The Lehigh register. (Allentown, Pa.) 1846-1912, November 22, 1871, Image 1

Newspaper Page TextA DVERTISINGR ATES. 31 • 1 mo. 9 mos. 8 mos 111. 1.50 1,75 3.50 5.50 12.0, 3.0) 3.60 0.80 9.03 20. 4.00 0.2.5 9.00 17.00 25.0 : 11.00 • 17.00 25.00 45.0", 13.50 22.10 40.00 00.05 , 20.00 40.00 moo 110.0 1 30.00 60.170 110 00 200.0 0 ao Schur, Two Squares Three Square. glx &Ingres, . Quarter Column Half Column • One Oolumn Professional Cards .1.00 per line per year. Administrator's irld Auditor's Notice.. $3.20 City Notices, 20 cents pet line lst insertion 15 emits per Ina each subsequent Insertion. Ten Ilnes agate constitute a square. ROBERT TREDELL, JR., PUBLISHER, I=l Coal anb Lumber. - - _ ♦ 711.111111 T. 5. OTTO. 111. IL OTTO. O. W. MIAMI FILBERT, OTTO de MILLER, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN LUMBER, WLLIAMSPORT, PA MILL ON CA OFFICEA WES T THE MILLT OF MAYNARD STREET OF W F CRANE AMIN.L. 4 AIM 70-IF REVIVAL I I • The subecrlbers having lensed the "Old 'lope Coal Yard." would respectfully announce to the citizens of Allentown and the public In general. that they have Just got ■uporloraneortmeut of COAL BUCK Conelotting NT of Sto•e, Heit, Chentaut and Nut from toe MOU AIN BIINES. Orders left with A. A. Iluber, Sieger & Hottoneteln, at the Battle note', Elope Rolling Mill, or the Yard will be attended to la a BUSINESS 11lea manner. Ordcra (or Coal by the der filled at short no ❑ce the Invent prices. Aiwa". 00 hood h. largo 'took of BALED HAY, wOl.ll will be sold at too lowest market prises L. W. KOONS & CO at the' . Old Hope Coal Vard," Hamilton Street, corner of Lehigh Valley Railroad =I L. W. Booms oit n arlict3 alio Oil etoti). ICH AND ELEGANT CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, &C. S. C. FOULK. • • • NO. 10 B. SECOND ST., PIIILA., (First Carpet Starr below Market. East side.) Invites attention to his splend . d assortment of Imported and American CAIIPSTII, whieh will h• sold at a very small advance. Goode Warranted as repre%ented so that ❑l can bay with confidence and satisfaction. nov Spertaelez. SPECTACLES! SPECTACLES EYE CLASSES, &c. 8 41rAtt e zn i l y co e r t nAtt . o e ngtm a e t n t of all kinds off& CHAS. S. MASSEY'S, NO. 23 EAST HAMILTON STREET, ALLENTOWN, PA. Raging devoted a great deal of care and attention to the Spectacle busiest.. for those last few yearn, I find that my business in that line has Increased no tench that I have de termined tomato lt • SPECIALTY. There Is no article manufactured In which there In so much deception prac ticed an there in to Spectacle filatres. Knowing that the public have been frequently humbugged by portion pre tending to have n.nperior article of Classes, and charging exorbitant prices V.r them, thernb y traelcing noon the no amities and Infirmities clam I have taboo pains to ire ' led a large and complete annertment of the finest and best Glasses ever manufactured, thns affording all p a rsons needing Spectacles an opportunity of purchasing t rea eonattto prices. Persona having any difficulty la being suited elsewhere will do well to give me a call. as I feel confident that no one will fall to be suited. Remember the old eland. No. 29 East Hamilton street, opposite the Ger man Reformed Church. Allentown, Pa. jun Zi %S t( (clothing, MMiiiMUO NEW FIRM! • NEW GOODS! CLOTHING ! CLOTHING GRAND SPRING AND SUMMER OPENING• GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES ! T. OSNIUN & CO., Successors to Metsgar & Osm un BARGAINS GREAT CLOTHING B EMPORIUM IN REIMER'S MERINO. NO. 605 HAMILTON STREET, ALLENTOW N, PA We would Inform the citirena of Allentown and the our rounding country that we are prepared with a large stock of good. for PALL AND WINTER WEAR, and offer them to the public nt renenneblepricee• To thoeo who buy t O heir Clothing reedy•mnde, they are prepared to H lIARMNS• WHOLE SUITS MADE TO ,BOER( COATS, PANTS AND VESTS Cut and taadola tbe latost style, and by tbo best workmou OUR STOCK OF CLOTHING, CLOTHS AND CASSIMERES Is larger than It has been before, sad we Intend to cell a •ere SMALL PROFITS, and g•ve our customer,. the bane Lt of our low purchases• Great quantities and varletlen of NECKTIES, CUFFS, COLLARS, And everything to the line of GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS MEN'S, YOUTHS', DOTS' and CHILDREN S READY-MADE CLOTHING I= Dorest , forget the place, Ill,ftht Hamilton street. third door above tilath street. T. MIXON, J►con U. ScIIOLL ANTI II MINX MU 24 if CONSHOHOCKEN " BOILER AND COIL WORKS, JOHN WOOD, JR., MANUFACTURER OF TUBE. FLUE AND CIRCULATINGILRS,ATII AND STEAM BOILERS. All kind• of Wrought Iron Cone, la Tuyere for Blest Prir• ustee..Uneometern. Smoke Stark. .13st Wh eel - barrown, and everything In the Boiler and Sheet Iron line. Also, all kind. or Iron and Steel Foraings and Blacksmith work, Miners' Toole of all kinds, such as Whom Burkett, l'inks, Drills. Mallet., Sledge., dr, Navin a Steam hammer. uld sot of tools of all kinds 1 and skil led workmen. I natter myself that I Cll.l turn out work with pwomptness and dispatch. all of which will be warranted to be first•elass. Patching Hollers, and ropalring generally, ntrictly nt ended to. nor 17 pANCOAST d MALLE, THIRD AND PEAR STREETS, PHILADELPHIA, PLAIN AND GALVANIZED WROUGHT IRON TUBES, Lep-welded Boiler Tubes, Bras. and iron Talyeaand Corkm; Pitting/1 for 0.. Steam and Waters Rough and Finished Bras. Work; Oas and Elmo Titters' Tools, etc. Bath Tabs and Slottt, Bath Hollers, Enamelled Wash Stands, ate.. Coll. of -Tube; Steam Kettles and Traps. • ,Pipe if all &tea fitted to Sketch. fiseemora to MOR RIS, TAMER & Co., an CONTRACTORS Yur the Retinue( Balldloga of all Mum,. with Steam Hut Water, by the moat approved method., . Estimates Furnished Gratis. fekl-ly HUTTON & M'CONNELL, FURNITURE IVAREROORIS, NO. 809 MARKET STREET, Noilla Bide ITILADELPHIA. PARLOR, DINING-ROOM, I= CHAMBER FURNITURE Of the Latent Styl, awl Beat Matairacturo ALSO, Feather Beds and Mattresses. seta)73m w STAR GLANS WORKS, . NORRISTOWN, PA These Works are manufacturing A SUPERIOR QUALITY OF WINDOW GLASS SINGLE AND DOUBLE STRENOTIL EPT PHOTOGRAPH. A COACH. PICTURE. CORRUGATE) ND 013IIR MAKS, . ROUND, SQUARE, AND OVAL 811ADES. Ike.. (Equal to European make.) rh n e t r " s!filLirsi; itl ' y klng other w t h o l it tB d r o; InoniLr- WASRANTID SOTTO STAIN. J. M. ALIIERTSON anilO-Smw VOL. XXV THE R. E. 