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S • THE MADISONIAN. aATURDAY. JUNE 6, is74. moseme. orricE, Two doors West froix. Wells, Far - it Co's. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year in advjpee) S_iz Months Three Months \ 1500 2 - - 1 ADVERTISING RATES. Tub; al 41)3NoluAN, as an advertising I:, equal to any paper in Montana. lee r, Se. lo .1d Ail JO 6) Co' Cgs i n ch . $3 $5 27 $6 $10 $15 VAi $25 2 Inches 5 8 9 10 12 20 30 49 3 Inches 7 9 11 12 1 15 25 37 55 4 Inches 8 11 12 141 17 30. 45 70 6 Inches 10 12 15 181 24 38 65 90 L3 Inches ISI 241 30 34i 40 551 90 140 it5 Inchea 30 4 40 50 5.5; 6.5 '51150,250 The above scale of prices Is for ordinary sin- gle -column. display advertising. Sofia and labular advertisements will be charged at the Utah rate for space occupied. LOCAL NOTiCES, Fifteen cents per line for ffrit, and tea canto ;sir line for each additional insertion. CARDS, rine-half inch, $2 for one Insertion.; 113 for two insertions; $S per quarter; $16 per year. rr The foregoing schedule of prices will be strictly adhered to. All advertieements counted in Nonpareil measure. 040110 alr 4E113 TqFt I N Of every description, executed in the beet sad neatest eta - le. and on reasonable terms. WEWSPAPEA DECISIONS. 1. Any one who takes a paper regularly from the Postoffice—whether directed to his name or another'e, or whether he has subscribed or not —is responsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he Inuk4t pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, anti collect the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken frozn the (Alice or not. 3. The courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers or periodicals from the Pteatelice, or removing and leaving them un- called for, is pi-jaw/mist evidence of intention- al fraud. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN, ittorney and t oun!qqor at Law. Raderisberg. Montana Territory. HENRY F. WILLIAMS, Atly & Counselor at Law. VUtr,..tINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE over the Pont Oeer. .1. E. CALLAWAY, Attorney and Coun— selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, adjoining the office of the Secre- tary of the Territory - E. W. TOOLE. J. a. TOOLIL TOOLE & TOOLE. Attorneys ;it law. rf.ELENA, MONTANA. Win practice in all the Courts of Montana. 1 )S5? 1411 OD R T. J. LOWZBY. SHOBER et, LOWERY, _Attorneys and couu— seloi - s at _Af- 1 HELENA, M. T. Will praetiee in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, Attopitey at 1 - ,a.w. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. JAMES G. SPRATT, Attorney and Coun— selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Will practice ail he Courts of Ileutana. n. wit HILL. Attorney at Law, GALLATIN CITY, M. T. W. F. SANDERS, Attorney and Conn— selor at Law. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all courts of Record 31ontaist. THE MADISONIAN, VOL. 1. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, TUNE 6, 1874. I'r)14. 4 1PIEUV. AT THE BRIDAL. RARRTZT PRZSCOTT SPOFFORD, IN HARM. Wile stood the doors, that morning, Of the somber and ancient church, And gayly the yellow sunshine Streamed on in its seldom search— Streanaed over the rustling satins, Over jewel and waving plume, Over smiling and confident gallants, Over women all beauty and bloom, And I paused to look at the pageant In the mtdst of shimmer and stir, And to hear the priest murmur: Forsaldng All others, cleave only to her. Fair twinkled the taper -set altar, And sweet blew the organ's breath, While the lover bent and repeated To love and to cherish till death. The light from the great rose -window Came splendidly sifting down; 02 her face there fell 3 glory, And over her heed a crown. And I knew by the asetut tossegee . With which he stood white and wan, That he cast his heart before her For her feet to tread upon. But the bride was softly smiling, Lovesome, and bright and fair— He was but the ring on her finger, He was but the ruse in her hair! • And I would their had been a glamour Over my eyes, and a blur. At that eager vow of forsaking All others, and cleaving to her; For out of the pillared shadow I saw beside me start, A wild-eyed girl with her baba - Clasped over her breaking heart, And down from the porch go flying— The wreck sf a rapture unblessed— With only the river before her, With only the river for rest! JOHN BULL'S REFLECTIONS BE- FORE TIIE ASHANTEE WAR. King Coffee Cale:Oh—king Coffee Calcalli! No doubt you have earned a sound thrash- ing: And that making a sally, without any shilly- shally, - And razing Coomassie from out Parah Valley, And your red velverparasols smashing, Would prove quite a godsend to Fautis, Ahan- tis. Nor much source of regret to your subject Ashantees. But still I can't feel as much heart as I like To feel, when I get up my dander to strike; And, if I for war must cfraw trigger, I cannot hut wish the war bigger, That I'd not display so much vigor, And ps.y such a very large figure, For no more than to wolloy a nigger! Thus, King Coffee Catcall', although I don't rally Your opinion a rush, and our notions don't Of wh t a ti t l ' I s y good and what's bad as 'twist weak folks and strong. And what rights over black unto white men be- long. And what duties to whites are due to black men among— I should like to feet surer that, in my owo view, All the rights were with me, all the wrongs were with you. For even in lighting a nigger, One sets to the work with more vigor If one feels that 011e :4 cutting a ligure Poof 'gainst faction's most keen -sighted rigor And cavil's most cynical snigger— And, in this case, I've doubts if the two may not rally 'Cosine John Ball, in support of King Coffee Cake ! MCS421D44 OF TIRE CALENDAR. BY Nr.LLT 't. IttTC1!INSON. I.