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• • • • • • A. THE MADISONIAN. P&ATURD UV. SEPTEMBER 12, 157-1. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year\ i in advance) Six Months three Months \ .•. ADVERTISING RATES. $5 00 RS TIIE MAD! SO \IAN, as an advertising inedinill. is equal to any paper in Montana. S e t 1- 4 . ••• CO • CC . 2 Inches 3 Inches 4 Inches 6 Inches ... 13 Inches s5 Inches $3' $5 $7 $s $10 5 8 9 10 12 7 9 11 12 15 S 11 12 14 17 10 12 15 18 24 IS 24 30 34 40 301 40 50 55 65 VI Cf. V •til ...V ...VI 4 . 0 J.) *0 C . .) 1 $15 $20;$2.5 20 25 30 55 75 30 40 45 65 90 150 5.5 70 90 140 2.50 The above scale of prices Is for orilinarv sin - 71e -column. display advertising. Solia and ;Abukir advertisements will be charged at the inch rate for space occupied. • .041 • LOCAL NOTICES, Fifteen cents per line for ffrst, and ten cents D er line for each additional insertion. CARDS, One-half inch, $2 for one insertion ; $3 for two insertions; $8 per quarter; $16 per year. The foregoing schedule of prices will be strictly adhered to. All advertisements counted in Noupareil measure. ()II TI:NT of every description, executed in the best and neatest style. and on reasonable terms. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any one who takes a paper regularly from the Postoffiee—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 arreatrages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and coliket the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken from the ()nice or not. 3. The courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers. or periodicals from the Fostotlice, or removing and leaving them un- called for, is prima facia evidence of intention- al fraud. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN, Attorney and Counselor at Law. Rader%berg. Montana Territory. HENRY F. WIWI ms, iffy & Counselor at Law, VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE over the Post Officer. J. E. CALLAWAY, Attorney and Cloun- selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. 0 1.'FICE, adjoining the office of the Secre- tarv of the Territory E. W. TOOLE. J . H TOOLE. TOOLE & TOOLE. .A. - ttortit%vs at 1Law. HELENA, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. JOILS T. •z•IlontEn.. T. J. LOWERY. SHOBER & LOWERY, Attorntys a yid coun- selors at TAaw. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, _Attorney at Law. VIRGINIA CITY. M. T. JAMES G. SPR ATT, _Attorney and Conn- selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. W di practicc in all the Courts of Montana. R. W. HI Is . Attorney at Law, GALLATIN CITY, M. T. W. F. SANDEM Attorney and Conn- selor at T_Aaw. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C. W. TURNER, TA A. NY - Y . FA i ia 5 VIRGINIA CITY, N. T. OFFICE: Adjoining Colonel Callaway's. WM. F. K IR KWOOD, Attorney at IA a w, VIRGINIA cury. fan 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. VIRGINIA CITY, M NTANA. OFFICE, at the Law Office of J. E. Calla- way, Esq., until further notice. I. C. SMITH, M. D Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. (since at the Old Ee Wail Stand, Wallace St reel, where he caa be found night or day E. T. YAGER, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, DC T. Wiii practice in all branches. Office )ne door above the City Drug Store. H. is, BARKLEY, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. RADERSBURG, M. T. IF S had twentv-one years' experience. in in his profes.sion—four years of that time 3 surgeon in the Confederate army. He is pre- pared to perform all kinds of surgery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- r!enc e k not surpassed by any physician in the 1 erritory. TO THOSE WHO HAVE VENEREAL CPMPLAINTS.—Gonorrhea, it called upon within live ilnys after the first am.earance, he will cure in seveuty-two hours. in Syphilis, will cure in live days. ri l i i n i a t i r t e i t s ment is different frnin arlY PhYsi - Territory. He prepre d for all. DR. C. S. ELLIS AVING taken an interest in the Drug Department of A Carmichael's store at Silver Star, Montana,can be riaind at all times, day and night, at said sT 'rt\ when not absent on professional busi- ness. 1-28tf. 0. B. WHITFORD, M. D., Physician a n d Surgeort, 1)::E a 1.0D01: . MONT..k.NA. VOL. 1. - VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1874. TIIE KINGDOM OF GOD. I say to thee, do thou repeat To the first man thou inayest meet In lane, highway, or open street— That he, and we, and all men move Under a canopy of love, As broad as the blue sky above: That doubt and trouble, fear and pain And anguish, all are shadows vain; That death itseif shall not remain: That weary deserts we may tread, And dreary labyrinth may thread, Through dark ways underground be led: Yet, if we will one Guide obey, The dreariest path, the darkest way, Shall issue out in heavenly day . And we, on divers shores now cast, Shall meet, our perilous voyage past, All in our Father's house at last. And ere thou leave him, say thou this Yet one word more: they only miss The winning of that final bliss, Who will not connt it true that Love, Blesz4ng, not cursing, rules above, And that in it we live and move. And one thing further make him know— That to believe these things are so, This firm faith never to forego— Despite all which seems at strife With blessing, all with curses rife— That thls is blessing, thci i3 life. —Archbishop Trench. SEPTEMBER. A whispering silence broods o'er all around, As in the cathedral when the praise and prayer Are lingering pulses on the waves of sound, And naught disturbs but muffled heart-throbs there, Yet all is bright—the sun scarce past the noon: And stealing out from dusky, darkling wood, Conies forth a matron shod with mossy shoon, From off her brows she lays the binding snood, When lo! her chestnut locks float on the breeze Like silken ahme on cerulean seas. The flowers have hung their heads; but all gay