THE FATE OF A BALLOONIST. A Tall from a Mile Height. 5*.»«>!i, Imt., Oct. Correspondence of the New York World.] Should I 1 i\:* to he a hundred years old tin horrible scone witnessed by me on Saturday last will never be elVaeed from my memory. 1 see it betoro me now, and mice that day have been haunted ever mice in dreams by a sea of upturned faces and anguished eyes, straining to watch in iis descent through the air the body ot a human being, which in n tew seconds was dashed, mangled ami bleeding, upon the earth, at my feet 1 would have written :11 it before’, but the sight so unstrung my nerves that 1 \va< rendered utterly inca pable ven of collecting my thoughts, much less of putting on paper a deliber ate account of the tacts in the case. To ~ee a man whom scarcely a minute before l had spoken to as a friend, jerked up in to the clouds, and then hurled down again, his hair streaming wildly behind him, like that of Lucifer hurled over the battle ments of Ilcavcn, falling, falling, whirl 'll, doubled up, and then spread out, his arms apart as if rushing *o embrace death, might well unstring the strongest nerves: and when to this are added the agonized erics of the dying man’s wife as she clutched niv arm and shrieked, “MyGod! niv (iod, will he die?" 1 wonder that even A» t. with these things in my mind, 1 mi able to record what 1 heard, felt and i\v. Von have doubtless received by telegraph a brief despatch telling how IVof. Wilbur, the well-known aeronaut, fell while attempting to climb into* his balloon, and how he was killed, but facts meagre a‘v out an aggravation. w ill therefore slate the allair simply as k occurred. Tar Agricultural Association Y this county had been bolding its an nual fair lor some days, and no greater mu-rest attached to it than is commonly iMineded with siieli exhibitions ot the in dustrial products ot a large and llourish i i: community. 'flu* farmers came in their wagons, bringing with them their u and daughter.", all dressed in as eu genus array as their circumstances would permit. The large pumpkins and enormous squashes, the new patent churn md washing-machine, and the country lounging about and gazing in open mouthed admiration of tlie voluble gen tleman who displayed with all the elo quence of a Cicero ids infallible toothache r.idieator. received their due share ot at 11 nti-»n, and before long the interest in the 1 i. was on the wane. But it had been omouneed that oil Saturday, the la-t day i tin- exhibition. Prof. Wilbur, the great \nu lean a ronaut, would make an ascent in hi" balloon, as he had done one week •tore at Croydon. It is not often that the Inhabitant" of trange county have an op i> .rtunity of witnessing such a sight, and, e mos’ny being on tip-toe. it is not to be wondeied at that when Saturday arrived the tail1 ground was lull almost to snll'o it ion, while on the ouCide of the en closure a barge crowd had assembled to witness the tlight of the great "hip of the i i; It was tlie great e."t davol'the week: v erviiody wa~ in holidav dre«, the girls •■Ted their prettiest, the farmers their ni“ t ll*aid, and tin* country beaus avciv ■••neektied and inv< steil in colors vicing ict only with the rainbow, but Avith the utmost powers of anoline. The centre of attraction was, ol course, tin enclosed -pace where the balloon Avast** be inflat ed, about which gathered an eager crowd. “••king at CAerything connected with the expected event, studying the ropes, peer ing about to find where the gas was to conn* from, and pestering the amiable tY“ 1 e"v(>r Avilh questions as to how the gas Avas made, what made the balloon go up and other things of the sort. The Professor laughed good-naturedly, ex plained as much as possible, and every body was jolly in the anticipation of wit nessing that to them most unusual ot things a balloon ascension. At about •I o'clock in the afternoon the inflation of flic balloon was commenced, and as the bag swelled out almost to bursting and struggled to be free, everybody was on the 'ini those remote from the spot straining their necks, climbing into car riages, and even upon the, fences, to see the car. It bad been announced that the. alitor oi 11n-( i]|.>, minty i moil would accompany Prof. Wilbur in 1»is ascent, ami great tilings wen* expected from the report which his well-known ability as a descriptive writer gave every ieason to believe would be forthcoming in the next is "tie of his m-w -paper. I was standing i.e-i*le the Professor. laughing and hold ing a neee-sarily disjointed conversation with him. for he was busy with prepara tions for hi- Might. I le had ju-t nodded lii- head and said laughingly. Well, good-bye, old fellow, PU see you again -mm.” Then Mr. Knapp Mopped into the iar, a lid the Professor, who had hold of the rope fastening tin* ear to the body of i lie balloon, shouted. “Pet go!” But he nad spoken to -oou and was unable to iea«*h the ear, but -till unwisely kept, the rope in his hand and endeavored to climb to Ids place, succeeding only so tar as t o get one arm fiver the rim ot the basket, vhere he hung dangling and struggling. Hi- motions and the fact that the basket came in contact with a rope that had fast ened the balloon to the earth while it was being in Hated, upset the ear when it was about twenty-live tee! from the ground, and Mi Knapp fell aimed to the ground. But there wa- no time for caring Ibr him. !m• terror held everybody spell-bound. A -limit of admiration went up trom those who were too Iar distant from the s> cue to know that an accident had befallen tin* adventurers, and who supposed that the a-ecnl was I., ing made sum ft (ontn Icnf/i*. But to those in the immediate vicinity of ih*- ear the sight was an awful one, and lor a moment everybody seemed paralyz ed with terror, and stood rooted to the ■pot without itteiing cry or word. The balloon, lightened l>v the tall ol Mr. Knapp, shot upward with dreadfully iu eivased velocity, and a scream of terror which chilled the blood of the hearers came down from the upper air, where the doomed a ronaut hung utterly hopeless ot escaping death. At my