The New York Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1871, Page 3

_—-— THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON Butler’s Analogy of the Great Instrument. How the United States Are To Be Cheated. Who Sunk the Pirate Vlorida at Fort Mon- | root—-The General of the James Was in Command. Speech of the Wssex Statesman at Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, Oct, 16, 1871. General Benjamin F. Butler, previons to com. mencing his speech on ‘fhe Treaty of Washing- ton,’ at the Academy of Music to-night, in Pugh's Star Course of Lectures, made an appeal in behalf of the Wisconsin and Michigan sufferers by the great fires now raging in those States, He called upon the audience fo ccor, and donated nis fee , Jor the lecture, $409, und requested them to send their donations to the proprietors of the respective newspapers. _ His s\ stion was unanimonsly @n- dorsed by the audience of over 4,000 people, GENERAL BUTLERS SPEECH. Be commenced his address by asking how many of the audience or the people of uns conntry hod read the Treaty of Washington, and proceeded ) Adm A Kearsarge, that sunk Ler—it 18 Unjust and inequitabie | | to call upon Engiand to pay mouuey for the depreda- NEW YORK Might sally forth again to prey upon and burn our merchant ships His Majesty the Emperor insisved that the right of his neutral territory 1o protect pirates had been tavaded by our gallant navy, and demanded, in an unfriendly spirit, instant repara- tion then in aid of the rebellion. Perhaps that makes | ' him abl the better arbitrator oa like acts of England now. WHO SUNK THE FLONTDA? In comptiance with His Majest,’s peromptory de- maul anorder for tne return of the Fiorida was given, and sie would have again been let loose upon our commerce, but luckily she was in James River when the orler came, within the Department oi Virginia and North Carolina, the comuimnder of which how addresses you, so tnat he has knowledge oO} vhe fact of which he speaks: and, wiufortanat ly for the coniederacy, bi app Florida collided as she lay a Jor our commerce, tie anchor with ag army Sransport aud sunk lu six fathoms of water, where | she has tain Burmiess ever since; and the person pow addressing you, a counsel ior Commodore Col- uns and his crew, ts endeavoring to recover her value in prize (or the aarmg, galiaut aud patriolc act Of ler capture, But witat shail be said if the treaty is 80 loosely framed, afcer all, that Great Britain las 1eit to her, by its provisions, a vahd defence to all our claims for the Alabama outrages, or at least one exceed- Ingly didicalt W answer? What is Lo be done or said Mf our Comilasioners on the Joint iligh Commission Nave not oply Wholly tailed to get an acknowledg- dent Of habiltty Lor our ciaims, but by an express | provision have leit the door open to a deience by Great Britain walch may be weil urged as sounaing im cquity andjustice? it ia to be remembered that our claim for damages jor the depredations must be primary upon the reves who desireyed our ves- sels, and that on England is a secondary one, be- cause sae aided them by affording them te, incans of doing the acts of which we complun. Tie wrongs were acitaliy iniiclied by our Southern brethren of the Coniederate States, and we hold & Britain as accessory oly, ‘Therefore miy vol Briiaia well urge before the arbitration thal as THE UND STATES HAVE CONDONED THR S OFFR of the Southern States comuntted during the war— fave Laken thea back a8 an integral part of the government of the navioa, and as tie money paid | for the depredations of the Alabame will go into che Treasury of he United states tor the joint beneds of ali the citizens of the United siater, as well ral Seaumes, Who commanded the Alabama, as rat Wmsiow and osticers and crew of the tious of tie Alabama (or tue venedt, tn part, of tue very men aud States who did the acts, and who are HERALD, TU link their names to a treaty between two great na tions which they might naturally suppose would carry them down through ali time. WaS WAR IMMINENT had not been concluded? every reflecting person, clearly net. War with England was not possivie except at the will of the United States; and the same desire for the avoldance of war which has rendered even the ‘Treaty of Washington acreptavie to us would have eflectualiy controlied all prob- | @oility of it, England could not go to war With us. | She had neither grievance nor cause. We had fitted , Out no Alabanis ana Shenandoahs against her com- merce, We had acknowledged no velligerency o! ber rebels, either at sea or upon lan We Joaned no’ money to her enemies to aid them to fight her. We had run no blockade with our ships for the purpose of supplying her enemies with arms, We had not aestroyed her commerce and crippled her maritime resources tor years, if not forever. | She had no cause of complaint against us; she made none. How, then, could there nave been & war between this country and Engiand unless we | had taken the mitiative? ‘There was no cause wh: } We should bey Our claims against Englan ; could very welt wait for settlement until the time when her exigency should be our opportunity. - i Bagiand finds herself powerless to collect a tax of | hail a million doliars upon friction matenes without stirring an émeute to ber people with which the | government dared not contend, wuile we here collect a revenue ol two millions on the same article, and I have never heard the question discussed in | Congress or elsewhere; and the still further fact | that such 1s the consciousness of her weakness in case of war that Great Britain has been thrown into @ ferment of preparation, and a change has been made 1n her entire army system, by a mere magazine ; article of one of her citizens describing the disasters ot a possible invasion. Is such a country likely to ; go tO War With the United States? Need | stop to CONTRAST THE SITUATION OF AMERICA in view of the possibilities of war? Forty millions | of people; without a colony or other dependency to ; be w source of weakness; without a vainerable pont; with a veteran army of a million and a& half of soldiers lately disbanded and thoroughly trained, two-thirds of which may be brought into the fleld in ninety days; a navy of whieh T wish IT could say more, but suficent to } Protect our home ports, while our naval power, a3 a means of offence, consists in the speedy | adaptation of the merchant marine to the purposes of war, and the enterprise of our people, which would cause private armed vessels to sally forth everys Where to attack a commerce extended all over the globe: @ country so situated that even the stopping of the importation of goods b; war would only deprive | ESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Am Address by Governor Bross, ef Chicago, Means of Rolicf Indicated and the Hopeful Spirit of the Inhabitants Confi med—Iwportant Communication from Mayor Mason—A Bureau for Destitute Persons Es- tavlished in This City. A meeting was held yesterday of the Relief Com- mittee of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Jonn C, Green presided, who said that before the regular business commenced he would introduce to those present Governor Bross, of Chicago, who would doubtless give the Chamber some useful particulars ag to the present condition of the desolated city. GOVERNOR BROSS’ ADDRESS, MR. PRYOMMENT AND GENTLEMEN, MEMDRRS OF THR NeW YORK CHAMBER OF COMMELOR—A few of you nay | remember that in 1868 Lhad the houor to address you on the ! subject of the Paciic Railroad. T then took’ rather a briziter view of the location and of the facilities for build: ing the road; of the extent of its business and its influence n the travel and the trafic of this conntry and the world of von provably believed could be warrauted by | but Lthiok you wit now agree that what may