GAZETTE Published every except Sundays by GAZETTE POINTING COMPANY 1 E S One year In city by Carrier months it In advance 5.00 by mall In advance 3.00 at same race and every description of Commercial and Printing la the best manner ai Gazette Job Tlic firo which is HOST- raging in is the greatest disaster by fire which has ever boon known on this con- We tho most destructive fire known in history If we the value of tho property destroyed and the rapidity with which destroying ment swept through the entire business portion of the city and through tho dence portion on the north side to the suburbs the great ires of Con- Moscow London find nud York appear beside the terrible conflagration which has hud in ashes the wealthiest and most sub portions of tho giant city of the west It is too early yet to obtain ulars or estimates of tho great loss but we safely say that it will require dreds ot millious to replace what was de- during lust night There is but one telegraph office left that connects the city with tho northwest and that one belongs to the North Western Railroad Company But enough is known to realize to some extent tho magnitude of ho great lom suffered In one night the and labors of hundreds of thousands of people lor a of a century are swept away Probably from fifty to seventy-five sand of the of Chicago arc to-night without shelter or home THE JANESVILLE GAZETTE VOLUME 15 JANESVILLE WISCONSIN MONDAY OCTOBER 9 1871 NUMBER 183 The Great Calamity No such Fire ever known on this The most destructive Fire known to The Whole of the South Side to Twelfth St Juarez beer elected the President of the Republic of Mexico for another term On the HUi ult ho was installed aud im- mediately I tie inaugurated another revolution Outbreaks occurred simultaneously iu parts of ico It 13 probable that the government will be able to hold the malcontents and revolutionists in Constant tion unwillingness and determination not to submit to any decision in regard to the nature of the government which it 13 sible to makes a republic an im- possibility A named a re- public tuny exist but where people luck the disposition to submit to the rule of the majority and the decisions ot the regularly authorities and support them the government cannot bo otherwise than to somo extent one of physical rather than of moral force The principle and power of is lacking in the habits if not in tho constitution of the people AH the North Side from the River to the Lake swept to the burbs Not a Newspaper Office Hotel Commercial or Public ing left Standing Three-Fourths of the Wealth of City gone AH Prisoners in the Cock Co Burned to death AND SHIPPING A raging roaring hell of fire involves twenty blocks of the city ready within a block of the telegraph when this despatch was written and sweeping onward is a whirlwind of flames against which human efforts are power less and it is impossible to tell when it will stop The bridge across Van Buren street is burned the shipping in the river the cars on the track of the Chicago and Alton and Fort Wayne roads with the immense freight house there are swept away No language can describe THE DREADFUL SCENE The flames were swept through blocks of wooden houses with the rapidity of a prairie fire Thousands of people fill the streets rushing out of dwellings in many instances barely in time to sare their lives operator has left He says the ce is The he one reforms WHAT THEY MEAN spoke in this city stud I no party in power moving in a wrong direction ever itself Precisely The democratic party is a re the truth tion Many ago that pixrtj adopted thi heretical theory ot statu rights as the general govern this many of tho victories of tho dome crats ware won bus the direction iu which tho party was moving was a wrong one and resulted in impelling states to to tlic authority of tho ment of the States Tho o tho right of tho to lor themselves in of difference between them and the general government was one on which the rebel -ta es fought the war The issue thus was decided against the states by tUo irrevocable decree of war that can never bo revived except by a force greater than that of the United States Yet the democratic party under aud other condemned republicans who are running that party office in this state ore us a cause of offense by the republican because iho general gov Is exercising powers which wore formerly and exercised by the states is precis ly war de- nucl the people ut every tiou hold since war determined should bo This is but another form of that class of ons to th cy of the republican patty was by Mr Buchanan whoa ho de- clared that the had no power to a state and was continued and urged by thu democracy against every adapted for the suppression of the rebellion since tin war closed for the reconstruction of the states Yes we accept the but we hold to a theory of tho rights of the states on the question uf for instance which will deny to the general the power to execute thorn is tho of democratic position It is a