things That buzzing flit, on busy gauzy wings, To chant her beauties, gratefully remember, And hail our princess, timid, grave September. —Sallie A. Brock, in the Galaxy for Sept. THE OLD SONG. A little feast, a little fast, A little hour of play; A little caught, a little cast— So runs the world away! A little maid, a little yes, A little wish 'twas \ nay ;' A little weeping in the night— So runs the world away ! A little wind, a little snow, A little time to stay; A little thought of former years— So runs the world away! COURAGE. Courage, friend, the world is wide, Life is all before thee • Clouds that hide thy path at dawn, Break in beauty o'er thee. Out of evil cometh good— Joy is born of sorrow; Griefs that rend the heart to -day Die in bliss to -morrow Nothing on earth is ours— All things are of heaven; As we labor, so to us Shall the fruit be given. First the child, and then the man, Life. and then the story ; First the dark and then the light— Pain, and then the glory. A LONGING. 0 that our lives, which we flee so fast In parity were such That not an image of the past Should fear that pencil's touch! Retrrement, then, might hourly look Upon a soothing scene, Age steal to his allotted nook, Contented and serene; With hearts as calm as lakes that sleep In frosty moonlight glistening; Or mountain rivers, where they creep, Along the channel smooth and deep, To their own far-off murmurs listening. —Wordsworth. A gentleman who has been recently traveling in the lower countries tells us the t;fflowing amusing story : He was stopping over night at a house where the partition walls were particularly thin. The adjoining room was occupied by a mother and her (laughter. After retiring the mother began to rebuke the daughter for an alleged partiality to somebody named John, which soft impeachment the daughter denied vigorously. \But said the mother, \I saw him kissing you at the cow -pen yesterday morning, Amanda.\ \No ma, he wasn't kissing me at all.\ \Why did you have your head so close up to his for, you deceivin' critter?\ \Well you see, ma, I had been eating pitallas\—the fruit of a species of cactus —Sband you see, ma, I got some of the prickles in my lips—and— and—\ \And what, you wicked, wicktel erit- ter ?\ \An/ I couldn't ges :hem out myself. yon know, aed Joir; pulled them Out with his teeth—but didn't kiss me nary time.\ In contradiction to a statement that there are no prayer meetings in Germa- ny, a correspondent of the Watchman are' Reflector etates that social prayer meetings are Itch! in di tthrent parts ot Wurtemburg. At one held in Stuttgart! tills correspondent noticed a singular pro- ceeding, which he deseribes as follows: \At the beginning of the meeting each person took a piece of paper from the table. On inquiry, I tnund it was a draw- ing of lots as to t he order of prayers. The papers were !lumbered. Number one prayed first, and was followed by number two, and by others according to the limn- bers they had drawn. The object is to prevent embarrassment and a painful waiting for one another. They form what is called the inner circles. l'he sexes do not meet, but women's prayer meetings are also held.\ The Rev. T. A. Goodwin, a Methodist minister of Indianapolis, is charged with heresy in maintaining that there is no resurrection of the material body . of a dead man, and that the second coining of Christ and the last judgment are not physical events to take place in the ma- terial world, but spiritual events. M . r. Goodwin is to be tried by the . Fourth Dis- trict Conference. The question of a . ma- terial resurrection has long been quietly agitating the Methodist Church, the great rriajority of Methodists being in favor of a 'Meth! physical rising of the dead. OXYGEN IN THE WATER OF AR- TESIAN WELLS. From a series of experiments, carefully conducted with the water of various ar- tesian wells in France, M. A. Gerardin confirms the conclusions of Peligot that free oxygen cannot be found dissolved in subterranean waters, if precautions are taken to collect them for examination iiefore they come in contact with the aim. This conclusion is supported by the a priors consideration, that the chemical action of pencolating waters underground is such as to leave no free oxygen—un- less under wholly exceptional and un- likely conditions. Surface waters contain chiefly dissolved mineral salts (haloid or oxy-salts), organic matter, free acid, or dissolved gases. In either of these cases, the result of contact with the constituents of rocks, soils and Metalliferous deposits is to oxidize either the material in the water or the material in the rock. The reduction production by organic matters, for instance, is accompanied by an oxida- tion of those ingredients themselves, pro- ducing carbolic acid. Ise• -•-.40 WAR BETWEEN CHINA AND JAP- AN. As it appears from this distance, China must be spoiling tor a fight if it insists in making trouble with Japan on account of the Formosa complication. In punishing the yirates of this island, the Japanese authorities earned the thanks of all civil- ized nations. The island lies in the China sea, and with an area of about fifteen thousand square miles and has a popula- tion of some two and a halt millions. The part nearest the main land is nominally under Chinese control. The remainder of the island is occupied by oborigioal savages, who for years have been accused of killing and eating such foreigners as happened to be cast upon their shores. The Japanese troops experienced no trouble in taking possession of the island, and finding it a godly land, they are in- clined to remain and occupy. Just where the boundary line of Chinese control ex- tends is a doubtful matter, but the latter nation seems to have taken it for granted that Japan has trespassed on her territo- ry. and the latest reports assert that she has ordered all troops to be called home, under threat of war. But Japan during the past few years has learned much about