—MAY MORNING. Darling, darling, (isn't you know W hy it is I loved you zor? Wherefore dacs the sunshine glow? What inakeath.. p•ale spring-IA:A.0.y blOW? Darling, darling, can't you tell How lo:e caught me in its spell? On the buds the sun -shine fell, Unfalding every bashful bell. FULL MOON. The red leaf, the yellow leaf, Flutter dewn the wind: Life is brief, oh! life is bsief, Bet Mather Earth is kind, From her dear boson' they shall spring To new blossoming! The red leaf, the yellow leaf, They have hsti their way. Love is long, if life be brief— Life is !!ut a day; But love is for eternity, And for thee and me. • THE FLOW= AN THE BIRD. A daisy ,peeping through the grass, Saw; •radlrheard, a m irvii pass. And as it. watched each little wing Bat time to her glad earolliug, \Alas!\ the silly daisy said, \That I could carol overhead.\ So speke—when, lo! a cruel dart Pierced the poor marvis to the heart, And broke her happy soag in two, And sent her fluttering down the blue, Whereat the flower was heard to sigh, \Thank God, that I could never fly!\ THE CONCLUSION. The intemperate agitation in favor of to - in tal abstinence having culminated, it is pos- sible to note some of the more definite re- sults. I. Prayer as a means of offense proves but an indifferent weapon. Some of the rum shops of the West were shut up to bar out the curse disguised in the prayer, aud to escape the terrorism and constant espi- onage. exhortation and abuse. Here and there an emotional tipster has deserted the trade at being provided at one and the • same time with the needful religion and funds to set up in a better line of business. But the ranks of the death -dealing fratern- ity have not been sensibly diminished by this partial and expensive process of elimi- nation. II. Recent elections disclose the whole- some fact that the masses of the people are convinced that no man has a right to ana- lyze the contents of another man's stom- ach while the man who owns the stomach is alive and voting. Wherever the issue is sharply made between license and prohibi- tion the popular verdict will ultimately be given for \rum and liberty.\ The blue laws of Connecticut stand as good a chance of final adoption throughout these United States as any known scheme of total absti- nence enforced by the magistrate. Politi- cal parties have taken notice anti will act accordingly. 111. The Church declines to proscribe by its disciptine a right to which the State lends the protection of law. It neither commends the cup nor breaks it; and thus all its aw- ful authority is virtually exerted in favor of what may be called cautious and moderate drinking. IV. In the countries where wines are pure, cheap, and plentiful, there seems to be no necessity for the interference of the Church or State. Such a country we should make of this. Lift the burdens from the producers of innocent wines and beer; en- act rigid laws against adulteration; allow pure wines to be sold with as much freedom as bread; and a very brief trial will show that the royal road to temperance, as per- fect as _human nature is capahle of, has been found at last. Repudiation is making headway in the West. Dallas County, Missouri, has refus- ed to pay interest or principal of $280,000 worth of bonds issued for railroad purposes, and when the United States Court gave judgment against the county the judges of the County Court escaped service by jump- ing through windows and running away. Green County. in the same State, which also issued railroad bonds by a majority vote of the people, LS in de fault for interest. C. W. TURNER, NVY l It , VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. OFFICE: Adjoining Colonel Call away's. WM. F. K I R KWOOD Attorney at Law, VIRGINIA CITY. Can be found at Judge Spratt's office or Pro- bate Court Booms. Will practice in all the Courts of the Territory. GEORGE CALLAWAY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M NTANA. OFFICE, at the Law thliee of J. E. Calla- way, until further notice. I. C. SMITH. M. D., Physician and Surgeor. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Office at the Old Le Beau Stand, Wallace Street, where he can be found night or day E. T. YAGER, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Will practice in all branches. °Mee one door above the City Drug Store. H. B. BARKLEY, M. D. Physician& Surgeon. RADERSBURG, M. T. * Is had twenty-one years' experience in in his profession—four years of that time a surgeon in the Confederate army. . Ile is pre - to perform all kinds of surgery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- rieuce is not surpassed by any physician in the Territory. To THOSE WHO HAVE VENEREAL 4. WIIPLAINTIki.—Gonorrhea, if called upon witl.et five days after the first appearance,. he Will eure in 4ventv-two hours. In Syphilis, he will cure in tive - days. lIii treatment is different from any physi- cian in this Territory, lie is prepared for Cleansing, E tract ing, and Filling Teeth. D. F. OGDEN, L. D. S., Wiinac.stribet Virginia City.M.T. SEEING WITHOUT EYES. John Breith is a blind newsman ef New York, who in the untiring prosecution of his business made many friends and met but few raseale. His example is a Proof that a man can get around in a crowded city without eyes. John Brieth is a Seotehman, now fifty years old. He was a boiler maker, anti lost one of his eyes by a flying chip from a rivet. He came to this country with his wife twen- ty -live years ago. He soon after lost the sight of the other eye and then lost his wife, and was left in total darkness and apparent helplessness, with the great city roaring all around him. But he re- solved to maintain his independence. His other senses grew sharper in compensa- see ltuzt RIld his struggles with his infirmity seemed to make people honest about him. It is a pleasant to think such influences do oper- ate on vicious people. Blind John Brieth had no guide but a stick, and with its aid he threaded the streets of New York and served at least eighty