4 |j||t ||riimw. Terms of Subscription, rATSBUK nr adtaxcb ysUy Edition, per year, by mail Triweekly Edition, per jw, by mail, Sunday Edition. |>«r year, by mail. tM weekly Edition, r«r ywr. by mail— 1M Tarts of a yew si th# wn» rsto. To prevent delay sad rolsUl«*. bo snro sad giro Poet Office sddiese In MU, Including State sad county. may be mftdo cither by drtft. express. Poet Office order, or In registered letter*, at our flat TIIUUI TO CUT SCTOCimiBES Dally, dcllvenxl. Bondar pally, douveted. Bondar n,clnd«l.»crata per re«t THK TIUIUJJ'E COMPANY, Address yp. is Csaal-st.. Chicago. HI. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 21, 187 L NOT WANTED. Tito Louisville Courier-Journal publishes an appeal from some Chicago land-owner in favor of a national loan to relraild this city. Tho same plan has been-ndvocated by low economists. Tho plan proposed is, that tho owners of real estate in the burned district shall execute mortgages to tho United States for as many millions of dollars as they want, and that the United States shall print that many additional greenbacks, or in some other way lend its credit to these real estate own ers. The loan tUna made to bo-paid in instal ments covering-several years, with This would he a very neat operation for the borrowers. One mistake of those men is in assuming that the Chicago Are was an un precedented event, and one not likely over to occur again. It was unprecedented as to tho amount of tho property destroyed :.but, so I„i H oOVets indiirf/lnnla event, happening every day- E h m f nß Joss must to considered by itself.. The plan ing-mill and shanty burned down in Chicago are no more public concern than a planmg mill or shanty bnmed down in Omaha, Mo bile or Sew Bedford. The fact that the property destroyed was in Chicago does not make the loss any more national than if burned anywhere els?. The lumbermen of ■Wisconsin and Michigan have precisely the same claim npon public interest that the owners of property in Chicago can make; no more, butno less. The National Government has been a sufferer by the destruction, of the public .buildings in this, city,- and will at once do what is needed to provide other and-hotter public buildings. There the functions of the government begin ahd'end. The owners'ofthis property in Chicago, especially;of that class who want a pull at ,thc National Treasury, had their propcrtyfUßured. The insurance companies have partially failed, and some of them were insured in worthless companies when they might have been insured, in good companies. The National Government and the public at large, certainly, arc not responsible for the failure of onr people' to insure,’ or for losses sustained by theirinsuringinhad companies. To establish the. precedent that, whenever an insurance company fails to pay its policy-, holders, tho GeneralGovemmerit shall make good tho loss, or lend tho loser, money he may need torehnild, would very soon result in a general system of conflagra tions. It would he better policy for tho gov ernment at once to become a general in surer; that it prohibit all other insurance companies, and that it take into its own hands the general underwriting of tho coun try, including marine risks,.andlife and ac cident insurance, and, insurance against horse-thieves and hog cholera.. To select Chicago as a-oase of special relief,.by loan on mortgage, would he- invidious. fires occur everyday, and the loss to each individual owner is precisely’the same as it is to owners in Chicago.. Theman in Wheeling or-Albany, •who loses bis all by lire, is as ranch entitled to relief from the' United States as any suf ferer here. The fact that there are more sufferers here than elsewhere, at this time, and that the aggregate loss is very groat, does not change the nature of the proposed transaction;. The. total loss is only the ag r-.-gato of the individual losses, and indi vidual loss is no no. more national in its character in Chicago than in Oil City. Our citizens, -therefore, have no foundation for tn t 1 aovei" nient to change its entire character by making such loans,—no more than tens of thousands of other citizens in all parts of the country who meet with like losses every year by fire, flood, earth quake, or tornado. Tho fact is, there are a number of gentle men in this city who are ina condition some what similar to that of many planters at the South when, the war closed.. The latter had an abundance of land, and no money to im prove it or to work it; hut they refused to part with a square foot of it, and resolved, in conventions, that the State Governments ought to lend them money with which to work their plantations. Some of onr land owners arc in the same position. Thera is an abundance of capital here to pnrebaso foal •estate in the burnt district, and tolmprovo it. Tbe sale of a small portion of the laud will furnish the ready money with which to improve the rem-inder; and the owner of Sand wlm hr.s no money ro build With, and lefnses to sell any part of i i precisely the loan who wants the government to make his ran* i'::mu* man who owned a bouse be fore the tin* should rebuild a like house in the same rpot. The besfthxng that can hap pen to ns, rnd which will, more than any thing oho, hasten the rebuilding of the city, is to admit 4i*-4i»nny new-comers as possible to ownership of the laud.’aud, with the now capital thus introduced, to go on and rebuild the whole without delay. ,THE -CANAL, It reportf'd in the city that orders bare hcM ii .the, .State Commissioners to dof-c tin* canal .011 Saturday of the present Wfct-k. It is te.behoped that- if such orders have boon tissued they will be withdrawn, and that, if possible, tljo canal maybe kept open as long as the weather .will permit.