TriE DEBTORS. Something About Debts and their Forcible Collection. Means Eesorted to by Creditors to Discipline Insolvent or Stub born Debtors. Ttbe Unfortunates Sometimes Inoar- cerated in the County Jail a Whole Year. .Sheriff Bradley’s Vie-ws on the Collection of Debts. forces* ti "lusions Drawn After Seven anflar teen Tears’ Experience. conseti 3 f r It is s' -ncithi t Tim Thinks of Justices, Con •erty u. 1 statues, and Shyster Lawyers. is rep. the coi the with Ed. Longley—Releasing the Ro fc erty Prisoners on the Right arem of the Fire. Com* that hi r oa that a I* ersoll can contract a debt with Qty of being under no 1053! obligation to him e 110 doul)t influences many men to -dcsci Purchases with the intention of never pay-' Acm. The law is all on the debtor’s side, nee having the goods in his possession he his J<* iu £k at creditor, who la powerless to _ Yc- him return an equivalent. To be sure, tbe creditor can have him put in jail, but the law re quires hlin to pay $3.50 a week for the board of the debtor while he is incarcerated. But keeping him in jail, however, does not tend to make the aan honest, and the creditor soon becomes tired of paying out money to support a fellow whom he was simple enough to trust, and in a little while tbe debtor is released. Occasionally a person is arrested through malice, and run into jail on a ca. sa. or a capias, and kept there an indefinite length of time, or just as long as it requires his enemy’s revenge to ho gratified. The law per mits this, and the satisfaction to he derived from ya suit for damages generally results in loss of money—where a persecuted person has any—and time which could he more profitably occupied. The debtor, when arrested, is allowed the privi lege of going into court and making an affidavit of insolvency, but if be lias not the necessary fees, he must lie in jail uniil he can get a friend topoan him the money necessary to satisfy the demands of the Deputy Sheriff or Constable. When a person is in debt, and has no prospect of getting money, his friends usually desert him, .and only now and then can ho find ©ne who has sufficient confidence in him to credit him with the sum needed. This being the case, many poor devils, who have no helping friends, are obliged to remain in jail until tbeir debts are obliterated, they being allowed $1 for every day they stay, the co cents paid by the creditor for board being added to the original amount. With a view of unfolding the subject of debtors and tho collec tion of debts a reporter of The Tribute was recently detailed to interview tho Sheriff. Deputy Sheriff Ed. Ixmgly, (who probably know more about the subject than any other two men in the city), and any debtors who might be confined in the County Jail. Accordingly he visited the east wing or the Court House, The •other evening, and was admitted to the •Turnkey Stone. As the door prisoner cried out. Water, got a cupful and gave it to h ed and took a seat near the which the reporter statione saluted with the question. **J liave you locked up now f” Em" was the reply. ‘•Where is he V* ‘•There” pointing to a Gert •of about 19 years, who was se few feet away,reading a dime n A DEBTOR INTERVIEWED. Hie debtor, whose name is Fred. W. Thai, was then interrogated by the reporter, and told sub stantially the following story. He lived at No. 7&j South Halstcd street, and bad been in jail since last Friday week. awaiting trial for malici ous mischief, and the hearing of a suit for dam ages of $1,200, -which grew out of the afore-men tioned charge. While coming up Halstcd street about three weeks ago he heard thenoise occasion cdbv several panes of glass being broken, andn dry‘goods merchant rushed out of his store and seized him, and said he had broken $l3O worth of class. A policeman took charge of him, and he was taken to the Twelfth Street Station.where ho remained over night. In the morning ho was taken to the West Side Police Court, and, after a hearing, held in SBOO hail to answer the charge of malicious mischief. Being unable to find ball then, he was taken through the streets to Hie County JaiL *Ho offered to hire a carriage or pay the car fare, but the policeman, who put the como-a-loug on his right wrist, refused to ride. He remained in the jail nine days, when he procured the necessary ball, and was released. Before this he had been taken before the grand Jurv, and, without being given anopportnnityto produce his witnesses, indicted. He did not seem to realize that the evidence de sired was merely es parte, and thought great in justice had been done him. However, ho was released from custody, hut the Jail had attrac tions for him, and, at the expiration of two days, he called around “to bring something to the bovs.” As soon as he made his appearance he was arrested on a capias, issued at the instigation of the dry goods merchant who claimed $1,200 for the $l3O worth of window glass. demolished. He was treated byfe lock-up k pers very well, .and considered tL.'n gentleuu *ut he did not like the food, which consisted or oread, soup, ami black coffee, sweetened with molasses. He was allowed to walk around the corridors during the dav lime, and was locked up after he went to bed. Contact with the prisoners charged with crime could not be avoided, and didn't injure his morals. He •‘*'ed that he did not break the windows, o* could prove his innocence. [The day after our rr was taken into court am* awaiting sentence.) A TALK W* r This youth being whom informatir porter called v T morning, and xiau conversation with licht some facts whicu public. Mr. Bradley was foim the basement of the east wing oft. writing in his ledger, but when the .e --ouested an interview, he laid aside 1. and an>wcred without hesitation every .stios ticked him. The conversation is subjoin. Reporter. I want to obtain some information about debtors and their incarceration in jail; w hut do vou know about It t SherUL* 1 don’t know anything about if. Reporter. Tell me how a creditor goes to work to get a debtor in jail. Sheriff. If a man refuses to pay his debts, and the creditor can show he is concealing his prop erty, he gets a f«. sa., which is a capias ad satis jocicruhnn. Then they arrest the party, and bring him to jail, and, before they can commit him, they have to pay $3.50 a week for his board, and the fees for receiving and discharging. Reporter. How long do they keep him in jail? Sheriff. Well, if a man hasn’t got anj-thiug, he makes an affidavit that Jie has no rights, credits, •or property, or choses in action. Reporter* What does all that mean 1 Sheriff. Anvtbing whereby they can bring a suit to recover anything.* As soon as he makes that affidavit of insolvency, he works out of debt in jail at SI.CO a day. *»a. Reporter. What do you.;. manual labor? Sheriff. No. He is allowed by law for his time '•in jail. Hecanpayhis debt by staying in; the creditor all the time advancing his.hoard. jf he f*ils to advance the hoard, tho party is dis- Reporter. Fails to advance week by week Sheriff. Yes. He cannot advance a part of a '•week, hut $3.50 at the beginning of each week. Reporter. How long are the debtors usually locked up? Sheriff. Oh, tho time vanes from one day up. We had some time ago a man and his wife, who worked out three hundred and forty days. Ido not moan bv that that he worked, but he staid until his time paid the debt at a dollar and a half a day. But they only'make a dollar a day for ♦hue—the half dollar is added for board. Reporter. Ho they have to stay for that too? f horifl Yes. Half a dollar a day is added to The amount the creditor advances for tacon?SsSly added to the debt, bo that ite delltor onsets a dollar a, day cleat-lor Ins t'me Every dav he remains m jail takes a dol {he debt, and if ho does not make an affi davit of Insolvency, he stays here just as long as lie partvpavshis board m advance. Rcporicr. may be ten years? Sheriff. Yes, he cau keep him here just as lon 0 ns he navs his board in advance without limit, ward a debtor, then he could keep him jail all Sheriff. No. hecannot. The debtor cancither pay the debt or make an affidavit of 'There is away for* him to get he is a d-d scoundrel. If he has property and won jn v, and can’t make an affidavit, of course, ie has got to stay. But if it is a case of tort,where ualice is the gist of the action, he can.send la iv Mhedule to the court aud be discharged. Reporter. What is the smallest amount you oerknewamantobe locked up for? Sheriff. 