regular customers at their residences with newspapers, be- sides, selling to many transient people on his route. Ile could not get, proba- bly-- dil not want, any other help -meet to be eyes for him, and he managed his own household, cooked his own food, mended his own clothes, saved money, and was his own man. Vhat an example to many ne'er-do-wells who have their five senses, but make no good use of them ! The blind newsman has same hope of recov- ering his sight, and has left New York to visit some celebrated oculist in Europe. A few evenings before lie left he was given a reception at the house of one of his countrymen in the city. There was a large company and a sumptuous repast in hie honor, and he was presented with a gold -headed cane with which to feel his way in Europe. This was a sensible pre- sentation, and John Brieth was singular- ly worthy of such a social occasion and the hearty good-bye he got. Ile has in- vented a system of seeing without eyes. DANGEROUS DANCING. Dancing, under any circumstances, is an emusement which requires youth and high spirits to render it otherwise than uncomfortable, but even these advanta- ges can hardly, it would be thought, lend much charm to a festivity such as, accor- ding to the Madras Times, is popular in some districts in India, known as the \devil dance.\ In the Tinnevelly dis- trict a soiree dansante of this description lately led to serioes results. It seems that it is the practice to pass a string un- der the flesh on both sides of the body by means ot a large packingsneedie Iii 4:•ani•Ar to qualify the dancers \to dance before the devil.\ Three boys were thus% with the consent of their flithers, prepared for the occasion, and one of them died a few days after the performance. His body was immediately burned, but the circum- stances having been brought under the notice of the authorities. legal proceed- ings were instituted against a barber, who had passed the thread through the boy's flesh, and against the boy's father for having abetted the commission of mur- der. and for causing - hurt with a danger- ous weapon. The barberabsconded, but the father was apprehended and put on his trial. It was pleaded that the custom was a usual one in the district, and was done in fulfilment of a vow; tied the session judge having found the father guiltte of only causing a hurt, he was sen- tencetl to three years' imprisonment, which, however, has been reduced on ap- peal to one year. The excessive languor with which young gentlemen of the pres- ent day perform their dancing duties in society might perhaps be remedied it they were to undergo a similar preparation to that practised in the Tinnevelly district for the \devil's dance.\ If a large pack- ing needle did not make them jump, nothing would.—[Pall Mall Gazette. • — • •••!\ • RELICS OF AN ANCIENT MALAYAN CIVILIZATION. At the November meeting of the Cali- fornia Academy of Sciences, photographs of curious hieroglyphics, cut in wood and found on Easter Islands, were re- ceived from Mr. Thomas Croft, of Pap- eeti. Tahiti. In accordance with vague traditions current among the natives, they are supposed to represent the written language of some pre -historic race. The stone idols found on the island exhibit a refined form of art, and other relies found there go to prove that the present population are the degenerate. relies of a once powerthl nation. In the letter ac- companying the hieroglyphics, Mr- Croft stated. from the best information he could obtain, that Ilene except the priests, and a chosen few, could decipher these strange characters. At a recent meeting of the Academy, another letter from Mr. Croft was read, in which he stated that he had found a native of the island who could read them, and who was going to teach him the language, so that he will shortly be able to translate them. Mr. Croft thinks that lie has discovered the relics of a great Malayan empire, which extended its power over that part of the ocean at some former period of the is- land's history. •••••••••••• THE COMING HARVEST. For the past few years California has been gaining the reputation of a great wheat country, but the ceming harvest year of 1874-75 will not only more truly entitle it to the term than ever before, but will phtee it ahead of any other wheat growing country on the thee of the globe. The late raius have rendered the failure of the crop impossible, and as there are two million acresesown, and the average yield in California in twenty bushels per acre, it is certain that there will be a yield of forty million bushels, or twenty - live million centals. Taking these fig- ures, there will, after deducting five mil- lion centals for local consumption, seed, etc., remain ninety million centals for exportation. This is nearly as much as the whole quantity exported by the United States last year to Great Britain. And ie about twice as large as the ex- ports from Russia foe e the same time. atv I a 't • P '1/ tarnlib.: of Russia somewhat, but making all al- lowances, it is a sufficient fact that Cali- fornia will xvithin the next year be ahead of the country that has been hitherto known as the granary of Europe. It will take 650 ships to carry away this vast surplus of breadstuffs, anti for this service there will certainly be paid $19,000,000. All this is very gratifying, and predicts good to all classes of the population. As time rolls on, and as we grow even larger crops, it would be wise to spend some of the freight money in the establishment of manufhetures for which the coast is suited, and to keep more of the wheat at home to feed an in- creasing army of industrial workers.