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The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE.
AN EXAMPLE WORTH MORE THAN GO

The example of the late General Lee, in re
tuslng all gifts, and declining to receive com
pensatlon for services not rendered, is w0rtl
more to his country and to all who followed i
than millions of gold. The facts here stated
will not soon be forgotten:
| In the winter of 1864 the City Council O
Richmond rendered General Lee an elegant
mansion as some small token of the high esti
mate IN which he was held by the city which
he so long defended. But the grand old man
replied: Il do not expect to be in Richmond
during the continuance of the war; and my
family are as comfortable rs they have n right
to expectsto be in these times. | must, there
fore. with my thanks for your consideration
most respectfully decline your offer If you
have money to give, hope you will bestow it
upon my private soldiers, who are more needy
aad far more deserving than myself"
At the close of the war, offers Of pecuniary
assistance poured in upon him from all sides,
but he steadfastly refused to receive them.
An English nobleman, thinking he would re-
loice in some place 0t retreat from his aiillc-
ton wrote to offer him splendid country seat
and a handsome annuity He nobly replied ::
Il am deeply grateful, but cannot consent to
desert my native State in the hour of her deep
adversely. | must abide her fortune and share
her fate
Soon after he took charge of Washington
College he was visited by the agent of an in
surance company, who offered him the presi-
dency ut salary of ten thousand dollars. He
told the agent that he could not give up his
position in the College. and could not properly
attend to both. But, General" said the agent,
eve do not want you to discharge any duties.
We simply wish the use Of yoar name; that
will abundantly compensate us"
Excuse me, sir" was the prompt and de-
cided rejoinder. Il cannot consent to receive
pay for services do not render"
He received many offers of this sort. And
just short time before his death large man
uacturng company in New York offered him
4 salary of fifty thousand dollars a year. if he
would become their president. For all such
offers be- had the same reply-his duties ir the
College fully occupied his time. and hr would
not receive pay where hc did not render SER
vice
lie refused to receive from the College any.
thing like SO large n salary as they desired 10
pay him; and when last year. the trustees
decided 10 Mrs. Lee house and an annuity of
three thousand do.lars, the General respect
lsllg declined, on Mrs Lees behalf, 10 accept
IT,
He declined all gratutics Aud though
loving people, for whom he had toiled so hero
caly would most ioyouSly have settled on him
a handsome property, he preferred to earn his
daily bread by his personal cxcrtion, and To
SET To his people an example of honest indust
ry.- Chrisiidn Obserrcr and Commonwealth.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12

THE OLD DoDGE.-A Rev William H. Nor
ton, of 676 Broadway, New York city, recently
sent us a card of the quack medicine style
with the request to publish it one year, the
card to occupy a space of two inches, and in
forms us in his letter that he would pay there
for quarterly in advance on receipt of bill and
paper containing the advertisement That
dodge is the old thing and it is played out"
We insert such cards only after the cash is
received, unless they come from our regular
agents. We are inclined to think that the
Rev. Norton is "bilk," and though we de.
cline to advertise his medicine, we advertise
him to this extent gratis.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12