the {to be bold, if not improbabie speculation, has | han reaiized, And if fresh from that terribio ptisn of tire whieh has awept over and destroyed the best Portion of the city of Chicago, I venture to take a hopeful | of her fn provide [ pitaliats of New York and the Kast generally render her stricken business men that material aud wale {trust you will feel ft both #afe | and a pleasure to givey my beat judyment and most careful | Btndy of the whale subject convince mo, at least, that the you may permit me to present wall algo be fuky real- ized. TNE EXTENT OF TH Of the extent of the calautivy that need not speak in detail. p morning correct maps of the burned 8,00) neres are ed by frightful rains, or swept by the de- Vouring fire, ma idened by the fury of the hurricone, are bare as they were wica the Indians roamed over tuetn forty years | ago, It in sate to say that wil that remains of Chienuo fe not Worth half us much ns the fire has destroyed, Ali our banks, all our largeat aud best hotels, aud a score or two of lesser Some 8 THE INSURANCE CRISIS. Mr. John Crever, desiring the Chamber not to pur- chase any more underciothing im New York, a9 duties are waived at Detroit on goods from Canada by order of the Secretary of the Treasury. Contributions from the bar up to date, amounting to $5,295, were handed in to the committee of the Chamber, ‘The Chamber give notice that destitate persons cannot receive any relief at the Chamber of vom- merce. A place will shortiv be designated for that purpose, and a working committee of fifteen was appointed for the purpose o: looking after those from Chicago who were destitute. A committee of ten was also appointed to confer with the govern- ment authorities at Washington tn reference to the dispensation of relief for Chicago. THE MUNICIPAL MUDDLE q va Q : , Situation of Affairs Public Offices. Meeting of the Board of Fire Underwriters. The Chicago Disaster—The State Superintendent in the Van—He is Prepared to As:ist the Companies in Tiding Over Their Diffi- culties—Honest Companies to Ap- point Their Own Receivers. A largety attended meeting of the Board of Pire Underwriters was held yesterday, at twelve o'clock, at No, 156 Broadway, The meeting was callea by Mr. George W. Miller, State Superintendent of In- surance Companies, with the object of conferring with the Underwriters as to what course should be adopted in the present crisis and of explaining to the chairmen of the different New York insurance at the Meetizg of the Sinking Fund Commissioners— Painters After Their Fay—The Parks’ Pay Rolls Up to the Mark. companies that wherever a company de- eure served his stpport he was prepared to do everything in his power to asshet At the various pubite oMlces yesterday there W28 | them in tlding over their present dimeniues. but little of interest connected with the grand muddle in which the municipal management is now enveloped. ‘The crowds of oMice holders and office seekers who turn up just about election time were around, of course, canvassing the chances of the , coming campaign. AT THR MAYOR'S OFFICE there was a steady run of visitors aud callers, The Mayor was at home to all, and the worthy Tim Golden was “inteeviewed” most extensively by all sorts and sizes of persons, but he preserved his | usual equanimity all through. Colonel Joline was | flying about, while Ed Hall growled about the idea ‘ of being obliged to take warvants to the bank when the numbers and dates had been . altered There were present D. F. Uurry, of the New York Fire and Life Insurance Companies; D. FP. Curry, vhairman of the Republic; J. D. Cox, Ohairman of the Atlantic; H. M. Freeman, Chairman of the Market; Hubert Gereanx, Chairman of the Lafayette; Mr, Franklin, Chairmen of the Yonkers; E. T. Diggs, Charman of the Williamsburg City; W. J. Selover, Chairman of the Adriatic; Mr. Fellowes, Chairman of the Rutgers; Mr. Townsend, Chatrma: of the City; Mr. Ross, Chairman of the Queen’ George W. savage, of the International and Presi- deat of the Board of Fire Underwriters; E, W. Crowetl, President Manager of the Impertal of Lon- don, England; Mr. Colston, Chairman of the New York; Mr. Zervance, Chairman of the Astor; Mr. give abstracts of it, It would seem, Ne said, that we treaty is as remarkable for WHAT IT DORS NOT PRAL wrrit now a portion of the nation demanding payment? | us of that we do not need, and are onty the extra- | In other words, in Jusiice aud equity tie accessury | Vagances and not the necessaries of life, and thus | cannoc pe calied upon to pay his principal for the . save a great part of the cost of a war to the nation; | note; all our largest and leading srocery, jew Hardivare, clothinz and otuer business’ ho" pit most of our eu | in a bungling maan Shortly before two o'clock the venerable and reverend-looking Dikeman, from | the Comptroiler’s oitice, walked into the Mayor's Rankin, Chairman of the Fulton; Mr. Graham, Chairman of the Metropolitan; Geo, F., Hope, Chair- our amount of damages done by himseli_ in commitung containing everything within ourselves, as we nave man of the Continental; Mr. Mutitgan, Chairman of anne’ F k | gure: at allasfor the numoer, Lops Soyctage re manner arobpery. Yet im the protocols of the Commis. | demonstrated, to carry on war for years wiih no work office, with his gold-bowed spectacles astride his | the Humboldy; Mr. Jarvis, Chairman of the Leno Of its treatment of those matters which it does — gioners, in the discussions in the Senate, so iar ag | possibility of being crippled in our resources by any | Reports of ti i | venerable nose in elegant repose, his hat siightly | mr, st, Job pond . a a atvempt to adjust. I. attracts ovservation thas the they were peruntied to coine to the puvlic ear, not | attack from abroad; and—what is not to be forgot- Hinge re the homes a pees alte Fel heek aaa ak sent AG ik rere apa r St, Jobp, Chatrman of the Lamar; H. Ay ia € erene 5 ‘case cele iy R Y ¢ a < ands erable fore 4 v Yhatr vard: ’ treaty makes no provision {or the payment or settle: | a word of all this vital question of defence by Eng- | ten in or a war with England—a million and a} reds of years: and the abodea of humble poverty by the pped bac Oakiey, Chatrman of the Harvard; Mr, Woolcott, ment of claims for injures done by Great Britain upon American citizens since the last conveution of 1852 and prior to April, 1861, Second—It makes no provision for the outrages committed by the British government upon American citizens since 1865, although it is well Known, to speak of no others, that for the jast four years British and Canadian cruisers have been constanuly seizlag our fishing vessels along the shores of Nova Scotla and New Brunswick, maltreating their crews, confiscating their property and raining the owners. Third— | Again, it is too well Known that Dumbers of Amert- jand, so cunningly planned aad so artisiically pro- vided ty the British Commissioucrs, has been said. PAYMENT OF CLAIMS OF BAITISH SUBJ GUTS. We have agreed, by the tweiftn article of the treaty, LO pay ali Lie Claus Of British subjects tor Josses sudiered ai the ands oi the United states government during tue war that may be determined Against us by AComMissioOn, the majority of whom give decree, to be appoll Fe ag by Great Britain @ud the United Siaies, and in thelr failure by the represeutative Of the King of Spain. What is the amount of tose clalusy Does any man kaow? tlave ley ever been siated? OF wiiat do they con. rm erve the difference In the statement of the two Jaime, Wien our claims of ady maul ean citizens—some of whom bear bonorable scars a gader tie bead of “Alabaina Claius.”) When of wounds received in ow war—have been since , iglivh ciatins are pr Le for, as agatost Pd é see e 15 not even a genene specificauon, are all 180) Hprisoned =n EBaxlish prison 88 | thir have been or may hereafter be presenied. wi his Continent as in the British islanas, ‘rue, it 18 well argued that this country is not due process of law, and agains! right, and am derogation of our national honor and tne pro- | techion that America owes to exch and all of her sons, Whether by birth or adoption; yet the treaty provides for the payment to the Englishman for every bale of lis cotton destroyed by us, even by accident, in the war for the Union, It makes no Provision for the redress of the Impri-onment of the ciizen. 