Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 October 1871 — Page 1

THERE are twi flourishing night chools in Lafayette. S*1"*

A SUBMARINE CABLE across LakeMichian is much talked of at Milwaukee.

CINCINNATI is trying to secure the residential Conventions of both Consent,

KENTUCKY is exporting paupers to Evansville, much to the disgust of that citv.

THE children of the public schools of Evansville coutribute S419 24 to the Chicago relief fund.

THE third trial of MM. Ciem for mtir 3er, in which the jury disagreed, cost the county of Marion over §5,000.

SAJ«DS W. CLARK, one of the oldest citizens of Tippecanoe county, died at his home in Lafayette on Tuesday.

A TROSPECT of bringing the South Carolina KuKlux to grief makes the '•Journal" profoundly miserable.

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES for State officer are becoming too numerous to mention."

THE young people of Fort Wayne, and some of the old ones, too, are rushing into matrimony as if they thought this their last chance.

THK "Journal's" bowels of compassion yearn with e*"»-Bive tenderness toward? those murdeu KuKlux.

jvils incarnate called

THERE are premising indications that the Republicans of Missouri will re-unite and swing that. State into line in the next canvass.

THE Kentucky counties"west'of the Tennessee river, commonly known as the "Pu/chase," want to be annexed to the Si.-ne of Tennessee.

THE people of Pennsylvania, by an overwhelming vole, which seems to have been iri espective of party, has just decided that their Constitution needs revision.

"E. O M.", in the Cincinnati "Gazette," severely consigns "the TILTONS and WOOHHULLS and TRAINS" to that unfortunate "class of people who have the talent to make anything odious."

THE Vincennes "Sun" is extremely busy just now. It says it has neither time nor inclination to inquire into the causes which led to the Dtyuocratic defeat in the recent elections.

A FORT WAYNE newspaper man recently visited Indianapolis, and a half-column puff of Marion county jail indicates t* whose hospitality he was indebted during his sojourn in our Capital City. -:.

THE "Revolution" is not so dead as might be. It has simply changed hands. All the women have gone out, a clergyman has become its editor, and a New York publisher attends to its business management.

LAURA REAM, in a Chicago letter to the Indianapolis "Journal," says the Nicolson pavement is a snare and a fraud. She saw whole blocks of it hurried to a honev-comb. Men could no more have walked on them than a bear can stand still on hot plates.

'I'llis November number of Lippihcott's Magazine" brings the usual array of good things. Perhaps its most interesting feature is a searching and accurate account of the rise, character, and aims of the famous ".Internationale," by a writer of much ability.

IT IS remarked in New York that though the election is but a fortnight off the Tammany naturalization mill is not running. The Cincinnati "Commercial" says this strange circumstance is supposed to indicate the possibility of an approach to a fair election. ,,.. ,. mm

IIKKE is a fine illustration of "Radical extravagance:" The tax duplicate of Ma' ion county, for 1871, is increased over four millions, and the tax is decreased over one hundred thousand, notwithstand ing the county is building the finest Court House in the West.

A NEW SAVINGS BANK, with all the leading bankers of the city as incorporators, has been organized in Indianapolis. The officers are: W. N. JACKSON, President GEO HOE MHRRITT and S. A FLKTCIIKR, JR., Vice Presidents, and J. W. KAY, Secretary and Treasurer.

WE have it upon the authority of the Buffalo "Express" that "Alex H. Stephens says he never yet has seen a single article of his republished in a single Radical paper."—Exchuwjc.

There are few Radical papers, or in deed, few of any Wind, large enough to venture on one of his articles except as a serial.

THREE of the'worthy clergymen of the city are well agreed that the Chicago Cue was a Divine and providential judgment upon that wicked and unregenerate city.

L'- fiii/du' Journa 1. As this is a free country, these Reverend asses have a ri^ht to their opinion, but sensible people are not compelled to hoar ilieiu bray.

THE Democratic judges at Dayton, true to their hate of the men who fought and hied to preserve the Union, threw out the soldier vote, numbering six hundred, from the Soldiers' Home.— Olereland Herald.

And the same men, if they had a chance, would throw the crippled soldiers out ot the Home to beg or starve. Dayton .Democracy is diliberately diabolical and desperately depraved.

THE ditliciiliie.i attending the publication of a newspaper in France are very fullv explained in a recent number of ihc IVis "Monde" by the matter-of-fact, it verv suggo*tive, statement that there have been enacted in 1'rance, since the gre.it Revolution,one hundred and sixty laws to regulate the pro's, being on an average one new statute for every MX months.

FIFTEEN thousand in Pennsylvania, twentv-two thou.-and in Ohio, and the usual" forty thousand in Iowa are calculated to disturb the average Demociatic eq an i1y.—Eransri«c ou mat.

But those figures don't begin to disturb the equanimity of the Terre Haute Journal," for that far-seeing organ prophesied disaster to the party a-s the result of a futile attempt to gulp down "ihe Dayton Doctor's nauseating dose."

THE separation of Church and State in England is now only a question ot time. 11 will, of course, precede the establish­

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of the republic, towa-d which the FnglNh are gravitating with much rapidity. The workmen—ihe leaders now in mast reform* in Europe are moving, and recent dispatches announce the issue bv them of an address demanding the disestablishment.

To THK fact that this city is situated on the route over which the Theodore Thomas Concert Organization must pass, in going from one larger city to another, we shall be indebted for an evening's entertainment of such a character as places of the size of Terre Haute rarely enjoy. We doubt not that our citizens will manifest their usual appreciation of that which is in the highest degree meritorious by filling the Opera House on t|ic evening the 25th instant.

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THE Express" needn't take on much about the "disruption" of the^ Democratic party. In less than a year from this time that same old party will cause our cotemporary a heap of trouble and many restless nights!—Journal.

Our neighbor evidently believes in the old adage. It's always darkest just before day," and argues from the present ebon aspect of the Democratic situation that Aurora cannot be far off. It may peem cruel to di-pel this hallucination, but we read of a "darkness" that is •ternal, where "shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth," and from the description of those for, whom this darkness is prepared," it is evident that the Sacred Anther had the Democratic party in view.

To be Bure, it gives us a heap of trouble "and some "restless nights "to see a great party dying of its own political iniquities slowly strangling to death beneath the mountain of abominations which persistent continuance in evil-do-ing has piled up. When we think what this Democratic party might have been, how much of good it might have wrought for mankind, and turn to the mournful contemplation of what it is, and the diabolism thatstamps almost every page of its history, we confess to a sense of painful regret. But death is better than a hopelessly wicked life, and since the failure of the "new departure" movement has demonstrated the impossibility of Democratic reform, the early demise of the party is what its truest friends most earnestly desire. Such an organization, stupidly antagonizing every progressive idea of the age, proposing nothing, but opposing everything, is as much out of place as would be a reconstructed Spanish Inquisition. In short, the Democratic party ef 1871 is a hideous anachronism.

