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The Portland daily press., 1872-10-25

THE LONDON TIMES ON GRANTS RE-
ELECTIoN.-The London Times of October
10 speaks thus decisively concerning the mer-
its of President Grant:
"The reelection of General Grant will, of
course, be proved to be in accordance with
American public opinion by the very fact of
its occurrence. But it may also be fairly
taken to satisfy the judgment of the most
educated and thoughtful class in the Union
Presidents have been elected before this who
were essentially the choice of the multitude,
and could hardly call a single leading man
in the country their sincere advocate, but
General Grant in his second term of office
will not be one of these. He has reputa-
ton, he has policy; hehas fairly earned the
one, he steadily maintains the other. No
man who votes for him can reproach himself
either for placing mere soldier at the head
of the Executive, nor on the other hand.
need he hesitate on the ground that he will
be supporting a mere party man who has
done no service to his country. The mill
tary exploits of General Grant may attract
one class of supporters, the decisiveness with
which he has sustained, while regulating it,
the legislation of Congress on the
South will bring him another class. A large
majority of his countrymen will probably de-
clare that more than any other man in the
Union he possesses their confidence, and that,
in view of the work which he has done and
may yet do, they will give him second term
of pOWero
The Portland daily press., 1872-10-25


ONE MORE UNFoRTUSATE.-Our SSewhe-
gan correspondent writes US that on Thursday
morning, girl named Amy Dugan, in the en-
ploy of I. H. Dinsmore, Esq, was found dead
in her bed. 1t has transpired that she request
ed young man named Thomas Brennan to
purchase some oil of cedar on Monday evening
which he did. She took this to produce an
abortion and died from the effect of the deadly
poison. Brennan has been exonerated from
any intended participation in the sad affair.
COLBY UNIvERsITY.-We have received
catalogue of Colby University for 1928, which
shows the institution to be in prosperous con-
dition and established on a suro basis. The
faculty embraces six professors and a tutor,
with two vacant professorships. The Senior
class numbers II, the Junior s, Sophomore 10,
Freshmen 10; total 81. The faculty estimate
that the minimum sum student can complete
The college year is S15S5O, and the maximum
is $2O2.5O. The college is open to
Voung women on the same terms as young men.
The Portland daily press., 1872-10-25
ALBERT CHASE.
Manufacturer of all kinds of
First Class Carriages and Sleighs
At Factory OF e. X. Lemont,
~ PREBLE STREET

Having secured first class workmen in all braushe
and buy nothing but the best of stock believe can
build work second to none in STYLE ghtness strength
and durability combined Particular attention given
to all kinds of repairing All those who wish to have
their carriages stored and insured during the winter
and put In repair for spring do so at low rates.
speciality of repairing all kinds Of springs All
orders In this line by express will be promptly at
tended to- BY strict attention to business Ihope to
receive liberal share of patronage. -
Rgerences-Chares Sager, G. j. Walker, G. g. L.
r. Warren, p. e.. Blanchard, j. f. Libby, Hanson
Oay, Leander valentine! G. +. Sargent, Elias Thorn
as 4 Co., j. M. Brown, j. P. Libby, Baker.
oc2 TT&S6
The Portland daily press., 1872-10-25

BOarders Wanted.
A I 29l Free Street. oct24-1ws
The Portland daily press., 1872-10-25
THE SUNNY SOUTH

DERSoNs desiring to escape from the harsh win
IL tiers of New England cannot find more
healthy climate than North Carolina affords, par
ticulary the western POI tion of the State. Deaths
from pulmonary causes in New England are about
$50 to every 1000 while in North Carolina only 80 In
the 1000 die from that Persons desiring per-
manent temporary homes or the purchase of any
property In North Carolina obtain all desired in
formation by corresponding with COL. GEO.
LITTLE, President of the North Carolina
Land Co., Raleigh. N. O..
Sub-Agencies for ths y. c. L. Co. be obtained of
The Portland daily press., 1872-10-25
j. B. BROWN &c SONS.
b A N K II r s,
No. 40 Exchange Street.
PORTLAND. MAINE,

