montana post (virginia city, mont.) 1865-08-26 [p ] · the montana post. thos. j. dimsdale, editor....

THE MONTANA POST.THOS. J. DIMSDALE, EDITOR.

Saturday,..... . .Aug. 26, 1 en5.N~rsc.-For the information of the public, webeg to state that H. M. BinyArr is the travelingAgent for the " Montana Post," and is authorised

to solicit subscriptions; to obtain qrders for jobwork, and.to collect and receipt, for all moneys dueto this oeffice.

TIHE arONTAWA POST---voL. 2, N. 1.

The present issue of the Post inaugurates.the commencement of the second year of itsexistence as the pioneer newspaper of the.Territory. The present proprietors pur-chased the stock in trade of Mr. JohnBuchanan, and commenced the publicationwith the third number. From that time tothe present, it has been their constant care,and our own also, to improve the paper inevery way, so as to make it worthy of its imission, and creditable to Montana. Howfar we have succeeded it is for others tojudge; but of the efforts required to sustainit, in a land so remote from the ordinarysource of the supply of material and currentnews-few, besides those actually engagedin the work,can have any idea. Snow cappedmountains, rugged defiles, and swollenstreams are placed between us and the near-est point of telegraphic communication withthe States, for half a year, and when weread of the troubles and difficulties of thosewho have onl7 heard of these things, wecannot help smiling; for we of Virginiathink we are all right when we get that faron our way during a winter trip to the East,leavin.- the dreaded show clad "Divide,"and Snake river, behind us. While ourpaper has been enlarged in size to a consid-erable extent; the amount of reading mat-ter has been very greatly increased, and wehope that in quality, as well as in quantity,the public will see that extended facilitieshave been met by increased exertion. Of ,our new stone Printing Office, Job Press and Isupply of material, we have before spoken,and thus mechanically reinforced, we intendthat no effort on our part shall be spared, in cthe future, to augment the interest and value Cof each succeedine number.

Looking around us, we see on every sidethe evidences of progress and prosperity.The appearance of our city is so much im-proved, that persons who have been absentfrom it only a year, scarcely recognize it.Two churches, a well regulated municipalGovernment,a permanent Court Room, manystone buildings, an excellent svstem ofWater-Works, a n,,ble Masonic Ha'll, organ-ized society, and a sense of peace and secu_rity, are among the new vouchers for ourwelfare. In the Territory, a great advance 1has been made in securing the navigation ofthe Missouri, thus giving us another com- lmercial highway to the States; and a wagon Iroad to Iowa has been commenced. Inmining, the prospects are cheering. Last rChance and its net-work of gulches, and tHelena, a mountain city, are not vet of ayear's growth. Blackfoot, White's, Con- tfederate, French, McClellan, Washington,Montana, the placers around Silver Bow, and rmany other gulches, are at full work, with tthriving towns either built, or in course of berection, in their vicinity. Quartz lodes, innumbers sufficient to paper a large housewith the certificates of pre-emption, have 0been discovered, hundreds of them as rich as, tlor richer than, anything ever before known. wThat we have plenty of coal in various parts Tof the country, we know; and that iron,lead, copper and quicksilver are there in aquantity, we are likewise assured. Allover mour country,ranchmen are settling in crowds, tland, even this year, the amount of grain tiand vegetables raised is very large and im-portant. Steady family emigration is arriv- reill, .- A - L_portant. Steady family emigration is arriv-ing, and we are happy to know, for theirsakes, that our first school tax is levied, andwill soon be collected. One Legislaturehas lived and died, doing, as is usual inTerritories, a considerable amount of goodand a great deal of evil.

Quartz mills,. crushers, and a great manymachines of different kinds, are arrivingconstantly. Daily lines of communicationare opened by stage cornpanies, and we thinkhat there never was a place so far from atsettled country, or the ocean, where so muchhas been done in so short a time.

Troops for our protection are rapidlymarching towards us; a convoy for treasurewill be shortly established, and, unless thepeople of Montana are so foolish as to com-mit political suicide at the next election, weknow of nothing that can prevent a careerof prosperity such as never before the sunshone down upon.