renewal of the same conflict in an- form In it U thu tion of principles which will if permitted to bo put in furco disintegrate the and restore civil war or anarchy Power tor his satellites is what is wanted the employed to attain it arc of nature their these were those employed by the to magnify luo authority and power of the slates at tho expense of the legitimate authority of tho general ment and incite hostility to measures de- signed to the public peace and to protect the in tho free exercise of their undoubted rights To exalt tho of the suite where so far as those states nre concerned where this question is important there is neither the ability nor the disposition to protect citizens and limit as far as possible the prerogatives of citizens of tho United States wherein both the power and the determination exists to afford equal protection to all The only difference is that during this campaign in- of being labelled and entitled a plea for the rights of slates as understood and fought for by tho late army it is pompously styled opposition to tion Great Fire in London 1666 eclipsed in The Flames still Raging with Un- abated Fury The entire City threatened with Destruction Assistance arriving from all ters Kenosha Union says that during tho hist two yours there has been more robberies larcenies and crimes of all kinds and grades committed this city than during the Inat ten years NIGHT'S FIRES Chicago October 8 a most terrible that ever curred in this city broke out about an hour and a ago and having already swept over six entire blocks is still raging with unabated fury The fire started in a large planning mijl situated between Clinton and Canal and Van Buren and Jackson streets about the center of the block ed by these streets The wind was blowing very fresh and the flames spread with most incredible rapidity and in a few entire structure was a mass of nre The immediate vicinity is built up mostly with small wooden tenement houses and two-story frame buildings as groceries saloons The im- of many of these houses started from slumber had barely time to rush from their homes in the scanty attire of the night leaving their household goods to destruction In several instances children were hastily wrapped in blankets and quilts to break the force of their fall and thrown from windows to the ground TELE FLAMES Monday morning a fire is still raging with fearful rapidity It has almost with the velocity of the wind and has now reached West Monroe street a distance of moro three miles from where it started and it covers a breadth of nearly mlf a mile reaching from the river to ferson street Tho district already burned over embraces an immense number of umber yards freight depots of the go St Louis and Pittsburg Ft Wayne t Chicago railroads property ready destroyed counts up many millions t and perhaps the half is not The task of arresting it five-fold greater now than it did an hour ago and no one dare venture the opinion as to when where it will stop iV board was blown across to the EAST SIDE OF TIIE KIVElt and set fire to a wooden building directly adjoining the Chicago gas house The flames spread in every direction the ng buildings boing all of the tinder box dnd The prospect is that the gas works will be destroyed and the city left in ness A PANIC prevailing throughout the whole city Almost women and ron of all on the street and pray weeping is heard in every direction t now looks as if the whole city might be LOSS OF LIFE Of course numbers of lives have sacrificed but how many and whoi annot be known until the progress of the umes has been arrested The alarm bell has just commenced ringing a peal which is intended to call every sleeper from his bed The panic is increasing every moment and the people arc almost crazy with excitement THH VESSELS ON THE BITER are catching fire in every direction and all on the south branch of the Chicago river will destroyed dc FIRE Dispatches to The A firo broke out iu Chicago last which has already proved more disas Irons than any conflagration known in the Northwest Tho telegraph burned and we can obtain from the scene of tht disaster excepting what was given operator previous to leaving his office near aa we cau ascertain from reports tht fire originated in tho vicinity of the and has already consumed the build ings lying between street on tl e south and Chicago avenue on the north Jefferson street on the west and the lake oil the east embracing over two hundred and fifty blocks in the heart of the business portion of tbe city Commencing on the south and going northward the following are the streets over which the has swept as far westward as ferson Monroe Madison ton Randolph Lake South Water Michigan Illinois Indiana Ohio Ontario Erie Huron Superior and go Avenue From what we can ascertain the is beyond control Nearly all the prominent hotels and business points in Chicago come within those limits It is reported that tht prisoners confined in the court house burned This is tho only loss