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The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1866-02-03
Wagon Road from Helena to Benton.

Speaking this subject correspondent of the Montana
Radiator" Of the 9th says:
The distance from Helena Fort Benton is about one
hUndred and thirty five miles With the exception Of tf-
teen miles the road between these places is one OF the best
not the best road. in the Territory These fifteen miles
comprise that part between CdrH Rancho and the Last
crossing Of the Prckly Pear This part Of the road has
been the great obstacle to travel from Benton Helena
and probably the why other roads have been
sought and attracted public attention.
Commencing at the last crossing Of the Prickly Pear
runs some two three miles through the Prcklv Pear
Canon Crossing the stream about tweHtyseven times in
toruous course; then striking off from the creek runs over
the two extremely difficult mountains of Lyons and Nedi.
cine Rock This is well known be the only dangerous
part OF the route as in crossing these hills loaded
run great risks Of total destruction from the breaking of
chaaS whilst pulling up the steep
No doubt You we'll as your readers who are inter
esed IN the Improvement of the public highways of this
lefrtory VIII be glad to hear nat this dangerous and diff
cult passage across the hills is about to be obvied by ud-
ydua enterprise So thai it shall be equally as easy TO
freight ON this part Of the road any other.
The Little Prichly Pear runs past Clark's Rancho
thence through Medicine Rock and Lyons HILL until it
strikes the road the other SIDE This cln is very mar
row. IN many places the rock rising perpendcuary from
the Wateredge on both sides. The Legislature of the
territory granted to Mr.. CLARK the right build road
through this canon which charter Mr. C. has sold to our
enterprsDg townsmeG, Messrs King Gillette who pro.
pose forthwith to commence the of making and brdg-
ing road through this pass which will only
overcome the ascent and descent of these mountains but
will also distance of several miles between the two
first mentioned points
That this is task undertake; and at the
same time one requiring great outlay Of capital Cannot be
denied yet the ability and energy of these gentlemen
leave grounds to fear its successful Accomplishment
They also propose in connection with this put in repar
the whole road from Helena Benton and thus make the
route to the head Of navigation the Missouri river safe
and easy
Freight next can then be laid downat Helena
from Fort Benton in seven dys and for ,nuoh
less than has heretofore cost besides the road will be as
available in winter in summer. The discovery of gold
to the north will theu tend to make Fort Benton or its
vicinity the great depot of supplies for the Territory while
the natural position OF Helena will make it the distributing
center" -o
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Montana Billiard Saloon.

A DAM KLESER and George Williams, Proprietors.
n Billiard Tables furnished with all the most approved
apparatus required for enjoyment of the game Pure
liquors and choice cigars always on hand Open from
A. NJ, 10 l2 r. NJ, 7-I9"
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John IL. Gilbert.

A ASSISTANT ASSESSOR U. s. INTERNAL RE-
"A VENUE for the First Division of the Collection Dis
ct of Montana embracing Madison County. Office first
door east of City Drug Store.
Virginia City, April p, 1865. 36eS"
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hn S. Lewis, N. B. Hale, D. NJ. Gilett
Lewis, Hale Sc Co.,

IEWELRY MANUFACTURERS Every description
of Jewelry made TO order from the Native Gold and
Nyanted Particular attention paid 10 repairing Fine
S seSes Also, Engraving done 70 order Sign Of the
'so 80, watch jackson Street Virginia City, M T.
feorss-y IS 1855 ' 90
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George SecOrd,

StADDLER & HARNESS MAKER. Constantly on
y hand and manufacturing from the hest material all
styles of Saddles, Brides Single and Double Harness
anything else made in first class saddler shop. 1861
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Occidental Billiard Hail.

DOCKFELLOw & DENNEES BUILDING Jackson
II Street Virginia City The finest tables in The
lar supplied with the best of Liquors and Cigars
42* JOHN H. MING.
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Joseph Marion. .

