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

2 e e e —————— e ——— i THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: Cae g o Y HURBD. Y, OCTOBER 1, 1874, BEECHER--TILTON. Mrs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Viows of *Tho Great Social Earth- quake.” %Tho Truo Social Codo Must Bo the Same for Both Sexes,” “The Crowning Perfidy” of *the Great Preacher.” Mrs, Tilton Goes Forth ' to Vindi- onte the Man Shs Loves,” Whe, After Haking a Foothall of Dor, * Gasts Rer Aside Like a Wil ered Flower,” Boccher’s Position Maintained for Him by *¢ Threo Powerful Relig- ious Rings.* * Diplomacy and Hypocrisy in High Places.” “ The Impossibitity of Securing Justico for Any Ono when Money Can Bo Uged Against Him,"” A Letter from IMrs. Henry Ward Beecher, . 1 In Which She Characterizes Her Ilushand 28 “ (lood and Nobfe, and. Host Pure,? And Speaks of Him as Enduring ‘¢ Cruel Persccutions.” Letter from Mry. Elizabeth Ondy stuntou. rom the Earlville (1) Transeript, We take unusual, yot we thinlk justifiable, Nb- orty in giving tho following private letter, re- vently received, to the publio. Tho Beechor- Titton controversy certsinly now bolonga to the public, with all the facts snd philosophy whicl may coutribnto to the golution of tho privato ay woll na public questions involved. Wo caunot, therefore, conscientiously withhold Mrs, Stan- ton's very able and interesting lctier from our roaders: TEXAFLS, N, i, Aug, 24, 1874 Dran Frarun : You usk, fu s recent letter, my viuws of tlio great voclal earthqiiake that las Teceitly jarred 50 many thoories and Yeputatlons tiat once stood tm, A 1 bavo double fiterest fn this ead pago of domestio hfalory ; firat, becauto it fuvolves 'OREAT PRINCIPLES OF BOCTAL TTHICH} sccond, Lecaueo thoso who huve accldeutally been forecd to filusirato our fguorance of theso, prineiples wre among iy pecsonal friends, o thiose who take nnrfaco View of “ the seandal,” 1tis probably * prurient, * dlsgusting,” " unuseats Ing," a8 otir refined Motropolitan press affocts to cone sider it, although the first uows saught for by tho read. ing publie, by gentlemen eud ladies” alike, hns, T pro- sume, Auidiyg tho last two monihs, been Vthio Plym- outh Ohurch investigation,” This, o my mind, i an ovidence, not of a depraved popular taste, but of o vital interest Iu the soclal probloms that puzzlo and perplex the best of ue, “I'hs trng relations of man and woman, tho founda. tions of thie family and home, 470 of more momentous Importance than any question of State, or Clinreh, can roeaibly be: llenco the intenso interest roused to tvery now page of social hiatory,—suinmoning some Darwin, Spencer, or Tyndall, 10 'a fearleas invesiiga- lion of tho sources of our prescut soclal ovils, sud Ielr aclentific remaiy, The truo eoctul ccde, whatover it s, must ho the 1anie for both sexes, 1f tho teatimony given in thia ease bo oll true, and it bo proven that sich men as lenry Ward Bcecher aud Theadare Tillon find the marriago lnws of the State of Nuw York tao stringent, both belng in discordaut marpage-rolations, wight it not e well 10 REVIEW TOR LAWS, 1 well as tholr violationa? To compel unhiappy husbands and wives, by Iaw anil public seutimeut, to Jive togother, and 1o’ teack them fiat it fu their religlous duty toaccopt their conditions, ‘whantever thoy aro, producey, evor and anon, Juet atich social cartlqualies as Lhy ol through whileh wo are now passings, Whilst the many arc eager to discover tho facts in this one cane, lot tho few eeck for those Inws whicl, If oboyed, woulil provent 1ike cuses in the futuso, 1f ull'our homies Were waroofed, . many a_ kuaband might be painted in darker colors thau Thoodore Til- ton, wud many a wife weaker than Lis, and uany 8 ‘mah more perploxed aud miserablo {lan ¢ tho Great Froacher,” 1ence we linve, all ~liko, s deeper duforest In this 4 scandal than tho guilt or 'inoceuce of tho actors, Boclcty hes played fast and loose with the roliglous conecicaien of woman long anough, educating lier faith in ong cods of worals und ber wfiections in another,— thus leaviug her over liablo to, {n au hour of weaknis, 10 botray the mou she faln wolld save, Tho Iéssar for # advanced thinke for stich men” 28 Henry Ward Beecher—to learn js, the necessity of toaching the women in their clrclo of friends, if from no bigher motive than their own protection, THE MAN-PHILQSADLY, such ra Leckey teaches {u his History of Morals, If fliat is the uithmatum of man’s wisdom, In this wiy only cin woman maintain her self-re- apect aud truo dignil while living under the samo moral code by which man governs himself, 19 odi cate woman's conscience in tho line with the gencral e- teceived views of socint moralé, fn the latitude {n which sho lives, and then tempt Ler to sin againat her conscience apd public opinion, 18 making cowards and bypoerilen of incn and women on every sido, I npito of the varlous rolations in which men and women of Vil ages have lived, end still live, thern must bua truo sondition; and, tb ny mind, it seema that might bo tound, twith (ove and quality, n o true marriage of oo mun to one woman, ‘The trouble witl the ma philosophy in all these motters 16, that tho best int uls of woman Lave uover ehtered ioto the considera- dun of tho whole question. ‘What & holocaust of womenliond wo have hind {n this Investigation ! _What a footboil the Comiultiee, the wyors, Mra, Beecher, and her bukband, have madu of Elizabeth &, Tilton] What stateruents and coune ler-atatemeonts they lnve wrung from her unwilliug lips, then like a withered flower, * the Great Preacher” sagts hier sefide, and teils the world * she thrust her affections on him unkought,"— TIE CROWNING PERTIDY n that bill of mpeachment that blackens overy one who dared to bear or tell 1ho most astounding scandal uf_the nincteehth eentury | In cominon with ths rost of tha world, members of the Nutionul Wouaw’s Buifrage Aesociation heard anud ropeated thn seandal, 8 other men and women di and, forzootl, Mr, Ececlier dubs them * human by nas" and *froe-loverm,” Lol his o alaer ¥ ono of the number, and who, by letters aud convorsa- tious that, through hitn aud hiw Lrother, wore publish- ed to the world, is reproscnted as * funane,” delided,” “ woakeminded.” Those who kuow Mrs, Tilton—hor ‘natural ifidcnce, delieacy, and refiuement—will road- ily bellove ber truo story, that, through monthy of persuasion und argumont, hor 'love was onght und sealed. 3 Dewildered, racked, tormented, tho midst of misory sud weakness, i ber Just et on leaving home, snd 1n ber statement before thu Connite tee, a fouch of grund womenhood 16 revealed, afterall, In tho fuco of law, gospel, conventionuism, cady 1o laave ner home foruver, sho says : Theodore, thy end b cowo ; 1 will_pover tulie’ snother atep by your #ido,” Audto her hrother, in anuvuticing her decle- fou, eho sal ' I bave ulways been treated as a non- entity,— playthiugy—to bo used or lct alona at will 5 Dub} bas alwayw socmed 10 wo I wa @ purty tot & Mitla concernoil,™ Whus leaving husband, childson, homs, sho went forth to tempest-tossed In VINDICATE THE MAN G11E LOVED,~ making bis friends her friends, biv God her Gnd} Wich what withoring_crucily, then, bis words must Liave fallen on ber boart : % Shy thrdet her aflections onme unsought ”; though » mutnal confesion of fovo i rovealed In Tho couruo of thy fuvestigation, und recoguized fn tho vordict, “lioen who know Innbelia Beocher Jaoker must hie equally surprixed with his troatment to her, Beliliaut, gified, wiid ciear-miuded, boy excolient, tdvico to i Trothiir,to confess hin Jife und fusiity & by theordch, which ehe bad heard him Tuny tmos enun- clute, prove Worward, strony rharmcler, Dut mob & *free-lover ¢ weak minded,” or +ue rano, 1 linve known Dss, Hooker well enovgh enongh to testify that she I neither, B d long fu tha deapaie 3z, Neeohor so pathictically denbriben, ond fn surprised to ¥ea in bin #0 LITTLE BUNSR OF JUSTIOR towards thoss wiio, from fio fault of thelr awn, becamo cogutzant of ‘tlia wholo end story. To blacken vuch cliaractera na Busan 3, Anthoty atd Taur Onrtis Dul- lard, Beasle Tursior—an uirelinblo servant, & self.cone fosned tool for whomaoaror_injght choone to e her— i the main witnces agalnst Mr, ‘Lllton, aud his ricads Who chinnced {o viait filv houso, Ior statement in_texard to 3tios Anthiony v falac, and of e won exaggerated beyond all boundy, ‘Sl ealit befors the Gommttes that I r.