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U II LaW. NV 111 full directions 110,4 I 11 , 1 In Ptt tr es A 1„,,„1 t 1 1 ,,, ‘. t t.tges. :11.1 N 4.111 CRC itivi 11 I ktu 11r t• t et.. 14 , Ettur Moe , ef ch • Ir M , setto• is, Puteut , 11111:e , loroblaining 11111 I 110 nil evil 0125 contr. t r,nuhto 1t,t1,d....u.0r obtaining .411:•• r.l C.L rrpn • Instruc•ors. e'er aril.. for It clreithr In . illUFl' a: SONS, Pittsburgh, Pa. The CONGRESS ARCTIC. , . The BEST winter OVERSHOE! , NO BUCKLES to break • NO TROUBLE to put on! Neat, Genteel, Stylish! ASK YOUR SHOE DEALER FOR IT ! A GENTSR'ANTiD.—Acente mrkomore money at work for na than at anything else. Dual- Moat , light aad vo.rlll3llPne Particular , . fro.. 0. brim eon St Co., Fine Art Publishers. Portland. Main/. S42M .4 MONTH! Horse furnished. Ex e_p prunes paid. H. U. SHAW. Alfrea.HAlue AVOID 4/11ACK.4.—A victim of curly In. d I crenou. cri axing °era°. debility ptellolure de cay. etc., hating tried in vain every advenlse.l has di...tamed a simple moan. of self rare, which he will send to hie felloys•anlferere. Address .1. 11. UEFA . 2. J. 78 Nassau, St.. N. Y. A C A RD. A Clergyman, while melding In Fi .uth America m a , rAncovered a nate and trlmple remedy (or the Cure 1.1 Nemo.. Vlrenknens, Early D-eay, Dissanee or the Urinary and seminal. Organs and ths wholo train .1 din -0 de rn brought on by Irinsful.tel Arlon. habits 0 tont numbers Assn limn cured b Oils noblo remedy. Prompt • ed by a tiVitiro to boll Oat ths *Mimed and un(ortunnte, I will send tits mains tor protiaring and uslug thin medi cine, in ;toasted eurelop.r, to any 000 Wilt, no-do It.free of chnrve Address Jon. T. Ingae, Station I), Bible House. N. T. City LIQUIDATION SALE OF 1)ITIIMIER INIPOILTERS oP 1)olls, China and Fancy Goods,' 15 Park Placa, near Broadacay, New 'fork. crotint of the 1311.111,1 d. ath SI, H. Dahmer the aL Io•to k hnx to be earl nut at cowl Ode 1111 Jam,. arC. Jobber. .1.1 Hui idiVra lipid it 11l ,leor to toa-et t•xlanlta• the ..t.•ck bent,rchdxturg ol t•ewhnra 0..1111.1tt box tnt 4.411.50 d Co. tent U. li. D.• to uo>r nun of the country. • (twitter YandltW FANCY DYEING ESTABLISHMENT. J. & W..JONES. No. 442 North Front Stre , t, Plalladelph(n, Pa Muses; Orrsca, Con. 0111 Aso VINE. Reße Dye Filar, Woolen . and Paltry tlinula ,revery detteriPi Theirant erlority 0? I)) ain't Ladle•i a. d Centel 611TIIIr On to iv id-ly known. Cr. pa and Marian Elm wla dyed the ino•I brllla..t And colors. Craps and Merino iih.to le clennerd to 1...1c like rientldinen't. Appal el. and Curtaine. He...oder ro•dget Kid 01,,re•cnku.ed or I t ea t o lo n a in,m,w . 103..,L; and look at our work before going eloowhero. gun 24.7rti0 ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22. 1871 THE OLD BALL DRESS. Mrs. Langdon had sent out cards of Invita tion to her " dear live hundred" friends, for a grand ball at her elegant residence on Fifth Avenue, in honor of the entrance °Cher daugh. tern into society. They bad just been graduated at some fash ionable "finishing off" establishment, and tile's debut was intended lobe a very magnifi cent affair. Mrs. Gregorie'a husband and daughters were on the Invited list. As the former and two latter sat in their parlor, looking at their ele gant cords, with the interesting subjec under deep discussion, they were broken in upou by the entrance of Mr. Gregory, who looked bar rassed and weary. " Papa," cried Lena, the elder daughter, "see our invitations to Mrs. Langdon's great ball," showing him the cards she held in her hand. "And there is the loveliest silk at Stewart's that I want to wear. Can Igo and order it to-morrow ?" she pleaded laying her white hand, flashing with jewels, on his arm, and looking up into his face. " Llavint you any dresses to wear ?" he asked, somewhat moodily. "A plenty of old ones which have already been worn, and will not answer for tliis par ticular event," she returned. " How much will It cost ?" Mr. Gregory asked. . "Oh, perhaps a hundred and filly," said Lena, carelessly. with a little Idea of the value of money as nu unfledged bird. Her father zronned and said something. about " foolish extravagance," but drawing his pocket-book slowly counted nut the re quired sum, and laid it on the table. " flow much do you want, Bertha ?" he asked, turning towards her. " I don't think I want any, papa. • I have a pretty dress which will answer very nice ly," she replied. " You're a sensible girl, and the man that gets you for a wife will have some one to help him keep his head above water. If the pres sure nu money market lasts much longer,with these demands to meet, I shall soon be a dead bankrupt," said Mr. Gregory, as he left the room. - "What 16 the matter with papa? What does make him talk so doleful when he is asked for a little money?" said Lena. "Any one would think he was a poor man." " It is one of the money nervous spells ; he is always so afraid his business affairs won't come out Just so straight; then