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Any one who tat '-a paper regularly from the Postonice—whether directed to his name or another's, or whether he has subscribed or not —is responsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher 'nay continue to send it until payment is made, and collect the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken from the office or not. . The courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers or periodicals from the Pesteffice, or removing and leaving them un- called for, is prima facia evidence of intention- al fraud. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. UWAN, Attorney and Counselor at Law. ltailerfsbem. Montana Territory. HE R V LLIA MS, ;Iffy & Counselor at Law, VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE over the Post Officer. J. E. CALLAWAY, .4 -Naito - I - I - ley and CCaliT1— selcav at TA.taw. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, adjoining the office of the Secre- tarv of the Territory E. W. TOOLE. J. K. TOOLE. TOOLE 86 TOOLE. Attorneys at 'Law. HELENA, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. JOHN T. suonr.n. T. J. LOWERY. SHOEER & LOWERY, Attorneys and coun- selors at Law. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, Attorney at law. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. JAMES G. SPR ATT, .A.ttorney and. Coun- selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. R. W. HILL. Attorney at _La ‘1 7 9 GALLATIN CITY. 31. T. W. F. S NDERS, A.ttcovney and Coun- selor at Law. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C. W. TURNER, 1,,4 sias AN - 1: 1.U:1'N I t CITY, 31. T. OFFICE: Adjoinine; Colonel Callaway's. VIM. F. Kl.KWOOD, ..tttorney at Law, VIRGINIA CITY. Can be found at Judge Spratt's office or Pro- bate Court Itooms. Will practice in all the Courts of the Territory. GEORGE CALLAWAY. NI. D. Physician and Surgeon. VIneGINIA CITY, X NTAN A. OFFICE, at the Law Office of J. E. Calla- way, until further notice. I. C. SMITH, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Office at the Old Le Beau Stand, Wallace Street, where he can be found night or day E. T. YGER. M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. 'Will practice in all branches. Oftiee one door stove the city Drug Store. H. u. BARKLEY, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. R ADER.Es'BURG, M. T. Il As had twenty-one years' experience. in In his prefesslon—four years of that time a surgeon in the Confederate army. nets pre- eared to perform all kinds of surgery. . IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- ferritory. ricaee ia not surpassed by any physician in the TO THOSE WHO HAVE VENEREAL (01 2 . PLA INTS.—Gono rrhea, :4.0111 if called upon ti%e tii.vs after the tIrst appearance,. . he : 4 111 (7are in sertity-two hours. In Syphilis, ee wi..1 cure in five days. 7 t1 - 4...ata1ent is different from any phrsi - s t ‘th tei , Territory. Ile is prepared for all. VOL. 1. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 187-1. _POET TINT. TRIFLES. A flower—what is it made for! To he worn till the fancy passes, Then to be cast away; I gave to one a flower on a Summer's day. A heart—what is it made for? To be held till the fancy passes, Then to be cast away; I gave to one my heart on a Summer's day. Flower and heart, trifles both; Yet I know, as I sutler alone, That the flower till death is cherished, While the heart to the winds is thrown. —Home Journal. YOUR MISSION. If you can not, on the ocean, Sail among the swiftest fleet, Rocking on tile nigliest Laughing at the storms you meet, You can stand among the sailors, Anchored yet within the bay, Anti can lend a hand to help them, As they launch their boats away. If you are too weak to journey Up the mountain steep and high, You can stand within the valley As the multitude go by; You can chant in happy measure As they slowly pass along, Though they may forget the singer, They will not forget the song. If you cannot, in the conflict, Prove yourself a warrior true; If where the lire and smoke are thickest, There is no work for you to do, When the battle field is silent, You can go with gentle tread, You can bear away the wounded, You can cover up the dead. If you can not, in the harvest, Garner up the richest sheaves, Many a grain, both ripe and golden, Which the careless reaper leaves, You can glean among the briers, Growing rank against the wall, And it may be that the shadows, Hide the heaviest wheat of all. If you have not got gold and silver Ever ready at command, If you can not toward the needy Reach ever an open hand; You can visit the afflicted, O'er the erring you can weep, You can be a true disciple, Sitting at the Savior's feet. Do not, then, stand idly waiting For some nobler work to do, For your Heavenly Father's glory Ever earnest, ever true. Go and work in every vineyard, Work in patience and in prayer. If you want a field of labor, You can find it anywhere. POETS. Poets—the best of them—are birds Of passage; where their instinct leads They range abroad for thoughts arid words, And from all climes bring home the'seeds That germinate in flowers and weeds; They are not fowls in barnyards born, To cackle o'er a grain of corn; Anti, if you shut the horizon down To the small limits of their town, What do you hitt degrade your bard Till he at laet becomes as one Who thinks the all -encircling sun _Rises and sets in his back yard! —Longfellow. RIPE WIT E We bent to -day o'er a coflined form, And our tears fell softly down; We looked our last on the aged face. With a look of peace, its patient grace, And hair like a