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LOCAL NOTICES, Fifteen cents per liae for first, and ten cents otic line for each additional insertion. CARDS, One-half inch, $2 for one insertion; $3 for two insertions; $8 per quarter; $16 per year. :r The foregoing schedule of prices will be strietle altherell to. All a•Ivectisements counted in Nonpareil measure. .T t)13 l=\11 liSTPIN 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 PosiOttice—whether directed to his name or another's, or whether he has subscribed or not —is responsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued. he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is nettle, and collect the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken front the office or not. 3. \[he courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers or periodicals from the Postollice, or removing an:1 leaving them un- vatted for, is prima facia evidence of intention- al fraud. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN, Ittorne) and Counselor at Law. Radersberg, Montana Territory. HENRY F. WILLIAMS, Airy SL. Counselor at Law, VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE ONcr the Post Office. J. E. CALLAWAY, Attorney and Coun- selor at La:Ns - - VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, adjoining the °Ince of the Secre- tary of the Territore E. W. TOOLE. TOOLIC. TOOLE & TOOLE. .Attorneys at I_Aa,N - v. HELENA, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. fulls . e - Elt LVZ SHOBER & LOWERY, Attorneys and eoun- selors at Law. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, A ttt) flC Lt 1w. VIRGINIA CITY. M. T. JAMES G. SPR ATT, Attorney and Coun- selor at I iNS\. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. w el practice in all the Courts of Montana. W. F. SANDERS Atitorney and Coun- selor at Law HELENA, M. T. Wilt practice in all Courts of Record Montana. C. W. TURNER, IA A - S - Nr . 1( iE I, VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. 4 41'FICE: Colonel Callaway's. W M. F. KIRKWOOD, rie ney at IA fl w, 1 IL 4: 1 1 i V. Can be found at Judge spi-att's office or Pro- bate Court Rooms. Will practice in all the Uourts of the Territorv. Miller Sc Addoms, Fire, Life Insnranre, and Real Es- tate Agents, HELENA MoN r %NA. I. C. SMITH. M. D.. Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA carat, MONTAN A. Office at the Old Le Beau Stand, Wallace Street where he can be found night or day E. T. YAGER, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. W ill practice in all branches. Ofliee < , nt. 1 r above the cite Drug Store. H. B. BARKLEY, M. D. Physician& Surgeon. RADERSBURG, M. T. I TAF: had twenty-one years' experience in 1 in his profession—four years of that time a surgeon in the Confederate army. He is pre- pared to perform all kinds of surgery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS. his expe- riear, i. not surpassed by any physician in the territory TO THOSE WHO HAVE VENEREAL (OW PLAIN TS. —Gonorrhea, if called upon w it hin five day s after the first appearance, he will cure in seventy-two hours. In Syphilis, tie .vli cure in tive days. His treatment is different from any physi- :!ian in this Territory. He is prepar e d for Cleansing Extracting. and Filling Teeth. DR. C. S. ELLIS II AVING taken an interest in the Drug Department of A 'armichael's store at silver Star, Montana,can be found at all times, day and night, at said store, when not absent on professional busi- ness. 1-28tf 0. B. WHITFORD, M. 0., Physician and Surgeon, DELI:. PAH:L. MONTANA. VOL. 2. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1875. NO 15. l'ColE9P111(. AVIS. I have watched you long, Avis— Watched you so, I have found your secret out; And I know That the restless ribboned things, Where your slope of shoulder springs, Are but undeveloped wings That will grow. When you enter in a room, It is stirred With the wayward, flashing light Of a bird; And you speak and bring with you Leaf and sun ray, bud and blue, And the wind breathe and the dew, At a word. When you left me only now, In that ferret', Puffed, and feathered Polish dress. I was spurred Just to catch you, oh, my sweet, By the bodice trim and neat, Just to feel your heart a -beat, Like a bird. Yet, alas, love's light you deign, But to wear As the dew upon your plumes. And you care Not a whit for rest or hush; But the leaves. the lyric gush, And the wing power and the rush Of the air. So I dare not woo you sweet For a day, Lest I love you in a flash, As I may Did I tell you tender things, You would shake your sudden wings— You would start from him who siugs, And away . 