6 A NEW FIRE EXTINGUISHER. An Ingenious Contrivance for Quenching In cipient Conflagrations—The Machine Tested x ehterday by a Boston Journallst—The Re sult of the Trial. Mr. Bird, of tlio Boston Advertiser, who is in Dus city obtaining material for articles on the great lire, its cause, effect, etc., brought with from the manufacturer, one of "‘Johnson’s Patent Hydrostatic Champion Force Pumps,” an ingen ious little engine for quenching incipient fires. This engine, weighing about three pounds, hose included, and about the size of an ordinary •walking stick, is in extensive use in Boston and other Eastern cities; in Boston several thousand of them are scattered about the city, and have proved of immense ad vantage in. saving property from destruction by fire. Mr, Bird is of the opinion, and his views are backed strongly by many practical thinkers in this city, that had Chicago heenprovided with tne Johnson or some other pump of a similar nature, which anybody is capable of using, the fire would imthavc advanced beyond the Leary cow shed. All that is required to put one of these engines at work are a bucket of water and a muscular arm. For the purpdso of demonstrating what the pump is capable of accomplishing. Mr. Bird, yes terday aftei noon, tested its capacity in the pres ence of Fire Commissioner Chadwick, City Treas urer D. A. Gage, Eev. Robert Collycr, and a con course of admiring firemen, the spot selected for the* trial being the large vacant lot on the corner of Van Buren and Clinton streets. The first trial was made with three Hour barrels filled with ►havings and other J combustible material, thoroughlv saturated with kerosene. After tiie match had been applied, and 11(0 fire had ignited everv portion of the material, the pump was set in motion, and in less than thirty seconds the flames were entirely quenched, the quantity of water expended in the operation being the amount con tained in an ordinary wooden horse bucket. A second tiial was then had, this time six flour barrels and a large hogshead prepared as before, being the feed given the fire-fiend to consume, when the flames reached full headway the little champion was set to work by Mr. Bird, and In less than a minute nothing but smoking embers remained. As a finale, Mr. Bird, with the kind assistance of several firemen, got up a bonfire on an exten sive scale, not less than a dozen barrels and hogsheads, filled with shavings, etc., and satu rat ed with kerosene, being used. 'When this mass had been burning five minutes or more, the piston of the pump was set in motion, and notwith standing the fact that the water reservoirs had to be shifted to all sides of the fire, the flames were quenched in about a minute, withtheexpen diture of about four buckets of water; These tests seemed to demonstrate the fact that any ordinary fire in a building can, if attended to instantly, be quenched by one or more of these ►mall engines without resorting to the steamers. The pump used in the tests yesterday is capable of throwing a stream of water horizontally a dis tance of forty or fifty feet, with considerable force. As before stated, all that is required to set it in operation is a bucket of water and a mus cu.ar arm. Mr. Bird has no interest in the Johnson pump, either as agent or proprietor. He simply brought it along with him to show to the Fire De partment and all others interested in the preser vation of property against the devastating ele ment which recently swept over our city. AMUSEMENTS. A NEW PLAY AT THE GLOBE. The new play, Bertha, or the Sewing Machine Girl,” was brought out on Monday evening at the Globe Theatre to a good audience, who followed with much interest the development of the rather Intricate plot by which the young and beautiful heroine, Bertha (Miss Blanche Deßar), was brought through a sea of troubles safely Into the possession of a happy father, and a rich estate. The plot has been already published, and we need say no more than that Bertha is beloved by a young clerk, named Philip Hamilton (Howard), who only succeeds in wedding her after they had exposed the chicanery of Lizctic Graham, who worked in the same shop, and loved Philip: of David Carter, who wanted Bertha ruined, and held her putative father by the throat; of Joe Car son,the son of her employer,who also sought first to compass her ruin, and to marry her, and of a few other incidental bad people, with whom the play abounds much more plentifully than with •rood ones. The plav is one of considerable inter est, and the thread of the narrative is a well wrought one, except ia a few instances, as for in stance, whereiircf/c counterfeits thehandwrltiug of J?tr/7io in the rooms of Bertha's mother, where she is in danger of interruption; she could have better done it elsewhere. The different charac ters were generally well sustained, the hitches being no more numerous than is usual on a first presentation. Miss Deßar’s action was full of pathos, and Mrs. stoneall, as the Miss Charitu Pinch of the concern, who “got more work out of her girls than any other woman could,” showed in the trial scene that, notwith standing her sex she could play a very respecta ble Solon Shin.f/le, .though she did not mention “.that bar'l of apple sass.” The part of the Iwjo of thepiccerXirc/te, was taken, and admirably taken, by Miss Burt. Bertha” will be repeated every evening until further notice. MICHIGAN AVENUE THEATRE. The bill at the Michigan Avenue Theatre during tho week is Milky White and Cox and Box.” The houses thus far have been large, refined, and thoroughly pleased with the entertainment offered. The cast of the first pie ce is as follows: Mill.’