silver crown. We touched our own to the clay -cold hands, From life's long labor at rest; And among the blossoms white and sweet We noted a bunch of golden wheat Clasped close to the silent breast. The blossoms whispered of fadeless bloom, Of the land where fall no tears; The ripe wheat told of toil and care, The patient waiting, the trusting prayer, And garnered good of the years. We know not what works her hands had found, 1Vhat rugged places her feet; What cross was hers; what blackness of night; We saw but the peace, the blossoms. And the bunch of ripened wheat. WAR. A cancer 'neath the heart of history, - Begotten of ill blood in idle ease, Inflamed by wanton sloth, and fed with lees From empty wine -cups; years of luxury Breed such a tempest in the symmetry Of wealthy nations, as tills every vein With tierce fermenting poisons, which disdain The timid hand or tender remedy; SO gsiter might, until their comes a day When, bursting outward, all the fell disease, Laid broadly hare in hideous nakedness, Knows DO alleviation or release, Save in distruction, with the long distress Of after scars to mark the healer's way. WHAT IS LOVE. I asked my heart what love is, It giveth answer meet: Two souls, and but one thought, Two hearts, but one heart beat. And what is pure, pure love? When self is quite forgot. And when is love the deepest? When word it uttereth not. And when is it the richest? When all it has it gives! And what the word it speaketh? Voiceless it loves, it lives. —From the German. This is the way they put it at Cambridge: Froude informs the Scottish youth That parsons have no care for truth; While Canon Kingsley loudly cries That history is A pack of lies. What cause for judgment so malign? A brief reflection solves the mystery; For Fronde thinks Kingsley a divine, And Kingsley goes to Jeroude for history. HOPE ON. HOPE EVER. hope on, hope ever! though to -day be dark The sweet sunburst may smile on thee to- morrow; Though thou art lonely, there's an eye will mark Thy loneliness, and guerdon thy sorrow! Though thou must toil 'mong cold and sordid men, With none to echo back thy thought or love thee, Cheer up, poor heart! thou dost not beat in vain, For God is over all and heaven above thee— Hope on, hope ever—Gerald Massey. Lest I be inclined To render ill for ill— Henceforth in me instill, 0 God, a sweet good will To all mank!nd. I HOW MERRIWEATHER TRIED TO SCARE MRS. MERRI WEATHER AND FAILED. Merriweather lives in one of a row of houses which, as is geueraliy the case in Philadelphia. are unifbrm. He thought the other night we would scare Mrs. Mer- riweather while she was in bed, so he rose, and dressed in his night shirt, went upon the roof while she slept. He tied a nail to a piece of string, lay down on the cornice, leaned over and tapped the bed- room window with the nail. Mrs. Merri- weather meanwhile as not asleep, but she followed him up, shut the trap door in the loft, and went back to bed. Merri- water concluded to give it up and torn in, but, to his dismay, the trap wouldn't open. To make matters worse, a police- man who had been watching him felt cer- tain he was a burglar, enel negan to tiee at him with his revolver. The man- ner in which that old man dodged about chimneys, clad in that simple robe of white, would have done credit to a per- former on the tying trapeze. At last he came to his trap door, and finding that it had been opened. he went down. On entering his bed -room, he saw a man turning down the gas. As soon as he shouted \thieves?' the man also shouted, and the woman in the room gave a wild and awful yell. Then the man turned un the gas and siezed a pistol, and, as Merri- weather dashed down stairs, he perceived that he had got into the wrong house. As he flew to the parlor and hid under the sofa, the other man woke the whole neighborhood with a rattle, and in ten minutes six policemen came in. and, after a search, dragged Merriweather out and marched hint to the station -house. He came out in the morning, he walked home in a pair of the turnkey's pants, and began to eat his breakfast without asking a blessing; and when Mrs. Merriweather inquired if his muttered ejaculations. \Fool!\ and \Idiot!\ referred to her, he said she might wear them if they fitted her. He will probably not play any fresh practical joke on Mrs. Merriwea- titer soon again. MARK TWAIN AS AN AGRICUL- TURAL EDITOR. The days are getting longer, and the Still does not set as soon as it did intin- nary, therefore the farmers have ample opportunity to put in the seed for an early crop of clothes -pins. Turnips should never be pulled—it in- jures them. It is much better to send a boy up and let him shake the tree. Cows, in wet and slushy weather. should not be allowed to leave their rooms, otherwise a sudden attack of in- fluenza may dry up the milk. Be care - fill also not to give them vinegar with their pickles. It is certain to make the milk sour. A simple diet of soup, plain roast beef and potatoes. and rice pudding is the proper thing to make cows thrive. It is evident that we are to have a back- ward season for grain. Therefore, it will be well for the farmer to begin setting out his cornstalks and planting his buck- wheat cakes in May instead .ef August. With hogs this is a laying season, and you should give them plenty of lime and egg -shells mixed in their feed Broken glass is good for the same purpose, though it is apt to make the shells brittle. Care is to be take in picking the hogs before putting them in the oven. The guano is a fine bird, but great care is necessary in rearing it. It should not be imported earlier than May nor