11 , 411 AT THE OLD GATE. [From Chambers' Journal.] And so we have met here again, iota.; here is my hand once more; And with it the heart, now stricken— So proud in the days of yore, I know not how much that 1 loved you, When that word was spoken by me That sundered our lives that night, dear, And sent you over the sea. Here I have sat all alone, love, In the first flesh hours of Spring, When the blackbird filled the twilight ith the songs that it used to sing In the golden fall of that Autumn That buried my heart's delight; But never a song could I sing, love, In the calm of the falling night. I have waited by this gate, love, for a gleam of the days of old, When the sunsets of Summer came down, love On their wings of amber and gold, And lingered amongst the tassels Of that bright labarnum tree: There was glory above, 'Paid the branches, lint never a gleam for me. You thought that my heart was cold, love, 1 knew that it seemed so then; But maidens of seventeen years, dear, Are not to be judged with men. There's a beauty of trust we must soar to, There's a love to which we must grow; And these years have unsaid that word, dear, That I spoke to you long ago. There's a lingering kiss on my lips, love— It has lain since yours touched mine; There's a love in my life that is yearning To cling to your heart as its shrine: Ah! now you have taken that kiss,love, And with it crushed out the past; I have waited long, long at the old gate— I have waited, but found you at last! WATCH THE PREACHER. Now, Mary Jane, you've jilted the church, I hope you will be clever; And don't forget that I'm your love, While I am down the river! If Parson Smooth should come to pray, And tell you he's your preacher, Oh! watch him as you would a hawk! And don't forget old Beecher! It may be he will want to sing The old song, \Coronation And tell you not of worldly things, Nor give you consolation! Just tell him that the Bible tells Of joys beyond our reaches; That he should always stick to that, And practice what he preaches! LIFE. What is life? A twisted yarn—a tangled skein— A mingled web of joy and pain— A glancing simbeen, warm and bright— A banging cloud more dark than night— A beauteous flown of sweetest scent -- A murky cave where poison's pent— A guten cup with nectar sweet— A blackened bowl where bitters meet— The lightest feather that can rise— A heavy weight, repressing sighs -- A lucid stream with rapid flow— A stagnant pool, where dark weeds grow— A summer breeze that cools the ai r— A hurricane that makes earth bear— A gift enjoyed with grateful heart— A load with which we long to part— And such is life! A. II. T. IN AN HOUR. ANTICIPATION. \I'll take the orchard path,\ she said, speaking lowly, smiling slowly; The brook was dried within its bed, The hot sun flung a flame of red Low in the West, as forth she sped. A cross the dried brook -course she went Singing lowly, smiling slowly; She scarcely saw the sun that spent Its fiery force in swift descent— She never saw the wheat was bent. The grasses parched, the blossoms dried: Singing lowly , smiling slowly, Her eyes amid the drought espied A summer pleasance far and wide. With roses anti sweet violets pied. DISAPPOINTMENT. But homeward coining all the way, Singing lowly, pacing slowly, She knew the bent wheat withering lay, She saw the blossoms dry decay, She missed the little brooklet's play. A breeze had sprung from out the south, But, sighing lowly, pacing slowly, She only felt the burning drought; Her eyes were hot, anti parched her mouth; Yet sweet the wind blew from the south! And when the wind brought welcome rain, Still sighing lowly, pacing slowly, She never saw the lifting grain, But only—a lone orchard lane, Where she had waited long in rain! —Nora Perry in Scribner's. ---66-•eae A promise to pay A dollar, you say, I, just the same thing as a dollar. So 'tis my intent To pay your rent With my note. Am I not an apt schollar? RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION. The report of the railroad construction for 1874, as presented by the Railroad Gazette tbr January, puts this interest upon a basis where enterprise goes hand in hand with safety and economy. Con- sequently there has been a considerable falling offin mileage; or, in brief, rail- roads have been built only so far as the commercial interests of the country de- manded . them. During 1874 the new lines constructed foot up 1923 miles, against 3883 in 1873 and 7340 in 1872. This decrease is especially remarkable in the %Vest, and shows that instead of ex- pecting railroads to develop the country the better policy is adopted of allowing the country to develop the railroad. The greatest decrease is in the South Interior States. including Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia, where on- ly forty-nine miles of new road were con- structed in 1874, against 463 iii 183, a fall- ing oft of about 90 per cent. On the Pa title coast the decrease is only 10 per cent. and in the North Interior States 12 1-2 per cent. The average decrease of the couutry was over 50 per cent. At the close of 1873 Poor's Manual gave the mileage of United States railroads as 70,651, so taking this as correct it now amounts to 72.576, or about a mile of railroad for every 612 persons in the country to support. The Gazette calls the rate of increase which prevailed be- fore the crash one which would have bankrupted the world, and it is encour- aging to tied ourselves coining out of the clouds and getting once more on a basis of safety and common sense. EXTRAVAGANCE AND TAXATION. The administration has finally given over the attempt to blind the public to the condition of the Treasury. The long career of extravagance in expenditure has culminated in a situation verging close on bankruptcy, and officials who, a few months ago, were boasting of the sound and titvorable condition of our finances, are now wildly casting about for objects of immediate taxation. The March pension will require $7.000,000, while there is only $8,000,000 in green- backs in the Treasury; and the appropri- ations for the various Departments ag- gregate about forty millions more than the anticipated revenue. The position has not been reached at a single step. It is the natural and inevitable end of the course of inexcusable prodigality pursu- ed by the Grant Administration for years. While the \child in finance\ was wast- ing the golden opportunity of prosper- ous times in a puerile effiirt to pay oft im- mature indebtedness. and again entering Wall street to help in \moving the crops,\ the President was urging vast schemes of internal improvement, the Supervising Architect was pilling up granite in costly heaps all over the coun- try, the Navy Yards were consuming millions for the payment of voters, and Congress was over -run with subsidy schemes. Within the past two years there has been a great increase in the ex- penses of the Government. SLIGHTLY MISTAKEN. Some time since a party oh' he lies and gentlemen went on a tour of inspection through Durham Castle. \The lions\ were shown to them by an elderly female of a sour, solemn, and dignified aspect. In the course 01 their peregrinations they came to the celebrated tapestry for which the castle is so famed. \These said the guide, in true show- man style, flavored with a dash of piety to suit the subject. and pointing to sever- al groups of tie -tires upon the tapestry— \these represent scenes in the life of Jacob.\ \Oh yes—how pretty!\ said a young lady; and with a laugh, pointing to fig- ures in somewhat close proximity, she continued, \I suppose that is Jacob kiss- ing Rachel?\ \No madam,\ responded the indignant guide, with crushing dignity, \that is Jacob wrestling with the angel.\ Tne men haw -hawed, the young lady sit:sided. and ()tiered no further exposi- tory remarks, but groaned under a sense of unworthiness during the rest of the visit. ran---e—mo A COLORED LEGISLATOR AND ''SPOILS.\ The train plods slowly but surely for- ward. There are some miraculous waifs. which stir the impatience of none but Northern visitors, however. The very engine feels the slumbrous enchantment of these low countries, and moderates its speed accordingly. At the junction where trains running between Augusta, ill Georgia, and Beaufort, on the South Carolina coast, meet and pass the trains to and from Savannah, a dusky crowd al- ways hovers.. As I worried through the half hour of waiting there I saw the re- ception of a dark-skinned legislator by his constituents. Men and women flock- ed around him, and it was painful to note that each had his or her flippant joke to make concerning the spoils which the legislator was supposed to have brought home. The coal-black man could hardly be expected to blush, but he certainly was contused, as he turned away with the too true remark: \Reckon no mo' money left in old Chawleton. Co- lumby nudder. I ain't seen none o' dat stuff since I bin dar.\ Whereupon all the followers set up a derisive yell.— &wallah Letter to the New York Thnes. • • • • • ••• • OWN • • 110. • .1 1.111141 A consumptive invalid writes from Colorado: \We sit comfortably out of doors in the sunshine in mid -winter. though all summer we slept under blank- ets. There is a sort ol radiance in the atmosphere which I have never witness- ed in any other country, probat'ly from the purity and dryness thereof. At night the moon and stars seem to come down and almost twinkle and glow near one's eyes.\ OUGHT MR. BEECHER TO STOP PREACHING? We observe in some of the country pa- pers a good deal of discussicer on the question whether Mr. Beecher ought to preach to Plymouth Church during his trial. Most of these jotu-nals think that it is very wrong in him to continue to ap- pear in the pulpit and address his con- gregation upon religious subjects until after the jury have brought in a verdict in his favor. How can a clergyman who is accused of such extremely irreligious behavior—so they argue—teach religion to the people et Plymouth, while it still remains in doubt, at least in a legal sense, whether he is guilty or innocent? What they would like to have hint do would be to retire to private life as long as_ the trial lasts, and employ some other Con- gregational clergyman, such as Dr. Storrs or Dr. Bacon, to do the preaching in his place. It seems to us these critics are rather wasting their labor. Is Mr. Beecher preaching to them? Are they called upon to listen to Ins expositions of doc- trine and his flights of sentiment, or to join in the prayers he oilers? Not. at all; it is to Plymouth Church and the Plym- outh congregation that he preaehes; and as long as they want to hear him, it is nobody's business but their own. It these fault-finders could see the crowds that throng Plymouth Church every Sun- day, and hang with interested attention upon the words that fall from the preach- er's lips, they would understand the rea- son why he continues to speak there. No popular orator or actor ever quits the busy scenes of public life as long as he continues to \draw;\ and why should not this be the case with a popular cler- gyman also, no matter in what peculiar circumstances he may be placed.—New York Sun. •11106.