- We loam that large, quantities of stone —espe- cially those for sidewalks—ore quarried and ready for sbipnicht enough to keep all the means of transit to, the city fully occupied for two or three weeks to come. These ma terials arc -greatly-.needed for rebuilding. The Board of Public Works have requested that the cannl be kept open as long as may be; and we hope the. State Commissioners, recog-’ uizing the b'ccCsslly of it, will cheerfully comply with their request. Enough open weather will surely*occur during the winter to afford all. the opportunities necessary to put the canal in the best of order for the spring business^ m ntE T.ATITRR IN COUET. The woman suffrage question is now 'be fore the courts of Illinois in due form. Mrs. i CatborineV. Waito appeared before Judge Jameson, of-the Superior Court, yesterday, witli a petition for an alternative wnt of mandamui against tbe Board of Eogistration. of the town.of Hyde Eark, requiring them to sbow cause why a> peremptory- wnt ■sbonld not issue compelling them register said Catharine V; Waite as a voter at future dec lino's. The board appeared by counsel, Trio simply argued that the Eegistry law ox-, eluded from rtbe privilege of suSrago all women, —a class to whicb|fbb petitioner ad mitted thatshe belonged. The counsel. for the relotor'(her husband, ex-Judge Waite) held that tie -said law was invalid if it made any distinction;of sex, and that prob ably tbe construction placed npon it by the ■boardwas erroneous.'TheCouit,bocoming Satisfied that the_dEfendairta were still in: Iffice, granted ■aie 'altematiTO writ; fixing the 27th instant as thodate. for tbe answer and argument of the qnwtion of a peremp The Eegistry law simply empowers and di rects the Boardof Inspectors tomato a Ust of all legal voters. The State Constitution says who are; legal voters, viz.; Every who was a legal voter on the adoption of the old constitution, ox “who had ..been natural ized prior to jauuarvßlSU* “orwho shall bo a imU citizen b£ th e United States above the ago of 21 years,” etc. Mrs. Waite •will not probably claim to be of the first of these three classes; she is not of. the second, and she doecr not claim to bo of the third. Hence it must he that her--ground" for de manding tho yoting i privilege is. the same -which wo heard from ntWashington,—the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, it is a pity, so far" as Itha. movement for woman suffrage is concerned, —a movement in which many earnest and upright citizens arc interested,-that those desultory attempt! to accomplish tho ondhy a coup de mam could not ho avoided. There are a great many per sons who would, either as a matter of sym pathy, or, as they consider it, abstract jus tice, tcjoico to see Mrs. Waite go up and de posit her ballot in tho box like a man. She would, doubtless, have been allowed to do this tho other day, but fortho single circum stance that lira. Waite is not a- legal voter. But for this drawback, for which Mrs. Waite is really not responsible, tho Inspectors of Hyde Park, who are gentlemen noted for their urbanity, would,doubtless, have enroll ed Mrs. Waite’s name. This is tho drawback at present in the way, 1 and it is, os wo have said, unfortunate that Mrs. Waite, or her counsel, should stake the reputation of their cause upon such attempts as this, to accomplish by indirection what they ought to insist on ac complishing only by a change of the law through public opinion. Nothing can bo clearer than that tho fram ers of our State Constitution, or the Congress which passed and tho Legislature which rat ified tho Fourteenth Amendment did not intend to confer suffrage upon the female sex by any of the articles under which these strategists pretend to claim such' privilege. Certainly tho Convention of-Illinois, though composed of progressive mop,.distinctively refused to go so far as oven to order the ques tion of woman-suffrage to bo submitted to the people. Why, then, supposing the quibble could bo elevated to tho-digmty of-a point of law. seek to force upon tho people a revolu tion in government which they and their legal representatives hove refused, thus far, to countenance? Would such a piece of strategy, if successful, bring happiness] to woman or improvement to tho State T ALEXIS-HAS COKE! At last the great agony is over. All doubts have gone and Alexis has como. For weeks and weeks, New York Uppertendom has keen in a flutter of excitement. Alexis hats and neckties and opera capes and fans and canes have been worn indefatigably, and still no Alexis. TKe Acaideiny of Mtwlc Ims been” swept and garnished, and the fiddlers have stood wilhhowsin hand, and the dancers bn tiptoe awaited the call, and still no Alexia. The divine Nilsson, ono of his near neigh bors, week after week, has practiesd Chi mi.frena and Strakosch each evening has donned his white kills, not to ho' taken by surprise, andstillno Alexis. The few honest men loft in New York, who were to officially meet the Duke and* present him-with-tho freedom of tne city—about the only thing Tweed Co. had not stolen—marched down regularly each night and morning to* the Battery and gave a despairing look at tho signals, and then returned, and still no Alexis. Tho' servants of tho Clarendon. each morning dusted tho D.uke’s sumptuous apartments, while distance lent enchant- ment to v the royal perquisites ‘they had in their minds’ byes, and "still no Alexis. And as day -followed day, and still ho gleam of royal sails, hope gave way to despair, and despair. slowly began to resolve, itself into disgust. Nothing so surely spoils a good, dinner-as waiting in the overt for the tardy ghost, and the Russian bear in his'angriest moods could hardly have beaten the" growling which commenced and gradually spread from Cen tral Park to CastlfeJSarden. Was our bird of freedom not to have the coveted opportunity of Bcreaming*atter all! Was there not to be a chance after'all to lot _off the rockets of; rhetoric which tho orators had bountifully .laid in t "Was allJihiß fnssand fury and fur- below to go. for naughtt In tho mean time, Catacazy came, but ho brought no.-consolation. And Mad. Catacazy came, with; her beautiful .blonde' curls, but young New York ebook its head. Andthsn came Bcrndorff with his vessel, and in his 'wake followed Ivanhoff, and Stampikoff, and Tnrgenoff; but of what avail when .Alex-is-off?' And.then cholera came £ud oven with that sovereign, much more potent than the Czar himself, those fastidious Manhattanites were not satisfied. At last Alexis has come, and. it is to bo hoped ho did not find the dinner burned in .the ov"” ->nij the her morning dress, oud Paterfamilias all nnshayon. vu the fact of his having arrived not only New York, but the whole country. Is to bo con gratulated. We arc *no longer to *be in formed In darning headlines that Alexis has not come. We are no longer to road, for tho, fortieth time, tho glowing descriptions of his elaborate hair-brush, j\UcT the wonders of ♦hat palatial bedstead. Wp are no, Jongpr.to bo tortured with tho thousand and one in genious excuses framed by journalists for his delay. Alexis is here, and thp only regret is that ho'did riot got here in time to sec the Chicago fire. Withont’that sight his Amcricau journey is incomplete, pnd.his life hereafter will always bo tinged'with a i regret. Biit now that New'*-York has go* him. wo trust that Now Yorkwill do its duty, by