later than September. In the Winter it should be kept in a warm place where it can hatch out its young. Chickens, during the earlier Spring. cannot be expected to catch many worms, since the latter hibernate in the tops of tall trees. Keep your chickens in a warm stable, and see that there is always plenty of hay in their racks. Let their halters be long enough to permit them to lie down comfortably. otherwise. you may find them choked to death in the course of the night. The pumpkin is a favorite berry with the natives of the interior of New Eng- land, who prefer it to the gooseberry for the making of fruit -cake, and who like- wise give it the preference over raspberry for feeding cows, as being; more filling and fully as satisfying. The pumpkin is the only esculent of the orangr family that will thrive in the North, except the gourd and one or two varieties of the squash. But the custom of planting it in the front yard with the shrubbery is fast going out of vogue, for it is now gen- ally conceded that the pumpkin, as a shade -tree, is a thil urea . THE TREASURVSECRET SLIZVICE. The official investigation of the habits and doings of what is called the \secret service\ of the treasury department at Washine - ton now going on, is said to be developing a state of things that Secreta- ry Bristow is not pleased with. It has been stated that the robbery of the safe of the District attorney. Harrington, last spring, was a transaction with which the secret service had much to do, and it is very probable that, if the forthcoming re- port on that transaction tells the whole truth, it will show that two treasury offi- cials deserve to be in the penitentiary. A year ago there was a great noise made in North Carolina about a raid which the secret service detectives made on a com- bination of counterteiters—sixty - tive per- sons being spoken of as arrested. Thie is the Iasi; heard of it, and it is now said that the whole story was false—a trick probably intended to have an effect on the North Carolina election. Another story about the secret service is that many of the counterfeit plates turned in- to the treasury department as proof of its vigilance and activity, are made by the detectives themselves. The Brussels Congress, assembled for the purpose of modifying and codifying the International laws of war, commenced its sitting recently. Baron Jomini, the famous Russian war authority, was cho- sen President. A TERRIBLE SPECTACLE—PRIZE FIGHT BETWEEN AN ENGLISH DWARF AND THE BULLDOG PHYSIC. The following is a graphic account of a prize fight between a dwarf known as \Brummy\ and a bulldog named Physic, in a low sporting den in Hanley, Eng- land : The dwarf, however, was not to be stormed and defeated all ill a moment. Once the ghastly fight begun, there was a dire fascination ill it, and I now noted closely the combat. The man was on all fours when the words \Let go\ were ut- tered, and making accurate allowance for the length of the dog's chain he arched his back catwise so as just to escape its fangs, and fetched it a blow on the crown of its head that brought it almost to its knees. The dog's recovery; however, VERMONT POLITICS. Tie letter of Hon. ‘N . illiam H. II. Bing - Irma accepting the Democratic nomina- tim for the Governorship of Vermont, is a itraightforward and vigorous docu- mint, showing the broad common sense of its author as well as the wisdom of the Dunocracy of the Green Mountain State inselecting him as their standard-bearer for the approaching campaign. In re- viewing the resolutions adopted by the Cdivention which nominated him, Mr. Bhgliam calls particular attention to that which condemns the workings of the Prohibitory law. The present law in sub- starce has been on the statute book for abcut twenty years, and all the eflbrts to educate public sentiment up to its en- forcement have utterly failed. Fitful at - .3S instatitatieutus,mmcm'teTOre the dwarf telltrk have been made to execute its could draw back Physic made a second prime:ions, bnr its efficiency has not been general, nor the manner of its enforce - dart forward, and this time its teeth grazed the biped's arm, causing a slight red trickling. lie grinned scornffilly and sucked the place, but there was tremend- ous excitement among the bulldog's backers, who clapped their hands with delight, rejoicing hi the honor of first blood. The hairy dv art was still :anil- ines, however, and while Dan'l held his dog preparatory to letting him go for round two, he was actually provoking it as much as he could. hissing at it and presenting toward it the bleeding arm. The animal, flushed possibly with his first success, made for its opponent in a sudden leap, but the dog leaped forward too, and smote the bulldog such a tre- mendous blow under the ear as to roll it completely over, evidently bewildering it for a moment, and causing it to bleed freely, to the frantic joy of the friends of the man beast. But they in turn were made to look serious, for with astonish- ing energy Physic turned about, and with a dash was again at the dwarf, and this time contrived to fix its teeth in one of his hairy arms, a terrible gash appearing as the man snatched the limb out of his ravenous jaws. The bulldog was licking his lips, and had fewer tears in his eyes as his master drew him back. As for the dwarf, he retired to his corner for a whet of brandy and a moment's comforting with the towel. He was ready and smil- ing again, however for \round 3,\ and this time it was a tight in earnest, the clog worrying the man and the man deal_ ing it terrific blows on the ribs and or the head with those sledge -hammer fists, till in the end both the man's arms were - bleeding. and a horribly cheetful bus- iness waeg oing on behindt he ropes a' two to one on Physic. But let me make short work of the ensuing seven \rounds which in some of their, details were so shocking that more than once I would have left the place if I could. The com- pany generally, however, were made of far less sensitive stuff. The more furious the ghastly fight, the keener was their relish for it, and in their excitement they leant over each other's shoulders and over the ropes, and mouthed and snarled and uttered guttural noises when a good hit or shap was made, just as the dog and the dwarf were doing. By the time round ten was concluded the bulldog's head was swelled much beyond its accus- tomed size ; it had lost two teeth, and one of its eyes was entirely shut up ; while as for the dwarf, his fists, as well as his arms, were reeking, and his hide- ous face was ghastly pale with rage and despair of victory. Fate was kind to him, however. In round eleven the bulldog came on fresh and foaming - v, - ;th awful persistence of fury, but with desperate strength the dwarf dealt him a tremend- ous blow under the chin, and with suffi- cient effect that the dog was dashed against the wall, where, despite all its master could do for it, for the space of one minute it lay still. and the wretch who had so disgraced what aspect of hu- manity was in him was declared the vic- tor. I shall have gone through that hor- rid spectacle to little purpose if auy such tournaments are in future waged at Han- ley. -40-2111 4 •.+•••• 0 \ - -:, THE EGYPTIAN DWARFS. A correspondent gives some added particulars of the \Akkas the dwar& who have just been presented to the king of Italy. He says: \They are delighted with European food, and at largely. When water is offered them they push it away with contempt and cry, 'vino, vino!' (wine, wine !) Tney watch the behavior of those with whom they dine, and make use of toil:, spoon and napkin like the persons who invite them ; but they are not yet allowed to use knives lest they should hurt themselves or their neigh- bors. nes - have only picked up a few words of Italian, but imitate the accent of these with great perfection, and take pleasure in repeating the words which are said in their hearing. Their own language is very soft, all their words end- in , r in vowels. Ilaseeim, the n(T - ro who has charge of them, thinks he has ascer- tained the meaning of a few of them. Ac- cording - to him 'yes, is nemba, 'no, gouda.' He has succeeded in teaching them a few words of Arabic. and it is with the aid of these that he converses with them. The two children talk together 141 their own tongue ; but what this is no one knows. They willingly dance and try to imitate the ballet -girls at the theaters to whieh they have been taken. But their aptitude tbr music is most remarkable. They sing any air after having heard it played a few times on the piano.\ es.--•-sos The railroad mileage of the United States now equals the combined mileage of all Europe. although the population of Europe, 282,000,000, is seven times greater than that of this country. The Pennsyl- vania Railway between New York and Pittsburg, a distance of 444 miles, has re- cently been provided with sixty pound steel rails, oak ties, broken stone ballast. and the best splice joints, with bridge- work, cars, locomotives, etc., ell of the most approved construction. The rim is made In eleven hours, with three stops. being an average of over 1ort7 reties an hour. The locomotives dip up water at Certain statiOns without stopriage. ment and its results in harmony with public sentiment. Mr. Bingham empha- sizes the declaration that a law, in order to be efficient, should be honest hi its purposes, sure and certain in its execu- tion, impartially administered, and have in view the suppression of the evil it is intended to reach. The present law is said to have fallen far short of these re- quirements, and .herefore, in his opinion, the enactment of a ttringent License law is both desirable and practicable, and would certainly prove effective. Other questions, relating to both State and Na- tional Alm's, are discussed in the letter With equal vigor and cogency of argu- ment, all showing the readiness of the sturdy Democracy of Vermont to join hands with other States in the struggle against corruption that has so long been gnawing at the vitals of the country. Vermont holds her election early in Sep- tember and already there is considerable excitement concerning - it. Mr. Bingham is a sound lawyer and is personally pop- ular, and is sure to poll a strong vote on election day. A COMPARISON OF COMETS. Coggia's comet is dieappeari neswith (lilt producing half the trouble which Dona- ti's - did. 1Ve cannot set down any very extensive damage to its account, it' we ex- cept the late storms on the other side of the continent. Its predecessor, Donati's comet, was a most headstrong and unre- fleeting comet. It wily missed Venus, veracious astronomers now tell us, by five days. It produced storms in the East the 'like of which were never seen before. In one of them trees were rooted up in Union Square, New York. Inunda- tions occurred at various places in the United States. The thermometer reached 117 in London and the Thames emitted such a frightful effluvium that lime had to be dumped into it by the wholesale. This was in 1858. Of course we have no evidence that these phenomena were the direct products of the comet, except that they occurred at the time of its appear- ance. But if it should appear that there are always