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410121111•111••••••...:. THE MADISONIAN. S %TURD CY. FERRI IRV 13. IS73. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year in adeance te gia Months Three Months • 6 25 5 $5 ADVERTISING RATES. THE MADISONIAN, as an advertising m e dium, is equal to any paper in Montana. I litt7h ..... $3 Inehes 5 3 Inches 7 4 Inches 8 6 Inches 10 13 Inches 18 ei Inches , , $ 5 $7 1 , $8',$101$151$20 ses 8 91 101 121 Si 34); 40 91 111 121 151 25i 37; 5: 11! 121 14; 171 30; 45! 70 12! 15; is. 241 :-ta,;. 65; 90 241 30; 34i 40; sa' en, 140 40i .501 55; 65! 75 150! tIO The above scale of prices Is for ordinare sin- cle-celumn, display advertising. and sibular advertisements will be charged at the each rate i - or sice occupief LOCAL NOTICES, Fifteen cents per line for first, and ten cents Der line for each adilitional 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 Nonpareil measure. ._1(_)13 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 Postenice—whether directed to his name or &nether's, or whether he has subscribed or not —is responsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, ant cotters the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken from the office or not. 3. The courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers er periodicals from the Pestoitice, or removing and leaving thcni un- called for, is prima facia evidence of intention- al fraud. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN, Ittorne3 anti Counselor at Law. itaders!)ert:. Montana Territory. \Ri F. ill I, LI A S Atly & Counselor at Law, VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. ! OEFICE over the Post Office. I 1. E. CALLAWAY, Attorney and Coun- selor at La - w. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE. adjoining the office of the Secre- tary of the rerriterv W.t. .1. X. TOOLE. TOOLE & TOOLE. Attorneys at 1 .a HELENA, MONTANA. Will praetice in all the Courts of Montana. JOHN T. 51101trai. T. .J. OWERLYil SHOBER & LOWERY, Attorneys and coun- selors at Law. HELENA, M. T. Will Practice in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, AAA( )rney at 1a%v. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. JAMES G. SPR AT T, Attorney anti. Coun- selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. W. F. SANDERS A.tt ovney zInd Coun- selor. at Law.. HELENA, M. T. Wilt practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C. W. TURNER, 1.6 _A - NV AT 11: It VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. OFFICE: Adjoining Colonel Callaway's. WM. F. K I R KWOOD. Att or ney at Law, NIRGINIA CITY. tztit he feund at Judge Spratt's office or Pro- bate Court Itooms. Will practice in all the Courts of the Territory. Miller Sr, Addoms, Fire, Life Insurance, anal Real Es- tate Agents, HELEN% MONTANA. I. C. SMITH, M. D.. Physician and Surgeon. IRGINIA MONICA N mtiee at the Ohl Le Beau Stand, Wallace -iret•L where he can be found night or day E. T. YAGER. M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. ‘Vill practiee in all branches. Office one floor above the City Drug store. H. ts. BARKLEY. M. D. Physician & Surgeon. RADERSBURG. M. T. w e had t expenunce in in his pis itession—teur y car., 01 that time a uri ill in I In . 0116441eritte army. Ile is pre - parts' to perform all kinds of sunzery. IN FEMALE COM PLA I NTs. his expe- rienee is not surpas-ed by any physician in the rerritory. TO THOSE WII0 HAVE VENEREAL 440 I PLA I N TS.—Gonorrhea, it called upon ithin live days after the Ilrst appearance, he will ear., in seventy-two hours. In Syphilis, tie will cure an tiveilays. His treatment is different fram any this Territory. He is prepar e 4I for Cleansing Extracting and Filling Teeth. 03. C. S. ELLIS 11 .1VING taken an interest in the Drug Department of A artniehael's store at silver Star, Montana,can lie found at all times, day and night, at said store, when not absent on professienal busi- ness. 0. B. WWII - FORD, M. D., Physician and. Surgoon, .S11 eNTAN . • VOL. 2. (-) grIFt, - 17 CiLlIS OF - - \ ••• 0• •-• - -\\ • 1, • Pft.f. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1875. Home They Br.)ii14t the Warrior Dead. Home they brought the warsior dead. She nor swooned or uttered a cry; All her maidens watching said, She must weep or she w:11 die. Then they praised him soft and low, Called him worthy to be loved, Truest friend and noblest foe; Yet she neither spoke nor moved. Stole a maiden from her place, Lightly to the warrior stept, Took the face -cloth from the face, Ye: she neither moved nor wept. Roaea nurse of ninety years, Set his mild upon her knee; Like summer tempest came her tears; \Sweet my child, I live for thee!\ —Tennyson. Love -Light. On a little sunbeam, Dawniug in the skies, Yet, lo! before that one gleam Night affrighted Ines; For it beholds, led by that ray, The leveled lances of the day. Only a little glad glance, Dawning ia loved eyes, Yet lo! into its stet haunts Stadness startled hies; For it beholds, led by that glance, The conquering hosts of love advance. A Love Smug. Life is never brighter Than when Love appears— Love in the East, Life is a feast Spread by joyous years. Life grows ever sweeter Still as Love ascends— While our hearts beat, 0 may Love sweet Shine on us, my friends. Life is never sadder Than when Love departs— Down in the West, Life's glory and zest, Sink from empty hearts. —Examiner. Hide and Go -Seek. Happiness has found me out— Found me out at last! Oh, she's dogged me round about! All my hurrying life she's chased me; Treading hard and hot she's faced me, Almost touched me, all but faced me— Ilere she is at last! Wary were von, happiness! Patient to the last! From your thankless business Laggard Time hti- come to free you. Always driven by Fate to flee you, Never did I think to see you Track me down at last! Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. • 1 1.411.— ONLY A Li:TrEn. Only a yellow old letter, In a woman's delicate hand, With just a faint tint of perfume; Why I keep h. you don't understand. We were lovers once, but we parted— Absence and time, you know; It is simply the same old story, And it happened yeara ago. It is quite a thing of the past; She is somebody else's wife; While I—I can smile at the passion Whose rapture once thrilled my life. Quite a thing of the past. And yet, As with dream -troubled eyes I stand, Idly scanning this long -preserved letter, In a woman's delicate hand. Drifts from me the loveless present, And I can almost think I can trace In the faded lines of a letter My old love's familiar face. And I know in my heart of hearts, Jest as light as I may, That light has nothing to give me Half as dear as that long -a -go day. —Oscar. 66-411 • GRAMMAR IN RHYME. 1. TInee little words you often see Are Articles, a, an, and the. A Noun's the name of anything, As school, or garden, hoop, or swing. Adjectives tell the kind of Noun, As great, small, pretty, white or brown. IV. Instead of Nouns the Pronouns starlit— ner head, his face, your arm, my hand. V. Verbs tell something to be done— To read, count, laugh, sing, jump or run. VI. How things are done. the Adverbs tell, As slowly, quickly, ill, or well. VII. Conjunctions join the words together, As men and women, wind and weather. VIII. The Prepositions stand before A Noun, as in. or through the door. IX. The Interjection shows surprise, As Oh? how pretty—Ah! how wise. X. The whole are called Niue Parts of Speech, Which reading, writing, speaking teach. A MORNING SONG. I weke this morn, anll all my life Is freshly mine to iive; The future with sweet promise rife. And crowns of joy to give. New words to speak, new thaughts to hear, New love to give and take; Perchance new burdens I may bear, For love's own sweetest sake. New hopes to open in the sun, New efforts worth the will, Of tasks with yesterday begun More bravely to fulfil. Fresh seeds for all the time to be, Are in my hand to sow, Whereby for others and for me, Undreamed-of fruit may grow. In each white daisy 'mid the grass That turns my foot aside, In each uncurling fern I pass Some sweetest joy may hide. And if when eventide shall fall In shade across my way. It seems that naught my thoughts recall But life of every day. Yet it such step in shine or shower Be where Thy footsteps trod, Then blessed be every happy hour That leads me nearer God. —Chambers' journal. 41104* Be thine to seek the honest gain, No shailow-sounding fool; Sound sense finds utterance for itself, Without the critic's rule; If to your heart your tongue be true, Why hunt for worth with much ado? SHREWDLY CALGHT TRIED. AND WELL A QUEER SORT OF A CONTEST. A few days since, a convict, says the Bos- ton Post, resorted to a bold plan to regain his liberty. Just before the prisoners marched from their shops at the close of the day, one of their number, then tempo- rarily employed about the yard, managed to steal a coat and hat belonging to one of the instructors at the prison. Ile, also, in some unaccountable manner, became pos- sessed of a watch. Putting on the coat over his prison garb, and substituting the hat for his uniform cap, he marched boldly up to the door leading to the octagon, and rapped on it loudly. Officer Darling, who has had charge of that part of the institu- tion for nearly twenty years, quickly re- sponded to the summons, and partly open- ed the door. The prisonet, in a business- like manner, pulled out his w:Ach, and, looking t it, said: \1 declare, it is nearly five o'clock! I have only a few minutes to catch the cars; wonder if I am right; if so, I must hurry along,\ at the same time attempting to place his foot on the threshold of the door. \Oh returned Mr. Darling, \ I guess your watch is all right, but I hardly believe that you will catch the train to -night. Hadn't you better wait several years longer?\ The convict, finding that his trick had failed, began to laugh, and went down the steps to the yard at a less rate of speed than be had ascended them, lie slowly pro- ceeded to the \ gang\ to which he belongs, and, taking his place in the ranks, marched to his cell and supper. * A MILD SENSATION IN BOSTON. An amusing incident occurred at Boston the other day, in connection with the meas- urement of time capacity of a huge copper tea -kettle, used as a sign by the Oriental Tea Company. A large number of persons invested in tickets for a sort of lottery— each ticket -holder registering a guess as to the amount of liquid the kettle would con- tain. Before proceeding with this test an- other was made, which demonstrated that eight boys and a full-grown man could be packed away with ease in the capacious vessel. The excitement then became in- tense, and the crowd which thronged the street almost held their breath while the appointed committee poured first gallons, then quarts, and finally gills of water into the mouth of the kettle, and a shout of ap- plause rent the air when the result was an- nounced as 