The Democratic Watchman.
B E I. E N 'l' E I'
- INCILLE'S MISTAKE,
rbo vi.ot raer, bidding het adieu.
I took my hat. and, lowa. g low, a 'that va
Phan raarimg homeward sOOO to 1.... ed my
come,
R0ir5,...,1 tiny and !wig Ow 1..11 111Z11111
I lwarli dinoi 11,n 1111,1.1.1,,
ktvl with n board I.nn•dlr• me
Around my net It her lovely nl ni4 .4 lit,
KIN4Ori me, yo prdrl pint kt44etl me thettugh
•nd through
`hook •1111 I 1/n1 ,1111111 g
The Idue ing 1(1,4,4 tlutt did horn
tried b. spellkkm.l git.p% ,1 L 01.1 . 1111 6 , 1 got,
I left Illy ('alit ,' She .ttirl4l it ~ hat
And ..,1...1 with yam!), t 1 , 1 In
1111 l ther,
• Oh dear , I thought law+ I , aa, toy brother
What shall I 110 1 .1(11/ /1 1 4/ 1 11 1111 1 lier and o'er.
I la. Iced Ihr eourtutt , ',b... ,, ',tore''
Sll, 111111k11114 01,1 1 1111.111 Weizetl upnn toy 1 1,111 1 k
, 1:141 fort 1.4 WI 11111111, /1111 110111 1 11, Clolll4l l '
quick.
Whet. oto niy coneh to tale, I 1 1 11110141 Pleop,
I tossed, and pondered "%Vital a wealth nil
1,,v0
Tim( girl gills
In4l 11 x 1,1,1111er 4111' 4111111111 1,0111 Mlldogr.
11,1
1'111• Idea gILrn•VI 111141 VIIIII 144 e 1441 11.44 We,
I lh,r often. owl 1., cn.•II11ru11
('liar.,•rr evt, ttttt nth UN run
VlOll ll{4t . 14nd VIII 1.11111 wVn• IMO
Ind onf... 1 Wit' hvr • 111/Al 111%'
The night Rho 1.1%..d 111. in ',meek° for Pun '
• F.,. Henri your ill
pfd hettd.
nor In oUn r I.ltimftmmuf. , and .ffijg ui h , •d
'1.011.11.1111 know 11" 1 1 / 1 • ..1 , .. 1 11.1 . I 111.1
111S1 111 my 1,5 , 1501 1 , Ill•1,11114 oti ,•
• • • •
ihr...01 nll these Velir•, I 111 , 1 not Mire regrst
‘I, 11,i‘Ing hill., nl ths tngl sln• sut
Happy JIM I and h,lly hen, I 1.. nnldr her,
11111.4E1i 111 Him • I .“114111nvl, hrl , rnel
Ind tht•ii she slt '1 he 11, d , ar. of 1111 4
IM,
I'h.l r dli,n't off , n Illll{o . 111
A LESSON FROM THE BIRDS
Address Delivered Sept 9, 1871, to a
Sunday School Picnic, at Beaver
Creek, Md
111 %II 11111
NV heti flit. Vici‘t. 1/4 riiutintt, with the
Note- 4 , 1 I he %%•• twig here 14141.1%,
31'1 . kI•RN. Its 1.11,4% Nettil 141,11t1
me•rils its our Mein' t.,l h r h r 1 , 11 ,1, 9
or are tte ou:t tti: grrifid
rltsl ILt• lentli, le•I
1111Ie-, /ill 1111iLf,
have• tilled the leutt ranupy
and vladne , n. 9 II 1111 4 is "lir purpose..
We have• f uller...l live) It llopelve.1.11•4111
11.-1. 1.4 Ihr 1)1 1111111 Hilt 111111 . 11
.. , 111•1k eu 111 e lords, 8,1
hull 11u.egihrit11111
• I nz• like a 1.'1,1
Air t ali: , , we tnii.t no koloovileol;:e
ilont ••••• 11 lilt (1.,.1
hn
111Jt,ie 1.. 1... 1 11" 14 , 1111 nll.l
In ria.l.lej the tarill aiii -4iiig liner
the it4l,l,tage ill 114 Ili 111,.
11/1f11.011%, I. jar 11.1 ;Ili
UeCr Herr them it we i t tl.wre the end 1,1
/1 ,1 tritlt rt+ the, tit,..tver
tht 1,,t 1 , 1
1111,1 It I net 11. /1,1
vt,. B.:, 11 we tune our ht.kl
God ind brawn and eternal
I,arlP are Inn 01 Illonnls , q4l%
and 19rar,• li , him 5' 10 MO N1111111•111,11y
ns li,r 1.10 hoy,
pe.ar $ll 1,1,,v,• IL,• 11,..n.
r- d.wwwin we lia'r
MEE
1 , a% e Immo 11,1 Irom 1111
tiott I it, 1114,1 Yltilf•11 I men repeat will ,
pry lii. 1101 Witt to the e tillotr4 her..