modern warfare, and has gained a certain amount of self-confidence which renders it improbable that she Nvill accede at once to sueh arbitrary demands. Both nations are laying in immense war sup- plies, and a new field is thus opened for American adventurers and speculators. DRUNKENNESS IN EUROPE. Mr. Medill, in one of his letters to the Chicago Tribune, writes; \Whisky is the devil that makes the mischief wher- ever it is tolerated, whether in America, England. Ireland. or Scotland. There are 200,000,000 of people in Europe, outside of Great Britain and Russia, who drink nothing stronger than wine or beer; and among all that vast mass, outnumbering the population of the United States five thnes, there is less drunkenness and few- er arrests made on charges of \drunk and disorderly,\ than in the single city of Chicago, which contains not one five - hundredth of their population. This is an absolute thict—a naked truth—which it would be well tor both liquor advocates and prohibitionists to turn over in their minds, digest well, and draw rational conclusions therefrom. A crusade against whisky as a beverage would he a legiti- mate and benefi cent war, which, it crown- ed with success by the extirpation ot the accursed fluid from the entire Union, would Ise a most inestimable public blessing. As a temperance measure the tax on whisky should be quadrupled. while that on light wine should be re- duced one -tenth of existing imposts.\ an•--0--mos DRUNKENNESS. The effects of intoxication by increas- ing doses of alcoholic stimulants are thus graphically described by Dr. Wilson, in his excellent treatise on the Pathology ot Drunkenness : With this progressive intoxication, an extreme loquacity hurries the individual along into every form of indiscretion, tears the veil of his character, and betrays him into intemperate attacks upon oth- ers, or into imprudent avowals wi t ref- erence to his own thoughts and actions. pis imagination revels in nnassociated and distorted images ; his memory tails; his ideas elude him ; and, while still speaking, he forgets the subject ot his discourse. and maunders without judg- ment and without coherence. His virtues decline into defects ; his courage becomes bravado, his liberality profusion, his friendship fawning. Meanwhile, his plies: - bed agitation is in proportion to the dis- order of his intellect. The face is flushed, the eyes flash, the brain throbs, and the action of the heart is inordinately excited. Extravagant gestures, reckless and incon- siderate aetions, shouts, snatches of songs. and other tokens of frantic gayety, are alternated with complaints, express- ions, of resentment, and brawling anger. —alike without definite aim or reason. He misapprehends whst he hears and sees, and yields instantly to his own mis- apprehensions. His own voice, as well as that of others, sounds strangely in his ears : if he sings, the notes are false ; if he speaks, it is with shrillness and clam- or. As the intoxication advances, he is still restless in his movements, but they are wavering and without energy ; and, as he totters from side to side, he sees ob- jects double, or everything reels around him ; or the level of the ground appears to rock beneath! his feet, or rise before him to meet his steps. As a close, the speech falters ; the indistinct words, the drivelling expression of ideas equally in- distinct, linger half muttered on the lips the features droop and assume an express ion of stolidity ; the limbs cross each other, and at last sink powerless; and a benumbing torpor creeps over the senses, as, one by one. the nobler attributes of man's nature fall before the strength of the poison, and the power to consider and to judge lies as miserably extin guished as that to wid and to act. THE SWINDLED BLACKS. If a visitor to the principal Southern cities has a human heart. he will be touched by the many evidences of dis- tress among the negroes on account of the !allure of the Freedmen's Savings Bank. In Nashville, $85,000 were lost, the depos- its ranging from a dollar to several hun- dred. In Augusta, over $8,200,00 were scooped into the gull -trap, and the dis- consolate depositors are the bluest of black mortals between the oceans. At Charlestown, I learn that over S200,000 are lost, and in Richmond over $100,000. In some of these cities I have acquaintan- ces whose colored employees are among the sufferers, and tram them I learn de- tails distressing and humiliating. I heard of a porter who supported his himily, and in three years saved $150 fir the gull -trap; of a poor boot -black, who had deposited the savings ol two years, $40 , or a wash- erwoman who had saved $60 from wash - shirts at ten cents each ; of a boy who had saved $45 from working in a brick- yard at thirty cents a day ; a drayman who had accumulated $300 from his scanty earnings ; ot' a, chtunbermaid who had saved $100 from her poor salary of $8 a month ; of a poor, blind wood-:awyer who had saved $70 from two years' hard work ; anti of a thrifty marketman who had $1,000 in the trap along with the less fortunate neighbors. but no better pre- pared to hear of the loss of their little all. I had heard much of the tailure of the bank, and had seen the array of figures expressing the loss, along with accounts of the villainy by which the ruin of the bank and its branches was accomplished, but the full picture of the calamity hi all its distressing details was not presented to my mind until I visited the southern cities where the actual sufferers are. The record of this crime against the poor ne- groee is one of the meanest and blackest in the whole history of man's iniquity. AN INDIANA EDITORSHOOTS HIS DAUGHTER'S SEDUCER. On Ano - . 