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NOVEMBER U. 1571. .\0 »OBR WOORJRN ISUIU)IXoM In n tire commenced iu tho city of Pittsburgh, which was not stopped until it had ceuMiiued nearly everything in that city 'that was combustible, Tho city had pre viously takenthe precaution to prohibit the election of frame building#, but a number of old ones were slid in existence. A long drought, a hUh wind cuinc, aud tho destruc tion o£ Pittsburgh wa« even mono over whelming than that of Chicago. It did not destroy as touch*hnt it destroyed all there was. We have-had-a costly experience of this kind of building. Threc-fourtlis of tho houses in Chicago before tho fire were of wood, and now nine-tenths are of that mate riaL Since the tiro there have been put up monster buildings, to be used for stores and warehouses, all of wood. Tim few attempts at brick buildings are in no csso I Hitter, having for the most part their ex terior walls of brick, and every tiling else of. wood. By spwial permission of the Board of Public Works, two shells bavobeen erected on Madison street, just south of the High School (where all our tonmining public re cords are kept). These sheds are 100 foot deep by 50 foot wide, and are stored with cooper’s materials —the sheds to be used for drying purposes. If they were powder magazines they would be no more dangerous to property, and life. A spark in one of them would pro duce ivoouflairration that flo tire apparatus could arrest, and which, being fed by the many.other hardly less intiutmuable build ings. would sweep the West Division as if it wmra field of dried grass. All over the West Side there are frame buildings in course of erection, I>y whose permission and by what authority no ono seems to know, and no one seems to care. Miserable buildings and Rhanficfl arc perambulating tho streets in every direction, whose owners ought to be coinjxdlod to take them to pieces. The Board of Public Works arc greatly to blame for per mitting these structures to be moved and the streets occupied by buildings worthless except aa fuel to feed the next great lire. Wo want two immediate reforms, and rhn new Mayor and Common Council will be false to the intercuts they have been ducted to protect, if they fail to give thorn the share of law. The first is tho prohibition of the erection of any frame building within the corporate limits, and the next is a like pro hibition of wooden cornices or cupolas, or other inflammable appendages to buildings of any kind. There baa never been any attempt to regn- Ute building in Chicago, Tho fall of a h:i!f dozen brick structures and the murder of a score or two of persons, led to the enactment of a law by the Legislature giving the City Council full power over this subject,-but these powers have never been exercised. The ■ten selected for this purpose have nev**r in terfered. Architects too old or too obstinate to be governed by considerations of safely, have continued to erect buildings too high to be reached will* water, yet surmounted by attic stories composed of pine knots. During the recent fire these elevated lumber heaps made a grand display, and furnished plenty of blazing material for the wind to bear away to other jeirLs of rbe city. The same reckless disregard of every pre caution against five is shown in the location of lumberyards. These seem to have been bo provided that in case a tire should exhibit any signs of exhaustion, it could he renewed by some lumber yard conveniently placed for that purpose. It is impossible f« put out a lire once well st?.rted in a lumber yard, and yet there is not a railroad freight office, nor an elevator, nor a mill, nor any other large depository of property that has not a well stocked lumberyard in its immediate vicin ity. Canal street, to which the business of tho city has been driven by tho tire, has iU lumber yards conveniently arranged iu order that the next great tire may not speedily go out for want of material. Chicago hits paid during the last fifteen years enough money in extra in.-mranc.-, caused by frame buildings, to have built a brick building for each wooden one erected within that time. As a matter oi economy, therefore, the further erection of wooden buildings ought to be prohibited. The owners of wooden structures now feel the great loss. They tire paying an advance of 150 to 300 per cent in the rates of insurance, and their buildings are of less value, lo calise tenants for the most part are nnahlo to got any insurance from responsible compan ies on poods in wooden buildings. The insurance companies aro responsible for much of the encouragement, to the build ing of frame houses. Such has been the competition that every time a loaded lumber wagon passed along the street, it was fol lowed by insurance solicitors, who waited on the ground until they had secured a risk to any possible amount on the yet unbuilt stmc tnre. This is hardly an exaggeration. Bisks were taken, and for any amount, the owner asked, on anything from a hay rick to a mar ble palace. The victimized holders of ?SO.- 000.000 of worthless policies can now under stand the real value of that reckless insu rance which asked not whether the building was of wood or stone, or whether it contained iron or petroleum. Wo have had enough of this exposure of life and property. Wo have paid heavily for our defiance of the elements, and for our violation of natural laws. It is time we should stop this. There is not a city in tho United States having 100.000 inhabitants, which permits the erection of frame build ings. They have been prohibited every where else, long ago, and we must begin at once. Wo must stop the erect ion of wooden buildings and of brick buildings with wooden partition walls. No more wooden buildings should bo allowed to ho moved. The (radio in shanties should now he stopped forever, and wo must now commence to build a first olass city out of first-class materials. AXOTDEK KIND OF no.’ll]; INSCK- ANCE, V-V are informed that a numlw'T of the pro prietors of grain elevators in this city have purchased steam lire engines for their build ings. They have also purchased, raid will at once pat into each elevator, a steam pump, by means of -which water can bo forced in large quantities to each lloor, where, with plug and