The New York Herald Newspaper, October 12, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES ‘GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorr HeErap. ————————— OOO Wolume XXXVI........:000sesseeeneeeee Ny 285 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street,—ENGuisn Dresa—ManTua ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Bresemey: corner 80th st.—Perform fe... pi Ao and evening—THE CHILD STEALER, \ ROOTH’S THEATRE, 984 st, between bh and 6h avs. — Sine Heway VL : BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—MoNBY anD MistRY— ‘Tas lnisu OUTLAW. \_ NIBLO'S GARDEN, ‘Houston streets. —TaE Broadway, between STREETS OF New vom” = The Pennsylvania and Obie Elections—The Course Cleared fer General Grant—Tam- many the Dead Weight to the Demo- cratic Party, The Pennsylvania and Ohio State elections have been carried by the republicans by increased majorities. A glance at the returns which we publish this morning will satisfy the intelligent reader as to the general results in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and that there are two points in the explanation of these results upon which there can be no mistake. The first is that upon the platform of their national administration, and under the broad ensign of General Grant as their Presidential candidate against all comers, the republicans are waxing stronger and stronger; and the second point is that the democratic party, East and West, is becoming weaker and weaker under the dead weight of the astounding abominations of Tammany Hall, This is the true explanation of these Octo- \_araNp OPERA HOUSE, corner ot 8h ay. ana za sn— | Der elections, and these are the causes which EILEEN OGe. \. LINA EDWIN'S THEA’ Bi ol Fas foo No. 720 Broadway.—Frencn FIFTR AVENUE BAT! ‘Twenty-! atreet.— Tur New Drama on Bevomesl i ta « UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- \way.—NEGRO ACTS—BURLESQUE, BALLET, £0. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Tuz BALLET PaN- ‘toMIME OF HUMPTY DUMPTY. \_STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery. SEASON—TROVATORR epi a WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and 18th street, — MASKS AND FACES. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ‘Guy MANNERING, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 58 Broadway.— Mux San FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, ines BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 st., between 6th Ava 7th avs.—BRyant’s MINSTRELS. .TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— NrGRO EOOENTRICITIES, BURLESQUES, &C. have operated and are operating over the length and breadth of the land to harmonize and strengthen the republicans and to demor- alize and weaken the democracy. Other questions, local and personal, have here and there had some effect; but the universal and overwhelming drawback to the demo- crate has been the odious finan- ciering of Tammany, as the central embodiment in ‘the Columbian Order” of the democratic party, democratic principles and democratic aspirations. Hence we find the late republican minority of five thousand in Philadelphia changed to a majority of eight thousand, and a late majority of one thousand in Cincinnati enlarged to two thousand, in spite of disturbing local side issues and mongrel third parties, An intelligent ob- 6 STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth astreet.—Bariap Con- | Server in Wall street remarked in our hearing PARIS PAVILION CIRCUS, Fourteenth street, between Bd and 34 avenues, —EQUESTRIANISM, &0, AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXHIBITION, Third ave nus aud Sixty-third street.—Open day and evening. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, October 12, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HF Pack i—Advertisemenrs, 2—Advertisements. Soe Chionae, Fire—Additional Aid for the Suf- 4—Better Than Speeches: The Army of Subscribers to Relieve the Sufferers; Full List of Donors and Donations Up to Moment of Going to ress, 5—Ald for the Suferers (Ccntinued from Fourth Page)—Fire Insarance in Hlinois—Grain 1s ng—achting Matters, 6—Eitorials: Leading Article, “The Pennsylvania and Ohio Elections—The Course Cleared for on Tuesday last that ‘if these elections in Pennsylvania and Ohio go for the democrats upon the heels of these Tammany disclosures and this Chicago fire we shall have a finan- cial panic and revulsion, because the confi- E + e | dence of banks, capitalists and all dealers in money in the public faith and credit will be sapped, and repudiation will stare tbem in the face, as the inevitable consequence of the popular endorsement of the gigantic cor- ruptions of the Tammany Ring.” This is the idea which goyers the popular verdict in these October elections, While the honest voter has been attracted to the republican ticket by the acceptable record of the present administration of our national government he has been repelled from the support of the democratic party, in many cases, by the scandalous record of the Tammany adminis- General Grant—Tammany the Dead hail Nad tration of our municipal affairs. What a the Democratic Party’’—News from - ington—Shot Through the Heart—amusement Announcements. 