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CHE MADISONIAN. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21.1474. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Ye 'in adrAnce ar ix Months three Months \ $5 90 250, 150 ADVERTISING RATES. 'THE MADISONIAN, as an advertising sedium. is equal to any paper in Montana. 1,21 11 1 A 40) 310 SO , ,••••• 0 1. I I ..sti A A t I c S te- I to- zzl In et -14 ow , 14 Inch... Inches 3 Inches t Inches 6 Inches 13 Inches .!5 Inches $3 5 7 10 18 10 $5 8 9 11 12 24 40 $7 9 ii 12 15 30 50 se $10•$1:) 10 12 14 18 31 55 12 Al 13 17 24 40 65 25 30 3) 55 75 $201$25 301 40 37 55 45 70 65 90 90 140 150 250 The abot`..! scale of prices is for ordinary sin - display advertising. Solid and ;Abukir a4isertisements will be charged at the seal rate l'or space occupied. LOCAL NOTICES, Fifteen cents per line for trrst, and ten cents Ira- line for each adolitional insertion. CARDS, ,)n -half inch, $2 fur one insertion; $3 for two insertions; $8 per quarter; $16 per year. The foregoing schedule of prices will be srrictly adhered to. All advertisements counted in Nonpareil measure. kr 013 PRINTING, AM every 41e:icription, executed in the best and neatest style. and on reasonable terms. Ar\' 7 - 4 - .1r1 }Net ;Fr: - A! . Any one who takes a paper regiklarly from the Postotfice—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 mast pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and col itet the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken from the otliee or not. 3. The courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers or periodicals from the l'istoffiee, or removing and leaving them un- called for, is prima facia evidence of intention- al fraud. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN, ittorney and t ounNelor at Law, Radersberg, Montana Territory. HENRY F. WILLIAMS, Att'y & Counselor at Law, VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE o'ser the Post Officer. J. E. CALLAWAY, Attorne,y und Co - un- selov at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, adjoining the °ince of the Secre- tary of the Territory E. . TOOLE: . . K. TOOL. TOOLE & TOOLE. Attorneys :At 1 - 1 - 1 - vv.. HELENA, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. TORN T. SHOTIER. T. J. LOWERY. SHOBER & LOWERY, Attorneys and coun- selors at Law. HELENA, M. T. V11 nrac ti ee in all the Curt a of Montana. - SAMUEL WORD, Attorney at 11.aw. VIRGINIA CITY. M. T. JAMES G. SPR ATT, ‘..ttorney and ( - Amu- selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. will practice in all the Courts of Montana. R . W . H L. Attorney at Lia,W, G ALLATIN CITY, M. T. W. F. SANDERS, Attorney and Coun- selor- at Lialv. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C. W. TURNER, A. NS - - 5. 7 \ 1-1. , VIRGINIA CITY, X. T. OFFICE: Adjoining - Colonel Callaway's. WM. F. K I R KWOOD, 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. VIRGINIA CITY, M NTANA. OFFICE, at the Law Office of J. E. Calla - A ESQ., until further notice. I. C. SMITH, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Office at the Old Le Beau Stand, Wallace -:.eet where he can be found night or day E. T. YAGER, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Will practice in all branolies. Office one door above the City Drug Store. u. BARKLEY, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. RADERsBuRG, M. T. H AS had twenty-one years' experience in in his profession—four years of that time ki surgeon in the Confederate army. He is pre - Wed to perform all kinds of surgery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- t r n r c ii t t o i r s y not . surpassed by P hYsiciall in the TO THOSE WHO HAVE VENEREAL COmpLAINTS.—Gonorrhea, if called upon Within five days after the first appearance, he will 4tire in seventy-two hours. In Syphilis , hC care in five days. treatment is different frrin any ph3-si- -Ian in this 'territory. He is prePared for Cleansing Extracting ,and Filling Teeth. C. S. ELLIS IT AVIENG taken an interest in the Drug Department of A . ilinchael' tore at Silver Star, Montana,can I 9 11nd at all times, day and night, at said wheu not absent on professional busi- ness. 1-28tf 0 .B. WHITFORD, M. PitYllici an and Surgeon, DEER LODGE. Day ...MONTANA . , VOL. 1. DOWN BY THE SEA. Tired and sick of the dusty town. Longing for quiet, I hurried down, Hoping to find sweet Lilian free— ree to accept my love and me, Down by the sea. Twice I had asked her to be mine— Had been refused by her each time— I thought so deep was still my love I'd try once more her heart to move, Down by the sea. I read her name in the register, Took tea, then went in quest of her; But learned by some young people's talk Sire had gone upon the beach to walk, Down by the sea. I had conne-I my love speech o'er and o'er I meant to kneel upon the shore, Then, with the pathos of despair, Beg her to love or kill me there, Down by the sea. - My o m ass: As hotly o'er tine patn i pres.seu ; I saw a white -robed figure stand Tracing some letters on the sand, Down by the sea. Perhaps my name was written there, And by that hand so wondrous fair! Now would I end all doubt, and see What fortune had in store for me, Down by the sea. Softly I crept up to the place— So dark I scarce could see her face— \ Oh, Lillian!