-u(.muy plasod chesa with Mr. Tilion uutll 3 o'clack n (bs_morulias ax If ghis, who rwa tievor lisilnyako f1t the daybiuie, coult spcud ter ulyhty in watcliug, hrough ail the oars of our acquufniance, I played chiesn oiice with r, Tilion, Auisiicd the gument 13 otlock, and rdtirod, —innking ‘ note of it the nezt day in o Revolulion, whileh T was then editing, You aakc 3t it s pomriliie for 3, Doeclier to main. tain Liv ponition fu faco of (ke facts, Ilia position will be mafuiained sor bim, as Lo is the soul eud contro of THNTE POWRRFUL FELIGIOUS NINGS, tells you hime Jf fy bill statement s miuth Chure 3 Chrfdtian Ui ¢ . lie Lite At,’ Ko clnatehneonily ot txed, Its bonds, fn tho hnnde of the wptithy men of (¢ organizntion, nrn yaluable, and (o bondholders, alive to thelr fusnclsl intererts, mupll avonnd Mr. Beacker, n falthful, pro- tecting bungy not loving trith and Justice losa, but their own packela more, 'Thoy are stirawil enoughh to know that, in Ar. Docelier's downfall, their bonan would boof fittle vaitte. Neal, /e Cliriatian Uniont,—a aull paper that repro- senti o new Uiought du iorals, roliglon, or pofitics, flont on the inme of Deechor, tn Apito of Mrs, —that Stows's eavy Soripture-lestous and Lidward Deecher's thedogleal autlquities, *'Flie Great’ reacher” ucl- o gIldK 14 pakes with bis brighinean, I, then, his o0t intio da almidowed, anothicr elreld of' sullering aiackoldera would be brought to priof, An o Titg Lifa of Chtluty™ Iy the ‘ords of -ono of tie fold, that would, indecd, be blosn *ORIONEN THAK A RYTRY were tho authior proved an unworthy shepherd, he traying tho flock e tvan set to wateh, T duvo héard thiat U was pafdl $20,000 for that work Uefore ho pat pen to paper, Then ho ground out vne volume, whicl the Engilsh market refused to touch untll thy second wet forlhicominp s wnd fhus o whole Investment Lusngs by the eyeilds, untii Mr, Beochior Ja whitownnlied nd ree flL to inish the work, With such weulthy cirelen of iufinence Ju Brookish and Nevw York, oll de- rending on the vindiestion of Nr, Beecher's honor and Lioneaty, you will roadily undorstand the numler, rengll, 2iid ackivlty, of hix partisans, and the rensoiy iy the' tone of g Meiropotitan jircsa difers so widely from that througliout the country, Under such cfrcumstunces, justics for 3r, Docchier IS QUITK IMI'O*sInLE, Whien tho frienda of Mr, Heeclier thought they had Mletteed Mr, Moulton, our city press tonsted Lim as n brave, generous, refied gentloman; buf, a1 poou ns Ize opeied his niout 10 tell thie wholo truthi, he beca:a & biackmailer sud conagirator, ! * 11 the secret Listory of thia tragody In gvor Lrouglt Ko gt we shall uvs sucl revelutions of” Qipofiudy snd byliocrlay in Ligh placesss Lo apen (ho exen of the Jople to the imposaibility of souuriing Justico Tor fuy oue when hioney can be tised agafnat Ifin, ; Whou A rofined geutioman aud schiolar Iike Theqdore Tilton can bo huried in » day from ona of tho projdest poeltions fu the covntry,—the ablo_cditor of a great Journnl,—and_become & targot for. tho flbes and feery of the wiatien, without one authienticated accusntion of or crime againat Ifm, all_youug men are bpechally inlerested in kuowing whether ha downfall n tho e sult of a lack of moral rectitud fa limeelf, or thoro who connneled in dethronement, They Who try to see Theoitors Tilton vindiested do Lut maintaia tho elajma of COMMON JUSTIOC ¥OR TROSE WHO HAVE NOT TUE MONEY TO UUY 1T 1 binve loirg kunown 3r, Tilton and Mr, Moulion, and vlstied them” frequently n thefr pleasant bomes, aud seeu tiem under tryiug elfoumstauces, aud know thoy- sro not tho bave, unrelinbla juen_royresented in AL, Beccher's atafoont, However, wheu this niallor thorouahly sifted fur the civil ' courts, truth may s niade o appesy, With kind regardy, XL12aBETIC CADY STANTON, Eetter from Firs Menry Ward Bocehi ro To the Editor of The Chicago Tributie: Sin: Tho following lettor, received & fow ¢ ays sineo from Mrs, Ionry Ward Bosclicr, may V.o of intorest to your readers, and cortainly eiiould place that much-maligned lady in a mors “avor- able light bofore tho public. In all «f this momorable trial, there has been no shy dow of sympathy for the women whoso homao lvos been 80 rutblessly invaded. Hie has been ositicised and held up to ecorn by friends and ' enemics aliko. Ifer coldness; Lor want of wrmpathy with her busband; ber lnck of congeniality in her home; oven hor appearance, s been severely commonted on. It s ftime that the world should koow her (for Mrs. Deecher bo- lieves in hor husband's unocence), hnd what kind of n Lelpmeet et ia to him, 1t 7« the lot- tor of a weary, tortured, but most trusting woman, and I hopo it \\‘ll!ncrgntefo\' her tho sym- Liy Yt in auy caso, shio deserves. PRby i, T sy e e e . L. Ravse. MRg, InECUER'S R, BuoorLxy, Bept, 25 1874, My Dear Hee, — Youra of June 18 did not reazh me till the middle of July, Tn somo way it was mized up with the number- Tewn oticro sud dootments wilch load my Lusband’s tuble, aud, althoaghi T bave the care of Wik lctters, snd try t0 keep il earetully ntteuded to, yet youra hid up aomowkiere, I know 1ot ik, 80 thiat it was long before Trocelved it, Adued to auy carelessuces, for which I alons am reaponsible, i thio fact,—or, Talter, I ahould bave said, in excuss for suicl carelessneas is the fuct— widch the daily papees huvo made no seoret, that fhils Tiaa been n sutmer of anusnd caro and labor, In which Loth Lieart and brain liayo Lecn taxed to thouttermost, Temamberiug this, Lant surs you_will pardon my sceming negligenct, aloout whith I ueed not bavo troubled you with 80 muny words, Iwould most checrfully coutribute su nrifcle to your futeuded paper, which 1 sincerely hopo will bu successful, wers Inot duburred by the sumns reason which canred the delay iu auswering your lotter, Until iy good, aud_noble, and most _piire Lushand hss rest from teso cruel porsccutions, T have no heart for onytbing but that Hitle which’ I am privileged 40 do for iw, i1 protoeting him from neediess fue trivion gustding lim from thoso cormorants, tho seporters 2ad duing al the writhug L con ssvo biin from doing. Were it not for this, my dear Mudam, I would very cheerfully contribule ihe articls you ro- «quest,~if only to mrnifest my plessure in learuing that 1 haya ever een 2o bappy as to bave dous you a snmll eryice, iy atd by the sun will dispel sl tess clouds, and perhaps then I may be nblo to respond more favorably, if nesded, Yowratruly, y Mps, LzNKY WARD DERCHER, The Libel Suits. Special Dipateh to Lhe Chicavo Tribune. " Nrw Yonx, Sept, 30.