The New York Herald Newspaper, October 15, 1871, Page 8

bs] WW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STRERT. - 4AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROVRIETOR, AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW AFTERNGON AND EVENING. 4 iy ahd Bowery. -Hfir-A Favonits NUBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston atreeis.—Tuk Starts OF New York. URAND OPERA HOUS! le - nee ik, corner of &b ay. ana tid m.. LANA EDWIN's THE AT! ro Orena—La Pentcuoin wi hi hag ap aniNiaaadt FIVTR AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty.ts ie tux New Diam ov Divosse’ Matinee pid rig UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth ; way.—NGRO ACTS BUBLESGUM DaLuEt, Ae tt OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broaftway.—Tae Batt, - woutue or Humpty Duwprr. Malince at eer STADT TULATRE, Ni ‘and > Seankecucce: E, Nos, 4 and 47 Rowery—Orrea WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and 3th meeet.— & COMICON CASE—A Game OF SPECULATION ACADENY OF MUSTO, Fourtecuth street. —ENGLISU Orns —DON GiovAN NI, ¥, corner Bth st. —Parfori- BK OCTOROON. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Bro aneta adternoon and even:! ROOTI'S THEATRE, Ba wt, varween ii and brave Macneru. MRE. F. 5. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. — Tus Lancers. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 1oMB, NEGKO ALTE, ac. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE) THE SAN PRANGiSOO MINBTRE: roadwar., Cow Voor Haul, 5% Broadway.— BRYAN ano Tin OPERA WOUSK, 24 at., ANT'S MINSTER TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSF, No. 2M B. x Keone Eoornruicrries, Bumescets, acy panty STRINWAY HALL, Fourteeuth Concent. PARIS PAVILION CIRCUS, Fourteenth street, between Ad and 34 aveuues,-EQOURATRIANISM. 0, ‘TE BXULBITIGN, Piurd ave nue dpea day and eveaiaz. QUADRUPLE SHEUT. New York, Sanday, October 15, 1871, detween 6th street. MounTox AMERICAN INSTT god Sisty-tuird stron. OF TO-DAY'S HiKALD. hae Pe hE ERT AS 1—Advertitemen:s. 2 Advertisements. B—Adver 4—Map of G—the ‘¥ of Chicago, fe City: Addivonat Acconnts of “t Death; Robvery, Rapine and ling of the Muttatade; The Derui- capiug trom keypulds’ Block; A error; Dranken Harlots Mace the Air Kesouad with Curses; A Seast of beat; Tne Fue t krough a German Burying Ground and sumes the Vaults Filled with Dead bodie fombs Overturned and Graves Burned: vrder Hestored; Cause of the Fire @nd Estimated Loss, ity (Continned from th Page): Pers. ity (Continued from Sixth Page}— Religious Intelligence: Services To-Day; HER ALD Kiclizious Correspondence—The Sinyve- Sant Suspension: Another Meeting of the Stockholders—Murder tn Rochester— ’ Accident on the Morris and Fesex far Tweed and Shandley Mecting—AUcged Theit of $1,000 Bond. B—Ealworials: Leading Article, “Cnicago ani Her Misfortnnc—A Great Sorrow and a Groat Les- sou'’—-Personal Inteligence—Amusement An- noancements. O—lwportant from Bavaria—News from France, Germany, England, Algeria, Morocco and fadia—Movements Of the trom Washin. Ko Klux ‘fro Presideni—News —Misceliancous Velecraph— 4 In Missouri—Defrauding ‘atching a Clergyman-- it. Gabriel's School Hall— Views of the Past—Business Notices. ¥O—Tho Nerihwest Ablaze: Full Account of the Havoc Wrought by the Flames; Thousands of Lives Losi; The Loss Computed at Tens of Muluons Of Voilars—Aid for the Sufferera by 6 Michigan /Ire--Amasenents—Watcuing a Olergyman—The Little Freach Girl—Financial end Commercial Keports. Bi—erome Park Kaces: Thiid Day of the Autumn Meeting; Brilliant Assemblage, Fine Racing and aGrand Display of Elegant Toiets-—Pro- ceedings in the Courts—The Irrepresaible Pisk, Jr.—Murderous Afiray at Castle Gar- deu-—-Municipal Ditticalt A Notorious Thief m Hoboken—Marriages, Birth and Deaths. 12~A Camp on the Prairies: A Drive to the Camp ‘of the Victhas of the Chicago Fire; Scenes of Sorrow and Anguish-—-voston Ald for Chi- cago—Maurder of the Innocent—Arrival of tne Sloop-of-war Portsmonth—stupping Intelli- gence —Aavertisewents, ww 13—Advertisements, 44—Aaverttsements, 35—Advertisemetos. 16—Advertiscments. Oor QvavavuPte Saeer this morning will be found full of interesting matter. A full page map of Chicago, showing the general topog- faphy of the city as it was before the fire, pnd a smaller one exhibiting the burnt jistricts in Wisconsin and Michigan, will found especially useful in view of the wery full and interesting reports which our correspondents give of the occurrences of the great conflagration and the scarcely less destructive forest fires. Sixteen pages of printed matter, containing, besides this, tho latest city and general news, go to make up & very magnificent daily newspaper, Tammany is not only the great radical bug- hear, but the rural democracy have also be- come sadly frightened at the power and in- fiaence of the Fourteenth street Sachems. The democrats of Saratoga county yesterday publisbed an address repudiating Tweed and denouncing