it is economy, and retrenchment, or everything will drift to bankruptcy. That is the way business turn alwayslalk, till it has becothe quite an old story with me," said Mrs. Gregory, drawing a breath of relief. "I don't think papa latrying to frighten us, at all," said Bertha. "I think his busines does really perplex him. I've noticed for a week that he has looked pale and care-worn, and has said but little. I asked him yesterday if he was not well, and he said there was anxi ety preying upon his mind." " Was that the reason you did not want a new ball dress?" asked Lena. "Yes. I'd rather wear an old one than place papa at the expense of a new one, now while money is so 113 rd to raise," replied Bertha. "Really, Bertha, you are becoming quite learned in financial affairs. I should think papa would give you the position of private councellor in his counting room. With your wise brain to aid him, he might sail throuith seas of trouble, ary-shod," said Lena, with sarcasm. " Pray inform us how you came to know so ' much about monetary affairs, toy daughter," saidllra. Gregory. "-I - heard papa and Mr. Ainsley talking ' about business when ho was here the other evening, and he said ifwasalmost an impossi bility to get any at all, now," said Bertha. " Well, you are the goosey ; if you will go to the grandest ball of the season in an old, made-over ball•dress and lie ridiculed by all the elite you can do so. A. few hundred dol. tars can't male• much difference anyway, and when you see the victory which may, perhaps, he won over a Contain attractive gentleman of our mutual acquaintance by your elder sister's more stylists toilette, you will regret your de cision in favor of Madame Noah's antediluvian costume," said Lena, sneeringly. "I'm perfectly indifferent to the praise or contempt of the fashionable world, for there is neither heart nor sincerity in it. And con• corning the gentleman of whom you so strange ly hint, if his heart is only susceptible to the fail wane of costly apparel, he can pay court to it as long as he wishes, without once ex citing my jealousy, as I want no dry-goods worshipper for my future liege lord. So, ma there sister, you have the field open and free to yourself." '• March on, march on, ye brave, to victory or death !" sung Bertha, jubilantly, waving her handkerchief at Lena, who was picking up her money from the table, where her fattier had laid it, and humming a gay opera air. "Bertha, what dress have ,you to wear? You haven't any that you have not worn two or three times, at least ; and I desire my daughters to make an elegant appearance as any of their friends, on this occasion Bald Mrs. Gregory. As Mrs. Gregory was a particular friend of Mrs. Langdon, she felt in duty bound to honor as much as possible, the advent of her daughters to the fashionable world, and the attire of her own daughters, on this occasion was an all important consideration. " I'm going to have Madame Leicester make over my blue grog grain silk, and you know she is a noted genius for renewing worn ball dresses; but if after it is done, it looks ante-di luvian, and smells musty, I'll do penance by ststying at home," said Bertha. "Do just as you prefer ; but I think your father would give you a new one If you wish ed it," said her mother. Lena purchased the new dress had It made up without regard to expense, and It was ex quisite when done, and extremely becoming to the young lady, who had been congratulat mg herself on the success she was bound to achieve. Bertha's dress came from the mantua ma ker's hands as beautifully as it could be, and none would ever have suspected it had already thrice been worn unless she bad been seen with it on. It harmonized admirably with tier fair, blonde complexion, forming a vivid contrast to Lena's more brilliant style of per. Bonal attractiveness, and bright orange.color ed robe. The day previous to the ball, Clara Ainsley called, a sister of Hugh Ainsley, who was the fixed, central star, around which the femi. nine luminaries had ambitiously beamed for the last two seasons, each fondly hoping to be the finally favored one. But to the secret chagrin of each, lie still maintained the same quite courtliness of man ner towards them all. He seemed quite as in. different to their heart affairs, as he would have been to the pyramids of Egypt. This was the gentleman Lena waq using all her energies to ensnare and bring to her feet, before the pre sent season closed: , Clara was an intimate friend of both the girls, and she was invited up stairs to see the dresses, which bad just been sent hoine. Their beauty was warmly expatiated on, but Lena would not allow her to leave until she bad told her of Bertha's wonderful fit of economy, and laughingly said she ahould certainly take her to the ball; that she might descry some STEW A UT'S Marbleized Slate MANTELS. Very large avaortroent. Including a trot variet or etre •nt. new an d °Hymn/ designs. T. H rEW A ItT & Co.. OM Sixth Avenue. bet. RIM end Stith atreetg, New York.. atak2.3rnd•w T 1 EDE MANT interests ng, poor, young gentleman, with whom she knew her sister must have a secret understanding, and for whose benefit she was carrying out this whim of prudence. The combined entreaties of all the trio could not induct3Mr. Gregory to accompany them to Mrs. Langdon's. He , pleaded a headache and fatigue. This was cover to the 'real rea: son. His business affairs were daily becoming more entangled, by means of several heavy failures of parties owing him to a great extent, and all he could see before him was ruin and disgrace ; but be would keep hls foredodings to himself until alter the fete was over, when, if he