1,111 Nil ~mind tlt lily , t 411• 4.
I t , t 1111 .4 11111,11 eeilh the genial
Kenn,- ttt t•trlN an] I he u~l
their raaig and tOIVI theta Ilitiii,/.11”1%
in and 1 11/1 it 1111111.: 1/11 . .1 . Iree, app.
rrritl , lQ ',alio and tree 'l . lllli I Art
nnt 14,4111444 4 i oil ft loth las rtl.,r,
rk.lt t.111 . 111M 1 ti..• 1 111.1.'1 .1
1101 1.0 ;I
if 4 1 lot lot r-• se, r.,:k
bor. i 'tool .1. , Ti. ear,, "ill 111
the ss. sst Ilss• a "we
for hi- rr•rosise, lisp hit Ilse
SsAss•• ss the n.Ln, whieli made
the !Is,. is ntr , 111' sistsl-sls,•11 , lull of glad
a... 1 cheer AM the, were, bean
each morning a tin% id hard work, for
the t0ie1.,4 find 111100,1* and grt-tt% li
111111!..• were heavy
load. 1.1,11, 111111 wllll no 111111 , sod
were they fixed into their ;dare. Anti
so an the telthered tribe whirl) 101
lowed the retreating winter into theae
wood- MHP in the work which
God litt.l vise', them to do Ansi When
the tie-ta were tinitdied and received
the preeioun egre for whlrh Ihet 111411
been made, and tbeme gave plare
y 01111 g bird. , and I heard their hungry
eliirimiga tor food, anti (Honk. rare.
Wen Illipootil upon the parent. I heard
no I•l , lllplaining rules, lnu 100.1 was
sought for and obtained, and the rung
went on, ittni - all *van glad anti j,,%0it.,
as though there WWI nothing tor birth.,
to do but sing and be glad, and let the
world go on without a stroke of toil or
a rare.
Parents and children, thee , . bird.
have as heavy a tack unposed 'lieu.
them in their sphere of lice as any we
the
have in ours. l'he struggl e .or i
preservation of their liven is 811 hard its
that in which we are engaged for the
preservation of ours. The sticks they
carried for their neat, were as heavy
timbers to them as those we handle in
rearing our homes. The insect, they
slew and carried in triumph to their
ihe grain they hunted
in the blaze of the hot summer 611 n,
the flights they had to escape the ra
pacious hawk, bring home to us
thoughts of many a point of likeness
between their lives andourn. Yet they
have all the time set us en example of
patience, perseverance and content.
went, and they have greeted our ears
with sweetest song while they labored
on in ceaseless toil.
The same God who made them for
their place in the creation, made us
for ours; and while God's Son tells us
that not a sparrow falls to the ground
unnoticed by the Father, he adds that
we are of more value than insiny spar
rows. Why is it, then, that we, in our
higher sphere, may not take up the
toils of eaoh day with hearts as light
sod songs as glad as theirs? Have we
difficulties and dangers to harass and
try as? So have they; fur I have
heard the darkness resound with the
dismal hoot of the Owl which sough
their 'lves, end I have Keen the branch
which held their precious faintly qui vei
in the storm, -itcay they pursue (hell
search for food with joyful anticips
ions of the chirping,' which will give
Mace to tones of gladness when the
hungry month is And mar not
we, while we toil at the plow or at din
worli.beneb, or in the store or study, to
win the means of lilt for those dear to
um, fill out •
we remember how gladly the fruits of
our labor will be reeerr•ed Ibo•+e litr
whom they were wont Or. if we must
travel abroad, and title, leave the le
lights of home belmid tie, have we tilt
cat our reward when our wandering.
lead 114 bark to the spot Ilelirest ill IV+
on earth, and we feel trout the depihe
ot our hearts that
•• - IN 4weet to hear the tt Midi dog's hone , t
hark
tiny deep ineoth'd seleontenN we draw near
loone.
Tim maeet to know there le an eye sill mark
our e..th)g, sea look brighter s hen We
00010
All our earthly troubles have their
ci , rresponiling Joi . is, and all our earthly
lahors have their earthly reward. fu
these respects, I see not that we have
either itil‘iintage or ilisadvantage of the
humbler creatures which God has made.
He has given tis wants its mere 11111
mats, w conittion With all other crea
tures, and so he has placed within our
reach the means id satisfying them
then. are We not joYOIIB and
happy and lull ut song Why are we
otien gloolor and sail, and brooding
Over Our work, and complaing 01 our
tiustisi, and tetiling that our 101101 114
Ilea , V to tsar'' There is one went
law which we bate ‘iolated which our
or.