20,—George C. Harding, editor and proprietor of the Indianapolis Her- ald, shot Sol Moritz, a prominent mer- chant of this city, under the following circumstances : These gentlemen had been warm friends and very intimate in social relations. ,Illoritz, who is a He- brew, aged about forty and married, took advantage of this intimacy an , succeeded in seducing Harding's dattgitter of about 18 years. Thii; was aceomplished last March, and improper relations have been maintained by the parties since. The young lady confessed these mai; to her lather last evening, and overwhelmed with remorse. attempted suicide by tak- ing opium. It is thought she repeated the dose this morning. About one o'clock this afternoon Harding went in search or a ph3. slain, met Moritz on the street and immediately began firing at him, shoot- ing five dines. He then passed down the street. One of the shots shattered Moritz's left elbow, and another passed through his lung, lodging in the chest It was thought the latter wound would prove fatal. but at ten o'clock he was rest- ing quietly and will probably recover. Miss Harding died about three o'clock this afternoon. Harding is under S10.000 bail to await the result of Moritz's wounds. Public feeling . is very strongly in sympathy with Colonel Harding. Since the shooting, Mrs. Harding, step- mother of the dead daughters, has stated that Moritz also made improper propo- sals to her. Moritz denies the charges made by Miss Harding on her death-bed. and says that as soon as he is able he will prove his innocence. HOW A NEW cioNsert•ruTioN BROKE DOWN. The new Constitution prepared by the Ohio convention was so heavily weighted by radical propositions that it broke down before the people. It was very elaborate and very minute in a multitude of partic- ulars. Aside from the main body of the instrument, there were three separate questions submitted, covering clauses would have become a part ot the Constitotion if sustained by an affirma- tive vote, viz.: For or against minority representation ; for or against railroad aid ; for or against license. The Consti- tution itself was defeated by a large vote. The separate propositions were involved in the general defeat although one of them was nearly or quite affirmatively sustained, viz : That prohibiting license. It is about a quarter of a century since the present Constitution of Ohio was framed. It was regarded at the thne as on the whole a satisfactory instrument. But at that time there was hardly more than one hundred unites of railroad in the State, and the population in the meantime has more than doubled. Chief Justice Waite presided over the recent constitutional convention up to the time of his appointment to his present office. His successor was Rufus King, a distinguished lawyer of Cincinnati. The convention was represented by many of the ablest men or that State. But too much was attempted. The large threign- born element in the southern part ot the State were displeased with the proposi- tion to tack the lIcense question on to the Constitution, and they made common cause with all those who for other rea- sons were averse to the new instrument. As a ‘vitole, lite proposed constitution was more radical than any which has ever been prepared tbr adoption. The people refused to accept it as their orgau- ic law, awl fill hack on the old instru- ment, which will answer tbr some time to conie. A CH A:NUE OF OPINION. The Rev. C. Boynton, of Cincinnati, who has for many years been a leader in the movement for temperance reform by legislation, has reeeived new light. He caused a considerable stir in a late dis- course against prohibition. Amon!? other things to a similar effect he said : The measures which have tailed in the past will. fin . the sante reason, fail in the future, and it would be wise to rely upon them no lono . er. For more than a quar- ter ot a century we have been organizing defeat. Should not that suffiev:—induce us to try some other method of xvarfare? The arrtiments which have thus tar pro- duced so little impression upon public thought will be equafly powerless in the future. Ought we not then to inquire whether there may not be a more excel- lent way ? 1Vould it not be wise for us to pause and study anew God's method of dealing with sin ? Such a study may, per- haps, teach us to rely far less than many now do mein our present methods—upon legislation °fatly kind. upon mass meet- ings or conventions, upon resolutions or speeches and hard epithets and fierce de- nunciations, or upon pledges and ern - sides, and still less upon those forced in- terpretations of scripture which in the end not only hinder the cause but lessen the euthority of the Bible itself. ---tesee-esseess-- Another effort will be made at the next session ot Congress to obtain the admis- sion of Utah as a State. The Mormons claim that they have all the requisites for State Government. that for twenty-seven years they have been almostindependent of the national Treasury, and that the population is far in excess of the number fixed by law. If they will only abolish polygamy and adopt a constitution with stringent provisions against any interfer- ence of the Mormon Ca urch with tempor- al affairs, they way get a favorable hear- ing. RETURNING PROSPERITY. - It is now nearly a year since the busi- ness of the country was in a great measure protrasted by the panic consequent upon the explosion of two or three extensive pubbles ot speculation. In nearly every branch of trade, except agriculture, the year has been a dull one. Merchants have bought with prudence and custo- mers have retrenched in their purchases. Manufacturers have found their orders ditninished and have stopped their wheels, or run on short time. There has been a general &tort to get out of debt and to do only the safest business, and business men have been content with small profits or none. In the meantime there has been a constant but slow uplift out of the slough of despond, until now everything is in readiness for a fresh start ahead in production. Money has become not only easy, but abundant, and with the prevalent feeling of security, capitalists are looking for profitable in- vestments, which, with our