4 Terms el Snbacrlpilon, PAYABLE m ADVANCE Dally Edition, per year, by matt. .fliOO Tri-weekly Edition, per year, by hail 6.00 Sunday EdlUon, per y ear, by matt. 2.50 Weekly Edition, per year, by mail LOO Parts of a year at tlie same rate. To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post Office address in 1011, Including state and county. Remittances may be made either by draft, express, Post Office order, or in registered letters, at our risk. TERMS TO enr SUBSCRIBERS: Dally, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Dally, delivered, Sunday included, 30 cents per week. Address THE TBIBUNE COMPACTS’, No. 15 canal-st.. Chicago, HL SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1871. COOK COUNTY NORMAL SCHOOL. The Board of Education, on Tuesday last, adopted a resolution setting forth the great abuse perpetrated in the name of education, by tho Cook County Normal School, and, inasmuch as the institution Is wholly useless for any educational purpose, asking that the County Commissioners bereqnested to abate it. We think the action of the board is fully justified by tbe facts. The whole scheme of a county normal school has been a job from the beginning. It was a real estate specula tion on the one hand, and a pretext for pen sioning a certain number of dead-beats on the public treasury. No such institution was ever needed. We have a State University for the education of teachers, and we have, in the city of Chicago, an institution of tho same kind, which for excellence is not sur passed by any normal school in the United .States*. An idea of the comparative work ings of the two institutions may bo obtained from the fact that each graduate of the nor mal school of Chicago costs the public from S2O to $25, and each, one graduating at the county school costs from SI,OOO to $1,500. The annual salaries of the teachers of the school are stated by the Board of Education to he SIO,OOO. a sum sufficient to pay the en tire expenses of the Chicago Normal School for several years. It has heen impossible, however, to get at a correct statement of the whole expenses of the county establishment. In the old Board of Sapervisors expendi tures were made under the direction of com mittees, and no detailed report’of the items was ever made public. There is euough Known, however, by certain persons who have investigated the matter, to justify them in saying that the total expenditure for the institution ranges from $20,000 to $30,000 a year. In addition to this must bo added interest on §IOO,OOO expended on the building,—the money having been raised on 7 per cent bonds sold at 02 cents, the interest on which has heen paid for two years with money borrowed at 10 per cent interest. The institution has heen a fraud upon the public because it was wholly unnecessary from the beginning. It is precisely one of those corrupt jobs to correct which the Board of Coimtx Commissioners was established. If the board find that this school is an annual expense to the county of $20,000 to $25,000, in addition to the interest on the cost of the building, and that it is unnec essary, or that the expenditure is wholly disproportioned to the results, the school should ho closed without unnecessary delay, and the building devoted to some useful purpose. There are at this time more first class educated teachers unemployed than would supply all the vacancies in half a dozen counties the size of this county. There is no scarcity of teachers. An advertisement would bring hither twenty unemployed com petent teachers for each one j;hat may bo needed. The Comity Normal School maybe closed for ten years, if nut indelinitely, without having the remotest effect upon the supply of competent teachers, cither for the city, county, or State. THE QUEEN AND THE PRINCE. Many persons are ready to presage all sorts of confusion, anarchy, and revolution to England as a consequence of the death of the Prince of Wales. In the absence of any advices from England other than those an -4 nouncing the expected demise of the Prince, we are by no means disposed to anticipate any disturbance whatever. On the contrary, we apprehend that the event will lead rather to a strengthening of the bonds between the English people and their sovereign than to a dissolution or weakening of these bonds. There has been, it is true, a good deal of clamor against royalty of late, but that is nothing new in Great Britain. Other mon archs have been railed at, other heirs-appa rent have been denounced for their reputed vices, and other revolutions have been threatened; but it has always happened that the storm of discontent has blown over, and a calm and peaceful state of popular loyalty ensued. More than once the death of the heir-apparent, or other member of the royal family, has been the