!/ White, Ryan; Dick Dugas, Giddcns; Archi bald Good, Bruce; Amite It/life, Miss Goodall; Mrs. Sadrof, Miss White. The comic portions are portrayed in the usual unctuous humor by Ryan and Giddcns, and the pathos is in all respects effective. The costumes show as careful accu- racy as usual, and all details of the representa- tions are as well attended to as circumstances will permit. “Cox and Box” is a musical extravaganza, built upon the slender framework of tho familiar farce of that name. Various operas are made to do duty for the score, as well as a portion of the original witch music ot “Macbeth.” The piece is now given for tho first lime in this country. The humor is rather broad, but not enough so to offend seriously. Tho singing, of course, is not always elaborate and true to the score, but good enough for the pur pose, and really better than the average of such trifles. Miss GoodaJl essays the role of Bos. Bruce that of Cox, and Giddens is a sort of mil itary landlord, who mixes up his tactics and his letting of lodgings in the most amusing manner. Ail the actors play with more than ordinary ener gy, and the performance is nightly received with shouts of laughter. THE MINSTRELS. That the people of Chicago are inseparably wedded to burnt-cork entertainment was abun dantly proved by the line of expectant tieket buvers before the office of Arlington's Minstrels on Monday evening; by the crowded state of the little hall dignified by the name of West Side Opera House;*'and bv the nproarious mirth and satis tuition with winch the reinforced troupe were met. Even Horace Greeley (or his double), occu pying an eligible seat, was convulsed by Cotton and Arlington. The first part was noteworthy for the hearty and deserved reception which was accorded to ihOfO old-time favorites, Ben Cotton and Kemble. Tle necessities of the occasion shifted ends*’ ■v. iih the former, but he evinced no loss profieien cv with the bones than he had already shown with the banjo. The dignity of tbe polysyllabic middle-man ‘has not decreased by his St. Bonis Tiip, and he helped Arlington to thoroughly mix iLiuge on several occasions. The singing was the feature ol the entertainment (as it always should be in minstrelsy), and it is very rare that an audience is treated to so much real music as that contained in Dwyer's two ballads, coupled with tbe unctuous jollity of Cotton’s Eliza Jane,” and the yrohrqncric of Arlington’s “Hen Conven tion.*’ “Jumbo Jinn's College,” with a new bap tism. finished the lirst part. In tbe miscellany Arlington's banjo and Pnce’s “Haunted House” were prominent. Of the M'iig-and-dance business it need onlv be said that Emerson. Hogan and Hughes, Powers and John son, and their like have spoiled this city fortaleut not strictly tlrst-cluss —even after the tire. Taken as a whole. Mr. Myers has n very strong com pany, and the performance of the company is entirely the best elncs the lire.” TOO TIHED TO SING. The Wachtel concert or concerts, which had been talked of for Cldcago this week, are, to use an expression from the great tenor’sown vernac ular, ausyrspielt, tho tenor being reported “too Tired” To sing. It is still passible that a few nights of opera may be given during February, it a suitable theatre can be had, in Which case H« rr Wachtel will appear in his favorite rules in ‘‘Postilion de Loniume.au,” “Huguenots,” William Toll,’’ and Trovatore. For the opera Reason, Lichtmay will be tbe prima donna soprano; Vicrling, baritone Hermanns, bass, etc. THE 11REPANORAMA. The proprietors of tbo panorama of the Chi cago Are, painted bv Chicago artists, will leave with their painting to-morrow for Indianapolis. It is their intention, after their IndiauapoUs n-ason, to go to Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Wash ington, and the New York and New England cities. It is a panorama eminently worthy of public patronage, and, having been painting by resident artists, may be relied upon both as a graphic and truthful delineation of the scenes of the great lire. THE NOETHWEST. ILLINOIS. The eighteenth annual meeting of the Illinois .State Teachers’Association will be held at Dixon, December 2G, 27, and 28,1871. Important discus sions, special treatment of highschools, interme diate and primary work, various addresses, and the presentation of methods as used with mutes, to be illustrated by Philip G. Gillett, witn a class of mules, arc on the programme. Friends of Joseph Haven, D.D., late of the Congregational Theological Seminary in Chicago, will sympathize with the family in the loss of a daughter (Miss Lizzie H.), who died Friday after noon at Rockford, where she was a teacher in the Female Seminary. She was sick less than a week, with pneumonia and typhoid fever. —TheClinton Kcylstcr says: “It is rumored that our County Treasurer is a defaulter to the amount of $12,000 or $15,000. He left for Califor nia last week.” —The