rapidly de- veloping cQl.ttry, will soon be timid. To set the,Waeels in motion it only need- ed the assurance of an abundant harvest. and of this there is no longer room to doubt. Notwithstanding the ravages of grasshoppers in certain portions of the west, trustworthy reports from all sec- tions make it evident that the general harvest of this country will be above the average. At the same time the best au- thorities estimate a slight falling oil' in the European crops. whieli must lead to an increased exportation. A plentiful harvest will inevitably bring a revival in commercial activi,y. It means well -tilled pocket -books and the supplying ot WalltS which have been neglected during the dull times of the past year. Exhausted stocks will be replenished. Something more than the mere necessities of lite will be indulged in, and the renewed de- mand will send new lith through all the veins aud arteries ot production. Abund- ant crops will also reduce the price of food, and political economists have found in such reduction a cause of increased in- dustrial prosperity. All authorities thus agree that tne coining season and year is to be one of profitable activity. Ler us hope that the authorities are not deluded, and that the result may more than justi- fy the prediction. A NEW NATIONAL LOAN. The atundanee of money seekirg in- vestment has tbrtunately enabled the Secretary of the Treasury to effeet the proffered loan ot $179,000.000 at five per cent., the cost to the Government being but one -quarter of one per cent., the other quarter being yielded to the parties sub- scribing. One-half of one per cent. was the limit of the expense fixed by law, which the Secretary thus divides. In effecting this important loan, which is to be a diminution of our annual interest obligations by some two millions of dol- lars, the Treasury, it will be observed, has beea manipulated by no foreign syndicates as in Mr. Boutwell's expen- sive reign. nor has it been obligated to increase the debt as he did, in defiance Of law, by upwards of two millions of dollars in consequence of his syialicate commissions and his payment of double interest. This aeis an open offer, and witatever syndicate. t here was about the acceptance of it was wholly outside the Treasury, as it clearly should be. It is a welcome symptom of a determination to reduce the interest on the public nebt, which, to be consistent and permanently profitable. should be tidlowed up with a systematic plan for the resumption of specie payments. We can never serious- ly affirm that the National credit is soma' and iminipeachable while there are three hundred and torty-four ot over- due paper promises tbr whose payment no provision is made, and to which, twen- ty-six more have been added withiu a iew weeks. We may coegratulate our- selves on the pl eitifulneee of money as the main reason tor the success of thie five per cent. loan. Ten mullions were subscribed in this country and torty-live millions tbr parties abroad, and the Sec- retary will forthwith issue a call for the redemption of the entire $55 000,000 at the expiration ot ninety days, wheu the new bonds will be ready for exchange. The remainder of the loan is at the option of the f reign syndicate during six months, their belief being that they ean place the whole of it within that time. The $300,000.000 four and one-half per cents. authorized by the Aet ot' 1870 may not prove as successful a transaction as this, although it is sate to say that at five per cent. they- would doubtless be readily taken, ia au easy state of the market. ANOTIIER BIG sum This appears to be the era of enormous litigation. The city of New York has just commenced suit against the Broad- way Bank for the recovery of six mill- ions of dollars. The Broadway Bank was the institution that was fa% ored by the Tweed ring. Its relations with its members were very intimate. They had accounts there, and were accommodated in every possi:de way. The matter our the present suit arises is the: A favarite method of getting money among the rogues was to manufacture lice. ious bills agai..st the city, obtain the signatures of the city officials thereto, forge the indorssment of the party in whose name they were made out, and get the warrant cashed by the Broadway Batik. In this way frandulent warrants to the amount of six millions of dollars were cashed by the institution in ques- tion. TO save itself it closed upon an equal amount of the city's funds which happened to be in its possession. To re- cover this money the suit is now brought. The allegation on the part of the city is that the way in which this business was done was so loose and unusual as to leave little doubt of collusion. All of which establishes the wisdom or not making private corporations the deposi- tories ofpublic moneys. ar—o--•oug A MA N A shocking murder,. accompanied by torture, was perpetrated in a lonely - spot in Colfax county, in this state, oil Sunday. A number of Indians, supposed to be Pawnees, camped near a homesteader's cabin, and two squaws went in search of food. They came to the house when the man was absent and went through it in spite of the wife's remonstrances. Finally they attempted to take away the nullity provisions, to which the wife objected. The two squaws beat her over the head. Just then the husband came in, and see- ing his with wounded, took his gun and shot one of the squaws. The other squaw ran to the Indian camp and re- ported what had been done. Twelve of the Indians then entered the house, cap- tured the homesteader, skinned him, cut his hands off and his heart out. This was done in the presence of his wife. A large party of pursuers has left West Point in search of the Indians; but it is almost certain that they will not find them. --Omaha (Neb.) Dispatch, Aug. The saddest of music is called by Gottschalk his Last Smile ; end by Wag- ner his Lone Grin. WHO WE OWE. The New York Shipping Gazette, by way of showing what is the real burden ofdebt oppressing the country, classifies it and shows an aggregate of debt start- ling to contemplate. The following are the figures of the Gazette: Nalional debt 42,1.19,727,277 Bo ids to Railway Companies 61,623,512 I n terest on bolds 18,617,743 Unziettled 1 iabilities, estimated 250,000,000 State and Municipal . 