Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 6, 1879, Page 1

. VOLUME XXXIX. MONDAY. JANUARY WATCHES AND JEWELRY, The Last Call. The oxcitement caused by the burn- ing of the Post-Office is only ox- coeded by tho Groat Closing-Out | Sale of one of our oldest Whole- sale Jewolers, You can buy ‘Watoches, Jewolry, and Plated- ‘Ware positively for loss than half the ususl prices, and first-class Goods at that, Everything war- rented. John G. Ashleman, 157 State-st. BLANK BOOKS, Kic. SRS ) Blank-Book Making, Lithographing, Printing, Stationery. CULVER, PAGE, HOYNE &G0, 118 & 120 Monroe-st. T ATE, M % TheChicag(;Stamping(}o. 10, 12 & 14 Lake-st, IMPORTERS OF TINPLATEEMETAL, MANUFACTURERS OF‘ Stamped and Japanned Tinware, Grocers’ Caddies and Druggists’ Boxes. Galvanizing and Tinning a Specially. ARTISTIO TAILORING, BISCOUNT On all Garmenta Ondered of us in January, 187 Standard the Highest. . EDWARD ELY & C0., Tailors, 163 and 165 Wabash-av., corer Monroe-st. ilfiw:fl'lfigm\x‘.'h STaLn ¥, KINK TALCOTT, } Assoclate WRIGHT, A. M., § Principals. 1aco their sons in s combined with discipl & Christian hume chool before send- vxt term beging Jan. . of the als will bo atihe clty oMce. ltoom 13 Rcihodiat_ Church Dlock, Cliteago, every day during vacatlon from 2 (0 3 . i, Ualluf send for cataloguo acity ofco or at Morgan Fark, Couk Co., 1N, RACINE COLLEGE - Wil reo) Colley CALT. HENE Tarents yeiring thoruugh eduestion sud the coinforia and nriviinges o y fnv! sre ing glsownere. n Jan, 16, to cogtinue to June 8. Ths cludes a Neboolof Leiters and & Scientifio Hehool, Thers ia also & Uraininar 1, which pree * pates boys for collews or busin gh (ntellect- uai training Is combined with trae discipline, religionn and ulgn culture. Boys from 10 yeard gid and rds are received In the Grammar Behool. Bpecial s taken of tho younier buys by the Matrons, For Catalogues aud other information apply to the Fov, JAMES DE KOVEN, D.D., Racine. Wis,_ -PENNSTLVANIA MILITARY ACADET, ™ Chester, Pa. atructton fn Clvll For circulara T, Vrestdent, Bewsion of Eusineer! 2opiy o Eat iy A by N bt nd F. . L ULfi'M KO, HY NTAIXCHL, ERKENBRECHER'S Bon-Ton Starch 1s absolutely odorless, and Chemi- oally Puro. It'ia snowflake white, It is suscoptiblo of the highest and most lasting Polish. It posscssos groater strongth of body than other trado brands, .It 18 _pnoked in Pound Parcels, Full Weight guaranteed, It costs less monoy Starch in the World, Itis manufactured in the heart of galo greatest coroal rogion of the obe. It is Sold universally in Ameorioa h§ Grooors and Dealers. ._‘Its annual consumption reaches Twenty-Million Pounds, "ANDREW ERKENBRECHER, CINCINNATI, g Evhendrocher's World-Famoua Corn-Siarch for Food. FAYOR & INALRN, Bole NorthwesturnAgenta. Lhicago, than any TO RENT. No. 254 East Madison-st. (Poasession Jan, 1), opposite Fiold, Leiter & Wholesaio 8tore. o Inguire at BILVERMAN'S BANK. GENERAL NOTICES, NOTICH. Orrica o ¥uy Cox % W. 24, 'fli(‘o’:l‘u.‘h h:r:hl Biven l‘:' 8 fustibe g Snust bo preacatsd L0 Janer b Yioutn ‘;:flur.'ll‘hl:nlcum ""Tfi."‘x with Jiue, leaal Broot a mo0iba from 1 wili b dnaliowed. KT NO.J. Camptrofler ot the Curraucy. BOAY, . OUR SEIN SOAP equals . any Tailet Soap; washes i) % hard waterj Eunnn mué or,shappedakin, BILEA A Al_GHNT & 00., 135 Btate-st. ; NCALES. FAIRBANKS' STANDAMD s, FAIRBANKS, MORSE & 00, 111& 118 Lake St., Chicuga, Bacarefultobay oaly the Genulas, Our Unincky. Post-Office .Com- And Takes _Stlrrlng Scenes at the Burn- Loss on Building and Gen, Sheridan Compelled to Beat The Fire Started in the Car- Conditlon of the Edifice Yester. HONORE. The Block that Bore His Name Very Badly Scorched. pelled to Make Its Third . Move. Up Temporary Quarters in the Singer Building, ing Building --- Hair- breadth Escapes. Contents About $118,000. a Retreat Before the Flames. penter-Shop and Ran Up. day--It Will Be fmme- diately Roebuilt. The Post-Oice Peopls in Good Work- the most destructive conflagration which has heppened since the burning of Fleld & Leiter's storo in the winter of 1877, Tho scene was the Honore Block, on the west side of Deachorn ing Order—How They Are Arranged. THE ITONORE DBLOCK. . ‘This city visited Baturday afternoon by stroet, extending nortli from tho corner of Ad- ams. erected by Mr. Henry LI, Honore prior to the ‘This buliding stood on the site ol . one firo of 1871, the money cxpended $n its con- structlon, $300,000, having been borrowed from the Connecticut Mutual - Life-Insurance Com- pany. In 1872 it was robullt, the intention be- ing to make of It & Kuropean hotel with & capac- ity of 200 roonts. Mr. Ilonors borrowed $100,- 000 more from tho . Connecticut Mutusl and cxpended, fu sddition, on' the mow struct- ture' $150,000 of his - own, partly represented by land which was traded off td tha coulractacs, Owing to the panle gf 1878, Lie was, howevor, unable to, Bnish it. Durlng 1677 it passed Into the hands of the mortgage-nolder, to whotn Mr. Honore then owed for principal, interest, taxes, and court costs, $5§0,000. The fnsurance com- pauy bid it In at the sale for $500,000. It re- mained on thelr hands o dead weight untll the spring of last year, when the approaching com- pletion of the Government Bullding opposite began to give'it a value, Thov oxpended last year $50,000 in it improvement, it having been left by Mr. Honoro in a very incomplete condl- tlon. Tinmedlately alter the ficc of 1874, the Post- Oftice, which was burned outof the clurch which it bad occuplod on the corner of Wabash avenuq und Iarrison atreet, moved into the basement and the army hea ound floor, After the refittiog uarters were removed Lhere, occupylog a Jittle over one floor; the Chicago & Alton hind its maln office of law flrms, including hore, and a number am & Livcoln and Lawrcuce. Campbell & Lawronce, bired oftices there, ‘The productive value of the bulldiog was, with oll these occupants, 82 50,000 o your, ‘The deatruction of thls building pecessitated the third removal on the part of the Post-Otlive, which left the Government building in the firs of 1471, the Wabash avenun church in July ol 1974, and the Honore Block Satuntay afteruoon, It hos taken up- tempor: quarters in the Al Blnger Bullding, corner of S{llu and Washiog- ton atreets, Tho Chicugo& Alton hina returned to it quarters on West Van Buren street, near Caonl, and tho army headquartevs arc at the Palmer Honne. fully by insurance of 8200, ‘Fhe loss on the bullding s $100,000, covercd 000, Operations will be began at once to repair the structure, and 1t 18 hoped to have it o readiness for occupation within three wonths, abloos was_ at flrst