The New York Herald Newspaper, October 14, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. se AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ?' , 4 avs, — ptoores EATER, $04 st, bevween Ua ani 6h ava, ‘THEATRE, Bowery.—Baraw Boninee— ios. GARDEN, Broad: one Cn tee weeiaenee Rae Teen Ment | were seriously damaged by the question of j that having been identified with the demo- | but Judge Ingraham reserves his de- | would have been equivalent to reading the the bonds is- | riotact to the Paris petroleuscs or discussing GRAND OPERA Serene of Mb av. ane 334 ot — Eixan Oak, Matinee LINA EDWIN's THEATRE. No. 720 Rroadway.—Paexce ‘Orxna—ba Penronour. Matinee ae FIFTA AVENUE TUERATRE, -fonrth street. Tir Aaw Deana or Divonee’ Rekeee Bs ms UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- ay.—NzGRO AcTs—BuRLESQUR, BALLET, ao. Matinee. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broad: Fomine OF Humpry Dumpty. STADT THEATR!] ‘BEason—Lucta. se WALLACK'S THEATRE, - rux dS; us Wire, Broadway and 13th street. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth strect.—ENGLISH ‘OPFR4—CHOICE SELBOTIONS, Matinee at 1—MauTHA. -—THR BALLET Pan- “Witinee at Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery—Orrea WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 20th st.—Perform- ences and evening—Tux CHILD STKALER. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 585 Broadway. Mue San Francisco MINSTRELS, Matinee at 2, BRYANT'S NEW OPERA UOUSR, 234 st. between 6th ana 7th avs.—Brravi’s MINSTRELS, Matinee at 2 TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Nxoxo Eocenreicrrins, BURLESQUES, 40. Matinee. STEINWAY HALL, Lrorvag on tax Ring. Foureeath street.—Humonous ASSOCIATI ASSOCIATION HALL, 6th street and 34 ave.—Granp PARIS PAVILION CIRC! Fourteenth at: apd 34 avenuceEqunevaiawion ao. pice DR ape byos INSTITUTE EXHIBITION, Third street.—Open day and eveainz. TRIPLE SHEET. —— New York, Saturday, October 14, 1871, a CONTESTS OF TO-PAYS HERALD. Pace, 1—Advertisemen. ‘2—Advertisements. 3—The Scaffold: Execution of James Wilson at ‘ord—Yachtiug: ‘The International Races Arranged—The Flame-Wrapped City: Two Nights and ‘Two Days Amid the Fire and Ruins of Chicago; A Comprehensive Picture an avenue tee 1c lame-Wrapy City (Continued from Third Pa; poate the tre Deeds Better than Words. 5- Aid to the Chi Sufferers (Continued from Fourth Page)—What the Peopic Say and Do— Plymouth Lecwure Room—Myst'c Park Races— Jerome Park Races—Foreign Personal Gosstp. 6- Editorials: Leading Article, “The Presidential Question—The Late Elections—A New Party and a New Name the New Depurture for the Democracy”—The Weather—ersonal Intelli- gence—The Seventy Solons—Amusement An- nouncements. ‘y—Europtan Cable News—The Latest from. the Chicago Fire—Relief from Europe—Tne Fires in Michigan—Freshet in the Penobscot—Mis- celianeous Lees from Washing- ton—Business S—The Stuyvesant Bank Tronbie: ‘the Bank | the , But Will Pay ats Lebts; A Receiver ‘Appointed; Meeting of the Stockhoiders—W all Street: Large Transactions, but No Panic; ‘The Failure of a Rich Young Man: The Worst Believed to be Over—The Bonarda Will Case— Municipal Manipulations : “Caucus” at the Juage to be Thrown Over—The Great Man- damus Case— The Ruth Case in Kansas—Mor- monsm: is the +Twin ielic” Doomed?— by More Unfortunates—Brooklyn Atairs— juary. 9—The Courts—Financial and Commercial Re- Cruel Desertion—Kuled iu a Fight— iages and Deaths—Advertisements. 10—The [rotestant Episcopal Convention—Poilti- cal—social ipping {uvelligence— Advertisements, 11—Sdvortisements, 32—Advertisements, NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS, In order to afford greater facilities to our uptown advertisers the HERALD branch office has been re- ens New September elections in Maine and California, the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments; they civil rights involved in the July Orange pro- cession, and by the bloody riot attending it; but Tammany is the Jonah on board that has confusion, causing the party ship to drift on her beam ends among the breakers. In this lamentable condition it may well be asked, Where is the man and what is the course whereby the party may be saved and brought into a hopeful condition and position for the great and momentous battle of 1872? But who can answer this question? We do not know. We do know, however, that some- thing must be done to put the democracy on another ‘‘new departure ;” for are they not drifting to the fate of the old federal party and the old whig party? In March last, after the New Hampshire election, democratic Presi- dential stock suddenly ran up almost to par, and democratic candidates for the White Hoase were trotted out on all sides—Hoffman in New York, English in Connecticut, Han- cock in Pennsylvania, Pendleton in Ohio, Hendricks in Indiana, Gratz Brown in Mis- souri, and so on, all