SWEDEN, How the People X.trc—Th« Bonacs-Farsi Products—Domestic Manufactures—The Fisheries—Games—Cold Weather—Beauty orthe Women—The City oflauiL Special Correspondent* of The Chicago Tribone. Lcxd, Sweden, Sept. 30. On coming into Sweden, one will be first struck ■with the comfort and privacy in which The people live. The houses are warm, being built of strong, thick walls, generally of brick, with high stone foundations. They arc small, com monly of but one story, and meant for but one family. The people in them seem cozy and cheerful, feeling evidently that they have a home. The Swedes keep warm fires, generally on the hearth, and stay much in the house. Their houses are not only very simple, but arc simply furnished, there often being, especially in the northern parts, where the. houses are frequently of logs, and covered with turf or; straw, not more than one room in the house, hod that with only the coarsest, home, made fiVnilure. The sleeping room—lherc is rately mere than one—is provided with ranges of beds its tiers, one above the other, the women generally sleeping below and the men above.’ Vou rarely see any carpet, but the floors are sprinkled with a clean, white sand, which dries up moisture, gives off no dust, and may easily be removed. Sometimes the floors, as in Ger many, are painted, or arc of wood mosaic though this luxury, except in large mansions, is very rarely indulged in. Occasionally the best rooms will have a little carpet, but never more than two strips, which cross each other in the centre. In the country there arc no villages, os in Germany, but the people live la separate farm* houses, as in the United States. This, however, is only within the last thirty years, in which time the villages throughout the kingdom have been destroyed. There are now, especially In the south, very respectable -farm-houses, and the land generally belongs to the cultivators. Occasionally one sees even great barns, os in Pennsylvania. The land is generally good, and four-fifths of all the people subsist by agricul ture. Qrc.it quantities of wheat, rye, and bar ley are raised, the stubble-fields being now seen stretching out in every direction. Much of this grain is exported to Germany and Great Britain. Large droves of cattle, sheep, geese, and ducks may also be seen in the fields, though the slock is far inferior to that of Denmark, whore it was a real pleasure to see the magnificent droves in their pastures. The cattle and the poultry are commonly kept in the same field, the ducks and geese being in and around the ponds, while the sheep and cows are scattered through the meadows, a shepherd-boy commonly sleeping in some fence-corner. In the evening, these Hocks are all driven to the barn-yard, where they present u lively scene lor a few' hours alter sunset. I spent a little time nt the country residence of a large land-owner in this neighborhood, where the noise of the ducks and geese in his barn-yard was like a perpetual horsc-liddic serenade. The fences in Sweden have commonly, stone posts and wire rails, or else are entirely of stone; that is, if there arc any fences; for, as in Germany, the laud is unfenccd, and only along the railroad or the highway may sometimes he seen fences; herein again differing from Ger many, which has none at all. It Is generally thought more economical to hire shepherd boys than to build stone walls. Comfort and sub stantiality are everywhere observable in the country as in the towns. Since the villages have been torn down,' the new buildings erected in the country have been much better constructed than the pld huts. Oae cannot- go through Sweden anywhere without being impressed that it is a land of abundance. There are no such signs of over strained production and strict economy as in ishness. Great heaps of meat, cheese, cabbage, carrots, batter. &c., may be seen in the markets; and In the honses the people have always abundance ot eating materials. I saw a man in the cars actually throw away a cigar only half smoked, whereas in Germany they smoke till it is too short to hold in the mouth, and then stick the end in a meerschaum and smoke the rest. The trees in these parts, as in all Den mark through winch 1 have travclledjare loaded with fruit, chiefly apples, pears and plums. Peaches and grapes do not ripen here, except in hot-houses, the climate being too severe. Sweden, as is well known, has no great i factories or any manufactures of nny extent. but she has an immense export of row materials —iron, timber, copper,, alum, cobalt, grain, meat, fish, hides, &c. Since, however, the. people lire so much In their houses, owing to the cold and tbo exceeding long nights of winter, they carry ou an extensive domestic manufacturing* When you enter a house, you will see the whole family employed in knitting, cardiac flux, spinning thread, and weaving coarse linen or cloth. The peasants arc excellent contrivers, and apply the coarsest materials to some useful purpose. They twist ropes from hog's bristles, horses’ tnancs, and bark of trees, and use cel-skins for bridles. The common people arc generally clothed in strong cloth of their own make, and wcat home-tdade stockings, caps, wooden shoes, and fur articles. They also use home-made buckets, churns, brooms, and, in general, live independently, \o foreign or factory made goods, however cueap can supersede, or materially interfere with, this domestic manufacture; lor, as the people would otherwise be Idle, its products may be said to cost them nothing. Hired labor ers, as tailors, shoemakers, kc., work generally at their own homes, instead of in their masters' shops; taking the materials will] them, anil returnin'? them when finished. Labor is very poorly paid, which accounts for the ex tensive emigration of the Swedes, who go in great numbers, to Denmark, Holland, France, England, and especially to America. The working man not unfrcqucolly labors from 414 in the morning till 9 at night, ut the rate of $9 per week. On nearly every hill I can see a windmill going; the wind, as in Denmark, Holland, Ger many, France, and most other European countries, being far more regular than in the United States, and used exclusively for grind ing. Such a great fishing business as is here car* ried on, I was not prepared to expect. It is fur more extensive than even Denmark, whose fish' erics 1 described in my last letter. The whole coast of Sweden seems to be given up to fishing. Fishing villages stand all along the shore, and fishing huts at nearly every point. The sound, and the open sea to a great extent, may at all limes be sees full of fishing vessels. Along the banks may be seen whole fields full of seines bung out to dry, and hundreds of men and women cleaning and mending their nets. At the towns of llelsingborg and Malmo, the chief points on the southeast coast, from which the shipments are made to the interior, I noticed whole carloads of herring, and sometimes almost entire trains. It is no uncommon thing to *sec, also, wagon loads of dried fish hauled like wood through the street. In fact, fislris onc'of the commoncst'arlicles of food— fresh fish, dried fish, smoked fish, pickled fish, Ac. The people eat them, in many parts, for bread, especially the herring, which are in par ticular abundance. The other fish are sturgeon, cod, lamprey, revs, soles, turbot, pilchards, and especially the streaming, a small kind of her ring, of which they are very fond. In the lakes and rivers there are also many eels, salmon, and perch, which arc esteemed far more highly than the sea fish. Game is also very abundant. On Sunday you can see the people going out in every direction with their guns. The principal game 1 bare seen it a small species of deer, grouse, partridge, woodcock, wild ducks and geese, which arc brought to the market by fowl dealers iu great abundance. The wild swan and eider arc also hunted for their down. In some parts, I am told, there are still great numbers of wolves, bears, foxes, elk, and reindeer. Eagles and falcons In habit the cliffs, and the wild boar is still found In the Island of Ocland. op The Swtdes arc