expected, amount to $15,000, on which, ‘Thie losscs of the tenants wero not as consider- sud will hardly 'mmuvur, there is no [nsurance, A detailed account of tho fire ftself, of the da- struction t wrought, and of the steps which will bs taken to remedy is glven betow, THE FIRST ALARM, The first futimation of the fire reccived at the fire-nlarm office was from & half-grown boy, who rushed in mod said: “Firo fo tho Post- Oftice." Alinost at the same moment boxes No. 43, corner Mooroe and Dearborn strects, and No. 47, coruer of Adams snd Clark strects, wero turned {u,—one at B! 8:3. The young man, whose uamo is Michael Nugent, was employed lo the distributiug de- ond tho other at partinent of tho Post-Oftice, and had been sent by the head of the department, Mr. Vierling, to give the slarm. A string with o key at either end was glven blin. Que of the keys fitted the ‘re-nlarm box No, 47, aud the other some door inthe bullding. Unfortunately, the youth got hotd of the lut~ ter, and tricd to opeu the - signal-station door with it, Of course he couldn't do so, but he perslsted {n the attempt, {t never occurnug to bim, in his excitement, that. the other oue might fit, aod, after five minutes of valu effort, ho concluded to run to the ceotral oflice, about a block distant, snd tell the operators. ‘The Pire-Insurance Patrol got an alarm on the me- chanlcal telegraph, and wers the firet to reach the scene, one of the men turniog in Box .No, 44, Before the first relay of eogines arrived— Nos. 1, 8, 10, 11, 13, 21, with trucks 1, 3, and G—smoke was {ssuing from the roof, though there was'spparently no fire botween It aud the basement, from the Adsms street entrance, to which a vaat voluno of smoko was pouriog out. As the structure was five storics in beight, with a Mansard roof 25 feet hlgh,— the Iatter belug bovoud the reach of & groyud stream,—Asaistant-barshal Bhoy saw at a glance that more help was uoeded, and at 8:40 sent in & combiued second snd third. This brouzhit on the grouna engines Noa. 6, 7,8, 9, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 28, 25, and 97, and trucks 3 and 4. Later (at 4:50), Noa. 19, 8 90, 23, 20, and 20 wero ordered dewn by Chlsf Beoner. This mado tweaty-four steamners and five trucks, all of which were at work by B o'clock, sdd’ most of them were o duty tho greater part of the evenlog. As near as can be ascertained, tho fira broke ont in the bascment near the boller, and spread thence luto the carpooter-shop. A steam-fitier named Harry Odcobaugh ran up-gtairs shoutiog fire to slarin the occupantsof tho different rooms. In & very few mliuutes, however, the smoke was 50 dense in fhe ballways that escape [\ 1 by the stairways was cut off, and sbout twenty people, mostly women employed in sho bag-re- palring room, experfenced considerable difficulty fo getting out of the upper storfes. All, hos- ever, were rescued. employea of the Post-Office, but not before thora in the money-order ofiice and stamp de- partments liad put thele books, papers, moncy, etc., Into the vanits, The men In the west wing had.to ron for tuelr lives, this portfon, though separated from the maln buflding by s court, filllng so rapldly with smoke that they could not save anything, Tho firemen, how- cver, went In and holste smioke belng driven out by the wind, the em- ployes went to work witha will and In o very short Ume had all the mail in the strect, whence it was carried to the American Express Build- Ing_aud other places {n tho vicinity. into the storawe rooms, and reached through the clevators in the south end of the builaing. No particnlar biaze was noticed in the hasement at sll, the shavings, paper, and wood-work gveininz to be smoked to pleces. Along toward 4 o’clock the roof beuan to laze, first in ono part and then in adother. Everv faw minutes large plcces ol corrue: simber woulld tumble to the sidewalk. The re- markablu tetallic fgure on the ball which or- nameoted the centre of the Dearborn-streot front.and which was once aafd tobe 1. 11, Itonore motioning to Fastern capitaliste, afsapneared in u short time,—was melted, perhaps, by the heat. The Mansard roof, compused of wood and corrugated fron, ylelded gradually to the Pnnntxja, snd by a quatter of 5 most ot It had yan- i the Hiith floor, particularly that the Dearborn street enteance, and, by b o'clock, of tha whale of it. Below no flames were to bo scen trom Dearborn strect cxcept in the centre of the structure, where the stalrways were lo- ented, branys having fallen down through the eluvator and set the wood-work nblazo; but in the rear the firo had worked its war down to the third floor, nenrly all the window-frames having fgulted. aud the rear rooms, sepmrated [rom those fronting on Dearboru arreet h{;n haltway fifteen feet wide, wera all lighted up by theburn- ing of Was cuuld not be gotteu at except fram the roof of the weat wing and that of the Ilowland Block (old Hooure Building), just north of thy alley, and from these positions watsr could be thrown into_only the fifth floor. streams on the top of the Howland Block, eleht on the top of the weat wing, seven on Dearborn steeet, and fve on Adams street. The two first menttoved did water was thrown fnto the building; but, with ona or two cxcoptions, the balance wers for a Jungz time useless, ainen the water could not be forced np” high enough, steamers conld do that, break the window panes with the streams, bnt thay were unsuccess(ul, as in tho caso ot the Sloger Bullding; e whichin lts windoy In which werd tha men whose chaixes for life were dimintshiug with every mowment. and gave it sura ‘Thompaon. The smoke drove cut the the windows, and, the The fire made its way from the carpenter-shop -the roof ed {ron and , the {irg by this time having possession of rt south of their voutents, This at, rear part difficult to get fac! There_were four zood execition,—that fs, the Ouly the first-class Efforts were made_to guns and pavy revolvers wers ‘procured, and butlots and buck- shot fired at them. As It wos im- possible * to take alm,- owlng to the smolio ond steam_which flled the strect, very littls glass was broken, tho missiles gencrally Liitting the atone front, § by acclt only way water conid -be zotten ‘Into the stories below the Nith, and the autempt was flnally sticceasful to a limited extont. Whena pang was strick dent the crowd yelled. This was the THE KSCAPLS. Hardly had the first ougioes on the ground taken thelr positlons and began ou fnef- fectual attempt to throw streams on the man- sard roof of the hillding, from which considera- le volumes of, amoke and flame wers isaulvg, .when the sum 3 