1s net the liberty of one American citizen _ of more worth ihan many bales of cottcn’ Fourth— + ‘The treaty hus no prohibition of the payment of claims of British subjects in the Confederate debt, claimed to be due to them, and secured by pledge of colion, though that subject was thought important enough by the people of this country to cause them + to amend {heir constitution to provide against the paywent of that debt w thew owncitizens, We shall sce that the treaty has lett ‘the question fairly | open to be determined against us by the arbi- trators, Filin—It docs not sctile, im terms nor by implication, in how far the claims of British subjects shall ve recognized ia prop- erty to their siaves freed by the War and vy tne proclamation of President Lincoln. — Sixti—Tue Trealy has no article determining tie position which the pouthein Cousederacy, during its existence, shail be decied to have held towsrd the two coun. tries, Whether as a beiligerent both at sea and oO: land, whether a goverament de Joc/o careying on war a3 such. or as a revolted tercitory simply.” The. | determination oO: Luis class of questious by the treaty woul! have been oi the Mgnest nud gravest , importance in setting the rgits and claims of each government, wid the citizens thereof, before the several boards of abltrators provided in the treaty; questions, too, which ave becn debated by pub- Haste, both in this country and Burope, with mor abyinion of Opinion than scarcely any other. + enth—While adjusting the controversies relating to the fisheries on the northeasteru coust the treaty has made no provision about the fisheries claimed oy Great Briiaiu on cur nortawesteru coast, between our newly acquired possession of Alaska and the British possessions altnough questions are now arising there a# ilnportaut aud uritating as any wettiea by Ue ‘. THR ALABAMA CLAIMS. What the people of the United States dcenomtvate the “Alabama Claims” are for payment o1 depre- dations committed by fourteen revel wsers, awouuting in the aggregate, as lar a8 presented, io thirieea and a hall witlions of doilars, of which more than thirteen militons are ior outrages com- mitted by four vesseis—tie Alabama, Fiorida, Shen- andoad and Georgia. The case of the Uni‘ed States, founded upon the depredatious of each ot those four Vessels, stands upon differept considerations of international law and of facts applicable to each, ‘The first criticism that we make upon tae treaty is | to ask why did not the American Commissioners insist upon the recognitiun cf the iability by Great Britain for the act» Of these vessels, so far as we mean to insist on this Mability, 80 a8 to leave no room fr dispute before the arbitrators upon such questions, This, 16 would seem, should have been granted, and something certain would have been gained. On the contrary, the British Commissioners nowhere admit any lability and the oniy atonement they give for ihe substantial destruction of the entire commerce of America, the uuto'd losses W never can be pat in the form of claims of American merchantwen, the insuit to na- | taonal honor, the violation of nattonal rights, the | affront to the national heart by the heting out, har- boring, ownership, atding and abetting the depre- @ations oi these fourteen vessels is an expression, “IN A FRIENDLY SPIRIT OF REGRET? felt by Her Majesiy’s “government lor the escape, ‘under whatever circumstances, from British ports, @i the Alabama and other vessels, and to ir subse- quen( depredations,” Bul the majority of tne vee~ eels did not, in Juct, “escape”? from and we have nociaim npou Gi reason. Many oteis were harbored, their oMcers jot d, their crews enlisted, their provisions and coal @nd War material supptied, their reyalrs furnished in several Briish ports, notwithstanding the urgent and frequently repeated remoastrauce | oF our Minister, and, for all that, there | 43 HO Word of regret, in a “friendly spirit” or others | wise, Thereiore, our whole case 1s open hefore the Roard of Arbitraidon, precisely as if the treaty had never been made, Instead of ihe okuliton by Great Britain of ler tability in the case of either ‘Yeasel, three rules, io be invernational law in the iu. fave been agreed upon for the guidance of ‘Ditrators, bul Which fue Lritish Commissioners | required before they would agree to them, as ap- pears by the protot should be ma rules of in- vernauional law bet i tis Country and Great Bri- tain for ail future tis: and they tayther demanded ‘thai tiese should be Impressed upon every maritime nation as Mmternatioual law beiore they would be bound by them in the arbitration of tie Alabama | chinus, they even declaring, at the same time, | ‘Uiul these rules were DOt the jaw of nations, Under this rule (tue third rae of national law) | no private or pubite armed vessel of a nation at war can get any supplies to ald her in carrying on war- like operations In any foreign port of the world. | Now it has, without doubt, come to be Bettied law | tat coal to a steain Vvessel-ol-war is a intiitary supply. Nothing 18 more certaiw than that all ate lacks upon ab cnemy’s commerce must hereafier ve mmade by swilt armed sieam Vessels, as Was Gone by the Shenandoah aud Alabawa in the Confederate Tall upon our own. But speed ina steam vessel ‘uses up oval almost in an arithietical ratio of pro- gression to Lhe amount of speed attained. There- fore steam vessels pursuing the commerce of an emmy must use vast quantities of coal, requiring | quent visitations to ports aud harbors for res | pewal, Now, the United states have NO? A SINGLE COALING STATION JN THE WORLD beside tne harbors on her own coasis, other than tured docks 1 neutral ports, (row which, under this Tule, We must be at once But oUt ln case Of war. The estavlishment of this rule of law, therefore, provects british commerce in all time, because under ino steam vessel of war of the United States, either private or public, can steam imore than live days’ distance Irom our own coasts, for the reason that no one of them can carry, with 118 armament, more than ten days’ coal, wad it is neither pradeLt bor wale for a war steamer to be on the ocean wiihout = return W port—five days out and five days | WOK. Tagree our republic will never be a great naval | power, because our people will never appropriate | ‘he Money in time of peace to keep up a large naval estabiisument, which 1s then looked upon as useless, and wars are never long enough 10 enable any ¢ try Vo build fleets of ships. Weare to look, then, for | our means of naval wariure to our private armed ver | #els—the militia of the seas—which in six months cun sweep from the ocean the enure commerce of avy Dation at war with us, provided always that they can get the modern necessity of naval war Jave—conl, trom Which we are cat off by the terms and express provisions of this treaty, ‘the Emperor of Brazil is to choose the umpire at athe General Conterence. He did not regard the capture of te pirate Florida in the harbor of Bala gn “a Irlendly Spirit,” bat insisted that she shoud be returned with her armament and crew, m fail | Ka Dpiratical order, to lus sale haivor, Srom wuguce sue 1 Byipusly, perhaps, 10 Wemselves—wilb a desire to } ; as full a pledge in the eye ot ' property of the holders of hable tor damages done In the war to the persons aud property