quieting cause. It is al together likelj’ to be so now. Victoria has been throughout her reigu a popular sovereign. She has been mild and peaceful in her reign and alive to tbo projects which her liberal Ministers have laid before her for tho.eleva tion of the condition of the masses, and the emancipation of British institutions from the traditions of darker ages. Perhaps no monarch since the almost mythical King Alfred can boast of having given the royal assent to more reforms for the benefit of the community than Queen Victoria. She has been, moreover, a peace-making and peace preserving monarch, and has keptthe nation out of more than one costly and bloody struggle. It is doubtless to Victoria and her deceased husband that both Great Britain and Amer ica owe the avoidance of hostilities between tbo two nations, growing out of tbo Trent affair, in 1802. In deed, the people of the United States have to her, and not without reason, a constantly friendly disposition toward this country during the period of our civil war, whatever that of the British aristocracy and- the Liverpool ship-owners may have been;- The feeling of Americans toward Victotia.is, therefore, a kindly one, so ranch so that, while we are devoted to a republi can form of government, and would like to British cousins well endowed with such a birthright, we should regret to see such an brought about to-day, even if it were practicable, through any rough dealing with the present sovereign of Great Britain. In the event of the death of the Prince of Wales, the loyal feeling of the nation, will be. greatly quickened bj’ the sad event. In their sympathy for the Queen the people will bo reminded afresh of her many virtues, and will forget the faults of her dead son. Of these they will say, that his errors and shortcom ings were those of his age and station rather than himself. They will remember that, so far as those features of the Prince’s life arc concerned which have become a sub ject of popular criticism, they were at the worst nothing more thau a copy of the Prince’s predecessors, a trait bv no means obnoxious to the popular British mind. Ifcnco the average feeling of the people toward their lost Prince will be one of unalloyed regret; that toward his be reaved mother one of pure sympathy. Against this feeling the Dilkes and Brad- Jaughs, who have of late been assaulting the public ear so vociferous] 3* against royal ty, will find it impossible to make any prog ress. Alreadj' tbo pcoxile had begun to silence their harangues in that rude hut ef fective mauuer characteristic of the staunch British subject, and their success for the next few 3-ears will be »ven more doubtful than it was a week ago. Now comes Governor John T. Hoffman, of New "York, who proposes to declare, in his annual message to the Legislature, that the Democratic party must be dissolved; that it is powerless for good; that it serves ouly to perpetuate evils aud abuses, and that the best interests of the country demand its for mal disbandment. Ho is willing to unite with any Republicans in any way to accom idish political reforms. But there is one thing Governor Hoffman and those who agree with him overlook. It makes no difference whether the party opposed to the Republican party be called Democratic or by any other name -so long as it is ruled and directed by the Hoffmans, Blairs. Pendletons, aud Randalls, it will be practically the same thing it is now. What these men, who profess to be governed by the beat interests of the coun try, must do, is to join fcho Republican party. Let them abandon all other organizations, and unite with the Republicans. Iu that party, and as part of its organization and strength, they will be able to render valuable service to the country, accomplish reforms, rebuild the credit of the nation, audestabliah a sound policy of taxation. As an opposition party,the Democrats will gain nothing by the mere dropping of their name. tttr BOUAN CATHOLIC SCHISM IN GERMANY. Those clerics, and others in Germany be longing to tho Roman Catholic Church, who reject tho dogma of infallibility, and who have been formally excommunicated, are rec ognized as “Old Catholics,” as distinguished from those who have embraced tho new doc trines, Tho extent of the division in the Church is in proportion to the forcible means taken by those in authority to compel acceptance of the new dogma. This effort has been made in all parts of Germany, and has been resisted. In Bavaria there was, during tho session of the council, a strong opposition to the dogma, and especial pains were taken to force down this opposition. Excommunication failing to coerce any person, an attempt was made to seize tho Church property aud institutions, and exclude all but tho infallibilists.” To do this required the aid of