7—European News—The Doom of Polygamy—The Chicago’ Calamity: frookiyn’s Helpin Hand—The Elections—The Riot in Philadel- change has come over Tammany and the democratic party since the ‘ides of March!” The March election in New Hampshire had phia—Misellaneous Telegrams—Business No- | inspired the party North, South, East and 8—The City Corruptions : The Case of Ingersoll in West with the delightful but delusive idea that o—amaimages and Deaths, radical flash in the pan, was the beginning of a 10—New York Politics: Opening Campaign Speech Political revolution, destined to carry every- hh Ie RT ma Aibany—shipping In- | thing before it right on to the close of the ‘11—Advertisements, Presidential contest of 1872; but, unfortu- farm Hessen nately, Jeff Davis, “‘dowa in Alabama,” join- “Bust” True on Recorp—A mile a minute | ing in these democratic rejoicings, interpreted on the Erie, with relief stores for the sufferers | the results in New Hampshire as opening the at Chicazo. way to the final triumph of the “lost cause,” with the overthrow of the whole Congressional system of Southern reconstruction. This, to the oid Union party of the war, was like the roll of the drum, calling ‘the boys in blue” again to the front, and so, in the April Con- necticut election, the tables were turned, and so emphatically that the Northern democratic pr ee ER ee IRS 2h leaders were convinced that it was worse than , Lgasrp For ANOTHER TegM—Tae seats of | useless to fight or question any longer the Simon Cameron and John Sherman in the | issues of the war settled in the new amend- United States Senate. ments to the constitution. The ‘new depar- ture,” then initiated by Mr. Vallandigham in Obio, was rapidly adopted by the democratic conventions of the North, from State to State ; but it came too 1: tobe of any service to the party for or 1872, seh eH The July riot in our streets, in consé- quence of the Orange procession in honor of “the Boyne Water,” and the question of equal rights raised by our local authorities in refer- ence to that procession, created throughout the country a strong excitement against the daring assumptions of Tammany Hall, which Tne Exeonon Riot iw PriaperPyia,— | was by the republicans promptly used to the The riot and bloodshed in Philadelphid on | prejudice of the democratic party. At the election day are much to be regretied. Itwas | same time this terrible war upon the official hoped that the passions of the politicians in | corruptions and spoliations of the Tammany the misnamed ‘‘City of Brotherly Love” had | “Ring” was opened, and the effect upon the subsided, and that the turbulent and bad | public mind of the country was made mani- spirit of the days of church burnings bad been | fest—first, in the August elections in North extinguished. It is unfortunate, also, that the | Carolina and Kentucky to some extent, but encounter was mainly waged between white | wilh unmistakable emphasis.in the September democrats, some of them policemen, and radi-'| elections in Maine and Culifornia. These cal blacks, It is about time the democrats | elections distinctly made the facts known to ceased to persecute the poor darky and | the democratic party of the Union that, while learned to accept the present political situa-'| its ‘new departure” had given it no strength, tion, the bad name of Tammany had weakened and a Tovce te vue Couette tk tise tN demoralized the rank and Me East and While Chicago was burning a number of” Lalgaeend att taeda ina dea le tocol ds Hancoor’s Cake Att IN THE Fint.—The result in Pennsylvania has probably knocked into a cocked bat Hancock's prospects for the democratic nomination for the Presidency. His friends will not insist upon his running when his own State is likely to “‘go back” on him. [ALL SrREET YESTERDAY presented a quiet ber aspect as contrasted with the wild tement of Tuesday. The assistance ten- ed by Mr. Boutwell in the shape of cur: ai disbursements had a calming influence d helped the stock market to ‘get into a Asteadier state. The list of failures has been increased by three additional names, making six in all—a rathef light harvest of bank- ruptcies, considering the field that was sown for them by the Chicago calamity> wretches were detected in feeding the flames, | with the view of adding to the excitement that they might the better secure plunder. Being caught in the act little mercy was shown them, and convenient lampposts served as |, zallows trees from which to turn them adrift nto eternity. What must be thought of such vermin in human shape, who in hours like chose when a whole city was being consumed oy fire and its people had fled from their somes in fear and trembling, could add to the salamities by feeding the flames and plunder- ng amid the excitement they helped to nerease? This is the most dismal episode in he destruction of Chicago. We hope, for he sake of our common humanity, that it is rot trae. Should it prove to be as at first -eported, the miserable wretches deserved the ‘ate they met, and God alone must judge them ‘or acts 80 base, cowardly and despicable, Tae Pourtioar. Campaian 1n New Yore— Jrenmsa CampaiGN Speson oF SENATOR JonKLING.