AT the recent Presbyterian Convocation in Evansville, Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, President of Wabash College was invited to address the Synod on behalf of that institution.

In his remarks the President stated that since he last met the Synod, a year ago, the north wing of the center building has been completed, at a cost of some twenty thousand dollars. It contains a very beautiful chapel and library. Considerable additions have been make to the library, and large pledges made in its behalf. The Board at its last annual meeting directed the Executive Committee to borrow the money and finish the south wing for the cabinet, the library and philosophical rooms At this time there was no money in the treasury for that purpose, but since then the entire amount needed has been furnished without borrowing. In addition to this, a very beautiful gymnasium of brick, trimmed with stone and covered with slate, is nearly enclosed, at a cost of several thousand dollars, all of which but one thousand dollars i« already provided. The estate of the late John C. Baldwin furnishes a permanent fund of over twenty-six-thousand dollars, the income of which is to be devoted to the aid of worthy s-oung men in the college, struggling for nn education. The number of students at present is nearly two bundled, and the institution is in a very nourishing condition, and entirely out of debt.

A SOUTHERN colemporary expresses a wish for more public speaker.? to instruct the people of iis section in political issues, and in reply to this expression of an imginary want the Philadelphia "Inquirer" remarks that the citizens of the North would gladly banish a few hundred of their irrepressible orators to the sunny South did they not know that that suffering section of our common country has been injured by too much talk on politics. The more opulent North can bear the infliction of numerous political speeches much better than the poor and mure excitable South. An over abundant crop of eloquent speakers "fired the Southern heart" to the mad, unholy work of secession and ever since the close of the war for the Unicn the "chivalry" have been talking too much and working too little. What the South really needs is men to aid iu, the development of her natural resources by downright work, and no blatant, self-seeking orators.

THE Chicago Evening "Journal" is the only Chicago paper that has not missed a single day of its regular issues, on account of the Conflagration. In its issue of the 17th, the editor says: "Notwithstanding the fact that its office building, type and presses were included in the general ruin of the South Side, Sunday night, on Monday afternoon, thanks to Mr. Edwards, of the'Chicago Business Directory,' and to the 'Interior Printing Company,' we were put in possession of a printing establishment on Canal street, and while the conflagration was still raging, issued a small sheet, giving an acconnt of the Great Calamity. Every day since then we have published a "Journal." Our only regret has been, and is now, that, owing to our inadequate press facilities, we were not able to send ihe paper to all our subscribers throughout the country but we did the best we could, arc doing so still, and our facili lies for doing better are now daily increa sing."

THE Cincinnati "Gazette's" Washington correspondent learns at the Stale Department tbat the real cause for demand ing CATACAZY'S recall on the part of our government was the undiplomatic conduct of the Russian Minister while the Washington treaty was being prepared by the Commission. It is charged that CAT ACAZY procured hostile articles to be written for various newspapers, and that in some instances be paid tor the ptibli cation of the same. A Wo, that he betrayed State secrets which came to him in an official manner, and ot herwisejbrought his influence to bear to euibarra-R at everv step the progress toward pacifioa tion made by the English-American Commission.

AN F.X-MEMBER of Congress in Minneto1a, having failed in obtaining a renornination, and met with no success whatever in a desperate attempt to establish a new party, now informs his fellow citizens that he has amassed wealth sufficient to follow politics as an amusement. A sagacious cotempoi-ary shrc.vdly remarks that as he seems to have a strong liking for this form of innocent recreation, the considerate people of Minnesota should never mar his picture by electing him to any office of trust or emolument. The hard work of a canvass would spoil the amusement •to be derived from a non-profe*sional political careeer.

FROM the report of the Grand Officers of the order of Good Templars it appears t"hat during the year thirty-eight lodges were organized, and one hnndred and forty-five surrendered, or forfeited, char ters. But most of the forfeited charters will be reclaimed this winter. There are two hundred and ninetyfive lodges in healthy existence in the State. The loss of members exceeds the increase by seven hundred and eighty-four, and there is now a total membership of t,590.

1L*T who is General Butler, that he should fly in the face of two continents about this matter?—Ind. Journal.

BEN is not altogether unknown to fame as a political acrobat, but this fly iug in the face of two continents is I persimmon or so bevond even him.

AT Detroit, on the 15th and 16th of next month, the old Army of the Cumberland will hold its fifth annual reunion. The end of the establishment of the Society of the Cumberland is to preserve that fraternal feeling which in the war limes gave the army such distinction and so many glorious successes. Says an Eastern journal: "The Army of the Cumberland was in many_ respects a peculiarly distinctive one. Separated from the body of the United States forces, operating throughout the war almost entirely independent of all other armies, led during its entire existence by but three commanders—Sherman, Rosecrans, and Thomas—removed by distance from the demoralizing influences of Washington, it early assumed and to the'last retained a character especially its own. Of this character, as well as of its victories and trials, its members are yet proud _and to cherish and revive the old memories, the old associations, and the old virtues, they gather in November."

IT" LOOKS very much as though tliis were to be a winter of almsgiving. The hundred thousand homeless and hungry Chicagoana, after their immediate necessities have been satisfied, must still be sheltered and fed for many months. Then we have the destitute of Michigan and Wisconsin almost as numerous a£" those" of Chicago, and equally shorn of all their possessions. In view of these stubborn facts, the Philadelphia "Press" wisely suggests that it would be well if a grand organization, similar to the Sanitary and Christian Commissions were formed all over the country, and the charity of the people made systematic. The ordinary waste of the community—the_ petty extravagances and indulgences—if restrained and checked, would meet all the demands in the moat effective manner

LAST Monday night, at a meeting in Apollo Hall, New York, Mr. TILDEN denounced Tammany as a den of thieves. He abjured all honest Democrats to come out from the thieves, and as for the thieves themselves, he would cut them off. The "Tribune" says: 'This declaration evoked just as tremendous applause as did Mr. Tilden's former one at Rochester that the Republicans were doing all the stealing. We rejoice to hear Mr. Tilden denounce Tammany and its works, and we give him cordial thanks for whatever he may do to promote its overthrow but it is a pity that the difficulties of his position should compel such droll contrasts as that between his Rochester speech proving the Republicans thieves and the Democrats honest, and his Apo!lo_ Hall speech, proving ihe Democrats thieves, and hav ng nothing to say about the Kepublicans." i,

A DEMOCRATIC EXCHANGE undertakes to account for the Evansville "Journal's" pport of President GRANT by asserting that the editor of the "Journal" is the Postmaster of Evansvillev This is a mistake. Col. JOHN W. FOSTER is the efficient Postmaster' of that city, and is also one of four proprietors of the "Journal." But he is not its editor, and has not been at any time since he was appointed Postmaster. Mr. F. M. THAYER is the editor, and is responsible for all that appears in the editorial columns of the "Journal." Mr. THAYER never was a Post master, and has never been an applicant for any office under the present administration. There is no reason to attribute his support of GRANT to any selfish motive.