storms, intense heat, iumula- tions, electrical derangements. and vol- canic eruptions on the earth \\*hell cornets are in view, it would be very diffieult to separate them, though it might not be very easy to explain the connection. But so far. Coggia'e cornet has been quite a mild and harmless visitor compared with its predecessor. It has not created much of a derangement. PAYING Felt T SIEIR WHISTLE. Few have calculated the cost of the lux- ury of a royal tamlly. Not a second-hand a prime A No. 1 concern like that of En,'; - land, with heraraditions and her progres- sive reforms, her wealth and her poverty, her great virtues and. her equally great vices. Not until the time of George III. did the incubus of the family royal weigh so heavily upon the public purse. In that reign the list of pensions to favorites and scarlet women of the first three of these rascal Georges matched well with the amounts which were being constantly de- manded for the children of \Snuffy Char- lotte,\ either as an annual allowance or to pay the debts which Wales and York and Clarence had shamelessly piled up. At that time, the question of royal support prom- ised to assume the proportions of the prob- lem of the nails in the horse's shoe, but Provideuce interfered hir England. George IV., York and William IV., all died without legitimate is:•ue ; Cumberland had but one child, and Kent but one and that one a girl. It was not much to leave for seed, but that one girl with a fecundity which would have entitled her to honorable mention if not to a blue ribbon under the old Roman system of largesse to matrons, has made up for the shortcomings of her uncles and aunts, who in all their lives were only publicly charge- able with this one decency towards the peo- ple who paid the taxes. Let us see how the civil list and annual grants roll up now numbered by dollars at five to the pound sterling. Her majesty the queen, annually, $1,925 000 ; the prince of Wales with a family at the back of him, an- nually. $ . 200,000, with rents of the duchy of Cornwall. $527,42.0 ; princess of Wales. $50,000 annually ; the Duke of Edinburgh, $125,000; Prince Arthur. $75,000; Princess Frederick Wilhelm of Prussia, $10.00. Princess Ludwig of Hesse, $30,000; Prin- cess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, $30,000; Princess Louise, marchioness of Lorne, $30,000; the grand duchess of Meck- lenburg Strelitz, $15,000; the Princess Teck, 25,00O;S' Duke George of Cambridge, $60,00 ; and recently to Prince Leopold, $375,000; a year, because, as the premier coolly stated it to the house in asking for it, because his health was such as to prevent him adopting a profession. Disraeli must have laughed in his sleeve when he said this, for at this distance it sounds liKe it possible choice between law, physic and divinity. But whatever it is that ails the young man, just of age, England knows that a proteih.ion for Leopold means three or four colonelcies and half a dozen fat sin- ecures. The above list of royal paupers might be increased one-third at least, but as it is it sums up $3,307,420, which is good enough for one sample of luxuries. After this can we growl very much at Grant's $50,00? Perhaps not. The Capitol buildings at Sulem,Oregont are being rapidly completed. eo 4 ,--‘ , _aN V. 4 0 A SUCCESSFUL CONUNDRUM. \John has never given you a ring?\ said Katie's sister to her one day. John was Katie's lover. \Never said Katie, with a regretful shake of her head. \And he never will until you ask him for it,\ reterned the sister. \Then I fear I shall never 0 - et one,\ w: . t . s o s t i .c i e o r u e r p s l e y you never will. John is too stupid to think of such things ; and as you can never pluck up courage to ask for one, it follows that you will never get one.\ This set Katie to thinking, and to what purpo.se we shall see. That evening her lover came to see her. He was very proud and very happy, for the beautiful girl by his side had been for several weeks pledged to marry him as soon as the business could be properly done, and John was a grand good fellow too, notwithstanding his obliviousness to certain polite matters. \.Tolin said Katie. at length, looking up with an innocent smile, \do you know what a conundrum is ?\ \Why it's a puzzle—a riddle,\ an- swered John. \Do you think you could ask me one I could not guess ?\ \I -don't know, I never thought of such things. Could you ask me one?\ \I could try.\ - Well, try Katie.\ \Then answer this : Why is the letter D like a ring?\ John puzzled his brain over the prob- lem for a long time, but was finally forced to give it up. \I don't know, Katie. Why is. it?\ \Because replied the maiden, with a very soft blush creeping up to her tem- ples, \we cannot be wed without it ?\ In less than a week from that date Ka- tie had her engagement ring. A MISTAKEN OLD GENTLEMAN. The president of the Georgia railroad lately issued an order requiring that strict compliance with the state law call - hug upon conductors of trains to see to it that the engine whistle is blown for sev- eral hundred yards before approaching a crossing. And thereby hangs this tale which the Atlanta Herald tells : \Among the conductors is a sprucv fine fellow, whom we shall call Mr. Prediction, and who has a very buxom sweetheart. Liv- ing near her, on the line of road, is a worthy citizen, whom we snail call Mr. Frontfidlow. Mr. Prediction, in accor- dance with his orders, struck up a vigor- ous whistling about a quarter of a mile from a crossing near Mr. Frontthllow's house. In the dead hours of the night as the -rushing train approached the cross - leg, the whistle of the