227 gallons, 2 quarts, 1 pint and 3 gills. The nearest guess—coming within three gills of the exact quantity— vas made by eight persons, each of whom received a package of _tine tea as a prize. One esti- mate was less than ten gallons, while an- other was more than three thousand. HE WAS A SIMPLE OLD MAN. A dried-up old man, of apparently about sixty years. strolled into a billiard parlor in Binghamton, recently, and taking a seat, watched the players with some interest. After he had remained in the place for some time he was approached by a hanger on, on the outlook for a greenhorn with whom to play and save the cost of playing. \ Hello there, old man, do you ever swing the cu:\ said he. \ Wa l, stranger, I used to prance around a little on a three -cornered table fifteen years ago, but I don't suppose I could hit the first ball on this new -tangled thing,\ said the old man. \ Well. I'm no player myself; you'a beat me easy enough, I know; just take a stick,\ replied the accomplished \beat.\ \ Wal,\ said the innocent. I'll play just - one game to see if I can 'scratch' \ and they both banked for the first shot. The old man had singularly good luck, for he got the first shot and made a run of fifteen peints. The other looked on in the veriest astonishment, while the player of \ fifteen years ago\ was at work, and vlien he ceased and counted up the challenger muttered an oath, took off his coat, and went to work in earnest. Ile made five points only, and the next time the old man ran out the game. \I swow.\ he said, \ I've had the all- firedest hick; will you try another?\ \ No, not by a darned sight, you old fraud!\ said the sport, and he walked off to pay for the game, amid the roars of his companians, and a smile from the old mall, who remarked: It is strange how I remembered to play so well.\ 011411-41--- IIE COULDN'T HELP IT. The Austin Reville, in conversation with a recent arrival from Jefferson, obtained the, following description of a late shorting af- fray: \ Well. they did have a killing over there, sure enough. It come on about a poker game. There was a big fellow named James Donovan, and a little fellow named Killett, though some called 'Texas;' but he's kilt' sure enough. Well, the game was busted up about something, and Kil- let went off and heeled himself. When he came back. Donovan backed five paces, and Killen went forward five paces and went for his gun. Then the tiring commenced. Donovan got in two shots first. Killett's first shot went into the air; his second was A center shot, and hit Donovan square be- tween the eyes, when he fell, and Killett emptied his pistol :it'd said: 'Boys, I hated to do it, but I couldn't help it.' \ YIELD 4)1 M1LIi BY AYRSHIRE CO\ The Ayrshire herd of E. T. 31i1es, of Fitchburg, Mass., contains sixteen cows, one only half Ayrshire. The milk rec- ord for the year from July 1, 1872, to July 1, 1873, shows the average yield of milk per cow to have been 5.567 pounds. The average time the tows were milked was two hundred and eighty-four days. The largest yield was 7.304 14 pounds given by a cow eleven years old ill three hundred and seventeen days. The small- est yield was 4.355 1-2 pounds, by a two- year -old heifer in two hundred and twen- ty-nine days. or seven and one-half month .4. When it is remembered that six of the herd were less than three years old when the year commenced; live of them only past two, the average is very large. It is equal to nearly six hundred pounds of cheese, or two hundred and twenty- five pounds for each cow, taking the aver- age of factory yields. --0-10.111 • Criminals should come to a halt or halter. Early on sunday morning a gentleman walked out, probably for the purpose of salting his sheep. After a few vigoroas calls the flock gathered around him, and clamored as usual for their allowance. One old black ram, however, seemed to have something on his mind, and stood aloof. The owner, seeking to conciliate him, approache(rand laid his hand upon his head. This the ram resented with a furious charge, which was repeated until the owner took to flight. But he was too far from the fence, and the ene- my literally hung upon his rear with per- severing obstinacy. A change of front was resolved upon and immediately ef- fected, but still the battery was played with undiminished fervor. Soon the Parties clinched, and after a vigorous scuffle they came to the ground. The rain could now do nothing, but his fleece protected his ribs from the furious blows of his adversary. Both seem now pretty nearly exhausted. The man was on top, and seizing !I stone which lay near, com- menced pounding the head of the sheep. Of course the rock was soon reduced to fragments, but the man, having formally driven hogs, thought of the plan tal throw- ing dirt in the eyes of the ram, and in- continently tilled his optics with clay. rubbing it in. He then arose to enjoy the success of his ruse; the ram \riz too, and pausing a single moment, applied a knee to either eye, and renewed the com- bat. And now the fight was more des- perate than before, and victory seemed to perch above the sheep. But, as he put all his power into one final blow, his almost fainting antagonist succeeded in avoiding the shock and caught the rain by the tail; and now the tide of vic- tory turned. A succession of urious kicks, administered a posteriori, decided the contest. The ram cried foul play, but the adversary fought for conquest. At length the \tail hold\ sliped, and both parties fled in opposite directions. They will probably -fight another day.