the action of the Rochester Con- vention as an endorsement of Tammany and the State Ring. This is @ new departure from democratic tactics which is particularly unpalatable to the party managers in the pre- sent perilous condition of affairs. Sronerary Rowesoy has effected a needed eeform among the cadets at the Naval Academy by putting a etop to the disgraceful bebit of “hazing.” Five cadet midshipmen were dismissed from that institution yester- day for persisting in this practice after re- peated orders had been issued for its sup- pression. The Secretary does not object to gouthfal vivacity, but will not tolerate the rudeness aod persistent vulgarity usually at- tendant upon the initiation of new cadets at Annapolis Academy. Tae ALGERIANS AND KanyLes AGaINsT Fuaxog anp Spain.—-The Algerian people are in arms and active against French rule io the territory. The Kabyles have again moved in opposition to the Spanish garrison in the King’s settlement on the north coast of Mo- rocco, France is likely, eo says our telegram from Paris, to lose a colony which was acquired by the exercise of the most crue! military force, The Spaniards have again silenced the Kabyles by their cannon. An officer of royal France, years since, “smoked” thousands of Algerians to death in their caves as a measure of war conquest. Here are Algerians to-day fn battle line against France notwithstanding. Priva enjoyed his grand victories on the coust of Moroceo years since, yet Prim lies in his grave and republican Spain is called on to complete his war work, The peoples live for- ever, and the most primitive of the races can fiad its Abd-el-Kader duriug momeuts of ua- fuatifiable oppression, Chicage and Her Misfortane—A Great Sore row aed a Groat Lesson. It ia not in many years, it is not in many centuries, that the world is callod upon to took on and wouder and learn, as the world is called upon to look on and wonder and learo te-day. This Chicago affair marks an epoch, not in the history of Christendom alone, aot in the history of the modern world alone, but in the history of the human race. It isa land- mark, and a most encouraging landmark, in the history of time, in the history of haman progress. It is more than possible—nay, it is certain—that catastrophes quite as serious have in the past not unfrequently occurred. A great city on fire, a great city burned to ashes, is ng new thing in the history of the world. We cannot forget the great cities of the East—cities which were old or in ruins when Rome was young, or before Rome began to exist. What schoolboy is not familiar with the sad tale of borning Troy, and pious Aineas, when the cause was lost, dutifully bearing on his shoulders the aged Anchises, his father, and carrying him safely forth from the flames? With the baroing of Jerusalem, the complete destruction of its unrivalled Tem- ple aud the sad scenes which immediately followed, leading to the final dispersion of the chosen people of God, every ordinary reader of history is acquainted. Carthage, with Scipio Africanus sitting sorrowing amid the ruins which he himself had created; Kome 4 dozen times in flamea, often in ashes, but ever, like the phoenix, rising afresh, youthful, beau- tiful, vigorous as ever; the great historic London conflagration, as described by De Foe and commemorated until this day by one of the most cherished monuments of the ancient city—ail these rise up in our memory. We think of these, their partially told disasters and their imperfectly known sorrows. We think of these and many other similar casos, both in ancient and modern times; but this Chicago conflagration, with its eccompani- ments and its immediate consequences, stands out singly, solitary, alone. It is 3 new thing in anew age. It marks a new era. Let us look at some facts. It had begun to be believed that in onr modern cities a great destructive fire, similar to the great destruc- tive fires of the past, was impossible, The attempt which was made so recently to de- stroy Paris, and the complete failure thereof, encouraged that belief. It was supposed that such fires as those which destroyed many of the greai cities of the past, and with which in comparatively recent times we have not been unfamiliar, had been rendered im- possible by the discoveries and appliances of modern science. But suddenly all these fine imaginings are scattered to the winds of heaven, A great city, a city well supplied with water, a city full of energy, a city want- ing in none of the scientific requisites for the resistance and destruction of fire, is caught in the flames; and, in spite of all that human energy and human skill can accomplish, the fire demon domivates the situa- tion until its best and most beautiful portions are in ruins, until millions of dollars’ worth of property is destroyed, and until thou- sands upon thousands of people who have not been caught in the destroying element are left penniless and homeless. Its a new and humiliating lesson to the