I .44mile:tellers -the lords —have kept,
and their keeping of it has tilled them
with happiness mid t toutentlitent, While
tour twltuntu of It 1 1.0. s tilled our spirits
with groaning and pain They have
hilly carried out the end lor which
Gail made them They are
s pist what
he intended them to be, and 14, be this
is to lie alums happy They are not
so made that they can understand, to
the least degree, the great and glorious
plans of the Creator, and eonseglielitk
heY lire made that they naturally
and iii-titictiselv carry out the will id
I They Wiwi, like machines, till
ing the place tor which the% were
;mole, and /ill the laws which govern
their lite, work iiimbstrlicleill) and
, 'or these laws were tr4lneil
in all All wise Nlisid We have lor our
exitheil pro Org.. aii understanding of
the plat. tit lied eu tar net Is arses-art
to enable a to work with him nl car
ing t hem tail \Ve Cannot see tar
rll.l 4.1 them, but we can re , ei , e iutel
ligitile directions (ruin hint who can,
and il er lollow these directions the
end lor which we are Made will be
reached Lt us, and in reachilig it ar
air made happn, In the fullest (-tot( it%
of our limiter. Anil s,, the lite 4,1
man will/ Vlllo,e 110.1 desires lout to
ilk I. t 1 1 / 1 1/i I
soot whra< tar It ar tit 1111 C win Hors
hear ill lilt w6u cannot be
plunged into gloomy atelanClioly I , V
any event ill lite. Though the song of
lease whet, the seeker tor
lorry has his wing Itst,e,ll them and
the ,111, alai though their hearts throb
teat when. ito hoot iit the (IWI lis
”1121.11,. gmir. pnd the 'homing
11051 it 1141 4 044014 g I, hesari trgatio.,
and the bright ;dimmer. Ilits
the !lila
were nuk,inwl, No alit, 4 11. 4 11 401 104441
11Te r14414• . 1 44444'4 4 1 roe i
Le alert % it ti Man t .1..1 1.1141.
with V101110.1.,111441 4 1414,0 414444 d,,rl.
ash
it. art. , Mat eihk Wei their 1114 4 1 , 4044
may . 1 .11. e r Li" Senn LnndM.re
14144414 1110 4 411 1 ' 0414 444 OW , rr , delrtlln ol
the ditr..eott. with 1,. it het
rind tt Ilil pu iihisiettt it tate belor e them,
at light re t el.. them 'it 1114•11 111ut
lot.tretlie% remember the
bleree.l Niat.ier Who - ehtlere 1 lor
and it in a i.milege to cutler for ht.
cake, and they eare ma what men
twi t 110 to/ Brett, for the Nillilt 100101
wills 1411fititerrlig 1111111 10 the glo
rious home "over there," and the
midnight oilence t. broken, and
litrunn of glitrilleen fill the doutial
pr...., for the mutat-ling wounds and
the gloomy ..trromoling. are reirCen,
here,' fill more, for the exceeding joy
with which taith lu a glorified it.
deenter, and obedience II) hint, have
tilled the heart» oh hi. follower..
We have more to do ir we heroin
plod' the ohteet for which we are made
than anrnotln hrn r, but we have snore
hi lin, It Milli, and lire cirri re !nen',
hly more g i411,11, when e.I.
/1+(,11,41 whole God ...peak. to u. ti. lug
Word, and no learned what he will hate
ud to lin, we lofty MA defiance to tone,
and change, and death, and hold to
our heart. it linppiness which will ew
aide Its ttiwa)o to rejoice, and fill our
...)118 with strung desire to ',raise God
tong. Then have our 'tong.* music
and a rich rier.s which trO harmony or
earth ran rival; and while With the
organa of tweedh we make the earth
resound, our heart» reach oat toward
the eternal ble..edrien. and delightful
rest of our 'home in heaven, a 1001,fing
0100,1, a house not made with hand.,
eternal in the heaven..