engine would strike up such a hooting as waked the very echoes of the woods and thundered up the sleeping inmates of Mr. Frontfel- low's house. Night after night did that whistle toot its discord, and rouse the slumbering Frontfellow's from their drowsy rupture. Frouttellow pondered over the nuisance. At length he worked out the problem. lie sat down and wrote a serious complaint to the management of the road, laying before it his woes. lie gravely informed the unsuspecting man- agement that Mr. Prediction WaS abusing the nocturnal slumbers of that peaceful community ; that the secret of the matter was that Mr. Prediction had a sweetheart in that vicinity, named Miss Sukey, and that he had got into the insane practice of tooting for a halt mile like a screatnimhs demon to pest his duleina on the fact that he was pa-sina - by, and wanted to notify her of hi- proximity amid recollection. Mr. Fronlellow S:lid that it was very ungrateful iii Mr. Prediction to thus almse a slumhering community to toot up his duck ; that he himself had the- queihly carried notes from Prediction to Sakes - . and he hoped the railroad man- tWalnent would stop the internal tooting. Prediction still tows, but whether the Frontfeliow lenity has learned to sleep under the infliction is an unsolved prob- lem. • WHY NAPOLLON FELL. Many reasons have been riven for the fall of Napolean; only this is dear to me— \a poor t ning, sir, but mine own.\ He comhaased a throne easlly enough, but had not eyes to see the p iwer that is al - Ways behind it. Throu;411 life he need- lessly and wantonly tfronted the self - love of women. He found limit with the dresses of the ladies of his court, an insult that some women take more to heart than a slur On their beauty or reputation. Iie throve away Madame de Stael when sit s would have adored him, and so secur- ed an enemy always fialiting under cov- er. He outrahaal the whole sex by di- vorcing, Josephine, and when he married a princess of the house of Austria, count- ing on her influence with her father, the simpleAt of women could have told him that it Was useless when she had a step- mother. And he stffertA Maria 1 - 4 :)itise to offend that stepmother by outshining her in diamonds and other magnificence when he held a review of royalty at Dresden. His minister, Tidleyrand, al- ways heartily despised women, but nev- er overlooked their influence. At Sedan. six miles from Waterloo. was a French failure of another color. There the Third Napoleon would have been almost as deeply indebted as his unele to a friendly bullet in his back.—Beaten Paths. The thieves and robbers are energet- ically conducting their own affirirs in their own way in New York, and will soon be completely masters of the situa- don, unless the police tramp in squads instead or singly. One policeman found another lying wounded and insensible on his beat the other morning, when he went to relieve him. The wounded man was taken to a hospital, and it was twen- four hours before he knew anything, or could utter a word. He their made a statement that he discovered a gang of robbers trying, to brearZ into a house, and interfered. He arrested two of them—as many as he could handle at once—and was taking them to the station -house when he was set on by the others, and struck violently on the head. He knows no more. Another policeman or two with- in call would have been of great help in dealing with this gang. Several officers were sent out in citizens' dress to look them up. • THE REVISION OF THE BIBLE. An article in the last number of the In- ternational Review gives some particulars of the progress which has already been made in the work of revising the Bible. Three difihrent organizations are at pres- ent engaged in it—an American, an Eng- lish, and a Scotch Association. All the associations are acting under the most rigid rules. The concurrence of two- thirds of each body is required for any change. The object is not so much to give a new translation as to correct the errors of the existing versions, whether arising from original mistranslation, a change in the meaning of words, or de- . fective grammar. Professor Fisher, who is the author of the article in which this information is eonveyect, says that the American association has progressed far enough to determine that the Vvonis - for Thane is the kingdom, the power, and glory, forever and ever,\ is au iuterpola- tion, and properly no part of the Lord's Prayer. He furnishes, also, many instan- ces where the same word receives differ- ent translations. Thus, in one sentence in the New Testament, the words \pity\ and \compassion\ are given as the trans- lation of the same Greek word. The ear of the original translator may have ob- jected to the repetition of the same word in a sentence, though nothing is more common where an emphatic and lucid statement is necessary. It is a favorite mode of expression with Macaulay and a great many other writers of celebrity. Opinions are, as might naturally be ex- pected, greatly divided Up011 the subject of the revision. It is hard to give up even phrases that one knows to be inac- curate in a hook which is so blended with Christian life everywhere. But it must be said that according to the state- ment of Prof. Fisher the system of revis- ion which has been adopted is the one that is likely to be productive of the least Ns - repelling. It will make no changes unless they are imperatively demanded. BISMARCK'S DAUGH TER -FAITH- FUL LOVE FOR A YOUNG LIEU - TEN AN I --REJECTING Till: H. a t: H- EST OFFER IN THE • LAND—A KNOT THAT PUZZLES THE PRINCE. In a number of the Boersen Courier of