hose, the force of the establishment can promptly put out any lire originating in the building, andean protect Uio building from lire occcring in the vicinity. The entire building, inside and out, can he flooded with water if necessary. The danger from fire from within is so very slight that these precautions will render the braidings and contents entirely safe from a fire of that kind,, while they can also keep the metal-coated buildings so constantly wet as to prevent their bnrulng from any ordinarv fire from without. Having provided their buildings with all the protection that human agency can devise, they can aflord- to discontinue insurance. Long experience has shown that elevator property has been tho best paying risk taken by insurance companies in tins city. Under the recently established rates, tho insurance companies will soon exact tho value of each elevator and contents for premiums. Here after the warehousemen and tho owners •f tho grain will ho their own insurers. One year’s insurance at present rates on tho uvn-age value of the grain in store and the elevators themselves will amount to $750,000. By the adoption of means to render any se rious damage from fire impossible, tho com* muiuty interested will save, after bearing all expenses, nine-tenths of this largo sum. Like precautions will, wo understand, he taken in all onr large cstehhshmcuts. Each will have its own fire apparatus, fire plugs, and lire brigade for its own protection, and thussavo the expense of insurance, wliicb. in the end may prove worthless. Tho days of bogus in snraimc business in Chicago have, in all liko liht.cd, departed forever. Tiir tax tm'niMMio.vim. Yesterday it was stated that the Tax Com missioner held his ofllce until March, and could not be removed before that time. This was an error. Under the act of ISM the term of the otlicc is made to expire on the first Monday in December, IS7I, when tin; Mayer will have the power to make u now appointment. •fill© rt-Co Iso 2.00 nit: eaaix tradr in whtrr, Thr N«*w merchants aro making ef fort* to establish ;i direct trade with Euroj»e‘ for the rer**:ils of the Northwest. For thro* or fonr vvuth pa*t shipments lufro boon m:nlo o/ com ami wheat from that port for Li ver- IKxd, which urrived there in good order. The npprehonhiimß that sotne entertained that, in the passage through tho Gulf of Mexico, grain might become heated and injured, have not been justified by tho result. The fact is an important one in its hearings upon this city. During the season of lake, canal, and river navigation the routo from this city and the Northwest to tho Atlantic ports, and tin nco to Europe, is shorter by three or four weeks than from hero to New Orleans, and fwm there to Europe. It will, therefore, command the business. But, in tho season of suspended lake and river navigation, lasting, generally, from earlj’ in November to tho middle of May, cereals cannot be transported nearly so cheaply by rail us. by tho way of New Orleans. The distance by rail to Cairo, and thence by water navigation, will always be cheaper than by rail direct to tho cities of New York. Boston or Portland. Our ware houses and elevators have for several years been crowded with grain during tho winter season waiting for navigation. Tho outlet by way of New Orleans would enable Chica go to prosecute the grain business at this season without tho usual delays. Arrange ments could easily be made to obtain through bills of lading from this city to Liverpool ria New Orleans, insured for the whole transit,, upon which bills of exchange might be drawn, and thus enable the merchant in Chicago io realize at once upon* corn and wheat shipped here. Such arrangements would be of great advantage during the ap proaching /winter. By the fire our warehouses have been in a large propor tion destroyed, and, with all tho preparations that can be made, we shall not have storage room for half the quantity of grain usually .seeking this port in the winter. And our neighboring cities are not prepared to receive it. The other lake ports have for several yenjshnd all tho grain they could give room to during this season of suspended naviga tion. Tho quantity which wo shall have no room for will be as much in excess of their capacity as it will be of ours, That New Orleans can ship it ia winter is manifest. There aronow three lines of ocean steamers between that port and Europe, employing twenty iirst-ehufs vessels, and making about eight trips each month, and, in addition to this, several other steamshipsplyingbotweou New Orleans and Liverpool not connected with any line, and a large lloet of sailing vessels. THE SUISIUV DISIAESk All tbo ocean .steamship companies arc pre paring for a grand raid upon Congress for subsidies. They want Congress to vote them money to build ships with. One of these e«'iupunies is the unfortunate Mediterranean £hip Ihiilding Company, an impecunious eon 11rn, which asks lor a loan of only live mill ions. It is now understood that this company proposes to hid for Southwestern support, hy inch.ohm in its demand one or two millions more to he expended in building a shipyard at St. Louis, at which all the iron steamships of the company are to he built. The New York ihdfWiii, commenting upon these schemes, says; New Oiit'sns is now raising SLOW 000 to start a 2b*b.sissijrpi Jfiver barge line. Let s't. Laiiis go i.» woi p and raise to start an iron shipyard. Their Interests in this matter are iden tical. New Orleans is a good receiving unit dis tributing port for grain and cotton: and St. bonis ir located most favorably for the construction of tie new vessels. Then let them go to work and bring tint whole vast Western and Southern in llncnce to bear on Congress for the repeal of tint ditties on Uu* raw material employed iu irouuud other shipbuilding. The repeal of the duties mi iron alone would do more, to stimulate iron ship building than a dozen subsidies. If a hetbm plan Than this can be devised we would like to hear of it. The repeal of J lie duties on iron would be ’•univalent to a restoration of 15,000,000 a year to the pockets of the consumers of iron. It would enable the ship-building interest to resume, and would be the signal for laying the keels of an iron commercial navy owned in the United