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ABUNDANCE OF WATER ASSURED
by Living
Helena
Surrounded
Springs.
Sufficient for a Oity of One Hundred Thou
sand Inhabitants.
Live Facts
From a Practical Water
«Engineer.
\ Herai.d reporter hearing that an ex
perienced engineer had within the last
week made himself acquainted by a practi
ual examination of the water resources
about our city, put himself in conversation
with him yesterday when the following in
terview took place :
Kejiorter.—Do you think there is any
truth in the report that has been circulated
to the detriment of Helena, that there is
bkely to be a scarcity of water here lor
general use ?
E.—None whatever, the water supply on
nearly every side of Helena is abundant
for a city of a hundred thousand people.
From one source alone I the bed rock water
on Ten Mile) which can l>e brought to an
elevation that would cover the highest
steeples in Helena, a sufficient supply can
be obtained for every purpose until thecity
reaches forty to fifty thousand inhabitants.
IL.—Is the water good and clear ?
E—Perfectly so. The water drainage
of the snow on the east side ol the main
divide and upon the Bed mountain by way
of Beaver creek and from numerous springs
of the Ten Mile, sinks and disappears from
twenty miles or more from mountain
sources, furnish tho
FINEST WATER IN THE WORLD.
These sources may tie relied on lor all
the water needed in Helena for many
years. It is known that this drainage
when it reaches the gravel washings
the tied of that stream until it comes near
the surface close to the city, where it is
reached by a few feet of rtell digging. It
w as a sunken stream that defied the efforts
Col. Nelson in 1*66 to reach lied rock on
Ten Mile, where he had two powerful
pumps at work aud was driven out by the
water and his operations abandoned. As
to the purity of the water, it is even im
proved upon its natural fountain condition
by its percolation through the sands and
gravel that washes it in its course from
the mountain to the river.
B.—How can this water source be util
ized for our city ?
E.—The process is simple enough and
entirely practicable, either by the muni
cipal authority of Helena or a corporation
formed by your own citizens. I have had
sufficient'practical experience in engineer
ing and constructing water works to enable
me to speak of a mode of supply that is
peculiarly well adapted to the situation of
Helena.
g B.—How could the subsoil water of the
Ten Mile tie utilized or brought to the
city ?
E.—That couldJibe done by placing a
Worthington condensing jumping engine
at a convenient place on the Ten Mile, as
near as possible to Helena, by which
1,500,000 gallons of water could
be thrown through pipes to a reservoir less
than two mile« away. There is a beauti
ful elevation above your city where a res
ervoir could be constructed and kept filled
with water by a single engine.
B.—What would be the probable cost cf
reservoir and engine, including say 10-inch
supply pipes?
E.—In this country the whole thing
could l>e completed for say from sixty to
seventy-five thousand dollars; the engi
neer could be fireman and water-lross at
the same time, and the running expenses
trifling. The reservoir once filled, could
be kept supplied t»y less than hall daylight
work by the pumping engine. The reser
voir constructed on this high point and
above the highest steeples in Helena,
would have a distributing main of 10-inch
pipe to within the city lim
its and then 8, 6, and
4 inches smaller sizes for general supply
through the streets and houses.
B.—Would you prefer a water supply
by this means to the one usually adopted
in this new country, and if so please state
its advantages?
E.—In the first place, it would be a
matter of economy to tap the water supply
at a near i>oint, such as you have at Helena,
instead of constructing 15 or 20 miles of
useless ditches ; and then to have a reser
voir at a high elevation above your city
you always have the water at command,
where every man would become his own
fireman by attaching his hose at an open
ing where the pressure would be equal to a !
force exercised by a common steam fire en
gine. The supply and waste from the res
ervoir would always secure fresh, pure
water, equal to that from a living spring.
Where nature has done so much
for Helena in supplying the water source,
there should be nothing easier than utiliz
ing this abundance in the manner I have
suggested. The report that there will be
a shortage of water at Helena may be cast
to the winds as idle vaporings, for, besides
the majestic Missouri river which is ever
available to Helena as a water supply,
there are other convenient sources that can
l>e utilized until your beautiful and pro
gressive city is one of the best watered,
drained and seirered cities in America.
B.—I am much obliged for your intelli
gent opinion as a engineer on the subject
of water works for Helena, and I shall lay
it before the readers of the Herald with
the endorsement that all that you have
said on this subject may be received as
coming from practical investigation of the
whole ground.
