Tlie Greoi’ffia Weeklv Telegyapli and. J ournal & IVIessenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, OCTOPER 24 1871.
At all the porta 145,480 161,185
Interior 27,940 27,575
In Liverpool 471,000 565,000
American afloat 33,000 20,000
Indian afloat C23.379 310,015
1,300,805 1,083,775
Now, bow grandly these still farther illustrate
the floating power of India cotton! Observe
that the stock excess over last year is shown by
these figures to bo 217,030 bales; and313,384
bales of that excess are made up by the in
creased floating power of India cotton over
what it was last year! If Indian cotton were
not quite so rampant in Us buoyancy there
would be a short stock and growing shorter.
But India never falters—she never lacks. No
matter whether you in America make any cot
ton or not, India can keep up the cotton excess.
Then it is wonderful with what steadiness and
constancy India floats—she floats this week
623,379 bales—last week 610,717—the week
before 717,332, and so on. She never tires of
floating. And she floats very particularly, too.
America floats small and always in round num
bers. Bat India is particular to the bale. She
is like the man who swam the Mississippi River
with 17,553 doubloons and nine and a half reals
in a leather belt round his waist. If it had not
been for the reals nobody would have believed
the story; but that clinched the business—for
who could doubt a statement so exact. The man
was scrupulous even to Gj- cents.
“First Class Cabs.”—The New York Tri
bune extracts from the Augusta Chronicle an
account of the expulsion of a negrcss from the
ladiee’car on the Georgia Central Railroad, and
says it is the kind of war which the Demo
cratic party is fighting, and “when the chivalry
come to their own again, the foot of the train
hand will be, so to speak, on the neck of the
negress in every ladies’ car in the whole happy
land." Evory passenger train in Georgia is
provided with a special car for the colored peo
ple, as comfortable as any car in ttfe train: and
there was not the first reason for a fuss in this
case, except a disposition on the part of the
negress in question to be ill-mannered and ob
trusive. Where whites and blacks are nearly
equal in numbers, and the climate is warm,
it Is not agreeable to the former to ride in cars
crowded promiscuously by the population at
large. The scent is a litUe overpowering, and
aside from what the Tribune calls “prejudice of
oolor,” the arrangement would be impractica-
ble, notwithstanding the civil rights bill. The
colored people compose a very small minority
jn New York, and occasionally may be seen in J
News Items.
Wabm Weather.—The temperature on Sun'
day and Monday, was eighty and above— un
usually warm for the season.
Chicago was visited by a hurricane on Sunday
which prostrated burnt walla and blew the fire
brands about furiously, but fortunately a heavy
rain had fallen ju-t previously and no farther
damage was done.
The first trial by jury in Rome occurred on
the 13th tilt., and was of a woman for larceny
of diamonds. The trial lasted two days—the
jury were out sixteen minutes and relumed a
verdict of guilty.
Shot and Hung.—The men caught plunder
ing in Chicago and shot and hnng on the spot,
were Barney Aaron, Wm. Tracey, Jack Daley,
James Munday, Dutch Heinrich and Geo. Butts,
all notorious New York rowdies.
Toe Ebie Relief Thais ran from New York
to Bnffalo, 422 miles, in 12 hours and 25 min
utes—thirty-four miles an hour, stoppages in
cluded. Actual miles per hour 38.65. The
train contained 11,000 packages, valued at up
wards of $100,000.
NewYobk Finances.—The tax lists in New
York this year foot up $11,613,942 against $14,-
285,976 last year, when the taxes had to be kept
up in order to meet a heritage of floating debt
left by the Republican party. Upon this re
duced revenue the canal has been kept in mnch
better repair and a largely increased income
has accrued from it upon reduced tolls. What
ever may bo charged to Tammany thieviDg,
the Democratic administration of tho State
finances has displayed marked vigor and
economy.
Santo Domisoo Again.—Tho New York Tri
bune announces the revival of the San Do
mingo annexation scheme again in full force
and virtue. Well informed circles report that
the treaty of annexation will be submitted to
Congress early in the session, shorn of all de
mand for appropriations. “Private persons
and corporations" have agreed to pay off tho
debt of the republic, which is regarded as
amounting to a million and a half of dollars.
A heavy speculation, and a large riDg doubtless
underlies this movement.
Disraeli Upon the Queen.—The London
correspondence of the World reports Mr. Disra-
elli's words in relation to the Queen precisely
as telegraphed, and charges tho Gladstone press
and ministry with a guilty knowledge that they
are administering the government in the name
of a monarch who is no longer capable of author
izing their acts. This speech was made by Mr.
D. at a harvest festival, at a luncheon, in the
presence of a large number of people, and on
tho occasion of a toast proposed by him to the
health of Her Majesty. The words were tele
graphed to London and produced a panic there.
How tub Wooden Pavements Stood the
Test.—A Chicago dispatch mentions as a no
ticeable fact and ono of immense importance
in the rebuilding of the city, tho almost peifect
Condition in which tho fire has left the Nichol
son pavement. The damage is so trifling as
not to he worthy of mention. Miles of pave
ment on the north side are almost unscorched
and perfectly free of debris, and even in the
south division where both sides of the street
were lined with lofty Lrick and stone buildings,
there is scarcely a point where a carriage may
not be driven through the streets. Indeed, ex
cept where the buildings were blown np, or
partially blown up in the endeavor to stop the
progress of tho flames, tho ruins have almost
invariably fallen upon their own sites. At
points where the pavements were burned at all,
the fire only charred on the outside, and it is a
question whether the process to which they were
subjected will not add to their durability.
Unlucky.—Theodore Thomas’ famous or
chestral troupe was to have opened Crosby’s
Opera House, at Chicago, Monday night, tho
9th inst.—the night after the great fire, and
eveiy seat had been taken. The opera house
had been refitted at a cost of $80,000. The
troupe arrived Sunday and wer’e stopping at the
3herman House. They lost all their baggage,
instruments and valuable music. Thomas him
self had a narrow escape from losing his life.
While endeavoring to save some valuable pa
pers from bis room, his retreat by the southern
Stairway was out off, and not knowing which
direction to go, he was wandering about the
halls in tho heat and smoke until rescued by a
fireman who had been on the roof of tho build
ing. That evening was also to witness Mrs.
Gen. Lander’s first performanco at Hooley’s
Opera House. The poor women lost all her
baggage, including her valuable wardrobe and
diamonds. Mr. Hooley, who boarded with his
family, at tho Briggs, also lost everything, with
the exception of a change of wearing apparel
for the children.
Cotton Figures.—The figures by Sunday’s
telegrams make the following exhibit:
the street cars, bnt very rarely in tho omnibuses.