side stood a wo man who. as I afterwards heard, was the Pro!e-"'or\s wife. Her eyes were bursting trom their sockets, and her face pallid and ghastly with tear. Sin* clutched the air a- if for support, and with one hand grasped my arm, still looking upwards at the balloon, which, swifter than an arrow, shot through the air, l'p, up it vent, growing smaller and smaller in its Might, and then, with fnereased velocity it gave a sudden start and -hot yet faster to wards the clouds. Then a speck was -'•en far up in the air, growing larger and larger as it fell. my Hod,” cried the woman, who clung tome with iron grasp, ho will die- lie will be killed!” Yet her eyes remained fixed upon the falling body. At tirst it seemed like the stick of a rocket, coming down with the speed of agin turn it was uounicu tip 11 k<■ a nan, I lien seemed to unfold, ami whirling about with a gyratory motion, with ham's and legs spread out. It seemed an age while the man was falling, for before he loosen ed his grasp tho balloon must have been at least a mile from the earth—and what an age to that poor wife who watched her husband rushing towards her and death with the speed of light. When about half a mile from the ground bis body ceased its gyratory motion, assumed a perpen dicular position and came down head lirst. II struck the earth some distance from us, and then rebounded, falling again within a lew feet from where it struck. Then, from paralyzed fear, (lie crowd broke forth into shrieks of terror, women ran wildly about screaming and actually tear ing their hair, and a rush was made lor the spot where the man struck the ground. There was an indentation not less then eight or ten inches deep, and tilled with blood and brains which had burst from the skull, when, like a cannon ball let drop from an immense height, it crushed into the earth. The dead man was then taken up and parried to the Albert House, where tile poor wife, who had often sate ly traversed the air with her husband, eared for it. The excitement in the town was of the most fearful and intense de scription, as may readily be believed. Those who had come out for pleasure, re turned home in sorrow, and the town wore the aspect of a place which had been visited by some fearful calamity in which its own interests had suffered. There was uo more of the fair that day. TERRIBLE FIRE IN CHICAGO Nearly the whole City Destroyed. A lire broke out about 11 o’eloek on Sat urday night,in aplaningmill, nearClinton street, Chicago, and spread with terrible rapidity among the wooden buildings and lumber yards. The prevailing drought, which bail made the buildings as dry as tinder, with the lack of water, tended to aid the flames, which raged almost with out hindrance A dispatch of Sunday morning says— The inmates of many of the houses, started from slumber, had hardly time to rush out in their scanty night attire, leaving their house hold goods to destruction. In several instances children were hastily wrapped in blankets and quilts to break their fall and thrown from second story windows to the ground. When the alarm was sounded for this lire another of considerable magnitude was burning on Wall -Ireot. near Adams. Several engines was necessarily kept at work upon this lire. The rest of the engines in the city were soon on the ground, hut before they arrived the lire had spread over so large an area and was so rapidly spreading that their efforts seemed of little avail. iseiwcen anal street auu iue river were 1 several lumber yards, which were entirely de j stroyed. At this hour the fire has made a clean sweep from Van Buren street north two blocks to Adams, and west to ('Minton street. Three block- from the river, between Van Buren and i Jackson streets, are burning, and the wood work of the western approach to the Adams -treet bridge i> destroyed. A large coal yard containing thousands of tons of soft eoal, and situated between the track ot the Chicago and Alton ami Fitchburg and Fort Wayne railroads. I is on lire and burning furiously. l’lie depot ot tin* Pittsburg. Foi t Wayne and Chicago ;md the Vlton and St. Louis Railroads i- situated north of Adams, and betwyn Canal street and the river. One of the buildings, a light wooden structure occupied as an express "iliue, was in llames at midnight, and is tin* douhtedlv destroyed. The scenes in the vicinity I ..f the conflagration are indescribable. One j half of the population of the city seems gathered i there. Tugs in the river are engaged in towing I i<> :i of safety the vessels moored in the neighborhood, while locomotives are hastily pulling out ears standing on the track in flames. At last Ibis tire was o(,t under control. Bui immediately another conflagration broke out in the Western Bivision, which soon became more formidable than the lirsl one. Wo copy from the dispatches— Ciik’aoo, Oct. !•.—l.-lo A. M. To-night is the most fearful in tin* annals of the city. The lire which commenced at 10 P. M., ha-already swept over a space of at least three times as large as that of last night, and is still rushing on with greater fury than has marked any stage of it- progress. The engines appear almost powerless. Fire marshal Williams has just telegraphed to Milwaukee lor all the steamers they can span*. The conflagration has already devastated at le:i-t twenty blocks, mostly composed of the -mailer class of dwellings inhabited b\ poor people. Not less than three hundred buildings i have been entirely destroyed, and more than that number of families rendered homeless. The wind is Mowing almost a gale from the south and showers of-park- and burning brands 1 are sweeping over the city threatening destruc tion on every hand. The tower of the court house caught lire from flying brands, but was extinguished by the watchman. No description can give an adequate idea of the terrible scene. The lire started in a row of two story wooden tenements on Dekoven street, be twee:; Jeffer son and Minton, and. as was the ea*e last night, "pread with terrible rapidity. Before a single engine could get on the road’half the block was in Dailies and burning