him, and do 'the duty speedily, for greater things await him by farthamjaradingnp Broad" way, or ‘hearing NUs3on, r oc eating Saddle-* Rocks at Fulton Market. It is.well known that the primary object of the visit of Alexis was to see Chicago. Indeed, tho last words of the vencrehlp-Czar to his son, aa ho shook hands with‘him, wore“ Whatever olso yon do, my boy, don’t fail to see Chicago,” and then, turning to the Chancellor of the Exr chequer, lie ordered him to give Alexis a few thousands for investment in boulevardprop erty. It was in' .honor,, of this visit that we prepared and successfully carried through our Chicago"never I does things by halves, .The Buko naturally felt an interest in Moscow os' tho chambioh Imrncd-up city of tho world. Wo could keep’ him from getting homesick, and at the same time teach him a thingortwo lio noTer.know before on the'subjcct of ruins, by, a liberal fire, and we did if. But tlnsJs.not all wo have to show him. Wo have Aldermau Holdeu as well" other ruins. We have’thelluggy Relief sya tem, which would prove of imriiaosbadvan tage to Russia, in an ‘emergency; Wo can sbowhinihowto conduct local-insurance, and give him an extdoded company or two to take home as rclicsTC Wehave tlie 'stock! yards and tunnels still left, atfd‘Bridgeport still retains Its pristine ’splendor, the river nibs up .'hill. v Jdayor Medill is .an excellent Russian. scholar' and will welcome Alexis in' his native' tongue? without the aid of Catacozy 'Qr any oihficin« terpreter. It is to bo hoped, on this account, that Alexis'will restrain his impatience to. get here, until Mayor Medill'assumes his 1 office, os Mayor Mason does not understand Russian, and uvmld only embarrass him. Therefore,-while Now YorWls wining anaj dining and dancing him,. lot hiin remember that wo have burned for him; thatNewYork is only tho portal through which he must pass into our-Tcniple j that>Jf we cannot TO gale him witli mins of men, as New York can, we can. show him ruins of brick, and stone almost as extensive; and that, if ho wishes to invest, the pocket-money his father gave him in South Bark lots,' ho'jhust oomo •quickly,’ as they-are rising;in value-very fast.. He will feel mojo air home.here than in New .York,' ns wo do not expect him »to put on any stylo. Having lost good clothes, we are not prond. While ho stays with us, he can doff his court'etiquette‘and have a good, old-fashioned "sit-down*. freed from all tho restraints of royal nonsense.' Kdt to be outdone by the men who ore pro posing to build a canal from the -month |o£ the Wisconsin River to Green Bay, there is a movement in the State of Georgia to have a ship canal connecting the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Ocean; The canal begins at the-Muscle” Shoals.- on-the Tennessee is carried over the mountains to. -the Octnnlgeo_ River. This workfwiUcost, perhaps,-twenty millions,' a fair dfUct to the Wisconsin hndFox River Canal. If the country is to bo hled’for these schemes, the Georgia Job is Quito as commendable .as tho Wisconsin oho^ A considerable number of coupon bonds of the United States were' destroyed in the recent fire in this city. In some cases the owners preserved. the numbers and denom inations; in*othor cases probably these wore lost also. The destruction of those evidences 'ofmdchtedhess'amounte .to a clear gain to tho government,- -unless Congress shall pro-* vide some means for tho reissue ef tho same. It has Been customary, vro Believe, incases where tbcproofof loss is snffloient, to nn thoriro a reiseuo of thohonds, requiring the claimants to give satisfactory bonds to make (He Treasury (jocdagaimita posdblo mistake. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1871. Wo hope this plan may bo adopted now, and that the losers, who have generally suffered other disasters in addition to the destruction of their government securities, may be rcim buisod to the extent that they can prove the loss of iho bonds. Dan. Yoorlioes, of Indiana, through tho Terro Haute Joitnuil, objects to tho policy of passivism so strongly urged by tho St. Louis Kti’uhUcan, and ho thus describes the man who ought to ho tho next Democratic candidate for tho Presidency: We oro in favor of nominating for tho great office of President a man of large civil experi ence; one who has been schooled in tho high offi cial stations of tho country, and who has stored a mature mind with solid Information In regard to the correct administration of the government. He should bo one who, having passed through every Held of temptation to plunder, has not even n suspicion clinging to his garments. He must have implicitly obeyed tho Divine injunction, “Tliousbolt not steal,” and thus made himself a striking contrast with many of the leading Rad ical officials of the nresont day. Our choice is a man of pure and spotless life, publicand private, with unquestioned qualifications for tho elevated piece to which be aspires. In addition to these things let him be a Democrat from the strongest convictions of patriotic duty. Tho Democrats, having looked in vain for a man to fill this bill, have reached the con clusion that when Voorhces wrote tho de scription he was looking in a mirror. When Daniel was in the lion’s don. ho did not stool anything. There has been'■a grand inspection of the levees of tho Lower Mississippi hy a Con gressional Committee. There was a grand excursion by steamboat, dinner and speeches, etc., etc. Tho result of all was that little hope could ho entertained of Congressional aid, and. the following advice of Governor Wafmoth met a hearty response: If we ever expect to do anything for the levees ardtbo other interests of the South, it will be when Democrats and Republicans will unUo to gether and say, wo will not vote a dollar for Northern harbors, Northern railroads. Northern canals, or any other Northern work of improve ments until they give us what wo want for our levees, the bar at tho month of the river, and on Southern ports and harbors. We hope that advice will ho adhered to, and that each member of Congress will de mand an equal sum for his district each year. If the Treasury is to bo robbed by these river swindlers every year. Jot the plunder ho. equally distributed. Let each Congressional district have its share, andif "any district does not happen to have a river or a harbor let the money bo paid into the county treasuries. On the Ist of December tho so-called Syn dicate are expected to redeem their checks to the amount of $180,000,000 gold, which they gave to Secretary Bontwell some throe months ago in