MADAME DCDEVANr'S SCANDALS on EC-
GENIE A Paris letter to an eastern journal
saws: George Sand has begun in IL Temps the
publication of fragments Of her diary. She
renews in il those attacks OH the Empress she
made in the Rcruc dcy Dcur WoRdcs n year or
two since. The explanation offered of these
attacks is that they are made to CRAFTY Prince
Napoleon's hatred of her Majesty: | quote
the last hostile paragraph: Although par
yenu. the Emperor had published genealogies
which traced the nobility of the young Count
ess of Teba to the Cid of Andalusia. 1t was
not for Mile. Moutjo to be beautiful and
charming. it was necessary she should have
ancestors to please this monarch who boasts he
has none, and bellies himself like a shopkeeper.
Let's talk of this young Empress, for she al
ready plays considerable part She comes
with generally adopted Spanish styles love of
intense excitement, rcgrettlng bull-hghts-we
will not add dHt0 dd tc-ostentatlous devotion.
the art of the fan, passion for costumes, hair
powdered with gold. the Grecian bend, all
sorts of seductions, even that of goodness, for
she is kind and charitable with grace. In fine,
she has everything which strikes the imagna-
ton, the senses, and. if need be. the heart
All men are in love with her, and those who
cannot dream Of the favor of the least glance
from her eyes, try to make their wives en-
presses of the shops. These good tradeswomen
strain to copy Ia belle EUgenie. They sprinkle
with gold and copper their real or false hair; ;
they paint. they become red.headed. They
too, pretend to beautiful shapes and to small
feet All those beautiful and excellent crea-
lures, who might have remained so charming
and such thorough women, by training up their
children in respect for the artisan and laborer,
their grandfather went beside themselves.
They prefer making fools of themselves, and
swelling as they look on their brilliant sover
eign, who rdicules them and loathes dress and
ornaments when they take possession of them,
and invents others, which husbands-they
can't help twill buy. 1t is said all this
makes trade active. No such thing This is
too abnormal way of proceeding to produce
any effect other than ruin. AS fashion changed
monthly by decree of the court, the unsold
merchandise encumbered the manufactures or
suddenly fell to an inadequate price. Retail
tradesmen felt the loss. There was no shop
where you could not buy last years luxury at
half price. 1t was believed the provinces
would buy it ALL Try to see, if you can now
adays deceive on this subject even the work
ing girls of small towns, even the peasant wo-
men who marry their daughters"
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12

| SACRAMENTO UNION IN TROUBIE.-The
Sacramento Union appears to have secured
the ill-will of many of the leading papers O
its own party. The war it has made on the
Central Pacific Railroad Company has resulted
IN the Company prohibiting its sale by tht
news agents or news boys on the railroads and
steamers, and It's opposition and bitter hostility
to the railroad companies is attributed by its
contemporaries to spirit of revenge on the
part of the proprietors of the Union for fancied
injuries received by them at the hands of the
graspng nlonopolists. We believe the Union
to be sincere in the irrepressible waffare waged
by that journal against the soulless corpora
tions that are endeavoring to rob the people of
California, but, with all its hostility to railroad
subsidies, it was dragooned into the support of
ticket made up of men who are owned body
and soul by the magnates of the Central Pa
cific Railroad The Radical candidates for the
Legislature in San Francisco were elected un-
pledged, either pro or con, on.the question of
subsidies to railroads, and the same was the
case with the Radical nominees in many other
counties. Gorham and his clique out maneu-
vered the Union, and, working in the interest
of the rairold men, appear to have secured
working majority in the California Assembly,
and unless the Democrats in the Senate are
united in their opposition to subsidies, may also
control that body. The Sacramento Record,
which is the special advocate Of the railroad
as against the people, in referring to
the course OF the Usion upon the subsidy
question, uses the following language:
1t has expended the whole of its strength in
fight which has resulted in its utter defeat and has
SO entangled itself that it be consistent with
the course il has marked out for ITSELF without in
slant disqualification.
Ii the Record states the truth the Union has
gained no victory over the railroads. and the
next session of the California Legislature will,
instead of righting the wrongs which already
exist by regulating the fares for travel over the
roads, grant still further subsidies to those
grinding monopolies, that, like Oliver Twist
still cry for more
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12

GRANTS DAILY BREAD.--The President of
the United States honored his Winter capital
with a visit yesterday, and, after hasty break
fast, was among the early and punctual visitors
at the Treasury to receive his salary, it being
pay day. He has now been absent exactly
three months, commencing the lst of June.
but proposes to remain away until the begin
ming of October. During this time he has
drawn from the Treasury Sc, $50, and has past
parts of three days in Washington, or at the
rate of one day per month";, for which he has
received the compensation of S2OS3 day.
In other words, General Grant, for signing his
name during these rare visits, has pocketed
the wages of 1,400 labering men who work
ter hours aud receive 81 so each. So that it
is something to be President in a practical
point of view, when the incumbent gets 1000
year for amusing himself, and is presented
with bonds, houses, and horses to the extent of
half million dollars. No wonder he seeks
reelection. Washington Patriot.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12