suit of the Quincy, Alton £c St. Louis Rail road Company, to compel the Board of Super visors of Adams County to pay SIB,OOO in bonds Eubscribed to that road, was decided in favor of the defendant on the 17th inst., Judge Sibley hold ing that the company had not complied with tho conditions upon which tho bonds were issued. —A man named James Marshall was killed re cently at Belleville bv.tbe caving in of a bank of earth upon him. —The ox-soldiers of Winnebago Comity held their fourth annual reunion at Rockford on the 7th inst. An election of oiliccrK for the cusuln" year was held, which resulted in the unanimous choice of H. P. Holland for President, and Giles C. Hard, Vico President; N, C. Warner, Record ing and Corresponding Secretary; Thomas W. Cole, Treasurer. There was also the customary banquet aud good time with the boys. —Colored children have at last entered the schools of Galesburg. IOWA. Proposals hare been made to establish a Cath olic seminary in Sioux City. A 12-vear-old lad named Berry, who lives near Giundy Centre, was kicked by a horse last Tues day, the kick c utting off the upper half of Ids car. leaving the severed part hanginghy a email piece ol ekln. A phyeician etltehed it on, making it as good as new. The thermometer atKeoknk showed a change of 29 degrees in 24 hours last Wednesday, the most rapid meteorological change, according to the Cate City, ever experienced there. The winter course of lectures at Dubuque was opened Friday evening, December 8, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Keokuk has established a ten-cent coarse of lectures, by employing home talent exclu sively. The latest freak of nature is an animal at Council Bluffs, which is half horso and half oow. A new National Bank has just boon estab lished at Bloomfield, with a capital of $150,000. WISCONSIN. A line of stages is now running from Duluth to Superior city, eight miles, on tho ice. —Winad-Smooth, Chief of the Umatilla Indians, has given $4 to the Wisconsin suflerers. INDIANA. Judge John s. Scott, of Orange Township. Fay ette County, aged 72 years, dropped dead, last Saturday, while walking on the streets of Rush ville. —A dreadful affair occurred at Columbus on last Tuesday night. A short time after supper a young man named Kerr went to his room in tho Jones House, and, on the entrance of his room mate a short time after, ho was discovered lying on the floor with a hot stove partly across his body. The alarm was given, the fire put out, and the unfortunate man carried into the air, though he survived but a few minutes. He Is supposed to have fallen in an epileptic fit, to which he was occasionally subject. MINNESOTA. The ifon. N. F. Randolph, an old and leading citizen of Wabashaw County, died at his resi dence in Mount Pleasant, after a short illness, on the 21st inst. —On Tuesday evening last a fire destroyed tho billiard hall of P. Gibson, of Read’s Landing, the dwelling house of W. W. Slocum, and damaged the Bullard House. —General Levi Nutting, of Faribault, while standing on a table fixing some windows in his house, on Tuesday last, fell, and striking his nose against a screw-driver, suffered a fracture of that useful appendage to the human face. KANSAS. Captain King, of tho Kansas magazine, has been presented with a SIOO gold watch. —The receipts of tho Fort Scott Canal Company amount to about $450,000 per annum. —King, the principal owner of the King Bridge Manufactory, at lola, has sold his interest there in for the little sum of $200,000. T. B. Mills, one of the other proprietors, has been elected to tho Legislature. —The 'Wathena Reporter is responsible for the following: “About four weeks ago tho wife of a fanner living near Geary City died. Last Sun day tho bereaved and sorrow-stricken husband sent to Doniphan for a minister to come aud preach her funeral sermon, and then marry him to a gushing damsel ho had selected to cheer him in his loneliness. The minister declined to comply with his request.” THE FAR WEST. The Pueblo People says: A preacher not a thousand miles from Pueblo, and who engages iu frequent wild land speculations, has the follow ing good story told of him. Preaching not long since on the line of the Denver A Rio Grande Railway, along the Fontain, he opened services with a rather abstracted air, as follows: “My text, brethren, will bo found in the First Epistle to Timothy, '[Section 15, Township 20 south, Range C 3 west.” —Game is very plentiful about Greeley (Col.>. the colonists having all they can do in keeping antelope aud jack-rabbits from taking possession of tbo city. —lt has been estimated that since tho dlscov ery of gold in Colorado. California Gulch-Mining district has produced over $2,500,000 in dust. —Mining operations for coal have commenced in Nemaha County, Nebraska. —The Washington Territory Legislature is about to pass a usury law. —The surplus yield of wheat in Oregon for this year is estimated at 1,500,000 centals. —Over live years have elapsed since Grant County, Oregon, has sent a man to the Peniten tiary. —The Prescott (Arizona) Miner of the SSthult. publishes a letter from King S. Woolsey, from 1 the Lower Gila River. That section is literally alive with Mexican bandits, plundering settlers, rob bing passing trains, and escaping with