-0--...61111 HARD TIME FOR THE ORGANS. This is a dreadful trying time for an organ. No sooner does a faithful grinder get used to a tune than it is changed without warning, and with great racking to the instrument. Thus, before the President's message was issued the or- gans loudly applauded the course of Gen. Sheridan and called upon the public to uphold the Administration in carrying out his suggestions. Without a bit of regard for their feelings, the President refused to uphold Sheridan, and the organs had to swallow their words. Tnen they began to praise the message and accept all of its statements in regard to the Louisiana case. Scarcely had they done this when the report of Messrs. Phelps, Foster, and Potter came, abso- lutely contradicting the • President's -facts.\ A majority oi the organs, fair- ly desperate, kicked Phelps and Foster out of the partyAnd got out of the trouble in that way. The Chicago Tribune, although it had been enough of an organ to abuse all the Republicans who had had the honesty to protest against the President's interference by bayonets in the Legislature, could not grind on in the face of the report of two such un- doubted Republicans as Phelps and Fos- ter, and was forced to protest in this way: ‘\rhe Republican party has already sufiered from the odium a teaching to the Louisiana business far more than the party possession of that State can ever be worth to it. We submit to Republican members that they cannot afford to ad- journ and leave the 'Gigantic Kellogg fraud' on the hands of the President to be upheld by Federal bayonets for two years longer, and make that an issue in the next Presidential election. The Pres- ident insists that this Congress shall solve the problem of giving to the people of Louisiana a Government of their own free choice, and the members of the Re- publican party indorse this demand. Neither hot-headed counsels nor the game of bluff will answer the purpose.\—N. Y. Tribune. ---------10- 611••••••-•••11111 THE FORTY -U0 U It 111 CONGRESS. Caref , 1 scrutiny of the list of Repre- sentatives -elect to the Forty-fourth Con- gress reveals hut one Smith—a Georgia gmitleumn. This is an unusua1:3 - small representation in the House of a large tinnily. There is but one Jones also, Thomas L., of Kentucky. But the Wil- liamses loom up. There are no less than six of them: Jerry, of Alabama. James, of Indiana, and Alpheus, of Michigan— all Demoeaats; and William, of Michigan; Andrew, of New York, and Charles of Wisconsin—all Republicans. The Harri- ses come next; three of them—Henry, of Georgia, and John, of Virginia, Demo- crats, and Benjamin, of Massachusetts, a Republican. All of the other members who are not single travel in couples. There are two %Voods—Feri land°, of New York, Democrat; and Allen of Pennsyl- vania, Republican; Two Philiipses—John of Missouri, Democrat; and William, of Kansas, Republican. Two Hamiltons— Andrew, of Indiana, and Robert of New Jersey,both Democrats. Two Cald wells— John, of Alabama, and William of Ten- nessee, both Democrats. Two Wallaces— John, of Pennsylvania,. and Alexander, of South Carolina, both Republicans. I Two Wilsons—James, of Iowa, Republi- can, and Benjamin of West Verginia, Democrat. Two Burehards—Horatio, of Illinois. and Sanmel.of Wisconsin. the former a Republican, and the latter a Democrat. Two Refflys—John and James, of Pennsylvania, both Democrats; and two Bagleys—John and George, both oh New York. the first a Democrat, and the second a Republican. There are two Clarks with the same initials, John B., and both are Democrats, one from Missouri and the other from Texas. An- other variation is a similarity in peculiar (riven names; an illustration of it being furnished in Scott Wike, of Illinois, and Scott Lord, of New York, who are both Democrats. A jaw eight feet long has been unearth- ed in Wisconsin. It is supposed to have belonged to a lady of the miocene age. HE WANTED A CRADLE, NOT A COFFIN. He came into the office of a West End undertaker yesterday, with a look of great care on his honest face. His eyes were heavy and slightly bloodshot, tell- ing of nightly vigils and loss of sleep. His hair was unkempt and shaggy. The soft-hearted man of coffins looked upon his vishor with a gaze full of pity and thankfulness—pity for the customer's loss, and thankfulness for his patrouage. He was so young to be burdened with the loss of a dear one by death. The manufacturer of burial-cases nod- ded a silent esesent and condoling recogni- tion; the young man front the country said: \How d'ye?\ Then ensued a pain- ful silen.e, broken at length by the man of grave business. \Can I do anything for you to -day, sir?\ \Wall I reckin' so, stranger.\ Another silence. Once more the under- taker began suggesting: \Your sister?\ Young man stared a. moment, then as a light gradually broke upon his perplex- ed mind, lie smiled a smile more sugges- tive of sorrow than happiness, and re- plied: \No—my wife.\ \Sudden?\ \No—expeeted stethun of the kind for several months.\ \When did it !topple\ \Bout 4 o'clock this morning:\ \Looks natural?\ \Rather.\ (Spoken carefully, and ex- pressive of some doubt.) \About what do you want the cost of it to be?\ \Don't care for expense; get it up kinder nice. 1'11 treat her handsum, cause she is the first ore I ever had.\ \Very well, my friend; you'll have it lined with white satin. I suppose?\ \Jest as you say, stranger.\ \Silver -headed screws, too, I suppose?