E.—You are quite welcome.
B.—Good-day, sir—good-day.
The new Cuuarder Oregon has just made
the quickest eastward passage to Queens
town on record. The best previous record
w&« that made by the new National Line
steamer America, which on her second voy
age reached Queenstown in six days, four
teen hours and eighteen minutes. The Or
egon now lieats this record by one hour
aud twenty-four minutes.
THE WEST SIDE.
A Visit to the New Churches and Not
able Residences Now Under
Construction.
A ramble among the notable buildings
on the West Side reveals to the eye of the
observer a style of architecture in the new
residences there that shows Helena in the
advance movement for handsome homes
and line houses. While there are no two
of them just alike and vary in many im
portant particulars, there is no one of them
^ ^ viewed by our reporter yesterday, but
what has some points of beauty and con
venience admirably suited to its peculiar
p] an 0 f construction.
While the elegant dwelling of Samuel T.
Hauser, now approaching completion,
stands first among all others of our city in
jtar exeellanee for beauty, substantiality,
costliness and magnificence, there are other
buildings on the West Side that challenge
comparison anywhere for completeness and
comfort.
The new residence of Massena Bullard
has a style ol' architecture, peculiar to it
self, which seems to combine convenience
with comfort and beauty. The parlors and
drawing-rooms are trimmed in solid wal
nut with doors of the same material, and
so arranged that, for a large company or
house-warming, the whole interior on the
first floor may be thrown together in one
grand salon. But the choicest spot about
the comfortable home is that cozy out-look
where the roof covers a front porch at an
e i eTa tion that overlooks the whole l'rick
! j ey p ear va n e y t
In point of cozy corners, fine bay win
dows and other features of quaint and
roomy architecture the residence ol Huntley
& Child stands in the next order as among
the showy dwellings on the West Side now
under construction.
Alex. Swan's two-story brick building is
j another of the fine houses that we feel like
weeks.
blagging about that will be completed
before the snow flies. This building is
large and built with solid brick walls that
w r ill enclose one of the most comfortable
and substantial homes in Helena.
The residence of Dr. Getchel is another
handsome building on the west side, with
heavy cut stone trimmings and pretty
brick walk that will be finished in a
style of modern architecture that is suited
to home conveniences and real comfortable
appointments. The handsome double cot
tage being erected by Spencer &
Nye, is another building of modern style
that will look handsome and imposing on
its prominent site, overlooking the city
from the west. Another new dwelling of
modern architecture is that of G. J.
Bingwald, that will add very much to the
credit of the builders who are doing so
much to improve and beautify our city.
The Christian church now under roof and
rapidly approaching completion under the
untiring and zealous efforts of the Rev.
M. L. Streator, is one of the sub
stantial ornaments to the west side. The
church is a noble pile of handsome stone
and granite, trimmed with a brown con
glomerate that adds great beauty to all its
outer appointments. The inside presents
a great area without a pillar or obstruction
in the large auditory, and when finished
will present to the eye the pleasant com
bination of convenience, solidity and gem
like beauty.
The First Congregational Church on the
West side has a beginning made upon its
handsome brick walls that will soon com
plete another of the temples of Christian
worship in Helena that are our pride and
our boast The work goes bravely on un
der the indefatigable and enterprising ef
forts of the I!cv. Rufus B. Tobey, its pastor.
Very soon, when the streets are graded,
and other improvements of the city are
made on the West side, it will become one
of the most fashionable and desirable por
tions of our city for pleasant hotfix
Gallatin County Gleanings.
The Gallatin Valley National Bank
building at Bozeman is being pushed rap
idly forward towards completion.
Leo Munter, the young son of Wm. Mun
ter, furniture dealer of Bozeman, was pain
fully hurt a few days ago, by the discharge
of a sky rocket which some l>oys were
carelessly handling.
James Ennis & Co. have lately lost 2U
head of beef cattle, branded variously, but
all bearing tar daubs on the left hip. The
stock strayed away and was last heard
from at McDede's ranch on Shield's river.
Lo, the poor Bannack Indian, is numer
ously camped in tbe vicinity of Bozeman.
These Rocky Mountain Arabs find promis
cuous begging a lucrative business, so
they will doubtless remain here for several
Major O. P. Chisholm, the recently ap
pointed Register of the U. S. Land Office
at Bozeman, has assumed the duties of
his position, and it seems to be the general
opinion that he takes hold of the work
like an old hand at the business.