\ HOW A LAWYER'S TEARS CON- VERTED A JURY. ilieorman—dim Fisk's old lawyer, who managed his railroad iniquities for him. and now Brother Beecher's chief spokesman—became terribly affected in court one day recently, when referring to Henry Ward, and wept'. This re- minds us ofan incident in the profession- al life of Origen S. Seymoute late Chief Judge of the Supreme Court. Mr. Sey- mour's eyes have always been weak. In college his friends usually read over the exercises to him. He has had to employ assistants as amaimeneis, readers, etc., ever since. One day Mr. Seymour went into court late, to argue a case, with the details of which he was perfectly famil- iar, for a young lawyer who conducted the examination. The jury were com- posed of men who were unacquainted with 311.. Seymour. During the close of his argument he spoke mildly as was his wont, and frequently wiped his eyes with his handkerchief. The facts and equity of the case were really against him, but thejury rendered a verdict in favor of his client, to his and everybody's aston- ishment. The solution of the mystery was reached when two of the jurymen, being taken to do for their absurd ver- dict, declared that they \didn't Know noddle about law, but nobody needn't tell them that Seymour wasn't right. No man could 'blubber' as he did if he wagnt Ho - lit—and he knew all about the case:\ This was found to have been the bias with the rest of the jury, too, except one man, who yielded because, as he said: \It was no use to quarrel with the d—d fools. Seymour cried it into 'cm so that they couldn't be stirred, and the case wasn't important enough to split on.\—Winsted (Conn.) Press. Castle Garden, New York, no longer presents the busy scenes which once ani- mated it. Emigration has fallen off fif- ty per cent.. and so general is the report in Europe, circulated by returning emi- grants of hard times in .merica, that it will be several yeare yet before the influx from the old country will be as great as in former times:. It is estimated that the emigration this year will not exceed 140,- 000 persons. against nearly twice that number last year. Kapp, now a member of the German Parliament, but recently a Commissioner of Emigration, estimates the immediate average gain to this coun- try on each emigrant landing on its shores at $150. Taking this as a correct estimate, it %till be seen that the loss to the country by the falling off of emigra- tion this year will reach something like nineteen millions of dollars. • The Indianapolis Herald says: For the sake of decency we hope that the sto- ry of ti beautiful, intelligent. virtuous and highly -connected, young lady of Seymour putting herself up for rattle, at fifty cents a chance, is a hoax. If true, this young lady has diegyaced her sex just as much as it' she had mounted the auction bled: and permitted herself to be knocked down to the highest bidder.. If she is not bound by the result of the gamb- ling contest, then the precedure is la great a fraud as the Louisville Library swindle. If she is bound to abide by the verdict of the dice, whether the winner be thief, idiot or negro, then she puts on the hazard of the die what should only be given to holy love. In any event she displays a won't lack Of womanly delica- cy, and manifests a desire to get married at variance with the redorts of her youth, beauty and sweetness of temper. It is evident that this young girl is a fool, if nothing worse. I he clash in the * fashionable world just now between the girls with pretty feet who want to wear short dresses and those with ugly feet who insist loon hav- ing long ones, is described by the fash- ionable dressmakers as something fear- ful. -•110411• IS a Congressman's fortune all in his eye? THE SAXON BABY. Julian Hawthorne writes in the con- temporary Review as follows: \They are born quiet—these people; a Saxon balsy has but little cry in him and no persist- ent noisiness. In infancy he is stiffened eta in swaddling clothes, and lives be- tween two leather pillows, like an oyster in his shell, moving only his pale bluish eyes and pasty little lingers. A greasy nursing -bottle is poking itself into his mouth all day long. He has a great, hairless, swelled head, like an inflated bladder. His first a pearanee out doors is made in a basket wagon, planted neck keep amid his. pillows, the hood of the wagon being tip and closely blue -cur - tained. Sometimes he rides double, his brother's or sister's head emerging at the opposite end of the little vehicle. They seldom die under this treatment; indeed, even a soul would find difficulty in es - capita; from beneath those feather pil- lows Ind through the crevices of those close -drawn blue curtains. When they hay( the colic—but they seldom 'utterer eiergy sufficient—they uplift a meager Cr-, as though aware that something of the sort would be expicted of theta. But itoften happens. as I am credibly inform - et:, that they must be dashed with cold ;tater in order to bring their lungs into tction. A dash of cold water would be :let to produce a spasm in a Saxon of NVflatever age. Thus early begins time strtiection to law anti custom. When the clad gets to be thirty -inches high or thereabouts it is sent to school, whither it paces immediately, with little noise; raciag, horse -laughing, and all disorder are tacitly discouraged. The little girls link arms and gossip as they go, while