6 THE SPORTING WORLD. Death of Golddust--Goldsmith Maid’s Time—"Famous Time in California. The Great Base Bali Nines of 1872 Disengaged Players—Chess- Congress. The Turf. THE STALLION GOLDDUST. Golddust, whoso death was announced in these columns, n few days since, by telegraph, was a fine golden-chestnut horse, foaled in 1853, aud was by Vermont Morgan, dam by Zilcaadi, a pure Arabian, grandam by imported Barefoot out of a thoroughbred mare. He stood' 1C hands high, and was in every respect a handsome horse, hav ing an expressive head, stout neck running Into well-sloped, shoulders, short, stout hack, good quarters, thighs, and gaskins, hocks clean and well lot down, plenty of bone, with good feet and legs. Golddust’s pedigree was among the best of the trotting stallions in the country. His sire, Vermont Morgan, was an ia-au in-bred Morgan, being by Mountain Eag e he by Sherman, and ho by Justin his dam's side lie ires fully as well bred. •was a chestnut horse, and was presented hy tho Sid tan of Turkey to a Mr. Bland, while imported Barefoot his grandsiro on the dam’s side, was oiareiooi, ni- re-horses of his day, winning 1823. As a 4-year-old <;SmiS“wu6 put to the stud, his progeny show iM?xrondcrful speed and bottom, among whom are the Tamoas colts and fillies Kolia, Kosa, Willy. Tnd Blanche Golddust, all of whom have scored iremient victories on the numerous tracks of tho Fast and West. Golddust was owned by Mr, L. j' porsey, of tho Eden Stud Farm, Jefferson County. Kv., and was reputed to be worth 550.00 a at the lime of his death, which occurred on the yd inst. from inflammation of the bowels. GOLDSMITH MAID’S TIME. Colonel 11. S. Russell recently -addressed a let -er to Budd Doble. the well-known driver of Goldsmith Maid, wherein he requested informa tion relative to the driving of the little mare in o;j- an d also as to the charges of hinnodrommg with Lucv in their races out West. Doble replies that it would bemadness for a driver toendeavor, while being carried along as fast as tho Maid” can travel, to drive close to a ditch or cut across a corner of the Milwaukee course, as it would nlaee him in imminent danger of losing his life. With regard to the charge of Lucy being pulled, he says that it la unreasonable, to argue that a horse is being pulled in a race in order to allow a competitor to win who trotted m o*i7 a ud thereabouts all the season. “Tho Maid” he writes, “has trotted tea heats Q-.ap this year, and three previous to this vrar makingtliirtccu in all; and out of that thirteen she lias trotted live less than 2:19. and two less than 2:18, and these all public records. Xow, whv is it not possible that out of all her lu ft l heats she should trot one in 2:17 V’ THE STANFORD HORSE. The famous Stanford horse of California has, according to tho Sacramento Jicc, again im proved Ins record. On the morning of November in the presence of Leland Stanford, D. O. Mills, Edgar Mills, and several other gentlemen, he was driven a full mile, in harness, over tho Agricultural Park in Sacramento, without a skip or a break, in 2:181-2. The same journal says that a prettier trotter does not exist, that his ac tion is wonderfully regular, and that strong ef forts will be made to induce Goldsmith Maid and other fast trotters from the East to visit the Pa cific slope next spring, for tho purpose of trot ting against their new-found wonder. REMARKABLE TROTTING. San Francisco, Dec. 7.—Colonel Dickey's Cali fornia mustang mare, Kate, trotted twenty miles on a very heavy track in San Francisco, to-day, in fiftv-mne minutes and thirty-two seconds. A thousand dollars was then offered that she could trot another mile inside 2:55 immediately. Base Ball. TUB GREAT NINES OP NEXT SEASON. Tiat the lovers of the “national game” in this ltv may know the composition of the great nines vho "‘ill compete for the emblem of supremacy ™*vt\ ear, wc herewith present them in tabular form. There will be a ilrst-class club in Balti more* an d probably two in Brooklyn—amateur and professional—but the players have not all i.QAn yet: jSffh.n. Athletic. Boston. Cleveland; Fiat base Mack, Gould. Carlton, fcSadlwacj Filler, Barnes, Sweasy, Ti,ir.i ?»nbc Anson, Schafer, Sutton. imrt Meeaiy, G. Wright, Badcliffo, McSride, Spalding, Pratt. Malone, McVey, White, Vct field Treacy, Leonard. Pabor, Eggler, 31. Wright, AUisou. SSS? Cutlibert. Binlsall, Hastings, siitftSS Shelley. Kimball. Sulßtitute Bechtel. Substitute Seusj J{(ie taken by any railroad company that wo please to create, when ever Mich road shall choose, upon terms to ho fixed by a court; but when that same farmer at tempts to ride over that road, or to send his pro duce over it 11 market, ho will, if this bill be cou t-s a law, be stopped at the city limits with the insertion that we (the State) have choscu to prevent this railroad from entering this city ex cept upon the permission of all the owners of the ]ehd adjacent to where it would run; it can not come into the city; it cannot have a depot, orrf t eive or deliver freight or passengers, except at the will of the city property-owners; and, consequently, the fanner must dump his family or Ins produce off ou the prairie or the city limits, BBC rSfiSallr reflects that it is rather haril that bp shall have to give up his land when the city doe/notf thiuks he has heard when He Tra*s abo v, of the equality of laws, —that equity deligUtclh in equality, etc.; but upon consulting his lawyer, finds that they are not done as things used to'be; that large cities have rights given to them by Legislatures which are denied to rural districts and «nallv concludes that henceforth sncS 'diFxrimination does 5 not e^VS^°c r a°n f d la t r h B e e have hoen on fraped, lor tho last taw years, in the di,-,cus.iou ot cheap freights. Ail agree, even the railroad com panies themselves, that the present rates charg ed on sill of our Western roads between non-coni peting points, are outrageous—simple extortions, which oncht not to be tolerated. Meetings have been held, laws have been passed, and constitu tions amended, to meet the emergency; but, so far, without any result in favor of the people. An imposing Railroad Commission, iu this State, has classified the different railroads into class “A,” class “B,’’ etc—those which can charge two cents, and those which can charge three cents per mile for passengers; yet, although the law imposes forfeiture of their