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4011 , 4 . 1 THE MADISONIAN. NATI:RD %Ai. JANUARY 2, 1S75. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year in ativ.Inee) S77, 00 ix Months Three Months \ ADVERTISING RATES. THE MADISONIAN, as an advertising medium. is equal to any paper in Montana. Inch Inches 3 Inches Inches 6 Inches 13 Inches 25 Inches The above scale of prices Is for ordinary sin- -le -column, display advertising. Soliti and :abular adeertisements will be charged at the usch rate space occupied. LOCAL NOTICES, Fifteen cents per line for ffrst, and ten cents Der line for each additional insertion. CARDS, One-half inch, $2 for one insertion; $3 for two insertions; $S per quarter; $16 per year. The foregoing schedule of prices will be strictly adhered to. All advertisements counted in Nonpareil Of every description, executed in the best and neatest stele, and on reasonable terms. . ••• . • ' VOL. Am/ • . 2,k . • • S. VIRGrINTIX CITY, A. I it) A I r NT\ r 7, S i -k.T '111 A I, IL AN - ‘. A STERLING OLD POEM. Who shall jut - le:email from his manner? Who shall know him by his dress? Paupers may be tit for princes, Princes tit for something less. Crumpled shirts and dirty* jacket May beclothe the golden ore, Of the deepest thoughts snd feelings - Satin vests can do no more. There are streams of crystal nectar Ever flowing out of stone; There are purple beds and golden, Hidden, crashed and overthrown. God, who counts by souls not dresses. Loves and prospers you and me, While he values thrones the highest But as pebbles in the sea. J 4 013 JP1 - 1.11N r r I - :_s; 4 , 6 1 r, Van ciprni:aa above his fellows Oft forgets his fellow then; Masters -rulers -lords, remember That your meanest hinds are men; Men of labor, men of feeling. Men of thought, and men of fame, Claiming equal rights to sunhine In man's ennobling name. There are foam embroidt red oceans, There are little wood -clad rills; There are feeble inch -high saplings, There are cedars on the hills. God, who counts by souls not stations, Loves and prospers you and me; For to him :ill vain dietinctions Are as pebbles in the sea. Toiling hands alone are builders Of a nation's wealth and fame; Titled laziness is pensi tned, Fed and fa:teued oa the same; By the sweat at others' forenesda, Living only to rejoice, While the 111.1/1 7 6 Olitrap21 freedom Vainly lifts its feeble voice. Truth and justice are eternal, Born with loveliness and light; Secret wrongs shall never prosper While there is a sunny right. God, whose world-wide voice is singing Boundless love to you and me, Links oppression with its titles But as pebbles in the sea. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. I. Any one who takes :s paper regularly from the Postoffice-whether directed to his name or another's, or whether he has subscribed or not -is responsible for the payment. 2. It a person orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until pziyIiiCUt .s made, and coltect the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken from the office or not. 3. Tile courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers or periodicals from the Postonice, or removing and leaving them un- called for, is prima facia evidence of iatention- al irate'. PROFESSIONAL. G.F.COWAN, Attorney and Counseior at Law. Radersberg, Montana Territory. HENRY F. WILLIIIMS, Atly & C9UTIS.91,5r at Law, VIENNIA CITY, LIONTANA. ocriCE over the Postt Officer. J. E. CALLAWAY, Attorney and Coun- selor at Jaw. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. 41/F ICE, adjoining the office of the Secre- ta.Y of the Territory K. W. TOOLE. TOOLE & TOO J. K. TOOLE. E. Attorneys at HELENA, MONTANA. Wia practice in all the Courts of Montana. fOHN T. SlioIttat. T. J. OWERLY;; SHOBER & LOWERY, Attorneys and eoun- selors at T Jaw - HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, Attorney at I VIRGINIA CITY. M. T. JAMES G. SPR ATT, Attorney and Coun- selor at T__Aaw- VIRGINIA CITY, 'MC T ANA. W ill practice in all the Courts of Montana. W. F. SANDERS Attorney and Coun- selor at Lealiv. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of Recorl in Montana. C. W. TURNER, AV VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. OFFICE: Adjoining Colonel Callaway's. VIM. F. KIR KWOOD, Attorney at Law, nIftli!%11%. CITY. Can be found at dtelgs spratt's office or Pro- bate Co ur t Roo11174. Will practice in all the Courts of the Territory. GEORGE CALLAWAY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, at the Law Office of J. E. Calla - Kay, Esq., until further notice_ I. C. MTH, M. D„ Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Office at the Old Le Beau Stand, Wallac e 4treet where he eau he found nig-lit 4)r day E. \T. YAtiER, 111. D., Physician and Surpon. VIIISINIA CITY, DI. T. Will practice in all branches. °Nice oue door above the e. it v Drug Store. 