world. It shows that there is a power still mightier than man— a force not yet seriously affected by human ingenuity. It does more—it proves that the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah and the other Cities of the Plain is still a probability. Nay more, this Chicago disaster, taken in connec- tion with those dreadful fires which with de- struction in their breath have swept like a fierce whirlwind the Western prairies, merci- lessly regardless of human homes, of human treasures or of haman life, forbids us to come to the conclusion that a world in flames, a second and universal Deluge, but a universal deluge of fire, is a vain and foolish dream, worthy only of the muddled brains of prophets who belonged to a dead and buried past. History repeats itself, and repeats itself with such wonderful precision that it is not unnatu- ral for the thoughtful mind sometimes to in- quire whether, after all, these latter days are beiter than the first. The pride of the human intellect has perseveringly for centuries been rearing a tower by which to reach the heavens. Let us hope that this tower may not prove another Tower of Babel—a cause of confusion, dispersion and weakness. ‘The anprecedented character of this Chicago disaster, with ita accompaniments, finds its best illustration, its best commentary, in the stir and excitement it has produced, notin this country alone, not on this Continent alone, but throughout the wide domain of Christendom. It bas fallen like a thunderbolt oa the nations. One mizht almost say, if he took'a sufficiently gloomy view of human “bature, that it has frightened them iato goodness. This, bow- ever, it is safe to say, that whether from love or fear, from sympathy with buman sorrow, or from a wholesome dread of possible impending punishment, the civilized world has not been so stirred in many genera- tions—we had almost said in many centuries—as it is to-day. Never be- fore did the world so rush to the rescue of the suffering. Never before did man so burst throngh and bound over the barrier lines of race and religion, and language and taste, to the aid of his fellows. It is a new revelation, It is fresh light from Heaven. It shows us how meaningless and how barbarous is war. It shows us how artificial and how un- necessary are the lines which cut the human family into sections. It shows us how easy it is after all for all of us to follow the Master's precept and love one another. Our columos from day to day during the course of last week have been illustrating this brotherly love, not asa fine but impracticable theory, but as a grand living fact. Let any man glance over our columns to-day and say whether it is not true that one touch of nature does indeed make the whole world kin, Chicago is the theme on the lips of all our preachers, and the absorbing thonght in the minds of all our worshipping people. To-day no man is known after his religious or political creed; we are neither Catholics nor Protestants, but brother men ; neither republicans nor democrate ; and the burning desire in every breast is not to advance this or that particular cause, religious or political, but to contribute to the relief of fellow men in distress, This is true not of New York alone, not of the worshipping * geople of this great country or this great Con- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBE 2 ace te ne Se ner tinent alone, but of the whole Christian world. Eloquent tongues plead for Chicago not from the pulpits of the New World alone, but from the historic pulpita of the Old; and London and Vienna and Berlin, not to speak of Bombay and Calcutta and other crowded centres of population, will as gene- rously and as heartily pour their money into the treasury as New York or Boston or Phila- delphia. It is a noble spectacle—such ao spectacle as the world has rarely looked upon, not help rejoicing in this grand and spon- taneous .outburst of human goodness, In these degenerate days, when corruption sits in high places, this universal sympathy gives us fresh faith in our species, But noble as the spectacle is, and proud as we are to behold it, we would not wish to see it soon again, Such 4 sight is sufficient for one generation. It is not unreasonablo, we think, to take it for granted that there are many, very many, who are seriously impressed by the lesson which Providence has so emphatically read to the world. It is felt and admitied that Chicago has suffered, and suffered severely; but no thoughtful man is willing to admit that Chicago has suffered because she is worse than her sister cities. The fate which has befallen the people of Chicago might have befallen us—that is the general feeling. It is a right and proper feeling. But how long will it last? A few weeks, and the Chicago lesson will be forgotten. A few months and Chicago, rejoicing in the impulses and activities of a new life, will forget her own sorrow. And so the world has rolled on from the beginning, Will it ao roll on to