1 do not recollect exactly, but I ha' e brown men to be put in for a couple of dollars. Reporter. How long were they held Sheriff- Oh pernaps a week. Generally tuc mi n who put tltm iu for such a small amount make a deposit for a week’s board, and, at the cud of a week they arc discharged. I never knew a case wlure a man was kept in any length of time tor a snail amount. The revenge and suite comes out of the creditor’s pocket every time, cud his spte soon subsides, because he is obliged to advaice money every week. I Can conceive that a nnu may have a spite against a i debtor and say, *’lf you don’t pay this money, 1 i! will get a ca. wi./’but when he finds out ho has v inpavs3 50 everyweek for his board, he says, This is not goingto pay; let him go; he has been punished.” Reporter. Homtthc creditors frequently pay more for board thin the amount of the debt? Sheriff. Yes. occssionally. Reporter. How rve the debtors treated while jn jail ?—tke same as the prisoners charged with criminal offences Sheriff- No; they are kept m the debtors’ P pptfdffer. What di you mean by that-are tlf-yn-it locked up in the County Jail with the Cl phcriffi A place is provided bylaw for the dditors to be kept in., ftc'poTtvr. Is itnot in ho jail? •herifl. Certainly, it is iu the jail. Reporter. ’What part o: it? iheriff. Generally in aroom where there are no cells. They aro Hot -locked up ■with the prisoners. Reporter. Are they not locked up at all! Sheriff. Yes, they aro locked up, but not •with the criminals. If they were not debtors, they ■would bo put in with Tom, Dick and Harry-- murderer or burglar, or anybody that happened to come along, because, in Jail, there is no grade among the different kinds of offenders. Reporter. Do not the debtors come in contact with tho burglars and murderers t Sheriff. No. Reporter. Axe they not allowed to walk In the corridors and talk to those behind the bars Sheriff. Yes. sometimes. At present there is no debtors'prison in the County Jail, a&d wo haven’t any debtors now. Reporter. Haven’t you had any since the fire 2 Sheriff. Yes, one or two. but they only staid in for a couple of hours. We have not had a man on a final process since tho fire. Once in a while a man is arrested on a capias for debt. Ho stays in jail an hour or two, and gives bail. There have been two cases of that kind. Reporter. When a man sues for damages, is the amount claimed considered a debt. Sheriff. Yes. There are various Muds of dam ages. A capias Is very seldom issued for debt, but for trespass, which covers a great many things. Trespass on premises is the action gon ally brought for debt. Actions that are brought for debt are only upon bonds. There Is no debtors’ prison now, but as soon as tbo County Commissioners meet I intend asking them to des ignate a place to keep debtors. I hope there will never be any more arrests for debt. Reporter. Do you think the law is a failnrol Sheriff. I donotseethatauythingis gained byit. Reporter. You say the creditor is obliged to ad vance $3.50 a week forthe board of the one indebt ed to him What kind of bond doyouglve? Sheriff. The same board as wo give the prison ers; three loaves of bread, a pound of meat, a pound of potatoes, and a cup of coffee each day. Reporter. Does the county pay $3.00 a week for every prisoner’s board. Sheriff. Yes. Reporter. Have you room in the present jail for a debtor's prison. Sheriff. Oh,yes; tbefeia room enough for all that may be put in. Scarcely anybody is held for debt now. We don’t have as many now as we did, as the courts have dischargedi’them very freely. The debtor has all the law on his side. If one does get in he soon gets out in one way or another. Ido not think there is a State In the Vuion where so few aro imprisoned for debt as in Illinois. Reporter. How do you account for that 2 Sheriff. It is on account of the leniency of the law. Reporter. Has the creditor no remedy! Sheriff. Well, he has a remedy, of course, bat he generally comes back to the starting point. You can whip the devil around the stump, but won’t gain much by it. If a debtor has money, you can keep him in jail until he pays or works it out; if he has no money, ho can relieve himself in ten minutes. If he is a d—d rascal, and wants to conceal the property he has, he can be held if the creditor can get at the facts. If he has been unfortunate, and has no money, and cannot pay. the law will release him in ten minutes. He need notgotojailatall. All he has to say when ar rested is. I demand that I be taken before the County Judge,” and the officer is bound to take him there, provided he pays a dollar for taking him there. Reporter. Suppose he has not the dollar. Sheriff.- Well then he must borrow it. Reporter. Suppose ho can’t borrow it! Sheriff. Well, then, ho must go to jail. Reporter. For want of a dollar! Sheriff. That is the legal fee. I never found a man. in my seventeen years’ experience, who was too poor to have a dollar, or who could not get it from somebody. I never knew of a man who went to jail for want of the fees. Reporter. Are not debtors put in jail some times without being accorded the privilege of going into court. Sheriff. Never. Reporter. Are they asked by the officer who makes the arrest if they want to go! Sheriff. Well, if they say anything about it they are told hv the officer that they can go. The of ficer can make more out of it by taking them Into court than he can by simply locking them up. He would pet only twenty-five cents for making the arrest, and for taking the man before a Countv Judge he would receive a dollar; and it is fair*to presume that he would take him whore he could get the most money, v Reporter. How many debtors have you known to be locked up at any one lime i Sheriff. Oh, I don’tknow. We may have had a dozen at a time since I have been bere. Reporter. Wbat has occasioned the decrease? You say you have had but two since the fire i Sheriff. There is a great falling off in all civil business in tbis county. The business is not worth more thnn one-third what it was in 185S and 1860. Reporter. What is the cause of it i Sheriff. Well, there has been less credit busi ness clone, and hence fewer suits. The people are more honest now. and the Sheriff and his officers have less to do. Nothing of any account is done now. Reporter. Do you know of any instances where lice or “spite work” influenced a creditor to a debtor in jail? leriff. No. I do not. iporler. Have you told me all you know about tore? >riff. Yes, and a cl—d sight more. In the case t man and woman I told you of there may been some spite work, as the creditor ad d more money than the debt amounted to; e man and his wife wiped it all out by stay jail. ...arter. Do not creditors, as a general rule, advance for board more than the amount of the debt i Sheriff. For the last seventeen years there has not been as much money collected by law as there has been paid oat forfees. Reporter. Does that apply to the Sheriff’s of fice? Sheriff. No. Take the collection business any where not as muchmoney is collected as it costs to collect it. For that reason I have advocated the passage of a law providing that a debt shall not be collected by law—that all Law business should be done away with except so far as relates to titles of real estate. I kept statistics for three or four years, and I was perfectly satisfied in my own mind that it was a fact when you take out the attorney’s fees, the clerk's fees, and the Sheriff's fees, very little is left. Of course, where a large amount is to bo collected it is not all absorbed, but most of tbe amounts to be col lected are small, and disappear very rapidly when the fees aro taken out. Look at the cases that were on the dockets —they are wiped out now, and nobody has anything to collect on. Reporter. Suppose