mado that seygral iien wero on the ffth floor gt startling discovery was of cscape save thuso,which I When to' - the Jknowledze of the Fire ,?u feo dispatched men | to {10 bnFglagstructure, and in a atort Wz agiprely fasiened to it a rope ‘%}'@um ground pased the When the first of them sclzed the ropa a sharp Jerk to ase hinself that 1t was sccurcly fas. tened above, 8 hoarso roar went up from tho oxpectant throng which tllled thio strect be- low, and which had been worked np to tho highest pltch of excitement by the knowledge that human lifo wus In danger. ‘Tha first man to eseny the perllous jonrney taearth and safety was W, I, Iosack, of Gen. Bheridan's foreo, o geutleman m charge of transportation M the Departinent of tho Missourl, Ho grasped the rope frmly, and In an {ustant was swingiog in mld air, clear of tho buitling, Down he came, allding along tho cable as if ita friction agalnst his .legs aod body was nothing, and - svou reached the ico-covered sidewslk in & thor- oughly cxbausted conditfon. Fricndly hnnds grosped hils slmost . faluting form, aund bho wasa burried to a saloon fn the adjolning bullding, where, by tho ald of stimu- luts, o was soon put to rights. But theis wore four others to follow, and thelr inove- monts wers watched with {ntenso fnterust. ‘The sccund man to make tho journey was M. L. llowland, * Elo was not as careful ss Hosack, and fn passiog the conlogs of the fourth-story windows bumped violently agaiust them, no _damage, however, bolog done. Thew vame T. B. Baker,and Charles Webb, sud when each reachied the ground choers went up from the crowd at thelr safs deliveranco from death, ‘ Espeelal futercst seemed to ba taken fo Mr, Webb, who is a middle-aged man and of con- siderable weight, and when Le Jacded sdfely the applause was louder tusan ever, Tho lpt one to descend was Mr. W. 8, He haa beun a fireman fn his youuger days, and when he found himself with four comrades, all being fn the Quartermastor’s Depurtment, penued faa littto youm and sur~ ruunded on overy ‘slae by flame and smoke, his courago and presencs of mind never left him for an lostant, snd he waited until all ‘bis friends bad been recelved safe in walting arms bolow before inaking tho jouruey, When Hosack rcached the ground snd had been sssisted toa warw place by fricnds, ho was greatly exhmusted, but inav fustant was xious to rush {uto the street again and Jearn the fato of his compouiuns. Whon Mr, Thowmpson reached tho sldewalk ~safc- ly an was led into tho place whero Jlosnck had taken rofuge, they clasped cach other by tho bund ss only men can who have faced déath together, Hosack exclaiming: % Thompson, old boy, by Uod! 1'm glad to sce you again.” ‘Tho ecxperience of Joo Conlan, the clevator boy, was of a ciaracier varled and exciting, 1o tras at the it floor when the firs broke out, or rather wheu notifled of 1ts existence. His Grat impression, he said, was cscape, This was Loth natural, and, que migut say, Imperative. But s secoud's reflection recalled his sensea to a reall- zatlon of the impending danger, aod prompted bim to a contrary lno of policy. He ascended ta the sixth floor and warned the janitor's wife who, with four children, wero occupants of rooms in that portiog of the Lutldiog. 8ho re- fused to bo admonlshed, and escaped when the fire got under beadway by meuus of the fire- escope, her children attalulng safety by the samy medlum, On the fourth floor Mr, Shuteldt, a lawyer, was ovcrseclog thu labors o1 a gang of carpenters and plasters who were' prepuring an office for Dbis accupation. :J&;on belng advised of the erfifcat condition of affairs by, with bls dauehter and the mechanics employed, were loaded luto the elerator sod safuly Isuded on the giound floor, They made their escape by the Dearvorn strect entrance. Coulun made” four trips with his cluvator, nottfving occupants of oflices of the trouble nmvullmi by the time the dro had gotten under full heudway, and the weans of rscape were not oply llmilud but precarious. Ho realized this fact ana sbaudoned the couvey- ance on the secoud floor. Bliuded by the smoite and meklnfi spy avenue of escape, he feli Ly way luto the walg oftice uf Bherldan's wuito. ‘Thit General was eogazed lusscuring lils valuable pagars, which e pecured and od, Coolan sysisted {0 thrustiog the records of the department fnto the department safe, and thuo turned abous to canvass the chances. | Thoy wers limited. "The fire was alinost upon’ blw, and whichever wa: he turned acave seemed fo be cat off, [u a tft of desperstivn he rushicd to o wivdow openfog on 1o Adaws street, bopiug by this means to waln the pavement, Agaln hie was disappotnted, All means ol escape secined Lo be cut off, He told Tux TuIDUNE muD a3k eveniuw, that for tha first time in his life he contem ture. The contemplation, he said, was the re- verse of pleasant. s wonld be willing, he ad- ded, to make an, a moment's hall, his ndvance st every.step, snd directing his adsance to n window whic through the conflagration. tion of spirit ho reached the #lil, and realized h(o;v mueh better 1t was to be born lncky than rleh, manent_lre-cscape with which the bullding was supphed, and, availiog Limsell of that Samari. tan meaos, landed ou terra finns & safc man, It nut & Balnmander, .- seeno of destruction. the slicy bounding the building oo the north was the centre of attrace tlon.” The buiiding sdjolning the Post-Oftice was apparently threatenud,—in flames. The top story was occupled by five Tadles in tha cmploy of the mailing depart- inent, and chelr *rscape’ was A sonrre of wonder, Une 'bL one they came to the window, opened’ the fire.escave adjoining for an instant, and entered. Bat thisconld not Jast. If they rematned they would bs butned, and yer there sccmed to be no influence that would persuade them to undertake the perilous descent, They seemed paralyzed with fright which nothing could remedy, the ground were wondering, tearing,asking what should be done, a fireman answercd In porson and solvea tho probiete, A ladder was elevated to the “connecting Hnk" of thn cscape, upon which,having beon firmiy < hased," he ascended rapldly, lailles wers embargoed by one to places of safoty. When they had re- covered from the fright 1dcident to the accaslan, wotmnan-llke they began amount of anxiety for tl hind, comforted from the window fnto the embracc of its voarning clalmapt. It will be many davs be- Torc Mrs. Lyon, Mrs. Danuel, the Misses Fuell, McCorguenoble, and Murry will enjoy suchan oxperiente, or 6& a reneation of equasl proportions. had been. sccured and tating ‘with rellef, a lank, lean, nre was_observed maklog the ladder-rounds with cat-llke anllity, testation, and the univorsal verdict as he disap- peared In the amoko cmiltted from the fifth- story window was ona of a hlowdy foo),' sald all during bis nbsence the opinion wos universal that. the foolhardy adventurer would becomioa subject for the Coroner, Winlotheso judgments were from tho window, ITe beld ablack-and-tanin his erms anda cat pcorlsf. vucket, Thus acconteredy ha descenden the lad- dler and reached jbe groubd in safety, zreeted by checra. . . to escape, aftern elemants,. When his chargo was safely disposed of out of harm's paralyzed with cold and mstonishment ot a re- quest that he would ald in securing tho safety of n eanary nud poll-psrrot. tiou by thia means, T d the fu: sacrifice to “'get out.”’ After elay _he crosscd over the the smoke blinding and 1mpeding ch nppeareil dimly After much vexa- For outside the easement he saw tha per- When Tun TuinuNs reporter reachod the reality In Whlle thosa on He reachied the floor on which the and _assisted them ovs i exhibit a wonderful 4 **wardrobe ™ left be- This continned, and they would not be untfl that’ of each was dropped tada the-céntral flgures of ‘When they thelt hearts were pnlrl- hungry fle- Volees wero ratsed in pro- demuntion., . * He's ith ove accord, and baing rendered the ** bloody fool* emerged out of his overcoat Bep Bnllwioklc assisted some of the inmates hazsrdous conflict with the ach, the Captain was nearly Mr., Kliite, of tne Postmnster's office, was no- tified of the fira nfter it had obtained such head- way as tolmoeril hiscacape. He went ta a door communicating with " the “elevator and found , that was cut off from the meaus of exit, and that hie was left to perish unless thd interposition of Providence After o at should provall n his behalf, tryiog .- every . mcaus accessidte, last~ found.”'s vone depending from the roof, and sild Into the cold and salva- ‘he-ropa was ralsed by Charles Palmer, of Truck 1,and proved the only means of cacano for Masste. Howlaud, Hovey, Thompson, Baker, and- \Webber, all of whom came,rafel nent Injurles, down|without sustalning any perma- " On the Ath floor lived the mossenzer.of \the Commlssary Departmient with his wifo and threo chlidien. #1o wos absent from home when the fire broko' oat, and with: tho . exclamation, “(jod help . ny.wife and . babies!” hurried to thelr rescuc, When horeached the ballding als muost tho firat ho mot was his family, saved by tha escape-ladier, and thefr mecting was of that character which to bo apppeciateg must bo scen. . BALVAGE. . Tho Posf-Office Departinent. hinmedlately on the alarm being given, wont to work with great expedition and system to save the matter undor thoir charge. The first nowa of the flre was communicsted to Postmaster Palmer by Mr. Patten, whoso offico ad}oins bls, The Postmas- ter and his asalstants attempted to get to the Dasement by tho etalrway, but were cut off by Immense yolumes of smoks and flaine coming up tho stairways and the Dearboro street clo- vator, Thay finally escaped by aatand-plpe lad- der in the alley on the north of the bultding, ‘The alarm was given all over the bullding, and the entiro forco were put on the work of removal, Immedisiely adfoin- ing the boiler-room, where the fira origivated, is tho newspaper-throwing room. Thero wero about (ifty sacks n the room, aund these were thrown up the chute und removed to the Amer- fcan Exproas Company’s bullding by .the De- partment wagoos, mesisted by the ekpresa- wagons of tho Company. Just bofore the alarm twenty-live sncks, destined for Milwaukee, Bt. Paul, and other points in Wisconsin and Minue- sots, hnd been sent off in the ususl course of business. All of thematter was carried out the rear way through the allay, thence on to Mon- ros street, Tho nowspaper-room occupled ubout two-thirds of the basement, and communicated direetly with the carpenter-shop and boller- room, No-nppearanco of the flre was seen hicrs for about an hour after tho tire firat broke out. Bullwinkle's patrol kept the fire from spread- fng In the basement untll cverything was saved Inthe malling department every letter wi saved, but only by the best of management. There was very littlo confuslon, and the entire forco of employes worked together without any great hitchics, Owiog tu the delayed trains, much of tho mutter that would. have been in the oflcc bLad mnot arrived. There wers about the usual full malls in the buliding, Saturday being a heavy day in this department. The mails on the Michigan Bouthern Rallroad during tho day had not ar- rived at the bulldlug at the thne of the five. In the money-ordur departmont every dollar was saved. 'Uho smount i3 not largo, probably belog Jusy than $7,000. The return for the duv Lad ulroady been sent off, os this department is uot §n the habit of carrying large umounts of money aver night, The surplus §s seut to New York @Qally. All the rccords of busl- nced previous to yesterduy wera placed in thn vsult, which is consideret cntirely fire-proof. - ‘Fho records of yesterday's business wero carried to the Sub-Tressury, The only Vooks left out were someold records and papers which are of no prescut value, belog ouly used for refercnco. . There will bs no diroct loss in this ofiice except on tho furniture, Every book wnd scrap of paper bearlng on the work of tho ottiee s sccure. The Bpcelal Agents did ot trust to vaults sud safes, but carrled away atl of the valuuble papers of thelr oilce, Al of the vvidence against criminals was saved, and the entire sceret correspondence of thuolllce was carried to & placo of safety, In carrylui out some cases, Speclal-Agont tHenshaw "L one of his finzers badly sinashed, but it wus not atlowed to interferv with his work. The furniture o this room, vulued at shout $1,200, waas descrted, the attention uf tho ofllcers belng devoted to saving the records of the oflice {3~ tuct, in which they were entirely succcisful. Ou the fourth floor, where the repalring of the wall-bags 18 carried oo, no effort was mede to save anything, xs the turniture and tools are of but littly v-fix . ‘There were about a dozen young ludics emploved i this dupartment. Thoy wore entirely cut off from _escaps by th stairy, and were compelled to ellmb “down l&g escape on the vorth side of the bullding.on the alloy frout. The descent 1o tho grouud was sc- complisbed with salety, oue of thy male cw- ploves followlng with a Jittle yellow dog caro- fully tucked under bis arm. 10 the carricre’ department, which is fa the second story of tlo winy, the work of removal sfln‘eudenl ‘l,:"fih‘" uuder thu direction of Mr. ohu