whole property and franchises as the penalty for a violation of this role, in uot one case has it been obeyed. The roads which are thus classified con tinue, as before, to charge about four cents per mile for passengers. The immu nity with which they have thus disregarded this law is conclusive that they feel confident that it can be successfully resisted; that their counsel, which usually embrace tie best legal talent, have advis'ed them that the law is on their side and that the acts of the Legisla ture and of the Railroad Comniission are void, so far os they attempt to regulate tariffs. How, then, can the end be reached 1 The one practical, speedy, busi/icss-likc answer is, com/u tifiuu. Every railroad company running out of Chicago is to-day paying a pi otit of from 25 to 50 per cent per annum upon its actual cost,--not, perhaps,on the-nominal capital, which includes the watering of stock through a series of years, the stealings of directors, and, perhaps oi dis honest legislators and Aldermen,—hut upon the amount of money which, if expended, itwould take tohuild a 81 road, with equal equipment*. depots, aim a.tom modationa for the public. Their their protits are, in all case?, on the increase, many of them are incompetent t/wlaj to do m a proper manner aU of the business offered to them. Of course, they will can fpt• nnil the rnmnarativo nd'anta„e which the vSoneVotatf ta X t£e West Imvc that are con i?l3SSTiti7f •I.iei-’U by competing railroads over fwn Lbirb ImVC nW OHO COllDCCtiOn, is lUdS treted by iu the freight tariff dwrsod on U>e fliirago. Burlington s Quincy Bailroadto Galesburg, u liicli has no competing line -liid to oiliucy, winch bas n competing road, liostUe to the CJiicngo, Burlington i Quincy Kall r°rreiplit is transported to Quincy, which is 100 ™iies farther from Chicago than Galesburg, for less than half of the tariff to Galesburg. The citizens of the latter place are manfully and earnestly endeavoring to throw off their yoke, ami to obtain a line to Chicago, which will be. to a great extent, controlled by their own citizens. They have made a good commencement, have a large portion of the right of way, and money enough agreed upon and pledged to build the road to Chicago. This road, as all other roads hcieafter to bo built, is suhjectlo the Legislature,* and to all tariffs the Railroad Commission may establish. It cannot, under any circumstances, rise to he a monopoly, independent and defiant of the people and the Legislature. They expect, of course, to meet with opposi tion irom the Burlington Road: that is simply human nature, as well as corporation nature; but they do not expect, and they have a right not to expect, the opposition of the City Coun cil and property-owners of the city of Chicago. It would be a short sighted policy, worthy only of feudal times, if a single selfish lot-speculator, or rival railroad, should be endowed with power to cripple, and perhaps frustrate, auy new enter prise of this kind. We all agree that the incorporation of these railroads as it has been douc in the past, without a proper reservation of the right to control and regulate them, was a great mistake iu states manship; hut I insist that that mistake was not one-thousandth part as had as it would ho now to throw such obstacles in the way of new and rival corporations as the principle contained in the hill referred to. With such a law, and with a construction from the courts that the old roads are independent of the Legislature, the present railroads would hold every acre of farming landiu a State of perpetual vassalage the farms would hold about the same relation to them that copyholds did iu England to the lord of the manor. It is no answer to these objects to say that new roads can run into tho city on the track of old ones. Such arrangements can bo made, it Is true; hut thev are only matters of contracts, and, like all other contracts, require the consent of both parties. There is no law requiring railroad companies now entering tho city to admit others; audit is idle to suppose that the Burlington or anv other road would admit a rival upon auy terms that would not bo destructive to its exist ence. Every railroad or plank road, or dirt road, to bo any use, must run to some city, to some centre of distribution. To commence and cud on a prairie is of no value whatever either to itself or to the country through which it urns. It must run from some largo town to another large town or city, and to stop short of that is Like a man without a wife, like a ship without a sail. Like a shirt without a—proper length.” And it must bo remembered that this law will apply t0 uli cities. Those in the interior of the State, most suffering from tills crying evil, will tlnd themselves powerless to build a road through their town, because some railroad Director, liv ing perhaps in New York, will suddenly become the owner of half a block fronting a street through which the new road proposes to pass. The people and the Legislature should give especial encouragement at this time to new pro tected railroads, because, firs", they can be built now much more readily, while money is plenty, than hereafter, and will afford a speedy solution to the trouble of high tariffs; and, secondly, and more important, all roads hereafter to bo built will besubieettothenew constitution, and the acts of the legislature, and the Railroad Commis sion carrying* the same into effect, and will be obliged to carry freight and passengers upon such terms as shall be prescribed by law. This will not merely relieve the people on their lines from extortion from all newly-built roads, but it will, without reference to the result of the present tariff laws in the old corporations, compel them, on tne great princlplcsjof equality, to charge no higher rates on adjacent lines than those charged by tbe new roads,—thus indirectly compelling obedience to a law which the Railroad Commis sion may fail to enforce. O. J. Chicago, Dec. Building Material and Construction* To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Sir Standing by a furnace in a village foun dry, to-day, I saw a miniaturcßexlubltlon of tho Chicago lire. Tho cupola was filled with crude iron mixed with ccal, which was ignited, and a current"of air forced into the burning mass by a steam fan. The flames and smoke evinced the intensity of this artificial conflagration, which seemed sufficient