—We publish this morning a pretty ‘ull report of the opening campaign speech at Albany of Senator Conkling, last night, upon the issues, national and State, upon which the reople of New York will be called to vote in our November election, To our political readers of both parties it will prove interesting as indicating the general line of action upon which the republicans intend to conduct this campaign, and especially those leading repub- feans who look rather to General Grant than vo Mr. Fenton or Mr. Greeley as their national stagdard bearer in 1872. dict of September from Maine and: California in favor of the republican parby as repre- sented in the national administration of General sGrant, and against the democratic party as represented in the local administration of ;Tammany, it came to be: the general belief “that the scandalous reputation of Tammany’ ‘would be too much for the democracy of! Pennsylvania and Ohio in October. It is probable, however, had Senator Fen-! ton, Mr. Greeley and company been strong’ enough at Syracuse to make a hopeful split of ‘ the republican party in New York against General Grant, that the whole potitical situa- tion would have been instantly changed. Or had General Butler preved equal to the ex- pectations of his outside friends, the labor re- formers, the temperance peaple and the women’s rights women, in splitting up the re- publican party of Massachusetts, a hopeful diversion would have been made for the de- mocracy even in Pennsylvania, if not in Obio; but Messrs. Fenton and Greeley were com- pletely ‘‘flaxed out” at Syracuse, and General Butler’s cheerful surrender at Worcester knocked all democratic calculations in the bead in that quarter. Consequently, since September last the prospects of the democracy in Pennsylvania and Obio, to say nothing of Towa, rather darkened than brightened trom day to day down to the Rochester Convention. The proceedings of that body, as the expres- sion of the party of the State of New York, in the exclusion of Tammany from the Conven- tion, in the overthrow of Tammany as a political power and in (be advogacy of apecitic NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, measures of municipal reform, were well calcu- lated to strengthen the party inside and out- side of New York, but they came too late to make any material impression upon these October elections, and, we conjecture, too late even for New York in November. In 1868 the Tammany managers deliberately threw away the game of the Presidential elec- tion in order to make sure of New York city and State, and to lay therein a solid political and financial foundation for the Presidency in 1872. Six months ago, to all outward appear- ances, in the absolute possession of city and State, and city cash and city credit, with boundless resources at their command, the Tammany managers held in their hands the democratic trump cards for the Presidential succession. Now, Tammany, as apolitical oligarchy, is demolished. Her prestige is gone, and her power to buy up Legislatures and party conventions is taken away. She is in disgrace, and cut off from her supplies; she is only in a condition to permit our November election in the State and the city to go by default. Charged with election repeaters and with false count- fog of the ballots to any extent desired, the “‘Ring” have now no incentive, if they still had the power, to indulge in these amuse- ments, The neglect of the ‘‘Ring” masters to get upa grand Tammany ratification of the Rochester Gonvention tells the story, De- moralized, disorganized, cut up into cliques and factions and shorn of their Tammany sup- plies, the democrats of the city in this coming election will fall, on their State ticket, far be- hind their late crushing majorities, and the republicans, from all the indications of the day, including these October elections, will recover this fall the Empire State, State ticket and Legislature, The argument and the results involved in these Pennsylvania and Ohio elections, in our judgment, settle this question. It will be remembered that in 1868, after these October State elections, the democrats gave up tho Presidentizl battle of November as lost, and the prospect is now as decisively against them for 1872. It is remarkable in this con- nection that the very power, the central power of Tammany, upon Which they have imainly relied for this coming Presidential contest, has proved | th nse of fheir apparently hopeless collapse laine to California. But the case is very simple. The demtocratic party of the Union, sharing in the honors and sch:mes of Tammany, must share in her disgrace until some atonement is made for her manifold sins