a man wanted a debt of 920 collected—that may be a little below the aver age—how much would it cost him? Sheriff. Well, in the first place, would be the attorney's fees, which are sls. He might get a shyster for, $5, but the shyster would beat him out of S2O more before he got through with him, and never collect a cent for lilm. Reporter. Well, what comes after the attor ney’s fees? Sheriff. The Justice’s fees and Constable’s fees. You go to a Justice’s office and get out a sum mons, for which you are charged $2. They haven't a right to charge more than a quarter. Well, vou give the summons to a Constable. Ho is “very busy,” and says, “this man is a good ways off, and I can’t serve it to-day.” The credi tor is anxious, and gives him $2 or $3, and the Constable “will try to see if ho can find him.” It is served, and he is brought Into court. Then comes the lawyer’s fees. You can’t get a respect able lawyer tor less than sls. You can get a shyster or a hoy, who is glad to get a skid of any kind for $3, but it don’t pay. Well, you get lodgment, and an execution is issued, and you have to pay for that. The Constable must take charge of it, and be wants another fee for collecting the amount. He is entitled to 10 Tver cent for any amount under $lO, and C per cent for any amount in excess of $lO. Sup ice the Constable collects the S2O, take the fees «ud he owes 50 cents for fees. Say he paid aot the summons, $3 to the Constable, sls to lawyer, and $1 for the execution; then the jnstable’s commission is $1.20, and he owes $1.20 .or fees. This is not an exaggerated case at all, but one which occurs every day. Then, again, lookattheiossoftimeln collecting the money. Whv a man could earn S2O in the same time at any legitimate business. It it safe to say that not more than one case in four of that character pays to collect. If there ever was, or ever has been, or ever will be, a set of G— d d d scoundrels, it is the Justices and Constables. Reporter. Are you not prejudiced I Sheriff. Not a bit. That is just as sure as you live—that they are d—d scoundrels, I mean. I do not know where to go—l would not know where to go if I wanted to collect a debt of sls, S2O, $25, or $50 —anywhere under SIOO, or within their jurisdiction- I would make the debtor a present of it before I would bring a suit for it, because a man would be better off. For this rea son I have never sued a man in my life, and I never was sued until I was Sheriff. If the law was done away with it would kill my business, but I wouldn’t care; it would oust a set of d—d scoundrels. Reporter. You seem to think the law is merely enriching a set of rascals. Pheriirr Yes, I think it is a d—d humbug.- Ev erybody wooldbc better off; business would be improved if it was done away with. If a man sells anotnev a bill o I goods be either gets cash ortiusts. If ho trusts, and the buyer doesn’t pay, why he should not sell him again; but if ho does, in tfce hope of getting his pay, if the man is a scoundrel, it will cost him nearly the whole amount and the loss of time to collect it. If the man doesn’t pay the first time ho is branded, ho cannot go anywhere else and purchase goods. Business men arc getting well acquainted with human nature, and they don’t trust as much now as they did Reporter. If he makes a second purchase, the law will help him to avoid paying? Sheriff. All a swindler has to do to-day is to go to New York or some other place and buy a lot of goods; come out here and sell them; give out that he has failed, ami go back and settle for 10 or 15 cents on tbe dollar. Ho takes the benefit of the Bankrupt act, and is soon ready to swindle the merchants again. Reporter. The Bankrupt act is quite an auxili ary in their little schemes I Sheriff, Yes, the Bankrupt law raises thunder all around. It is impossible to collect a debt. It offers a premium to thievery and rascality. There is no protection at all for the honest man. You will find men in this city who have taken the benefit of it, and are worth thousands of dollars more than they were before it was enacted. It is a good thing for the Register, being worth about SOO,OOO a year. It is something nonody looks into. They talk about the Sheriff making thousands and thousands of dollars and getting rich, and about putting him on a salary of $5,000 or $2,000. I hope they give mo $5,000 a year. I haven’t anything to do ex cept to sit down, and drawing the $5,000, while it micht be profitable, would not remure much time.'' If I had to make it out of iny fees, I couldn’t do it. •an by working out— No other questions suggesting themselves, aud I it being evident that the Sheriff had imparted all |i the information regarding debtors and tho codec- 1 i tloii of debts he possessed, Ed. a Depu- tv SherilL was next sought for. Eddy,” as he 1 is familiarly called by his associates, and tuoso 1 Trho have occasion to transact business with him, 1 £au intelligent young men. mid,having bum coiincctfd with the Jail in the capacity of lock-up keeper for several .yearn, is familiar with tho de mili of prison-life. Tlie hope of gaming an mil’ht into tho character of the debtors and thr maimer in which they spent their time was IhoSotive which induced tho reporter to talk to Imp The interview, however, owing to his being verv busy 'was somewhat unsatisfactory, hut as in I 7..vn'ailcscription of the rclenso of tho prison c?s on thcuflht o P f the tire, heretofore unpublished, 0 1 am looking affer facte relating to the imprieonieS of debtors; do yon know any- 1 '“lougloy.* 1 How they arc iockcd up for debt, do J Reporter. Yes,and the motive for putting them into You have bceu in contact with tin m in th^Couutj^Rid; them 6 are" evcclfeiit mem are half rascal and half great many of them are wsal estate men who sell property without kajlug a dcul for it. Those men have been in sc\ eral times for at t. A great many are also in for trespass, man named Thaler in for a long u bouse on the North Side to a man andluawfe, aud, as they wouldn’t pay the rent, lie! got a Con stable aud put them and their good* on walk. The woman had a small cluld. and she S sued him for trespass and got judgment aOI ET). LONGLEY INTERVIEWED. His attorneys let the case go by default, and then a ea. sa. viss issued, and he was clapped in jail. Be was released just before the fire. Reporter. Do you know of any instances where malice instigated the complainant, and caused tho incarceration of one who was indebt ed to him 1 Longley. There have been a great many such cases, but I can’t cnii to mind any particular one now. Reporter. Ido not care about the names; all I want are tho particulars. Longley. Well, we had a little Jew in for a long time, on complaint of a coal merchant. He asso ciated with the merchant’s son, and the son sold some coal and then went to Omaha or some other place out in that country. The Jew went to New York, and when he came back he was put in jail. Reporter. What was the charge against Mm? Longley. The merchant claimed that he owed him for the coal. Reporter. The intention was to shield his soa Longley. Yes, he sold the coal and didn’t re turn the money. _ Reporter. And the poor Jew had to suffer for his rascality Lougley. Yes. Reporter. How long was tho Jew in jail! Longley. He was in, I guess, about 8 months. Reporter. How long do the debtors usually B *liongiey. Well, not longer than three months. They have not remained in as long lately as they did formerly. We had a man and his wife once who staid in a year. Reporter. The Sheriff told me about that case. How many debtors bare you known to be locked up at any one time 2 Xongley. As many as ten or twelve. Reporter. Have you ever had any notorious characters in the debtors’ prison. Longley. Ohlycs. Wo had the irrepressible George Francis Irain in oneb. Ho was brought In about 4 o’clock one afternoon, and talked uutU 11 o’clock the next morning, when he picked up his trunk and left. Reporter. How much did he owe Longley. I think it waa somewhere about {3O. Broadway Callahan, the bill-posters, put him in. Reporter. Any others! Longley. We had John Sickles. Reporter. What! “the hat-masher”—ho who was always about the Chamber of Commerce! Longley. Yes. Reporter. How long was he in? Longley. He staid with us quite a while. Reporter. How are the debtors treated while in jail!