to destroy the thin walls of the cupola, which was simply an upright cylinder of common boiler iron, lined with a single layer of ordinary building brick,—altogether less than five inches In thickness. In this furnace were the elements of any great conflagration, viz. highly combustible material, strong currents Of air, and the most indestructible building materi als entering into the structure of large buildings, —iron and brick. At tho cud of the process, tho iron, completely fused, ran out, a molted stream, from the furnace, while the brick were un changed bv the intense heat, not even allowing sufficient heat to pass to the outer surface of boiler iron to endanger a pine board resting against it. The same brick are subjected to this test daily for six months in succession, without being replaced by fr ;sh ones. Here wo have tho problem of fire-proof mate rial solved in a simple experiment. No stone or metal of ordinary value would endure tie test. Common earth-material does not yield before blast heat which readily dissolves cast iron,—at the same time proving itself to be an excellent non-conductor of heat. The deduction must be, that earth-material is a superior article for con struction purposes where immunity from lire is the desired object. If this earth-material can likewise withstand tho corrosive elements of wind, rain, and frost; and, further, can be adapted for roofs and./foorr, as well as walls, and can be easily and economically obtained, tbeu it certainly should rank high as a material for general building purposes. Comparing brick with stone, we know that a competent mason can determine the quality of the lormer with almost perfect accuracy, while often stone from some new stratum of the best qmaTies, when tested in the wall, disappoints tne builder by cleaving off under the influence of the weather. Stone from new quarries, hav ing all the appearance of excellent quality, and wliich.for years wears well, often in the end proves worthless. Even tho finest qualities of marble, inexposeff positions, decay after a few centuries. Everyone who has examined those immense baths" \iuofd Borne, near the Coliseum, will remember how well-preserved are the brick, and how perfect the walls and arches remain; while the inarbl* and stone structures of the same ago and viemfiy have nearly all fallen to decay. The Papal Government has carefully preserved a few marhlc colunns of the old Roman temples and palaces, bid the carvings and angles of these relics are safiiy worn and disfigured. The ruined Palace of lb* Cxcsars, in the same locality, is scarcely distaguishable, excepting the mosaic xmvemeuts of flic lower floors and the basements, composed of earth material. The gorgeous mosaic ceilings, so much admired in ancient churches and jalaces, are composed of small colored particleaof smalt—an. artillcial composi tion, identical with the glared surface of an over burned brick. The well-preserv«l roof tiles of old stone build ings in ruins show fie comparative durability of the earthen tile over the stone iu the wall. It is a well-known fact that nearly all that remains as a recoid of many old citios, whose marble walk have crumbled to dust, are the earthen vessels, whose classic forms evince refinement and tvte, even in .these com monest household artless. The stone bal conies and finish o' Mio old palaces and villas in Northern ItiJy require to ho renewed occasionally wbilevfic brick walla which support them, remain firm tor centuries. The walls, roofs, and floors of a large portion of the buildings of Continental Europe arc of the same earth, material. Throughont the ?roat peninsula of India, one finds only a few exceptions to the general rule, that the cities and villages have alike sprang from the soil, and not from the quar lies- A few brilliant exceptions, like the Pearl Mosque and the Taj, strike the eye and impress the memory; while the great brick-built cities, like Calcutta and Bombay are forgotten, because the material of tluir construction is of the ordi nary kind used everywhere throughout that densely-populated country. So universal and al most absolutely necessary is the use of. brick material in India that the English Railway Companies in that country nave adopted It, almost to Lbo.. exclusion of stone wood, in theconslrucliou of theirs.coo miles of railways. Their bridges and viaducts, are brick, their station-houses offices and ware houses are of the same material,— the roofs and floor being covered with earthen tile. Even the railway tracks are ballasted with crushed brick,—experience having'proved it superior to stone ana vastly cheaper. Returning to the subject of construction and material for buildings crowded together iu great business centres, especially along those now desert lanes of our great metropolis, the whole interest centres mainly in the one idea of material —inexpensive, available, fire-proof. It would seem that, if the walls of the New Chicago are built of brick; if brick columns and brick arches are adopted for basements and first stories of business structures; if all iron having lateral pressure when heated is discarded; if brick inner partitions arc universally used; if the floors are all tiled and connected by stone or iron stair ways; if the extravagant Mansard roofs and heavv wooden cornices are dispensed with—thus avoiding two elements for rendering fire con Uy t}ions: and if every business block and public building is roofed with earthen tile; if, besides ulltheso ifs in construction and material, the city he guarded by strictly-enforced lire limits and au active lire department—then there would bo au absolute Impossibility of a recurrence of the ter rible catastrophe of that fatal Fire-Sabbath of October, 1871. Heretofore, iron and stone have been the most popular materials for building purposes in largo cities. No one doubts that iron, entering largely into the construction of a building, will, under ordinary circumstances, yield great strength; but, when under the influence of heat sufiicient to expand the iron, then no building is safe, whether the walls be wood, stone, iron, or brick. Everyone re members the philosopher's shift of drawing the bowing walls to a perpendicular by contraction of iron rods after heating. The converse of this ovueriment will produce ruin; the heated iron Sir Sew of a modern building will force the walls outward by their clonjratioa. Iron