furiously. M’lie entire department were soon on the ground and at work. For a time it seemed probable that they wmild succeed in confining it to Ibur or live block-. M’lie wind was blowing fiv-My when tli lire spirted and increased to a gale, and suddenly the llames -ecined to spread in every divert ion, becoming beyond the control of the lire department. SI A OXI) 1*1-1* VTC1L V M. M’he fire i- slid raging with increas ed fury, and has spread almost with the velocity "l the wind and has now reached West Monroe -treet. a distance of more than a mile from where ii started, and covers a breadth of nearly 1 half a mile, reaching from the river to Jeflersoii -fleet, l’lie district already burnt embraces an immense number of lumber yards and freight i depots of the Chicago and St. Louis and Pitts burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroads. The property already destroyed counts many millions ot dollars, and perhaps the half is not lold. I lie task ot arresting the llames now -eem- live fold greater than an hour ago, and no one dare venture an opinion as to when or where it will stop. mum mspATcir. "I( u;n, Oct.'.*-•2 A. M. Tin* tin* to-night i< 11*«- most terrible in the annals ot Chicago. It has already swept over twenty blocks, and i> raging with unabated fury under a tierce southern gale. The eitv is in ;i panic, and the l*< an* rushing to and fro in the streets in tei'nUc excitement. Trains have been sent to neighboring cities for "team lire engines, as our f<*rce is powerless. I lie tin* ha> now extended a mile from where it.started. Dekoven street, and has reached the vicinity of the legegraph otliee. opposite the Court House, and is a mile wide. The tele graph otliee is threatened with destruction. «me ot the tinest blocks in the eitv, opposite that otliee. B now on lire. The lire ha* crossed hie ago Biver. The wind spreads the tire in all directions. rot am dispatch. 2.10 A. M. The flames an* raging with in ei aved fury in every direction, and Hod's iic n v can **nlv save the city from utter de struction. A fearful panic prevails all through the streets where the people are rushing to and lio and weeping and wailing. The tin* is ap proaching the telegraph otliee and it will probably have soon to be vacated. Brands from the lire were blown across to the east side •I the river and set a wooden building on tire directly opposite the Chicago gas house, and the flumes spread in every direction among the adjoining". The prospects are that the gas house will be destroyed and the eitv wrapped in darkness. A terrible panic is prevailing throughout the iiy. A Input everybody, men, women and children :m* jn fj10 streets. It now looks as if (be whole city might be destroyed. Barge num bers ot lives have been lost, but how many can be known until the lire has been arrested. 'I he alarm hell has just conmienced ringing i an inen*a"ing peal, which is intended to call e'ery sleeper irom his bed The panic is in creasing and the people seem almost crazy with alarm. The vessel" in the river an* catching tire in every direction, and all on the South river will probably be destroyed. A raging, roaring bell ot lire envelopes twenty blocks ot* the eitv. It i- already scorching tin* block of the tele graph otliee where this despatch is written, and "Weeping onward a whirlwind of flames against which human eflbrts are fruitless, and it is im possible to tell where it will stop. The bridge aeross an Buren street is burned. The ears «*u the track of the Chicago and Alton and Fort Wayne, railroads, with their freight houses, are swept away. Thousands of people till the "treet", rustling out of their dwellings in many instances barely in time to save their lives. The block immediately across the street Irom the telegraph office, one o| the finest in the eitv, is now m flames. 2.1* A. M. The operators are leaving the Western Fnion Telegraph office, but will pro bably open communication at some other point in the c ty. nn Aco.Oet. 0, 10 A. M. The entire busi ness portion of the city is destroyed, all the Bank". Express and Telegraph oliie.es, all the newspaper offices except the Tribune, six Ele vators and the Water Works have been burned. There is no water in the city and not less than ten thousand buildings have already been de i royed. 1 lie tire lias burned a distance of five miles, and i> still raging. The wind is blowing a gale, and il will bit impossible to get any reliable de tailed particulars for some time, as there is only one telegraph wire working, and that only to the suburbs. OXCINNATI, Ohio, Oet. The Mnvor lms telegraphed the Mayor of Chicago offering the serviees of the tire department if needed. It is reported that many houses have been blown up in the effort lo stem the conflagration, but with out effort. A mass meeting is being held here, presided over by (Jov, Haves, for the relief of ;the Chicago sufferers. Jln i'ALO, N. V., Oct. J). The following par ticulars ,>f the great lire at Chicago, are obtain ed from A. N. Crittenden, operator of the West ern Union Telegraph Co. in Chicago, who just arrived at Englewood, 111., seven miles south east of Chicago. Mr. Crittenden left the city on an engine at tf.so this_ morning. The lire commenced about nine o’clock last night near the corner of Jefferson and Deleva., streets, and swept everything before it, takin^ a northeasterly course through the central part of the city. The Court House, Western Union Telegraph office, hotels, banks and apparently everything within half a mile west of the Court House, and as far south as Polk street, and probably west of State street, and perhaps east of that, are all destroyed. The tire now rages on the north side, east of Weils street, extending up to Chicago avenue m a northeasterly direction. It is being check ed to the windward on the south and west sides. I he wind seems to blow hard and to he chang ing toward the south. I think the tire reaches toward the great cntral Depot, and that it is probably destroy ed. he Lake Shore and Michgan Southern, and the Kock Island Railroad depots, the Citv Water Works, the