of & neutral toreign resi ent here, any more than to our own citizens Granted. But this government, by appoiating THA SOUTALRN CLAIMS COMMISSION, has admutted iis idaoiity for ali the SPROREEY, taken aud used by the armies of the Untied States in tie coarse of its military opera‘ions, belonging to its loyal e.tizens, very subject of Great Britain, being a neural, must be taken to have been loyal, under the provisions of this treaty, unless some overt act 1s shown, and stands, therefore, upon the ground of the most loyal cilizeu Of the United States; and for every dollay of his property takew, used o¢ injured by the Uniiei States, and for every injury to his person tue United states by this treaty 1s made re- spoasibie, What that amoant may be depends upon the advocacy oi the English Commissioner and the Conscience of the representauve oi tie King of Spain. n Uhave already calied attention to the fact that there 1s no prohibition just British claima as holders of the Confederate loan, I sail probabiy be answered that there Was no need Of such a prohibi- a because Lue Contederaie debt was neither an vt done nor committed against a British subject oy the United States.” True, but I Cannot torget, how- ever, that this Confederate loan was speciaily secured by a pledge of the couion Owned by the Confederate + goverument, placed im the bands of agents as se- curity for the loan at a given price per pound, making municipal iaw as be- tween tndlviduals as could be well stated, ‘There- fore it would seem to me quite Clear that all such Confederate cotton so pledged became (he qualiea loan for. whose. benett WU was held «s apiedge. Indeed, ] remember that portions oi that very cotton were shipped and sold the interest as loug as the Cunieueracy had ence. Now, 18 it not historically true that the United States took and destroyed many millions of this cotion and put some forty million doilars more iuto realized from its sale? Did we not claim Luls property as suecessois to the Confederate Siaies capcrured by us to the war? But was It uncer this treaty subject to the pledge and the rights of | neutrals who had loaned their money upon it and heid it by their agents and servants? Althouga ‘we have a constitutional provision against the pay- ment of the Confederate debt, we have no constitu. Nosal provision against payment for the cotton that we have destroyed or taken and sold belonging to British subjects, which we have agreed pay by the solemn provisions of a treaty which are ta them- selves the supreme law of the land, Perhaps the Coniederate raid upon the St Alvans Bank daring the war would come more nearly under this class of cases than any other; but unless it can be shown that the government of Canada connived at and became parties to that raid it seems dificult to see how such a claim can be validated. There is stl ANOTHER LARGE CLASS OF CLAIMS Which may come in under the provisions of this treaty | and certainly will be pushed, and that is for restitu- Dou of the blockade runners captured during the war. It has been insisted, and is still insisted by the British owners, that all these captures are ille- gal, because, among other reasons, by the procia- mation of the blockade of President Lincoln it 1s distinctly ordered that our naval vessels warn oif the mevchant vessels coming to a Southern port the first time they are ‘ound within the mbtbited waters, and that capture should only be made for tne second ovence. But soon these warnings were omitied, aud a capture wae made whenever aud wherever a vessel was found to enter a blockaded port. Again, it will be clatmed that we have insisted, and do suil insist, that we never have accorded belitgerent rights to tne Contederates at sea, because they had neither ports nor a navy. This is one of the grounds apo which the senior Senator from Massachusetts, in bis speech against a former treaty, put his case with all his strength, and made the recognition by Engiand of the belligerent rights ol the Con/ederates at sea, when we had avcorded them none, @ distinctive and most formidable ground of havility to us for ail wrongs done to us by the Alasama--a view, by the way, which has been wholly ignored and repudiated by this treaty— yelthe newspapers said that the whole country adopted this view. ‘The British lawyers say, be it 80; assume that there was 20 state of beliigerency at sea, how inen do you mamta.n THE LEGALITY OF A BLOCKADE which could only be set up because 0. a siate of bel- ligerency on the waters? And uf there 1s anything in this doctrine that a state of belligerency may ex- ist between the pareut State and {ts revolted sub- eae on the land and yet there be no state of bel+ igerency at sea, so that we might bave been justi- fledin ring Confederate sailors as pirates—as we essayed to do, but were prevented by threats of re- taliation—then all our prize adjudications fall to tie ground, and we are accountable for the vessels captured before a Court of Arbi- tration Lo be presided over by the representative of the hing of Spain, who has subjects with like claims against us. Remember, again, that this question is not to be determined by us with our | patriotic emovons and ideas of international law tinged by the decisions of our highest courts, but by the representative of the King of Spain, who sits as arbitrator in all this Class Of cases, as weil the cotton as the ships, and trom whose sole decision there is no appeal or escape. Indeed, in regard to payment of this class of claims the English Commis- sivners, as if fearing that we might aeem ourselves overreached, have taken great pains to bind the United States very securely, and a special provision the like to be found nowhere else, in any ‘alpiomauie convention, not even in our treaty with the Indian tribes—seeming to question, in ‘advance, by im- plication, the good Jaith of the nation—is ap- pended to arucie 13, Listen: fhe nigh contractin parties hereby engage ‘to consider the decision oI the Commissioners a8 absolutely final and conclu pad bie ase ee Upon by them, and to ive c lecisions wi - lion, evasion or delay whatsoever” oo ee eer Why, this reads like an oath ina Ku Klox lodge, instead of a treaty between two of the most power: tul and most honorable nations of the earth, and amounts to tns: . be promise and agree wituout any mental reservation or equivocati of inind whatever.’”? yhitbamns THE CZAR Nor TO DETERMINE THR VALUB OF A KERB. MAGI General Butler then discus-ed afiects the fisheries and the navigation of the st Lawrence, repeating bis former arguments, but raising no new points. Touching the provisions of the treaty securiog the adjudication of our title wo the Island of San Juan by the Emperor of Germany, he complained that Alexander of Russia was not treated with respect. We have refused to trast wim to appoint & single arbitrator to determine the value of a mackerel, even Wnen swimming tn the water of the coast of New Brunswick. We prefer to veatow our confidence pon mouvarchs Who took part against us, Why did the good aud patriotio men who were ot the’ Americab Commiss.on in this behatl yieldso muca in return for so Hite if what we have seen were ail the Inducement? Of thelr patriotism no man can doubt; of the wisdom of what they did, and the motives waich led to it, each for himself must judge, ‘The secret or the Treaty of Washington i4 an ali-pervading fear of War with Great Britain be treaty ag it Conservative timidity seems to have ruied the coun- sels of the American Commission, tinged—upcon- Ade Upon Higlaud they are specified as | half of our voting popniation absointely eager for such a war to avenge the wrongs suffered by them- Britain over the Green Ise fondly lov their home— | Lsay, with tiis contrast was war with Hugland pos- slbie, unless We cloose to make it? Impossibie, aad any fear of it