hearty eaters, and lire well. They eat as many meals os the Germans, but not such little ones. They cat a great deal of white bread, which one never sees in Germany, where wheat flour is used only for cakes or biscuit. They eat also much black bread, made of unbolted rye and barley. In the interior, the families often bake bread bnl twice aycar, which is made into, large round cakes, about a foot and a half; in diameter and an inch and a half in thick ness. These are strung on files of sticks, sus pended from the ceilings of the cottages, and arc often soiiard that they must be broken with VOLUME 25, a hatchet. The taste is not resem bling that of the inevitable “bard tack.” Their other food, besides fish, consists chiefly of sailed beef and pork, and of eggs, milk, and pota toes. About this season of the year, they usually kill t/icir cattle, and salt them for the winter nod spring, much preferring salt meat to fresh. The markcts areaccordiagly now filled with dressed hogs and beeves. They kill, also, a great ninny lambs and pigs, and in the restaurants “roast lamb” and “pig” appear on all bills of fare. The principal drink is strong beer and other malt liquors,*ln which everybody indulges, A Doctor of Divinity was tasting to impress me with the importance of taking the excellent whiskey of Lund. It la rather cold hero even at this season but the people have already commenced to make fires, so that one does not suffer as in most European countries, where good fires In Autumn are as rare jus with usin midsummer. The days’ arc shortenin'; very fast. In-the winter, lam old, it pets dark at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and is not light in the morning before 10 o’clock, the shortest day Iveing only about six hours loqg,whereas, in sunflpmr the length is eighteen hours. Farther north, at Tornaf on the Gulf ol Bothnia, the shortest days are only two and one-half hours long; whereas, in mids ummer. the sun is visible during the whole night. I have been much struck with the great beauty of the women in Sweden, which seems to be general in those parts, as I noticed it first In Denmark. They are exceedingly fair, clear skinned, Jhluc-cycd, fresh-looking, cheerful, ac tive. Their beauty is in the eyes and upper part of the head, and does not descend so much t»> cheek aud voluptuous lip expression us in the beauties of the South—in Italy, France, ami Spain. They have a bright spiritual and intel lectual look. Germany is the laud of line men, whereas here the men seem inferior, being neither so intellectual, well-built, or. handsome as in Germany. The same appears to be the case with the men in France, Italy, and Spain, where they are short and stumpy, os if beautiful woman and strong, handsome men did not grow together. This small city of Lund, formerly of great im portance in the kingdom, is now known only as a university and cathedral town. The uni versity has about thirty professors and 500 stu dents, being the best in Sweden. It is here where Linnmus studied, and where Puffcndorf was Professor of the Law of Nature nod Na- lions, and where he published his great work Do Jure Nalune et Gentium. The cathedral, forming the seat of the Metropolitan Bishops of of the Kingdom, is a marble structure, curiously built in all styles, evidently in the course ol several centuries. The Roman style, however, predominates, and the general ©fleet is quite simple and pleasing. Near the city is tbo small hill of Lybers, where the ancient King? of Scavia were chosen. There are no pavements in the city. Indeed, I have seen none anywhere in Sweden or Denmark, flagstones being very scarce in these regions, and the Europeans not having learned to use brick or boards, as iu America. But, while they have done nothing for pavements, they have done more for the streets than wo. These are all macadamized with small, round stones; there being no village, however small, with an alley, however narrow, that is not thoroughly macad amized. The parks and graveyards, as in mo?l Swedish and Danish towns, arc kept with great attention, and look very beautiful. The walk? and graves are fenced, not with iron railing, but with cut boxwood or other delicate tbliuge. These hedges will sometimes he three feet thick, and the tops nnd sides be as smooth as if they were shaved with a razor. They look more like solid foliage than the brunches ot many boughs, eras it they were cast in moulds, instead of trained to grow in their present shape. This kind of ornament is very common, also, for gar. dens, and looks quite untune mid beautiful. t he bviixx:v(* woods. Tbrilllnc N'nrratlre ofn tVlvrontiu Refugee —A Flight for 1.1 fc Through a Flamla k Forf«t-l>calh Klmsslo trill* a Maniac- A Rain ofFlre-Thc Rescue. Gre*«. Bay (M ia.) Corres* •iiileuco of the New York WuriJ On the morning of the 11th of October, just as wo were sitting down to take breakfast, Mr. Uichardson, a neighbor of ours, c taic running into the house and told Mr. .Mcchand that be must come out immediately and sec what could be done. During the night the wind had risen, but not so.greatly us to amount to any thing like a gale, but rather did it resemble the ordinary fall wind. Mr. Meenand did not seem at nil uneasy, and leisurely swallowed his breakfast before following Mr. Hiclidarson, who had disappeared ns soan a> he hid stuck his head into the room and called my husband. Mr. Mech.md went into the woods and stayed till about noon, when be came running back and said that he climb.nl up to the lop of Urown’s Hill, where the wind was blowing n gale, and from there had seen the lire which was cousing toward us at a tremendous pace. Indeed, I had feared ns much and bad been exceedingly uneasy all the morning, fur the smoko which for days had been in the valley where wc lived had become more ami more dense, and occasionally hot puffs of wind had blown down over the hills, driving the smoke in a dense cloud before it. I asked my husband if he thought there was any danger to be feared; he shook his head and answered “Xoret 1 knew by his face that he was far from being devoid of "fear, lie au* his dinner hastily, ami then ran out again, and was met at the door hy a neighbor, who said that the fire was advancing with frightful speed. Indeed, the air had now become sultry as it never had been before, except on some hot days in summer immediately before the coming of a thunder-storm. The air was stifling, and the smoko got into one’s lungs and nostrils in such a way as to render it exceedingly unpleasant. Mother snt in a corner hold* iog little Louis in her lap, and 1 noticed that she seemed restless, and that her eyes shone 1 with a light such ns I have sometimes seen in j the eyes of a wild beast, and had only seen in i hers in the old days when she was about to have lan outburst of fury. I was frightened and [fidgety, and didn't do anything in the right I way. I went and. look flic boy away from [mother, who relinquished him readily; and 1 then, os I had afterwards terrible reason to re- I member, although I hardly noticed it at the I time, she went to the cupboard and secreted [something in the bosom of her dress. Mr. Meeband stood at the door speaking hurriedly I with the man whom he had met, when a buru ing branch of pine tell at his feet. Instantly 1 the air darkened, a violent pulT of wind rushed I upon us, aud smoke poured in volumes about the bouse. Then, following the gust, a bright sheet, or rather wall, of lire seemed to be pushed down almost upon us, and instantly everything was in flames. Mr. Mcchand cried out' to me to bring Louis with me, and seized mother by the hand, and we all four ran in terror out Into (he woods ahead of us. 1 ran on Dlinded and choked 1 by the smoke, and carrying Louis in my arms., lie was pale with terror, and did not utter a j single cry, but clung to m 3" neck si§ I hurried j on, stumbling aud tripping almost at every step. So sudden had been the rush of the tire that we had no chance of saving anything but our lire?, even iPwe had eared to do so. I Kept calling to my husband to keep in sight, hut, poor fellow, there was no need of