PORTLAND, MAINE.
DEALERS in Government and other Investment
Securities and in Gold and Silver Coin
DEPOSITS received subject to check at sight In
terest at the rate of Four per cent per annum allow
ed on all Daily Balances. Accounts rendered and in
terest credited monthly.
CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT issued bearing H.
terest as by agreement and available at maturity in
Portland, Boston or New York
STERLING Exchange purchased Sight and sixty
day drafts on Englnnd, Ireland, Scotland, and al
the principal cities of Europe. Also, Gold and Cur
rency Checks on Boston, New York and Montreal
sold.
Agents for the sale of the
First MOrfpaua Rou,6S ot ty,o Dnrt
The Portland daily press., 1872-10-25
SPECIAL NOTICE.

81 ECAAL NO1ICEs
HAVING leased my Carriage Factory (recsntly
~ occupied by Lockhart & Soan) to ALBFR'f
CHASE, to continue the manufacturing of Carriages
and Sleighs, and knowing him to be first class me
chanc, and one thoroughly acquainted with all
branches of the business, would cheerfully recon-
mend him to my former customers.
E. K. LEMONT.
The Portland daily press., 1872-10-25
REMOVAL!

HODGDON g. SOULE, Wholesale dealers
II In Produce and General Com m / ssi q N
Merchants have removed to Willis Block,
No. 1Ol commercial Street, One door
east of 4. HI. Weston g. Co.'S.
juy16dtf .....r .r
, 1872-11-12

Tho Chicago produce markets were weak yes.
teziay, and most Of them were dull, owing to
rrezEaro to sell, due to fears that the money
market will be rendered stringent and insur-
anco unsettled by the Boston fire. Mess pork
Was dull and eaeier, at $500 for old; 51375@
1A.00 for new, and s12,40@12.50 for do seller
December or seller March. Lard was dull and
easior 1T 754@7Nc for cash or seller December,
and 72G@77%e seller March. Meats were more
active, but shade easier, part aalted
beng quoted at 4115c for shoulders, 7@71<c for
short nbs, and &c for short clear. Highwines
we're more active and drm closing at 9oc psr
gallon. Lake freights we're dull and 1]155c lower,
at 3c for corn, and 10c for wheat, to Buffalo.
Flour VAS moderately active, and easier. Wheat
was less active, and 4@41zc lower, closing
firm at s1,02X seller the month, and
S103H seller December. Corn WAS dull, and
70 lower, closing at s1N seller the
month, and Sic seller December Oats we're dull
and &c lower, closing at 20@2oAc seller the
month, and 21@21@c seller November. Rye vas
dull and 1@2c lower, closing at 51@52c, Barley
was dull, and declined 1c, closing at Soc for No.
2, and 48c for No. 3. The hog market was dull
and weak Tor all grades save choice heavy, which
were in demand at full rates. There was little
doing in the cattle and sheep markets, and prices
were nominally unchanged
, 1872-11-12

ties of tie late grain warehouse firm Of Mum +
Scott, have been obliged to buy up paper to the
extent Of 10000 bushels Of wheat, and not less
than 475, 600 bushels Of corn that being the ex-
cess Of paper over the amount Of grain in the
elevators. It is stated that Mum l. Scott ad-
mitted a liability for promises for 10000 busl1-
els Of wheat, and 100000 bushels Of corn; and
even those large amounts were fur short Of tho
actual deficits. Even with all this. the incom-
ing firm has felt itself justified in repudiating
several receipts issued by Mum &; Scott, and
in cautioning tile public against the
negotiation Of other receipts issued
by Mum j. Scott, but not countersigned by
them. The exhibit is most lamentab1e one,
and shows in q glaring light the evils made pos
able under the old regime, which recent legisla-
ton is intended to prevent in the future.
After all, it is consoling to know that the one
rotten spot in our warehouse system has beon
eradicated with SO little injury to the grain
dealing public.
, 1872-11-12
OUR FIRE APPARATUS,