found no means of extricating himaiilf, he would make a clean breast of the whole thing to them. H4ll Aft - iglu was quite attentive to Miss Lena that night, who looked very queenly in the gay throng, and his attentions were re ceived with with great satisfaction to herself. Nor was the less interested Bertha, who lai no Beige to him, overlooked. Ile inquired at once where her father was, as he had not seen him there. TO her reply that he had resisted all entreaty to come, from great fatigue he uttered a prolonged " Ah," and fell into a reverie. Hugh was thinking of the range report he had heard on Wall Sweet, that morning, that the Commercial House of Gregory & Co., wan fast tottering towards bankruptcy. The next morning at an early hour, Hugh called at Mr. Gregory's c 'fluting house and, offered hiin loans to any amount, to help him through the financial crisis that was upon Into. Mr. Gregory had done the same deed, years before, for Hugh's lather, and he ; (Hugh, kindly pressed the favor back upon him, which was accepted with tears of gratitude in the eyes of the panic-stricken merchant. A; Clara.and Hugh sat at dinner; the next day. after the ball, discussing the costume brought out there, she related what Lena hail told her of Bertha's streak of economy. "Is that so Clara ?" he asked. " Was she as self-sacrificing as that? But she looked as sweet as a rose-bud in her dress, if it had been worn three times." Then he told her, in confidence, of the state of Mr. Gregory's af fairs, and the reason which had probably de. tered Bertha from the outlay for a new dress. " She is a noble girl, Clara, and I'm afraid we couldn't number many like her amongst that gay assembly at Mrs. Langdon's., Surely all is not gold that shines." A week after this, the footman at the Gre gory's brought a card up to the parlor for "Miss Bertha, and the gentleman is waiting below in the drawing room." Bertha glanced at the card, and saw "Hugh Ainsley" inscribed thereon. "Did you say this was for me, John ?" she asked, thinking it must have been intended for .Le n a. "Yes ma'am. lie said Miss Bertha," re plied the servant. Lena pouted at this; she had made a mis take, and an angry frown clouded her face as Bertha decended to the drawing-room. "Was it I you whlshed to see, Mr. Ainsley?" she asked, alter saluting him. "It was you yourself. Why permit me to Inquire" ' 3 l. thought it might be one of John's blunders, and that sister Lena was the one desired,"•said Bertha. "No, Miss Bertha, it was you, with whom I had special business." he said, at the same time watching the sudden enlargmeut of her blue eyes when he said"•business." "For several years, Miss Bertha, I've been searching in the circle of my acquaintances come my wife. I have just been fortunate enough to find her, and now come to ask her if she will bear my name, and share with me my earthly lot. Bertha, you are the cho sen one, and my heart's best, purest affection I lay at your feet. Will you answer me 'yes?" Give me time to think, please, it is so sad. den," she stammered covering her face with her hands to conceal the blushes. "You shall have three whole monthsto con. sider the subject; then I shall demand an un conditional answer," said thigh, drawing the hands from her face, and pressing them to his lips. In three months Bertha decided to say "yes„' and there engagement was announced to the gay world. Another three months and the gay world was invited to their public wedding in the church. After much coaxing Lena was prevailed upon to he Bertha's brides maid, but it was a bitter disappointment to, stand in the place instead of next to the groom. In afteryears she learned that Bertha's "Old Ball. Dress" had turned the scale in favor of her, and won Hugh Ainsley. Ile reasoned that the daughter who would sacrifice her own desires fur the sake of lessening the burden weighing' upon the shoulders of her father, could not fail to make a true wife. k VISIT` r 0 IRE BURNED (I[lY Rev. IV. Gould, of this city, writes to the Free Methodist as follows : On our return juuniey from visiting the Con ference, we had the mournful privilege of spending sonic hours in Chicago, while the fire which consumed it was raging • in Its northern portion, and still unquenched amid the fallen debris and ruins, over which its awful and irresistible waves had just rolied,in its sublimely, and terribly grand, march of do struction. The Illinois Conference had not adjourned when the news reached us, "'that the city was burning l" but It was not until we reached the Galva Depot of the Chicago, Burlington, ant' Quincy Railroad, about two p. ut., that we obtained any idea of the extent of the rav ages of the devouring element. No trains from the East had come over the road by which we were to go. Orders . had been telegraphed to ship no freight for Chica go, and our eastward hound train was behind time. When fairly abroad all the talk Was,of course, Chica4o. At almost every depot, as the train stopped, the passengers would get off, inquire the news, and obtain telegrams, printed on slips of paper 7 ,and charged for enor. mouldy, in accordance with the rule which oh talus in times of excitement--." Ask according to the demand." Many of these telegrams were contradictory in their statements ; but there was enough unity among them to con vince us that the most terrible visitation of fire ever known nu this continent was being experienced. Some of our brethren who had been attending Conference had horses in the burning city. Anxiety increased as we progressed East ward. We had purposed to spend the night at Chicago, but It became a questidirwhether we could find a place where to