HAY SCALES STORE Wallace Street, Virginia City
i ] Commission Merchant Cash advanced cOnsigp
general assortment of Miners Outfttng Goods
Provisions, Vegetables etc, etc. 27+
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Sam Word,
sam Word Jas. G. Spratt.
Word s. Spratt,

4 TTORNEYS AT LAW, Virginia City, Montana
II Territory. Will practice in all the Courts of said
Territory. Special attention given to the Collection Of
Claims 81
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Jhe Muntama gust,

ID. W. Ti1ton sS Co,
0. W. IILIoA, BEs. R. DrTTEs,
PUBLISHERS & PRoPRIEToRs.
Qs at the City Book Store, of WGlIoc. & Jackson SIS
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l.. w. Fral.y,

SURGICAL AND MECHANICAL DENTIST. Office
- up stairs in Pfouts & Russelrs Stone Building. All
ena operations performed in the best possible manner
teeth and complete sets inserted in the highest style
'or thsir Convenience s-20s
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J.B. Is REAU-

MANUFACTURES OF JEwELRY of every descrp-
W ton and style out of the pure Native Gold Partic.
uar attention given to repairs of Fine Watches Clocks
and Jewery Orders respectfully solicited and promptly
executed On the north side Of Wallace street. west Of
'acAson on --..L.,-s,s s.5.-. -, ~ i, 40
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Assay Office.

WALLACE STREET, one door below Nolan & Co.'S
w Bank. Gold and Silver, and Ores OF every descrip
Soa @ Assayed guarantee my assays, and will pay any
enerence which may arise between them and the U: S.
Mint d. GILBERT.
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7. w. Harris s. BRO.

ii AYE opened general store in Bitter Root Valley
store Hfnyng fr and everything be procured at their
pack -sadde Call and see u.s. All goods and 10
at cash prices. eN' anu f' pfoslS.ohs y, .s
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e. V. p. Moore
w. T. Sanders.

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Wallace street on
door east Of Clayton & HaleS Drug Store 4-l6"
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OFFICIAL DIRECTOKY
Territorial! OfEicerS.

GoUrrOr-SIDNEY EDGERTON Bannack City.
Sscreary-THOMAs FRANCIS MEAGHER.
ChHt JHslicc-ll l.. HO5MER.
AsSCctae JNsLiCa-L Z. WIILISToN.
d" - Il. Z. MUNsOS
Il. A. AhOrHey- GsUrrdi-O. F. STRICKLAND Virginia.
U S. MarskGL-GEO. NJ. PINNEY.
ASsist U S. MARSHALL. Y. BEIDLER.
Surveyor GcHTaJ-M. BOYD.
AHditor-JOHN S. LOTT.
Treasurer-JoHN J. HULL.
Superintendent Of Public InStruction-T j. DIIsDALE
Asscssor-T. c. EvEKTs
Collector Internal ReUeHue--N. P. LANGFoRD.
Clerk of the U. S. District COUrt-E. II. FRIsHMUTH.
CLERK Of I'd Judicial Dtstric-C E. IRVINE Silver Bow
Clerk Of Sd - # c. JONES, Heena.
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4 TTORNEY AT LAW and Solicitor in Chancery
n Virginia City, Montana Territory 3-ly~
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County Officers of Madison Cou,
BUSINESS CARDS.

Dr. A. l.. Justice.
OFFICE on WALLACE STREET, next door to the
" City Drug Store s-20+
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GENERAL AUCTIONEER. Particular attention Civ.
II the sale of Live Stock and Real Estate, sales
Of Stocks of Goods in Store Office the Elephant Cor
raj, Virginia CITY NJ T. 4-l6*
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t COUNTY RECORDERS.
Madison. Geo w. Hill Edgeron. ...- r. c. Ewing
Beaver Head Benz Peabody Gallatin. .... Thos Cover
Deer Lodge Jas. Brown Jefferson. Frank Wells
Municipal Officers of Virginia City.
Mayor-P s. PFoUTs Acting j. NJ CAsTNER
Police MdgiStrdte-T. w. Talliaferro
Mar$bak-William Deascey.
Clerk-Cbas. ]. d. Curtis.
AuOrRey-Wm. H. Chiles
7reaSHrer-JOhn S ROckfellow.
AsSeSS0r-ThOmas Pearson.
assistant CITY MarshaL-Jerry Lewis.
County Officers of Madison County.
County CommissiOnrs-A. Stanley, Chairman; Ben
Ezechiei w. H. Rodgers.
Probate JDdge-W. Y. Lowell.
SheriE-Andrew J. Snyder
Deputy Sheri6-N Beery
7reasurcr-Andy Leach.
Recorda-G. w. Hill
County Assess0r-Isaac Rogers.
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LOCAL NOTICEs-One dollar per line for three lines
less IS cents per line for ten lines or less 50 cent; pei
line for eleven lines or more.
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-ELEcRAPHIc ABSTRACT
DATES To JANUARY i4,h.