\ \Y -a -a -s, I s'pose so. An', stranger jest put a bully top to't.\ \Oh of course; and you'll want a glass in it, also, I suppose?\ \Y-a-a-s—oh certainly—you bet. Get her up sniptious, you know, old fellow. None of your dratted one-hoss fixins for me. No, Sieee.\ \Just so. Silver handles, of course?\ \Eli? What's thet you say, stranger— Sil-ver han-des? Oh durn it, now, won't that be Olin' it on too lefty like? I kin stand silver screws and sich, but ther's no use makin' the hull tarnation trap of silver. The thing has to be moved, anti must have handles, but I :tint so quite stuck up as thet now—not quite, stran- ger.\ \Yery well,\ acquiesced the man ofob- sequies, \I'll put ordinary handles to it, then?\ \Eggs-actly—them's 'cm, mister; now yer talkin'. Or'nary handles '11 do. But, I say stranger (reflectively), make the* wheels glisten like thunder.\ \Wh—wh—wh—wh-eels?\ \Yes wheels, What's the matter with you. anyhow?\ \But who ever heard of wheels to a coffin?\ \Coffin?\ shrieked the dejected -looking young man. \Coffin? Now, who the dickens said anything about coffins?\ \Why don't you want a coffin?\ \No -o! I want a cradle—a trap to rock my new baby in.\ \And isn't your wife dead?\ \Not by a jugful. Don't you make cradles for sale?\ \No my friend, I am an undertaker.\ \Undertaker of what?\ \I make coffins.\ \Oh Lord, let me ketch the feller that sent me hare?\ And the grief-stricken youth crammed his hat over his eyes, ran his hands deep down in the pockets of his trousers, and pounced out on the streets searching for vengeance.—Chicago Ex. ems-e-eas The \points\ of some of the United States Senators are pithily summarized by a Washington correepondent. Conk - ling is the Senatorial Adonis. When he was in the House the young ladies used to sit in the galleries and wish they had a lock of the dear little curl that adorns his brow, and, as it is thinner now than it used to be, it is probably even dearer. It is rather singular that the three bache- lors of the Senate should be the favorite presiding officers—Wilson, ex -officio: Anthony, pro tern., and Ferry. of Michi- tem, in default of either. Anthony is the handsomest; still, it is not always beauty that wins. Gordon, the Confederate general, is a fine-looking, soldierly fel- low. Bayard, of Delaware, is the third generation of Senators in his family. Freling - huysen is something of a swell. Edmunds, his neighbor, is the most quarrelsome of Senaters. Thurman looks and moves like Beecher. Dorsey is only 33 years old, the \baby\ of the Senate. Cameron is time oldest Senator. Dorsey, Allison and Oglesby have young and pretty wives. The London Times says of the new fi- nance bill:—The last act of the United States Senate is of a kind to provoke the laughter ef all mockers. That eminent body, the center of stability and prop of confidence in the Constitution of the fed- eration, has, we learnt by a telegram. passed a bill decreeing the resumption of specie payment on the 1st of January, 1870. The bill, we are informed, was framed by a Republican eadcus, and was then thrust through the Senate by a par- ty vote, all the Republicans supporting and all the Democrats opposing it, and, as it would seem, no discussion having been attempted of its merits. The hu- mor of this transaction deserves to be fully appreciated. It is as though a man who knows there is something faulty in his household were to enter into his pocket -book a resolution that its disord- ers shall be reformed some four years hence. Journeymen tailors in China receive two cents per day. SUICIDE OF AN EMPRESS. It is not long since an Itnperial order was issued for all the young women of certain grades of society in Pekin to pre- sent themselves before a Board, consist- ing of two dowager Empresses and cer- tain other functionaries, in order that a selection might be made for an Empress for the young sovereign of China, and three subordinate wives. Though the honor to be obtained was very great. yet few parents appeared to be desirou , of securing it for their daughters, for if se- lected they would never again be allowed to cast eyes on them. The result in this case was that two orders had to be issued before the marital wants of the young Emperor could be supplied. The whole of the very singular proceeding is graph- ically described in an article in the last number of the Galaxy. As the yoring ladies filed by, a wooden tablet in \ VI: iC11 all the particulars relating to the family and life of each candidate were inscribed was examined. If it was thrown into a basket. placed on one side, it was notice to the person inspected that she might go home. At length a selection was made of a young girl of the name of Alute for Empress and three others for dsputy wives. Alute was the grand -daughter of a General who had been disgraced for misconduct in the war with the Nankin rebels. Strange, also, to narrate, one of the deputy wives was aunt of the girl chosen for Empress. It was not long since Alute was conveyed to the palace with all that tawdry ceremonial for which the Chinese are so remarkable. The dis- play of gilt banners and silk robes was something astonishing to barbarian eyes. No ceremonies were observed in relation to the concubines who were introduced by a back door into the palace on the day that the Empress was brought home in state. 