government, which was refused. Tho re sult is, that, the government recognizing the excommunicated Catholics as members of the Church, the dispossession has not taken place. There are now 114 Old” Catholic congregations in Bavaria holding Church property in defiance of Papal authority. The process of excommunication has proved a failure, so far as it was intended to frighten the faithful. The raid'is, Oliat an/excommu nication, however formally declared, is op erative only when it is pronounced for just cause,—aud in Germany the opponents of infallibility are so assured of the rectitude of their conduct that they “take tho chances” whether the excommunication has any real validity. This disregard of Episcopal authority is so general that several Bishops have now adopted a more conciliatory course, and no longer denounce their incredulous flocks. Tho King and Ministry of Bavaria refuse to remove tho Old” Catholic Professors at tho theological universities, so these institutions now teach that Papal infallibility is not true, and that its proclamation 'is not binding upon the conscience of men. Tho resistance to this doctrine is pretty much the same in tho Prussian provinces, aud the organization of distinct congregations, under tho titles of Old and New, has been the result of efforts to excommunicate. In Westphalia, Baden, aud Wurtemburg the “Old” Church is in full operation. There are even in Austria similar defections. In Hungary the hierarchy were determined opponents of tho new dogma, and for a long time refused to proclaim it. Within a short time, however, the Cardinal Archbishop has issued a letter advising every person, no matter, what his personal opinions may be, to submit, in order to avoid a division in the Church. Tho Hun garian.Diet has recognized the Old” Cath olics as the true Church. The doctrine of Papal infallibility has heen .received by the Roman Catholics of the world generally with indifference hut there has heen no division of the Church anywhere except in those countries where an attempt has been made to compel a formal acceptance of it. In such cases a revels has taken place. This serves as another illustration of the fact that the human mind can no longer be con trolled in its judgments by ecclesiastical re solves. Papal infallibility is virtually re jected In all Germany, and, should the policy of coercion ho persisted in, will make as w J de a separation of Chnrch-memhers as took place in the days of the Reformation. A TILT AT THE COURTS, Wendell Phillips has mounted a now hob by one which does not seem likely to prove quite as ricketty and infirm as some which he has lately* bestridden. Abandoning for a time the crusade for Tjroman-sulirage and eight-hour laws, the indefatigable agitator has lately addressed himself to the task of reforming our courts of law and insane asylums. A recent lecture given by him in Boston leads to the inference that Wendell regards courts of Jaw as a nuisance of the first magnitude. In them (he complains} the rights of the individual are daily over ridden in the most shameful manner. The State, ho charges, is constantly making a brute of itself, by assaulting the most sacred rights of the individual. Wendell seems to pine for the good old days when the rights of the individual were held so precious that men went to war for the third or the fourth place in a royal procession. Now, ho says, the State connives at the malice of evil doers, and enables them to shut an innocent person up in jail on a mere complaint, with out grounds, and affords no redress to the person so injured. Hero is the philanthro pist's illustration of this species of iniquity —a case which we fear many readers will recognize as the prototype of something within their own recollection; I served once as a Clerk in a court of this county, and I remember a single case of a woman who earned her daily dollar, and the pride of her life was, that her grandchildren, left to her orphans, were kept from the almshouse by their grand mother’s persistent thrift and toil. It was the last refuge of a justifiable pride. She was an object of some criticism in the neighborhood, and finally dragged into the court on a charge of theft. Friendless, she could nat be bailed, and she re mained nearly a month In the Suffolk County Jail. In that time ncr grandchildren necessarily were sent to the poor house, her little stock of furni ture was sold at auction to pay her rent, she had to borrow of her neighbors the means of getting her witnesses, and at last, after nigh thirty days, she saw the face of a Judge for thirty minutes, and the final examination of the case showed it was baseless; that it had not a loop to hang a doubt on; that it hadn’t a shadow of .justification by the confession of the Magistrate himself. Out of