payment for an equal amount of 5 per cent bonds, which checks the Secre tary deposited in their banks for safe keep ing. If any of them should bo short of the amount of gold which the checks call for, it will bo perfectly easy to leave them on deposit until sufficient inter est has accumulated on tho bonds to cause them to sell on tho Stock Exchange at par. THE NORTHWEST, ILLINOIS. Tho Supremo Court has affirmed tho decision of the Circuit Court of St. Clair County, allowing Mrs. M. Roberson, of Belleville, $3,000, tho amount of*a life-policy held by her husband In tho Mu tual Benefit Life Insurance Company, of Now Jersey. —Mrs. Mary Jones, of Carlyle, has instituted sultfigainst H. C. Yeager Co., of the Union Flour Mills, St. Louis, to recover $5,000 damages because -of tho death of her husband while at work in those mills. —Mrs. Rau, of Frcoburg, was burned to death on.tho icth Inst., her clothes taking fire from a 'candle. —Shawneetown Is to hare a levee, and the work will bo commenced within thirty days. It will cost between $50,000 and SOO,OOO. Chicago con- tractors do the work.. —-The residence of the Hon. John McCatchoon, at Sparta, was burned to the ground a fow nights ago. Tho lire is supposed to have been tho work of an incendiary. —The Bloomington Anzeigcr baa passed into, tho hands of Prof. Hcnrici, an editor and teacher of long experience, formerly of Burlington, lowa, and late of Jacksonville. —Tho Bunker Hill Gazette gives full particulars of an assault made by Frank Hall upon his aunt, Mrs. Carter. The latter was found in the road near her house in an insensible condition, bear uig Mini no v> iiiiimo. mm umi iiuotcn her, and, after depositing her in tho road, rushed through tho'window into the house of tho Methodist min* istet and attacked his wife. Ho is now in jail at CorlinviUe, and Is considered insane. IOWA. W. Gi Crawford, Clerk of the. District and Cir- cuit Courts at Council Bluffs, died on tho nth Inst. —Hophlnsl tho man who robbed and attempted the murder of Dr. Walker, of Qulnoy,lowa, Ah- gust 10,1670, was sotenoed to the Penitentiary for eighteen! years, by Judge HoDUI, a few days since. -li is rumored that tho Hon. G. W. Edwards, State Printer, is about to establish anew dally paper atiDesMolnes. —lowa County raised a specimen of ootton this year which is said to he of as good quality os ony in tho South—equalled only by that grown on tho Sea Islands. -In the Penitentiary there are at present 12 murderers, 11 second-class man killers, 6 unsuo "ctssful nttempters, and 7 rough-and-tumble '“homlcldere.” —Northern lowa Is jubilnntover a gigantic corn crop; Capitalists up there nro talking about building Immense cribs, wherein to consign thou sands of bushels to hold over.*’ WISCONSIN. Licutcncnt Governor Thad. C. Ponnd figures ag one of the reception committee of a grand ban quet to bq held at Chippewa Palls on the 32d to in ugurato the Tfemoht House of that city, bald to be one of the finest hotels in the West. —The store of F. A. Blood, merchant tailor, at Rnclnc, was entered oy burglars and robbed of $5,000 worth of clotbln&r, on the 17thInst, —The Racine Journal is willing to swear to the following: The other day a father and son were -dressing a hog, the father doing the chopping. By amisstroko, instead of splitting the hog open, ho split his son’s hand. In explaining bow it hap pened to the doctor, the father exclaimed: I can not tcß a lie, doctor, indeed cannot. I did it with toy little hatchet* The son was deeply moved, and was heard to remark that bo ‘bad rather have such a father than a whole slaugh ter-house full of dead hogs.* —A former resident of Richland County, Harry Jeffrey; who sometime since removed to Kansas, was bunxed f to death ihhlsbarn a few weeks agor~A spark from a passing railroad locomo tive fired the barn, and Mr, Jaffrey sought to re lease his frem the flames. In the effort he •lost bis life, and the .barn, team, and other ooa te&ta-wero destroyed. Mrs. Jaffrey has sued the railroad company, placing, the damages at $4,000. miohioxs. Tbe Society of the Army of the Cumberland, in session at November 16, elected General W. J. RosecraUz sa President for the ensuing year. Lieutenant-General F. H. Sheridan was chosen as the yice President from Illinois. A oom mittco was appointed' to receive subscriptions to •the Thomas Monumental .Fund. General Frank 7, gliuman being m*mU>r from HUnnia. Gen eral T. O. Wood was selected as orator next joar. with Colonel WUi. McMlchacl as alternate. Bay ton, 0., was fixed .as the next place of meeting, and September 18 and 19, .1873, 08 the time. MIKXKSOTA. The Stillwater _o«crtc-publishes a statement showing that U5 buildings have been erected In that city this year, and that $531,000 bare been ex pended in buildings and Improvements. ThePotoai Jounia? lcafns that an important sale of mining property In Washington County was made on. the Ist Inst. It Included the Canon mines, the Mi Idle Creek mines, Cook’s diggings. Sugar Hill mteM,-and Morphy's diggings, on the Maramcc JUvcrTthe purchaser being CaptainEher :B. yTardjiaa trustee, tor himself, and David P. Mayhcw, of Detroit, Mleh., and Professor Allen A. Griffith, of Ypsllanti. The consideration was $50,c00. The purchasers~tako imthedlate posses sion. The previous owners wore Morphy, Stock er, Tyler, A 00. —Joseph Milner has brought suit against Kan sas City for 116.000, for damages sustained In ton ing over anemtiankmontleft unguarded. oino. r r The grape crop of Erie Islands, this year, is estimated', at, -10,000 -tons, worth, at the lowest prices,“l6oo,oCo. .-The area" aulttvatod U about 6,000 acres., _Xh e Hon. John jky.of Woodsfleld, Judge of the Belmont and Monroe circuit, was found dead, at an early hour on Wednesday morning. In one of the streets of Woodsfleld. The Barnes viUeEnltrpritt says: “Ho had been spending the latter part of the previous evening at Minster man’s Hotel, in company with friends, and was ‘last seen alive by them when they bid him good night. About 7 o’clock Wednesday morning the remains wore discovered'ln tbe street leading from the hotel to the Judge’s residence, and with in fifty yards of his brother’s door. He lay upon his back, sleeping the calm sleep of death, with his taco 1 and body, covered .with a mantle of snow, which had (alien after he died.” —Prod, Kolling, aged 60 years, of Toledo, slip ped and'fell from tho roof of his- house to the ground, on Tuesday last, breaking hla neck.