Tremont House, Sherman House, Crosby Opera House, &c., are union" the buildings destroyed. The elevators on Main and River streets must have been burned as the tire was raging on both sides at seven o’clock this morning when I was there. Thou sands of people are homeless, and tin losses will exceed fifty millions of dollars. Englewood, 10 miles from Chicago, )ct. 9— 1! J^* ^,ie wo,'k devastation continues. More than one-half of the city is already de stroyed, and the flames continue their ravages almost unopposed. At about one o'clock this morning the lire crossed the river at Adams street bridge, and soon destroyed the gas works and then spread itself in every direction. At tills hour almost every building, from Harrison street north to the Chicago river, is destroyed, including all the insurance offices, banks, hotels, telegraph offices, newspaper establishments, with the exception of the Tribune office, which is tire-proof, the Court House, Sherman House, Tremont House, Palmer House, new Pacific Hotel, new Bigelow Hotel, and in fact, every thing else is swept clear. The district embraces all the heavy business houses in the city. The rain of lire and brimstone on Sodom ami Gom orrah can hardly be compared to the devastat ing rain of the tire liend in Chicago. More than one-half of the population are now rushing through the streets in vehicles, which arc obtained at enormous prices, on foot, and in every other way, with the choicest household treasure in their arms and on their backs, in utter confusion not knowing whither to go. Fearful suffering must follow, and almost im mediately. Full 1 ">0,000 people are at this mo ment homeless and houseless, not knowing where to lay their heads or get anything to sat isfy the cravings of hunger, Cincinnati, O., Oct. 0. The following tele gram has Iteen iorwarded to the Treasurer of the Western Fnion Telegraph Company: Chicago, Oct. 0, isti. One third of the city is in ruins. All banks, insurance offices, warehouses and elevators have been destroyed. Fully ten thousand j buildings have been burned. The lire is -till raging and the wind i- blowing a gale. (signed,) BANK IN. Manager. The Mayors of nearlv all the Western cities have proffered relief and assistance to the Mayor of Chicago. The Chief Fngineer of the Cincinnati Fire Department with three engines and hose ears, has started for Chicago. A mass meeting of railroad Presidents and prominent merchants of Cincinnati is now be ing held at the Chamber of Commerce to take measures for the relief of the sufferers. ruin huk raktiuui.vr.s, Nkw Yoiik, Oct. 1ft. A Chicago special to the Times, dated 2:20 this morning, contains the following additional news: The present loss is estimated at Irom $100, 000,000 to $200,000,000. The so-called •‘tire proof' buildings burned like tinder, especially the bank-, not one ot which remains. Few business men saved even their papers. The whole population was busy all night and the streets are now like a bivouac with sleeping men. mi: loss <>i i.ire is impossible to estimate. 1ml a largo number <>l liremen an* known to have been killed. The shipping ordered into the North brunch oft he river was sent adritt into Lake Michigan, many vessels were burned. All business is suspend ed ami must remain so for the present. Tre menduous efforts were made to save the Tri bune and Post as well as the City Hall and the (Jo'vrument buildings, but nothing re mains out blackened stones and crackling cin der-. No papers can be published until type j comes from elsewhere, a- the type foundries arc also burned. the oric.ix or the j iue was in a stable where a woman look a kerosene lamp at milking time. The firemen all did their duty nobly, but the streams of water on the burning blocks were like fountain jets against the awful beat oft lie conflagration. The new hotel eight or nine stories high, just completed, sent up a pyramid of solid flame, making the water of Lake Mich igan rubv-eoloivd for miles. The burning bridges along the river were swinging gracefu I arches ol lire trom shore to shore. The burning ships sailed in crimson waters. All the hurdl es m the South di\ Lion, the \»nwnt of Mercy, all the railroad buildings and the princely man- j sions on .Michigan and Wabash Avenues are j gone. The Yen pavements are burned. Uu- mor says now that AXOTHEli 11KE j has broken out in Hyde Park, a southern su* I burl*, and is moving north. If this be true the j destruction of the remaining portion of the Southern division cannot be prevented. 100 stp vein ake \lki:ai»y hi k\i:i> in the Southern division. 'The population will probably be reduced fifty thousand in a month Business men cannot re sent from the Last and Wot. bun- dred thousand employees engaged in mercan tile business are out of employment 'The -treet- l ading to the unburut portion of the j sotiili part oftlie city, and all leading to the one unbroken bridge west are completely blocked by a 11 kinds i-t vehicles, carrying sick and injur- d people and blackened furniture. The county records are safe but the city records are lost. Mayor Mason has received dispatches trom St. Louis, Milwaukee. Detroit, Louisville and j elsewhere, in«|iiiring what they shall send. He j asks for cooked food for loo.ooo houseless per- sons. fhe Fire Checked at Last. New \oi:K,Oet. 10—it a. in. The following good news is just received: --St. Louis lias just had communication with Chicago, and report* that there was a heavy rain there Iasi night and I the tire is out.” extisa folicf. Chicago. Oct. lo. Fifteen 1mm I ml citizens were >w«»rn in last night as an «*xtra police tone, ami the Secretary of war authorized (Jen. Sheridan to employ ail available troop- for i guard, and i-siml an or ler lbr gno.ono ration-. 1 Five hundred soldiers are on dut\ fiui: i ii ni>s i.