—the same as the thieves and burglars! Longley. Oh! no. They have always had the run of the hall. Reporter. Have they a separate room Longley. Yes, a separate room, full of beds. They Lad the rim of the jail. The door was never locked ontbem till 11 or 12 o’clock at night. They used to come into the turnkey's office and stay and talk nntil they were tired. Reporter. What about their food t Longlev. There are no provisions for boarding them other than those made for the prisoners. But the debtors always have friends or families outside who send in the*r meals. The man who puts them in has to pay $3.50 a week for their board. It costa $3 for ?tho first week. That in cludes the bill for committing and discharging. Reporter. Are the meals of the majority brougLt in by friends outeide Longlev. jTes. Reporter. That is a good thing for the Sheriff. Longley. They always distribute the food among the boys. The bread they got in the jail is justns good ps you receive at any of the hotels or in a hoarding house. Reporter. How is the other food Longley. The soup and coffee just the same. Reporter. Do you mean you can toll the dlffer cueobetween the soup and the coffee 1 Longley. No it is good. Reporter. How many debtors have you had m since the lire! T _ Longley. We have only had a few. lam off watch now, and don’t know how many are mat present. Reporter. How many were in at the time of the fire! Longley. Four. Reporter. Did you let thorn out 1 Longley. They rapped on tho door so that I thought they would break it open. Reporter. You were on watch in the jail at the time of tho lire, wore you not 1 Longley. Yes. Reporter. Have you been interviewed about the escape of the prisoners I Longley. No. Reporter. Well, tell mo all about it. T\ ho first told you the Court House was on lire t Longley- I saw it myself. Tho first timo it cought, Yesey, the night man at the Central Sta tion, went up on the roof with a Babcock land put the lire out. Reporter. What happened after that 1 'Longley. We came down and went to tho Central Station. After being there a few minutes a little girl, with a baby in bor arms, came in and wanted a place to sleop. Vesey told mo to take charge of them, and I laid the hoby down on tbo bed in ono of the cells in the room next to tbe ono used by the de tectives, and the little girl laid down alongside of it. I left the door open, and when I went into the room whore Vesey was, some ono said Ed., you had better go and look after your prisoners.” I did not think they were in danger, but I ran around to the jail, and while going saw that there was fire on tho roof near tho cupola. Tho cupola did not ignite first. I saw tho fire when it started. There was a man on the roof, and ho kicked tho fire into the yard below. I went into the Jail, and took the women out of the cells and shut them up in a room so that, if it was necessary, I could open tho dooraud let them all run out at once. I then commenced letting the men out of tho old jail, openingtho doors as fast as I could. Before half of them were released the bell came through the lloor with a crash and a bang. I had sent for six or seven policemen to help mo tako charge of tho murderers, because I did not want them to escape. Reporter. Had you received any orders to re lease the prlsonerst Longley. Yes, I got an order from Mayor Mason. Here it is. Sheriff Belfast* all prisoners from the jail at once, keeping them in ensto Jy it MaJor _ Almost as soon as I commenced to let tlio men out, tb© policemen came in. My idea was to (se cure tlie murderers lirst and send them out. ■Wlien I saw tlie ollicers I unlocked the cells of tho murderers, and of Jack Whit©, tho confidence man, and delivered them to the officers, telling Georg© Hutchinson, a Deputy Sheriff, to take charge, and see that they -were locked up In the Huron Street Station. I told them I to come hack as soon as possible and help me with tho others. They took them over to the I North Side Station, and tried to get hack, as I afterward learned, but could not get within a block of me. When they were gone, I opened all the cell doors, and let the men into the corridors. Reporter. Did they all scamper toward tho door leading into tho Court House yard! Longler. Some of them did, and some not. They were all perfectly wild, and yelled as if they were exercising their lungs for the last time; running hither and thither, as if they did not I know what to do. It was the greatest excite- I ment I ever saw. Reporter. How many did you let out f Longler. One hundred and forty-three. Reporter. How many did the policemen take 1 charge of! I Longlev. Seven. Reporter. Yes, two; Jack White, and young 1 Mnrphv, who disembowelled a fellow named Riley. *1 think, on tho North Side, about four I months ago. He is the one who was hiding lor I two or three days under the sidewalls and in I lumberyards, and gave himself up to Sergeant Briscoe, at the Twelfth Street Station. Reporter. What did you do after you let them 1 Longler. As soon as those in the old iail were released,'llet out the debtors from their room, and then the women. Thou I went into the new I Jail« and opened the cell doors there. Alter I I had let them go, some one said “Don’t forget the I crazy woman.” I had not thought of her, one when reminded, X rushed into the place where i she was confined, and being unable to 1 induce her to run. I picked her up and carried her out on my shoulder. I left her in tno 1 Court House yard, and don’t know what became of her. When I had done this, I went back to get I the lail records, No one was in. tho budding then, and it was all on fire. E secured tho I and handed them to a policeman. 1 Reporter. V*iat became of them! Longley. Tho ollicers gave them to a citizen, who took them into tho tunnel, where they were burned up. I started to go into the jail again to I get my money, which was in a vest banging near my bed, but George Silva and Jim Van leet took hold of mo and wouldn’t let me. Reporter. What part of tho building was on fire then? Longler. It was all on fire. Reporter. Whnt time was it when the Court House was burning so that the hre could not be P laSSoy. It caught at twenty minutes to 2 I o’clock, and at 2 o’clook it was all ablaze. Reporter. How long after 2 o’clock was it be- I liave beenmoro than from half to three-quarters of an hour. BUILDING MATERIALS. TERRA COTTA. Them is something pleasantly suggestive in the name “terracotta.” It brings to tbe culti vated imagination visions of Italian towns, with their peculiar architecture, and adornments, beautiful fountains, unique vases, blending curi ously the history of indolent modem Italy, with the more energetic and practical Rome of too past. Since men burnt brick for building the Tourer of Babel, in all ages and by all nations baked cloy has been a most perfect and useful matenal for building, ornamental and domestic purposes, Let us make brick,’ has been the maxim and practice of all people who made any pretentions to understand architecture. Ana to-day, in countries old and new, terra cotta, oi baked earth” (as its name slgmtles), is recog nized among the cheapest and beat material that can be used in the construction of edifices. Ter ra cotta manufacturers claim perfection os a material, and cheapness as to price. Tno manufacture of terra cotta m Chicago has been quietly progressing during the past four years, and now a material equal to the best sue eimeiis in the old world is being produced, wWch will assist materially in the rebuilding of ourcitv. Two large buildings at opposite comers of bLim son and market streets, the new block of J. V Farwcll on Monroe street, large storesf «?monv avenue and Congress street, arc among the many new buildings t|at will use terraxotto for win dow caps. etc. Designs are also being woweaup in the offices of several of our in which terra cotta will assume Its proper rcla tion as a building material. CAST IRON. Cost Iron is lls ca for nrchectural purposes m the shape of columns, cornices, eirdirs,_" lnd -S£ copings: ana tho outer fronts of Ijmldings. lie fo?o flio lire there were *o?o in the city, at nearly aU of wWoh cmshnhS made which wore used as material. 