13. BARKLEY, rtl. D. Physician SI. Surgeon. -39411•0* IT IS SO. I've seen many a girl Who would marry a churl, Prov hied he'd plenty of go! 1. And would live to repent, When the money was spent - When she found her heart had been sold. It is so! it is so! You may smile if you like, But it's so. I've known many a lass Who would thoughtlessly pass Whole hours parading the street; While the mother would scrub All the while at the tub. Never minding the cold nor the heat. It is SO! is so! You may smile if you like, But it's so. There is many a man Who will \dress\ if he can, No matter how empty his purse; And his tailor may look, When he settles his book, For his patron has bolted, or worse, It is so! it is so! You may smile it' you like, But it's so. I know people so nice They will faint in a trice If you mention hard labor to them; Yet their parents were poor, And were forced to endure Many hardships life's current to stem, It is so! it is so! You may smile if you like, Ilut it's so. There are many about, . NV ith a face \long drawn out,\ Who will prate for the harm of a laugh; Yet they'll cheat all the week, Though on Sundays so meek, To my mind they're too pious by half. It is so! it is so! You may smile if you like, But it is so. AT HOME. Where burns the tire -side brightest, Cheering .the social breast? Where beats the fond heart lightest, Its humble hopes possessed? Where is the hour of sadness, With meek -eyed patience borne, Worth more than those of gladness, Which mirth's gay cheeks adorn? Pleasure is marked by fleetness, To those who ever roam; hilegrief iteelt has sweetness, At home -sweet home! -Bart at. mosossmsm- A GREAT BENEFACTOU GONE. Ezra Cornell died in Ithaca, recently. He was born in 1Vesteheater county. Jan. 11, 1807. lits pareats vere Quak- ers. and Ezra, when a lad. assisted his thther in his work as a potter. In 1828, after receiving , . a limited adneation, he appeared in Ithaca and found employ- ment in a machine shop at exceedingly len* wage. In 1842 he became interest- ed with Prof. Morse hi teleh.raphie enter- prises. He suggested the use of poles instead of pipes, as orininally inteuded, and took an active part in pushing t1trone - 1i important lines. By these oper- ations he made money, and having faith in the ultineite universal use of the tele- graph lw :invested largely in stock and reaped a large fortune. In 1863 Mr. Cor- nell served the State in the Assembly. anti the two fbilowing years in the Senate. That part of his life which has brought him most prominently before the public is his connection with the university which bears his name. On July 2, 1862, Con- gress passed an act granting public lands to the several States and Territories RADERSBUI.I.G, M. T. which mightprovide colleges for the ben- I TAa had twenty-one years' experience in efit of agriculture and the mechanic arts. in his profession -four years of that time Under this act 30,000 acres for each of z-Ainzeon in the Confederate army . lie is ared to perform all kinds of surgery. pre - its Senators and Representatives in Con- gress e - were appropriated to every State, and, under this provision, the share of the State of New York was in land scrip representing 990,000 acres. In 1865 the Legislature transferred the entire pro- ceeds of the land grant to the Cornell University upon its compliance vith Certain conditions, of which the most im- portant were that Ezra Cornell should (rive to the institution $500,000, and that D3. C. S. ELLIS , ' P rovision should be made for the educa- tion, free of all charge for tuition, of one .S.VING taken an ieterest in student trom each Assembly district of i 1_ the Drug Department of A the State. Mr. Cornell fulfilled the re- - earm iehael 's sti•re at Silver Star, NI \ tatia ' e \ 11 quirements of the charter and inatle an be blunt! :It all tithes, day and night, at said *tore, when not absent on professional husi- additional wilt of over 200 acres of land, ness. l-estr with buildings, as a farm to be attached to the College of Agriculture, and of the Jewett Collection of Geology anti Plate - 0. B. WHITFORD, M. D., ontohyry-a collection which had cost him $10.000; and he has given since that time other gifts to the ainOttilt of $30,- ..... r N . TANA 000. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- rience is not surpaseed by any physician in the Territory. TO THOSE WHO LEAVE VENEREAL COM PLAIN VS. -Gonorrhea, if called upon within live days after the tiret appearance, he will cure in seventy-two hours. In Syphilis, he wal cure in live days. His treatment is different (rem any physi- :tan in this Territory. Ile t ; prepare ,i for Cleanising Extraet In:4- and Filling Teeth. - Physician and Surgeon, BUSINESS .EDUCATION AND QUAL- IFICATION. Business qualities, too, are needed in a household. In the upper (lasses of soci- ety, he knew, it was reckoned unfashion- able to do anything practical, except, in- deed, to go shopping-, and that, he thought, was about the most unpraclical thing lie knew of. Ti( y prided themselves on doing nothing. A lady of this coun- try had once expressed to him her great surprise at having noticed, while on a visit to the wife of Prince Bismarck, that she went about her house with a bunch of keys at her waist and personally su- perintended the affairs of her household. In Germany that bunch of keys is re- garded more ornamental than splendid e, diamonds. The diamonds merely prove that the laths nas a rich husband. The keys prove that she has elevated herself above the rank of a drone of society. [Applause.] Perhaps the very spirit that makes them wear those bunches of keys is a strong attraction to their future husbands; for to any sensible man those keys would be a strong attraction. And if in our society ladies would wear bunch- es of keys rather than costly diamonds, it would be greatly improved. [Applause.] At the beginning of the last century a lady educator of much experience said to the first 'Napoleon, who was visiting her institution, that an educational system is wrong which does not edheate mothers. ''Mad tin,\ said he, \there is in that re- m:irk ieclom of a whole science. What a nation Walli - S is mothers.