1t is possible that most Of the people Of Chi
cago have regarded the fire Of q year ago as one
Of those extraordinary events that could not be
repeated in Thousand yoars, but the fire in Bos-
ton shows that it is liable to happen at any time.
It will hardly bo assumed that there Was any
thing supernatural in either the Chicago or Bos-
ton fires and aB these fires we're the natural re-
suit Of the violation Of plain and well~understood
laws, it becomes question how much, il any,
thing, we are better able now to contend against
such fire, than we we're 3 year ago. Then we
had an inefficient and demoralized fire brigade !;
then there WAS an insufficiency Of fire apparatus,
and of men to work it; there was shocking
want Of hose, suitable for the purpose We had
asupply Of water dependent upon the undisturbed
operation Of q single pump. We had a city
stone iron, or brick exterior wallis. The interiors
were all wood, and, in a majority Of cases, the
structures were surmount ed by lumber yards in
the shape Of A1ansard roofs. How much better
are ne situated to-day? In those districts to
the south and southwest, and north and north
west, the number Of wooden buildings is greater
than it Was on the LIST of October, 1871. I've
have put up an increased number Of iron, stone,
and b1ick buildings: but ne have not changed
their interiors. Ninety per cent Of all these
buildings are entirely wooden, except shel Or
veneering Of brick Or stone On the outside, pin
ned to wood, and, in case Of fire, certain to fall
with it. We have better organized, but wholly
inadequate Fire Department. The apparatus
and the hose mi gut be doubled in number, and
yet be inadequate for any serious fire. We have
a police force which is numerically too small,
and which, therefore, leaves the city at night
but poorly protected. Our water~supp1y has not
been increased.
On the 8th Of 0ctobor, 1871, the property
which next day was destroyed WAS supposed to
be covered by $1o0,00o,o00 Of insurance, Of
which abopt one-half was realized. That fire
carried down an inamense amount Of insurance
capital. Those who survived came forth with
reduced ability to meet subsequent calemities.
The Boston fire will unquestionably carry down
many New England companies that outlived the
Chicago fire, but how will it leave those who are
able to meet this additional heavy lloas2 Should
a third fro occur, destroying fifty millions Of in
sured property, how much would insurance then |
be worth? How much is insurance worth when
it is known that the next great fire may brenk
every large American company LETT standing by
tue Bosten fire? However secure each person
may feel in case Of a. fire Of small extent, We |
are practically, il, case Of large confasration'
Is n, :,ch without insurance as no we're ths day
liter the octor,,r fire Of 1g71. The insurance
re had on last Saturday - Las ceased to be OF any
'alue in case of another large afa, and such
ire is shown to be not an Impossible eyepf:
We should resort, therefore, to such precau-
ionary measures as will supply some OF these
deficiencies. 4 quarter Of a million of dollars
, 1872-11-12

The advices received from the insurance COM
panieB involved in the Boston fire are, On the
whole, Of q cheering character. Their losses are
very small VIXEN measured by the extent and
magnitude OF the conhagration. Very fen, it any,
OF the companies doing business here Except
Boston ones) will be obliged to succumb. The
ability Of the companies to confront future fres
is, however, impaired to the precise extent Of
their Boston 1osses. 1t may be assumed, there
fore, that insurance, even in sound companies,
is worth rather less than before, although rates
may be advanced. There is no help for this, ex-
cept the subscription Of new capital.
, 1872-11-12