l.uildmKs are unsafe Irom the fact that the great heat-ahsorb iu-power of thin walls endangers the eonihusti. ble interiors and contents, thereby creating the moans of their own destruction. Brick walls and arches, resting on iron col mans are as unsafe in a great fire as if founded on wood. There arc plenty of fatal examples of tbiK fnot in the Chicago disaster. Stcuc of every variety K\‘J sll £p C heat. I.lmestonc, especially, speedily h-cones nnichUme in any great Are, as e SjJS’p.' These two great articles, so generally used i construction, having proved themself, iu a great measure, unreliable in a severe test, tneu 11 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1871. is necessary to adopt some other material. The great centre of business in a city must, for a double reason, ho llro-proof: first, for their own safety; and then to answer as a fire-guard against tho spread of fire originating elsewhere. It the business houses of tho -principal business streets had been fire-proof, tho late conflagration could not have spread to Michigan and Wabash avenues and the North Side. It is not sufficient to make the walls of a hulld inglire-proof; but it Is far more Important that thereof should be shielded by-an incombustible material. Gravel, tin, and slate do not render roofs fire-proof. Tho principal danger from fire is from without. During the late-conflagration, the upper portions of mo buildings caught the shower of sparks and brands, and furnished new Jud for the flames. If well-built tile-roofs had received those burning embers, they would have been as harmless as the coals dropping from, the grate upon a brick hearth. An ordinary drain-tile, of three or four inches in diameter, cut in two lengthwise, is the shape of the earthen roof-tile which covers more than three-fourths of all the buildings in Europe. Such tile, properly laid in cement, is absolutely fire proof. A tea-kettle may be boiled on it every morning in the year,and no harm result.’ The fiat tile for floors can he make as cheaply as com mon brick; or, by an inexpensive process of glaz ing and coloring, can bo rendered very orna mental. Some ot the chapel floors of old c,lurches in Southern Europe are regarded by artists with as much admira tion as tho exquisite marble carvings which adorn the walls of those sacred shrines. Glazed tile would answer admirably for base boards and wainscoting, instead of wood. Tho same material is suitable for floors in halls, din ing-rooms and offices; while the common un glazed variety answers for stores and depots; also, for kitchens, and rooms in private booses where the floors are carpeted. Tile floors reduce tho risk from internal tires CO per cent. Wooden joists under a tile covering are nearlyassafo from tiro ns iron. Cement-mosaic and tilo-material for floors have been almost exclusively used. for cen turies in other countries, where economy and safety from lire are a study. Earthen .material for ail purposes, of every conceivable. design, from the classic to tho most common, was one of the attractive features of the late World's Exhi bition in Paris. Tho amount of lumber saved by a general use of tilc-ilooriug and rooting would of itself relievo the market materially.- Iron and tin for building purposes will likewise advance largely in price if tho amount consumed by tho late fire is to ho replaced immediately. Stone, besides not being a tire-proof building material, is also not available to any largo amount. All the neighboring quarries could not soon enough furnish 'the stone in a rough state, required to replace those elegant blocks which were constructed in Chicago ouiy by fifteen years of rapid and constant labor. Tho labor and lime required to reduic such au amount of crude stone to a condition suitable for walls and sculp tured trimmings are only measured by years. If it was understood that Chicago was to bo rebuilt principally ot earthen material, there would he no limit to its production. The market could ho supplied in early spring with brick and earthen tile, from the shores ot the lake, by every kind of sailing craft; from tho canal and river, on barges, and by railways converging from every point or tne coiuxtass. Finer qualities of tile for floors and interior finish would bo manufactured in tho city,—thus furnishing a new branch of industry. Economy and expedition iu reconstructing the buildings of the immense burnt district are abso lute necessities, while immunity from fire in tho future is as essential. These imperative require ments demand a change in both stylo and mater ial. Brick walls can bo made very attractive. Fire-proof roofs and cornices need not neces sarily ho ugly and uncouth. Architects will study to secure safety In construction, and to adapt design to material. Necessity andadap tationhavesharpenedtho wits of all nationali ties, and, iu this emergency, will speedilyok at onr lake tunnel and crib; many argued that they could not bo built. J. B. C. Hollow Wnll*. Atciiixson. Kan., Nov. 30. To flic Editor of The Chicago Tribune Sin: I fully concur iu the opinion expressed by your correspondent Builder,” in your issue of tlio 2lth inst. The very few standing walls in the burnt district admonish us that a more careful method in rebuilding Chicago should bo adopted. I would add to “Builder’s” suggestions tlio hollow wall; that is, in laying twelve inches of brick, I would leave a two or three inch space in the wall, eight inches of brick on the outside, then the space, and* four inches of brick inside, tied by headers,” at prox>or distances to the outside wall. This would enable us to plaster our rooms directly on the brick, without fear of moisture penetrating the walls toj the interior, so often the case through solid walls. In case of fire, this air-space 'Will, to a certain extent, if not entirely, prevent the communication of lire through over-heated walls to our neighbor. If we are on lire, or vice versa. If we add to this a lirc-proof covering, it would seem an economical and reasonable protection for the future. I have great confidence In the “space” in thin or thick walls.and I shall adopt it in rebuilding the houses which I lost lu the great lire of October 0, unless a better plan for pro tection ouainst lire from ovcr-hcatod adjacent walls shall appear. J. 11. A Novel Building Scheme. To the Editor of The Chicago Tt'timne: Sir Tho present thoughts of those