doing so, Jpr I could see that mother was a great worry t« him, and that he bad almost to drag her'along. She kept looking from side to side, and trying to breau away Irom him; even then 1 thought how terri ble it would be if she should become furious 1 again. What on earth could we do with her? We must bavo gone on this way for at least three miles, and I was almost exhausted, for 1 Louis was a boy six years old and large for his age, and 1 hod been carrying him all the way. The trees were compact, ami iu some places the undergrowth was close and stiff as wire. Mo ther kept getting worse, and Mr. Meeband. who was a short distance ahead of Louis and me, had the greatest difficulty to make her obey him. Presently he stopped, aud evidently was waiting lor me to come op. So 1 put Louis down and told him to keep alongside of me at the same time taking him firmly b}* the hand. The tire bad come much slower than we, and I believe we must have been at least two mites ahead of it, although there was no telling, for T could sec nothing behind or far before me but smoke curl ing like a mist iu and oul of the trees. Behind us; indeed, it was heavier and looked a sullen, dirtr white. e could not have bcca six feet from mv husband when my mother broke away from him, and with a loud erv darted off into the woods, and then I what 1 bad dread ed bad indeed come to pass, and that excite ment and danger bad brought back ao old sick ness upon her. She was a maniac. Mr. Me eband darted after her, and in the terror of the moment 1 forgot all else, aud I followed him, leaving poor little Louis behind. 1 must have been crazy to do so, but on 1 rushed, and soon saw that mother was cunningeuough to attempt to escape by doubling on her l.*acks, tor I saw her dress dart post the bushes at my side' os she nin diagonally away from me. I sprang after her, and after running for about five minutes, found to my horror that I had not only lost her, but Louis and his father. Madly I tried to retrace my slops, but there was nothing to guide me—no path, no blazes on the trees., The wina shook the trees and almost bent them double; the sultry air filled with smoke, and ah the horrors ofiny terrible condition made me Irnntic. I rushed about helplessly, crying and screaming, “Louis!” Louis 1” “Father!” Hut that last word made me calm ioran instant, and I felt that I was not alone—nut utterly lost in the burning woods, fur the spirit of my dead father was near, and there were guardian angels. I knelt on the ground, took my crucifix from my neck, and prayed. In kneeling down I found to my great joy that my dress was wet. I had knelt near aspring. I bathed my face and hands, ami soaked my hair and the upper part of my dress. Hut then my boy—my little Louis! I sprang to my feet, and calling on tho Virgin to direct me. dashed on in the direction of the lire. I had not gone more than a quarter of a mile when 1 fouml my darling standing whh head erect, and Hashing eyes filled with angry tears, trying to beat away some, wolves, which, hungry though they were, seemed bent only on flight. I cried h Lcmis, Louis! e’est moi, ta mere and clasped him to [my heart. It was my boy, and he was saved, i He bad not seen his father, though once he had heard a man’s voice calling, bat tbc voice seem ed to have come from an immense distance. ”Oh« Louis,” said 1, "wc are lost unless we find him. \Vc must run for our lives.” The boy began to cry, and then I was ashamed of what 1 had said, and tried to chccf him up. The fire muSl have been very near us then, for 1 could not only feel its heated breath, but above my head, among the .tree-lops, sparks and fire brands were whirltng.in the air. 1 took Louis hi my arms, determined that never again should no be separated from .me, and pressed onward with some vague id-.*a that 1 should soon reach Wolf Hirer. Night was coming on, and since noon wc had had nothing to eat. I did not feel hungry, but was tormented with thoughts, of what'might happen if wc should wot soon reach a place of ouety,-fiir I feared that Louis would give out, and that was one of tho reasons which made me carry him. My arms ached, and my limbs were ■scratched, bruised, and bleeding. Still I made good headway', and soon came to a natural clearing, on the thither side o? which we s-.t down to rest._ By this lime night bad come out and what a night! ,No muou, no stars, but tbc cloudy heavens lighted up afar with the horrible tiros of the burning woods. The clearing in which we sat was the dricd*np bed of a stream yvhich, forsomu unaccountable reason, bad no thickly-wooded shorts, and we were at least2oo loot from the edge of the forest in Humes. AH this time Louis, manly little fellow that he was, uad not cron asked for food, nor had he cried since I myself foolishly frightened him. We sat there a long lime while 1 was trying to think where wc w ere, but I could come to no conclusion. I had heard ruy husband speak of t stream which had run dry, but that was in a northeasterly direction from our house, and uotwilhstandin? the fid that I was lost yet I uad a gencr.d notion that 1 was approaching the Wolf Uivcr. The stars could give me no information, for I could not sec them. What to do 1 scarcely knew, but when the heat of the .ire became such that 1 could not doubt that it wa- near I determined to press on away from it, and taking Louis’ hand 1 set out. On ordinary nights it should now have been dark, but there was a nameless glare, yet not a glare, a horrible relict which cauie down from the sky vud mingled with the smoke. Hardly bad I risen from the ground when in the direction of the woods on the other s.de of the clearing 1 itard a dashiug noise, a mingled gnashing and hoarse barking, which 1 instantly recog nized u3 that of wolves, and I scarcely and time to snatch up Louis and run behind a magnificent pine tree,.who-e trunk was at least «x feel in diameter, before I heard them scramb ling up the side ot'the hill and felt them rush by me. 1 looked out and could see their eyes coming toward me like the wind. They Sul not stop for an instant, and when they passed there came in their track a herd of deer, utter ing cries that seemed almost human iu their intense agony. They ran blindly, for something more terrible than wolves was IHiiud them; they struck tho tree and were bailed buck by the shock some of thorn falling back upon those below. The stampede seemed to last for full ten minute?, and when it was over and I, trembling with fear, dared once more to emerge from my refuge and look across the clearing, I >a\v the woods at its edge already burning*—saw it lurid through the smoke, and felt its terrible heat upon my face. I turned and fled, in the wake of the deer and the wolves.. My shoes were slrijrped from my feet, and my ankles were turn mid bloody. Fallen trees lay in my way, but 1 clambered over and trawled under them in my desperate tight. I was agonized with terror and despair, and finally sank to the ground with m 3' boy in my arms. I must have fainted, for I knew nothing of what pi.-sed till 1 was rudely shaken by the shoulder, and heard a wild, gibbering h.ugh. I opened my eyes, and above me. stood my mother with a drawn knife in her hand. The woods seemed all ablaze, although the air was not so intolerably hot as it had been. The forest beyond the clearing must have been burning at its edge ami the strong wind carrying the .-moke upward and above our beads. My mother looked dawu upon me with eyes blazing with that hated Ugh; of infinity, “Ho, ho l said she, line lime of night fora mother and child to be running through the woods! Fine night this! Night—it is day Look at the red light—"lis the light of dawn! Le juur! le jour da jugemout e-t arrive! And the rocks arc burning! Call upon them to fall upon you Tho clouds of thunder and tbc day of doom! The Lord is coming usd the wheels of his chariot burn with hU mighty driving. Let ns go up to meet him in mid tur- Let us ride on the smoke aud thunder and sweep the stars from the heavens. Conic, yon shad go with me I -And she soiled Louis, who had thrown him sell upon me and was clinging in terror to my breast. 