The ca3cn are not parallel. There can be no
fairer plan than that which has been adopted in
Georgia—separate cars of equal comfort, con
venience and euanliness, from which intrusion
by either color, respectively, is impartially
maintained.
The No Candidate Scheme.—We print to
day a r.ew and startling proposition from the
St. Lonis Republican—to whip General Grant
with an opposition Radical candidate. It is
not a new plan of contest in a desperate emer
gency. Everybody has heard of “fighting the
devil with fire"-and the Republican's argu
ment is to show that this is better than being
whipped. Doubtless it would be confusing to
the sable birds and birds of prey who now rule
the roost in the Southern States. Doubtless
they would flatter and croak. Peradventure
tho whites of the South, who now suffer under
bon of proscription on account of “color, race
and previous condition," coaid find greater
favor with an administration they helped to
elect, than in one elected in spite of them.
Doubtless such an administration, compelled
to look to the Southern whites for support,
could well afford to dispense with martial law
and all the other contrivances for putting the
whites nnder feet of the blacks. Peradventnre,
that stroke, if successful, Vould be a more ef
fectual death-blow to all tho negro supremacy
schemes than even the election of an avowed
Democrat, who would only concentrate against
himself a compact Radical opposition majority
in Congress. Peradventure, in all the ends of
deliverance and liberty the South could profit
more by a thorough rupture of tho Radical
party, than sho possibly could do, UDder existing
circumstances, by tho mere defeat of Grant.
But tho proposition is impracticable in point
of fact. Many will not recognize the necessity
of it, and more will insist on a square defeat
with a straight out candidate than in the kind
of victory suggested by the Republican.
Times Violent.
Affairs do not move with tho equanimity they
used to maintain “when you and I were boys
together.” The burning, drowning, storming,
flooding, stealing, raining, fightiDg, swindling,
drinking, earthquaking, volcanoing, tidal wav
ing, swearing, freezing and murdering, are all
more violent and crnel than they used to be.
When we were boys, a case of murder in the
papers wonld set our grandmothers to rubbing
their spectacles and reading and sighiDg by the
hour together. If a child was burnt in a house,
of a family drowned in a freshet, or a stage up
set down an embankment, it was food for mel-
ancholly talk for a fortnight. But look at
things now! The Telegraph has had little
other business for the past ten years than to
tell of awfnl violences by flood and field. Its
record is a long catalogue of death and destruc
tion by wholesale. Daring this decade we have
had violent and bloody deaths by the million—of
whole regions laid waste by fire and sword—
great cities given to the flames—whole countries
devastated.
Bat this, you will say, was tho fate of war.
The operations of nature, however, seem to have
sympathised with tho violence of men. What
frightful earthquakes-what furious storms and
tempests—what desolating floods have swept
over the earth wit.h a frequenoy and destructive
ness unparalleled in previous history. The
newspaper scarcely escapes a day, without some
fierce and gloomy record of this sort in some
quarter of the world. And without reprehensi
ble human agency what storms of firo and de
struction have been sweeping the great West
for the past fortnight! The telegrams of to-day
report these fires growing worse, and say that
1,200 victims have perished in the flames. Then
in the far East, terrible floods and storms are
reported on the China coast, oveiflowing 10,000
square miles of the country. These are the
days of wrath and violence. The fury of man
began the work and now it seems to be carried
on by tho angry forces of nature. We plead
for a little more gentleness all round. Ten years
of Radicalism pervading the whole political, so
cial and natural world ought to bo enough. Let
ns have peace.
November Magazine#.
Scribner is gorgeous in the way of illustra
tions. The frontispiece is a portrait of the late
Charles Scribner—the lamented hqjd of the
house. “Forty-seven Days of Peril” is an il
lustrated tale of a traveler lost in the wilds of
Yellowstone. The gigantic operations of the
government at Hell Gate are minutely described
in a long and pTofasely illustrated article of
twenty pages. “Low Life in Nature” is another
illustrated article upon insect life. The serial
stories are “Wilfred Cumbermede,” “The Right
Not to Vote,” “Tho Two Mrs. Scudamores,”
and the remaining contents are the usual edi
torials, and several poems and tales by well
known writers. This is a splendid number.
The Galaxy has for frontispiece a picture of
Herbert Spencer. The serial papers continued
are popular fallacies—the Eustaco Diamonds,
and Ought we to Visit Her. General Imbodon
contributes some reminiscences of Lee and
Jackson. Gideon Welles contributes the first
of a series on the capture of New Orleans. Jus
tin Macarthy writes upon the two Newman
brothers. The editorial departments are full
as usual.
Grant’s Proclamation.
A Washington dispatch in the Courier-Journal
of Saturday, says:
The Ku-klux proclamation to day turns out to
be a most important step iu a new policy to be
pushed toward the South. It is now known
positively that for more than six weeks, or ever
since the Ku-klux Committee returned from the
South, the administration has had nnder con
sideration a policy to be enforced, not only
against the so-called Ku-klux organization, hut
in the administration of federal civil affairs in
the South. There was no substantial difference
of opinion among the President and the Cabinet
and the leading Representatives who favored
this new order of things, except as to tho time
when it should bo enforced, and that accounts
for the delay until after the October elections.
MARTIAL LAW.
The proclamation is, therefore, bnt tho fore
runner of martiallaw and the suspension of tho
writ of habeas corpus, as provided by the fourth
section of the act of April 20, which says that
any Ku-klux organization or combination shall
be deemed a rebellion against the government,
the limits of which shall be prescribed by proc
lamation commanding the insurgents to dis
perse before the privileges of the writ of habeas
corpus are suspended.
WHOLESALE ARRESTS.
A prominent minister of the Gospel, and also
a leading Repnblican, stated to-day that the ar
rangements of the civil and military for whole
sale arrests of members cf the Ku-klux Klan
had been perfected, and that the country would
be surprised, if the proclamation were not
heeded, by the arrest of well-known Southern
men.
WAR AGAINST CARPET-BAGGERS.
Inasmuch as it is averred that outrages in the
South are provoked by the corruption of office
holders and their plunder of the people, it is
the intention of the President to begin warfare
againBt all corrupt Federal officials and to in
vite the co-operation of ail good Republicans
for the displacement of bad State officials.—
This is to go hand-in-hand with the enforce
ment of the Ku-klux law, until it is stated that
there is a lasting peace in the South.
The Agricultural Society Flag.—We were
shown yesterday, tho large bunting flag of the
Georgia State Agricultural Society that will be
hoisted, on the tall staff that towers over the
beautiful main entrance. The field is pure
white, with a blue union on which the arms of
the State of Georgia are emblazoned in white,
with the name of the Society also in white let
ters. It was manufactured in this city by Mrs.
