4 jppnigo Terms of Entoecrlptlon, r&TASLx 15 abtascb: I**ll7 edition. r*r y-.«*r, by wan. Trt-Waetijr Kdltloo, per year, br M*lt 6.00 Kncitar KciH-m, per y«*r, br y fig Weekly Xdilies. per rear, by S.UI Parts of* year at tUe tea* rate. To prevent deUr end mUtakee, be tare sad sire Peel Office addrtm la tell, loclndlay State sad toaalf. Poumuuri are allowed U per ceat eommUaloa oa fesrt r eabsertplioae. KemliteacM mar be made either by draft, ezpreti. Poet Office order, or la regietered letter*, at oar risk. Ts*«« to ctTT evsectitcu: Dally, delivered, bandar »kcepted,Js ceat* per w»ek. D*ilr. delivered. Sunder lucla'Ud.Sfl cents por week. Addie» THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, No. 15G«na1-et., Chicaco. 111. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1871. Branch Office. For the accommodation of onr customer! In the Sooth Division of (he city, a branch office of Tu Tat- BOKk hae been established at No. 40 Wabash avenue, ■in the bookstore of Messrs. Cobb, Andrews A Co., where advertisements and subscriptions, and changes fa the delivery of Thx Tniatmacan be left np to 10 p. m- and will receive the asms attention aa IS left at the main office. union NOMINATIONS. Fire-Proof Ticket far City and County Officers. Judf* ot (he Ssportor Court—Jeha A. Janvvoa. Judy* of tb* Circuit Court—Samuel W. Fuller. Covoiy Treerurvr— Julian 8. Cauaey. County Surveyor— Alexander Wolroa; Polio* Comaiuieaer—Jacob Ceka. •tat* Senator—Artemas Carter. County Cowunlaclonars, S fi.HlMrui, U*nre| Talcott. (*kns(Un Wahl. Carter D. (larriwa, John Joac*, Jotepli Ilarri*. OhtHr* Uhcbeock, Tin*. Loatcm. 8,0.&k/llr. Julia* While. Jali* Crawford, John U*rtinr. J. ft. PahlaißO. B*aa«l Ashton, Joseph Bo*H*. City Offioora. Mayor—J*t*ph MedUt. Tr*nnr-D. A. Cm*. OedoeUr—Ooorpe Tub- R*tl«a. Altoran-brifl N. Btlk-«. Mark Toll®* Court-C. It. )UIM«. Palie* BsfUtral**— Juba S*mm«rU*M. W. U. PtUkofy. Aldermen* Wards. Wards. 1. flkaanerr T. Bow*n. 11. H*ary Bwi-*4. S. Anfcnr DiXAu. 11 Moure* Q*aib. X. Philo J. Wars«r. tj. o*o. W. Bh*rwo«d. 4. J. (I. MeAvey. It. Kara Ct*v«l»od. 5. K. B. a*oo*. I V J. Vaut Wood. 6. D. Kratflck. 16. Tbcs. Ktout. y. William Bairtaifh. CT. U. Mntoehl*chear. I. J.Ctowry. 16. Owau McCarthy. fS. Jabm McUalUa. 19. Mablon D. Ogqisa. I. X«. L. Bond. 99. Lambert Tree. THE CHICAGO WORKIN (iMSIT. A pood deal has been said, and Ter; properly and truthfully .said, ot the energy shown by the business men of this city under the calamttioua exigency which has befallen them. Hardly a man of them but has "come up smiling” after bis terrible knockdown,|full of pluck and rigor, without the remotest thought that be 'Will ever hare to “throw up the •sponge.” Not a man ofl.them but was bit bard, and rery hard, right between the eyes, and went to gross at once in the most sudden way; but not one of them that did not come to time, and who is not firm on bis pegs again, steadier, readier, and hrorer than ever. The struggle has come down so much to a dis play of personal pluck and individual energy, that the condensed language of the P. R. seems to hav* a peculiar signification, for there has been, and is still, a terrible fight against ad verse circumstances, in which nothing but the must absolute self-reliance and the most unhesi tating courage in each individual man could l e of any avail whatever. But, true all this is, there is still another class of the community not less worthy of ad miration—even if not more worthy ot it—who attract less attention, but whose conduct and character is of the last importance to the welfare of the city. How many working people, that is, people who earn their daily bread by the labor of their hands, -were brought to sudden ruin by tbc fire, it is impossible to tell, but there were certainly some tens of thousands. Now, many of these people lost everything they pos sessed in tbc world and that that .everything was little, and not much, only made tbeir case the harder, for they bad worked long and hard'for that little, and it was tbo prior*, orrclous 10 them in proportion to tu» self-denial and the 'time the accumulation had cost them. But, their all gone, they have to be fed and clothed, and boused, and there is no alternative for tuem hut to accept such relief as they can get in the fir.-i sharp struggle to keep eoul and body together They yield simply to an inexorable necessity; but it is evident that they do not mean to submit to that necessity for a single moment when it is possible to escape from it. The universal testimony of all those engaged in administering to the public wants is that tbc workingmen, as a class, turn to their work and to providing for them selves and their wives and children as soon as it is possible for them iO do so. Insure them nbelicr, though it be in a barrack, uod food for immediate needs, which the wife or th-child can get by waiting in lino at the dispensing depot, and the bead of the family goes off at once to seek for labor whhh will enable him and his to he once more independent and self sustaining. The moment be is able to do so he declines further reliance upon the Public Relief, and in some districts the demand has fallen off a third, a half, and even two-thirds during the lost week. During the coming week it is estimated that the neces sary distribution of bread—and every thing else in proportion—will be diminished, on an average, one-fourth at least throughout the city. Tbo conclusion, of course, is obvious; the laboring people acccpt aid so long as they cannot help themselves: but os fast as they can get into a condition to help themselves they ac cept no bread except that which they earn by the sweat nf tbeir own brows. Of course, there are individual exceptions; there are idle and vicious, as in all large communities, who will beg, or steal, or go hungry to the verge of star vation, rather than work. Bat these exceptions are few among us. Nor Is tbc decrease in the number to be fed in tbc various districts tbc only evidence ot this disposition among the working people. Of the 3,000 bouses which the Shelter Committee have given out, nearly all, if not all, are to laboring people. When the applicant has not the skill to put up bis bouse, ur the means to hire a carpenter, the committee renders him further aid. But it is a remarkable fact that not one in ten wants any such assist ance. He cither pats up his house himselt, or can earn enough to pay somebody else to do it for him and if, meanwhile, ho accepts food from the public depository, it is only to enable him to bridge over his present difficulty till becau get over his bead a roof that !w* can call HU own. But, honorable as this disposition among the workingmen of Chicago is, and remarkable, un der tbc circumstances of the times, as an evidence of the high moral tone and the great energy and elasticity which characterizes them as a rla&s, the fact is one which does not surprise the old members of the Relief and Aid Society. The larger proportion of those whom, in pre vious winters they have been called upon to aid, bare made only a single application for as sistance; a smaller number have applied only twice, and so on down to a fixed butsmoll num ber of infirm, indolent, or improvident, who rely permanently upon charitv for support. The great mass of those among ns who lire by the labor of their haoda. bave cultivated a commend able Pride in being independent and self-sap porting, and that high principle is bearing good fruit at this most trying time and, It Chicago shall ever recover her prosperity it will be owing u much to the energy,- and industry, and char acter of her laboring people, as of any other class. It is not them that the grumblers are found who are crying aloud to everybody to come to their help. The laboring man thankfully lakes in one band the chunk of meat and bread that is given him to keep the life in him, nod with the other hand goes to work •to build his own boose or somebody’s else, and has neither time •or inclination for growling. As a clast, there are none among us with'a higher sense of honor on the question of relief; a clearer idea of the condition and necessities of. the city, or a more determined will to do their-part like men. than the Chicago workingmen, and, grateful as we are, and ought to be, for the fact, we should bo no less prompt in acknowledging it, Ah if the owners of residence's in the burned.. districts of the city had not already suffered 'Sufficiently, gangs of mpgand women are daily ■j traversing the ruins, some with' bags’and some with carte, and carrying off valuable strips of frucing, copper boilers, and other domestic bard Ware which ia of vajne to ?V.»