pocket more than she could earn in two months, scarred in character, sore with the breaking of the only tie that bound, her to self-respect, her children paupers, the Judgo graciously alio wedlier to go. Whose mistake was it that she ever came there 1 Not her. She never stopped her foot over the line of the law. The State owed her atonement; the State owed her compensation. The State, which had invaded the round of her domestic and faultless life, owed her, in the per son of the Magistrate, a public apology, and then behind that the amplest pecuniary compensation for the loss. [Applause.! Why don’t it do it? Because the King can do no wrong, and the State can never be charged with it*, offences. Another outrage of the courts, of which Mr. Phillips complains, is the i npunity with which lawyers are allowed to huliy and rid icule witnesses in court. One-half of what is called the wit of the bar,” ho says, “is nothing hut gross abuse of witnesses; wit which among gentlemen would bo con sidered infamous." He goes further, and charges the bench—yea, the bench of Bos ton Itself—with rrahameful degree of aristo cratic favoritism. Here are some of his accu nations, in which his audience manifested marked sympathy: There ia la the courts of Massachusetts, and especially of Boston, an aristocratic leaning and favoritism which would disgrace any bar ia Christendom: and I have known a perfectly faultless and worthy member of the Suffolk bar, standing high in social life, who was obliged, after years of submission to injustice, to rebuke a late Chief Justice of the Common wealth to his face, because ho never could get a hearing when brought in comxietition with the more lashionablc and popular members of the bar; and I have known that Chief Justice, the most honorable instance of an honorable career, meet that gentleman afterwards on the pavement atd acknowledge that ho deserved the rebuke. e have in this County of Suflolk a law club. It is made up of the fashion and wealth of the bar. iNo man enters it merely on the ground that he is a iawj-tr. or mat he is learned in the law, or that i!P,r5 9 J SUC cc ll* ui u tbe law, or that he has a large must belong to a petted circle ho tiiiaii?e\aldronof Michigan; andS.S.Cox, of New York, axe associated with Mr. Hooper. Tho Pacific Railroad Committee, is led by Wheeler, of New York,—aresiden tof Malone, where the Fenians made their back-action light into Canada, two years ago. Ho has also been President of the New York Consti tutional Convention, and this is tho third Congress ho has come to. Wheeler’s friends made an effort to run him to the head of Ways and Means. It is very questionable as to whether tho rest of tho committee is not tho weakest combination, so far as public reputation is. concerned, which Blaine has given the|country. Perhaps ho thought that nothing good could go out of the Pacific Railroad, or come into it. Austin Blair, of Michigan, who expected, under certain circumstances, to go to the head of Ways and Means, is put at the head of the strong Committee on Claims. Hois supposed to bo a man of natural integrity, without political charity and without economical eyesight. Ho can do no harm, however, in the Claims Committee. At the head of the Committee of Commerce stands Samuel Shellabarger, of Ohio, —a pian in middle life, a native of Ohio in Mouroo’s administration, and a successful public mau. Shellabarger was set down in the popular computations for a high committee, and was supposed to have bid for itin certain speech es winch he has lately made in Ohio. Nothing has been developed of the man here, how ever, except some clearness of diction and plausibility of personal appeal when tho fag ends of questions came up. He is one of two or three fanatics in Congress who would have tho government count all tho silver spoons in each township of the country, and number the hairs of every American citizen. His notion of a great nation is something poking its nose under every clothes-line, and he thinks tho American flag should be at tached to every convict’s shirt and Jack Tars cap. With this unhinged sort of a man, they have put in Sawyer, of' Wisconsin; Lynch, the advocate of the revival of Maine shipping with national funds; aud Conger, who wants the government to build a port wherever there is an indentation in tho Western Lakes as big as a notch in a boy’s jacknife. Such is the Committee on Com merce. The Committees of Public Lands, Agricul ture, and Private Land Claims may bo grouped together under the respective Chair manships of Ketcham, of New York,—a politician and volunteer soldier; Wilson, of Ohio, a man educated in the State Legisla ture: and Mecur, of Pennsylvania, from the New York border. On these committees there are few other men known to the pub lic eye. Farnsworth, of