lay our heads. Our Superintendent and myself, who had been journeying thus far together in this Western trip, consulted whether we .had not better stay at Aufora ; but somehow, "To see the worst, a wish arose," and we came on. Looking from the car window' alter leaving the place just named, we first saw the reflec tion of the fire, lighting tip the clouds with lurid glare. Every window was now opened, and the platforms were crowded, and yet we were twenty-five miles away. On, on, steer ing directly toward the cloudy pillar of fire• that proclaimed God's presence, ludeed—hut not as it did tn,the Israelites in their wilder netts journey—the angry handwriting plainly visible on the sky, as tt e read It, was: "Our God Is a consuming fire." Forward we go, feeling a stronger and Increasing interest every moment ; until we, though miles out, have readied a point where the objects on the prairie are lit up by the weird glare of the lire, which is yet devouring its victim. We had been told that the gas works were destioyed, but did tint on arriving within the city limits miss the lair p Eve; ,t re ,t was Wu• mutated— al.ls ! too well ! We arrived at the corner of Sixteenth end Ccinal streets—the farthest point we could reach by rail, and about two milts from where the central depot anti terminus of tt-is line, was, when we left Chicsgo a week a:7O. A glance at the mu but tit .1 p.trtion,into which we bad entered, served to WIO'N our friends who were with us that their homes were s,inred ; and, with thankful to arts, we accom panied Br(); Hall to Ilia residence, where our coming was hailed with a peculiar joy ny the Inmates of his household. Congratulations over, a hundred questions were asked, and answered. We got some reliable intelligence of the origin ot the tire; the number or its spreading ; its destructive pro;sess ; present location, ; and while partaking of a cold collation—for the kindling of tires had been forblddi u —and drinking gush tinter as could be procured under the eh entnstunees, for (Ito city water supply had ceased—we listened to henrt•sickenin t , ii tails of losses and sufferings of unfortnnatti ' , etude, W 110 S, homes and p la ces of business lay in the track of the fire. 13ut now, suppe'r ended, though the hOur was late—nearly ten p. to --nothing would serve us Intl a walk to th , lire. The idea of going to bed and of id ening was entirely out of the question. Who could slop within reach of such F:CI'IWB. and knowing that a de. stroving angel was hovering over the city, with his sword still stretelo.d out ? and also knowing that a slight change• of wind to Ikhe north-east would surely turn the waves of flame, which were now rut tug northward, and east ward hick again, acros4 the remaining western and south-western portions of the city, Will,ll Lad tuns flu• (:;eaped the contlag. ration. We learned that night how terrible an if can be, as we heard ScOriS of persons, what feverishly iv: hing tLc fiery glare which hung ominous!) over the moth( rn portion of the city, a.AI remarking, "If the wind should shift around to ni;ht, be all burred up ; there world 11,,pc for no." ii needed no argument to prove this; for it'; bricks, and stone, and so called "fire-Knot buildings" could not w'thst,nd the all con- miming devourer, such lilt and unsubstan. tial wooden stroctures as compose the un burnt portion of Hit. city around Its, would be swept away like chatT. Then, to add to the danger of the situation, men--"Vri Idled, devil inspired men, roused into a horrible, hellish plirenzy, and wild with ticirl:,:h t xeitement -,—had been detected in att.aiipts to lire the part of the city which Oil haul spared ; two of them were arrested a few ,b oa rs from the house of Bro. Hall, caught in the net of firing wwooden building. Citizens, at the call of the Mayor, had formed th , teselves into n committee of safety, and were patrolling the streets. In our night walk we were frequently approached by them, with guns slung on their shoulders, they eyeing Ili keenly. Almost everybody was on the street, on their door sacks, or looking sadly and anxiously toward the fire-lighted sky. Door yards were filled with furniture packed an 1 r eady for blatant removal should the wind Omer It wits then Mowing stiffly from the south•weSt. We quickly reached. a spot on 13Iue Island Avenue, where, looking down one of the streets that cross it. we attic till! Fire Monster, souringt l i 4 tt\ ' (t 1 r LI il u Xunn i d of Via:l'l'l4 'tis coal, stored up in yards far the winter supply of the city : and, gluthsn like, was Piltithlg on Its prey : meanwhile savagely growling, crack ling, warring, and ing all attempts to I make him quit. By the strong light . emitted from the burning heaps was rt vented a sea of awful d , notation beggaring all description. Far as the eye oath' pierce, nothing but whitened and !thickened ruin was visible, for the fire had l oth blettehed and beerimed as it I swept along in its it dd fury. The scene was grimly grand. Hemorant--t he gloomy lover of lights and shaoes—neyi r gazed on, cell ceivt d, or painted such as those we saw. The point we struck was not far from the PIA" where the unruly cow kicked over the lamp which caused the fire that burnt the city ; and from thence there stretched at smoking plain —North mid i:last—covered with the remains of what proud Chicago was. The streets, raised above the level of the plain—almost the only remaining great montunt at ti the energy and peculiarly go aheadative spirit of the citizens—sonicwhat:relieved the VieW; While an occasional chimney, or corner of a building, stood like a gliorit, lit up with the weird glare of the blitzing