absurdity. LAST Worps. In view of these considerations which T have hastily sketched, Ought the possibility of England maktug war upon us to have been weighed for a mo- ment 1a the adjasiment of the provisions of this ; treaty? Should an thing more than what was a | fatrand just equivaient, to be given and received, have been asked or granted by us to Great Britain 1n settling the wrongs we had received at her hands , during the war of the rebellion 7 I{ fam right—as I verily fear I am—then my warning voice will have prepared tha public mind for not too great a revulsion when they Ond them- | selves @sappointed tn the | If Lam wrong, then, as a with my countrymen tn finding that the Joint High Commission “builded wiser tian they knew,” | sensation. EURRIC Terrific Storm—High Tide in Hali‘ax Harbor— ‘Wharves Submerged—Great Des'ructio: of Froperty—Damage to the Ship- ing—Three Men Drowned. ANE EY NOVA RY spay buuild, HALIFAX N. S., Oct. 16, 1871. ‘This city and vicinity were visited on Thursday evening by a terrific hurricane, with a high tide, un- exampled in the history of the city for violence and damage. For three miles the water front of the city and the wharves were damaged, and many of the latter were swept away, with stores of fish, lumber, &c. The weather was finc on Thursday until noon, | ing from 39:20 in th | from the southeast, with rain, the tide rapidly ris. ing, the sea in the harbor imecreasing in violence, ‘ and the waves rolling in higher and higher. ie forenoon to 29:59 at eight P. selves and their fathers from the tyranny of Great | The speech was listened to by an immense and- | ; lence with intense interest, and created profound | The , barometer indicated the approach of a storm, fail- \ M, | surplus ¢ At five P.M. the wind came with sudden gusts | ten thonsand—ali, all nave boon swept aa by the fell of destruction from the face of thecarth. Only a si house on (he north side of the river—thatoi left staniing, and probably (ng and most of Mor Wh) people ¥ crouching in Lines! Parc or half therasel endera driven u and the suiterin; ; described—no mind ¢ have not becn and ean They UNBOUN 7 If our calamity in its ‘unequatied in the world's history, the response it has met in tue sympathy, | the outpouring and unbounded ifherality, of the entre | American people, 18 grand, suolime, Ke. sot rt in the lightuing’s fasi: through three thonsand m 2a ol d ocean and mikes our he people, brotiers and sist ei 8023 and dangute the deep, dark ca | gind. Tay say 1 | gencrous (ree Amer across the Atlan y and od wit reward you for | ft and our children and Iven auall blews you, me, EDED, ‘The millions of doilnré in clothing, provisions and mouey already raised and being subs-ribed have rejeved tue linme- diate necessities of the poor and thousands who baye been made wo by the fire, Wut, gentlemen, the next iinperative necessity is to place funds in the hands of the leading busi iy ness men of Chicazo to enable then to rebuild the city, to handle the products of the vast fertile | is tributary to It, wad to set the aborers of the city to work. Do this xi | witnhold your e»pitul and will continue to be severely taxed to m, for you cannot see them die of -sarvetion, ‘Appeal to you and turonsh you to the captial conutry and to the business men and capitalists of Jermany for means to rebuild and do the busine azo, I mist deal with the (wo elements of security and Thave atiji another. Those who Lave now loans on projit, real property and credits ia the hands of our leading houses should continue chose eredita and make leans on tie same | property on secon? mortgay | now have there available. city has been swept is not wor | unless ma The men whore By there, riy al! the central | portion of the the ure, an the land by much a8 Oo many acres of prairie able for business by rebuilding it ces once occupied it their + made Chicago the wonder and admiration of the world—are ; opened his red book and then read his mmates, to | Having compleved the | he looked around as | Everybody appa- reutly “Zave it up,” but pobody sald a word for a | few seconds. Mayor Hall then, turmig to Mr. Green, still leit to them, Nay, more, ail their best powers are en- Jared and intensified by a determination wo regain an} re. Braver and ator tine been lont. nobier and Detter men do not live than ihe leading business Inen of Chi- cago, Task not for them—they woud scorn t ; + but bdo ask that you intrast a8 mach as yo them management, for your own and for a their profi F Bn! to repeat ant to be more specie. Let imsurance companies ani individuals who have loans on Chicago | real estate lake a second mortzage with poiicies of insure » | ance for meney enough to buid @ substantial building upon it, Suc. must bethe demaud for piaces of ail kiads years to come, that the rentals to do business for several The culminating point was reached at six P. M., | will surely pay the interest on both the moriyares aud leave a i the ow: 1 the principa when the wind and tiae were the highest. In the | jante ier oh eases, it 9 tb aye, te tne only onde | mex: ten minutes the damage was done. Large and really conservative one for capitalists to pursue. The; VRSSELS BROKE FROM TITRIR MOORINGS at the wharves, drifting in upon the smaller cratt, which were completely demoralized. Some ships, better secured than others, dragged with them parts of wharves. Every wharf was submerged and the basements of the water-side houses were flooded, ‘The tide flowed over many streets near the water, THE STEAMER CILASR, at Dominion wharf, broke from her moorings and went clear through five wharves on the north. Two thousand barrels of fish on two wharves were sent adrift by her and nearly all were lost. In the city the damage done 1s mostly to roofs, chimneys, trees and fences, In the suburbs several HOUSES WERE BLOWN DOWN ; and bundreds of fences and large trees were pro trated, ‘rhe ratiroad track from the city to Bedford sta- tion, a distance of ten miles, is damaged to the ex- Vent of $16,000, so that no trains could reach the city. The trayel in the city on Thursday night was sns- pended, as bricks, slates, shutters and tree tops were whirling about the streets and wharves, Dart- mouth, opposite the city, was all destroyed. There were THIRTY VESSELS ASHORE in this harbor alone, including the bark Fanny, her cargo gone and strewn on the shore, The schooner W. H. Hatfleld, from New York, was ,dismasted and had her hull stove, YThe bark Northumbrian, from Bull River, 8. C., with a cargo of phosphate, was damaged. The other vessels were mostly fishing craft. THREE MEN WERE DROWNED off the Devii’s Island, in the harbor, while setting ascertained, althongn there were many miraculous escapes, There are fears of TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION ON THE COAST and» the Bay of Fundy. There was no tele- graphic communication from three P. M, Thurs- day. The shores of ialifax harbor on Friday morning Presented an appearance of wreck and ruin never seen before, The wharves were shattered and strained. Some vessels were high and dry and others were dismasted, all having marks to show from the storm. Quantities of timber and wreck stuff floated anout the harbor, Jt is believed the damage will reach $200,000, Great Storm at Montreal—Buildings Blown Down=Damngo to rches—Consternation of Congregutions—Several Lives Lost MONTREAL, Oct. 15, 1871. A terrific gale set in yesterday morning, after a heavy rain all night, doing serious damage to life nd property. <A large number of wooden tene- ments were blown down this noon, About two o'clock the wind Increased, and the brick walls near the gas building were blown in; also the walls of the new building on Dalhousie street, from which several persons barely escaped, The roof of the new St, George's church was started during thre reading of the