—Thomas Kiugolla nir says that ho will not mako a statoment, notiith- stading lis numorous promiscs asd the thireat lio made o fow days ogo to Mr. Moulton, This threat was aleo mado in & bar-room opposite the Zagle oftico nud in the Faust Club, MOULTON'S BAIL. District-Attorney Winslow bas consented tu reduce Moulton's bail from #$20,000 to 3,000, Trauklin Woodraff and Jeremiah H. Robinson, of the firm of Woodruff, Rtobinson & Co., in srhich Moulton is a partner, will appear t0-mor- morrow ay bis bondsmon, - THE BOWEN LIDET, SUITS, Counselors Duwalt & Johnston Luve bogun tho answor of the JFagly to the Lowen libol mults. The ~roporter who i +aid to have hind tho intorview i DMr. Bowen in which the suit_originated has not yoi sigued the nocessary aftidavits in thoandwor to Dowen's complaint, Itis steted upon perfectly (rast- worhy authorily that the Eagle raporter who I sued by DBowen did not write the alleged intor- viow. ~‘Tho interviow was wrilten by & man wlho i not un atiacho of the Eugle, and” who nover had rny convorention with Al Bowen concern- jug tho Deechor scandal. ———— I‘.;.UNICIPAL TAXATION, @ To the Tditor of The Clideago Tridune: g Bm: Iwill try tosoive your conundrum at anca by proposing tome countor-propositions, Do the Chicago morchants pay all, or one- Bilf, or even one-third, of tho 7,000,000 rove- nue now raiged in this ity 2 Do not the active business-men now generally ront their stores and oftices {rom wealthy propriotors, whom you propose to relieve from all publio burdens, and toput thom sll unon the hard-working men, who, with their brains, hands, and crodit, rathor than capltal, mako Chicago thoe proud Metropolis she s to-day? 1t you reply that tho teunnta ow pay the tax- 3 ou tha realty In paying their rent, I would ap- onl dirgetly t0 the ownors of business-blocks to now whotlier or not they are receiving rents onongl to pry laxes aud jusuraaco, over and ulove a fuir, or eyen a low, interest upon the capital invested; and whothor or nov anin- creaced nx upon the tenant would increnso or diminish the demsod for stores or shops. Apain : tho greatoss trouble wo now have Is to distiibuto tho nocessary taxation cquitably among the peonlo in proportion to their propor- ty. Dut how does your plan obviale this difi- culty? If you makea uniform churge for wholesale derlers’ licenso, for inslaioo, you sub- oot the man with £G0,000 capital and' §500,000 anuunl businers to the same tax precisoly which in imposed upon the man or firm with §1,000,000 copital and ©12,000,000 aunual business, BuLL it ‘you propose to mfiumla tha tax Ly tho amoun of “capital in {Le businoss, or by the mmnount of busluess dono, or npon both capital and buelness combinod, you at oncw encounter ob- utireles, In making o falr ausckamont au betwoen differont partios, of much greater magnitude than are now encountored fn curicating e ovils of the present syntom, 1t iy very deniralis that the burdens wid benefits of taxation phould, cluling of fatercats, ambition, amd reveug: ctn,—taolliers, lators, Wives, sud duugile iy raceificed, Coning up thiough four years of thoagony and nony urg B lik? the dewn of Houven, bo made to descon upontall alike ;" yet it i no easy task for finite heings to nccomplich thly bohetlcont objoct. THE FIRE QUESTION. ., Lotter from tho General Mana- ger of tho Royal Cana- dian Insuramnce Company. Suggestions for the Provention and Extinction of Fires, Somo of the Roforms Needed in Qur Present Fire System, A Discussion of (ks Demands of tho National Board of Under~ weiters, Fo Politits in Uur Firo Departmont—dar Fire Apparatis Teo Heavy. Underground Tanks---Leather vs. Rub- ber Hose---The Lumbers Yards. How Firemen Should Be Troated, and iow They Should Bo Drilled. Cmicaao, Sapt. 20, 1574, o the Edilor of The Chicago Tridune : Sm: Permit me, although personnlly an on- tiro stranger to you aud your citizeus, Yot a5 ono con vorsant nith the existing stato of affnirs fo far &8 yeprosonted by tho National Bosrd of Undor- wrilors, and tho quostion now so promingutly before tho publie,—I monn your Fire Depatte mont and water-supply,—to place befors youn Tow sugeestions that may go far to bring bout ‘aremedy of zomo proclical use. Itis notmy intention to ontor into any lengthy remarks in regard to tho attltude agsumed by the National Board of Undarwiitern in tha City of Naw York in advisiog tho withdrawal of all companies working undor thofr jurisdiction, My desiro is ‘moro to point out what, in my oginion, irould lead to A JUST AND FTASIDLE MODI of artlving et tho pravention of the frequent and disaatrous firea in Four ciey, and to havo the business of undeiwriting made profitable. 1 bave read and studied much that has been pub- lighed in tho several fnsuranco fowrnals, a8 well a8 that pubhshed in your columns, in regard to thio Chicago insurance business and tho Tire and Wator Departmotits, and T am prepared to admit that the Board of Underwiitors liave good and tangiblo grounds to justify their nccousity for action. I cannot closs my oyes to the fact that Chicago oo also claims to put forward and exack from the uoderwriters that {ho Doard rop- resouls, Tho theory of insuiance Is generally well understood. I nead not enter into o discuaston of any question Learing o this, but will asaume that tho Natioual Board, in arguing tho withdrawal of insuronce comanics, aro guided aitfrely by their anxiotv to protect ha iuterest of theiv stockholders,—a poiné that ol will ndmit ia fair and legitimato. The question now coimes up, Have tho companies represented dons on their part all thav can bo fairly do- masded by the City of Chicago,—not only what is due the aesured, but also the insured# In con- versation with o Foremau of tho Fire Brigado, I was mout forcibly struck wich one ramark ho made, in the following langungo: “Insuranco companles are a3 much, if mnot more, to Dblame for (he existing stato of effalrs, 03 tho clvio authoritics. Why, efr, & load of match-wood cannot go wup tho Btreet without boing followed by a person ropro- senting an insuranco ofice, to obtain n risk on it.” Igathered from your own columns o state- ment that, whero tho firo originated on tho ldth of July Inst, thore was not, nor over had boen, gooda on the premivea to represent ono-balf the amount coverod by the policy on them, I need not xay that this Alate of thinza is surs fo load to destruction of proporty, which must be at- tributed sololy to tho unxicty o do business on tho part of those who now complain that all is defective, and vii0, in_consequence, recommond th? withdrana! of their compaies, A mode to bring A REORM IN THIS DIRECTION wonld Yo, thub companies_should not pay com- miasion an tho groms receipts without regard to reault, but ghould solect a oareful man, and pay him an anueal salary Lhat would onablo him to live comfortasly, and then a slight commission on the prollt uf tho businoss. Wera tbis the cage, L would graranteo no sgent would long contlnuo jusuring property over or mosr ity markot-valuo, Jrom what T had hoard and read sbovit tho Tiro Depattmont of your city, I Lad tuonght that it would be a hopeless task to cnduavor to about a judicious reform and diseipline in tho I'ire-Brigade organization, as I oxpectod to find it full of men Whowo ouly qualification was that they woro politiclann, Tho National Doard neems alvo to bo carried away with thiy iden, a8 ave meny of your merchants, Well, sir, I have spent the whole of ouo night and noversl hoors during the day to got at tha truth of tus matter, 1 entered the fire-itation a perfeet stranger, and unaccompanicd. I gob into conversation witly ono or mora of the men at ench station. I tallc- od to thom as an old fireman, and woon found mysolf perfoctly ab case putting quostions that might bring ou what T was desirous of knowing, In" olovenatntions I found but ons individuat who said that politicians had tho slightost thing to do iu tho matler. In closer questioning this momber, ho faled to meke out a singlo cano whera [politica put s man in the force, to its detriment. Ono man—I bolieve a Foroman— siuted ho was mino yeard and cloven months in the foree, and had hevar votod, or boen sked to do 6o, by any one ovor him, or connccted with the Iire Comwisgion or Corporation. Ono man Larl voted oneo, anathier threo Limoss all ropue diatad the idoa of tho Departinent being defoct- h‘tli or imy lnll‘x'od in %sl mnvamn;:cd by any politi- ent aesoelation, elug sutisfied boyol lighteat dowot that thoro iy e . NO GROUND ¥OR TIL: DELIEF ibat politicy are Introduced mto the Fire De- partmont, I loave thly question, and dea! with the Dopartment on ita morita. In tho first ploce, 1 may sy that the expenditure of this Dopartiont iv euormons, and wore than would make aud keop up n mtalo of ofliciency that would make 1 simost Loyond s possibilicy for Chicago to bo again curaed by fires of thy mngnitdu that lave visitod it duing the past fow yoars. 