coal heaps. Gannt.lookine, leafless, twigless trees, scorched and black, held up their crooked arms, witchlike to the sky ; the smoking ruins all around sent up an incense such no botittoil d irk and infernid orgies. While the sky above, tilled with massy clouds, drifting and living on the ;sings of . the wind, and, w thdy tossing and shifting, looked like a scant tiro and blood, mingled with ink ; its waves tingi, d with colors such as the Stet never used, and presenting a panorama that can only he equalled by--" The lake of fire burning with brimstone." Away in the North, fir ass ay from where we stood, the more active 11 cues were doing their work; these were the light artillery of the` scorching army, which I :v1 sprung forth leaping from house to house. Irons street to street, running along the pay. meats, jumping the river, flying in detached diects through the air, and heralded by showers of smirks, had lit on light wooden buildings, consuming them instantly; dashed against tall and costly stone and brick edifices, tin;thing in at the Windows, seizing on every thing combustible, and even pl, rcing through Weil solid walls cracking, crumbling, and licking them up— until, in many cases, even their dust suns missing. Meanwhile, laughing with a hiss at the putty, baby attempts of the Chicago Fire Brigade, reinforced by help from every stir. rounding town and city. W hat cared they for a few inch.atid.half streams from squirting machines, their blustering noise was complete. ly drowned in the loud "Huh ha!" with which the horribly sportive flames proceeded to run up the masts and tieing if lake vessels; pierced the iron coated sides of grain elevators; and then, its if it pretended to need sonic reinforce• 'meat, after feeling the force of the squirting aforesaid, it ran to the gas manufactory; and, bursting into the gasometer, released the com bustible element ti.to vitt contained, which, leaping out with a shout that shook the earth and made the air vibrate fir wiles around,ridded its force to the already irresistible conflagra. lion; and touching the fiery scroll In the sky above, on which the didn't:4 beneath were be ng recorded, with a more glaring and awful brightness, hurried on to forther mitchlef. We determined on trying to catch uy with the fiery army, if possible, nod started. But just then the clouds abw . ie, which for ',smelt/ had been looked to In vain for moisture and Inwards which the beset citing eyes of thousands were 110 W straining in expectation of help, began to pour nut treasures of rain; and seeing that a trip to the fire would 'sub ject us to a drenching from Gotrsextinguisher we concluded to let prudence conquer curl ,osity, and returned to places of shelter; and presently, having faith In God's method of the devotweriwe took to our beds and alept:at least the writer did, and his companions reported in the morning ditto: hot, however, a dream less sjeep; but, we do not propose to relate dreams just now. . • . JOSH BILLINGS Furnishes scraps of fun and wisdom in his " Farmer's Al!mann:" for 1872, published by G. W. Carlton & Co., New York, as follows : I= BELOVED FARMEEB AgrICUBIIi lz the mother ov farm produce ; she Iz alai) the step mother ov garden sass. Rize nt hair past 2 o'clock In the morning, bild up a big fire in the kitchen, burn out two pounds ov kaudles, and grease your boots. Wait pashuntly fdr da brake. When day duz brake, then commense tow stir up the geese and worry the hogs. Too much sleep iz ruinous tew geese and the hogs. Remember yu knot pi, rich on a farm, unless yu rite at 2 o'clock in the mornmg,and stir up the hogs and worry the geese. The happiest man in the world iz the for nice; ho rites at 2 o'clock in the morning, lie watches for da lite tew brake, and when she duz brake, be goes out and stirs up the geese and worrys the hogs. What iz a lawyer? What it a merchant ? What iz a doktor ? What lz a minister? I answer, nothing A farmer lz the nobless work ov God ; he rizes at 2 o'clock in the morning and burns out tuff pound ov wood and two horde ov kandols, and then goes out tew worry the geese and stir up the hogs. Beloved farmers, adew. ' Josu lithumas SIMPLE lIEMIDIZ To kure the bite of a krab, coke the krab'e feet In bileing hot water. 'Few find the kontents ov a gallon ov whie kec, multiply a pint of fusll ile by 8 pints ov Venice turpentine. Tew kure the gout, live on Boston krackers, and saw wood for twenty-five cents a kord. TCW make a goose good eating, bring her up tenderly. Ten keep eats from being et bi rats, muzzle the rats ADVICE TEN YOUNG MEN. Don't be diskouraged if yure mustash don't gro ; it sumtimes happens wham a mustash duz the hest, nothing else duz so well. Don't he afrade ov ennything that Is honor able, and don't forget that the hest friend that God has given enny one iz hiz conscience. Lam tew wait I—this Iz a hard gate for a yung man tew travel, but iz the surest way tew git thine. If you have got sum wild oats (and a phew won't spilo yu) git them in arty, and sow them deep, so they will rot in the ground. CONDENSED WISDOM. Thar iz nothing a man will get sick ov az too much molasses. (Sweet girls make a note of this.) Prudery.iz often like the chestnut bur : it iluz seem as tho it never would open, but by and be it yields tew the frost, and lets the fruit drop out. There iz nothing in this world that a man pays so hi a price for, and gits so little ov hiz ninny back, az he duz for Repentance. Men ov little authority are like men ov lit tle strength—alwus anxious tew lift sum thing. I kant see what woman wants any more "Rights" I'm.; site beat the fast man born in to the world out ov a dead sure thing, and