Suites, such ma is not possessed by any other country. It would give to the production of non iu this country uu encour agement not only unpieeislonted. but healthy and permanent, and not exposed to any. of the vicissitudes of legislation. i.. s. r.n>n>Ai:Tr s position.] Thu London Times prints, from a trust worthy source, a report of some remarks by the Emperor Napoleon, explaining that gen tleman’s position, especially with regard to the imperial throne. Mr. Bonaparte makes a distinct denial of any knowledge of a Con spiracy or intrigue for the purpose of placing him upon the throne of Franco. On the con trary, ho denounces all intrigue, and avows that the only present occupation of has imperial energies is of n retrospective ami introspective, rath er than a prospective, nature. "Winn.” says Ids late imperial Majesty, “one has fallen from such a height, the (irst sentiment one experiences is not the desire to again mount upon (he pinnacle, hut to seek the canses of the fal 1 in order to ex plain one’s conduct and combat calumny, while still recognizing one’s faults. In doing this one reviews the past, rather than seeks to road the fntnre, and strives much more to justify one’s self than to accomplish a resto ration. Hence the legitimate desire to em ploy public means of refuting unjust attacks and of rectifying erroneous appreciations.” It may bo remarked by the frivolous, at this point, that, if Louis has undertaken the tajk of justifying himself for his course through the past twenty-throe >'rat’s, and especially during the sum mer and autumn of ISTO, ho has a job on hand which will last him at least the re mainder of his days, and preclude the pos sibility of any active career, cither ns an in triguer, an Emperor, or a historian. But the more considerate will remark that if the Emperor lias really gone into the business of self-examination and of analyzing the sci ence of kingcraft, lie has made a wise choice of’avocation, in view of his position before the world, and is much move likely, if his phj sical and mental energies held out, to win (and keep) a crown again by such a process than by organizing intrigues in his own behalf. But it is very evident from Louis’ conversation, as well as from the character which ho lias developed while autocrat of France, that if he enters into any examination of his career, it will bo purely for the purpose of demonstrating his own in fallibility—of making out a cose for himself, as the saying is—with which to go before the French people as a candidate for a now lease of power. Mr. Bonaparte says, and perhaps he per suades himself, that during the twenty-three years of his reign he was “animated hya single thought—the -welfare of tho country whereas everybody knows that his single aim was not to enhance tho welfare of the people, hut to enhance tho welfare of cer tain influential classes, and stimulate a cer tain false appearance of national prosperity which his subjects should be made to believe" constituted “the welfare of tho country.” The keystone of tho plan consisted of mili tary glory mid territorial aggrandizement, which have no more connection with tho welfare of the country” than the ribbons of a prize beef have with tho nutrition to bo derived from tho meat. Indeed, they may he like poisonous ribbons, which infect the Whole carcass. This keystone of Napoleon’s policy proving unsound, the arch and its superstructure were prostrated to the ground, and tho Em peror come down from his “pinnacle” in the way which he describes; and yot, strange to eay, the dethroned monarch is now animated by a single thought ’’—that of getting back npiu a similar pinnacle. This is undoubtedly tho Emperor’s cherished object, however solemnly ho may, with hand on his breast and eyeballs inward turned, asseverate the contrary. Let a dissembler hut talk long enough, and he will prove himself such, is a proverb which some on© has, or ought to have, incul cated. And so tho late Emperor reveals, in his subsequent conversation, tho intensity of to.he reinstated. Ha simulates THE CHICAGO TRIBUTE SATURDAY. NOVEMBER a loyalty to the present Government of France, raid declares that *‘tu overthrew it would he u had action;” hut ho adds with fervor ihat his own “rights remain intact,” and t)ia\ no decision of the Chamber can prevent me from being the legitimaN* soveivien vS France.” This certainly sound as if it were intended as a rallying co* for Napoleon's partisans, of whom ho says, many oilie-n* have written to him to know whet tier ho would allow thmu to servo the present government, and he has nniformly nojjth-d them Hint he conld not release them from their oaths until, by a direct vote (one of Napoleon's favorite phbwcitt*), the entire nation shall have chosen a definitive government.” Kapulcan’sestimalo of the, present representative government maj* bo inferred from his expression of the pain with which I «ce the destinies of Franco delivered over to the hazard-of-events, the fury of factions, the weakness of the men in power, and the exactions of the foreigner.” It is very evident, therefore, that Napoleon is yearning eagerly for a continuation of those twenty-three years of rule on which ho dotes so xunclr. Not only that, hut he is doing whut he can, hy correspond ence and otherwise, to gather and solidify a party of Bonapartists, with a view of taking possession, forcibly or hy intrigue, of the reins pf government, now* nominally in the hands of the people. In this scheme bo is the same arch-enemy of Franco that he was upon that still-coveted pinnacle, the imperial throne. IMPORTANT CORRECTION. In our report in our issue of 10th iust. of the decision of Judge Williams on the appli cation made for tho appointment of a Re ceiver in the cases of the Commercial and Garden City Insurance Companies, the name “Commercial” was accidentally priired ■“Continental,” thereby, unwittingly on our part, spreading u false impression as to the solvency of tlie Continental Insurance Com pany of New York. We regret the mistake, and,in justice to tho company and to those of our readers who hold :ts policies, wo assure tho latterthut.incur opinion, the Continental is a sound insurance company,' in which im pression we are confirmed by tho statement of the Superintendent of the