1 flud early all tho apparutus in nso too hoavy ‘aud cumbsrsomo; i fuct, overy wachine or appliance is mado io flzht a largo firs, ‘Chero fu bubune iden, and that i Inrye fires. ‘1 flnd nothing but largo steam firoecr. iuos, somo weighing o8 lioavy as 4 to 435 tons, £ 1 expected to diny thoss to s flvo, in somo iy stances throe-quarters of & wilo, and bo thors In time to oxtinguish a firo ero it could hava wado any serious headway. 'Fo me (ho thing is next to an impossibility, Tho hosg: carls, and the hoso takan on theln, ara avon mors hoavy In propottion to the requiroments than i the unwieldy engine, 'ho alig&no is mude (o Ay~ ohaxge frons 500 to 490 gallon of water por foin. ute, Whea it arrives on the ground, as ‘was the oage in tho July firo, it Liad to drawe ity supply from o 3-luch “waler-plpo, 'hero would liave boen as much sonxo in feoding an alephant from o foaspoon as to have expocted othor resulty than what foliowed, 'The whlor-prossure on the g..ugn(ul this englns could Lave searooly indi- catad 95 pounds, wherelt ought to Linye given 180 potinda was any effoctive result fo have como from it, aud tho two extremes meat, WHERE Tilk ACTUAL BEYORY 10T 1 it over uny difforens rosult iy lo be dopendod on. Notouly I3 the machiue useloss to wmeot o ewall five, but, to contend with » large oup, vory % MADE, Very einocroly yours, A J, GALLOwaY, littte botlor. The hook-nid-ly 7 henvy, and cannos be braughy :‘x‘xdillmn(xi?mf :‘; tho oniot of ‘. fite, Tt Would pay tho city to dr}l\'fl oho-half of thom futo the X:rl:g nnyer !D’bu takon out ngnin for ‘uoe, aud ropaco thoin by dthor apiparatus, Tneavooly need romnel to tho mllmucnl man that nuch matorlals aro, as & rula, seldom waniod for the neat fifloon’ minulcs | yobwo flud that larga numbors of won_ave crln loyed, us woll ‘nn horoen, ‘tlint Wotld ‘bo with groator utllity appliod in_diftorent form. IVtmast, not e ‘undorstood Alint T goin for dolug mvnf: witl ol tho oxisting apparatun, on rocount of thelr more Immedinte adaptation to coutond Sgniust s lotgo firo; buk 1 woulll ‘not roly on Auch to toot‘and olieck a small tira. The rosult fld'lm( You vzould moldom encounter n largn firo, L elit now Jonvo this point and doal with tho romody, 1 {lud four chomical ongines in nao, and no oubt they rendor ‘oxedllout sovtico, nad, from all T can pathor, thoy ofton arrive abt a firg and chook it oro tho stoamors enn be brought into piny, 8o far, 50 good ; It is it not ponsiblo to improve avon on thoso ? My oxpericico nat- 1afion me it can ba dono, They are hoavy, and fow in numbor, An improvomont on thoso wonld to placo in many of the existing obigino or fruck hounes and distrieta, whora nonn now aro, 0 Hight wagon, SimilAr to thio lightest wnod by ox- bross companlen, fvith a pair of Hght boruos aud two mon, Give thom four or six of the porta- }:,lg T&l&hi‘:fl nammb by lihln Babeock Compsany. 3 icngo el thnt ono-Totrin, oS willy in & few weeks, focl IF Nor ONE-THIRD, of Its flrca havo Loon got nndor vrlthont tha sid of tho steamors, roeln, or trucks. 1 roolde in & city whero noithior stoam nor haud onglaos aro In usa; whoro hoso ouly ia taken to firo, &3 tho prossurs from the wator-supply iv abmndant in Pow8r to projoct a 1-fuch wtrenm 130 o 160 Teot, Yot thoso littlo machines put out one-thicd of tho firos ere tho hoss ¢an bo got on the ground, An Lo the wator-supply of Chicago, little noed Dbo #ald on the existing state of affaira; all are iu accord ou thls point, 1t is dofective, aud not oqual to the roquirements of wueh & ity fok firo~ pucposos; sud I fail to find, In any of the demnnds_or auggestions put’ forward by the National Board or'its roprosoutatives, o feasiblo remody. Imust at this point almost becomo ersounl, 1t does not follow thet, bacause {ho ational Bonrd or ils agonts rapresent s vitel intereat ju connoction with tho commeres of tho city, they posacss full knowledze of contonding against tho olomont of fire. An oxporionco of an xetinal lifo of thirty-two yenrs connceted with nDurnrlmunt that lina fow to equal it on ihig Continent, and nona in Lurope, tns taught mo bow little knowldge imsurance-represeutativos poseesy in thia direction, Water-pipea of larger dimtonsions aro rocom- mandad to ba pit doivn, and, whoro tis isdone, 1utus of insuranco will' ba proportionataly re- duced. Whilst I ndmis I can_seo no objoction to thiv, yor my ox})arlnncn lends mo to say that thore aro times when wntor-pipes of any dimen- sion might bo found oot Lo alord the protection required. I hced not go further back to illuse traie this than the fira which ovcurred somo yoars azo in Lake stroet. Itis a fact that tho Apparatus bacawe noxt to useloss, and that firo for sowmo timo had full eway,—the apparatus froezing up, owing to tho intonso cold, The enno result might ocour durinz the onsuing wine tor. It wator is to Lo ohtained, that will bo al. ways in abundauce, no ruwmbor or #izo of pipes 18 equal to TROTLLLY-CONSTRUCTED USDERGIOUND TANKS. I wotild urgu on you thaat the proper authorisios should o Induced to bave tlosn put down throughout tha city, not at o greator distanco than 1,000 foot apart in any givon direction, These hould bo mado to hoid at loast 90,000 gallons of water each, Tho form is immaterial 6u long us thors is 2 faot of carth on tho Lap, oud a vacunm of 12inzhos hobwoon 16 and tha water, it will not freczs in the coldoat roasons. An ongino drawing itasupply from these will bo niways sure of keoping up n full supply,—the gatge indieating, not 35 or 40 pounds, but 100 to 135 pounds. Blhiould tho fire not ba got mnder boloro thy water bocome exhnuated, “in tho coldest season, other engincs shoudd be put iu usa to foreo o further quantity from the uearest oucs, Undor ordinary circumstaricos, it might ba fiiled trom tha wator-maius, thist shoulil "ba placed 8o as to load jnto the tavk wader ground. “I'kis is o mat- tor of dotnil, and ct.n bo caeily adapted when the rocess of cunstruction is going on. I mead ardly say that tho Iiro Drigade wonld noyer dream of drawingg from the Lydrants it thoy would readily draiv from tanka, An to the modo, of placing thom, cireumstancoy and position will ‘have to bo consulted. I can eo no objection to putting tuom down at the cornors of stroots, or making tho casomont of the fire-stations adapted for thom. 'Thers need ba no approhiension of the water bocoming offen- #lve, 40 Joug & thoy nro mado compnrativoly air- tight, Adopt Luis wods of supplying water, nnd tho Yira Brigado will foel that thoy can depond on obtuluing an abundnuco when it is most wanted. You can readily understand that 1,000 {eob upart will enablo auy ongiuo to command a fire with water withiu 500 feat. Those tanks cau bo put down, and the city bo rondored more secura, choaper thau by laying down G, 8, or 10- inch pipo. "o coms back to ETEAN FIRE ENGINES ¢ T da nut desive to do awhy with 1he oives & us i3 now lookod on as the third, but I would ree- ommend an adaptation of o principle that will onnbin one of these to propel o 34-inch stream, and have more affect than_is now obtained from 2 1%¢ or 2-inch from tho large machines, "hin can bo arclvad at by tho adupiation of the prin- ciple brought out by the chomical machine. hora i3 nlso tho quostion of hoso to bo dealt with, I fnd thet the city uso principutly mbber, To my mind, this isanot only tuo henvy, which “onght in itsclt to condemu it, Lut 1% doca not last over fifteon to elghteen months, #ind it conts somo ©1.20 per foot. Lhis might bo changod to great advantago. TLozther is not only preferable, bt it i3 cheapor and moro durn~ ble. It will stand & pressura of 100 to 150 pounds, and can bo repairod when burst, which cannot bo done with tho rubbor, Thore’ is no roason why Chicago should not have the hono mado in the Department by its own men, and not cost over $1.10 to $1.16 per foot. A horeo can go much quicker to a firo with 600 foot of leatlior than 400 foet of rubbor hoso. Complaint i# also beard that thoro is