of life have yet heard of and this we do not consider reliable as the fire originated at u point remote the court house and there must have been time to remove the prisoners SECOND DISPATCH MILWAUKEE 12 o'clock m The Sherman House Tremont House and Metropolitan Hotel Chicago are in ruins The gaslight and water works are destroyed also the Tribune office house post office Northwestern railway Michigan Central and Rock Island depots the Chicago dock Nelson Munger strong's and Galena elevators The court house and county jail are in ashes with fifty prisoners burned The whole central eastern and north side business of the city are consumed Over nine square miles are already burned over Tho reaches from 14th street south side o Chi cago Avenue north side All telegraphic with Chicago is cut off in- cept one office of the Chicago western railroad The fire continues unabated on the north east and west sides THIRD DESPATCH CHICAGO October p in This terrible destruction of property is the result of two separate fires The originated on the west side in tbe of the corner of Jackson and nal streets in a sash on Saturday night at o'clock It burned over the territory between Van Buren street on south and Adams street on the north aud Canal street on the west and the river on the east The second fire originated near tbe corner of Taylor and Canal streets last evening at nine o'clock in a The report is that a man was milking his cow by the light of a kerosene lamp and that iu a rage at the uneasiness of the cow the lamp was broken setting fire to tho hay within the barn From here it spread to the adjoining buildings the ing timbers being caught by the furious gale and carried to ignite other properly in Us track The flumes speedily crosi d the river to tho east side acd wi h fury toward the heart of the city All efforts of the firemen to stay the prr- gross oi destruction were ly the flames leaped forward giving trie occupants of buildings scarcely time to flee to places of safety All the magnificent structures which have been the pride of the buildings business blocke dwelling consumed At Wells and streets the fire crossed the river to the north side the wind bearing it in a northeasterly direction towards the lake At latest accounts it had progressed as far as Chicago Avenue eleven streets from the river on the north side and was still ing with unquenchable fury In the track of the conflagration which is a mile wide aud of unknown length nothing remains standing Every public building every store every hotel is de- and Chicago is to-day a mass Of smouldering smoking ruins It is impossi ble to approximate the amount of the loss The report of the burning of prisoners in the court house is untrue The loss of life may bo great and may be Things arc IP such an uproar of confusion that reliable can be obtained It is impossible to remove personal property and most of the contents of the buildings burned with the fees range from fifty to one hundred dollars per load and hackmen are refusing five hundred dollars a trip for their Most of tho fugitives have escaped on foot and the scenes in the streets baggar description Men men and children are hastening to escape from the devouring air is ed with flying burning of ber showers of cinders descending from tbe cloud which the city and the lurid flames breaking through the rifts in the smoke as they roar and riot in their mad destruction striking re- terror into the hearts of the half frantic fleeing populace All is confusion all is terror all is destruction Turn which way we may tlie crash of falling buildings greets the ear and a flaming ocean appals the eye FOURTH DISPATCH Chicago p most terrible conflagration ever probability that tbe entire city wili be de- an area many miles burned the fire unchecked fearful panic prevailing a great loss ot life almost men women aud in t le streets and crying aud wailing is heard in every direction tt now looks as if the whole city might be destroyed the sels on the river are catching fire in every direction and all on the South Branch will destroyed The flames swept through blocks with the rapidity of a prairie nre thousands of people fill the streets rushing out of dwellings in many instances barely time to save thuir One the side and a large p ol the north side is in ashes The lire is still spreading in all Hail Chamber of Commerce ing Opera Fremont Sherman Revere Palmer Tribune building post office Water Works Western Union office all the elevators in the cily aud all the rom Sixteenth to Lake The court house and jail arc am all the prisoners were roasted alive Th number is not known All communication with the lost is destroyed The wind is blowing a gale and the Sr is spreading in every direction and is com beyond tho control of tbe fire de The freight depots of the Chicago St Louis aud Port Wayne Chi cago railways are burned The city is ablaze from Eric street north vard Thousands of wagons loaded with and packages are seen in the streets Assistance from all