- o*ucr. tho po lice Authorities should immediately uke steps to prevent such outrages by ordering the arrest ot alt persons found carrying off any valuable articles in Ibeir possession, taken from the rains, who cannot show a dear title (o them. If theft of household articles before tho fire was a crime, we see no reason why the same offence should not be a crime now and why it should no; be punished with even more than tho usual seven ty. Let the police see to it that the property owners have what little the fire has left. TITI.ES TO RKATj ESTATE. The most important thing to be done now is to restore the land records of Cook County, so that parties who own unincumbered real estate can borrow money on it for the purpose of re building, and so that those who desire (to sell a portion ot their property in order to Improve the rest, can do so. A vast amount of capital has been brought here for investment in real estate, cither by mortgage or purchase, but nothing can be done until the Legislature takes some steps to restore the records. This is not so difficult a matter as it might at first appear. The preservation of the books ot two or three of the principal firms engaged in the business of making abstracts, furnishes prima ffitie evidence of title. Upon this, and audi other evidence as may -exist, the Legislature must pass a law providing for a judicial examination and decision upon each tract. A title cannot be restored by mere legis lation. It most be what the lawyers call res adiudicata, A court of equity could make a good title before the fire, and it can do so equally af ter the fire. To accomplish the amount of work which will be thrown apoa the courts, it will be necessary to have a sufficient number of Mai lers in Chancery, or Court Commisstonars, ap pointed to take evidence anil report to tha Judges what equity requires to be done. The mode of procedure would naturally be to pub lish (baton a certain day before a certain Master in Chancery, or Commissioner, testimony would be received to establish the title to a certain lot claimed by A. B. All adverse claimants could thus be duly notified to appear and present the grounds of their claims or-forever after hold their peace. The abstract books would furnish prima facie evidence, and it would be for parties objecting to such prima facie evidence to bring forward proofs strong enough to upset the showiug of the books. 01 comse, the fire wipes out several thousand old dower claims, and other technicalities, upon which suits bad been brought, ur were liable to be brought, to wrest property away frqm bona fide purchasers. This is the only comfort that can be extracted from the burning of the rec ords; but It is no small consolation to know, that,.when the titles are restored, they will bo 41 bran new," and that it will no* longer be ne .nessary for every buyer to go back to the year One to ascertain whether the seller owns the land which he proposes to convey. THE REPUBLIC nsCBANCII COM- PANT. The card, signed by the officers of the Republic Insurance Company, and published yesterday, is a very unsatisfactory document. What is th:s company Was it a swindling affair from the beginning? Was the array of “four thousand names” of bankers, merchants, capitalists and others a fraud, intended to cheat the public? Was it the intention of the officers to hoodwink the public with the appacrance of solvency and then to intimidate them into accepting *is pit cent of their losses? Jnst before this fire, this company issued a circular* virtually informing the public that these four thousand bankers, cap italists, and merchants held them selves in readiness to pay into the treasury of the compay, four millions of dollars to cover any loss that might occur to insurers. The loss has come, and it is throe millions of dollars. The company has one mill ion of cash. All that the four thousand capital 2 ists have to raise to pay tbeir indebtedness is two millions of dollars, or forty cents on the dollar of tbeir debts. In the face of these noto rious facts, the officers have Ihe effrontery to is sue the following statement: The embsraMinenU and delays incident to the collection of an aucosmcnt upon nearly four thousand MneMwiaarm miunnl• *k* roaUrr. whott mhbcrlutknsare not secured by notes or otherwise, most be apparent to any reflection man. This reflec tion has induced many to accept twenty-Are per cent of tbeir claimsjathcr than await the law’s delay and nnccrtalnty c^Rollectton." Had the company before the fire stated that the embara&sments and delays incident to the collection of an assessment upon nearly four thousand stockholders whose subscription* are not secured by note or otherwise, must be appa rent, how many policies would tbc company have been able to foist upon the public? The alternative is that the company has been a fraud from the beginning. To raise doubt*, ns the officers now do, as to the posribility of col lecting the unpaid subscriptions, is to do the meanest thing that it is possible for a business man to do, viz, to*9tab Ills own credit for the purpose of baying up his debts at a discount. The four thousand bankers, capitalists, and mer chants cannot now plead that the concern wn* always bogus, and that they were aiders ned abettors of the'sham. They must make good this loss, or they can never face tbo people who have Been so grossly swindled. The statement by the officers that they havo v tnken advantage df the present necessities of policy-holders, and have settled with them at twenty-fire cents on the dollar, is a disgraceful confession. Corpo rate or personal character must bo sank very low when it has the face to assure creditors that they had better take twenty-five per cent of their claims than depend upon the boncstv of the company to pay even that. St. Louis is exerting herself vigorously to ho’J as much as possible of tbc trade which is now drifting thither from Chicago. Among the measures proposed is the emancipation of the North Missouri Railroad from tbo double curse of slow management and slower litiga tion under which it has been laboring of late; also improvements in the rery deficient ware boosing system of the city; also the usutl scheme for barges or boats to New Orleans. On the first of these topics a meeting was held on Saturday evening at which many speeches were made and many resolutions offered; but as the subject was to request certain action of tbc courts, which are not supposed to be influenced by public meetings, and as the meeting (of 100 men) was divided about evenly on the subject concerning which the court is to be advised, the meeting can hardly be expected to produce any marked effect. The great drawback of St. Louis, in the race which she is now making (in acknowledged emulation of Chicago) for toe trade or the TTcst, is her lack of facilities for distributing to and collecting from that section. The great drawback of Chicago Is her lack, (since the fire] of facilities for buying and handling merchan dise-oar facilities for distributing and collelcing being unimpaired. Ris absolutely necessary, in order to save