Our principles we feel to bebnchangeable. tWe love our whole country; we are jealousof its honor, and we are al to its tradi- 8tions and Government. Every day sees caccessions to the ranks of those who think pwith us; and those who will not agree with tus, know that they cannot answer our argu- naent-. Throwing aside partizan politics, rwithout giving at foot of ground where prin.- aciple is concerned, we have labored for the t'good of the people, giving all men fair play :acting invariably with charity to all, andwith malice toward none. Making our sal- Autation to our patrons, we hope for them N,and for ourselves a prosperous year, and yfully resolved to do our whole duty as therepresentatives of the Press in this Territory, Pwe eommence our task. f'NOTICE To EDITORS.--For the information

of our brethren (of the Press, we beg leaveto observe that Montana is not Idaho, andwe should be obliged by their creditingFights, Stage Robberies, Arson, etc., to theirproper localities. When they getup a goodVigilance Committee over the mountains, orare strong enough, te run Law without it,which is still better,it won't matter so much;but at present our trouble is not with ourown folks, bet with theirs. We are alsoinformed that we have driven out Chinanmen;but as there are only six, we believe, in theTerritoy, and they answer regularly atchopstick time, the announcement is premaO-tore. The snow must blind the eyes of theNevada folks,for, with them, Idaheis always

Tis Oity of the Saints is is a state ofeo-motion and excitement at the aeting ofM Jlia Dan IHyne. The lady stands4at th of the professics in the West,sad . peeseaatssao of Ao racter fouly

S' .o um and upon them.'Iht! a to z! t4 so. .57 .

The People'a County Tlcket.

The People's Coauty eklet is now beforethe citisens. As it contains the name ofno man unfit for his position, and as we

we believe that the County would be benefitted4 by electinig the men nominated, we recom-oh mend its support to those anxious for the-e promotion of the weal of the community.

Judge Alden is an upright, courteous andwell informed gentleman, who would docredit to the choice of the people as Probatees Judge. William P. Wheeler the candidate

ta for the Recordership, is of good reputele for honesty, and capability as a businessr- man. James Williams and his characterin are familiar to everybody; cool, courageous

n and reliable, he would make a good Sheriff.ro Theo. Muffly has, by his conduct during his

, present term of office, proved his fitness forn a continuance of it. John Vanderbilt is qna honest man, and well informed on the pointsw necessary to be known by a County Assessor.0 John L. Corbett is a well educated, practicala engineer and surveyor, who knows his trade,Y and is an estimable citizen. 0. B. Whitfordit is amply qualified by professional knowledge

d and good character, for Coroner. The Rev.d As M. Hough every voter knows, whether he

be of one party or of the other, is the properman for School Superintendent-a most im-h portant office, with little pay and much work.

e The nominees for County Commissionerse are John Potter-of whom all that knowe him say: "John Potter is a good man;" C.C. Housel is an experienced and thoroughlyr upright business man, with a stake in the

country, and a good citizen. William A.Shroyer is an energetic, practical man, who Ir knows all about Madison county and itswants, and would represent the miners withcredit to himself and with advantage tothem. Conrad Weary, the banker, is just Lthe man, of exact business habits and com-mercial squareness of dealing, to be Sealer tof Weights and Measures, and we opine that gbe would earn his money. 0. F. Strickland tiis well qualified for the position he has held nas Probate Judge. His professional knowl- tedge, together with his fair and impartialdecisions, have given very general satis-faction.faction.

