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m sr >fx >•. >,V 1 mini n , V*» ''Ä- -A ÇV ***• I %fl w sum r i i ■ = i* JX • ■ 0i lS -j ïâsï -V «*S Volume io. Helena, Montana, Thursday, February 17, 1876. No. THE WEEKLY HERALD lTBU?nEl) EVERY THURSDAY ^lORNINO. }FISK BEOS., Publishers TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. TRUMS FOU THE ItAIuY HERALD, t ::> Suh-crib-rv :«lrliv« , rcd by <«mer) jkt tionth. fcl 00 l;v X.UL < )r>* : copy out: month................ .......... 1 3 •V0 On* ; fj»jry three montilf* ............. 00 Out Out * ropy rix month*)................ ■ copy one year................... ........... 12 22 00 1W TERMS FOR THK WEEKLY HERALD. o».< ' Vf'ttJ ............................ ............*5 00 v i V months.......................... ............ 4 00 Three month*....................... ............2 50 RA\K DKPOSITK. Ti* Tli*- Editor of the Herald: If there is no law to compel hanks to make returns to Assessors, the sooner our Legisla ture enacts such a law the better 1or the peo ple. The evils, the injustice, an<l oppression must be apparent to many as the question now stands towards property holders of every description except tin' depositor. It makes a perjurer of the man, who, when under oath in making returns to the Assessors, evades the items of "Moneys and Credits," and at the end of the list, "All other property not herein enumerated," and then deliber ately swears he has listed in the within list all moneys, goods, credits, and all other description of property owned or held by him as principal, partner or agent. What will be the results in future years of the father's instructions to the child, of such principles involved, in listing his property falsely ? Is it not a step downwards toward the disgraceful positions that some of our re cent revenue and whisky officials now' oc cupy ? Is not this systematic lying degrad ing, from the fact that, the conscience must continually l>c an accuser of wrong, and bring censure ami reproach from others? If there is any one point or fact in the code of morals that is a cardinal virtue, it is truthfulness. The respect due one from another, the continued possession of distin guished position, the. esteem and consideration accorded men and women, the dignity of the nalion depends on the truthfulness of its peo ple. It is a foundation stone of the nation's honor. And what is this honor ? "It is the finest sense of justice which the human mind can frame." The injustice is in the fact that one is taxed and another not. Because property lias dif ferent names and shapes, otic class can be concealed, the other cannot. And this is why the Assessor should have the authority to compel all to come in subjection to a just law. It is an injustice for the merchant, farmer, mechanic, and miner to feci und know he is supporting the burden of taxes which depositors do not share with him -, and herein lies the oppression. Where is the right, the justice, in compelling one class of our people to enact, support, and pay for laws to protect these men in the possession of their property for which they do not pay a cent. Do they not demand such laws shall be enacted as will guard banks from stealing money ? Do they not demand the laws shall be executed by the expensive routine of our courts to restore to them their rights of pos sessions lost ? l)o they pay for such legisla tion, and the execution of such laws? "What is to be gained by investing in "mines unde veloped. agricultural interests prostrate, stock raising in its infancy," where there is so much risk, where the Assessor can easily obtain re turns, when the mere act of depositing saves his money, accumulates interest, and avoids taxation ? It is not the desire or object to underrate the usefulness, excellence, or enterprise of our banks, but there should be no inclination to ward establishing a privileged class. Wc are supposed to be free and one man is another's peer only in honor, knowledge, and wisdom. Is it not a fact that the lowering of the rate of interest from three and four per cent., is caused by the necessities of our people, who could and would not pay 'lie high rates, and the banks and individuals were compelled to tower rates to keep their money employed? In the statement of one «>f our banks, the >um of *597,904 is in the hands of private depositors, and in the absence of any law by "Inch the assessor can list it, this amount is exempt from taxation. At 23 mills ou the dollar, the tax would amount to >13,714. This amount, or a portion of it goes to the bank again, which should have gone to the oounty treasury. One statement declared a dividend paid march 4th, 187-1, of *30,000. Some portion of this is a profit from invest ing the *597,004. Cannot the snarers of this o v ' ~ ------ ÜltUi N- • .j V/ » VAA»*-" dividend deposit this again, and because it is private deposits it in turn is exempt. I jThe presumption that all persons having money and credits, make honest returns is not warranted from facts known to many. What inducement or motive is there for the man of small means to be honest in return ing property, when his neighbor of