Wheeler, and is a very creditable piece of work.
The size is twenty feet by twelve feet.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Macon seems to be entirely out of -the frost
belt. Athens had a killing visit, last Thursday,
and on the same day Bambridge was similarly
honored.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Southeastern Railway will be held at Athens,
to-morrow. A president, vice Major Campbell
Wallace, will be elected, and the route from
Athens to the point of intersection with the Air
Line Road selected. The distance from Athens
to the nearest point on that road is 37 miles.
Mr. B. E. Russell has retired from tho Bain-
bridge San, and in connection with Mr. W. C.
Jones will hereafter conduct the Argus, which
is to be a semi-weekly instead of a weekly issue,
as at present
At the eleolion last December for Represen
tative in the Legislature from Haralson connty,
there was a tie between the Democratic and
Radical candidates, but at an election held last
week, Jeff Head, Democrat, beat Hutchinson-
Radical, 47 votes.
Mr. Joseph Roberts, one of the most vener-
ablo and esteemed residents of Brunswick, died
last Wednesday night.
Mr. Warren A. Fuller was crowned with Al-
dermanic honors at Brunswick last Tuesday, by
217 votes to 133 for M. L. Mershon.
Tho Columbus Enquirer, of Sunday, makes
this centre shot:
The papers in the. South that have been ag
itating against the ‘‘hew departure” profess to
believe that the results of the late Northern
elections, and vhat they call the refusal of the
New York Democrats to “depart,” have killed
the movement. Very well. And now good
policy—inseparable from common senso—re
quires that they should “dry up.”
CoL Avery, of the Atlanta Constitution, who
was down here last week to inspect onr Fair
Grounds, was immensely pleased. Hear him
I have been delighted with the new Fair
Grounds here. Macon has surpassed herself in
the beantifnl creation sho so suddenly and mag
ically evoked into existence.
You enter a gateway something like that of
Oglethorpe Park, in Atlanta, and as you enter
you have a beautiful view of the grounds. No
description that I have seen does justice to the
splendid arrangement. In front of the gate, on
the inside, is a half mile park enclosed, swarded
and with a rare forest of trees. On the left, the
rivfcr meanders, the natural boundary of tho-
grounds. On tho sides and on the opposite
point of tho park, which has a broad drive
around it, the bnilding arecrecteds, all visible;
all fronting the park, and exquisitely and artis
tically arranged. The whole scene, park, forest,
drives, winding river and the fringe of ornate
buildings of various sizes, colors and adorn
ments, forming a beantifnl picture, in which
the finest natural lovlinoss, the most peifect
taste, and tho most thorough art are superbly
blended.
The doath of Col. W. P. Ferrell, of Rome, on
Friday night, is announced by the papers of
that place.
Tho champion benzinists live in Sumter
connty. They muster just six in number, and
on last Thursday drank just eight bottles of
gin and each carried an extra bottle home to
drink on the road.
Tho “Ameriens Cotton Factory” is a slow
coach, verily. It is three years old, but hasn’t
done any work.
Tho Sumter Republican, of Saturday, says
Thursday night a kerosene lamp exploded in
tho servant’s room, at the residence of Col. W.
A. Maxwell, in this city, setting the clothing of
a negro woman named Susan, employed as a
cook for the family, on fire. She ran from the
kitchen into tho house, all in flames, and made
the tour of three rooms and tho hall twice, set
ting a bed on fire in one of them, before tho
flames could be extinguished. The flames were
smothered out by Mrs. Maxwell and Mr. John
D. Carter, both of whom had their hands severe
ly burnt. The woman’s clothes were burnt al
most entirely off and her person dreadfnlly.
burnt, front and rear. She is under treatment
of Dr. J. B. Hinkle and is easy, but her wounds
are so severe it is scarcely probable she can sur
vive.
The partridge crop of Randolph county is
very large this season. We may mention, in
cidentally, for tho information of our friends
down there, that we are remarkably fond of
tUht particular bird.
One of the irrepressible Smith family had one
of his arms broken and the other badly sprained
last Wednesday night, at Columbus, by being
thrown from a wagon.
The steamship General Barnes arrived at Sa
vannah from New York on Thursday morning
at seven o’clock, discharged upwards of nine
thousand packages of merchandise, and took
on board seventeen hundred and twenty-seven
bales of cotton and two hundred and forty-four
packages of merchandise, and sailed at six
o’clock Friday evening—occupying only thirty-
five hours.
Duringthe past year the Savannah police made
2,824 arrests—803 more than the previous year.
Fourteen hundred and seventy-three were whites,
and 1,351 negroes. There are eleven houses of
ill fame, and a total of 265 courtesans, inSavan
nah—all of which facts we gather from Chief
of Police, Anderson’s, annual report.
Up to Saturday, there had been 55 liquor,
and 132 dray lioenses issued in Augusta.
The thieves of Augusta—who, hy-the-by, are
universally conceded to be the meanest in the
world—have organized a syndicate and are bull
ing the kerosene market by stealiog tho oil from
the lamps used on tho outskirts of tho city.
They sell it for whisky.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Snnday, says:
Colored Baptist Seminary.—The Georgia
Republican says that the Baptist Theological
Institute, Rev. Joseph T. Robert, LL. D.,
Principal, for the training of colored ministers,
and those who expect to engage in the ministry,
will be regularly opened on Monday morning
next, October 16th. We learn that arrange
ments have been made to board and lodge stu
dents from the country at very low rates, or to
furnish them lodging to a limited extent free,
where they prefer to board themselves.
Tho Lumpkin (Stewart connty) voters went
it brash for the proposition to snbscribe $10,000
to the stook of the Bainhridge, Columbus and
Cuthbert railroad, at the election last Saturday;
110 votes were polled, 103 of which number
wero for subscription.
The unknown man who fell down the steps of
a private house, at Savannah, on the 5th inst.
and fractured his skull, from which he died next
day, tnrn3 out to be Chas. C. Young, of Rox-
bury, Mass., late a member of Battery H, 3d U.
S. Artillery, who had just been discharged from
the Federal garrison at Fort Pulaski.
Wo clip the following from the Savannah
Repnblican, of Sunday:
Death on Shipboard.—Kiss Carrie Monroe,
of Boston, known as the “Fat Girl,” died at sea,
on board the steamship Virgo, of disease of the
heart, and was buried atsea, on Thursday last,
Capt. Bulkley leading the burial services cf the
church. This remarkable girl was nine years of
age, and weighed nearly 400 pounds. She, with
her mother, and an agent, D. E. Prescott, were
oassengers on board the Virgo, intending to ex-
! libit at the several fairs in Georgia, in connec
tion with a oage of wild animals. On Thursday
morning about six o’clock she was discovered
dead, lying on the floor of her state room, hav
ing died sometime daring the night, of heart
disease. The body conld not be kept, and it
was deemed expedient to bury it in the ooean,
which was done as above stated.
