Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-10-19
THE RUTLAND HERALD.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1871.
Review of the Week.

banks, insurance offices, newspaper es-
Establishments, shore, stores, magnificent
residences, and thousands of tenement
buildings. There were many lives lost
in Chicago, how many, will probably
never be known, as fire often provides
graves for its victims. Hundreds are re-
norted known to be dead. There is no
such thing as stating the exact amount OF
loss canned by the fire. 1t has been put
at S20O,OOO,000, and to that enormous
sum it may reach. The effect will be felt
throughout the world, and men living
thousands of miles from Chicago will be
ruined There is no possibility of exag'
9erating the pernicious effect of such a
fire. The interests Of nations are now 90
closely combined that it is not possible
for great calamity to fall upon one OF
their number without all the others being
affected more or less by it's occurrence
Some surprise has been expressed that the
fire sbould have been so destructive and
that it's range should have been so very
wide; but there is not much room for
wonder,
sidered as 50 terrible tragedy can be.
Given the facts Of thoroughly c0mbns-
tible city, long drought, great
gale of wind, fire department exhaust
ed by hard labors performed at an
earlier fire on the same day, and much
scarcity of water, and there is nothing
strange in the destruction that has &C.
Cured and when you add the terror and
he,plessnesa, the fear and stupofaction,
that supprvene when men see such an en-
emv as fire gaining ascendtncy over them
the best Of servants becoming tho worst
OF master7-all il accounted for, and no
imne,chment Of the courage or the sense
of the sufferers can remain in any mind.
All that can be done to help to lessen the
amount of misery is to contribute to the
largest possible extent to their assistance.
The utmost that can be done will 60 but
a small WAYS towards the removal of the
evil that exists, and the effect of which
must be felt for years to come; but that
il no reason why it should not be done
and the fair side of the misfortune, the
line of light in 20 dark picture, Il the
readinesa with which entire communities
have come forward in the work Of relief.
The prairie firea in Wis 2ouoju, Miohi-
gan, Indiana and MinnesoN are mon
strously destru3tIve both Of lite and prop,
erty. Twelve hundred people are already
reported burned to death and the fire is
still raging. we are told, il
"on the wane in England.' 1t used to
b, on the wave.-Henri Rochefolt's s.u-
tence has been committed. lie will he
sent to a penal settlement far life, tut he
il banishod from France forever. For
ever is a long day, and before the sun SITS
thereon this high born radical may fnd
himself in France, and perhaps IN "
position to sentence some of his present
Judges to exile He can 60 to Eogland,
and from that land of refuge keep up
continual course of criticism on the rulers
aud misrulers of his country; and when
the inevitable change shall come, he will
have nothing more to do than to pick mp
aud pack up bis duds, and rail and SSH to
Calais or Bologne, and once more b9 full
formed and fighting Frenohman,-with a
pen.-The gambling saloons of Germany
are not to be closed, though it had been
loudly announced thatEtheir days--and
even their hours-were numbered and
this great reform, the werld was assured,
would be Inc to William |, by the grace
Of guns (ueedle-gnns and KrnpP cam or)
Emperor of Germany. He was to close
the saloons and to scatter the gamblers,
hy way of showing his gratitude to the
Lord Of Hosts who, he assumed, had coz
Quoted the Germans from the Spree to
the Seine, and had placed the Atlautir
shore under the command of men from
the Baltic. Bat Kaiser T.r'uff3 knows
how to break his word az we'll az if he bad
descended from those Ce'ars who used to
reign at Vienna, and so the gentleman Of
the red and black-Satan's own imperial
celors-are either to be let alone, or to be
let down so etsly that neither they nor
the world will be conscious Of their fall
To do the Emperor justic', however, 1t Is
fancies, he would have scattered the
gamblers, and sent the cards TO the
fire but Bismarck, who ia man OF
the world ,-snd of this world, probably
told him it would not be prudent to med
die peremp'orily With the great gambling
interest. the existence Of which draws SO
MANY foreigners, Russians, Britons
Frenchmen, Huugsrians. Americans, 1tal
ians, Poles, and Buhemi ms of all kinds,
and others-to the green tables Of Ger
mans, where they leave so much money,
and of mammon, to help ferhlizs her
brown fields. The ancient Emperor, with
all his piety. is as fond of pclf IS if lie
wore one of the wicked, and he must have
been startled at the thought of depriying
his people of their chances of ecing for
eigners annually and 40 be has oonclud-
ed not to aboli,h the German Order of THE
Golden Fleece. Morally is morality
but then money is money,-aud, like the
other old Emperor, Veepraian, the aged
William cannot smell anything bad il
coin that comes from disegreeable source
1t has not a gaming odOr, but rather
gamey one. Does it smell of it's origin ?"
is question that would be as pat to the
purpose from the first of the Hohenz j.
lern Caesars as it was from the first of the
Flaviau Cm4ars-The Grand Duke AL
exis is expected to arrive at New York
as each day passes. There have been ex
tensive preparations made for his lord
ship, and no doubt the winter season will
he a brilliant one in society in New York,
Washington, AID tlsewhere.-Sixteen
hundred thousand bushels of grain were
destroyed at Chicago N. j,
went for the Republicans at the munich
pal election last weeks great gain.