One more lesaon from the birds, and
we are done. Of late I have observed
them gathering lino flocks, and the
conga they need to sing have chan ge d
notes of a diflerent character, and
it is evident to any observer that they
have something of importance in con
iemplation. We know front our oh
aervations in the pact what it is they
have iii view. The CEold winds which
come mweeping down upon us touch
the instincts of these little creatures
with the impulse to flee away before
the breath of the coining winter is upon
them, to the sunny land where bloc
moms are ever blooming, and where the
air is ever perfumed with the odor of
flowers. In a little while we will have
them with us no more. These trees,
so beautiful and verdant now. will
stretch their naked arms into a bleak,
cold sky, and songs of g ladness will
not be heard here. But the a Imo birds
which have lent us their presence
hrongh the summer will be repeating
'hely labors and singing their songs ill
summer clime, and ha"ppiness is in
siore for them there am here, because
they will follow out the laws of their
nature then as they do now. There i
n winter of life coming for us all. The
het its that beat high to-day will soon
he silent in death. The voices we heal
in song will be stilled forever. The
places our presence now tills will kill. ,
lIS 110 more. Are we preparing for that
event so certain to °Ale ? 1)o we gather
ourselves togetlier, and cheer each
other on, and sneak of the home where
no winter nor night Igor storm can ever
roue, mid where "aumi the flowers
that deepened to their eternal Leona
shire the trees of Eden first bowed
themselves to the bree/el of earth," we
may meet with all the gaud who have
gone before, and dwell together in pet
feet happiness forevermore?
In midsummer thole was a pair of
birds which built It nest and reared
their toting within hand-reach of my
door. The little ones grew rapidly,
and when they were well leathered the
nest could scarcely 0100011 them, and
the parents began operation , - to per
suede them to Ilv. fearful they
were, and how careful, but how pers...
venlig. They meant that e‘ery little
fledgling should learn the use or us
wings. And I saw 1111.111 for a little
while about the trees, and then they
all departed together, und it I ever
saw them afterwards I 1 , 1.1 I 11111 dis
anguish the voting from the old lards
Thettilevelopmeot linti vomit, and they
were what they had been untie for
Now, if there 101111 g birds hilt] been
1141. 1100, %%1111 11110 r wings tin
Used, /11111 no experience tarnished them
of how they might to behave them
selves 10 be perfect birds, the% might
Lute had Moil carried to them and
lived in dive through the:outliner lint
it hen the frosts were Sir 11100111;g the
earth anti smiting the leaves from the
trees, and the cold winds were sough
nog the death song I/1 the .lend summer,
and other warblers were winging their
flight to the sunny South, tbet m 11.4
bone been sellto perishw our cheer
less clime,
Chnotutn pioreul. let 111 e 4ns In 4011
tlllll your ttnrk fir %our children In but
poorl) done when vim till the , .' moutlot
with 1 . 00.1 nt‘it tiler iltettt With line
( 1 1011110 g. It ILIA 14 41111,1' for !hew, 411.1
no inore, sou would do it lets erliel
I twllhlud4l 1111 nourn.lonent from
leetile 1111 , ,
111 the 11)0/1110:: 20 110111 e In that rhme
here the 'III) N net er net, 11101
where 1111 trifler 01 hie %111 e‘er
When ilelith eiiiiies, 1111 111111 Sill) lifter
1 - 14111 e rtir he!, its 10
1)444 resent Ille tvitl 1)1114' /Mike 1111 1 111
Irel Ihr nutlr inteneely the 1.1111., , ,
trhlrh will eiii2llll their lilt loreser
1. , 1 111111.1 11'11111 Ilil . lll In Ilt. 11011 litts
gut ell Ilion I'lll4l , llles 1114'
1111111 1.11 11/1.11 illt•
.3...0 , , 11l 111, 411e11 1 / 1 0. iirttter In the
Father, And eivuotl,
tiott ilieN might know ' lllll the 1)4,11'
trite ( 111141 .11.4110 VI 110111 Thou
hunt Atilt! " knowledge 1111141 be
and it is Obtained 111 the 1111
ills nlr truth, In the
ble•oed toluene which ;011 linm gut en
114 In our 11wu language, Illy Holt
s•ter,i,turet, Car, a rhrlSlll4ll hr mllrrll
C11,11(1 , 1, 111111tV /11),1 Hain , here,
Imo+ in gi‘ t , Olen, knowledge of
Clir,t, inn% the% TIM% nee.lre
" i, it L. , 00.1 part n 1,1 . 1, cannot lie take',
'I NN I
I in. wnrld I.ln. never .een nn
i,_iinii,ia, well mdeipted ere lie h
11 , 11'111 Itrt eel the 'hide In Ctia.k . ll
.1 11. lit "onll.lt etrhnul, atul it
11/01 ffilehtwhat
ht ti4)l ' n help It will he w h en we all
Otte nttt~elsen til the witch nhOtliti
I ei its undo• dilv to rejoicing tutu
4n , ).1 e heir tul eittn. II in the history of
n o r `iiindav t•elitnil, and of the COllllllll
'lilt' In which ,ve Illhor, and work 111
ihr enniing vemr aM ae have never iione
helort to tench children the truth and
trod
Flu hers told uuithere, let UPI learn
Irmo the Fordo, which have lin
i heir 1 , 11/1111ter work xhoutlle,and
are now re tidy It, depart with their
FIDDIEI
I=
Who, rho 11,tet•re over hlf•tew,in, the heath*
ever '
rend herr the eapaca lea whiell have
horn developed here may exert then,
melveft In new , ecettem of ,Itappatema and
01111.1111er pv.