— San Francisco Chronicle. About 800 miles west of Omaha, says the Scientific American, the line of the Union Pacific Railroad crosses Green River, and the approach to the river is for a considerable distance through a cut- ting oft from twenty to forty feet in depth. made in rock. During the construction of the road, some workmen piled togeth- er a few pieces of this rock for a fireplace, and soon observed that the stone itself ignited. It has been shown by analysis that the rock, which is a shale, yields by distillation some thirty-five gallons of oil per ton. The oil so obtained is of excellent quality, and comes over in two or three grades, one suitable for burning and the others for lubricating. The deposits of this rock are supposed to cover an area 150 miles long and fifty broad. They overlie the immense coal -beds of that re- gion, and consist of sandstone impregna - ted With oil. TUE SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMOND FIELDS. The diamond fields of South Africa are seeing dark days. At the principal bed—Colesberg Kopje—the product has Wien oft' fifty per cent from the average of the last two years, and thirty per cent below that of last year. The rains have caused heavy cavings of the deep pits which formed the diggings, so that one- third ot the ground is thought to be cov- ered up by slides, which it will hardly pay to remove. The deep diggings are flooded, and there is no way of drying them, except the bucket and rope, work- ing - through depths of 180 feet and more. The value of claims is steadily falling, the diamond colony is poor, and the whole condition of things will be sufficiently indicated to any old Californian by the tact that loans are made on the mining licenses, at the rate of ten per cent a month, with foreclosure at the end of the first month! The river diggings which reach for a distance of 150 miles are in no better condition. In these African camps diamonds take about the same place as gold dust dues in a placer camp, but with a difference. In the latter the dust is itselfthe common currency. In the diamond camps the small stones form the basis of value, and would doubtless be used as the c•munon currency but for one fact. 1Vhi1e the value of gold is directly proportione(l to its weight, a 1)31111(1 ntig.get being worth exactly twelve times as much as an ounce nugget of the same fineness, the value of diamonds increases with enguisme eanid- tie ae 'Trey grow - sue:IA . 1er % . u cannot be paid out in pinches as gocd can. For that reason they occupy in :ioutn Atrica :mom saint! position as gold coin now has to greenbacks. Trans - petiole: take place in diamonds, but the amount of the exchange hae to be estima- ted in another currency.—Engineering and Mining Journal. P;MS PIX\FING NEVAD t. According to the Virginia City Enter- prise most of the prospecting that will be done in Nevada this slimmer outside of that immediate vicinity, will be in the di- rection of 1Va1ker River. In i hat section are many very large and rich veins of copper, and also many fine ledges that are rich in argentiferous galena. There is little doubt that the Silver Lake Com- pany, whose mine is situated in that di- , reetion, will be able to ship their ore (ar- gentitinvus'galena) at a good profit, and their success will induce maey others to seek outs and prospect similar leads in that region :stui the country beyond in the neighborhood of Walker River and Walker Lake. Mineral veins of all kinds abound in the sections mentioned, and none of these, as yet, have been subjected to any more thorough examination than the mere superficial scratching - given them in early times by prospecting par- ties moving hurriedly through the coun- try. The work of more thoroughly and systematically prospecting the Virginia City region was commenced late last Fall, and it will doubtless be continued this Spring and summer. HOW MUCH ONE PERSON EATS. It is rather surprising that sonic Yan- kee with a genius for calculation has not gone into an estimate of how much food is consumed by the ordinary American individual in a day, and, basing his fig- ures upon the result, discovered the amount of animal and vegetable food he gets rid of in a week, a month, a year, or an average life tunic. M. Sayer, the culinary authority, the cook of the Lon- don Reform Club, and a great artist in his line, goes into this sort of a calcula- tion in one of his books—the \itlexlern Housewife\— and obtains results etart- Hug, if not alarmiwr, to persons who had never looked at the subject from an arithmetical point of view. To take a boy to the top of the hill, as he takes his mythical personage, and surround him with the object that in the course of his lifetime he will have to devour, may be truly described as appalling. First. there are 30 oxen, then 200 sheep, 100 calves, 200 lambs, 50 pigs, 1.200 fowls, 300 tur- keys, 263 pigeons, 140 pounds of salmon, 120 pounds of other fish, 30,000 oysters. 5,443 pounds weight of vegetaWes, 243 34 pounds butter. 24,000 eggs, 4 1-4 tons of bread, about 3,000 gallons of tea and cof- fee, besides tons of fruit, barrels of sweet- meats, and hogsheads of wine. This is. after all, only an outline, and Sayer as- sures his readers that, so fzir from exag- geration. he has, from experience ant: observation, made up a scale of food for the day, and for a period of sixty years it amounted to 33 3-4 tons, weight of meat, farinaceous food, and vegetables. This statement can neither be denied nor affirmed without going into the statistics, but it is partially eorrobated by a gentle- man who states that for fifty years he has eaten two eggs for breakfast, making '130 per annum, or a total for halt a cen- tury of 36,500 eggs. This goes, for a pe- riod of only fifty years, 12,000 better than Sayer. and does not provide for the quan- tity eaten in puddiegs, cakes, desserts, and the like. Where does it all come from? A curious fact in regard to immigra- tion is that many who come to the Uni- ted States and Canada are from districts in the British Isles almost as thinly pop- ulated as Dakota or southern Florida. About 150 immigrants from Kincardine- shire. Scotland, recently