\i kndinc tin: onfi \<;ija-' tion. i i This precaution was n> i-y. r.»i. ivi.i.u-L- I able a- i! may seem, tliere were tlends who -till sought to extend the di-aster. Two liends caught in the a«d of tiring a Imu-e on the W» -t I side were arrested and immediately HI ND lo I V.Ml* I*OST' one on lbth Street near the-rivor. and the other tln-ce miles awav, in Claiborne A\enue, North >idc. This summary action In- checked the thieves and murder; rs. i»i:sri:ii*iion of i hi: i iuk. Ciiu ,\(ii i, Oct. 10. The following reliable and graphic dcs< ription of the lire i- furnished by a gentleman who participated in the work of subduing the llaim- Nolle but an eye witiie-s call form any idea j ol tin* fury and power of tin* lire ticinl as’in* re- voile*l m palatial building- and warehouses oil the South side. with the wind blowing a hurri cane at tunes. Jt -eemed |l>ul the work of a monn-nt for the lire to enter the south ends of buildings fronting on Randolph. Lake and Wa ter Streets, and reappear at the north doors and windows, belching forth in tierce llames which often licked the opposite buildings, and then the Names, i-siiing forth from tin* buildings on both ides of the street, would unite and present a solid ai \s.s of FUJI completely tilling the street from side to side, and shooting upwards an hundred feet i ito the air above tin hou-e tops. Thus street after street ’tilled .with Name. Huge walls would fall without, apparently giving any sound, in tin- roar of the tierce Names. i in-: siff i ion. I In- arrival of firemen and engines from .Mil waukee, Si. Louis, Cincinnati, l>a.yLon and I other cities has apparently restored confidence, and there was an inexpressible pleasure in see jog these .experienced firemen go right to work in a business like way, where work was mosl needed, 'flu* vast plain is covered with people j wandering about seeing the evidence of a wealth that has completely vanished in Haines and smoke. A few business men with some ner\e are seeking houses for business on the west -Rle. Rooms that were rented last week for $f>o now readily command sGoo; there arc not many of these, hut enough to allow a few business men to start. The newspapers will he started again in a few days. Water for drink ing and household use is secured from the Lake and the parks, and for horses from the river. I here are a thousand people camped about the arteshm wells, four miles out, and perhaps as many more at tin* lake and on Fullerton and u tor avenues, near the prairie. The people are being fed in the remaining churches, and school houses, in sheds and by ihe roadsides. It was cold and chilly this morning, causing great suNoring. It is now clearing up again hut in stead o! this being welcome, the people are praying constantly tor more rain, so tearful are they of a continuance of the Names, 'l'his is the situation. 1 UK TOTAL LOSS. Oiicauo, 10. A enrol(iI survey of Insur ances to-day, shows that then* were written on the property destroyed over $*.*00.000,00o; add another $100,000,000, and a fair estimate can he reached of the loss. LOSS OF LIKE. It is estimated that not less than live hundred persons perished in the llames. What Constitutes an American Suit. Two ships are to be built at Port land, a s iburb of St. John, N. under rather peculiar circumstances The keels and frames wen*^prepared in East Boston, and are to be brought to New Brunswick, where they will be set up and the ships built and completed. It is understood that the reason for this is, that by this means the vessels can claim registry in the United States as being American bot toms. There never was an act passed, it has been said, through which a coach and six could not be driven, and it will be a lucky day for some ol the ship-yards ol the Dominion if this evasion of the naviga tion laws of the United States should prove successful. With the facilities for build ing wooden ships which we possess, and the much greater cheapness with which they can be turned out, it is not difficult to see that this would only be a beginning of a lucrative trade, in spite ol' what must seem absurd restrictions against the ship-owners. It is not likely, however, that such a state of things will be allow ed to continue long, unless a change comes over the policy of the United States Congress. [Montreal Gazette. Democratic Mayor in Savannah. Savannah, 9. Municipal election in Savannah, Mon day, was quiet. The democratic ticket, with Col. John Screven for Mayor, was elected here by 2000 majority. Over halt the negroes are supposed to have voted the democratic ticket! Z. Pope ose and J. Porter, have purchased the Rockland Gazette. REPUBLICAN JOURNAL. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1871. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY WILLIAM II. SIMPSON. EDITOR ANI) PROPRIETOR, Subscription Terms. In advance, $2.00 a year; within the year, $2.50; at the expiration of the year, $2.00. Advertising Terms, For one square, (one inch oi length in coiuiun,) $1.25 for three weeks, and 25 cents lor each subsequent insertion. AHrac tion ol a square charged as a lull one. Administrators. 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For instance, 15 May 71. means that the subscription is paid to that dale. When a new payment is made, the date will be immediately changed to correspond, and thus a receipt in lull is sent with every paper. Subscribers in arrears are requested to forward the suras due. In sendingmoney, state THE POST OFFICE to which the paper is sent.-#* A City in Ashes. Nothing in the long list of human ca lamities, short of (loath itself,so profound ly moves the sympathies of mankind as the devastation wrought by lire when it assails and destroys the homes anti shelt ers of families. Nothing is more pitiful Ilian the blackness and desolation which mark tin1 spot where a once happy house hold gat Iters about a (tome devasted by the llames. How much more the iatneu tation and deeper the compassion when we contemplate a disaster like that ot Chicago, which sweeps over miles of a closely inhabited city, driving families bv tens of thousands, naked, homeless and starving, into the surrounding fields. The calamity is the greatest of the kind which ever visled an American city, and is paralleled only by the great lire which destroyed London in ICtiG, immediately following the great plague, anti which de stroyed live-sixth of the city. The de struction of Moscow in 1815 may have in v alved the loss of as many homes, but the eoiilhigralion was a military measure, anil the deliberate act ol the government. Loth cities fully recovered from the blow in a remarkably short time, London be ing entirely rebuilt with many improve ments ill live Veal'S. The causes which resulted in this tre mendous conflagration arc the same which contributed to the less terrible fires in Portland, Augusta, Waldohoro, lielfast. alais and other cities of .Maine -a long continue I drought which made the build ing- like tinder, with a lack of water and the prevalence of high winds. Under su.