«3- THE LAW COUETS. Pencet, the Colored Wifc-Butch cr, Denied a Change of Vcnne. Prisoners Tried and Sentenced in the Criminal Court. OBUCIKAI* COURT. A MURDER CABE—CHARGE OF TENDS DENIED. V Andrew J. Perteet, colored, who stands Indict ed for murder, it being charged against him that he cut the throat of Martha, his wife, came on Saturday into court and asked a change of venue. Bis application was based upon the ground that the people of this county ore prejudiced against him, in support of which proposition he made an affidavit, reciting that upon bis arrest some hun dred persons banded together to lynch him; that there was such a feeling then prevalent against him that it was considered by the authorities in whose custody be was, unsafe, during the Coro ner's Inquest, to expose him to public view; and that the daily papers had prejudiced hla cause by publishing the evidence given before the Cor oner’s jury, as well as by subsequent recitals and remarks of and concerning his guilt. The motion was denied by the Court (Williams) who said: I am certainly disposed to be very liberal la the con struct Jonot these affidavits, especially in a case where a man's life may be involved. I-.feel very great hesi tation in refosingto change the venue, provided the application is one which merits my respect, and comes up to the provisions of the law; hut Ido not believe that this is a ease in which the venuo ought to be changed. The allegations of the petition are sub stantially two zfflirht, that Immediately after tlio com mission of the crime some two or three hundred peo ple of the city handed themselves together for the purpose of taking unlawful measures against the deponent—ln other words, for the purpose of lyncWng him, as I suppose—and the other allegation that the papers ot the city have published the evidence of the Coroner’s jury, .and bavo also published certain statements, since that time, all of which is calculated to prejudice the prisoner in the mind of the people of this county so that he cannot have a fair trial. If the statute was as it formerly was. It would bo enough thattho prisoner should have alleged the fact thathe could not receive a fair and Impartial trial lu this county, and, that that fact had'eome to his notice immediately before the presentation ot the motion to induce the Court to change the venae. Tho present statute, however, is Resigned to give the Court a dis cretion. I must exercise that discretion with refer ence to all 1 may know in regard to tbo case and with reference particularly to the facts which are stated In the affidavit. In many of these cases it would be emi nently proper l there should bo a change of venno, and w here the prisoner cccupies such a position that he has become well known, and his case has boon very fully discussed before the community, there may ho such a prejudice against him that a court would do very great injustice to him in refusing to change the venue: bat here is a mac who occupies a comparative ly obscure position in tho community; he is a resident of a county of 338,000 inhabitants. By no possibility can he bo known or can ho over have been hoard of by a tenth part of the inhabitants of this county, and all the persona who read the evidence which appeared be loro tin coroner’s jury, and which. Uis said, has pre judiced thomlnds of the people of this county, and may hare boon Influenced by It. wonld be Incompetent Jut -ors in any case, and would be excluded. Ills true also that these statements have gone into other counties. If they have prejudiced tho people of tills county thev have prejudiced tho people of adjoining counties, for we know the papers here mentioned circulate in other counties, and people read them. The moraing and evening papei* of Chicago are read in Lake, Dupage, and Will Counties, to one of which counties this esse would have to go. Tho farts, pertiapa. wonld make a greater Impression on the people of those towns than they do on the minds of tho many citizens here, who are crowded with their own al lairs, and verv shortly lose sight of it if they once read it Ido not believe, therefore, tliat this defendant can be any more prejudiced l»y a trial In this county Hum inanyoneadjoinlngto which I should be compelled to send the case, aud 1 do not believe tliat the evidence has made anv more Impression hero than elsewhere but if it had/that would be sufficient reason why any lumnan should be excluded from tho panel. The onlr other allegation is that two or three hun dred people tried to lynch the defendant. They are almost an insignificant traction of the county. I can sec no reason why the venue should he clianged. Mr. Beach, attorney for the prisoner, then stated it was not possible for him to bring the prisoner to trial at this term, but ho did not de sire to divulge the prisoner’s defence by making affidavit as the cause for continuance. If ho did so, it would involve such statements concerning the peoples' witnesses as might prejudice them against the prisoner, who would have to rely up on what be could draw out from them. The Court declined to act upon a motion to continue upon so unprecedented a state of case, but signified that a liberal spirit waold govern an applicaton in lawful form. Mr.Beach expressed his opinion that a legal butchery was about to be consummated, whore lore he withdrew from tbe cause. The prisoner then being interrogated stated that he was unable to procure other counsel. DEPBAVnT—FOURTEEN TEARS. Thomas Marshall, indicted for an assault with intent to rape one Hattie Winters, was found guilty, and the penalty of his offence fixed at fourteen years in the Penitentiary. It appeared, in evidence, that the prisoner, a man of about the ago of 40 years, decoyed his victim, a child of the age of 8 years, into a Buss’ stable, coixing her in, with a younger sister, to see a horse. LABCENT—ONE TEAR. Jerry Berry, with whom was implicated a wo man, was tried and convicted under an indict ment charging him with the larceny of clothing and trinkets of the value of S4O. from one Moses H. Baxter, wh e trunk he rifled at the Bends House. The jury accorded him one year in tho State Prison. BOBBEUT —FOtTR TEAM. 