THOSE who are trying to induce Col* TOM SCOTT,—the gentleman in whose breeches pockets the Pennsylvania Legislature is supposed to hold its sessions, to run for the Presidency, forget that experience does not commend the name that connection. There was one great SCOTT" who tried to be President, not many years ago, and instead of getting to the White House he got "beaten out of sight." But we have no idea that Col. TOM SCOTT will fall a victim to political ambition, or will abandon his gigantic business enterprises for any other field of action.

THE JENKINS of the Fort Wayne "Gazette" spreads himself to the extent of a full column on a "wedding in high life" which has just agitated that city from center to circumference. It is really con oling to learn from this moving tale of nuptials in exalted vitality that "The parties, who were eagerly scrtitenized by their friends in the church, proceeded up the aisle with that selfpossession and graceful bearing which never desert the well bred."

A CINCINNATI COTEMTORARY compliments the Labor Reform National Convention, which met at Columbus the other day, with the remark that it "made up in gojid sense what it lacked in numbers. The latter were meagre, but the assembled delegates wisely determined that, if the Republicans renominated President GRANT next year, the Labor Reform partyshould support him."

SOME Democrats fancy that, in Mr. THOMAS SCOTT, they have discovered one of those plucky but indiscreet little bulls who try to butt locomotives off the track. T. S. isn't the taurine idiot that the=e discouraged Democrats take him for He knows that, so far as the past and present can decide the future, U. S.GRANT elected as his own successor.

CAPT. CHRIS. MILLER, formerly of Lafayette, and well known throughout the State, died at his home in Chicago on Thursday, of an old wound received at the battle of Rich Mountain, which the physicians always told him, would, in the end, be the cause of his death. It was no doubt much aggravated by the excite«nt incident to the great Chicago fire.

A MF.DICAL COLLEGE was recently established in Evansville with a list of Professors as large as a pocket dictionary And now it is announced that the Black Crook is to be produced in that city. It is supposed that these two "institutions are intimately connected,as the latter will furnish the former magnificent facilities for anatomical investigation.

IN VIEW of the fact that oxen readily ford the Ohio river at Evansville, and of the additional fact that the present name of that flourishing place is not suited to a large city, such as she will be, by and by, we suggest that she be re christened by the good, honest old English name, Oxford. which this country is marvellous.—Ind,

THE ease with bears a heavy b'ow Nacs. .j*

If that were not the case, the heavy "blowers" in politics and journalism would hftve "bust the country up" long

AT THE head of the greatest ring and monopoly in this country stands Col. THOMAS SCOTT. And yet the ring-and-monopoly-fighting-Democracy propose him as their Presidential candidate. Consistency!

THE Madison "Courier" announces that its editor, "Col. GAKBEB, is not a candidate for any office. He has run his last race." We regret this, for it would be a pleasure to vote for to good a man.

IT SEEMS to us that all good citizens will approve the action of the General Government in ministering to the necessities of the unfortunate people who have suffered so terribly from conflagrations in several of the Northwestern States.

THE Democracy of Indiana are becoming quite too. aristocratic to tolerate honest work in a candidate "for office. Some of their organs speak of Mr. SHOEMAKER, Auditor of State, as a "d—d peach peddler." The Journal '^approvingly copies this sort of stuff, ,„s,f

THE handsome Republican majority in Pennsylvania, upon -the direct issue of GRANT'S renomination, is the most staggering blow that has yet been dealt to the Democracy and soreheads. It is a "straw' heavy enough to break the back of a much bigger camel thanthat on which it has fallen. The poor animal's spinal column is wilted and crushed as flat as a wet dishrag.

UNLESS affairs change mightily the Democratic majority in New York, will be larger than ever.—Journal.

It will not be safe for your friends to risk money on that prediction. There is a probability that Tammany will riot vote all its grave-yards this year, and that its repeating will be reduced. Last vear, you know, there were more Democratic votes cast in some districts than the total population of those districts, counting men, women and children! This may not be done next month, and in that case the "Democratic majority" will be reduced.

THE Cincinnati "Commercial" thinks the scenes of fiery ruin and death in Wisconsin and Michigan, in human dismay, anguish and destruction, go beyond anything revealed thus far in the history of the burning of Chicago. Whole counties, andserie3of counties, have been desolated, and wretched fugitives hava been roasted alive in forests and on roads after escaping from their flaming homes and fields. The first necessities of Chicago have been relieved, and the smaller, but more terribly afflicted communities in the Northwest should be the swift objects of a like generous and effective charity."

THE Indianapolis "Sentinel" states that Elder BURGESS,"in bis address upon the Chicago fire, said that the stone in the fine buildings of that city soon burned into lime, and that the iron columns and fronts melted away by the terrible heat. The brick buildings, he remarked, stood the fire better than either i"-on or stone, and demonstrated that brick was the best and safest material for buildings. If some of the intended fire-proof buildings had been of brick instead of stone and and equally as well protected in other respects, it is probable they would have stood the terrible test to which they were subjected.

IT TS asserted that no Democrat has ever been murdered for his political opinions in this country, North or South. •Exchanqe.

That is not very strange when you remember that a Democrat has no "political opinions." "Opposition to GRANT" is authoritatively announced as the whole Democratic creed. If your honest Democrat should find GRANT standing to-day where he and his Democratic co-workers stood yesterday, he and they would immediately take up the position that GRANT occupied the day before, and so on ad infinitum.

IT IS said that Dawes, of Massachusetts, is to be the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means in .the House of Representatives, which meets in December. General Butler, in consequence of his late career, is to have no prominent position assigned him. This is the revenge of Speaker Blaine, to whom Butler is opposed.—Journal.

Some days before the above appeared in the "Journal," Speaker BLAINE gave the lie direct to the whole story. He says he has not yet given any attention to the cast of committees. There is not a more honorable gentleman in the country than JAMES G. BLAINE. If the

Journal" will ask the Member of Congress from this district what he thinks of the Speaker, our M. C. will bear testimony to his exalted worth and will say that he is incapable of such a "revenge" upon any opponent.

Another Editor Gone.