M. Hubbard, Superiotendent of Carricrs. “fue carriers bad just gonsout oo their 8 o'clock trip, und the office wus slwost eutircly cleared. Fifty-tbreo carriers went out at that tlme, and they took out simoat every pound of matter o thelr department. Had the usual large quan- tity of matl letters bgen 10 the boxes snd lu course of distribution, & larze luss would in- evitably bave taken place. The dawsgoe to this room will wiwount to 81,200, matnly by water, 28 the wing was out of the liue of the fames. Iu tho wholesale und retall stamp-depart- 1879, stamped envelopes {n the basement were completely amount and antil tha the boller-room and right next to the carpel ahon. utterly destroved by the water, greatl brought out, allev, is 8 large open lot, and a great deal of the mail saved waa piled thero temporarily asd put un- der guard of men from the department. paulins wero Lder It ments there will be ramo losses of stamps, etc. ra were betw thirty and forty cates of which deatroyed. The exact value will _wot be known comparisons can be . made from books. They wers . placed n&lr ntere 1T not touched by the fra they would be In atmost all of the departmenta an effort was made, and in eomo casea with success, to save the cases which are used in “throwing’’ the mail, . Thi cnses aro_speclally arranged for the work, nnd without them the work ol the oflice wonl s .18 an important thing, as these d be retarded. The cascs, a8 fast as were carrfed off up the immediately north of the bulldiog Tar- bronght into requisition, and the Alca woro protected from the water which was aliing on aoll sides from the heavy streams thrown from the adloining buildings. None of the mal saved Is believed to have boen injured in the transfer. . . — THFE SINGER DUILDING. When it beeamo evident . that the buflding must go, Postmaster Palmer madé immediate efforts to mecure another place for a base of operatfon. the basement of the Binger Bnildioz was se- cured, and the tranaferof tha pronerty to that place bagan. wern nent over firat and placed about the base- ment, which Is unusunliy Jarge and comniodfous. Tha bulk of the malls’ “ein sent 1o the Rock Islsnd depot, where Capt. Wh ‘They were there distributed through the ma- chinery of the rallway postal service. the evening the mal matler was geut direct to the Binger Building, where My, Vreeland, As- sistant-Superintendent of Malls, directed the placing of cases and the reception and disposl- tion of tha mall-bags, After considering various places, All of the cases that were savcd hite had charge. Later fn GEN. RITERIDAN, At the beadquarters of the Department of the Missouri, Uen. Q. A. Forsythe, who was sloiost the only officer left in the rooms, discov- ered tho flames shootiog up the clevstor on the Adams street front. Ile gave tho alarm to such of the ataff as were st} vn hand, and has- tened to notify Gen. Bheridan. The General arrived ot the building at 8:43, and ascended to the, third story by mcans of the frc-es- cape on the oumide of the buillding. After A brief ‘survey of the fleld of battle, the General decided to make po attempt pavo offices, but toturn all his attentfon to placing the records of the army in & safe place. vault was opened snd everything considered as socclally valuable was stowed away there. The vauit {s unusually-large sand furmshed ali the room uccessary. blu War-maps and a Jargo portion of ‘his library were nlso put into the vanlt. All of - this time the burniug brands were dronping in the hall, and the greatest lisato was nocessary. At 4:15 the fire had commuoicated trom ‘the Dear- born oflice, becoming full of smoke, soldier aod his asaistants went on pilluz books and papcrs into tho vault without the slightest shnw of fear or nervousncss. was absolutely Impossiblo to remaln any longer, to any of the furniture in the The Manv of the General's valua- clevator the hails streat to the adjoining and and offlces were but tho plocky At last, when it the Yault was sccurcd amd tho porty madea dash for fresh mir, not & minuto too soon, for pleces of plastering were dropping all arotnd, and burning pleces of scantling wers satiinr down the statrs in 8 very anpleasant way. . HOW IT STARTED.; After tho nire and smoke had been cleared from, the, bullding, about half-past O o'clock In the evoning, a reporter went over to take o survey of the ruins, and, I possible, get at the origin of tha cotastrophe, The strects were flooded wlith water waich was not frozen solld, but rost- ed In g seml-congealed body upon the pavé! ments varsing i devth acconding to the grades of the thoroughfares, from Madison to Adams, The latter strect. contained slush and water to thio depth of two feet and over, and ac the bot- tom of this lay the hose of tho Firs Departe ment. The men were workiog nearly up to thelr middles in the ley mass, tryiog to exbume the apparatus in order to rem- more effectual in playing upon tho fire that still remalned In certain “s tlons of the npner portion af the bullding, snil ta prevent tho bose from becoming fmbedded in asolid mass of fce. They called for hiclp from somo of thelr assistants, sud an ofiicluus party who appearnd to bo greatly under the influence of liquor, though s willing citizen, stoppod for- ward to lend a hand nnd fell head-foremiost {nto the lake, cumpletely submerging bimeell. The Adams {ront of the structuro presented & grand appearance, although ufiynbucn very dishieart- ening to tho poor, exhalisted flremen, , It was one mass of ice from the roof to the ground, yet every detall of the architccturo wus shiown with fearful distinctness In tho pale mooriight. ‘It resombled & gizantic Iecberg, or rather s mammoth templo of lee. Upon the sldewalk at the foot of the bullding arose a minfature mountain of fce, atleast ten Ieot high, which had heens formed by the contin- ued splashing of sater thrown by the plpes agalnst the walls, Iinbeddea in thia long yldge of lco were two fine ateam-cngines and many feet of hose. The former wero still spitting fire, and worhing with s will aod fafthfulness that would have put to shame the alicged boy on the burning deck. Oneof the first men with whom the reporter camo in contact upon the outside of the ruins was Mr. Warder, the ecnziucer of the building, who Yoluntecred tte Information that the report was falsa that the firo origiusted inthe boller-room, He said ho hind been all through tho Lasement with ton bouts, aud averred that the cobwcbs in the en- ging-room wero unicathed, ‘This was s now de- parture from the popular theory, and tho re- vorter fusiated upon scelng with his own cyes. “rhowater fs about_two feet deep