our trade, that we should re cover the lost facilities faster than our com petitors can acquire those which they lack. Otherwise, they can underbid us for trade, and of course get it. Is there any unnecessary delay in the recu peration of the business of Chicago? We certainly are not prepared to say no” to this question. The great requisites for our business are capital wilb.wbich to buy our buildings in which to store and show goods. The prerequisites to these are good real estate, titles, as securities on which capital can be obtained in the shape of loans. These title*.are still in a state of chaos, from which they cannot, it is emerge until the Legislature meets. The French Government bare finally conclud ed on the mode of reorganising the army, and ihe strength of which it shall consist There are to be 105 regiments of infantry, each to be composed ot 3,000 men; 30,000 cavalry, and 40,000 artillerists; total strength of the army on a peace footing, 375,000 men. This force is to be supported by a nation that contains lees population than the United States, and lets tax-paying ability, and which has a debt of s4,ooo,ooo,ooo,.drawing 5 per cent in terest, to take' care of. The interest on the French debt, alter paying the German indemni ty, will amount to $200,000,000 aonnaly. .The' present amount of interest on onr debt Jn gather less than $115,000,000. People grumble in this country at having to support a standing army of 30,000 men bnt the French standing ••army wiU*be' more twelve limes ju great.. The people of France groan and stagger under their great and needless burden. If they were THE CHICAGO TRIBUTE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1871. governed by wise the standing army would be cut down to 100,000 men, and 275,000 would he liberated from the ranks, and sent heme to engage in productive industry, where they could not only support themselves, bn; help to support the State. The gain to that nation by diminishing the army to 100,000 men would equal the interest on their -enormous debt. A correspondent complains that several of the Hartford {insurance companies doing business in this city are not acting in good faith towards the holders of their policies. They have all got out new statements of their condition, which exhibit a most remarkable shrinkage of asset*. We give the-comparative statements: Assets. Companies. Jan. 1,1871. Oct. 1871. Shrinkage. Merhant* fMO.OM 413 033 tiros') 645,287 410.01S CHy Connect (cat. Putnam 770.753 408,055 SS,S64,tS3 ft,5T8,471 Totals. The companies arc requiring claimants to sign agreements in which they promise only to pay a {(crcentage of ascertained losses. Dy represent ing their assets at less and the losses more than the truth, these and other companies may suc ceed in getting assignment! of policies from needy sufferers, and pocket the money honestly due to the insured. Onr correspondent urges that it would be more honorable for these com panies to go at once into bankruptcy, anddivide honestly ell they hare among their victims. One of the Philadelphia papers mention* that the subscriptions in that city in aid of Chicago amounted on Wednesday, October 11, to SIOO.- 000, and was subsequently increased to half a million of-dollars, and that no mention of this has been made in the Chicago papers. The omission, if there has been any, has not been owing to any desire to do injustice to the noble men and tvom?n ot Philadelphia, whose words of cheer and substantial aid, coming to us in the very hour of our distress, (old os that the whole country *as onr friend and its stores at our ser vice. No one bnt a citizen of Chicago can ever tell how much ..these kindly messages did to raise our spirits, and lead ns from thoughts of disaster to work for rebuilding the city and resumption of trade*. Somebody bos been robbing tbe city of Phila delphia* It seems that certificates of loans have been held by tbe public officers to bo disposed of according to necessity. A result of this loose way of doing business-Is that there are out an>l iu the bands of bona-fide purchasers 1600,000 of city bonds, for which there is no money iu tbe City Treasury. To add to tbe complication, tbe City Comptroller gives notice that be will not pay interest on these bonds, thus virtually repudiating that portion of the debt. The Democratic Banner, published at Fayette*, Howard County, Missouri, frankly confesses it it "cot sorry” for the destruction of Chicago and the suffering of tbo people, and thinks "it is tbc bitter chalice coming home to wicked Ups.” Several other Democratic papers at the South express the same feeling, which, however, is not shared in by any respectable portion or number of the Southern people. THE NEW YORK INVESTIGATION Beport of the Associated Committee nt Citixcni. From the Nrw York Triton*. Ort. 25. To ffit Chairman of the Joint Committee of Super rhortand Aldermen Appointed to iuwfijate public accounts of the City and County of .Vew York: The committee invited by the Committee of the Board of Supervisors and the Board uf Al dermen, to undertake an impartial investiga tion of the city and county accounts,” would further report that they entered upon their labors without any knowledge of the extent of the city und county indebtedness, and without definite opinions in regard to the charges of corruption and fraud, alleged against those now holding prominent offices. In this investiga tion, your committee have reached the follow ing conclusions: j. The debt of oopcltjr Is doahllngcvory two year*. 9. g-YSOO.COO have been paid for repairs on armories and drill mome, the actual cost of which was less than (VSU.iOO. 3. Over f11.000.000 have been charged for oat lays on an unfinished Court Honse, for which build ing completed an honest estimate of real coat would be’lore than fS.OCO.UOO. 4. Safes, carpets, fornltore. which are'valued by competent persons, after s care ful examination, at JG-it,130.40. G. MU),000 have been paid for SIB,OOO worth of lum ber. 6. The printing, advertising, stationery, etc., of the dty and county, have cost in two years and eight months, $7,168,212.23. 7. A lartre number of persona ire on the payrolls of ihc ciiy whoea tcrvicea are neither rendered nor re quired. K Figure* upon warrants and vouchers bare been fraudulently altered, and payments hi\o been re peatedly made no forced Indorsements. With these facts before them, your committed nre compiled to report to you that, in their judgment, frauds and robberies of the most in famous character hare becu committed, with tbc coanirnneennd co operation of some of the officials who were appointed to guard the inter ests of the people. Tbe condition of tbe city and county as shown by these investigations, has served to destroy all confidence iu the management of toe city officials. While not desiring.to arrest the important improvements now in progress, your committee still deem It absolutely essential to the credit of the city that expenditures in all departments b v reduced to tbc lowest possible limits; that every officer and salaried employe whose services are not Indispensable be discharged, or requested to resign; that contracts be subjected to the mo.it ripia scrutiny, and all expenditures be reduced to an amount clearly within the financial abili ty of the Treasury. Tbe demands upon the City Treasury will necessitate tbe borrowing of large sums of money at nn early day. An appeal mua bo made to moneyed institutions anato capitalist’. Beside the $20*000,000 due as taxes, $18,000,000 arc required to meet current expenses and obli gations maturing on tbe 15th of next January. After that, $18,000,000 to $20,000,000 will be demanded for tbc first 10 months of the ensuing year, under tbe most economical administration of the city finances. Your committee regard as futile any attempt to borrow* these large sums of money while the city is