The mono) }WWI that nestles in your
now ennnot rest there
'lse hand with whic'h t ou pnah astott•
lie thorns which tweet VOW Child' s
pathway will grow feeble, and aner
while death will clap it, and your
chiliiren'a learn will tall upon the cold
clay which has given up the tenant
who once loved them an only a parent
ever loves. II you give %our children
all that earth can idler, you give them
nothing which can nerve them or S ou
whet, I hey maind about your dying form
at the last, and ere I he last of a parent's
love an the light of earth fades Iron)
your glazing e)e forever. Then your
imtiles for them will he done, and their
own •vill but begin. But give them
what God (Mere, what heaven fur.
niithen, what demita Chrint has brought
right in among an, and youtdie a fain.
ily circle together with a bond which
death cannot sever, and which tvrll
grow stronger and stronger throughout
all eternity, while you formal' our
children with an irrettiet4ble weapon ,
for the battle of life.
May God help us all in every wink
wliich r he has given us to do, is illy
Prayer.
THE BURNED CITY
Incidents of the Great Fire at Chl
cap.
By the mercy of heaven, not by the
might of men, the mein] lire in which
Chicago has disappeared, wee stayed
at last on Monday night, Octoller 9th.
Heavy rains coining up checked the
progress of t he Heinen and stifled the
emouldering embere of the vast deaola•
Lion. The fire had thne lasted, with
but a slight intermission, two days and
three nigh's. Ti welly hail called her
self proudly the kale olliatilens Iles in
savkeloili and ashes, and imind Omni
her rained' preenu•ls a hundred and
homeless people he In
1111111111e11 1 danger, sin perhaps, indeed.
hui 1,1 di.•ea.e, despair,
and 14111 la.
We tile 1444. w tilde lo glee 11le piddle
11. nnoenlel iirec , 4llll ul
ilie U•nluuanuu
4,11111 e lie 11141-1 disasirous lire %ewe!'
has I'l ef bests I%llllll'll 011 11116 euuu
tsl•nl.
The recoird 111,41 mist Ilestructuve
lire bloke iOIII 111.0111 111 O'CIOCk Sun.
the western division ol
the em,, at the vorner of Peß.oen
nerd detlerson streets, a 11 1 / 1 14. 1111111
W hiel in o worse evil have been found,
hir the houses sir blocks around were
wooden Irocuteuts, as dry and crisp
and read) to he burned an if they lind
been prepared for that purpose. And
they had been prepared. For works
at almost unexampled &oath had
Id:toted the west, Inure particularly to
the neighborhood of the city. The
prairie- were bare and brown, the
WIIII•11,11rHI'M &led rirvli•
ed itinio-t its it a HllllOOl/ httd swell
The mom.• Ire thin quarter was tern
ble 1,111 only' the beginning 11l horror,.
%%ere nuns to rOilie The wnnl
10.1 just net In from the oionilliNest
Willy In the 4 , tening, and Just abolit
the rinne illicit die (midi/ignition began
11. , liened, and soon Ilierea,eil 111 will
leilet• all it breame it furious gale.
The env fire englinte4 came to the eeene
with all 1...HM1,. deepateh ; the lire-
Olen H ell. 1111110 Si %%Orli OM Willi their
e in aulahning the lire ol the
p.m ~.104 evening, and et en had lint
be. n Ire.h Ihey could have been ol In
tle stall, for the flame. had gut tinder
headway and were out 10 be stopped.
The poor people who oeenpied the
tenet/mut. sprang, in .frtivut from their
bed., and with tries 01 terror ran down
Into the .Ireet. Bed. and liirmlure mf
rill de.eriptiotim were 16ruwn front the
window., tool lay in Iteterogetteon.l.(lll
IliNlllll On the side walk., olo.tructing
the patnotge In and fro of the tire eone
pante., and 111.1,4 preventing what little
Cleaner 110 bad keen of impeding the
onwaid rush of the lire, and noon the
whole dootiet, as tar down its N'ait
linren strict, tine one .Inert of flame.,
roaring and hissing and licking about
Idle. Id lumber and tow, ol
who li era. 1,.• I and fell trashing to
the gr.uod. The lighleil ii
Inr mules around% and the ricer look
ed like it stream of 1,14,./.1 llnnln
had the hunllle. which 4a...opted the
dietrun time tow., al/. will. their
a nd In to eatn.g their Immo. 11.11.1
hirniture, which to of them itp. ,
their all, it was rt thing not to he
thought of Wollien, bail ,7111‘1, ran
Kereitilillig through ihe i•treet., a 1,.411t
(.11 one lino, while little children Ching
to then, n. renroleg with terror
tin swill! night. NI, n emen the
roar on the dames and the .rush 4,1
lalling timber., (mold be heard the
..I the hOrsee ringing out on
Ihe 111;111 air Ther wunl~l not be
driven livka,. lenl, N 11114.1101 with tear,
tell down in their elahlen 11,1 wen
ririeteil Pills , /slid the .r. he entg menet.