FIRST observation-disclosures
SECOND PAGE-Aid for Boston: Meeting Of Citizens
1.-The Chamber Of Commerce Ycsterday-Home In
su.nace Company-The County Board-Our Equine
Patlents-The Law Courts-General News Items.
THIRD PAGE-Condition Of the Insurance Companies
Relief and Aid Society-+Thc City In Brcf-GoVe1nor
Eoc1ner; How He has Fulfilled His Trust as Ilail-
road and Warehouse Commssionor-ulaois Flee
ton Returns-The Zani Villages-Railroad Iime
Observation-Disclosures.
FOURTH PAGE-Edito1als Bostons .Rocuperativa
Powers; Our Fire Apparatus-Current News Items
advertisements.
FIFTH PAGE1Conmou Council: Precautionary Mca-
sures Against Fire in Our Uninsured Citg-Ad1er-
tisements.
SIXTH PAGE-Monetary aud Commercial Marine In.
teuigencc-
SEVENTH PAGE-The Arkansas Bandit-Genera1 La
fayette's Watch-Smau Advertisements: Real Es-
tatc, For Sale. To Rent, Wanted, Boarding, Lodg-
Ing, Etc.
EIGHTH PAGE-Further Particulars of the Boston
Calamity: Iosses. Iusurauce. Etc.
, 1872-11-12

The merchants and business men Of Chicago
at their meeting at the Chamber Of Commerce,
yesterday. gave evidence of their heartfelt SYM
pathy with the sufferers by the Boston conaagra-
tion in manner which cannot fail, ne think, to
prove as grateful to them as the munifcent gen
crosby Of Boston was to Us in our own calamity
One hundred thousand dollars of the funds
heretofore contributed for the relief Of Chicago
we're transferred by the Chicago Rolief
and Aid Society to tie sufferers in Dos
ton, and, in addition, our own citi-
zens subscribed about fifty thousand dollars
for tue same purpose. Out of what remains to
Us from the wreck aud ashes of our own dig
aBt=r, we are raising q fund, every dollar Of
which is saIted by the tears Of our own suffer-
ing What may be the future extent Of these
efforts will depend, doubtless, on what may
seem to be the opportunity for true and prac-
tica1 relief. At all events, we have tried to
speak III goldon ayllables few true words Of
sympathy. and cheer to one Of the noblest cities
in tito world III return for the more than eener-
oas K.nan:ss manifested BY her citizens toward
us year Ego.
, 1872-11-12

The financial disasters resulting from the Bos-
ton fire have been less marked than those fol-
lowing the Chicago fire. Stocks opened at an
average decline OF s per cent, but soon recoy-
cred one-ha1f Of the depreciation, while the
scenes Of panic terror On the New York Stock
Exchange we're insignificant, as compared with
those Witnessed one year and one month ago.
The Intervention Of Sunday has probably con-
tributed to modify the feeling, while the fact
that the loss is considerably less than OURS, and
the snnltten community more able to bear it, has
contributed even more to prevent stampede.
, 1872-11-12

At the time Of the Chicago fire, it was quitea
common practice among certain clergymen to
attribute the destruction Of our city to vista
ton Of Divine Providence upon us for our mani
fold sins and tranRgressions. It now devolyes
upon these same clergymen to explain how it is
that Boston, which has always had the reputa-
ti9n Of being q good city, has just experienced
a fiery visitation almost as terrible as ours. If
Chicago, being wicked city, WIS punished, why
Was Boston, being good city, punished in the
same manner2 There is little inconsistency
in cause and effect, which these c1argymen
should clear up. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
who always has happy way Of looking at
things from q common-sense point Of view, in
his sermon on Sunday, secuted at the idea Of
Divine visitation Of wrath, and lay tie blame on
the narrow, crooked streets and 3Iansard roofs.
This is the view which most people will take of
it, but it does not relieve us from the odium
which these clergymen have thrown upon us.
II they are convinced now that they are mis-
taken, or if they have any method Of explaining
this apparent conflict in the dispensation Of
Divine justice, they should at once relieve US.
, 1872-11-12
TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE,