* —The wife of w.P. Comly, assistant editor of the Dayton Journal, died on -Wednesday even ing. Mrs. Comly was the daughter of the late Dr. Jchn nlccic, ul DayUa, COURT REPORTS. Report of the Criminal Court Grand Jury— Fall Endorsement of the Action of Mayor Mason and General Sheridan. The Bight of Women to Vote—Petition of Catharine V. Waite Against the Hyde Park Election Board. The Board of Trade File a *6lO to Enforce a Distribution of the Proceeds of Damaged Crain* OBUONAIi COTJBT. REPOST OF TUB GRAND JUBT. The grand jury concluded its labors shortly after 1 o’clock, returning into court eighty true hills, including four for murder and ono for man slaughter, making in all eighty-seven indictments returned this term. Two of. these indictments are against ono person, an Italian by the name of Gregory Peri. No bill was found against Theo dor© N. Treat, who shot. Colonel Qrosvonor. Thirty other charges investigated were Ignored. Before being discharged the grand Jury made the ‘following report: The grand Jury for November term, haring now finished their labors, andbeingabont to adloarn,would report to your Honor facta brought to their notice; and, in response to your able charge to ns at the com mencement of onr term, bog to say that they hare been mindful of its counsels, and that their action has not been 'without some; painful and trying dream stances. Wo desire to say that wo folly endorse and com mend the action of His Honor Mayor Mason in calling to his aid tho services of Lieutenant General Sheri dan that wo honor the wise discretion of our Mayor in thrusting aside the petty vanity of place and posi tion. and Humnonlng to his side the wisest counsels in our midst, and aveAUng himself of their powerfnl aid in the appalling emergencies of the late connagra onr opinion the thanks of the community are due to tho Lieutenant General of the Army tor the timely and efficient aid he afforded us in co-operation with the regular police force of our city, recognizing In his efforts no spirit of usurpation of low or author- Itr. but, on the contrary, an unsehlsh desire to do a duty that tho emergencies of the hour demanded, the assumption of which was a great relief to the anxie ties t i the people. In the discharge of the trying duties imposed on men under his charge, or rather of his subordinates, acting volun tarily under him, a citizen who unfortunately was found from home at a very unrea sonable honr. was shot, and died in a few hours there of t or. We have given this sad case a patient and care, ful examination. Wo have had before us all those who hart the slightest knowledge of the affair, and our de liberations have resulted in setting at liberty tho young t"«ti who was tho caaso of the unfortunate oc currence. Not only wore the c*pture4 TUlftios in our jail turim. Jet***- thiov64 &nfl WhbfeMOf tho land flocked to tho carnival of flame. Numerous crimes, including many murders, committed during tho fire, have been before ua for examination. We feel convinced that nothing bnt the vigorous measures and strict surveillance of the police and military pro vented further outrage, ana instead of branding the acts of our Mayor and those who assisted lum as criminal, we feel constrained to say that wo deem their conduct to have been dictated by tho highest re gard for law and order. Wo have farther to report that a serious complaint was hroncht to our notice by a respectable citizen of Canada’ against the Managers and Warden ol the County Hospital, who charges that a kinsman of hie hart died there recently, and tliat his remains had been stolen and could nowhere bo fv,und. We summoned belt rc us the warden and Managers and others, but could obtain no satisfactory account from any of them regarding the missing remains. The statute of our State dees not seem to cover tho case, therefore we can enlv censure these officers or managers for want of, vUdlauceintho care of their dead. Wo recommend that the proper authority forthwith employ anight watchman to guard these premises, and tare other proper measures to prevent a like occurrence in fu tuio and the attention of onr Legislature be called to the insufficiency of our statute In such cases. The report was signed by twenty-oue of the grand jurors. Two members of tho body did not sign. the CHAPIN SHOOTING CASH, Charles E. Chapin, policeman, having neon re indicted for an assault with a deadly weapon upon tho driver of a water cart, whom ho shot be cause ho did not, in such speed as tho policeman reflulrrd, move from the railway track, tho grand Jury passed the following resolution. Atoof red. Tliat tho Board of Police Commissioners be requested to suspend Charles E. Chapin from duty un tliaftcrhls trial lor assault with a deadly weapon upon John Coughlin. NOTICB. Prisoners who arc under indictments will bo arraigned on "Wednesday. I'ETIT .UJRT EMPAXELLBD. The petit jury came into this court yesterday, and were created into an organized. b >dy, so for as to place those who had no acceptable excuses upon the regular panel. They woro tuen ad journed until Wednesday morning next at 10 o'clock, at which time tho trial of prisoners will commence. SUPERIOR COURT. TUE bight op wombs to vote. An alternative -writ of mandamus was sued out, allowed and made returnable on Monday next, in tbe Superior Court, before Chief Justice Jame son, upon which it is proposed to venture the question of the right of women to rote in this CO CntlTarino V, Waite, calling to her aid the statute which allows, in certain cases, the use of tbe people's name, lllod her petition against ■James id Stanley, H‘ E. StcbWns, and Joseph B. Lewis, Board of Registry for till) First Election District of Hyde rare, for a mandamus to compel ihpm topiao« her ttoaie upon the registry boons as a legal voter in said town. Mrs. Waite, In ber E edition, states that she Is a resident of, and fteo oldor In, tbe town of Hyde Tart, a citizen or Illinois, and of tbo United States of America, having resided in tbo State, uounty, town, and district, tbo time necessary to quaWy a voter. She states that upon the last day of October sbo I presented to tbe Board of RcgUlry, whlch was then in session, bet application to be registered, in tbo following words: CatharineV, Waite, aboyo tta a£6 of years, married, a freeholder &nu MSiftoni of Cooniy, Illinois, a citizen of tbo United States, and of the State of Illinois, baviug resided in tbo State of Illinois one year previous t« making ibis anpucailon, also having resided In tills election district thirty days continuously previous to this time, claims the right, and makes tula her application, to bo registered as a legal voter in tbe First Election District of the town of Hyde Park. Cook County, Illinois, at the same time expreassng her willingness to take the oath, at the propertime, which is proscribed by the tenth section of tuc Election law of the State of Illinois, passed February 12, 1549, or by any other law now in Whereupon the board refused to register her name, and, upon request, reduced their refusal Into written form as follows: We, the subscribers. Inspsctors-of election at the First Election rislrict of said town, acting as aUrod of Ilegistry, hereby decline afid refuse to enrol xna names of Catharine V. Waite and Helen M. Waite as voters at the election to bo held at the Town Hall in said town, on the 7tb day of November. 