4,1 burnme was molded to the to
whirl.
“Iwa‘. arroniiinnie. hnriiiiig Lenldmgs
whin ,vnier lin. been showered Upon
them In three lontra the lire h a d
Wilde ft ch./in .vrai lie from 11, , Rove.
i-treei In Van Ilitren,anel tr.on the river
to d e th.r...ll ...trona, it tulle 11e length
and near', a toile in hr•Holth
l'he whole mit awoke in terror amt
the p•tri vie, only to liiid
then, 111111 ta,ll, (Wining 111
Niel fro, will. 000le4 -Win ?. on curl,'.
1414 , 1 1.1.11,41 rL I 1%1 • Mid holi
long tiler [lieu who lay in
their arms atileep i I rill 1111COTIPI . 1011.1
of the ilresit d . r which hall he
fallen them, or rip wit h win ,
ilering eves la thmt mother's trines -
W tint was it ',till n 1 1 ,141? NVltat made
the eky int red? \Vit . % nit re the streets
so toll of people
At some he tire did not go
Ina direct Itnr , lilt Mit eimin houses --
as fires will do ittom..t to/harmed
the whist ~r the thine, As it lip
proached the rivet tt became evident
that it would cross It. and puma that
tear was realized ; hot- the %vim] carried
brands itivrOn , i the ir,,froW stream to the
northwest side, 111111 there, falling on
the wooden adpri nine the gas
works, set it in lire, and then ,the
flames, having secured a foothold,
rushed on to their work of further de
struction 'I he gilt+ 1101187 Wan de-laq
eli, and the I It 3 was IIVII(Pd nnli I.v
the tires which were consuming itself
Then name a panic, such as a city
1145 rarely seen. Vague rumors of
pillage filled the air, and deeds of vio
letter aml horror were more than dread
ed The people rushedpellmell from
their houses rather than Oemain within
them in dark !Wail—the must hated and
detested thing ill times of disaster an't
catastrophe. ''hey ran in crowds
about the streets, meeting crowds rush
ing from opposite direct lons, and, 111
their fright trying to push their way
through the dense masses which en
countered them. were trampled down
and many of them crumbed to death
in the desperation of the moment.
Au awful spectacle was presented
when the fire, having swept down
from the river, reached Lake Street.
An eye witness of the scene says that
the body of the flame preaente4 a front
of half a semicircle, and belairid it was
a raging, roaring hell of lire, hall a
mile deep. Nothing material could
',withstand the surge of this tretnen
lotre sea of flame. On its advance
northward it had driven the inhaln
tants into Lake anti Water streets and
on the bridges, much as a prairie tire
stampedes frighted animals. The
streets were tilled with &distracted pro.
pie, panic•stricken and huddled in a
mob almost as terrible to behold as the
roaring 'c onflagration . Until now
some ins' seemed to bare pointed
out this section as beyond the reach of
the fire. But when It was seen that
the ocean of flame was irresistibly
whelming everything, all depet?dence
ite Mount' means otsuccur 'wait lost.
Looking down on this awful Assem
blage, In as it wait by the limning
..ri,,,,qm light, and hearing the horn
I. e litinattit tumult *Wee the crack
line of the on-coming fire, it seemed
the *Nailing realization of one of
those old visions of the day of jade
,neat. An overwhelming sense of a
eatastrol,ll? 11011111 i the power of Man
to arrest, robbed this sarging mob of
people of the usual petty considerations
01 lite. Tlitene who were strongest at.d
iiiiett cowardly, knocked the others
down 111 their delirium ; Well, women,
and children were trampled noon by
human herds, that fled without reason
hither and thither, tittering the most
',mini groans HMI cries of distress.