We are informed that the building of a
Baptist church edifice at Dry Creek, this
county, to cost $1,000, is in contemplation.
It has been generally supposed that water
is an essential element in a Baptist church,
but the selection of Dry Creek would
hardly seem compatible with that idea.
Three men, George Arnold, I. McDonald,
and another, started a day or two ago with
their outfit in a boat for a voyage down the
Yellowstone. At Benson's Landing they
were upset and lost thoir guns, clothes,
bedding and a sum of money. McDonald
not being able to swim, and not caring to
risk his life, returned to Livingston, bnt
the other two again tried the treacherous
river.
On Tuesday afternoon of last week, two
employes of the Laclede hotel at Bozeman,
a Chinese dishwasher and a Mr. Fairfax, a
waiter, got into an altercation in the kitch
en of the hotel, when suddenly the Celes
tial started for Fairlax with a big knife.
Fairfax, who it appears was catting up a
chicken, also happened to he in pretty good
shape for protecting himself, so he reached
for the Chinaman with his carving knife
inflicting an ugly gash in the Celestial'
neck, about two inches back of the ear.
This turn of affairs terminated hostilities.
The wound is not necessarily dangerous.
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Bl TIER'S ADDRESS.
Butler seems to have become tired of
waiting for Cleveland to come back out
of the woods, perhaps thinks he may
not come back at all, and so issues his
address and give- Cleveland the advant
age of having the last word with the
popular ear. It is hard to say which has
the advantage, Butler or Cleveland. But
ler has the advantage of being first and
will get many to commit themselves to
^ ^ have gone to
1 Cleveland. Butier has another and still
greater advantage. He is the platform
himself and had almost unrestricted lib
erty to state the principles of his party
1 to suit his individual taste aud ideas of
expediency. Cleveland will have to keep
himself within the platform of his party
and will have to move around very
cautiously there. It is a peculiarly con
! structed document and fully illustrates
Talyrand's definition of language: "Ade
I vice to conceal ideas." It was purposely
1 constructed to mean free trade in Ken
tucky and protection in Pennsylvania.
1 Butler says, there was a tie vote on
which principle toadopt, and the chances
of compromise were two, either to
reject both and say nothing, or adopt
both and leave it to local and individual
taste to take what it liked and reject the
rest. It is needless to say th#t the latter
was the course adopted. Watterson hur
ries back to Kentucky and gets up a
barbecue and has a grand blue-grass
love-feast and gets the start of all other
interpreters in putting his free trade in
terpretations on the language of the
platform. This action of Watterson was
shrewd ; it caught the free trade Repub
licans who call themselves l.ide
Pfndeuts, and it is believ
ed expressed Cleveland's individual
preferences and belief. But it was im
possible to propitiate one wing without
alienating the other. It was something
of a question which wing would stand
the rebuff and rebuke best. It was not
believed that Butler or the Irish would
bolt, however much they might be
kicked and cuffed. The result shows
that Butler and the Irish have more
independence and intelligence than they
were credited with. The path of poli
tics is too rough to favor the carrying of
water on both shoulders.
None knows better than Butler the
conflicts that raged in the room of the
platform committee at the Deanocratic
convention at Chicago. There is noth
ing clear, open and direct about any
vital issue. It is, as Butler says, a patch
work of expedients, a trap intended to
catch votes. It will not bear investiga
tion and analysis. Under Butler's adroit
blows and pricks it collapses and fades
away, leaving the donkey underneath to
scud away with an open field for its
voice and ears.
Butler makes some good points in his
statement of principles, and some others
that are mere demagoguery. Such is
what he has to say about the necessity
for frequent chaegss of officer* to pre
j vent thé growth of an aristocracy. This
is utterly inconsistent with civil service
reform, which proceeds upon the theory
that the best qualified should be selected
and continued during good behavior.
The dangers of an aristocracy from that
source are very distant. The whole his
tory of the country concurs that office
holding is the poorest business to which
a man of fair character and ability ever
devoted himself, and the longer it is
followed the surer it is to leave a man at
last flat broken in fortune and prospects.
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The bare abstract ot the address is j
hardly a fair thing to judge it hv, and
we shall look for the fuller text with
some interest. It commits Butler to the
race, puts Cleveland on the defensive
and insures his defeat in November.