WILDCAT AND DOG FiGIT-A great wild
cat and bulldog fight came off at the Opera
House in Virginia City Nevada on the night
of September 23d the stakes being $500 to ten
head OF cattle. a large cage ten by twelve feet
IN dimensions was constructed and the small
est of two wildcats was let into the pit first
and was quickly killed by one of the bulldogs.
After an intermlssion of few minutes to
sponge off the dog, the largest of the two cats
was then turned loose in the cage with the
dog. A desperate fight took place and the dog
was whipped, the cattle man who owned the cats
winning the $500. Another fight was then
made up and a1itte wiry bulldog belonging to
a'man named Kelly was let into the ring, and
a terrible fight took place with the chances
about even, but after fighting twenty minutes
the dog killed the wild cat.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12

TIE BATTLE OF DoRKING,-The Richmond
(Va.) Inquirer of the 18th instant says gen.
tlenan conpected with that Office has Just re-
ceived letter from friend, who resides at
Dorking, in England. wherein the following
interesting passage occurs: /" The papers are
all talkine about battle at this place in which
the Prussians gained great victory overgus.
assure you it is blasted hoax-a bloody
canard from beginning to end. I've been at
Dorking all my life, and ought to know, you
know. You must forgive my English blunt
ness, but fear you newspaper people, like the
balance of the world, are much given to lying"
The Inquirer had its doubts about the battle
at the time it was reported, but has them now
no longer The battle Of DorkiDg has TO bs
yet lost. or won. gs 40 a Ass sEss4
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12

DIED FROM CHLoRoFoRM-A woman
named Dooittle who lived in Brooklyn. New
York, recently went to dentists office to have
some teeth extracted, and at her request chlo-
roform was administered to her, but she died
from the effects of it,
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12

LADY CANDIDATE.--Mrs. I'll. A. Johnston,
photographic reporter in San Francisco, is a
candidate for Engrossing Clerk of the Cali
fornia Assembly, and is SAID to have the Inside
track
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12

New PRINTING CoMPANY-The Portland
Printing and publishing Company in Portland,
Oregon, have filed articles of incorporation.
The incorporators are B. B. Taylor, James H.
Lappeus and Eugene Semple.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12

PROFITABLE CEMETERY.-A cemetery in
Rhode Island has proven such profitable in
vestment to the owners that dividend of
seven per cent has just been declared.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12

Mrs. STANTON charges that women stimu-
late mems passions with their dress, their
dances, bare arms, bare necks, and then make
a terrible uproar when they come to suffer the
consequences of their own immodesty.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12

RECoNsIDERED.-It is reported that, since
his return from the Pacific coast, Hon.
Felix Il. Brunei has partially reconsidered his
declination of the Commissionership of Indian
affairs, and will probably accept the Office.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12

AN Alabama newspaper speaks of celored
orator there having "havlng dislocated his
shoulder in peroration.'
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12
SAsl'L 4. MERRITT
GEO. AINSLIE,
r. r. FOuTE,
IL. ZIPF, N. ID .

DEYSICTAN SURGEON AND ACCOUCHEUR-
[ 0tE,e on Main street. next door TO City Drug
Sore Idaho city. fnl4tL
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12
prufGssipnal Caras.
JONAS w. BROWN,

TT0RNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, AND
\ Notary Public. idaho Clty, l. I. WIN practice
n al the Courts OF the Territory. oFFIeE on Com
r,srrial street. next door 10 W, F. L Co Express
Oate mar 10 fIu
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12
JAS. HEALT, II. D.,

DTYSCIAN AND SURGEON oFyTCE on EAST
4 SIDE oi Montgomery street. three doors above
VAIL Idaho City nl;t
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-12
JOSEPH MILLER,

a TroRNEY AT LAW. BOISE CITY, I, T. WILL
4 also attend 70 professional business in Boise
r5a1ty. on short notice novl7. 10.
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IDAHO WORLD.
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-09-06
Books and Magazines.

pfrrRsi NoyTnI,- H. g,,.,,,.l-..
n,oaLer ,, ,ro.,il ~ ''p''u'oef " a p''"%'
nroyo ,Ly ovoo liz 's almost Impossible 70 I'M
- ''',a oA'''''u' "oIk' ana YET eaeh succeed
This present number onons viii = hoan,ic,l pai
lad by G. w. Persley. entitled :, Rarnov AIoor >,
then follows CHARMING Sonr hv Tnoior +" A..
Mothers Wedding Ring - after which cone,
Thomas Sacred Song, 1.-THE Cross and Crown >,
which is alone worth double the nrioo % n.
Monthly. "Aiy Sister in ueoye, - So '"S
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-09-06
From the Autograph q Remarker.
September.

