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three sips ssa ti.)Ut hail 'nand Mer, 1-res- itory : aSa- Cour ltury •ver- ntyoi a aal sbua, atic• naze :ecora rani• to in ten ertbe serrat f thin 'city judg- pu, ac• e snip ci out, lutthe ifeot sedbY f!orn- u. itric talc Thou. Di' 'tans °Li rk Y 6 U I N 6 i •: I g. smost• E9 jetOr 1. 12 / 04 ° 1 0° 50 54) , iv set t \ rs.P 1 ' ig pe\ . all I t ' I ono r*\ THE MADISONIAN. WM/MAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1874. J1110: 020 E n. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year tin ad•c-c . .ne Six Months Three Months 4• •1110411-4 $509 2 50 I 150 ' ADVERTISING RATES. THE MADISONIAN, as an advertising aiedium, is equal to any paper in Montana. I a 1 -At 0 0 ' 1 111 a ••• a a a a4 ..a a a I 7.) CY: .r.; ' $3 $5 $7 Inch ... 8 2 Inches 5 9 3 Inches 7 9 11 4 Inches 8 11 12 Inches I 10 12 15 13 Inches 18 24 30 t5 Inches 11 30 40 50 10 12 Ii 18 34 55 $10 $15 12 20 15 17 24 40 65 •45 30 38 55 75 $201$25 301 40 371 55 451 70 65 90 90,140 1501250 The above scale of prices is for ordinary sin- rle-column, display advertising. Solid and :ibular advertisements will be charged at the Lich rate for space occupied. -.4111•411* LOCAL NOTICES, Fifteen cents per line for ffrst, and ten cents n•tr line for each additional insertion. CARDS, One-half inch, $2 for one insertion; $3 for two insertions; $S per quarter; $16 per year. ala The foregoing schedule of prices will be strictly adhered to. All advertisements counted in Nonpareil me:a-Aire. 01 - 0113 Of every description, executed in the best and neatest style. and on reasonable terms. --• 11•4I • NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. I. Any one who takes a paper regularly from the Postoffice—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 inav continue to send it until payment is made, and colaect the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken from the office or not. 3. The courts have aecided that refusing to 7ike the nea-spapers or periodicals from the Vast.oiee, or reeao jug and leaving them ain- at 1! i for, a, priata facia evidence of intention- al ;raid. ttpil133iONAL. r. F CalVAN ., aild Coalktir st1, Law. liaterieraaiara; M.iirtancit Territory. li1If F. 11 - 1 L 1_1 'IS, Atly 6. CO nst,IGr at Law, Vra1311. CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE over the Post Officer. J. E. C LLAWAY, .Attorney and Con.n- ,ioi at law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE. adjoining the office of the Secre- tary of the Territory' Z. W. TOOLE. J. K . Tiu)LE. TOOLE & TOOLE. .Attorneys at rAftw. HELENA, MONTANA. Will nractice in all the Courts of Montana. JOI-L.ti T. 51108ER. T .r. LOWERY. SHOBER & LOWERY, ii_ttorneys and voun- elc•rs at Law. HELENA, M. T. ra7ill practice in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, _._ttiwney at Law. VIRGINIA CITY. M. T. JAMES G. SPR ATT, Attorney and. Ctmn- selca: at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. R. W. HI. fa . Attorney at GALLATIN CITY. M. T. W. F. SANDERS, A.ttc)rney and Conn- selor at rAftW. HELENA, X. T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C. W. TURNER, VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. OFFICE: Adjoining Colonel Callaway's. WM. F. KIRKWOOD, Attorney at Law, VIRGINIA CITY. Can be found at Judge Spratt's office or Pro- bate Court Rooms. Will practice in all the Courts of the Territory. GEORGE CALLAWAY. M. D. Physician and Surgeon. 7IRGINIA CITY, M NTANA. OFFICE, at the Law Office of J. E. Calla - r a y , further 1144:IV!. ;;-• 1 ;t;ian and 4., V I G I N ILI CITY, M. T. rad Le 1:eau Staid, Wailace i.i±at c:In be fon act iight or day E. T. YAGER, nysician and Surgaon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Will practice in all brunches. one floor above the City Drug Store. H. u. BARKLEY. M. D. Physician& Surgeon. RADERSBURG, TI AS h tI twenty-one years' experience in in hi, pmfession—four years of that time a reaa in the Confederate army. He is pre- Parra to perform all kinds of surgery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS. his expe- rietice is not surpassed by any physician in the Territory. TO THOSE WHO HAVE - VENEREAL COM PLAI NTS.—lionorrhea, if called upon witain iive days after the first appearance, he Wilt cure in seveuiv-two hours. In Syphilis, he will cure in live days. His treatment is different from any physi- cian in this Territory, lie isprepai.e d for all. D. C. S. ELLIS II AVING taken an interest in the Drug Department of A Carm . ichael's store at Silver Star, Moutana,ciin be tatual at all times, day and night, at tud s st e o 6 r s e . , when not absent o\ n professional busi- n 1-28tf 0. B. WHITFORD, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, DELT/ LODGE, MONTANA) 4 VOL. 1. • saAJ.73,7. •••.^. • A VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER FAITH. In Autumn, when the sheayes are down, And russet -coats are lying low Under the boughs whose leaves are brown And shaken by the midnight blow; When evening clouds are tinted more Than during August's harvest reign, And robins southward turn and soar To warmer climes and nests again; Then wild auroras deck the skies, And star -lit shades with belts of mist, And spiral jets of flame uprise To skip and wanton, zenith-kissed, And shed upon the path of night A rainbow beam of beauty rare, As if a ray of heavenly light Had pierced the azure veil up there. So, often when the storm -clouds roll Upon us, and a dire despair And darkness fill the drooping soul, Too weak for tears, too worn for prayer, A silvery gleam of tender faith Comes (oily ring up the spirit sky As 'twere the dear remembered wraith Of one for whom we fondly sigh. Both tell us of a silent power Beyond mere mortal surface scan, That guides the universe each hour, And dries the cheek with weeping wan. What were the world without that breath That .a the weary soul belongs? A waste of barren life and death Unblessed by angel smiles and songs. THE LADY CLAIRE'S SECRET. The Lady Claire died ye. - ernight; Indeed it was a sorry sight To see her look so pale; Her face pailifi, 3 et sa fair. Alid Al her a of lden hair Glitteriaa aie,aii her veil. What killed her? 