their booty to Sonora. The citizens are arming and pursuing tho bandits into Mexico. A reign of terror pre vails on the border. —Washington Territory is $25,000 in debt. B—Erick buildings to the value of s2o,ooojare in course of erection at Albany. Oregon. —A progressive Californian proposes to manu facture gin out of sage-brush. —Tho Register says that during tho past eigh teen months the Old and New School branches of tho Presbyterian Cburch in Colorado have In creased their working force from three to four teen ministers, supplying with preaching nearly every important point in the Territory. RAILROADS. Tlie Chicago 6c Superior Railroad Company is the title of a new company that has resulted from the consolidation of the Madison A Portage and the Rockford Central Companies. The com pany contemplate completing a road during the next year from Mendota, 111., where it connects with the Illinois Central, through the Sugar River Valley, to Madison, and on to Portage and to Grand Rapids. Contracts are already let for a large portion of the work. —The Galveston papers announce the sale, on the Ist inst., of the Galveston, Houston 6c Hen derson Railroad (in actual running order between Galveston and Houston), the sale being made under a decree of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas, ren dered on the 9th day of August, 18C9, and aillnncd by the Supreme Court of the United States. The purchaser was Mr. F. O. James, of Now York, and the amount paid $075,000. The sale includes all the property and franchises of the road, ex cept the bridge across West Galveston Ray. —The Burlington Missouri River Railroad, starting from Burlington, has three western ter mini—one at Council Bluffs or Omaha, connect ing with the Union Pacific; ona at Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska; and one at Hamburg and Nebraska City. —Bates on the road via Prairie du Chien have been reduced a cent a mile since the completion of that between Dubuque and McGregor. —Tbe Paris 6c Decatur Railroad will be through from Paris to Oakland in a few days. —At Madison. Wis., on Wednesday last, articles of consolidation were signed by tho representa tives of the Rockford Central, Madison 6c Por tage, and Sugar River Valley Railroad Compa nies, and tho whole consolidated under the name of “Tho -Chicago Superior Railroad;” after which a new Board of Directors and ollicers were chosen. James Campbell, of Madison, la Presi dent; R. P. Lane, of Portage, is Vice President; and R. P. Lane and Ralph Emerson, of Rockford, and George Youngs, of Stillman Valley, are among the new Directors. —The Fort Wayne (Ind.) Gazelle of the Bth inat. announces the completion of tho Cincinnati, Richmond 6c Fort Wayne Road, tho last spike of which was driven on the 7th. —The Rockford (111.) Itryistcrot the 9th lust. says: “A meeting is called at Elgin for next Thursday, at Ip. in., of the stockholders of the Atlantic 6c Pacific Railway Company, for tho purpose of organizing said company, and adopt ing such measures as will insure the early prose cut ion of the work of constructing said lino of road. The starling point of this contemplated road will bo Chicago; thence, to Elgin; thence to Byion, fourteen miles south from this city, with a Rockford connection; and from By ron to a point on tho Mississippi, probably be tween Dimleith aud Savannah. The gauge will doubtless be uniform with that of roads already constructed. The rails on the Northern Extension, Chi cago Northwestern Railway, were laid into Peshtigo on Saturday last, and the bridge across the river at that point is nearly or quite finished. lt is stated that the Milwaukee, Manitowoc Green Bay Railroad will, within a few weeks, be running between Sheboygan and Port ash ington, aud that the entire road, from Milwaukee to Manitowoc, will be running by tho Ist of August next. Mr. William Shanuau, of Lawrence, Kau., has received the appointment of Assistant Secre tary of the Houston 6c Great Northwestern Rail road of Texas. POLITICAL. Major Spooner was made Mayor Spooner, of Springfield, Mass., on tho 4th met., by 1,201 ma jority in a total vote of 3,000. It is needless to say he is a Republican. —The New York Sun has dropped Mr. Gree lev’s name for its Presidential ticket, and now goes for Lyman Trumbull for President and Sam uel J. Tilden for Vice. —The Boston Times has discovered that the passive politicians” are first cousins to the masterly inactivityists.” _Miss Tenny Grogg has been appointed Post mistress at Bradford, Va. —Mr. George Lunt, formerly editor of tho Bos ton Cowitr, has been invited to take charge of Washington l‘atriot, aud now has the proposal under consideration. —Here's cruelty from the Bock Island (III.) Ai'yus: The anxiety of tho St. Louis Republican to gel the next Democratic National Convention to meet in that city, is only equalled by the same journal’s attempts to prevent fc any such conven tion anywhere.” 