IVi.eii the fire seized upon Lake street,
overlapping the magnifivent stores and
warehouses which extend from Lake
to the river, and igniting them anti all
their costly contents as if they were
so much tinder, it horne sight was
presented, for now lye, t usandm were
O
hemmed in betweed P re and the
4
river. The stauniletie wits sickening
beyond the power' of words to tell
Men and horses were jammed on the
bridges; women and children clinging
alike to eiteli other and the most pre
1.10118 Of then household elfects; some
tit them with the clothe. nedr, iorit
from their beslies i in blindly idiort
serraming and moaning. All distinc
tion of class anti nationality was lost
This narrator crossed the Wells street
bridge and reached the track of the
Galena road lie does not remember
how he crossed it. It seemed to lion
atierwarils that he was lilted upon the
human waves and thrown blinded and
confused into the opposite Street Here
the smoke wits 'ammo, 111 IltllllO. HI.
lows over the stalls, and through
Wells, Lasalle, Clark anti Dearborn
streets. As he ttirtied to look inlets a
fiery cincture stretelied all round 10
the 14011(11 and nest, and through the
smoky cross•streets burned the red
glare of the on rushing flee.] with Its
Wilde.] jIIIWN tool liiriii lost. The streets
looked like last nweii doors.
A i in t the ttiortrile dawned—and
upon what n Keene! The eon rose In
rid R/1 Keen through the smoke whu•h
hung abuse the city like a curet..
That which at night had been *win]
In ite genndeur, looked demolitte and
w a n ift the early Italic The burnt
dimrietm looked like hell with the lire , '
burnt out.
Men, drisen by that blind instinct
which wake. them, though hopeles , ,
returned to the scene of that disaster
which had ruined them, sought the
spas where once their 6onles had
stood, and sitting down on some pieces
01 'ellen timber, actually wept arid
wrong (bear hands tri anguish (hie
of Illewr wretched beings sought his
liollll . , SlOl, 111 Steloplo,l4 on a hall
charred beam, caused It to spring up,
and from beneath it came, a sick Iv
odor Ile 1010 1 . ) I , lrilf . I %lid 14'11.1
11455 the 'lonia,. and MI% I.eaeittli it
the dead body nit hit 14011, IL young wan
of about '2O >ears of age, who, proha•
lily, returning to the horse to gave
.. , ,alething he prized, had 'Allen in the
11%01e+ 110 , 1 bel•rl buried 10 death --
roe-ted to death.
nat,:bun t the day the tire eOllllll
44491 N 1110.14 4449'111193 114
1110.1gli
111 1 . 11.11itq11 4 had
mortiose. The wind blew a hurricane,
At 0101101 1.,r the express purpose 111
aiding the fiend ut lire, who would en
or it street with a roar as 1110102)i
tleition yet more alit
lignatit Than Itini-elf who was drivin g
low 111 tretay Then the lire rushed
un at slue houses, seizeil thew, and
they were Whirred tlWity 111 rtlll4/1e and
flame, or sent with entelsing walls and
bursting beams toppling to t he growei
Vet atn•il the rage their fall mull
seareels be heard In streets border
ing on the riser, It., ill"-, In the rear
tit Kinzie and I•butili H e aler, walls fell
with a sullen roar into 11, Willer,
which seethed and foamed for It nut
merit, and then closed above them tin
ruffled.
In Wabash 11,1.1 Miii, ly an ntenitee,
rind In ell the places where the richer
elms. of (lunette lite, when the tir e
came the .listres. NW, awiiil Women
whit Innd nftVer known what rt mare
WPM, 101.1 Contnnineftllr were, ll` , 11111.
would SU ',pone, utterly iticapahle• 111
bearing w ith equanimity such it f,t
11111111 y as the destruction of their
homes, yet here there were titan) in
stances of heroism and love, worthy
to be ening in story. Mrs. L-4. of
Wabash ',reline, had been detterted
her .ervfl. o . ar $OO/1 lIPI It i•e,•
1111'1:z111, •,' t
ever the% IA I. • ' 1111111114 011
She, her elan : rt... r, and her reivalid
husband were n.• .re in the house, and
the flames rapt ily approaching.
There was no help to be expected, fur
everybody wan bent in saving what lie
could of his own property. There wits
„,,, II nl ~,,, nl to spare, and the two
ibelly carried Mr L
away in their arms at it irto
in safety beyond th each of the fire.
Such instances w huneseroun, alike
among rich and poor.
Children were carried, screaming
with terror, women were ehrieking,
men shouting, and running. Some
old and sick and helpless were carried
oil stretchers—some apparently tie
mented or stupefied were dragged
along. Close to their heels, in hot
pursuit, came the belching, roaring,
and crackling names. I n route places
they actually advanced as fast as a
mate ran. The most awful of all wee
the thunder - nun roar that scented to
rtill upward and outward front ihe con
ire .4 I lie imge holocaust ; now there
son .1 Ile a report like the boom of tlis•
tent grmr.-, riurtiri came a snapping like
the retitle of nineketrv,
The rush from the . Tegniont House,
when the word was RivFn , was akin to
a panic. The stairway. were choked
and as the smoke from the approach
ing fire came in puffs through the win•
the situation seemed frightful.