controlled by its pres ent management. The existing debt of the city is entirely with in the ability of the people. But if the ex penditures and frauds ot tbe past two and a half years are to be longer continued, your committee cannot but view with alarm tbe con- sequences to the credit and prosperity of tbe city. They arc, however, of the opinion that the tax-paying citttens and the moneyed insti tutions will cheerfully respond to tbe full extent of the requirements of the Treasury, if confi dence in tbe administration of the City and County Government can be restored. Your committee have accomplished tbc object of their appointment, as far as possible, without the additional-power to send for persona and papers. We had reason to hope that the com mittee would be invested with this power, but that hope has been disappointed. Nothing, therefore, remains for us out to submit tbe re sults of the investigation, which are embodied in our successive report). We have endeavored to discharge with fidelity tbe duty of the trust committed to our charge, and we deeply regret the necessity ot exposing to public view n record of such unexampled and appalling municipal frauds. Respectfully submitted, by order of the com mittee, Ws. A. Booth, Chairman. Dangerous Structure. To the Editor oj The Chicago Tribune Sra: In year article on Fire Limits," this morn ing. you ask, Are the wooden building*, etm, going up under permit* of the Board of Public Works?" Note the following item, and judge for yourself: On the east aide of North Peoria street is a throe-story and'baaetnent wooden shell, pat up a year or two ago, and for come time need as a planing mill and sash fac tory, bat for some months it has oeen unoccupied. Since the Are It has been purchased or leased by parties for a candy factory, and they are now engaged in enlarging It to double lu formea also, making a tinder-box of about OJ by 6J feet, three stories high. This hollaing Is being pnt up on a permit (I am cred ibly Informed). Issued »tnco ibe passage ot the new flra-llml.a ordinance, wi:b this pecatiar wording aa an excuse for Its Woe: -By prerlon* arrange ment.*' Whether this previous arrangement pa.-iook of a mtnithUntor n t. this deponent aalih not; but this no doca eay, that. Arc 1 mlts or no limits, the put ting up ofeuch a structure in enot a locality ts aa outrage, and the projectors and abettors little lees than murderer*. IxnmsaTtox. Chicago, OcL 90. TKe Brlckl«T*r* of ChiU(Oi To Uu Editor of The Chicago TWbeae Stx: 1 notice that tesae of the dallies of Chicago are determined to have the bricklayers of Ihe city on astrlke. Now,'sir, as an officer of ths society la Chicago, let me correct this error, that Is calculated to do us great Injure*. We never have since the Arethougntof linking. knowing All well that the demand for oar craft a cold naturally increase oar pay, which It has done, and with which we are well satisfied. To ibe panics that contemplate balld o; I would say. you need not fear Jtrik# on our part The only parties that you needTearlo-tfafo. ereat emergency are tome of the old‘qoilrectare of Chicago, who will &>k you exorbitant pekps, and tell you tat we expect elx and seven donars.jwr day. Look to this before you let y>mr work..There are lots of competent mcchitulce .ny men who bad never voted wonld vote next Tuesday lor the best men. Unless they put up good names, the other ticket, which was a strong one. would win. They would not make op as good a ticket in the convention. So he moved that a com mittee be made up of one from each .ward, and ten from the county, to make nominations. Then tho convention might adjourn till the next day, after atking the .Democrats to get up a similar committee. Major” Phelps, of the Ohio Thirty-days’ squirrel hunters, recognized the emergency, and thought a Republican Convention could nominate men to moot It. Nocentral committee coalddolu The Democratic Central Committee bad pocketed the party for three years, and the Republican Central Committee was trying the same thing. Ho was opposed to doing aweywith the old-fashioned wayot making nomina tions. If it was agreed that the Democrats were to have certain office?, let tht committee only decide what offices they were to bare. If tbsx hid other wise they conceded all to the Caotral Committee. They should stick to their principle of nominations in convention. If they conceded it to a committee of thirty, they would concede it to one of tou. He moved the last morion ne laid on the table. General Mann opposed Mr. Sherwood's motion. Mr. Jones said the first mistake was when the Re publican Convention was called: the next when it was recalled, and tbs next when the Central Commit tee acted as It did. Mr. Sherwood withdrew hla motion. General Mann’s motion to appoint a committee nf two from the North, three from tbc South, fonr from the West Side, and fonr from tbo county, he ap pointed, to confer with a Democratic committee to agree on a division of office*, was adopted. Tbe Chair appointed the committee a* follows; Bontb Side, w. T. Hancock, K. J. Thomas, S. r. PheJn*; West Side, R. P. Derickson, O. L. Mam, John Buehler. William Reinhardt; North Side. J. a. Nelson. W. K. Snlllvan: county towns, John Hum phrey, C. U. Dalton, Theodore Schultx, and M. Blnl.m. Oo motion of” Major” Phelps, tbe Chair wo* au thorized to appoint a Committee ot Savon oq Resolu tions. Tbe c. nveatlon then adjourned till half-put 3 o'clock. Afternoon Session. Tba convention re-aa*embled at baif-ptat 2, The Choir announced Ihe following, a* the Com mittee, on Resolutions: Stephen D. Phelps. K. K. Jones, 11. N. Qihbard, C. W. Sborwnod, R. P. Dcr- Ickson. Fred. Boomer, John Herring, John Hum phrey and John Collins. C. W. Sherwood renewed bis motion fora commit tee to present names tothc convention tbo next day. A motion to lay Mr. Bhurwood’e m.lloa on tbe tabic was agreed to. K. K. Jones was sorry that Mr. Sherwood’s motion was lost, and hoped they would not nominate candi date? in tuwn-meetlng fashion. Jr bu Pone Hodnett made a speech. C. W. Sherwood moved that tho delesratea from each Commissioner’s district be allowed to r 'ako tbeir own nominations. The motion was agreed to. The Committee on Division of Offices reported, recommending that tbe Democrats have tbe following offices; Judge of the Circuit Coat,’City Collector, Police CommlfMoner, seven County Commissioners —two from each division and one from the county— City Attorney, Clork of Police Conrt, West Side Police Magistrate, West Side Town Clerk, North Side Town Supervisor. North Side Col! -etor. It wa* moved the report be accepted, except as to Police Commissioner and County Commlselnoers. Mr. Hibbard moved to recommit tbe matter, with instructions that the Police Commissioner coold not be conceded, nor mere than six Commissioner*. Alderman Clarke moved that they concede tho State Senator. General Mann said the Democrats had declined that. He believed if tbe committee were to try again they could harmonise. aSph time was wasted in speeches. Tbe committee was directed to again confer wlih tbe Dcmocncv. The convention adjourned till 10 this morning. DEMOCRATIC SOREHEADS, Soralat deuloa. The Cook County Democratic Convention assem bled yesterday morning in Orpheus Hall, No. 70 West Lake street. Tbe hall was crowded, and be absence of ventilation, together with the tobacco smoke, ren dered tbe atmosphere choking and disagreeable. Aid. Montgomery called tbe convention to order, and moved that ex-Alderman Comlskey take tbe chair. Without further ceremony, Mr. Comlskey took the chair. Mr. Austin Doyle was, on motion, declared the Sec retary of the convention. On motion, the Chair appointed the following Com mittee on Permanent Organisation: Messrs. Hil dreth, Lyman, Batterm&n. Montgomery, and Barry. The committee retired to consult, whereupon much eon fusion prevailed. Alter an absence' of ten