'a ell, we dare not tell; II was a ZI;e11 turaea ae • io _es white— The bright pink roses ia her face, That daily lost their Mirited grace, Until they faded quite. Her gladsome step grew sad and slow, Her laughter lost its silvery flow, Her eyes were full of tears; And yet she never let them fall, But still smiled sweetly on us all Despite•her crushing fears. • Ah! me; it was a sorry thing The way she dropped her snowy wing, Our dove with pinions white; She might have soared to realms of bliss, Made strong by love's divinest kiss, And reached a heaven bright. Dear, generous soul, she gave her all, And only asked a pittance small Just for hunger's sake; The heavenly manna never fell, She starved for love; ah! well, ah! well, I fear her heart did break. We must not speak of this too loud, Nor tell it to the gaping crowd, For women strive to hide These mournful secrets in their breast, Scarce even to themselves confessed; For such is woman's pride. And if we spoke this matter loud, I think she'd move within her shroud, And blush for very shame; These women are such foolish things, Juet if hopeie.i.; love e'er briuge Clouds on a woman's fame. WHY SHE RAN AWAY. We sat where the green,curling waves came up Bearing moonbeams embosomed in spray; Casting fringes of white on the sands at our feet, Then receding in coquettish play, My fond arm encircled her denty,small waist; In the seventieth heaven was 1; And seemed in her sweet, trembling lip3 and dear eyes An answering love to descry. \Oh! say you'll be mine, fair Julia,\ 'cried, She startud and ran toward her home, \Oh leave me not! leave me not!\ wildly I said, \Alone on this bleak path to roam! Come back to this fond, stricken heart but once more!\ But never an answer she made; Her black hair hail tumbled down, it appeared, And three switches on the sand up laid. BLACK EYES OR BLUE EVES. Black eyes most dazzle at a ball; Blue eyes most please at evening -fall. Black a conquest soonest gain; The blue a conquest most retain; The black bespeak a lively heart, Whose soft emotions soon depart; The blue a steadier flame betray, That burns and lives beyond a day; The black may features best disclose; In blue may feeling all repose. Then let each reign without control, The black all mind—the blue all soul. COURAGE. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, Bill cheerily seek how to redress their harms, What though the mast be now blown overboard The cable broke, and holding anchor lost, And half our sailors swallowed in the flood? Yet lives our pilot still; is't meet that he ahou141 leave the helm, and, like a fearful lad, With :e irful eyes, and water to the sea, Ao give mcae strength to that which hath too mach; at - ire , in his m an, the ship splits on the . raartry and caanige might have saved? —Shrkespeal e. LI .'E. hitting away, flitting away, Haur by hour. and day ay day, Never a breaa in the running thread, Never a pause in the solemn tread; Onward, onward, day and night, Through joy's bloom and sorrow's blight; On through childhood, youth, and age, Over the bright or blotted page, Over ambition's tinted cloud, Over despair's funereal shroud, On thronah labor, on through rest, On when cheered, or when depressed; Ever our hie is flitting away, Hour by hour, day by day.—M. Trafton. aa4a. LOVE BEYOND DEATH. Remember not when I am gone The deeds I (lid or would have done— How much I loved, how vainly strove To find an answer in your love; Nor weep to think what loss is yours, Since neither life nor love endures; Say not with tears and cries and prayers, Would that we showed her tender cares, Had patience with the faults we knew, Clung to the heart so warm and true, That now we weep with hopeless pain, And know will never come again, Oh! breath not then the useless vow; But if you love me, love me now. —Rose Terry Cooke la • THE BEST THINGS. The sweetest songs are those That few men ever hear And no men ever sing. The clearest skies are those Tina farthest off appear To birds of strongest wing. The dearest loves are those That no man c in come Lear With his best following. OLD CARMICHAEL'S REVENGE— TAKING AN ENTIRE FAMILY TO THE GALLOWS. Ely Bly, colored, was hanged in Jack- sonboro, Texas, Aug. 7, for the murder of Thomas Carmichael on the 16th of last June. Carmichael was well known hereabouts, being in the habit of travel- ing through this country. He employed Bly to accompany him. The two set out together, and were seen at various places. One morning two men found Carmi- chael's body mutilated and bruised in camp. Afterward Ely was arrested, and on his person were articles which belong- ed to the dead man. He was speedily adjudged guilty. The interest in the case centers in the part which the father and family of the murdered man played in this tragedy, and his persistent vengeance, even be- yond the scaffold's work. will sound odd to ears used to the soft stories of blood in the older States. He watched the trial like a hawk; saw the man he believed to be the nmrderer of his son convicted; and