Insurance De partment of Now York, published in another column.' We request our exchanges to do ns tho fa vor, in justice to ourselves and tho Conti nental, to make editorial mention of this correction. Tho Brantford (Canada) Courier seems to think that the Fenian raids into that country are produced by an overwhelming desire on the part of the American people for tho an nexation of tho British provinces. It there fore makes it known that from Vancouver’s Lund to Nova Scotia, the Canadians nro u united people," opposed to annexation. The sumo paper insists that there will ho no fra ternal peace between the two countries until tho Americans "fully understand these things.” Our Canadian neighbors should un derstand that, however willing the American people are to accept tho union of tho British- Anieriean States, there is not an Amerteatr bem citizen who has the remotest thought of accomplishing that result by force. Wlioh that nuiou does take place, it must he tho voluntary act of the Canadian people. It is possible that the people of this country flunk that it would promote the prosperity of both countries if they were umlor one govern ment. ami that the Canadians would reap a larger portion of the gain resulting from an nexation, hut that does not imply that an nexation has such present ormuoto advan tages as ty induce our people t.) infringe any rights of tho Canadians. There is not a ra tional man in tho United States, of native or foreign birth, who does not hold the Fenian raids to be most infamous. Those who shall engage iu them ought to he punished as out laws and pirates. The San Francisco Chronicte of November 4 calls the attention of tho public to certain provisos which have been included in all new policies issued by insurance companies of that city since the Chicago lire. The Fireman’s Fund Company has the following; And it is agreed by tbe lnsun-,1 that the in sured will limi; solely (o ilia assets of tlie uorim nilion for the payment of losses under this poliey. The Union Insurance Company has intro duced tho following in their policies, with the same object, in view: It Is agreed by ihe assured accepting ties poi iey that, in ease of loss, the assets mid property of toe eoim.miy shall alone bo held for the p .yiu'eat of such loss, and that none of the sioekhoUvra or oilieers of the ciimpimy shall ho held liable lor the payment of the same; ad right to hold such sieeVlmldeiw or oilieers individually liable, given either liy ihe constitution or any law of the mate of California, being hereby expressly waived by tlie assured. Persons tailing policies from companies, wherever located, should see that that no such repudiation of liability is made part ot the contract of insurance. In October, 1870, tj. J. Arret obtained judg ment against the city of Dubuque, lowa, for ff’fi.b’TP, in the United States Court, and on theiMlh of July, 1871, the United States Cir cuit Court for lowa Issued a mandamus, re quiring the Slayer and City Council of Du buque to levy a special tax for the payment of tlie judgment. Thu Sfayor and Council having refused or omitted to obey the man damus, the court on the 2d of November issued an order of arrest, requiring thuSlayor and the members of the Common Council to show cause at Des Moines, w’hy they should not ho attached for contempt. The papers were served, and the City Government carried bodily to Dus Moines. The defeat of credit ors upon the execution is not allowable ia lowa. The New York World and several other papers speak of General Sheridan's “declara tion of martial law in this city immediate ly after the fire. It is not true that General Sheridan declared martial law, or assumed any authority, except such as was conferred upon him by the Mayor. It the Mayor had no power to transfer his own authority to General Sheridan, that is another* question, wholly apart from General Sheridan’s alleged declaration of martial law.' It appears from the published correspon dence between General Sheridan and Gover nor Fulmer that on the 11th of October, the second day after the fire, tho latter thanked tho former for ids promptness in ordering troops,to the city. We may add that every body in this city thanked him. except the ‘•lnternational Commune” and its news paper organ. A Washington telegram informs the public that* Secretary Fisli not only has not re signed but has no notion of resigning. It seems that these Washington newsmongers connected with tho New York press have no difficulty in turning out a Secretary and ap pointing his successor, whenever they lack for other news, and of getting their chiefs at headquarters to endorse their stories as un questionable authority.” They will, how ever. have great difficulty in persuading the public to swallow this Fish story any more. Mr. Fish may as well hold on to his portfolio during the remainder of his natural lifo, for nobody will ever he made to believe that he has gone out, even though his successor should bo commissioned and sworn in. Mr. F. A. Walker, the efficient Superinten dent of tho Census,-has promised to take the Indian Coamiissiouership. provided tho salary can ho increased. It looks, from this, as if Mr. Walker meant to depend upon tho salary of his office, instead of tho stealings, for his remuneration; in which case he- would be a ;markod exception to previous officials having to do with the Indian Bureau. If the bureau can stand such an innovation, it might bo well to givo-Mr. Walker a trial at fair .wages. -The animal report of the Massachusetts Life Insurance Commissioner closes with this reference (o I he Chleag.. Are: While the terrible conflagration of October, 1871,' Is still raging In Chicago, anxious Inquiries ore lieing imule at this department rela tive to its probable effect upon the standing not only of Are, but of life companies also. Seventeen Ufc companies appear to have *3,711,933 invested In that ill-fated city, viz: In city and county se curities, *170,850. and in loans and mortgages of real estate, *8,5U,e08, the value of lands mort gaged being *10,853,250, and buildings. *1,631.230. The land Itself is deemed ample security for tho entire amount loaned.” —According to tin old legend, if a young lady goes down cellar backward ntX3 o'clock on the night of tho last day of