1371, os re quired to do by their written application presontedto us this day. MOUTOXOE Sato'S-muED. An injunction issued upon the complaint of Adelaide Jackson to restrain. Henry W. Martin from making sale under power contained in a mortgage of the premises known as No. --J Fomth avenue. ASSUMPSIT. Actions of assumpsit "were instituted as toi —John B. Corltes and others against James E. Tyjer, B. and William G, E. Pope; do —Horace M. Singer against Philip M. Eater, TV. J. Whaling, Martin P. Mubory, and E. P. Whaling; demand, $3,000. _ —F. 11. Winston against Joseph Unman; de mand, $2,000. oraourr court. A BILL FOB A DISTRIBUTION OF PROCEEDS OF DAMAGED GRAIN.' A bill-waft tiled on the part of the Board oT Trade as against unknown parties, under which to procure a decree for the dlaposiHon of the pn> ceeds of sales of damaged -grain, tho result of the late Arc. The hoard represents that it has a cor porate existence, andavera that u Are in the city of Chicago I Sit down and 11l tell you all about it”} which destroyed a constder abie quantity of grain, amountmg In the a*gix gat© to over a million bushels, stored as follows. 5 the Galena Elevator. 200,000 bushels: H. Wheeler Elevator; 209,000 bushels; Mun -cer- Armour’s Elevator, about 51V 000 bushels; National bushels, and Central Elevator A about bushels. This gndn was .owned ber of parties, unknown, resident here and elße wbcT©,-a great part of it being Insured. Afterthe ■'Ar© wae greatly extinguished much of wns found, to be not wholly destroyed, bat, bt-ing cn Are, its‘removal became necessary, where fore, urum; request, they cared for It. saved such as they could, and. upon advertisement, sola n, causing notices to on sent to the Boards of Trade of all adjoining grain markets. The sale washy auction, and there, was realised, as proceeds., $66;- 666.24, which, less tbe amount of $5,216.99, is on hand to bo distributed. BKABatraetlng the City, To ih* Editor of The Chicago Tnbunc: 6m: As an old citizen, who-has, for the-last twenty years, done his share toward building up Chicago, permit mo to submit myplah of recon structing this city. Let the General-Assembly or dain to tho effect: First That, in all large cities, there must bo sot apart an inner or central district, comprising at least ono-thlrd of the area of the entire city, in which the erection of buildings of any kind with outer wallls of Inflammable material is strictly forbidden. ■Second. That throughout said city no building with inflammable outer wails ,b© constructed higher than twenty feet to the peak of tho roof, or over a larger area of ground than 2,000 square feet, unless (In such latter case onlv) the same be divided by one or more twelve-inch brick walls, reacting in evorv direction at least three feet beyond the outlines of such building. TAirrf. That all roofing material employed, tbroughout such city,- shall bo of incombustible material. jVmrt/l. That, through the effect of .this very act, the limits of such fire-proof district shall ©r-'l tend outward in every dliectlon In from two to throo years; each extension comprising a certain number of—say two—squares. Fijlh. That the gradual destruction of all wooden buildings be Insured. All wooden' build lugs In the central half (to: be defined by the Common Council} of the fire-proof district should be abolished within fire years: tho others within -ten years the abolition to keep pace with the gradual-extension of the fire limits. The Common council \o divide tho olty Into three districts, to-wit: Tho special fire limits, in which tho employment of inflammable material in or.about the outer walls or roof of any building is. strictly forbid den, to reach from Twenty-second street to Dh ivsion, bounded west toy Clark; from Twelfth street to Chicago avenue, bounded west by the river, from Van Buren to Fulton street, bounded west by Halsted. The general fire limits to extend from the olty limits to North avenue, boundedl west_by_Wolls streets; from Twenty-second to division street, bounded west by the river; from .Twelfth afreet to Chicago avenue, bounded weatby Bcuben The general limits to extend as ordained by the Assembly; the special limits to be extended as may be deemed expedient. Lumber yards and dangerous factories to bo ex cluded from the special limits. No shavings or other highly Inflammable articles to .remain.any where loose over night under heavy penalties, It is important that regulations should be a* to thickness of division walls between stores, ware houses, and factory bulldin gs (only these) in any nart of the city. For the three upper stories such division walls should' .not bo’ less than sixteen mobes thick 5 it»r the Me*ltw© storms below not less than twenty Inches: fornpy raorostories bo- Irttr Tint looa than tWO feet. Thin, I l)OllC\C( isoll that isneeded. If It bo deemed toleg lelnto on the tlilrknc«» of outer wulloini,ot MI»aoo»it Imm •written a letter, which has been printed, in which he says: ".Realizing the sinister nse'that was be ing mode of insinuations -and innuendo about the ordinary courtesies of entertainment, and not feeling willing that our great State should ho put to the defence in regard to tho character of its Executive, hut rather that tt should stand above suspicion and above even malignity, deter mined some time since to vindicate this reputa tion by habits of total and entire abstinence.” PERSONAL. Dp. Dsnglas R. Bannan, of the United States Kary, died at Philadelphia on the 13th Inst. —Sir Roderick Murchison appointed Professor Archibald Gclkie, of Edinburg, his literary exe cutor, and left him a legacy of £I,OOO, for which favor tho Professor will ‘write his*life. To the in stitution with which he was connected ha has left the snuff-box,and the’ magnificent Siberian aventurine vaac. mountedmi a porphyry pedes tal, presented' to.him by the .lata Emperor of- Russia.’ He has also left to the tamo Institution his valuable gold and platinum plate; —Horace Greeley was actually in a swell” coat among the frivolous throng at a fashionable wedding; last week. —Charles Svslewakl, son of Count Walewski and tho celebratcdL Rachel, the actress, has enlisted as a private soldier In the French army. —The body of a Mrs. Wilson, at LockjKjrt, K.T., who was-burled forty years ago, has. been ex humed entire and found tamed to stone, weighing about 600 pounds." It Ims been re interred in Green wood Ccmetery/New —The Norwich (Conn.) Advertiser sonsiders E Pluribua Unum‘a*good name for the.son of a Mor mon. -rCardlnal Antonelll has not grown thin on asceticism. He is now dreadfully persecuted with gout and other ailments engendered by luxurious living. Notwithstanding his alleged poverty, the or- Emperor N.poleoa toB sent a million tomes to tho Pope. —The last, article that reached print from the unfortunate FredW. Loring was. by a curious coincidence; entitled Into the Valley bt Death,” descriptive of hia journey into tlje bloody Indian grounds. i v ,r —iL Lc Lcsscps, in spite of tho ill reports con. coming the Baez Canal, declares that ho will never permit it to. fall Into English hands. —ln 1811, tho following advertisement appeared In the Now Orleans Picayune Five Dollars Reward—Ron away from the subscriber on tho Md of November last, tho negro boy Oscar Dunn, on apprentice to tho plastering trade; Ho is of griffo color, between Maud 21 years ol ago, and about s feet ID dr.ll inches high. All persons aro cautioned not to harbor said boy, under penalty of the law. 'Wilson i Patterson, comer St. John and Common 'streets." "Tho negro boy Osoar Dunn” is now lieutenant Governor of Louisiana. —Colonel James M. Sanderson, late of Hew Tort city, and proprietor of tho Langham Hotel, London, died on Thursday night; of disease of the heart, at the ago of 60 years. Ho was a native of Philadelphia, a sonof a well-known hotel-keeper of the same name, and nephew of Professor John Sanderson, remembered for his Uvea of tho Signers of tho Declaration of Independence," and of that lively book, plagiarized hy Joles Janin, Tho American In Paris.” Colonel Sanderson was carefully educated for a professional posi tion, bnt preferred to pursue the career of Brillat-Savarin, in devoting himself- to tho study of co .iking as a matter of tasto and science. He came to New York many years ago* and found a position in the New York Hotel as caterer and maitre dt ctrifme.* The erenta of the war loosened his relations with Hr. Crans ton at tho moment that tho company owning tho Langham Hotel in London were seeking' a super intendent of that enterprise, aatllhey secured tho service of Colonel Sanderson, whose management condneted the enterprise to a-high pitch of proa* perity. Colonel Sanderson will bo remembered by- y military men as having been Intrusted, by Sec retary Stanton \rith the superintendence of “cootery” for the Army of the Potomac during its advance on Richmond. It may be added that the Colonel -was captured by the Southerners, and ■was long detained aa a prisoner. Fire T*imiU. To Vie -Editor of The Chicago Tribune I agree -with the committee that no more frame buildings should ho erected in Chicago. The ordi nance should he in general terms' only, that all buildings hereafter erected should hare their ex terior Trails of brick, stone, or other incombusti ble materials; no ehlngledroof of wood. Composi tion roofs may be allowed, provided- they are en closed by firewalls eighteen Inches high on aU sides; wooden cornices and French roofs not al lowed when the top of cornice Is over forty feet, or top of roof over fifty feet above the sldowaHc grade. When above that height, to ho fire-proof. This is all that is required, and If rigidly enforced will ho of greater value than detailed ordinances which no one will pay any attention to. and will cause endless litigation, and ajury always against them. Leave the thickness of the walls, and all other matters of construction to tho owners and archi tects, to the insurance agents* and. If necessary, to ajury of experts in any case where flagr tuft I violation of required permanence is done or at- It la not required for any public good that all walls oue-story high shall bo twelve-Inch thick, or that a two-story dwelling shall have sixtoon ineb walls in first story, and twelve inch, abovo (and that specify that a frame building may be enclosed with a four-inch wall of brick with out regard to height). The laboring and mid dling classes must have dwellings at low cost. Let us copy Baltimore and Philadelphia in this regard; they arc of brick exclusively, but they build brick bouses that a poor man can afford to live in, and hnvo tho entire house to himself (I do not believe in tenement houses, and hope wo shall not bo driven to bnild six-story houses with, walla two feet thick, to herd tho people In. hav ing from ten to twenty families in a house); wo invo plenty of room for all to have a homo of their own; we should build in blocks (and not h isolate the bulldimrs). This is tho practice in both, those cities; there' arc many buildings iu Balti more two stories high, ha vine party walls of brick work only, four inches thick. I lived lu au«h house in iKtt. In that, city. Tho joists of such buildings, of course, toueb each other on the walls, but if constructed, with slate roofs, such buildings would resist tho spreading of fires except from tho Immediately adjoining buildings, and for tho samo accommo dation they can be built at leas cost than our isolated one-story frame cottages, and would bo greatly superior, on account of warmth, and du rability. For this reason I object to any specification la he ordinance in regard to thickness of walls. In our commercial centre It Is also objectionable that au oilieo building, should have the same strength that would bo proper for the storage of Iron, or that on a lot twenty feet wide we should be obliged to build two walls two feet thick, leaving 16 feot for tho store; and tho adjoining building with similar walls would make four feet of masourybotwem tho store. No general rule can be given, properly; for thickness of walls by their helght,as the length has much to do with theirstahllity. Forinstanco, avail iso feet long, without transverse wuUs con nected. with If, would fall much sooner in case of fire than a wall of.less thickness of shorter length, or connected by transverse walls. Again, walls enclosing largo areas and of great height without jatteral support, except at tho base and ton, can not have their thickness regulated by their height