hired an extra guard at his own ex- pense. In the four weeks of waiting lie came front his home—forty miles away, in Parker county—once espy week to see that the murderer had not tampered with his chains. Yesterday afternoon he came into town with his whole family. He is a white -headed but robust old fel- low, who shows evidence of having been at some time in affluent circumstances. It is said he was once worth hundreds of thousands, but is poor now. He came in in a buggy, with his wife, while his son- in-law drove the thred daughters in a roekaway. Two of them are unmarried, are really IWillititl11 W1/111e11, and, I am told, zteeemplished. They drove in about Alli'lown, and as they entered the public square a general exclamation went around: \My God! there's old man Car- michael and his whole family! Who would have thought they would come?\ But the Carmichaels had a reason of their own, and they seemed to care little for what the townspeople thought or said. They had the canker of revenge in their blood. They drove up in front of the scaffold and took a good look at it; then went away to their stopping place for the night. The next that was seen of them was te-day, when an opening was made ill the crowd to let the guard pass in to the seafibld. The old man Carmichael and his family came marching ill ahead of the guard, and took their seats almost immediately under the scaffold, the old man with a Winchester rifle in his hands. When the negro was brought out. Car- michael cocked his gun, and sat with his eyes fixed upon him. The mother and daughters stared sternly at him. While the death warrant was being read, the youngest sister got up and left, a fact that was remarked by all, for the eyes of the great concourse were fixed as much upon time Carmichaels as upon the doomecleriminal. The other unmarried girl stayed, however, and there was a grim look of exultatioe in her face. When the drop fell, old man Carmichael instinctively grasped his gun and raised out of his seat; but there was no breaking of the rope, no accident of any kind, and the vengeance of the law and the still keener vengeance of the Carmichaels was satisfied. When time body was taken down and pil o t in the coffin, the old man came and claimed the hangman's knot, which was given him. He stood around the streets for several hours with it in his hand. Bly met death like a man. He seemed to think to the last moment that some means of escape was to be opened to him, and he laughed with the Sheriff and joked with tile guards. While on the scaflbld he said: \It's halal for a man to die when he has committed no crime. I am willing to die. I see I have to die, but I never killed Thomas Carmichael.\ Just as the Sheriff gave the word for the rope to be cut, Bly started to add something, but it was too late; time sharp hatchet severed the rope supporting the trap. and Ely Bls\s 200 -pound body fell like a stone. There was a sharp thud and all was over. He died instantly. It is the general belief that lie was about to make a confession when the rope was cut. HERD OF CAMELS IN NEVADA. On a ranch on the Carson river, eight miles below the mouth of Six -mile eanyon, is to be seen a herd of twenty-six camels, all but two of which were born and raised in Nevada. But two of the old herd of nine or ten brought here some years ago are now living. It would seem that the original lot tell into the hands of Mexicans, who treated them very badly, overloading and abusing them. The men who now have them are Frenchmen, who had formerly sonie experience with camels in Europe. They find no difficulty in rearing them, and can now show twenty-four tine healthy animals, all of Washoe growth. The camel may now be said to be thoroughly acclimated in the state. The owners of the herd find it no more difficult to breed and rear them than would be experienc- ed with the same number of goats or donkeys. The ranch upon which they are kept is sandy and sterile in the ex- treme; yet the animals feast and grow fitt on such prickly shrubs and bitter weeds as no other animals would touch. When left to themselves their great de- light, after filling themselves with the coarse herbage of the desert, is to lie and roll in the hot sand. They are used in packing salt to the mills on the river, from the marshes lying in tile deserts some sixty miles to time eastward. They have animals that easily pack 1,100 pounds. las Some Chicago visitors went into a sa- loon in Cleveland. kept by a German woman, and called for whisky. She told them that she couldn't sell any, and then whispered confidently to one of them. \Ven you vant risky you must call for vine and pinch mit your eyes.\ THE HAND THAT GEN. THOMAS HAS HAD HOLD OF. Fellow -citizens, to enforce this thought still further, let me refer to an instance that occurred on the field at Chickamau- ga. I happened to be near Thomas when one of the great charges of the enemy was made upon our line, and after a fear- ful struggle, the enemy were repulsed, and as Thomas stood there, near the line, there came up near to him an Ashtabula boy, and Gen. Thomas rode forward and took the boy's band and said : \I thank you, my lad, for your bravery in this ter- rible charge.\ The boy straightened back, looked up for a moment in the face of Gen. Thomas, and begrimed as he was with powder and sweat, a tear ran out upon his cheek, and he said, as he looked at his hand: \Gen. Thomas has had hold of that hand, I vi ill knock any mean man down that ever offers to Lake it hereete ter.\ [Applause and shatits of -Litman' ' for the boy.] Now, it was a rough re- mark, but there was a world of thought in it. What was the thought ? 