111 the town of Webster, Mass., it was a vexed question whether the postmaster should be turn cd out, or kept in his place. According to tho present policy, tho right of nomination was in the Hon. George F. Hoar, M. C., who asked tho Re publicans of Webster to hold a meeting and take a vote on tho subject At this meeting, there were 100 votes for a change and IC2 against it, so that the incumbent will stay in the place. —Tlio Mount Sterling Sentinel makes a sugges" tlon, that when the Legislature meet it shall pro ceed to pass an act, forbidding tho use of the Penitentiary and jails of the Commonwealth bv the United States officers for the incarceration of prisoners.” This is in view of tho arrests and imprisonment of Kentucky Ku-Klux at tho pres ent time by the United States authorities. —Three of the United States Senators are be tween 70 and 80 years old. They are Davis, of Kentucky; Cameron, of Pennsylvania and ickers, of Maryland. Kino Senators are be tween 60 and 70, and twenty-seven are between 50 and CO. Four Senators are under 40, viz.: Ames, of Mississippi; Clayton, of Arkansas; Os born, of Florida and Spencer, of Alabama. It will bo seen that Old and not Young' America predominates in the Senate. —Mrs. Sarah Norton is a backslider, inasmuch as she has been an ardent advocate of women's rights, but now pronounces female suffrage “a fraud.” —The following Is the distribution of tho 45 chairmanships of the House standing committees, by States: Maine,3; Vermont,!; Massachusetts, 5; Connecticut, 2; New York, 2; New Jersey, 2; Pennsylvania, 5; Ohio, 5; Indiana, 3; Illinois. 3; Michigan,3; Wisconsin,!; Iowa,!; Nebraska,!; Missouri, 1; West Virginia, 1; North Carolina, 1; South Carolina, 1; Mississippi, 2; Alabama, 1; and Louisiana, 1. LOVES SACRIFICE. Mrs. Burrows* Trials and Triumphs. From the Now York World, Dec. S. Judge McCunn has delivered the following opinion in the divorce case of Jtme Burrows against Thomas Burrows, on an application by Mrs. Burrows for an increase of alimony, which in the first instance was fixed at S3O a week In this case a motion was formerly made for ali mony and the amount was fixed by the court at S3O per week. The defendant was then supporting tho plaintiff in good style, living in their own house, well furnished, and of a rental valuation of from SI,BOO to 42.000. After this allowance of S3O was made the defendant dispossessed tho plain tiff, turned her out of her house, sold the furniture, and uroko up housekeeping altogether, thereby depriving the plaintiff of tbe comforts of her homo and throwing her and his adopted daughter upon tho world at large with only the s3o per. week for support. It was not anticipated by t’:o court, and it was not intended when the former order for S3O per week was made in this case that tho defendant should so deprive the plaintiff of her home and residence, but it was intended that tho plaintiff should live in her house iu Lexington avenue, and tho S3O per week was allowed.with tho anticipation that the plain tiff should stili-have tho comforts of a home, and that she should not bo disturbed in her dwelling, because, as I shall show, tho small allowance of S3O per week (1,600 per year), was quite moderate as alimony under the present aspect of the case. A motion was heard for the rehearing of tho original motion for alimony. That motion I granted without argument, and the original motion now comes before me on the old papers, and on new evidence for a larger sum than was first fixed by the Court, i must grant the increase. A brief resume of all tbe facts and circumstances of this extra ordinary union will not, 1 think, ho amiss. In 1847 thedefendant, Thomas Burrows, was learn ing his trade as a carpenter, and had been by his employer sent to work about the mansion-house and estates of tho plaintllTs father iu tho County Cavan,lreland. Therehe saw Mrs. Burrows, who was In tho prime of her youth and a woman of great accomplishments and beauty, about 23years old living iu her father’s family surrounded with all the elegance and ease the world could afford, her father being an eminent barrister, with a largo practice in all tho courts of Great Britain ana Deland, and possessed of large property and estates. The plaintiff was approaching manhood, was of good appearance ana fine looking. Acloso and secret attachment soon sprang up between voting Burrows and Mrs. Burrows. It was soon discovered by Mrs. Burrows* family, who forbade the intimacy and endeavored to efface the at tachment. The defendant then wrote to Mrs. Burrows and a correspondence ensued, and it was then agreed between them that he should come to America and thutsho shouldfollow soon after. This was done in the same vear{iH47),Mrs. Burrows, I believe, paying his fare. Soon after Mr. Burrows left. Mrs. Burrows bade adieu to Lcr home and all its ties, and came here and en caged herself out as a seamstress and earned by her skill largo sums of money, which she expend ed to support Mr. Burrows while he was perfect ing a knowledge of and undergoing in structions in his trade in New York (he was only getting C 2 cents per day). After a few months they were married, but be fore the marriage in this country thev saw little of each other, as Mrs. Burrows believed it consorted more with her dignity and merits that they should be little together until after marriage. After marriage there was witnessed that conju gal affection, supreme industry, purity, and per severance on the part of both which soon meet with their proper reward. Mr. Burrows omploj*- ing herself as a seamstress and child’s nurse, and inured in any and every honorable