1,010,000,000 Loan, etc.. by National Ranks 944,233,304 Loans, etc., by State Banks, etc., 514.081,396 Loans, etc„ by same in twenty- eight States, etc., estimated 1,500,000,000 Individuals to each other, estima- ted 2,000,000,000 Funded, etc., of railroads 1,511,518,944 Making a total of Are we not in a splendid cO 9 n . (1 95 i 2 tio s : 2,9 t 4 o 4 resume specie payments—contract the circulation two or three hundred mill- ions of dollars. and then pay off in gold all this indebtedness? Would we net make great headway toward it by such a measure? and would we not confer an im- mense benefit upon the industrial and debtor classes? The advocates of specie resumption ought to cat out this table and fit it in a frame. It would probably strike a great many people that under the circuinstances it will be necessary to have a large greenback circulation for some time to conic. ism-a—ma THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY. The Democratic State Central Commit- tee of New York held a harmonious meeting at Saratoga last week, which was also quite largely attended by prom- inent members of the party not belong- ing to the Committee, and prepared a call for a Convention of Democrats and Liber- al Republicans at Syracuse the 16th of next month. The terms of the can are Democratic in the broadest and best sense, announcing its purposes to be to harmonize, consolidate and give suitable representation to citizens of New York who favor the restoration of pure and economical Government, municipal, State and Federal. The invitation is therefore extended to Democrats, Liberal Repub- licans and all those who desire to co-op- erate with them, to elect three Delegates front each Assembly District as the rep- resentation of the Convention. The duty of the New York Democracy, and the not unimportant element in sympathy with it, is in no sense obscure, nor will the realization of every desirable result be difficult provided the Convention ad- heres in letter and spirit to the instruc- tions set forth in a general manner in the original call. The recent successes in towns and counties have given such a course every encouragement, and the Em- pire State will doubtless take its true place in the Democratic ranks. GRAINS OF GOLD. Honor Is bUt ale reflection of a man's own actions shilling bright in the face of all about him. and from thence rebounding upon himselt.—South. Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate commun- ion with God.—Chapin. - Music is the only one of the five arts in which not only man, but all other animals. have a common property—mice and ele- phants, spiders and birds.—Richter. Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it thnt we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets if we have not the hope of heaven iu our soul?—Bovee. They that deny a God destroy man's no- bility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he is not kin to God by his spirit he is a base and ignoble creatu re .—Bacon The little mind that loves itself will write and think with the vulgar; but the great tuind will be bravely eccentric. and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevo- lence.—Goldsmith. It is not poverty so much as pretense, that harasses a ruined man—the struggle between pride and an empty purse—the keeping up a hollow show that must soon conic to an end. nave the courage to ap- pear poor, and you Can disarm poverty ot its sharpest sting.—Mrs. Jameson. 1111.411-40--- A FRIGH rFuL TR tGEDY. The French journals publish details ot a horrible murder which has just been committed in a farmhouse aear Chateau - dun. The building had been inhabited by a man and his wife named Plais, and their daughter Marie. aged seventeen, re- sided with diem. They had a son Albin, older, who worked at sonic distance, and did not live at home. During the late war the parents visited the fields of battle of a night and despoiled the dead. In that execrable pursuit they had succeeded in amassing a little money. Not long since the father died, and the chitdren be- came impatient to inherit the ill-gotten gains. A few days ago the mother was taken unwell, and the son gave the sister a quantity of matches to place in a bowl of warm water to dissolve the phosphorus. Site obeyed his instructions, and when the old woman asked for a drink the young one gave her one -halt of the liquid, accounting for the disagreeable taste by saying that it was a portion the doctor had ordered. Madame Plais drank it, and was immediately attacked with violent pains in the stomach. and threw it all up. The girl told her she must take the rest, which she did, but with a simi- lar result. In the ewnieg the young man called, and finding the mother still alive. he took a rope, threw it over a beam, and placed the old woman on a chair under it. Ile then placed the cord round her neck, and putting one foot on ber should- er, he pulled at the end of the cord. Tile poor woman struggled violently, but the ruffian maintained his hold, and the dreadful scene lasted 'a quarter of an hour before death ensued. The girl stood cooly by all the time, watching the death throes of the mother. The two together then suspended the corpse to a beam, in order to induce the belief that a suicide had been committed. However. suspic,- ion immediately fell on the guilty pair, • who were at once arrested, and a full cons *Am Was Blade by the gir!. NO. 44. THE SLAVE TRADE IN AFRICA Sir Samuel Baker is beginning to doubt \the personal sincerity\ of the the Khe- dive of Egypt in his expressed determi- nation to suppress the slave trade throughout the Nile Basin of