\ cried I, franticly, \Pity a wretch who dies for thee,\ Down by the sea. As down I plumped upon the sand, Pressing hot kisses on her hand, A sooty face looked into mine - 1 knew the cook in \just no time,\ Down by the sea. A pair of lips of monstrous size Muttered some words of sweet surprise, While I, with dizzy brain and sick, Sought my hotel in \double quick,\ Down by the sea. I left for town that very night, Of Lilian never got a sight; She's ma:Tied niw, ant far away, While I'm a bachelor to -day, Down by the sea. THE HITHER SIDE. BY JOHN W. CHADWICK. Climbing the mountain's shaggy crest, I wondered much what sight would greet My eager gaze whene'er my teet Upon the topmost height should rest. The hither side was all unknown; But as I slowly toiled along, Sweeter to me than any song, My dream of visions to be shown. Meantime the mountain shrubs distilled Their sweetness all along my way, And the delicious summer day My heart with rapture overfilled. At length the topmost height was gained; The hither side was full in view; My dreams—not one of them was true, But better far had I attained. For far and wide on either hand With greenness flashing everywhere— A pleasant, smiling, home -like land. Who knows, I thought,but so 'twill prove Upon that mountain -top of death, Where we shall draw diviner breath, And see the long -lost friends we love? It may not be as we have dreamed, Not half so awful, strange and grand; A quiet, peaceful, home -like land, Bettcr than e'er in vision gleamed. Meanwhile along our upward way What beauties lurk, what visions glow! Whatever shall be, this we know Is better than our lips can say. —Christian Union. THE DEVIL AND THE LAWYERS. The devil came up to the earth one day, And into the court he wended his way Just as the attorney, with very grave face, Was proceeding to argue the points in a case. Now a lawyer his majesty never had seen, For to his dominions none ever had been, And he felt very anxious the reason to know, Why none had been sent to the regions below. 'Twas the fault of his agents his majesty tho't, That none of these lawyers had ever been caught And for his own pleasure he felt a desire To come to the earth and the reason inquire. Well, the lawyer who rose, with a visage grave, Made out his opponent a consummate knave; And Satan felt considerably amused To hear the attorney so badly abused. But soon's the speaker had come to a close, The counsel opposing him fiercely arose, And heaped such abuse on the head of the first, That made him a villian of all men the worst. Thus they quarreled, contended and argued so long, 'Twas hard to determine which of them was wrong; And concluding he'd heard enough of the fuss, Old Nick turned away and soliloquized thus: \They've puzzled the court with their villain- ous cavil, And, I'm free to confess it, they 've puzzled the devil, My agents were right to let lawyers alone. If I had them they'd swindle i,e out of my throne ' 3 ll•••• CORNS. Soft eons are cured by warm water bath ings and buckskin protectors, and no partings are necessary. Hard corns on the top of the toes, at the joints, can al- ways be removed in two or three days by simply soaking the feet hi warm wa- ter for about twenty minutes, night and morning, rubbing the corn with the end of the ringer while under the water. This hastens the softening, and in a day or two the kernel can be picked out with the finger nail. If the corn is shaved oil the roots deepen; beside. troublesome bleedings sometimes follow, and in sever- al cases have ended fatally. A bit of cotton saturated with oil and bound upon the corn over night. facilitates the softening. ama-•--aas. An experienced statistician has esti- mated that 25 per cent. of the labor- ing classes in the country are to -day out of employment. Every merchant and manufacturer and employer, besieged as they all are by frequent applicants for work, can judge approximately of the ac- curacy of this estimate. This would give us not far from 3,000,000 of unemployed persons. At two dollars per diem, three hundred clays a year, these persons should earn eighteen hundred millions of dollars annually. Their idleness is so much loss to the country. That is near- ly the amount Of the National debt. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1874. HOMES, OLD AND NEW. A writer ia a late number of !tamer's Monthly ha l furnished a good ill 1st rated sketch of the ancient town of Porths- mouth, N. H. It was a faineus town be- fore the war of the revolution. There Washington once enjoyed i hose italitv. notables were entertained. This town fitly represents the homes of a century ago. The best of these have, been pre- served intact, Whatever else we have gained in the way of house handing, we have gained little on the sce re of space and comfort. The broad oaken stair- case, with its easy tread, carrying one to the specious chambers without fatigue, and the broad fire -places have disappear- ed. The cheap modern houee is more comfortable thanve -3 a cheap heese in olden times. But te mansihee Vtf °lieu tip t o e havini s jittle ee „,of,t;..ars - of elegance a:id cointort within. We may finish the feistier!' house Nvita cedar, but the old one had oaken beams, curieus carvings, and a mantle -piece which was the glory of the house. The broad tire -place insured also good veatilation. One cannot look through at, old house of this kind with- out having the best evidence that our ancestors knew how to live. They had small bank accoants, but well -stocked leaders. The great house, with its am- ple foreground, its immense stack of chimneys, its wide balls and doorways, stands for all that was best in a home. It symbolized rest, hospitality, comfort and family induence. 