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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-02
A spanish Orator.

IT is certainly worth o pilgrimage to Mecca
or Madrid to see and hear that man Of men,
the perfect orator. Such an orator, Senior
CASTELAR, says, is Figueras, the Spanish Re-
publican leader. He has the plrest, noblest
character imaginable is frankness, sim
cerity, fidelity personified. He has indomi-
table energy, the most delicate political Skill,
ardent devotion to conviction, and excellent
culture. So much for the framework of his
eloquence. His speeches are sober, correct
and brilliant; earnest, courteous, calm, and
reasonable; wonderfully acute, and at the
same time persuasive. When it is necessary
he knows how to thrill the Cortes with his
passionate fervor; and at times he rises to
sublimity. He has the keenest perception of
the weak points in the enemy's armor, and
the most exquisite sense of opportunity; he
can call up storms upon the Opposition
benches with the same facility with which he
calms them among his own partisans. He
has prodigious memory, unalterable serenity
and self-possession, wears benevolent smile
when his lips are sending forth shafts of
bitterness, and holds himself in perfect calm
while his hearers are quiverirg with the ex-
element produced by his eloquence. And,
withali, his face, attitude, and action ere full
of majesty and simplicity. Truly such
sketch as this almost makes us doubt one of
two things-Ca -Castelar's vision or Figueras
humanity. .ah t
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-02

New York Correspondence Baltimore American. y.
A gentleman arose in the Fulton street
prayer meeting the other day and stated that
he had been slave to intemperance for ten
years past. Every remedy medical moral
and social-that the ingenuity of man conid
suggest had been tried on him by his anxious
friends and his anxious self, with no effect.
All had become utterly discouraged, and all,
including himself, had given him up for lost
and incurable--all except, the praying ones.
who loved him they alone kept on praying.
New Years day he felt that now was the
time to break through this curse or perish
forever. One more spasmodic resolve was
made only to be broken. From week to
week ne still struggled, but gained no ground
morning, more to divert his wretched mind
than anything else, he went into church.
There he prostrated himself in his utter help
lessness with cry for rescue before God.
And there the chains fell off from his soul.
He walked forth glad and strong in the sense
of new spirit of life from Jesus Christ, and
sure of his freedom by confidence in his
Divine Helper. Drink was no temptation
the appetite was gone. Next morning he
hastened to his praying and long sorrowing
mother to tell the wonderful news. The
locomotive was a snail to his eager desire.
He spent the happiest day of both their lives
with her, and yesterday returned to the CITY.
and to-day had come In here to give thanks
that the Son of God had made him free, and
he was free indeed. After him followed in
prayer and thanksgiving a fine specimen of
intelligent young manhood, who frequently
lifts up his voice for the throng of intemper-
ate cases every day presented in this meeting
for intercession, and who never omits to give
fervent thanks for his own recent eniancfpa-
ton by the Son from the Devil and his Prime
Minister intemperance. I.al; I'd a4f5if
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-02
R"+<~D\A
Unfortunate Predicament OF a Poor
Debtor.

A bill to amend the Poor Debtors law, dis
cussed in the House yesterday, shows sin
gular state OF things-almost as bad as the
pictures of English Marshalsea places of con-
tinement. The amending bill was suggested
by the case of John Dennis, now lying in
Charles Street Jail a prisoner for debt, and
who, unless the Legislature acts on the mat
ter, or forcible release is made, must remain
there for life. He was arrested for debt. but,
in an examination as to his power to take the
poor debtors oath, fraud on his part was dis
covered, and he was sentenced to thirty days
in Jail. He served out his time and again ap-
piled to take the oath, which was administer
ed to him In the Jail. The sheriff declined to
release him, on the ground that he had for
feited his rights under the law by such I'm
prisonment The Supreme Court sustained
the sheriff, and the prison gates seemed sealed
against the poor debtor for life. The amend
ing bill, started on its passage in the House
yesterday, and will probably set the prisoner
at liberty. Boston Times, April 6.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-02

The Oldest pieces OF wrought-iron now
known are probably the sickle-blade found by
Belzoni under the base of sphynx in Ker-
max, the blade found by Colonel Vyse imbed-
ded in the masonry of the great pyramid, and
the portion of a cross-cut saw exhumed at
Nimrod by Mr.. Layard, all of which are now
in the British Museum. A wrought bar of
to Alexander the Great, and the razor steel of
China for many centuries has surpassed all
European steel in temper and durability of
edge. The Hindoos appear to have made
wrought-iron directly from the ore, from time
immemorial.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-02
Fort Baker, NJ. T., April goth, 1872.