dolay, espacially durivg tho hight, in finding fre-signnl bosos and giving tho alarm by E]lnlpu whomight Riave diacoverod the firs ot itd Lrst iuception. Lo ‘meet this as far oy {nds&iblu, at or near each sig- unl-box thero should bo & stract-lump, glazed with o colorod glass, say abrightred. Thislamp would bo tho moavs for blocks of donoting the noarest sigual-box to give ths alarm from. By such a izl no detey wonld ocour, as was tho caso at tho firé which destroyed Lho promizes of Giles Bros. & Co., on Brato street. ‘The Netional Boatd justly take strong grounds AGAINST THLE LUMBER-YAUDS of Ohicago; aud, on (hia point, I fully indorus their remnrks when thoy say that A flro start- ing here, If not arrostod at once, would oon bo of such magnitado that human offort wonld bo powerless Lo stop it,” ‘lio Board urgas that the lumber-yards bo” romoved, and theu this source of dnngor to the city would b got rid of, ‘Thoy hayo not, howover, auggested a remedy, and for- got entiroly thatit would bo just ay nonsible tond- viae that the olovasors should bo romoved to New York, Neitiercould bo entortaiuod. Tholumber. intorests form an importaut braveh of evtnmerco, snd canuot be romovad, o quostion for ma to cousidor is, Cau tho danger bo bmu{;hb dowa to & faiv minimum? ‘Lo dothis, I would urgs on not only the ownora of tho lumbor, but the civit authovities, the necoseity of removing the many mills aud box-facturics that oxist in thoimmadl- ata vicluity. (It would'bo a decidod improve- ment to prohibit tho erootion of auy euch build- ing within_tho lumber-yardd, unicus they aro/ constructod of #olid masonry, 5o that, thould g fira oceur within them, it would bo beld thero, Sacl: buldiugs onght to bo not over Lwo stories in helghy, and with thick walls (18-inch), No opening shiould excood 10 foot, and thoy khould Lisve not legs thinu tho unme spave of masoury or brick bokweon eaoh iutorvening windaw or door, Lijromen conld by this monns dosl clogoly and diractly with the body of -firo in tho interior, Tho boiler-houss should Lo of slmilar matetial, disconneetod from tho imain siructuro, and vanlted over; tho chimney not to ba lost than 120 foet in_ Hoight, Aurmotnted by closs wiro serosns, No lumbor shonld bo piled closor to tho ostablighmont than 60 fnot, 1n oloso proxiu- ity to theto lnmbor-yards, tho dangor to my mind is groatly augmented by tho mum’mxt?l 1.";14 ‘estublishunents, Should a tiva evor nnu-lrm‘ ; to lumbor near ono of thowo, with a moderato amount of wind blowlug iu ita direct Joa i oan farasce tho amount-of losy of bs‘fi‘l oad proporty that would result for lmlux‘ aut. 1 como now to the city, or &t loast, ‘T3%, BUSINESS TONITON, The Tnsuranco Board of Underyeltors vom- hain that, whon o five docs afiur' H:m! e B 3’» liora iy, ‘comparatively sposking, wo sUvAze T'ay had roforonco oapocially to tho % e & o d you they inslst, ns ons of the & Co.'s fire; aud ¥ i ining, that huid- ccndlllonsafllmnunummnurm;‘al o el ook, itiga uliyll bo wocured by from shuitos B CE0h: 0";" ‘“,l'!’“ °“‘h°: ‘:.‘;’;g;;&:::fi:‘:u‘t:: continilo an able, 'I'ime doo! i dings aro ox- i int, eua it is, your buildings ar Eromobs Sty bt no higiior than In tho Oty of ‘unloss tha propor authorition deatine to improve thia Firo Dopartmant and water-snpply somowhat on tha principlos I have pinced Letoro you. o, | FING DEPARTMENT. TI politics haa boon tho causo of tho class of meh I oncountorad bolug put tn the Fita Delg- nido, Ienn point out moro thon ons_city in the United Statos whoro it would b a docided T~ pravedient ih adopting the syatom, 11buvo hover, inany park of tho Iuropean -Continont-or §n your “own -cottntry, -or tho Do- wminion of Cannds, mot a botter spocimon of what s demantled to make a'Dopartment eftiolont than I find in your diffarent fire-stationm, in «cleanliness, pliysiquo, and mizo. I should liko muth to binva lonrut that the cltizons of Chloage tako a dooper Intercst in thom, for tho mon'a porsonal coinfort, as it would add mueh to tha futuro protection of tho [mumentd “wealih theso mion are called on by might snd day to protoot, under tho sedrohingHunta roy in “midsummer, or tho coldest winiry nigbt, whoh tho thormomoter nb timos indicaios nintiy degroos belotr zord, It etilled y blood whon, iu conversation with some ot these tnon, Iloarnt that, during the lats winter, somo of thom had dono duty during a whole night at Tour ahd five divtinet flres, ench one occurring aftor thoy Lad turnod-in, Why, sir, I camo from & city whora I brivo, aud 80 hasovery man, fu that | -Dopartment had, to do tho sama thing, but un-: deor A vory differont utnto of circumatancos, 1f-| {ve roturhh from a’lira oh a cold night, and have | bean on duty over ouo hour, wo find tio mother- | 1y smita and kind wordy uttored tousby ouo or il more of {ita men's wivss, whio ate thers by ths warn stove,—the colfce-or-tea-kettlo boiling,— | and each man nceepa from bor, m from & min- | istoring angel, tho worm ‘enp tonderad, I hava Lkuown thiy repealddl four times {hsixteon howra, | o mon's wetxocks ara strowed nround Lo stove; | and, rottrn whon you ‘will, dey, whrm olothing in gura to bo_roady for esch. Tlow difforont are your tonl No'mattor-how cold or damp iu the | night, no cup of tes or coflee, To miniatoring | nangol, in onconntorod. Wotb nocks, frozen conts | or pants, must ngain bo put fn uno. Can it bs surprising that men will acoopt that cursed glass | of Yquor, by which thoy ara unmannet rud ven- darod incempotent to‘porform theic duty? THE NEXT DRAWDACK ) condiata in thint thero i3 no provislon mads for tho men'in easo of ‘regidont, 'or, it the event 0! donth, for tholr {amilios, I zm told they draw | Eny Quring o Lrief time of illnoss, 'Ilis yhiould 9 a%oted. Such men ouglit, at is 'the caso ) i some Drigades, to rocelye moro con-j sidoration, I~ have found dns case, 'wul || i3 1o drodit to ‘mmy _eity thut it exils : & man maimod for lifo byloss of his | nemin-dionarge-of Mia duly, loft noxe to want. In tho Moutroal Fire Depaftiont such & man would receive s penwion for lifo, and, in the event of death, bis witlow would receive 1,000 ; over bnd 'abovo all oxponso of ‘wicknoks, bus- | ‘ial, -otc. [ Attend to theso small but highly-important | mattors, and thdn elaim from tho men, in re- ! tarn, a faithfubdischargd of duty. Drili them | deily in chvisions, in n gymoasitm similar to | thoso of Iaris aud other Europenu citios, for two hours per day. It should also bo n part of | the daily duty for-n numbor of tiis mon to ox- | amine party’ of the hydrants (until tanks ‘nco | substituted), making o propar test na to ‘fliv pressure of water obtained therefrom, as woll au | to ascertain tha sizo of water pipes nuch pres-| surs is obtmnod from. Ono great objoct to bo obtained from thin would be to place tho engine on tho hydrant giving tho ‘greatest amount of watdr in a givon tims, slthonsh ‘it may ot to bo noarest to tho fire ; by thin moans, in & fow vears, all tho men would know not ouly whero to_fiad ‘tho bost hydrant, it would bo convoraant with its actunl condition and power. Tho Buigade can bo dailydotniled off for thin duty and kopt almost intack. 