eround there,' suzrested A, Warder, “ Numatter if it Ia tens [ can awim," ra- turned the serbe, Ar. Worder uccordinzly sent & gufde with o lantera to pilot the reporter through the rulns. ‘The two went arvund by 1he way of Monree street, through thu alley und the entrunce to tha rear bullding, aud whortly tho lnundated busetaznt - was reached, - By means of atrides, Jumps, and struddles, thev at Jength “arrived ut the eugne-roow, which was full of water. llowever, by ineans of looking at waction by section, Irom variuus srandpolnts, the reporter was convinced of the truth of tho cogincer’s ussortlon. ‘The pair uext went throurhthe lurrer, or maln, carpeuter- .shop, which adluins the enuine-room ou the slde next the atlov. This wes unharmed, excent one corner of tho celling, which was siighily charred, Shavings were uhml upou the toor abuut tho room, ~ It was evident that the sout of the couflagration had not yet been reactied, By exerclulng a lMttle strengtli, o pite of lumber, glass, and slgne was thrown to one side, & por- tion of the wooden partition was torn out, and antrauce was effected to tho south side of the engine-roow, or, rother, into & marrow vassowe botween two walls which led toa smaller carpenter-shop, it was evident that here was the orlein of the tire. ‘The room was o rulps. A wooden partition’ hod boen lsced there, and aloug tbis estended 8 work- neh. I the partitlon wera atiixed three foid- fug pras-brackets, which were uaed for ligat, and for beating glue, paint, ete. Not s vesgige of any of these articles described remained 88 ov- {dence that they had ever been there. About fifieed feet from this littlo caruenter shiop, toward Dearvora, was the Dearboru-strect clevator, aud just as soon us the tire hud burned through the ceiling it went_for the shutt, filling I wIlE famao and sinoke. To enhauce the prog- ress of tha flery flend, the elovatos-boy ran bis apparatus up aod down with great repid- fty (it wag a_ bydpulks elovator), in order to get ol the poople out of tho bulldiug and out of davger, 1hbico or four times hie maile 8 trip to the top fuor aud back, through tlume and smoke, snd cach time - bo went above, the firo followed closs after, drawn up by the suction of thu elevator. “Howass olu\--'{ little cuss,” sald gho guide, “but be burpel the bulldng’ Tl was doabtless true, for bad the elevator been kept down thers would pot bave been such atre- mendous draught of slr, which curried the tire to the top of the buildiug in no tlme, where itbad a fine, dry Mausard taln insniring and warming stimnulahts where- incrusted v:ith fco-clots. Just what floor aud in just what rosm tho oceupants of the bulldlug might by found, Jooked alt the more cold und ehecricss with its streaks of frozen water acroas Ity surfuce, weso the first-floor Post-Otfice apartments, all bare of anylhing }ike valuables,—except such as wore securely locked up in vaulty,—and dam- aged only by water. Below, fn tho regions and uulnvll\n&'. The engine avd the heuting ap- o ivo cfforts to ** thaw her out,” and in teving to d upon which It good 1 say the fastest on record, INSURANCE. The tmflding, which [s owned by the Con- necticut Mutual Life [nsurance Company,. is in- surcd to the amount of $200,000, sit of which has been placed by the firm of Moors & Jones, and is divided among tho various companies, as follows: $10,000 7109 7,500 000 000 5,000 #000 se 5,000 £.000 o5 Hoylstan Mutas Neptune Fire & Marine. Pennsylvaaia. , Toffman ., . Phenix. . 1000 Underwritei 6,000 Jinmburg & fire: B, Feottish Commereial. Tloston Mutoal. ... Inwarance Compiiy f Norih America rien: 000 Notionag 000 - (lermian- American, ... .. £,000 St Panl Fire & Marls 2,500 Irving 2,500 Mercan| 2,500 Atlantie 2,600 2,600 Lorillard 2,40 Firemen's ¥ 2,000 Notthern 2,600 Connectl 2,100 Tradema 2,00 Glen's 2,500 Transatlantic. . vove 2,700 Rtochester German , 2,000 2,600 2,500 2,500 2,500 Lamar 2,600 Buftalo ticrman .. 2,100 Detroit Fire & Marine. 2,500 Meriden ..o ..., 2,600 TOE EXTERIOR. ‘The rulns by daylight suflered somewhat by comparison with the svenc they presented Satur- day night, when they stood out in the light of the pale moon, and charmed the benolder with thelr picturesque loveliness. But if the noctur- nal view was tho mors striking, the day vislon was by far the more satisfactory. The moon- heams and the passing cloud-shadows wore gone, but in their place was the clear sunlight, illumintog all and adding a sparkle to the al- ready glistening and zleaming lve deposits which formed a complute incrustation on the exterior walls, dazzling to behold. People were up,betimes yesterday morning to take a long, lingering, daylicht look at the mag- nificens ruin which the fre, ably aldod and abot- ted by the frost-king, had wrought. In fact, during the whole day: the adjacent streets were flll&d with crowds of anxious gazars, who looked an their bodfes cold, when they retired, and thelr places were tmmeciately filled by others who wanted to go through the same {ntercating but benumbing prucess. Tue charches must have sulferrd in point of attendauce vesterday morn- mE, must have sd.nired until their necks wera lamo and and ths gin-mills [0 the viclnage reaped extraordinary profits from such as felt the necoasity of taking cer- with to brave up the fnnor man. A favored few, outside of tho former occupants of tho ruing, were allowed to go through the tulldiog from * turrct to foundation stone"—from tia broken-backed snd now wholly uscless Mansard to tho offending carpenter-shopas under the ground—and Inspcct, at their leisure and with correspondiogly moro carc and internal ratisfaction, this srriking wreck. Those who wero not {neludea in the favorite few. and who oiade up tha common hora bf ruft-gazers, wers ot greatly inclined to grumble ut being de- prived of the doubtful privilege of climbing jeo- covered stairs and crawliuz along fce-laden floors to_get a closer look at the trug inwards ness of things. With the majority of them thero was no more - am- bitfous desire than to look at the frosty and charred spectacle from the convenlent aldewalk below, From that lowly point of van- tage, huwever, thev saw much to delight theie sense of grandeur and much to remember and retall to others sround the family firesido or tha mors prosaie register or steam-coll, Tho ex- clamatfons which burstfrom them as thoy looked rere uniforraly those of admiration, expressed in all the Euulbln and {mpossible adjectives that could be pressed (nto use for the occaston. 