-h condition-, in cities ot wooden or inflammable structures, like calamities will be liable to occur continually. The only real safeguard is in tire-proof build ings, which will be resorted to in but com paratively few instances. It i- impossible at this writing to esti mate tin* extent ot the disaster, in all its aspect*;. A city of :».">o,ooo inhabitants, larger than iloston with the cities adjoin ing, with its elegant business blocks, 1 holds, t!»••-»( I»»lirt ddenoes, has been m large part swept to destruction. The amount in dollars that will cover the j loss can be but conjectural, but it must he sorrowfully large. How far the in- j suranee companies may lu» able to re- spout], and to what extent their solvency may be impaired, cannot yet be known. In its best aspects the catastrophe j> over whelming, and will profoundly move the sympathies of the whole country. The aid tendered from all portions ol the I uited Slates has been prompt and gener ous, and will doubtless be continued as long as then* is human suflering to be re- lieved. T he telegraphic despatches giving the latest news up to tin* hour of going to pre wili lx* found in another column. The Cost of Governing. A contributor t<> tin* Atlantic Monthly, a leading periodical of radical pro clivities, shows from the ollicial returns of the. Treasury Department that during the year ending December HI, 1 *70, (he. (on eminent collected from the country $10!), 208.8:1:1 in the shape ot taxes. As the census puts the general population at forty millions in round numbers, each man, woman and child paid in taxes to the Federal Government, for ts7o, $10,2,s, in addition to the amount paid for State and local government purposes. The fol lowing table will show what the cost per capita of running the Government was lor several Administrations previous to Grant’s, as also what. Grant’s is costing. This table is exclusive of interest and principal paid on public debt: 'ns! per Administration. Period. capita. Jackson's.s years, 1 lit Van Daren's.1 years. 1 7s Polk’s.4 years, 1 Tii Pierce's.t years. I ill! Buchanan's.I years. 2 PI Grant's.I year. 4 7ii Grant's.I year. lit 2s The increase is enormous, and alto gether unjustifiable. Frauds and embez zlements, extravagance and profligacy are the devouring mouths that require of the people such a contribution as $10,28 per capita for every man, woman and child in the United States. Wouldn't it lie a good time to -'em a genu ine, old-.'asliioned "moral suasion" temperance agitation, and restore Maine to her old proud Place as the leading Temperance State in the Union? [Portland Press. That’s an excellent suggestion, and nothing could he more oppportune. The stale fairly reeks rum, which is dispensed as freely as water. The fallacy of the pro hibitory law as ameans of establishing tern peranee, having been proved,as its friends must acknowledge,the present is an excel lent season for going hack to the sound, reliable and approved mode of persuasion. Abolish your town agencies. Knock in the heads of the casks at your fountain of wet damnation at Portland, and let the state of Maine no longer occupy the ridiculous position of holding out penal ties for rum selling with one hand and dealing ouL the article with the other. Let the state no longer lie a manufacturer of drunkards, and herself the chief rum seller while imprisoning men for selling ruin. Let the shame and the scandal of the whole business be wiped from the record of the slate, and then inaugurate the blessed old plan of self-reform—the only one that ever was etUeacions—and the cause of temperance will again pro gress. The present policy serves only to furnish facilities for indulgence, and in vite ruin. Mr. Hale Scumbles. Wo lincl in the latest issue of the Ells worth American the following— Hon. Eugene Hale met with a slight accident at Bangor, Friday night, while trying to catch the night train. His foot slipped and lie fell striking his head and knee. AVe are sorry for the misfortune which the above paragraph chronicles, and trust that nothing serious ensued to our repre sentative from this unexpected lulling upon his knees. Hut we observe in the same number of the American an article upon the subject of the recent election in that city which gives the impression de cidedly that Mr. Ilalo and his organ arc stumbling in a much more grievous man ner, in the pursuit of a train which they ought not to lie able to overtake. H appears from all that we can gather on the subject that the officials of Ells worth, being new to the work of handling the ponderous machinery of the city, have not so strictly defined the ward bounds and plaees of voting as is customary and lawnil. rile City Hall, within the limits of Ward 't wo. has, as a matter of con venience, been used as the polling place of Ward 1. This has been the practice in all elections since the adoption of the City Charter. No one ipiestioned its legality, no one doubted the votes there had, no one proposed to throw them out. Our sharp cotemporary of the American, whose eagle eye, like the care of ITovi denee, is over all things, either didn't know that the voting was illegal, or know ing, forbore to impart his knowledge. Everything was beautiful, calm and se rene. Sudden]y the watchman on the editorial tower sees a previous error and wrong. The people of the lirst ward have put their votes into a ballot box held a numbei e. f feet on the wrong side of the ward line. The American