arrived at Hali- fax, bound for a new settlement. Yet one may travel the moors of Kincardine for miles without seeing a house, and the land Ls but poorly cultivated. GOLD BEARING ISLANDS. A sea captain informs us that recently reported discoveries of gold in the Pacific reminds him of a circumstance which oc- curred about four years ago, while cruis- ing off Port May, in the Czar's jurisdic- tion. He learned that a number of Jap- anese, engaged in collecting sea moss, discovered a mountain on Termination Island, twenty miles northeast of Port May, wonderfully rich in gold. The Japs had worked about two weeks and had taken out a large anueunt when the Russian soldiery stationed on the main- land, about two miles distant, learned what was going on, and immediate- ly took posession of the mines in the name of the Emperor. The Japanese esseek permitted to depart with an intima- tion that they would be provided for life with situations as millers elsewhere with- in the Czar's domains. The Captain saw very rich specimens at Termination Is- land while at Port May. They were of coarse gold, from the surface of the 'noun- llerald. II•••-•-•••ta • HOW \TE/E VO'iliniG RACE WILL ('REM tTE. While these two were talking my at- tention was drawn to a dark metallic sub- stance at the further end of the room. It was about twenty feet in length, narrow in proportion, and all closed round, save, near the roof, there were some small round holes through which might be seen a red light. From the interior em- anated a rich, sweet perfume. Then the corpse, covered by long cerement, was tenderly lifted by six of the nearest kins- folk, and borne before the dark thing that I had described. I pressed forward to see what happened. A sliding door or panel at one end was lifted up --the body deposited within, on a shelf—the door reclosed—a spring at • the side touched—a sudden whiehing, sighing sound heard from within, and lo ! at the other end of the machine the lid fell down, and a small handful of smoldering dust dropped into a patera placed to re- ceive it. The son took up the patent and said : \Behold how great is the Maker. To this little dust he gave fcirin, and life, and soul. It needs not this little dust for him to renew form, and life, and soul to the beloved one we soon shall see again.\ On the lid of the Patera were endistven the name of the deceased and these words, \Lent to us ;\ (here the date of birth,) \Recalled from us\ (here the date of death).—Lord Lytton. SINBAD OUTDONE—A stEst.t A - Was.' CilAMBER\ AN B. cAlLitvia—li AA CAVE. NO. 30, GA LLATIN - s MEETING WITH WASHINGTON. Albert Gallatin on coming of age left his paternal Switzerland, to become a settler in the western part of Virginia, and in that capacity attended a meeting of the mountain people, summoned by Gen. Washington, who owned a large tract of land in that region, to decide on the best pass for a road through the Alle- ghanies. The meeting was held in a one -roomed log hut. 11 fret square. Wheh Gen. Washington came in, says Mr. Gallatin, he took his seat at the table, all the hunters standing around, save a few who had found seat,' upon the bed. The General questioned them and noted down their replies upon paper. He was very particular in his inquiries, and eon - tinned his quegtionint , for some time af- ter the young SWieS thought he had dis- covered not only the beet page, but the only one available for the purpose. Be- ing a little impatient at the apparent in- decision of the General, he suddenly in- terrupted him, with reflecting upon the impropriety of his cond et. and said: \Oh it is plain enough! such a place (mentioning the one in his mind) is the most practicable.\ The people present stared at the young man with surprise, marveling at his boldness in giving his opinion before the General had asked it. Washington paused, laid down his pen, lifted his eyes from the paper, and look- ed sternly at the young foreigner, evident- ly offended. but uttered not a word. He resumed his inquiries, and continued to question the hunters for sometime longer, when he suddenly stopped, amid, throwing down his pen, said to the stranger: \You are right, sir.\ In com- menting upon this scene Mr. Gallatin used to say: \It was so on all occasions with Gee. Washington. Ile was slow in forming an opinion, and never decided until he knew he was right.\ The author of Ad- ventures\ mast ‘ 1 -6 e S s ii l gt a'l lA t e he es S li z e li e ll ors W. II. Stokes has been exploring a re- cently discovered cave near Pine Grove, Amador county, Calitornia, mid writes 4.o the Sutter Creek Independent an account of his investigations. Mr. Stokes vouches for the exact truth of his narrative in every particular, and we doubt not the reader will readily credit it from the fol- lowing specimen description of one of the chambers the party entered. After jour- neying for a mile and a quarter through the underground passages, Stokes and his parry found themselves in a \lonlrbut rather narrow chamber, the walls of which are not limestone, but a yellowish brown and black iron ore.