the end? Chicago in the Churches To-Day. Our advertising columns this morning give a fair show of the religious activity of the churches and the church-going people in the midst of us. Chicago and the sorrows of Chi- cago and relief for Chicago, and themes of that sort, are the topics which this morning fill every preacher’s mind, and which are attract- ing our thousands upon thousands to the house of God. True of New York, this is true also of Brooklyn, of Jersey City and of almost all the great cities of North America—the Dominion of Canada included. If we may dare to gueas, it will not be different in Eu- rope, All over Great Britain and Ireland, all over Germany end France, the Chicago sorrow will figure ia the day's sermon and the day's sympathy. The religion of Jesus lays hold of the sorrow; the priests and the preachers ex- pound or appeal, and tho Christian people obey. To-day will live in history as a grand memorial of the unity of Christendom. We are willing to make an addition to this state- ment of the case, and to say that others be- sides Christiana recognize the hand of God and obey the call. We make the addition because we feel it to be unjust to exclude the Jews, who in this case are quite as enthusias- tie and quite as liberal as are their Christian neighbors. As this, however, is the Christian Sabbath, not the Jewish, we have a right to put the case as we put it in the first instance. It is reasonable, we think, to conclude that the sentiments expressed in all the pulpits will be worthy of the occasion, and that the re- sponse will not be unworthy of the pews. Many things will, no doubt, be said not alto- gether kind to Chicago. Sodom and Gomorrah and Babylon will afford matter for suitable comparisons; and the outpouring of Divine wrath will be justified by many sermons and by many amens. Some of our preachers and congregations, let us hope, will remember the fall of the Tower of Siloam and the short ser- mon of the Master founded thereon :—“Think you that yeare more righteous; I tell you nay, but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” We do not say that Chicago was not wicked; but we do say that it is not for us to speak as if we were innocent or as if we were not in danger of similar judgment. In the hearty response which the whole Christian world has given to the Chicago appeal, and in the assistance which has been rendered to the common cause by the new agents of civiliza- tion—the railroad, the telegraph and the news- paper—the preachers have an interesting theme. Let them not neglect it. Christianity is a vital force; but it is a vital force outside and in spite of the pulpit. After all that has been said and written already, after all that may be spoken or read to-day, the best proof of the life of the Churches will be their liberality. We expect great things in this direction, Let us not be disappointed. Tor Freson Exxorions.—The returns of the French elections come slowly in. A cable despatch which wo print this morning gives 94 Bonaparlists, 194 Legitimists, 201 radicals, 494 moderates and 567 liberal conservatives, The Bonapartists, it will be seen, are the low- est on the list, The Legitimists are the next. It is noteworthy that the Orleanists are not mentioned. The moderates and the liberal conservatives are, to all appearance, omnipo- tent, On the face of things the show is good for the present government. The great trouble in the case is that no man can tell exactly what moderates and liberal conserva- tives are. They may be monarchists, they may be imperialists, but they can hardly be republicans. Evidently they are men in favor of order; bat the question is whether this large nondescript majority will not on the first opportunity rush to the winning side, Ajaccio has retarned Prince Jerome, but his elgction is being contested on the ground that he does not pay taxes in Corsica. The situation is gradually defining itself, and it is almost cer- tain that the Conseils Genéraux will yet re- veal the actual strength and prospects of the different parties. “Gop Brass You! You Arg Dowe Spres- pipty."—This is the response of the Mayor of Chicago to the Relief Committee of our Cham- ber of Commerce. The cordial acknowledg- ment may be taken to the heart of every con- tributor—from the highest to the lowest—to the Chicago relief fund. Having done go well for Chicago, is it too much to ask that some- thing be done to relieve the enfferings of the unfortunate people of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota? Be not weary in well doing, and your reward will be in the heavenly benison—“God bless you!” RaproarisM is far below par in Texas, At the late election the democracy swept the Lone Star State by forty thousand majority, While we grieve for Chicago we can- : The Groateat of These tw Charity. The great crusade of Charity, whioh has so suddenly roused the commercial world from its selfish asceticism, and shown us, as if through a rift in the clouds, how