\ But at what age shall this education be begun? A la- dy once asked the same question of a eel- brated teacher, and he asked her in reply how old her child was. \ Four years,\ she answered. \ Then, madam,\ said he, \ you have lost four years already.\ And the reinark was ahrue one, for in tlw first ten years of our lives, if not in tlw tinAjive, more es. learned than in any other period of corresponding length. And we learn it almost entirely from our mothers. While the father works, the mother teaches. She opens our eyes to see, and our minds to understand. The germs of good or evil she first plants in our souls. The home and the nursery are the first school, and the mother is its genius. What, then, should our girls learn to fit them for this position? They should learn the dignity of work. Our girls need a just understanding of the dignity of work. The greatest danger of woman in this country is the emptiness of her daily life.-Froin the Lecture by Carl Schurz on Educational Problems. CItElIATION IN GERMANY. AN OLD L DY -. 4 LECTURE ONU. Ant:I/I:CAN LIFE. TY MARRIAGES. Then the general standard ot comforta- ble living has been greatly raised, and is still raising. What would have satisfied the ancient would seem to us like penu- ry. We have a domestic life of winch the Greek knew nothing. We live dur- ing a large part of the year in the house. married; there vvarn't no talk of divorces Our life goes on under the root. Our 'Laws -a -massy! When I was young . 'twas different then. When folks was going to get married, they took time anti meditated upon. and kinder studied each other out, and reflected and considered, and %viten they did get married -married from top to toe -they expected to stay then. They knew beforehand that they wae:to 'hey and to hold to grim death. I and most usually did. But now a young fellow sees a pretty gal, and asks her to marry him, just as he asked him to teke a walk, and she's ready -\Yes sir, aad rhea 3 -aa. t,,'-antt they go trec with no more real sense of their respeei- bility than Cock Robin has when be twitters to Jennie Wren. Well pretty soon they go at it. -She finds she don't like tobacco smoke, and he . don't like a wile that can't do anything but frizzle her hair -so it goes, from bad to worse, until at last they sue for a divorce. And they'll get it too. For what? Why for uncomfortability of temper. 0, laws -a- mass'! 'Soul sake! Now, did you ever? Unconithrtability of temper. 0, Lordy! Incompatability of temper, Mrs. Hutch- inson, the listener suggested. Yes, I know it; I said so; uncomforta- bility of teinpc-r—thein's the words that does it. 1Vel1, is there not aliens uncoui- thrtability of temper inevery family, anti aliens has been, and aliens will be? Only, in good old times they used to screw it down and keep it under, and so you see they managed to get along without none of your divorces\ --------4-111111•••• • HOU TO CONDUCT A courrirsihnp. Don't be too sudden about it Many a girl has said \no\ when she meant 'yes.\ simply because her lover didn't choose the h t tune and pop the question t Take a dark night for it. Have the blinds cioeed, the curtains down, and the lamp turned most on. Sit near enough to her so you can hook your little linger into hers. Then until conversation be- gins to flag, and then quietly remark: \Susie. I want to ask you somethinoe\ She will fidget arround a little, reply, and after a pause you call told: \Susie my actions. must have shown - that is, you inuat have -I mean you must be aware that --that---\ Pause here for a while, but keep your little linger firmly locked. She may cotorli and the to turn the subject off by asking how you liked the circus, but she only does it to encourage you. After about ten minutes you can continue: The norroi:Donfluot thu Lou- - -I was thinking. as I came U.i the path dontDaily Telegraph NNTlie,S, November to -night, that before I went away I would 11th: \A. gentleman whit asa: peeent ask yon- that is. I would broach the sub - at the cremation of a young lady's corpse iect nearest nly-I mean t would know (late the wile of a German medical man) iny-'\ at Siemens' celebrated factory. in Dies- Stop again and give her hand a gentle den on Saturday last, gives an interesting squeeze. Sheanay give a yank to get it account of the proceedings. He says that away or she may not. In either case it ar- a sort of chapclle ardente, profusely dec. gales %yell for you. Wait about five min- corated with flowers, was erected in one lutes and then go on: of the workshops, in the center of which \The past year has been a very happy the cotlin containing the body -that of a one to me, but I hope that future -years very handsome young NVOIliall—was will still be happier. However, that de- faced. Mr. Siemens himself, as the petals entirely on you. I am here o - clergy had refused to asSist hi the cere- itiplit to know -that is to ask you -I mony, pronounced a solemn and touch- mean I am here to -night to hear from tug discourse over the body, which, in its your own lips the one sweet-\ coffin was then inserted in the furnace, 'Wait again. It isn't best to be to melt the iron door of which was closed upon it, about such things. Give her plenty of a stream of inconceivably hot air directed time to recover her composure, and then upon it, surrounding (as could be per- put your hand on your heart and eolith's ceived through a window let into the side me . of the furnace) it with pale -red, quiver- \I thought as I was coming throuhli the ing, distinctly vibrating thunes. There gate to -night how happy I had been, alai was no sudden burning up or even I said to myself that It' I only knew you scorching of the corpse, no phenomenon would consent to be my -that is, I said ghastly to the eye or revolting to any if I only knew-if I was only certain my other sense, but what seemed to be an heart had not deceived me, and you were extraordinarily rapid process of desiea- ready to share-\ tion, durhns which, after the liquid sub- Hold on -there's no hurry about it. stances had been evolved, the solid parts Give the wind a chance to soh and moan became red-hot. then white-hot, and part- ly resolved themselves into ashes. There mid the :rabies. This will make her we and call up all the love in her teis gentleman positively asserts, heap When she begins to cough and nothing from the first to the last offimaive grove restless, youC811 . 