large means is constantly concealing a portion of his. Now if the capital invested and the profits derived from such investments are ex empt, it gives to this capital an advantage for which other classes of business and occu pations suffer. If the ruling interest in Col orado, Wyoming and other Territories is 2 per cent., and in this city not exceedingly, and as low as 1{, the same exclusiveness in regard to deposits alike in all the places named, the difference in favor ot this city is not due from the accumulation of deposits, but from some other cause. If these men are not willing to be taxed, let them return their money beneath their cabin lloors and in chink holes, giving others the opportunities and advantages abused by them. There is no principle of light in the pro position that any class of business by what ever name designated, should in part or in whole be exempt from taxation. It is all wrong from beginning to end. If ali are honest there will lie no occasion for "lynx-eyed assessors" to pry into books or busmess. And the law is only needed for the protection of men against the dishonest. There must be some truth in the statement of the concealment of deposits, or the people would not now be agitating the question. Thinking men take w arning, act wisely and well. "He is thrice armed "ho hath his quarrel just" 1 J JUSTICE. Opening of tbe I>onunlou l*Mrlinn«eiil. Chicago, February 11.— 1 The lime*' Ottawa special says the Dominion Parliament opened yesterday with the usual imposing ceremonies. The speech from the throne was delivered by Lord Dufferin in the Senate Chamber. The speech makes no mention of the Pacific rail road, further than that pai>crs connected therewith will be submitted. It announces a deficit in the revenue of the Dominion, which will necessitate a revision of the tariff and curtailing of the expenditures in all depart ments of the public service. This is looked upon as foreshadowing the total abandon ment of the Pacific railway. Jforc Arrests in 1'uba. • New York, February 11. — A Havana Iet ter of recent date says that the Government has arrested some twenty persons in different classes of society for being in correspondence with Cuban refugees in New York. Among them is Don Quillerma do Sototoiigo. The letters were seized by the police in the hands of one of the post office carriers, and the clerks at the post office have been examined. It is said that important, discoveries have been made, and that many persons hitherto sup posed to be good Spaniards are implicated. I'or the Black Hills. Chicago, February 11.— The Time* Sioux City special says the excitement over the Black Hills news, lately received, is on the increase, and parties are fitting out and get ting ready to depart. A company has been formed to start about the 21st of this month. The leaders profess to have positive assur ance that the military will not only not inter fere, but will assist them under certain cir cumstances. . ►» —■— The Confirmation ot Judge Billina*. Washington, February 11. —Judge Bil lings, just confirmed by the Senate, will hold court in New Orleans next Monday. There is no business in bankruptcy, and no mari time cases have been transacted in that court for Lousiana since the resignation of Judge Durrell. m§ «« <4^* m •i » Turf Association. New York, February 11.—The Board of Appeals of the National Trotting Association yesterday elected Col. C. W. Wooley, of Ohio, President: C. W. Hutchinson, of Utica, First Vice-President; Judge*Gnmt, of Iowa, Second Vice-President; Thomas F. Vail, of Hartford, Secretary. -- ■ « »• mm Dann'* *3,000 Suit. New York, February 11.— The suit of the First National bank of Springfield, 111., against Cbas. A. Dana, to recover on a *5,000 note, having result'd in favor of the plaintiff, the ease goes up on appeal to the general term, •and probably to the court of appeals. >lurdcrci* Manse«!. Syracuse, February 11.— Owen Lindsay, convicted of the murder of Francis A. Calvin, j was banged to-day in the prison yard. Lind- ! sey persisted to the Isst in declaring his inno- I ceucc. Abuy and Julia Smith, of Glastonbury, Conn., again refuse to pay their taxes, be cause they are not allowed to vote. "No taxation without representation," i? their battle-cry. Death of Hon. Reverdy Johnson. Annapolis, (Md.,) February 10.-The Hon. Reverdy Johnson came here last night to argue the case of Baker V9. Frick, and argued in the Court of Appeals to-day. By invita tion of Governor Carroll he became his gue9t at the executive mansion to-day. The Gov ernor invited Chief Justice Barton, of Mary land, and several other gentlemen, to meet Mr. Johnson at dinner at the mansion. They dined about 5 p. m. At dinner Mr. Johnson appeared in excellent spirits and his usual health, and entertained the company by his conversation and relating anecdotes. At din ner he drank one glass of Maderia and re fused to take any more. After dinner he suddenly asked the Governor to take him in the parlor. He took the Governor's arm, and walking in there lie sat down on a sofa. At the request of Mr. Johnson, the Governor returned to the guests at the table. Shortly after a