way she could, found employment, paying the board of both, until, finally, through and with tho aid of her earnings. I’Mr. Burrows started in business for himself. They then rented part of a bouse and began housekeeping together, she perform ing all the household work and duties, and keeping boarders, and nursing Mr. Burrow’s sick brother, then far gone m consumption. This happy state of things continued until prosperity blessed them with plenty, she contributing in a very great measure by her groat ability in ad vising him, her industry and rigid economy; and here let mo say Mr. Burrows has boundlesss con fidence in Mrs. Burrows’s virtue and pureness of heart, and that she exhibits the same attach ment andaffectionshc cxhibitodforlnm in his ear lier years and which had induced her to part with home, and friends, and all for his sake. The ac cumulation of largo wealth induced company, and too much attachment on the part of Mr. Burrows to that company has led unfortunately to this action. This courtis called upon to say at this interlocutory stage of the case, upon tho evidence hastily heard before me, what amount of alimony should be granted to tho plaintiff. It is admitted that alimony should bo granted, and tho only question is how much? Now Mr. Bur rows testifies that his clear income is $7,500 to 510.000. Mrs. Burrows alleges that it amounts to fully $16,000; and, as she only asks $3,000 per year out of that, and in consideration of the strong proof offered ot Mr. Burrow's’ Infidelity, I think 1 am clearly justified in allowing her that sum, $3,000, divided into weekly instalments and pay able weekly if required. The counsel in tho case have consented. In writing, that the issues in volving his (Mr. Burrows’) violation of his mar riage vows should bo referred, and have allowed the Court in that case to select a referee to try such issues. This I have done, and filed tho order with the Clerk. THE WOMAN WHO DARED, A Modern Portia—A Lady Attorney in Court—.She Pleads Eloquently for Her Right to Vote—Philadelphia Lawyers Puzzled* From the Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. C. In the Court of Nisi Prius, yesterday, before Judge Sbarswood. the case of Miss Currie 11. Burnham rs. Limning rial., electionolllccrsfor the* Eleventh Division of the Fourteenth Ward, came up for argument. The action was for dam ages in the sum of SIO,OOO, the plaintiff alleging that the defendants had violated the law in re fusing to accept her vote at the last election. It had been announced that Miss Burnham would make her own argument, and this attracted a large crowd to the court-room, a number of prom inent lawyers being present. The lady was attired in a plain dark dress, and wore a lace collar, fastened by a cornelian pin. She was very decided in her manner of speaking, and pleaded with all the dignity of an old practi tioner and the eloquence of a woman. Mr. Hinckley opened the case for the defend ants. Ho argued that the word freedmau,” as used in the plaintiff's declaration, was not to be used in tbe sense represented by claimant, but only used, and that according to the intent of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, to mean those holding full fellowship in government affairs. He cited many legal cases to establish this propo sition. Miss Burnham, in her opening argument, claim ed that suffrage, under the Constitution of the United States and this State, was tho right of women, and argued at some length to show that tho terra freeman, when accepted in its true legal sense, included women as well as men. Her speech occupied about two hours in delivery, and was well prepared. She said in the closing part of her argument that taxation without represent ation was’foreign to tho spirit of the times. It is wrong and tho greatest injustice to take from her hard earnings for the support of the government, and deny her the privilege of representation in that government. These defendants, by refusing me tho badge of suffrage, stamp me as an inferior, when men beastly drunk were permitted to vote unchal lenged. Is this no injury to me as an individual! This was an injury done me, and through me the entire community. But there is another view of this matter, by which this injury assumes a more material form. In consequence of being deprived of the ballot tho highest institutions of learning are closed to women. She Is deprived of tho op portunities of development that man has, and then is told she has not tho natural intelligence that man possesses. ■Why, twelve years ago, a young man whom I prepared in Latin, Greek, and mathematics, ho having no other teacher in thoso branches, was received into the State University of Wisconsin one year in advance, yet this institution was closed against me because I was a woman. Had 1 the ballot I would have been admitted to the benefits of tho institution with my pupil. Again, by depriving woman of the ballot her wages are depreciated. I need not cite your Honor to tho most unequal laws relating to property and the guardianship of children so far us woman Is con cerned. a I know it is said she. has a representation through men. I deny this as impossible. All such representation is misrepresentation. In this matter our government is one-sided, as is all