'William Caldwell -was convicted of robbery; and awarded a residence of four years in tho Penitentiary. He with one Quirk, who is now at the State Prison, met a wooaen-leggcd man by tbo name of Daniel Sullivan, ,in a lumber yard, whore they attacked him and stole hia watch. John Horton was sentenced to the County Jail for six months for the larceny of a twelve dollar coat from Anton Ruttger. XIKMAMJED CASES. John Marvo pleaded guilty of the larceny of $35 In money, the property of Charles Mlchaolis, a follow lodger. the property from un der his neighbor’s pillow. He was remanded. —James Muldoon Illegally cast two votes at the last election. He acknowledged hia guilt and was remanded. —James Mnyner pleaded guilty of the Larceny of 800 ponnds of iron, valned at SB, the property of Daniel R. Brant, and sentence was suspended. —Catherine McCarthy,who,upon tho occasion of tbo general arraignment, denied her guilt, when charged with the larceny of sai worth of dry goods from Joel N. Swart, yesterday, entered a plea of gulty, and was remanded to await sen tence. This week's docket includes three eases of homi cide. Therein set for Tuesday the trial of An drew J. Pertect, charged with tho murder of his wife by cutting her throat, and the trial of Greg ory Peri, for the murder of two men, employes of a pop factory, who had dealings with him on the night of the great fire. CIBOUIT COURT, TO MAKE EVIDENCE OP TITLE, A*bill was filed in behalf of Horatio O. Stone, Jr., against Horatio O. Stone, Sr., and others, the prayer of which is to define a trust and to ap point a new trustee, the original deed under which the trust accrued having been destroyed by fire. The property concerned includes the west twenty acres of the north half of the south half, and the south half of tho north half of the northeast quarter of Bectlon 10, 39, 14; Sub lot 6 of Lots 13 and 14. and the north half of Lot 13 of Block 14, Fort .Dearborn Addition; sub-Lots 1 and 2of Lots 3 and 4. Block 140, School Addition. Tho property was, it is al leged, cqnveyed by H. O. stone, Sr., September 21,1863, for the benefit of his wife and any chil dren who might be berm. The value of the realty is stated to bo about sioo,ooo. CHARGE AGAINST AN ATTORNEY. An-actlon on the case, iu the commencement of which a capias was sued out, was instituted a>y Agatha Meagher against one John H. Ferrell. 'Toe damages In this case are laid at S6OO. The plaintiff alleges, under oath, that upm tho 27th day of October last, she employed Ferrell as her attorney, to conduct for her a plaint of replevin, by means’of which to recover a trank of clothing. Ho demanded $3 advance fees before the Justice, to liquidate which, aho gave him 16. He stated ho would procure change. He forgot to do this, and! sis charged that he also, when possession of the trunk was obtained, took from her, by snatching, a watch valued at $56, and in tensified her grief by suffering her cause to go by default, so that judgment wont against her lor a board bUL ALLEGED SLANDER, An action to recover for an alleged slander case, was commenced by Henrietta Habuland who joins her husband in the proceeding, against August Ebcrlc- The damages was laid at 16.C00. An action of ejectment was commenced, against tho South Park Commissioners, by Robert L. Wilson, who claims title to tho west half of the oast half of the northeast quarter of Section is, 33,14, forty acres. ASSUMPSIT. An action of assumpsit was instituted by Mary E.Hullam, against Franklin Person, in which demand is made tor Si,WO. COUNTY COURT, WILL raoHATED. Tho will of Bomor Hopkins was proved, and letters testamentary were granted to the widow, Kittle L. liopklus, under bond of SIC,OOO. ADMINISTRATION. Sarah A. Gallagher was appointed to adminis ter upon tho estate of John BAlnUaghcr, her de ceased husband, under bond of $360. SUPERIOR COURT. ASSUMPSIT. An action of assumpsit was commenced bj Hrastus Gary against Henry C. Childs, by whid demand is made for $3,006. THE CITY IN BRIEF. Parlor Concert* A day or two since a little sketch was published iu these columns ot a noble enterprise in which somo 'West Side ladles had embarked, in the for mation of a Woman’s Industrial Aid Society, for the purpose of furnishing work and wapa to eewtog-gWs and others who had boon burned out of their situations. On Thursday ovenlmr last parlor concert was given in aid a? MS? a enterprise at the residence of hlrs. w M ‘we ar! glad to state that it was in every tmv n sni pleto success, especially so In a ft point view, the receipts being «»7. Nor was inSS couraglng from an artistic standpoint ThcrS lowing ladies and gentlemen participated in' thk vocal and Instrumental entertainment: Mrs. John larwell, Mrs. O. K. Johnson, Madam© Roths child Wetzler, Mr, W. C. Collin, Mr. Robert Howard, Hr. Frank Bowen and Mr. Meyer, Violating tho Fire Ordinance. The erection of temporary frame dwellings within the old fire limits has not, since the great conflagration, been interfered with by the city authorities, for the reason that shelter was abso lutely necessary for those whose houses were de stroyed. Borne of tho property-owners, how ever, have commenced putting Bp frame build ings with the intention of allowing them to re nts in permanently. To this class of people, who me violating tho tiro ordinance now m force, the pour© authorities are paying attention. OnSat ;u«ay four gentlemen who were creating frame buildings of this class on the North Bice _ wc arrested and fined $35 by Justice HanuuUL Many men are now pushing forward frame buildings on ground within the proposed new fire limits, and straining overy nerra to hare them ready for occupancy before the Common Council pastes tne now ordinance, and unices the ordinance become*. a law witnin n very ehoft time Chicago will be In aa KooA'con dition as ever fora conflagration widen will as tonish tbo ■world and bankrupt tUo remaining eolvent insurance companies. A Plncky Girl. Though the now England girls outnumber the men, the latter arc forced to come -hope for wives* They appear to bo well suited, oven though tholr wives have to get suited from their fathers'll wardrobes. So at least the following from a Boston paper would Indicate: “A Chi cago girl wrote toner lover In Springfield, Has sacbusetts, Just after the fire, saying: 'Our wedding was sot for next week, and, if you will stand up wtth a woman dressed in a cotton skirt and her father's overcoat, como on.’ The brave youth telegraphed in reply; ’Got ready, ITlba with yDU.’ Y Injured through Carelessness, An accident resulting from, carelessness hap pened at the Arctic House about 11 o’clock on Sat urday evening. Mr. Fred. Rounder, one the pro prietors, wanted to start a lire, and the kindling not igniting as soon as ho wished ho poured a quantity or diamond oil into the stove. The oil took fire at once and set the can, which Mr. Rounniorbad in bis bund, ablaze, burning bis bands and face very badly. Dr. Young was call ed in and attended to him. His injuries are not considered dangerous. Jobnßeiley and Alexander McLaughlin had a fight on the comer of Fifth street and Chicago avenue, on Saturday night, and Roiley struck McLaughlin in the lace with a club, breaking the bone over his left eye, and knocking out the op tic. McLaughlin was removed to his homo, No. 20 Fifth street, and is not expected to recover. Reiley was arrested and locked up in the Chicago Avenue police station. A Touching Obituary, The Mobile Register tbua writes the obituary notice of a Chicagoan, forgetting that tbo fire may have been responsible for the bad taste be displayed: “A citizen of Chicago recently shot himself on the Kansas Pacific Railroad. *Ho bad been pluying three-card monte on the train.' He was right. A man who will play throe-card mon te when it is just as easy to play poker, ought to shoot himaeU.” An infant son of Policeman Timothy SUcaban was fatally burned yesterday afternoon. During the absence of its mother and wbilo its father was asleep, the child lighted a match and sot fire to its clothing. Its screams awoko Shcahun, who, in subduing the flames, burned bis hands so as to render him unfit for duty. Tbo child died from the effects of its injuries in a fow hours. Relief for Chicago* The latest English papers report that the sum received at the Mansion House for the relief of Chicago amounts already to £17,900. —Advices were received yesterday from A. P. Ditteudoeffer. Esq., of Now York, stating that Mannheim, a beautiful little town on tho Rhine, had forwarded, through Messrs. Oreenebaum, bankers of this city, is.ooo florins for tho relief fund. The donation, which is a magnificent ono, will be most gratefully received. —Tho city of Clinton, lowa, did for Chicago about what everybody expected Clinton would do. On Tuesday, October 10. a car-load of pro visions bad started for the relief of the destitute, which was turned over to Aldorman C. C. P. Holden, The Post Office employes of the same city subscribed a handsome sum for brother sufferer in Chicago, for which they will always bo gratefully remembered. NOTICE. Ad Optic Knocked Out. A Child Burned to Death. miscellaneous* —Messrs. G. C. Cook Co., wholesale grocers, are 'willing to contribute a safe to tho proposed monument of old safes to be erected in union Park. IT a letter-press monument is tobeorected they propose to donate two valueless presses. -Mr. M. H. Jones delivered a free lecture at the Free Congregational Church. Bloomington, on “Chicago by Moonlight.” Tho lecture was listened to with great attention. Ur. Jones was an eye-witness of the conflagration. —The anvil upon which the Rev. Robert Collyer worked *Mt. liklcy, England, was dug out of the ruins of Unity Church and presented to W. H. Baldwin, of Boston.Dlt has been mounted and placed In the rooms of the Young Men’s Christian Union, Boston. HYDE PAHS. Meeting of (be Town Trustees—Standing Com mittees for the Ensuing Year—The Gas Com pany—Petitions—Resolutions Adopted* An adjourned meeting -of the Board of Trustees of tho town of Hyde Park was hold on Saturday afternoon. President Cady announced the fol lowing standing committees for the ensuing year: Finance— Hale. Bradncr, ami Clark. Accounts anti Expenditures— Waldron, Fisher, and Bradncr. Judiciary— Fisher, Doyle, and Hale. SpecialAf*f*s>nent —Clark, Hale, and Vandor-Bclt. Fuliceand sanitary— Doyle, Fisher. and Barney. Streets and Mightcxigs—S\' al(iron, Clark, and Vandcr- Belt. Mrainage— Barney, Doyle, and Fisher. Fuhlie Grounds and ifunddipa—Bradnsr, Waldron, and Hale. Total Flat* —Clark, Bradncr. and Barney. Licenses— Vander-Belt, Barney, and Waldron. Miscellaneous Easiness—Doyle, Yonder-Bolt, and Barney. Charles Hitchcock. Esq., appeared before the board on behalf of tho Hyde Park Gas Company, asking that Section 27, tho gas ordinance, passed June 24,1871, be repealed. It provided that the town might purchase the Gas works within fifteen years, and run them in tho interest of the town. He argued that such a course would bo unwise and unprofitable; that no power now existed, and. under tho new consti tution, would not probably be granted to the town for that purpose; that tho company were crippled by tho Chicago fire, and could not go on; but that, if this section was repealed, a company wae ready to proceed with the works at onco. Tho section was repealed. The following petitions were received and re ferred; From Winchester Hall, for opening ditches on Michigan avenue. From residents of tho Third District, for the appointment of John T. Ritchio as night police man and Thomas Cobum as policeman. From owners of the Douglas and Blanohard tracts, for permission to remove the sand piles on tho lake shore and to lay out and macadamize a driveway at their own expense. From Guy C. Sampson, Justice of tho Peace, for remission of a SSO fine imposed by him on William Bard for depositing dead chickens contrary to ordinance, of which he pleaded ignorance and removed the fowl forthwith. From John McCaffrey, for payment of balance of $12,000 duo him for Improvement of H\'dc Pork avenue. The following resolutions wero adopted: That the Superintendent repair tho crossing at Forty-second and State streets. That the Committee on Public Buildings procure a stove for the Jail and place samo in tho corridor. That the Committee on Accounts