Beautiful Prizes.—We were shown last eve
ning, by Mr. John Valentino, the prizes awarded
to the well known Macon horse, George Bertram.
The first for the fastest trotting horse, open to
the world, was a handsome silver salver, pitch
er and two goblets, lined with gold, and valued
at $50. The second, for the fastest Georgia-
raised trotting horse, was a silver pitcher, valued
at $25. The third, for the best saddle horse,
was a silver eake basket, valued at $10; and
the fourth, for the best single-harness horse,
as a silvei castor, valued at # 15.
BY TELEGRAPH
New York Colton Murhct.
New York, October 15.—Cotton was heavy
and lower early in the week, but improved at
the close; the sales for the week reached 80,000
bales, of which 75,000 bales were for future de
livery, and 15,000 on thespotand to arrive. Of
the spot cotton exporters took abont 16,850
bales, spinners 4825 bales and speculators 2250
bales.
Cotton Movements tor llto Week
The cotton movements for the week show an
increase in receipts and exports. The receipts
at all tho ports for the week were 64,097 bales,
against 46,044 last week, 24,073 the previous
week and 20,606 three weeks since. The total
receipts since September are 186,617, against
272,583 for the corresponding period of the pro
vious year, showing a decrease this year of 85,-
466. The exports from all ports for the week
are 18,417, against 28,462 for same week last
year. The total exports for the expired portion
of tho cotton year are 78,732, against 73,215 for
the same time last year. Stocks at all ports
145,486, against 161,185 for same time last
year. Stocks at interior towns 27,940, against
27,557 last year. Cotton in Liverpool, 471,000,
against 565,000 last year. American cotton
afloat for Great Britain 33,000, against 20,000
last year. Indian cotton afloat for Europe 623,
379, against 310,015 last year.
Washington, October 15.—The Secretary of
the Treasury has issued an order to reissue
$1,500,000 of notes destroyed at Chicago.
New York, October 15.—Tho Council of Po
litical Reform, last evening, elected Wm. Everts
President, and Eugene Kelly, Wm. H. Aspin-
wall, James W. Beckman and Oscar Zollicoffcr
Vice Presidents.
Dispatches from Vienna, Paris, Brussels, Ber
lin and London represent an active subscription
going on to aid Chicago. '
A dispatch from Halifax states that tho hoavi
est hurricane known for twenty years occurred
there last evening. The tide rose two feet over
the wharves. Naval vessels were much injured
and several lives lost.
The Manhattan Insurance Company has ab
solved to suspend. Its losses are stated at
$1,250,000. The company possess a large sur
plus besides its capital, and it is not expected
that any loss will accrue to tho assured. The
President of the Empire City Company, which
was reported yesterday to have lost $250,000,
states that the company has sustained no loss.
It is reported that tho Western Union Telegraph
Company has effected a loan in Europe, and
will cancel four millions of stook.
Douglas, of tho yatch Sappho, has challenged
Samuels, of the Dreadnaught, to a race of twen
ty-five miles to Windward and back in a ten knot
breeze. Bennett’s Dauntless offers tho Dread-
naught a similar match. « -
The steamer Portsmouth arrived from Rio
Janeiro with twenty-eight emigrants returning
from Brazil.
Charleston, October 15.—One fever death
yesterday and one to-day.
Charleston, October 15.—Arrived, steamer
South Carolina, New York; bark Volanti, New
York, for Galveston, disabled off tho port; bark
Annie Kimball, Liverpool.
Savannah, October 15.—Arrived, steamships
Oriental, Boston; Saragossa, Baltimore; Kin-
yon, Havre; brig S Packard, Philadelphia.
Paris, October 15.—Thiers has formally an
nouuced to the Legislative Committee that the
customs treaty for Alsace and Lorraine has been
signed, acd only awaits ratification. Ho states
that the principle of reciprocity is recognized.
The payment of the'fourth half million of tho
indemnity is to be completed before the end of
March. Tho evacuation of French territory
will commence within a fortnight after the rat
ification of tho treaty, and Germany cedes
Franco a small strip of territory.
Traffic by the Mont Cenis Tunnel commences
to morrow, the lines of railroad connected with
the tunnel having been completed.
Madrid, October 15.—A meeting of working
men last night resolved to nominate candidates
to represent them in the Cortes and Municipal
Government.
A large ana orderly meeting of the Federal
ists and Republicans was held to-day.
Vienna, Ootober 15.—A cabinet crisis is again
threatened, Van Beust declares he will resign
and demands the Czech’s a compliance. The
Emperor’s decision is nnknown.
Stockholm, Ootober 15.—Count Waehtmeis-
ter, minister of foreign affairs, -died in the
street yesterday with apoplexy.
New York, October 16.—lay Cooke, McCul
loch & Co. have telegraphed a subscription of
two thousand pounds sterling to the Mayor of
Chicago. Tho bouse here h»d given ten thou
sand dollars, making twenty thousand, the Phil
adelphia house gave five thonssnd, making
twenty-five thousand from this banking house
and branches.
The Chicago banks pay fifteen per cent, at
once, and resnme regular business on the 17th.
R. H. Hurlburt, comptroller of currency, cer
tifies to the solvency of tho Chicago national
banks. Advices from tho Northwest grow hourly
worse.
Concord, October 16.—A short, sharp earth
quake here to-day.
San Francisco, October 16.—The American
has arrived with a full cargo of teas. Tho
United States steamer Colorado struck a rock
and has gono to dock.
The Pacific Insurance Company’s liabilities at
Chicago are two millions. The Company goes
into liquidation.
Syracuse, October 16.—Seven distinct fires
occurred here on Saturday night—six being in
cendiary.
Milwaukie, October 16. — Later accounts
confirm the previous disastrous reports. The
loss of life in the neighborhood of Peshtigo
will reach 1200. Fifteen per cent, of those in
jured will die. The only escape from firo was
a rush for tho water. The maddened cattle and
horses drowned many of the population.
Peshtigo had 2,000 inhabitants, a third of whom
perished.
Salt Lake, October 16.—The storm of Satur
day night prostrated many houses—tho trains
were delayed—the wires are down.
Chicago, October 16.—There was a furions
gale here Saturday, blowing the fire brands
abont in all directions and prostrating walls.
Fortunately it had previously rained steadily.
The supply of food is ample. Dead bodies con
tinue to be found.
New York, October 16.—Arrived, City of
Baltimore and City of Brussels.