What Is the Width of Our Lead Mines !?
For the benefit of our lead miners we clip
the following from the Engineering and
Mining Journal, giving the dimensions of
several veins in Colorado, showing what sort
of leads are worked there and counted among
the best. If we had dimensions of the mines
in our neighborhood, we are certain that we
could make as good, if not better, showing
than this. Will our miners furnish us with
names of leads and width of crevice?
1T may be interesting to mention few of
the largest and best known of the lead veins
The Bush and Mendoza, on Sherman Noun
tain, show one and two feet of mineral on the
surface, and where the lode has been struck
in Burleigh's Tunnel, 900 feet from the en-
trance, it is stated to be five feet from wall to
wall. The Gilpin, on Leavenworth, is huge
vein OF galena often two feet wide and more
In the Henry Ward Beecher, on Democrat
Mountain, the seam is two feet solid; and in
the New Boston, higher up on the same
mountain, with a crevice over 40 feet across
there are seams varying in width from a quar-
ter inch to six feet. Many other lodes could
be named, containing as large bodies of
galena, assaying so and 60 per cent of lead,
and carrying silver enough to cover every
expense of mining and milling. Often mar
row veins expand in places and pockets of
considerable size and extent as in the last end
of the Phoenix (Maine discovery The west
Ph9niS rarely shows more than or 8 inches,
While the Maine opens upon a chimney which
has varied from one to four feet in width,
carrying from 100 to 1900 ounces of silver
per ton." s..
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-02
The Individual Responsibility OF a
..' judge -tvt s5s /

WASHINGTON, April 9.-The Supreme Court
has given an opinion in the Bradley Fisher
suit. One feature in the decision has never
before been announced in this country. In
this case Bradley sued Fisher for damages
because the latter, as Judge of the Court in
the district, had disbarred Bradley for alleged
contempt. Justice Field delivered the opinion
of the Court. 1t held that a Judge of q
Court having general jurisdiction was not
liable in civil suit for any decision 1t may
have rendered, even though it should appear
or corrupt motives, and had been given out
side of his jurisdiction. In alluding to the
merits of the case, Justice Field said that
Judge Fisher had no right to disbar Bradley
without first giving him hearing. The
opinion of Justice Field is in accordance
with an English custom not heretofore adopt
ed in our Courts.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-02
No. sa3
Another Is Innocent" Abroad.

Annie Brewsters Rome Letter. In Philadelphia Bulletin
One of the most refreshing specimens of
ignorance and common sense has been de-
lighting portion of American Rome the last
fortnight. 1t Is one of our rcountrymen. He has
become famous. His witty sayings have been
repeated at the dinner parties of s'the elect
made perfect" As Monsieure Jourdan. he
has spoken prose without knowing it. Imade
even the calm languid features of Mr.. Leckey.
the author of Rationalism, relax into a be-
nignant smile, at a dinner the other night,
and the rest of the company pealed out laugh
ter, by recounting in the simplest manner the
delicious Don mots of this wit unawares.
"Here," he said to gentleman, whom he
met in the reading-room of the hotel at which
they both lodged, s'here, tell me what there
is to see in this internal old one-horse town"
The gentleman appealed to was stunned for
an instant; then he suddenly thought of St
Peters as place likely to effect all manner of
persons, ignorant as well as educated.
10, I've seen that 6ildin, sir,nn answered
our wit. eFve walked its huH length and
then steppedoff its wedth; and then went top.
know the old place all through and through
to bits. None of you can't tell nothing about
that old churLA. jest studded it out all by
myself, and finished 1t up clean, / tell you.
see, and can't for the life of me recollect
what it is called"
Several places were named over In vain; at
last the Coliseum was by chance mentioned.
'Kolly-see-um! That sounds sutlsse like it,
What sort Of bildin' is it? What did they use
to do in it?"
''It was a place of public amusement" he
was told. ,.@ Ias ai 5000
"A sort of theatre? Eh, he asked.
Yes; an amphitheater for public games.
"Is 1t runnin' now?
"Oh NO! it Is in ruins. (" . sHFts q 2 i
''Oh, played out" said our delicious wit,
many another thing in the blasted dirty old
hole, and my dear fellow-c -countryman swag-
gered off sucking his cigar, filed with intense
disgust for the whole d-d nonsense, " as he
expressed it, ''of this here Rome and its ruins,
its idolatry, ignorance and dirt" A few
days after he said he had been visiting some
of the galleries; he was asked how he liked
the pictures s stss32@5 s35H
'.Not much; 1t seems like useless pack of
rubbish to me. But then you see I'm no
epicure."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-02