report tho amounts duo the members for per diem and committee work, and tho amount duo to tho Town Clerk. That the Town Clerk bo instructed to draw warrants for all bills approved by the committees and ordered to be paid by the board. That tho Finance Committee report at tho next meeting tho balances and overdrafts of tho sev eral assessment funds, and tho amount nccossary to be levied for general town purposes tho ensu ing year. That tho Committee on Streets confer with tho Sooth Park Commissioners in relation to tho un finished space of ICO foot between Grove park way, and Drozd avenues and Oak street im provement just completed. Captain Binford reports 23 arrest lor tho last month of 23 residents of Hyde Park and 2 of Chi cago—for drunkenness, 16; breaking the peace, G; dlgffinglnstrccts, 2; vagrant l. Fines assessed, sl4l. Bills were approved and ordered to bo paid to the amount of $3,032.66, and the board acUourucd to Saturday, Doc. 3. Sirs. Livermore. hire. Livermore, formerly of this city, la now tho most popular female locturerin the Now Eng land States. She received invitations from eight different courses in Boston alone this season, and she speaks every night (often preaching on Sunday) from October to January In New Eng land. After that date she lectures in tho Middle States and tho West. Western societies who de sire to engage her should apply to RedpatU Fall, of the Boston Lyceum Bureau, at once. Boots and Shoes, Everybody, by gomg to 6. S. Richardson «fc Co.’e, No. 61 West Randolph street, can get any thing they want in tho lino of boots, shoes, slip pers, rubber*, Alaskas, and Arctics for men, women, and children, at prices as low as any where. Men's and boys’ hand-made kip and calf a specialty. BUSINESS NOTICES. Forßyapepiio, Indigestion. Depression of Spirits, ana General Debility, tho Ferro-Phos phorated Elixir of Calisaya Bark (Calisaya Bark and Iron), is t’n beat tonic, made by Caswell, Hazard Co., New York, and sold by druggists. 8150,000 in J,OOO cash prizes—Highest prize $60,000 gold coin, to be distributed legally by ebanco, January 50th, 1873, in aid of tho Mercy Hospital, Om-iia, Nebraska. Pattee Gardiner, Managers. Tickets $3 each, or two for |5. A Blessing to Blethers. Mrs. Winslow* Soothing Syrup, for all diseases wlthwhlcU child ren arc amicted, la n safe and certain remedy. Pimples removed and the skin made smooth by using Juniper Tar Soap. Manufactured by Caswell 4 O. Now York. Illinois and Michigan Oansl, Canal Office, Cinc.voo. Nov. 25.— Cleared— Maple Leaf. Joliet; Colonel Martin, SLockport; E. walker, Jr.. Lemont. Arrived—D. Hess, Lemont, 54 yds stone: Con stitution, Lemont, 67 yds stone; J. H. Walker, Lemont. 89yds stone; 8. and T.. Lemont. 69 yds stone; Bescao. Lemont, 66 yds stone: H. L. Poaa- Ico, Lemont, 74 yds stone: H. Walker, Lemont, Sp yds stone; Harry, Willow Springs, 28,000 lbs tr&S. Canal OFFICE, Nov. 35—5 p. it.—Cleared— Prop Wasp, Summit; Rescue. Lemont; H. L. iHraslee. Lemont; J. S. Walker, Lemont: D. Hess. Lemont; Geo. Judd, Lemont: S. and T., Lockport; Chicago Bello, Utica, 40 bris salt* Lake Disasters* Port Colrornb, Out., Oct. 25.—Tho bark Bay City, having broken loose from tho tug Dunkirk, is now beached nine miles west of this place. The Captain reports that he was in tow with the barges Forester and Niagara, bound from Buf falo to Saginaw, when the wind blowing a gale, the baric broke loose. Nothing has since been heard of the tug or barges. —The Philadelphia Press of tho 23d says u Among tho now projects noted in our railway column this morning la ono that will be more readily comprehended in Philadelphia than most other cities. Under tho name of the Northwestern a fti on anr M tension of tho Superior KotthS? a from Shrte line to tho Northern Paclflc junction. has boon incorporated. The contract lor thta aeotton has been taken by Walbridgo Brothers Sa^ront an Ohio firm who expect have the roadrf^ for running by July. ism. The Junction with the North Pacinc will be made at Thomson, from which point that road wilt thereafter have the advantage of n forked debouch to the take— ono line running in on the south side of the river at Superior, the other along the north bank at Du- I mb. CHICAGO. The Xlemeleii Rnnired Thousand—What Xlod to be Done for Them—Heir lit Was to be Done, and Who Had to Do It— The Chicago “Tammany” oud the Be* Kief nhd Aid Society. Chicago (Nor. ll) Correspondence ol the New York Tribune. On Monday night, the Oth of October just post, 100,000 ol the people ol this city, who the night before had gone quietly to rest in homes ol some sort of their own, had no where to lay their heads except as' they could find shelter with friends, or could huddle into churches whose doors had been thrown open to all who would enter, or could creep into empty wagons, or lie down on friendly door steps, or drop exhausted upon the hard ground of the prairie or the beach, whither they had fled to escape death by tiro. There has been no actual count of the people, but 100,000 is not too largo an estimate. On the North Side on that Monday night, not half a dozen houses were left standing, and the latest census of that division of the town was, in round numbers. 78,000. On the South Side and the West Side together, in an area of not less than a mils square, ouo single isolated warehouse near the river was only spared, 1 and much of the space had been tilled with tenement-houses teeming with population, and still more, was densely packed with those small wooden shanties into which the poor wore crowded; the better class of dwellings in another jpor j tion, as m 'Wabash and. Michigan I avenues, had come to bo, almost exclusively, boarding-houses, with rarely less than two persons to a room, and the upper portions of most of the large marble and crick blocks in the business section of the town were filled with young men—-and in many cases with young women—who found it cleaper or pleasanter to thus lodge in one place and board in another than to live in hoarding houses. Twenty-fivo thousand for this dense* i ly packed population is a moderate estimate, and that, added to the actual count of the North Side, where there was