London, October 16.—Steamer City of Paris
from Now York for Liverpool off Capo Clear,
i3 broken down. Steamers have gone to her
assistance. There is a strong breeze hut no
apprehension about the steamer’s safety.
Two steamers collided in the Tyne and five
persons were lost.
Pouyer Qnartier has arrived in France from
Berl-'n with the ratified treaties.
Shanghai, October It.—A great flood has oc
curred at Tien-Tsin, 10,000 square mites are
under water. A terriblo typhoon has occurred
at Hong Kong and along the coast. The city
of Hong Kong is threatened with inundation.
Tho pilot boat Golden Gate is lost. The Rin
derpest is at Mongolia.
New York, October 16.—Fifty insu ce
presidents nr* consulting to-day. Mr.-Muter,
I State superintendent, addressed the meeting,
saying if compelled to go into liquidation he
wonld do his beBt to proteot the interests of in
surers, bnt wanted frank and candid statements.
President Oakley, just from Chicago, considered
the losses there understated. The Chicago
companies conld not pay more than ten or fif
teen per cent. He stated that all the New York
companies wonld pay tneir losses.
12 o’clock—The Columbia is a mile ahead,
and betting is $6 to $4 against the Livonia.
Later.—The Columbia passes the winning
post at five o'clock—the Livonia not in sight.
Washington, October 16.—The following in
surance companies are reported suspended by
the Spectator: The Market Insurance Com-
] >any of New York City; the Hide and Leather,
independent, National and New England Mu
tual, of Boston; the Connecticut, North Amer
ican and Putnam, of Hartford, and the Nor
wich, of the last named city.
The Conneolicnt Boaxd of Supervisors de
cided sgninst allowing tugs to oarry more steam
than is allowed other vessels.
General Sherman visits Europe to inspect
their forts and armies. General Demiok, who
commanded Fort Warren daring the eariyyesrs
of the war, is dead.
Montreal, October 16.—A terrifio gale after
heavy rain did serious damage to life and
property. The roof of the new St. George
church starting daring service, the people
rnshed out in the middle of prayeta. The Ca
thedral spire rooked like a shipmast. Miss
Annie Lowe, daughter of John Lowe, of Ga
zette, was killed by a falling tree.
Boston, Ootober 16.—The Postoffice proces
sion was imposing.
Savannah, October 16.—Arrived, steamship
H. Livingston; bark Caviecos, Havana—
Cleared, Bchooner Jas. Fish, Providence; G.
N. Tower, Brunswick, to load, Philadelphia
Charleston, Ootober 16.—Arrived, steamer
Faloon, Baltimore. Off the port, Golf Stream,
Philadelphia; bark Victoria, Cape Deverde.
Chicago, October 16.—There is wonderful ac
tivity in the south division. Thousands are at
work nn *>v’i ‘hi dsSris, ereeting temporary
buildings, etc. Evory laboring man, willing to
work, can find plenty to do and liberal wagea
The action of the banks in having resolved to
resnme business immediately, inspires confi
deuce. The stories about the wooden pave
ments burning np arq exaggerations. The
Camber of dead bodies discovered is less than
one hundred and twenty-five. A large mass of
the persons supposed to be lost are alive and
well.
New Yobk, Ootober 16 —A reoeiver hasbeen
appointed for the Pulton Fire Insurance Com'
pany, of Brooklyn, which a stockholder swore
has become insolvent owing to the Chicago fire.
The Fhenix Insurance Company, of Brooklyn,
anjnsted its loss by the Chicago fire by a draft
sent to Hart, Aston & Co. The board of direc
tors of the Home Insurance Company to-day
unanimously adopted a resolution to fill up their
capital stock to $2,500,006 at the earliest prac
ticable moment. This will restore the Home’s
assets to nearly, if not qnito, $4,000,000 after
every cent of Chicago losses are paid. Tho
Manhattan Company, which has announced
snspension of business, expects to meet all
losses. The Continental lost about $1,000,000,
being mnch less than their immense surplus and
doubled capita], and after paying all losses will
have assets amounting to $2,000,000 for new
business.
Superintendent Miller will, to-morro.w, issue
a circular calling npon all New York fire insu.
mnee companies to report, under oath, their
losses at Chicago, and their present standing.
This will be followed by an examination of the
separate companies.
The Union Firo Insurance Company, at Son
Francisco, telegraphs to their agent to pay all
Chicago losses and continue business. Potter
Palmer telegraphs that all fire insurance com 1
panies in which he is interested, os special or
general partner, will pay in full at maturity,
Counsel for Gen. Jordan, indicted for viola
tion of neutrality laws, moves to-morrow for
discharge of their client, as no effort is being
made by the government for a speedy trial.
Tho rumor of a negotiation for a mortgage
loan in Europe by tho Western Union Telegraph
Company, is unfounded.
Baltimore, October 16.—Tho House Depu
ties in the Episcopnl Convention adopted a re
port relative to the admission of a new diocese
within the limits of the diocese cf Pennsylva
nia. Tho upion of the nuw diocese with tho
General Convention takes effect from the 8th
proximo.. They also adopted the hymnal re
ported by Joint Committee of the General Con
vention, with an amendment that this hymnal,
when finally corrected by the committee, shall
be freo to be printed and published under the
same conditions that now apply to printing and
publishing the prayer book.
Chicago, October 16.—The banks will open
for business to-morrow and pay depositors in
full. All branches of trade are rapidly locating.
Synopsis of Wentber Statement.
War Dep’t, Office Chief Signal Officer,)
Washington, D. O., October 16, 7:40,p. si.)
Tho area of low barometer in Maine has
moved eastward beyond our stations, followed
by westwardly winds and clearing weather in
New England. Clouds? with light local rains
have pervailed in theMiddle States, but are now
clearing away. Brisk westerly winds are now
reported on the lower Lakes, but light winds
have very generally prevailed at alt stations.
The area of threatening weather, with light
rain, which extended over the Ohio Valley and
southwest, is now very generally broken up,
being confined to Louisiana and Texas. The
highest barometer extends, with light winds,
from Kentucky and Tennessee westward.
Probabilities: Cleaning weather will probably
continue to-night on the Middle and Atlantic
coast, and in the extreme southwest with clear
weather elsewhere. Partially cloudy and pleas
ant weather will probably prevail on Tuesday
very generally east of the Mississippi.
Queenstown, October 16.—The steamer City
of Paris, reported broken down, has arrived
here. a *
Paris, Ootober 16.—Picard has been ap
pointed Minister to Italy; Goisot goes to
Athens. The appointment of Ferry to the
United States has been withdrawn.
Kingston, Ootober 16.—AH vessels have been
delayed and many dragged anchors. Two are
ashore.
Some oi* the Buildings Destroyed ta
Chicago.