min utes they reported the following permanent officers; President, Hon. J. B, Atwood; Secretaries, J.J. Crowley and Albert Nicholson. Jndge Atwood took the platform and said he waa plod .to hear the alarm boll sounded, bo matter by whom. He waa glad to hear tbe Democracy aroused lo the defence or their principles, when they seemed in peril—especially the principle of the right of repre sentation. An d then he added: *Tia not la mortals to eoßaandeneema; Bui we’ll do mere, Sempronlua, v»'U drserva it—” Bat tbe quotation was cat abort br tba voice of Ba perrli-or Stephen*, moving tbe appointment of a com nrittra of seven on credentials. Aid. Montgomery moved to amend by the election ofa member of the committee from etch ward tad the country. Thl« notion prevailed. The committee wte fonnd to consist oftlenre ore portion of the delegates. Itwaa found that havle two delegations frum the Sixth Ward seriously con£ plicated aflslrs, for when 000 delegation jelled J B. btepheos” as their slogan, the other detention reepoodrd defiantly with George Hilton." Thing* prumlred to become eeriotu. when George Meech moved to eetlfrfy both parties by reiusln* cadmit a delegate from tho Sixth Ward, and referring the claims of all partita to the Committee on Creden tials. This Ingenious mancravre wai entirely'successful, and the committee retired. Aid. Montgomery wasted a speech, and aoccealed the same to hie friend. Ur. Meech. Somebody else said Van Arman. After half an hour's; Interval. Judge! Atwood called the meeting to order. A man named Beynoidawho waa rising (in public esteem) rapidly that hia bam •kali had already thrast itself through hia scalp, and waa plainly visible fur four square Inches, addressed the meeting. It sppeared .born what he said, that he did not want to occepy the time and attent'on of his business; bat. from what he did. it must be that this a. section waa evidently made in a Pickwick ian sense. When the notae became deafrniar. he thanked the meeting for its courtesy, end hoeed be had made thlugnelear to those aroaodklm. Judge Van Annan waa unprepared to make's speech, and from what, be bad beard be fell less ln clloed than ever to give any advice to the convention. B e w«. cnprtpMta lo b.ra .njt&lii* to do with »n .amalgamation ticket. The Democratic party had lived down two parties, and been lived down by the matri thocdal engagement between Republicans and Ab Utionlata. Therefore be waswililhg to vote for an amal gamation ticket in loul affairs only. If any of the rAPv^iE?* **»lr Individual preferences tney shonid do so and elect an nncoa am miliar to evdrvpfflce. i********** imw Mr. heyoolda rose to defend klmaelt What be said he only can know, as the noise around him was still deafening. It was donb leas satisfactory le Ur. lieyuoldß. a* Le placed hia bat over the bald Diace on his bead and gently covered hi* eyes with hiaclasses, heretofore laced against hia brow. The convention was called to order, and the Com mlitoe on Credentials, repotted, v/ft* allowed each* delegation fronuhe Sixth Ward to cast half a vote and reported the names of delegates admitted A Democrat, above name was fonnd lo be O'Leary, of the Ninth Ward, protested agnhut the of any of tbe delegatee frost that ward. They were bogus men, placoa by eomodoslmlng party upon the roll. The real delegates elected had been stricken cJT the list and this sabatitotlon made. Mr. Comlekey said be bed done it. He .wished Ur. O'Leary would allow hts name to be added. Ur. o*Learr. having insulated himself In tobacco juice, looked blandly on the mainland, and said he would. By a vote of the convention he was allowed to bo placed on tbe list as a delegate. Mr. O’Leary then said he had eomo remarks to make, and wasted to make them; [CricS of Thst'i 1 do,” Sit down.”] bnt would take hi* sen if the convention wished ft. The convention did wish it, aad said so. Tbe report of the committee was thsn adopted. Aid. Montgomery moved tha appointment ot a committee of thirteen to confer with Ihe Repub licans. A Democrat said he moved to amend by adding three from the country. Mr. William Yeung wanted to amend by Ignoring the action of the so-called Democratic Central Com mittee.” He moved that tbe Chair appoint« Central Committee lor the ensuing year. Mr. Comlakey agreed with him, and moved tolar all other motion! Os tho table. Mr. Reynolds was accrued of being s delegate to both Republican and Democratic Conventions, aad rose to explain. Tbe motions were all laid on the Üblo. Mr. John Comitkey moved te elect a Central Com mittee. Mr. Tonng **ld the Central Committee had as sumed powers which Ood only knew were never ex ercised m a limited monarchy, to wit; the nominating of a Constable. A eentlxnan said it wns nn outrage. Mr. Reynolds said ha hoped no man would be excited unnecessarily.' It was moved that tbe Central Committee should consist of one delegate from each ward and seven from the country. Carried. The convention took a recess for ten minutes to nominate members. The convention having come to order, the Chair said that a committee had been sent from the Repub lican Convention. Mr. Dalton, of tho Republican Committee, said they were ready to co-operate with the Democrats to tho number ot thirteen. It wu moved by Mr. BQTsrmaa that a committee of thirteen be appointed by the Chair to confer with tho Republican Committee. The motion prevaUlng.the Chair appointed the fol lowing Committee j Frank Silverman; A. Michelles, •lame# Lyman, W. Go-gin, J. A. Montgomery, W. H. Young.Mike Evans. George Hoteling, J. W. Enright, John 7;omUkey, Atutln Doyle, sod Stephen Keogh. Mr. James Lyman said there were men on that committee who were traitors. He conld name them. He warned thereto give pledges. Mr. Dalton, of tbe Republican Commute, said he was waiting, and wanted the convention to under* stand that be was In tension at Rico A Jackvon** Hall, where they would meet the Damocra**, unless aom* better place be named. The appointments by the Chair were ratified by tbe convention. Tbe committee appointed to nominate (the Cental Committee reported the following; the Chair having again railed the wandering delegate* to order': P« McHugh. A; P. Foley. Geo. Braham, Miles A. Kehoe. Thomas Han-old. Joan Comtskey, John GUUs, John T. Walsh. John C. Rlehberg, A. 5. Alexander. J. W. Enright. Hugh McLaughlin, Frank Silverman, David Murphy, W. C. McClure. Daniel Cameron. Pat. Car roll. Theodore Gunther, J. Keogh, Alfred Ward, K. X. Clark. Panl Hunter. The convention then took a recess until S o'clock. Afternoon dcaston. Tbe convection ewe to order pursuant to adjourn ment.- The names of George Ueech and Theodore Bchintx wertf added to tbe Central Committee. A furious wrangle again occurred in the Sixth Ward delegation, during which Supervisor Stephens asld tho remainder ware bailies and bis life was not safe among them. The difficult? was finally adjartod by the election of Mark tihertdan as delegate from tbe Sixth Ward. Mr. Jacob Slain spoke. The Committee on Conference reported that they had obtained 10 offices for the Democracy and given 14 to the Republicans. The lattergonticmei had got ten tbc following offices: Judge of the Superior Court, County Treasurer, State Senator. County Sur veyor. 8 County Commissioners, Mayor. City Treas urer, Police Justice on lb;. North and South Sides. Town SnpcnisoroQtbc Booth and West Sides, Collec tor on the North and West Sides, and Town Clerk on the North and Sooth Sides. The Democrats had the following offices: Jndge of the Circuit Coart, Police Commissioner. 