October, holding a mirror before her, she will sec in it tho face of her future husband. A young lady at Lewiston, Mo., who tried the experiment, made a misstep and foil to the Itollem mold streams of Tmro&'no and broken glass, reusing a racket which brought the whole id 11m) WASHINGTON. Awaiting Alexis aniP- Congress. The Improvements. Boater of' Inns and Lodgings. Fish and Catacazy. The Dorm ad liana. From Our Own Correspondent Washington, in partu, looks to-day Jikeltbo burnt part of Chicago somewhat. The. wide streets hero resemble the gaps made by the fire, and now they are all dug up for tho course of now sowers; the sidewalks «f doz ens of the streets are being sot forward so as to make two parts of promenade to ono part of carriage-way. The public squares are reso nant. not with birds, hut with tho clutter of carpenters' hammers, making lodges and lolling-placcs. The President's yard is all torn up, and a street is cut under the wall of his flower-house, effectually dividing him from tho War and Navy Departments. Ho has been supplied with a capacious now sta ble, and they ore digging down tho declivities from his grounds toward the Potomac, to ex tend his park, and place to. good advantage tho new State Department, whoso excava tion is well advanced. Ponnsyl van ia avenue is dug up from the Treasury to George town, a whole mito," to receive tho the new cement pavement. Fifteenth street is newly graded from tho Treasury corner to ward thoPotoniac. F street, from Winder's building to Rock Creek, is graded and bonlo raided, leaving many fine old honses sus pended high in the air, with hanginggardons around them. Fourteenth street rs paved with wood from Franklin square, nearly to Colombia College. Tho two great brick wings of the new Market Company are nearly finished. An entirely new street railway, with double track, running oqc-horse omni bus care, is laid from the Treasury out Now York avenue to the Government Printing Office aud the Bladenshnrg toll-gate. The former F Street Kailway ia to bo extended at once from tho Capitol across (o the Eastern Branch bridge to Uniontown or Howardvillc, the negro settlement. The Government PrintihgOnicohas been enlarged by the addition of a goodly brick wing, and the streets thereabout are finally graded and pavi d: so that every way from the Capitol the eye at least can peer down tho wide streets to the distant country. Two largo new school houses are prominent objects on Hie northern outline of tho city. Much now building of a private nature has been added to the desultory extent of llio city. Senator West’s new house,adjoiuiug.Speakerßlaine’s, is prominent as a monumental gingerbread. Capitol Hill is decorated with certain now rows of mansions. The Ebhitt Hotel is ex tended on the opposite side of Willlawl’s, and will be thrown open in December. They are painting Willard's Hotel, and will opeuit in .January. Mr. Cake, proprietor of Congress Hall, at Capo May. N. .1.. is tho new lanilli.rd of tho Metropolitan Hotel, and has refurnished it. Wormley, the negro caterer, lias built quite a decent inn, equal to about one hundred guests, borrowing tho money from the Hon. Samuel Hoopoe, of Boston. Welker, Hie restaurateur, has en larged his house, mid domed it with one of llie pavilions of the now Louvre at Paris, so iliat it presents tho appearance of a Quaker with a goigeous helmet on his head. Grav lias ah o donned, over the old Rugby Homo vnrr, sonic tall ebimiio.vs and a Mansard mi. 7 hen-is ii new hotel on Capitol Hill, under pin] l>e new departure, may first be made a conftsion of tongues, and iimncdiatcly afterwards a winding f licet, whatever of her sliaiw it is capable oi, under the posibiiitics of rhetoric. Bui tho ten and coffee reduction—oh! our j «i**U ZUCwt I reads like an interpolation. Tho gosh andtho sparkling tangle ot tlie sentence was all your own, lint tho suggestion of fact is too adroit fur you—too soln nail, lm«y say.it roads like a “snake.” You know what a “snake” is, for you were an editor before Immortality discovered yon. suppose I wero to slip into one of my let tore a commercial puff of some thing—a sewing machine, a railroad job. or even tho smallestof all small wares, a little statesman —the publisher of my newspaper would detect it; ho would say “that is ‘snaked’ in f’ and would forthwith send a bill for advertising to the person heuotitted. 1 think tho editor of the Christian Trades man ought to send a hill for that uninten tional snake to the merchants in Bessemer steel, salt, fuel, and pig iron: for it is tho de sire of their pockets to see tho tax on coffee and too abolished, that their monopoly on the other articles may he maintained. A puff to this end from the Vice President, so rosily embowered in adjectives, tropes, and Indiana rhetoric, is us opportune as it was accidental. By the way, have wo not yet retired to pri vate life, like Charles V. and Christopher Sly, those great oontcmporarymlors 1 Sensitive us the honor of a Stnyvesant, or the self-love of a young statesman retiring from public life discouraged, tho capital in vested in Utah and- around it is dying, from the fear of Mormon troubles. Seventy mill ions Is said to, represent the wealth of Utah; less than 100.000 is its population; tho most valuable thing in it is its cheap, farming labor, averaging at the mines only about Si.GO a day to_ $4 in tho neighboring State of Nevada. An exodus would destroy Utah more completely than a war; hostilities are to be preferred to a Mormon evacuation. But there is need of neither. If the law against polygamy be enforced in cases where women apply to the courts, and if it remains for the present suspended in cases where no such suits are brought, and if tho foot of tho government ho sot down firmly as to future marriages chiefly, this late scare and Gentile attrition will proceed as rapidly and with fewer mistakes to exterminate polygamy,than if the courts goon to dignify old Brigham’s seventy years with punishment. I have j list returned from Utah, and I do not believe tho wild tales, circulated by Federal officers, of Mormon atrocities. They reed too much like catch penny lives of the pirates. I talked to Sena tor Tnmlbnll, afew evenings ago, and ho took exception to the illegalities of McKean’s court. McKean is an elocutionist playing a high rote and the Methodist preacher, New man, who, from his pontifical personage near tho President’s pew, ordered the lowa Methodists to vote for James Harlan, is at the back of these trials. There is no differ ence between priests. In office-getting poli tics they are all nuisances, whether they be named Brigham or Newman. Our problem is (o save tbo industry and acquisitions of Utah, turn the stream of civilization through jiolyganiy, and give Mormouism no unneces sary dignity by adding martyrs to' its already long list.’ Its two elements of theocratic government and polygamy are hateful'to me; but we have no business to construe our feelings into government, nor to convict polygamy under its own statutes made against adultery. The law stretched .will return and sting. This monstrosity has been thrice proceeded against by all the terrors of society,—terrors to which law and courts, however severe, are feeble. It has been expelled from States only to derive 'almost imperial succulence from desert sands. At the bottom' it is poor as the Val leys of Deseret,—mere falsehood; hut indus try and sacrifice bare given it a prosperity which can stand everything hut the demo cratic competition. It was perishing when Dr. Newman, a marplot and an ecclesiastical showman, kindled it up, first by dignifying it with a debate, then by violent, counsels to proceed against it with force. Mr. Lincoln compared polygamy to a great treu-holo on Ids father's farm; it could not bo split, and it would not hum, so lie plowed around it.” The new mines in Utah wero gunpowder in it, and would soon have blown it up; hilt t his ecclesiastical Gcnymanderer came along, and now ho is driving out tho miners, the capital, and the human influx which were di moralizing both Brigham’s temporal power and polygamy. Gath. Washisotok, Not. 1. ODE KECQSDS AND ODE TITLES. l.riler from ihc Hon. Inane !. Hu a art. Tb. Domesday Book of Chicago. To /fie Editor of The Vhieago Tribune. Sib In this season of suggestions, may I bo permitted to offer one through your col umns to the pnblic 1 Onco before in tbo history of tho Anglo- Saxon race, it became necessary to deter mine the claimants, if not tho owners, of a largo extent of territory. Doubtless many legal technicalities wero speedily disposed of ■by the summary processes of King William’s officials. The condensation of boundaries, with their elaborate descriptions, and of in tricate feudal tenures, into two volumes and tf route 1.00 snorT$ nor T? in P 4-00 Hoy ally to quarry. 2.0) Profit to company operating 3.40 _ Total cost In CWcrgo of one coni fc».oo Cost of 3,450 brick, equal to 123 cubic feet, at fcio A company formed to open these quarries would not only mane a fortune, out would confer a last ing benefit on Chicago, by furnishing a cheaper building material than can be now furnished, and, at the sumo time, a material that fire cannot destroy. The owners of these quarries would very readily enter Into an arrangement with such a company, allowing them, at a reasonable profit to the quarries, to wprk thenT for such term of years as should be desirable. When constructed ol thin material, Cliloato would be a city glistening In tbe sunlight, white as anow, and ol solid walls that lire would not del any refunding. Many landlords nro generously doing It; but, in absence of tho covenant aforesaid, there is no legal obligation that would compel them to. All such euaos de pend on the express agreement of parties. Tho of leases In this city would not oblige the landlord to refund, but, on tho contrary, would hold tenants to pay the rent for the entire term; for, when a party, by his own coutract, create* a duty or a charge upon himself, ho in bound to make it good, notwithstanding any accident or inevita ble necessity. And,lf a tenant has bound'hlmsulf by hu express agreement, xeithout reserve, to pay u certain sum for certain promisee fora certain time, the common law rule would compel him to pay the whole, oven though the premises are de stroyed by tiro. Tho rule hua been modified by statute in Now York, hut I know of no modifica tion of It in this State. It would seem to ben principle of. natural law that n tenant who rents a house or other tenement for a short period, and with a view to no benefit except that to be de rived from its actual use. should not be compelled to pay rent any longer than It {s capable of being used; and there are many cases in the reports which show that some of the English Chancellors straggled hard to introduce tills principle into the administration pf Justice in their courts, but a contrary principle seem* 1 to have finally prevailed, and ttie law is now settled the other way, unless tbe tenant has protected himself by a stipulation iu tho lease to that effect. E. A. SUB&mJ&ss. Chicago, Nov. io. A Card from ITIr, X# F. C*llia«. T> ora lion,” in which my name and that of Mr. Jefferson are mentioned lu connection with an alleged min ing swindle nt St. Paul. The statements con tained in that article are so strangely at variance with the truth that I must claim the privilege of raying a few words on the subject. Tho article *to tea that “Mr. Jefferson introduced Mr, Col lins, who had purchased several shares lu the glorious minrs. ~*aUiullug to certain shares sold to one- l>r. Burbmis. I desire to say that I never purchased any “mythical” mining shared from Me, Jeflerson, and do mu by any means regard my self as a victim in any sense, f would also shite That Mr. Jefferson did iml “introduce tho name of J. V. Farwell ns a purchaser of his shares, al though I understand that Mr. Farwell did buy certain mining stoc?t In "Wyoming from other parties. The facts in tho case, as far us Dr. Bar iums und Tare concerned, are these; In l*jo3 I sold to Dr. Buriiaus an interest in the Atlantic Mine, in Wyoming, for which he agreed to pay me a rcusideration. in real estate, represented to ho worth On investigation X discovered the said real estate to be worth not exceeding j-s.COO, and a suit is now pending in the United States Court at St, Paul for tho re covery of that property. I have reason to believe that the information contained in tho article in dUv-atiou Ims been derived from an unreliable source, or from persons interested in’tho suit. "With the bare exception that Mr. Jefiersoit is one of the defendants iuu suit now pending in the United Slates Court, at St. Paul, the cntiio .statement as regards that gentleman is on umjualllied fabrication; and you will see, by referring to a paragraph in your issue of tho utu insuiiit, that Mr. j. V. Farwell personally dis claims any connection with the affair. TrusJingyou will Insert the ahavo, in Justice to Mr. oefteivun and myself, who huvj both been injured by the misrepresentations in your article, I jan, etc., T. I. Collins Chicago, 2s’ov. 10. City market*. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune 6n:: .To every person of humble niovma who has resided in Philadelphia or St. Louis, it must have been felt as a remarkable omission, upon coming to reside in Chicago, that there were no convenient markets here, where the consumer emild deal with tho producer, without tho Jeter vt ntion of the commission merchants and other middle-men. By tho time that country produce has reached the grocer*, and has lain r or hours on tho ground in Trent of their stores, a- 00-slble to ovory ohauce dog w hhdi passes, tho fair products of the garden pi cstiit anything but uu inviting appearance or odor. In the mowing reconstruction of Chicago, ample opportunio piescnts Itself for tho erection of nmiVcts jii suitable locations uml iu sutlleienb numbers to meet the wants <»f the inhabitants of t-J»e Hirer divisions. South Water street, Kinzlo street, Chicago avenue, Division street, North avenue. Canal street, nnd Statu street, are nil in the burnt district, nnd should each be provided ■with n large and sultstamlal market, under such arrangements as would make thorn sources of revenue to the city, and of incalculable benefit to the health and convenience of the people. Enough hns been said of Chicago enterprise and public spirit. Let us see whether she will allow this golden opportunity to p:w*a without putting hmclf on par in Ibis respect with the other centres of population.. Yours respectfully, CAJULLV9, CHICAGO, Kov. 10. TZic Jnwnrniice Compnnir-*. To the Editor of The Chicago Biu As oil the newspaper articles I have seen so far, are savage in their tone against almost every insurance company, good, bad, or indiffer ent, would it not be entirely proper to say la your columns that this fire has not changed the usual dements of human nature. In this lire, ns in all large fires, there must be persons who are attempt ing frauds on the few companies that ore sawable to par, and hoping that, aa the tiro de stroyed every evidence of what their property was, they can make largo claims and collect them. Insurance was a cheap article before too lire: and If most people did not have u good supply of it, It was because they wore blind, or dcat, or did not believe In in surance at «U. There are some rascally-inclined people In every hundred of our population; and while newspapers generally are giving almost every insurance company* “fits/' It seems to me that their side of tho question should not be en tirely ignored. Conservative. Chicago, J*ov. 9. Concrete Walls, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune Sir: The general anxiety in regard to fire-proof buildings renders your article of yesterday, cop ied from the New York Post, especially valuable. concrete wall la tho precise maa tifl question answered in i««-M f ?ii? llit l v AT rould ei,,ovo all doubt as to the feasibility of-this mode ‘of building ut thepres em lime. Can concrete walls be laid In freezing weather, either by mixing with salt and water, or otherwise f An answer to this question. It Is be lieved, would bo of great benefit to the comma nly BmWCR rnferamian Wantrd. New York. ur< Pearl atreot, Nov. 6. To Iht Editor of Xltt ChictHjn Tribune; Sir: Buvios slater living at 317 -West Polk Street, Chicago, and not having heard from her since the lute terrible calamity that has befallen your city, I mn afraid that perhaps she may have I’* rishcn. My sister i*s a widow, and received an 01 my pension. Her name is Mrs. Mary Wron. fece lived with her diinghtcrand son-in-law, named respeclia ely Abhy and Ahien Andrews, at the above number, a oars, gratefully,' UoNoniA Scmv.ur. CorpeuteH. Brunswick, Maine, Nov. 6. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune 6m; I geo by tho papers that there are wanted In Chicago 2,C00 carpenters, this.winter, to whom liberal wages will be paid. I wish to know what wages will be given per day, as there are several carpenters that will go from here if we cet pay enough to make it an object toco. b I* 9. PfiHNßnn. Closing Saloons on Sanday. 2b the Editor of the Chicago Tribune: Sir: i am a saloon-keeper, and was notified eomeUme since that I must close my house on Sunday. Now. I wish to ask if the law on this subject has been changed, having noticed that Sev ern In the same business take no notice of said order vuvo Chicago, Nov. 8. The Now Kpiscopnl Charcb at Ottawa. Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. Ottawa, lIL, Nov. 6. The members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, rceldentln this city, though not a numer. oua or wealthy body;- have shown a degree of real and enterprise that entitles them to stand In the front rank of the religious denominations rep resented here, and have, by their own unaided ef forts, secured for themselves the finest ecoleslaa •iraledlflceia the city, ana-°ne. of the moat olo timt clnucli-lmlldings In tUe entire Stale. Little' more than a year ago the project was mooted 1116 cw dln -£J J n< s completed and L T h 6 A 1 o' the edlfioe if G >^ni c thirteenth century, and it f Joliet rough stone, A?i,„! a 2 ‘I DB Hnd P lons of Mr- A. H. £Utraod, AT *£ora. The contractors for tho building were Messrs. Colwell, Clarke . r.a-'i I workmanship. The roa! 11 into open varved panH« sauces in each of whhdi V* t the chamfer* of the lama. l ate likewise trmcbtd v»j*h 1■ side of IheaitaranU-W i,..,';"' >c', chancel-wall. one far for the n*»* n equally divided fur the su,-r P of :h --mat ultnr-psiil of black the church Is ciii-moiuiK, cross, and over the areh ~f i,, I l i KV cm In the »rm»e the f« M the house of the U»rtr’* u!T‘ tutrance. Is the that labor amt are )i.- v v Hn you rf'st.” On each Md.-,;/ v. -\i one hearlni: the Uwri«,rv„‘ u .'T- V- G«J: iin.l tli.