The New York papers of Tuesday give the
following facts of general interest in connection
with tho great calamity :
The Chamber of Commerce occupied the
southeast corner of Lasalle and Washington
streets, and, with the building attached in the
rear, had a frontage of 100 on Lasalle and 100
on Washington street, owned by Chamber of
Commerce Association, and leased to Board of
Trade for ninety-nino years. Offices of leading
produce houses on first floor and basement.
Exchange Hail above cost, abont six years ago,
$275,000. The west side of Lasalle street,
north from the Merchants’ building to Randolph
street, was a line of costly structures. The eight
or nine buildings cost from $60,000 to $150,000
oacb. The north side of Randolph street was
a continuous front of costly marble bnildiDgs
from Lasalle to Clark street. On the corner of
the latter, the Sherman Honse, 180 by 160 feet,
five stories high, owned by the heirs of the late
F. O. Sherman, built in 1860 and extended in
1868, was occupied by Messrs. George W. & D,
A. Gage and John A. Rice, under a lease of five
years from 1870, at $68,000 a year. The ren
tals of tho building were nearly $150,000.
Total loss in structure and contents, $550,000,
The improvements on South Clark street,
south of Madison, had recently commenced on
a magnificent scale, the principal improvement
being tho great Pacifio Hotel, to be completed
in May, and to have been leased in the present
week. The building, receiving its interior
finish, covered the entire square bounded by
Jackson, Clark, and Quincy'streets; $800,000
already expended. Just north on Clark street,
at the comer of Adams, the Lake-side Printing
Company were completing their costly edifice,
100 by 100 feet
The Cook County National Bank was on ihe
corner of Monroe and Dearborn streets. Next
was tho beautiful new Bigelow Hotel, 100 by
'.00 feet, just being furnished. The hotel was
owned by G. A. Bigelow, and cost, with the
furniture, $450,000. The hotel was to have
been'opened in November.
The Tremont House was built by Ira Couch,
in 1850, a model of its class, raised and rebuilt
ten yoars ago, 180 by 180 feet on Dearborn and
Lake streets, five stories high; loss, with con
tents, $590,0C0.
The square bounded by Randolph, Dearborn,
Washington and State streets contained the
Crosby Opera House with its central front on
Washington, with the musio stores of Root &
Cady, W. W. Kimball, J. Bauer & Co., and
Wright’s restaurant nnder it. The rear build
ing contained Root & Cady’s publishing rooms.
Tho cost of tho opera house, just being refitted
at a cost of $50,000, was nearly $600,000.
On State street, from Washington north to
Randolph, stood a line of merchant palaces. On
the comer of Washington, Potter Palmer’s su
perb white marble bnildiDg, 180 by 150, was
filled through its six stories with the dry goods
store of Field, Lester & Co. The loss in build
ing and contents will largely exceed one million.
The Chicago court-house was a structure ex
tending from Lasalle street to Clark, 180 feet
front on each street, and 325 feet in length, con
tained the court rooms, recorder’s and municip
al offices, the valuable law library, and the jail
in the basemsnt. It had been recently rebuilt
and enlarged. The straoture cost not far from
$1,000,000.
The Chicago insurance companies possessed
total capital of $5,161,507, and assets $6,746,-
393,91; other companies doing business in
Chicago show a capital pf $34,818,602; and
assets $73,063,586 22. The New York Tribune
thinks that the calamity will eventually result in
such reforms in the rates of premium, the as
sumption of risks, the bringing about of a
better understanding between companies, as
would place the business of underwriting on a
sounder basis. A Convocation in New York city
next week of the insurance commissioners of
twenty or more States, who compose the
national insurance convention, is looked to with
some interest.
The Rage.—Yesterday evening, another trial
of the Bpeed of Napier’s bay horse and Wal
lace’s gray horse, come off on the race track.
The bay was driven by Biddlecom, and the gray
by Mr. Olay, both being hitched to trotting sul
kies. As in the race on Friday the gray took
the lead from the start and opened the gap be
tween them, all around the track, the distance
flag falling fifty feet in advance of the bay. As
ont of the large assemblage, there was sot one
bnt what wanted to bet on the gray horse win
ning, bnt little money changed hands. We
learn that a running race will possibly take
1 place this evening at tho same place.
Hymn from tbe Italian.
The following hymn was transferred from a pillar
in a little church in Italy, and translated by a young
lady in Brooklyn, for Bev. Mr. Hammond, who
reada it in his meetings, it is eaid, with great effect.
‘-The tendency of the revivalist’s style towards mi-
terial and mediteval ideas and images of the Saviour,
was never so clearly illustrated” says the Newark
Advertiser; but it seems to us a very touching com
position :
O blessed foot of Jesus.
Weary with seeing me!
Stand at God’s bar of judgment,
And intercede for me.
O knees that bent in anguieh
In dark Gethsemane!
Kneel at the throne of glory
Acd intercede for me.
O hands that were extended
Upon the awful tree!
Hold up those precious nail prints
Which intercede for me.
O side from whence the spear point
Brought blood and wat6r freo;
For healing and for cleansing,
Still intercede for me. *
O head so deeply pierced
With thorus which sharpest be!
Bend low before Thy Father,
And intorcedo for me.
O sacred heart! Such Borrows
Tho world may never see,
At that which gave Thee warrant
To intercede for mo.
O holy ec&rredand founded,
My sacrifice to he!
Present thy perfect offering
And intercede for me.
O loviDg risen Saviour
From death and Eorrow free!
Though throned in. ondlees glory.
StiU intercede for mo.
SIGNIFICANT DEMOCRATIC
SION IN THE northwest.
A Progressive Key .Note for the Cam"*.,
or 187a.
St. Louis, Ootober 12.—The Republic
to-day, has an editorial of much sienifw cf
It suggests that K csn; t
NO DEMOCBATIO CANDIDATE
bo nominated for 1872. It says: -There is no *
tional precedent for such a course, but tht*
periment is not an untried one, and cites
campaign in Missouri last Fall. It then «-
why should not an experiment that proved 5
successful, breaking the power of Radicalism*
Missouri, be employed to break the
Radicalism v 1
in the union.
Why should not the whole country find it
erance from a party that is essentially pro**
tive, oppressive, unconstitutional and violear
its policy and practice, in the tame wav i
which a single State found such delivering
The result of the Missouri election of 1870 ^
not, indeed, ,TU
A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY,
but it was certainly a Radical defeat, and u
abolition of disfranchisement, the subsidence a
animosities, the restoration of concord and cm
will among the people, and the revival of
cheerful interest in publio affairs and in Lm
enterprises which followed that defeat are c »
sequenoes which vindicate the
WISDOM OF THE IXPERIMES’T
in Missouri, and at least suggests its repetis 0 ,
in a larger field. It thinks the adoption of
policy would divide the Republican party ; ^
THE T-TuantT, ELEMENT ’ ul *
in that party would nominate a candidate in »
position to Grant, whom the Democrats
support, and the result would be a majority'
DEMOCRATS AND t.tkkt! its '
in Congress, which, while differing materia]]?
from a Democratic victory, would he an inesg-
mable improvement on the present ordeiof
things.