These are the men on the People's Ticket.ide If elected, we have a right, from their pastty. conduct among us, to believe that they willn- fill their offices satisfactorily, and justify theconfidence of the electors. We hope thatt the voters of Madison will take their ownit. business into their own hands, and refuse topal follow pernicious party precedents, by elect- Iyv ing any man of whom they may hereafter be

of ashamed..n- THE VIGILANTES OF MONTANA.-We publish

u- this day,according to our previous announce-ur ment, the first chapter of the "History of

cc the Vigilance Committee," which will be Iof continued as a serial in every issue of the tn- Post, to the end of the work. The labor ofin preparing such a record of fact is very great, tIn the utmost care and circumspection being ist necessary to avoid error. The author's de- bid termination has been to lay fancy aside, and ra to produce fact, trusting that the genuine k," and unbiassed statement of events as they hd really occurred will find greater favor with oh the public than a more highly sensational, df but less veracious story. 01

e We are the more established in this bie opinion, by an inspection of a work called inq, the "Banditti of the Rocky Mountains," inwhich is compiled on the opposite principle. Ie There is no more similarity between the pin scenes described and those enacted in these ofr mountains, than is just sufficient to permit "

, the use of familiar names whereby to gull peu the public. The disgust we have felt at mi_ reading this vulgar fable has only stregth- thened us in our purpose to put a tight curb haon imagination and to adhere strictly to pifact. Our narrative will be interesting setenough we trust without any admixture of wlfalsehoods. cei

'gY Fox OLD BATCHELOR--We have received0on a very long letter, dated at Diamond City1nk from.which we learn that the claims workedat in Montana Gulch pay from $20 to $50 perch day per man; .that owing to a lack of com-Ily petition, provisions rate high-flour, $30;.re bacon and hams, 70 to 75 cents. Mininghe tools are dear-picks, from $10 to $15, andn shovels from $8 to $10. Buildings are going

er up at the rate of eight or ten a day, and ain company is bringing in water by a new ditch.The principal drawbaek is the high price ofe. tools, which hinders prospecting, both in theus gulch and in quartz, of which there isplenty

i- around. The suicidal plan of holding manys claims, which will neither be sold at a fair1k price nor worked by the owners, is practiced

h there as well as elsewhere, and eventually.- must be put a stop to by legislation. Thea, rest of the letter being a detail of personal1- adventure in other countries, we are unable,e to publish, from lack of space.

d THE YELLOWSTONE RouTE TO THa STATZS.-I- A very ably written advertisement of then Mackinaw fleet, bound for the States by the

Yellowstone route, will be found in anotherplace. In the matter of a selection of routesfor home we cannot consistently advocateany line, by land or water, to the exclusionof all others. If the shoals and the Indianse can be safely passed, the boat route will be

both short as to time, and delightful as toaccompaniments. On the other hand, if ther stock is lively, the wagon sound, and theI Sioux are not on the ground, the trip byrwagon is sure, and, to many, very pleasant.Each style of locomotion has its advantages,and our judgment in this case of rocks,shoals and Indians vs. Indians, alkali andrough roads, is, "In all these things be yefully persuaded in your own minds.'

n; Mas. ELIZABH GANT writesto the Mayor <

he of this City, from Soda Springs, under dateat the 24th inst., asking that enquiry may bemade, and information obtained concerning jher husband Benton Grant. The lady has tstarted West before the expiration of the 'tfime named for as return to his home inDavis Co. MissouiL be is going to OlympiaWashington Territn y, where any lettersmay. be addressed, Her brother, Waltery Linasey, I with hbhdabId, andLisaseyre iwiie with one child is is compsay withM. rs ra t.' '

PplIe's Tick e--a4Ilm Ceutyp.rt Deleate tjo u A $. UPSON.

ror Prot•'ote J d C . ALD'N.For County C -WILLIAt P. WZEELER.For bericr--JAMI WILLIAMS.For County Treurer-THEOPHILUS MUFFLY.For County Aemoer-JOHN VANDERBILT.For County Surveyor-JOHN L. CORBEITT.For Coroner-O. B. WHITFORD._For uperiendnt of Common Schools-A. M.BOUGH.For County Commissioner--JOHN POTTER,CHARLES C. HOUSEL, WM. A. SHROYER.

For Sealer of Weithts and Memure-OON1RADWEARY.

For District Attorney-OBED F. STRICKLAND.