01 such character was the wooing and marriage of the young man who claimed to be the Son of Heaven, Guard- ian of the Earth and King of Kings. Af- ter the Board hind made the selection for hint he would no more have thought of offering objection than of flying. But he was not loug for this world. A few months ago he sickened and died. Now the telegraph informs us that Alute, in despair, has committed suicide. The Em- press of a few months could not endure her forlorn state, and Hindoo sutteeism, somewhat modified, has found a place in China. The new Emperor is said to be only 3 years old. During his minority his mother is to reign in China, butt whether with or without Prince Kung has yet to be determined. HOW nu. LI NCOLN FORGAVE HIM. editer of a weekly paper, published n a little village in Missouri, called at the IVIiite House, and was admitted to Mr. Lincoln's presence. He told Mr. Lin- coln that he was the man who first men- tioned his name for the Presidency, and piffling from his pocket an old, worn, defaced copy of his paper, exhibited an item on the subject. \Do you really think,\ said Mr. Lincoln, \that announce- ment was the occasion of my nomina- tion?\ \Certainly said the editor, \the suggestion was so opportune that it was at once taken up by other papers, and the result was your nomination and election.\ \Ah! well,\ said Mr. Lincoln with a sigh, and assuming a rather gloomy coun- tenance, \I am glad to see you and know this, but you will have to excuse me; I am just going to the War Department to see Mr. Stanton.\ \Well said the edi_ tor, \I will walk over with you.\ The President with that apt good -nature so characteristic .of him, took up his hat and said : \Come along.\ When they reached the door of the Secretary's office, Mr. Lincoln turned to his comeanion and said, shall have to see Mr. Stanton alone, and you must ex- cuse me,\ and taking him by the hand he continued, \Goodbye ; I hope you will feel perfectly easy about having nomina- ted me; don't be troubled about it; I for - (rive you.\—Washington Chronicle. e THE FRENCH BRANDY TRADE. A writer in the London Time.s says : \The exports of the brandy from the River Charente have about quadrupled in the past twelve years. 1 take from statistics supplied to the French Govern- ment the average produce of each trien- nial of that period as tollows : July 1, 1860, to June 30, 1863, annual average, 4,750,666 gallons; July 1,1863, to June 30, 1866, annual average. 9.377,916 gallons; July 1, 1866. to June 30, 1869, annual av- erage. 11.715,750 gallens ; July 1, 1869, to June 30, 1872, annual average, 14,068,833 gallons. In 1873 there was a small de- crease in exports, more than compensa- ted by enhanced prices; and judgilig from nine months' trade of this year, I Antici- pated a further diminution in exports and value. During the past twelve years the market prices of brandy in the producing districts have been varied with a rising tendency from £2 to £6 15s., the hectoli- tre of twenty-two gallons (free of bottling or packing - ). Assuming the invoice price in the last three years mentioned to have been £5 for twenty-two gallons, includ- ing packing (a moderate estimate), the average trade from this one locality in those years is not less than £3,097,460. and of this amount fully 90 per cent is paid in the first instance by British merchants. Specimen debate in Kellogg's Legisla- ture:\You lie, you nigger von.\ \Dat's not parliamentary. Sale\ \You's a wio- latin' of the Constitution, Sah.\ The last remark was made by a young and handsome mulatto. He had no sooner uttered it than a very black man turned upon him and exclahned with an air of the utmost contempt: \What you knows about the Constitution, you yallow moke you? You pusson of unsure parentage. you shut your fool mouf.\ This caused a loud laugh among the negro spectators, and was greeted with such exclamations as: \Gully but dat nig is some.\ \He's the man for talkin',\ \You bet,\ and \To be sure, honey.\ STUDYING AND OTHER THINGS. So many objections, real or imaginary, are being offered to our present method of public instruction that the matter is at least worth careful consideration. iftor ho other purpose than to show that the objections are mainly of the imaginative sort. We ate told ti at we are blinding the children, and yet there is more read- ing done now than ever before in the world ; and we are told that the school choruses are ruining all the children's voices, and yet instruction in music is now an element of the course. We are told by some parents that the lessons are so long the children have not time to learn them, and by others that the books are different from those they used to study, and that the changes have been of no good. It is true that within the past twenty-flve or fifty years there have been some additions to history, and geograph- ical exploration has thrown a great deal of light upon regions of the world that but little was known about some time ago, and these facts, with the progress in ether branches that time has brought, have led to various change in the text books, such as to perplex those people who stopped learning anything a quarter of a century ago. But the objection that needs sober at- tention is that which is based on the de- claration that the children have not the time to learn the lessons given