not house-room enough left \o cover a hundred people, will more than make up the hundred thousand who stood that day at sundown with only the sky over their heads. Another estimate also helps us to the sumo conclusion; it is reckoned that the lire burnt up Sixty miles j of city streets. In a straight line it is a good four miles from tbo starting point of the tiro to tbo last house burned. But these hundred thousand people were notoniy without homes. During tho eighteen or twenty hours of that fierce conflagration the wind blew a hurricane which a ship at sea could only have weathered under bare })oles and a storm stayrsail. Tho fire was tho ire of a blast-furnace, not merely of burning houses. Its lino was not continuous. In deed, after tho first two hours it had no lino, but worked its way sometimes to windward in some unexpected quarter, while all tho time it swept away furiously to leeward, bursting up continually in fresh spots wher ever one of tho huge brands, or blazing boards, or fragments of roofs, that tho hur ricane hurled lor miles, made a lodgment and kindled up a new starting-place. A wooden house wooldllash into a blaze like a huge pile of brushwood; tho brick or marble buildings would glow for a few moments with tho in tense light of a furnace, the fierce flames flaring out across tho widestreets, or into tho doors and windows of those next them as if driven through some compound blow-pipe, and would then crumble and crash down into their own collars great masses of living fire, horning with the more intensity under that terrible blast, as tho mingled material of wood, and stone, and iron, and tho varied contents of shops, and stores, and ware houses, and dwellings were heaped together. Tho air was filled, with flying and blazing missiles, driven before the wind, and hurried in every direc tion dense clouds of smoke rolled down into tbo open spaces of tho streets, .the more blinding and confusing in tho light and shadow which tho red flames lent them: tho light sand and dust were lifted and driven about like a driving snow storm or a sirocco; and the suffocating heats burnt up the at mosphere, so that neither man nor beast could breathe in it and live. Even the rats marched down in droves* like those that fol lowed tho Pled Piper of Hiemlin, through the hot streets, ana crossed tho beach and took refuge in tho lake. Men, women, and children fled literally for their lives, thinking of* nothing, and caring for nothingSmt to gain, if that were possible, a place whore the fire could not reach them. Thousands were only half clad; many were in thin night-clothes only. They left their homes behind them, in all the order and comfort and security which they had about them when they wont to bed on Sunday night, and snatched up, as they ran, only tho garments, if even those that they had laid off that night; for it rained down fire, and there was no time for thought of anything but escape. Some who were aroused early, and some who had tho prescience to foresee the coming calamity, moved everything in good season, as they thought, to some distant place of safety; hut the lire followed with swifter foot than they could fly, and seized their household goods and gods from out their very hands, and left them only a heap of ashes. Thus a hundred thousand stricken people stood on Monday night at sundown, stripped, for tho most part, ©f all their worldly possessions; hungry,naked, and with nowhero to lay their heads. So much for tho living; for the dead, they have never been counted, and never will bo. What am you looking for?” said a gentleman to a friend and neighbor whom ho found dig ging among tho ruins of his house, on tho North Side, a day or two after tho lire. For my mother,” was tho answer. Of this 100.000 peopie, 20,000 probably loft the city in tho course of a few clays. The Transportation Committee alone has issued E asses to 7,000, which tho different railroads ave duly honored; tho railroad officers have passed many more of thoir own motion, and a largo number have gone out of town, in va rious other ways than by rail, to tho towns and country round about. Then 15,000 more, perhaps, found refuge with friends iu tho city, or could command the means to estab lish themselves in some sort of an ahiding placo of thoir own. But, making thus all possible deductions, there would remain from 60,000 to 70,00 persons, absolutely destitute of everything, to bo fed, and clothed, and shel tered; and, indeed, now—more than amonth I after tho fire, and when a largo decrease has I been made, from various causes, in tho num- I her of thoso who cannot tako care of thom- I selves—there stand recorded upon tho books of tbo Belief Society 13,000 families who I need to bo supported wholly or in part. It is not likely that they average much less than five to a family, and that would give about 60,000 as tho number who have to bo looked after daily by tho Be lief Committee. It is a complicated busi ness to care for an army of sixty thonsan d men, duly mustered ana in quarters, its com mand divided ami subdivided, so that each man is under the immediate and personal supervision of a superior officer, its Commis sary Department fully provided for, its i whole machinery thbronghly systematized and in perfect running order, with all its traditions and regulations and checks and balances as accurately adjusted as in an eight-cylinder printing press and a first-class steam engine. Given first this great and perfected machinery, and given then the men who are accustomed by long habit to rnn it, and your armv of CO,OOOmcn goes on smoothly enough provided every man is careful ana diligent iu his special duty, provided no screw gets loose anywhere, ana no hitch occurs, anywhere from tho Commissary General down to tho dnuumer-boy’srations. But conceive .of au army of 00,000 to be composed, not of mar shalled, organized, and trained men, where i there is a place for every man and every mankDowßhisplaco t hnt of men and wom en and children without organization or cohesion, huddled together in extrem ity of distress, weary, hungry, house less, naked, cold, and in despair, and tho problem is how