the boys march soldier -like with their smad knapsacks, precocius, in discipline and conversation. When the play hour comes they engage, in a mutually suspi- cious manner, as though self-conscious of hypocrisy and make-believe. By and by they grew up—more of them than would be suppesed. But the habit of following authority and precedent in all concerns of life grows with them. They will nev- er feel quite safe about blowing their nos- es until they have seen the written law concernisg that ceremony sitsned and sealed by the king and countersigned by Prince Bismarck. They swim every- where in the cork jacket of law, and should it fial them, flounder and sink, and even lose their heads, and are betray- ed into some folly which helps them to the bottom. A WAR STORY. The following characteristic war story is told by an Alabamian : A body of Stu - art's cavalry, on their return from a raid, were passing the camp of the Eighth Al- abama. They were straggling badly. and the rear of the column seemed to be completely fagged out. The boys of the Eighth were poking their fun at the \but- termilk rangers,\ etc., until some of the cavalrymen thought they could bear it no longer. One fellow who bestrode a Rosi- nante, and seemed to be \sitting on the ragged edge of despair,\ a hundred yards at least behind the last of his comrades, arose in - his stirrups and cursed the intim- try by platoons. lIe seemed determined to drown in one continuous volley of curses time voices of the footpads. Martin Riley was standing guard just by the road. As the irate cavalryman approach- ed. Riley looked him kindly in the and in a bland and sympathizing voice said: \See here my friend, I wouldn't be so marl with those fellows.\ The cavalryman stopped cursing to hear what this kind-hearted man had to say, and Riley added: \They are always hallooing at some d—n fool!\ SHE'LL NOT DESERT HIM. The pretty little maid of honor whom the Grand Duke Alexis married all un- known to the old folks. appears to be :me sulky as she is AleXiS, it Will be remegnbered, was sent to Aineriea that ne might forget her, but while that plan cured the Grand Duke, it didn't appease his bride, who was sent out of the empire by special train. She went to Geneva, and recently it appears that Count Shou- valoff was sent to treat with her. It was proposed that she should renounce all claim to the hand of Alexis—should change her name and disappear. In re- turn tor this service she would receive one million roubles down and an annuity of seventy-five thousand ro bjee. which would be continued to her --hill in case the latter survived her, but Mrs. Alexis wouldn't do it. She lona; Alexis too much for that, end so matters stand at present. 4 TO OWNERS OF '41,1.1111i izimiNs. Time National Aasociation ofShort Horn Breeders, which recently mat at Spring- field, Ill., having intrusted Alex. Charles, of Cedar Rapids.. 111Wa. \Vitt] of procuring complete statietics of all short horns now living in the United States and Canada for publication in the report of their proceedings, we urge upon every one of our readers who are breeding short horns either upon a large or small scale, to send in prompt and citreful returns. and those who have not received blanks for that purpose will be furnished them free of charge promptly, on application to Mr. Charles. Short horn men will give this their very earliest attention. for by so doing the fat-Oleo:alitg report of the American Association of Breeders will be made the most valuable and mterestiumg publication ever issued in this country. Here is a poet who says: \I'm sitting sadly on the strand, That stretches to the water's brink; and as the (lay slips slowly by. I idly fold my hands and think.\ While he is sitting on the strand with idly folded hands, his family at home may be suffering for the necessaries of life. He should skirmish around before the day slips slowly by and secure a job at dig- ging a celler.\ NO 1_4 There is little likelihood that there xvill be any will. between Montenegro I and Turkey. Monteneg - ro is probably willing enough, but Turkey isn't. Not that Turkey is afraid of an encounter with the Montenegrins, but she fears that in the event of a war with that pow- - er Russia might step in, and she knows very well that England and France couldn't come to her assistance. - Monte- negro is it country of but small territory, lying between Turkey awl Austria, hav- ing a population not much over one hun- dred thousand, and its people principally profess the Greek religion. In 1853, Turkey invaded Montenegro with an army of over 80,000. but met with such fierce resistance that the intention of re- ducing it to aubjectiou to Turkey was abandoned. la • sae . I The Legislature of ‘Visconsin, In joint convention, on Feb. 3, elected Angus Cameron, U. S. Senator. This result was I brought about by a coalition of the Dem- ocrats with the bolting Republicans. The latter offered the Demoerats four names from which they might choose a a candidate—Judge Cole, ex -Governor Lewis, Gen. Guppy. and Anglia Cline- ron. The Democratic caucus last night nominated Cameron conditionally upon his acceptance of their platform. That includes hard money, tariff for revenue only, and the supremacy of civil author- ity in time of peace. Cameron is a law- yer, a resident of LaCrosse, and Is 49 t ears old. lie came to Wisconsin in 1857, has served six years in the State Legislature. and was Speaker of the House in 1667. The vote stood. Came- ron, 