and transgressions. Weighed in the balance and found wanting, the kingdom from Tam- many has been taken away, and turned over to the Medes and Persians, In the midst of the impious feast of Belshazzar, with his lords and concubines, there came upon his startled eyes that terrible handwriting on the wall. In short, to all appearances, even New York is lost to the democratic party through the stupid excesses of Tammany, and the course is cleared and the way made easy for an exten- sion of four years to General Grant's careful and honest administration, The Municipal War—No Situation. Nothing new was developed yesterday in the matter of the municipal troubles, The exami- tion into the Ingersoll case presented no inter- esting feature, the time of the Court having been taken up by the argument of immaterial issues, It is very evident now that to the next Legislature must be left the solution of our city difficulty problem, and hence the atten- tion of the people may be more profitably directed to the legislative nominations and elections than to the fruitless criminations and recriminations of the contending parties. Good men must be sent to Albany next winter; not the disappointed political sharpers who have their own axes to grind, but honest, independ- ent citizens, who will give the people an efficient charter to live under and an oppor- tunity to choose their municipal officers in the early spring, 2 | In the meantime the city government must goon. The public works must not be aban- doned, and the people must not be made to suffer because there has been extravagance or dishonesty in the past administration of the city’s affairs. The taxes are now coming in, and the credit of the Corporation is too good to render the raising of necessary funds a difficult task. The citizens do not desire to see the parks neglected, the improvements on the boulevards and avenues discontinued, or the Fire Department, the Health Department, the Croton Aqueduct Bureau, or any other important branch of the government suffer for want of funds, Both the Committee of Seventy and Deputy Comptroller Green should do tbeir best to disembarrass the government as much as possible at this crisis, while guarding against any misappropriation or waste of the people’s money. Let them do this and trust to the Legislature to give us the reform we so much need, Change ia the Toe Fire Departmext.—The New York Fire Department sent three steam fire engines to Chicago yesterday, at the solicitation of the Mayor of that unfortunate city. In the scarcity of the water supply they are needed in case of the rekindling of the old fre or the breaking out of a. new, as in such an event it would be necessary to obtain water from the river and lake. Apropos of the Fire Department, we learn from good authority that the Commis- sioners are down to hami pan both in the mat- ter of retrenchment an@in the eupply of funds. In case they are kept longer out of money the efficieney of the brigade must be seriously im- paired.. The Chicago calamity should warn us against embarrassing in any manner the management of our Fire Department, and as the Cbmmissioners are free from the slightest suspicion of misconduct; as their duties are admitted to have been honestly, efficiently and intelligently performed ; as they have brought the-brigade up to a point of discipline and effectiveness never before attained, and as they enjoy the confidence of the people, their requisitions for funds should be promptly and cheerfully met, A Goon Inga.—Bostan appropriated twenty thousand dollars for a grand banquet at which to entertain the President on his contemplated visit to the city. It is now proposed to reduce the expenses of the proposed entertainment and add the balance to the subscriptions now being raised in aid of the Chicago sufferers, Tia is 9 good gad philanthranic \dete OCTOBER 12, 187L—TKIPLE SHEET. Relief for Chicago—A Noblo Outburst of r Charity. We believe we speak the sentiments of the great mass of our fellow Citizens when we say that the Chicago fire, in spite of all the loss and misery it has created, partakes largely of the character of a blessing. To all outward seeming nations and men were growing in selfishness. The Gospel doctrine of charity seemed to be forgotten. Nations and men lived to themselves and for themselves. To many thinking men it has for years seemed as if, in spite of our Christianity, the external prosperity of which was undeniable, we were lapsing back into a species of heathen Pagan- ism. Might seemed to be growing into right. No man seemed willing to admit that he was his brother’s keeper in any, even the most modified, sense. Many indications encouraged the belief that Christianity, like the religions which had gone before it, had become a system of dead dogmas, and that, with a wealth which the world had never known before, we were rapidly coming under the reign of universal selfishness, We dare not say that this view of modern society was not justified by facts, Suddenly, and as if by a lightning