1 In the place of the old mansion we have the smalt. obtrusive house, over- loaded with teretricious ornament on the exterior, aid set off with overmuch stucco withhe There are narrow stairs, basements whkh smed of the ground, small grates,or none it all. The mod- ern house is ihnsy, indicating segregat- ed families aid a tramition state. The owner has not \builded better than he knew.\ But he may bt off to -morrow, and if he is building for strangers why should he built in any eiduring way. The modern house is oily a piece of merchandise, :o change lands when a good oiler is made. The house of oak was built to last centuries. The house of pine and red -wood may lest, by care- f u l watenhg, a quarter of a century. Singtdarlyenough the occupant likes it all the better because it is not to le per- manent. The perpetuated family isnow more a tradition than it ever was before. The house, therefore, is adapted to the present use awl is temporary. Of course, many conveniences have been introduc- ed into the modern house which were not known in the olden time. Thesooking- range has taken the place of tie open tire -place and the spit; gas dsplaces whaic-Oil, unit the modern pump !eel faucet displaces the creaking - well - sweep. The gain in this transition, after all, enures largely to people who have small means. The great house of ante -revolu- tionary times, with its oaken beams. while it represented a large degree of comfort, till also represent wealth, just as the spacious house now represents it. But there has never been a time when, perhaps, so many comforts could be in- troduced into the small house for so lit- tle money. The rich have few houses which surpass those of a century ago in space, strength, or even solid elegance. But the laboring classes have tar 'setter houses and they are better fed and cloth- ed. What has apparently been lost in one direction has been gained in another. No more mansions of oak with broad stair -cases, wide halls, and quaint carv- ings. But thick clustering houses every- where, built with the utmost economy of space and with \all the modern improve- ments.\ REFORM IN LADIES DRESSES. There has lately been current in this city a rumor of improbable and yet so delightful that most men tear to investi- gate it lest it may vanish in the process. It is asserted, perhaps in quarters to san- guine to be trustworthy, that ladies are serieusly thinking of wearing dresses which they can walk in. For the last year the promenade has been a fortune to ans woman who respects - herself a little. Her dress drags all the way around, and the train thereof follows her for a foot or so. She must either make it loathsome by dragging it though the filth or she must hold it up with both hands. If she attempts this delicate and fatiguing office with one, tired nature soon asserts itself, and somewhere or other a fold of thc idiotic garment drops into the mud. It is generally known that the female hu- man has but two hands, and it both of these are filled with superfluous raiment, the management of the parasol, the por- temonnie, the alt dozen bundles of dry goods a'nd pound of confectionary, with- out which a street costume is incomplete, becomes a matter of some difficulty. The unassisted male intellect can see no way out of this trouble except the short- ening of the peccant skirts. But we do not envy the fate of the rash man who should suggest it. He w!ll be told he has no taste, no preceptima of style, no re- gard for the pure intuitions of woman. If he shall say that a fe W years ago wom- en wore lovely short dresses and look- ed like angels in them, he will be met with the crushing reply that \a few years ago\ is not to -day. None of these severe votaries of fashion, however, seem to see that they are evading her decrees in hold- ing up their dresses. The milliners com- p( 1 them to wear these long robes, so that they way get muddy and wear out sooner, and it is disloyal to try to save them from this fate. But what avails preaching? The only thing that call curtail the street robe is a movement, a convention with orations and poems, with chairmen and vice-presidents, and impassioned orators from Boston and Brooklyn to fire the advanced heart, and denounce Capital and Privilege.—N. Y. Tribune. THE BENEFIT OF PLAIN LAN GUAGE. There is no more powerful moral re- generator than plain Saxon. When a community gets to calling theft irregu- larity, malfeasance hi office confiding in- nocence, and grand larceny misappropri- ation, we may rest assured that official dishonesty is rite ir it. There are some people who cannot recognize a thief un- der any of the euphemisms now so com- mon. The power of words is greater than is generally supposed. It has given rise to the traditional saying: \What is in a name.\ The lower class of knaves come to grief not 'infrequently because they are not adroit enough in getting up verbal disguise. One of them steals a coat, and if he cannot make it appear that the mysterious vendor from whom Lie had recently eserchased it was a real s eh -. ot :•C -1 bones, he is ea.eier- ed as a malefactor and is sent to jail. The man who deftly filches your purse, if caught in the act, is pronounced a thief, but the more dangerous rascal who thrusts hands up to the elbows into the public treasury, tries to cover his crime with the phrase, \ misappropriation of the public funds.