them. The theory that they are going blind admits a remedy in better light, better desks, and in glasses; the peril of cracked throats can, if thought best, be very easily averted by a cessation from singing:— which would tend also to prevent the danger of universal deathess, that we have been fearful would next be announc- ed—but the only remedy for the long -les- son evil, if it be proved such, is a short- ening of the lessons and a consequent abridgment of a course of study that has not been adopted in a day, but Las been gradually shaped and planned by persons of superior intelligence, whose life work lies in teaching, and who might be sup- posed to have good reason for the various changes they have made. The principal argtunent of the objec- tors to the present course is that they never found such difficulty in getting their lessons when they were children ; and there, perhaps, is the explanatien of the whole problem. Children to -day are living very ditierentiy from the way their parents lived at their age. The outside attractions of life, the increased facilities for sport, and the multiplied beguilements within doors to draw them from their books, are such as their parents were sel- dom tempted by. It is not necessary to enumerate all the nitinences that modern changes in society have brought to bear upon children, to the injury of studious habits, but it is a fact which grows more patent the more carefully the matter Is looked into, that therein lies the main difficulty, at the present time. Children cannot learn their lessons and do a hund- red other things simultaneously, nor can their lessons learn themselves or be pour- ed in like medicine by the teachers. Stu- dying is not capable of vicarious ances, but each scholar has to learn his own lesson, and it' he has so much on hand that he has not time to study, he is likely to grow up into a man who will think still less of books. It is coming about that before agitation concerning the school system proceeds , much further, thoughtful people will call attention to the social system, and if it comes to a choice between reforming the former or the latter, there can be little doubt as to which is the more necessary. THE FARMER AND 'I'llE TINKER. The Xenia (Ohio) Torchlight relates this little story : \An old gentleman liv- ing near here was called upon a short time since by a clock tinkerer, who ex- amined our old friend's clock and pro- nounced it out of order. The old gentle- man said that it was good enough for him and the old woman, and he would not have it fixed, but it was insh ted upon, and finally he agreet1 to keep the tinkerer and his horses all night in recompense for the necessary repairs to the old house clock. The clock proved to need more repairs than was at first expected, and in addition to the night's lodging seventy- five cents was demandel The old gen- tleman objected to this, and began to count up what he had already given his lodger. \First there was your supper—\ \But stop,\ says the tinkerer, \you asked me to eat supper, and consequently can't charge me for that.\ Says the old man: -You asked me to fix my clock, conse- quently you can't charge me for that. So we are square on the supper and clock, and von owe me for your lodging and breakfast.\ The old man was ahead. The matter was finally compromised by the old man paying twenty-five cents, and the young man departed, muttering something about Grangers.\ Before . the legal formalities attending the session of the Figi Islands to Great Britain were proceeded with, the King presented to Sir Hercules Robinson, as a gift of the Queen of England, a large club. This formidable weapon, it is stated has dealt the death blow of some hundreds ofFijians. It bears some hand- some silver ornaments. At the top is a massive crown, and the shaft is twined around with doves and fern leaves in sil- ver. The club was designed to serve as a mace for the Fijian Parliament, but the King desired that it might be conveyed to her Majesty, with the statement that its rule was at one - time the only known law in Fiji. Sir Hercules Robinson said he should have great pleasure in convey- ing the club toiler Majesty, and at its ar- rival, therefore, may be expected at any moments • \Well. Pat, Jim didn't quite kill you with the brickbat, did he ?\ \No; but I wish i he had.\ -Why so !\ So that I could have seen him hung, the villain.\ —IS— PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY —AT— Virginia City, Montana THOS. DEYARMON, Editor and Proprietor •1•••••••••••111 , ... J. IL WILSON, Associate and Local Editor: Papers ordered to any address can be changed to another address attire j option of the subscriber'. ' Remittance by draft. cheek. Mconey - order or registered letter 11111y be sent at our risk. TtrvammoisoliTi.tvh 412 - toted to the' advocacY of the principles of the Democratic party and to general and local news. A STRANGE CANE* A young lady narned Hooker. the . daughter of a wealthy farmer at W'hite's Valley, Pa.,. committed suicide last week under peculiar circumstances. She had for several years laboied under the hallu- cination that she had committed some grievous sin against a deity whom she called her ••Immantiel,\ and she was con- stantly buildirg :ilia! s in her hither's . fields, on which she sacrificed Iambs as a burnt