0'0 ()II: in this process to the phyisical Sell3eS. or -Betbre I met you, this world was a even sentimentally distressing. The fur- desert to 111P. I didn't take any pleasure nace is surrounded by drapery, which in goino• !dads -berrying and stealing rare - ripe peaches, and it didn't matter whelp can be seen through the inlet (wide!' is en the sun shone or net, But N% hat a used for purposes connected Willi the el1alli4e in one year? It is for you herniation of fire) is in no way horrilde. . to say Nei - est - her my future shall be a althotprh it )Ih'rs the strange spec; eele preirie u eldi n ne s4. O r : 1 summer tallow or a lounan body gradually vanishiee. of Canada thistlee. Speak dearest, So -hea awaY through the il!fluhllee of hams(' and aay-and say thnt-that--\ conceals it from the itiourher , . anti W11:11 _heat. The process -to which the suit subatancter. in ptirtleadar the Ititt , es 11;11 liver, offered the longest resistance—last- ed exactly one hour and eighteen min- utes; and on Stinday the ashes were e . atii- ered up with all due solemnity, and trans- ferred to a suitable urn.\ • 11•••-1111--•••11% • COLORED WOMEN. No close observer who visits Hunts- ville on nigger day\ can tail to appree elate the A:milk:nice of the term \color- ed women.\ In one corner a tat (Ad creature may be seen seated beside a chestnut stove, her face as Hack as the coal she puts into her fire; passing by is a girl with a rich brown skin; after her comes one upon whose cheek a blush can just be distinguiahed: I saw one or two young women whose cream -like complexion would justly have excited the envy of many a New York belle. The condition of the women of the latter class is most deplorable. Beautiful almost be- yond description, many of them educated and refined, with the best white blood of the South in their yeins, it is peril:12s Give her five oilihiltes more by the cloek. and then add: —That you will be—that it-, that you liwan that you will -he miner' Slw vill heave a eight, look up at the clock mid over the stove, and then as site Ai , lee her head over your vest pocket .' w e ll as her wisdom and wonderful abili- ties. She really governed Fra nee through Lotus till hi ,: death, a period of nearly thirty years. Her predecessor in royal thvor, Mine. Motile -pan, neeaine Thongh mitten for the benefit ofgrown Louis' mistress when only twenty-seven houses. are not mere places for eating and sleeping. like the houses of the ancients. It therefore costs us a great deal of toil to get what is called shelter for our heads. The stun which a young married man in beseod society\ has to 1)8y for his house and the fortiittirc contained in it,- - wonld traVe enabled an Athenian to live in princely leisure from youth to old age. Time m e su which he has to pay out each year to meet the complicated expense of living in such a house would have more than sufficed to brine. up an Atheiiiaii family. If worthy Strepsiades could have got an Aamodean glimpse of Fifth Aveatte, or even of some unpretending stree7 in Cambridge, he. micslit have gone back to his aristocratic wife a sadder but a more contented man. Wealth -or at least what would until lately have been called wealth—has be- come eseential to comfort; while the op- portunities for acquiring it have beea hit s namsely multiplied. To get money is, thsretbre, the chief end of life in our time an I country. \Success in life\ has be s cone synonymous with \becomitig wealthy.\ A man who . is successful in what he underiakes is a man who makes Ks employment pay him in money. Our itarmal type of character is that of the shrewd, circumspect business man; as in the middle ages it was that of the hardy Warrior. The same truth is to be witnessed in ater ant:types of character. Tne iimtatu- v ied speculator, and the close-fisted mil- lisnaire are our substitutes fn. the tnedite- xel berserkir-the man who loved •the pell-mell of a contest so well that he would make on h n is eighbor, just to keep his hand in. In like manner, %Odle such crimes as murder and violent robbery '.. are diminished in frequency during the It century, on the other hand such crimes as embezzlement, gambling in stocks, adulteration of goods, and:tteing of false Nveights, and measures, have proba- bly increased. -John Fiske, in Atlantic Monthly. DE.t.1: she will whisper: e You are jest will.\ ABour QUARRELING. people, we think all boys who expect to become men should read and remember this paragraph: If anything in the world will make a man feel badln, except pinching his fie- p . ers in the crack of a door, it is unques- tionably a quarrel. No man ever tails to think less of himself alter it than befor e . It degrades hitn in the eyes of others, and t° what is worse, blunts his sensibilities on the one hand, and increzt-es the po.ver of irritability on the other. The truth is, the more quietly and peacefully we get on the better for our neighbors. In nine cases out of ten the better course is, if a A writer discoursing of beautiful WO - Men. says: \History is full of . accounts of the fascination of women who are no .young.