Litany, the timber 1n the roof being green and the bolts somewhat loose, ‘The consternation was intense, the people rushing out in tue middie of the prayers, No dam- age, however, was done beyond fright. ‘The Cathedral spire looked like @ ship's mast. The congregation, terrified, leit before ‘ue compie- ton of the service. Miss Anule Lowe, the youngest daughter of John | Lowe, late of the Gazette here, was instantly killed by the failing of ure while passing to @ veigi- bor’s house, a short distance from her father’s house, in the city suburbs, The fatal cases are, doubtless, not many; but all are not yet ascertained. Many citizens are maimed by falling signs and cornices, The Gale at KingstonWarine Disnsters. Kr Oct, 15, 1871. Ithas been biowing a gale here all day and yester- day. The steamers Corinthian, Enterprise, Do- minion and America are obliged to lie over in con- ‘sequence, Several vessels have «dr a their anchors, but, so far, none are reported damaged, The schooner Caledonia is reported ashore at Faise Ducks, and the Queen of the Lakes at Poms, Jt is thought the former is & total losa from Philadelphia, bound to Europe, with part of nets, which are the only casualties to life sofar can inthe way, wihin «year at moth make sate and pro ductive all their investments. Any other course must su)- ject them to great aud inevitable loss. Untucumbered Chi- Gazo real estae and there ix a vast deal of that—offere tue very best possible security to capitalists, Take a mortgage | on property to-day, thas two weeks ago would sell for $2,000 per fron: foo! , $500 per tront foot, in three years, no rapidly is the ci to grow, that it will be worth twice as much, and in live yeors it will have reached its former value of $2,000 periront ‘oot, The potot 1 make ts that Chicago real estate must bina yA appreciate from present nominal values, and render all loans upon it entirely safe, ‘gain, there are thowands of Chicago business men who have friends East who know them to be honest, energ:tic and capable. If they nave no other security to dive take « life poliey and a note of houor and lend them money enough to start business. They have lost one fortune, aad with a Hiule of your belp on the start they can soon make anotuer. As to the large class of mirchants and imanulacturers wbo have dove business with Chicago houses 1 know they will extend all the aid in By doing #0 wil be sure to coliect what isnow due them andto secure large orders and pronts in the facure. ‘The mercantile community are proverbiaily liberal in their dealings with each other, and in our overwhelming calamity Chicago merchants will doubtless receive the most gener- ous treatment from Eastern merchants and manufacturers, GOOD TIME £0 COMMRNOCE BUBLNKSS, ‘There has not been for the inst tweaty years so good a time for meo of capital to start business mn Ciiicago as now. Thov- | nance anxigua to locate in this focus of Western commerce have been deterred irom doing 60 forthe reason that the business in each department had become concentrated in comparatively a tew hands, With few exceptions, ali can now start even inthe race Cor fameand fortune. The tire has levelled nearly all distinctions, and the mercbanis aud deaiers who have heretofore purchased in our older and | targer houses will buy where they can get their goods the ch Now, therefore, ia the time towtrike, A delay of a year of two will give an immense advantage to tone who flartatouce. True, @ location must be found, perbaps a siore bulit, but @ couple of months at most are all that heeded to start business with the prospects of success, BONG OF CAVFALINTS. Again, there are thousands of people all over the country with conuiderable means who wish to start their sons ia business. Of coarse toey are without experience, Furnish | them eapital to xo in business with an experienced Chicago merchant, who will gladly put bis knowiedge ‘energy against the capital, and in @ few ye ni be men of wealth and honor. Sneh opportunitic a be found in abundance. evter @ th courage the sous of the rich to honorable exciton than to allow then (o waste thelr energies in ease and luxury. RATE OF INTEREST, |, populous States tributary to Chicago, | ir railways are ranning 10 all directions, ess of the city, as it has been in the past, y pr’ ve, L trust what | bave said has convinced | you that it 1# one of the best cities in the word in whieu to | Take safe iavestments of capital, Its rapid growth must in- | sure that beyoud a contingency. “And uow fur the matter of | prott. The legal interest in Tilmoie 1s ten per firger tigure than js alowed anywhere at the Ei of While the ri di gi mey woutd glad our ieading busi ot that rate; but 1 beg to say that I hope you will hv T might add that our people sometimes ‘ont T beg you also to forget all abc re poor enough now in ail conscience, ped astern capital wiki be satisiied with « re | coutage above what ii cau realize at hou WHAT THE GOVERNMENT OAN DO. Of course the government can do nothing directly for na; | Dut as 8000 as Congress meet: liberal appropriations sho: be made to build @ large, substantial post oilice. Ihe old buitding had become far too smali to accommodate the hn- mense business of the Northwest. The Chicago office was, iC IT mistake distributing ollice in the United States, and it should bave a bulidisg of corresponding dimen: sious. The importing business direct to Chicago bas just fairiy commenced, and Jarge custom house and several bonded warehousce are needed rhaps United States court rooms can be provided in these; but iu any event large accommodations are at once of Imperative necessity. ‘The building of them as rapidiy as possible would employ a large amount of labor, and cisiribute corresponcing sums of movey, thus affording a most important stimulus to the en- tire business of the city. WHAT WE HAVE LEVT, Althongh the aildevouring fre has awept over as we have still much remaining on which to build the city, All our | banks, though doubtless somewhat crippled, will resume business at once, Their books, currency, noves ana exchanges are safe. The notes, though not as they might Le, will mostly be pad, fa whote or in part: and What are worth. lesa {18 to be hoped will not seriously affect thely stability and usefulness, yur score or more of railways will at once ur the produce of the up) f rail pot er half of the Missiasipp! Valley into the city for distribution cities and States of twe seaboard, o Our water works are soon to be in good rder, and the water pipes all over the city are intact. en of our bridges, and of course our lake tunnel and our two tunnels under the river, are ail right The streews aro rained several feet In many pi the pavements are very li laces, affording good drainage; iupured and the eae pipes an sewers are Of course complete, ‘These with other things that might be named constitute from twenty to forty per cent o! the original expense of building the city. And what is far nd 1 ia to be opable per- Detter, our honest, Urave, pluck je are there, realy 4 willing to work. Their strong ‘and iron wilis yield to no disasters, ‘The men wh the waters of common phrase —ean turn back the ir city more than ever before. ‘ou will giveit. The ake Michigan into the Miss ade the Chicago river run tide of misfortune, and prosperous and p True, wey need y tance, andy liste, the mereantile and business interests of thiscgun: IPE cannor allord to withhold the means to re- Vuild Chicago. “The vast teeming countrs west of ber, ver Position at the bead of the great lakes, with more milée of Failway centering there than any other city upon the Conti- nent, hav i¢ ver one of the vital fore: L capital try and of Eu dit can soon a few short yeara for the sure On motion of Mr. GRORGY UrpYKE the thanks of the Chamber were tenuered to Governor Bross lor the very able addreas