Major JOSEPH ODELL, associate editor of the Lafayette "Journal," and a member of the Common Council of Lafayette, died very suddenly at his home in that city on Thursday night. He had been somewhat indisposed for a few days, but wa3 thought to be convalescent, and expected to return to business in the morning. Mrs. ODELL and two of the children were absent, visiting friends in Kentucky, and had no intimation of the sad occurrence until apprised by telegraph yesterday. Major ODELL was a ready and forcible writer, a good speaker, a pleasant companion, and an honorable man. From the Lafayette "Journal" of yesterday we copy this brief sketch of his life:

A native of Maine, he removed, soon after his graduation at Waterville College, to Kentucky, where he first engaged in the profession of teacher, afterwards published a weekly paper, and finally entered upon the practice of the law. In 1S60 his first wife—mother of the one

daughter, who was with him at the time of his death—was burned to death by the accidental taking fire of her clothing. The breaking out of the war found him one of the little band of Kentucky Unionists, and he entered into the heated contest which ensued with all, the fire and enthusiasm of bis nature. In 1SG1 he was married again to Miss Ella Cochran, of Louisville, who survives him. He continued to reside in Kentucky until 1S6G, when he engaged with J. P. Luse in the editorship of the New Albany "Commercial." In 1S67 he removed to Lafayette and engaged on the "Journal," first as editor on asalary, and afterwards as one of the firm of James, Emmons & Co., its publishers. He remain ed only about a year, and then went to Chicago to engage on the Post," then in its infancy. He remained in Chicago, contributing to the Post," and also at times to the Republican," and some of the literary periodicals, until February, 1870, when he returned to Lafayette and engaged with us on the "Journal." About ten months ago he resigned his editorial charge in order to resume the study and practice ot law, bnt still maintained his connection with the paper, thoroughly identifying himself with its interests, and continuing to contribute, with occasional interruptions, a large portion of its editorial matter. As a writer he was ceedinglv gifted. Brilliant and fluent, yet terse and logical, there was a snap and power in eTery line. Though never a seeker after political preferment, he was quite prominent as a politician, and exerted a wide influence in whatever community he lived. a

TEREE HAUTE, INDIANA WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1871.

NOTES AND CLIPPINGS

THERE are 4,000 unlicensed liquor saloons in Philadelphia. THE "City of Paris," just disabled, had the second-best record for speed of any trans-Atlantic steamer. The Russia has the first.

RESPECTABLE men have begun refasing to run as Democratic candidates in the Stale of New York since Tweed's triumph at Rochester.*

IT IS stated that Jay Gould rau his train, bearing bread and -butter to Chicago, sixty miles an hoar, and landed in the hungry city without a hot box or a worn tire.

No FACT is more clearly established than this: that the more besotted and degraded a white man has become, the more intense is his hatred of the colored people. One never hears an educated and refined white man cursing the negro.

MRS. TRACY CUTLER and Miss Lucy Stone have done a wise thing in inserting as a clause of their platform that their single aim is suffrage, and in giving every one to understand that they are satisfied with marriage as it is, and in no way inclined to free love. ii

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IT IS the opinion of a sagacious cotemporary that, if the New York "Tribune" would exhibit less concern about the removal of Collector Murphy and more for the Republican victory in the State of New York, that journal would be quite as likely to have an opportunity to rejoice over both achievements

GREAT geniuses always turn tip in great crises. A Chicagoan, fearing from the general reputation of that city for "blowing," that posterity will not believe the story of the great calamity, suggests that all the damaged safes be piled upon a public park, making a monument higher than the dome of the Court House.

THE Indianapolis "News" says: "Sermons npon the Chicago calamity were preached all over the country on Sunday, and many of them declared in so many words that the fire was a judgment upon Chicago for its wickedness. It is really amazing to see what a low estimate so many good and apparently sensible people put upon the Creator, making him subject to whim and caprice and entirely ignoring the great natural laws which He has ordained and which so wonderfully declare his infinite majesty and power."

THE Missouri "Democrat" declares that "of thirty-five or forty thousand Republicans who voted for Brown last fall, fully nine-tenths are as resolved as any Republicans can be "to sustain the Republican nominee for the Presidency. They will not allow any quibble over the matter of a committee to divert them from that purpose. To say that they have 'gone back on their record' in this is to say what is most conspicuonsly false. They have always declared that they would do as they now propose to do, and tlicy are simply preserving their consistency and mean to redeem their pledge. They have not 'come back' or 'gone back' to the national Republican party, whose cause, as they understood and understand it, they never deserted and never intend to desert."

THE Cleveland "Herald" thinks Kansas can take the red ticket on disgusting Fair shows. At Atchison the main feature of the Fair one day was the baby show, where not only a premium was awarded to the handsomest baby, but also to the ugliest, and also to the fattest. A dountry baby took the premium for fat, and city young one3 took the premiums for ugliness and beauty. The announcement was made that another year the premiums would be increased, the announcement being thus made at this early day that those who propose to compete may be getting their stock ready. There being no limit to age, everybody has a chance to try for the premiums. That style of show should be left to Mormondom, where multiplication of the species is taught as the chief end of man.

SAYS the Philadelphia "Press": Senator Brownlow is one of the most ruggedly honest natures the country ever produced a sort of modern Andrew Jackson. Dissimulation and' dissemblers find no favor in his eyes, and he is always ready with tongue or pen to denounce the wrong or defend the right- In a letter addressed to the people of Tennessee correcting certain misstatements of the new Governor he says: "Instead of Tennessee being quiet and peaceable, as Governor Brown represents it, I believe we ought to have martial law proclaimed and Federal troops enough sent to the Slate to protect every citizen in his rights, and put a stop to the murder of citizens by Governor Brown's partisan Ku Klux friends. And I don't hesitate to say that I would support such a proposition in the United States Senate."

THE Country learns with regret that there "is no truth in the report that Cob lector Murphy has resigned." That, official should understand that his retire osent from his present position is demand ded by every honest man in the country. The charges made against him by the New York "Tribune" for fraudulent practices upon the government during the war, were supported by the amplest evidence, and so strongly supported indeed, that Collector Murphy has not even attempted to disprove them. The peo pie care nothing about this matter so far as rests between Mr. Thomas Muiphy and the "Tribune", though they are quite willing the "Tribue" should have the credit of exposing his frauds upon the government. The country more than ever at this time desires to see integrity characterizing the holders of office, and they do not recognize any such quality in the collector of the port of New York. For this reason and none other they demand that his place shall be filled with another against whom no such damaging evidence of corruption and peculation rests. The Republican party, in view of its recent great victories, has determined to purify itself, and a good beginning in this direction would be the retirement from its honors of the New York collector

The Alabama Arbitrators. It is announced at the State Department that the Board of Arbitrators under the Washington treaty has been completed by the appointment of Baron de ITAJUBA on the part of Brazil. The latter gentle man was for a long time the representative of his government at Paris, and, besides his diplomatic training, is eaid to be an accomplished lawyer. The Board as constituted, consists as follows "1*,.