1M capital involved in thishnsinesacould nothave been far from seven to eight milUon dollars. Eoughton was tho most extensive ana varied in this Une of manufactures, and the Ford Manufaotnrlng Compiny next. About half of tho foundries were destroyed ny the lire and will not be iuiiuertiately Iron will be more largely used than before the lire. The Field Lciter Block will bo replaced by Patter Palmer, tile general design and ap pearance of the building being the same as before the firp, but the front entirely of iron nianufac tureuln New York, aud shipped here ready to pc put into place. Mr. Palmer’s new hotel will be almost entirely of tho same material, a part of the large iron girders having been brought from Belgium, and a part from Pittsburgh. The work could have been done in tho foundries of this city, but more cheaply in Now York, on account of superior mechanical facilities. Much of the iron work used in Chicago buildings has heretofore been manufactured by establishments in Cleveland and Buffalo. Tho iron used in tho foundries of this city comes from WUconsin, Lake Superior, and Missouri, and ismixed generally m the following proportion; Lake Superior, 2 Mis souri, 2; North Mills, .4; Scotch imported iron. 2; scrap iron, G. The Ford fonndxr uses about fifty tons per day. Columns are sold at from J J-tto 4 1-2 cents per lb.; ornamental work for from uto 10 cents per lb. Tho iron trimmmgs of bulla lugs are put in place by the manufacturers them selves after the front is completed. THE J CHICAGO TRIBUNE; MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 18TL ART AND ARTISTS; What Chicago Lost in Art by the Great Fire. Whereabouts and Condition of Our Painters, List of Pictures Saved from Destruction. No class of persons lias suffered moro directlj and severely by the flro than the artists. Not gifted by nature specially with providence or physical foresight, sudden disaster is likely to leave them 'without root or branch to which to cling. Sumptuary laws*and great calamities trench first upon the luxuries and adornments of life, and of these none arc omitted sooner than pictures or statuary. Every commercial shock, national, or great local trouble, throws us back a certain distance toward primitive Before the Arc, Chicago had mado a progress in art creditable to the taste of her people, and full of noble promise for the future. She was sus taining a gallery of art respectable for its speci mens of skill, and within her borders more ar tists of repute tbau could reasonably have been expected, considering her newness, and the promiscuous character of her population. But the conflagration changed everything of this character. Our city is now occupied with the grosser and more pressing cares of covering her nakedness and providing food for her starving children. Onr merchants are too busy in trying to make good their losses, and endeavoring to avoid financial disaster, to cultivate the esthetic. Many of them must first provide houses before they can hang pictures upon their walla. The storm of lire has scattered the artists* as winter scatters the singing birds. Some of them linger hero, finding hut scanty subsistence among the barren bricks and mortar of the reviving city. Others have flown, for the present, to moro favor able localities to practise tkelr craft. On Friday last those left In the city held a meeting at No. CCS State street, the rooms of the Recording Secretary of the Academy of Flue Arts. The object of the meeting was most espe cially to take into consideration the proper dis position of tbo fund raised by the artists of Now j York for their needy brethren in this city. The business was transacted informally. It seemed best to those present that the fund, which amounts to $7,500, should be distributed amongtho artists who bad suflered by the lire according to their needs, and that the project of rebuilding the academy should, for the present, remain in abey ance. It was concluded to lay the situation of the artists hero fully before the committee in New York having the. fund in charge, and let them make tho disbursement accordingly. The suggestion was made that, as the Chicago artists were this winter unoccupied, each should naint a picture in his best style, tho same to be sold and the proceeds to servo as tbo nucleus of a fund to be used for rebuilding tbo academy. Letters were read from Volk, the sculptor, now in Rome, and Gookins. the painter, at present in Munich, full of words of sympathy, and hope for the future. Among other things, it was stated that artists abroad would contribute liberally toward tho rebuilding of the academy, and the reinstatement of art in Chicago. The following list of artists, and tbo places where they are located, will be sent to New York. To the name of each were appended such particu lars as seemed necessary to a full understand ing of their wants. Wc omit most of the details in tho summary which follows. The list nnd explanatory titles were written by Mr. Cul ver, and sent to E. Wood Perry. Chairman of tbo New York Committee of Artists’Relief. All tho artists mentioned lost their studios: Alvah Bradish. portrait painter, Is at his home in Fredonia, N. Y. It is understood that he will spend a portion of his time artistically in Buffalo. He saved nearly everything from his studio. D.F. Bigelow is at No. 24 Adams street, Chicago. Ho is a landscape painter, and is doing very little. Lost everything. William Coggswell, portrait "alnter, has gone to Washington, D. C-. and It is understood has already considerable business in progress. Conrad Dlcbl saved only bis largo picture, “Macbeth,” from the conflagration, lie has gone to St. Louis with the good wishes of all who know him. John A. Drury, landscape painter, is at hla home, No. C 3 South Carpenter street, Chicago, and Is desirous of locating in Washington. John W. Dodge, portrait painter. Is at his home, No. C6s*Wabaah avenue. He is, like tho rest who remain here, without orders, and none in pros 1>C Henry A, Ellems, landscape painter, lost to tho extent of ti,ooo. He leaves for New York in a day or two. _ Henry A. Ford is at home at Riverside. He has a few orders and some pupils. P. Mulvaney had just returned from Europe, and had not yet opened a studio. Albert Jenna, portrait painter, is at bis homo. No. 11 Ellis court, and alternating his artistic ef forts with government service. Charles Peck has been recently elected Corres ponding Secretary of tbo academy. Ho is at hla residence. No. 707 Tyler street, doing good service for the prospective academy. Tho residence of Arthur liealy is No. 301 Adams street. He left the city some months before the ’ire, and is supposed to he in New York or Bos- Theodore Pino has gone as far toward the fron tiers as St. Joseph, Mo., where ho will probably do well. Frank M. Pebbles has left, or Is soon expecting to leave, tbo city. He has done some of thcjrall road officials good service, and it would bo deli cate for them to remember him in a time like th John Phillips, portrait painter, is at the proviu- j cial town of Peoria. ■P. Fishe Reed and son arc at homo, on Monroe street. The former is unoccupied, artistically. The latter la engaged in finishing a handsome fruit piece, a line of art in which ho has acquired considerable reputation. _ Lauritz Holst is at Racine, Wisconsin. He is a landscape painter of some ability. 