servant appeared at the door, and beckoning tbe Governor out told him that Mr. Johnson was lying in the yard on the stones. Governor Carroll went immediately to the place and found Mr. Johnson lying on the cobble-stone carriageway that passes under the porch of the mansion, close up to the wall and close to the door leading into the basement. He had evidently gone down the front steps and around to the side of the house and fell where found, about 8:15 p. m. The impression is that he had been there at least half an hour. He was then dead and bleed ing profusely from wounds on the right side of his head and face. 1 Lis body was at once re moved into the basement room, and physi cians summoned. Dr. W. G. Tuck was the first to arrive, and after examining the body pronounced life extinct. Drs. Ridout and Cloud arrived afterwards. There are large wounds on the right side of the forehead, two fractures of the skull from the upper portion of the forehead to the eyebrow, dislocation of a finger on the left hand, and cut9 and bruises on the hands and legs. The physi cians are examining the body, to determine the cause of his death. Mr. Johnson would have been 80 years old next May. Annapolis, February 11.—Dr. Steener, who examined the body of Reverdy Johnson, shortly after it wps found, gives the follow ing as his theory of the cause of death : Mr. Johnson either stumbled over a piece oi coal, or being seized with vertigo or incipient symp toms of appoplexy, and striving to save him self, moved towards the west, staggering along by tbe northerly side of the executive mansion, at each step his body gaining addi tional momentum, so that having reached tue door into the basement, he swayed around to the south ami fell,.his head striking against the sharp corner of the granite base of the house, which gave the first wound in the head, and reaching the pavement of rough cobble stones, a second wound was received in the front of the first. At inis instant probably the bones of the nose were fractured. One joint of the second finger of the right hand I was dislocated. Whether the subsequent j struggles may account for the abrasions on . the knees and fingers of the left hand can- j not positively be asserted. The wounds in j the scalp were accompanied with the external ! fractures of the cranium and skull, i.i-o with, , probably, a rupture of some of the arteries \ of the base. Death rann have reM filed in- J stantly. Mr. Gwinne, Attorney General of the State, and son-in-law of Mr. Johnson, is of the opinion that be was seized with vertigo and fell, as he had a similar attack, lasting three hours, while attending a trial in South Carolina several years ago. When the General Assembly met to-day, it was immediately informed by a communi cation from Governor Carroll, of the death of Mr. Johnson. Both houses at once ad journed, to assemble in the hall of the Exec utive Mansion and escort the remains to the depot, where they will be taken to Baltimore in a special car. The Governor said, in his communication, that Mr. Johnson died from unaccountable and unwitnessed accident. Baltimore, February 11.—Ms}'or Latrobe tins morning issued an order convening the City Council in extra session this evening, j that the municipal authorities may give ex- j pression to the great loss sustained in the j death of Reverdy Johnson. The flags of :d! J the public buildings are at half-mast. In the United States District Conn this morning, the death of Mr. Johnson was announced, ! and the court shortly after adjourned. The Baltimore lar and bench meet to-morrow . The favorite sou of Georgia i: f : 1 1 pa ng i but t away—no* from any particular disease, bi *'bv a general breaking down of his system. It is one of the physiological peculiarities of j Mr. Stephens that throughout his life hi- j food, though it seemed to be well digested { and has never produced any dyspeptic symp- j toms, has never been properly assimilated, j and to this fact be attributes Ins puny phys- ; ical body, which only weighs ninety-four i pounds. He Is willing to die, and has not j one word of regret for his unfinished w ork. I j . j j ! , \ J j j j J ! Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Women. A short time since a writer, well-known to many readers, had a conversation with Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in which interview j that lady is reported to have expressed lier- j self in the following characteristic terms: Theodore Tilton need not have shirked an acknowledgment of his association with Mr* Woodhull. Victoria Woodhull's acquaintance would be refining to any man. In her own character and person there is never anything but refinement in word or movement. She has a beautiful face, the idol of spirituality. Victoria Woodhull has done a work for wo man that none of us could have done. She ha 9 faced and dared men to call her the names that make women shudder, while she chucked principle, like medicine, down their throats. She has risked and realized the sort of ignominy that would have paralyzed any of U 9 who have longer been called strong minded. Leaping into the brambles that were too high for us