1 sprang to my feel and cried. Mother, moth er, what would you do —would you kill me and Louis “Kill yon! }*cs! win* wait? The Lord calls and tiie devil drives, lie has let loose his imps against the world. The trees fall crashing in the forest; for all hell’s demons pull them down with hooks of fire. I have seen them as I fol lowed 3’ou. 1 have seen you all the way. 1 rode over on a woll; ’tivas a louj>-gdrou, friend ofmiue brought me over.safely, and kept me from the deer. I will kill you would you burn to death You shall go up—up higher than the moon, and beyond the five. Come, let us go!” and again she seized Louis while the knife gleamed iu the air. I sprang at her, aud with nil the strength of lea mothers iu tuy arms 1 struggled with her. Torn, woru. and bleeding; as I was, the thought of my child and my husband gave me the strength of *a giant. 1 overpowed the mad woman, and for getting that she was my mother—that she trts anything but the would-be murderess of my boy—l seized Irer by the throat when she was down rolling on the ground, and I would have strangled her. Her insanity bad almost made me made. 1 tele then what a murderous maniac feels. ButJ then 1 thought my mother was lying almost dead and powertess,*aud the fire would J soon advance and perhaps overwhelm us all. My hand was stiyed, and when m 3* mother’rose to her feet all of her wildness was gone, and in its place had returned that calmness —almost imbecility—which had cbaracscrizod her lor the last lew years. She was ready and willing to do everything that I told her, but 1 kepi that knife List in ray hand. The wind had fallen, aud a slight r’ala was dropping among the leaves overhead, as we went on lor an hoar or two longer, aud then, over powered with exhaustion, and no longer greatly dreading the fire, wc hxy down in a hollow and Cell asleep. When weVwokc it was morning. I was sick and completely exhausted, and iiardlr knew that there were men arouud us. Yet there were, and good, kind men, too, who gav« us food and drove us to a place of shelter,whence, as soon as we were able, wc went to Green Bay. where I soon recovered from the sickness mid terror of that dreadful night. My mother con tinues in that same state of imb'ec’ility which the doctor says will soon become complete dt mcotia. Louis was not long in recovering, but os yet 1 have heard nothing from my husband. Lvcile Mccbasp. A TALKIXU 3UCHISI2. X Description ofl*r>C X'at»?r> SabuKutc for the Kaiuaa Tougne. From Uio I‘bitu-lvlpliia Itai. Last night, at the Jefferson .Medical College, the celebrated talking machine of Prof. Faber, oi vicr.no, Austria, was exhibited to an appre ciative some 200 or 300 people. Previous to an experimental illustration of. the wonderful powers of the machine, Dr. J. Salis Cohn delivered an exhaustive lecture upon the anatomy of the vocal organs and formation of sound, the structure of the machine, and con cluded with an historical sketch of the invention. It was originated about thirty years ago by the uncle of ProC Faber, aud exhibited at the time ‘.in that city. The present Prof. Fuber im proved it wonderfully, although it took a great while to arrive at the'prescntpcrfeclioa. Jsevea years were, necessary to arrive at the bro-luc »tiou of the sound of the letter ‘•e.” The exhi bition last night consisted of the pronunciation of all the letters of the alphabet and elementary sounds of our language. Phrases ot six aud eight words iu length were spoken in the Eng lish, French, and German languages. The voice, is a shrill,' monotonous and unnatural one, but in the majority ofiuilanccs startlingly correct. It was operated by a German lady, who do.*s not understand a word of English, and produces .the sounds simply through phonetic translation, j The happy pronunciation of a word or phrase was received.by the audience with applause, If CHICAGO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 2, 18XL there is any sound, in our estimation, that is slurred in the slightest, It is the sound of the letter “i.” ltis.it must be remembered, that the basis of speech of this machine is the sound system of the German language, and all the English words are spoken with a German ac cent. The machiucis constructed-as follows: The mnchine'coniisls'of a gilded table, highly ornamented,.beneath which appears a bellows and a lever to put it in motion. Upon the top a lifeless face, with clajumy eyes, stares on you, and behind* which is. arranged a mass of wires, strings, delicate wooden levers, robber lubes and pipes, which make up the speaking apparatus. By a compression of the bellows the air is forced through a narrow aperture into an iron windpipe, and thence into aa-artificial glottis, from which it passes tbrougbm rent re presenting the human mouth, with movable jaws and rubber tongiie. There are fourteen lever?, which gives each a distinct utterance, and when moved in concert they produce the sound of any desired syllable. A separate lever causes a peat of laughter, which which would be nat ural cuongh except fur a slight grating noise. THE BOTTOM OP THE SEA. Tiie ilarino -'loir—A Wondcrfkil Invention— Two Hundred l'«fMinder Water. The lolpa. marina, or marine mole, is a recent invention of Signor Toselli, ol Naples, by which he descends into the sea with plenty of air and plenty of room, nod is enabled to continue for four hours his minute scientific observations on surrounding submarine life' :«t a depth of 31 Uithoms (188 feet) under water. This wonderful machine has been built at Seslri de Ponente, near Geneva; after Signor Tosclli's plans, and the inventor made his first experiment in the Biy of Naples on the :iGth ot August, in the presence of the local authori ties and several ‘officer> of the Koval Navy/ We give a translation of a description of the apparatuses printed in an Italian periodical,. 1/Italia Xuova: r* It is i yards 8 incites long,’ cylindrical in form, and made entirely of iron uml 'bronze. Iu diameter is about one yard I iur inches. It is divided Into tour superposed compartments or diaphragms, the central one being reserved fur the divers. The upper cham ber contains the compressed air necessary tor espiration during immersion. The lower rhamber acts like the air-bladder of fishes, as t increases or diminishes the weight ot the machine proportionately to the quantity of water it displaces. Finally, the hist compart ment, which, is at the cud of the cylinder, is filled with the necessary quantity of load to keep the machine in a vertical position, like an aerometer. .Several holes,, lilted with bronze round the surface admit of various contri vances, without which it would be incompre hensible how a man. hermetically shut up in what may be called an iron castle, could catch external objects, bore, secure by the moans of ropes, and collect them.” The same paper, in its following number (August 29) adds: “We have received letters trom Naples, which confirm the reported success of Signor ‘Toselli’s first descent into the Bay of Naples, by means ot his diving apparatus, at a depth of 35 fathoms—namely, under a pressure ot six atmospheres. 