\ If he should go, as he often does, unwhipped of justice, no stigma attaches to his name, while the door is slammed in the face of the lesser criminal because he was endowed with 110 philological skill. We notice now generally throughout the country a re- turn to the vigorous language which gives the old designations to the old crimes. It is not unusual to find the man who has been proved unfaithful hi high station designated a rogue. One would suppose, however, that the branding ca- pacity of plain English was losing its power when William Pitt Kellogg is found rising in a perfectly passionless manner to prove, by delusive figures. that he is not a thief. We miss, to be sure, the indignation, real or affected, which any man pretending to a moral elevation above that of the penitentiary ought to exhibit. But that marks rather the depth of the degredation that has reached than the fitilure of the power of direct, plain language. We have need for the use of some of the old-fashioned verbal directness in this community at the present time. We have now quiee a number of public rogues on our hands. When the devel- opments which, it is hoped, will bring them to justice were first made there was a very marked tendency to cover up criminality with tine -spun phrases. The crop of irregularities and misappropria- tions was getting to be quite large, but it won't do. TiiE FUTURE GLORY OF NEVADA. lecture N es c o tt r io ro n:: lasltnetvhcen re to ct n a l a n r o ‘ t st elo- quently depicted the future splendor and prosperity of Nevada when the enter- prising men of the State shall inaugurate an extensive system of irrigation. Many of his auditors may have supposed that the gentleman was indulging in a vis- ionary rhapsody; but those who are fa- miliar with the history of Peru, Mexico, Chile, and or the ancient Persia, Pales- tine, and Idumea, can readily see that the Professor was not drawing upon his imagination for either facts orprecedents. From time to dine during the past year, we have repeatedly alluded to the extra- ordinary natural fertility of the soil of Nevada, and urged upon our citizens the advantages Willeh would certainly follow an extensive system of irrigation. Owing to the absence of sheltering trees our hills and valleys are exposed to the full sweep of dessicating winds, which so rapidly evaporate the moisture or the land, that nothing but greasewood and the desert -loving artemisa call maintain a footing in the soil. For this reason the copious rains and snow falls of our pro- tracted Whiter seasons lose their fructify- ing force, and the country remains an un- fruitful force, although i the surface soil of the entire State is known to possess chemical qualities eminently capable of rendering it as productive as the most fa- vored portion of the continent, provided it could receive a permanent supply of moisture. As Profesor Denton truthfully remark- ed, our natural facilities for irrigation are unsurpassed anywhere in the world. Our valleys and plains are at every point sur- rounded by everlasting reservoirs of wa- ter, and all that is required to transform the arid wastes of Nevada into a fruitful paradise is an ample system of irrigation. —Virginia City Chronicle. osa--10--ea 5. Is4)i70111 ON TIME MUMIIES. A correspondent of the London Times, writing from Alexandria, facetiously re- marks: '* Fancy mutton fattened on an- cient Egyptians! The other day, at Sak- hara, I saw nine camels pacing down from the mummy pits to the bank of the river, laden with nets, in which were fe- mora. tibia, and other bony bits of the human form, some two hundred weight in each net, on each side of the camel. Among the pits there were people busi- ly engaged in searching out, sifting and sorting the bones which almost crust the ground. On inquiry, I learned that the cargoes the camels were laden with would he sent down to Alexandria, and thence to be shipped to English manure manufacturers. They make excellent manure, I am told, particularly for Swedes and other turnips. The trade is brisk, and has been going on for years, and may go on for many more. It is a strange fate—to preserve one's skeleton for thousands of years in order that there may be fine Southdowns and Chevois in a distant law!! But Egypt is always a place of wonders.\ assa-o-aaa A Western farmer says that wood wil last longer than iron in the ground, it painted with a preparation of boiled lin-1 seed oil and pulverized charcoal. Posts can be prepared in this way for less than two cents apiece, and they will last longer than a lifetime. ERRORS OF SPEECH. A pleasant letter -writer, comparing the merits of the pen and the . tengue as interpreters of the mind, give the palm to the former as the more faithful of the two, arguing that the tongue, being seat- ed in a moist and slippery place, is apt to fall in her sudden extemporal exnees- sions, while the pen, having a greater ad- vantage of premeditation, is not o liable to err. The pen is no immaculate ser- vant; it does now and again betray its master and behave as if it were an inde- pendent creature, but it certainly is more obedient than the toogue. That often resembles a timid racer, capable of doing wonders at home, but when called upon to exercise its powers in public, either bringing its owner to grief by bolting out of the course, cr stubbornly refusieg to budge from the post. The gentleman whe ..—hearsed his speech in a cabbage garden found his tongue run glibly enough there, but before a living aud- ience all he could say was: \Gentlemen I see you are not cabbages!\ Christo- pher North declared that no one, hearing him in public, could have the slightest conception what a magnificent speaker he found himself when quiet alone; and no doubt the House of Commons lost a fine oration when the tongue of a mem- ber, well primed with wine, refused to say more than \Sir I am astonished!