Illinois, keeps the Post Office Committee; ho is the ablest Illi noisan, counting experience as a part of Legislative abiGty, now in Congress. The Committee on Manufactures amounts to nothing as a general rule, and a Missouri man Las it now. Bnrdett, a native of Eng land, and to whom might bo ascribed, in case he does not please tho tariff ilk, legitimate intentions on “British gold.” The Military Committee is headed by Co burn, of Indiana, a volunteer officer of tho war; Slocum and Lew Campbell are on this committee. Shanks, of Indiana, heads the Indian Affairs Committee, which has some small timber in it this Congress. Tho Judiciary falls again into the hands of Bingham, who has about as little judicial character as any man in Congress, being a rhetorician, cranky, and bigoted, and alert for a sentiment all the time. Bon Butler, and Peters, of Maine, are on this committee; and the three Democrats are Eldridgo, Voorhees, and Potter, of New York. Eldridgo I have found, on acquaintance, to bo a well-inform ed and entertaining man. The Naval Committee is headed by a man who lives in a part of tho country where some of tho greatest barge-frigates in the world continue to navigate,—Gleuni Scofield, of Northwestern Pennsylvania; with whom are tho old naval crowd: Starkweather, Ketcham, Coghlan, of California,—a fine-ap- E earing young man,—two or three carpet aggers, and a Michigan lumberman. When wo come to the Committee on For eign Allairs,—which, in the Senate, is tho ranking committee of all,—wo find tho in offensive Banks retained at the head of it, and Fernando Wood, General Morgan, and Robinson, of Illinois,—three Democrats,— bringing up the rear, while a couple of oth ers who have been to Europe fill up the body. The Territories of tho united States fail into tho hands of Tafie, of Nebraska,—a na tive Indiana man, formerly of Indianapolis. There is no good reason why a Territorial Delegate should not be put on this commit tee, so as to speak for the Territpriea ti»^ n selves, Beu Sutler takes tho Committee Chair manship on Revision of the Laws of the United States, a committee to which instant attention will be drawn, upon tho supposi tion that he has some designs upon the laws of the United States. Judge Kelley takes charge of tho Committee on Coinage and Weights and Measures, where he Is well in formed. Ho is chagrined to the soul that he docs not head Ways and Means. The two Washington committees—District of Columbia and Public Buildings—fall to Starkweather, of Connecticut, and Halsey, of New Jersey. On those committees, Far well, of Illinois, and Roosevelt, of Now iork, go. Old Judge Poland, of Vermont, a fine old man, takes charge of tho Committee on In surrectionary States; with Lira, among oth ers, are Horace Maynard, Scofield, Farns worth, Job Stevenson, Ben Butler, S. S. Cox, and Beck, of Kentucky. Tho Library Com mittee is a good ouo, —tho only committee connected with literature,—and Peters, of Maino: Wheeler, of New York; and Camp bell, of Ohio, compose it. Leonard Myers takes tho Pateut Commit tee; and Jesse H. Moore, of Illinois, the Pen sion. The Accounts—a committee much abused in times past—falls into tho hands of Buffington, of Massachusetts, who ought to watch the shysters around the House. Buf fington is a Fallßiverman, and used to work at tho loom, then studied medicine a little while, went whaling a little while, went shopping a good while, took up a gun in tho war as a private, and has been in Congress several times. Ho ought to watch tho ac counts. There are several other committees of no significance except to the people upon them. As to Ways and Means, somebody said to Blaine: “You have lost the confidence of Pennsyl vania Said Blaine: “Well, that is hotter than losing the confidence of all the rest of the country.” THE MESSAGE. The President's message vras read in the House by Clerk Edward McPherson, of Get tysburg, Pa,, who has continuously read messages from Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, and Grant. Ho is a man of quick 03*0 and apprehension, but not very strong in health or voice, and yet he was fairly heard hy one of the smallest audiences which I have ever seen gathered in the House galleries at the opening of a session. Comparatively few Seoplo were also upon the floor, and the dim aylight gave poor effect to the now drab carpet, a large portion of which was re vealed, bare and blank, where, in former times, dense throngs of people, pressing quite up to the rows of chairs, have given charac ter to similar scenes. The President’s message assumed au undue importance during the old administrations. At that day tho literature of the country, while strong in somo respects, had little cir culation; and, fully threo-fonrths of the American people entertained loud and