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION tPAYAD1E m ADvAScE}.
1aiiX By mail. ....-5 90 Sunday. SO
Ail@"eek1s........ 6.OOl Weekly 2.Ou
Parts Of 5ear 1t the same rate.
o prevent delay and mistakes, be and give Post
ofce address in full, including State and County.
Aemlttances may he made either By draft express Post
once order, or in registered letters, at risk.
TERMS CITY SUBSCRIBERS.
Daily delivered, Sunday excepted, cents per week.
DAILY delivered, Sunday included, 80 cents week.
Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY.
No. Is South Caual-st.. Chicago, Ill.
TRIBUNE Branch Of5ce No. 469 Waoash-a7, in the
Bookstore Of 1Icssrs. Cobb, Andrews & Co., where
advertisements and subscriptions will be received, and
,ll 5eceiye Tho ss1ue attention left at the Main
Office.
TIE TRIBUNE couuttrE-1oorn and business department
will remain for present. at No. Il Canal street. Ad-
vez4isemeuts should be handed in at that place.
, 1872-11-12

better than three times that amount expended
in insurance premiums at this time. We want
our Fire Department recruited by large number
OF additional engines; Ne want an additional
supply Of good hose, equal to the increased ser
wee Instead of one Babcock apparatus on
wheels, ne want a dozen, to be placed where
they can be used to extinguish incipient fires.
We want at least ono hundred additional night
patrolmen, uniting the functions Of policemen
and auxiliary fremen. We want dozen moro
practical NEIL az fre-wardens, to thoroughly in
epect every building where there arc engines,
boilers, machinery, and indammable material.
we want every police station supplied with
hre extnguishers, that, upon the first alarm, they
may be employed. Until re can duplicate our
water supply, We should make use Of such
facilities as are at hand. Wells connected with
the river can be sunk at all the street crossings
Tor half q dozen blocks east, west, and north Of
the river and it's branches, and an unfailing sup
ply OF water thus maintained for the fire ap-
paratus. In short, we must become our own
insurers to tho extent Of adopting every precau-
ton to prevent fire, and to arrest it at the begin
ming.
1Tue, the city has no money, but this is
q pressing emergency. Our want of means. has
left the municipal authorities unable to put the
Fire or Police Department in efficient order.
Ihe failure Of large number Of our richest
men, bankers, and real estate owners, to pay
their taxes has crippled the public authorities.
But the City Government must meet the emer-
gency. The season Of fires is now upon uB, and
ne must not sit down expecting Providence to
prevent fires when ne can do 80 much to avert
them ourselves.
, 1872-11-12

The Chicago money market exhibited no agi-
was slight disposition to panic in the grain
markets early yesterday morning, but no other
branch Of trade WAS affected. The decline in
Government bonds from the prices Of Saturday
Saa an average Of less than per cent. Prices
OF railway stocks, however, have been inflated
Cor month past, and any unfavorable event
would have taken the wind out. The average
decline Of the leading speculative stocks, at the
first call yesterday morning, VAS nearly 10 per
cent, but by 2 o'clock there was general re-
covery, SO that the average decline from Satur-
days prices was not orer per cent.
, 1872-11-12

We print elsewhere in this issue letter from,
Ex-Governor Koeraer in reply to certain
charges made against him by 11r. g. P. Morgan.
Jr.. ole Of his associates on the Railway and
Warehouse Commission. Governor Koerner
fails to fn6 any tangible charges in Morgan's
publication, but Indignantly repels the in
ainuation that he lad been more favorable
to the railroads in the discharge of his
duty as Commissioner than he should have
been. Governor Koerner also an{madrerts e.
verely upon the circumstance that gentleman,
with whom he had been Intimately associated so
long: should have published such statements az
Mr. Morgan made, Immediately before the e1ec-
ton, and when he had no means Of replying to
them in time to cou1terect their influence upon
the people.
, 1872-11-12