competing for the inside track, Had not Jeff Davis trotted himself out in Alabama at the same time as the great Eclipse of the Southern confederacy the fun might have lasted all sammer; but the ap- parition of Jeff spoiled the sport at once, and one by one the democratic racers were with- drawn into the background until only Hen- dricks, Hancock and Chief Justice Chase were visible to the naked eye. We did think for a while that we had secured the very man of all men for the democrats in General Sher- man; bat his letter from the ‘Comanche Reservation” came upon us like a wet blanket, and we were all at sea again, Now, what is the democratic situation? Connecticut has Isid out English, Pennsyl- vania has flanked Hancock, Ohio has swamped Pendleton, and Tammany has disgusted and disheartened Hoffman, Hendricks, Gratz Brown and all the rest, In this emergency it is rumored that Hendricks and other leaders of the party have been putting their heads together upon the proposition of a new depar- ture, not as the democratic party, but as the Constitational Union pariy, or some- thing of that sort, with Judge Davis, of United fates Supreme Court, as their standard bearer, The idea is that Judge Davis will draw to this new move- ment a large body of the conservative republi- floating vote of the country the democrats may prove more than a match for General Grant as the radical republican candidate. Now, there may be something in this reported move- ment; but if it is really under discussion among the democratic leaders it means that they are considering the expediency of dis- banding the old party and of organizing anew one out and out, even for the Presidential campaign of next autumn. And why not? Has not this present demo- cratic party since 1860, as the anti-war or peace party, gone through the same experience moved to more spacious quarters, and is now | as that of the old federal peace party from located at No. 1,265 Broadway (west side), between 1812to1820? Ithas. Secondly—Do what you ‘Thirty-frst and Thirty-second streets. At this ofMfce | may as the democratic party, will not the advertisements will be received during the usual | odium of Tammany Hall stick to the party and | that he murdered him in ‘‘the holy cause of | ment crippled and rendered inefficient by the | are we compelled to accept the latter version. hours, and answers thereto delivered prompuy, | keep it down for years to come from Maine to.| humanity.” Like that poor unfortunate, also, | want of necessary funds. All they do desire | In conclusion, however, we cannot fail to con- without additional charge. Ir rae “Twix Ru1ic” be doomed, is it not | donment of their present organization, name, | of the most affecting touches of Hugo's pen— 4 serious question among philanthropists to | ear marks, trade marks and all, and the organi- | the gift of the Sister of Charity, the enforced decide what shall become of the twins? A Proper PLACE FoR O’Nem, | THE Crazy Femax—An insane asylum, with a rope and 8 cross-beam, Exonances have already chanzed the name of Diedrich Willers, Jr., democratic candidate for Secretary of State of New York, to “‘Fred- erick Miller.” Truly, what’s in a name? Queen Victormu’s Heattn is greatly im- proved; very interesting news. The ex- Empress Eugénie is about to return to England from Torquay; interesting also. Tae Treasurer oF THE Reizr Funp 1 Cr10aGo. was some years ago the treasurer of a small democratic club in Boston. He was faithful in a few things, and now he is made the custodian of millions. ASHBURY AND THE QueEN's Cur.—See what the Sun says of ‘“‘Ashbury's arrogance.” It is bat a fair expression of public opinion regarifg the conduct of the ‘‘representative of twelve English yacht clubs.” A STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF TOE California? Yes, What better alternative, then, is left to the democracy than the aban- zation of a new party? They can do nothing betier than this, for, with a new name and upon a vew platform, liberal enough and broad enough to take in all the loose political mate- rials of the country, conservative republicans, radical republicans, free trade republicans, labor reformers, women’s rights women and men and the Southern blacks, en masse, they may sweep the country. Thus all the political elements opposed to General Grant may be consolidated, and thus the opposition will be enabled to fight him and his party on equal ground, completely relieved of all the doings of the democratic party during the war and since the war and from all the doings of Tam- many Hall. A new party, thus as completely detached from the democratic peace party of the war and from Tammany as the republican party, is, in short, the true game of the demo- cratic leaders. By this movement the republican camp may be fearfully cut up even in 1872, Sumner and his devoted followers ; Greeley, Fenton and all their