'The Brigado, a3 o Dody, shonid be driflod at least monthly foa gon- cral uso of the wholo apparatus, viz.: laying down and rooling u{: hose, conpling and uncoitp- ling when wator s on in force, orothermiss handling the lnddor Apparatun lu every manner and form. Ton,such drilled mon would be of more avail than donblo the number in your force. Thoy would, in this way, bo made to feal thoy woro more respectable and ‘moro respzotod than could pousibly be thoir position under tho presont. eystom, I horowith hand you a copy of tho DRILL OF TIE PARIS PINE DEPARTIENT. I liad tho privilege, some few years ago, of holn; prosent at o parade-drili of ths Parly foree, aud vil montion a fav of the feals norformed 3 and firat I mpy romark {hat tuo Parls Dapartmeut do ok carey nor re- quire to uss the loug, lnmbering, Jieavy ladders now wsed by tho Chleago Brigado,—light ropes wupplyiog their plscs, Alarge block of buildings similer to, but at least two staries Lilgh FIIK OIIOAUO TRIBUNE BUILDING, was supposad to Loon firs on one af the uppor flatn, atid tho inmaten, belng unabla to escape, hiad to sesl refugo on the roof. ‘o reach aud rescus those peopls withont Iadders, was o puzzlo to me, but the problom weo woon wolved, ‘At the third-slory windows wora small balconles ; this would bo ut a-heéight of about 35 feot from the ground, Une portion of tiis rigade was ordored to rascue the peoplo on {lie roof, anotiier pos- tion to ondearor to cxtingulals the firo, but uons wero 10 enter the bullding, x . Inn moment tho won comprising ‘the Tescue’ party formed themuolves uta n pyrainid shniiar to what may Lo seen at 2 circus, each man jumplng up and stand- dng on thie other's shoulders ofuct, until it was about 24 feot higl, Then o Nght ladder (uot 12 feot long, #ud which I afterwards Lell up on my fingor-ends) was paswod up; on the ewd of it wasa small hook, whiclt was eaught on tho batustrade, sud in a jiTy the opiost man of the pyranid ascended it. This wan no #0vler dono than tho pyramid of men SE3tured, Whilst tho man abovelet dowis & emali Fope, to which the mon bulow fustaned a ntrong Fops Maving knota i 1t at intervaly of soino 1'ipetics, to enable tie nieu Lo liava some foothold on aoicending, s ropo was drawn up and hookea on, when two nen ascondsd 1t hand over haud, aud {mmediately commenced tho acont of the next story, Whe man who made tho first aucent egain ron up the ladider to the fourtls story, and, standing on tho lutel, draw up the ‘ladder, passed down thie sumll cord, nud_drew up the rope, wlien up went the two men a4 before, Tho thirco mon niow aisiod o the window-sill; tho small Jadder was agaiu vaisod, and fts ond rested on the lntel, two uf tho men holding tha lower part with thelr feet, snd revching ns bigh za they could liokd the Indder' withy dhelr Lands sgainst the wall, This bolug dono, out Jumped the lighter man and taceuded tho nest win- dow, and ugain paascd down the cord for ‘the ladder aud ropo, When tho ollior two men moitnted as eforo, “lfa was repeated until they reached tho window just Delow the cooping or cornfco, Ty hook wan how Bunly hitclicd on the cornice, The two men Lavhig attachied thelr line to {he ladders and Lolding on sy bofore, ho light mau went out sud wa on the raol In o moment, when _down came "his dluo. Who other rops wus ‘drawn up, mado fast, and tho oflier two men followed, Each of thoo ou'had ronud hin walst strong beity two of thom haviug ‘o enaj~spriug, whilst the third, tho lightest mau, liud & strong ring in bis baits to this one of the men hitched his 1nap-spring, and, putthiz tho Inun off his feet and allowling m 10 daugle Lelys loaaly by the wafst, Inmediately” began to descond tu unconcerueilly as if Ls Wy on tha atret, o hatl no sooner Teachied terrs firm than o comrade wag' dis- patciied for tha othor tost, who was brought down in o aimilar manner, ‘Ihis whole yorformanco (a8 far na T enn recolloct) U Kot taks over five winutes. Tuts done, 2 man ens terod a bulling on the opposite aido of the'strcet, and from the roof of it let down i smult lino, sud drew up the end of tho'strong rops that waa fastoncl 1o the foof of (o othier bufiding; Do drew it {ght, fastoning it to n Led-post, Tus rope wag nov stretelied acrozs tha street from roof to roof, at a Lieight of 60 or 70'feot, Suveral don passod haud vor Tinud along this Tope fo the other buflaing, Awlnging in tho airlike 6o mauy monkeys. No suoner wors all accosz than the end wag let down to the grouud, and thio wholo party descomled,—overy othor wuan Living ouo on his back ; sluply bolding on, without auy L-Uelt or fasteniag: of any kind, omarkod to the ofilcor iy ehargo that T would liko to see kow Jto wrould rescito in tho evans of tho buflu= dng in quostion beiug ‘very much on tiee, sl anoke and flaues forciug out of tho windows, 'iia-snswer Aran yoon given aud fully fllustrated, ho udjoiutug Luiliting would be voalod, and from it thu yesuue would Do offecter, g ordereil’ tha forco ton bulldiug that Yras two stotles lower lan the one supposed to Lo on fire sd)olniug, Tho mon mounted s betors do- seelbod, il {hioy stood -on ‘tho ridge of the other bullding, Tatoukd s1y abott 20 feut bighor thaw tho ons oin which thoy ataod, 1t waa & dnd gable nost to them, Tha light tadder oneo more came ‘ut play ; it vt placed wlrifylt p aguduet L il md aiighty compactly-butlt Tetlo Eronelnyan -mountal £'thy tops mout Tunig, Whon Lis comraile bolow mooped dowa, sud by elivor strensth, graping the Jower part of (ho Iaddor, gradnelly Falusd -§t watil o got it full arina lengtl'above hin head. Phe man onthe top of tho Luiler, atanding siraiight up, canghy the top of the all, aud, by whioue tronzth “of ntuselu of ari, drew Blnaell Up b the top of the wail, In & moment ho Wai on tho rhof, and-dowis came hte il card for the X0, When this non oncs more mounted to L6 roof, "Tlie munguvros explalned with roferance {o tho'zdse cua party woro appiiod in like manner to tho dotach- anent ditatled {o-extinguish tho tivo, until the Leavy Kuatted rope wau made {23t to un opposite window. hly dono, the brauehman commenced toascend, 10 tovk with itin a pleco of fiat board about 33 feot long, 4 fuches broxd, und 14neh {hick, having at each eud & Tors, about 3 feol oy faslonid Lo tho looes enils of hiesp 'ropes waw ppiled ou fron ook, Whon the s b qrwis BOIC up Lo Ll gt (o donnaraid ke Windowe, ho fixed the ook to the kuot an tua ol Toj, 50 liut It foruwiaid a,defangie, (s voollen slsh b 3 At the bottom, On {his wooden base ho el and paseod dowa hin Nao for the Liose, which Lo drow ups e, taling Lis branchpips (which was only sotne 12 luchies loug) from iy bac 10 1t Wio sivapyot, o fixed it oit nnad way resdy to operato, 1118 feol resting agatuat tho woll enabfod im to niabuyre Buuch otter thau our e oan do on thulr larie, cunse Drons fadtlors, I ounld ooupy spaco for mevoral letters in de- Boriplion of the varlous movements porformod on thaut ocension, but T thing they sufitvons bas ‘Lman #aid to wareant the publio m belisving that drilled Tmen nra. praforable, whathor wanted to rotietio individualy or pot, fL'ynn that ho Pom- vell ny X 4, of thotwo, from a fire as wal fl:‘l'ngl.:;:‘&;;‘iwblm of 3{,‘3;"';:. aro Z‘:h(llixl;\(,g hl.lxfihx.\ll;'; sard roof ftho oxo g, ebd th ¢ Your atrootd are doublo tha m":“:fi"nfmu‘i‘f- the :1““’“};;5:11: g;rtl n:a:‘l:& ?.:‘(::: city, 1'rom (hoe undeniul B Toaniind s ¢ there ju eny roason Why ffi‘.’fifiu"fi.fifl’:‘a fool alurmod at Lho prosout tlwo, Jlors do Pariy aro a milltary body, but ufcor ull hey ars ouly mou ; nnd thero is no reaon why your men, i posscening oqual utaming and wuk- elo, could not ho drilled to MIE BAME STATE OF PERIEOTION, ‘Thoy hiavo always plonty of time on_ band for Janglug abont on honches \\'nmng for nn alorm, wnd “wasting thoir musclo In idlenoms. Onvu - drilled In thiy way, thny would tsko o pride in kaoping it up to " porfection, wnd recover from the dobawoment naturally producod by tho ns- ture of tho duties hithorto hnl]mnml pon them, .y L hevo endeavored to inenicato the bellof in U ponalbllity, ‘a3 woll nis “In ‘Lis bholito hirces-" aity, 1o obtain thin porfection ; but, in ordor to obiain It, no imbocllos, drunkatds, or deformod man-ahould outor orbo rotaioi il the force, It | {u thorofora tha tnora requisiso that they showld have tha proper 'nppnnmm, ‘s woll 83 1o bo thoroughly “drilled in the wno.of it. The men could avory day ‘devoto movernl hours to Prag- ticiug » systom of gymnaatics, Tha city, on ity ‘part, shonld ‘mwvhlu thom With tho Tesetsney anms auda guitablo placo whoroln to drill, ‘ouhnye fires to combnt ‘aud contond Ryaitist, and to-dslll"tho ‘mon Lo do it iewu 'trporstiv uty. o In‘eoncluston, I'would rerql 'th Stbject in of 6o miuclt intorot th. | A e}‘r‘«‘:‘m‘?u]; lifa-lang conuection with tho Fira Dopartmont of the