1Vhy, something had been done to his hand that consecrated it forever to honor. That grand old chieftain had arasped it in friendship, had sealed it with the hon- or °fills great friendship, and that man said: \Henceforward that hand is conse- crated; I can not afford to grasp the hind of the unfit man, now that Gen. Thomas has had that hand in his.\ And so there was something done to the hand of every one of these boys in the field, that carried time old banner, or that car- ried a Springfield rifle, that consecrated it. Think you the man that bore that bzumer in the storm of battle could car- ry the hand that bore it, and be quite as bad a man as he could have been before? Never! it to some extent consecrated every man that took part in the struggle, and wherever I meet these Inv I recog- nize men who have been consecrated to their country in the most solemn and awful of consecrations.—From Gen. Gar- tie:d's Fourth of July Address. Ittlzw..-10--..r.15..1 HOW THIMHZ.Ekt ARE MADE. The manufacture of thimbles is very simple, but singularly interesting. Coin silver is mostly used, and is obtained by purchasing coin dollars. Hence it hap- pens that the profits of the business arc affected instantaneously by all the varia- tions in the nation's greenback promises to pay. The first operation strikes a novice as almost wicked, for it is nothing else than putting a lot of bright silver dollars, fresh from the mint, into dirty crucibles, and melting them up into solid ingots. These are rolled out to the required thickness, and cut by a stamp into circular pieces of any required size. A solid metal bar of the size of the inside of tile intended thimble, moved by pow- erful machinery up and down in a bot- tomless mould of the outside of the same thimble, bends the circular disks into the thimble shape as fast as they can be placed under the descending, bar. Once in shape, the work of brightening, pol- ishing, and decorating is (lone upon a lathe. First, the blank form is fitted upon a rapidly-revolving rod. A slight touch of a sharp chisel takes a thin shav- ing from the end, another does the same on the side, and the third rounds off the rim. A round steel rod, dipped in oil and pressed upon the surface, gives it a lustrous polish. Then a little, revolving steam wheel, whose edge is a rare orna- ment, held against the revolving blank. prints that ornament just outside the rim. A second Wheel prints a different orna- ment around the centre, while a third wheel with sharp points make the inden- tations on the lower half and end of the thimble. The inside is brightened and polished in a similar way, time thimble being held in a revolving mould. All that remains to be done is to boil the completed thimble in soapsuds, to re- move the oil. brush them up and pack them for the trade. *la — 1 THE DEATH -111.0W TO FlIEE-LOVE. The Frartford Courant sees this prom- ised outgrowth of t le Beecher scandal : It remains to be seen what will be the re- sult of the disclosures at Brooklyn upon the community at large. Of one thing we are perfectly sure, the cause of relig- ion is not to be injured. And further than this, we may reasonably expect one good result from this stormy outburst, and that is the sweeping away, by the besom of public indignation, of all the subterfuges and subtleties of time lustful and crack -brained sophists who of late years have been weakening the very foundations of purity in the marriage re- lation. The ill brook of men and women. linking themselves together mender vari- otv pretenses of \reform with an avowed purpose to \reconstruct the so- cial condition,\ will have no more len- iency for their vile suggestions. We are having an awful glimpse of the bottom- less pit of their -reconstruction,\ and henceforth we outlaw them. In their theories of freedom there is nothing but demoralization and corruption for socie - ty. These disclosures ought to sweep them out of sight. John T. Morris, deputy sheriff of Col- lins county, Texas. writes to the Evening Dispatch, stating that he killed a notori- ous character named James Reed in Lamar county, Texas, on the 6th inst. Before dying Reed stated that he was the leader of the band that committed the Iowa and Gadshill, 31o., train robberies, the St. Genevive, Mo., bank robbery, and also asserted that he robbed the Hot Springs, Ark., and Austin. Texas, stages, and committed several robberies in Ari- zona. Nevada, California, and Oregon. He would not give the names of his con- federates, but declared positively that neither Arthur McCoy nor the younger of the James brothers had anything to do with the robberies. sos.-4--as A gormandizing Pennsylvanian passed away while yet in the midst of his for- tieth quart of peanut'. - -. 