COMPARISON OF WAGES.
Massachusetts has had a bureau of
labor statistics for several years, with an
expert at the head of it. In the recent
issue we have the latest and most re
liable statistics for comparison as to
wages in this country and in England.
These are very much more accurate and
recent than the national statistics. They
are gathered fresh every year, and the
subject is a matter of constant study and
correction in every particular.
A comparison is made involving
twenty-four of the leading industries in
England and Massachusetts, and in every
instance the wages in Massachusetts are
higher, and on a general average 75 per
cent, higher, the range being from 269
to 2 per cent, higher.
In the manufacture of woolen goods
wages are 42 per cent, higher in Massa
chusetts ; in worsted goods 103 per cent,
higher; in cotton goods 38 per cent,
higher ; in boots and shoes 166 per cent,
higher; in clothing 49 per cent, higher,
and in machinery 70 per cent, higher.
In dollars and cents the American
workman earns $10.30 to $5.86 in Eng
land per week. The Massachusetts
workman spends 48.41 per cent, more
for the support of his family, but 42 per
cent, of this difference represents better
home surroundings and a higher stand
ard of living, and only 6 per cent, for
necessary articles that are cheaper in
England.
Rents in Massachusetts average 111
per cent, higher than in England, but
the accommodations are much better.
After making all deductions of dis
advantages, the balance in favor of the
Massachusetts workman is still about 60
per cent., pretty emphatic recommenda
tion of protection over free trade.
It is estimated that $27,000,000 are ex
pended annually in the United States for
photographic pictures, and that forty tons
of silver and three tons of gold are used
yearly in this business.
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CLEVELAND'S ACCEPTANCE.
We have to-day, close on the heels of j
Butler's address, what purports to be ;
Cleveland's letter of acceptance. We .
have read it over very carefully, but find j
parts unintelligible but presume the fault
as usual is with the telegraph operators, j
What is meant by "the shamelessness of
their suffrages," or by this expression
later on, "'but will injuriously conspire |
with those justly entitled to our labor,"
we cannot make out in tbe connection
in which they are used. We generally
have to wait for advices by mail to know
what is meant by the telegrams.
The letter is a good one so far as we
can judge by the portions that are intel
i ligible. It is good for being brief, and
; for saying nothing about the tariff, the
main issue of the campaign. In fact it
! is most significant and eloquent in those
I matters about which nothing appears.
What could poor man have said any
; way to render more obscure the position
j of his party on free trade and protection.
It was enough to say that he had care
fully considered and cordially approved
the platform. This will sound just as
well in Kentucky as in Pennsylvania.
It was not expected that one man would
attempt to make clear what forty men
had purposely, through sweat and strife
and struggle for forty-eight hours striven
to make obscure. However, the tariff,
whether for revenue or public purposes
only, or as the Republicans insist, for
protection to home manufactures and the
wages of the laboring man, is and will
continue to be the main issue of this
campaign and of the country, till it is
settled a# all other measures have been
settled that the Republican party has
championed.
Cleveland says that when a political
party select 6He £*f its number t<? carry
out a policy that it has outlined alid
settled upon, tbe situation is very simple
and plain. If he accepts, his business
is to carry out that policy. Those Inde
; pendent Republicans who pretend still
j to believe that the principles of the
Democratic party are baneful so far as
I they are known, have here a candidate
I who warns them fairly that those prin
ciples will be the guide of his official
conduct.
Mr. Cleveland is very severe upon the
Democratic managers of the Southern
States in these words: "It is nota
government by the people when a class
is tolerated which arrogates to itself the
managent of public affairs, seeking to
control the people instead of represent
ing them." But severe as it is, it is well
deserved. We know of no States except
in the South where this cordition of
affairs exists. We agree with him pre
cisely that this will never be a govern
ment by the people till suffrage is free
and uncorrupted, which is nownerc the
case at the South, and is very much
corrupted in many parts of the North,
especially in the larger cities.
We concur fully also in the wisdom
of the suggestion that it would be better
to have the Presidential term limited by
the constitution. We do not, however,
recognize this as an issue of the cam
paign.
No one can find serious fault with
what Cleveland says about protecting
the interests of laboring men. The con
test comes over tbe respective policiès of
the two parties and their effect upon the
interests of labor.