\— All the Year Round. ABSINTHE. A Paris correspondent says: \The other day, I saw a sad sight on the Champs Elysees, and which with all my experience of Parisian life, I never saw in the city before. It was a party of three persons, two men and a woman, all well—nay, even handsomely—dressed, and all three in a reeling, beastly state of intoxication. The men went staggering along, disputiug and gesticulating after the manner of drunken tnen generally, now and then stopping to hail the pass- ing unoccupied carriages, no one of which would stop for them, while the woman reelect along in company, some - tunes clutching wildly at the arms of one oilier companions, and at other times stopping to address them in words of tip- sy remonstrance. She was handsomely dressed in a costume of black silk and cashmere, trimmed with Jet, while her companions wore high hats, broadcloth suits, and kid gloves. Finally, the par- ty made up their minds to cross the street—a difficult teat for anybody to at- tempt to execute in the full possession of their senses, so dense is the throng of passing carriages, and so rapidly are they driven, but the drunken trio got across somehow, and disappeared among the crown of promenaders. Such is a speci- 'Rea m , br tee lapse of a few years hi the manners'aiiu toms of this peodle. Before theintroduc- tion of absinthe, who ever saw a drunken person in the streets of Paris? Now, who is it that does not see them? Not drunkenness in rage alone, but drunken- ness with godly apparel, and mien of ought -to -be respectability.\ A BRAVE LITTLE GIRL. A gentleman who was on the ill-fated Pat Rogers states that while he was state iing on the forward part of the boat making ready to sprit'. jar) the water . . he heard one of the officers of the boat tell a lady, who was standing near him with a little girl, that the time had come when she must hetet hereell to the water. The lady, writing to her little daughter, inquired if she could summon courage to jump into the water. The little girl glanced at the approaching dames, then at the water, and responded in a firm voice that she would jump if mother would follow her. The mother assured her that she would leap in after her. The officer threw a mattress overboard and told the girl to jump toward it. Without a moment's hesitation the heroic child leaped into the dark and swiftly - gliding water, the mother instantly fol- lowing, but both at once sank to rise no more. There were grown women, and even strong men, who sank back from the whirling waters, almost pee - tering to perish in the flames to trusting them elves to its treacherous embrace. But this brave child saw the situation, and appre- elating the out: means of escape present- ed bade her mother follow, and boldly flung herself into the raging thou -I. Such heroic resolution is not often exhibited, and the Nvorld has lost a courageous wo- man in this dead child.—Louisville Cou- rier -Journal. Berlin, the capital of the German Em - pin', ranks now as the third city in Eu- rope in point of p pulation, and the first as regards rapidity of - growth. In 1832 Berlin only contained 238,000 people. On the 1st of Decenif er, 1867, it contain- ed 703.437 inhabitants; and four years later. viz: December 1, 1871, it number- ed 728,441. To -day including the garri- son, it falls but a few thousand short ot one million souls thus ranking next at - ter London and Paris. Its growth is pro- ceeding at the pace of 50,000 per anntun, requiring yearly the construction of 5,000 new buildings to accommodate the people and their children. Stokes has comparatively an easy time at Sing Sing. He wears the prison garb; is locked up in his cell at night, but does not go outside of the prison walls; he is scarcely more confined than any ordina- ry clerk in a New York mercantile hoase. His hair, cut short when he entered the prison, is drifting away from the Peni- tentiary style, aril his beard is allowed to grow. He was in the hospital, where he had his quarters night and day, but he is now in the buckle department. where he is clerk and proves himself an expert book-keeper. He says lie has not been in as good health for years. The redemption of National Bank notes has been temporarily suspended. 'The verdict of the Coroner's jury upon theFall River disaster is certainly not a whitewashing report so far as it deals with the means available ter the preven- lien 9f such a fearful calamity. The Fire Department conies under the most unfa- vcrable criticism, thus virtually bearing out the charges that were made upon the spot at the time that the disaster took place There were other deficiencies also, such as the lack of water, for which the big drought of the season might be in par, responsible, awkward means of es- cape fir those employed, panic among the operati-es, etc. Looking at the fearful fate of so many human beings at this dis- tance of time and space, and judging by the light which the exhaustive inquest has throw.' upon the subject, it seems as if the shocking disaster might and ought to have been plevente.1 th the average in- stinct ef caution. But censure should bn visited lightly upon those who may seem to be eirectly responsible. The testimo- ny has shown that none of the employers or responsible officers of the mill display- ed any of tie inhumanity that has been hinted at. lilt, on the contrary, at the dine did al in their power to save the poor operitives from the