1 - .11 . TILE LENGTHENING YEARS OF MAN. In an interesting paper by Dr. Edward jarViS, in the fifth annual report of the YLassachusetts Board of Health, the fol- k wing vital statistics, past aid present, o: various countries, strikingly show how the advance of civilization has prolonged life: In ancient Rome, in the period 200 to 500 years after the Christian era, the average duration of life in the most fa- vored class was 30 years. In the present century the average longevity in Geneva was 21.21 years; between 181.4 and 1833 it was 40.68, and as large a portion now live to 70 as lived to 43 three hundred years ago. In 1793 the British Govern- ment borrowed money by selling annui- ties on lives from infancy upward, on the basis of the average longevity. The treasury received the price and paid the enmities regularly as long as the annul- s. tants lived. I he contract 'was IMILLIaili satisfactory and fitable. Ninety-seven years leter. Mr. Pitt issued another ton- tine or scale of annuities, on the basis of the sane expectation of life as in the previous century. These latter aunui- tante, limes - els lived so much longer than theh predecessors that it proved to be a very costly loan for the Govern- ment. It was found that while 10,000 of each sex it the first - tontine died under the age of 28, only 5 775 males and 6,416 females inthe second tontine died at time same age 100 years later. The average life of the ammitants of 1693 was 26.5 . years, white those of 1790 lived 33 years and nine months after they were thirty years oh. From these facts, says Dr. Jarvis, it iF plain that life, in many forms and manifestations, and probably in all, can be expanded in vigor, intensity, and duration, under favorable influences. For this purpose it is only necessary that the circutnstanees amid which, and the con- ditions in which, any form of life is placed shoald be brought into harmony with the lew appointed for its being. NEW REMEDY FOR CONSUMP- TION. A new remedy for consumption has been found, or, at least, the doctors think so at this moment, in the transfusion of the blood l of anhuals. In France transfu- sion has always been performed from man to man ; but while it has been found easy to get men to give up their blood for money, while enjoying the eclat of an experiment in a crowded amphitheatre, amid the applause of hundreds of stu- dents, good Samaritans are rare in pri- vate life. A medical man was unable to find any one ready to sell his life's blood to a young lady until he made a romantic appeal, and in the case of an aged man it was quite impossible. But Dr. 0. Hesse, of St. Petersburg - , says that hu- man blood is not absolutely necessary. He has performed the operation of trans- fusion thirty-one times. In sixteen of his eases defibrillated blood WaS em- ployed—a practice generally condemned. In the remaining fifteen eases the blood of sheep was used. There was one death a in three other cases there was no percep- tible improvement ; in the remaining eleven cases there was a marked hn- provement throughout, and, in some cases, perfect cures. Dr. Hesse hopes to prove that he can cure pulmomary phith- isis in this way. Dr. Gedellices has tried the transfusion of sheep's blood in two cases. In one there was great improve- ment, and, in the other, a 'complete cure. •4110 - 6 , -.**12 GRASSHOPPLW, , 441'0_1'1'1\SG CARS. It appears that the grasshoppers are a source of trouble to more than the farm- ers. The St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald re- lates the following, and further states that, however improbable the stories may appear. they are perfectly true, he says :—‘‘On Wednesday, train No. 7, of the St. Joseph and Deliver railroad, struck the grasshoppers between Axtell and Beattie. The insects covered the track two inches thick, and the engineer was completely at his wits' end to know what to do. He understood a soaped track, but a track covered with grasshop- pers was a novelty. He put on all the steam he could anti tried to drive ahead, and yet he was actually nine hours mak- ing eleven miles. How many grasshop- pers were killed no one will ever under- take to say. Yesterday morning Con- ductor Scott Sharp pulled out of Seneca on time, and thought he would have an easy run to St. Joseph. In this he was slightly mistaken. Two miles out the track was completely blockaded by grasshoppers, and the engineer found it impossible to proceed. He hated to be beat out by such trilling insects, but fin- ally had to run back to Seneca and v. - nit till the insects had crossed the track on their way southward. A WARNING TO MARRIED NEN— TH SIIOULD GI VE EI it MON- EY TO THEIR WIVES. A well known manufacturer of this city visited his family a few days since at one of the popular summer resorts not a thousaml miles from Falmouth. Hap- pening to have an unusually well filled pocketbook, upon retiring for the night he placed it in one of his boots for safe keeping, omitting, however, to say any- thing about it to his wife. Fatigued with the long ride, he soon fell asleep. and Upon awakening early in the morning, sought in vain tor his boots and his mon- ey. Rousing his wife with anxious in- quiries about \those boots,\ he learned that she had found them lying around and had set them outside the door for the hotel bootblack. A few seconds later a well developed, manly form with only \one or two clothes on,\ was noticed making rapid strides for the porter's lodge, with the \ragged edges of anxiety, remorse, ruin, and despair\ distinctly mapped out on his usually beaming countenance. Jr remains for us to add. as a simple act of justice to all parties, that the porter was honest, the money restored, and our manufacturer firmly convinced of the propriety of having no reeretZ from his wife in future. HOW A G met T SCANDAL WAS I DEALT WITH SEVENTY YEARS AGO. [From the Picayune.] About seventy years ago there lived in this country a very great man. His name was Alexander Hamilton, Ile had been a distinguished officer of the revolution, and a trusted friend and counsellor of the illustrious Washington. On the or- ganization of the Government, Hamilton became a leader of a great political party, and was appointed the first Secretary ot the Treasury of the United States. He was the ablest man who ever filled that important office. As a party leader at a time of fierce political excitements, Mr. Hamilton was the shining mark of many- bitter assaults. His own party was not slow or moderate in its counter attacks. Mr. Jefferson was the target of of the Federal or Hamiltonian diatribes. 