rhet orical notions of how a statesman should speak and write. Tho booming, reso nant rhetoric of Webster, the nervous and intense periods of Payne, tho broadside criticism of Logreo and Fennimoro Cooper, the shilly-shally feitilhloinsmlot Gaj’lord Clarke, and the|perso nalities, invectives, and apostrophes of a set of statesmen who apprendod the turn of a sentence better than the turn of a national sentiment or a great material fact,—these made the populace entertain the notion that, when a President's message appeared, we ought to have at least something stirring in form, find, if possible, stirring in idea. In those old days, when railroads wore few, they put on special locomotives, running at the gigantic speed of twenty-five miles an hour; and, whenever somo city or other cut off the proper connection between two parts of the same road, a furniture wagon was prepared, with two mules attached, and tho American fiag covering both wagons and mules,—which carried the message from one depot to anoth er. Then Sir Bumpkin, who could not parse tho name of any State, in tho Union, or tell the derivation of his grandfather, stood open-mouthed at the little old railroad sta tion, to catch the stray copies of the Presi dent's message as it was pitched off, and to hear tho village demagogue, fresh from his cups,—said demagogue having remained long at hi? post, with relays of drinks every twen ty minutes, in order to pass the first opinion upon the message,—read the whole thing over, paragraph by paragraph, and illustrat ed it by local circumstances and passing lo- Scnds. Those were tho days when a Prosi ent's message divided with Hollow E’en and hog-killing time tho whole year, so far as hol idays were concerned. Wo got down so far in the latter days of the pro-slavery party, that men like Buchanan wrote messages, not for Congress, to show the state of the coun try, but for somo supposititious part of their own party, which was presumed not to have read the newspapers.—all tho news papers being then Black Republican,— but still keeping up the old traditional no tion of reading tho President’s message. Frank Pierce and James Buchanan had a vague idea that,, with a message once a year, and a special message now and then thrown in, they could neutralize the whole Republican press and readers of the repub lic. Mere modem politics, with its accom panying prying press, prying lecture sys tem, and prying travelling system, has made the mere utterances of a single man at a fixed rime no more a matter of superstition. A President can neither move oiit of his orbit, as ho used to, or revolutionize tho country with a statement or a sentiment, as he might baye done. The great body of citi zens has been moved up upon the officials, and, although a goodly crowd still assemble to hear what the President has to say fresh from his lips, and share the feelings of those Congressmen who hear it, yet the pen alties for buncombe in our dav arc too great for the President to overstep the bounds of common diction and ordinary relation and synopsis, Ihere is danger, of course, that an ordinary sort of a man, at tho Si x?- tho uatioQ at a time like this, might set tho example of a message little abovean auctioneers praise of the goods which lie presently means to Bell, and a little below the charge of some country Judge to-the grand jury, notifying them of the power of the law; and the par ticular example which must be made of men who dilute cider. grant's notions. General Grant’s message, in point of stvlo and form, is the best that ho has given. Wo can observe in this man a steady improve ment, naturally derivative from his enlarged opportunities. Where ho sticks to concise relation of the fuller matter contained in the reports of his Secretaries, be has been this year apt enough to tell the people the facts as he comprehends them. Where he speaks out of his way, as he is careful not to do mpre than once or twice, and then uncon sciously to state some general proposition, he, for the first time, starts a discussion. And it may bo said that, while this is a very or thodox message, it is probably one of the very lowest grade in the sense of making the people of the country think. Nothing is put down which contains even the germ of a thought, or which leans this way or that in any other popular agitation, as a Magistrate might properly do, and com mit no grave error. Trimmed, weighed, de livered up to a nation of voters with preju dices, and not to a nation of voters with in dignations or aspirations, this message may be called one of the most considerate and selfish synopses which ever left the Executive Mansion. POINT NA-POINT. Two or three suggestions might be made: The President discourages the ancient and honored system of giving support to educa tion out