\ Among Wo011qi 01 antiquity he nientiOnS. of Paris ; AePasia, the eourtesae, who Nvas thirty- aix when Pericles married her, after hav- ing separatedm from his wile. Cleopatra was past thirty tvhen Antony came un- der spell. Coming down to more mod- ern times the thllowing facts are verified by the American Cyeloped Diana of Dian of Poetiers, mistress of Henry II of France , married at thirteen; at thitt - y-two she was left a widow with two children. When nearly forty she became mistress of the Dauphin, afterward Henry IL Slw re e mined her influence of the King until his death, though she had reached the ripe age of sixty. lie!' power was due not less to her beauty than to her in tel.- le :tual gifts. Ninon de l'Endlos, a h Frenc courtesan; the Cyclopedia speaks of her as beautiful, witty and fond of cultivated society. She early became popular in Paris, her love 'being scught by many of the most. eminent men of the age. She had a constant succession of lovers, thought she 1K' Vet' depended On them for support. Distinguished and modest women courted her eociety, 111110Wr whom was the Queen of Sweden. She was regarded as a model of refine- ment and elegance in her manners. Al- though she led a life of pleasurc . thr into her oh age, she preserved her beauty and fascination ahnost to the last, and it is said to have had lovers tor three genera- tions in the faMily of Sevionie. One of her own Soils, who had been brought up iii ihstorance of his birth, at - the age of Ii fell in love with her, she then being fifty-six. Bland Capello, mistress and afterward ‘Vit . Fr e aneseo, Grand Duke of Tuscaey, married the Duke when he was thirty-seven yea' s her junier. Mine. De Maintenon, who when she Nvas sixteen, married the poet Scare - on, a cripple mid a paralytie, became a ‘vidow at twenty-five, 1111(1 remained so Outtih ehe was secretly married to Lonis XIV. Of Frattee. :utter he had vainly sotorld to make her his mistreas. She xves celebrated 1hr her beauty and wit, as natural that they should refuse to mate man cheats vou cease to deal with him; themselves withthe coarse and ignorant if he is abusive, quit his company, and it men. Socially they are not recognized he slanders you take care to live so no by the whites; they are often without one will believe him. No matter who money enough to buy the barest neeessa- he is, or how he misuses you, the wisest ries of life; su honorably they can never -. procure fficient means to trratifv their way is to let him alone, for there is noth- luxurious tastes; their mothers have taught them how to sin; fathers they never knew; debauched white Men are ever ready to take advantage of their destitution, and after living,- a sort hIP of shame and dishonor, they sink into early and unhallowed graves. Living they were despised by whites anti blacks alike; dead they are mourned by none. - Alabama Corr. N. Y. Times, ing better than this cool, calm, and quiet way of dealing with the wrongs we meet. \Sad thing to loose your with.\ said a friend to a Vermonter. a ho stood at the grave of his spouse. \Yea mostly sad,\ respowle 1 the bereaved nein, -btu then her clothes just tit my ol-:lest years of nee, and held her place as -soul of the court\ for fourteen yer re. She had eight children by the King. Mine. Mars, a French actress came into public favor at thirty-two, and held that place for thirty years. 1Vhen past sixty he was able by her grace and animation effectually conceal to the ravages of th»e appear like a girl of twenty. so as She left her large estate to her son, who was born when she WaS seventeen, though most of the time until her death she presistently refused to see hint. luatances like these mihilt be multiplied almost eudlessly. How these women preserve their lovell- neSS and powers of lascination in spite of early inar iin4 . es, child-bearing, and in- creasing yeat.s, is a secret that would be well worth knowing. 3 111••••-••Crare - ------ - “1 on know, madam, that you cannot make a purse out of it sow's ear.” \Olt I have intimations of sir, please tan Inc. a swoon, When you use that odious specimen of vulgarity again, clothe it in refined phraseology: You should say it is impossible to fabricate a pecuniary re 7 ceptitee from the auricular organ of the genius h oga \ Y -A 1 I ';' s ' r % lnI3ET\... _ _ e PM. (...) • MORE MEXICAN TERRITORY. Rumors are afloat that another pur- chase of Mexican territory is on the tapis. Rumors of this cheracter are of constant recurrence. We have them on an aver- age once a year.. The course whielt they rum in all eases is about the same. First there is the suggestion of the intended trade, as in the ease nutter consideration. Then 101 lows a geeeral jubilation at the prospect of more territory, without mud' ree . ard to I he location @r the price to be paid. The hubbub in due time reaches Mexico, and a passionate yell is heard reverberating all over the land. When it becomes articulate it means that not an inch of national territory shall be sold or given away, and least of all to Mimi - cans. The rumor preceediter through the usual soores WaS that we were to get -Sonora and portions of Smaloa and Low- er Calitornia. There was a rounding off of territory here that would have had some meaning and purpose to it. Much of it is only nominally Mexican. The Mexican heart has so little tbree that it is uttabie to send the blood to these distant extremities. But this rumor shared the same tide as all its predecessors. In a very brief space it became apparent that the Mexican Government that should agree to sell Mexican territory would not have long to live. The story now going the rounds is that it is a strip on the Rio Grande we are going to get. But thearemments that are put - forward in favor of the transaction on this side are sitorularly weak. There is a strip on the north of the Mexican Re- public which is known as the \Free Zone.