6 The weather could not have been lovlicr, nor thp sea more calm. As ?oon os the crowd of dis tinguished invited witnesses had arrived at B:ija —the chosen place for the experiment—they were met by Admiral de Viry and his staff. “The experiment began obofit noon. After soundings had been taken, the tuaobine, then empty, was sunk into the sea, and left for some time at a depth of 30 fathoms, to try if it would bear that pressure without belli# smashed ns soon, however, as it was again seen floating upon iho surface of the water without having received .the slightest-injury, the bystanders ceased to entertain doubts of Signor ToselU’s safety, whilst lie, perfectly calm, got into his marine mole, anti descended slowly to the bot tom ot the sea. The lowering of the machine through 30 fathoms of water look three and one-half minutes. When, after u while, it was seen lloating again, nod when the lid opened, rfignor Toselli came out smiliifjj and serene, cheering burst out on every side. “During his sojourn at the bottom of the sea siguoc .TuseUi wrote the following report of iiis experiment to the well-known Director of the Hoyal Observatory of the Vesurium, Sig nor I’almicri, who w;ts a witness of tbo experi meut, and expressed himself higblv satisfied with it,: ‘“Sir: The sensations I experience at this moment aru so strange and numerous, that, should}! wait to write them, .down, iam sure they would slip from my memory. ‘“First of nil, I must tell you that the water here does not look like itself nny longer, hut seems reall}- to be a motionless mass of trans parent gloss, quite luminous enough to allow of reading and writing. ‘“The bottom of the sea seemed at first to hum* towards me then I saw it stop, aud after a while glide away from me. 1 was quite as tonished at this, aud almost tcared lest my eves should he diseased but by observing that the movements of the manometer kept in direct communication with the sea, I felt reassured, having at once surmised the cause of the ap parent movement. Whcu I fancied the bottom of tho sea was running toward me, it was a [•root that I.was slaking with a certain speed; when the bottom seemed to have slopped mov ing, it was myself, in fact wiio did not more; am! when the bottom sunk rapidly as if run ning away from me, I was then ascending toward the surlace. *'lt is very amusing to sec so many fishes swimming to and fro on all sides, and to be able to enjoy so curious a spectacle without ex periencing the sUghlcstinconvcnience. ‘Such silence prevails here that it would seem terrible to some people; but I consider it, on the contrary, a peculiar sort of pleasure to breathe in such a medium. ‘“The barometer marked 81 centimetres of pressure, the igroraeter in my ceil indicates •JG degrees, and the one outside duly 15. The. manometer communicating with the sea shows the depth to be 31 fathoms. The other man ometer still marks two atmospheres, which tells mo that there is yet air enough in the cham ber to allow mo to stop here I‘onr hours Iqu* per, without running any danger of suffoca tion. ‘“All the contrivances of my machine per fectly answer the purpose I had in view, except the lid, which shuts and opens 100 slowly*. I can venture to say that I have hit the mark at once. This makes me feel an indescrib able joy, which i wish to share with you, and with all those honored aud illustrious" persons, who, by favoring me with their presence, have generously offered to my weary mind the best of all remunerations. Yours, &c., “‘G. D. Toselli. ‘“From the bottom ol the Bay of Naples.' !r Signor Ty.-clli also wrote the following letter to the directors of the engine manufactory at Sestn di Poneute, which, we think, is almost as lull of interest ns his report to Professor Pal mier!. titan. Wtikrmanu BroUun, Engine Manufac turer*. at sutri: ‘•I inform you, without delay, that I pul my marine mole to the last y ester dav, before sev eral military, civil, and scientific authorities, who had told me that the sen was much deeper at Baja than anywhere .else lu that neigh borhood. They kindly deceived me out of anxictv for my fife, for on reaching the bottom I could r ad on the manometer that the depth, instead of being sj, as I had, wished, was only 31 fathoms. At any rate the depth at which I have descended is far below the depth which divers have yet reached with their usual apparatus. The time from the moment I signalled -telegraphically for my de parture from the bottom, of the* sea to my arrival at tbe surface, was three miuules, as some bystanders said three minutes and a half, which constitutes a great difference in favor of my machine, if compared with what a com mon diver would have been able to achieve with his apparatus, which would have employ ed uot less than 70 minutes to pierce the same thick layer of water. It is well known that the greatest number of fatal accidents occurring to. divers are to be ascribed to the sodden transition from a very high pressure toa mucb lower one, and that they can only avoid tills by ascending slowly at the rale of*forty inches per minute, and not more. “The pressure inside my marine mole being exactly the same near the surface.of the, sea at a depth of S5 fathoms, I could dart with impun ity from the bottom to tbe surface,' like a fish; without experiencing any pain in my lungs. This is ouc ol the greatest advantages of my in- l ventton, and of,whijh I hud not even thought or hoped before. k I wish to share the pleasure of my triumph with all the other mechanics of your establish ment, who have boill my machine with so much care. By acting thus to’ward them, I do noth-, iug else than my dy’y, because I know how few people do Justice to the' great merit of those, who, with their tools and their exhausting labor succeed in giving a de facto existence to the pro ducts of intelligence.” IVorkhts'ap Use.Detail*.’ Fram th e Hartford (Conn.) Post. TUc reporters an d correspondents did try to “do the subject justice ia writing up the Chi cago fire. We can imagine them looking on the roaring sea of flames and the crazed multi tudesseeking refuses from, them, -Had making up their minds deliberately that in.the ohatter of describing the fury of the fire and the wild tumult of the- crowds, nothing was-deft to exaggeration; they must climb up by dizzy successions of,, polysyllabic ad jectives as neaHy ns possible to the heights of the great occasion, ami feel theu that words were unequal to it; that they had uot and could not wcaggemie it. 01 course it piqued, their ambitions p,*ns. It occurred at length’ to one of them that it was an oxcccdiogtv proper time for bloodshed, that fu nil tlu's chaos there was a the reporter lack —of devilisbness. It was a horrible picture, but it lacked murder to make it com plate. -Wuat so good lime as this for hangings and lynchin s, and other such bloody carryings on. It was such a happy thought, tfiat the first reporter in-’ terpolated forthwith into bis account the shoot ing down of an incendiary. It took. The reading public licked its intellectual chops and said: Ah, now it begins to be congruous and coherent like. This is something like it,” And the reporter thereupon, after the manner of the meuagerie man tossing raw beef to the tigers, jerked into his account the sweet little sentence: “Seven men have fast been shot down in the "Oct of kindling incendiary fires.” “Only seven,” growled the public. ‘‘There must be more than that; the fire was a very Urge one.” The. reporter was equal to the occasion. Forty-seven men have already beea abot,” he telegraphed.- ”no arrests are made. Incendi aries arc shot down wherever taken.” He had kindled to it. The raging public wanted blood. Ho could furnish it. Then it occurred to him to heighten the interest by giviag names—it wanted local odd personal, color:.. So with a dash.of the pen he strung Barney Aaron.Use pugilist lamp post, and shot another note ricty named Tracy, with a file of muskets.' He was doing wqjl, The flro was subsiding, but there never was such an opportunity for murderers.'never a at inventing them. But the* firo was the biggest thing the world ever saw, and these were only ordinary .murder* He had not worked brutality enough into the picture. And so, to finish and .crown all, he strong up .a boy by the heels, head downward, and described, with horrible minuteness, how the crowd amused itself by stoning' him;to death. And then *bat reporter retired from bushier. Next day General Sheridan, who was iu command, in reply, to some sort of a telegram, uossibly ask ing him if It was not feasible to quench the llaraes with the human gore this sanguinary rettorler had set running, said it was very quiet there, and no disturbance ol any account. But n blood-thirsty" public, was not to be so de ceived. “Ah!” they said, “Sheridan Is so used to blood I This is nothing to him. ‘To a man who has- swam his horse through it in the Shenandoah a mere street full of blood is noth ing. Ah, ah I Oh, yesl ‘very quiet’—that’s good; hut of course, as a matter of fact, they' have shot iuccndarlcs, and hung thieves to lamp posts and stoned