stroke, it has been shown that this view of modern society is false, and that in spite of all outward seeming the so-called Christian nations are Christian at the core. This Chicago disaster, revealing, as it has re- vealed, the power of Christian doctrine and the goodness of human hearts, confirms and establishes the ancient lesson that the darkest cloud bas its silver lining and that the longest night is followed by the dawn. We can for a moment forget the awful disaster in our joy because of the sympathy and practical charity which it has called forth, It is true that no such calamity has occur- red in modern times, and that the sympathy of the world has not, in many generations, been similarly tested. We are not unwilling to make this admission, but we do not feel that in making it we are at all detracting from the strgngth of our argument, The great fact re- mains that the occasion calling for it, the world’s sympathy bas gushed out as it never gushed gut. before, We cannot write in too flattering terms of the doings of the govern- ment. From the first the President and all his advisers acted with a promptitude and a fulness of liberality which left little to be de- sired. Oar great cities, one and all, have vied with each other in affording relief for the sufferers, There is no room for special praise where all have done so well. Our own cities have been equalled by the large towns of the New Dominion. Ottawa, Toronte, Quebec and Montreal have shown that brotherly love and tho liberal outflow of charity are perfectly compatible with what are called national differ- ences. The citizens of the New Dominion feel and confess that the Chicago sufferers are not the less brothers and sisters that they live across: the lines, In this case three thousand miles of ocean have not hindered London and Liverpool and Manchester and Glasgow and all the large cities of the Continent of Europe from vieing with us in their noble efforts and by their munificent contributions to succor the distressed in the young, great, but unfortunate city of the Western world. We have spoken of the noble doings of the great cities of differ- ent nations. We do not forget the noble efforts of our corporations, of our church or- ganizations, of our trades’ societies, of our public establishments and of our private citizens. It gratifies us much to know that our suggestions have been so generally adopted and so promptly and vigorously acted upon. The various organizations of this city have done so well, and the liberality of our private citizens has been in so many cases so magnificently illustrated, that to mention bames would be invidious. It is fair, we think, to say that Christian charity, or human- ity, or practical sympathy, or whatever the reader chooses to call it, was never in the whole history of the world so grandly ex- hibited. Itis also fair, we think, to say that this. exhibition of goodness justifies us in thinking more kindly and speaking more hopefully of our species, We re- joice greatly that Chicago will not be allowed to want for any good thing; but we rejoice still more that Christian men and women of all persuasions and shades of belief have come so nobly forward to the assistance of their fellows. It may be a bad world, but there are many. who will henceforth think that it is not so bad as it seems, In considering this subject it is impossible to overlook the importance of our new agents of civilization. We have for years kaowa the value of the railroad and the telegraph and the deep sea cables, Their value and impor- tance were never so revealed as they have been in connection with this Chicago disaster, We felt their value during our great civil war, and it is not unfair for us to admit that but for our superior command of the railroad and the telegraph it might have been more difficult for us to put down the insurgent South and restore the loved Union in all its integrity. We knew their value during the Abyssinian war, when the British empire put forth its strength to protect the agents of Christianity and civilization from the attacks of an almost unapproachable barbarian. We knew their value during the late Franco-German war; and France in her sorrow had no occasion but to be grateful for that enterprise which had bridged the ocean and brought American charity to her door. But these agents of which we have spoken were never so much or so truly the agents of Christianity and of civilization as they have been in the case of unfortunate and suffering Chicago. Her misfortune with the speed of lightaing was flashed not only to every city on this Continent, but to every city in Europe. Relief with the speed of lightning came from every centre where the sadintelligence had been received. But for these agents Chicago might eaten agitated and depressed for a time, but the effect will only be temporary. Indeed, we think the disaster has been largely discounted already at the stock boarda and in financial circles. The first excitement and appre- hension of the worst