Letter from Helema.

ess U•U•iA, Aug. 22d, 1865.ter Eu. Poer :--Since my last, our town, mpecialythe lower part of it, has presented a lively appear-)as ance. Buildings of better style than those of six

i$ months ago, and most of them with taste ull ie-signed fronk, are rising daily, asif by magic. Bai-his ness, however, in everything, except provender andor building, is slack, the mines not having yet com-menced to lay in their winter's suppl,. and I amn afraid that they will not do so, until goods of allon kinds take a rise of fifty per cent. A large numberof miners are making preparations for a visit to theiror. homes. The several Mackinaw Boat Companies areal organizing for the purpose of giving security topas-sepgers from the attacks of either red or white ma-le, rauders, both by the numbers of the company andthe shelter aforded by the boats. Sprague a Co.'r eet of si ball proof boats will leave Fort Bentonge this week, with two hundred and fifty men. tihould. they reach the lower river in safety, this mode ofleaving the Territory will be adopted by all, nexthe season, as it affords to the traveller a method oftransit comparatively easy, when compared with theer tedious overland journey by teams.

S Notwithstnding the widely spread rumors of d. rauding Indians and road agents, I notice, everyday,thkt single teams leave town, with four to five pae-ire sengers, bound, as they say, for "America." I cansafely prophesy that there will be a great scarcity ofskilled hands during next winter, owing to thisC. cause, and, perhaps, the main interest of Montana-lead mining-may suffer somewhat in consequence.y The real and only reliable basis of prosperity in thiste Territory is to be found in the gold and silver bear-Sing quarts, of which there is abundance, both inquantity and quality. When Eastern capital and

io labor shall be turned in this direction, and millsSerected throughout the Territory, we shall be able togive an account of ourselves that will astonish theLb world, and set Wall street crazy with the "Montana

SGold Fever." Emigrants coming into this Territoryneed not go to work in the mines, by the day; fora aet large scope of country, east of the Missouri, liesunexplored, needing only the hand of the sturdy 1prospector to develop it, and reap a rich harvest ofor the precious ore. But it is a sorry fact that ourplacer digging prospectors, after discovering a goodgulch will not go to work; but in most instancesd they "gobble" as many feet as' they can, in their vd own and fictitious names, and hold them to sell, but vnot to work, and in all cases, will demand an exorbi-[ tant price--in some instances, as much as a man canL take out of the claim. Were it not for this mal- 9

practice, hundreds of men that are now leaving theTerritory would stay here, and the consequenceswould be beneficial in their results to the commu- hnity. Goods in large quantities have been pouringt into Helena from all quarters, last week, and the1 prospect of a sufficiency is pleasant to contemplate,after a retrospective view of the scarcity of last tiyear.

t rno_._.year. VA JLWLa Oliver Co., the most energetic and persevering ofwn pioneer stage companies, have now started a lineto to Confederate and White's gulches, completing act- perfect communication with all theprincipal miningbe camps of the Territory.

The weather has been very pleasant during the pastweek, the thermometer ra'nging from seventy toninety degrees. The evenings and early morningsh are cool, insuring a pleasant night's rest to all man-e- d BUMM1tR.

of DESULPH•RjIZIG.-The following is Prof.be Ed. N. Kent's new process of desulphuriza-he tion, as reported in the New York Advertiser:"The ore is ground in the ordinary manner;then mixed with a solution of salt in water eat, to the consistency of dough; then pressed 1g in the form of bricks or slals, by any suita- ae_ ble moulds; then, being hard enough to ad retain their form, they are piled up in aiimanner similar to bricks in an ordinary brickne kiln, and a fire built beneath them. Thea

sy heat from this source, aided by the presence oth of the salt, derived from the salt water, willL, decompose the sulphurets. making sulphateof soda and chloride of the base metals, and rileaving the gold entirely free from its coin- tiis bination, so that there is nothing left to hd interfere with the ordinary process of me- e(chanical separation. A merit quite apparent atin this process is the fact that no ovens with h,3 separate fires are necessary for the desul- hiphurizing of a large amount. Nhe quantity loof ore capable of being piled up in an open wSyard, in the form of bricks, is of course un- orllimited. That the desulphurization must be in

perfect, seems to be secured by the intimate pat mixture of salt (chloride of sodium) with tothe pulverized ores. Any other method wlthan dissolving the salt in water would tahardly effect this desirable result. This TIprocess, however, like every other, must AtSstand the test of actual trial at the mines, inSwhere all the conditions necessary to suc- sticess are encountered."