much above the work of money gotting the human heart is, after all, still goes on, the cordial enthusiasm unabated and the generous impulses unflagging. It bas become a noble rivalry of Charity. The men of all parts of the world, who a few days ago would bave beaitated long over letting their dearest impecunious friends have a few shares of Northwestern on doubtful security, and who would have hung their heads in shame and feared to look their brother brokers in the face if they had lost a thousand dollars ina bosiness bargain—the men, indeed, who made it » business maxim never to fet sympathy or friendship interfere in a bargaio—these men are now rivalling each other in thelr lavish generosity to the distressed citizens of Chicago. All classes, from the poor laborers pinched for their rent money, to the rich gen- tleman of leisure plethoric with his wealth, are | zealous in the daty of contributing to the suf- ferers, From over the sea the magnificent capi- tals of Europe—London, Berlin, Vienna, and even similarly stricken Paris--bave shipped their moneybags to the devastated Capital of the Prairies. From tho four corners of our own Union; from her sister cities, so lately in hot and unrelenting business rivalry with her, heaping detraction upon her and blasting her reputation, all in the way of unscrupulous business; from St. Louis, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Memphis, New Or- leans—the cities that went hand and hand with her in the war for the Uaion, and the citics that confronted ber on the other side—all have pressed upon her their generous offerings and hearty sympathy. But New York, magnificent Empire City of the Union, stands head and shoulders above them all iu the grandeur of her giving. She is the Richard of the new crusade. Her free~ will donations to her desolated sister-—made up of sums given according to their propor- tion by nearly every man and woman in the city, and by every great firm, by every small shop, by the great manufacturer, by. the poor little seamstresses, by the little schoo! children, by the places of amusement, by the ealoons, by the great corporations and by all the great institutions of the city—amount to $1,463,000 in money and about six hundred thousand dol- Jars in supplies. As an instance of the unanimity with which all contributed, the amount paid into the Hrratp office since Tuesday last, when we announced our willing- ness to take charge of subscriptions, up to the latest hour iast night was $10,523 66, which were given in sums ranging from one thousand dollars down to fifty cents. Some handed their con- tributions over the counter personally, others sent anonymovs notes enclosing them, the employ¢s of firms clubbed together and sent tbeir amounts in #4 one man, and others sent checks. Asa@ further instance of the diffusion of the charity which thus finds its outlet through the Hzratp, one gentleman, too modest to have his name mentioned, has requested us to take charge of donations which his correspondents in Brussels, Berlin, Paris and other capitals of Europe have made, In the meantime, the amount collected at this office has been deposited in the Chemical Bank, subject to the orders of David A. Gage, City Treasurer of Chicago, and we shall con- tinue to receive contributions at our counter as long as a dollar is forthcoming. These show the charitable impulses of this great City of- Charities. Nor was she a lag- gard in the work. The flames of Chicago had hardly reached the height of their fury when New York forwarded her first sadly-needed subscriptions. Her railway trains, freighted with the articles most precious to the beggared people, furnished by kind hearts and willing hands, sped to the relief at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and electric messages, laden with that substantial charity which never faileth, flashed instantly and unceasingly over ber wires, Ont of the black desolation which brood over Chicago comes the one bright lesson that charity is uppermost yet among the attributes of the human heart; that the selfish cares of commerce and the rough, un- feeling struggle of existence have not ground out of the money-getting world that charity that is greater than fuith and hope. Sheridan in the Fire. In the terrible ordeal through which the fated city of Chicago has just passed there appeared one man, at least, who, while the fiery tide swept over the city, was calm, col- lected and self-controlled amid the excitement prevail! gall ground him. That man was General Sheridan, As at Winchester te arrived in time to rally his army and infuse spirit in his retiring soldiers to renew the struggle which secured them a glorious vic- tory, so his presence at Chicago when the city was wrapped in flames bad the effect of inspir- ing the almost despairing citizens with the hope that all was not yet lost. Self-controlled, de- termined and vigilant, the Hero of the Shenan- doah Valley played a part in battling with the flames in