they had the priviege of listening te. The Mayor of Ch cago had forwarded a communi- cation, which was read, requesilug the Coamter of Commerce to keep the money collected in hand aud ‘wait the order of the Onicago Aid Committee, 4 Wleera Was dino received irom Chicane, from Mabion D, | It throbs | in order to make what they | are still \ cases property | Wy all gone; bat sleriing integrity, unbending energy, & tho- rough knowiedge of the financial, commercial and manutac- turing interests of the West—ail’ those qnalities which have Ua power by large and jiveral credits. ; | his face beaming with bemgnity, while under his left arm he carried a large book, bound in red mo- Mr, Dikeman is clerk } Tocco and tied with red tape. of the Commissioners of THE SINKING PUND, | Short! ; Comp! and they were to have a meeting at two o'clock, after him came the now famous Depaty jer Green, the very embodiment of econo- | my, which he demonstrated by wearing a shocking | Chatrman of the Hanover; Mr, Pinkney, Chairman ot the Reef; » Crowell, Chairman of the ' Irving; Mr. Anderson, Chairman of the Mercantile; Mr, Forrester, Chairman of the Broadway; Mr. Nottman, Chairman ot the Ma Mr. Manners, Chairman ol the New Amsterdam; Mr, Backhouse, Chairman ot the Kin Mr. Garrigue, Chairman of the Germania Chairman of the Firemen’s rw Chatrman of the Firemen s », Coairman of. the Homme; Mr. ‘58 opr won’? to | Fund; white fat, r 3 of any “proclamaiton’’ to | Cita). tue North America; Mr, Jones, whe contrary. He came mito the passageway | Chair Nussau; Alle; Brothers, agents | leading to the Mayor's office with a | forth " ee and Hledpethe. yo v e | panies r HM. Goodsell, of the Sperwetor, and aly, sturdy stateliness, = His hat wis | Ni tiyne, of the Yont/or (insurance journals); gut ou top of his head, the rim was) pW. ant, Aciuary of the New York fusurance ight all | into the oftice. the door. i | here and there to those he met. | meeting room, bowed to Mr. Green, ume 0’ day’? Lo some who were presceut, SHOOK HANDS WITH THE MA and sat down tn thechatr next to Mr. G hat in bis hand. ‘Then came Alde brimming with good pacure, He shook hana those he met until he reached the chairman, the Uhampberiain, on to ils umbrella aud sat dowa. Mayor Hail brushed over his shining locks. man Dino G his hana, of pencil. and tapped roporters and tapped of his mustache betweeit bis teeth. bie Dikeman unwound tae RED TAPE, | Which nobody listened. reading to his own satiatactton, it to say, “How ts thas for high 7 asked “iow about those { DOCK BONDS | we were discussing at the last meeting? into and report at ums meeting.”’ Mr. Green. repiied, bat spoke in such an ; tone that he couid not be heard. * little confab, and then it was heard that Mr. Gree! A | did not understand that the matter was referred to His did not toink & | hun, and had taken no action. appeared on the minutes that he was to—— | show it, bucl can teil you where you can find li. ; In the newspapers. 1 read it, I’m sure.’? { at this left-handed hit Mr. Dikeman shrugged hts } rotund figure, holding bis aris and hands so that Ubey formed alurost a circle, and he gazed at the reporters with a nalf inquisitive look. mee Alier some tittle furiner conversation in the cor- ner between the Mayor and Deputy Comptvrolier a motion to adjourn was made and carried, The ven- erable secretary closed his book carefully, tied tne red tape around it, handed i to an officer of the Comptroliex’3 oMce and bowed himself out, the oiners following quiely but rather coldly in his wake. THE BOARDS OF ALDERMEN AND ASSISTANTS wore to have met, but tere being no quoum of | either Board present to do business they adjourned, AT THE COMPTROLLER’S OFFICE Aaepulaton of painters from the Department of Public Works appliea for some three montis’ pay. Of course there Was no moncy for them. Then a Mr, Vandewater, who was preseat, agreed to pay them If they could assign their claims to him and each pay him #5 if he could get a guarantee thac the claims would be honored. Some such guaraniee was given, notwithstanding | that no assigninents will be accepted. The men were satisfied, and they departed with smiling faces, assuring each other that “itis all right; we'll get the money by Monday next AT THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS everything was going aloug as smoothly and methodicaily as ever, The payroils of tne atiachés, laborers and others for the past two weeks were being prepared, aud by Tnursday al) will be ready and the men paid off AT THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS there was the usuai crowd waiting to see tne “Boss” on ali sorts of business, Aspurants for ofiice Were there to press their claims to recognition because of the former opposition to the regency, and members of delegations were on hand waiting | for instructions. No pusiness of any moment was transacied, a8 everything 18 at a standstill, owing to the bad “nlx up" that now prevails. REPORT OF COURT ATTENDANTS. Deputy Comptroiier Green yesterday addressed a circular to the Judges of the Snpreme, Superior and Marme Courts, the Comtwon Pleas and General Ses- sions, requesting them to direct the Court Clerk, or some other proper person, to report to him dally | the attendance during the prescribed hours of the oMvers of satd couris. Such oiicers, having re- ceived their appointment from tae Department or Finance, are vy law responsible to that department for the proper performance of ther duties, FURTHER PAYMENT TO LABORER: The payment oi the laborers on the work of al- teration of the Aqueduct, Which was commenced on Saiurday by Mr, A. 8. Cady, of the Comptro was continued yes*erday, anu about five hundred more men were paid, The money for these pay menis, as has been previously stated, was furnished by the Committes of Banks, at the request of ihe Deputy Comptroller. FURTHER REMOVAL OF COURT ATTENDANTS, Deputy Comptroller Green yesterday continued the work of retrenchment and reform which he has Inaugurated by furtuer removals of superfiuous al- tendauts of the Superior Court, Court of Common Pleas and General Sesstons, ARMY INTELLIGENCE, of officers of the Quartermaster’s Department have been made:— Quartermaster of the Department of Arizona, re- Neving Colonel Thomas H, Thompson; Captain James W. scully, relieved in the Department of Dakota and ordered to report tothe Commander of the Department of the Lakes for assignment to duty Chief Quartermaster. one Tolowing changes 10 the stations and duties of officers of the Pay Department have been made:— ugustus H, Seward, relieved in the Depart- ment of tne south and ordered as Chief Paymaster e Department of Dakota, o Major eimeon, relieved in the Department of the Lakes and ordered so the Department of the south. MURDER IN HOBOKEN, Mc Mahon, who was stabbed at “The Meadows,” on Sunday, sank under his woands, though ne had been deemed out of danger, and expired about midnight, He accased George Henry, the brother of bis assailant, of having stabbed him, George and one Nelson Gishan were committed to the county Jail without bail yesverday, and an inquest was commenced by Coroner Vo.nardt, Moses Henry ts yet ip a dangerous condition from toe Wounds he received at ihe hands ot deceased. It is hoped that he murderer Will Le brought speedily to justices y. around. He came to the door of the | Densenncie gratitade at the | Mayor's ofilee, executed a right angie and walked Placing his white hat on a desk ut | the left he took a seat in the furthest corner from Shortly after Chamberlain Bradley came in, smiling like a happy boy, dropping @ word | He entered the “pade the nM, With his with He put his hat on a desk, but hed | Mr. reen opened a legal tooking document he held in hh bie 4 e3 berg ae | Bradley and Dimond leaned forwar; . 