Berlin an . incident is related of Prince Bismack's domestic life which is uncom- monly interesting. Most people who read the newspapers have heard of the great Chancellor's daughter. The samng lady, though not beatitiffil, is amiable and accomplished. and accustomed to the homage of the high society in which she moves. With her litther she leis been a great favorite ever since she grew up. When in Berlin he has been wont to spend \Vial her whatever leisure moments frimi 1'41 pations, and in the country his idle hours have been usually passed in her society. The Prince observed with concern that his daughter repelled all proposals of marriage made to her. Thougim wooed by the most elbrible suitors, among the heirs of the richest fainill:•4, members of the most ancient nobility, gentlemen tilling the highest official positions, even a prince, the young lady declined them all. After brooding for a long time over the passable roason of his daic , hter's con- duct. the Chaticellor, believiwr at last that he had fithotnel the secret of' her severity. opened his heart to her On lime subject. Ile told her he felt sure that she must have be , .!onie prolOmlf fly at- tached to smlii erson interior' lier••eit\ ill position and Nv•alth. lie then b.'2'..2:0A1 her to m tie name of the num to) whom she had given i.e.: heart. as he. her father, was rich enou2 . 11 and powerful enough to chanee the eeeditions which mieht seem to render lie: lever an ineli- gible nanch. With ilea jug tears time youno' lady rtonfeae 1 that she did elmer- Nil an i as her flu her suspect- ed, an aflhethem that , aata r4urned, but that her lover was a simple lieutenant in the arnmy. The next day the Lieutenant appeared in tin' presence of the lather. The Chan- cellor hardly gave Jilin time to speak before saying: \I know why it seems to you impessible to become my son-in-law; notwithstanding the difference oh social position. your wish shall be accomplish- ed. Though I do not know you, the love of my daughter is to me sufficient guarantee of your ‘VOrtil.\ But instead of the jt tyful thanks which the Prince naturally expected, he receiv- ed a reply of the 1 , !lowing tenor: \I thank you for your infinite goodness, but this union is impossible. I belong to an old Catholic family. I cannot take home as my wife the daughter of him whom my family regard as an enemy of the Church, whom I myself ain ahnost com- pelled to look upon as such.\ The officer then sadly took his depart- ure, leaving the Chancellor utterly con- thunded. Having summoned his dauhlit- er, the Chancellor told her that the offi- ce,. wholly refused her hand, and that she must forget him. The daughter. becoming paler than over. replied. \Ile is too honorable to deny his religious faith. I will not ask of hint such a sacrifice, and if he desires it—I less believing than he—will adopt his religion, to render our marriage pos- sible.\ The father saw his child become more inconsolable from (lay to day. and at leie,tsth he was thrown into a state of fearful - excitement, which was not with- out consequence. So things stand at present. Ai last the arrivals at New York week was a ship load of Mennonite emi- grants from the Crimea, four hundred in number, and of all ages and both sexes. They were dressed like ordinary German peasants, the women all in blue cotton gowns, with no finery or ornaments of any kind. They were tolerably well sup- plied with hinds, some of the men bay - mug drafts for gold to large amounts. During the day the agents of the steam- ship company paid to different members sums aggregating more than $120,000 in gold. The company will move this week to their western homes which have al- ready been selected by advance agents. They have left Russia to escape the law which makes them liable to military duty, contrary to their religious beliefs. and are the advance -guard of some forty thousand. They are an intelligent, in- dustrious, temperate people, living in strict accordance with the rides of their religious order, and can hardly fail to be a valuable acquisition to the country. Another colony of five hundred families is expected FOOD. fer the location 0d which a committee is now proepectiug, hi the vicinity' of Nashua Falls, Kansas. THE MADISON IAN, PUBLISI117D EVERY SiTrRDAY; —AT— Virginia City, - Morten. THOMAS DEYARMON Editor and Proprietor. Papers ordered to any address can be changed to another address atthe option of the surscriber. Remittance by draft, cheek, money order or registered letter -Any heiress* at our risk. THE MAMSONI AN is der. , t,ei to the advocacy of the principles of the Democ.i - atiO parts' aud to general and local news. EFFECTS or nutil C. One day. a certain violin-pla7or F . :1W a dog beside him most singularly exereised by particular sounds. Time animal howled. and seemed to be sufihring the' most cruel agony. The Musician was much struck by the fact; and. instead ef ceasing and letting the poor brute recov- er. he continued these particular sounds, until after a succession of piercing cries 1 1 17 , 1 e 1 1 PY 1 - this story in an incredulous manner. for there are hainan beings—ao the popular belief runs—who are sometimes com- pelled by their friends , to listen to such efforts in the way of violin -playing that it is only- good manners that prevent there giving way and groveling On the floor. - Is it not obvious,\ says the auth- or, \that this deg was destroyed by these sounds as it might have been by the dis- charge of electricity ?