Central Af- rica. Scarcely twelve months have elaps- ed since our interpid countryman reach- ed Cairo fresh from the marvelous expe- dition, the results of which he declared to be an extension of the Khedive's sway to the equator. and the establishment of a settled government which was to treat the slave trade as an abomination. We were somewhat skeptical at the thne, and ventured to question whether our coun- tryman's achievements were qnite so solid as he represented them, but the principal actor in a series of brilliant events has obvious advantages over his critics. Sir Samuel, in a letter which appears in yes- terdav's Times, now confesses to a knowl- edge of certain facts which should have induced him to be more cautious in vouching tor the Khedives personal anx- iety to see the slave trade extiuguished. He complains that one About Saood, who, at the head of \2 cut-throats,\ had long been engaged in this traffic, anti who did his utmost to thwart the expedi- tion, has been appointe d by the Khedive to be agent or rig,ht-hand man of Colonel Gordon, who had succeeded Sir Samuel Baker in a task which it will take years to accomplish, assuming that it will ever be carried out. This Abou Saood very black , indeed, as he is here painted. Setting aside a few ugly murders whielt are charged to him, it is, to say the least, significant that only in June last year, when Sir Samuel was allowing it to be telegraphed to the tour corners of the earth that the slave trade throughout the Nile Basin was extinguished, he had overtaken on his homeward voyage to Khartoum three vessels belonging . to this man with 700 slaves on board. -Thus,\ writes our countryman, \while I had been strenuously working against the slave trade in the south, the arch slave trader, Abou Saood, was carrying down masses of slaves behind my back by the north.\ Nor was this all. The com- mander of one ot these slave boats told Sir Samuel that he and others \were in the habit of bribing the Governor of Fashoda and passing cargoes of slaves\ during Sir Saniuel's absence. All this is quite credible, and the only wonder is that, knowing all this, Sir Samuel should have stated so positively that the slave trade was really at an end. When he lett Egypt it was with a distinct promise that Abou Sttood should be brought to trial, and his eyes appear to have been opened by the tact that the man has been promoted ills - teat! of being punished. We fear that so long as -domestic sla- very\ is regarded with so much favor among Mohammedans, the efforts to stamp out the slavo trAtle will only be partially successful.—Manchester Exami- n(r. alle • Gov. Moses of South Carolina in his recent speech at Sumter devoted a large portion of his remarks to an exposition oi the rasealities practised by his prede- cessors in office, Gov. Scott. and his con- federates in public robbery. This has excited some surprise, as they are or the same political faith as Moses. who work- ed harmoniously with them while the Scott administration was in power. Ills object, however, is easily understood. One of the principal personages in the Scott kang was D. II. Chamberlain. At- torney -General, who was implicated in nearly all the finaneial Operations which first gave to the carpet -bag politieians of South Carolina the peculiar reputation which they possess. Now Chamberlain is the most conspicuoue of the candi- dates who hope to sw teed Moses. and is strongly suspected that President Grant's pretense ot indignation above the dis- honesty of the present Governor is all put ou tiff the purpose of helping Cham- berlain. Such beilig the the case, Moses took the tirst opportunity that offered to think both Grant and Cleunberlain, and he did it very neatly. ---1.---4,--tat.-- :RESTITZ•TION OF LANDS. The people are getting - back part of the immense land grants lavished upon the railroads by Con!rress. These lands are lapsing to the national domain because of the failure of some of the speculations to which they had been granted. When these failures to comply with their con- tracts were first reported, a perspicacious official decided that no lands once given away could revert to the Government without Congressional action, but Attor- ney -General Williams upset his nonsense. and for that act he is entitled to commen- dation. Statistics show that already 3.106.784 acres of land have been recover- ed under this decision. We do not see in the list the lands granted to the de- tlinet Copperopolis Railroad in this State. and it is not therefore complete. There is a chance beside for a forfeiture of most of the lands granted to the Northern Pa- cific. That institution made an effort at the last Congn ss to get the Government practically to loan it one hundred mill- ions of dollars on its land grant, but it was not a. good year for subsidies, and the scheme fell through. We do not be- lieve that the conditions will be more favorable at the next session, or in the next Congress, and as a coneequence a large portion of these ;ands will f,t11 to the settler whenever he moves to these regions.—San Francisco Bulletin. Old John Harper was buried lately in the family burial ground on the farm where he resided. In accordance with his request he was buried without relig- ious ceremony or other formality. There were, however, present at his interment forty of fifty of his neighbors. who assem- bled to pay respect to the memory of their old friend. He left the homestead, including six hundred aeres of the finest blue grass land in Kentueky, together with all his race horses (including Long- fellow). to his nephew, khown me \Little Frani:, Ira rper.