in-1..ed INDIAN DIFFICULTIEs.--The Salt Lake "Telegraph" I

ty, of the 18th inst., has the following :e Some time ago a repair train of ten wagons leftLaramie, and repaired the line up to the South Pass.per After the repair was fully effected, the Indians pulleddown fve miles of the line between Sweetwater andPlatte Bridge, carned off four miles of wire, and1O; burned nearly all the poles. The repair train wasimmediately ordered back from the South pass, to egmake all good; they started, taking with them all

nd the local soldiers from South Pas, St. Mary's andli eetwater, and were shortly after followed by ag relar cavalry escort.Ia The train reached the break Wednesday morning nabout 6 o'clock. At 8 o'clock, Harry Creighton f"came in circuit" six miles this side of Platte Ef Bridge. and reported to Salt Lake City, to keep ahe sharp look out, as he would have the line repaire in

ty a few hours. Mr. Creighton stated that the Indians nwy were then all round him, watching at a distance of a aSfew mile, and that he had only about one hundred Se soldiers with him.ed Since the recipt of the above information from ily Mr. Creighton, the operators in this city have dis- Cihe covered that the line has been cut again. Mr. Carle- t

l ton supposes either that the Indiana followed the re- tC18 pair train to within sight of the fort, and then at- ditacked them, to draw out the soldiers and bring on abig ight, as they did some two months back; orthat they followed the repair train, stripping We-line as they went, as before. Iti c,•t gay. tcThe ease with which these interruptions can be w seffected by the Indians, is scarcely conceivabnle. O ne trie d.termned man can keep the line contin don, b

as he can destroy, in, day or two, that which willtake months to repair. pttake months to repair. - " wmcn wi l

es 4 TELEGRAPHING AT SIGrH.-M. Eugene God.ard, the French Imperial aeronaut, has madesome very interesting experiments in as method of telegraphing. By the aid of a Ibe single luminous point, M. Godard sends

to messages to any part of the visible horizon. Ie The experment s were tried at the Observa-te tory and in the Rue de Puteax. A lampwith a reflector was placed in the third floor

. of a house in that street, while a similarlamp was burning in the terrace of the Ob-servatory. The system is extremly simpleby means of screens, which, by concealing,e for allowing the light to eeeape, partial ortotal eclipses are produeed. The screensare either of white or red glass. The colorsr emitted and the duration of that emissiop,easue to form an alphabet aalogous to thatof words used by the usual electriot*IegrapheThe extreme simpliety of this method wouldC be especially useful for osignaling at sea in ha time of war. Two corpp d'armeeold thus f,See easl, *ammauaneate with eek other.

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SaLrame#sael .•SPizi,•. h1. 8m ci E*l•.!, bj hisdre' .bfore oe Me u. .sti-tute, decred himself agains* n--•" - adin favor of the exclusion of all (inan the

on~crash ,n , fro m theThe crh in Yellow Jacket and Uncle Sam, ye-ta, caused almost a panic among the broken, andMoat- omem s nevp. lookdI blear.In running to the Are on Tehama street, yter-day evening, some of the steam and hand enginecompani.s got into a fight and knock down. NoThe ruin of the Palie Warehouse rekindled lastevening, au unother alarm.The steamer Subrick, which weas at frst mistakenfor the Sama to, rriveu at ten o'clock let night,from the lower coeast.The Second Regiment California Voluntdee, undercommand of General Wright, has been ordered toArizona, and will depart as soon mas transportationcan be secured.Seven hnndred pamengers leave by the steamer to-mmorrow.It is understood that O'Byrne has pleaded guiltyto a part of the chaJes against him before theCourt Martial.The steamer Sacramento arrived from Panama this tmorning, with the mails and two hundred ad fiftypassengers.No celd quotations since July 22d received, but alarge demand for conversion in U. S. Bonds, andng forfeits in liquor seizure casm, caused green-aks to advance to 74@71i.

aion W•srsaN ITrxs.-An action was recently

mid entered against the California Steam Naviga-of tion Company by Orson H. Elliott, who,xt while on a trip on board the Pacific, from

of Victoria to San Francisco, was compelled bythe officers to sleep on deck without anya-. covering, his feet being frozen through they, exposure. On the 12th inst., he was award-

ed $10,000 damages,The boiler makers of San Francisco are onhisa strike.

