The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-03-28

4 the next election. SO says the Warrenton
| (Virginia) correspondent of an Alexandra
paper, which says: eve are satisfied OF
one thing; that if Colonel Mosby were
returned to Congress he would be of much
more real service to this district and the
Southern people than any other man we
could select" The correspondent thinks
Mosby can be easily elected. Baltimore
| american.
| Francis Kossuth, a son of the Hungarian
| liberator, writes a letter from Turin, Italy,
wholly denying the story recently published
| in Appleton's journal as translated from
| the Frankfort Gazette. to the effect that his
| father is in destitute circumstances, OF
reduced to teaching languages for a sub
sistence. He says that both his sons are in
! comfortable circumstances, and the aged
patriot has pleasant home with pleasant
surroundings. The denial will relieve the
minds of the many admirers of Louis
| Kossuth.
| A bill has passed the Legislature of Cali
| fornia instructing the courts to dismiss any
indictments found against Henry Meigs
previous to January 1, 1855. The object OF
this singular bill is to remove all legal
| distractions to the return of Meigs, who
twenty years ago, by his bold and reckless
| speculations, involved quite a number of
persons in heavy losses, and with a large
| amount of funds went to South America.
Engaging in railroad building, he amassed
| large fortune, and paid all his creditors
with interest, and now they want him back
with his business energy and--money.
The New York San is apparently seri-
ously advocating the use of rats for food.
ga correspondent asserts that he would
task no better dish at dinner than two or
three rats well cooked. For making soup
rats are far superior to young chickens. It
may surprise many to know that there is at
present a restaurant in the vicinity Of Wall
street where they substitute rats altogether
| in place of chickens to make soup. This
saloon has the name of giving the best bowl
of soup in the city. 1t is patronized by the
bankers down town, who think they have a
knack for making good soup which no
other restaurant in the city has.
Since the death of Horace Greeley will
challenge any one to find in the editorial
columns of the Tribune, one earnest radical
word in favor of totuI abstinence. The
present editor is the President of the Lotos
Club, where elegant punch bowls prevail,
| and wines are taken in very genteel style.
The only editor of any influential Journal
that I know Of in New York who lives a
practically temperate life, and practices as
we'll as advocates total abstinence, is the
editor of seribner's Magazine, DR.. Holland.
The nress of the country control all the
to position by the press. so - are lifted
needed in the cause of this reform, and fthe
press used it's influence in the right direction,
the cause must ultimately triumph. If we
cannot have that influence we must do oul
best without it'd. II. PoaoeN.
The gentlemen engagedin the temperance
crusade are bringing forward some curious
statistics upon the extent of the liquor
trade. The following is a specimen brick
The quantity Of liquors Of all kinds drank
was sufficient to fill canal four feet deep,
fourteen feet wide, and eighty miles il
length. The drinkers, if standing in pro-
cession, five abreast, would make an army
one hundred miles long. The destruction
of life by the use of intoxicating liquors
| was at the rate of five hundred and fifty
persons per day. The places where
liquors were sold, if arranged in rows, il
direct lines, would make street one hun
dred miles in length. The total number o.
persons engaged in the liquor business was
100000, of whom Sc, ,663 were employed il
manufacturing and selling 1855, ,633 barrels
of beer. This number exceeds by mor'
than 100000 the whole number Of all thu
| persons in the United States devoted t.
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