\ This cham- ber beats Sinhad's magnetic mountain which drew all the nails from his ship, gold thus caused it to fall to pieces, all holow. Listen be Mr. Stokes: \Upon entering this chamber we .iticed a most peculiar disturbance of the magnet, the needle constantly vibrating from side to side, and frequently with -ling around for a minute at a time with a velocity which rendered it invisible. We also experi- enced a singular sensation—a sort of chill appearance to commence at the back of the neck and extending to the very tips of our fingers and toes. As we ad- vanced hi this chamber we found these singular sensations to increase in intensi- ty mgil it became almost unbearable. We ventured on still further, however, though it became evident that we could not long remain in this mysterious place. I omitted to mention that the walls and floor of this chamber, especially particu- lar rocks therein contained, were highly magnetic, and became more so the further we advanced toward the north. One of the party who carried a hatchet had it euldenly wrested from him n by a magnet- ic rock near Which he passed, anti the combined strength of four of us was in- sufficient to detach it. A pocket-knife, which accidentally dropped to the floor, had to remain there, none of the party having sufficient streneth in his lingers to pick it -up. Mason, who had put on for the occasion a pair of miner's boots, the soles of which were filled with nails, could walk with difficulty, and happen- ing to step upon a portion of the floor unusually magnetic found himself sud- denly affixed thereto, and unable to move. He was compelled to withdraw his feet from his boots and leave them there, tearing up his coat and wrapping the pieces around his feet to protect them from being cut by the rocks. We had remained in this chamber about ten min- utes, suddenly the chilling sensation be- gan to increase, the feeling being as if a cold and piercing wind was blowing upon us, and becoming each moment more inten ely cold. We hastily retreat- ed and soon reached, feeling more dead than alive, the large chamber containing the hot spring. We then retraced our steps along the twine, and in a couple of hours emerged from the can.\ • \MN .• ••• • • • • 11, We overheard a queer thing the other day from the lips of two little girls not over nine years old. Each of them had a baby in her arms, when the eider of the two said to her companion: \Sallie can you tell a Up -top lie?\ \You bet. Why ?\ said the other. \Why you take your baby and I'll take mine, and we'll go around begging. You tell people we are widows.\ \WAIT AND WORK.\ '1 4TT Charles H. Walker of Hartford was probably weaned, but evidently was not ready and qualified to leave his mother. He appears to have got way from her one day and persuaded Miss Line llodes. a pretty seventeen-year old, of Green - point to elope with him. The couple were immediately married, and ill four days old Mr. Hodes came storming after his daughter, and took her weeping home to Greenpoint. The youtig brit legroom went to a judge and obtained a writ of habeas corpus to get his wife back. There was a crowded court -room and deep in- terest. The spectators all sympathized with the young couple so rudely separa- ted. alley tVa1111.1U LU t: • oung luso pick his young ssife up and carry her in triumph out of the court -room, but they were disappointed. The girl came into court between her parents, who had fast hold of her, and the young maa was there tearful and disconsolate, but with no fire in his eye. The judge tried to manage the case so as to produce an ami- cable settlement and restore the wile to her liusband. The girl had promised her parents not to speak to he husbend under any con- sideration, but the judge absolved her, and told her such a promise was not bind- ing in a case like this. She then spoke her thoughts. She loved her husband and wanted to live with him, but he was dependent upon his mother for support, and she could not think of living off his mother. The upshot of it was this sensi- ble advice of Lena to her husband: \Charlie I love you; you are ray hus- band, I ant your wife. Go back and wait and wol f 's, and show yourself able to support me, and if you are true to me a year, I will then go and live with you.\ And she kissedshim and they parted he to return to his mother, and she home with hers. If he is true grit, and her ro- mance outlives a year, sue may make a man of him yet. But a young fo`sr days nusband ought to \be made of sterner stuff.\ • THE $2,500 TRICK. [From the Buffalo Express.] A scene not on the programme occur- red a few nights ago at the opera house. For a week past the Macholia Brothers have been exhibiting there the now fa- mous \box trick.\ On that night, when the customary committee was called from the audience to examine and &sten the box, a young man who evidently \krow the ropes\ tied them SO sueoena fully that the performer was obliged to cut them in order to enter. This vat.s no- ticed as soon as the canopy was removed, and when the smart young man further applied! a long No. 12 boot to the right spot on one side of the cabinet, \the cat was out of the bag.\ The kick revealed a small, until then, concealed door, by which the performer had been accustom- ed by getting on his knees, to enter. The trick consisted simply in knowing where the mechanism that opened the door was concealed. It was on one side of the box, and the ropes, as they are generally fas- tened, do not interfere with its move- ments. HIGH LIFE. A London correspondent writes. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburg - 1i have been endowed with an income something like $200,000 a year. They are to have at least two magnificent residences in Eng- land—one. Clarence House, in town. and another, not. I believe, fully decided on yet, in the country. Besides, they will have two establishments at St. Peters- burg, when they choose to visit that Ii ig - id, native clime of the Duchess Marie. Tliis is leaving out of account the freedom they will be able to make of Windsor and Buckingham palace, and Osborne and Balmoral. and Marlborough House and Sandringham, the residences of Alfred's royal mother and brother. And what, then, will be their lite? One or two la- dies and gentlemen of no')Ie birth will be attached tO them as ladies and gentlemen in wahine., euuerries, and high social at- tendants. They will have stables, with a most ample choice of equine flesh for every imaginable phrpose of pleasure. Their chariots, cotipes, (log -carts, cabrio- lets, pony -carriages, will enable them to enjoy every variety of comfortable and showy drivings. They may go where they list, for the greatest nobles