The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-05-16
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

What did President Grant mean when,
at the close of his discussion of the curren-
cy question in his last December message,
he said: The decisions of Congress
on this subject aoslg hare the hearty support
Of the Esecutice''?
Vasquez, the California bandit, whose
head is worth fifteen thousand dollars in
gold, recently paid poll tax on the precious
article. He met the assessor, Mike Madi-
gan, on the highway in Los Angeles eoun-
ty, rode along with him for whole day,
chatting good-humoredly. On parting he
handed over his poll tax, which has been
officially returned as that of Tieurico Vas
quez.
Alexander FL. Stephens left Washington
for home in Georgia ON Saturday. Before
taking his departure he was called upon by
company of friends, and during the con-
versation remarked that unless his health
should become improved by the trip, he
never again expected to visit Washington.
He is a confirmed invalid, and has not been
in his seat on the floor of the House for the
past two months.
These things are comely and pleasant and
worthy of honor from the beholder: A young
saint, an old martyr, religious soldier, q
conscientious statesman, great man, cOur
teous, a learned man, humble, a child that
understands the eye Of its parents, cheer
full companion without vanity, friend not
changed with honors sick man happy,
soul departing with comfort and assurance.
Bishop Hull.
A New York journalist, believing that
brevity is the soul of wit, sums up the value
of editorial articles as follows:
two column article has reader in 100
A column and half article has one reader in 81.
A column article has one reader in 60
threequ column article has one reader in 25
half column article has reader in 10.
A quarter column article has one reader in /.
1t was Rufus Choate who said of John
Quincy Adams: ''He has an instinct for
the jugular and the carotid artery as unerr-
ing as that of any carniyorous animal"
The remark has since been applied to
other members of the Adams family.
Choate, also, appears to be the author of an
other phrase that is somewhat noted; i'll his
letter to the Massachusetts, wings assem-
bled in convention at Worcester in 1866, he
said: "We join ourselves to no party that
does carry the flag and keep the step
to the music of the Union.''
Senator Morton's proposed amendment
to the constitution, providing new way
ofelecting the President and Vice President,
has received the unanimous approval of the
Senate committee. 1t is very simple and
just 1t gives the vote of every Congress
sional district to the candidate receiving
the largest number of votes, and the votes
of two Senatorial electors are to be given
to the candidate receiving the highest num-
Der OF all the votes in the State. This is a
great improvement on our present cumber-
Col md dom on1 II
to meet with universal approval.
Numbers of men who emigrated from the
West to the gold mines of French Guiana
are returning home. They say that the
fields are about one hundred miles inland,
and to reach them one hundred and fifty
miles have to be travelled in row boats pad
died by negroes, and after that 4 journey of
five or six days duration through dense un-
dergrowth. Even the gold, which is found
in rotten quartz is i'll from two to six feet
of black mud, whence arises an effiuvia
which no white man can endure. The wa
ter IS so poisonous that the natives drink
nothing but wine. The expedition was q
failure.
The Philadelphia Press has heard of an
citizen who has promised to
build a ship capable of carrying ten thous-
and passengers i'll time for use at the inter-
national celebration. which is to combine
steam railway, race course, theatre, shoot
ing g-gallery, circus, and every imaginable
modern attraction He claims that his
plan is complete, and has been approved of
by some of the ablest engineers He pro-
poses to moor it in the Delaware. and con-
vey it at intervals to the different cities,
ports, and watering places of the continent.
This monster machine will make about six
miles an hour, and will be three or four
times larger than the Great Eastern.