who arc to give existence to Chicago’s future commercial centre is largely occupied in deciding how they can erect the most advantageous bualnesslbuild lugs. To such thinkers, if not to others, the descrip tion of a novel, and, in no small degree, practical, scheme for building, may provide a momentary mental diversion, if nothing more. Along some of tho most prominent business streets build second-story stores with fronts like stores of the first story. For these stores, construct stone sidewalks on ornamental iron girders, supported by a tier of Corinthian columns that shall stand on tho coping of tho lower sidewalk. Guard the outer edge of tho upper sidewalk with an iron balustrade, attached to pedestals over each column below. Enter tho upper sidewalk l»y enclosed flights of stairs along the side of the building, at each side walk crossing below. The upper sidewalk would form an excellent awning to tho stores below, and also a shelter to tho lower sidewalk. Why not build thus, facing tho Court House square, and bridge tho streets over with light ii on bridges 1 D.H. CHICAGO, Hoc. 8. Comical Aniwcra by Aspiring School- Teachers. The minds of some people in Henry Coun ty, Ohio, have been much disturbed by their friends being refused license to teach school. To satisfy tho disturbed mind, tho School Examiner of Henry County, Clarkson Davis, furnishes them, through tho columns of tho Newcastle Courier the following answers given by disappointed applicants to the questions asked them: Query. “What is affectation in reading! Answer. It is affecting to hear a scholar when he gets up to read, to speak his words distinct, and mind his punctuation marks. Affectation is sympathy for the piece. “Ihave my class sitting, but when one reads they rise to their feet.” Define sugar, sincere, calf. A. Ist, 1 can't define; 2d, sincere, more sincere, most sincere, 3d, calf, calves and calves.” “Geuerorfs” was de fined as a person with a freewill; ‘salary.’ a sum paid for work “sugar,” a mineral; scissors, spelled sizars; skull, schull; gnaw, pnaw. “Location” was defined as a situation for a term. “Presently,” anything that is to take place after awhile. lowa was spelled What is the difference between tho local and simple value of a figure _ “I domt understand tho question. What is a cubic yard “It is a cubic yard containing a certain number of solid inches.” _ One requisition was to write 801 in Roman characters,andjout of anumher of marvellous combinations of the alphabet I select tho following: CCCCCCCC,iXXIV. "Pitch is a raising or loweringthc voice. Emphasis is placing more distress on some words.” The food is first masticated, and then passes through the phalanx.” “Respiration is tho sweating of the body. “Tho chest is formed of two hones, the sternum and spinal chord.” “Tho animal part can bo shown by putting a bone in acid.” s>-‘Tlie Ohio river flows northwest, ami-forms the northern boundary of Ohio.” “Tho Red Sea and Yellow Sea are in Europe.” Brazil is in Asia.” “The beautiful scenery and fertile soil led to the discovery of America.” “The number ,of broad acres'laying unfilled let to tho dis covery of America.” At the time of tho discovery, tbe Indians ■uVre kind and in good circumstances.” Miey was in a critical condition at tho time of Hie discovery,” “Virginia obtained its name from tho Vir gin Muy,” “Virginia, so named by Queen Victori* calling it tho virgin State,” THE LIFE OF THE SOUL. ANNIE JILT. Life passes away oft in melodies swoct, with never an anthem-swell; •-■While thb sonl-volcea sleep, with their tones rich and deep. And clear as an evening bell. The beaming eye tells how tho days speed away, Like beautiful dreams wo toll; But a language may speak from a grief-furrowed cheek, How years in a moment may dwell. Then count not our life by each happy Now Year, For years measure not tho soul. But by pure aims wo solve, and tho lofty resolve, As forward wo press to our goal; Bv sweet fancies wreathing a garland of hope, That’s gemmed with our sighs and fears; And by gaily-wrought hues that our pleasures diffuse, Tho cluster of smiles dimmed with tears; Each beautiful sunbeam that crosses our path, A-weaving its weh of gold; And by sweets from tho rose at tho evening’s close, That wings of tho hreezo unfold; By fears that steal into our sweet loves and homes. And chill like a midnight dream; Or the pleasure we’d clasp, that eludes as wo grasp. Like wlll-o’-lhc-wisp’s fitful gleam; By prayers that arc whispered for grace to en duro. To suffer, and still bo strong. As the crimson tides poled, and a dear life has failed, And passed like an unfinished song. We weep, and a sadness creeps into our hearts, That shadows life’s beautiful streams; And, like seas’ weary moan, there is over a tone That murmurs hy day and iu dreams. We count by the gleam of tho fair morning star; By twilight gloaming and shade; By tho wind’s softened hush as the crystal flakes lush To cover a grave newly made; By memories running a delicate thread, And tracing-life’s winding ways; Or a lingering refrain from some sweet olden strain That gladdened our earlier days. By clouds that coquette with tho sunbeams all day, Aud tossing their fringe of gold; And tho shadows that creep whore tho wild blos soms sleep, When winter comes forth from his wold; By spring when it bids its young flowers aud birds Their voices of song attune; And the rustle of wings when tho young robin sings His loves to tho roses of Juno. FOREIGN GOSSIP. Songs promising veugeuco upon Prussia arc all the rage just now in Paris. In eack of tho cafes thanianl* there is a lady singer, who,as the genius of Franco, excites the aud ience to a fury hy tho recital of Prussian cruelties. —A few months ago, Madam Ollivier re fused to admit to her saloon any ladies cos tumed in full dress, She gave the cold shoul der to the beauties who were all shoulders, Now it is the Crown Princess of Prussia who has sot herself at tho head of a plain dress movement, —The ollicial paper of Lippo Detworld con tains this advertisement: Tho public are imformed no credit should bo given to Hia Most Serene Highness Prince Alexander Vou Lippo (youngest brother of tho Prince Reg nant) for none of his debts can ever bo paid, orat all events many years must elapse be fore they are paid.” —ln tho neighborhood of Morgues and Rollo, Franco, there is such an enormous quantity of wine (every bunch of grapesturnsout