the Garden City of the West which will add to hia renown and cause his name to be still more warmly cherished io the memory of his countrymen. With his handfal of men he accomplished wonders, Fight- ing fire wiih fire, destroying to pre- vent greater destruction, blowing up buildings the ruins of which were to serve as barricades against the fast consuming flames, General Sheridan contested every inch of its advance. As if Heaven itself smiled on the resoluteness with which the brave soldier fought for the safety of the homes of the un- fortunate Chicagoans, it let fall copious tor- rents of rain to aid the strugglers, and thus the conflagration was stayed. But the labors of the soldier were not ended. Thousands of home- Jess men, women and childrea were without » place to lay their heads and without food to appease the cravings of hunger, For a sec- ond time did Sheridan’s thoughtfulness and army experience come to the rescue. The tents and the army rations provided through his forethought afforded shelter and food for the sufferers. This temporary relief bridged over the interim between the first effects of the terrible calamity and the reception of the first of the bounteous offerings of the peo- ple of the whole uation, who have sever yet been deaf to the appeuls of snifering ov mia~ fortaae, ~ il K 15, 1871.—QUADRUPLE SHEET . Review ef the Religious Press. It is grand! All the religious papers that come to our table this week are illuminated with appeals to their congregations to belp helpless Chicago. Merchants may do a great deal, but touch the hearts of the pious people of our country, and tha outpouring is over- whelming. ‘The Independent bas w leuding article, in which Mr. Bowen presents the viows of the Congregationalisis in the following exhorts- tion;— Yood for Chicago! Food for tne granary of the West! That is the cry to-day. ‘Aas tor weeks lo come there wul be @ cull for all the aid that the benevolent can supply. Let the President anre- buked assume war powers to answer the call. Let Ctncinnau rival St. Louis in the labor of mercy. Let pianderea New York pour jorth her yet un- squandered wealth, Let church vie with church, and man with man; and let no Christian and no clti- wen withhold his bounty, And to the God of Mercy— whose overmastering powers of fire or of flood man thus learns that he cannot curb—iet the prayer go up for the homeless and the suffering | The Hvangelist (Presbyterian organ) devotes its editorial columo, in double leaded type, to the subject of “A Great City in Ashes.” [t calls for sympathy in words like these :-—- At such an hour as this we can only tender to our eutlering brothers and sisters our deepest sympa- thy, Suoh assistance ag it is in our power to bestow. Let tie assistance be prompt. Let it come irom all quarters of the land and pour in a steady stream upon this stricken city! * * © But what a warning does this erecat lamity convey to us alii What a lesson on the emptiness ot that in which we pride our- selves | We boasted o: Chicago as an imperial city of vat wealth and enterprise; ani so, decd, 1b was, Yet in one hour 13 so great riches come to naught! Liow it ought to huinbdle us, woo sit in our houses in fancled security! What has come to them may come to us also, Our heip is In God alone, Letus bow before Him at once in prayer Lor our desolate brothers and in humble confession of ‘those sins which may uring upon us the visitation Of tne Almughty | The Observer (Presbyterian) calls attention to “Chicago in Ruius,” and says:-~ ‘The First and Second Presbyterian charches, Wa- bash avenue, Were among the finest buildings in the country devoted to religious woralip. Boin were burned, Can not our brother of the Observer go be- yond fire? Does it want brimatons also? The Golden Age siicks to the beautitul, even in moments of dismay. It speaks of “The Beautiful City in Ashes.” The appeal of the sufferers in Chicago, it says, to the sympathy and charity of their fellow country- men is piteous and pathetic, and continues: — It should touch all hearts, Let atfull bounty of basket and store be seat without delay from All parts of the land to the hungry mea, women and children who now-sit starving among te charred Cae ruins of their households in Chicago, God pity all stricken hearts! The Jewish Times calls Chicago, the marvel of American enterprise, “suddenly the grave of human hopes, the wreck of growing fortunes.” ‘‘Marvellous as the growth of Chicago is,” continues the Jewish Times, “more marvellous the elasticity and evergy which seem to animate our people. We see already rise from the asbes a grander city, a more powerful com- munity than the one that has perished, And in the hour of dire misfortune we see the whole American people poor forth their treas- ure to help their brethren; all bearts are moved and all bands opened to close the ranks, to fill tbe gap and cover the ruins with the outpourings of love and sympathy. * * * ‘United we stand, divided we fall’ is