naturally created a dis. turbance. Speculators and stuck jobbers, who are always ready to take advantage of such a state of things, seized the opportunity to fan the flame of excitement for speculative parposes. In the course of a few weoks at farthest all will be quiet again, at least from this cause, and stocks and values will falk into their normal condition. We shall soom hear, probably, of the d¢bris of the great fire being cleared away, and Chicago beginning to rise again in business and splendor. While, therefore, we should do all we can to relieve the Chicago sufferers, it should be understood that there is no good reason for a panic. The resources of the country and the industry and enterprise of the people of Chicago will prove superior to this calamity. The first shock being nearly over, let hope inspire us as to the future. of three or four thousand yeara ago, as if science were gradually working her way into this mys- terious chamber, and as if the blessed antidote were yet to be found. While we are rapidly multiplying the conveniences we are as rapidly diminishing the sorrows of life. Why should we not hope for and believe in ultimate vic- tory? The new heavens and the new earth may not be so far from us, after all. Our Special Report from Rome—A Crisis at Hand in the Holy City, The special telegram from Rome which ap- pears in our columns to-day supplies a news report which is of very considerable interest. The public sitaation which has existed in such a doubtful and hesitating manner in the Holy City since the entry of the Italian army {s about to be brought to a crisis. King Victor Emmanuel has again asserted his monarchical authority within the manicipal territory. The act has been accomplished in a manner which renders its perpetration extremely novel in the history of the royalties, His Majesty's officers have notified their intention of taking possession of the buildings and grounds be- longing to the Convent St.. André, near the Quirinal. The tenements are required for the purpose of being altered into stab‘es for the royal stud, the horses of which are, as is known to Continental travellers, very nume- rous and the finest in Italy. The Convent St André is situated in the neighborhood of the American College in Rome—one of the noblest ecclesiastical seminaries at the Chris- tian centre—and the King can hardly disturb the inmates of the one without annoyance to the students in the other. The knowledge of this fact cansed the royal officers to hesitate in carrying out the will of the Ministers. The Pope recommended the inmates of the St. André and of all the other city convents to stand firm and not to yield their right of Practioat Revizr.—Nearly all the planiog and saw mills, brick-making machines and other machinery used for building purposes, have been destroyed in Chicago. Practical relief toward rebuilding the Western metropo- lis might well be exercised in forwarding with despatch all such machinery as we have sug- gested. There are lumber and clay for brick- making in abundance all around the devastated region, = WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Oct, 11, 1371. Collector Murpuy to Resign His Position. There is a perfect understanding in regard to the New Yor Custom House and tue retirement of Mr. Murphy after the election in November is no longer @ question of doubt. The President has all along ropert: except in the resen ¢ | evinced a determiuation not to force the Collector's as baer is 1 ti sibgtaotrcratet removal while a cloud of charges was overhanging on solemn action prolonged | tum, put Mr. Murphy lumsel! has relleved the admm- the hesitation. -This offended the reyo- lutionary party of the “reds,” Its leaders inquired, “Why does the King siand ai the door of the St. André Convent after hig gan- non have battered the walls of Rome?” A very pertinent remark, and appropriate in its place, The Italian monarchy is in a difficult positionin Rome. Should the King attempt to eclipse Caligula in his care for his horses he has the Supreme Pontiff, with many for- eign Catholic nationalities, jn opposition in his path. Should he attempt to recede from his stable and pitchfork coup he has the revo- lution behind him. How will he act? It is extremely difficult to say. He will have to determine very soon, for a second tele- gram from Rome announces the arrival of Menotti Garibaldi in the city. Menotti is very well posted with rezard to the tendency of public affairs in Europe, and should events istration from its embarrassing situation, ‘fhe har- mony of the republican party and a disposition not to Weaken Its prospects after the recent victories im Pennsyivania and Ohio and the possible victory in New York are declared to be the impellin in this new movement, The certainty of phy's resignation, aiter so many conflicting rumors, and so many assertions to the contrary, will create considerabie surprise; but all speculation ends with {he aumouncement of the fact, This determinatioa was only definitely arrived at to-day, Presideut