1 Mrs. S. L. Lamoutc, portrait painter, is at No. COS Fulton street, and not specially occupied. C. B. Schwerdt is at No. 103 South Park street. The whereabouts of the following artists, which completes the list of those located in Chicago, is unknown K. A. Clifford, Henry Peterson, H. F. Spread, H. 11. Cross, Homer Henderson, Mr. Harvey, and Mr. Conkey. sculptor. All of the list arc without orders except Ford and Dodge. The former has business to occupy him until February. ’All orders for works of art, outstanding at the time of the fire.woro cancelled, with a few trivial exceptions. Future orders are as yet In the dim distance. THE ACADEMY PICTURES. The story of the saving of the paintings from the' academy at the time of the lire bus never been fully to‘ld. The persons engaged in the busi ness were Rockwell, a painter having a studio in tho building, whose home is in Morris, 111., the janitor, Don Pedro Carlo Von Stoockel, an art student named Downing, and one or two Irish men. The paintings were all taken from tho stretchers without particular damage, only one of them—the Fairy Wedding-being injured by being cut from the frames. They were tolled up. and. being moved twice, finally reached tho lake shore At the foot of Jackson street,where Rockwell remained with him a portion of Monday, pro tecting them from the cinders, wliich foil contin ually about them. A few were slightly injured hv having holes burned in them. Sometime dur ing Monday all were taken to tho university, where they remained a day or two in charge of Downing. Here they returned into the custody of tho society, In the person of Mr. P: FUho Reed, who received them, and ordered that they should not be moved until official direction should bo given to that effect. Notwithstand ing this prohibition, all tho paintings were taken within twenty-four hours and removed to parts unknown. A part were taken to Morris, where they remained some weeks in charge of Mr. Rockwell, from whom they have since, been reclaimed. A list of the recovered pictures is ap pended. Mr. Bothermol personally came West and redeemed the “Battle of Gettysburg/’ pay ing, as wo are informed, some salvage to Mr. Rockwell. Mr. Elkins and Mr. Earl also recovered pictures from Mr. Rockwell. At tho time of tho lire it is supposed that there were between forty and fifty pictures at the gal lery, which are all supposed to be still in exist ence. About twenty have been saved. The re maining twenty-five or thirty, it is hoped, will soon ho restored to the public. Tho saved are as of Mr. Wilson, by Pine. Kimhark children-- Pickering. Olln Wood Scene—H. F. Ford- Coming Storm—Drury (tho only thingho saved)- Shore Scene—Hcade. Architectural Picture —Schultz. Portrait of Dr. Small—Mrs. lassctt. Portrait of Anduhon—Allen Smith. Landscape—Bolton Jones. Valley Scene—H. C. Ford. Fairy Wedding—James H. Gookms. Phantom Ship—Dix. Marine View—Paul Brown. Farm sceno. ~r All these were obtained at Morris. _» There have also been rccovered tho Battle or Gettysburg, a llowor piece bj Earl, a picture by Elkins, ond one caob by Lehman, Jcnks, and Ream, a Cincinnati artist. _ We have hero tho nucleus of a new Academy of Dcsi'Ti, which will rise grander and nobler outof the ashes of the old. A Defence of Chicago Insurance Cam- To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune 8m: I suppose you claim, as do most editors, that you are running your paper in the interest of justice, honesty, and the good of mankind Generally. This I holiovo to ho right.. The press to-day is a great public educator. Its position is one of great responsibility and trust, capable of doing vast amounts of good or harm, accord ing to the xiositions assumed by the men having the different papers in charge. I believe a groat •wrong has been done by the press of this city to a large class of good upright, and honorable I encaged in the insurance business ta U c?Mcaco. They, and the companies ropre- S them, have been nnmorcl &ers?"s, thiols and tmKnfldence E^ C n«r^«e^&eg xnt one “Well done, good and faithful servant," ““f“heard spoken to one of the many good. Si ncSdc and "Sven honest” business men. Shear?offleersandDlreotors of insurance compan m th?s city. a majority of whom were runmng HS hracstly. and this city of Chicago had reason to he J ’proud of her taauKuroo com rmficp and the majority of the men i onenced with them, as an honor to thoyorld mm ruin our once beautiful oily and her local cmiipnulis. Fifteen Now Verb companies, nto Hartford companies, and thivty others hay® Per ished m this dreadful holocaust of Are. StlU tuo Times had the InmeTtiucnc'j to ask, in a late issue, •why these local companies were organized f was It to cheat and defraud the public t and advises the people to banish from business circles and*- society the men who are officers of these compa nies and the editor will hide behind his rile sheet and cry ont. Wo did it in the interest of the public good* None of this venom is applied to the twenty-four Eastern companies which have suspended, and owe Chicago sufferers $20,000,000, although their chances of remaining solvent land continuing business are a hundred fold better than the Chicago companies, for the simple, common-sense reason that the cities in which the companies are located were not burned, leaving them all right to commence busi ness again, The stockholders could put up now capital from the large amounts of money that have accumulated in their coffers from the pre miums collected in this Western country, during the last twenty years, from the insurance busi ness. Scarcely a word is said abont these com panies, and the papers belonging to the different cities where these companies are located have not, in their wisdom, decided it necessary to the good of the public that the officers of these companies should bo denounced as thieves and defrauders. There has beenno “blacklist” prepared for them, giving the names of the men who run these companies, and falsifying the amounts of their assets, and sometimes dragging into tills list a company that Is paying its losses dollar for dollar, or a company that was not hurt by the fire, os iu the case of the American, of this city, a company that did not lose sl,ooobytbe lire, and is the only Chicago company that, at this date, is known to bo sol vent. Still this company was drag ged ijito the “black list” in Sunday’s issue, and tbe assets placed at $159,000. notwithstand ing tbe Auditor of State placed them at $548,874.• coin Ids report of January 1,1871, and a late re port shows them to have received over 5130.000 id premiums since the fire for policies written on farm-property and dwellings, showing conclusi vely that the people still have confluence in a well-managed Chicago Company. What, the fu ture will develop in regard to the two companies excepted in said list, remains to bo seen. I trust this wholesale denunciation of Insurance men and companies will cease. This great tiro has demonstrated that the insurance Is an adjunct of the commercial interests of the world that cannot be dispensed with. We are indebted largely to the Insurance companies for whatever of life and en ergy is exhibited on our streets to-day. Business has resumed its wonted activity, and men who thought themselves totallyrulned, financial!j-,the next morning after the fire, have had their hearts cheered and encouraged when they learned that the different companies were able to pay so largo a proportion of their losses. justice. Chicago, Dec. 2. Brick Walls Mode Absolutely Fire and Wind Proof, and the Whole Building Absolutely Indestructible from Any Con flagration Raging Wilbln or Without. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: 8m As The Tribune is one of tlio most ear nest and able advocates of proper Are limits and architectural reform, and is doing as much for the rebuilding of Chicago as any other instrumen tality ■whatever, especially in communicating to the public all valuable information and sugges tions and as all appliances for greater safety are, a,t this time, either recommended or sought after, I -will volunteer some facts and informa tion, in addition to the amount already given since the great fire. Considerable has been ■written concerning the construction of brick walls; and certainly, if an occasion was wanting to demonstrate the worth lessness of the methods heretofore pursued in many of our large cities, but especially in Chi cago, the general levelling, as exhibited in the vast mins of that city, has more than supplied it. But, without stopping to discuss the shams that have fallen, as may be hoped to rise no more, I will state that all outside brick walls should be laid in water-lime cement mortar. The silicates of this limo give it immense advantages over common lime for many purposes, and none more so than In laying np brick-work. This mortar sets quickly, becomes harder, and cements the brick together tliroc-times us lirmly as is possible for other lime to do; and, in case of lire, will en dure live times the heat without disintegrating or crumbling, maintaining its adhesive qualities against the action of both flro and water as no other mortar will do. A brick wall properly laid up with this mortar i will not fall down by any action of beat, however I intense, even if accompanied by a very strong I wind. AU solid brick walls should have lull heading courses every fourth course, or have strips of thin galvanized iron running across be tween every fonrcourses;.said strips need not be more than an inch wide, and as orteu as every third brick. These strips are better than head ing brick, as they bind the wall equally firm, and there Is no marring of the beauty of the face wall by the ends of the headers. A twelve-inch wall, built In this manner, is stronger than a slx tccn-inch wall of common lime and occasional I heading courses. But I now wish to mention a still better way of I building really first-class brick walls, which no j Are, however Intense, will throw down, or dam- j nge to any possible extent, except discoloration, for it will render the building absolutely fire, and 1 wind, and water proof, as far as the walls are concerned. It is the constructing of all walls I double, and in the following manner: 1 For very lilgh and massive buildings, where great length of side walls oc curs before intersection with cross or end walls, there should bo two walla; tin* outside, one foot in thickness; the inside, I eight inches, and a six-inch spare between. These j walls can bo laid of stretchers, without any head- j ing courses, by putting galvanized iron strips 1 across both walls, and the open space every three or four courses and every three bricks. The strips need be only one Inch wide, and Just long enough to reach the entire distance of both walla andtiiospace.mlnusonc Inch of coming through to either face. Thu strips should be justtumed one eighth of an inch at the ends, to form a sort of clench in the mortar. Where windows and door-frames occur, tlio iron frames—for they ehould bo iron in all first-class buildings—should I reach through from their front stir- J faces to lap across the space: and two or three Inches on the inside wall. The walls can bo made solid the width of one or two bricks where they come up to the frames, or iron dowle-pins can run back from the frames into J each wall, and bo inserted at the time of building. All window or doorframes should bo arched with half or quarter segments at the top, so that the walls can all bo arched at these openings, j which arches should always be made of brick, and never of stone. The most elaborate ornamental facings and I trimmings can be placed on these walls, made of I zinc, or any other metal which can he easily pinned to their places at the time of building, and would simply melt off In case of tiro, without any other damage than their own loss. j Walls such as I liavo specified may becarriednp flftv or seventy-live feet high, with side walls one hundred and fifty feet long before cross or end walls occur, and no fire or wind will throw them down. uch constructions the lire and wind wJUoh prostrated the brick buildings of Chicago would have left standing almost entirely unharm ed Floor-beams, whether of wood or Iron, may bo inserted into these inner walls with perfect Impunity by having a slight space left in the brickwork at their ends, and the upper side bev elled off from the face of tho wall, back tho length of their insertion. t In this case wooden joists burning off, or break ing in the middle, do not pry upon tho wall, but drop immediately out, and the space beyond tho ena of the iron girders allows them to lengthen by expansion without crowding the walls. "Fire-walls between stores or tene ments which are to have greater length and height, should ho made of two eight inch walls, four inches apart, and held by iron, strips ns in dicated. No heat can possibly penetrate through such walls, however long continued; and no wind, short of the most terrific cyclone, will dis turb them in the least. All simple par tition walls can be made of two four-inch walls, three or four inchesjapart, with strips across, as tho others only once m five courses and four J bncks. No furring or lathing is ever needed on those double walls; plaster can be laid on them direct and no freezingor moisture will over occur I after they are once dry. For three or four-story buildings, two eight inch walls, four inches apart, laid with the mortar and iron strips, as the others described, will stand against all of the elements of fire, wind, and water, and will give way to nothing short of an earthquake that shall heave tho laud like J ocean billows, or swallow them up. 1 For dwellings of tho lirst-olass, three or four stories high, there should bo one eight-inch wall outside, and a four-inch wall inside, four inches anaxt. laid with water-lime mortar, both walls; iron strips every threo courses and three bricks; and all main partition walls two four-inch walls, three Inches apart, with strips every five courses I and four bricks. Nofurriugorlatlungisneeded. Then, if the house burns out on the inside, o> orj I wall will stand perfect, and not have to boro two-story dwellings can always bo built of two four-inch walls, four inches apait, laid with cement, with the iron strips every fonr courses and three hricks; and these walls will ho perfectly frost and fire-proof, and such dwellings can ho made as cheaply as good wood en structures; ho moro comfortable summer and winter, and last four times as long, with one rnarter tho expense for repairs; and in a city, j as a village, so constructed, no general yonlh:- wonderfidhow *111650* double walls brace each other, and, laid in cement mortar, neither Are nor wind will disintegrate or topple them V Go*odhai d-burned brick is the best building ma- 1 tcrlal, laid pp as speciAed, that is possible to ob- I tain. No material, except what are commonly 1 called Are brick, will stand the same amount of heat; and, with water-lime mortar and double walls, ns mentioned, builders cun bid defiance to I any such calamity as has happened to Chicago through sham brick walls alone. Of course, absolute Are-proof buildings, both, from within and without, must have something, must be made Are-proof to go with tho walls. In. tho whole city of Chicago there were no perfectly I flrc'-proof windows, and not more than qno «r I of the windows were entirely useless to such a storm of Are and wind; and most otto*. I iron fronts, with rotten walls, vesting ott long, slim iron pillars, only hastened tho work of swift destruction to thoso structures-which were-as I fragile as they were ornamental. Ifwalls such as I have described, or aay others, are to rest on iron pillars, forming fronts—some thing to be avoided, if posslbiO--thcn those- pallars should he of largo diameter,, well proportioned te this height. All iron pillars should bainadom sections, tongued and grooved into each other at I the end: then they wilt not warp ot swing from nernendionlat in any fire that does not actually 1 S tto mSal A ten-inch pillar.lUteenfoot: ion«» -ayiii otvtld" bv groat heal that will not iiv* I luro fourteen-inch diameter pillar, built of threo orfmnmotsoctlonß. AUrounaplll^aronmib stronger than square ones of tho same eight of metal; but, for very heavy walla, and to houtflet them beof largo thickness, bnilt in sections, and, like the double thev will not fail or fall in Are or wind. Iron Shutters should ho made hollow, with n two-inch space, which, tor greater security, may be tilled will; water-lime cement. and bo made to sUdcnp and down in spaces left in th&wftils,and born sod and lowered by pulleys properly ar ranged. Snob shatters to nil tho windows, and no tempest of lire can walk through them, snoh as went through the Post Offlco, the Court House. ItlE Tkidese Building, and other structures aU :Nowglve walls, iron pillars of inree diameter, made In sections,—if pillars m.upt bo used.