the adopted priaciple of the American people, and we see that united no misfortune is so great that it cannot be overcome and subdued. Let all hands come on deck, therefore, and it will not be long before the stranded ship of Chicago will be afloat again and on the way to pros- perity and fortune.” The Hebrew Leader refers to its article on the engrossing topic in its editorial columns. It is printed in Hebrew characters, fall of sound thoughts and suggestions, and undoabt- edly willdo a great deal of good toward re- lieving saffering humanity in Chicago. The Christian Union—Henry Ward Bescher, October 10—has nothing to say about the Chicago calamity, but gives us a leading arti- cle on “The Carelessness of Facts.” The carelessness of facts, united with an ex- uberant imagination, has always been a weak- nesa with our Plymouth charch pastor, Our country religious press keep up the even tenor of their way, which is doing pretty well for them. Reyal Bavarian Declaration Axalnst Papal Infallibility—Cabinet Definition ef tho Dangers of the Dogma. The different legislative Interpellations which were lately propoanded to the Bavarian government on the subject of Papal infalli- bility, its aim and tendency, have elicited from the King’s government one of the most important declarations which "ks Boos an yet uttered with reference to this new dogma of the Roman om Church, The Bavarian Minister oi Patdig Worship and Instruction went down to the lower braNGh oF the Togs: lative body yesterday, and reported to the assembled deputies the formal opinion of King Louis and bis Ministers with respect to the claims of the Church and the duty of the Crowo in the crisis. His speech was a most pointed and forcible effort. The very outline of its principal features, which reached us last night by cable telegram from Munich end appears in the Heratp to-day, supplies matter of exciting interest. The Bavarian Minister asserted, in the outset, the complete sovereignty of the State over the religious com porations. This authority waa unwavering. The Roman Catholic Church had changed its principles, Infallibility is » doctrine danger- ous to the State, The Crown will protect any and all its subjects who cannot accept the infallibility of the Pope of Rome as an article of faith, The government will itself declare such persons Catholics, and oppose “‘any encroachment by the Chorch —npon the principles of the civil constitation.” The Minister said, in conclusion, ‘that both the King and the Council of State favored a separation of the religious and political branches of the goverament, and the complete independence of each,” Such words, spoken by one of the most an- cient and Catholic kingdoms in Europe, on sach a subject, sets forth some of the very many grave and delicate issues which will be presented by the assertion of the infallibility dogma in the different countries of the earth tore clearly than would a thousand anti-papal sermons sounded from the pulpit by excited or bigoted clergy men. King Louis of Bavaria was educated and — trained by the Jesuit Fathers. His = ‘‘new departare” against infallibility 1s taken He has studied knowingly and after redection. the signs of the times, and his conclusion is that man's conscience should be absolutely freo, the goveraments which are approved by the people independent, the churches more ” essentially apostolic, and individuals permite ted to choose their own priests and to travel toward eternity on their own path and after their own particular fashion. . King Louis may become such a man as was Henry the Righth in England. Those Other Fires tm the West and Their Dinastrous Consequences. The immediate wants of Chicago being relieved, our attention is again drawn from the one hundred thousand people of that unfortu- nate city, whose homea disappeared in the late fire, to the thousands of souls lett home- leas and destitute from those other fires in the West, extending from the shores of Lake Michigan, here aud there, to the Plains of Dakota and even to the Rocky Mountains. The reports which have come to us for several days—nay, for several weeks past—of the losses of the people of Michigan from their forest fires, involving in their work of de- struction not only numerous farmhouses, out- buildings, mills and crops stored away, but whole towns and hamlets, present us a pain- ful picture of the sufferings of the hundreds and thousands of people who, from those resistless fires, have escaped only with their lives, Next to Michigan in her losses from these swoeping forest fires comes the State of Wisconsin, though it is probable that Minne- gota, from the fires in her forests and prairiea, has suffered more in the destruction of houses and crops then either Michigan or Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska and Dakota have also, from their autumoal prairie fires, suffered to some extent; but from their abounding resources they will be abundantly able to take care of their comparatively