them to death, and there is no doubt that Barney Aaron and Tracy were killed, lor the telegraph has distinctly said so.” And yet, ten days after the event, it turns out that the boy wos’uot inverted and hung and stoned to death, aud that the soldiers’* did not shoot anvbody, and that nothing of the sort happened. And Barney Aaron, who was Imng to a lump post, sits on the steps of a New York rambling bouse and asseverates that he was not rilled. That reporter rose lo the occasion. He writes with a harrow. A BEMAHKABLE HISTOHIT Hovr an Inventor Struggled and Won* In the Scientific American we find a story of the struggles and triumphs of an inventor,' which is worth preservation. The substance of it is ns follows: lo 1038, Mr. Thomas Sheehan, of Dunkirk, X. Y., foreman in the blacksmith department of the Eric Railway shopsat that place, patented a sub marine grapple, which, though an ingenious in vention, proved to bo one for which there jvue little demand. This, was his first invention; and the cost of its complc uon, together with one year's struggle to manufacture and introduce it, completely exhausted Mr. Sheehan’s means, and reduced him to the extremes! poverty. Hewwats t in fact, in pretty nearly the same condition as Palissy the Holler, at the moment of bis greatest dis tress. A wife and eight children. Sheehan's family were reduced to the verge of destitution, and Mrs. Sheehan became unconsciously bitter. Just at this crisis Mr. S. D. Colwell, General Freight Agent of the Eriejßallroad at Dunkirk, chanced to meet Mi. Sheehan in the streets of that town,-and accosted him with: “Well, Thomas, how are tho. grapples? I hear they have used you up.” “Yes,” was the answer, M tho grapples have done my business I wUU I had never seen them.” “Throw ’em away,” advised Mr. Cowell. Have you any now finished I have one almost done said Thomas.” ‘‘Finish that; I will pay you §-10 fox it, and have it used for picking up coal at tho dock. The money will help you in your present emergency, and yon can go back to your old place in the shop and earn a good living for your family.” “I will," said Thomas. Back to bis humble home went the inventor, with new hope in his breast, nnd set himself lo finish the grapple with all due speed. Bui. upon what slender threads do the fortunes of men hang 1 A Lap, the only one our inventor had of the size required, suddenly snapped asunder, and, as it was essential to tho prog ress of the work, ho must have a new one or he could not go on. In this strait, ho applied to his wife to lend him 115 cents to buy the necessary steel to forge the tap. But she, having no faitjgiD the grap ple, refused, for two’very good' reasons—first, tuat she believed the money would be thrown [away if she gave it to*her husband; and, [second, that she had not the money .to give him, oven if ao disposed. The refusal was seasoned with some very hot word-spice that made it very unpalatable to Thomas. But he bethought him of a merchant’who, in brighter days, had seen the color of bis money, a:ul who, perhaps, would now give him credit I tor the s jail modicum of steel he rtfifhired for the tap. i To this merchant he hied,- and somewhat reluctant lo prefer-his .request, began beating I I about the bush; and finally straying into 1 politics, hot words passed between them, and uur friend,- feeling his manliness would sutler too keenly by asking credit for thc-sieel, came away wiiuout it. With no definite purpose he went home, pon- I dering upon how he should. surmount this, now no trilling obstacle of the. broken tap. He found his wife making lyo for soft soap, but her acidity in no way neutralized by the alkaline reaction. Despondent and discourag c 1 he sat down in no very enviable mood, when lie chanced to spy a piece of iron lying near the tubs at which his spouse, was work ing. Meditating upon how he could ttiako that piece of iron hard enough for a Lap, he was led lo artnlbcr. rude experiment, the “results of which have in the end made him a richer man than he ever dreamed of belug. It so happened that front a distant relative, a Roman Catholic priest in Ireland, our friend had inherited quite a library of works on chemistry, some o( them rare and valuable, lie bad read some of these books to very good pur pose. ‘/There is.Bufcly carbon in that lye,” thought he. “11 I only’could get that into this iron in the proper proportion, 1 should hare steel, and from that my tap, and so finish my grapple.” With little faith or hope that he should sue* coed, he took some of the lye, and adding, with out any particular reason for so doing, some saltpetre and common salt, made a paste with this solution and a bard grudged saucerful of ihe liule remaining flour there was in the house. He then forged the tap, and, enveloping it in the paste, put the whole into/alutei .iron-box and exposed it to beat for two' hours. in a black smith's fire.i To his joy and snrprisfer'-when he took it out, it was bard enough to cut coat steel. The grapple “Was" 'finished,' and .forty dol lars -flowed- into 'the familytreasury of Thomas Sheridan. Ho .went-,back to his old work, disgusted with'patents; and resolved □ever to have anything to do with one again. Bat Uio-remembrance of the tap, hardened in so unique a manner, stimulated him. Having a great deal of case hardening to do, he thought one day he would repeat the experiment upon a large scale, which he did with perfect sac cess. For twelve months he wenton to experiment, purchasing the nulcrials with his own money, aud working in secret by night, and at odd hours. At the end o! twelve months he reconsidered his ‘sentence ot condemnation on patents, and applied lor one on his process,which was granted September 4,1860, tbe claim being for a jeombia atioo.of ..odamaged flour, potash lye, or lyo from hard wood. ashes, nitre, common salt, and sulphate' -"of zinc, for casc hardening iron. In 1867, he pat ented on the above named pro cess. In 18GS he look out another patent for au entirely new which consists in the use ot raw limestone, cbircoal, black oxide of manganese; sal sqda, common pulverized* rosin, combincd. fur converting .iron, into steel, which is now>widely, used, -and from which he has reaped quite a fortune. No leas than twenty-three of the leading rail, ways in America now use this process, under license from the patentee,' for hardening the links, guides; pins, and nuts ol locomotives, effecting, wo are told, no less a saving than from nvc to six hundred dollars annually on each locomotive, in obviating the lost motion consequent upon the wear of links, guides, and pins,' jjTbe inventor has already received, for licenses under his patent oflß6B, $29,650, and bos just sold the remainder ot his patent in America for $45,000. v of Sab-Contractors. Prom the Dabnqno (lowa)Time#, October 29. \t odocfday, the 25th inst., was adayof great ex citement in McGregor.. The reason far thU will »i>- penr In reading the following account The Slavon Brothers Ca—one Hr. Mart In was Uia Ux~had tho contract from flwt contractors Mor gan Ilecb, for grading the 0., D. 3£. Road from McGregor to North McGregor, and have had to worlc under them apoat one hundred men. The llrs: contractor* in most: Instances s have- attended to the payment of the workmen themselves, bat In the case of the Slavea Brother* &Co M in deference to their reputed good character and sUmdlne, the first contractor* varied this rule and allowed the 'brothers to pay tbeuro.ramfa. This the brother* had dona honorably uadi the last payment day, hut Wednesday. On Tuo«day, Louis lleeh, who had 'been' hvtlns as paymaster daria? the *|ckue«a of his father, «*lte3. McGregor to attend to tho payment of the workmen At about 8 o'clock in tho afternoon be paid the Slavsn ■j m- IH ■hu Brothers tfu,oo<\ and the?. Informed him that they wonld go "right over and i»y off their men, and Loals wont on to the ground of the fcext company and paid the men hiinwlf,‘sapposlng. In the meantime, that the Sloven lirotbcra' men been paid. When be got back to the hotel tn the evening, be Jearned.to his* groat surprise,that the-Slaren Brothers had