7 anit yaved at it suspiciously; then Dimond rubbed | New York fre ius glossy pave and gazed around smilingly at the | his umbrella on the floor, | while Bradley made frantic efforts fo catch the ends ‘The venevas The ques- Con of authoriza'ion was referred to you tu examine | undere There Was quite a n “oni? sald the Mayor, ‘the minutes may not that @ printed notice nangs in the oftice to the effect | office, under direction of Deputy Comptroiier Green, | ‘The following changes tn the stations and duties ; Major James J. Dana, relieved in the Depar:ment | of Lakes and ordered to report to the Commander i of the Military Division of the Pacific as Chief | aud Ezrah White, Chairman of tae Commercial of Londoa and Edinburg. ti, Secretary of the National Insar- acted as secretary to the meeting. aAVAGH, the Chalrman of the ance Compan) M Board | Was called to ord derwriters, the meeting ', Luformed the Board that he had recelveda messa se from Deputy Comptrolier Green to the effect that he wished to confer with the Boara of Underwriiers with regerd to the payment of we Vire Department, No practical result tollowed the announcement. Mr. Savage then introdaced Mr. MILLER, who said MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEWEN—Abont three months ago | received your greetings as | was about to jeave tor Europe. ‘The first surprise L received on my return was the intellience of the awiul calamity which bad overtaken us, You have my moat pro- found sympathy m THIS GREAT AFFLICTION, 2 It is satisfactory, however, to know that the and le Insurance companies } are going through the ordeal with all the honor with which I Kaew they would. The losses of the New York insurance companies Wul of course be a small percentage of the actual loss to the community we large. It seems to me proper ip the preavnt crists that | sould meet with You and inform you of the best methods of alleviat- ing the distress whitch mast follow this calamity, Jsympathive from the depths of my heart, first wit | Mose most aflicted—ihe sufferers in Chicago and | then with you, Whase fortuacs have been swept away and who now maniuily come forward to endeavor to discharge your obligauouy 1 trust to | remove any i ' IMPRESSIONS OF DoUPT that may exist that anything would be Jeft audone which would lessen the effect of the evil, and you | shall have my co-operation in every measure and , Tecoummendation of leguiaion compativie with law } in the jon of your obligations, Coufide in ne ai ali ean for your tteresis. Be- Kieve ine, ti our interests at veart and Wul.uo everything power to promote them. Many thiogs can be Pata tune like the present, when bien are sometimes given t» hasty action. Now, although ve | PROMPT PAYMENT is desirable, still it 13 unsafe to force uny panic in the money market or to take summary measures towards the coaversion of assets. ‘There may be many instances. where @ company can increase its stock and it seems we have hardly had our proper share of capital invested, and that is for yood.,,to in- dace the investruent of more money in fire usurance companies throughout the country, which for the Tuiure will bé betier employed by the wisv’om which the present calamity cannot fau to give. Who im- vests money in insurance 18 en*iticd to honor from the people ana to make more than ordinary profits, because they LAVISHLY AID the distressed at # juncture like the present, Oentie- men, perhaps it may be expected that Ll should re- fer to things which have occurred during my absence in kharope, You all well remeber that t ald not go in my octal capacity, Tdid not travel &s cosmopolitan Insurance Investigator. I did meet representatives of musurance compames abroad, bat unofMigially. All reports to the coutrary are lies. 1 have not the slightest idea of resigning my positon. | I never solicited the agen:y for inyself or for any | One else of foreign companies, I shail con- ‘lave to do my ductes, aud for t two weeks | shall be in’ New York, when I will be happy to confer with you at the St. Nicholas Hotel. George W. savage was then elected Chairman of the regular meeting. J. J, OAKLEY, Chairman of the Harvard Insurance Company, sald be wished to ask the State Supertu- teudent something more definite with regard Co tne | appointment of receivers of such companies as should be obliged to suspend business. The general impression, he said, abroad was that the present | crisis would be taken advantage of to appoint im- | Proper persons a8 receivers of these companies, by | Which the insurance world and the community at large would suit Superintendent MitteR—fam very glad that my attention has been called more directty ty this matter, [aim happy to say that it sail be done in | accordance with the wishes of these companies. | (Appiause.) 1 wish to site the law In relation to ; Us matter. There is an impression abroad that the State Superintendent has the power to appoint | receivers. That power is only in the jnrisdiction of | the court. Tam sive you will confer with me, and ; Lam equalty sure that ff IT jom you m recom. | mending a vec at the present time be wili be sppoluted. Wherever a company 18 HKARTILY DISPOSED to show an bonest extnbit of assets I shail heartily concar and do all to produce the appointment of such receivers as they may Wirh. Mr. Hor¥, Chairman of the Continental, then na- | dressed the meeting at great length, Le said be Was not surprised to hear the Superintendent speak ase bad. New York Insurance companies untor- ortunately were lately dragged backwards, not for- | wards, a good deal, creating certain impressions | with regard to shareboiders and directors. How. ever, a8 {his Was done, he Was justified to meet the Supermtendent, to wave bin realy to co-operate | with the companies, whether brokeu or bent, expe- | clally those obliged to WIND UP THEIR BUSINESS or reinforcing their capital, There was a great dif- | ference, he said, between the failure of @ company and the present failures, when, tu the legitimate pro- gress of business, the companies failed, the failures | arising from majadminetration in former years. ‘Yhe speaker then alinded to an attack which had been made op Supermtendent Muier, and animad- verted strongly on the conduct of those who attacked . ‘This attack was in reference to the payment of the expenses of the State delegates to the Na- tional Insurance Convention. Mr. KE. J. OAKLEY, President of the Howard, made similar remarks, and strongly defended Superinten- dent Miller from the attacks of interested parties. | He explained at lengtb the reasons why the ex- penses of the delegates bad been paid, ‘The PRESIDENT, in aaverting to the attack on Su- perintendent Miller, said what he hoped the matter would now be dropped once and forever, He saw } he tad only arrived at seven o'clock yesterday from Chic: and gave an eloquent and graphic ac- count of the condition of tie til-fated ety, Woule in Chicago he told insurance men and others there that he was sure chat the New York jnsurance com- ; Danies woul! MBRT THEUR LOSSKA PROMPTLY; that whatever assets tley said they had they would | be found to possess, and that every dollar of loss | watch ents — veoyes ‘would be readily paid . d applau “hin ‘own, resident agent of the hoger ot | London, made some remarks which went to show that his conrpany could not ve held responstbie for | any attacks made on dir. Miller, as he was unaware | or the character tn which the Saperintenveut went | abroad, and after Nis return punilely ex. pressed his regret that Mr. Miller had not had an opportunity of comerring with (be repr semta- | Uves of insurance companies avroad, The meetng t the: q The atack on Mr. Miller was a newspaper article, in which it was stated that he had goue abroad w get foreign agencies for himself, and m which he | Was severety censured for paying the expenses of the delegates to the Navouar Mantas Convoution