United States, Charles Francis Adatos. Great Briuin, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn. 4

THE LOWELL FACTORIES.

The Wages of Female Labor—The Character of Mill Girls—Wages Paid the Male Help,tc.

A correspondent of the New York "Tribune" has aninteresting letter from Lowell, from which wc lake the following ex. tract. After describing the city and factories, he says:

The wages paid to females are stated to average $3 60 to $3 75 a week clear of board. Feeling much interest in this branch of. the manufacturing interest. I asked an Alderman, who politely took time to show me through the mills,many questions as to the financial and social condition of the female operatives. He simply pointed to the different women as we passed them, and asked: "Do they look worked down, consumptive, downtrodden?" And on Friday of the Fair, when the factories were closed, he pointed to the thousands of gay lyand neatly-dressed girls with happy faces and healthy forms, and as teed the same question. Their appearance was in every instance in direct refu tation of the silly rant of demagogues. He said that most of them worked by the job or piece, that the amount they made depended in a great measure on their own swiftness and diligence. "It's all nonsense about their being worked to death a great many of them get through by five o'clock, and then quit for the day. They save from one to three dollars per week of their earnings, as you see our savings banks report an aggregate amount of deposits of $7,000,000. Occasionally they get tired of working, and will rest awhile, living on their savings. I have known dozens of them who saved up enough to buy themselves little cottages when they married, thus being independent of the corporation tax for rent."

All have heard many tales of Lowell girls, of their frolics and gayety I asked, What of their morals Well, you know human nature is human the world over, and it is no better here than elsewhere, but I do not believe that there can be found another locality in the world where there are so many females where so little immorality exists. They will joke, but it is death to them among their companions and relatives to go beyond the point of good morals. Then and there ends their chance for marrying I venture you will not/ find the same number of working people of the same grade of intelligence anywhere."

Of a member of the Common Conncil I ask the s&mequestion. He replied: "My experience is that the girls here are far more moral than in Boston and New York. Nearly all of theinliave fathers or brothers, and they dare not go astray for fear of being caught. By a sort of social rule among themselves I think the standard of morals is higher than usual among such masses of humanity. I have beeu a member of the Common Council for over 14 years, and I do not know of a single assignation house in the city."

Talking with a beavy of bright-eyed, healthy-looking girls, I asked them if they could save any money at their small wages. "Yes, Sir, that we do."

You dress well doesn't it cost all you make?" "No, Sir we make our own clothes." "Why, I thought you were worked so hard that you had no time of your own." "No, Sir Nan, there, makes $2 a day, and she never works before 7 and after 5 o'clock, and not many of us do then we fake our resting spells and visit iround." "But don't you lose your places in the factory by that?" "No, we generally arrange for some girl to take our places, and it is very seldom they are not willing to take back a smart quick girl whom they know."

I was surprised in various conversations with these girls to find ihem well educated, using the best English, and frequently well versed in the best litera ture One gentleman told me that the Irish element was rapidly coming in, and, his opinion, was not an improvement. He stated that, in combating the small pox, the Health Board fouud no trouble in the American quarters, but in Irish neighborhoods, it was discouraging. The increase of Catholic churches is an other evidence of this Celtic invasion The Irish are not so neat or quick as the American girls, and are much more quarrelsome.

The wages paid to males per day is $1 20 to 52, exclusive of board. I have gone through nearly all the mills, and have made the condition of the workmen and labor question a particular point of inquiry and study. I saw no work which would "grind out the life of the young child"—in fact, nearly every young child saw was in schaol. My observations and inquiries were not. made under the frown ot an "avaricious employer the superintendents Baid to me, "Go where you please ask any question you desire of foreman or employe, whether it be male or female ifvou desireany information they cannot give, come to me"

Then I was shown into and through numbers of the "corporation" houses, where the employes live and board I saw the whole system of management in all its details. I saw in no place any evidences of oppression no necessity for the "protection of the ill paid or over worked laborer from the exactions of avarice but I found cleanliness, thrift, industry, and as much, in fact, I think, more happiness, than I ever before saw among the same number of the laboring class. The only gruiffblers about poor wages and long work hours were those notoriously lazy.

In the Middlesex Mills, of which Gen. Butler is one of the largest stockholders, and which he with one other controls, I saw thirty girls working at shawl-looms they would compare favorably witk the same number from any part of the world for good looks, health and neatness they were paid by the yard, and it was seldom any of them worked after 5 o'clock, having by that time finished what they desired as a day's work. In the same factory I saw men sitting leisurely on stools while their work went on without their help. They simply watched it. Surely the idea of overwork was not drawn JVom this factory. I certainly saw no worse evidences in any other.

BURIED ALIVE.

Two Panyer Children as rave Diggers—Fatal Result—An Infant Buried Alive.

From Ihe Sieubcnville Herald of Monday-J A sad incident occurred at the connty infirmary, five miles from the city, yesterday, resulting in a horrible death, the burying of a small lad named Murphy, aged five years—a reel footed child who was deserted by the mother to cloak her shame. From a gentleman who was at the infirmary yesterday, we learn that two children named Phil. Sheridan and Andy Steward or James Holley, repaired to the orchard, a short distance below the infirmry building, and dug a hole. After effecting this part of the diabolical act, the two little fiends, whose ages were respectively five and nine years, repaired to the infirmary grounds and caught the reel-footed boy, and carried him to his living grave. Shrieking, yet without the power of being heard, the little victim was caught by the young executioners, and forced into the hole. Holding him down they shoveled in the earth and stones upon his writhing body, stifding his cries as be*t they could, until the poor, deformed body ceased to struggle, and the spirit took its flight to Him who gave it. The two young murderers went back to the house without informing any one of the deed, and the buried boy's absence was first noticed by Mr. Porter, the Superintendent, about one o'clock Upon making inquries, a little black boy informed him that Andy Stuart and Phil Sheridan had "buried 'Limpy' down in the holler. On going tothespot, Mr. Porter found the newly made grave, and below the surface the lifeless form of little "Limpy." To day Mr. Porter was in the city, and made application to Judge Martin, of the

Probate Court, to have the two young murderers sent to the Reform School.r

I ABBEY SAGE RICHAEDSOK has agreed

Switzerland, Jacques Staempfli. to give fifty readings after January 1, Italy, Count Lellopsis. I under the management of the American P.raril, Baron de Itajuba.' **\i Literary Bureau.

WHAT BURNED ClllCAttO.-

The Borine Theory Untenable.