- A, G«l. Til., rlinnii j, t Tbo new orpin for w. ronnufaeture.l hy Mar.Wil w r 'i waokeo. l.llt Just Ui... r, troyeii l>y lire, m„t il„. miirly ready, perblii d «i t (eufo. Tine will inr..; v> (lettinpHie mnoleal •-•r. r effort* of tiie n.ii' i; nil diflleiil.ice. All the hove been eareftiliv t;, Eeeti.ret cbrLst Cl.imi., J* f'"'-'! i 'TOoJf. D.l>„ to w1i0..,. p tZ. L r bnllrtlnß ol tbe Ei.i w ....,il ii 'T-' euee.Hoful comyleTi.,,, mainly (hie. Tin- Hr-r i will be b. Won Tiianlikah in'. |.‘r 'Hr Inr Bunilay eenl.e meetiDKot (lie ehapfor wbicb Ottuwi. Is in,■Hal.-,i, K-, In Uie new cbiireb at its 0p.%, whieli bao taken via,-., in ■vr”,? 1 led ,n a,,an^‘;^: THE .VO nriDYEsr H-LlNOt,. There Is not o Mnirle y„„ :ig and not u sinple marri;,^ohl rv 5 -The Board of Bdneatim, t iw'?* to open the .loots of tho M 1,;,,. ored people. —Marengo has a resident nam-i r 3C3 years of age, -Two wells recently r v, one at Panola and one at Mi«*» v T MCr fare from a depth of sLtteen f,,, n J* cxhnuMless stream. m fID -The marriage of Le*,, n, lnl tie was the first ever .vW,ru, l;ill It Ocentred August, IW, n,ar /'i —Mrs. Belle Gray, of ig... p head so severely by a ramlk a pectcd to recover. -Mrs. SwiwhcJm b m -Dlphtlirrij. prevail) j, Know l iv''“’ 1 -The body of (how, was ImHed ruth, r hastily nniriVn ngo. on account or its found, ■r-118 remnly dn e OHirw' I *’t found in hiM«K.tt*. Tlwfi-V* after. V —Mr. Rufus Porter, of 1w.,.-,*,, eelvtd a l*«t containing e:-hi reot from Switzerland. live '®J delivered to him here wa, icT —The charter Jne 1.,j, a Ihjurrs. A Hue of tib Uk posed. luW.V. The Circuit Court at l».-s ,g v cidcd ln favor of the de.Vmhmr ;n tv r E. Owen was sued fur*K».a.) r,.- deotli of a man named dolmen. river contractor, and while ji r j rerne lime ago. ordered Jolmsim were in bis employ to move In removing the table Joi.iix.n jv m M juries. —Ovcrten thansMid basyn <.f been shipped from Ko*.uih il*, fail. iv shipment from this mmy ihr* tv,;. gate probable FOyrio ba.tii-ls »t —Sioux city chum* a popnbtviv,/ r,.i«v —Sylvester Angel, a pioni-er.if h !rr,r r fy, residing near Delhi, died on Mou>h*y; u,* 90 years. —Northern Town isjuiff'nt r' pudnr,» crop. Capitalists up there nr:- ing immense cribs wherein tof.-iwun tL-aw of bushel* “to,hold over.” —The military troops areordi-h-* incrtaS to Leavenworth for !iejuiqn;irt* r'. —Tile Pella Hladc uimmiab-s for Engrossing Clerk in the mntHmw! n-r sentntives. A large number of I -\\w s in r !p ?a are watching studiously ;lieir ciiawovaticiu direction. —The Dca Moines Keyb’rr re,,-j'J,;- r!- that occurred in Cracker To .vnsldp, IV’; on Friday afternoon last. Mr. 3ro pi ivinc and under the crib. When lie relarncl 'm that the crib had fulleu from it-* ivh-p.mi; one of tlie little ones, 3 year.- *dil. iK-nt'.tjh;- heavy sill was resting dbvrtly arro-o ft a' Its death was probably iintanuueoii*. Wisconsin. Knu Claire Is soon to have gK —The Kcclue Advocate says m,my of to 3 chants of that place are going to f’h’V.w —A fire from the spontaurou.-* pile of nigs saturated with the Janesville Court JTons*‘ an last sit rV ternoon. The early discovery i*rvu*uUti damage. —On Thursday evening of -wh*ic a V man named Anson BuHI, son of Ih I*- anl Buell, of Eau Claire, eoimnltb'd .-üb*ldf l*y ins himself through the Icud. Th«* v-wn* l sad and terrible affair is wholly though the circumstances fin*'* tin* v been iircmeditutcd, and not tho refill tary impulse. —The Green Bay Atleoeais *ay*: A fri T was in a sail boat on Little sturp'*.* scribes the fire blowing off I In* slion*'*' so much so that trees on an island "J* mile from shore wrra set on lire nnd burned ever. Ho says that uft»*r the tire-?*-- have picked up a yuwl boat full «f birih boy that budget burned iu their ili*rht aiw ped into the water. —Tho Marinette and IVduigo Engle W* fies are springing up on the ■•iteot t.~ various direction*- fr'.-i?. hands, and Incipient hio begins o j various quarters. _ ~.v —The Badger State Banner stf* ther more winter wheat sown iu Jackson fall than over before, mid since the 0 farmers report that it is looking well. —A day or two since the SW* u eon reported the death of Puvid President of the Wisconsin Hhtoruv wherenponMr. Williams replies us Mh"**- P\i;iF.S- Wts.. Enrroßa State jomsfAf..—went*lu- iw- on *ubf>crii.tiou ti» tho staU* Jonrna*- In your Inst week's issue. I had the n r my obituary notice, and take this ra»-ti.w' you that I am notyoi deceased: prepare for that eobomi event, or tn*» 1 of life, ami, therefore,pay the l' ri uV ‘V'iV little alficrvnco t«» tho public but f'-t l 1*; t-Imca of holding my plucc anmm: lunger. Please correct, amt obligs 7C a S&&*tu& —The Montello Express says Mr. Vceder left at that office, uue day thu lecof a hog on which were two feet, and Mr. Vceder says the donble set of feet nil round. —The La Crosse Demin rat legally closes on the 15th of this nu' mall contracts and insurance on r 'T yet many boats will probably run imid Uk her. —The Janesville Gazette of the Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Duuioi one of toe former j»roprh*tors of down stairs and broke her arm. On illl “,p ing Mrs. Hiram Bowen, wife of proprietor of the Gazette, ft-II duwn*t»»£jV her spine and arm so severely that several days, confined to her bed. —The bank at Geneva was rubW'l o the the Bth, by two men, who escaped —A Mrs. Richardson, in the town s j' Crosse County, came to her death an unsuccessful attempt to bleed apoplexy. —Christianity is reaping a rich in Appleton, Upward of two Imnd converted, and revival mootings with wonderful success, under Mrs. TanCott. ru**' Lafayette fears a failure of the supply tho city with gus, owing tl bllltyof obtaining a supply ef eos* gas making. -Uriah Layton, who fires at w doubtless thinks Friday and !ur very unlucky days. Hia living at Frederick, Md., rated i' l *pt four boys and four girls, all U vStl J were all bom on Friday, tho ,u> day. Tho mother wus born on Friday. on Saturday. Vl t-'* —Harry Lemon killed an racb* last, two tulles below Now Albany* uredfifeot from tip to tip. —A protracted meeting of the last week at tho meeting Uoiu-o of j j? tlon at New Loudon, the services day. About B,W»people were o» J r joining tho church, on Sunday, and Quaker discourses. Much luU^^ tested.