New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-14

had attacked the building, opened the vault and
piled upon table-cloth the most valuable papers,
then slung the pack over his shoulder, and escaped
amid shower Of falling fre-brands. He walked up
Michigan-ave. with this load on his back, and
stopped at the mansion of John Young Scam
mon, where they breakfssted with feeling
of perfect security. q Lincoln went home with his
papers, and before noon the house Of ScamInon was
in ruins, the last which was sacrificed by the lake
side. 1t was only yesterday that spoke OF the des
olation Of that beautiful line Of palaces called Mich
igan Terrace to-day the garden and residence Id
covered with crowd Of mechanics, ana the
air is filed with the sound OF hammers
and chisels. The lndefstigsble owner B
everywhere present, ordering and directing every
thing and shedding about him fresh and breezy
atmosphere of hope and energy losses OF course
are enormous ; but he owes nobody and everybody
owes him. 80 that there will still remain large bal
ance of this worlds goods to one of the men who
best know how to use them. He is building three
houses for business purposes his vacated lots and
has contracted to have them ready for their occu-
pants in week
A CONFUSION OF QUARTERS.
These is a sudden confusion of quarters in the
South Side: the business houses being all destroyed
the merchants and professional men who have saved
their residences have moved their offices into Them
To-day you will find every class of trade and pro-
fcssion installed in elegant drab houses, with an
audaCiOus slingle announcing the fact at the
top of high pOrches and on the rosewood
doors. The finest parlOrs on Wabash-ave
are for rent to bankers and Real Estate
brakers, and the most exclusive families find them
sci ues living over shops. The fugitives from fire
have taken refuge with their friends and they are
trying in everv direction the hazardous experiments
of military household ] found at the house of a
friend, near Sheridan's Headquarters, a club
of young men who had drifted into this
hosptabe harbor by q process Of natural Sc
lection and never saw more good humor. and
apparently enforced courage and equanimity
in ChicagO's proudest days, than was manifested
among these energetic but, for the moment sorely-
smitten young gentlemen, who, in defiance of fate
had assumed the title of "The Ancient and Honor
able Order of Jobs Turkey"
Now all this must insist is very different from
that devil-may care recklessness which leads man
to stake his last Louis dor at roulette, and gay
blow out his brains if the turn fails. That has been
common enough in all time
When John DAVIS great bubble bnrst, and with it
the speculative prosperity of France, an Observant
character saw man and woman meet in the Place
Vendom, and say: 1--WE are ruined, let us 90 and
drown ourselves" Every well, but let's have supper
first we will eat and pay our score by leap from
the Port Neuf," and the two went meTily
off to suicide. But there is positively no
tinge of despair in the equanimity of these
people the rely implicitly you will
have seen by the resolutions of their Board of Trade
their banks and other corporate bodies, first upon
their geographical position, which has given them
heretofore so splendid an opportunity; secondly
upon the manifest purpose of the world outside not
only to paw them what is due, but to give them
certain measure of general confidence and, thirdly
upon themselves and this power Of influencing cir
cumstances in their service. j. IL.