labors with a column leader. That sacred instrument the Con stitution is appealed to -preceded by the remark that a Secretary of State once made. The City Charier is quoted, and the ordinances expounded. And all lbr purpose of proving that ward one has gone wrong by several feel, more or less. Every man has a motive in what he does or says. When we come to sift this matter and examine carefully the relations of the several parts, we come at the mo tive of our brother of the American, it' tlo rutim of Wurtl mo an runtitnl, lhr Ihhiorrutir Sltit'ijf i'lrrk ttml I'uiotlt/ t 'oitnni<n I’m day, are overshadowed. W nr* v\ i•! out anything t<> indicate the result up t.. the hour of going to press. Serious riots broke out in Philadelphia, in which many men were killed and wounded. The military was called out. The St. George Homicide Trial. The trial of Frank Smalley, indicted for -tal king and killing William June-, at "I. ib-orgc, in February, iSTn. was concluded at l: m UI.ukI oil Tuesday. Alter a trial of four day the jury rendered a verdict of not guilty. Fin- acm-cd at know lodged the killing, but plead .u-i ii a ui in self defence. North Knox Agricultural a ml Horticul tural Society. This Society held their third annual fair at McLains Mills. Appleton, last week, and -u tained their form* r reputation for getting up successful show. T'h«- society has no Agricul tural Horse Trot in connection with it. The show of Neat Stock, Horses, "It-. Sh-p, Swine and Poultry, was very large, numbering some *200 cattle and horses. There r• to yoke of oxen, mostly upward <»l seven t. t girt; c»ws, heifers and sl-crs us ni-. and larg as can be shown :it any fair where 111«• i i di I breeds are not brought in. Two public balls were occupied by tic Inn-. hold and farm products. Me-si r\- large ball sv.i 1 taxed to its utmost capacity in displaying the tine guilts, rugs, needle work and fancy irlicb of almost every description. A line di-play ot musical instruments, manufactured in I moil, was made in the ball, which when one enfund to touch the keys, showed superior tom Pease’s large hall was tilled with tb- product Of the orchard, field and garden. Tm di.ee. t apples was very large, and -aid by .11 to ha been the handsomest ever -hown by the -oei-t Some U n varieties of wheal were on xhibilion, tin* statements showing good yields. Ily-, barley and oats made a good show. Tin -am ple* of corn were excellent, but not so many m number as on former occasions. >f P t at" b» varieties of large nice ones were exhibited. The diary was well ropiv-entcd by tub-ofnie. butter and large cheese-. Native Wine-. Pre serves. Jellies and canned fruit were largely shown: also small fruit. Much of the success of the -how i- due ro th< committee of arrangement- ai d tie g-n r.h agent, al.-o to the citizens ot tie village Hu the second day’, ail aide addle-- was delivered by A. L. Parlbtt, a member of the society. NnuTii Km Letter from Bucksport. Correspondenc of the Journal. Bi t lisiMRr, Oct. li. 1-; i. At a meeting of the subscribers to the stock of the Buoksport fit Bangor Railroad, held lit -la-i evening, the following gentlemen wer.rho-e t dir.-, tors— Daniel Sargent, vd, Brewer: .Jacob W. iMmer, Bangor: Richard 1‘ Buck, New York. s. II f. Swa/ey. .Joseph 1.. Buck, I rederick Sj-»tl.»nl, and 1. Hill, of Bucksport. Subsequently tlf Dir-vtor? elected Sewell B. Swa/ev. 1*1. 1 iu Swa/.ey Clerk and 'treasurer. It was also voted to instruct and enipow -t the di I rectors to issue tirst mortgage bonds, n< xce o i twenty tbousand dollar* per mi. at >ix i nt. u terest payable iu gold. Remarks w-iv m id- by ol. (Joweu, of Boston. it will be remembered that this gentleman was employed by tin* Russian g oem inent to raise the sunken vessel at .-evastopol alter the Crimean war, and had .superintended th> con struction or over two thousands miles ol railn*:. in that country. lie stated that it was his opinion that a more profitable section of road could -cure, ly built than this, as it would be the natural outl. to the sea for the Kuropeau and North American rail road. As evidence of hi opinion lie mibscribi t• -n thousand dollars to the stock. Speeche- were i made by Richard 1‘. Buck of New York. D.a. Daniel Sargent, lid,ot Brewer, and many other-. The Congregational Church was formally .'pened last Sabbath, after having been elosed t.-r n pairs during the summer. This church i dilie. -is now an ornament to our village—having been .-mpiei. iy overhauled, reseated, beautifully frescoed and furn ished in a superb manner. The late Daniel Robin son left by his will one thousand dollars io I... pended about the altar with the under standing lhar the following inscription *hould be placed u "What mean ye by this servicer I’he lighting by a splendid chaniialier.a gift ot Mis. Richard Buck and sister, of New York. This -oclety i- n prosperous condition. Last Wednesday .a •nmg the sale ot pew? took place they .vere alldi-i .1 at a premium, except a very lew that »ia >.v -ol t, and more are called lor. The Bucksport Farmer’s riub is holding an xlubi tion this week and making an excellent display. 11 Ni a h K The Great Fires in the West. The drouth now prevailing in the West has not been initialled within twenty-live years. All through Central and Southern Illinois the wells and smaller stream- are completely dried up and the inhabitants find great difficulty in obtaining sullied nl water tor household stock. The -nil is ii Friday, landed the same evening at Uridgton, Me., after a voyage over the Whit. Mountains. It travelled I miles in one hour and forty minutes. Mr. Holden, of the Boston Journal, a i>asscnger. Tin* e\i tutors of estate of the late .lube/ Froderiek, of Boston, have recovered $7100.*.