In Carson, recently, a pigeon attacked a"e. bull dog, a fight ensuing, resulting in theis death of the warlike dove. The owner of thelatter shot and killed the dog, for which a

ad jury adjudged that he should pay $71 to theis owner of the dog.to By order of Gen. McDowell, Lieut. Col.he Ambrose Hooker is to assume the command

of the sub-district of Nevada, vice McDer-a mitt deceased. Hooker's regiment is thees 6th California Volunteer infantry. Hisly head-quarters are to he at Fort Churchill.f On the 10th inst., a fire broke out in a

building adjoining the CarylIouse, Placer-ville. Before the flames were extinguished,r which were rendered difficult, owing to the!t want of water, property was destroyed to

' the value of about $50,000.-Salt Lake Teie-. graph.

iethe rces A SINGULAR CAsE.-Some weeks since amu- highly respected young lady of this city

tin went on a visit to her friends on the Sacra-ate, mento river, above Sacramento, and whilelast there went out with a party who were run-ning about the bluffs. the weather waso very warm and the young lady becamene sufficiently heated with the exercise to pre-ng spire freely. Some of the party went Into

a boat and commenced rowing about on themat river, and while doing so they took off theirto shoes and stockings and bathed their feetan in the cool water. Our young lady friendfrom San Francisco held one of her feet inthe water so long that circulation, suddenlyof. checked, became permanently suspended,

a- and on reaching shore the limb commenced.: swelling so rapidly that she was soon unabler; to walk. She was brought to this city, ander every effort made to subdue the inflammationed but without avail. Mortification commenced,a- and yesterday it was found necessary to ito amputate the limb half way above the kneea in order to save her life. The operation,k was skillfully performed by Dr. Holman,e and the unfortunate girl is now consideredee out of danger.-Alta.

te JOHNNIE GOING HOME.-A Washington cor-d respondent says: In marked contrast to the- triumphal return of our laurel-crowned,o heroes is the homeward travel of the Rebelsoldiers. Nearly every day a few hundredit are landed here and distributed to theirh homes at the cost of the Government theyI- have been seeking to destroy. Every day tiy long lines of them reach from the ticket ra window of the Transportation office far out

on the wharf, each one with a scrap of paper Re in his hand, waiting his turn to have hise paper examined and receive a passage ticket aSto carry him further South. The papers yI which the Rebel soldiers flonrish so osten-I tatiously, are to them a sacred talisman. dis They have them ready on all occasions. it Ask'them a question, the paper is fluttered ixin your face. Railroad conductors and ctsteamboat clerks have become tired of read- cling them ; and men in gray clothes, with long hahair, and swarth complexions, may venture Oto take passage without money in their mpurses, for many months to come, so that enthey have a dingy piece of paper to produce;no ticket collector will care to examine it offclosely."- Cincinnati Times. S

as A Tiut MEMBER or THE FAMILY.*-Theto energy, determination and large amount ofall every-day practical good sense of our latend President, Abraham Lincoln, is proverbial.A short time since aloungman, aged about

ng nineteenyears, apjf'ed to Mr. J. C. Towers,on for employment in taking care of horses.

SHe represented himself to be a nephew ofour late President. Said he was withoutw means, and wanted work. He was accepteda and entered upon his duties as hostler.ad Since then it has been ascertained, that heis a veritable nephew of the illustrous Lin-i coln. He possesses those peculiar charac-- teristics of the family, and is determined-to succeed. He was in the gunboat service

t- during the late rebellion. CincinnatiPaper

Tam Bey of Tunis has announced his in-tention to send here an Envoy Extradordi.e nary to congartulate our Government on theitriumph of its arms in suppressing the re-a, bellion and to express his good will. Itwill

1 probably be General Heusin, who haswritten an admirable letter on Tunisianslavery, and will be accompanied, at thee Bey's desire, by Mr. Ames Perry, our Con-a sul at Tunis. The Bey has hadhis portraitpa painted, which, with some specimens of

d manufectures, will be sent as a present tothe President.