More careful estimates than could be made
while the fire was raging in our sister city nov
reduce the losses to eighty or one hundred mill
lon7 OF this sum moderate portion will
fall on the insurance companies, and very
considerable part will be borne by wealthy
estates, like the Sears estate, and the Everett
estate which will still be left with millions after
deducting al their losses. 4 statement fur
nished by the New York insurance companies
shows that thirty-eight New Yor4 companies
have risks in Boston amounting to s57, ,789, $50 :;
twenty-five companies in other States have IT,
and six foreign companies have risks amounting
to s26,228,362, The list is incomplete, but
tends to show that tho total amount Of
risks held by all compsnies in Boston must be
nearly two hundred millions, of which thirty
millions perhaps will fall within the burned dis
trict. Tho insurance losses are lessened by tho
fact that the heavier losers had practised what
is absurdly styled "insuring themselves"
If the total loss in Boston foots up st SOC, ,ooo,-
600, and the INSURANCE companies pay from
S2oooo,oo0 to 3o,00o,ooo, as is probable, there
is no reason to regard the destruction Of the re-
m$ining sum Of $6o,ooo,ooo or $7o,ooo,ooQ as
any permanent blow to the prosperity
Of that city, The net loss will be
about half that Of Chicago in our
great fire, and it nill fall upon & community av-
esagi2g three times as much wealth per capita
as our oEr Boston ia fha vea1thiest ritz ;n
tue United States in proportion to population,
excepting, perhaps, Providence. its loss, rela~
t''e1y TO It's resources, is about ore.sixtn as
great as our o"n and from this loss it will rise
II tl4o1nph, restoring its burned district to more
Ehan It'd CORNER grandeur and utility, without |
the necessity OF borrowing abroad single dollar
OF capital Its banka, hotels, churches, public
ouaolngs and records, schools, manufactures,
retail trade, residence property, and nearly all
us ordinary means Of industry and enjoyment. |
, 1872-11-12

Mayor Medill, in view Of The POSSIBILITY Of
euro condition OF insurance, recommended The
Common Council, last night, to purchase four
teen large Babcock engines, aud fonr Of
tie portable engines for each Police Station, to
order tho construction OF tower with an alarm
bell, to add Is or 100 policemen to tho present
force, and to sink well at the end Of each street
running to tie river.
, 1872-11-12

Houses are rapidly reappeariug in the streets
OF Chicago. Nearly all the stage companies
still dependent upon their dummies. Only 142
deatbs have occurred so far. Thisz1ight mortal
ity, and the speedy recovery Of the suffering
horses have banished the apprehension that the
i'll effects of the attack might be felt through
, 1872-11-12

Boston finds it necessary, as Chicago did, to
reinforce her police with the military. Fifteen
hundred soldiers are in the streets aiding in he
preservation of order and property Threatened
hy the spirit of mad license which great calann-
ity always c1cites among the abandoned clasaes.
An additional reason for this precaution is the
irruption OF New York roughs, who are pouring
into Boston by the car load.
, 1872-11-12

High mausard roofs served as distributing
reservoirs for the flames at the Boston fire,
and are believed to have cost
that city s25,o0oooo. New York las the
good sense and the good fortune TO learn
q lesson from this experience Of others, and
through her Common Council, ycetorday, for
bade any further erection Of A1arsard roofs un-
less built Of fre-proof materials.
, 1872-11-12

A neatly-6ttinE shirt with an immaculate bosom is
possession which gives the wearer feeling Of conf
dence in public places, matter what size his boots
may be- Porter Hoyt in Of the elegant stores
D1cVicker's Theatre, have reduced shirt making to
science. and guarantee their patrons excellent goods
admirable fit, and perfect satisfaction and have no
doubt that trial will convince the most skeptical
, 1872-11-12

The Common Council have finally passed the
ordinance for the purchase Of what is known as
tue Walker lot, On which water works are to be
erected for the West Side.
, 1872-11-12

The Marquis Of Westminster has been fur
nishing his London house with ceiling Of
Spanish mahogany, two feet thick, and elabor-
ately carved, together with cornice OF polished
ebony, three feet vide, costing q triae Of s11o,-
600,
, 1872-11-12

Tie right Of way into Chicago has been given
BY the Common Council to the Canada South
ern and Chicago and Illinois River Railroads.