to see over them, she broke a path into their close and thorny interstices, with a steadfast faith that glorious principle would triumph at last over conspicuous igno miny, although her life might be sacrificed. And when, with a meteor's dash, she sank into a dismal swamp, we could not lift her out of the mire or buoy her through the dead ly waters. She will be as famous as she lins been infamous, made so bv benighted or cowardly men and women. Theodore Tilton was ashamed to acknowledge Victoria Wood hull; but in the annals of emancipation the name of which he was ashamed will have its own high place as a deliverer. Mrs. Stanton, seriously and with deliberate emphasis, said: "I have worked thirty years for woman suffrage, and now I feel that suf frage is but the vestibule of woman's emanci pation! The one moment when Mrs. Tilton was to be respected was when she said 'Theodore, I can stand by your side no longer. I shall go! Tbe World Of Loudon. The Metropolis of the British Empire, the largest city the world ever saw, covers, with in fifteen miles radius of Chaiing Cross, nearly 700 square miles, and numbers within these boundaries 4,000,000 of inhabitants. It comprises 1,000,000 foreigners from every region of the globe. It contains more Jews than the whole of Palestine, more Roman Catholics than Rome itself, more Irish than Dublin, more Scotchmen than Edinburgh. The port of London has every day on its waters 1,000 ships and 9,000 sailors. Upwards of 120 persons are added to the population daily, or 40,000 yearly, a birth taking place every five minutes, and a death every eight minutes. On an average twenty-eight miles of streets arc opened and 9,000 houses built every year. In its postal districts there is a yearly delivery of 253,090,000 of letters. On the police register there are the names of 120,000 habitual criminals, increasing by many thousands every y^ar. More than one third of all the crime of the country is com mitted in London, or at least brought to light there. There are ns many beer shops anil gin palaces as would, if their fronts were placed side by side, reach from Charing Cross to Portsmouth, a distance of seventy-three brought before jP open on Sunday CÜU the the \va i t j w ill be required to j and the services oi { duals will be necess. ty j j ; i j miles, aud 38,009 drunkards are annually magistrates. The shops would form streets sixty miles long. It is estimated that there are above 1,000,000 of the people who are practi cally heathen, wholly neglecting the ordinan ces of religion. At least 900 additional rohes and chapels would be required for wants of iiiepeopîc . —Leisure Hour*. Lafitte, the Banker. :i English paper says: Charles Lafitte, great French banker, who has just died, one of the best known men in Paris. He was known not merely as a financier, but also as a man of fashion and pleasure, lie was one of the founders of the Jockey Club. He was passionately fond of racing, and intro duced steeple-chasing into France. Strange to sa} r , however, he khew nothing of horses, though he ran them; in fact, he knew so little that he could not tell his ow n horses apart. For all that, he loved racing for its own sake, and betted very little. He was a great dandy in dress, and was always a noticeable figure wfith his rose or po*y of violets in his button hole w'hen attending the race-course or the skating club. Though he did not bet on the race course, he played for very high stakes at the whist table. A rubber of £40 did not scare him. He lost with the most supreme good temper; not a word nor a frown ever betrayed his annoyance. He had a great amount of business to transact. Besides looking after his bank, he was a director of the Havre Railway, and had a great deal to do with Italian railways, lie was not fortu nate in love or in law. Separated from his wife in 1854, he was condemeued to pay her a pension of £1,440, the pension being guar anteed by a lien upon a sum of £28,800, and he had to give her a sum of £20,000 as a dowry to his two daughters. He had maDy lawsuits, one of them in this country, and which resulted in his having to pay £150,000, after having spent £30,000 on the lawyers whom he retained to resist the claim. Tin; irrepressible Barn uni, now mayor of Bridgeport, Conneticut. announces that as soon as he is released from the duties of his present official position, he will organise for the Center nia! year a grand exhibition far exceeding in magnitude anything of the kind ever before attempted. When com pi r.e, h ! < slates that 120 spocialiy built cars j transport the concert), 1 ' The resignation of Barclay, the veteran Journal-Clerk of the House, leaves Speaker Kerr wholly at the mercy of the parlianien tu.riars on the Republican skie. The raw re cruit s need a leader more than ever. t i ! I FA-SPEAKF.K BLAIXT. Ah AnUioritntivf Statement in Regant to Ex-Speaker BIoineN Kellgoa* Faith. ri'iltsburg Hazettü.] Dr. James King, one of the leading physi cians of this city and widely known in Penn sylvania as Surgeon General of the State during the late War, writes the subjoined letter, which we feel sure will be road with interest, and