host of disappointed office- seekers; Trumbull aud Logan, of Illinois, and their disciples; Gratz Brown and Carl Schnrz, in Missouri, and their retainers, and Srvrvesant Bank, as made by the cazhier yesterday, is published elsewhere. It shows that the assets are $854,000 and the liabilities only $590,000, so that, as it is now in the hands of a receiver, the depositors need not be entirely disconsolate. Tur Marton (S. C.) Siar says it is ‘‘gener- ally conceded that the New York Hzraco is the best paper in the world. So far as ener- gy, enterprise and ability go, this proud title is justly borne by our Northern coniem- porary.” Is our Southern contemporary a shooting Star? It is very brilliant. peleawntoentinters “P- “Nerasey Mormonsic.—We pablish this morning de- tailed reports of the proceedings of the Mor- mon special and regular annual conferences, held in Salt Lake City on the 5th and 6th instant. As these reports emeoate from the Saints, and are considered the true gospel of the ‘Latter Days"—whose latter days seem really to be approaching—they will be read with interest. 2 Sie a Ae REG Catoaco is already itself again. The thrifty survivors of the fire are putting up new houses, and balf a page of one of tie news- papers there is filled with advertisements of “removals”—the genial and cheerful term which these people apply to the change of location necessitated by their being burned out, The magnificent business tact of Chicazo is fully equalled by maguificeat mettle, The Presidential Question—Tho Late Elec- | 8 combination of military glory, free trad>, | The Public Parks in the Courte=Judge Party and a Now Name | labor reform and women's tights; or Sumner the New Departure fer the Demecracy. | and Wade Hampton—an ultra Northora and The application for a mandantus to compel The democratic managing politicians are and thence to the recent Ovtober elections | general issues, We are getting discouraged | provements that are assessed upon the prop- oimabit! in Pennsylvania and Ohio. They were somo- | in regard to Chief Justice Chase, The latest | erty directly benefited and repaid by the prop- | mitted acts of incendiarism aad robbery, to or Tee Wools Glue Cock By Tus WiLbEEnEea = | What demoralised by the bitter prescription of | Objection entered against him as the demo- | erty owners, The mandamus will, there- | await the devision of even a potice magistrate, NeW YORK HERALD. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 197.—TILE SHmT. eee ee ee te = Noemi ‘Te? Fato of Rewuce ie Chloasws Tograham’s Decision in Part. sacra 3 de Grats Brown and | Deputy Comptroller Green to issue bonds for 6 Bast oW protection, tion to General Grant and its flexibility on | assessment bonds—that is, of bonds for im- | over these rascals, who were known thioves, cratic candidate is hard to meet—to wit: | fore, be granted as regards these bonds; | or the heariny’of the statutes on the subject, cratic party since 1868, he can, as the party | cision as to whether nominee, no longer bring over any republican | sued for permanent park improvements are | the constitution with the Piegan Indians. reinforcements; and that thus he now stands | or are not affected by the said law. Hendricks and Pendleton. The best course, | to continue the work upon the boulevards, av- | these fellows, not onty on their own accounts, then, for the democratic party is, out-and-out, | enues, &., for it is not likely that the Deputy | but in deference to the welfare of ambitious a new party movement and aman on their | Comptroller will endeavor to place any further | coves from afar who contemplated pursuing Presidential ticket fresh from the republican | obstruction in the way of these improvements | the same system of robbery, and probably ranks, Their next best alternative is a general dis- mind of all doubt as to his duty. But the ques- | desolation, Those who were not hanged were bandment of the party and an independent tion whether our public parks shall continue to | very effectively frightened, and will probably scrub race in 1872, Thus all tho more promi- | be improved, developed, beautified and pre- | keep quiet and virtuous for many weeks nent Presidential aspirants of the day, of all | served, or whether they shall be suffered to go | hence, out of regard for the narrow escape Parties and factions, North, South, East and | toruin, and the money that has already been | which an inscratable Providence permitted West, may be accommodated, and among | expended on them shall be thrown away, re~ | them to make. It would not possibly have them all they may play the very mizochief | mains yet to be decided, ; been out of place if a few of the unscrupulous with the calcalations of the republicans under | The common sense reading of the law which | cormorants among Chicago's own apright General Grant and carry the election into the | limits the taxation