City of Montrenl, and my pernonal Teolingn ate 5o bound up fu'tho causo, that I could wige on tho gubjoct st much greator longth; but I fool thint L hnvo too longz treapassed an your Ynueucn. end rilt oloso "by trasting that your lira. Dopartmant tay recoive ‘fustico nr tho Lands of your pooplo, zud that Cliicago may yot rino suparior to all Lok troubles. Your obedfent servaut, AvLFRun PERRY, Genotal Henagor Royal Canndian Tusuranco Compmhy, ———— TIE COURTS. Eedord 61 L sincys Transadted Yese teriiny. THE GREAT WESTERN TELEGRATI COMPANY, A motion was made ifu tho case of J. I. Lon- nolt of al. agaiust tho Great Wedtern Tolegraph Compuny yesterdsy mbrning, to havo'n Recolyver appotuted, - A fowmonths ago J. I. Bonuott, J. M. W. Jonos, and a fow others, stockLolders, filod a bill allsging that tho’Company waslieavily embariassod, and atking-that o Receivor be ap- pointed. No notlco,however, was givon of the liling "of the bill ‘nor cervico mado, and Judgga ‘Willinms ordered yosterday that tho dofondants should bo-allowod until Tuesday to filo nuswars. ‘'he malter was tlioroupon adjournod until thon. TS, Tho.petition for dower of Sarah J, Camphell ‘agningl, Honry 11, Tindil and otliors was dismissod | yestorday, as against about 1itteon defondantaof Will Ceunty, formegloct in ‘fimg socurity for costs, Dintrlct-Attotnsy ‘Glover, ‘on behalf of ‘tho Unitotl Btatos, asked lonvo to restore tho billain thocaso of tho Unlted Biates vs. tho City of Chicngo, tho Iltinoia Ceniral Rallrond Company, otal, Lho papers, ‘togother with ‘#ha record of the injunction, woro deatroyed in tho great firo. ‘Lhis wos a'bill to sustdin Eho city from eolling the ‘likio ‘front to tho Ilfinois Centrdl Neilrond ' aud othor compsnios, and nn iujunction was granted by Judge Drummond, UNITED ‘SIATES COURTS. Tho Goollycar Dentul Valcanite Company flled ‘Dilts for'tufringoment ol pntont agalust thie fol- lowing dontists: N. “H Marvin, of Pontizc; J. D, Murphy, of Abiuadon, Kuox County W Allon, of dfaquon; D. I Swengel, of L'rapport; Detor Yzn Palt, of Maquon; and Josso 8. Poses bersy, of Richland Grave. VANENUPICY ITEME, Chostor F. ITall and Mosos Bartlolt, carringn manufacturors, iu Rockford, filed & voluntary petition 4o bo edjuliged bankraptey, Their lisbliities aro mottly duo for gabds bought, aud nmount to” abouk 814,000, 'Iho wmount due the Second Nationsl Dank of Tockford, i3 §23000, and thero 18 duo 815,000 to'tho Winvebaxo Kationnl Dauk, and 813,000 to the Poople’s Bavings Bank, all of which cluiton are unsogured, "Thotr arsats con- pist of merchinudino, $24,811.48 ; maunufactureld articles, $41,727.60; tools and fixturos, $10,627.~ 23 articles partly manufactured, otc., #6,000; bills recoivable, “927,250.63, ote., amounting in all to Q;llill.'l-fl.lb‘ Q. I°, Halt's individual ligbit~ ities ara 15,600, and hig assots nothing., The 0a8p wen Toferred to tho Register, aud Miram W. Carpenter and R, L. Joukiog “appointed -proviu- ional Assignoes, tho ons for Rovkford, the other for this city, whoro the baunkrupts havo wave- roows, BUTLRIOR COURT 1N BMEF, Johu A, Cultén commonced a ‘sult in debt sguinst ‘A, T, Doty'aud D.-J, Wron, laying deme ages at £2,000, 2 11, 8, and Frank 8.‘Osborna :6hnd €ho North Qlicago Rolllng-Mill Company, laying damages 0b'95,000, 2 John G. Campbell commenced "an ‘action ‘Tn trospass agaiust Bointuel Dory, Michzol ‘Doran, Willina Leuner, G. A, Iartman, and David Walsh, laying dainsgos af 5,000, * CIGCUIT COURT, Jutius Ntogenthal, administrator of the estato of Matthew Fox, began suiy for £1,500 ageingt Frauk Pavmales, - Mario totlibach, for horeolf ‘and ns. guardian of Iredoviok Likman et al, commonoed -on ection againus tho Browors® Fire Tnaurance Com- pany, claiming $2,600, and suother egainst tha ame compairy for81,200, THE 0ALG, Jupax Boorn—26, 27, 20 to 35, 36 to 45. Jupor Tnus—15 Lo 23, except 19,41, 93, and 26, JUDUNENTS, 8urenion Cornt—Cunpraitons—Kari Kundron va, Martha Olven, $353.10, Jolin Kuatka ve, Johu Morava aull Mary Morava, $302.09, CHiouiT COURT—CuNrEsstons—Willlam IMitzmann ¥3. Friodrlg Hau $74.00, J. B, Bause ve, Philip ennomann, $150.00, Junug BooT(—Chatles Hull wvn, Bartliolomer Tates; verdiot $130, und motion for now iri; SUPNENE COURT OF ILLINOIS, NORTIELRN ORAND DIVISION, Special_Diapateh to The 'Chiczao Tribuns, * O1TAWA, 1Il., Sopt.’ 80,—The Suprome ‘Court mot ¢ Y o'elock this morning, I'rovent, tho on- tire Lench, 201, ‘Clileago, Danville & Vinconnen Baflroad Com- pany ebel. va. Traucly Goyor. Tlio.cago is In prozces of sottlenieut, and for thy ucoommodation of tho tacedat ho foot of ,ihe docot, Hekiioba- 1 Barringer 0 Doard of Tiustecn of tho of Lako View, Walker, Calof ‘Justice, sald, in subytance: This Is 3 mandsmus {0 compel tho Trustees of the ‘Tdwu of Lke Viow 'to fsnun 1o him'a lieenso {0 aell Lyuor, ifs furuislies un_oilidayit that ho in 3 man of good morsl churater, and hau for somns yeurs-opt un orderly saloots, Ho hus tendlerad tho Town Wrustees il proper licouse monuy, nnd bouil, ete, bu 5, E they 10fuso o ssuo u 'lcensn, Lhers’ls & question” dn iy cass whelher we have proper Jurdsdiclion - in cites of mandamue, 1t 83 true fat'the Coustitution‘gives us igonernl power In eanca of mandainits, it tho ktitils of 1474 nowhors nentlouy the Buproo Court in'{he mendnuius chap-. ter, and wo ‘are lofb \ItlGUt tho propur meaus of get. tinirbéfore s tho'evidunde ipon Which 1o ‘liase such' writ, Tt a u zule that courls will not caczeo a-yacty to du sivact which the Isw msies only dlscrotionary With him, Clting a New York casc, tie winjorlty of this Cotirt liive coritlided to douy this wilt, and'tho caso 18 strleken frons Wo'dockst, s loTIONs, 110, 699, ‘Bteplienzon Hydraullo Gompany'vs, Melnteo, Apreil disised ; 10 daniagos, 57, Seanlon va, Llawoll,~ Appeal dismissed for wans of prosecutlon, with's por con: dumages, 63, Huir ¥3. Wolcott & Blulth, -Appial dismtessd § 5 por cent damages, uuu,u Dunn vi, Ilescll. Appeal dismissed; 5 per anison. William 1, ‘Godfrey 6t al, ‘vs, Froforick A, Frooinan, “Hlotlon aul uilpulativh 16 contlune 3y owe. 141, Conrad Schuell v, Henry J, Clementa and T, 11, Eiiickson. Blativn und'snldevit By appotive for oze sefalon of tias to Ao briat sud aa(raois, Mr, Uarvey submittod au_spplication of Corsdon Weed for adiniseion 1o the Jar'on uTorelgy locuss, 176, Jecow Albracht va, Mary L, Walker, Mation for fivo days’ addioaal tiwe o0 supplemental wgie cout i mend, ‘533, John Lowman, fwpleadod, ete,, vn, Mavgaret Aubroy suil Woaloy B, “Harvey, Bdmiulotiuiors, Motion for order on Olork of Court buluty Lo certlzy orlgiugl nole, Mation overrulad, G5J, itood s, O, O, & T.R. V. R T Oo. Mollon for lvava 4o B0 wdditlonal et ct, CALL ot 100k 281, Wilitin Forbis va, lleury Lilonselfor, Talron il, , Arthur Pritelerd va, Martin Daly, Taken on el ‘241, Sumuel O, Orr, Implsaded, va, E. B, Ward, aicens, on vall, xud oral arguagut, ‘231, Georgo L, Bilbravk " va, VWilllam 8, Caoper ot al, ken on call, T‘:J:i:i? ":‘h: Gowan {Lhrblu Company vs, Robozt Tar- pp ot al, va, Jolin T, ‘Olaske-of al, aken ou eall, o id-uried orally by Pullor, 247, Cliatles 8, Cloaver V4. James L. Wobator, “Cakon ou eall, 343, Gaorg¥\V, Oatnoy v, Thoinas Tully, Taken o call, » oujamin Lombard va, Olicago Blnnd Oongrogse aken on eall, . Barnard A, Blampofikl vs, A. A, Slaffons, paken oueall, 51, O, D, & Y, I, D Co, otal, va. Francla Ooyer, ‘1 at fudt ¢f dockut, s on eall, )I' & I, 1. B, T, Co, va, Jacob Duret, Contluucd vice, R, .1, I, Go, vs, James 3, Rice, Takon - W.