to food and clothe and shelter them—a problem to bo solved instantly or they perish—not to bo ciphered i out at leisure with time enough to devise flans and appoint officers of tens and of mudreds of thousands, to provide material and places, to divide and subdivide work and duties—but the whole thing to he taken in a lump then and there, and then and there done before sun-down. Conceive of this and you have an idea of the work that was hurled at the Belief Society; of tho chaos out of which they had to evolve order; of the prayer for salvation which came from thoso tens of thousands of pleading eyes and thoso tens of thousands of outstretched hands. They did what they could; it is wonderful they did so well; none hut that Power which said, “Lot there be light, and there was light,” ont of such dark ness could have commanded the perfect day. It was fortunate for Chicago that it such an organization ns this Belief and Aid Society. It has been in existence nine or ten years, nas taken upon itself, during all that time, tho care of such of tho poor of tho city ns were not absolute paupers, and has been managed by picked men from among its I lawyers, physicians, clergymen, and •mer chants. As in all such cases, the work had 1 devolved upon a few, but those were men who, voluntarily, and from conscientious and benevolent motives, took this work of charity upon themselves, and reduced it ito a svstem of scientific accuracy. On Monday, the 9th of October, hi th* tot con fusion of that dire disaster, and whcil tho citv was like the first resting-place of a routed and fugitive army, with no water save that dipped from tho lake by hand; no gas in streets or houses; a third ol tho people with out food, or shelter, or clothing; that.pitiless southwest gale unabated in its fury, and over all that fierce glow of tho smoldering fires, shedding down upon us a lurid light rom a brazen sky. like a moonlight red with blood—thou wo turned for succor where wo could. The first generous supplies of provisions, and clothing, and money, that poured in from all sections of the country were used without discrimmationorjndgment.aud. though thev relieved much suffering, where relief could hardly go amiss, there was enormous and lavish waste, as well as cruel, selfish greed. And iu another sense, also, we were Uke a defeated army flying, with all tho people round about, before a relentless ene my, for tho birds of prey scented death ami disaster. and gathered for the feast, and filled the air with their clamor. Here were millions of money com ing, and thousands upon thousands to bo de pendent upon bounty, and disbursements to he made wnich. both as to those who made ana those who received them, would be a TSE CHICAGO TRIBIfNE s\ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1871. fruitful source of power and of profit. The aovember election waa only a month away, to the foul brood of city politicians, it seemed that their lather, the Deni, had come in just the nick of time to their assistance. A Board of Aldermen, a majority of which has aspired to be the Tammany of Chicago, and so tar as it has failed, has failed for want of oppor tunity and ability, and not because of any fear of either Goa or man, counted now upon retaining place and putting their enemies under their feet with the personal and pecu niary power which the handling of the re lief fund and provisions in kind would give them. For the first three days, from Tues day to Friday, the danger was that allairs would fall completely into the hands of this class of political bummers, and the struggle they made to retain their hold upon them was as desperate ns the clutch of death. It was the crisis in the fate of Chicago. Whether it should ever recover from tlio terrible calamity that had swept over it, or whether the min should ho utter and irrev ocable, depended altogether upon the char acter of tho men into whoso hands should fall the essential government of tho city at this moment. That essential government would rest with those into whoso control should come the caro of the needy andsuffor ing; who should keep them in a condition for wholesome labor, and should provide it for them; should keep away from them all' temptation to desperate remedies for desper ate circumstances; and who should use wisely and economically the generous bounty in provisions and money which was pouring in from every quarter. Of that rich fund we should, without doubt, have seen tho end ero this, had things gone on as they begun, and the laboring peo ple of Chicago, instead of being cheerfully at work at good wages, would have been at this moment a starving, discontented, tur bulent population, feeling that they were defrauded of that which an overwhelming sympathy for suffering had given for their relief, that a gang of thieving politicians might carry out their purposes m attaining or Keeping political power, aud grow rich upon the sustenance of the poor. But, for -timatoly, tho Mayor of Chicago was a man of common sense, who would not give up to party what was meant for humanity. He recognized the distinction that the succor sent to Chicago was seat to the peo ple, and not to the municipality; that it no more foil by necessity and right under tho control of the Board of Aldermen ortho Common Council than under that of tho Board of Trade, but that it ought to 50 whore there waa the beat assurance that it would bo used for the purposes for which it was given, and where those who gave it would have some confidence that it would bo so used. By timely proc lamation, therefore, three days after the lire, but wheu time enough had elapsed to justify tho wisdom and necessity of tho step, mayor Mason handed over the whole business of tho cate of.the needy and the custody of everything bestowed on their be half to the Relief and Aid Society. Tho Ring 77 did not submit to this decision with out a desperate struggle; but fortunately tho Executive Committe of the society were not only men of high standing in this community, hut men of firm ness and quick decision. Accepting the groat trust imposed upon them, they en tered instantly andvigorouslyuponthe great work before