7 County Commlsdionora (two from each division and one from the county) Citv Collector. City Attornev, Clerk of tho Police Court, Police Jnsticc on tho West Side, Town Super visor, North Side; Collector, Sooth Side; Town Clerk, West Side. like report was received with great excitement, Mr. •Ricbbetg moved to recommit the report, with io>trnciiant to demand the City Treaanr e rsnlp. This motion was laid on tho tabic after a warm de bate. Tie report was adopted with loud applause. The convention then adjourned, to meet i u the tame place at 10 o'clock this morning. Tbc Worth Side. T« the SilUor Q f The Chicago Triount: 9 Sin: In your article of this morning, headed Tho New Government Buildings," yod observe with truth ana justice that a dozen places can be islectod equal ly fit end convenient to tbe centre of business as the present location, and may be purchased (Or S6OO per freot fcot, within, say, half a mil.* of tbc Court House. At a citizen and observer of events In Chicago the last twenty years, yonr wise proposition 1 wish to support by an additional statement of facts, worthy, as 1 be lieve. of still greater public consideration. The North Side, always, by some unforecon dream •lance or fatality, has been hitherto neglected, un carcd for. and.as you well know, left completely In tbe shade. Now. there is no part of Chicago more centrally located than from Chicago avenue to tho over. No one will deny that It Is fully a? available r,r business purpose* as tho bomb Sloe; baa on either side, as well as the South, lake and river, tunnel, bridge?, paved streets, «tc. This section la in the very heart of the ciiyl proper, and its lot* and parcels of land can be purchased in any quantity needed at one ball, porhape one third, wfiat yon call cheap, namely: S6OO per front foot. If tb s bu so, and X am prepared to prove It, with several other property-holders in addition, all of whom are anxious to make the offltr If desired.—why not, thorn nt this t>ae, if the dty aatuuiiites nna' powerful in terested patUaumj nut anxious to continue plunder ins the taxpayers of Chicago, embrace this offor f What right has Booth Chicago to all the pnbllb VoSMlcgt*? What right. I ask, ha* Sooth Chicago to try to grab everything of value, and ignore altogether tbe Jnet rights of both North and West Chicago This thing ha* been doing too loug. became public opinion ha* not been called *ncee**(Qlly to It. and be cause, although North Chicago Contains, or did con ifln, tn.nj good «nd wiir','„y c uu«u. yet, np to Ala, they have done nothing either to encourage that sec lion or prevent a, monopoly of everything valuable by the Booth Ji,a e Kvtiyo nc can see bow unfair this is. North and n*e*t, united, have paid, for year*, at ranch taxes toward the support of these public establishment?, and bare at all times the balance of power, and, although I should be the last to throw a dam -I*r or firebrand on. or amidst, the efibrta icing now made to rebnitd and improve our destroyed yet grand city. 1 think, in laying ont the people’s money for public improve ment? in the future. North Chicago should not be forgotten, butcatimnlantof tome kind given It, to etconrage Its immediate rebuilding and future growth. Nature has laid but the south part of Nunh Chicago fur business purpose*, perhaps bet er than nayother section, hot certainly far and away aborts all other parts of tbe city. The northern part of North Chicago excels for private residences. Oar great driveway, or northeastern bonlevardj will, in a abort time, beworthv the admiration of visitors fmm all part* and, of all onr improvements, will add moat to the ple-Mue ini jAy o. all onr Citizens. The whole world does not produce so grand and healthful a drive and this great northeastern boule vard will, in a few year*, have raised and dotted or. its borders, even into Evan»ton.*ome of tbe most beautiful mention* aod residence* to be fonnd in any cnnntry. It Is bat right, then, that the people *od officials of tbe whole city should anticipate these improvement*, by giving ns a helping hand In some public manner, ana offer some stimulant to the great efforts to bo made. Nothing can, or will, so ranch encourage North Side citizens to rebuild that hitherto fo cotton bat beauti ful section as to locate some public building* there. That section, or square, embracing Erie street on the nsrtb and Indiana street to the sooth, Franklin •Ttcl to tb& oast and Townsend to tbe ▼eet. contains nine fall blerks, and would, 1 think. be snfficlent for the public Beds of Chicago for all time. If not, yon can add to Ust pleasure, at lew than one half what yon deam cSeap, namely. f6OO per front foot This section is ctntral. aod connected by two bridges with the Weak sod quite adjacent to two brldges.to the Bontb, and Ctera it now no impediment to the building ofa great central triangular tunnel, for all purposes of travel between North, West, and South Chicago at Rarket for the distribution of gas and water and for sawerago purposes, in the very central point of Chics go proper. I cannot see why these suggestions are not worthy of consideration and investigation. For the sake of tbs patient and unobtrusive citizens oi the hitherto fotgotten and ill-treated North Bids, bo good enough. Ml Editor, to give ns yonr opinion on this important subject. Let those Is power divide the spoils, if they w) 1 juitly, between each Mellon of the city, bat let the whole city rise or fall together and let there be a brotherhood of justice between nil, in order to coa ssmate onr great destiny. A NORTH SIDE CITIZEN. Cmcaoo, Oct- 39. Experiences ef Children in the Northern Fires, A Port-Huron correspondent of the Detroit Pott saya: “Ton have abeauy been told the atory of the little beet load of children, carried from Rock Fall* la Can.4a* and uTsd signed by eboct XtOO worn.nof that Terri tore, wae recently unintentionally miss a ed. (a eead of] bemg agrinat. it is in favor, of yraau, and was sent to tbs Execs live Mansion by Detente Hooper. The petitioner* say that tbri husband* father*, sous, and brother*are now batagexposed to the murderous policy of a clique of Federal officers, intent .on tbe destruction of an honest, happy. tflocs, and proroe rocs people, and they therefor* ask for the ret. oval of the Federal dUtnrbm of the peace, or. atleari. to atop the disgraceful piooeed togs, or send candid and reliable men to Utah to in vretixate the question of tbe constitutional rirhta and fibertyof tbe people. The prtiliooera ezpnoe their approbation of polygamy, aesertlng that It waa sanctioned by Christ's teachings, and that the Insti tution tr being perverted by Federal officer*. —During the past summer, says 'the- Sacramento (Cal) Unwru hundreds 6r thouaanda of sheep were Kred tbe Web Stems, at altitudes rearing m 4,tto to 8,000 fcut above eea level. 1 1 the cmcA.uo fime. The London Prow on the Croat I’elem- Itr. Tte Uet steamer at New fork triage paper* or Oc tober 11, with comments os the Chicago fire. la oor anti all it it made the subject of leading editorial ar ticles. The Timu closes an article m foilowe: •‘.When Hf. Cobden complained that English echolboy* were taught all about a trumpery Attic stream called the Jllsjua. but nothing ofChlugv.it should have been remembered in fkirneaa that as that* time Chicago bad hardly existed long enoogb to he known bj any bnt merchants. It will now not eoou be forgotten. We may be confident, however, that the natural resources of the place and the native energy of the Americans wlllmore than, repeat the marvels of the original development ef the city. The novelty aad rapid growth of American civilization reader Ihepeopiefar more indifferent to each calamities dweller* la older countries who are conscious that Ihelr possess foes are the accomnlatloa of can* tariee. At the same time with the news of the fire the telegraph informed ua that its mercantile effects were already being discounted In New York, and we have no doabt there are numbers ol enterprising ■peculator* who tee their way to fortane through the •peedyreconatractlonof thecity. The most cardial sympathy will be felt tathle coantry with ledlvldoal sufferer*, aid we can only wUh the great mercantile commanity of