Grant oceupying the attitude of a consenting party Tather'than of an impelling power. Relief for the Chicago Sufferers. Several thousand dollars were raised to-day among the Clerks and employ és of the Freasury and other departments. The Secretary of the Treasury this morning re» ceived telegrams from Londen and Canada inquiring if clothing, blankets, &c., for tne people of Ciacago would be admitted free of duty. The Secretary im- mediately replied that such goods would be admitted free, and gave the necessary orders to Collectors, Inspector of Fost Office Buildings. Colonel A. H. Markland, Assistant Superintendent come to a crisis in Rome he may yet ride the winning horse on the Italian Campagna. The animal may even be taken from the King’s collection of ‘‘flyers,” as Menotti is not very particular with regard to his own way of getting nbhead so that he is a “litle ahead” at the conclusion. The Consequences of the Chicago Disaster im a Financial Point of View. In time of excitement over any great dis- astrous event there is always a tendency to exaggeration as to the loss or consequences. It is s0, doubtless, now in the case of the Chi- cago fire, and we hope the generally estimated loss may be greatly exaggerated.. Dreadful enough are the losses by this calamity without over-estimating them. Though we have no reliable data to base a calculation upon, we may by comparison approximate the truth. Nor do we know yet—if, indeed, we ever shall know—how many precious lives were lost. The disaster bas been so overwhelming and the destruction-of property so great that the sacrifice of human life has not been thought of as much: as it would have been under other circumstances, In fact, it must be said with regret that generally human life is regarded with more indifference than prop- erty. But our object just now is to look at the consequences of the fire in a financial point of view. The loss of property has been variously estimated. Some have made it amount to three hundred millions of dollars. Almost all have regarded it as a hundred millions at least, We have not before us a reliable esti- mate of the taxable or assessed value of property in Chicago at the time of the fire, but it is said that the total valuation in 1870 was about two hundred and seventy-five mil- lions, This, of course, included land as well as buildings and personal property. Admit- ting an increase of twenty-five millions siace the valuation was made—and that would be very large—the total value would be three hundred millions, Brooklyn has a fourth larger population than Chicago, yet the tax- able value of property there amounted to less than two hundred and fifty millions, The assessed valuation of Chicago must have been of the Railway Mail Service for the Fourtit district, with his headquarters at Indlanapolis, in addition to the usual and ordinary duties of hts povition, was to-day specially appointed by the Postmaster General Inspector at Large of Post Otlice Bulldivgs. Colone! Markland will. examine and repert upen the eligibility and fitness of post oMice butldings, throughout the country with reference to economy, of rents and tne better accommodation of the puby He, and will generally keep the department advised of all matters relating to the economy and gs0d management of che postal service, Presidectiul Appointments. The President to-day apponited frving Toda Cole lector of laternal Revenue for the Second districrof Minnesota, and Edward M, Saady Collector of Cus- toms at Tappananuock, Va. Personal. General B, F. Butler had an intetview with the Prestdent to-day. SHOT THROUGH THE HEAT. A Young Man Commits Suicide iu a. Fit of Despondency. Om Tuesday afternoon, about half-past saree o’cloek, the restents of West Fiftieth street, be- tween broadway and Eighth avenue, weresnddenly. startled by the discharge of a pistol, and upon m- quiry they learned that Adna G. Underhill, restding at No, 226 West Fifticth street, had committea suicide by shooting himself through t§e heart, ‘The unfortunate maa thus prematurely huerteat into the presence of his Maker was but thirty-three: years of age, the bon of a well-known grocer doinig: business at Eighth avenue and Fittteth street.. During the war he served as @ volunteer tn the Union army, seeing considerable service in Vir-- ginia, and at the time contracted a habit of indulging to excess in the use of intoxicating beverages, which ultimately. led to his taking tis* life white in a fit of despondency, In the morning his father lett him at the house- alive and well, and at five o'clock In the afternoon» he was hurriedly summoned home to gaze upon the dead body of nis son. Yesterday afternoon Coroner Herrman held an tn- quest. on the body of the unforvanate man. ‘tne father of the deceased, Mr. Adna H. Underhilt, was the first witness examined, In reply to the questions put to him he testified as follows:—I am the father of the deceased; for several years past he has been in the habit of drinking to excess; I have not seen him for some years