actually'ab sconded with the $5,000. and by the next morning their departure waa known among the workmen, and the excitement became immense. The JUir« «aya that a promise la made that what la due for the mouth of October will Iw' paid after the necessary estimation 1* made. The men appear to bo in good spirit#, and ready to goto work again, but will probably hereafter take the legal way to make tbuir work a lien upon the road. Of the absconding Sla* Ten* nothing naflulro has been beard, though a rumor to the effect that they had been apprehended at tit. Paul, was current Saturday morning. INSURANCE, HOME INSURANCE COMPANY, of New York. OBO.VKIZED ISI3. HOWARD INSURANCE COMPACT, of New York. OBGANIZEO 1325. CITIZENS’ INSURANCE COMPANY; of New York, OBGANIZED 1636. Chleaco lowm paid by Nlgbt Draft* on Sew York a* tiul at proper adiutucnU are made. The above old, well-known and reliablo Companies, proved by fire, continue to indemnify th» people. Policies lavaed by their West Sldo Office, 30 and 3t> Canal at., over William Blair A Co.; South Side Office. •I'll) Wabash av.,over First National Bank. SPECIAL 2VOTICE, The patrons of this Agency can hare all necessary as sistance and advice as to making "PROOFS OF LOSS," upon application at the Canal lU Office, where officers of the Companies and an able corps of adjustor* are settling all claims. ARTHUR U. DUCAT. LIVERPOOL LONDON GLOBE Insurance Company. This Company pays its Loss es in foil, ■without deduction for interest, as soon as proofs of loss are completed. Office. 1.5 West Mattel WM. WARREN, GENERAL AGENT. PHEPiSX Insurance Company Of Brooklyn, N. T. Cash Assets, Oct. 1, $1,858,755.45 Net assets after payment of Chicago losses, 1,500,000.00 The Phenix were the first to pay a loss after the great fire, and the Adjusters of the Company are now engaged in paying all of its losses ss fast as possible. Policies issued on all classes of hazards at fair rates. R. S. CRITCHELL, 8p«ci»l Agent for ibe Northwestern Statu. Office 30 West Madison-st. Branch Office, 356 IVtibnsh-av HISEENIA Fire Insurance Comp’y. The Adianioc Office of the above Company is ro moved to 127 West Washlugton-ste All ponene boldine policies In tbe above Company trill please call at the abovo name! place. October**, 1671. TUOAIAS BA VAX, Adjuster. Pacific Insurance Co. or San Francisco. CASH CAPITAL. (Will. lll.k. takon fair rates. Losses promptly adjusted and paid. Westers Branch Offie«'. 472 Wabash mciuk-. untchlDS Ralston. Gonoral Agrnts. Miller A Drew, 471 \Vnb*sb-*T., Local Agents for Chicago. FIRE LOSSES PROMPTLY ADIIIiSTED Ami proofs made by the undersigned, at 70 Canal street, second flout. FRANK P. FISIIEIt, Notary Public and Adjnster. Occidental Fire Insurance Co., Of San Francisco. Cal. A. C. OREK.NEUAL2I, *g«ut. Office. 46 West Randolph «t.. upstairs. Parties baring claims against tbe Occident*! will pleas*present thsta as soon as possible. Union Mutual UPE INSURANCE COMPANY, OP BOSTON. Office 346 Wabash ar. Paper* uvea, tad rudriur oow baiiuMt, or to site *O7 l*foßß*Uoa about old business. L. D, BOONS, M*n A gnat, L.O. CLARK. Gea»rsl Agent. OLOTHINQ. MABLEY HULL, The well-known Clothiers of the West, Hare established one of their Stores at *23 WEST MAWSOY-ST., Where they will endeavor, by a large and well-selected stock of CLOTHING AND Gents’FurnishingGoods, At Low Prices, To deserve the patronage of the Chicago public. Patrons of their other Stores, when in town, ate invited to call. Chicago One-Price GloMi louse. STOVES. BROWN BROTHERS, 330 East aionroe street) (OLD PLACEJ, MANUFACTURERS OS! Hyatt’. Patent Sidewalk Ugiti, AND HUNTS CELEBRATED “Dakota 1 Soft Coal Stoves, May be found at the old quarter#, as above, ready tor order*. Hrlcks For Sale. CHAS. W. SANUEK CO., «CS Halo at, Frankfort, PhiladrJpMa Pa. NUMBER BT, BANKING. National Loan and Trust Company, Permanent:* located at 107 RANDOLPH ST. (Haymarket Sanare.) Bank of Dltcount an Deposit. We draw in large or small sums on the United States Government Bankers, London. Exchange bn all parts bought and sold. Our pop ular Sayings Department has no troublesome rules. Drafts on the Old Country to ourown customers at cost. Office Hours: From 9 a. tn. to 5 p, m. W.H.PAKK, GEORGE SHITE, Cashier. President. N. B. West Side Merchants should sustain this, the first bans to open among them. Fifth lational Bat Will build immediately on the northwest corner of Mad ison-st. and Fiftb-av., and expect to occupy their new building by December 1,1871, 0. B. SAWYER, Pies. N. LUDINGTON, Vice Pies, ISAAC G. LOMBARD, Cash. CTilengo, Oct. tiS. IS?]. THE German National Bank. Capital, $500,000. ALSO, THE German Savings Bank, Capital, $200,000. With FIRE-PROOF VAULTS, arc located with us In tlie large and spacious offices IVo. 1G l'aual-sl., Between Randolph am) Lake sfs., AS FULLY PRE PARED to serve tlie public ns lieforo the fire. DraflN natl I.cttcr* ofCredlt on Europe. BRANCH OFFICE, Wabash ar.« has been in op* oration since OctoU-r is. iIE.NUV GUEENF.BAUM A CO., Bankers. THE Commercial National BAM OP CHICAGO, Temporarily located at .'>33 Wahash-aV„ announces to its pttrons that for the belter accommodation ofita customers in nil portions «f the city, it will within a few Jnya complete tlie erect ion of an office on the site of the CROSBY OPKItA UOUsK, on Wa»liiugto»i*9l., be tween Stub- and Pearborn-sis., to which It will at once remove. It i.< believed that the central location will be nliKu convenient for dealers in tlie West, the South, and the North Division* yf tin* city. 11, F. EAMKS. Pr-sident. W3I. It. FKRIIV. Vice President. 51. I>. BUCHANAN. Cashier, CEO. L. OTIS, Assistant Cashier. BANK NOTICE. Union National Bank, 1513 WABASH-AV., October 26. IS7I. For the accommodation ol mirMost Side customers ers sn>l the public we hare opened a Branch Office of this Bank !u the ’’Star and Crescent Mills,*'at the west end of Randolph st. bridge.which wo shall con tiano until onr new Dank Building, on slurket and Madison stS., Is ready for us, which wo hope will bo in thirty days. Tho usual facilities and accommodations extended to our customers. Competent employes, assisted by a portion of our Directors, will be in at tendance daring the canal hours at the Branch Office. W. F. COOLDAUGiI, President. C. T. WHEELER, Vico Pres’t, C. J. CONNELL. Cashier. LAZARUS SILMIMM &CO, BAMKBRS, 562 Wabash-av., lontinue their business as usual. All de osits payable on demand. LAZ. SILVEEMAH 00. City National Bank, NEW VAULT AND BURGLAK-PROOF SAFE, Coiner Washington and Olinton-sts. Fourlli National Bank, 475 WABASH-AV. West Side Branch Northwest Comer of Canal and tVft»hjngtdn-st«. Tlie Prairie State Loan aufl Trust Co. 95- W. Randolpli-st, cor. Jefferson. Befog a Woit Sid*' Institution, ami haring Us (In mostly on the West Mde, did nut suffer by the fin*, hd>l is doing bnsinr-s a* usual M UicoMsttail. Ac count* of merchants, manufacturers. and business men received oil most favorsblo t< rms. Exchange fors.iieon S«w Vork, and alt the principal cilMof Europe. JaS. U'.fiUOVILLE, President. C. B. SI EVER. Cashier. WE.ST SIDE BA.MI, The Prairie Slate Loan and Trust Company was unhurt by the fire, and is n«w duing bnsiuejs as usm at the old stand corner Randolph and Jeffersonstreets, JA3. W. bCOVILLK. President. q R. MKTFR. fVeMrr MISCELLANEOUS. Reopening. D.W.&A.KEITI&GO. Hating secured the spaeions brick building No. 604 Wabasb av-, oearTwellth at., take great ploasnre in in forming tbeir patrons, and the trade generally, that they wili. on the Cth day of November, open an entirely new etock of all goods heretofore kept by them. Onr purchases are made for cash, and tho best goods at the lowest prices may be found with ns. Onr books were all saved, and wo bepo onr friends will aid u* (o maintain our position as the Leading House (in onrJine)iathe West by promptly remitting forsll hills duo. ID. W. A A. KEITH A CO. Oct. 27. HOTEL TO LET IX ST. PAUL, 3IIX V. Kow betas completed, and will l>« ready for occupancy on tb» Ist of I'enmUr next, located on :bo corner of Fourth and Stalest*.; ha» tarce Jlniiu-ioom. >lx3; billUrd ioom .VixM; office. 