‘5, whi< li was extorted by l s. officials from Mr. I', during hi> 111•; time, on a groundless i harge of ilii. it distillation. John P.trooid of Andover. »xford County. Maine, raised on a measured one and three righths m i• ot land live hundred and tills hii-li. U of potatoes. Who ran heat it? A Hrsv way of making whiskey l»v mixing >uIphiir>• a id with the mash, has been di •ovnr.l. The a! ii« usually brings on a funer al in thirty days. The new l »*il boat near While Head wus re cently run into and damaged. Ii has been tak« n to Portland for repairs. O'Neil Uohinson, a elothing dealer of Port land, has eominitted forgeries to the amount of 10,00b, and gone to parts unknown. At Nashua, N. 11.. on Tuesday, John Morrill threw himself u front ol a locomotive and was instantly killed. In I."* I »i ■ker.son has divon e.| twenty couples al tl on-sent t. rm of tie Knov fo»ntv <'ourt. and -u't adjourned tie- term vet. Ar this week tti steamer Lewiston will make but one trip a week between Portland and Mac bias. \Y. tioddard 11 1- been appointed Postmas ter of Portland. Jt lx;i: Pams Wu i. The will of the late Ibm. Woodbury Pavis lias been tiled in the Probate otlh e in tins city. In it he bequeaths all his properly to his w it.- and daughter tor their use during their life time, and on their de« ease, if any be lelt.it is to be divided into tilths, tw..-tilths to be divided equally between hi> two brothers, one-lifth to go to the children of UP lister, and the remainder to be divided equally between the American Home .Mission trv i< ty,the Maine Missionary Society and tie Pi-malc orphan Society. [Portland Press. Th Waldo Baptist association held its t »rty thill autre, i-ary at Windsor the third week m September, and w i- an o.•ca.sion of deep interest to all present. Tl.. of tie* previous year wa re re-ci.ct.‘d, vt/ i Tloinas. Modera tor: Ik s. Pi-li, t lerk. and llanscom, Treasurer. S. i tnons w .■n.* prea. lad I»v U.*m Fish, Trask, Thomas, Iti.-Unc tud llr k. The social meetings wa re deeply interesting Oilman, III., is pleasantly agitated bv a late elopement. Ttie lover went alter his girl in a light vehicle with mullled wheels, while an a. eotnpliee drove a hen\ier machine adapted t making as much noPe as possible. The lady being duly deposited iti the mu tiled vehicle, the heavy one d ished oil at a furious rate, with papa in hot pursuit, while tie lovers were noiselessly driv ing in the opposite direction. an shortly became mail and wile. The pemoer.it -.,v Hi.it H<>n. Pints. A Shaw, ol P.iddeford, w ill so.hi ere, t large factory and r.-enguge in the manufacture of sewing in i cliines on a ale suiHeient to give employment to several hundred men As this business will not be located there unless siitlieient induce ments ar oil.-r. I, it hopes this enterprise will receive every encouragement from the itv .mthoriiie- md tlit* od people found that their prisoner had not only es. iped. but had taken lii> jail along with him. When the others ot the Staten Ulan.I Kerry mij>:tn> are hroimht up tor trial it is believed i that they will plead the Mlildny law, which j render- all contracts made on that day void: tin expect to free tlioniMclvo** from guilt an I I iv-i-otisihility by pleading that, tin* people had no hu-me-s i rid*. Sundav. |i i- i broad elaim iii an article of daily and universal u-e. that i- heller and cheaper than any s that N i'hanie! Uhdd-ii. u if m m. a Lied veal was -me f by a pas iug train -n lie- Kiev A l.incoln Kail road nem the -1:11i> ii in Nohleboro and inwtuntly killed. About two months since lie was run into by a band car and seriously wounded. shrew I connubial strategist ot I Imira. N V.. feels better lloVV. 11 i W i fe found out that he did i iot love her a tad sweetened her tea with laudanum. The sly widower atvfully colloid ed an insurance poliev on h**r life and then re covered dam ep from tie druggist who sold lea the poison. The t .a/ette -a> s th it ih bur-ting ot a kdge is sen tv -m ol t t. n v ,i u I the Penitent iary uni mi main until tin lull am.-unt «>1 In- del u itimi i** paid. The Pn si ,I.*111 approved "t the lirsf part of the sentence but di- Ipi'iov. the PI a part ,,r S pea k Ol of da.-oo rood’s wife us “that ai -tiili-uo-evl. Tiller, Will. I..star, of Holyoke Ma-- v\a- _• 11 h r -1 to his father- by means of a -.Vile Nt al lv 1 s\ thousall.l'lllilil us ot pollock have be- n ea’imht ill the bay at Kasiporl within th. last fortnight. The ti-h caught m ttii- school liave been unusually largo and ploutv The water i- reported so low in the uppei 1 Mi-si-sjppi that fvv- inva.le the haimiel Hint steainhoal captains arc having cow-catcher put on their boat-. The alb-nipt l» >i-l I'mope m i t«» India by the -me/. chosen president. I The Ncwburyport Herald says th>- Director •f the Ka-I. ru Bailroad have decide l to lav t I -eeond track from B "ton to that city. I he Illinois farmers are said to he disc.un aged, their corn crop so great, and the pri. consequently so small. A New Hampshire man amused i uigr i- i lion by exclaiming in lus sermon-nap, "iNnuc. conic, •sarah. don’t crowd so. The divoibusiness lets been brisk in the Penobscot Suprem. 1 udi. ial i ‘ourt thus far this term. Kngli-h experience is said to show that out of cverv tliirtv colts from thoroughbred stock, hut one proves la-t. Pittsburg young man took matrimony and small-pox at the same time. The honeyino m w asn’t a sueeess. Smile seal'll]* dallbed the trout ot John Neal residence mi state -treet. Portland, with tar, Thursday night. C. P. tiallison has retired from the Dexter (ia/ette, his interest having he. n bought bv his partner. It. i Kobbi ns. Brigham Young in Court. Sai.t I.xkk itv. Oct. n. Brigham Young accompanied by a number of Klders, appeared the I’ourt tiiis afternoon, and was held to bail in to answer for his appearance be fore Judge McKean. He is quiet and dignified, hut lie seemed evidently very feeble. Brigham’s counsel lirst put in a plea of abatement, which was overruled; the next movement was to quash the indictment on the ground of the in dietmont enumerating sixteen different charges, alleging that he lasciviously cohabited with six teen different women. During the argument l in this question, Brigham retired. He instead lor the defence, will continue speaking to this motion to-morrow. K very thing is quiet to night, although multitudes of rumors are in circulation tli:it in the event of conviction there may he trouble. It will scarcely he otherwise.