\ Not less remark- able are the facts which have been pro- duced by a concert on the elephants in the Jardin des Plantes. The air: 0 ins soon. has been observed to awaken in tenq i -e n p is dl e , w h en p l a y e d on t h e b as - them a mild ecstacy ; the whole orches- tra hae caused these revolutionary ani- mals to titter joyou5 cries. while their thiek hides were seen to move with emo- tion. Indeed. the ell'act of music. on ani- mals is known to pretty nearly every school-h - irl who has a pet dog. When she is practicing her pieces, her relatives can keep out of the way, so that their ex- pressioes of sensation are unknown ; but Dido howls and runs under a chair, or Carlo joins in chorus with a series of sharp barks. Of the cases quoted of hit - man beings saved by musk We shall 4 mly mention two, which have been trah49 . - red to the columus of the French news- papers. One is that of an illiestrions nut- SHan Wit() fell into a violent fever. which culminated in delirium of a N'ery wild sort. He asked to have a little convert iii his room. They sang for him songs of Bernier. Ten days of this musical treat- ment—accompanied by bleeding the feet twiee—eured him ; a most remarkable: cure indeed Then there was nil old lady who was healed of catalepsy by limo warlike sounds of a trumpet ; and this o story gives one of the French critics the )0rt unity of telling another story story, of Patulelaire. Once upon a tim,, he presented a small boy Wii ha la ro'e trumpet : and when some one asked hint whether he loved children so intieh :IA to give them, without apparent reason. a present of this: sort, he replied innoeent- ly: \Oh no: but it IS So di htgrecable LO the parents !\ 1Ve hope that hospitals for the cure of patients by means of trumpets yill he moved front lime imme- diate neighborhood oh inhabltial oughtitres.—Londoil NeWS. A SINGULAR DISCOVERY. The Marysville Appeal of the 27th* says : Considerable excitement was cre- ated at Yuba yesterday afternoon by the opening of a gas vein at the residence of IV. II. Perdue. The discovery was inaile by E. Whitney, the well -borer, who had been engaged to sink a timr and a halt inch tube in front of Mr. Perilue's resi- dence. at the lower end of the town. The xvell had been sunk fifty two feet deep, wilco sonic clayish deposits having the appearance of coal were thrown out. This induced Mr. Whitney to apply a match to the mouth of the tubing, when a large blaze of burifing gas burst forth and continued to burn durilio . the after- noon, and is still ablaze, unless putt out. There is thirty-six feet of water in the tubing, through which this g;e4 bni)!Ilei; with sufficient force to be heard several 144 front tnoilth of the pipe. The flame shoots into the air about a too:, and creates a heat strong enon: , 1, to boil a eommon-sized kettle or NValer hi live Minutes. There is no perceptible smell to the gas. and it burns clear and brhsiit. Gae was discavered some time ago in the well of exal Its lice Pearson, and also in cracks and seams in the bank of the river. r rhe Souree of this ga ,- , is some considera- ble conjecture. Some thihks there is all immense deposit of coal naderneath the town, while others believe Hu. sottree is in the Buttes. However this may he, surely there is a wonderful current of gas passing out through the water pipe. A large number of citizens visited the local- ity yesterday afternoon. fism.-46.•••1111 TILTON-BEECHER. And now we have Mrs. Elizabeth 'FP - ton's letter, which, with the letter of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher nu qua fillet h ly denies the allegations of criminality made against both of them in the statement of Mr. Tilton beftire the investigatilig com- mittee. The indictment of Mr. Tilton is convincing, imd the defense contained itt the letters of Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Til- ton—published hi the Republican of yes- terday and this morning—it must be ad- mitted are week. Mr. Tilton's statement is circumstantial and indorsed hy letters and other proof, while the public letters of Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton are sim- ply denials ‘vithout proofs. IVhile it is just to give the accused a thir opportuni- ty to defend themselves, the first instal - - merit of Mr. Beecher's de1hnse gives us little expectation that there is anything more convincing left behind. Mr. Beecher bases his hope on the question of a disputed veracity, and expects to come out of the melee at lest with a show of success. Possibly lie may do so. Plymouth church will not like to see its favored pastor fall, and, perhaps. it will be disposed to sustain Henry Ward Beecher however the verdict may go with the people. NOT ANYBODY'S FOOL. Saturday afternoon a sad -eyed boy, with dirt on his chin and a tear on his nose: called at one of the police -stations and asked the sergeant it he could sent to the Reform School, be being - a homeless waif. As he had committed no offense, he was told that he had better go to the work -house, but he repiir d that his brother was at the Reform School. and he'd rather go there. lie didn't want to go out and steal anything, or sime-h some one'S plate -glass window. and his anxiety to go touched the heart ()fa tleman who had called on but4ncp , s. lit' consulted with the sergeant. and then ashi to the lad : guess we can tix I'm going to leave my wallet on tee des's. and the sergeant and I will go up stairs. - If you take the wallet it will be stealing, and you will be sent to the Reforra School.\ The wallet Was left, the men went up emirs for a moment, and wheal thee ealre 00W1 - 1 the lad was nowhere in Acrid. Neither Nvas the wsilea coneeln- leh• ; so be brlet ebotkt 17, 1:,t 1 4 at,L. money are still missing.—Detroit Free Preas.