lhe month OF the year that commonly goes by
this name, has its peculiarities that are not I'M
pleasant in our midway north latitude-n that
it involves the very easy, gradual merging of sum
mer, leaving behind its ardent heat, into the
mider temperature of autumn-the time when
fruit, having become fully developed, begins to
ripen Ii used u be the month in which the
treemen Of Vermont were wont 10 meet in their
respective towns, to give their votes for State
oiheers and choose town representatives every
year and in which two or three other States
still do--(Maine, California, and if / am not
mistaken, Texasl. | remember the LIST of Sen
tember, 1872 fity-nine years ago, as being the
first tune in my life when /, then mere lad
OF nearly fifteen, attended freemen's meeting in
Huntington; to see them cast their votes. Ii was
the first year of the war that had been declared
by the United States against England, the June
previous, when party spirit ran high-one marty
hyoring and the other censurng the government
for that act ; and September, 1914. was memoro.
BILE Tor the Invasion Of our country bya British
army from Canada, led by General Sir George
freyost, numbering 1900 men, who marched
upon Plattsburgh, and encamped north of the
village, and opened fire on the American fort
there but which was soon silenced BY the spir-
tied fire returned therefrom, while the advance
parties sent forward by Provost were repulsed or
held at bay by the American force, under Genera
Maeomb, aided by Vermont Militia, which rallied
thither on the news reaching us of the invasion.
ana where the British teet of four vessels, that
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-09-06
For the Watchiuau.
Hopeful Progress Needed aud Ad,o-
Gated.


some 1900 ex-conlederates net at Roanoke Fair
o,S ,,as,i on the Slth INST
to turn their backs upon the mast and man az,
fully the duties and responsibilities of the future
f.feHaHge-
no DOUBTS ~ 10 improve the future Alright
Is tne way 70 show that the past is repented, and
'he future 'hail witness and attest genuine relor-
nation
we VIII not eaVl nor question their sincerity
We know they who passed the resolution will
encounter difficulties from without and from
"''n'h' IL VIII be hard Tor many of them to
grasp 'ne pow tue hoe the spade the axe but
we nope they WiIl overcome and become genu-
lneiy ana ntellgenuy industrious, doing in very
ueeu' yeo'nah service. From without they may
encounter iausns ana sneers, and the example of
worthless ldieneSS-but let them peseyere. fncy
VIII thereoy gam all they have lost, and i'm
nensey more Inc world needs their good cx-
ample anu 'he'r productive Industry
Vermont u',' needs much more such industry
'n4u Sne j. nAe'y ID oDtaln, when traveller
'o'AS AZ many OF Tue hay-helds' and sees them
spti"Aieu WIN stones enough 70 rum mower II
~ ~ j. uI''1n over 'nen enough TO spoil -cythe
uS'u 'H'te enough 10 weary great patience,
y" S.'1"sS "HP. many aDorer 10 violate
'''' '''''N commandments the question occurs,
,'''uo' p"' n1,e o. ,nS ground Do cleared oil
III l,' ''' "na' an Improvement
4, 80 a.. ~ N-''' "V"'u
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-09-06

" Gen. Carey, in Democratic speech, at
ColuIabus Ohio, the other day, declared that
"if the Supreme Court shall declare the
amendments null and void, it will be per.
fectly legitimate exercise of its authority,
nor will our confidence in its wisdom, integ-
rity and ability be at all weakened by its do.
ing So This is the sum and substance, then,
of the " new departure" of which Democrat
ic politicians boast so much. This is but the
revival Of the Shareholders policy of 1852,
which proposed paddock for every lip on
the slavery question but sent all its propa.
gandist schemes to the Supreme Court to be
made into a law for the furtherance Of It's ne
iarious ends. This base attempt to override
ions of the electors by packed Court has
once received the emphatic rebuke of the
American people, and it may be necessary to
repeat that rebuke once more. The will Of
the people is mighter than the arbitrary de-
cision of the Supreme Court on any political
question The people Of the United States
will no more put its right to think and act on
political questions in the keeping of
nine men in black gowns, in the city of
Washington, than it will put them in the
keeping of an Emperor, And yet that is the
use Gen. Carey would make of the Supreme
Court.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-09-06

RErUBucAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. The
Boston Traveller thinks there are good rea-
sons why the next national convention should
be held in the metropolis of New England
II suggests that as the last convention was
held at Chicago, if the rule of rotation is
adopted, the next convention will be held at
the East, and that no eastern city presents
such claims as Boston No National Conyen.
ton Of any party has been held in this sac
ton, and it is due to US that the Republican
party should then recognize its indebtedness
to New England The Southern delegates
can reach Boston as easily as they can reach
any Of the Western cities, and the Western
delegates, the Tracel2er believes, would 20
to Boston quite as willingly as they would to
Philadelphia or Baltimore
OF course the Republicans of Massachu.
sets would rejoice at an opportunity to show
their brethren of the country what is meant
by New England hospitality; and the visit
to this part of the country, with its busy fac
tories and the evidences on every side of
thrift aud culture, would remove many exist
ing prejudices. Coming in May or June,
the delegates would readily ascertain what
makes New England so honored of her chill.
dren, and why she has been so instrumental
in shaping the destinies Of our country
The suggestion is good one. We should
like to see National Republican Convention
assembled in Old Faneuil Hall.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-09-06

The Grand Trunk.

II is probably Of very little Importance to the
public whether one b." had comfortable
passage over the Grand Trunk railway, or one
/" } j !. met with " lions, " Ia John Bun
yan, and many other discomforts in making
passage over the same thoroughare through the
Queen Dominion. The fact that detention
by freight train of the track was an event of
sufficient Importance to make page, or n part Of
one, in book written by John b. Cough to be-
come the text for n second growl at the Grand
Trunk and its " lions" by j. j. H., isnot very
damaging circumstance, for freight trains oil
the track" are not unusual obstacles on the lines
Of most railways. The former remarks Of j j.
l.. upon this road, we have never read or SEEM
but on our return from Dakota a few weeks since.
in relating how very satisfactory and pleasant
we found the portion Of the journey over the
Grand Trunk, to gentleman in Montpelier, lac
informed US that there had been complaint
against that road recently published in the Ha,ch.
man by one of its correspondents and requested us
to give statement Of matters pertaining to it as
We found them, for publication. We did so, but
did not dream that in doing it, with a casual ref
erence to " correspondent and So forth, one
b would draw fire from the masvcd center Of
the oIpbobet
What we Z, ep .,ij VIZ orc nav, most b,pn, to
repeat endorsed b, several yell.t,,elel gcnnc.
men. who have come over the road since that
time. and who took the tronhle q, inC,rm ns that
thew ound il in all rosnccts C,ll, ~, q, ,,,r ,,,,i
fest Bnt we can NOT oll see mr. find tbingsol,t.
" yoa know. especially in railroad travelling
and who knows but the loct or i l. l. lo,ti,,
over the screen and discovering the IS cook ma.
nipulatinp his boei,teak in n manner notla,pcti.
ling. had much to do in shapiup his impressions
of the Grand Trunk. II was a hazardous eyper.
nncnt. MS anv man who travel. or lives in bot,l.
ought To- know by intuition and if # WINS NAT f.,
breach Of propriety. it wa. certainly great over
STEPPING OF prudence .andirJJf suffered bv
il. il served him right for he wa. ree,,y;o bi.
punishment a.. he went along
We have travelled over most of the frank rail.
WAYS mentioned by your corrcspondent and o,or
the New York Central and Great Western only
few weeks preyious Ia onr return oyer ,bo ,.,,n5
Trunk The trim from Susnension Rr;l,o D.. M
.roit. over the latter road. was mad, i, the1,,.
time in one of Wogpcr's ,oIooo ca.. &, -, /
here were but seven fall grown nos..ncors ord
,othing c,uld have heen moro o',rooa,i. I, ,t.
yav of travelling but the trim rrom Dart urrnn
n Montreal a d;s,arco 81 ,,..r Goo t..,ls.s -
o., p,,il,,., .,. ..i.t,.... ~.