the West the prompt recovery which tbdr energy deserve*." The Deity TiUgreph, in a characteristic article, says: It le Idle to suppose (hat such a city is desMosd t<» become a Tadmor In lb* wilderness. or to sink into the chronic decadence of tfebaetopol after the bom* bardment. Besnrgaa' might be written upon every brick of the bnrnt-np booses of Chicago. It will rise again, and with a vengeance. Luckily ao venerable cathedrals, bo historic palaces, no monuments of art, Co hoary relics of antiquity have perished In the co lossal life. Chicago has biased away with the rapidi ty of laca curtain*, or of ornaments' in a drawing, room grate. The artlcltt were handsome and expen sive, bnt tley eas be replaced. To repelr the Injury dene, all that ta wanted ia a certain amount or re sources, energy and pluck; uud la pluck, energy and rceeurcei the American people wiif arrer be bank rupt. "A swift steamer,laden with warm clothing sad body linen, for both sexes and for ail egos, would be the Immediate testimony of ear recognition that blood Is thicker than water, and that, when Ameri cans are In distress, we have not forgotten ear com mon parentage." The London Deity Jfaet ha* a two-column editorial on the fire, In which It eaye: Nowhere in the world—not In Manchester, not in London, not In New York—were busier streets to PC found. A river, hardly belter than the Irwell, flow ing through part of the business quarter of the city, and apunned by innumerable drawbridges, did. In deed, make hideous some of the city scenes, which showed like an uproarious Rotterdam or a great com mercial Eonlgaberr. Buttbe atreete of shop* and banka and theatres eud hotel* might etaad a rivalry with those of any city In th.- world. Enormous piles of warehouses, with handsome an 1 costly fronts: bags '■tores,* compared with which Schoolbred’e or TtnTs seem diminutive; hotels a* large a* the Laughamor th* Loavre;. bookshops which are nuAurpassed in London or Parle; and theatres where Christine NlU eon found a fortune awaiting her inch as (he Old World could notoffer—such were iheprincipalfeiturea of that wonderful quarter which hs«Just been reduced toaahce. Nor was Chicago wholly gives up to bust aeea. Her avenues of private nsldeacee were—tome, we truer, still are—as Beautiful as any city can show. Michigan avenue aad Wabash avenue were the streets where her merchant princes lived; ana there it nothing to bo seen la Parle, London, or New York to surpass either avenue la situation or In beauty. Michigan avenue la a sort of Piccadilly, with a lake instead of a park under ita drawing-room windows. The ether great avenue was distinguished from almoet any street of the kind In Europe or the United States by the variety of its architecture. Ur. Raskin himself might have acknowledged that in this civ ilized and modem strtet, at least, the corse of mon otony did not prevail, aud the yoke of the Italian ityle was not accepted. Let it be added that Chi cago. having the advantage of nerrneis. and the warning of ail the world before her, had but few nar row street* nnd lanca. The thoroughfares wore, as a rule, nearly all of the same width. The inexpe rienced traveller often found himself sadly per plexed as he wandered through a cily o’f broad white each looking lost like another, and any one seeming as entitled as ita neighbor to claim (ho leadership in bnsinea* or fashion. Chicago will not remain In her mins as an ancient city might have done«»Alrcady in the thick of all the wreck and misery we may be sure that active and un daunted minds are planning the reconstruction of many a gutted and blackened betiding, the restoration of many shattered fortunes. It is only a fa tv years ■inco the city of Portland, in Maine, was destroyed by fire: and the traveller to-day tees there a new, busy, and solid town, where the story of the conflagration has already become a tradition. The people of Illinois are still mure ener getic and fertile of expedient than tho people of Maine, and they will not long leave the city, which was their pride, to lie in her smouldering ruin?. The claims which Chicago used at one time to nrge for the transference of onal Capital to tho shore of her lake are, indeed, pot out of court for the prefect; and her rival, bt- Louis, will, for some lime to come, have the advantage of her In the race for commerce, wealth, and population. But the city whore rate of growth distanced tha-of any other on the earth, will not be long la recovering ths effects even of the present calamity. So much at least of consolation may be found. Before the wid ows and orphans whom this catastrophe bereaves ■hall have put aside the robas of mourning, Chicago will bo rising from her ruins, perhaps mora magnific cent than ever. Her restoration, wc may feel assured, m il) be in keeping with the marvel lons rapidity er her rise, and the awful sndoeaness of bar fall. OBITUART Sir Roderick Impey fifarchlson. Sir Roderick I. MarckUon. President of tbo British Geological and Geographical Socialise, died in Lon don, October Si. at the ripe age of 79 years. Tbc de mise of this dlitlogulsheu scientific scholar will create a palnlol void in the world in which ha baa moved so many years. Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Bart., C. C. 8., D. C. L.. LL.D.. K. R. S., etc., was the eldest son of Eeu- Mil>U«»hUAn. B*o.. of T»Md*U. the subject of our eketen wa»|horo, February 19,1,80, Be was educated at Dmtiam Grammar School and the Military College of Marlow. Frui-h from the** later studies, be entered the Army of the X’eniosnla. under tbc Duke cl Welllmrtun, serving in Spain and Portu gal with tho Thirty-sixth Foot from' 1397 till Itttti. Ho was engaged id the battles of Vlmeixa aod Corunna, and participated in the siege of Cadiz a* a member of tbe staff of his uncle. Sir Alexander Mackenzie. In lt>l6 be married, and, withdrawing from tbc service, as Captain in the Sixth Dragoon.-, occupied himself with the pursuits and pleasures of aconutry gentleman. At the age of 30ho entered on the ab*oTung study of-chemistry and geology, and from that time forward ha punned tbs path inn* entered upon with tbs warmest en.ho *ia*m. Between IB3fi and l&ll he pnblbhed some geological memoirs on tbe Highlands of Scotland, tbe Alps, oml Germany. In 1831 he applied htmsell jo ii>jpttmalic examination of the older sedimentary deposits in England and Wales, succeeding, after htvrnyfrarb’ labor. In establishing what be termed the 8 iuriau System, compre-benjing a socce-bloo of mala previously unknown This *y?lein. derivin’ Its nrirc irem it* oecopvint those coantlu* which foisted tbe ancient Kingdom of Siiotc?, I* divided Into (be Upper, consisting of Ludlow and Wenlo-rk rock*, and toe Lower ef Caradoc and Llandlln rocks. Mr. Murchison traced tbc exteokionoi tha Silurian System, and all the other Paleozoic rocks to Nor .ray end Sweden, a* sire that of European Russia. Under tic patronage of th.