— and Ailed shutters, and you haya an. absolute Are-proof building from a Are without, as far as tho sides or walls are concerned;; and all that remains is to have a tiro-proof roof nnd 11 The most thorough manner of constructing a Arc-proof roof is, perhaps, ot all otters, tho most difficult to determine. a roof, to be absolutely Ay*-proof, must, of necessity, be costly ,in the w«ay; but as panics. P IRE-PRO OF BUILDING. future repairs will be lessened Justin Proportion to the first thorough construction, the law of com pensation will, in time, equalize the cost. In an other-communication I will given method, which I will guarantee to be all that can possibly be desired, both as to fire and water-proof qualities, and will last for ail time, with scarcely any re pairs. I will* also give a fall description of two methods of constructing fire-proof floors, eitner of which no lire from horning goods, or any material within, will injure in the least. BOCKFOED, HI. R. S. BASBOBK. THE CITY IN BRIEF. A Good Man Pullen. The telegraph announced yesterday morning the death of the Rev.. Ira M. Weed, at Ypsilanti, Mich. Mr. Weed removed to this city in the fall of 1847, and subsequently reaided hero for several years. His death will bo deeply mourned by all tbe older members of the Presbvtcrian and Con gregational churches of this city, to whom' ho was well known as a man who in all respects adorned the profession of which he was an hon ored member. The writer, who has known him intimately for nearly a quarter of a century, can truly say that he never knew him to say or to do am thing that was inconsistent with the highest tvpo of a Christian gentleman. He was the first pastor of tho Presbyterian Church at Ypsilanti, and under his most successful ministry it became one of the largest and most efficient churches in the State. For several years his failing health has obliged him to do very little clerical service, and he retired to Ypsilanti to sleep among those for whose welfare lie devoted many of the best years of his life. He was pre eminently a good man,” and his name will be held iu respect and honor by all who knew him. Announcements. Xlie monthlv meeting of the Erring Woman's Befiigc will be held at the institution at half-past 2 o'clock on Monday evening. —The managers of the Union Club ■will given series of parties, commencing on Friday evening next, at Marline’s Hall, Nos. 53 and 53 Aitu street. —The monthly meeting of the Caledonian Club -will bo held in the school room of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, corner of Sangamon and Adams streets, at 8 o’clock on Tuesday evening. —The annual mcetingof the Board of Managers of the Newsboys and Bootblacks’Home will be held to-day, at 2 o’clock,at the office of N. S. Bou ton Co., corner of Fifteenth and Dearborn streets. —The Ladles’ Christian Union still calls for girls for sewing and for kitchen service. Efficient women and girls may find suitable situations of all kinds by calling at the office, corner of Peoria and Jackson streets. —The change of time on the Chicago, Danville ,fc Vincennes Railroad took effect Sunday, where by the Danvillo express leaves at 7 o’clock a. m., and arrives at 3:20 p. in.; and the Mouienco ac commodation leaves at 3:05 p. m., and arrives at 8:30 a. in. —Commencing to-day, the Illinois Central Rail road will run a sleeping-car through to Spring- Held on the train leaving the Twenty-second street depot at 7:10 p.m., and through curs to Sprinflela will hereafter bo attached to the day train leaving that depot at 9:30 a. m. —Payment of pensions for the quarter ending December* will commence this (Monday) morning at 8 o’clock, at the agency, in the Evening Post Building, corner of Hubbard court and Michigan avenue. Office hours, from Ba.m.to 6p. m. for personal applicants. _ —An adjourned meeting of the Bureau of Special Counsel and Assistance will bo held this afternoon, at 2 1-2 o’clock, in the First Congregational Church, corner of Ann and West \v asfiington streets. Pastors of all churches, and one representative of each benellciary organiza tion in the city, are members of the bureau. There is special business to be transacted. Sanitary Matters at the Barracks* The Committee on Hick and Hospitals report the ■whole number of patients treated during the week ending December 1 at fifteen hundred and thirty-five. The whole numbertreated last week was two thousand one hundred and fifteen. Only four deaths are reported. From District No. 1 Dr Reed reports three new cases of small-pox. The vaccination of the inmates of the barracks is being pushed vigorously. The "Washington Park barracks (have had careful and complete vaccin ation throughout, and the work is in aolivo progress at the llalsted street bar racks. Dr. Reed reports the barracks at both places in good sanitary condition, and good health prevails. From District No. 2, Dr. Wagner reports a slight Increase in typhoid and malarial fevers, and the cases of varioloid of a mild type. There is an increase also of rheumatic affections. Dr. Bogue, Superintendent of District No. 3, while reporting a slight decrease In the namber of patients treated, gives an increase in the number of cases of scarlet fever, two deaths occurring from that disorder in the Centro Avenue barracks. District No. 4—Dr. Powell reports a decrease in the number of patients, with no prevailing disease. Dr. Freer, District No. c, reports a slight increase of patients, and no prevailing disease. Miscellaneous. The ofllce of Dr. W. H. Byford will bo re moved, to-day, to No. 785 Wabash avenue, corner of Sixteenth street, where spacious rooms have been fitted up for the accommodation of employes of the Michigan Southern Lake Shore Railroad, on Thanksgiving Day, pre sented Mr. A. J. Allen, foreman of the round house, with a purse of 8235, accompanying the jjift with fi*rarm expression of their esteem for —The Saginaw and Bay Salt Company lost in the Chicago lire 28,123 barrels of salt. It was in sured at the rate of $2.14 per barrel in the Inde pendent of Boston. They now offer to pay 2tfc on the dollar, avhich the company refuses to accept. —Among the accessions of business fromabroad to our city since tbo fire, we notice that of the firm of Cuvillier A Co., of Montreal, in the whole sale grocery lino. This firm was established m 1795, and is one of the strongest firms in the Dominion. They aro located temporarily at No. 199 East Madison street. TERRA COTTA. CHICAGO TERRA COTTA H Are now ready to fill all orders for Window and Door Caps, Belt Courses, Cornices, Brackets, Chimney Tops, &c., &c., AT OLD PRICES. Factory and Office, near the corner Sixteenth and Renhen-sts. HARNESS AND LEATHER GOODS. HAEDY SHORT, WHOLESALE AND DETAIL (MSS Jl SHIM MS, si on sr. coh&Jins, BLANKETS, SLEIGH-BELLS, ETC., 232 Miehitmo.av., Park Front. iTOUnSHK^ODS^^^ Gents’ Furnishing Goods. Wlffl. Cr. WHITE CO., 234 Michigan-ar., cor, Uarrison-st,, have a new full stock of Men’s Under wear, "Wool Gloves, Mittens, Socks and Scarfs. Duck Overalls of all kinds. Blue Kersey, Melton and Ladies’ Cloth Shirts. Cardigan Jackets, in all qualities, very cheap. TOBACCO. THE FIRST MANUFACTORY IN THE BURNT DISTRICT. CHICAGO TOBACCO WORKS, WATT JOHNSON* Proprietors, arcade court, Rear of ISOLsSaUcst. Direct Importation. 20,000 packages New Layer Raisins. loodnr,” “ox DooUaruS, 15 WHOIE, HALF, ASD QFARTEB BOXES, FOR SALE. BY J. W. DOAKE&CO. WATCHES AND JEWELRY, COGSWEM. CO., ABE NOW OPEN AT 306 West ladisoii-st. VfWh a (nil stool: of WATCHES. JEWELBY, W«l V'VTCHMAKEBS* TOOLS. ■;ti. a* fi'.ii* Me- tip. tt y tayol lor their complete puriiy, and delightful pn* ducts lor the taKo. lit it teller bble HAILOCK WHEELER, 23 West 3Umdolph-st, havei now a full Eiock of the shore. ??d Conducting Hose, Rubber ftE Rubber Goods generally. 3 dBT B& s/vws/vwwvwv-. ■vw*- WlEili OFF&R 60., Dry Goods. THE 218 West 3jake-st. LARD. ALSO WISTEBJSTRAINED FOI L SALE. FOR SAXEi apples.