A FASHION reporter describes some of the
toilettes at recent party at Cheyenne: ''The
belle of the evening was Miss w. She dress
ed faultlessly in linsey-woolsey of the pale
shade of cafe au lait cut en- train and trimmed
with Chicago relics. Miss H. wore polo
naise made of blue jeans, postillioned in the
back, cut viz-a-viz with detrop bias, and
gored in the most sanguinary manner"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-02
.: 2: " ~ rIsx* 1ssk'} FISK BROS, Publishers.
"a THING OF BEAUTY Is JOY FOR
EVER,

Written for the HELENA HERALD.
Oh! truest words, 30 sweety sung;
What response from our hearts is wrung;
As thought flies back with fond delight,
Through brightest day and darkest night,
To visions of beauty that gladden. the heart,
Long years ago, yet still are part
OF all that we love; the sunshine of life
Shining bright through the clouds of the worlds
bitter strife.
Who hath not paused at close of day,
Beside some streamlet's fiowery way,
Aud gazing DER that happy scene,
Before his eyes had visions CLEAN
OF Paradise; that blessed abode
OF which we dream. as DER lifes road
We wander, groopng for the light,
That illumines even deaths dark night.
What heart so dead, 1t hath not felt,
When looking up to Heavens broad belt,
Through the mystic moons pale silvery light,
That beauty fills e'en shadowy night:
The full orb'd moon, the gittering star,
Perhaps an erring world afar,
Speak to the soul in fullest measure
Their beauty is "a joy forever"
The trees that lift their lofty heads;
The flowers that bloom in mossy beds;
The matin bird that greets the sun:
The nightingae's song when day is done;
Are "things of beauty" ne'er forgot, Il
They cheer, they bless, the humblest lot;
Lifes flowers, DER life's dark pathway cast
What wonder that we hold them fast?
Drink deep, heart: Of besutys cup;
Drink deep, and long; and looking up.
Thank Him who made His works so fair,
Who fills the earth with beauty rare,
Of mountain, vale, and tinkling rill,
Of fiowery plains, and snow eap'd hill;
Whose simplest work is without measure,
"A thing Of beauty" "a JOY forever"
G. L. B.
Fort Baker, NJ. T., April goth, 1872.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-02

..-Russia has recently organized Il, 900 pub
lie schools.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-03-14
War History.

In discussing the pretension prepos-
terously set up by the Administration for
indirect damages under the Alabama
Treaty, the New York World paren-
thetically presents some historical facts
connected with the war which deserve to
be treasured as part of the glory of the
Southern armies. They are !:
The English people are familiar with the
events of the rebellion after Gettysburg
They know that Grant crossed the Rapidan
with 125, 900 men to assail Lee who had only
$1,000; that Grants reinfOrcements within
one month were $4,000, making the total
placed under his command 222,OO0; that
from May to June 10 Grant lost l17,OOO
men in conquering what our "case'' declares
to be a rebellion whose offensive power was
''crushed;' that Grant spent whole year,
after crossing the Rapidan, in reaching
Richmond, by exchanging six or seven
dead Union soldiers for one of the Confede-
rates. British journalists realize the enor-
nous and unnecessary pecuniary expense
of Grants Richmond campaign, an unde-
fined portion of which our case exacts
from the English people. There is enough
in the demand to terrify the unrefiecting,
we admit. But if Eaglishmen can read and
study the text of our quibbling and extraY-
agant claim, they viii see that it is as
harmless as it is ridiculous.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-03-14
Convictfou ofMr I'D. ReII<