past until last spring, when he came home to live, and since that time he has resided here; fuding that his mind was changed or affected, 1 concluded that active employment would be beneficial for him; I gave him something to do in my store, but his mind was go unsettled ie had to leave; he worked there some two weeks; lor the past two weeks he has not been away from home to my knowl ; I never heard him threaten.to commit saicide, although he was not himseif, but on the contrary was.extremely despond- ent; I left the house yesterday (Tuesday) mornii as usual, to attend to business, and at five o'clock ‘was informea that he was dead; I bad a pistol, which 1 Kept upon the top of a bookcase in my room; it is the same pistol wluch was found near have suffered as Jerusalem suffered when fired by the soldiers of Titus; as Rome often suf- fered when fired by the rude barba- rians of the North; as London suffered on the occasion of her great historic conflagration. If the fate of Chicago and her people has been loss disastrous we mast attribute it not to kind hearts alone, but to the applications and achievements of science. It is sometimes said—and there are those who believe. it—that in the womb of naturo is hidden the cure for all human sorrow and suffering; in other words, that nature has concealed somewhere the antidote to the curse, It does seem, when | we somnaa Ua word of to-day with the world MWhiward D.Berdine was the mext witness called. much less. Allowing that the full marketable His tecuumony was as follows:—1 was present in the value is much greater than the assessed or | same room with the deceased thas atte pron: F tay taxable value, we still think that the estimate Soro eae: may bed ra on gus; 1 mas t half-pas of three hundred millions is large enough for arenes ie el of B pistol yesterday Chicago just before the fire, including land and personal property as well as buildings, The buildings might have been worth twice as much as the land. If we allow thirty millions for personal property and ninety millions for the land there would,be left for buildings a hundred and eighty millions—that is, esti- mating the total valuation at three hundred’ ‘Yuesday) asternoon, when I jumpedup { sawa : stot on try door and picked & up and placed it Le ihe burean; then I went and called the folks; have known the deceased, Adna G. Cndernith, since the spring of 1867; for the last week, particularly, I have noticed a great change in him, and lost my sleep in the afternoon im consequence, as I felt somewnat fearfui lest somethivg might happen. In reply to a question put by the Coroner, tnquir- ing why he slept in the alternoon, witness explained So a ee eae aee Ara tue witness oonunyed obliged to.rise atone A. *: 1 noticed that deceased acted in a silly man- t times and that he laughed never you my Hes spoKe to him, which b+ ad very ‘undsual for | bie The land, of course, is not destroyed. Sup- what r have seen him since new hums a : mn; when I came Pa a ack aed ge, the le |g ie in: eas taking ont property in buildings.and personal. effects hag been destroyed, the total loss would amount to.fifty-five millions, Should we include in this estimate of personal effects.the mercban- said nothing, then of comunitting suicide, fins; ieemed very désponding indeed; Ne cd hot look the same; he was consi derably lex. than usual; after I lay down upon the bed he left the. room: that was before 1 went. to sleep; 1 did not back; Tae eae REPORT OF THE. FINTOL dise in the stores that was coneumed, and sa: 2 hargedy the value of that was twenty ping tie bef Yn “ieee “roma meg “nen “= would only raise the sum for all losses to sev- Le head yer tae and aie Son enty-five millions, We are disposed to bellove | wurned up; he, wat on st tye of the bed when hie as, indeed, we hope, that the loss will not ex- | fred the fatal shot, and en fe ee ceed this sum, and it may be much legs, Still Men gO erel was On tie Root, by i, sides that is a vast amount, How much will fall } think he died jn avons, ive lett Out of the room ten minutes before 1 Went to sleep; f do not flow when he came back; 1 awoke at half-past three, ¥ u, the Deputy Coroner, then briody stitou to tne jury the result of the post-mortem ex- amination te had made, which Was, “That death had resulted from a pistol wound, and that the ball had entered atthe heart and lodged tn the stomachs im his opinion death must have ensied in a very few minutes.’ Upon the evidence adduced the jary found “that the deceased, Adana G, Underiil, came to lis death from a pistol shot, Inficted by himselt while laboring uaded a lemporary it of averrauog 4 mae.” upon the insurance companies eannot be as- eertained at present. If their liabilities should amount to half—that is, to thirty-seven or thirty-eight millions—it must ‘prove a crushing disaster to many of thera, Many, we fear, will have to sink under the weight, Others with less risk ‘may overcome the difficulty. Some banks and other institutions may become involved. and the stack market mav he