of the city, for the purposes’ |icitizeas who speculated upon the suf- House of Representatives. As our two great | of government to two per cent of the assessed’ |‘fering of their neighbors, the firemen parties now stand, the one represented by | valuation of the taxable property, is that such | who refused to remove certain papers General Grant's administration aud the other | limitation refers to the ordinary expenses of | from a burning house unless they were by thatof Tammany Hall, the prospect is | the admimistration, such as in former years'| paid fifty dollars each, the trackmen who that the democracy will be scattered to the | used to be embraced: in the tax levy, and does | charged five hundred dollars for the use of four winds of Heaven in the coming Presi- | not apply to expenditures for permanent im- },their trucks: in removing endangered goods, dential contest. provements in the public parks, Indeed, the | and people who furnished water to the fam- Legislature seems itself to have sanctioned this | ished multitude of houseless ones at twenty- The Story of the Great Fire. decision, since simultaneously with the pas- |.five cents a glass, while all the rest of the Owing to the utter derangement of the tele- | sage of the law thus limiting the taxation for | world, overflowing with enthusiastic charity graph system from Chicago, consequent on | government purposes for the present year, it | for the desolated city, were speeding their the late terrible conflagration, the special cor- | enactef other laws making special appropria- | free-will offerings at the rate of fifty miles an respondents of the Heraxp at that city have | tions for permanent park improvements, the | hour, and their money-laden expréasions of been unable to get more than mere oatline | building of museums in Manhattan square. | sympathy with the speed of eleotricity-to their despatches through to New York. This} and other similar objects. It can | relief—it would probably have been well if morning we are enabled to present to our | scarcely be believed that the Legislature in- | some of these could have also been «served readers a graphic, comprehens've and con- | tended to place this restriction upon park | with a touch of the wild justice that. waited nected account of that terrible disaster, from | improvements in one act, and in another | upon the more pronounced thieves, But the its inception to the bitter end of destruction, | violated and nullified the principle they had } magnificent flurry of speculation which built as witnessed by one of our special correspond- | thus laid down. It is tobe hoped that this | Chicago may have recognised in these latter ents statloned in the city during the burning. | will be the legal interpretation of the law as | transactions the ‘spirit of that unconquerable It will be found to convey in @ series of | well, since the progress of the public parks, | enterprise and speculative genius which ren- vivid pictures what a. resident felt | their preservation and good order, is in reality | dered its citizens a miracle to the rest of the at secing the great town clothed in | the enhancement of the value of real estate | money-getting world, and may have spared the awful majesty of’ fire ‘and withering | over the greater portion of the city, and event- | them through the fellow feeling that makes us beneath that lurid raiment until the scenes | ually the lessening of the quota of taxation on { wondrous, kind.. from history, of cities laid in ashes, reappear | all our citizons, through the increased assessed It is reported that a bevy of New. York as hard, stern, living realities of to-day. A | valuation of taxable property. To stop the |.thieves were among the Victims ‘of the indig: fearful showing of man’s pride and man’s | improvements, to suffer the works now in pro- | fant people—that a half a dozen specula- weakness, of noble bearing in adversity, and | gress to be abandoned, to give up |'tive gentlemen, who had heretofore consid- shameful depravity in times of terror, and of | the property already accumulated, . to | ered New York the oyster for them ‘to open brave human will outleaping the worst that | turn adrift the police, the keepers | with crowbars and jimmies, had, in the flush circumstances can inflict, are to be found] and all the necessary employés, would | momenta ofa daring enterprise, betaken them- (grouped like the good and bad in @ ‘single | be a greater actual loss to the taxpayers of | selves withthe speed of the express and with being) in the moving episodes of that fateful | the city than would be covered by two years | high anticipations of ‘‘sure thing” to the calamity, It presents the light of hope rim- | maintenance of the parks in their present ad- | bur: city, intent on doing their utmost, fo ming the frowning cloud of despair; and it | mirable condition, Besides, the