The Joint COmms ftee on Recon struc.
ton Sit with closed Doors-.Presi.
dent Johnson In favor of the Imme -
s0iate Admission of the Tennessee
= tmemberS...EaX VI on the District of
= Columbia for the Educas stOn OF Col.
ored WiIhd ra wal of the
French Troops from Mexico Conf.-
dtntiy Expected-.Mrs. InturbIde,s
Chiid.. Money Plentiful in the City
OF New York;. VI 0ney Stolen from
the Union Prisoners to be Return ed
to them or their Friends--Proceed-
ings OF Congress, etc., etc.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-11

ed at the peculiar and dangerous posi-
ton of his son, and did his best to re-
strain@him, but without effect. Threat
and blows were alike unavailable, and
at length Batty fled to Africa to avoid
the harsh treatment to which he was
exposed. There, for years he led a
solitary life, and wandered from forest
to forest, and from one savage tribe to
another. His deeds of intrepid
ty were incredible in their au-
dacity, and the rude sympathies of his
restless and untamed nature found
abundant qualification. Among the
wild beasts of Africa he was perfectly
at home, and he left them with regret.
Some two or three years ago he made
his appearance in Paris, that great car
avansary of the world, and he and his
lions were received with unbounded
applause. His muscular development
rs wonderful, and in strength and agil-
ity ne almost equals the monsters with
which so much of his life has been
spent. He can run like a fawn, and
leap like a leopard, and often it has
been his fortune to struggle for his life,
as he has Just done, face to face and
shoulder to shoulder, and often he has
gained the victory by sheer force of
muscle. In spite of the severity and
painfulness of his wounds, Batty would
not see a physician. His indomitable
courage and solitary instincts led him
to seclude himself, like "a sick or
wounded lion, from the rest of his spe-
cies, and trust to the recuperative pow
ers of nature. 1t would seem that his
confidence has not been in vain, and
his own natural vigor has been his only
,1nnlininn
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-11
THE PRESIDENTS REPLY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WAsHIGToN, 11:3(


EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, 1870 A. n
To Her MGjeSty, the Queen Of the United
Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland:
The President of the United States acknowl.
edges with profound qualification, the RECEIPT
of Her Majesty's dispatch, and cordially re-
ciprOcates the hope that the cable which now
unites the Eastern and Western HemispheTes,
may serve to strengthen and TO perpetuate
peace and amity between the Government Of
England and the Republic of the United States.
lSignedl ANDREW JOHNSON.
MAYOR OF NEW YORK's GREETING.
MAYORS OFFICE, NEW YORK, July 80. 1866.
To the Lord Mayor Of London:
The energy and genius of man directed by
the providence of God, have united the con-
tInents. May this union be instrumental in
securing the happiness of all nations and the
rights of all people.
[Signedl JOHN T. HOFFMAN,
Mayor of New York.
REPLY OF THE MAYOR OF LONDON.
HEARTS CONTENT, July 2Sth, 1866.
To the Mayor of New York
May commerce flourish, and peace and pros
perIty unite us.
[Signedl MAYOR OF LONDON,
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-11

10 The Directors of the NeU York,
Newfoundland and London Telegraph
Company.
We arrived this day The cable has
been laid across tho Atlantic, and is in
perfect working order. As soon as we
have taken In coal we shall proceed to
the spot where the cable was lost last
year, and when recovered will splice 1t
with the cable on board the Great
Eastern, and return to this place, The
Midway will then proceed to lay the
cable across the Gulf OF ST. Lawrence
/ cannot express to you how thankful /
feel that you will now receive some
return for the money that you have
spent, and the time you have devoted
during the past half year, to connect
by telegraph our own country with
Great Britain. Signed.
CYRUS w. FIELD.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-11

10 the Honorary Directors of tie Atlan-
tic Telegraph Company.
congratulate you on the successful
completion of telegraph communication
between Ireland and Newfoundland,
and hope within two weeks from this
time to inform you that the cable lost
last year has been recovered, and that
a second line is in operation across the
Atlantic. L assure you that all on board
the telegraph fleet will do all that they
can to accomplish the object.
Signed CYRUS w. FIELD.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-11
The ChoIera.-Dr. Bigelow, a noted

Physician of Boston says
s'From our past observations 1 do not
believe that cholera, should it appear in this
country, will be so likely to trouble New
England as it is to visit tho malariOus regions
OF the South and West"
Among all the many different remedies
advertised there are none that acts so COM
pletely as an antidote TO this mGldri0us
poison, and which give vigor and strength,
than Dr. RoBA-K's STOMACH Buffers and
BLOOD Pills. The Blood Pills act directly on
the liver, causing it to throw off the deleteri-
Gus Ematter and the BiherS restore the
appetite and invigorate the whole system,
thoroughly keeping off this terrible scourge,
cholera.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-11
A YEARS COURFsHIP.
By HENRY TrafRoD.