\ It is the paradise of smugglers. Here they have a base for opermions zoramst the two nations,but especially the United States. The strip which it is pro- posed to acquire it is said cover the Free Zone. But the Free Zone is not a geo- graphical division over which. for some inscrutable reason taaill's cannot be ex- tended. It is simply a political regula- tion, so that attar we had acquired the present Free Zone, nothing would be easier thzm to establish another elong the new lines. It is plain we have here noth- ing very tangible to go on. The second argument advanced is equally laulty. It is that the present Mexican strip along the Rio G-rande is the base front winch all sorts of raids are made on our territory. But there is no allegation that we would have a better frontier on the new line. As a matter of fact, we would not have as good a line, for a river now forms the bouialary. Mexican marauders might be shoved a little thrther back, but they would not be rendered powerless. If no better or more solid reasons than these can be advanced, the proposed aequisi- don would not be- very popular on this side of the line, to sly nothiug of Mex- ico. The earth -hunger is not so strong upon us as it used to be. The idea is be- coming more and more general that we have a great deal more law l now than we make good use of. DEATH or A WN.ft 1L - ti OLDEST PRI The veteran printer of the United States, Wm. L. Bin ry, passed to his long home on the moreing - of the 22nd, inst., in this city. after haying. reached the good old tore ot ninety-six yenre. lie IV:!:4. un- doubtedly the oldest printer in the coun- try. :1:1(1 for a period of ahnost seventy years, had snood almost daily at the caeo, and when advancing years came upon him to remind him there was it limit ro labor and It time to reat, his love fie the craft was such that he still held on, and rethsed to succumb to time. The first regillat\. take,\ after he be- came a full -fledge printer. NvIlich be set, was a notice of the death of' Geore - e WaS1111101011, . ‘1110Se breadth of character and manifold excellence seemed to act ftweveratter on the mind of Mr. Barry, and the father of American Independence became his ideal of grand humanity. Waahington's sayings and doings were quoted as the correct standard of manly action. He served his time with Mr. Bradford, who NV11 connected with the early press of Naelhille, and NA'hen quite a yowl?' man married in Todd Comity, Eentueky. In 1864 he removed from Nashville to Lebanon, Tennessee, where he remained fora period of five years. NVOrkilig upon the Lebanon Herald. Al! the remainder of his experience was trained in Nashville, where he was con- nected for many years with the Banner. In 1868 he returned to Nashville from Lebanon and again began to work at the \case although at the time in his nine- tieth year. He continued to work fur a period of two years, when he .caine to St. Louis to spend the remaining period of ois life with his son-in-law:mill (laugh- ter. -St. Louis Democrat, Nov. 21th. - DON CA RIMS. Don Carlos did not visit the batteries yesterday, but was at Puncha, and went some way :doter the road toward B e /ra- bic. I had the pleasure of seeing \Le Roi\ at some little distance when I was deseeoding Saint Marcia]. He was re- turniwr front Punclet to Anderlasse, which town is made the head -quarters for the time being. a house belontring to an English mining company being occupied by Don Carlos and his suite. He is a line - looking man, with a very commanding, figure, about- six feet two inches in bight. He wears a ‘dack beard and whiskers, cut pretty close io the face, and speaking on- ly by the distant view I had of His Maj- estyn h rough a field-adass, he is in appear- ance a very beau ideal of what a sover- eign should be. There were many tad men upon the star of Rol,\ but in comparison with himself some of them looked mere piginies.--Corr. New York Times. The Hopeville mille, near Jewett City have been. leased ,Messrs, McWilliams & Co. for the manufacture of horse - blankets. The machinery will be run up to its full capacity until present large orde:s are filled, mesa hoc steserac .1'7.SM*1 ‘4, 7- era 'I *eel * Since the recent Democratic victories. the opposition speakers and journals have been undertaking to instruct the people in regard to the policy of the par- ty. (4 , ite naturally, the Democracy are in this way credited with designs that the people would not approve. But as the Main purpose Of Repttb.ieuhistil is DOW to tight tor like with any weapons that it can command. its prophecies do not seem to fritrinen tee country much, and the butter still feels inclined to trust Dem- ocratic pledges until they are violated. What the purpose of the party is has been well disclosed by Hon. Rion Brad- bury, of Meinta one ol its prominent and represeetatIve members. In a recent letter he drew attention to the responsi- bility that ltd come to the Democracy with their successes, and he told them there must he direct, straightforward and bold action. \The Constitution with its amendments must be made supreme: peace and order must be restored in all the States; the .National Government must be purified; useless offices must be abolished; fraud must be exposed and punished; rigid economy and strict Offi- cial eccountability must be introduced into every branch of public service; there must be reform everywhere. The peo- ple demand hard money and they will have it, and the p:trty that refuses to meet this demand will linger in a sickly and short-lived existence.