, EBELLO, DUO DE. 



MORAVIANS. 



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Gold wa-t tir.st discovered on Gold Cn 

 branch of iho ll.-lMJatf, in 1852, but no mining 

 took place until the autumn of 1861. The 

 uaru-mill was erected in the beginning 

 The bullion-product of the Territory 

 has been as follows : 



YEARS. iv . i . i 



108* $300,000 



MXJO.OOO 



13.000,000 



1865 1 1,600,000 



: .'!(X)o,'ooo 



... 13,000,000 

 1868 9,000,000 



mat 



1870 $9,100,000 



1971 8.060,000 



1873 6,078,889 



1878 6,178.047 



1874 4,900,000 



Total $120,901,880 



< >f the product in 1872, $351,944, and in 

 . $176,500, was silver. The deposits of 

 mini tho Territory at the United States 

 Mints and assay-offices, to June 81, 1874, 

 amounted to $30,640,618; of silver, $304,361. 

 There are no railroads in Montana, but the 

 Northern Pacific is to cross the Territory from 

 east to west. The principal towns have tele- 

 graphic communication with the East and the 

 Pacific coast. There are five national banks, 

 with an aggregate capital of $350,000. The 

 value of property for purposes of taxation, in 

 1873, was $9,803,745; and the taxation for 

 Territorial purposes, $39,214. The receipts 

 into the Territorial Treasury for the year end- 

 ing December 1, 1873, including $643 on hand 

 at the beginning of the year, were $66,517: 

 disbursements, $65,792: balance, $725. The 

 net Territorial debt, January 1, 1874, amount- 

 ed to $128,762, a decrease during the previous 

 year of $13,786 ; $92,283 of this amount was 

 in bonds bearing twelve per cent, interest. 



The seat of government heretofore has been 

 Virginia City ; but in 1875 Helena, with a pop- 

 ulation in 1870 of 3,106, became the capital. 



MONTEBELLO, NAPOLEON LANNES, Due 

 de, a French diplomatist, senator, peer, and at 

 one time cabinet minister, born in Paris, July 

 30, 1801 ; died in that city, July 20, 1874. He 

 was a son of Marshal Lannes, and was made 

 a peer of France by Louis XVIII. in 1815, in 

 consideration of his father's services. In 1833 

 he was sent on a diplomatic mission to the 

 court of Copenhagen, and three years after- 

 ward was made embassador to Switzerland. 

 In 1838 he represented his country at Naples ; 

 a year later he became a member of the French 

 cabinet as Minister of Foreign Affairs, but soon 

 afterward he returned to his former post in 

 Italy. He became Minister of Marine in 1847, 

 and, while holding that position, he pronounced 

 against the enfranchisement of slaves in the 

 colonies. The February Revolution caused his 

 fall from power. Under the imperial dynasty, 

 in 1858, he went as embassador to St. Peters- 

 burg, and in 1864 he was made senator. He 

 had been Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor 

 since 1844, and had received orders of merit 

 from most of the sovereigns of Europe. 



MORAVIANS. The statistics of the Ameri- 

 can Province of the Moravian Church, Decem- 

 ber 31, 1874, furnish the following totals: 



Northern District, 60 churches; number 



of communicant*, 7,^7 ; of non -communicant* 



~> ; of children, 



4,511 ; lofal number of nn-mlxTH, 18,428; num- 

 ber of Sunday-school Hcholara, 6,078; of offi- 

 cers and teachers in Sunday-schools, 755. The 

 total increase of members from the previous 

 year w a- .V>'!. 



Southern District, 13 churches; number of 

 communicants, 1,178; of non-communicants 

 over thirteen years of age, 187; of children, 

 520; total number of members, 1,885; number 

 of Sunday-school scholars, 022 ; of officers and 

 teachers in Sunday-schools, 81. Increase of 

 members from the previous year, 15. 



Total for the entire Province, 78 churches ; 

 number of communicants, 8,705 ; of non-com- 

 municants over thirteen years of age, 1,572; of 

 children, 5,031 ; of members of all classes, 

 15,808; of Sunday-school scholars, 6,700; of 

 officers and teachers in Sunday-schools, 886. 



The annual report of the Unity Elders' Con- 

 ference for 1874 contained, as usual, a review 

 of the affairs of the whole Church during the 

 year. Two changes in the membership of the 

 Conference had taken place. A vacancy caused 

 by the death of Bishop Clemens had been filled 

 by the election of the Rev. W. F. Beckler, of 

 the South-African Mission ; another vacancy, 

 caused by the retirement of E. N. Halm, was 

 filled by the choice of Eugene T. Groche, of 

 Sarepta. The congregations constituting the 

 Bohemian Mission had progressed steadily and 

 quietly. Their legal recognition was consid- 

 ered only a question of time. The chapel of 

 the rebuilt orphan-house at Rothwasser was 

 dedicated on the 6th of December. The new 

 congregations in Switzerland had given evi- 

 dence of their satisfaction with their present 

 relation to the Brethren's Church. In the 

 British Province an important Provincial Synod 

 was held at Fairfield from June 29th to July 

 8th. The mission department of the Unity 

 Elders' Conference was represented by two 

 delegates. Three Home-Mission congregations 

 had been received into full connection with the 

 Church. An attempt to instruct in the prin- 

 ciples of the Moravian Church, and revive an 

 organized congregation of Germans in the city 

 of Manchester, had failed, although the work 

 was undertaken on the solicitation of the pas- 

 tor of the congregation. Four new congre- 

 gations had been organized in the Northern 

 District of the American Province, at Zoar 

 and Laketown in Minnesota, Gerah in Wiscon- 

 sin, and Urichsville in Ohio. Bishop Emil A. 

 de Schweinitz had been consecrated in the 

 Southern District. The educational work of 

 the Church had been carried on in all the three 

 provinces with unabated interest, and gener- 

 ally with success. A question of considerable 

 importance had arisen in the German Province 

 in relation to tbe practical working of the new 

 school-laws. Two conferences on this and 

 other subjects connected with educational in- 

 terests had been held, one at Nisky and the 

 other at Montmirail. A normal school for 