them, heedless of partisan clamor, deaf alike to threats and offers of compromise. In tlireo days the question was settled, and tho almoners of tho largest be neficence that tho world, perhaps, has ever seen for a purely humane purpose, sat in perpetual session at Standard Hall, or ganizing and carrying out a system of relief and aid for this stricken people, so that not a dollar should be wasted or unaccounted for, and not one in this great multitude of sufferers should go hungry, or unclothed, or without shelter. There are, no doubt, hero, as there would bo everywhere under like circumstances, other men who, from like motives and with like ability and in tegrity, would have discharged the responsibilities of such a trust; but it is no mere than common justice to say that every one of these men gives his invaluable ser vices at great sacrifice of his personal affairs, and it is simply an obvious reflection to add that it was most fortunate for Chicago that Buch a bodv of men was already picked and chosen, ready and willing for so sudden and so urgent an emergency. On this subject, I am sure, I have not dwelt too long. The contributors to tho Chicago fund, both in this country and abroad, want to know, and have aright to know, what dis position is made of their bounty, and what the character of the organization into whoso hands it has fallen. Three aud a half millions of dollars is a good deal of money to give away, and when it is given for a specific purpose the giver likes to ho sure that that purpose is answered. The world, in such a case as this, wishes assurance, not metely that it *is not cheated out of its money, but that the sufferer, on whose behalf it was given, is not cheated out of tho intended xeliet. The latter motive, no doubt, is tho stronger, and where the question is asked— u What are they doing with the money tho predomi nant feeling is one of sympathy for suffering, rather than anxiety about the mere use of a contribution. One gives to a street beggar, and trusts that it is at least an even chance that the alms bestowed may bo beneficial. But if ho gives to a trustee for tho relief of a friend, he is anxious for that friend’s re lief, aud is sharp in hia inquiries, not for the money’s sake, but for his friend's sako t if he has any reason for don\jt na to the disposition of his boull* v It is, there fore, desirable thst tlw public onteida of Chicago jflioiiifl be satisfied that the Relief -'O'wlciy have accepted this work as a fiduciary trust; that they are accountable to the laws of tho State—the society being a chartered institution and obliged to make and publish an annual official report—for Us proper discharge; and that its officers are mou whose ordinary rela tions to society are at tho same time the evidence and tho guaranty of their char acter and their conauct. What they are doing, and how they are doing it, X may, perhaps, tell you in another letter; for the sympathy that has poured out from a full heart with a full hand, all over our own country, in Canada, aud in England, is not exhausted, and those who lavished their gifts upon the people of Chicago are natural ly and properly anxious to know what relief their bounty lias given, and how it fares now with those many thousands who. more than a month ago, were turned out between sun down and sundown, into a smoking wilder ness, homeless and poor; S. H. 6. CHAPMAN—On tho morning of tho 2Ctli Novem ber, Mrs. Harmony, wife of Casa Chapman, ngod S3 yore. Remains will be taken to Niles, Mieliigun, for burial, on Tuesday morning. Niles papers please copy. WHITCHURCH—In lids city. Nov. 2C. 1371, Char lottoo Henrietta, daughter of 11. W, and Margaret Whitchurch, aged 5 years. Funeral to-day (27th) atl o’clock p. m„ from No. 270 South Desplalnes-fit. The board for tho relief of members of the fraternity of A- F. A A. Masons, hold sessions from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily, at their rooms. Masonic Temple (fourth floor), corner Randolph and Unlstcd-sts. All brethren, ana the widows and orphans of deceased brethren, who are sufferers by the Are oi sth and 9th October, will, upon due application, receive assistance. DEWITT C. CHEQUER, President, JAMES MORISON, Superintendent, HENRY DUVALL, Secretary, WILEY M. EGAN, Treasurer. Chicago, Nov. 53,1371. LaFavette Chapter No. 2. R. A. M. Regular Convo cation tJii.*, Branch Office, 493 Wabash-av., Transact a regular banking business same as State or National Bank. Also deal in Government Securities, convert the *62 5-20s due Dec. I. Draw Cold Bills of Exchange on New York, and Starling Bills direct on Lon don. __ On Friday, November 24,1871, Commercial National BANK OF CHICAGO, Will oecnpy Its new office on Washlngton-st., between State and Dearborn-sts., adjoining the First National Bank of Chicago, H. F. EASEES, President. K. D. BUCHANAN, Cashier. MISCELLANEOUS. APPLY TO GMcapßfiM afilAid Society, AT STANDARD HALL, For Information as to Letters of Inquiry for the following persons: WUVL FRANK WHTTCOMBE, formerly with MMara Hold. Murdoch Maher is anxiously Inquiredafter bv his mother, airs. Eliza Whitcombe, of 62 Talbot-road, Bayawater. London W., England. JOHN O’BRIEN, a turner by trade, U inquired after by William J. Porter, of Peterson. N, J. JOHN JONES, formerly at F. D. Cbapiplin’s, 730 West Lake-at, inquired after by his mother through Mr. Edward Woodall, of the Advertiser, at Oswestry, MARSHALL, with Hamlin, Hale Co., is Inquired after by Ida sister. Miss Emma alar shall. Cleveland villas, .London-read, Lower Clapton, L MABb^^T BRENNAN. who lived at 170 State st., and was a sewing-machine operator, is Inqmred after by her aged parents, through C. C. Fisher, icto ry. hlason County, Mich. Annie H. Smith Is anxious to hear from her brother, CHARLES W. SMITH. T Mrs. MARY HIOGINB, who lived ou North La- Salle-at,, mid her two children, who were boarding at St. Joseph's Academy with the Sisters, are inquired after by T. F. Donnelly, of Locknort, N. MISS BRIDGET SULLIVAN, formerly living at No. 92 Desplaines-at., la anxiously inquired otter by her brother, M. J. Sollivan. Hearts Content Station, of Malahide, Ireland, makes earnest