saw her, Harry, first in March
You know the street that leadeth down
By the old BRIDGES crumbling archf
Just wnere II leaves the dusty town
A lonely house stands grim and dark
You've seen il then nesd not say
How ousint the place is-dfd yOu mark
an iyied window Wen. one day
]. chasing come forgotten dream,
And in a poets idlest mood,
Caught as passed. white hands CLEAN,
A shutter Cpened-there she stood,
Training the ivy 10 It's prop
Two blue eyes and a brow of snow
Flashed down upon me-1ia stop p
Sic said I did, do lot know
But all that day did something glow,
just where the heart beats trail aud slight;
A germ had slipped its shell, and now
Was pushing for the light.
and April saw me at her feet,
Dear month Of sunshine and Of rainl
NJ very fears were sometimes sweet,
And hope was often touched with pain,
For she was frank and she was coy,
A wiIlful April in her ways.
Ana in a dream OF doubtful joy.
passed some truly April Gays.
May came: and on that arch sweet mouth.
And softening with the sOftening south.
My April days melted into May
She loved me, yet my heart would doubt,
And ere / spoke, the month vas June
One warn, still night we wandered Out
70 watch the slowly setting moon.
Something which saw not-my eyes
We're not on hesven-a star perchance,
Or some bright drapery OF the sEies
Had caught her earnest, upward glance
And as she paused-Hal. we have played
Upon the very sF1t-a iir
just touching me with its dreamy shade,
But the full moonlight on her.
And as he psused-I knew not why,
lOnGed 10 speak, yet could not speas;
The bashfal are the boldsst-I-
1 st0pi Ell, and gently Kissed her cheek
murmuU tslss some fragTan' air
stirred iitlyl aud the faIntsst start
Oh, Hall We were the hspplsst pair
Ub. Hall clasped her, heart 90 heart!
And kissed away some tears that gushed-
But how she trembled, timId q We
When my soul broke It's silence, finished
With whole burning JuTe Of iOve-
Since then. a happy year Ia n sped
Through months that seemed ali June and IA
And then a I-Tch sun overl cad
VII usher in the CICwning day
Twelve blessed moons that seemed to glow
All summer. Hal INV peerless ka:el
She is the dearest-"Angel a" no.
Ihsnk Cd but yOu 81 al sec heT-Walti
So. all il told / count on thee
To see tie priest Hal pass the winei
Here's 70 M darling wife TO be
And here's tO-when thou fnd'st her-thine
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-11
HEARTS CONTENT. July u.

TO the Honorable Nm. IT, SeUdrd, Wash
ington, d. c.:
The telegraph cable has been sue.
cessfully laid between Ireland and New
foundland.
remember with gratitude your SEW.
ices in the Senate of the United States
in the winter of 1857, and reeollec'
with pleasure the speech You then made
in favor of the telegraph bill. That
you may never have reason to regret
what you have done TO establish com.
munication across the Atlantic, is the
sincere wish of your friend.
lSigned. CYRUS w. FIELD.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-11
WASHINGTON, July %.

To Cyrus ". Field, Hearts Content;
Acknowledgement and congratula-
tions. III the Atlantic cable had not fail
ed III 1858, European States would MOI
have been led in 1861 into the grea
error of supposing that civil war il
America could either perpetuate Afri
acan slavery or divide this Republic.
Your great achievement constitutes
/ trust, an effective treaty of interna
neutrality and non-intervention.
lSigned VIM. III. SEWARD.
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WASHINGTON, july 20.

To Cyrus W. Field, Hearts Content.
l heartily congratulate you, and trust
that your enterprise may prove as sue
cessful as your efforts have been perse-
vering. May the cable under the sea
tend to promote harmony between the
Republic of the West, and the govern
ments of the Eastern Hemisphere.
Signed. ANDREW JOHNSON.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-11
Gold Watches. The Commissioner of

GOId Watthes.-Ihe COMMISSIONER OF
Internal Revenue, in correction of re-
cent newspaper reports, publishes a
tabular statement of the number of
gold watches in the United States. The
aggregate of watches is $40. $50; of tax
paid. S41S, 691. A tax of 81 was paid
ON 800, 500; of 81 upon 96.322. The
largest number was in New York, the
tax amounting to $lO7, 1868; the next,
Massachusetts, amounting to $45, AS;
the smallest, Idaho, amounting to $50.
Wearers of gold watches in Alabama
paid SD in Georgia, 1915; in Ken
lucky, 5000; in Louisiana, 50, 7O4;
in North Carolina, 1897; in Tennessee,
SO. 355; from South Carolina no returns.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-11
HEARTS Content. July 81

To HIS E.rcelle0cy, President johnson,
Washington, ID, c.:
SIR:-The Atlantic cable was success.
fully completed this morning. hope
that it will prove a blessing to both
England and the United States, and in,
crease the intercourse between our OWL
country and the Eastern Hemisphere
Yours faithfully,
CYRUS W. FIELD.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-11
MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN.