In another respect we heartily concur
in the views expressed by Cleveland,
that "laws unnecessarily interfering
with the habits and customs of anv of
our people, which are not offensive to
the moral sentiments of the civilized
world, and which are consistent with
good citizenship and the public welfare,
are unwise and vexatious." In other
words we do not take a c«t's worth of
stock in prohibition, but that is wholly a
State and local question, and can in no
respect enter into the National issues.
His views on civil service are also ap
parently sound, but, we venture to say,
are not in harmony with those of a
majority ot his party.
On the whole, this letter of Cleve
land's is a creditable one, and had it
been correctly transmitted would have
been still more so. If the party behind
the candidate whose behests he will be j
bound to obey, were one-tenth part as I
sound and correct as Cleveland is, no
great calamity would result from his
success. But so far as the Democratic
party has any settled, well defined prin
ciples they are 'altogether incompatible
with the best interests and welfare of
the country. | _
The report of a death from cholera at
Dunkirk will raise some excitement in
England. According to all experience the
most fatal portion of the season for the
ravages of cholera is yet to come. There
has been too mach confidence that the
upper hand had been gained of this great
sconrge and there has been a relaxation of
caution. It has been carried in every di
rection by refugees and is'now doing its
fatal work in scores of little villages, where
it cannot be as well controlled. It will get
a strong foothold on the continent this sea
son, but its great harvest will probably not
• be gathered till next year. If there is a
general clearing np and disinfecting, not
only of every city and town, but of every
house and premises, the death rate may
probably be reduced one half.
Gen. Butler's address, accepting the
Anti-Monopoly nomination, is received in
condensed and not altogether intelligible
form. In all, it amounts to about eleven
thousand words, of which little more than
a fifth part is wired to Territorial papers
of the Associated Press. It is a vigorous
document, a platform unto Butler, tells how
he comes to separate from the Cleveland
crowd and why he enters on his own
hook the Presidential race. Ben is on the
track. Watch out. lest he heat the ma
chine candidate of Manning & Co.
We had hoped Governor Cleveland
would be completely vindicated, and have
not now any disposition to publish the
now
ascertained truth against him. Ii those
who claim that Cleveland's vindication is
complete means only that the charges are
not as bad as some sensational papers have
charged, then perhaps he is vindicated.
Whether widow Halpiu seduced him or
he seduced her is probably a secret that
never will lie disclosed, but that there was
an illicit connection extending over many
months there is not the slightest doubt.
The New York Times of August 12th,
which is before us, publishes a letter from
Rev. Kinsley Twining, whom we know
personally, and who was sent to Buffalo by
the New York Independents to make a
personal investigation, from which we
make a single extract, : "'The kernel ot truth
in the various charges against Mr. Cleveland
is this that when he was younger than he is
now, he was guilty of an illicit connection.
There was no seduction, no adultery, no
breach of promise, no obligation of mar
riage, bnt there was a culpable irregularity
of life, living as he was a bachelor, for
which it was proper and is proper that be
should suffer." And further on he says :
"It sends the Independents into the can
vast with a fact in *ue Listory of their can
didate which they almost forget and which
they will have to carry as a burden." »Sup
P 03 Ç ft'Ç accept the facts a§ the special iq
vestigation committee of the Independents <
relate them, that a wily widow took ad
vantage of his youth and seduced him.
How does this tally with the first sentence
ef the Independents' address to the Amer
icas people, that "the principal issue of the
present campaign is rather moral than po
litical ?"
In his message to Congress, December 1
1860, President Buchanaq said ; "Aftêî
much serious reflection I have arrived at
the conclusion tha. no power has been dele
gated to Congress, or to any other Depart
ment of the Federal Government to coerce
a State into submission which is attempt'
ing to withdraw or ha.' actually with
drawn." "Congress possesses many means
of preserving the Union b> conciliation j
but the sword was not placed in their hauds
to preserve it by fire." To answer this, the
Independent says two previous Democratic
Administrations choked off incipient seces
sion. Suppose they did, how does that dis
pose of our assertion based on the forego
ing extract from President Buchanan's
message of 1860. The only tendency is to
show how rapidly Democracy degenerated
after the days of Jackson. The very men
of the Calhouu school, at whom Jackson
swore his big oath that he would hang
higher than Hamnn. subsequautly gained
possession of the Democratic party and
ruled tbe country till it ruined it. The
editor of the Independent would evidently
be surprised if he would read some other
history than that of "the Lost Cause."