'I'hoglcture presented was frigidly beautiful, The Jolict-stooo walls, on which the hoss had plngrd for hours, had been deluged with fce- cold water, which, as it dropped and foll, formed into thousands of fcicles that glesmediand hit- tered In the sunbeams. Huge blocks uf ico had formed on the window-slils, on the jutting oronments over the massive portals, on tho lonely tolograph-nole ou the Dearborn strect slde. and on fts tangled wires detached from thelr supports and hangiug uround In all sorts of positions; whiie, on the pavements lcading to the bulldiog entrunces, the falling water had congealed untll the ico_ was plled up and ob- structed the doorways. It waa a triwnph of the fee-kinig,~~a triumph achivved, however, after the gentleman known as the tire-fiend liad got- ten in bis work In the most approved sud thorough fashion. Above tho lee formations appeared the brokeu, charred, und displaced timbers, the curlod and wrinkled fron ronf- work, the twisted and thoroughly useless gin- gerbread ornamentations which bad onco set off the top of tho pile to such advantuge—from & rospectful-distance, It wasa striklng contrast between the ruin wronght by flre aud the cold- Iy-beautiful pleture worked up by its jre-con- gesling successor. ‘Au cnterprising and courszeous pliotographer establishied bimaclf upon the roof ol a coflec- bouse on &n oppaslte corner, and attempted to perpetuate the spectucle, It wan evident.y & ditlleule undertaking, and alter procurlng o 1lmlted number of negatives he gave up the job, "T'HE INTERIOR. A trip through the bulldiag was not withont its pleasures,—cold as thoy might be, hut in- structive withal to tho curlous looker-un. En- tering through tho Adams stroet door, the reporter gazed fuupon the Chigago & Altou oflices, on the lower floor, thebr ceiltngs dripping with water, aud the furnlture and books beavily Tho wmarblo sfab In thu hullway, on which the sizn-paluting artlst hal speut tulinite palns to Infurm the public on Tha two clevutors—unquestlonably the haodsomest In tho city—wers masses of charrod and fco-covered suins ‘ot tho bottomns of their respoctive shafts. Further to the north whore the fire started, ull was dark, and cold, paratus wery frozen solld, and the cuzinecr and hls assistnnts divided their time in nuprogreas- show the reporter that the fire had caughbt fn the carpenter-shop uuder the retail stamn-do- partment, and not in the shop linmediately north of the lurnace and bollers, und that it hat then leked up evoryihing luits westward course, aud, belng faoned by the sir-draughts produced by ‘the ascending and descendiyy of the maln elevator, had *“snread like fury,” or words to that effect. ‘Chie theory upon which these gentlomen worked was, that the workmen fo the carpcuter-shop bad dropped a lighted tuatels or something else, which had fpufted the ahavings and thus started the bluze, aud fu sup- por of thcir theory that the fire had not been caused by tne bolierd, they poluted to the wire und asbestos coverlogs over those huge iron plpes, aud wouldu's bave it, by auy msubuer of means, that the bollers were respousible for ibe wmuss. Toey advanced other slirged facts fu wupport of their :hmfi..—flmwu others the statement that they had used wuch less coal SBaturdsy than tuey bad for apy auy duriog the' past week,—und . argued lonz aud well that the . .ncoroess Cof the vthor carpenter-elii—ihe’ ong tu the west—to the bolter-roviu couldu’t. huve been the causs ol the coutlagration. They sssericd, tog, that the carpeuters bad left the shop lust wentioued fur tho very reasot that It was so cold they couldu's work there, spd bad goue lnto the otbier, woero it wes wmore comfortable, sltbough just why The Chicage Daily Tribune. \ fire, dryly remarked that he bad his doul to the proprioty of plaviog 8 powder-magazing or a carpentersnop. next to a boller-roony,—In which statemont tne gonerxlity of people probably agree with bin : ¥ the home of the mtlitary, wos, ing, in much better condition than its occupants expacted It woulil bo when they Jeft it Saturday afternovn. The d Trg) T =i @ i ISl g s e g 3 2 ; ; i S S ————. ) 2 GESFIVE CENTS, - & 2¢ the bofler-rooms hould be coller thenty- ™ farther off they did not satisfacto- rllg explaitr= + : ut, leaving theories, the reporter went back up-stairs, mounted to THAR SECOND FLOOR, and took s turn through the Post-Offica depart~ ment 1o that regfon. The first room he enterea was that of Amistant Postmaster Bquicrs. 1t had the generally frozen-up appear- ance of the rooms below, bot. fn additian to this, thers was a hole o tha celling through which & smnil-sized safe had tumbled from Gen. Kilburn's offico overhead. The safe. wasn't lurt any, as far as couid .be scen, and fts mad carecr was checked l? the ¥rd fAidor of Bqulers” room on which {t resfed, slichtly wrong-side ub. That it didn’t go through to the story béneath, with the added momeutum alreads gained by its fall from the floor above, was somewhat singa- lar. Tts falinre to do so s decidedly in favor of the hardness of the floor It struck, nod tne re« porter-isn’t going to ddotract from whatever merit belongs to the builder for having provided 1t aafe lodgment just outside of what was onge the window of “Mr, 8quiers’ sanctum sancto- rum. The supplies—printed envelopes, ete.—\n tire room sdjoining were damaged by ‘water, tut, nut. belog very valuable, nobody-‘can take the slight loss much to heart, Mr. Palmer’s room,—the head offico of the Logan Lircracy Buresu,—~looked cheerless and forbldding. About afl that escaped tho deluge was a glit- frama mirror, and that came out in Very'decotis condition, Tho remaining offices in this “cornpr —thota of the Cashier, Accountant, sud Super- intendent of tho lailway Mall Service—came olic {n about the samo way, the only damhagze cowm- ing from water. As for the records, books, add valuable papers in thess andtho cther offices on this floor, “they had eil been safely removed during the progress of “the fire or thrown _ loto the vauits, where they were secure. Tho Carrlera® Departmeant, In the wing, presented a generally seatterod and torn-up anpearance, gud several employes were looking aver the floors and. see- jom swhat had been left In the hurry of their forced cviction from the room Saturday cven- ing. To the thoroughness of the way in which the letter<cates aud cverything of any valus was {lllktd out a¢ that tim¢ may be attributéd tha fact that they found nothing but soma old hats and boots, o lot of Congrestional Rexords, franked by sundry M. C.8 to their waiting con- stituents, snd other, old odds.and ends of no particular use or.value. Near the clevator entranee” on this floor was lodged one of ths bliz wheels that once stond ot the top of