parts is hurrying to the city Business is entirely suspended Thousands of people arc leaving the city to seek new aggrieved the best thing it can do is to send a man to throttle the correspondent who furnished the bogus news and cease vent ing its ill humor on us We confess that we are not able to sort out the untruths from a telegraphic dispatch and give to our readers nothing but the genuine news One rumor which was brought by a senger on the train which reached this city at p m in regard to the origin of the great fire iu Chicago is that last evening there occurred a of the gas works in consequence of which it became necessary to let all tht gas out of the voir in order to prevent at explosion and that tho great volume of gas which was suddenly released became ignited and started the fire in that of the city around the STATE ITEMS policemen of Fond du Lac have made another raid ou the sisters of that city lurge peal bed near is re- ported to be on firo Young Men's Association of Fond du Lac have engaged for the winter ture Hon Wui II Parsons Elizabeth Cady Hon Geo F Train Judge H S Orton Prof Rufus Cheney ami Prof who will deliver three lectures in ion Sentinel there is a suspicion iu the city amounting almost to a that some at least of the many recent fires in Milwaukee are not the result of So impressed with this fact are many that extra night watches have been put on by property owners and these men have been given directions to shoot on the spot any one detected in the net nf suiting a fire smoke at Oshkosh shuts out the sun entirely Fond du Lac Daily says The cloud of smoke which hangs over tiie city like a pail is becoming more aud more dense The sun is obscured aud it is im- f Possible to see but a few rods into the noon Dexter was lately beaten on Harlem Lane one Sunday morning In the first place I never drive cr even travel on Sunday and Dexter never was on Lane in his life on Sunday Moreover he never was beaten on Harlem Lane any day Who speaks RonERT ADVERTISEMENTS Tobacco Mr C H from Connecticut hae had a lifetime's experience iu packing anu handling Tobacco will a for Packing Storing and Selling Tobacco iii company with P J of thl city in time to handle the crop Instructions Given cheerfully lor assorting Tobacco by applying at Shop SEMI-WEEKLY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday and Friday it per year In advance The Weekly Gazette PUBLISHED the largest Weekly newspaper published is TEH Per year in Six in advance LOG Address CO MISCELLANEOUS AND The JLS between Thomas i bam Meat Dealers is this day dissolved nutual consent All for or the flrm bu fettled the Cunningham Bros by whom the will be continued JOHN THOMAS CUNNINGHAM This day received a complete assortment of Crown Imperials Anemones Crocus Ac Ac Also a stock of Gold Fish Fish TOTS Globes A full lice of Wax Materials SHEET all colore GREEK MOSS S Son Now Vork Drug Store GIRL WANTED one ft GOOD COOK and can do General Apply at BOOKSTORE Dry Goods MILWAUKEE WJs Mr H Sli WEST WILL OPEN IN A FEW DAYS JEFFERSON FIRE IN THE JEFFERSON WOODS THE CITIZENS TURN OUT EN MASSE TO FIGHT THE FIRE IT IS SUBDUED BY THEIR FROM JEFFERSON Despatch to the A dispatch from at o'clock informs us that the woods aod on the west side of the track near that place are Heavy winds prevailing Citizens all out fighting fire No water can be obtained Further particulars this afternoon Orders have been received atj this tion to send no more loaded cars to go LATEK Oct three hundred cords were destroyed at Jefferson on Previous accounts were ted The body of Ruel who has been missing since July 15th was found in the woods Jefferson this morning forty rods from track It is supposed he died in a drunken fit Jefferson Oct p the tion of the people Hie fire iu the woods at point has been checked The danger is passed aud the fire be sub- dued Seven buildings were burned in stock lost Wide oi the Mark The has a if recent specimens are to be taken In noting the fact careless of as an indication that a man walked into the river at tbe foot of Sycamore street on Monday night he adds he was heard lo call loudly for for nearly ten minutes but the appeal was ed Our papers stated that boats were immediately manned and that in spite of the efforts of the crews no assistance could be rendered Under the same heading he announces that the Annual Methodist Conference is in session at Milwaukee This is the first time in the history of the church that lay have admitted to a ence and thj experiment works well As the conference does not meet till nest week it is evident that the paragraphist is anything but Sentinel Both the referred to were gleaned from specials seat by Milwaukee to the Chicago papers and we made the ments as carefully as we could from the information at band If the Sentinel feels day night Red eyes and parched are universal The cattle on the streets are gradually becoming smoked and crery man woman and child is being ned b3 the Indian process hundred conductors were