* Imperial Government Mr. Mar chireu. in iMU. sod in company with M. de Verunll a>d Count Kcyscriicg, comm-nced the geological •srvey of tho 'Kttraiau Empire, hnvlr.g already ex plored portions of Poland. Germany, and tho Car- Baibians, as intermediate between tho Russian and ri-it>L deposits. When tbe first report©! these in vretigetlnn? was made, in ISII, tbe Emperor, Nicho les i„ presented Mr. MnrcbUou with tho second class of Si. Anno, in diamond*, and also a vn*c of Siberian avantorine, mounted on a column of porphyry. Three years later, on tbe completion of his labors In Karris, the Emperor conferred upon him the Grand Cross ot tbe Order of St. Stanis laus. appointing him a member of tbe. Imperial Academy of Science. In ISIS] Mr. UnreMson re tinted io England, when bo was knighted for bis distinguished service* 1 the caneeof science. Dur ing lu* life he published ov r 120 memoirs of the transaction* of various scientific bodies, the most re maikable being bis “Alp*, Appenniafi and Caip> Ibisns." In R44 JheJpnbliebed’ an exhaastivejvolania on tbe “Geologic I St nctorc of Russia.” In this work be instituted a comparison between tho rocks of Eastern Australia sod those of tbe aniferons Ural Moon aln*. and predicted the discovery of gold in Australia. So d was be with the belief that erode gold existed In Australia, that he urged some Cornish miners to emigrate there and obtain gold in tbe manner they aba.reeled tin from the gravel of tbelr nat ve country. In ISIS be urged the British Cover ment to take ac ion In the matter, but proved unsuccessful, being rewarded, however. In IHSI. by tbe occurrence of the gold fever and Us astonishingrrsnlt*. Am ng the Important roi trlbutioos to gcolneical science made by Sir R d erick may be classed his proving the existence of the fundamental strarifi d deposits of the United King dom. there rocks, tho so-called Xsmrentiaß, being older than eltler the Cambrian or SI oriao systems. He also grouped tbe Zcchstein or magnesia limestone, atd bis fare at labor* were made to repeated examina tions of his satire Highlands, for which he received from tbe Royal Society ai Edinburgh lb Ir first Bris bane Gold Medal. In 1865 he succeeded Sir H. Dt la Roche in the office of Director General of the Geo logical Survey of the British I lea. Sir Roderick served fonr terms a- President of the Geological So ciety, and el ven yeara a* tbe President of toe Royal Geographical Society, vacating .he position In ladl. In be w«a awarded the Cop ley Medal, or 'first honor of the Royal Society of London, being created a Baronet in the same year, having been made a K.C. B. in 1861. He was at the time ofhis death a Fellow of the Royal Society, and also of tbe Lismcan Society, a member of the Academies «f St. Petersburg, Berlin. Copen-- bsgen, BrneMls, Stockholm, and Turin. He waa a correspondent of tbe French Institute, a Trustee of the British Mnsento. the Hunterian Mnsenm, and the British Association for tbe Advancement of Science. He received the Prix Cnvler from tbe French Insti tute. and tbe Wollaston Medal at home, and he was a Knight Commander of various urde:s. As the per sistent ank by vrblfb the itreer operations of astronomical calcula tion are worked oat—were defective, and even un faithful in many instance a. Toe science of ntfriga lion was Impeded, and the maps sad charts of tho different gorennaesta rendered unreliable ia cert sequence. Ur. Babbage set himself to correct this by applying the unerring movements of mechanism to tho preparation of logarithmic tables hi place of the pertureble process ol man’s intellect. Hr visited the different centres of machine labor, both is England aod on the continent of Europe, keeping bis grand idea always in view. He inspected and compared wheel*,- levers, and valves, and studied their various func- loss. Ruinmlng to Eh gland from the coir ineot in 1891. he undertook to direct the construction ef a"differento engine” for Ura government. He subsequently prepared his work os the Economy of Manufacture®/’ then a new subject. In 1833 a portion of the machine which be recommended was pul together and fonnd t ty work admirably. Hla tables of logartthlais of tho nalnrsi numbers followed. He was elected to thoshatrof mathematical professorship in Cambridge in 16t8, a seat which was once occupied by Sir Isaac Jfawtoo. Mr. Babbage discharged its duties for sloven years. Mr. Bahbagc-waa an English Liberal ol the m arrest. It is to be hoped that the government will give some assurance or protection to the inno cent, and even effect soma compromise w.th tbs gall* ty, for the sake of hnmanlty, or else ths suffering among women and children will be appalling, and Upper Carolina, the finest (arming conn try in the State, wl Ihe ti rued into a wilderness. The*e men ssytheywcot Into this thing not to rmoiat any of the lavra of the United States, bat to curb the excesses of lawless persons, who were given- to bara-bnrnlng, outrages. and other soda! evils, so common In these parte a year or so back. The thing degenerated by a lowee* of politicians getting control of one or two dent.' If incse men taka to the moon tains they may become outlaws in earnm and give trouble for year* to come. A wise statesmanship, dealing with them in jostles, might makegood and loyal citizens oat or thtm iPicverccteafler. The Ku-Elux war continues. Every mas reported as at any time belonging to the order la arrested. Under this Mate of ihron mat y have either fled ths county or ere lying* ntfo the oak forests- where they cannot be found by the officers of the law. If our com panies of the Seventh Cavalry and one of infantry, unde; the command of Major M. A. Reno, are ready to assist Marshal Johnson In case of need, bit there, la so resistance :os ths port of any one. No disguises and no arms bars been returned, as required ty the President's proclamation, nor hare any been captured by the Marshal.. The pro clamation names Marion County and leaves out Union. This Is thoaght to be a mistake, as Union was particularly distasteful to Senator Scott's com mittee. The situation in the adjoining county of York la about the same as hero. The force there consists of three'companies of cavalry and iwo of IzJkatry, un der command of Major Merrell. Attordey-Qenenl Akennan la at present the guest of Congressman Wallace, in that county. A number of yeccg men •lying on* lotht- forests sent n proposition to Attec nsy-Genaral Ackecxnaa to surrender themselves, pro vided the government wonid not ptoeseat* them nnlsmttconid show that they had committed some The Attorney General re* plied l» kuLstance that he was not empowered by tho President to grant terms of amnesty, hat all asrraa dering wooIiTl»e entitled to Executive clemency: nod. IssUt, If ho had the power it wak beneath the dignify of hla office to treat with outlaws-In the woods. This teemed to prove unsatisfactory, aewe have heanl oC none anrrenderiog since. A FORUER'9 CABEBB.' How an Accomplished Swindle*” Obtained. Thousands of Sellars from Benklm. Companies—Three Raised Chcche and tVnxnerous Forgeries—Partieularrof HU Arrest. Prom the New York Tribune. Ocf. S3. For several months Detectives Elder and Mac dcugal of the Central Office hare been In pursuit of an accomplished forger who ttae been operating Is this and other cities, and has obtained from savugr and other banks, on .forged ebaefca and altered draft*, aggregating several thousand dollars. Abo at Jan® 1. a spare. gentlemanly-appearing mas, age, 80. of ne diam height, having a smooth ace, dark brown hair, slightly bald in froat. and having a peculiar crooked nope, called a: the banking bouse of E. D_ Morgan A Co., at No. ‘s* Exchange place, and presented a card, bearing this inscription, “ii. S. Dowb other places, he professed kobo pur chasing woo), boon afterward, ho deposited a chock for? 10.000 in the Royal Canadian Bank at Montreal, and attempted to draw against it. bat the officers of the hank refused to honor ihe cheek until they had communicated with Babcock Brothers ACeen tasned by Babcock Bros. Jb Co., and endeav ored toobtain ‘3.»0 on It. hot failed to do so. tb* biok officer* declining to advance anything on U until they ehoold be saUstied tliat it waa gaonine. The prisoner has pasted nnder many names, bat IK is believed that hi* real name is Henrv Yoong. Be was committed by Jcstlro Began at the Tomb* Several complaints will be'made against him. H* was attested nearly n year and a half ago on sus picion of being the man who shot and robbed Har vey. the messenger of ibe American Merchants* Union Express Company, In the express car white leaving ihe Albanv depot. James Fukina waa after ward convlctrd of that offence. The Chicago Tribune, From the Advent Christian Timea (Buchanan, Mich.}. Tna Chicago Tiubunb la vha first of oar ex chr.i.ges io the city to reach our table. A«