1113 Fsia ate too, as- shsels: 1, —al his every act distorted into something criminal or immoral. There were no limits to this sort of abuse on both sides. At last the Jeffersonians lighted upon a precious piece of scandal against Mr. Hamilton which did not even need color- ing or exaggeration to render it exces- sively distasteful to his friends and dam- aging to his reputation. The story ran thus: A boxum and at- tractive woman had visited the young and susceptible Secretary of the Treasu- ry, and under pretext of seeking some favor of him, had captivated and seduced him from the paths of duty and morality. An amour of a somewhat extended and complicated character sprung out of the affair, which had gone far enough, how- ever, to expose the character of the woman as an adventuress and blackmail- er of the most avaricious nature. Final- ly, a convenient husband was introduced into the drama, an illiterate and vulgar Iellow, who attempted the panel game on the great Secretary. Nothing but an office in the Treasury or $50.000 hi cash would solace the wounds of his honor and connubial felicity which were inflict- ed by Hamilton. The great man resisted and defied the arts and importunities of both the woman and her suppositious husband. There- upon they sold their valuable scandal to the enemies of Mr. Hamilton, who were not slow in layiws the wholeaffair before the world. The friends of Hamilton de- nied the story at first, but were quickly silenced by the amazing courage and honesty of his answer. Freely admitting that he had strayed fsom the path of duty, and had grevious- ly sined as a father and husband under the wiles and seducing arts of a volup- dons woman, he indignantly repelled all aspersions upon his honor as a public official and gentleman. For his sin, of which he had deeply repented. he asked the indulgence of his fellow -citizens, but it he had permitted himself to be by any arts or influence to a betrayal ot the hissli trust confided to him. he shonld feel that he had no right to ask their for- giveness or indulgence. It is a curious fact in our 1)011len1 anS social history that Mr. Hamill on's manly answer completely disarmed time public censure, and he continued until min - happy death the idol of his party, nee the most admired and respected political chieftain of the era. THE BOTHSCHILDS AND THE NEW LOAN. In speaking of the success of Secretary Bristow in negotiating the new loan. the New York Tribune says. \Especially are the Messrs. Rothschild and their American agent to be felicitated, not So nmnclu fr011i the gain that will accrue to them from this operation as upon the advance in sagacity and business insight which their taking the loan denotes. A dozen years ago a far larger loan was offered to the world by the United States, at six per centum, and the bonds were given in exchange for a currency so de- preciated and fluctuating - that much of it was placed at the rate of about forty- five cents on the dollar. The opportuni- ty was an especially tempting one to the great house of Rothschild, but unfortu- nately they were represented in this country by a gentleman who as chairman of a committee which believed the %var a failure, was too sincere a partisan to - let his principles believe it was a success. The Rothschilds did not touch that loan, and so lost more than it is pleasant to think of in weather like the present. But they are evidently not of the materi- al out of which nothing is prayed in the mortar of experience. Accordingly, through the same representative, they now come forward to take a large block of a five per cent. loan, for which they willingly pay par in gold to lift that six per cent. loan. which they formerly re- jected, when it was offered to them for par in greenbacks at half-price. We hope they will make a great deal of money by this operation. The fact that they have learned so much in a dozen years in regard to the value of the United States securities proves that they possess a greater reserve of youth and vitality than was ever suspected. Perhaps their miscalculation about the five -twenties was a blessing in disguise, sent to teach them how uncertain is the whisper a \good society,\ and how trailer than a bruised reed is reliance upon chairmen of committees. • The Grangers of New Jersey held a grand festival last week, showing a nu- merical force in four counties of four thousand members. The party has as yet taken no position for or against either organization. New Jersey is an irregular State although the President says she is really in the Union. By the way, cannot these Grangers destroy the grasshoppers by resolution? That would be a work worthy of any party. and mer- it the love and thanks of every voter, woman, or alien. One hundred thousand American shad are now rusticating in the German Rhine. Ntf). 