our legislation. No wonder that tho wisest statesmen of foreign nations regard this govern ment as an experiment. God Is just, and wc can not long possess a republican government based upon the consent of the governed and denying one-half of the government representation there in Our whole government is a House of Lords to which all women arc subject. To complete this despotism it is only necessary for one man to as sume the position of Dictator. Our nation must save itsclt by being true to the principles upon which it is founded. It is said that women do not want to vote, and I sadness that so little have some women breathed tbe air of freedom that they deem it masculine and unwomanly to be recog nized as individuals. Our government needs women; it is injured by being deprived of her in tuitional and inspirational powers. It is like a largo house without a woman In it. I know I weary you, but the right of suffrage is invaluable. The question demands discussion, deliberation, and judgment before its decision. We do not ask for chivalry or for flattery, but only for justice— a just interpretation of the laws of tho United States and thoso of tho State. Tho question be fore the court is the question of individual repre sentation—a question of the existence of this government, for which our land has been thrice drenched in blood. I pray you, therefore, make this a question of your own right. Decide as you would wish a Portia to decide were she sitting upon that bench in judgment of your own rights nod your own liberties as an individual mam Tlie Judge ruled out the two versions of the declaration which claimed that, under the amend- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE; WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1871 ments of the constitution, woman was entitled to vote. Mr. Gilmore at this point submitted the case. Mr. Hinckley mads the cloaingargument,claim ing that the right of suffrage w»s not altogether inherent right, but necessarily limited by law. Under tho construction claimed by the plaintiff, boys under age wonld bo entitled to vote. The attorney created considerable merriment by tho argument that to vote a freeman must be armed and equipped or else pay a militia tax. When had women been armed and equipped! Such a thing was unheard of in our history. Judge Sharswood will most likely render a de cision at an early day. Snicids in the Snow* From tho Denver (CoL) News. Dec. 5. On Wednesday last Mr, William L. Whit ney, a gentleman well known in this city, committed suicide near Spring Valley Post Office, Douglas County, under very singular circumstances. Ho was endeavoring to find liis way across the country in tho face of a severe snow storm, when lie ended his life with a revolver. The deceased was a machin ist and railroad engineer by profession, and has during tbe pastfour years, driven engines on the Union Pacific, Utah Central, Kansas Pacific, and Denver Pacific, having brought one of the first engines into Denver over tho last named road. Since last July Mr. Whit ney has been engaged in Morrison's saw mill, on tbe Divide, as engineer. Last week he visited Denver, and on Wednesday, Nov. 2ff, returned home. He left the train at Sloan’s mill, about forty-live miles from this city. Mr. H, C. Blakely, who su perintends tbe Morrison’s mill, gives us the following particulars of tho death of Mr. Whitney; After leaving Sloan’s, ho travel led four miles to Erskiu’s rancho, where ho was invited to stay over night. This he re fused to do. saying ho “could make it.” Morrisons’ mill is thirteen miles from Sloan’s. Leaving Erskin’s, Whitney travelled two miles further to a cabin where a couple of men were encamped. They also wanted him to stay, but bo chose not to do so. It was about dark at the time. He bad a distance of five and a half miles to travel in order to reach Morrisons’ mill. He went about one mile in tbe road, and then left the road and walked a short distance down aguish, which, if ho had followed, would have taken him to a house, that of Mr. Geiger. He crossed this gulch, came to a small rocky point where there were a few pine trees, and there ho left his gun, valise, and satchel. Mr. Whitney went from this point iu the right direction, but bis steps showed that he soon became fatigued and bewildered. On Friday Mr. Blakely learned of tho disappearance of Whitney nnd.sent seven men in search. They had no difficulty in fiuding the trail. Found the baggage first, and at 11 o’clock found the body. The body was found eighty rods from Redmond’s rancho, near Spring yalley Post office, and within one hundred and fifty yards of tho stage road. The body was bring face downward aud the hands elevated to the shoulders, and clutched full of snow. Thirty-six feet from tho dead man lay the little dog Carlo, also dead with two bullets in its car cass. Whitney had shot himself twice, tho balls entering the upper portion of the abdo men on the right side. The pistol, a Colt’s navy, was lying between tho man aud the dog. thirty feet from tho former’s body. It is evident that after shooting himself Whitney had dropped tho and struggled thirty feet to the plate where ho died. There was a rail of blood between these two points. The snow crust was very hard, aud Whitney’s forehead