OSBORNE, ENGLAND, July 22nd 1866.
10 the President Of the United States, Greet
ing:
The Queen CoDgTatulates the President on
the successful completion of an undertaking,
which she hopes may serve as an additional
bond of union between the United States and
England
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-11

Two little boys were instantly killed
by lightning, while picking cherries in
a tree at South Hill, Iowa, last Monday.
Their mother who was standing under
the tree receiving the fruit was knocked
senseless. but soon recovered.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-22
Venise-GraphIe Description OF the City
[Cor, of the New York Tribune

Venice is a collection of III islets,
divided by lac canals. connected by
3S9 bridges, and pierced by 1850 in
finitely narrow and labyrinthine streets.
Almost every foot of the city is built
upon piles. Each of its $1,000 houses
is washed by the sea-water, and OF its
$50, 900 people not ore ever rode upon
wheels down the mainland of this city
Making broad spiral ribbon of blue
sea, thrice as wide as Broadway,
through the longest diameter of Ven
ice, passes the Grand Canal, the most
wonderful panorama in the world-in
no degree like the dull brick facing of
the Dutch and Flemish city canals, but
highway of marble palaces, into
which are burned the dyes of South
ern sun, and all the fiOridness of the
Goth blossoms in their architecture.
Three bridges only cross this Grand
Canal, two of them practical and mod
ern; the middle bridge, famed in all
lands, is the Rialto, high archway of
shops and multitudes, under which,
like docile crocodiles, gondolas shoot
their beaks of steel. Upon the surface
of this peopled archipelago there are
294 places or canpf. Most of them
we're spaces to give some church per-
spective; but two thirds of the way
down the city where it narrows to
almost its smallest giTth, lies the only
square of greater length than sings
throw, the wondrous Piazza of San
Marco. The plaza is like nothing in
America. From the days of PetraTch,
who loved it, it has been a marvel. 1t
is great obIong square, 600 feet long
by $50 feet wide, paved with hewn
blocks of marble, bordered ON three
sides by a marble palace, faced with
long arkades, which show gilded cafes
and splendid shops of jewelry beneath
them; and On the third side, or rather,
at the head of it, the Cathedral of St.
Mark, the patron of Venice, rises; ven-
cradle and plentiful of domes, the rich
est, if not the purest, religious edifce
in the world.
Before its careeer the bronze houses
of st. Mark, part of the plumber of the
Crusades, and from the paved space be-
fore them, set aside, so as not to mar
the perspective, rises the great Cam
panile or bell tower, nearly a thousand
years old, and to the hight of three hun
dred and fifty feet-about twice that, il
/ do not mistake, of Trinity church on
Broadway. a second tower near by
sholds zodiacal clock, rung by Moorish
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-22

giants, and facing it from the opposite
corner of the piazza, reaches at right
angles quite down to the harbor side,
the piszetth of st. Mark, smaller area,
fianked with the Dodge's palace, grand
edifice, many hued, built on pointed
arches and reaching on its further end
along the splendid quay. This piazetta
is closed, almost at the waters edge,
by two granite columns, each of q
single stone, crested, the one with
a statue of st. George, the
other with winged lion. Going down
between Them, In times, the hoary Ad-
almirals have been escorted to their
gondolas, followed by the anxious
Doge, aud sailed from the very shad-
ows of these columns to fight out the
quarrel of the Republic on distant seas.
Behind the ducal palace are the prisons
of the State, whose outlet is the famed
Bridge of Signs, of late the sepulchers
of the italian patriots. From this "AIo-
10" or State quay, the view is wonder
ful OF the domes and campahiles on
three opposite islands, and the broad
blue paths of the canals, plowed with
swift gondolas, Far down the island is
the arsenal, where the Venetians fitted
out their fleets, as Dante describes
them.
This is Venice, a labrynth of islands,
palaces, Churches founded by fugitives
who grew mp sea-dogs, and are now to
be ushered into the first day of indie
pendence.