Tar Nevada (Cal.) Gazette says aboutP 140laborers commenced work lately near

Gold Run, excavating for the Central PacificRailroad. The company are now pushing !ahead their works with great energy, and i$the ears will be ranning as fur as Crstabl 1

tLake, a pont about nineteen miles above

ON the visit of the Captain ioenea ofCuba to our iron cs ad naval steamers,as the,. in the harbor of Havana, theMonadice honored him by Bing o ofher Ifteen-jnch gum. This sosrtled hifrom h.s;eqni*mity that he j . bk-ward and by acident spannd ka left lg.warus ateed- by th. at surgeon.

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From the~bi)ver Nbws we learn gat amovement is on foot, Ibav~ri for its jeclthe discharge of married sold'ers. The sof-fering of many of. their families is greatand the number of men so cireumstanced isnot so great as to make their detention indis-pensable.

A primary meeting was called in Denver,and similar ones throughout Colorado, forthe 29th ult., to elect delegates to a conven-tion, to meet at Denver on the 8th inst., toconsider the propriety of a State organiza-tion, esi.

W. Edward Dorris, a muoh respected citi-zen, Route Agent on the Kansas City, SantaFe and Denver Stage Line, died at Bent'sFort, on the 21st ult., from the efects of ascratch while dissecting a mule ihich hadbeen poisoned.

The Chicago Tribune's St. Paul corres-pondent informs that paper of the arrival ofthe lot of six dogs for hunting the Indians.An atgent is purchasing more of them downSo.th.

The Miner's Register says that CarlosSmith and Henry Glover, of Denver, andSommers, of Mountain City, were waylaidand killed by Indiana, in Arizona, with theexception ef Glover,who was badly wounded.Joel C. Wood, of Denver, was accidentallyshot while out hunting. John P. Myers,proprietor of the Everett House, BlackHawk, was killed by. the bursting of his gun.

New Zealand papers speak discourage-ingly of the prospects for the termination ofthe war. Rev. Mr. Volkner, German mis-sionary, was murdered, his brains taken

out, cooked and eaten by the New Zealandsavages.savages.

In a Court over in Washoe. a juror wasasked if he was in favor of or opposedto capital punishment. Here is his reply:"Well, Judge, you, see before I left eAtlantic Statee, I was always opposed to cap-ital punishment; but since my arrival onthe Pacific slope, my mind has undergone aslight change, and I am now decidedly infavor of the experiment of hanging."

The Denver News says that sixteen yearsago this July, Lieut.-Gen. Grant was miningfor gold or the North Fork of the Americarriver, California. He, dressed in blue flan-nel shirt and coarse miner's rig, laboredaway for about two years, literally earninghis bread by the sweat of his brow. He wasnot successful, however.

We learn by a dispatch from Placerville,Aug. 11th, that a tremendous fire occurredthere, supposed to be the work of an incen-diary. The loss foots up about $37,000.

THs grave of the mother of our late Pres-ident is located in Spencer County, Indiana,near the little village of Gentryville, em-bowered amid the majestic forest trees ofthe country. There is neither headstonenor monument to denote the sacred spot,and the place where the remains lie buriedis an unfrequented locality, or comparativelyso. A short time before his death, Mr.Lincoln wrote a letter expressing his inten-tion to visit the grave this summer and causea suitable monument to be erected; and inthis letter (to an old friend) he expressedthe regret that the business cares of life hadso long compelled him to postpone his duty.