will be only too glad to receive them chez eux, and the royal boxes at theaters and opera. and Lae best places oil the grand stand of the turf, will be at their very good service. If they want to be talked about and cheered. they have only to take a turn in Rotton Row of a morning. or go to the infinite variety of public oc- casions which are always turning up, and where royalty is always in lively demand distribute prizes and open hospitals, preside at charitable meetiegs, and make their appearance at pauper fairs. --sasess-essaos At Mr. Fryer's benefit last night the one great feature of the evening was the \Quis est homo\ duet by Nilsson and Lucca. The rosiest anticipation of the audience were more than realized by it. That each prima donna would put forth her best effort and her utmost care was to be expected; but the duet was not more remarkable for exquisitely finished execution than for the perfect blending of tone and charming effects of contrast. Each voice seemed to supply something that the other lacked, and each to bring out the other's beauties in bolder relief. To this harmonious union Nilsson's voice contributed spirituality, and Lucca's gave warmth and rich color. Co close was the apparent sympathy between the two that one could almost fancy they had surg together all their lives, had been all their lives heightening the effect of each other's powers.—New York Tribune, May 4th. t • AWFULLY t/UT Or TIME. Ada McGee was seventeen and quite small for her age. She lived hi (litchi- nati with her widowed mother, and had* passed ten years of ardurous school life. She was ambitious and her mother was ambitious, for her, and the high-school teachers and her mueic-master were proud of her pupil. She was little and clever, and promised great thing if her constitution would only carry her through two years more of school train- ing. She would then be educated in books and modulated in sounds, and per- fectly turned for life, it she lived so long. But she had not till' nor space to graw in, and remained little and pale, and am- bitious and unremitting. There N'ere only two years more of cramming—that would make twelve years- then she mmmiglmt —IS— PUBLISHED ltri - Elii s; SATURDAY. —AT— Virginia City, - Montana. THOMAS DEYARMON Editor and Proprietor. Papers ordered to any add ress can be changed to another address. 'lithe option of the surscriber. Remittance by draft, cheek. rnmize order or registered letter may be sent at our risk. THE MADISONIAN is devoted to the advocacy of the principles of the Democratic; party and o) general and local news. THE FRENCH CRISIS. With reference to the new embarasss ment in which the Assembly of Ver- sailles has once more placed the simple- minded Marshal NacMahon there is noth- ing to be said at present, since no new Ministry has yet been formed, and since up to the hour of going to press we do not know whether the President has tin: ally accepted the resignation of the old Ministry, or whether he intends bringing about a reconciliation of some sort or other. 'What may interest the American public ie the reason for the crisis. The Duke De Broglie wanted the As- sembly to discuss first his project of a new Electoral law. while the whols of the Left justly delnatitled that the MOW- eipal law should be discussed and passed first. Broglie insisted upon his propel - sal, because he knew that munieipal laws can be made so as to greatly atlivt the general elections, while the electoral laws can have but little influence on mu- nicipal attars. Apprehending considera- ble amendment to his project of electoral reforms, he wanted to keep his municipal project back as a corrective that might be applied subsequently. In this attempt he has failed. His defeat was brought about by a temporary coalition of 331 members of the Left, 20 Bonapartist% and 30 Legitimists. The Bonapartism joined the extreme Republicans because the great point for them n is to create dis- turbance, while among the thirty Legit: - inlets, will probably be found a number of well-intentioned persons who really (lid not wish to submit to all the despoti- cal tricks of Broglie, while the rest must be men dissatisfied with Broglie for per - steed reasons. Upon the whole the Republicans have obtained one victory more, and this tinec a well deserved one, for they were right in opposing the discussion of the E.10e- torah before the Municipal laws.—N. V. Sun. thought it would be nice to have a grad- nate(' girl, and a daughter who could take care of herself in case she was left alone in the world. Her mother thought she was taking good care of her child. too, and the various teachers who were unremittingly aiding a thtal work were, as they slipposed, honestly doing their duty. But Ada McGee (lid not grow. She seemed to have stopped to wait for something. Neither did she look old enough for seventeen. She was waiting for time to become a woman. The girl- ish air of thirteen or fourteen seemed to linger in her Lee and form pleading with her to hold on. as though she had forgot- ten something which the younger girl remembered. But her education was finishing and she could liot stop to see what it was. The cramming went qn, ainl Ada McGee never complained of hard work, or tired brain, or any particular physical ailment. She felt no doubt about getting through. So many studies crowded upon her that they demanded eighteen hours a day. One cold night laet ;January she was practising on the piano. Her mother was in the next room and heard her daughter bang the keys furiously. She expostula- ted : \0 Ada, you are awfully out of time.