\ This decht- ration of principles does not sound strange or unnatural. It has been reiter- ated in substance by leading Democratic orators and newspapers for a long time, and constitutes indeed the bed -rock of the Democratic faith, which seems just now to be quite satisfactory to the peo- ple and much feared by Republicans. etee-e-••0111 A MERE FIGUREHEAD. Vice -President Wilson will shortly be called away. and Mr. Carpenter will then be selected to preside over the Senate. The Vice -President is represented as hav- ing remarked receutly that he is now of no further account. He feels aggrieved because he, like other Vice -Presidents, is excluded from Senatorial caucuses of his party associates. During the malty years of his service as Senator he was one of -the leading spirits in all caucus delib- erations, but having accepted the Vice - Presidency. he has shared the common lot of the occupants of that ollice of late years, become a mere figurehead and lost all influence in shaping the destinies of the organization which he assisted so materially iii buildieg up. He speaks in the most friendly manner of the Presi- dent,‘‘..ho, he says, has always treated Ha m p e r t :m a nly \via l 'aun ties:4 . But he does not like to listen to criticism ou his poliey or take advice ZIA to appointments. He thinks there is much more power the President than in Congress to save t! e Republican party. Although he be- lieves firmly in the possibility of redeem- ing tin fortunes of his now diseentlitted party, his tone does not indieate that, as things are going, he has very great confi- dence in the probability of it. 9•••--41--•••111 SENTENCE OF COUNT VON ARNIM. A Berlin dispatch, dated Deeember 10, says judgment hi he case of Count Von Arnim wets pronounced at 530 that after- noon. He was sentenced to three months' which ha:hales one month he has been under arrest. The cause of delay in pronotincnor the sentence was the refusal of the Count to appear in court, which insisted upon eis presence. The Count's son and his counsel finally induced him to appear. A Berlin special to the London Daily News, f December 21, state::: that both the proaecut ion and dethnse have appeal- ed to the Kimmergericht from the Sen- tence of Count Von Arnim. MEN or LETTLRS. 'lasso's conversation was neither gny nor brilliant. Dante was either taciturn of satirical. Butler was sullen or bit- ing. Gray seldom talked or smiled. lIogarth and Smith were very absent minded in company. Milton was very unsociable, and even irritable when press- ed into conversation. LirWili, though copious end eloquent in public addresses, was meager and dull in colloquial dis- course. Virgil heavy in conversation. LaFontaine appeared lwavy, coarse and stupid: he coutd not speak and descrtbe what he had just seen; but then he was the model of poetry. Chaucer's silence was more agreeable than his conversation. Dryden's conversation was dry and dull, his humor saturnine and reserved. Cor- neille, in conversation. was so insipid that he never failed in wearying; he did not eveli speak correctly that language of which he was a master. Ben John- son used to it silent in company, and suck his wines and their humors. South- ey was stiff, sedate, and wrapped up in teseeticism. Addison was good company with his intimate friends, hut in mixed company he preserved h:s dignity by a stiff and reserved silence. Fox, in con- versation, never 11;ieg-calf his animation mid, variety were inexhaustible. Dr. Bent - 1y was loeplaelOtle. so also was Gro- tins. Goldsmith \wrote like an antra 1 and talked like poor Poll.\ Burke was entertaining, enthusiastic and interesting in converaation. Curran was a convivial deity. Leigh Hunt was \like a pleasant dream\ in conversatian. Carlyle doubts, objects and tonstantly demurs, Kennedy & Phelps of New Haven have taken the contract to build the Yale boat house, for $8.590. It is expected that the work will be fiuished by the first of April next -,contingent upon the payment of subscriptions made and to be mat he be- fore then, the terms of payment being $2,500 on or before January 1st, 1875; $2,000 to be deposited January 1st, for payment February 1st; $4,000 to be de- posited February 1st, for payment April 1st.. H .1\:4 - MADISON IAN —IS— r E g la i S o l i y E 0 D E . VERY SATURDAY -AT- ni Montsta THOS. DEYARMON, Editor and Proprietor. .1. R. WILSON, Associate and Local Editor. - -- Papers ordered to any address can be changed to another address atthe option of the •subseriber. Revuittanee by dr:eft, ebeelt. money order or registered let eriaay bse. n t at our risk. THE 31 A.D1SONIA'S advocacy of princi l iks t.t il.e party and to zeocral and local news. TILL TRANSIT OF LN US. The efforts made by the various civilized nations to observe the transit of Veen.. have met with varied success. Aecording It) reports, ali the ohserva.,ions for wineit. preparations were made in Russia were. failures. At Teheran, in Persia, however, the otearvations were a success; so wise at Yokohama, Tasmania, Suez and' other plae. , s. So far, it would st that, better fortune has attended the American expeditions than those of the other govern- ments. The chances are that enough of obsenations have been taken to forever settle the questions involved. On the last occasion the observations were so t few that nearly a half a century elapsed be -- fore a fall agreement was reached as to their meaning. We will have greater expeditions and more eertLinty this time, with a chance for veriiications eight - years hence.