the shaft. Farther on were the Alton offices, all very wet, and becomlug nors 8o from the fact that the occupunts had kindled fires' and were thawing the rooms out. The clack in the Chiet Engincer's offico had kept on going all through the fire and the sneceeding Ireczing perlod, and boldly indicated the correc time of day. The officéa of Jurge Beckwith, Sotlcitor of the road, were in better condition than any of the uthers, and tho.Judge, standiog with is back toa kindly grate-fire, was glod within himsclf as he saw thines belng put 4o rights. Lucklly enough, he bad Lad his. law- hooks moved Haturday to a new cabinet 1o tna oftice, B0 that when thie deluge came it fouud them behind" closed doors and out of ita reach, - The Judge ‘ felt ~a Jit- tle doubtful - ms to ~the mafoty of ntaying in theso ofllcea before thoy were pretty thoroughly dried: out,-and, in speaking of tho annuvance ond inconvenfsnco caused hg(lhu s an will THR TAT LOOR, . N generally spenk- age, excunt in two or threo rooms, wag confined 1o the liberal wetting which the furniturc apl carpets recoived, and, s the pepers in these ‘rooms tyere taken out liy Uep, heridan ahd others, or gecurely locked ‘in the yauita, the tots! loss will probably not be vety considernble, of _Gen, Kilbury, Chist Commissary, and tho: ‘The_exceptions were the rootus of ‘the Medical Directors. The floor in the forer was bent and unsteaay, and tbrough a hole therein had tnmbled tha altice-safu and a purtion ot o depk, hoth of which landed in the rooin bolow,, In..the Medical-Directors’room things presented 8 baal ‘ burred | appearange, and the prevalence here, (oo, of mnsses of fur, broken and eracked cellings, an* elevntomvhezl. twisted portions of the corrngated trom roof, and other sizus of Lhe wreek, mule It anytbing but a cheerful seeno to contenplate, Ascending to thu fourth floor, the reporter Toolied in at the United States Enginecr’s oflice, which was in comparatively good shape. ‘The naxt oflive east of that was that of ‘John H. tlamline, @ young lawyer. Ou the dour was stuclc o card which Mr. 1t. had probably lefe thero Baturday altcrnoon, befuro tho flre, Jt was bricf but sufficlently lnstructive te any ons who iight havo called, for it sald: *Tack soon. ‘Take a scat In Room 2L and WAIT.? A premtum whil be offered for tho man who waited for Mr., Namlinc fu Room 31 after 3 o’eloek yes- terday afterncon, Next-to the oflice last men- tioned are tho threo rooms of Massrs, Paddock 1de. Two of thens were {n protty fair shape, but the middle ene had wuch about 1t to sui- gest thut therv hod been & llze or some- thing. ‘The law-books on the shelves wero romated to a tury,. the floor was covered with more charred legal lors and badly used-up city directories, lugal nowspapers, cte., ete,, while a ol fn the ceiling and o depusit of debris from the upper floors, the roof, and ths elovatorshaft, nade things look s littie lone- some and slck, ns it were. Mr. Paddock was carnestly endeavoring to educa order out, of cuinos, but It was slow work. 1o sald that he left his room BSaturday ufternoou to stop futo the next one, where his pertper was, and toat when he got back his own room was rapidly flling with, aud was svon full of, smoke that e it no time to do anything more thao hurry a few books ami papers into the sale and rush out. ‘Tho resuls is that ous of a Hbrary of wwine 600 volumes ‘o large number aru irreparably damaged by fire and smoke. The next oflives on this floor arc tlopu of Isham & Lincoln, whose Joss was miich less than thoy auticipated. ‘Tne water ouly had dovo some damagce to thele lurary, with the excep- tion of perhiaps half a dozén yolumes, agd all thelr pavers and securitivs had beon hurrled into the vauit, aud came out in perfect condition. Mr. Lincoln’s private otfice presented thy worst sppearance of sbout angthing on the door, It was Almply a receptacle tur amass of debrie from the upper storfve sud tuo roof, burylow all 1%-‘ neatly it. Under this, Mr. Lincoln thought, would be fonud the balf-dvzen volumes which ho expected wero burncd or reudered uselese. An eneraving of President Lincoly bung awey ou the wall, und was smuke-statued and feecov- ered Ao that the urtist who wado {t produbly would not recotuiza his handiwork, In s lirtle hiall-way, communicatiug between the vuter aud funee offices, the flamos had come through the cclliog, and thero was Juore dpe bris plled up lv extravarant confusion about thy roown, Mr. Isham's ollices wers damageld only by tho water, atnd he waa disposed to be cheerful and self-congratulatory, aithoagh hs rulerred to the aunoy v foterruption which thy firy Lad cauatd bisbuslncas, and Intimated timthe dida't caro to have It occur agatu, His idea 2 thy luss was that perbiaps 120 volumes had beey damazed by water, sud that 31,20 ar so would sco them through ou the matwer of furniture. Tho tirm will bs found, until the blovk s roe buift, o the Marine Bank Buildiog, No. 164 Lake strects ‘Tho oftfecs of Lawrence, Camphell & Law- Teuce Wers 0oxt o thu ruportec’s s oute, and be took thom lu, Mr. Campbell was pounding the furniture with tho pralsewortby Intention ot kunocking off the ice, young Mr, Lawgencs waa dotu likewise, aud (w0 or three others wers sciting things to rights .as well as they could.” Judge Lawrcace sensihly kept at home, his experiencs Batw after- uoon having made blm cautlous, 3z, Campbell theusht they wouldo's lose a ¥ great lorethou; they had grubbed sowe of tbe muost prized volutes aud gotten them foto the safe befars they had to leave, and those which they hado't o takea cure of wer ooly dauinged by water. Whea the ro boke aut, Atr. Camp- nell was sltting as his desk. Ho bl beforo biv the Custow-Huuse ludictnievt, aud was engoged i lookiue aver 1t in councction with the otuer papers lo tho ease, tucluding several origlual doe- wments from (be Bupervistin Archlicct’s olllve, There was o ¥ort of an jdea Saturday uteht thas the indictinents and ali thepapers bad gone up tu smoke, and some of tho fudicted were, seported 1o be auythiug but sor The fucs 13, howover, that Mr. Campbell chuvied theis | ialy o grovit box, depoyited It in tho safe, locked 1t gp. along with hix books and othee p_:swu. sud tho reporter cau_vouch for thelr exisieuce, fur bs raw them, safe and sound. vesterdsy wmoruing. Beslges, judictment 4 {u Thowson's handwyi-. {ug, and no ouo w0 bas ever jece eclmin sheegal wnll gver confound It with auy other man's = TUM PIFTH AND SIXTR FLOORS were occubled, but fu awi all qul.: by the Quastercaaster’s Devartmeut, Shulelus & Weste - over. aud Borgells, the artist, sod Luae of theic { ! i [ ; . [