few unfortunate people. Nor can we imagine that in Minnesota, the greatest wheat-producing State in the Union, any immediate suffering will be permitted among her thrifty and large-hearted farmera, who have not been touched by these consum- ing fires; but in Michigan and Wisconsin re- lief from beyond their borders is urgently de- manded. Tho authorities of every county in all these States, that have suffered to any seri- ous extent from these fires, should appoint committees to look after the families left des- titute, and make the needful arrangements to carry them through the long winter that is before them, the first blasta of which are now close at hand, We can have no doubt that if the wants of those destitute people are only known they will be supplied; but responsible and trustworthy men should be chosen to act in this business. The rich city of Detroit is doing and will do much for Michigan, and the rich city of Milwaukee for Wisconsin, and neither of these cities have failed or will fail in reference to Chicago; bat still we appre- hend that the destitution resulting from those sweeping Michigan and Wisconsin forest fires will need outside assistance in view of the long, bard winter to be provided for. Let the local authorities concerned find out and make known their people's wants, therefore, and they will be relieved, for generous charity is the crowning virtue of the age we live in. Looking beyond the immediate misfortunes resuliing from these forest fires in the West, @ and to their probable effects upon the climate and prosperity of the States and Territories directly concerned, we are apprehensive of the most serious consequences, The great want of all that vast section of the United States lying between the immediate trough of the Mississippi River and the mountain range which skirts the Pacific coast is the want of rain, and the deficiency of rain in different localities is in proportion to the deficiency of timber. If the Great Plains between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains were covered with timber they would be blessed with bountifal rains even through the summer , season, If you strip Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan of their timber you make them as rainiess as the Great Plains. The vast warm water basins of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea furnish vapor enough to water abundantly all the Continent east of the Rocky Mountains, but that which is not con- densed on the land passes over into the Atlan- tic and is lost, The subject is one of vital im- portance to the West, and it demands the earliest attention of Congress and the States directly interested, in view of some general system of measures for the preservation and enlargement, instead of the universal destruc- tion, of t bered. Bipttck Yortontat rhs ta penton, a ait events, of these sweeping annual fires, be- . coming from year to year more and more de- structive in the forest and the prairies to life and property. x Tue Wree 1s Watt Sreexr will doubtless be remembered among such historical epochs ‘av the Morse panic of 1864 and the Black Friday panic of 1869. Many of the leading railway stock# suffered an enormous decline. Good, bad and indhxerent were alike carried down in the resistless falling tide. a Cunar as Dret.—George &, Boutwell has been nominated for the Presidehoy by a real estate paper, ‘ Personal Intelligence. Governor Harrison Reed, of Plerida, is at the Astor Lonse, Spantsh Minister Lopez Roberts ty at tue Albe- marie Hotel. Cnited States Senator Justin $ Morsil, of Ver- mont, ts stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel W. K. Sims, of Baltimore, is staying at the Grand Central Hotet. Ex-Sonator Alexander McDonald, of Arkausas, ie Tesiding at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Captain W. Rogerson, of the British Army, haw rvers at the Brevoort House. “yer. donn W. Kramer, of Grace chapel, arrived: from Europe in the steamship Atlantic on Tucsday-, Lieutenant Colonel Baynes, of the sritish Army, i rrered at the Fifth Avenne, \ nf Fer and nye pean ape? de St. Margano have | ments at the Everett House. evra Ben Butler 1s sojourning at the Firth je Hotel. Gaull Jeff ©. Davis, ot the United States Army, is quartered at the New York Hotel. ‘The Rassian Minister Catacazy arrived at the Clarendon Rotel last evening. He will there awais the artival of Prince Alexis. President Grant, Postmaster General Creswell, and General Porter stopped for & short thine yes. terday at the Fifth Avenne Hotel, while en route Oh Boston. James li. Nicholson, one of the Commisstoners of Charities and Correction, has just returned from. Hurove, much improved tn heath, During his ab- scace Mr. Nicholson improved the opportunity to Visit many of the principal charitable lastitutions of the O10 World, and obtained some practical hinta um regard to their management which may be erm- ployed With advantage in aunilar tustitustona in one owe cannery