inquiry for his son, who used to live at 423 and JANE BECKER are In quired after by John C. Seamen, of Gardiner, Ulster BLATCHPGRD, formerly ol 26 West Van Buren-sL. Is inquired after by his mother, through the Rev. w. H. AiTin, curate of Christ Church, Plymouth, England. TO TBS PUBLIC. STANDARD HALL, Nov. 21,1371. I particularly request that all persona who feel that they have been treated with incivility, rudeness, or neglect by any visitor, cleric, or other porsomconnoct ed with any District Office of the Chicago Belief and •Aid Society, will at once report tho facte to the Supor intendent of the District, stating to him the offence and pointing out the offender. Unlean tuts is done it wiU be impossible to correct evils and abuses, which the officers of the society are as anxious to correct as any one in the community be. O. C. GIBBS, General Superintendent. RUPTURE. ■Dr. B. N. MARSH’S Patent Radical Cure Truss cutes rupture. Can refer to over 500 hundred cases in and around Chicago that we have cured. These and all kinds of Trusses, supporters, Shoulder Braces, Elastic Stockings, apparatus for Bow Logs, club Feet, Weak Ankles, spinal Curvature, and all other physical deformities, made and accurately applied at Dio Raul cal Care Trasss office of MARSH «fc BOWLES, Southwest corner State and Elghteenth-ata. ARTISTIC RUINS. THE FIXEST TIEWS OF TOE RCIXS Published, on Wide or Artistic Mounts taken by Barnard, and published and for solo, wholesale and retail, by LOVEJOY FOSTER, 309 West Randolphs!., Ctucago. Sent by moil on receipt of price, 84.00 per dozen. Cabkict Photographs from same negatives at same price. The Stewart Fund for the Relief of Women and Children. The Committee appointed by Mr. A. T. Stewart to supervise the expenditure of his donation have de cided to have the fund expended by the Chicago Aid and Relief Society, though such agencies as may be decided npon by the committee. Applications of benevolent societies, or individuals for the relief of destitute women and children may be made by letter, or In person, to N. 8. BOUTON, at Standard Hall, comer Michlganav. and Thirteenth-st. Office hoars from lto3 p. m., dally. Persona regularly receiving aid from Relief Societies need not apply. To Architects, Builders. AND CONTRACTORS. BENIER’S CARTON PIERRE. The best substitute for plaster decorations in new buildings; light, durable, economical and rapidly ex* exemed. Messrs. BONE TAYLOR, sole agents for Great Britain, are prepared to famish designs and es timates for complete execution of the above in all styles of architecture, ceiling decorations, cornices, capitals, all mouldings and ornamentations to pahlta bandings, mansions, and private residences, execu ted in tiiia desirable material, and in the most artlstio manner. Address Messrs. BONE j Bond for illnatrated circular. _. GENERAL NOTICES* FOR THANKSGIVING. Oneida Community Canned Frnit; Elgin Packing Company’s Conned Fruit; Elgin Condensed Milk. ami a foil assortment of choice groceries, at 90 THIRD* AV„neapHanlsoD.Bt. W. S. LAHMAN. notice is hereby riven that I have withdrawn from tho firm ot W. I*. Ely A Co., commission merchants, 47 Jiorth jeffereon-Rt., and will not ho responsible Xw any dehu contracted hr the firm after this date. ChlcagoT Eov. 22.1371. D. COPELAND. NOTICE. The creditors of Sfatauail I*. Stone, lata Bank&v will meet at the Sherman House Monday next, at 2 p. in. GEORGE H. STONE. Cleveland. SCALES. f?p FA im££* s vP SCALES, or au sixm. vM»miaaa Fairbanks, Sreenteaf 4 Co. SSHP* U BOCta CAS4MI. TROY, Yew York, ST. LOUIS, Missouri, PORTLAND, Maine, CHICAGO, CONSERVATISM, LARGE CAPITAL, EXTENDED BUSI NESS, and ADEQUATE RATES, must all be united in the Insurance Companies mat safely pass through, such, fires as these. PHMIXINHAKCIEOMPANT, OF BROOKLM, Vi, Y. Cash Capital, $1,000,000 Cask Assets, after all Chicago Losses are paid, $1,500,001) ZHCOB.FORATEB 1853. Losses paid in past 18 years,- $7,000,000. 112 Losses, amounting to $267,520, have been paid to Chicago claimants up to Nov. 25. Persons desiring to insure in a reliable Company which- has stood the test,” are referred to any of the parties we have paid losses to in the Qreat Fire or during 18 years past, as to our method of doing business, and are invited to bring their appli cations THEMSELVE 3 to SO West Madison-st., or 356 Wabash-av. B. S. CRITCHEIX, Agent, I. L. WAYNE SON, NO. 14 NORTH CANAL-ST., (Lata 190 LatML,) Lave a lon line of Cabinet, Builders’ and General HARDWARE, Upholsterers’ Goods Undertakers’ Trimmings, Thanking triends for past patronage, wa*sk a con* tinuance of the same. BUILDERS’ HARDWARE AND TOOLS. J. K. TTLEB, No. 360 Stue-st. SWEET, BEMPSTER Ul WHOLESALE EATS, CAPS, FURS, Would respectfully announce to their customers, and the trade generally, that their bnyeris now In the Eastern markets for the second time since the fire, and that they are receiving a splendid line of HATS, CAPS, FURS, and ROBES of all kinds, suitable for first-class city trade. Call and see ns at 59 and fit West Wash ington-st. SWEET, DEMPSTER CO. on.« ci--" iiaeiluj, ouie Depository. We, the undersigned, having visited the premises. No. 143 Randolph-81-, directly after tlia tiro of Oot. 9, take pleasure In certifying that on enterin'? vaults we found the Interior perfectly cool, and in the very best preservation: TnthillKing, Chat lea L. %Vllson, Edwin Lee Brown, J. W. Scovillo, Rev. J. Cadwalader, J. H. McCheanoy, Rev. Dobt Patterson, Geo. A. Ingalls, Rev. M. VanDoren, Oeo. O. walker, and very many others, whoso signatures are attached to the certificate, to bo seen at tho Depository. Tlio undersigned having bad direct personal charge and custody of tbo Vaults of the Fidelity from too commencement of the institution, testifies that on the very next morning after the tcniblo tire be opened the vault with ease, finding so perceptible increase of heat within, no gloss tnrxusliod. no paper scorched no wax melted, and that all tho millions there deposited were promptly delivered by him to tho depositors. Since then the safes have bees rented ana used bv largely increased numbers, including heavy bonks and other corporations,land tbe|undersigne