a quart) it is impossible to find casks for it. Casks are hired at $1.20 to $1.75. If a man brings two casks, and gives ohe of them to tho owner of the wine, ho will fill tho other cask for the brin per. —There has been great risk of life in many houses occupied by the insurgents duringthe last days of La Commune. They, with dcvtl ish ingenuity, hung in chimneys fcartridge hoxes filled with cartridges. Or mingled pow der with tho ashes in stoves and on hearths, or filled furnaces (used in heating houses) with gunpowder. "When fires were lighted the powder exploded, doing immense dam age and in some instances perilling sight; limb, or life. Poor Carlotta ”is as crazy as ever. Her latest mania is to imagine herself surround ed again by the court of Mexico. This lady of her suite is made Grand Mistress of the palace; that gentleman a Minister of State, and so on. Often ■when alone she places the chairs around her in order, hangs drees upon them, and asks questions and gives answers to these strauge ladies of honor. —'The wits of Paris will never have done withTrochuin connection with his unac complished norths during the war. The latest anecdote on this head current in Paris, is to the effect that a few days since a gentleman called at his residence desiring to seehim. The servant announced “Le General catßorli v (the General has gone out). The oflicer, astonished, murmured, as ho took his departure, “Sapristil” (ho has evidently changed his habits since the siege !j —At a recent trial in London a now pro fession” was developed. A witness alleged that ho was an “early caller/’and that he supported himself by calling people in the morning. His business hours wero from la. m. tills, and his first customers were bakers. Tennyson might enlist his services in behalf of tho May Queen! —Civility, a correspondent says, is about tho dearest commodity to ho purchased in Scotlond from waiters, guards, coachman, and all that ilk. A friend of mine declared once after having nmgtho hell several times at a hotel in Glasgow, a waiter at last put his shock head outside tho door and screamed out: “Who rung the boll?” Aud, mi my friend pleading guilty, shrieked: Then don’t do it again!” slammed the door, aud disappeared from view. —When Princo Napoleon applied to tho French Consulate at Genova to obtain a passport to re-enter France, he llew into a towering rage because tho Consul declined to grant one until ho had referred tho re quest to tho government. Tho Consul re plied: “What! sir, yon complain because you are obliged to wait four and twenty hours to re-enter France! Sir, I was obliged under your dynasty to wait ten years in exile before I could return to Franco.” Princo Napoleon cooled at once and quitted the of fice. —A Paris letter saye: A beautiful young woman sings in a manner to make the queens of the opera jealous; a young man hears her, thinks that so much harmony can not come but from a beautiful soul, and is going to marry her. The young man has thirty millions, it is said. lie is a banker, and amiable, although a millionaire. The young woman is an American. She is famous in Paris for her goodness and her genius. She is the sister of the charming wife of the Marquis of Chassaloup-Laubat, Miss Alice Pillie.” —The famous Tichborno case, now in progress in England, is estimated to cost §5,000 a day. Reckoning from the com mencement of the trial, not less than one hour and twenty minutes a day has thus far been given to the case. It will bo seen that at this rate English justice costs $02.50 per minute! The Birmingham Daily Gazette publishes a copy of Tichborne bonds,” is sued bv the claimant some time ago, to pro duce the sinews of war wherewith to carry on the suit. A thousand shares were emitted, of a nominal value of £IOO each £OS being paid for them. A few months since they had fallen to the value of ten shillings but now I hear them to bo selling again at £lO and £SO. The bonds pledge to tlio owner all freehold, leasehold, and copy hold estates, sums of money, rent, &c„ duo to the signatary for the value of £IOO for each bond, and interest at 5 per cent per annum. It bespeaks a'great deal of confi dence in the lenders to invest their money on such slender security. —ln the early days of the London Time*, it was the custom, in announcing a marriage, to state the amount of the dowry—£2o,ooo or £30,000, whatever it might happen to bo— and in looking through the ladies’column one morning at breakfast, Mr. Walter throw out the suggestion that if a man married all that money he might certainly pay a trifling percentage upon it to the printer for ac quainting the world with the fact. These marriage fees would form a nice little pock et-money for me, my, dear,” added Mrs. Walter,*r and her busband agreed to try the experiment. The charge at first was but a trilie, and the annual amount probably not much; but Mrs. Walter, at her death, passed the prescriptive right of hers to her daugh ter, and when, a few years ago, the right was repurchased by the present proprietor, it was assessed at $5,000 a year. —The Independence Brhjc announces that on the 12th ult. tho marriage of Prince Pierre Bonaparte with Mile Riftin was celebrated at the French Legation at Brussels. The marriage, it says, was but the consecration of a union contracted years ago before the civil officer of a small town in Boligimu, Luxem burg, named Lacuisine. That union, from which had issued two children, has been dis approved by the cx-Emperor, who, by virtue of the laws of the Empire, declared the cere mony null and void. The Empire having fallen, the Prince desired to legitimatize his children, and therefore the parties presented themselves before the French Minister, who, in reply to a question from the Prince, said that they were acting strictly- according to law. The marriage contract was read and duly signed, after which the parties were de clared to be regularly married. —His Serene Highness of Lippe-Detmold has taken it into his august head to cancel all game laws, without the consent of the Chamber, and to cut oft’his subjects from the pastime of shooting the hares and rabbits within his dominions. His Serenity having no army to enforce his decrees, because ho has loaned his army to Prussia, tried first the experiment of detailing policemen to protect his preserves. This programme proving a failure, he invited the Fifty lift li "Prussian Regiment