It insists that the contradictory and discor
dant nature of the several State platforms, boil
Democratic and Republican, that have been ok.
sented to us within the last few months, show
that both parties have lost their reckoning, an!
are beating about somewhat wildly. Tiiecct.
stitutional amendments and tho legislation c!
Congress since the war have eliminated seveni
very important subjects of difference and di>
pute from our national policies, and the resell
is a vacuum which confuses both parties. Tt=
only common conviction in
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
is that it ought to be kept in power, to givens
such partisan legislation as it has given mi;
the last six years; and the pre-eminent cornrio.
tion in the
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
to which all questions of tariff, finance, annex!,
tion and foreign relations are subordinate, is
that the Republican party ought to be overthrow
and a gentler policy substituted for the reign cl
force which it has given us.
THE VIRGINIA CONSERVATIVES,
in their late State Convention, declined to adopt
the usual resolutions, and contented themselves
with proclaiming as their sole platform, “Op.
position to Radicalism.” The fact expresses!
common Democratic instinct, and expresses,
too, a feeling which all the liberal andieflecliq
element of Repnblican party shares.
BUT HOW?
But how is this opposition to be successful!
How is the Republican party to be displaced!
How is such a consummation to be effected, is
the teeth of the rigorous, semi military lavs
which it has devised, expressly to enable it Is
carry elections, and protect itself from defeat?
How is the administration party to be beaten
in 1872, when the people half believe that it
will not submit to defeat, and willnphold Presi
dent Grant in any measures ho may taka to
avoid it?
THE RECENT FAILURES.
Or even if we could have a perfectly free
election in all the States, without executive in-
Some fifty heavy charges wero fired at him; I terference, and with the certainty that tbe par-
the stinging effect acted well as a slight check j ty power wonld cheerfully submit to there
upon his operation, during which his keeper suit, what assurance have the Democrats till
AN OI5 .TI.YATE ELEPHANT.
Ho Knocks Over a Cairo of Kangaroos—
Seasons some Lumber—Kills a jntnle—
Smashes a Wagon—Falls Up a Big Apple
Tree—Tries to Murder some Yankees,
and Gets a Thrashing.
From tho New Haven Register, Oct. 6.]
O’Brien’s menagerie exhibited in Meriden
yesterday (Thursday), according to advertise
ment^ at the usual grounds on State street Just
after the close of the afternoon performance the
great elephant, Mogul, took it into his head to
enact a tragedy not on the bills, so walking ma
jestically out of his enclosure, ho went for his
keeper in a fit of rage. The keeper sought
refuge under the cage containing kangaroos,
which Mogul disdainfully turned over in a jiffy,
and walked through the canvass ont of doors.
Then he went on a tour of inspection, and if
not “seeking whom he might devour,” he cer
tainly seemed willing to accommodate anybody
or anything that might wish for a set-to. Meet
ing a pile of lumber in the adjoining lumber
yard, ho quickly spread the hoards in good
shape for seasoning. Then meeting in his path
one of the mules belonging to the company, he
ran his tusk completely through its body, pin
ning it to the ground, and killing the animal
instantly. The next obstruction in his majes.
ty’s path was a wagon belonging to Messrs.
Grether & Hall, which he scornfully seized
with his trunk, and raising it, he smashed
it to pieces; then he returned to the dead
mulo, and again plunged his tusks through it,
and breaking off one of his tusks close to the
jaw, sauntered carelessly into Slate street, with
none to molest or to make him afraid, the
crowd following at a safe distance behind, while
before and about him everybody seemed to bo
very busy in getting out of his way. The
keeper and other attaches of the menagerie soon
rallied, and by strategy and good tactics he was
induced to enter a field belonging to Mr. Camp,
thence into an orchard, where he indulged in
the pastime of tearing and smashing whole
lengths of picket fence. Tho novel method of
subduing him, temporarily, by shooting him iu
tho face and trunk with buckshot, was adopted.
fearlessly approached and chained him to an
apple tree about twelve inches in diameter,
which was no sooner discovered by the enraged
animal than he instantly and without apparent
effort, but with the greatest ease, tore it np by
the roots, and again created the greatest con
stenntion among the immense crowd who had
now collected in tho immediate vicinity. All
went, and stood not on the order of going, bnt
some tall running was done, and some laughable
incidents occurred in the stampede, leaving
the ground free to Mogul and his would-ho
captors.
He was, by treat daring and agility on the
part of I is keeper, again secured by chaining
his hiLd feet to a very large tree. .Here he was
left for tho night, and a guard stationed with
rifles loaded with ball, to kill him shonld he
again break loose daring the night. He was
evidently much chagrined at his confinement,
and continued to snort and straggle to break his
chain, affording much excitement throughout
the city during tbe entire night, but fortunately
he was held until about 5 o’clock this morn
ing, when his keeper, with the assistance of the
entire force of the concern and about 500 citi
zens, undertook the job of punishing and sub
duing the monster. Large ropes and chains
were procured and after many attempts,in which
the same were broken qnite easily, he was final
ly, at the end of two hours, thrown down and
secured in that position, when simultaneously
his beating began, by a dozen strong men with
dubs, iron bars, spears and pitchforks, and
continued until the men were exhausted, and
again renewed from time to time, for abont two
hours, at which time, after many wounds and
poundings enough to seemingly kill him, he was
as obstinate as ever. Refusing to surrender, he
was left to his own reflections in this condition,
and the beating abated for a time. At the pres
ent time of writing (12 hours) he seem3 deter
mined not to succumb. A choice he has of doing
so or being killed, as in his dangerous mood he
will not be allowed to rise without evidence of
change of heart. It is estimated that the
damage done in his tantrum will cost over seven
hundred dollars.
Fortunate it is that no lives were lost.
Qncen Victoria’s Hallucination.
Whatever may be the truth in regard to the
report that Queen Victoria intends to abdicate
the throne of England, it is known that she has
been laboring for some years past under at
least one phase of mental infirmity. She has a
firm conviction that Prince Albert is always
present with her, and that she can hold com
munion with him. Her private rooms are ar
ranged as they were when he was alive. His
chair is placed opposito to her own in the li
brary, and tbe books which he delighted to read
to her are arranged lovingly, in order, upon the
table. In some of her moods she will converse
with him for an hour together, conducting her
own Bhare cf the conversation aloud, and with
the vigor and interest of old times.