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Bridger's crossing of the Yellowstone, below the kanyon,is within the distance of ninety miles of this city, and notto exceed thirty beyond the already partially settled valleyof the Gallatin. Our citizens know but little concerningthe Yellowstone; but those who have visited it, and saileddown it, concur in the opinion that, as a whole, the valleythrough which it passe. i the riehest and most extensiveon this part of the continent. From all accounts, com-mencing with that of Lewis and Clarke, who descendedthe river in boats, from a point near Bridger's Crossing, toits mouth, more than sixty years ago, the navigation ofthe Yellowstone is almost entirely unobstructed for thewhole distance of 850 miles, to its junctioa with the Missouri.For the benefit of those persons who contemplate goingEast in the flee! of Mackinaw boats, now building atBridger's Crossing, we transcribe the following generalaccount of the river from Lewis and Clarke's Travels:.'The Rochejaune, or Yellowstone river. during its wholecourse from the point at which Captain Clarke reached it,to the Missaouri, a distance which he computed at 837 miles,is large and navigable for pirogues. and even batteaux,there being none of the moving sand bars which impedethe navigation of the Missouri ; and only a single ledge ofrocks, which, however, is not difficult to pass. Even Itstributary waters, the Big Horn, C('larke's Fork and TongueRiver, may be ascended in boats for a considerable distance.The banks of the river are low, but bold, and nowheresubject to be overflowed, except for a short distance belowthe mountains. The Predominating color of the river is ayellowish-brown that of the Missouri, which possessemore mud, is of a deep drab color, the bed of the formerbeing chiefly composed of loose pebble, which, however,diminish in size in descending the river, till after passingthe Lazeka. The pebbles cease as the river widens, a-dthe mud and sand continue to form the greater part of thebottom. Over these, the water flows with a velocity,constantly and almost equally decreasing, in proportion toits distance from the mountains. From the mountains toClarke's Fork, the current may be estimated at four and a Ihal• miles an hour; thence, as low as the Big tHorn, t three , "and a half miles; between that and the Lazeka, at threemiles; and from that riverto the Wolf apid, at twoand ethree quarter miles; from which, to its entrance, the gen-3era1 rapidity is two miles per hour. The appesanee madcharaecter of the eountry present nearly similar varieties offertile, rich, open lan. Above Clarke's Fork, it comistsof high, waving plains, bordered by stony hills, partiallysupplied with pine. The middle portion, as low as the •Buffalo Shoals. contains less timber, and the number dim-•inishes still lower, where the river widens, and the country -spreads itself into etensiveplains." oie spreads itself into extensive plains." w' - `` uunwySA more de•lghtful trip than that which will be afforded

of y the MackiMnaw fleet, down this beautiful river aette month, it would be diflcult to imagine. In ontrt with

i. the louf. tedious laborious and monotonou journey acrssthe plains, it certainly possesses charms more than corn-it pensatory for any supposed difference in the risk of life, by9 exposureto theIndians, especially when it is considered 1that none of the dl ect ruotes to the States are free from)dS. this danger. Alm,• ever =mal, despite the.. le n mn y)f under acmrmad of en. Conner, bringsu insuigelise eof

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oors and afford accommodation, for s _- or eight hundredIpsengers. The boats will be protected by double gun-

wales of two Inch plank, rendering tha patially imper- Ivious to bullets, and entirely so to an arrow. Port hoesIwill be mede between the gunwale and the covering orroleSof the boat, through which a defense can be made roihe comparative safety to the passenger; and over all Will be >a rof or covering, composed of double thicknesses of pLaslaced at an be l=which will resist arrows aloether, sad Iboard fi~s red is early eadty H.ol All o alc nwarith p me protected by this roof Each boatis providedwithapump. A skillful p-ot-, who h descended theYellowstone eight or ten times, amnd is cquinted withSalmost every stone in its channel, ,has been employed toconduct the fleet. He is, moreover, on fil t•es with1 the Sioux, sad inaso. of dilt 7, could priiably nego--aieya n advance of a ctu ld hstHite, le is to beban exqerleeaed guide, wh, last year oondnctI 8ully's army on its march up the Missouri. Tyesr, idedSwhile passin throg g the Indliaeonntry, its the uitentic.ralem m v•lboth night ad day; and with

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