simply; but are proportioned by rules known to architects, and with which promiscuous committees are not supposed to he familiar. And further, the/ront and ran* walls, resting on slight piers or Iron columns in basement or first story, do not roqniro to bo as thick as other walls; tho floors of tho building do not rest upon them, and any superfluous weight In such walls would militate against tho desired object It is simply a slander-to say that the business portion of our city was not properly built. The business blocks put up In the last fifteen years were not only beautiful, hnt suffi ciently substantial; no building has fallen from any defect in its construction. Somo have been blown down while in process of erection, hut none have failed on account of the thickness of their walls. Manyof our destroy ed buildings had walls of extraordinary thickness, vet they to-day lions low as their neighbors. I therefore respectfully Insist that a general ordv nance bo given us against frame buildings, and leave the details of construction to those whose business it Is to see that tho walls have proper foundations and thickness to insure safety and stability to their buildings. No one has more reason to regret tho calamity that has befallen our city than I, and none will go further to avoid the danger of a repetition; but I do not p'fopos6 to“get 'crazy about It; -to pull down all the bay-windows, piazow, and wooden cornices, and prohibit any other be ing put up. Such a course w sold be a stigmauw on our very extraordinary Firo Department, with its score oi steam fire engines. Bay-windows ana piazzas are seldom over two stories high, and with bnt little extra, exertion I believe tho do partment can take care of them. I submit, there fore, that we he allowed.to bnild bay-windows raid ■wooden rorni.es, plszzaa. &c,, at not over certain heights, so as to bo within easy control, and that above certain moderate heights we make tho building* as near fire, proof and Inde pendent of said department as possible, very respectfully, Jouif M. Van Os*jkl. Another Note from Mr. Timothy Wright. CHICAOO t Nor. 20. To ihe Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bra t. One' /word more In reply to what you aay on the subject of my letter. If the railroad com panies “will pay .the SBOO,OOO for the three squares only, and the city can reserve all the riparian, rights outside of them to the new outer harbor, ■with convenient access through Randolph, Wash ington, Madison and-Monroo streets, then it may be as well or better to do as you suggest; but from the very nature of the case this is impossi ble; The possession •of the three squares, or of the outer or east half of them, by thorailJjoard* companies, for 'depot purposes, virtually carries the riparian and other rights; these companies so .understand it, and are negotiating with tjafc end clearly In view, I ha ve no doubt. -Tf it was a question of depot or no depot any where in Chicago, and there was a rival city near; bytrvlngto bribe those companies, by magnifi cent gifts of to leave Chicago and coma to them, your argument in favor of the gift might be a good one—but that la not this case. It is pi quite as. much interest to those companies to secure the best central! ocation in Chicago as it Is for the city to have them r if they can suit them selves better anywhere in Chicago than to locate on the lake shore on the terms proposed, why not let them? The city at largo. will bo eqimlly tbo gainer. Some private interests may saner, and other private interests bo benefited In'the same degree. As,a property-holder in the old centre of the South Division, and near to the proposed now depot, lam willing to abide the consequenoes rather than that the. city should lose the million and a half of dollars secured by my proposal;; be lieving, as I do, that In the end the railroad com panies will be equally well accommodated, and without much increase of cost. Timotut Wbight. Kjow Befann«. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune; Sm: In imitation, I think, of the course pur sued by the Law Reform Commissioners in Eng land, would it not ho well for the committee op- pointed by tho Legislature, on the motion of Hon. W.'H, King, to draft and publish a sot of ques tions, covering tho investigation they propose to make, number them, and publish them for reply* by anyone who saw fit so to do, or address them to particular Individuals. It seems to .me that this would facilitate tho investigation,-save tho time of the committee and those who desire to give it their views, and enable many more to bo icard than can in any other-way, as these, replies would be made tip at the leisure and convenience of those making them, and therefore bo more brief and better considered than an oral address to the committee would bo. ••'W.T.B,. VTbrn Will Is t Xo'ris Editor of The Chicago Trpnxnt: Sib: Immediately after the ‘fir© the Great, Western insurance Company, of Chicago, rushed Into print, announcing _ its ability to, pay all ifcv losses, and boastlngly asked for’now business on tbe ground of Its solvency, and its good'faith. to' its customers. Wlllyou. if Toucan; tell' anxious’ losers when that company wiUbegto to pay its» policy-holders 1 ,A payment would; be a great re-;, fief to Mast Scrpnßßaa, CHICAGO, JTOV.2O,IBTI, Tsa-BenaPi Bswafsll* From tho New York Evening post. The latest accounts from Vienna explain tils downfall of Count von Beast. It seems thattba Emperor refused to'" dismiss the Hubehwaxt Cabinet, at the urgent reqnoat of the Chancellor. but he consented to dismiss it after a Jong inter view with the Hungarian Prime Minister. Ho doubt Count Andrassy pexwuadcdthe Emperor to try the experiment of confiding ‘the government for the first time to Hungarian Joseph could thus at once lessen the wrath of tho Greens by sacrificing the man whom they hated.' most of all, and keep the German Liberals from power. Von. Boost evidently overrated his own strength. He exulted openly after* the Emperor had acceded, as he believed, to hia wishes, while in reality the Hungarian Prime Minister had already.been, mode chancellor of the Empire. Count Andrassy had been for months urging the Emperor to appoint a Hungarian la place of Beast, and so to stop the quarrels of Um Czechs and Germans,, and had recommended Francis Beat for Chancellor, knowing that Dealt would not accept, and that then he must nuaseic» be appointed, it remains to be seen whether tna deceived and humiliated cx-Chancellor wIU ac cept a position under his former subordinate an Austrian Minister to London.