Under Radical rule Federal juries are
a branch of the same family with courts
martial, and like the latter, are organized
to convict and hence it will not sur
prise the intelligent public that notwith-
standing the testimony for the prosecu-
ton was established to be an utter failure
so far its reliability and the consistency
of its parts, were concerned, a verdict of
''guilty" was rendered against Mr. L.
ID. Belk in the recent trial ON the charge
of violating the enforcement act The
mode of designating the jury to procure
this result foreshadowed it. The law
requires that jurors to serve in the U.
S. Courts shall be designated according
to the modes of forming juries prescribed
by the laws of the States in which they are
held brightly Digest p. 1910 but in this
instance the law was violated and the
jury was designated by the agents and
ministers of vengeance appointed espe-
cially by the partisan Radical government.
Selected as the jury was, it could be
nothing else but partisan tribunal or
ganized ''to convict" The law, tes-
timony and argument might as well have
been addressed to stocks and stones
In the result of THIS trial, the people
have been served with another example
of the injustice and tyranny of the
powers that be, and of the necessity
which every lover of liberty and justice
should feel of combining to break their
rod of iron. The lives and liberties of
the people are completely at the mercy
of rulers who have instituted a reign OF
terror to maintain the partisan organiza-
ton on which they are depending for
prolonging their authority.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-03-14
The Penitentiary Bill.

This bill passed the House by party
vote nearly in the form in which it passed
the Senate. 1t is a cumbrous, compli-
Gated contrivance, embracing about sixty
sections. 1t opens wide the door to UNI
limited extravaganza and fraud An
amendment offered by Gen. Lowry, in
the House, to vest the appointment OF
superintendent in the Legislature, in
stead of the Governor, as before the war
under system which worked we'll
was defeated-the majority having thus
shown their design to manage the insti-
tuition in the interest of partisan ring,
and not for the good of the State and of
men owing their selection to the repre-
sentatives of the people. This feature
OF the bill, besides the avenue which it
will open wide to the treasury, would be
fatal to it, in our estimation. What is
wanted is measure simple in its details
for employing the labor of the convicts
on public works and otherwise proftably
to the State until suitable prison with
manufacturing machinery can be obtained
with the proc eeds thus acquired. Unde
this bill they will be absorbed by the
ring in whose interest it will be controlled.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-03-14

young man OF Mittineague, Mass. was
recently ridden on a rail for the trifiing
oftense of thrashing his stepfather.
An enterprising North Carolina woman
got married, separated from her husband.
and eloped with another man In a week.
Corn is knee high in some parts of Texas.
All kinds Of vegetables have been planted
and there are indications Of AN abundant
crop.
The most fashionable polonaise for snrino
costumes Is the Franklin coat. which l.
ornamented with the square pockets and
flaps ofthe Revolutionary times.
A Dubuque woman, who claimed that a
married man In Omaha was her husband.
Withdrew her claim In favor or wife No )
IN consideration OF one hundred dollar
and went home. N'"iS'
A Wilmington hen has been LAYING an
egg with the inscription In raised Ietters
war In ls72-England and America =
when the hens commence pronheevins,
what may We not expectP Ae
A young colored prima donna. Miss Mel
ne Brown made her debut recently moon
cert, In New York. S ~ 0on-
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-03-14
HELMBOLD.
Bankruptcy Commercial Death
The Rise and Fall Of Patent
Medicine Wen.