dreadful doom that impinded. Long immunity from serious axident, and an imperfect reali- zation a' the dangers that threatened, must actount for the deficient precau- tions tint had been taken. For what has passed .he regrets of those who are or who mar appear responsible will be more saddenlig than anything an outside judg- ment las a right to suggest. But the lesson for the future is a solemn one, which city governments and mill owners shouh study with the closest attention. Then must be a remedy for the dangers that atenace life under such circumstan- ces, aid humanity demands that thor- ough , precaution should be the primary consderation in future. • FOREIGN NEWS SUMMARY. A disturbance recently occurred in the Catholic Cathedral at Jamaica. The Priest tore the Cuban colors from the cof- fin af a patriot, refusing to permit the in- troduction of politics into the Catholic service. A scuffle ensued, and the priest was assaulted end pushed off the platform en which the coffin rested 1 he Aus- trian Government will dispatch an expe- dition to the Arctic regions next year to ascertain whether the land discovered by the expedition just returned, and pained Franz Joseph's Land, is a portion of the continent or an island. The expedition will be divided, one-half going by way of Siberia, and the other half by way of Greenland Fighting iii the Province of Navarre between Carlists and the Re- publican ..„ t ., r i o a tmpf ,, under General Moi'iones t o la n y s c:: t i -- ns n u l' rg 'k e i nn t 7 s d w a a 3 s , continuedtwenty-two o b n a t F t a r l attacked General Moriones' army at Ber- sain, near the town of Tafilla. A san- guinary conflict ensued, resulting in the repulse of the Carlists along the whole line. Their loss was very heavy, and they were compelled to ask the .Republi- cans for medical assistance An insur- rection has broken out at Buenos Ayres, in consequence of the alleged fraudulent conduct of the late Presidential election. General Mitre is at the head of the insur- gents Advices from the North of Spain say there are signs of time breaking up of the Carlist army. Several insurgent leaders have surrendered, and it is report- ed others vere shot by order of Don Car- ies tor demanding a cessation of hostili- ties Ad vices from Turkestan report the nal ives on the Amu Darl River were hurrying the harvest. Mieehiel was br2wing. The Tekenen tribes displayed eostility to the Russians Four tons of gimpowder on a barge in Regent's Canal, Lemion, exploded on Friday morning, kiting seven persons and wounding inaly, and shattering the bridges anti hotses in t, c vicinity. The report o theexplosion was heard at a distance of tweitv miles from the place where the expbsion occurred. Sevei al persons died from fright. Lights in the railway sta- tion aid other buildings two miles away were extinguished by the concussion. A lumber of animals in the Zoological Gardeas were killed. The disastrous e1 feet were widespread. Many trees were nprooted. and houses located two miles distant from the canal were shattered The Emperor Franz Joseph has deeorat- ed all the members of the Arctic Explor- ing Expedition. including the sailors A conspiracy for the overthrow of the reigning- dynasty of Servia has been dis- covered. Many arrests have been made am ii arms have been seized. Ex -Prince Karageorgewiek iG beliovod ti the prime instigator of the movement The direct telegra ph Lie eable between England and the United States parted and was lost atter 600 kno r.... ts had been laid. 4 THE EMMA MINE IN COTIZT. [From the Salt Lake Herald, September 27.] 011 Thursday evening the Emma mine was attached, at the suit of the County Collector, to secure the payment of taxes to ths amount of $4,100. The recent vieit of Hon. T. W. Park to this city has also borne its fruit. He instituted two suics against the Emma Company for an ameunt aggregating $120,962 37. One is for 5110.000, money alleged to have been I advanced to the Company by Park pre- vious to December 1, 1872. The other is for $10,962 37, said to be due on a prom- issory note, given by the Company to D. C. Haskin, of the Illinois Tunnel Compa- ny. The latter suit is brought by Mr. Park as Director of the New York Loan and Indemnity Company. Early yester- day morning attachments for the above amounts were levied on the mines. Nineteen States will elect United States Senators this winter, including Vermont, Maine, Indiana, Nebraska, West Virgin- ia. Louisiana. Delaware, Florida, Massa- chusetts. Michigan . , Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Penn- s lN y r i s v e kt o n ii i a si Zuth Carolina, Tennessee, and NO. 50 SPIRITUALISM. Perhaps el one knows more of spirit- ualism that Brick Pomeroy. For him it wrecked t pleasant home, and drove from his door one of the loveliest of wo - men, anti a harmiee- daueliter. It hurl- ed him fron. a high position, and robbed him of his we elth. His experience is aimilar to tint of h andreds of others, and the followioe is his present opinion, which more than one aching heart \lin itill ` Y We in l ( r i° iN r : studied the phenomena of Spiritualstn (or years. Have given it much ef time end wseks of thought. Have nixed with mediums, sat in circles, listened to wonderful things, seen strange sights and startling experiences, but do not know that we are one whit better, braver e: eiere heesst .n before, en- teria' ago- Aiociare4-Liation. The lessons learned in the lap of the . good women who taught us of the Bi- ble, have stood us better in all the bat- tles of lite and