, 1872-11-18
Outline OF the Next Grand Flame-F east
in the Metropolis.
No More Veterans On the City Press...The
Writers Nearly ALL New.
Henry Ward Beecher's Notion
of an Armor Of Bank
Notes.
From Our Our, Correspondent.

teoiAtA I0A1u1J A13At PAHut ~ SPAoAaA4 AopooA
Of .indomitab1e courage, energy, and enterprise
she gave it in the royalist fashion, and moved
the globe to admiring wonderment.
sTA1D BOSTON
has taken you as q pattern, and burned NJ
her buslness-quarter in order not
to be outdone by her youthful
Western sister. Time VAS when Boston would
not have recovered in q generation from the Ca
hmity she has just endured. But the splendid
example Of Chicago is before her, as it'is before
all the world, and she accepts the calamity with
patience and with hope. What Chicago did, she
is doing what Chicago marked out, she will
follow. Within twelVemonth, abe Will place
herself by the side Of The Garden City, as a
model Of the accomplishing capacity OF pride,
perseverance,, and pluck.
TIE BAPT1sM OF FIRE
seems to be needful to the new birth d
our American centres. Chicago and Boston have
suffered what no doubt New York, Philadelphia,
Cincinnati. st. Louis, and other leading cities
have yet to suffer. truatI am in error but
cannot help believing that Gotham is doomed to
eeni-destruction; that, ere long, our heaviest
business portion will be laid in ashes.
Our fathers and mothers used to talk Of the
Great Fire Of Dec. Is, 1885, until it seemed
something, APPALLING. But, when We learned
below Wall street, including less than 700 build
ings, Was destroyed causing loss Of not much
moro than $l8 000,0 600, we refused to be startled
by such an insignificant array Of facts: We for
got that the city then contained hardly 250, ,0o
Inhabitants, and that s, 00o, 900 then rePe-
We see that the disaster Of thirty-seven !ears
ago was as severe to the Metropolis as WIS
your grand illumination thirteen months Rince
WHEN oUR NEXT GREAT FIRE
comes, it viii be liable to sweep away 500 oo0,-
600 or $500, 900, 600 worth Of property; and then
We shall rebuild as Chicago has dons, and ag
Boston will do; SO that the probability Of still
another repetition Of the fiery catastrophe will
be materially diminished The distinct bounded
BY Canal street, tue bay; and re two II r.Ve3s tr
Demon OF Flame that am surprised he has
not long since, cast into it his internal torches
He is bidlng his time, unquestionably. Some
intensely cold night, when tha greater part OF
the city is fast asleep he will awake us with =
tumbling wallis, and the terrific din OF a mighty
city fated to fiery sacrifice. The condagration
Of 1885 will, fear, be repeated before the end
OF the century, and cur go1idest structures be
swept away like sn'oke-"reath in blast Of
One thing we hare learned already: that fire.
proof buildings are 6r5t-class frauds !;
that that they 1 resist :; t. fire. fire s:1 admirably abl{
they burn liko pine when giirt with flame; The
nearest apnr9ach, probably, toa dre-proof build
ing here IS Harper l. Brothers. establishment,
In Franklin Square. It is all stone and iron;
could not be made more incombustible and yet
if fire swept through theswamp, 7 am sure the
great publishing house would be Chicagoed like
any other structure
NARROW POLICY.
AZ, the Liberal newspapers have discovered
that the election is over, which is much more
than can be said OF some OF the Radical Republi-
can organs. Victory can afford to be not only
generous, but cheerful and complacent, hard as
it is for defeat to be aniable and gracious
Among the city Journals, the opposite of this
has been shown. The Tribune, of au papers
having the most reason to feel sore and ugly.
has been, and is, perfectly good-natured, even
the political subversion OF it's chief. On the
other hand the Times, which ought to have been
jocund with smiles, and which certainly might
have been magnanlmous IN its hour of triumph,
has evinced the narr0West and noeanest spirit
It has gone on be1aboring Horace Greeley (the
with mere handful OF electoral votes, he might
be chosen President after all.
presume that the Times, twelve months
hence, will still be setting up bags Of straw, and
knocking them over with b1udgeonB OF bombast
under the impression that each one OF them
represents the editor Of the Tribune. It is rr1-
mored that both the publisher and editor Of
Grants 0lon start wildly, snuff the air, and
paw the earth, whenever the name OF Greeley
meets their eye or ear. It is even whispered
that those gentlemen are monomaniacal on the
subject, and that 8 vision Of q copy of the jour-
nal they so dread and deteBt sets them foaming
at the mouth.
Testing aside the course of the Times is IS
impoltic aB it is foolish and contemplate. I
know number of ardent Republicans who did
their utmost to re-elect Grant, that are 80 dis
gusted with the Times, since his reelection,
that thep refuse to take the paper any longer.
They say, very Justly, thata journalist who, after
winning his fight, continues to insult his foe, is
too narrow to be esteemed, and too base to be
trusted,
THE RESULT OF s1ANDEn
One Of the practical ways in which Henry
Ward Beecher's congregation wished to show
Claan ISLANDERS was INSIST on raising his salary
$4,000 year He peremptor1ly refused, it is
said, to have this done and laughingly
remarked that his friends seemed anxious to
make him inVulnerable to vulgar abuee from
irresponsible sources. bv covering him With an
armor of bank notes.
Mr. Beecher 6gas never so popular as he iB to-
day; and Theodore Tilton's Golden Age has
received, understand, nearly thousand new
subscribers since the publication OF the assault
upon himself and his family. =
Meanwhile, the blackmailing females 1anguish
in prison, and write cards to the newspapers,
which are seldom printed, appealing to the
public for COMMUNICATION in their spiritual and
pecuniary distress. Everybody says that they
will be sent to prison; but, as they are 80 COM
sting has been drawn, perhaps it might be just
as well to restore the liberty they no longer have
the power to abuse. They declare they are
penniless now, though they had 10000, they
anege, when they came to the city.
SHIFTING TRADE.
Thinking over the matter, the other day,
Was impressed by the transient quality which
has marked JOURNALISTIC positions in this city OF