which will necessarily be accep ted as conclusive in regard to the interesting topic to which he refers: Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 18, 1870. To the Editors of the Pittsburg Gazette: I observe that anonymous writers in various parts ot the country are furnishing what they term "reliable information" iu regard to ex Speaker Blaine,s family and early religious education. As 3Ir. Blaine's name is often mentiond in connection with public affairs, an authentic statement on the subject may be of general interest. I give it, therefore, over my own name, and from long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Blaine and with his family. I was a member of the Faculty of Washing ton College when Mr. Blaine was ft student there. lie entered the Preparatory Depart ment when only 12 years ot age, and, from that time until his graduation, he was a con stant attendant upon the service of the Pres byterian Church, which had, and still has, the exclusive control of the College. There was no Catholic Church in the town. Atten dance upon church-sen ice « as required ot the students, and their absence from it was noted; and it was said, and I believe it to be true, that Mr. Blaine never missed attending church a single Sunday during his collegiate course. It was also true that he never was absent from a recitation during his whole course; and this boyhood punctuality must have followed him into public life, for 1 have often seen it stated in the papers that, during his Speakership of six years, Le was never out of the chair for a single day. Mr. Biaiue graduated in 1847, before he was 13 years old, at tbe head of a, large and well-remem bered class. Mr. Blaine's father came Iront a well known and distinguished Carlisle family, of the old Colonial and Revolutionary stock,—a family specially marked iu all its branches for its strict adherence to the Presbyterian faith. His mother—a talented, beautiful, widely-bcloved and truly Christian lady—was from an equally prominent Catholic family; and this fact lias probably given rise to all the unfounded gossip about Mr. Blaine hav ing been a Catholic. No one knew better than his mother that he was a firm Protestant, for I very frequently conversed with her up on the matter during the last twenty-five years of her life, for the greater part ot which 1 was her attending physician. Mr. Blaine simply followed the tradition ary faith of his father's family: and when, in his early manhood, he settled iu New Eng land, lie naturally attended the Orthodox Congregational C'lmrch, of which lie has been a member for more than twenty years. Asa zealous supporter of Mr. Ureely iu 3*72, and a Presbyterian, believing perfect religious freedom for all, it may well be as sumed that I do not admire or approve the tone of political discussion that renders these details in regard to MrjBl&ine neccsary. But. since the question is raised, it is better that the actual facts be fully set forth. All papers that have copied anonymous communications on tbe 'object should, in justice, copy this statement, the correctness of which 1 am sun no one will dispute. \>ry respectfully. JAMES KING. . — *«u»» ►. ——- - Getscrul Butler «ntl J ell. Ravis. When Jeff. Davis was President of the Southern Confederacy he issued a proclama tion, from which the following is an extract: 1 pronounce and declare Benjamin F. But ler. 10 be a felon deserving of capital punish ment 1 do order that he be no longer trea ted as a public enemy of the Confederate States of America, but as an outlaw and com mon enemy of mankind, and that, in the event of his capture the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging. And 1 do further order that no commanding officer of the United States taken captive shall be par oled before exchange until said Butler shall have met with due punisbmeot for his crimes; and that ail commanding officers in the com mand of said B. F. Butler arc declared not entitled to be considered ns soldiers encaged in honorable warfare; but as robbers ami cnmimals deserting death, and that they and each of them be, whenever captured, reser ved for execution. — «* «4^* ♦*- Mi — Thk present winter has been remarkably mild, but a correspondent calls attention to the curious coincidence, that the winter of 1770 was also an open, balmy .season, pre sumably much like the prevalent weather ot the last two months. Harpers' History of the United States bears witness to the fact Unit during the whole winter of 1770 the English army was shut up in Boston and watched by Washington, with ins ten thou sand hall-armed, hall-drilled soldiers. He intended to make an attack on the British in tbe city as soon as the harbor was frozen, but tire mildness of the winter prevented the vva ter from freezing so us to !>enr the weight of troops» and a bloody buttle, und perhaps to the undisciplined Americans a disastrous de feat, was spared. H the Signal Service had now be existed then, we should, perhaps, able to compare the two seasons day by day : but as we bave no such records of that time as those "Old Probs" furnishes of the pres ent. a geteral resemblance must suffice.