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Ik either the gold or silver dollar is to
be changed, honesty requires the change
to be made in the gold rather than in the
silver coin.— Independent.
That kind of teaching goes well with
the advocacy of a revenue policy that will
benefit British commerce and manufactur
ers at the expense of American producers
and laborers. Our gold dollar is an honest
one, for it contains a hundred cents worth
of gold at market rates. Our silver dollar
i3 a dishonest one, because it only contains
eighty-five cents worth of silver at market
fates. The silver nine owner is not bene
' fitted by the swindle, for he only gets
market price. No private citizen gets one
of these silver dollars without paying
full one hundred cents in value of some
kind. We say that It would be more
honest and respectable for our government
to put a hundred cents worth of silver into
a silver dollar, just as it puts a hundred
cents worth of goid into a gold dollar. On
tbe contrary, the Independent asserts that
it would be more honest for the govern
ment, instead of putting more silver in tbe
silver dollar, to put less gold in the gold
dollar. That is, black is white and white
is black, Fjrht is wrong and wrong is
right, etc/ _______
OfR coiioemporaiy says the war for the
Union was a failure at the time the Demo
crats declared so in their platform. This
is only partly true. The war to restore
the Union was a failure so far as the Demo
cratic party could make it so, but they
greatly overestimated their strength to
realize their own prophecies. We are told
that, "'the action of the Democratic party
forced the adoption ot a new policy, which
was crowned with success." Yes, in just
the same way that the action of the British
enabled the Americans to win their great
victories at Saratoga and Yorktown. Of
course there would have been no Union
to restore if the Democracy had
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smashed and dissolved it. There would
have been no rebellion to subdue if south
ern Democrats had not rebelled and had
not northern Democrats given them moral
aid and sympathy. The Democratic party
has been the negative and provoking cause
of a great deal that is glorious in our his
tory of later times, and the laurels of this
sort will not soon fade.
The Democratic managers look in vain
for an improvement of Cleveland's pros
pects. Their candidate more than a fort
night since was about to issue his letter of
acceptance, when suddenly and without
warning he was bundled off to the North
Woods and his letter suppressed. The hos
tile attitude of Tammany, the growing de
fection of the workingmen, the demoraliz
ing results of the Buffalo scandal, alarmed
the party leaders and their counsels were
divided whether the candidate should
stand or withdraw. Two weeks of waiting
has not altered the situation, and Cleve
land is still kept in the backwoods of the
Adriondacks. His prolonged seclusion is a
sigu accepted by many Democrats that he
will not make the Presidential race.
Hon. S. D. Lock, member of the New
York Legislature, Troy : If the election
could be held to-day Biaine would receive
a majority in New York State of from
75,000 to 100,000.
New York Âïrtr: Come home, Gover
norfand all will be forgiven.
Mexico is in a bad .way, notwitiistand
ing the completion ol railroads, the estab
lisbment of reciprocity, and the election of
Diaz. The government is bankrupt, aud
wide disaffection prevails. It has been in
timated that the government stood read}
to sell some of its northern territory to
raise the means of present support. How -
ever vigorously this may be denied, we do
not think it improbable at all. H we
should show any great eagerness or use the
least pressure to secure this end, there
would be a general insurrection against
tlie scheme ; but so long as we are really
indifferent to the matter, it is one of the
most natural things to occur. Mexico
would be stronger without Sinora. Chihua
hua, Coahuila, and the peninsula. Even
the loss of Tamaulipas, Neuvo Leon, Du
rango and Sinaloa would strengthen the
country still more. While it would cut
down the area one half it would dimin
ish the population but little. It
would cut ofl' that portion which is now a
source of weakness and expense fo the gen
eral government. Throitguont all this re
gion the government is now selling lands at
any price offered and in immense lavdies.
It looks as if the purpose was to get what
could be raised out of the country l>ef'ore
letting it go forever. We do not believe
those men who are buying would take it
at any price but for the expectation that it
yrould soiuç day be uoflef tf>Ç jurisdiction
pf tbe United States. Tiler© > 3 enor
mous speculation going on with il ,Ui
idea in view, and if it is not crowded it
will be accomplished, and that too before
long. _
There is a little prospect that the next
Presidential election will devolve upon the
present House of Representatives. We
should prefer to see Cleveland elected by
the people. We consider such an event
much the most likely to occur of the two.
