We are informed that $200,000 were collected in Chicago during the month of October last, as revenue from the sale of whisky at fifty cents per gallon. Just think of it! Four hundred thousand gallons of whisky sold in Chicago in one month! No sane man will suppose for a moment that the thieves engaged in this unholy business, have returned the full amount of sales, and what the real returns should be, no one will ever know. But, suppose the returns to be correct, what an awful flood of destruction, desolation and death163to be poured down the throats of Chicago in a single month! The assertion that the good people of this great western city consume 13,333 gallons of liquid death and fiery damnation every day, sounds very much like a Munchausen story; but when the scoundrels engaged in this murderous business return revenue for sales to that amount, we may safely set the consumption down at a much larger figure.—Ex.