y. Y. Letter to Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.
Bankruptcy is commercial death from
which there Is sometimes a resurrection
| am inclined, however, 20 think that this
Helmbold affair is accompanied by no such
hope. HelmbOld. in other words, is effect
ually killed, | do not mention this as
news, but simply TO make few comments.
As the OLD song goes, "when he lived he
lived in clover, and when he died he died
all over" They say that seven is a mystic
rious number, and HelmDold's career in
this city lasted just seven years. In 1865,
the year that Lincoln was slain, he COM
menced his Broadway drug establishment.
He had a little money which he brought
from Philadelphia and he made dash with
it. meeting remarkable success. Most nos
trums seem TO be short-lived. Helmbold's
preparations took well at first, an made
enormous profits. In 1865 he reported an
even increased. In the great Presidential
campaign of 1S6S he determined TO exceed
all partisans in liberality. \. L. Stewart
gave $4,000 to the Republican fund, and
Helmbold, to "out-Herod HerOd," gave $40
600 to aid the election of Seymour. No
doubt he would be glad just now to handle
that sum again. Success makes most men
deirious, and Helmbold was no excep-
ton. lt was a remark OF Peter G.. Brooks,
the Boston millionaire, in reference to
enough to have turned most mems heads"
and Edward Everett commented on this
striking popularity in Brooks that it
did not turn his head. But Helmbold was
bewildered by success. lie spent enormous
sums in wasteful manner. His dashing
turnout at Long Branch excited the envy
and admiration OF fashion-worshippers and
in Central Park his equipage also comman-
ded attention. His diamond breast-pin and
his luxurious life were the witnesses of
weak vanity and pride OF purse. The tide
of prosperity, like all other tides, had its
limit, and then came the ebb. For this he
was not prepared. and bankruptcy soon
followed. Some months ago / saw his
shattered and exhausted countenance and
his frail form standing in the porch of what
once was his palace of pharmacy. He
looked dazed and dreamy, like one who
hardly woke TO the reality. Now they say
he is in Europe, seeking restoration of
health. 1t il more than probable that he
will return in his coffin. / have seen this
thing repeated more than once. l remem-
Der the ''patent medicine Comstocks" and
their grand equipage. who after their failure
were in due time followed by Sarsaparilla
Townsend. who made great fortune, and
then likewise came out poor. Now We have
Helmbold 10 point moral and adorn tale.
AS for Townsend, his profits on sarsa paril-
la enabled him to build palace in the Fifth
avenue, and after his failure it was pur-
chased by Stewart. who pulled IL down in
order TO make room for his palace. Thus
the butterflies of success come and go
while the moral of the scene is thus gath
cred by.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-03-14
Radical Financiering i'm Bener.
SON County.
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Miss, 4
March 4th, 1872. (

March 4th, 1872. !
EDITORS CLARION
| Do you know the state of affairs in the
grand old county of Jefferson? If you do,
can you not say with me. deplOrdbLei Please
allow me TO tell your readers how matter
are, financially, in our county, and then ask
some questions about how to proceed.
l must first commence by stating that
am teacher of one of the public schools.
Last year the free schools continued four
months in our county. | taught one of
them and received school warrants in pay
ment. These were orders, as all warrants
are. on the treasurer.
In January presented my first warrants
to p. Balch, then treasurer of the county,
but he was then turning over his books,
money. etc., to the new treasurer. i saw
the now treasurer and presented my war
rants for payment. He said he would pay
them when the money was turned over to
him. The former treasurer paid into his
hands fifteen hundred dollars, but not one
cent could get. lie said he had not ar
ragged his books. He took the money and
went off to Rodney, where he lives, and
since that time it has been impossible for
any of the teachers holding warrants to get
them cashed.
This treasurer who has the money says
when the Board of school Directors APP
proves OF the amount credited TO each sub
district by him that he will pay the war
rants. Twice the Board has met since then.
and the treasurer has not attended to have
these amounts allowed. The consequence
is this /: The Board of School Directors meets
in Fayette, and the treasurer stays at his
home in Rodney.
Now. sirs. we, as teachers, ask what is to
be done? Matters stand thus: A negro
treasurer has the money which is justly due
the teachers for services rendered. Is there
no way by law to make him come to Fayette
when the Board meets, or if he will not
come to Fayette, is there no way to get our
hard-earned money out of his hands? If
there is, please tell US how?
SCHOOL TEACHER.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-03-14

FORCING SOCIAL Equality. Last
night at the Blind Tom performance a ne
gro man with a negro woman took a seat
in the part of the Hall set apart for IN,
white people, but was promptly elected
and just here we would state, that we can
not understand why reserved seats were
sold to them in the place. Somebody Is Ia
blame for this. We presume this was In
retaliation for the very sudden discontinue
ance of the very elegant Wednesday evening
receptions at the Peoples Mansion House
that the Court journal q. e. the Pilot was
in the habit of complimenting so highly. 10 l.
currently reported that caucus OF colored
Honorables was held to take IN consideration
what they should do about the aforesaid dis
continuance, and that a committee was APP
pointed to wait upon the Governor about
il. We cannot vOuch for the truth Of the
rumor, as we cannot for the rumor that the
committee did wait upon the Governor on
the Thursday morning after the discontiu-
uance. But still cur wonder grows that
just in the midst OF the gay season, when
all was as merry as a marriage bell, we are
to have no more graphic descriptions in the
Court Journal of elegant receptions at the
Mansion House. The colored Honorables
even go so far as to say that greater distiuc-
ton is now made in the Mansion than when
Gov. Alcorn was there.