He had taught her by his example, the suo-
ces3 of his business enterprises—especially by
his management of the Duchy of Cornwall—to
superintend as mnch as possible all her private
affairs herself; to reduce all unnecessary ex
penditures, and to forbid extravagance. Hence,
the greatest simplicity is observed at the Queen’s
table, and she imagines that her husband looks
on, well pleased. At times, when she is more
than ordinarily impressed with a vense of his
j rresence, the poor, fond woman will order, a
1 cnife and fork to be placed on the dinner table
for him, and cause the attendants to place every
course before the empty chair as if the master
still occupied it. Every morning a pair of boots
are cleaned and set down against the door of
the chamber which he once occupied; and at
breakfast, when in 8ootland, she will often sit
long time in silence, waiting for the Prince.
The Queen’s strong belief in the communion
of the living with the spirits of the dead she
received, no donbt, from Prince Albert himself,
who was a sort of theosophiat—a something be
tween Jacob Behmen, the mystic, and J. G.
Fichte, the* philosopher of transcendentalism.
Whatever may be thought of it as a theory of
philosophical or religious belief by sober, Com
mon sense people, it is to Victoria a source of
great consolation, and she often talks with
the Prince concerning the state of the soul after
death. She'has been gradually withdrawing
from publio life for some years past, and lives
in a world of her own. Her harp and her easel
are both neglected, and she neither sings, plays
nor paints, except at rare intervals, when she
will sweep her, harp-strings for a few moments
in memory of some sweet German air that her
husband loved to sing or hear sung.
Burning up thx Ground.—In Minnesota the
prairie fire has burned through the earth in
some places to the depth of five feet. Fort
Aberoombie narrowly escaped destruction. The
fire was discovered making its way toward the
fort with wonderful rapidity, and the entire
garrison was ordered out, and, armed with
blankets, the men fought it off, and saved the
bnildinga, hay and wood. There were 900 tone
of hay and 800 or 900 cords of wood near the
fort.
they can carry the country with any nominee of
their party, in the face of the defeats they hare
recently encountered in California, Pennsyl
vania and Ohio.
THE UEGEKT NECESSITY.
These are the questions which the advocate
of the no nomination policy ask themselves,
and even if they are not conclusive of the mer
its of that policy, they are weighty, and deserre
to be thoroughly pondered. It is urged wii
much reason, that the country can ill-affcri
another four years qf Radical rule, with tb
Union maintained in the present abnormal, c-
restored condition. Ku-klux disorders and Kt-
klux laws continued, executive interferese
persisted in, and the process of centralizatii;
made complete; and that if these things are to
be arrested at all the Radical party must be si-
seated at Washington, just as it was unseated in
Missouri—by the Democrats abstaining from a
Presidential nomination, and leaving the nomi
nation of a ticket whioh they may support, to tie
liberal element of the other party.
A BARREN VICTORY.
Even if the Democrats could hope to nomin
ate a Presidential ticket and elect it, with Groes-
beck or Hancock, or Hendricks or Chase, or
anyone else of that head, would not the victory,
it is asked, be empty and barren? Would not
the Radical Congress tie the hands of the Dem
ocratic President, and give us the history of
the Andrew Johnson administration over again?
On the other hand, with Grant and the adminis
tration party overwhelmingly defeated, as Sic-
Clarg was defeated in Missonri, a liberal and
patriotic Repnblican made President, and a mi
nority of Democrats and Liberals chosen to Con
gress, wonld not the result, though materially
different from a full Democratic triumph, be
an improvement on the present order oi thing? ’
It would, it is true, involve concessions whim
the national Democracy would find it hard to
make; but would not the happy deliverance of
THE HABRA8SED SOUTHERN STATES,
and their restoration to the co-equality and dig
nity they are now debarred from, be a sufficient
compensation for these concessions ? And worn. I
not the real restoration of the Union which to.-
lowed the triumph of the new party be its P fr ;
petrial claim on the gratitude and conndence«
the people ?
The Fate of Chicago Incendiaries.
A correspondent of one of the New Ici'r
papers who was id Chicago the day after tbs
fire, relates the following story concerning It 5
fate of two incendiaries whose punishment came
under his own observation. He says:
Being caught in the act cf setting fire to so■*
bnilding, he was conducted to the tree.. I- e
crowd thinks ordinary hanging too lenient * I
death, eo it is determined to suspend they*
wretch by the feet.' He is, therefore, pinione-
around the arms, tbe rope being meanwi- 5
fastened to his feet. Ab this is done the s-
happy wretch begs that he may be aUowtd/”’
die by strangulation. This is not allowed. Sm
other end having Been passed over the tKWSj
of the tree, he is tripped off his feet and baule-
np feet first When his head is about three
feet from the ground the end of the rope u
fastened round the trunk of the tree.
fiend, not content with this, raises a huge stone-
and dashes it with all his might at the head*
the hanging man. It waa a good aim, fot
nose is seen to be broken. Others poitMpJ*
in the sport and soon the head is not diih-
guishable, bnt ia one mass of gore and pm?
This is such bravo sport that the dull
sound is heard as each stone is flung, whmat *
narrator passed down the street. In Halst
street a youth about sixteen had been cang -
kindling a fire, with the intent of spreading ®
flames through the city. When last seen ■
Mr. Boatman, he had one arm compl el .‘^
wrenohed out of the socket, and was then belEt
conducted to the plaoe of execution.
Cmaiao Affaibs.—The World, of
8a Y 8: . k:
At Chicago eighty dead be dies now lie ®j.
Morgue, and it ia oertain that this is
number of those who have perished. A 3 nl _ ;
as twenty bodies were taken from tbe base»
of two buildings on the north side. At an ■-
quest held on 64 of the bodies only two*,
recognized. Tbe fire had not broken out agr,
on Tuesday night, and the oity was quiet- .,,
Committee of Relief were enabled to S“Pr-_
40,000 destitute persons with food. The n
her to be provided for during the coming
estimated at 70,000. Brave efforts are being® .
by the Chicagoans to organize relief, 10 gJJ.
mence business, and to restore confidence. ^
aoriptions continue to pour in from orery ® ^
the United States, and from London,
ham, Frankfort, Vienna, and, indeed, fro® jj
parts of the world, fan da an forthcoming- .
American cities yesterday #736,000 wascwjj,
ed, making a total of #2,500,000 subscribe”
three days. At a meeting of Americans!
don yesterday, nnder the presidency oia^r,
Bohenok, #60,000 was anbsoribed in a »» rft) .
ntes, and the Lord Mayor has opened
soription list forthe general pablio.
