution hng pluced fifty boys on farms, whoro thoy are content and happy, and giving - perfect satisfection ta their employers. —_— A A, MARKLE, LI BON-IN-LAW, The Zvening Journal of yestordny states thet Alr. R, 8, Donngt, now in tho carriors’ departe mont in the Posf-Ofilco, informod one of jta reporters that-lio morried tho youngest daughter of My, Murlkle, the discovery of whoso tomb- slonewas mentioned in Bundey's paper. Ha suys that Marklo camo to Ohieago in tho your 1836, and kept tho 'Madison Iouse, on Lako stroot, for one yenr, aftorwards solling out and assuming tho managemoent of the Iilinois Bz« cbango, Iodled in- the yonr 1845, and wag buried iu tho old cometery on North Clark stroot, noor Lincolu Park. 1Ilo wag, as the tombstono would indicate, 48 years of ago ab tho timo of his donth, "The stono was not purchased for some yoars afler his death, and by tius time tho gravo Lad bean gradunlly wasked awny by tho wators of . tho lake. .On’ discovering this, Mr. Markle's rolatives stored thontono in tho resi- denco of A, Cram, who -at that timo resided at tho cornor of §tato and ‘Laylor atroots, It was nftorwards claimod by Markl's relatives, but Cram assured thom that it hnd boon unavoidably dostroyed, and no clow of ita whereabouts wag nfterwards obtained untll tho discovery of Satur- day. ‘o bones said to have boen found ncar tho atone hayo no conneotion with the romaing of Mr. Markls, nor are they in any way connact- ed with tho slab, but gro probubly the remuing of goms animal. 7 Mr, Marklo's family now resido ot Wilmetts, Tl und oro groatly ploased, aftor - lapso -of more than twonty years, to guL posgousion of this much-treasured relio, v HTILT, ANOTAEN RECOLLECTS I, To the Kilitor of The Chicago Trjgunes Bmn: An article in Tug Tribune yestordny montioned that the grvve of Abrabam A. Marklo was found in oxcavating near tho corner.of I'ny- lor and Stato stroots, and that no one know wha Ab A. Markle was, Thoro are & number of porsons in and near Chicago who wore well acquainted with Ar. Marklo, Ho was at, ono timo landlord of tho best hotel in Chicago. Tha Liotel was loeated on Lako stroot noarly opposite tho onst end of the present Tromont Iouso. 1¢ was called tho DMansion Houso, Tho writer borrded at this houso during tho summer of 1635, and o4 it waa tho bost hotol In town, paid tho high prico of 88 por wook for board, Mr. Markio n}tnrwmls Iapt tho Now York Exchango, noar the cornor of Walls aud Lako stroots. In 1840 or a7 Mr, Murklo took a contrnot on tho Hll- nois & Michigan Cunal, At tho time of hig doath the cornor of Taylor and 8tato streets was open praivic, and somo distauco aut of town, and tho writer belioves thot Mr. Marklo owned a lob thare, Cnioaao, Aug, 81, 1874, Wa, IL Apavs, Pt s A CARDS, MR, JOUN W. DLAISDELL, tho woll-known’ nclor aud managor, arrived in tho ity yestorday morning, boiug called hither from Rocklord, whoro bis company li now play ing, by cortain damnging statoments mado In a recent Issuo of tho Evening Journal concerning his Lonor, IIo desircs tho pnblication of tho annoxed card, and in pddition wishes it sald that ho has commonced unib for lbol agatunt tho propriotor of tho Jowrnal, dumages being Inid ab £50,000 1 0 the Kilitor of the Teibune s 1 have tr: 120 milea for the purpotoof re- Latlng s gross slandor ugalunst iy otinracter fur onety, kllllzll»hml in the Keening Journal of Wedueaduy, Aug, 20, hostatoment madu by that paper was fulso by ovory particnluy, uud, i Juntics o my rovutaiivn n Chilcoyo snd tho Weat, T cunnot pormit it to pasy unchallenged, ‘Tho anhaun of the Journal's altuck conslsts n the fack that I bad proviously tranwforrod my fob printiog nong of Lho wounds will prove fatal, Mr, Bollor hinks ho can Xduntil{‘ e guilty purtios, null‘ tho ypolico bave ooy nelivoly ouguped i il tho neighiborhood for llf;m,baxi’; m«x:lrn!?:‘n:;:lgo from its eatnbllshimont to anotlior ofiice, leavinyg an e significant blatica of lods thuty"$i0 41i ‘dlsputo, which d1”now, and wes ab tho timo s chiargo agalnst ms viaa Windo, in oourk for seltloment, Tho gravily of