of the public lands. In the earliest Congress of the country, a section in every township was devoted to the support of the common schools. This message throws that system overboard, and bids for tho vote of those interests which mean to take up the whole of tho public lands, by saying that educational interests may bo sufficiently well preserved by the grants of the proceeds of tho sales of public lauds to settlers. I raise no issue on this point, but ask whether the President’s position is well considered with reference to the successful traditions of the country. Tho President, in his reference to the report of-the Commissioner of Agriculture, says; “Agriculture is the groundwork of our pros perity.” Earlier in the message he says, by way of a flourish, that “the true prosperity ana greatness of a nation is [a good instance of magisterial culture] to ho found in the education and elevation of its laborers.” Both of these propositions for general enun ciation are good; are either of them more Ilian little bits of rhetoric? Of how much more significance is the President’s state ment in his remarks on the redaction of taxes, that such should be made on those articles which will not reduce the wages of American labor Suppose that the wages throughout the country are higher than ever before, and the results of life to the laboring man are less f It is no torious in political economy that high wages make general poverty; and wages were mod erate in America until the war withdrew a million of men from productive affairs, made us a vast purchaser abroad, and set all the energies of popular government at work to make havoc. Them wages went up. It is this kind of specious assertion which dema gogues like Butler, and badly-informed men like tho President, address to laboring class es for nothing is surer than that average wages produce happiness to tho laboring classes, and that high wages are always at tended with a corresponding increase m the price of existence. Gath. GROCERIES, ETC. STANTON CO. 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Policies on Churches, Dwellings, Stores, Elevators, Packing Houses, Warehouses and their contents, issued at fairxates. Make application direct to J. VAN INWAGEN, Agent, 92 West 2Xadison-st. Tills Company sustained NO I.OSS by the Chicago fire. INSOLVENT Insurance Companies. Through arrangements I hare per fected in New York City, with a per fectly responsible party. I will attend to the collection of claims against in solvent New York Insurance Compa nies for one-half per cent on amount of claim, besides keeping creditors advised .of the situation of companies, probabilities of dividends, &c. J. VAN INTYAGEN, Office. 92 West Madison-st. BANKING. iumra&co., BANKERS, BTo. 134 West Twellth-st., near Canal-sf. A regular Banking Business transacted; accounts taken, and hooks famished on application. LOAN OFFICE: LAUNBER’S Money Loan Office, Formerly at ifrl Bamtolph-st. now northeast comor Wahash-av and Tweaty-secoml-st, Boom 2. f~ ROCK RIVER PAPER MAOTFA CTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN PATENT BUILDING PAPER. nnirioa rece ye( i innumerable letters since the fire containing in nnKiish s pecli ®g onr business, &c., &c., we hare thought host to answers most important questions, and our of BUIIDIN G* ont? Ans C0™? 16461 losing over Two Hundred Tons all onr Books S several thousand dollars’ worth of PRINT PAPER, and IXRE. Ck CMcago *BS, AND HAD WITHIN 48 HOURS M^? iaVe y U not atlvertiaed 1 Ans. Couldn’t fully supply the demand D^S OUSOWm,IChi CMCaSO B Ce the fae? Am. OVER TWO HUN- CAN, raOMPTLY OIS6IB f raU f yQUr BB UJ>ING PAPER? Ans. WE a Is your PATENT PLASTERING BOARD better than w»if feed substitutes? Ans. IT IS, MOST DECIDEDLY, "more compart mid solid; is a perfect non-conductor of heat or cold; will not swell or shrink, as it contains no alum, salt, or other substance known to gather dampness: does not attract rats, mice, or other vermin; is water-proof; and perfectly air-tight. Samples and Descriptive Circulars sent free to any address oy ROCK RIVER PAPER CO., B. F. NOEEIS&GO. lom mm, 468 WABASH-AV., formerly comer Clark and lake-sts. THE OLD SALAMANDER. Btlailirbed 1860. Burned Out Oct. 9, 1871. Beopened Oct. 10, 1871. By immediately transferring onr stock in our New York Office to Chicago, we now have one of the most choice stocks of FINN GOODS West of New York for the HOLIDAYS. We shall RETAIL all goods at our regular WHOLESALE PEICES until Jan. 1, 1872. Look for THE FINEST EEONT ON THE AVENUE—that is the place. Call before buy ingr elsewhere. WATCHES AND JEWELRY. A, H. MILLER, Established, 1856 Burned up, Get. 8 and 9, 1871 Re-established, Oct. 12, 1871 AT 479 Wabash-av., Corner JEldridge*cottrt, And is opening the most elegant assortment of HOLIDAY GOODS Ever