tered at tue House during the conductor's convention at Milwaukee on the Gth iust correspondent of tho Milwaukee Wisconsin calls upon the people to help to the sufferers from the northern gold watch was presented to Mr Rooney retiring captain of the Milwaukee Sheridan Guards on the 5th inst L Mitchell of Milwaukee ty has been called by the democracy as a candidate for the state from the sixth district He permits his name to be used Fond iu Lac Journal itemizes a sweet potato that weighed three pounds five ounces which grew in that city editors of Northern Wisconsin a newspaper press association with Colonel Watrous of the Foud du Lac Daily for President HOD George of the Oshkosh Times for Secretary and C D Robinson ol the Green Bay Advocate for Treasurer the Horticultural Fair in Oshkosh Miss Nannie stood first and Maggy Hughes second as the most estimable lady in the city on a vote of 49 to 27 at ten coats a ticket Genuine Italian Maccaroni received at TO S NEW Tallman's Corner Store Opposite the Jst National Batik rn entirely now etock of Foreign aud Domestic DRY with everything in line in u Drv More bo m n lor decline In in York ami uill be sold at Prices Defer ttv received at New Canned Fruits in to the Luuk 0 cl at tU j 11 will ex- 4 of the fit oi e Juit received at ots of New Just received at Goods Washborn and Doolittle There was a gathering in front of he court house yesterday afternoon to islen to thu discussion between the two candidates for Wu have ed it from to The business could not attend and hundreds were aL the fair grounds Mr was in- by Honorable Joseph Stringham in his usual Vein of eloquence and apparent sincerity His speech would lave lelt favorable impression had he not been followed by exposed iu a masterly his and inconsistencies His loquence was devoted to the staple found in Democratic papers the of which was tariff office holders of he has been one must of his Hie high taxes General was introduced by Mayor Jones and iu an hour and u halt demolished the imaginary fabric of evils reeled by Mr D under which the ry was laboring Hu made many happy ills and was repeatedly applauded by an audience His speech was no ess than a surprise and pleasure to his than it was a sad to his es Tho impression is hut thu general fcr lis co in every respect except a voice The whole affair was a grand success for the republicans who uve been congratulating themselves on the list half hour was occupied by Mr Dooli in a vain attempt to to the of his Wu have on- y n to say at t that the bird can soar high but his wings ce those of Icarus are of wax cannot land the suu of Carriage and EAGER A McMARTIN have a for the purpose of ft Having had a life practical experience in the of the styles ol vehicles we in to all may favor us wub their patronage All and Dorse Shoeing promptly attended o Our shop is located at the Bluff und East streets A call frum the public is ed Repairing attended to WM A P J The LARGEST STOCK MILLINERY GOODS 1ST O T I O UNT JS Fancy Dry Goods -1 S FASHION LITHOGRAPHS taken from HO thr nnd ap proved of and for the Fall and Winter of The etock will be nu elegant line of Dress Goods OF THE Latest Styles Importations with all the of the with n line of ot every hraLd made Don't any Dry until you have thin stock More news alter i return liom Vork IL S in ille is at Taylor 38 Main St Particular is to now Stock of MILLINERY We huve appertaining to this branch of trade such us Trimmed which we ore we csn pell less than any other House wholesale aud retail Hats Trimmed to Order on notice yourself Give us d call and sec how it is Taylor Bros HEADQUARTERS Goldsmith Maid and Doster thus relieves his conscience of he burden thrown upon it by the ble performance of Goldsmith Maid at the Spring To tlie Editors of Scaling Express bave observed in your paper a paragraph tiling that certain citizens of Milwaukee ffer to make a bet of if Dexter rill trot on their course This nn is absurd on its face as everybody I never allow my horse to trot for money I certainly not do it ou a rack like the track where a Darter of a mile is out of sight of the You might as well talk about rotting a horse on a pitch dark night where nobody Dould sec whether the or run But while I do not jet I am ready as I have previously of- ered to pay for the mere lege of seeing any horse equal Dexter s last great performance when he trotted a mile to a road wagon iu Another absurd report is the one that JOHN GRIFFITH ilm to the public he ol OVEN or STOVES mil ID clvo perfect a lire ol nuking tind Healing Stoves of all he Jo at vnry Fire at Lac FOND DC WOOD WOOD plo Wood 97 50 Sawed 8 25 and Split 0 OO left with J O or i At Elevator wan one of the old make having tu i ami nt ton or You M to any one to rac In regard to the of Very C the of TiW tiros M lie reliable known Patent Irou liio only i uow known HERRING CO 40 State Street Chicago Sato to Fresh Fish and Spring Chickens I to notify the public 1 keep at nil a of FRESH FISH AND SPRING CHICKENS Beady for