69; Carpenter, 58; scattering, 4. LOCATION OF PLACER MINES. se_ The following rules., governing the lo- cation of placer chnms—issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Of- fice—will be of interest to the miners of Montana,: \I would state that the size of the placer claims located prior to the act of July 9, 1870, is regulated and controlled by local law. Subsequent to July 9th, 1870. and prior to May 10th, 1872, no lo- cation made by an individual can exceed twenty acres, and no location made by an association Call exceed 160 acres. There is nothing in the mining acts of Congress forbidding one person. or an association of persons, purchasing its many separate and distinct locations as he or they may desire, and embracing in one application for patent the entire claim to which they have possession and the right of possession by virtue of compli- ance with the local laws and Colegeea- sional amendments. The law does not require an expenditure on the premises oh $500 on each location of a placer claim embraced in an application for patent where the locations are contiguous and constitute one claim. There an applica- tion embraces two or more separate and distinct tracts of placer, the amount ($500) should be expended upon each tract, and a copy of the diagram and no- tice posted upon each tract to entitle the claitnaut to make entry thereof.\ AFRICANS. Africa is a great fact; we can not get rid of it, and we are fast becoming con- vinced that it may be turned to a better use than we have hitherto made of it. The Africans are irrepressible; they have the gift of vitality above most men, and live and multiply under circuinstanees that would be death to other races. The Datives of Tasmania have disappeared; the A ustralians are nearly extinct, it is but an actuary's question as to when we shall see the last of New Zealanders, and the Indians of America die out in the preaence of the white man. Not so the Afrieitn. Place him where you will, so long as he gets sunshine, and under whet circumstances you may, and Israel in Egypt scarcely increased taster. It is es- timated that there are nearly 15,000.000 of people of African descent on the main- land and islands. of' America. Africa it- self is more thickly peophel than was supposed. Instead of 30,000,000, it prob- a dy contains 100.000,000 of people. We cannot hope to possess ourselves of Afri- ca as we did of America, for, side by side with us on Ins own soil, the African would surely prove the stronger. So, whether we meet with him in his own land or elsewhere, it is manifestly to our OWII interest (to say nothing of higher motives) to make the beat of him. It is in Africa itself we must look to the high- est possibilities of the race, for those out- side are slaves or the descendants of slaves. They live also in the lands of their thraldom. and in the presence of those who are, or those who have been. tl.eir masters. You may free them all, but you will not purge them froin the ill effects of slavery simply by emancipating them. It will take many years to get rid of the mischief which long generations of s l a v er y h a ve wrought in their natures. Had the Israelites, after their emancipa- tion. remaieed in Egt - pt in the presence of their former masters. they would have been slaves ia nature still. And so it WaS with the free colored men in the United States and West Indies. Their associa- tions tend to keep alive the recollections of the past and to check noblest aspira- tions. The galling discomfort, if not of legal proscription, yet ot bitter caste pre- judice in the whitea, and whieli manifeste itself in every -day life in a thousand cruel and annoying- ways. are greatly against them. These people, therefore, afrord as yet no fair criterion of what the African race is eanable. I believe, 110WeVer. that the possibilities of the Africans on their own soil are not inferior to those of any race of men on the earth. Their civiliza- tion may, in some things, prove unlike our own. their range of virtue and vice is somewhat different. yet I do not think they will prove mentally our inf riors, or that their moral standard will he lower. I say thie from no theory evolved from my own inner consciousness, but from a conviction which is the result ofa person- al knowledge of them.—Cornhill Maga- zine. THE MADISONIAN PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY —AT— Virginia City, - Mczitata THOS. DEYARMON, Editor and Proprietlr• J. R. WILSON, Associate :did Local Editor. Papers ordered to any address can be changed to another address atthe option of the snbs.?riber. Remittance by draft. ehech. money order or registered fetter may l'e sent at our risk. THE MADISONIAN is- devoted In the arlrocaey of the principles 4.f the Democratic. • ' party emit° general and local hevi's REMARHAnun CHARGE OF Ai - TEMPT AT MURDER. The Paris Journal gives a long account of the frustration of n scheme of murder and robbery, planned by an ingenious swindler. This man had for SOHIC time back frequently visited the former hotel of Prince Demidoff. in the Rue Oe la Pc- diniere, Paris, telling the old protress that he was empleyed by a capitalist. who intended to purchase the house. He was most particular as to the basement rooms, which opened into a garden, from which a gate in an iron railing opens upon the Boulevard Hausemann, and took special care to learn how to open this gate rapidly. At length he came one day, aayiegs that in a short time