43. TH.E swins ARMY. There is no country in Europe for which Americans feel a deeper interest than our little sister republic of Switzer- land, which is a true republic by name and in fact. Unfortunately, the geo- graphical situation of Switzerland, sur- rounded as it is by strong military mon- archical powers, compels it to entertain an army, quite in disproportion with the population of that little State, and still more in opposition to the peaceful policy of true republics. The Swiss army has lust been reorganized and augmented ; the official documents have not yet all been printed, but their contents are known. and a correspondent of the Mess- ager Franeo .Americain writes' from Berne to that paper a long letter, from which the following is condensed : The Federal army of - Switzerland will be composed, in conformity with the recent decisions tmi tueP'ei.terai I.:011116i, of 746 men in the Elite, and of 97,848 hi the Landwehr. That makes, including the general stail, an army of 202,000 sol- diers. The former \federal reserve\ is abolished, and there remain but two grand divisions, the Elite and Landwehr. The thriller is composed of all the men between 20 and 32 years of age, and the latter of all the citizens between the ages of 32 and 44. In case of war the ranks of the Elite may be completed, if necessary, by drawing men from the Landwehr. The composition of the army is quite the same for the Elite or active army as for the Landwehr. They count each 81,302 men of intantry, 3,596 caval- ry, 1,640 sanitary troops, 2,160 men in quartermaster department. Tile artillery will be 12.100 men by the Elite, and only 6,200 in the Landweine The engineers number 4,148 men for the Elite, and 2,150 for the Landwehr. The general staff will comprise 3 colonels, 16 lieutenant -colon- els, or masors. and 35 captains, all chosen by the Federal Council itself. With such an army, Composed of the flower of the healthy, strong, and patriotic population ofSwitzerland, the little republie has nothing to fear from her powerful mon- archical neighbors, to whom, in case of attack, she would teach a still more se- vere lesson than those of Morgarten and Mort. Illa-1111-4•111• POPULATION OF THE BRITISH EM oonn Bull's family is among the lar- gest in the family of civilized nations, and, by the census of '71, numbers 234,762,593. The English posessions cover 7,769,449 square miles, or a space 40 thnes the size of . France. In Europe there is a superficial extent of 121.730 ,sitiare miles ; in America, 3,486.034 ; in Africa, 236.820 ; 1mm Asia, 964,103 ; in Oceanica, 2,900.722 ; while Great Britain 7111(1 111+1;1'1 a popul ition or 31,845,- 379. and in the Empire in Europe.176,213 • Enelish cohmit , s in America have i1.7 4 .';: - 40: in Central A ineriea. LW: : Saa' Anterie.t, 24)0.000; in trar .h Ths. ii- Ial.;t-1.0). +strifes -A ladis iT. Wiiil 1i)i) ii it111110! An-sralia.F.wriamel aT,ss. _as s -,•e s . l'aelumettlatiott oldie Uahei sse has doubled in 70 years. In Englamei. whsre the demand for labor has been greatest, the pi•pnlation has nearly trebled. In Scotland it has doubled, but in Ireland it is stationary. In 1801 Ire- land had 5.216.331. and, in 1850,5,412.377. In Ewrland and tVales, between ISS1 amid 1871, the number of males married at the age of 15 was 35.2.1, of females 104,998. There were more marriages. at 20 than any other age. The number of males at that age was 354,124, and of fe- males 569,317. To these are added 3,578 men and 5,136 women married a second tune at the age of 20. Eighteen old bach- elors and two old maids engaged in ma - .- s rimony at the age of 75; besides 35,' widowers and 4-5 widows. There were also 7 old bachelors and 2 old maids married in England at the age of 80, and 120 widowers and 9 widows. There were 77 cases in which the woman was 40 years older than her husband, and 38 cases in which the difIhrence reached 60 years. The eases in which women have married men very much older than them- selves were more numerous. To every 100 English married women between 15 and 55 there are born an- nually 22 children. In 1871, there were contracted 190,112 marriages. Ten years before the number was 163,706. On April 2, 1871 there were 3,672,011 couples living together, and 276,516 cases in which they lived apart, 65,164 of these being husbamrs engaged in the army or navy. The average duration of married life was 25 years. In 1801 there were in England 153 persons to the square mile ; in 1871, 390. In the days of Elizabeth, there were only 83. The English census of 1870 is the most elaborate ever taken in the country. THE POWER OF HABIT. Dr. Ltulolf von Gardenfleld, who was chief physician in the Bavarian army (luring the wars of the first Napoleon, is the author of the following - story illus- trating how certain acquired habits be- comes a second nature: \Once I was gathering plants in a small forest near Moisen. Suddenly I came upon a man who was lying upon the ground, and whom I at first supposed to be dead. On drawing near to him however, I perceived that he was still alive, but in a fainting state. Vicsorously I shook him ; at last he opened his eyes. and asked me, in a lamentable and scareely audible voice, whether Iliad any i:iitar with me. When 1 gave a negative answer, he tell back into his former con- dition. I went in search of snuff, and was fortunate enough to meet a peasant, who kindly came with me to the fainting man. and gave him some pinches of snuff. The man soon recovered. and then he told me that he had to travel a certain distance as messenger ; and on starting in the morning. had forgotten to take his snuff -box. As he went along so violent became the craving for snuff, that he went completely exhausted. and hal fallen down in a swoon at the spot wile;'.I found him. But for my opportune ar- risall he Said he must surely have died. - THE MADISONIAN, PUBLISHED EVERY SAT ItrAit —AT— Virginia City, - Montana. THOMAS DEYARLION, Editor and Proprietor. Papers ordered to nn:,- adtze.,..;% earl be changed to another addre.4.1 alibi' option of the sucscriher. Remittance by draft,, cheek. money order or registered letter in: -t be sent at our risk. THE MADISON/AN is devoted to the ntivocacy of the principles of the