But there is not a doubt in our mind of
Blaine's election, even it the Vbte weit!
taken to-day, but every day from this time
till after election will make this result
more certain. Butler's candidacy is now
assured, and it will draw away from Cleve
land a hundred votes for every one that
Cleveland gets from former Republicans.
In New York city, and generally in the
great cities where Democratic strength
and hope have rested, Butler will
have his chief strength and will run Cleve
land a close race. He will have the bulk
of the Tammany vote, which would never
have gone to Blaine, and much of which at
the last would have gone to Cleveland.
We regard the vote of New York as al
ready settled, and with it the general re
sult. We shall not be surprised if Blaine's
majority in New York is twice as great as
that ©S Garfield's. About the chances of
St. John carrying Iowa or Kansas, or draw
ing ïway enough from Blaine to give those
States to Cleveland, it is preposterous.
They are as sure for Blaine as Kentucky is
for Cleveland. There is time for changes
between this and November, but we have
no idea that any change can make Cleve
land's election possible.
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A committee of sixteen, calling them
selves National Independents, have investi
gated the Cleveland scandal. They report
that the story of Cleveland's liason with
the widow Halpiu is substantiated, but
that the other charges of a lewd and
licentious life are not sustained. The re
port in a general way excn»s the Gover
nor's offense. Mr. Manning, however, and
other party managers at Albany, are said
to lie as mach dissatisfied with the com
mittee's statement as with that submitted
by Gen. King, and another report, from a
purely Democratic source, will soon be pre
pared and published.
The Current, Chicago's literary week
ly, will shortly present a paper prepared by
one of the most prominently-known hank
presidents of the West, which will discuss
the questions, " Why is money scarce ?" and
" Where has the money gone ?" The views
he will submit will he full of interest, not
only to business men, hut to the public
generally. Early in September the Cur
rent will adopt a cover and will reach its
readers cut and pasted as well. 'The cover
will present a design which it is believed,
will strongly commend itself to the artistic
sense of magazine readers as the most su
perior embellishment o.' its character seen
in many years.
The Livingston Enterprise thinks it sees
j in the associated press report more of Re
publicar than Democratic literature, and
j though it is not a subscriber, it is moved
to berate the " associated monopoly," ac
cusiug it of political bias. It particularly
complains that Blaine is much spoken of,
his sayings, doings, and goings all kept
track of, while Cleveland is hardly men
tioned or thought of in connection with
current political events. The Enterprise
forgets that Blaine is about and seen and
heard every day, while for a fortnight
Cleveland has been hid away in the brush
of the North Woods, out of the sight and
knowledge of men. That explains it, in
short.
The opening price of new wheat in Eng
land this season is only thirty-eight shil
lings a quarter against forty-three shillings
last year, and against the fact that when
wheat sells for less than forty shillings in
England, it sells for less than it costs to
raise it. Now the consequence is going to
be this, that the raising of wheat will cease
entirely in England and the land and farm
labor be devoted to something that will
pay better. For vegetables, dairy purposes,
and raising stock for meats, the lands of
England will pay better, while it is dem
onstrated by the results of this year that
for wheat raising it will not pay at all.
The consumption of wheat will go on in
creasing and the production diminishing.
Will India, and Australia, and New Zea
land be able to supply this increasing de
mand ? We do not think so. There will
be years when India will not raise as much
as she needs for consumption. The same
is true ot her other sources of supply. It
comes down to this, that, squirm as she
may over the unwelcome fact, England has
no reliable source of bread supply but the
Lnited States and time will only increase
this dépendance.
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It is learned from Democrats authorized
to speak for him, that Major Maginnis has
concluded not to submit his name to th.
approaching Democratic convention f 0r
Delegate, and tLat he does not seek, and
will not accept if tendered, a nomiuatior,
for re-election to that office. This i n f 0r .
mation comes from sources we believe to 1*
trustworthy—from friends of Major Ma
ginnis, who have made his former political
triumphs possible, ani without whose con
sent aud co-operation he could neither
be nominated or have the remotest
chance of election. The Major, within a
few days, has returned to Minnesota, and
shortly, we understand, will repair to the
Northwest Territory to inspect 'certain
mining property in which he is jointly,
with citizens of Helena and Fort Benton
interested. By direc' on of tbe Democratic
managers, it is proposed that as many dele
gates as possible shall he credentialed to
the coming convention uninstructed, and
that the leaders most looked to to assist
and influence the canvass shall i*
allowed, as heretofore, to name the
nominee. There is at least one willing
candidate, it is said, in Deer Lodge county,
one in Silver tow, and possibly one in \n
other M'est 8ïi£e county. The chances ofin
outsider, from, whatever quarter lie may
come, we judge, can be reckoned of small
account. The nomination iu all probabili
ty will lie tendered to a young and ambi
tions aspirant of this city, who has been
waiting for and wanting it for some years.