\ THE MADISONIAN, —IS— PUBLISHED I. i RI ; PAT I Y — AT— Virginia City, - Montana. THOMAS DEYARMON Editor and Proprietor. Papers ordered to any address ran be changed to another Address attlio option of the ancseriber. Remittance by draft. check. money order or registered letter may be sea t at oar risk. THE MADISONIAN is devoted te the advocacy of the principlec of the Democratic party and to general and local news EDUCATION IN SAN FRANCISCO It is an anxiom in sociology that that commnnity which pays the highest res gard to the education and general eleva- tion of woman is the most advanced in all that pertains to civilization and human enlightenment. Perhaps it would not do to apply this standard rigidly to as small communities as municipal corporations. But even here it ought to go for a good deal. We have the authority of the Phil- adelphia Age tor the statement, which we have partially verified from the census tables, that the number of illiterate wom- en in proportion to the number of illiter- ate men is in New York and Philadelphia more than two to one, in St. Louis as nine to seven, in Boston anti Baltimore as two to one in Cincinnati as five to two, in New Orleans, as eight to live, in San Francisco as four to three, in Louis- ville as three to two, and in Pittsburg :18 very nearly two to one. Next to St. Louis, San Francisco makes - the best ex- hibit ot any of the cities named. The sat- isfaction to be derived from this showing jA augmented when it is borne in mind that among persons of eighteen years and under the proportion of the illiterate is smaller than in any other large city in the Union. There never was a city that grew up with as great rapidity as San Francisco whose edueational facilities kept pace so well with its material pro- gress as has been the case with us. Alit' it is to the credit of our people that they have availed themselves so freely of the opportunity afforded to make this the best educated city in America. A SINGULAR GEOLOGICAL FREAK . In the bottom of the main shaft of the Virginia City Coal Company, El Dorado canyon, Lyon county, has been encount- ered the trunk of a large tree, four feet in diameter—a lone relie of an ancient and extinct forest. Where cut through by this shaft, the old tree is found to be perfectly carbonized—turning into coal. Outside the old log is completely crusted over with iron pyrites, many of whieli are so bright that the crystals shine like diamonds. These crystals also extend into the body ot the log, tilling what were once cracks or wind -shakes, and even forming clusters about what was once the heart of the tree. This relic of an old time forest lies tar below the two veins of coal the company are about to open, The finding of this old trunk is evidence! that that country was at eine: time, ages and ages ago. eoverered by a forest or large trees, though the native timber growth. when the country was first visi- ted by the whites, and as far back as the traditions of the Indians extend, was but a scrubs - species of nut pine. A few miles from the shaft in which the carbon- ized tree was found are to be seen on the surface the petrified remains of many large trees. the early days of Washoe, before the prospectors had broken them np for specimens, pieces ot tree-trunkS, two or three feet in diameter, and twenty or thirty feet in length, were to be seen lying upon the e surtliee of the ground. However. these trees, and even the one fotnel in the bottom of the shaft of the coal mine, may 11:1Ve come from the foot- hills of the Sierra Nevada. moutitains— may have drifted out when seas of water covered our present valleys. The water lines visible on the hills show that the whole country was filled with lakes, and the petrified trees lying here and there on the surface of the ground probably floated out on the surface of the extinct lakes, and tiredly sank to the bottom in the places where they are now intim!. ----40-1••••-110-0•113100—.--- BICH SILVER ORE. An unexpected and very important change has taken place in the lowest workings of the Silver Lake mi ne. eittia- ted southeast of Dayton, in the direction of Walker river. The vein upon and near the surface contained very rich ar- gentifigours galena. It has been opened - by means of two tunnels and for SUMO time paet ore has been hipped from it fer smelting. The !fret lot was shipped to the smelting flu -mice of an English company at Truckee and was tOund to pay well; now they are shipping it to a, new furnace, at Sacramento, at the rate of two car -loads per day. John B. Wint- ers, a principal owner in the mine, yes- terday returned from a visit to it and brings in sonic specimens of ore jest found in the deepest workings from the lower tunnel, which show the commence - went of a most hnportant and wonderful change. Native silver is coming in and is to be seen covering the ore in bright and beautiful scales. The flakes of silver are to be seen not only upon the galena but are also in spots of brown decompose- ed material resembling iron-rnet. The galena upon which the flakes of silver appear Is not the bright cupical galena found in the upper portions of the vein. but is a black, massive ore, in which the distinct crystalization of galena is not obtained. It looks more like a tine -grain- ed black sulph ret ore than anything else. The miners (who are only conversant with the galena ores of this State we pre- sume) are very much astonished at seeing this native silver coming in, and declare that the like was never before seen. The like may never have been seen in the mines of Nevada„ but among the m i nes of Mexico some of those richest in native silver produced argentiferoue galena on the surface.—Virginia Enterprise. The coming international rifle match between the American and Irish teams is exciting much interest in NeW York, and sonic enthusiastic individuals are of- fering to wager heavily on the success ot the American team. The managers. how- ever, do not feel so sanguine. and consid- er that the charices will he in favor of the visiting team, who hare had much more practice at long range than our marke- men. There are three or four 04 the Ameriean team whom it will be ditlietilt to beat, but the general average is a.. y, to low to allow much confistenre of vic- tory.