From Ihe Cin. Timet and Ckrtnide.J The last flames of burning Chicago are extinguished, and the last of a dozen incendiarics taken down from temporay elevation on a lamp- post, and we have now sufficient time to examine a subject that will not improve with smothering, to-wit, that the terrible tire owed one-half its work, if not its origin, to the determined and organized effort of incendiaries. The proposition is sensational, but the evidence is grave. A scapegoat, or rather, a scapecow, has heen found and located on Dekoven, but there are certain other facts that give the bovine story a very romantic tinge. In the facts that follow there is a logical order of events which can be much more easily attributed to plan than to chance.

On Saturday night a fire of unusual proportions breaks out in the very portion of the city most dangerous to its safety— the very place where the strong wind blowing i.-! from the prairie could catch the flames and sweep them over the residence and business portions of the metropolis. After a night of battle the flames are conquered, with a loss of $3,000.000. At nine o'clock the next evening, afire breaks out right in the heart of the town, on Dearborn street, near the Post Office. While the exhausted firemeu are extinguishing this, and thus drawn a mile way from the last night's scene of action, a lake of fire springs up as by magic on the very edge of the old fire, and sweeps on with the incoming gale. Toiling over their weary mile of obstructed streets, the firemen attack their new enemy and, while fighting desperately, see the South Side burst into blaze. This the correspondents explain with "flying embers." It was a mile away, and not in the direct ion of the wind! A part' of the wearied laborers rushed for the new scene, only to find other fires springing up in every direction, and finally to see the North Side ablaze, and under circumstances that render it very difficult to believe that the fire could, of its own accord, have jumped the river.

So much a priori. Now as to facts, from a hundred well authenticated instances, bearing the acknowledgment of the heads of police and reliable citizens, we extract the following:

Hannah, Lay & Co., who own a lumber pile near the City Elevator, found a bundle of hay and straw deposited in a risky place, and saturated with kerosene.

A silk dress saturated with kerosene was flung over a garden fencc on Wabash avenue, into a back yard, and was picked tip dripping with oil.

In the alley between Taylor and Twelfth streets, running from Halsted to Newberry street, a man attired in a black coat was found crouching at the rear of a barn, and in the act of applying a lighted match to dry-combustible material.

At 11 o'clock on Tuesday forenoon Chailes Coy, employed at the City Elevator, was on Mitchell street, near Canal street, when he heard the cry of fire raised by some women. Rushing into a shed, he discovered a quantity of brimstone on the floor, burning. In this instance, too, the incendiary escaped.

At the drug store of Mead Brothers, on Canal street, between Jndd and Wilson streets, there was found under the barn, ou Tuesday afternoon, a piece of Mantlla rope six feet long, saturated with tar and other combustible substances. The ends were frayed, so that it would readily ignite, and on one end a loose knot was. tied and soaked in tar.

Mis Fries (examined by police) says her father was a wealthy jeweler. She left the home two daysbefore the fire, and was staying two blocks away from her father's house, On Sunday night she saw tlie house on fire, and a gang of loafers throwing kerosene into it. She fled to her home, which she found to be on fire. Some men seized her and put her into a street car, and she was borne rapidly to the West Side. Her father and mother perished.

These little incidents in connection with the suddeh and unexpected burning of the water works, the subsequent attempts at incendiarism in the unburned part of the city, and the dispatches that reach us form Louisville, Syracuse and Buffalo of attempted arson, aresuflicient to open our eyes to their widest extent, if nothing more.

The explanation of the willful destruction—if willful it was—is a more difficult matter. TheKu-Klux ideasand hintsat the "International" that are beginning to creep into the dispatches are altogether too visionary for adoption. A great fire brings sufficient, reward to swell the mob of robbers that infest our cities to obviate the necessity of our going to Europe or to politics for the reason of such fiendish work. We are not prepared to maintain that any body of men carefully planned the destruction of Chicago by fire, but there is at least too much evidence of an organized scheme for a tremendous fire—one that should offer unparalleled opportunities for the richest plunder. It is not the first, nor the hundredth time that like work has been attempted, and too great carecan not betaken to prevent its repetition there, or its imitation elsewhere.

The Mont Cenis Tunucl. The openieg of the Mont Cenis Tunuel might supply a text for a variety ot sermons. We might dilate npon it from a political, or a scientific, cr an feslhetic point of view. We shall not speak in this place of its political significance nor do we desire to discuss its merits considered as an example of engineering skill. It is enough to sa that the annihilation of the Alps is one of thoee rare triumphs which give a poetic tinge to the art of the engineer. Like a great battle or a revolution, it forms a landmark in history. Only a few such feats have been performed, and fewer still, it would seem, remain for our descendants. The successful laying of the Trans Atlantic cable and the piercing of the Isthmus of Suez were equally, or perhaps even more impressive in their way but it is rather difficult to see what feat in the immediate future can have the same kind of dramatic completeness. The construction of a tunnel from England to France would be a worthy pendant to the performance the annihilation for practical purposes of the silver streak of sea might be even more interesting to HS islanders than the abolition of the more brilliant silver of the Alpine snows. The travelers by the old diligences never suffered the horrors of sea-Bickness, and humanity would perhaps be relieved from a creater accumulation of horrors. Whether the annexation of England to the continent would be more aflecting to ihe cosmopolitan imagination than the union of Italy to Trans-Alpine regions is a question which we are perhaps hardly competent to decide. When, however, that feat has been performed, it will be difficult to look forward to another of equal merit until the first party of human beings is enabled to direct its course through the air in a genuine flying machine. Bnt we must refrain from speculating on the future. It would be rash to say what wonders are in store for us.

We may remember the time when that dilapidated institution, the Thames Tunnel, was still an object of profound admiration and, indeed, even to the present day we believe that it is the first sight which parties of that-variety ol foreigner which corresponds to the Cook's tourist of our native land hasten to examine on their visits to London. Even at a recent period we have encountered peasants in remote mountain villages whose one notion of England was that it was the land of the Thames Tunnel. They have now a more surprising triumph of skill in their own neighborhood and if the labors of our grandchildren are to bear to ours the same ratio which the tunnel beneath the mountains bears to that beneath our river, we may weli refrain from the attempt to conceive their precise nature. We may vaguely look forward to the time when all natural obstacles, including the ocean, will lose their practical significance, and the whole planet become one country, bound together by a vast network of lines of communication, after the precedent already set by the United State®.— The Stilinditsj Heriac.

{PAYABLE EST ADYAJSTCE

HARVEST IS THEHIUCODXTRT.

BY MILLIE W. CAKPIXTOU

The dew lies heavy on the nncut grass. And drips in bright drops from the bonding grain, And Tom tho vines, through which the reapers pass

With trampling fcot along tho cool, wet lanoThe amaranth lifts its faint, sweet ilnsh again Some mdian cresses flourish in the hedge

The poison-sumoch lets its shame be seen In scarlet letters, where tho wood's brown edge

Is brightened with the hcmlock's tender green.