to come to his aid, promising the officers thereof excel lent shooting in return for the assistance of the men’s muskets. On the very first day of the sport there was a collision between tbo troops and the peasantry, and numbers of tbe latter were arrested. The troops of Lippe-Detraond are furiously angry at what they regard as a piece of potty tyranny, and are going to the Reichstag for redress. Thej* will probably got it, for it seems to bo the best opinion that the little monarch has be haved in an entirely illegal way. BANKING. BAim NOTICE. The Gonercial Natioial Bank (National No 713. Established 1355.) IT A a REMOVED To its centrally located now temporary boil ding on The Crosby Opera House Lot, Washington-st., between Dearborn and Statists., burnt district, a location which it believed wm be cnuallr convenient for customers in all parts or the city, by reason ot the street car and omnibus lines cen tering from all directions. w ta This institution transacts a regular banking business, buys and sells exchange, makes collections. Issues cer tificates of deposit, discounts commercial paper, ad vances on convertible collaterals, and accepts deposit accounts from business firms, individuals, corpora tions, institutions, banks, and bankers of known good standing, and affords patrons liberal facilities iand legitimate accommodations, but does not solicit inter est bearing accounts. DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS. H. W. King, E. P. Pnlsifcr, H. H. Taylor, Albert Keep, A* Cowles, S. W. Bawson, E. B. Phillips, H. Z. Culver. P. R. Westfall, Bacon Wheeler, N- O. Williams, W. H. Perry, H. P. Eames. H. F. EA2IES, President. W. H. FERRY, Vice President, 21. D. BUCHANAN, Cashier. GEO I*. OTIS, Asst. Cashier. The Commercial LOAN COMPANY Has purchased, Blnce the great Are, the a tone-front building, 126 AKCHER-AV., Junction Twenty-second et., and have resumed business as usual In said build ing. A first-class fire-proof vault Is completed. The patrons of the TtATiir ran deposit valuable papers or articles In said vault without charge. THE COMMERCIAL LOAN CO. will transact a savings as well as a general banking business, sell bills of exchange on New York, and the principal cities of Europe. The Commercial Loan Co. has also secured a twenty years lease of thenorthwost corner of North Clark and hlichlgan-sts. A fire-proof building and vault is now being built on said lot, and we expect to resume our North Side business about the first day of January next. FRED. MEYER, Cashier, TOLMAN WHEELER, President. TRUSTEES—M. D. Buchanan, Conrad Gehrke, Toltnan Wheeler, C. Kann, Wm. Knoke, Wm. A. Ewing, Bacon Wheeler, O. B. Meyer, Thomas Buchan non, Jr.. Fred. Meyer, O. Cronkmto. CHICAGO, Nor. 20,1871. Real Estate Loan and Trust Co. SAVINGS BANK SOUTH SIDE OFFICE, 085 Wabasli-av. V7EST SLOE OFFICE, 12! WEST WASHINGTON-ST. EENJ. LOMBARD, Preside!! S. A. BRIGGS, Vico President. NOTICE. The annual meeting of the Stioekholders of the JFXFT3M JWITIOJWIZ, BJ.VK OF CHIC.IGO, fov the election of Bi rectors for the ensuing year, irill be held at the Office of said Bank in Chicago on Tuesday, January 9, 1873, bettreen the hours of 3 and 3 p.m. MB.UC C. Cashier BOOTS AND SHOES. loots ii Sloes. DO6QETT.BASSBTT SILLS, TTTATIQ.TTA'R'I‘KK.f=t AT 522 Wabasb-av., corner Harmon-oourt, are now receiving a new stock of Boots and Shoes, and ore prepared to supply cus- tomers. FURNITURE. WEBER FURNITURE CO., WAREROOMS, 243 ail 245 SODtt CM-St., CORNER JACKSON-ST. A large amount of goods arriving daily. A. A. FARWELI, Agt. DISSOLUTION NOTICES. DISSOLUTION. The firm of Marston and Peck Bros, is hereby ills, solved by niutual consent. Any member of tho late linn can sign In iiriuldation. THOS. MARSTON. JR. WALTER L. PECK CLARENCE I. PECK. Chicago, Dec. 1,1571. DISSOLUTION. The firm of Warner Felix is hereby dissolved by mutual consent Any member of tlio late firm can sign iu liquidation. K. W. WARNER. BENJ. P. FELIX. Chicago, Dec. 1,1571. P. 51. BLAIR, COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE. Tlio business of the respective firms of Marston Peck Bros., and Warner Felix will hereafter be con solidated and prosecuted by the undersigned, under the firm name of Warner, Marston «fc Felix. THOS. MARSTON, JR. E. W. WARNER. B. F. FELIX. Chicago, Dec. 1,1871. F. 51. BLAIR. SPECIAL. NOTICE. In retiring from tlio firm of Marston Feck Bros., we hem illy commend our late partner and his future as sociates to the confidence and patronage of the public. WALTER L. PECK. CLARENCE I. PECK. WARNER, MARSTON FELIX, manufacturers and jobbers of Cordage. Twines, Pa per, Brushes, Brooms. Sieves, Matches, Blacking, and every description of Wood and Willow Ware. MlclU gau-av., comer Jackson-sL, Chicago. THO si. MARSTON, JR. E. W. W ARNER. B. F. FELIX. F. M. BLAIR. DISSOLUTION. The firm of Ludlam C<*. was dissolved on tho 6tU (lav of November last by mutual consent Tho affairs of tho Company will ho settled by Mr. Hoag, who is authorized to sign the firm name In liquidation. 12. M. P. LUDLASL Chicago. Dec. 8.1571. T. C. HOAG. MISCELLANEOUS. MEN’S SOCKS. 300 dozi mm m socks AT A GREAT BARGAIN. (M and 66 W. RANDOLPH-SX, D. NEWBUKGER. KEEPER DiU, KENOSHA, WIS. As a first-class Institution for girls and young ladles, Kemper Hall, elegantly equipped anil appointed, offers, in every department, sat erlor advantages. Special and liberal terms made with Chicago suffer ers. Pupils received at any time. References; The Rev. Clinton Locke, D.D.. Rector Grace Church, the Rev. John Wilkinson, Rector Holy Communion, and Joseph P. Clarkson, Esq., 454 Wahaah-av., from any one of vhom circulars may, at any time, he obtained. For particulars address Rev. GEO. M. Everhart, D.D., Rector. T&ARXK KAUFFMAN, Pawnbioker. late 120 Fifth-av., lias reopened at South Halsted-st., near Twelfth. Parties holinnc tickets for watches and Jewelry that are saved wm please call before the 30th of tills month, or tho goods will be sold. Bridges, Hoofs, ftc., The Michigan Bridge and Construction Co. aro pre pared to erect wooden, iron, or combination roofs or bridges at short notice. Correspondents please address Michigan Bridge and Construction Co.. Detroit. Mich. SCALES. ■SST FAIRBANKS* UfTy STANDARD /P BGMJm xss, /A Sgggg' or Ail Sizes. Fairbanks, DV. TERRA COTTA. TERRA COTTA, ALT. ORDERS FOB WINDOW AND DOOR CAPS, BELT COURSES, CORNICES, BRACKETS, CHIMNEY TOPS, VASES, HANGING BASKETS,&c., FILLED AT OLD PRICES BY THE CHICAGO TEBMCOTTACO. Factory and Office, near the corner Sixteenth and Renhen-sts. BLANKETS. BLANKETS! BLANKETS! Great Bargains Colons ii»BMsts, 5.000 heavy Gray Army Blan£ et3 1.000 White Blankets. 