she Tian beat the last oue with the same kards. A learned fool iz one who liaz read every thing, and simply- remembers what he haz read. Convince a phool ov biz errors, and you make him yure enemy. Face all things: even adversity iz polite to A. man with a few branes iz like a dog with one flea on him—dreadful oncazy. A man whom yu kan hire tow work on a farm for nothing, and board himself; will just about earn biz wages. it iz just az natral tow be born poor az few be born naked, and it iz no more disgrace. I atwuz did admire the malice ov the mule. If a freak ov fortune had made me az misfor tunate amung men az the mule iz among an- Imiles, I would begin tow let drive at things a mile an a half off. • There iz no better evidence nv wisclum than tew beleave what we kant understand. The only thing which makes a mule so .highly respectabel iz the grate accuracy ov biz kickings. Prudes are coquets gone tee► seed. Whenever yu hear a man who alwus wants tew bet hit bottom dollar, you kan make up yore mind that that iz the size of biz pile. Most ennybody thinks ho kan keep a good hotel (and he kan); but this akounts for the grate number ov kussed mean ones all over the kountry. Blessed iz he who kan pocket abuse, and feel that it iz no disgrace tew be bit by a dog. The more yung ones in a family, the cozier they 'are to raiz°. One chicken alwuz makes more [ducking fora hen than a dozen does. Be humble, and yu are sure tow be thank• fnl ; be thankful, and yu are sure tew be hap py. Arly genius iz like arty 'cabbage ; it don't apt tew lied well. I hay known people who had so little kar. akler that they didn't even hay enny phail• lugs. Cunning, at best, only duz the dirty, work ov wisdom ; tharefore I dlspize It. THE MORMON PROBLEM Brigham Vounu'ii Non Answers n few Questions. The following conversation occurred, the other day,at the St. Nicholas Hotel, between a N. Y. Tribune reporter and John W. Young, son of the Mormon President: Reporter—Will President Young frelst any process of the court, If served on him? Mr. Young—He will resist no legal process. Reporb , r—ihts any officer been sent in pur suit of the President? Mr. Young—N.t that I tun aware of, and It would be unnecessary. Reporter—Has the President any intention of leaving Salt Lake City and founding a a capitol elswhere? Mr. Young—None what ever. Reporter—Has the Government of Mexico ever made a proposition to President Young to settle in its territory ? Mr. Young—No: QM Reporter—Has not Delegate Ilooper pro. poied to the Government at Washington some compromise ? Mr. Young—None whatever. Reporter—Will any compromise be offered at the coming session of Congress? Mr. Young --I have no knowledge of any such intention. Reporter—lf none Is made what will be the result of the prosecutions pending against the President, Mayor Wells, George Q Cannon, and others ? Mr. Young—lt would be impos• Bible to say, but we hope there will he some peaceful solution. Reporter—Do you think Congress will inter- fere in the matter when It shall assemble ? Mr. Young—l presume Congress will be asked In the Interest of all the Territories to repeal the law prohibiting an appeal in criminal cases, and we hope in this way to be able to bring our case before an Impartial court. Reporter—ls any j outbreak or resistance likely to result from these prosecutions ? Mr. Young—l. can say with all candor, I Wink not. We would rather suffer from illegal rul ings, for the present, hoping for relief from the Supreme Court of the United States In time. Reporter—Do you think the Government will allow these prosecutions to he continued until polygamy is entirely abolished f. Mr. Yonng—Wo think there will be a change In Vain mat gaup Sob sprinter, No. 608 HAMILTON STREET, ELEOAN NO LATEbT STILE!' Stamped Check., Garde. Clrenlartraper B B oar ia ttire tattoos and School . oVrielr l ß e ttls ' C.f u ll.Stotr, Way En DYll i e ° , " T " arte an tt d Shlp a ptmerlarde, Posterior any lee, eto., eto., Printe.l at Short Yrotleei NO. 46 the policy of the Administration before long, from the fact that It has superseded the acting Prosecuting-Attorneys, who aro bitter part?. \ sans, by the appointment' of a man of ac knowledged ability—a Mr. Bates, from Chl cago. Reporter—What, In your opinion, will ho the final solution of this trouble ? Mr. Young --The only solution that will prove final is our admission as a State and the exercise of the rights of American citizens, of which the citi zen of a Territory is totally deprived under our present oppressive territorial system. We are entitled to admission to the Union, as we have double the population which was made the requisite to the admission of several of the States into the Union. Reporter—Would polygamy be prohibited and finally abandoned in case of admission as • a State? Mr. Young—lf our liberties as Aran lean citizens were guaranteed us, looking to the future, I tun not prepared to say what con cessions might be made. TRADES AND PROFESSIONS. Sonic mothers and sisters, and perhaps fathers, may be mortified because one of the family chooses to be an artisan rather than a clerk in a counting-room. So far Reeducation goes, 'perchance, "the honors aro easy," looking to the future of life, and supposing no capital but brains and character, who has the ' great, at chance—a young man who wears out the best of hie years in posting books, collect ing debts or making sales, with little or no hope of promotion, and who considers a sala ry of two or three thousand per annum large pay—or another who learns a trade thorough ly. and is an expert in a bandycraft always in demand. at the highest wages, making as his own master, even when