- loom•-eraCt• A LIFE OF VARIED EXPERIENCES: The Virginia Chronicle. of a late date gives the following account of the ca- reer of Major Ferrend, of that city, who committed suicide recently. The life of Major Ferrend has been one of t . aried and extraordinary experien- ces. He was born in London, and at the age of six his father emigrated to Baltimore, Md.. but after a few years resi- dence returned again to England. His son George was sent to the military acad- emy at 'Woolwich, and graduated with honors in the school of artiliery. He re- ceived a commission in the English army. in which he served with credit, but atter- w trds sold out and went to Buenos Ayres, - and was one of the leading spirits of the party which overturned the established Government of that country. He organ- ized a battalion of English and Ameri- can residents and disatieeted natives, plac- ed himself at their head, and conducted the: campaign successfully. In 1854 he went to California, and is well known in different parts of that State, in :which ho had several sanguinary person:a combats. In 1855, when General William Walker organized his Nicaragua expedition, Ma- jor Ferrell(' immediately joined him, and became one of the master spirits of tile army. He was chief of artillery in the little band, which he repeatedly saved by his skill and personal 'trowel's. At the siege of Rivas his address and courage were notable, and are remembered by all Americans on the field. After the failure 01 Gen. Walker's ill-fated scheme, Majot Ferrend went to New Orleans, where In remained a few mouths, and subsequent- ly returned to Calitornia. From thence he weut to Idaho, and afterward came to this city. He was the second of Jo- seph T. Goodman, in the duel lietweei that gentleman and Thomas Fitch, in 186-1 i i i n ne x e v . hich Fitch received a bullet in tie. PILE1 TO HELL. An Engikh t.acher, enjoining upon I 14 , int , mbers et a training -class their duty giving to childet n bright and letple thoughts of religion, used tins illustratitn • dan;:t'l.' Of the opposite course: He said a little girl Wai one-i asking het t'iiit•1* sister :owe t h e aven. 'Do they play in heaven?' s'ie inquired. eo; they do not play there.' 'What do they do ? 'They sing and are good. 'Are there no toys there?' ‘No, not any.' 'No dolls, nor balls, nor Noah's arks?' 'Oh, no 'Then,' said the little one, shall tak, my dolly and go to hell.' The speaker said he rather liked Lurher' idea o: heaven, and referred to his letter 1( his son, in which he told of the boys an, girls who play about the golden streets an, have ponies and horses to ride upon \- Independent. TUN:CELING NIAGARA RIVER. The the has heretofore been stated t ha Chief Enhineer William Wallace has pre p:Ired a plan for tunneling. the Niagar. River at Builhlo for submission to ate consideration by those engae - ed in tin movement for providing additional faca ities for travel aed business between thi point and Canada. A thw facts in re gard to the proposed plan will be of in terest. It contetn kites a passenger depo on the ferracc, near Main street, with : railroad track running through the Ten race to Court street, down Court strec to its foot, across the canal; thence dowi between the canal and the track of tie Niagara Falls branch of the Central R. R to a point a short distance south of th railroad brie Ige over the canal where tie cutting will commence. 1 he tunnel is tt run under Clack Rock Harbor and the river, and emerge on the Canada sid near where the old car shop formerh stood. After the surface is again reaclas the track will be continued round tin high ground and join that of the Cana& Southern Railway near the Episcopa church. The whole length of the cutting including the tunnel, is 4.000 feet, and o the tunnel proper 2,940 feet. The pro posed dimensions of the tunnel are thirh feet wide and twenty feet high. Thl would , rive 22,627 cubic yards of excava tion per lineal loot. C -I,3:13 yards in :di In the through -cut on this side of th river there would be 126.29 cubic yard of rock and earth excavation -how inuel of each cannot be deterinined test pits. On the Canadian side the roel and earth excavation would amount t 118,327 cubic yards. The root of the tun nel would be sixteen feet below the he( of the river at the deepest poi:It. grade from the center is put down a 8:xty feet to the mile. The estimate xpense of time m e work complete is on 3. e millien five hundred thousand (1011:1,1's.(1011:1,1's. 4 The New Haven Palladium, relates singular ease of kleptontoilia, or pett . pilferhpa. concerning . a resident wort\ $300,000, and who stands N'ell in th community. No names are mentioned The man has for a long thne beeit iii h habit of pilfering articles trout an to town grocer. rI r t g e a . ineis about ‘u ar i ti i.1 dev:: out now, as the grocer ilasi. to cease the thefts, or stand a prosecut non. By what strange mimes pecphe d more genteel.