people do | their oWa humble way, along with the sympa- cor phd icant tee be cans, and that with these accessions and the | brings to our lips the prayer that the devas- | not require or demand any such false economy thizing world, to relieve the distressed citizens, tated town may rise once more superior to its | as that contemplated by those who seem to | and in the active performance of this charity ruin, as its noble citizens have risen superior | desire to bring all our public works to # stand- | had found themselves suspended, their enter- to their misfortune, still, and to cripple and embarrass the neces- | prises nipped in the bud and their future use- ———_——————_ sary business of the government. New York | fulness in this sphere incontinently obliterated The Humapitarian Assnosin, is arich and aspiring city, but is as yet an | by the rade and pitiless hands of Sheridan's The life of James Wilson, alias Kentley, | infant in enterprise. Her citizens are intelli- | soldiery. Accounts differ, however, one say> the account of whose execution we publish | gent enough to understand that for such in-| ing that these sweet-scented worthies had upon another page, is in many essential | vestments as have been made and are still | failed altogether to improve the opportunities respects an exact counterpart of that melan- | contemplated on the boulevards, avenues and | offered by the fire, aud had remained supinely cboly history of a French prisoner, by Victor | parks, they receive a tenfold return in the | in our owa city, content to pursue their ordi- Hugo, which is usually printed asa sort of | increased value of their property and in | nary operations of faro banking, keno dealing, preface to the ‘‘Last Day of a Condemned | the general progress and prosperity of | panel house piping and street car picking, Man.” Like ‘that poor unfortunate, he had | the city. They do not complain of | while the lurid flames of Chicago lighted their been imprisoned for stealing, and was | taxation for such purposes; and they | more enterprising brethren of the West to so moved by the inhumanity of the | do not wish to see a fire department, a health | devastation and death. The first report was Warden of the jail in which he was confined | board, or any other branch of the city govern- | almost too good to be true, and sadly enough he endeavored to escape the hands of the bang- man by a voluntary suicide, We miss many is that the money they are disposed to give | demn the lukewarm spirit, the utter lack of liberally for the advancement and adornment | esprit du corps that kept these sluggards at of the metropolis shall not be miappropriated | home when they might have been prosecuting or purloined ont of the treasury. Deputy | their business with such vast profit to Comptroller Green may exercise all the care | honest communities among the falling houses and vigilance in his power t guard the peo- | of Chicago and inside the lines of Sheridan's ple’s money and to prevent the needless squan- | vigilant troopers. dering of a single dollar; but he must not misinterpret the popular sentiment and be- | Tae INTERNATIONAL Socrery IN Berorum.— lieve that he is.carryinz ont the will of the | Among the Belgian workingmen, and par- people by ‘blocking the wheels of government, | ticularly among those of Brussels, the Inter- obstructing public improvements and depre. | national Society has taken firm hold. The Ciating the value of real estate. leaders of this extensive organization, branches of which are to be found in every capital of Tue Enreste Corpiate—Tae Froits or the European Continent, watch. closely the tue Treaty oF Wasntscrox.—How com-| movements of the various labor and trades separation of the convict from his bosom friend, and bis previous virtuous record—but the main facts remain the same. And with the startling picture of the Paris novelist before the eye, we feel consirained to ask ourselves whether the same dreary tragedy is indeed possible upon American soil. Can it be that there exists among us a criminal class—such as we know exists in Europe—who feel them- selves cut off from all sympathy with the community in which they live by theft and lawlessness, and who there- The pfomptuess and energy with which aoe were disposed of during the disorganl- sation and of were emi- Seeger ticket gal-ulated to rake the West | the purposes of the work in the Department noun uivotrhan carer sot coreaid on free trade and the and | of Public Parks was yesterday partially argued |» touch of the temper of Phil Shevidan. The cat election, which drove them to their ‘‘new | all the country on early potatoes and big | before Judge Ingraham, and the Court at once | laws are silent not only in the miist of arms, ++-Nq 287 | departure,” they have suffered many heavy | pumpkins; or Trumbull and Fenton—s ticket | decided that nothing in the statute’ known as | butin the midst of all great emergencies, and misfortunes, growing worse and worse, to the | strong at both ends from its puagent opposi- | the Two Per Cent act prevents the issue of } for the Chicagoans or Sheridan to have'furned and were pretty certainly known to have com- The re- | Lampposts, long ropes and short shrifts were thrown the whole crew into consternation and | in the same general category as Hoffman, | ault of the present action of the Coert will be | the most effective methods of dealing with now that a judicial decision hag relieved his | were even then en route for the scene of all the legion of disaffected republicans who have drawn blanks in General Grant's lottery of the spoils, are all ready for a new party, though very few of them are ready to join the democratic party, with its peace record of the war and its spoils and plunder affiliations with Tammany. Carl Schurz has been preaching the necessities of a new party ; Sumner, Fenton and Greeley desire to cut off General Grant with one term, and Trumbull, on free trade, is ready to bolt against the party in power and all its works. Give him the new party suggested and he will go over to it, and thousands of the republican farmers of the West, including the whole German column, will join him, The issnes of the war will be out of the way; there will be nothing more tod bate on the new amendments, and, in a word, if you only take down the scare- the republican party. It is this democratic together, and oothing else. The true course, then, for the democracy is fore regard themselves as governed by different lawa and guided by a distinct code of honor and principle from those which we, the respectable masses, deem synonymous with civilization itself? There can be no doubt that Wilson, or Kentley, was a man of exceptional genius and force of character. Why, in this free and great republic, was he not utilized? If we credit in any way bis own ac- count of the crime for which he suffered the last penalty of the law, he was capable of being stirred by ood impulses to deeds of heroism; and his past career, with its eight hundred burglaries, proves that in a certain order of intellect he had but few superiors, He was altogether too good a man to be wasted in the sinks of crime, It may doubtless be said that a certain wrong-headedness—what Poe chris- tened the innate porverseness of human na- pletely the Treaty of Washington has changed the relations of Great Britain and America! Recently how cold were those relations. Look at the acts of the last few days. How nobly our government has gone to the rescue of England and saved her territories from what might have proved a serious Fenian invasion! How nobly the British government has acted in the matter of the Chicago disaster! At the time the British. government was. issuing instructions to the governmentof the Dominion of Canada to offer to Chicago: all the. military tents and blankets in their possession the gov- ernment of the United States was taking excellent ‘care of General O'Neill. This is an intelligible kind of reciprocity. We,owe it to the Washington Treaty. Let us have a little more of the same. Two Litre Gurts, bright, intelligent chil. unions. In Brussels the section of the Inter- national existing in that city had a moeting a short time ago, at which the progress of the . labor movement formed one of the prominent subjects for consideration, The reports from the various delegates were satisfactory. The meeting, however, did not adjourn withont urging the necessity of energy in the formation of additional trades anions upon those pre- sent, Every new organization established will, of course, be in full accord and will affiliate. with the International... The move- ment of the workingmen of Brussels serves to illustrate the activity of the working classes generally at the present time, not only in Europe but here at bome, Tue Panto with which we were threatened in Wall street. seems, happily, to have been in- definitely postponed. The failures. have been ture—was the true cause of his ruin. But we dren, who were left by their mother in ® | few and insignificant, Even the Stuyvesant cannot help thinking that something is still amiss in our body politic, and that Wilson, or Kentley, was a victim of our as yet imper- fect social system. After all, as Sydney Smith said, ‘‘the worst use to which you can put a man is to hang him.” Lire Issvrance ComMpanigs To THE Rescug.