“P. & B, L I, ve, Georgo McClenchan, Taken u ou call, ve, Robert Miteholl, Taken on cull, oW, LR v Bonos dolmaon, Taken 1, 233, Lphrabm Mavsall va, A, B, lvicy, Tuken on o all, U4, Jobn 17, Morgs et al, va, Lourinda D, Swity, akon ou eall, ‘400, Khner Hoearlo va, Janies L, Galbrajth, Takouoa +hoto oxorofves, und wonld Lo much botlor em- ployod in guttiug up sach u duill than in lnzaly call, Adjournod uutil to-morrow at 9 a, 1, IACK STURGES, e His Last Grand Operation in Cora. ‘Gefilug Tils Tévongo on Thogo Wik Failed to'Bétlie Last Sulys Wrath of the Tricked Onos, * Jack ¥ Sturgén was in his eloment ‘again yestorday, setting tho Donrd of frado fn an upa roar, ! Juo? " must bo sensational, Tho quiet flow df'trade’liaa no'cherms for hizy. ITo muok mako'thy eurraift'boll and ronr, and ho-dolighty £o aco unhappy speclators squirm and squonly liko -tlwid -nilco m tlia clutch of a‘musontiar-ont, Ar, Bigrges ovidently likos notorioty, snd hug inan «panio ‘has charms for his-broast-that go; conjurory dream not.of. ** Jack " gotterally hoe Comigs un fniportant man on the last day of oy cry month, His black muatache s tho flng of danger to many, and lis_toréno, good-lumored face 18 as much of o terror totho notvous tredor 88 the countenanco of &-composod, doterminod Bliorlir i to tho party condomned to hang, It will ‘bo ‘romombored ‘that - Nir. “Sturgon figured largely-In THE ! connEn™ oF AT JULY, when'ho eamo ‘s peat trick on'his fcllows by glving thom, undor commoreial ‘rules, about twa minutos to miko tholr dolivories,'mast ‘of which wero, Gf couttse, nover mado, Tor tlio roason'tliab H..\ma n‘nhyn.icnl imposuibllity to mako thom. | Bomo'600;000 bushels df “corn remained un- L}nlivorm} in that deal, giving an aggrogato of sibout $148;000 in‘unsotiled difforanocs, reckonod from tho busis of 63 conts por 'busho), nccording to tho declsion‘of tho “Arbitration Committeo'of tho nvm‘d,qr Trado, by which ngreemont tho lockell-out ‘traders rofuscd to stand. Thig saukied inthe mind of **Jncls," aud bo rosolyod, 83 o 8050 bimsolf, to bo * ‘EVEN WITI 4118 DRDTORS, Having this object In viow, ‘ho ‘appenced on 'Chanye yostordny, ‘and commenced operations, Tho market for cash corn ‘openednt 81 conts, wlten Blargobwent In aall nold 25,000 bushals of 7934, 25,000 8t 70 cority, and, wibieguontly, 10,000 Dbusbelsut 7934, ‘aud 10,0002 79 douts, This ‘wnl sl wicll encugh, but bo criod out that hio was willing Lo acll 109,000 bushols at 70 conts, A gentleman on tho Board uuderstood him to cay *at7,” which would Luve mennt 77 cenls, and took hira up. - Other partios standing by thought ihat Sturges hnd mado -a verbnl mlstake, buc when thoy looked on tha card “in s hrnd they a7 that Lo bad pubit-down'at 70. ‘All'thon ug~ derstood hat ho meant Luinioyn, LT cinlly when ho proccedod to ‘moll pomo 400,000'bushels nt'tho simo rico, a gront deal of whicl peoplo standing aroind thought was BOLD TO IS OWI BHORERS, In support of thie it Is nssértod that iha offer mado by ono gentleman, who attempta to buy &t 70 contk, was disrogarded, nnd that tho sala way transferred to & man well known as being ono of {he Sturges brokers, Uaving tranacctod afl this business, 3 Starges left'tho Imll and tho mutltotsettled down to 80 cente,~smalluales atfrom 79 to 81 conts hinving boon 'mado By otlier *partles ‘dhring tha time Sturgen ‘was sclling 't 70 ‘conts, Sitso. quently **Jnck” rotnrned to tlio Lozrd and sold o lols of 25,000 Luhols ench ot 60 conts, which produced somio consternation, nftbr which tho Aot prico wwont back to fivsi principles, Alr. Hayes izt tnrned his wrkoition to 71080 cash eslet wara ot 435¢ epats, To off fojsoll 200000 Liwhalo ot 41 caat ok aken, andl ‘ho ‘aftorwords sold 100,000 bushols 8¢ 40 conta, 0 This ended hin operatioun for the day, but whon 3 o'dlogls ckmo, muny of ‘tho parties who were *long" were ratler takon abnck ‘ot not secing Mr. Hayea mako dolivory, In poiut of Tact, mone of ‘tho * ellor-tho-movth” corn wau Qelivared atall, and thore was waoping and wite ing n‘n\lx;[,'nnullli\lg o commerefal tooth avound and in the Doard of Trade Building. rybod; onid that it wos ey ONE o¥ *‘JACK's" oLD vODGES, o ws3'th front” of 'tho wifair, thoy avarred, Dt thoro wero obhers bohind him'In tho ** doal,” “+Jack " walked cooly sround, and_mado no sign to tho muliitude, ‘but mdulged in soveral oly winks mud private 'nonfnbs with his friends. Most of the Doaril of ‘'rado 1neu zsomod to ngreo that nobody way serionsly hurt, but that that the tinsaction was not likoly to lucreasa tho intluence of *“Jack" Bturges on 'Change, One dlsgusted_gontloman, HIr. ‘Chndwiok, ox- claimed, **By Jovo! our charter ought to ho xor volicd. Our Buard of I'rnde i o huwmbug, and no man s safo iu trading here undor dts rules.” Tho opiilon -of 3r, Chads wick was cohood by severul othora, Mr, Fravk ‘C. ‘Alitcholl ‘sald that things had takon a rather curious tury, but that nothing soribus would como of it, T did uat bolievs that miore than 800,000 bushols'of corn remained undelivored. If anybody was burt by it, it way *dnack” Bturges himeolf. Ilo might call the tjxi):lg gmart, but ko could wot ses it in tha} izght. 0. ONARLES 3. TREGA, of ‘the firm df Gilbert & Broga, eaid that thel houso had bought 25,000 bushols, at 79 cents, from Sturgos, which had not been delivered, He conld not res anything & bit bright in the whole altair, 'That was no way to do business, and protond to bs honorable. It was a disgrace to Chicugo. 1fo hnd boupl:t in good faith, and explf‘r:tu‘ to'havo ‘the corn dclivared iu tho samag apult, THE REDOURTARLE “‘JACK" Limnelf was ulno interviowod. Ho said: ** Thero’s nothing to the wholo arrangement, only this : Thoso pacties have not delivored 500, 000 bushels of July corn which thoy sold to ma, I thouglit I'd'bo evon with thom Dy allowing all “sollork-thie-month " corn to go by dofault,—500,- 000 bushels in oll. Any cash corn thut waa ‘gold hos been'dolivered and paid for. There yere about 700,000 bushols of that."” R.—So you eamo this gamo on tho *“boya" by way of roprigal? Mr, Sturgos—Thnt's whoro Titahd. X'l sottla with thom when thoy sottlo with mo. This buy« ingia to-morrow, undor tho rules, is all gam- mon, T¢is legal according to Board of Trade arrangementy, but tho common lnw overrides it, * I stand by the commen law,” coucluded Jack, witl & vigorous pull at his mustactio, AL thig point 2. JOUN I, LYON, of Tiyon & Licster, approachod, and said: Juck, yon don't DLoliove that T hove any. thiny to do with this deal?” *Jack " raplied, vory Lluntly, **T bellove you havo,” and tho gray-baired” corner votoran walied away. “Jack " thon eaid to the roporte: * Lyon wantod to i;at wo there, but bo coukdu't, I bo- lieve it will turn out In the long-ruu to bs hun- eolf and Comstook, Thoy'ra ‘lolding on to somothing, you bot, and you'll hear from 'them again befors long, " ‘Lho 4 o'clock-gong soundod ok {his momont, aud tho nll was cleared, On the street thers was no Tictle the nfluir, Lut most peoplo amd, * of ¢ Jnoics" trioke, noiso about "Lis ouly oue ond won's count -for wiueh,” ——— Kingaford's Staroh. ANALTTICAL LABORATORY, BURGEON'S TTATK, Epixugid, 20th July, 1674, } **1 havo mado a earcfl chemical analysis of Klngs ford's Oswego Propared (or Corn) Btarels Landed 0 e Ly 3, I, O, Gaupin, sgont, Now York, sud find such tabio of tho finest und boat description, sud whon pro- pured according to tho directions, with milk, sto,, ta bo-an excellout ariiclo of diet, It s fully equal in chemieal and foadlug propertios ta the bast nyrow ol SrEvENsON MACADAN, Th, D, ote, Locturer u Chemistzy, Oi1 Paintingo. > “ho collozifon of ofl patutiugs vidch will bo sold thiz (Lhureday) movaing, ut tho auction sooms of Wililaia A, Buttors & Oo,, 103 Bast Madieon “strect, will come para‘favorably with tho many [43ures that have boey Zorced upon the Oblengo markot tha last fow montha, As thls entive Jot naverticed Wil bo sold without ree serve, thoso who havo a doaito to dozorato tholr homet willy pltures in ofl skonld ecomo compotitors at'thty crent venduo of 200 puintinge. . e e Clickering Squazre CGrand Pianos, Txtra parlor planos, All tho latest dmyprovements, Warrantiit o ploaso, or mouey refunded, Rouils Tomplo of Miicle, 03 Van Buren stroet, SR —Tlho IT, C, Dibble who figuroaso prominoutly in tho Loutsiuna troubley ‘way yulsed at Dalphi, é]uu.. and H;v:ll;!d ot Nulw‘] On‘-lomxtdnt tho clolinA?lf ho war, e is nov ‘¢ Judpe-Advocato aud Ad- Jutuut of the Blate Mmtln.'F