offerieg for an atonement. Last Wednesday it was found that she had hninolated herself on an altar in the kitch- en to appease the wrath of the deity. She left the tollowing note : DEAR FATHER -My Immanuel appeared to me to -day. He reveals to me that I have committed the unpardonable sin, which I ean only obtain forgiveness for by passing through the elearsing - of tire. I will intercede for you, my dear father. You will find my purified body ia the northeast corner of the house. I WW1 to have my ashes bulled in my Immanuel's ground at the northwest corner of the house. Good-bye. Meet mc in the Eter- nal Ground. Ciusser. eseets---as SUICIDE BETTER TITAN STARVA- TION. .A sad case of suicide occurred on the 14th instant, under the fallowing circum- stances: \Several weeks ago, a gentle- man by the name of William E. Lamson, who resided with his wife at No. 120 East Twenty-third street, was discharged from a position he held in the . Department of Charities and Correction. Being with- out employment he got ha° !eht, and despairing of ever regaining his position, resolved to commit suicide. On the ev0e - - - ing of the day mentioned he went to the Erie Railroad office and there wrote the following to his wife. MY DEAR WIFE This is awful, but [ can't endure this thing any longer.- To- night my body Will rest in the . North- Ri yen WILL. He then went to the foot of Twenty.; third street and embarked on the ferry- boat, Jay Gould, where he shot himself through the bead with a pistol. When the body was found by those who were attracted to the spot by the explosion, the limbs were hanging over the edge of the boat, showing conclusively that it was his intention to have his body fall into the river. Mr. Lamson was 56 yeari of age.—N. Y. Times. THE GRANGE AND THE PRESS. Sufficient stress has not been laid upon the inestimable service which the Grange has rendered in the agricultural commu- nity by stimulating among its memttere t he circulation of newspapers. Not alone has it been a passive agency, furnishing for the publisher an infinite number of local centres, by covering - which he reaches the whole agricultural communi- ty, but it has been a most active agent in among Patrons theft eonvic-• tion of the absolute necessity for b imigThg - t he newspaper into the daily aflhirs 01 the farmer's business and social life which farmers (particularly ill the West) halve - hitherto been too slow to recognize. - While some Granges have contented tliet»selves by recommending all their members to subscribe for mid read at least one paper, others have taken meas.. - ures to reinforce their faith by their - works, In some (1:IAtts the Grange has defrayed from' its treasury a quarter or a half of the cost of subscription e even. better arrangement has been devised by an Indiana Patron. This is, for the Grange to advance from its treasury time subscription price of the newspaper in the case of every member who feels him- self too poor to raise the money, with the uuderstanding that it at the end of the year the Patron cannot pay back the money into the treasury the Grange will , bear the loss. This is an admirable plan, and it is sate to predict that not only \tall the individual members of the Graves, find means to reimburse it, but that in fis- hire years each will be prompt to renew his subscription without waiting for any prom pti n g. A YOUNG ABTIST IN THE - II -OUSE A Cass avenue father procured an out- fit of oil paints and brushes for his eight - year -old son the other day, the lad letv- ing developed a talent for drawing. Little was seen of the boy for two or three days, and then he took his father and mother by the hand and led them into the parlor, and triumphantly pointed to the proofs - of his artistic skill. The gilt paper on the walls formed a tine ground work for' him, and he had painted a horse over one door, a lion over another, a bird over the third, and at intervals along the walls he had brought out fighting dogs, ships, fire' engines, Indians in full dressourl bears . chasing boys. lie had put a new border on time bay window curtains, striped the legs of the piano, and had proceeded to touch up and improve certain chromos and oil paintings hanging on the walls:, Father and mother gazed around, and the young artist anxiously waited for them to pat him on the head and say they were' proud of such a son. They didn't pat him—not very much. The father placed the son's ear between his thumb and fin- ger, and led him through several rooms to the woodshed, and what followed may be interred from a remark by the boy and overheard by a pedestrian : \Oh ! father! let up on me, and neVet be . an artist any morc.\—Detroit Press. Senator Ingalls, of gaesae,writes: •r regret to say that many disreputable im- posters are speculating upon our afflie- tions in the Mtridle and Eastern States. soliciting contributions from th, charit- able which nevir reach the objects of their compassion. These professional mendie cnnts inflict great injury upon our peo- ple. They degrade the State by repre- senting its condition as worse than it ac- tually is. Many of them have never seen its borders, and are entire strangers to ite citizens. Some of them are equipped with forged testimonials, through which they itnpose upon the benevolent.\ A perron who wags his head is a wag.