Cleveland's views upon commerce are
just a little vague, in this, that he does not
distinguish between the internal and
foreign commerce, or indicate which he
thinks contributes most to national su
premacy. "That cheap and easy trans
portation should be liberally fostered with
in the limits of the constitution" Is another
ambiguity. It used to he Democratic doc
trine that internal improvements to facili
tate commerce were all outside of the
limits of the constitution, aud we know of
no authoritative declaration of the party to
the contrary. The next expression <s more
definite in one respect. "The geners!
government should so improve and protect
its natural waterways as will enable
the producers of the country to
reach a profitable market." Now,
"natural waterways" would not in
clude canals. So Mr. Cleveland would not
favor the construction or even the protec
tion by the general government of ar, ,-a
nals to enable the producer to reach a
profitable market. He would i m .
prove the lakes and rivers so that themça
of the West might reach Buffalo ot Chi
cago or New Orleans, hut this would not
bring these Cfops to New York city forex
port or to New England for consumption,
where the most profitable market is to be
found. If Cleveland would only adopt
the Republican doctrine of protection, it
would enable manufactures to spring up
near by the wheat fields of the West and
the cotton fields of the South and thus
carry the profitable markets to the neigh
borhood of the producer.
For mote than forty years what is
known as "The New York Sun cholera
medicine" has stood the test of experience
as the best remedy for looseness of the
bowels yet devised. As was once vouched
for by the New York Journal of Commerce,
"no one who has this by him and takes it
in time will etet have the cholera." Even
when no cholera Is anticipated it is an ex
cellent thing for the Ordinary summer
complaints, cholic, diarrhoea, dysentery,
etc., and we have no hesitation in com
mending it. Here it is:
Take equal parts of tincture of Cayenne,
tincture of opium, tincture of rhubarb
essence of peppermint aud spirits of cam.
phor. Mix well. Dose, fifteen to thirty
drops in a wineglass of water, according
to age and violence of the attack. Repeat
every fifteen or twenty minutes until relief
is obtained.
The prescription can be had from any
druggist. The remedy is a handy one to
have in the house.
France is playing a bold game of bluff
with China and it is doubtful what is really
intended or what will he the result. France
has utterly refused to arbitrate and has
presented ultimatum after ultimatum and
is still negotiating. It is sending men off
to China and ordering all on furlough to
come in, as if there was to be immediate
war. We do not think there will be any
war at all, for we do not believe either
party wants to fight. France is afraid of
English interference, and China is very
confident that all the powers will join in
to protect her soonor than see her despoiled
by France. China has not the money to
pay the indemnity that France demands,
nor can she borrow it in any short time. It
we do not provide ourselves with a navy
very soon we are liable to be made a vic
tim of this game of bluff.
It is a great pity that the bodies of those
who perished in the Arctic regions were
not allowed to rest there forever. The
stories of cannibalism might then have
never been put in circulation and the hor
rors of starvation and what it will compel
its victims to do, might havebeen lett only
to the imagination. There is no doubt
Greely and his party are as humane and
Christian as the average of our better so
ciety. No one knows what he would u ' t0
save himself from starvation, "e ne ' er
want to know, nor do we eve: want to «ce
men exposed to the dire necessity ot kiu"
ing. Neither was Herry a sane man "hen
he stole the provisions, nor was f ,ree ?
when he ordered him shot. The sooner am
the more completely we can draw tin v
over the whole thing the better it will
for every lx aly. ___
The Indications are now that if 1 raUU
undertakes to push China to the wall. Eng
j land will take a hand in, and make a ha"
j too much for France. Since the failure^
j tbe recent Egyptian congress the tec lD k
between France and England bas
; drifting asunder very rapidly, and is lia
j to break out into a fight any d..y- ,e
: many is rather urging on the 'l uair ^
aud expects, when they we w ell engag^
to do a little business on her own at
such ms taking Holland, or Denmark.