70x3): ; near railway dr ruts sad steamboat landing. For farther Information address JOHN S.I'EINCK. Tblrd-st.. Si. Paul. KIILLIWEHY. A large assortment of Colored Yelrets and. Black Eibbons, Jmit received from I*«w Trrk (Eastern Some, on which we offer GREAT INDUCEMENTS. Also a fill line of FLOWERS, FEATHERS, UATS, ftc. Order will receive prompt attention. WEBSTEB BEOS., Porncr West Washlnctoa-et. and Onion Park. NEW RAISINS. The ship “Elisabeth,” from Malaga. has arrived In Baltimore with a cargo of Raisins. Parties wishing to purchase by sending their orders, can hare the fro! forwarded to them direct. Address PETEE NICHOLSON, Caxo of Thos, Kloiclt ir Co., Baltimore, Sid. MEAD HIGGINS, Wholesale Grocers, Comer West Washington and Gieen-ats., Cars now In store a complete stock, and are filling all orders with protnpluciiat.the lowmi n»*rw»* UXSOELLANEOUS, Western Union TELEGRAPH COMMIT, This Company two main offices for the cou nience of the public. For t.~ West Side, on the northwest e«i rr ner of Canal and tVaslilußlc.i -sts.; for the South Side, 551 Wubusb-uv., Just north Xwcltlh-st. Both of these offices are connecWd with at! of t_ Company's wjrcf leading from the city, .mil am prep to transmit mr j.'Sgra direct to all points, Dnnch ol are already established at Burlington Warehous*, aer State and Sixteenth 9ta„ Sooth Side; Shir. Honae and Board of Trade Booms, qn .Veal bid?, at all the railroad depots. Other branch offices soon be opened, notice or which will be given. The Metropolitan City Telegraph Company, aclln/--c connection with the Western Union, has oflic*e At following points: Douglas House, Cottage Grove; I>< oe Park Store, 107 Twenty-second st., Goss A Phillips, corner Clark and Twelfth sts.: drug atom, iJji) state it., between Thlrtivth Thirty-first tti.; Meusdru Co.’s, corner Twenty-** and Fisk sta.; Blake A Wbitebouse, Eighteenth Bridge, Emerson’s book store, 239 West Sladlson Haskell Dudley's drug store, 637 West Lake st.; i: re nah .Lyman’s mill, Ugden .Slip, Canal Locks. Uru-j:' po't. Message* left at any of the above offices wP* v; promptly transmitted. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH Ct>, Convict Labor to Let. Tho noderslgned. Commissioners of the Illinois S. Penitentiary, hereby offer the labor t>f from fifty tN.. one houdrod (WO) convicts. and solicit bide f.-r same. These wen hare been variously ewni.ivo* wagonmakiog, *ck«mithing, machine, and fcun work. Contract* are to'commence after I" Is ate ceptcd, and to continue for a term of years, nsav. w, npon, not to exceed eight years; each bid lobe companied by a good and snfflcleht bond luthepo c; •uta of five thousand dollars, with snreliee, tc approved by one of tbe Commissioners or the War Tho Commissioners reserve the right to rej»vt which in their iadgmeat la aot in tho Interest o:. state. Por particular* to refer to oar circulars, which bo had on application to Rimer Washbnra, Ward? s the Penitentiary, to whom all bids are to to sen*. who will answer an t Inquiries addressed to him. Tbo bida will bo opened at I o’clock D. m. on 21st day of November. ISTI, (a the eresenceot s„'t bidders as may choose to attend. JOUN KKID. CASPAR ni’TZ, RICHARD UONVETt. CommUsloJk-r' Jotttr. 111.. Oct. 3>. IS7I. Anchor laine^ NO INTERRUPTION TO BUSINESS. Steam every Wednesday ar.'- Saturday and extra steamers whe/- necessary, between HEW YOKE, LONDONDERRY. GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL, LONDON. HAMBURG, BREMEN, GOTTENBE&*. CHRISTIANA, &c,, Ac, Lowest fares, and splendid accoaj pUntoa tlew. Berths endlstate rooms secuieo. Lloi. remitted in any sum. Send for circular. South Bide General lOtHo*. 70 Twenty-third West Side Branch Office,4i Scnih Canal at. HENDERSON BROTHERS, Chicago. 111. For Sale. 20,000 DAMAGED WATCHES stake ALLEN, 363 "W abash-av. Railway Supplies HOTICE. CKEKAK, ADAMS trial will confer a faror by giriag n.« their new a dress. Agents wanted In ercry county WEED SEWING MACHINE CO. GEO. L. THOMAS, Agent, 19ft West Madison at. FIRE-PROOF BUILDINGS A SPECIALTY. EDW’D. n. KE.VDAIE, F. A. I. A., ArchUc. EQUITABLE BUILDDfG.HirW TOHa. Would respectfully inrite those contemplating the er*. tiou of banking building*. insurance oßlcea Stores A to examine designs for tbo same at his temporary oif. in this city. Mr. K F.N D A Ll* refers to tbe talMtag of thfFijnUv ..ife Aaennnce Society; to the Germen Sarincs lUiu.. u»*l tootlippflril-cInM builJinFs la tlmcltyof NVw y- Itrfers to many ol the oon prominent cifii -m of V' I :*Co v F, UAYLIiU*. AS3IAANT OfTlce. h‘o. 360 MicLlg*D*»T. offlc* boun,9 s.ni.. 3p.m. Notice to British Claimants With rePronce-to inr notice dated July 15, JS7I, r Questing subjects of Her Britannic ilajesty to seat* m? particular* ofclaims which they may huro upon. t \m United Mates Government, arista? out of acis cor milled against tbeir persons or property daring t«> period between the >3th of April. 1,-61, and the April, 1563, inclu.ire. and which remain yet unseal-. 1 hereby give notice that the Commisdon appointed 00. der ilia 12th Article of the Treaty of Washington of 1571. fur the Kttlem-jnt ofauch claims, held their 6 -t met-iing oa tho 26th ultimo, ami that, in accorl-ic-«. with Article Xl> of the aforesaid Treat**, ev»ry-cia‘:. umat he prea-nted to the Commissioners within months (mu that date. Claimants are accordmcly reqocsttd to fil.* their ni<* orialaat my office, 7uj Fifteenth street, with u delay as possible. By order of the Commissioners, the said tncmari i mu«t be in print, ami twenty copies thereof furnis- fur tb* tt«e of the Commission. Such cUituants as may dt-sire copjM of the rules-j laid down by the ComnrMlonerg. for the claimant* in th-» ptoentation ot their date*, can tain them byapphcatioii to me. henry Howard. H. 0. M's Agent for British Claims. 763 Fjiteenth-it., Washington. D. C, Oct. 7. 1571. Notice to Shippers. On and after Wednesday. Oct. 23. rates to ail poltflf East of Pittsburgh, also to Bnffaio. Suspension and- and Toronto, and points East will be advanced os tc»» tows: On fonrtn class and talk meal*.se per ICO lbs; ot flour, 10 ctspor barrel over tariff ratos i>f Oct. 2. US7I. WII.STKvv*.UC. G. T. A. P. Ft. W. A C. By. and C. A t-„ u. Vj THOMAS HOOPS, O. F- A. Mich. C-nt. 11. U. OEMS. M. OR AT. Asst. G. F. A. L. S. A M. S. IZ Tlie Frlemlsund Patrons of MM’j SttannL Bally for MUwankte and West Sho/s Portif 9 a. m. For Grand Haven'and Muskegon. Trt* Weekly, 7 p, m. For St. Joseph, Trl-WeekJy, 11 p. m. For Greeli Say, Menominee, JLc., 7 p. ,Q| Notice to Bieurcrs and Salov>* Keeper** The Sands Mo Bro«iai Cusnpioy Urn sold all of the** qqarter latter Leer and nle packaged tv learner. 4 to. They are authorized to cclU-c t ;«ad receive I ■amo wherarer found. and nil pern n- bjviiisanyu their possession will please deliver to their order, C-• SAMIS ALE BKLW'J.NO CO., by i\ A. WiIKKLXrw Secretary. Chicago, Oct. 25, 1571. G. F.. SIEAUXS. M. T». KENNY. Formerly Keiiov .t Important Notice. The Honorable Board of Health call upon all disinfect and purify tliolr premises. Use the new d*v Infectaot, Brumo-Cbloralum, for pnrlfylac jour ter cloeeta, catch basins,'etc. Th r Bromo-lblo. lom is non-pofeonona and fnbdoroti*; is a s powerful disinfectant, and will do»troy everyth, that .is destructive of health; U recommended bv medical Journals and leading physicians i.f tha ui Prfp»red:br TILTON A CO..V Chemists. New &.Z non. New for sale by all wholesale i ,c retail dmypiita. Twenty Cents Per Yard Paid for good brick. atone or gravel for making ham roaiJj. delivered o u ~?rsii Water.) «*tof Mci’oriaiclt’a Beaner Factor r mlo*. at Co a yard. Man In attendance to receive and direct Jltory. at Pubtlco to a old office, ui-an corner of dale and North Water >ta« October 28, ISTI*, THE PEsIITICO LV One A. B. Taylor 3-Bevolnt:on Press 41x33, in fim-cUaa order; price $1,200; one berry Prea.s In good orderprice $200; mills for lot or paint, cheap for cash. ALEXANDER CONNELL. 15 Sp, CC e st N. No Fire Has toothed the Coal on either of mr three Dock. KiDßsbnrr M «ro»e and and east eud of itandolph st. briJce, jcit parches ,7 Orders Pron city or cqqntrr attended *i»J h.