he would bring with him the purchaser. and in a day or two he came with two others. He then asked if he had been in- quired for, and receiving a reply in the negative, he told his companions to come down stairs with him, and his expected friend would tanIn arrive. TIleV We; down with him, but being somewhat dis- trustful. kept a sharp eye On him, and noticed that he took something from his pocket. One of them at once seized what proved to be a revolver. A strug- gle ensued, but the man managed to. shake himself from their hold, and run 3ff. The portress, hearing the noise, cried out that he had gone off by the boulevard. and his intended victims, pur- suing him thither, soon had him in safe keeping. He had on his person a life - preserver and a cord with a slip -knot. He had a lvertised that a person with 30,000fr. might obtain 3,000fr. by simply showing them, the money being only needed to assist in striking a bargain. He had, in consequence, arranged to meet the above -mentioned persons at a cafe, where, before proceeding to trans- act the business, he had taken care to see the 30,000fr. It is said that he had been previously convicted of fraudulent bank- ruptcy aad swindling. He says that he had no intention of murder, but ofthreat- ening to commit suicide to frighten them intogiving him money. -4,11•4114, THE MAMMOTH CAVE OF MEXICO. It is said that the Cave ofCacalmainapa is the largest cave which is yet known in the world. Several persons who have visited the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky and that of Cacalluamilpa in Mexico, pro- nounce the latter the larger. A volcanic mountain, with an extinct crater, cover: this cave. It is not described in gel;le books of travel. It has, in filet, never been described. Mr. Porter C. Bliss has twiee examined and explored it. the last time in February, 1874. Six hundred persons constituted the exploring party; they were provided with Bengal lights and scientific appliances. After reaching a level at perhaps fifty feet depth, they proceeded three and three -fourth miles into the interior. The roof was so high— a succession of halls—that rockets often exploded before striking it. Labaryn- thine passages leave the main hall in every direction. Stalagmites and stelae - tiles are abundant. Below this cave, at a great depth, are two other immense caves. •—on A miturAL HUSRAND—EXTRAOR- DINARY SCENE AT AN ENGLISH MURDER TRIAL. At the Chester assizes Mary Lancaster, aged 33. was indicted for the murder o) her husband, John Lancaster at Birken- head. The deceased had long led the prisoner a wretched Iife, and on the 13th of September he came home drunk, and kicked over the meat which ehe was pre- paring thr his dinner. He then throehed her, and in a passion she threw at him a sharpening steel, and caused his death. The prisoner was a hard-working wo- man, and in spite of her husband's brutal treatment of her had done her best to make his home comfortable. The jury fining! the prisoner guilty. Mr. Justice Brett, addressing the prisoner, then said: I believe that VI thought it right to act according to your own tegelintes I should say nothing about this unhappy husband of yours. As lar as I can see you were a respectable, hard-working, well-behaved wile, and I feel bound to say a greater brute than your husband was I have sel- dom heard of. There are circumstances in, the dispositions even worse than those which have been brought forward. They show that even on the very last day you were together, you were doing all you could to make his home comfortable and to make him happy. With a brutality which made me shudder when I read it, he cast away that which you had prepar- ed for him. He has been beating and ills treating you for months, probably for years, and it is nothing but the tender- ness and forgiveness of the woman and wife which prevented you from having him punished for crimes he committed against you time after time. It is only when he has driven you to desperation by ill-treating you the whole day, and I dareeay was on the point of ill-treating you again, that you, in it moment of pas- sion, took up a formidable ‘veapon and threw it at him. I believe, ‘vithout the 'menthol of striking lain. It did strike him. and you immediately ran for assist- ance, and did all you could to save him. All the real right in this case was on your side. all the real wrong on your husband's and God forbid that I should punish you. I Will be no party to it. I will not even make the judgment complete. I will not allow it to be said by anybody that you are a convicted telon—(hear, litar)—fOr a conviction is not complete until a sen- tence is passed, and I mean to pass no sentence at all. (Loud cheering, which for some time the officials of the court vainly endeavored to suppress.) I shall merely ask you to enter into your own recognizance; to come lip for judgment it called upon, and nobody in the world will ever call upon yen—God forbid they ever should. (Renewed cheering. during which the prisoner left the dock.) alata-a-aaaa_evanzelict cir- cles b i e n made soon to in- cle l s 'h o e t r : e m i s i 17 ° t( 1 :) e l p t f a t l troduce the Christian religion in Chi- cago. A NEW numr. A Paris journal describes a new rifle of novel construction. recently invented in that eity. According to this account. the gun presents nothing rem:irk:0)1e ex- teriorly. but the lock is so arranged that the breech is opened by cocking the piece, and, the charge being