—The representatives of the most important of our life insurance com- panies in this city met on Thareday at the offices of the Equitable Life In- surance Society. A resolution to proffer aid to the sufferers in Chicago was cordially and crow of the democratic party, you break up | unanimously adopted, and a committee was boarding school on Forty-sixth street, were yesterday turned over to the charity of the Catholic Protectory by‘ the school teacher, the mother of the children having failed to femit. It seems to us tbat this was quite a summary disposal of the children. The mother ought at least to have beew informed of the steps about to be taken, as it appears her post office address was known. She will doubtless hear now through the Heratp of the disposal made of her children, and may take measures to reclaim them, but itis mach ensier to get into these city asylums than to get out, Bank promiges to speedily recover, and it was not in any case a concera of very great mag- nitude. The Chicago fire, and the utter de- struction of an immense amount of property which it entailed, has, however, had the un- doubted effect of very considerably shrinking all descriptions of values. Stocks are still many points below the figures of a few days ago, and the slightest disturbance either at home or in Europe would probably knock them down very considerably lower. Tne TRADE STRIKES AND LaBor WaGEs AGi- TATION in Newcastle, England, bas produced JopGk BanNaRD AND THE GRAND JUEY.— | 4 riot, ‘The masters and workingmen ere in appointed to receive contributions from the | Judge Barnard yesterday dismissed the Grand | gisect collision again on the subject of an ar- scarecrow that keeps the republican party | different life corporations and to dispense them | Jury recently empanelled, and gave notice rangement, and the police and the strikers in accordance with the sense of the meeting, | thata new Grand Jury would be ordered to'| p79 been in personal collision, with severe This is a politic as well as a charitable | be drawn on Monday next. We understand clearly indicated, Let them adopt it sud | movement on the part of these institutions, they will, without much diffi-ulty, be able to | for it is well known that disease and pesti- | himself at the next drawing, in accordance that Judge Barnard intends to be present choose their standard bearers for the coming | lence follow in the wake of such suffering as | with the provision of the law, in order to see Presidental contest, They will bave the has been created by the late terrible con- fair play. choice before them of a number of available | flagration, In the alleviation of this distress | no taint or breath of suspicion on auch an in- tickets for President and Vice President, | the life companies are interested in ho small | quest, and noone can, object to any measures, restoration of bysigess in Chicage, They can that may be adovted toinsure an honest panel, | affard ta do it, auch ag General Logan and Wendell Phiilios— degree. blows on either side, A dangerous condition of affairs, Ir Has Been Svcagstep that the banking This is all right. There should be | institutions of the canatry should give one per gont of their surples earnings to ata in the Burepena ConiMtn:tiens to Chicage. ~ | to the rexcue of Chicago. O..* Predictions have become .“eality beyond even on. ardent Conmmon Oouncit of th.* clty of London Iations of sympathy were ..dopted, and it was urmdinously agreed that one thousand guineas be forwarded immediately to \America and. placed’ to the credit of the Mayor‘of Chicar's, Lord Mayor received for the same pur, ?0?s, the great compantes:have come up to the © requirements of duty, Baring, Morgan, Ro ths- child, Brown, Shipley’ &Co., the Great We.¥t- ern Railway of Canada and the Grand Trak, Railway have subscribed’ one thousand pounds each. Yesterday’ the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce voted: five hundred pounds steri-. ing; the American ‘Chamber contributed thir- teen thousand'doHars, and‘ a mass meet- ing was to be held to’ secure further ald. We had already heard! of the ma- nificence of Liverpool and: Birmingham and other centres. - It pleases‘ us‘to learn that the Edinburg Chamber of Commerce has met, and that a mass meeting has beem resolved upon for the purpose of organizing relief com— mittees, As is most becoming, Southampton, which has benefited largely’ by American gold, is arousing herself, and handsome sab scriptions are expected. Wé have nob beasd from Glasgow, but we expect that Glasgow by’ her liberality will justify the verdict of tie late census and prove herself to be the secom& city in the empire, Vienna has already takem action, and Berlin and Frankfort-on-the-Malm are giving promise that they will not-be left behind tothe race. How much Chicago owes to the deep-sea cables! But for them the Oh# World, whose liberal contributions are now relieving her distress, would not have known: of her misfortune. As yet wecan form ae idea of the amount of the money which has’ been subscribed in the great European centres. We are quite satisfied that it will not be ume equal to an ability which is most unquestios- ably great. How much more cheering and hope-inspiring is this excitement than the excitement which was begotten of the late war’ in Earope! This isan example