was badly out in falling. Iu Mr. Blakely’s opinion Mr. Whitney bad probably frozen both bis feet, and fearing the prospect of being crippledfor life, should ho succeed in getting out of the dilemma, in which bo was placed by tbe storm, together with his bewilderment at bis situation, he, iu a fit ol temporary aberration determined to take his life mid end his present aud prospective troubles. There was no evidence of intoxi cation. Mft&Haitt 946 State-st., C'Olt. 05 TWENTIETH, Have just completed the first Jewelry Store erected in Chi cago since the great fire, and will open, on Monday, Decem ber 11, the most complete and elegant stock of WATCHES, DIAMONDS, FINE JEWEL RY, SOLID SILVER, SILVER PLATE, etc., etc., ever brought to this market, at their usually low prices. Honnini ran™. JEWELLERS, State and Twentieth-sts. Sugar-Cured Bacon Hams. Inst received, a email consignment ot the celebrated “MARYLAND BRAND "of Canvassed. Sugar-Cured Bams; also, of the "SISIMS BRAND” of Hams, both •well-known ami highly-appreciated in the Eastern and Southern cities. They are tolerably heavy, average 14 to 19 tbs; are In choice order; veryjuicy,and most anit able for the requirements of hotels and restaurants. Will bo eold at moderate prices in quantities ot 1 tleroe upward, to close consignment, by HENRY MILWARD A CO.. OLD NEWSPAPERS FOR SALE AT Tribune Office, 15 South Canal-st. Dock Front in the now Lumber District for sale or to lease. In quantities to suit. CHICAGO SOUTH BRANCH DOCK CO., 623 Wabash-av. NOTICE. Committer of Special Relief, Church of the Messiah, 1 (Corner Wabash-av. and Hubbaid-court,) f CHICAGO, Dec. 2,1871. J In view cf the fact that applicants for relief aro new fierroitted to apply to the District Superintendents by eltor, without personal attendance at the depots, no further necessity exists for any applications for sup plies being made to the Special Committee, and, from and after the litli Inst, (under instructions from the Executive Committee to that effect), tbo work of the Special Committee will bo exclusively limited to appli cations for aid In purchasing sewing machines, and to affording relief in special cases, by the payment of money to applicants who have received no other relief, in such cases and for such amounts os have been authorized by tho Executive Committee. E. C. LARNED, Chairman. SIM DF CHICAGO. LOVEJOY FOSTER, 309 W. Bandolpb-st., near Carpenter, have tho largeft and most varied Assortment in the city; also VIEWS BEFORE THE FIRE; wholesale and retail. Stereoscopic, Artistic, Cabinet, Cards, and largo sizes. Also a full lino of Stereoscopes and Views of all kinds for Holiday Trade. Grand Duke Alexis. A splendid tinted lithograph ol tho GRAND DUKE ALEXIS, ol Russia, will bocivcn away to all persona calling lor it. at tho TEA STORE of the Great Atlan tic ana Pacific Tea Co., |J4 West Wnttfaanglon-ftt. GILBERT IL SMITH, BROKBH, JVo. 17 Ifarmon-court. Bridges, Hoofs, &c., The Michigan Bridge and Construction Co. are pre pared to erect wooden, iron, or combination room or bridges at short notice. Correspondents please address Michigan Bridge and Construction Co., Detroit Mich. ST. MARY’S HALT., FAIBBAULT, MINNESOTA. The Easter term commences January 2,1372. 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METROPOLITAN HOTEL, Washington, D. Refurnished throughout. Passenger Elevator in troduced. J. F. CAKE, Proprietor, (Also of Congress Hall, Capo May, N. J.) TO IVFASEi TO LEASE, For a term of years, a WELL-LOCATED LOT on Washington-st, near Chamber of Commerce. G. S. HUBBARD, Jr., 70 South Canal-st. TO LEASE, For 979 Y ears. The lota on which stood "Burch's Block,” corner of Lake-st and Wabash-av., having 170 feet on Wabash av.. and 117 feet on Lake st. same on Benton-place on tho east side,and which is 40 feet in width. Suitable for a hotel or four first-class stores. Conditions of lease liberal. Address ISAAC 11. BURCH, River side Hotel, Riverside, 111. CORNER STORE FOR RENT. Brick Block, northeast comer State-st. and Eldrldge court, 20x80. Possession January 1. Apply to BAIRD BRADLEY, 384 Wabasli-av. OFFICES TO RENT In now brick building adjoining Madison-st Bridge. Kent low. Immediate poaseaslon. 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HALLOCK A WHEELER. 23 West Randolph st RUBBER CLOTHING CO., Mich. av. and Harrison. C. L. RICE A CO., corner Canal and Harrison ata. Belting Manufacturers. MUNSON A CO., 14 and 18 West Randolph st Book Mannfacturers.lStatloaer«, and Job Printers. CULVER, PAGE, HOYNE th State. MACKENZIE. 79 W. Madison ami 633 state-at TEOS. B. MORRIS, 272 West Madison at. JAMES A. SCOTT, 331 Madison SS. ilals, Caps, and Kura (Wholesale). KEITH BROS.. oor.Michlcan-ar.xaa Washssetoii-Bt KINO BROS. A CO., 547 Wabash ar. Harness, Saddlery, Ac* BOYNTON A NOYES, 329 State st. Hides, Pelts, Ac. CHANDLER A BOYNTON, 19 South Canal »r* J, JONAS A CO., 245 Michigan st High-wines. KIZiIA N BROS., 41 West Lake st. Hoisting Maclaines. J. W. REEDY, 83 A 85 Illinois at. Homoeopathic Pharmacy* HALSEY BBOS„ 70* Stalest. Hops and Malt. HULL UDELL A CO- 9 Michigan are. Insurance (Flre>. O. W. BARRETT A CO., 393 Wabash and 15 CanaL JOHN CULVER, Boom No. 75 South Canal st. Insurance iLifeV CHICAGO LIFE, 6S3V W. 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