introduced, the breech is closed, and the gem ie tired by touching the trigger. The cartridge consists of a hollow leaden cone tilled with powder, amid elostal at the base with a piece of cork. At the moment the eat . - tridge is introdoced into the breech the powder escapee by a small hole in the cork, and an impereeptihle ball of mini- m : the g powder. which forms the pritnIng, takes its former position. The triple ac- tion—cocking, loading awl firing—ist thus effected simultimeouaiy, so that la man with light experience can lire twee- ty rounds a minute. The cartridges ant stored in an iron tube, which is placed parallel with the barrel and eontaina thirty balls, so that the piece may be fired as many times almost without any interval, and without remot ing the stock from the shoulder, there being nothing It) be done but to cock and pull the trig- ger. BISMARCK MEETING Ills ENE- - MIES IN DEBATE IN THE GER, PARLI.k_MENT. 1iis gigantic frame absolutely trembled with passion; his gray eyes flashed and his heavy mustache bristled; a paper he took up during his first speech, for pur- pose of reference, vibrated visibly in the passionate grasp of his sinewy hands, and ever and 'lime his closely -buttoned uniform beet -tine tense ahrioat to splitting' across his huge chest as he set back hie shoulders and threw up his head, regard- ing his foes with that implacable glance which never tails to shake the strongest nerves when he darts it at an object of his hatred and contempt. In the eourse of an experience neither brief nor ordi- nary I have seen mmmv remarkable men at moments when t I ley have been expect- ed to labor under excitement of the most vehement description: but I have never . yet wits( saed the conseiousneas of un- bounded power expressed in the physique and bearing of a human tieing as I saw it in Prince Bismarck. As he stood for- ward, facing the hottie, the natural sterna ness of his aspect accentuated by natural rigidity of his military tentire, he looked to me like the incarnation of an ungov- ernable will; like a Colloseus, unquestion- ably capable of bearing upon his shoul- ders cares and responsibilities that would crush a common mortal into pow- der.—Corr. London Telegraph, A perfectly of Boston is the aristocracy it breeds. There is no other American city that possesses this element. Thie American aristocracy has, of course, no titles; but an aristocracy it is, nevertheless. Sonic of its members are richer than others; a few are of very limited means; but all up their fiselitions, gentility of manners and purity of blood, just as sternly as any patrieian family of Tuscany or Ohl Castle. The existence of this aristocracy gives it peculiar charac- ter to Boston. It makes money a second- ary consideration; wealth is hese sought tor; business is lees exciting, mid the whole social maellieerv tees eslingly works nine!' more smoothly. There is 110 rush either in the street or in the counting- house. Nobody seems to be in a hurry either to make a e•rtune or to ruin lane:elf, and the N. Y. alegruetive of 3Itirray Hill or hell seems t4 tie ItalillOW11 here. TiliS is slIppOSed to have a very influence on the moral condi- tion of the community: at all events -the historians think so, though some people outside deny it. mas-is-asa \All the world loves a lever.\ The! tender radiance that angers around him single a dull world amid :mikes: it beamifitl. Ilia countenance sweetly Shinetli and his behavior is fell of soulantl sentiment. Especially toil:101.g were the little ways of a Lynchburg lover. recently discover- ed. He was not happy; no. Cruel par- ents had said it should not be, and she acquiesced. Rage sat upon his manly brow. He bought a pistol, and whee. the other day, that hated and lovely be- ing walked past his house with another young man, the discarded bounced out of that houee and tenderly but firmly fired off eix barrels as a searer. The fluit that neither of the pair was a ware this popping was for their exclusive benefit. (lid not prevent the haughty youth for be- ing hauled before an unappreciative and derisive Magistrate. at*. It Is often more thau it question of taste how far clergymen can, in the pul- pit afford to carry unceremonious address and familiar illustration. When it comes to gamboling- therein. one would be apt to think that only a lunatic could be tome] guilty. Yet Mr. Spurgeon lately presented as a remedy for congregational sleepiness a game of battledore and shut- tlecock, played by the gentleman in the pulpit. A clergyman of his acquaintance did actually go through with this game befbre his dull congregation on several occasions, and did it. says 311.. Spurgeon. \with hie deepest solemnity.\ When all the drowsy ones were wide awake and wondering at this aportiveness ha rated them soundly for paving more at- tention to his foolery than to his ser- mons. This recipe of Mr. Spurgeon's would be a dangerous experiment for most ministers. It was a rather original way tl)at Geo. w. Goblins; took to murder Chat les Gib- bons, at Charlestown. S. C., the other night. He sat down beside Gibbons in a saloon, and putting his arm around Gib- bons' neck, in an affectionate war, said, \I believe I like you pretty well. Char- ley,\ and immediately ran it knife into his breast. So neatly was the lot) dome that the others in the room did not mine() it; Golding- subsequently hal his victim, mortally wounded, out into the street, and having taken all his money, bakil him adieu.
