New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-02

There will not it must be Acknowledged he much over
feeding on this bill of fare but neither is there any
hunger There good many things beside which
most families would wish for. But the supposition Is
that everybody is earning wages, and houga needing
these TO repair losses there will still he surplus left to
be used In the purchase Of comforts aud luXura WHICH
the Committee cannot and ought not to provide
MANY RELIEVED THE DAY OF JUDGMENT CONE.
Next TO food Icame clothing. This given out ac-
cordng to the evident need or in accordance with the
reports of visitors ana sewing societies were estab-
UsLed under the supervision OF ladies Which gave emf
ployment to sempstress, who had lost situations by
tho fire, and who made up clothing from piece goods
for distribution the several districts The quantity
OF clothing sent here most of Old and much OF worth
less was very large and supplied the Immediate want
but an immense quantity OF better and warmer qual
ify was soon called for the weather grew colder,
which could only he had by purchase. Purchasing
Committee was formed Immediately Indispensable. not
only for cOihing but for food and other material, ana
some of the best merchants have given, and eth give,
their services to this business which is necessarily one
OF great magnitude. They mistake greatly, who sup
pose that here was only temporary emergency to be
mcsome thousands to be fed little WHILE TO be pro-
yided with suit OF clothes put under some sort of
shelter and there end II was quite another mat
fer: these thOusandsnOt far from hundred thousand
NJ tem-bad let il lie remembered, to be set up again
in the world they had lost everything There we're
nany not uuintelligent people who believed that
that fierce fire which leaped from block to block
and from street street which burst up anew in 20
many aces seemed 10 set the very heavens ahame and
know no law hut one OF swift destruction but the
beginning OF end of all things The mighty roar OF
the tempest OF wind and the tempest OF FIRE was 10 them
s the sound of the trumpet OF tho st angel NJ the
opening OF the seventh SEAL And they did as doubtless
moor human creatures would always DO, even II they
should stand in the dread presence Of that silence in
no q half hour and saw the
seven angels standing before God and the seven trum
nets nut into their hands They fled for their lives, ODE
dent TO the instinct of selpreservatOn but they made
no attempt to save anything else. 81 Will not
sa id one heavenly -minded young woman, inject my
Creator in chlgnOnw and she snatched that worldly
vanity from her head and tuDg II far Thus clothed
on I'm innocence she ran prepared TO appear before the
Judgment Seat il the end coming, in nothing but
her own hair Possibly the loss OF recent and expen-
siye purchase was regretted next day as useless sacr-
fee for the chignOn ozone and the kingdom OF
heaven not gained. But shOse who thus abandoned
everything were much worse off, except in such cases
OF voluntary devotion the end than those no tried to
snatch something from destruction. There was almost
nothing saved.
THE COMPLETENESS OF TIE DESTRUCTION.
Among the most striking Of the effects in the
aspect OF the buInt-up district, when the fire had
subsidized was the completeness and cleanliness, so to
speak. with which IL had done ITS work. There was lit
orally nothing left that fire will burnuothiDg but stone,
and brick, and iron. What becomes Of the Old hoop
skirts aud the preserving cansl answered for
Everything that will burn, and everything that viii
melt had disappeared and the stone often dis
integrated into dust and fra gments All the
tents Of the homes Of many people, all the precious
Accommodations OF many years all the provisions laid
In OF food OF fuel OF clothing for long Winter. swept
away in night To reGstablish these homes, 10 replace
these conyeniences, possibilities OF existence in
some SORT was the work to be done. 1t only begun
TO be done when roofs put the heads OF the
multitude 1t not even begun when the multitude
was fed for day week. scanty covering gwen
for their shivenng limbs. The bounty OF the world
erous It wa goods and provisions did not begin tn
meet the case. FIRST 10 wanted money, and then
men who knew how 10 money ec0B0mi-
caly and Judiconsly. Every available mar
ket In the country was rnnsacIed for certain
articles, and often rausackod IN VAN. Orders went by
Telegraph. by letter. and by purl tasne agents. all
through the country from Ncw-Yort 20 LcavenTorth,
AMI IA eases - II Gland There Vas scnt supply
frr tt uurA Urrtcd demand O( which trade had had