These late red currants glow like ruby beads In clusters tempting to the robin's taste: The yellow mustard rows its fine brown seeds

Along tho sod in rare excess of waste. Meanwhile, tho reapers to their work make hn«te. And through tho astare. where tho red oak stands.

Tho Brawl goes wimpling'mid the grass and lorns. Where tho tired field-boy larts his sun-burnt hands.

Or in the shado a lino of Homer learns.

Here, thou and I. 0 friend of oarlier days! May sit and listen while the reapers sing: About our feet the cardinal flowers blaze

And honey-bees go by on shining wing. Out of our listening, music seems to spring And, floating softly the clear sunshine.

These sweet and alien voices in the corn Rocall old tunes that echoed by the Rhine, And jodels heard upon tho Alatterhorn.

Not much Uke these, dear friend, were thoso first days Offr'edom, when the wide world seemed •nr own. When we wont wandering long, bowildering ways.

From Qrutli meadow to tho Bois Boulogne. Now all that fad, swoet folly is outgrown Our work is dono. Not much—was it?—for those

Who wero so strong, who saw so much to do. Who felt so brave to right a whole world's woes.

And tear the mask of vain conceit in two.

The reapers sing: tho saddened hours creep on Tho grain is garnered,sweet and clean and dry Tho long, straight sun-shafts flicker faint and wan.

And primrose clouds slip down tho western skyWe talk of common things—tho corn, tho rye: You stand betwixt the sunlight, dear, and

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With shaded oyes (a pensive, Xew-World Ruih), And oh, your faco grows boautifiil to see.

Crossed with these memories ofoar vanished youth. —iippincotl'a Magazine for November.

HIS WIFE'S MOTHER.

Ho stood on his hoad on the wild sea ho :e. And danced on his handRa jig: In all his emotions, as never before

A madly hilarious grig.

And why? In that vessel wbicu icn mc bay His mother-in-law had sailed To a tropical country somo distance away.

Where tigers and serpents prevailed.

Ho know sho had gone to recruit her health And doctor herraspingcougb. But wagered himself a profusion of wealth....

That something would carry her off.

Ob, now might ho look for a quiet life, if. And evon bo happy yet, Though owning no end of neuralgical wife.

Ana up to his collar in debt.

For she of tho spocs and curled false front. And black alpaca robo. Must pick out a sailor to bear the brunt

Of her next daily trial of Job.

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Ho watched whilo tho vessel cut tho sea. And bumpishly tipped and downed. And thought if already sho qualmish could bo

Ilo'd consider the cdifico crowned.

He'd born tho old lady through thick and thin Till i-hc'd lectured him out of breath. And now, as ho pazed at tho ship she was in, llo howled for her violent death-

Till over tho azure horizon's edso. The bark had rotired from view. When ho leaped to a crest of a chalky ledge,

And pranced like a kangaroo.

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And many a jubilant peal'ho sent U'er tho waves which hart mado him iroo. Then cuta lastcaper ecstatic, and went, in so a a to a

A LI RIXK OIBL.

Thero was a little girl And she ha a little curl Hight in tho middle of her forchoad. When she was good She was very, very good.

And when she was bad she was horrut

Sho went up stairs. And hor parents unawares, Were a-looking out of a window, Sho stood on her head. In her little trundle-bed.

And nobody nigh to hinder.

Her mother heard tho noise.

And

sh^ thought it was tho boys A-playing in the empty attic But she an up stairs. And caught her unawares.

And spanked her most emphatic.

THE NOUTilEILN FIRES.

Report of the Special Committee Who Visited the Scene.

Yesterday afternoon Dr. James II. Thompson and P. M. Child, L?q., the special committee sent in charge of the supplies forwarded to the destitute people of the we*t shore of Green Bay, reported their actien at a special meeting of the relief committee held at the secrc tary's office in the chamber of commerce

They stated that they had visited the main points where the fires had occurrcd and had sent supplies on to points they could not reach. In every case the relief they brought came just in time of utmost need. The committee went to Oconto by boat from Green Bay, and from thence across the country by wagon. Every where they saw traces of the fearful devastation, and heard the most terrible reports cf the ravages of the fire.Jwhich were fully confirmed by subsequent observation and reliable information.

The assessor in Peshtigo said^ that there were 800 people in the district known as the Sugar Basil. Most of them Americans. Three hurSlred were burned. A family named Newberry, seventeen in number, lost all but three of their num ber. From 1,290 to 1,500 people, at Oconto, Peshtigo, Marinette and on the Peshtigo river *ead aid .'I here were 2,500 in that district and from TOO to 800 have burned.

Town 30 north, ran%e 21 east and vicinity, was the scene of the lire. The fire was borne on the wings of a tornado that upturned trees. Only buildings were burned, the trees seemed to escape. People were found in the woods, in fields and in roads, dead. Deer lay dead by the ideof the road. Horses were killed at tached to wagons. A mother was found dead with twin children in ber arms. Men were found dead in the creeks. The fish were killed in the streams.

In some cases the heads of families were killed, and the rest left in others the children are gone. One man got into a partly dug well with his wife and son when the tornado came, and stayed there till it passed over. About 2,000 people in the section t.re entirely destitute.

Peshtigo is entirely gone.^ Tbe mills are to be rebuilt. The committee suggest that relief for the west shore should be sent directly there. They went to Oconto and Peshtigo and sent relief to places they could not themselves reach. They recommend that no provisions be sent to Green Bay but that they be stored here. Every part of the State is forwarding supplies," and articles can be sent from here when needed. Kaw provisions, clothing, stoves, nails and tools are needed. Also farming implements.

The committee reports that the whole state is fully alive to thenecesssitiesofthe situation and is responding nobly to the call.—Milwaukee JVeirs.

THE report that'a sandpiper had been drowned in attempting to wade the Ohio river at Louisville is incorrect. The journey was made in safely, and though the adventurous bird took a life-preser-ver along with him, he had no use for it. The bed of the river is as dry as a floor, with the exception of a narrow channel not quite so broad as Washington street, through which a feeble current Hows. —Jnd. Erg. Journal.