conflict with corruption, than has all the knowledge yet obtained through spiritualism. The Bible taught us that the soul was immortal. Spirit- ualism does nothing more. The Bible tells us to he pure, upright, virtuous and united in faith with those who are work- ers for immortality and upright walkers on the road ot life. Spiritualism leads to Free Love, adul- tery and infidelity. It is in and of itself a puzzle; an enigma; a mass of disinte- grated rubeish; very much of the order of reghtmare, as eliminated by those of its mountebanks who stand at the head of the Spiritualistic Society of the United States. The truth and beauty there is in it is so wrapped up in Free Love, Free Lust, froth and nastiness, that lie who believes that cleanliness is next to Godli- ness cannot touch the unclean thing and be in communion with its chief officers. Spiritualism claims several millions of followers in this country, and yet is not strong enough to elect a virtuous or res- ponsible person as the head of its organi- zation. It has no churches, no college other than houses of prostitution, where its Hulls and Woodhulls can study fin - its ministry. It has no direct line of pol- icy, but is broken, twisted, fragmentary and at war against itself in all its teach- ings. It is a junkshop instead of a tem- ple. Its high priestess is a female who is mother, mistress and maw -worm combin- ed; who oppresses marriage and is an adulteress. One of its recognized captains is Mos- ses Hull, who left a decent ilunily after he became a Spiritualist, to practice and to preach adultery as a religion. Another of its leaders and brightest of its stink e wicks is a woman, who lived in a quiet home hi a pleasant village of Bradford County. Pa., as the happy wile of a promising lawyer, till she beeame a Spiritualist, drove her husband to suicide in a city of Northern Michigan, and then became a spiritual lamp carrier, under the name of Laura Guppy Smith. We could fill an entire page of this pa- per, fine type, with names of nasty men and women who have gone through the door of Spiritualism into the filth of Free Love and loaferishness; who are open and avowed adulterers. boasting their lives as in accordance with the tenets of Spirit tim! hisu n. That person who follows the direction of spirits speaking through mediums will be tboled four times out of live. Spirit- nalism_is not trutlifid, therefore it is not the thingtbr 'is to follow. though others may do as they please. Spiritualism is a loafer. Science is a gentleman. Relig- ion is the child of God, teaching purity. Let us judge Spiritualism by the \ilOW- ers\ its Ville has brought forth—by its Free Love advocates and lusty orators, anti see here it belongs.\ 4 THE OLD SONG. According - to the Sacramento Record. the people who arc plundered on the Pacific' Railroad by car -sharps are the real culprits. They try, in the opinion of that remarkable journal, to win the money of the innocent desperadoes, and failing, are entitled to no sympathy what- ever. In pursuance of this astonishing line of argument it places before its read- ers a very flattering portrait of \Slim Jim,\ who appears to be the leader of the gang of plunderers in question. A sort of Robin Hood is made of him, who gives with a liberal hand, is brave as a lion and gentle as a lamb, courteous and gentlemanly. Ifa really serious attempt should be made to connect the manage- ment of the railroad with the gang of villains Wil0 infest its ears, this article in the railroad organ could be brought for- ward with great power. Dm we only ie- gard it as :mother manifestation of the moral obliquity of the journal in which it was published. It always labors to make the victim appear to be the aggress- or. In the whole of the railroad fight it has assumed that it was the people who need restraining, and not the corpora- tions. A favorite line of argument with it has been that the masses were grossly corrupt and debauched, and the main ev- idence of the truth of the charge was the objections which they are making to railroad extortion. In the ethics of the Record the railroad is the most benefi- cent of modern institutions, always right and just in its administration, and in nothing more admirable than its skin- ning alive of all those who have dealings with it. If there were not courts from which redress can usually be obtained, no accident, involving the loss of life, could take place in which the Record would not find material to pitch into the per- son who had the unpardonable impu- dence to go and get mashed up beyomd recognition, and bring a great national enterprise into discredit. The Central Pacific Railroad is its latish. It wor- ships it every morning with an extrava- gance of self-degredation that is almost inconceivable. It cuts capers around it that are sufficient to make one blush for human nature. The whole range of rail- road interests, even down to railroad fancy horses. is taken in. If there were any railroad boots to black it would be .