Dernocratio party and to general and local news. BERLIN SINCE TIIE WARS. Berlin is in every respect one of the finest cities in Europe. In point of pop- ulation and extent it conies next to Paris. being slightly larger than Vienna. and nova , ing at a greater ratio. The last census gave 632,494 in the Austrian me- tropolis, exclusive of the suburbs, or With them 838,855. Berlin: had only 828,013. but that enumeration did not in- clude suburbs, which may fairly be said to form a portion of the city. Architec- turally the German is not so beautiful as the Austrian capital. Unter den Linden, a fine thoroughfare, 55 yards wide by a mile long, and deriving its name front the double avenue of limes, interspersed with chestnuts, in its midst, contains most of the buildings of any great pre- tenions. In the other streets are as well- built, substantial, and handsome houses, shops, and manufactories as could be dition to being tire capital of the empire, a military center with a permanent gar- rison in time of peace of 21,000 troops. Berlin is an important commercial and manufacturing city, the principal branch- es of industry being engine -building, iron -casting, the production of woolen and silk goods, and of those fancy arti- cles for which Paris once had the monop- oly, but which, owing to the high rages demanded by the French workmen. are now made in every large city of Europe. The crowds in the streets are well -dress- ed and seem prosperous, and there is a bustle and stir which is very cheering and lively. Physically the Prussians are far better looking than the Saxons, and the ladies are dressed with more taste and elegance. Perhaps one cause of their improved appearance is their greater love of fresh air. The hotel in which I slept at Berlin was the only one since I cross- ed the Belgian frontier in which all the resources of modern science had not been employed to destroy as much oxy- gen as possible. The traffic of Berlin is well regulated, a number of policemen being stationed at the corner of every street, and the utmost order prevails everywhere. But perhap4 who knows the city assert that, under all, this exter- nal appearance of prosperity and peace, a terrible state of afiltirs prevails. Crimes of violence occur in Berlin much more Irequently than in any other European capital. Most of these atrocities are committed in the most crowded parts of the city, many of them in broad day - and the prevailing blood -thirsti- ness shows a very desperate spirit among the criminal classes. Asa general rule, thieves shrink iron' murder, except as a lara resource, and they deliberately plan assassination only when the probable reward is very -great. But in the mur- ders whielt occur at Bsrlin the victims an. 11 zually among time Very poor. Pessi- mists sav that the cause of still' (normi- ties in a Ceenet!) city. until very riTerttly lytrt a very IL repo:14i.tu, hill-1 t•; II- v •07' •• I t • 11 • • SI • 1;1 ) I !. I. 1: taa• 'f 1 ijere : , er it -Coate led, Ito 1 a I • aa! af 4114•atlat 41 s a. 1 ;17 ; i:1111 ca. • a of r!--4 aahliies, lie is a most lain -a at guiestiati of the publie satel v. ()I' lite !Handily of Berlin I 'would prefer to say nothings I saw inore coarse vice in the streets than in either London, Vienna, or I.'aris. BASE BALL AND CRICKET. A just comment upon the comparative merits of the two games is carried in time history of base ball. It is a modern in- vention, or rather a reformation. with cricket as the starting point. The ath- letic young Americans of twenty years ago turned to the mother game as a means of amusement, but used it fearless- ly and without prejudice, trimming it down to their own idea as they learned its defects, and gradually envolving the idea of base ball. For two generations their first crude notion of a model game has been. undergoing repair and improve- ment until the game of to -day has been established. As it stands now it is still cricket remnodeled and improved. Rid of lumbering paraphenalia and delay, cat to trimmer proportions and practised to a science, the American game is infi- nitely sprightlier and a better training of the eye, nerve and muscle than its English progenitor and rival. Base ball ia only cricket boiled down to an essence, but that it has lost nothing valuable in the boiling is apparent to any man who may take pains to observe the merits of the two games and compare them with an appreciative eye, and an unprejudiced mind.—Newark Advertiser. N UTRITIOUS FOOD. We learn from Chambers' Edinburg Journal that a very interesting report on the comparative nutritive properties of food was lately presented to the French Minister of the Interior by Percy and Vanquelin, two members of the institute. The result of their experiment k as fol- lows: In bread, 100 pounds are found to contain 80 pounds nutritious matter; butcher meat, averaging the various sorts, contains only 31 pounds in 100 pounds; French beans, 25 pounds; peas. 23 pounds; lentils, 14 pounds; greens and turnips. which are most aqueous of all vegetables used for donu•stic purposes, furnish only eight pounds of solid nutri- tious substanee Its) powsls; earrais., 14 pounds; and What 1A very remnarl;;WIe, as being in o)positioa to !It , •ss; ss • edged theory, 100 pounds sf pat,sots only yield 35 pounds of substance valua- bie as nutriment. Accordimer to this es- timate 1 pound of goad bmsse 2 1-2 or 3 poands of 75 pounds of brea.1 butcher meat, are potatoe. Or, again. 1 bread beans is es 171-1 I image, and to 3 pow si calculation is eansh, (nay be users: mode of Silpiittr:il:g should bt adopted at the least expense- ,