TJIK adherents of'.he LOHI Can^e recently held a reuion, made speeches and ate a roasted ox at Lexington, Missouri. With singular good sense the speakers abstained from predictions Jof another rebellion, restricting them»elves to an excusable glorification of Southern valor, and eulogy of tho dead. .. .. .,

The Good Will of aN "To build'up a business of any kind"— remarks the Indianapolis "News"—"is not the work of a day, but to establish a newspaper which shall live and prosper and do a good work in any community, is a task attended with the greatest difficulty and expense. There are many peo- ?.• pie who have an idea that to make a paper, all that is required is a press and type. Such persons may gain some valuable information by reading the following able and well-written article upon the Chicago press from the Louisville "Cour-i«r-Journal," whose editor is one of the most thorough journalists in the country

Though the newspaper people have loet as much as their neighbors—that is, their offices, presses, type and every material thing belonging to the outfit of a newspaper—they have yet saved to them that mysterious and invisible piece of property —which cannot be burned up and is of more value than all the rest of their possessions combined—their Good Will. It is this which is indestructible, which needs not to be insured, which is at once a spiritual element and a commercial standard, which comes slowly and which does not go so easily, being the gradual and grudging response of the people to the patient, toilsome, honest and useful work done by the press in the service of the public-

Distrust of newspaper professions seems to be a sort of inherent faculty of the sj: popular thought. And with reason, too for as there is charlatanism in every profession, the newspaper charlatan is the most impudent and, in a manner, the most slippery of charlatans alter the medical charlatan. The quack doctor pursues his vocation in quasi concealment, and has the fears of people and the lack of general scientific knowledge to aid his unworthy devices. He has, therefore, an obvious advantage, and sometimes goes undetected for years. The legal quack is not so lucky. There is a pretty general notion about law and lawyers, and the jackleg soon finds himself unable to cope with the intricacies of practice and the rough common sense of the spectators who crowd our courts of justice. The commercial charlatan soon goes by the board. But the newspaper business, with its rar« opportunities for skillful hypocrisy, is a favorite and inviting field for the charlatan, as well as those who, not being charlatans them- fs selves,yet have local or temporary need of charlatanism. Almost anything that comes into existence by the aid of paper, ink and types, passes in courtesy for a newspaper and though experiments of this sort almost universally fail, they contrive, whilst they last, to make a prodigious splutter and often take in the unwary. It is true that they never obtain any circulation to speak of until years of faithful service have inspired confidence in their stability, for circulation cannot 'i spring up in a day or a month, but is the steady growth of decades, and when it is obtained at the cost of vast outlays of money and enterprise, and an unbroken record of usefiillness and Integrity, it cari not be taken away. But in spite of this well understood principle, mushroom experiments every now and then try their luck, suck up a few thousand dollars^ or so, dupe a few mistaken capitalists, chisel a handlul of subscribers, and amid a prodigious flourish of trumpets die in the very act of proving themselves the most popular and prosperous institutions in tho world.

Chicago has buried half a hundred of this species. So have all the great cities. The five or six journals that remain upon the lake shore may be described as the "survival of the fittest," that is, after years of expenditure and labor, after long and doubtful wrestles with fortune, each has at last fitted itself to a certain place, built up a certain specific interest, aq^.no one at the expense of another, for, in journalism as in other pursuits, every tub stands upon its own bottom. Thus fairly established, and upon the basis of a popular confidence which refuses to come except in its own selfish and leisurely way, the Chicago press, amid the wreck and ruin of Chicago, reappears bold and strong, its material part a thing of yesterday— mere rubbish—but its Good Will a thing of all time, glittering before each journal like a star let down out of the heavens to irradiate the gloom of the present and to light its pathway into the future.

All the flames that ploughed through the furrows of marble, brick and iron were not able to siuge that Good Will. It has not so much as a smell of fire upon it and this is a mercy, for without its newspapers—to inform it, to correct it, to encourage it—what could Chicago dot It could better dispense with its gas lamps than its daily journals. They serve its needs at home. They carry its necessities abroad. And this they do so ably and so honestly as to reanimate the publie spirit of their own people and restore the confidence of all men.

SHOCKING SUICIDE.

Singular Instance of Self-Shooting in Zanesville.

Sepciul io the Cincinnati Uuzctte.}

ZANESVILLE, ()., Oct. IT..",

Charles Duben, a young lawyer of this city, while sitting by the side of his wife this evening, who was dying, turned to the attending physician and asked him if his wife was rea'ly dying. Being assured that such was the case he stepped to.the foot of the bed, pulled a pistol from hi- pocket and shot himself through tn8 head, dying almost instantly. His wife died in a few minutes afterward.

A Week of Fire.

The fire that destroyed Chicago and the one that destroyed Peshtigo happened at the same time. The fires that committed such ravages in other parts of Wisconsin and Michigan began several days before, about Thurday, the 5th inst., and from that day to the morning of the 9th, when the conflagration at Chicago ceased, a great part of tbe North-west was the theatre of fire. It is estimated that 1,200 persons perished in Wisconsin, fifty in .Michigan, and 500 in Chicago, in this time—such a loss of life by fire as never before occurrcd in this county.—St. Louis Republican.

"I BELIF.VE that mine will be the late of Abel," said a devoted wife to her husband one day. "How so?" inquired the hu-band. "Because Abel was killed by a club, and your club will kill me il you continue to go to it every night."

THE VIRES IS NORTHERN MLSSOUILF. MILWAUKEE, Oct. 19.—The Door county Advocate contains a full account of the loss of life and property by the great fires in that county up to Sunday night, the 8th. Fires had been raging through the towns of I.russels, Union, Gardener, Forrestville, Clay, Banks, Wasewampee, Sturgeon Bay anil Sevastapool, burning fences and timber but leaving houaes untouched. At 9 o'clock P. Jt Sundav night the fiery tornado swept down from the south and west, beginning at the Belgian settlement in ^Brussels, sweeping through the towns of Union and Gardener, and in the western part of Sevastapool. Down the cast shore of the Bay every building was consumed. At Williamson's shingle mill everything was burced, and a most awfnl destiuction of human life ensued. Out of 80 persons at the mill, 57 were burned to death. The few survivors tell a horribleitale of the scene at this terrible holocost. After tbe lire about forty-five bodies were found in a potato patch in the center of the clearing. Other bodies were found scattered, some in wells. There were many disfigured in a terrible manner, in some cases beyond recognition. This great destruction was but the work of fifteen minutes, and was the same tornado that burned Peshtego and 1,200 human beings. There is scarcely a house standing in the line of this storm of fire.

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Efforts of relief are not spared here, or anywhere in the State, and donations from abroad are coming along just in ,: time to make comfortable those who survived. Contributions of money can be sent to Hon. Alexander Mitchell, President of the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Bank, Milwaukee, Wi#., and clothing or provisions to Hon. Harrison Ludington, Msvor of Milwaukee.'

i. PORT-AIJ-PRIKC'K.

ALL ABOUT THE STEAMER HORNET. PGRT-AC-PRINCE, Oct. 21.—The commander of the Spanish man ot war having demanded the delivery of the filliblistering eteainer Hornet, the Haytien government refused to comply with the demand, whereupon the Spanish Consul hauled down his crusader flag and went on board the rtan of war, which at once Mailed for Havana for instruction.',