of the power of goodness. That was an example of the power of evil. Let us hope that this last is more in harmony with the course and tendency of human progress, / Is tae Brooxtyy Crrr Court yesterday Miss Roxellena Homan recovered fiftees thousand dollars from Alexander Earl, as compensation for his unwarrantable trifling with her'heart, which, as young ladies-go now, must have been a very dear heart indeed. Personal Intelligence. United States Senator Charies Sumner ts in towdy, ‘at the Brevoort House, E. C. Bantleld, Solicitor of the Treasary Departe ment, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor William Bross, of Illinois, 1s stopping? ut the St, Nicholas Hotel, " Charies Wiele, United States Consul in Ecuador, tf at the Astor House. Rear Admiral Alden, of the United States Navy, fas quarters at the Albemarie Hotel. General A. Grant, of Washington, is stopping a¢ the Grand Central Hotel. 4. T. Wiley, of Elizabeth, N.J., 1s stopping at tha St. James Hotel, General J. B. Stonehouse, of Albany, is residing a& the Astor House. 9 Colonel H. B, Johnson, of Sen Franclaco, is a she journer at the Grand Central Hotel.’ Ex-Governor William Dennison, of Onto, ts resude - ing at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Dr. William M. King, of the United States Navy, 1 quartered at the Albemarle Hotel. Russell Sturges, of boston, is registered at the Brevoort House. Judge William F, Allen, of Albany, is stopping a@ the St. Nicholas Hotel. Lewis Selye, of Rochester, is registered at the Astor House. Captain A. J. Daucelis, of Lima, Pera, 1s sojourme ing at the Grand Central Hotel. General James S. Whitacy, of Boston, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Congressman James Buffinton, of Massachusetts, 1s at the St. Nicholas Hotel. R.D, Staart Muirhead, of England, ts registered! at the Albemarle Hotel, Governor Hoffman yesterday arrived at the Ulare endon Hotel, Sefior de Moncada, late Spanish Consul at Charies- ton, 8. C., has been nominated member of the Spanish Congress for his State, while on a visit to that.country. sefor de Moncada belongs to one of the most liberal and most respectable families im Marcia, bis native Stats, THE WEATHER, War DeraRrMent, OFFICR OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OrviceR, WASHINGTON, D. U., Oct. 14-1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twentyour Hours. Tne area of highest barometer continues om the Middle Atlantic Coast, moving slowly north eastward, The area of low pressure probably exists west of Lake Michigan, but reports are noe received from thas region, Fresi ‘southerly winds: with light rain Dave extended trom Iowa to Indiana; southwesterly wittds om tne Gulf coast, ang northeast winds with cloudy weather on the Saute Atlantic. Clear ‘and smoky weattier has prevane® inthe Middle and Eastern, States, with southerip winds at most places, replacing the morth- westerly winds of Thursday, The teme perature has risen slighly in the Sougherm States; bas fallen, with northerly winds, in the Mis= souri valiey, so far as heard Irom, and has tieen om ‘the Lower Lakes, Probabilities. ‘The varometer wil} probabiy falt rapidig on ther’ Atlantic coast, with easterly winds and threatentog weather south of Vitginia, and southerty winds, with cloudy weather and. possibip rain tm the conrse of the day, from Lake Erie to Wisconsum soc southward to the Gulf; cold noruberly winda from Kansas (o. Lake Saperlor aod , westwanig southerly winds with rising temperature in New. York and New England; and partialty cloudy aod pleasant weather in Spa alacia Beata. Middle States, THE SEVENTY SOLON. The Committee of seventy met. last night aga talked for three hours without saying anything. The. Mayor having passed by unheoded thetr recommemy dation in regard to the appointment of inspectors og. election, they report that “they have arrived at.cou-. clusions Which justity the. committee in the pelie® that the people will have a fair count in tne bysspnceng election,” und soon, Some of tha committee say they pever intended to meet and have spy. Alon of their proceedings published,and the,8rat given vo the reporters ast night waa touched in the words ‘the committee inct, and adjourned; bus they were afterward, prevallad upon to vouchsafe @ few words more, of equ, If not greater, import ance, The syp-committges reported progress, aa id Uule lt ® & plant tuat does per ubrive word catiy amon the Udad.. However, tn the eminontiy saiist o the comrpritee, ‘citizens and taxpay: are t nave. Another ouvereation on fuontay VORIDE, 10 Ri when they Wil, probably say aa hile & tees 4 OU Wven, expectations, "esterday, as will be “e the cable despatch'es of this morn’ 108 3S Guildbalt, the Lord Ms,vor presiding. Reso- for the relief of the sufferers by the‘fre. Ia poy few mitiutes—it covdd hardly be hours->) 6 op wards of sbven thousand pounds sterlins:? rod ~