a journeyman, from fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars per, annum, as lie gets known, taking contracts and gradually passing from theposition of ope rative to that of superindendent, and finally of " boss ?" There arc many illustrations of this fact around us. There aro two brothers hero now, for example; one a physician and The other a mechanic ; the last could buy out the first and not feel it ; is received, as he deserves to be, In quite as good a social circle, as his children mix with their cousins in the same associations, notwithstanding that some of the "social status" shollyites, whose progeni tors were coal heavers, may turn up their noses at them. The whole question of this supposed me- I, chanic inferiority lies in the question of Oa, cation and manners, and nothing else ; for other things being equal, that is the best pur suit which faithfully and intelligently adhered to, furnishes steady occupation. affords a ma. satiable chance of promotion us the result of industry and enterprise, and above all, leaves the man independent, and not the servant or slave of a corporation or Individual upon which he is dependent for his daily bread. It is a melancholy sight to see a gray hatred book-keeper or a vigorous clerk cringing and. trimming to suit the whims or caprices of sonic fancied superior, often hie junior in years and experience, who has inherited the "silver spoon," and is hiS inferior in Intellect and all the attributes which makes a man. If any one supposes these employees do not feel the humiliation and recognize their slavish condi tion he is mistaken. Hard and stern necessity compels the "hated utterance" and submissive mien : the knee is too often crooked " that thrift may follow fawning," and so the man's life ebbs out; and at last he leaves, perhaps, a widow and children strained ou the bleak themselves as best they may. How many of our readers will respond, "true, we know it," and would gladly, if they could, take up a trade and thus work out their individual freedom. We do not suppose that In this wide coun try there is really any energetic man suffering if lie will work, but every one who has been iu California or the far west or any now Coun try, knows that doctors, lawyers, store and office clerks aro a comparatively useless class as contrasted with those who understand the tilling of the soil or arc skilled mechanics. Your professional man, while he is usually re spectable, has one great drawback in the ne cessity of doing all his work himself, cannot preach, try causes, physic, or edit a newspa per by deputy, unless you aro a quack or a humbug. The limit of your income Is your own ability to earn It, save in the exceptional cases of good fortune of the successful user• chant or tradesman, and It is worthy of note that it is only recently that commercial pur suits have been allowed to clues with process ions, and that even now, ,In Europe, the mer chant, unless he has wealth enough to buy his way into society, is as much under the ban as the mechanic. How much better then, would it bo iG our young men, Instead of yielding to unworthy prejudice, and frittering away their time and effiirts in over-crowded, and In most cases, nn• productive pursuits, would go to work at what promises prompt and certain suppor, and, with skill, sobriety and industry, insure competence. • THE UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE. A Bootblack's Good Fort - nue—llls Grandmother Bequeaths Min Over 6100,000. Six years ago, a boy, then only fourteen years of age, left 'his home in Millwaht, Ire- land, and worked his way to Now York. Ile loft behind only two relatives, his maternal. grandmother, then an old, woman, named Armstrong, and his paternal grandfather, named White. The boy's name is William A. W. White. Ile arrived In New York about six years ago without a dollar ..in his packet, but being determined to make a liv lug, and not finding anything else to do, al though lie had received a fair education, he wont to work blacking boots about 'the I.lat try and Washington 'street. After he had been at that about two years he added to' 'his by selling newspapers In the evening. Bc. ing a steady and economical boy, lie saved In nearly six years almost $2,000, which Le ha placel in the savings bank In smiil sums. Two months ago a gentleman who had been his regular customer in the bootblack ing line, advised him to go to Philadelphia, and he did, and there obtained a situation as aridstant barkeeper in Mr. Cole's saloon. White bad been there only two months,when Mr. Cole, showed him a copy of the Philadel phia Ledger with the following advertisement? £23,028 left to William A. White, by the death of Ills grandmother. A. letter is in the philadelphia Post-office for hin." "That must be you, William,, ' said Mr. Cole. White hut red to the Post.office and found that he was heir to £23,028, bequeathed by his grand mother, Mrs. Armstrong. The letter also contained a draft for $2,000 in gold, and is photograph likeness, btvi•hich he wasidentl 7 tied. Fortunately for him, he was in. go9d handß, and Mr. Cola gave him money and advised him to come to New York, to place Ids case in hands of the British ..Consul. White did no, and ,all the papers necessary were safely lodged with Mr. Archibald yea terday.:—.Ar. Y. Staniiiird,Nov. 13. s FROM HAVANA. Capt. H. C. Wagnii t corner of Seventh street and Centre Square, Inca received a choice lot of One Itnoprted cigar., which be le diepoeing of at a email Oat. '• Doineatle cigars of any grade can always be bad there at low Firm • LLE'IVTOIVN, PA NEW DESIGNS

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