shown in Chicago, The above stock haying been select ed by Mr. Miller in his late trip to Europe and designed for his magnificent store in process of erection, comer State and Madi son-sts., which was also destroy ed in the late conflagration. Or. Ollier’s connections abroad hare not been severed, wblth enables him now, as In the past,, to stand as the leading Jeweller of the West. Also, has his Oanofactorlng De partment In fall operation, retaining all the old first-class workmen, and is prepared to mate or repair Jewelry, Watches, Silver ware, &e., to order. A. 11. MILLER, 479 W abash-ar., late Corner Clark and Eandolph-sta. REEFING COATS. MABLEY HULL We leave it with the managers of paper to ascertain who is responsible for the mistake in our advertisement, of last Friday, which located our place of busi ness on Waahington-st.; but we venture to say, without knowing who occupies the corresponding number on that street, that he has no Double-Breasted Reefing Coats as good as ours at the price named, $7.00. 122 W. Madison-st. LOAN OFFICE. LAUISDDER’S MONEY LOAN OFFICE, Formerly at IWBandolpli-st;; noir northeast corner v> aoaah.av anil Twcntr-scroml-st. Room 2. DENTISTRY. D.M. TOWNER CO. DENTISTS, 181 and 183 "WTest Madison-st., Northeast Comer Hoisted. VITALIZED AIR Given la extracting Teeth. No pain, do danger. Extracting Teeth, each soc Artificial Tectli, very beat'.'.".*".".",!..*„'*£2o to $25 Cheaper Sets $lO to sis Solid Gold Fillings 4 2 to I 4 Silver Fillings l to 3 TEETH EXTRACTED AND XEW ONES DIME. DIATELY REPLACED. Beat of city references. C.H.THAYER, DENTIST, 903 Wabash-av.. Second door north of Twentleth-st. BILLIARDS! R.KLEEMANN, Late of the Mammoth Billiard Hall, open oil his now Billiard Hall ac 394 JtKchigan-av. Last night. He cordially invites all of his old friends and patrons to his now halL HOLIDAY GOODS. J. B. MAYO CO., Jewellers* 468 STATE-ST. a njLL line Holiday Goods! jrsT arrived. j T1 ,fAVD A CO.. 4« State-st. INSURANCE. Insurance Claims Prepared and'collected. Garden City. Lumberman’s, state and Kcpnbllc insurance claims bought. J. E. JOHNSON, Notary Public, Boom 2,123 West Washington-at. PATENT Bl .DING PAPER. whol; iALE JEWELRY. J. B. SHAT, 243 245 West Madison-st, Thompson's block. We are pleased to inform our customers, especially those who have been waiting, that a full line of theEAVORITE BRANDS CONQUEROR’ ‘CROCODILE’’ Black Alpacas, Double Warp and Pure Mohair, Have arrived direct from Man ufacturers. They will he placed before the public at our former LOW PRICES, notwithstand ing the advance in England. We shall open this new importation MONPAY, PEC. 11. 10 PER CENT OFF TILL JAS. I. Only Type-Casting Machines Running in Chicago. M Western Tp Foiflu, 50 West Randolph-st., BARNHART BEOS. SPINDLES, We have now in operation, day ami night, two Typo- Casting Machines (the only ones running In the city), and are prepared to execute orders promptly. Alto, onr LEADS, SLUGS, BRASS AND LABOR-SAV IIsG RULE Departments are In successful operation. If yon want Printing Machinery or Printing Materials glagyaggcription. don’t fail to giro ns a call EMBROIDERIES, ETC. Embroideries, AND STAMPING. MME. P. BOURASQPE wishes to inform her former patrons and the public that she is now permanently located at 905 South Stale st., where sho is ready to perform all wort in her line of business in the best manner and lowest prices. Stamping Initials, and all kinds of French Embroi deries mado to order. Repairing and Bleaching Laces and Curtains mado a specialty. Respectfully, MME. P. BOURNIQUE. formerly No. 193 Sonth ciark-st. FANCY GOODS AND TOYS. HOW OP BN. OUR CHEAP DEPARTMENT. Fancy Goods and Toys. WEST CO., 276 West Madison-st., comer Morgan. The Metropolis Hotel, SHcbigan-av., cor. Fonrfeentii-sf. WTT.T.TAM COX PROPRIETOR A first-class Hotel upon the European plan. Tba rooms are all largo and elegantly furnished. Meala and rooms at moderate prices. jewelry. PLATED WARE, Tea Sets, Callers, Cake Haskell, St. c. r. HAPPEIi CO., Kn. S7Q tVest Modison^it. MISI "Hard Wood Lumber. OGLESBEE MATTINGLY Have removed their stock of lumber from 70 South Canal-st. to the corner of Canal and Efght eenth-sta., and have now on hand a full stock of all kinds of hard-wood Imnher, including riooring. Oak, ash. whitowood, hickory and elm bills cut to order. F. M. HAMILTON, Agent, corner Canal and Eight* ecnlh-sts. LACES! LACES! MBS. H. LONG, manufacturer of Honiton Point Lace, 160 State-st. Fine laces of every description, black orwhite, cleaned, repaired, and transferred. SILVER PLATING. Plated and Iron Window-Sash Bell Hanging BALDWIN’S SiS WABASB-AV. L AUNDEB’S Money loan Office, now northeast coruac Formerly at IG4 Wabash-av and Twentysecoud st. CO., AXiPACAS. ji^rsD TYPE FOUNDRY. PROPRIETORS. HOTELS full attortmeui of ;ous.