In three rapes ',emus jumped from
t h e , i...10w4, aid two children were
I ed up tit h e.lm end throwiri from the
!mirth story window, and landed on
the pavement uninjured
vie had a broken leg f
from the eecond•etory
others were bruised fr
cause.
M
Throughout the day
lion raged, and all hope
ing it seemed to Ire lost,
yet continued to blow
lorce; and when night
new horror was adder
drunken and intimated
the streets, chanting nl
bent on pillage. It ince
yet all experience shows
that in tunes Of great di
not chastened, brit the
their natures is rowed tt
become moral maniac
and hall-grown boys hrt
al stores and houses,
search rat her of w isk v
der. In some Ift.UItICVN
toxicatmg liquors were
streets, the beads kno
then took place scenes
description to their title
ing bestiality. Men
fell down In their tra
others took their places
and he helplessly on th
others who wallowed
like hop e s. In some Ins!
relit were overturned
ran down the gutters a
which leaped along I,
burned with a gloonl
Several persons were Int
in this way, but many
away by their less drun
although there waft litt
tellowship in them,
seem to have formed a
Inure Collllllllier., Minil
much Of horror, plllnp
shed. But the tire -wit
?
The wind altered IN
then almost died alit.
drenching rain, ar.d nt
meemed lu linve hunted
too, lind conic m nhund
Ines the moral terrific! cm
continent had ever km
Already stun• or the t
tiering rettulis ul the
have been felt Niel' wl
ago were millionaires tit
Kehler, 11.111141.1 perllllleAr
I.llleli It took years to a
been overthrown in n an
111111./111/11e been destro
has taken ‘ettret to actin
1 , 4 reported, many 111
made crazy by Ihis 1/1410
er time nor care not) re
von, F/11111111.44 hive het
and all ertlnuury has net
iithahitartin of the IN tun
itrouiis of all ,lies•,•.
ntreets, some
lifire'ool. /11141 .1111Ver,
there were of the wt
Elie) were shelterless, I
itmerllt nirickttu, 1114.1
'l'l , l. figol,l or mu.' in
when• retain PH were we
lettnlv for !matting one
children, children lor
band,. lor wit eM, and w
1,111.14,—W/1r pitiable to
trim ka and good., were
the streets, but they hill
While there are titan
gellerolls devutlllll on I li
and Iq per rip , he p , 11.12
till,•, 11••
I=
Noll WWI Irving ICI rl•ll.nv
pe•rx Iron, nil ;ace, and
men to help 1;;;;;, hnl 11;
1e.48 he pond them '.. 4 .7111
were ehcl.lrueed, DrIV
llaSe iitkejj
4 ;51)0 fur all 11011r . 01.'
clew, on getting titmtregne,
1 ttttt I It, iger
Fit three lb. vs 101141 MI
11411 Ii M•ll frt . ; etrel IhultrM
I oth 'none WI
times midi:, hilt oftener RI
Itne 1141%, Iwlle of Aug
h,rtnerll ul (Ito, phice,)
lire rent e tor M 1111111.
1111111 her tint, In order io
owl II ilrilik.
The outliving on Ile,
lienri rendering 10 141
11,008 Ind men, woolen
died Ii ether like emo
note., need in other pin
illeeem.ememt lierllotll.l 111 k 1
hor bOiplemn child
bread. hens trok Imre
not w v to nine me
:tied 100 11121.:
i l•• 410 1110, 1.
1r1100:•••• • r •tmille. 11
11••1-1 proreedir
eli•I .1••• 10,
1,1 11.“ . ,.! 1 , 1
,1,11Tt0%
in the pnna 1.1
and patirnto Who have
Iron. h eiM Of 1 4 1041114 , t1
Wlrn•li lit the beat
were all
Monday night, and thee
tit Tnetillay.
There were people t% I
terttess their 1.111164.1541
!molly to (;o•I'm jIII , IIZII/1,
I.utl " rills IS it Pre(
GOIIII.ITRI{, %WI 11,, vorsc
All the paekttle llottee
and 11111r1 V Or t he elovnto
mimed, Hull these two
Chesgos best prosperity
rrupted
Two cornimnies ()I !Jo
faotny Hrri.ed
once put our patrol dal
Isle and property.
The railroad coin pat, ie
fret. thome 'Alto Lad rriet,4
IA city, even pie her elle!
uud Philntieli.l.ift pond vi
V) 11/1110111
Tlll. 101 l ,1 :11,•/1 ,01 11,,
I,lll_ and ihree nul
nearly three-fortha of 111'
A young lady with
runt, but rather large an
a San Frandsen shoe rto
tired. The admiring elo
Gallic extraction, eomnlii
gnw•r we
m• t ' Oet, b
.11ellee tee iltiMediately."