64 66 W. Randolpli-sl., cor. Clinton. DAVID mEWBPBCEK. HARDWARE J. LIEBENSTEIN &CO., Wholesale Dealers and Manufacturers’ Agents of CABINET HAOTABE, wraras’ Aim, aid 111AM’ TMMlffi CORNER Michigan-av. and Harmon-court. FLOUR. PLANT’S EXTRA.’ ,1s some retail grocers are charging exorbitant prices for “PJL,IJVT'S RXTR.I” TIjOUR, we will hereafter fill orders from I\l.ltl r.rr.H. at Sll, delivered to any part of the city. Price to the trade SlO. A. M. WRIGHT CO., Exclusive Agents, Southwest corner Canal and Lakc-sts. SHOES. Albany Shoes. On or before Jan. 1.-1572, for the better accommodation of our rapidly increasing Chicago and Western Trade; wo will open a Branch Salesroom Corner Micbigau-av. and Harri son-st., up stairs. THOS. FEAREV SOUS. J. G. Sand 10 Union-st., Albany. N.Y TO RENT. CORNER STORE FOR BENT. Brick Block, northeast corner Stato-st. and Eldridge court, 20xSO. Possession January 1. Apply to BAIRD BRADLEY, 384 Wabash-av. OFFICES TO RENT In new brick bnlldixig adjoining Madiaon-st Bridge. Rent low. Immediate possession. NQRTON CQ WEATHER STRIPS. WEATHER STRIPS. BROWN’S DOUBLE RUBBER, TORREY’S SINGLE RUBBER. ROEBUCK’S SINGLE RUBBER. J. W. D. SELLS? BRO., 303 MICHIGAN-AV. A fnll stock of every description of Weather Strips made. Trade supplied at low rates. Send for clrcu* jars and price list. STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS. STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS CHICAGO BEFORE AND “i^osWAistlo, and Cards P nWl3kod,and for sale, wholesale and retail, by P. B. CREESE, Landscape Photosrapner, 315 West UNDERWEAR^ trnpEß,wEAit gbeat VARIETY, At B. e. ROCEBS S CO.’S, 334Weat KatU.on.st., comer Aberdeen. MISCELLANEOUS, ISsoNiFfimEFT GEAKD COMMANDERY OF HEIGHTS TEMPLAR Of the State of Illinois. Office of ttif. Gravd comhandfk. SIR KNIGHTS: At the annual conclave oflhb Grand Commandery of Illinois, the undersigned were ap pointed a committee to receive ami disburse such funds as have been, or may be, contributed for the re lief of suffering Sir Knights, or their families, by the lato tire. Tho Commanders of Apollo Commandery No. 1, Chicago Commandery No. 19, and St. Bernard Com manderv No. 35, are co-operating with tho committee, and applications to either of them will receive atten tion. and to assist in that object wo have also appoint ed sir E. N. Tucker, Recorder of Apollo Commandery No. l. K. T., as agent, to examine and report such cases aa may be presented to him for relief. W. M .EUAN.) J. IT. MILES, S Committee, R.H.POS3, CHICAGO, Dec. 4. 137 L The undersigned having been appointed as above, to assist the committee In their labor, would respectfully ask that any Sir Knight know of any member of oar order in need of aid. from, or in consequence of the Into lire, report the same to me, so that their wants may ba supplied from tho bounty received from our “noble and magnanimous frators.” Courteously. E. N. TUCKER. Room 3, Masonic Building, corner Hoisted and Ran dolph-sts, from 3t05 p. m., oral Ul3 Prairio-av. other hours JAMES H. MILES, Or. Recorder. Attest: WILEY M. EGAN, Gr. Commander. OPFICE OP THE GRAND SECRETARY OF THE Grand Royal Arch Chapter OP THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. Tho undersigned have been appointed by 31. E. Companion. James A. Hawley. Grand High Priest, as a committee to receive and disburse such funds as may bo contributed for the relief of suffering Companions bv tho late lire (tho High Priests of Lafayette Chapter, No. 2; Washington Chapter, No. i!; Corinthian Chap ter, No. C 9; WllyM. Egan Ciupter, No. I2ti; Chicago Chapter, No. 127; and union Park Chapter, No. us, arc co-operating with theleommlttce), and to assise la that object wo have appointed Companion E.N.Tucker, Secretary of Lafayette Chapter. No. 2, B. A. M.. aa agent, to examine and report such cases as may bo pre sented to him for relief. W. 31. EGAN, J. H. MILES, Committee. 11. U. FOSS, CHICAGO. Nor.. 1371. Tlio undersigned having boro appointed, as above, to assist tlioCommitteciniltoirhibor, would respectfully ask Hint any Companion R. A. 31., knowing of any mem ber R. A. 3t. In need of aid from, er in consequence of, tho lato lire, report tho samu to me, so that their wants may bo supplied from the bounty received from tho Royal Craft. Fraternally. E. N. TUCKER, Room 3 hlasonic Building,"corner of Randolph and Balsted-sts., from 3 to 3 p. m., or at 1113 Prairio-av. other hours of day. ATTEST: JAMES H. MILES. Grand Secretary. NOTICE. cojduttke of sfeclvl Relief, l Church of the Messiah, i (Corner Wabash-av. and Hubbard-court,) Chicago, Dec. 2,157 L J In view of the fact that applicants for relief are naw permitted to apply to the District Superintendents by letter, without personal attendance at tile depots, no* further necessity exists for any application* tor sup plies beine made to tho Special Committee, and, from and after the 9th Inst, (under Instructions from tha Executive Committee to that effect), the wet* of tha Special Committee will be exclusively Urn* -«.o appli cations for aid in purchasing sowing maclunfea, and to affording relief in special cases, by tha payment of money to applicants who have received no other in such cases and for such amounts as have been authorized by the Executive Committee. E. C. LARNED, Cliairmau. STORAGE. THORNE CO., Ham and Storage Warehouse, vnion stock yards. CtTLiberal advances made on provisions in store. LOOK! 1,000 kits, 18 Iks. each, hig, fat, new and large Family Mackerel, and at $1 to $1.25 per kit. SOTIBB, 211 Hichigan-av., north of Congress-st. GALLERY OF Flue CJuoinos, &c. The ladies and public are respectfully invited to in apcct my Gallery of Fine Chromos, both foreign and imported, which I offer at 50 cents on the dollar for tha next few days. H. S. HAAS, 718 Wabash-av. BURNT PAPER. Writing Perfectly Restored. Tli© writing on papers badly charred. In fact so much so that great care had to he token to prevent, them from failing to pieces, have been perfectly re stored by using our INK DEVELOPER. More than fifty different firms have already used it with perfect success in copylngtheir books and papers. Call at our office. Union Park, comer MadLson-st. J. MORRIS