- 1 found hard at work at break of day. THE MADISON IAN, PUEI ISHYD EVERY g ATLRDtY —A 1— Virginia City, - Montan, THOMAS DEYARMON, Editor and Proprietor. Papers ordered to any address can be changed to another address t he option of the Sublwriber. Remittance by draft. check, money order or registered letter may beet I at our risk. I THE MAD1SONIAN ita devoted in the advocacy of the principles of the Denttea tto part v audio general and locs.l lie WS. NEWS ITEMS. Judge Benedict, in the case of the wife of Rev. Dr. Gallagher vs. The Steamboat State of New York, to recover the value of wearing apparel stolen from her while a act i)iaost7.nger on the vessel, decides that a married woman can legally tring such Plainfield, Conn., Is rejoicing over a romence of the most approval pattern. A. B. Cornell left that town he l61, poor, and a rejected suitor of a youag lady, and now has returned, very wealthy, to claim a ti ii i edals, i e ll l i , ng w:ho has changed her mind d is I ii N Seventeen Methodist preachers, belong- ing to one family—two great grandchild- ren, ten grandchildren. and the children of the late Luther Peck, et . SynteuSe. N. Y.—are to have a gatheria7 at the rest- -fit n of Mrs. Bi-h e s Peek, in that city, on tne 2D111 of Oei5ber. A new style of steamboat is projected in New Orleans. It is to be built ofiron, three hundred feet long, of six thousand tons capacity, and is expected to run twelve miles an hour either way, with a eo o n u s iti s . mption of less than one hundred tons of coal in a round trip from St. L The Gazette says that Von Arnitn's arrest is not connected with politics, but is simply a criminal proceedure, with which neither foreign office nor Chan- cellor were concerned. Since nitro-glycerine has been used as au explosive in the Hoosac Tunnel, in- stead of gunpowder, the accidents from explosion there are only one-third as nu- merous as the former average rates. The representation of Ohio in the For- ty-third Congress is divided into 13 Re- publicans, 6 Democrats, and 1 Liberal Republican; of Indiana, 10 Republicans and 3 Democrats; Iowa, 9 Republicans; Nebraska, 1 Republican; anti West Vir- ginia, 1 Republican and 2 Democrats. We have here a total of 46 Congressmen to be chosen, to till the places of 34 Re- publicans and 12 Opposition. It is cer- that the members of the Opposition will undergo an increase, but in the preseat demoralized state of partisan politics it would be rash to make any prediction as to the extent of the change in their fa- vor. Judge F. II. Waite, the man who is running against salary -grabber Donnell for Congress in Minnesota, has resignet his position on the bench because Imc; wishes to enter unreservedly into tlae can- vass. That is a good recommendatioa for sending him to Congress. Men with s a l r il e :lice ideas of propriety are rare THE ANNIVERSARY OF SEDAN. cripbratiost in Germany. The Berlin correspondent of the Lan- don Times, writing of the celebration the anniverssry of Sedan, says: \Tee ports of the festivities are perfectly ovet- powering from their enthusiasm and mul- titude. Not to speak of Berlin, nitre the foundation of a new war moyemeit was laid and a hundred different fets were held, all the larger towns vied wilt each o' her in observing the anniverstuy. A list of the principal demonstratnnis will be out of place as bearing political importance. In Prussia proper, Korigs- berg unveiled a monument of Queen Louisa, the mother of time reigning mon- arch. who, ill the beginning of this cen- tury spent anxious years in that town, whither she had lied front the victorious armies of Napoleon I. None of time in- habitants who could go were absent from the cermony. At Stettin and Breslau patriotie gatherings awl conce.ts were held in many private establishments, the latter town being, specially remarkable for the cordial participatiou of the Cath- olic clergy in the festivities. Similar con- duct was observed by the priests in most parts of Silesia. At Posen the national quarrel between Pole and (St rman ag - aiu proved more deeply rooted thau the ec- clesiastical controversy between Church and State. The German Catholic priests, following the example of the German Protestant clergymen, in several churches celebrated Divine service in honor of the day, while the Poles, both priests and laity. kept aloof, and even attempted to interfere with the procession of the Ger- man Guilds. Magdeburg had a selemn meeting in the market place, where a speech was delivered by the Mayor. On the annexed provinces of Prussia, the cit- izens of Hanover, the most rapidly -in- creasing town in Germany since it ceased to be the residence of a king and became the abode of industry, went in procession where an immense bonfire was lighted. The enthusiasm is stated to have been so general that the Particularists, of whom there are still plenty in the town, dared not show their faces. se:: Cassel a grand procession was made to the well-known square, which is the finest in Europe, and there was speechifying, music, and torchlight at night. Even at little Fulda the grum- blings of the Episcopal Chapter were overpowered by public feeling,though the municipal authorities, skiing with the malcontent priests, refused to j in. All along the Rhine the largercities resound- ed with holiday tumult; of the smaller ones, many were too ninth tinder cleri- cal control to follow suit. Cologne had an imposing assembly at he old Town Hall, with speeches and ':horal music.; cluvitme service illuminations, s t s :Ics nt w a ie n e el one Catholic ('lurch, with a toealight pro- testi- cession and feel to the royal sentiments of ihe capital of Rhinelend. Even at ultrunontane Mayence, where the rash Bi hop had cautioned I is flock against paricipation iii time jubilee, the festivities in tie schools and concet t -gardens were well tended. The four South German capitls, .Mti- nich,Dartestadt,Carlsruhe, and Sittgart, processions, in which the princiel State dignitaries and Generals were see walk- ing side by side with the most rcpecta- ble citizens, followed by thousads of iehabitants.\