\ She next heard Ada go rapidly out into the street. The mother wonder- ingly followed to see where she had gone. The night was dark and cold and the child was thinly clad, and bare -head- ed. The mother thought she had stepped into a neighbor's house but Ada was not there. She did not return, and all search for the lost girl was unavailing. It was a neighborhood mystery what had become of Ada McGee. She was sought in all sorts of places and the police gave up the search, but that disconsolate, lonely moth- er never ceased looking and inquiring for her child. A few days ago some work- men were engaged in removing railroad ties front a raft which the receding water of the river had left imbedded in the mud. When the last ties was removed they dis- covered under the raft a pile of female clothing, and the dress contained human remains nearly all wasted away but the bones. The dress, ear -rings. belt and buckle were there, and a breastpin, made of a coin, still attached to the dress, had engraved upon it \Ada McGee.\ Mrs. McGee recognized these timings as having belonged to her daughter. She found her lost child at last \awfully out of time.\ The mother had been for months filled with tormenting surmises, and it was a satisfaction to know. The papers say that Ada McGee was a victim of school -cramming. The only explana- tion is, that nature suddenly recoiled from the long attack on her forces, and reason crowded from her high seat, led the over -tasked girl out into the night and to the dark, rolling river forever out of time. se--S•-ens If Patti spends many more as profita- ble winters as she has the past in St. Petersburg, she, too, can found a museum. Her pitesente are said to represent a fabu- lous sum, and her jewelry case contains gifts from all the potentates in Europe. The sum she received in money for her past engagement in St. Petersburg was 280,000 francs, and she is to receive for her next tour in the United States 1,000,000 francs for one hundred even- ings. Patti's leading taste seems to be for fine dresses, which she orders from Werth, in Paris, by the dozens. Before they are sent to her she permits the auto- crat of fashion to have what hecalls a Patti exposition. There the entire ward- robe is laid out to be admired by the lash- i amble world of Paris. r • I.* RAILROADING IN EARLY DAYS. A writer in the Hartford Courant gives reminiscences of railroading in Connecti- cut forty years ago. When the Hartford and New Haven Road was first opened it had very meagre theilities, the road -bed WalA poor, had only serarsrails, whiell were all the while curling: up and run- ning through the ear -floors, and the ears were small and the locomotives weak. In fact, it didn't take much to block a train in those days. Sometimes an inch of snow on the rails would do it.. Henry C. White, one of the first conductors of the road, tells how he and the ..baggage- • t i • m o en i ::ts °111 0 ° Ie - r fr 7 l e n d t itmoe raii N f N r i o t i n t t a o i f ) r t smiow train slowly crawled along. Each had a rive_ one on earth 6atitl, atta wx•tii4111 off the; a pail of sand, and sprinkled a handful on the rail when necessary. The drivinfs - wheels (engines had only one pair (lieu) used to slip round and round, and tor- ment them almost to death. On one oc- casion a train got \stuck\. on lhe Yates - sill, grade by one inch of snow, and the wood and water gave out before the loco- motive could overcome it. At last they got out the neighbors, yoked four pairs of oxen to the train and drew It, passengers, baggage, and all, into Meriden with fly - colors. In the early day of the road the stage- coach drivers used to regard the ears with great contempt. Indeed, thirty years ago, the passenger trains were three or four hours on the road to New Haven, and the stage -coaches went about the same. Superintendent Davidson re- members riding with his father in a car- riage drawn by two horses, in 1840s which had a race with a passenger train near Wallingford. where the turnpike. and railroad are parallel for three or four miles, and during all that time the car- riage keit even with the train. There were only three trains each way daily, then carrying both passengers and freight. The old cars were divided into three compartments, opened on the side, and had twenty-four seats. The locomo- tive had only twelve -inch cylinders, and no cabs to protect the engineer and fire- men from the weather. The oldest loco- motives were the Hartford, Quinnipiae, charter Oak, and New Haven. At • e • time he Kanssa City (egationby:e Galveston board of trade,tNasclaneath t the latter city wastimeoi,i3aNailabe outlet for the trade of time northwest of Kansas City, embracing an area of 000,000 square miles. The aggregate value of production In these bouude is set down at $101,000,000. Heretofore it has sought the Atlantic seaboard at a cost in transportation of sixty cents on the one hundred pounds. The rate to. Galveston is just two-thirds less. Suffi- cient in the esteem of the deletration to secure to Galveston the monopoly of the grain trade of the West. The range of possibities, as stated by it, is very great. It not only includes the absorption by Galveston of the carrying trade of Kan- sas and Nebraska and New Mexico, hut the cereals of the populous Indian Terri- tory, every day increasing in industry and agricultural resources! Nor is this all. The establishment of an intimate commercial intercourse will be the initial steps to a remunerative trade with Mexi- co and Brazil. Altogether the reception is claimed to have been of the pleasant- est description, and in identity of senti- ment and mutual congratulation was effect e utmost z ;r , m cios o u i t i no y t t . r3h.e, throi‘1 7 aallyasKtaootes t s h h e ave been struck on sley Bar at from twenty to fifty dollars a day's work of three or four hours to the hand. The contentment is general, and no one talks of going to Stickeen. Beef, iihr cents; vegetables, three cents pee - pound. Price's claim had been sold out for $2,000 .per share. Cattle had wintered well at Kootenai. At ilkameen, .7(sek Creek and Col- ville many head have died. The snow Is still very deep. The Spring is buck - ward.
