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

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THE MONTANA POST. THOS. J. DIMSDALE, EDITOR. Saturday,..... . . Aug. 26, 1 en5. N~rsc.-For the information of the public, we beg to state that H. M. BinyArr is the traveling Agent for the " Montana Post," and is authorised to solicit subscriptions; to obtain qrders for job work, and.to collect and receipt, for all moneys due to this oeffice. TIHE arONTAWA POST---voL. 2, N. 1. The present issue of the Post inaugurates .the commencement of the second year of its existence as the pioneer newspaper of the .Territory. The present proprietors pur- chased the stock in trade of Mr. John Buchanan, and commenced the publication with the third number. From that time to the present, it has been their constant care, and our own also, to improve the paper in every way, so as to make it worthy of its i mission, and creditable to Montana. How far we have succeeded it is for others to judge; but of the efforts required to sustain it, in a land so remote from the ordinary source of the supply of material and current news-few, besides those actually engaged in the work,can have any idea. Snow capped mountains, rugged defiles, and swollen streams are placed between us and the near- est point of telegraphic communication with the States, for half a year, and when we read of the troubles and difficulties of those who have onl7 heard of these things, we cannot help smiling; for we of Virginia think we are all right when we get that far on our way during a winter trip to the East, leavin.- the dreaded show clad "Divide," and Snake river, behind us. While our paper has been enlarged in size to a consid- erable extent; the amount of reading mat- ter has been very greatly increased, and we hope that in quality, as well as in quantity, the public will see that extended facilities have been met by increased exertion. Of , our new stone Printing Office, Job Press and I supply of material, we have before spoken, and thus mechanically reinforced, we intend that no effort on our part shall be spared, in c the future, to augment the interest and value C of each succeedine number. Looking around us, we see on every side the evidences of progress and prosperity. The appearance of our city is so much im- proved, that persons who have been absent from it only a year, scarcely recognize it. Two churches, a well regulated municipal Government,a permanent Court Room, many stone buildings, an excellent svstem of Water-Works, a n,,ble Masonic Ha'll, organ- ized society, and a sense of peace and secu_ rity, are among the new vouchers for our welfare. In the Territory, a great advance 1 has been made in securing the navigation of the Missouri, thus giving us another com- l mercial highway to the States; and a wagon I road to Iowa has been commenced. In mining, the prospects are cheering. Last r Chance and its net-work of gulches, and t Helena, a mountain city, are not vet of a year's growth. Blackfoot, White's, Con- t federate, French, McClellan, Washington, Montana, the placers around Silver Bow, and r many other gulches, are at full work, with t thriving towns either built, or in course of b erection, in their vicinity. Quartz lodes, in numbers sufficient to paper a large house with the certificates of pre-emption, have 0 been discovered, hundreds of them as rich as, tl or richer than, anything ever before known. w That we have plenty of coal in various parts T of the country, we know; and that iron, lead, copper and quicksilver are there in a quantity, we are likewise assured. Allover m our country,ranchmen are settling in crowds, tl and, even this year, the amount of grain ti and vegetables raised is very large and im- portant. Steady family emigration is arriv- re ill, .- A - L_ portant. Steady family emigration is arriv- ing, and we are happy to know, for their sakes, that our first school tax is levied, and will soon be collected. One Legislature has lived and died, doing, as is usual in Territories, a considerable amount of good and a great deal of evil. Quartz mills,. crushers, and a great many machines of different kinds, are arriving constantly. Daily lines of communication are opened by stage cornpanies, and we think hat there never was a place so far from at settled country, or the ocean, where so much has been done in so short a time. Troops for our protection are rapidly marching towards us; a convoy for treasure will be shortly established, and, unless the people of Montana are so foolish as to com- mit political suicide at the next election, we know of nothing that can prevent a career of prosperity such as never before the sun shone down upon. Our principles we feel to bebnchangeable. t We love our whole country; we are jealous of its honor, and we are al to its tradi- 8 tions and Government. Every day sees c accessions to the ranks of those who think p with us; and those who will not agree with t us, know that they cannot answer our argu- n aent-. Throwing aside partizan politics, r without giving at foot of ground where prin.- a ciple is concerned, we have labored for the t' good of the people, giving all men fair play : acting invariably with charity to all, and with malice toward none. Making our sal- A utation to our patrons, we hope for them N, and for ourselves a prosperous year, and y fully resolved to do our whole duty as the representatives of the Press in this Territory, P we eommence our task. f' NOTICE To EDITORS.--For the information of our brethren (of the Press, we beg leave to observe that Montana is not Idaho, and we should be obliged by their crediting Fights, Stage Robberies, Arson, etc., to their proper localities. When they getup a good Vigilance Committee over the mountains, or are 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 our own folks, bet with theirs. We are also informed that we have driven out Chinanmen; but as there are only six, we believe, in the Territoy, and they answer regularly at chopstick time, the announcement is premaO- tore. The snow must blind the eyes of the Nevada folks,for, with them, Idaheis always Tis Oity of the Saints is is a state of eo-motion and excitement at the aeting of M Jlia Dan IHyne. The lady stands 4at 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 before the citisens. As it contains the name of no man unfit for his position, and as we we believe that the County would be benefitted 4 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 and well informed gentleman, who would do credit to the choice of the people as Probate es Judge. William P. Wheeler the candidate ta for the Recordership, is of good repute le for honesty, and capability as a business r- man. James Williams and his character in 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 for n a continuance of it. John Vanderbilt is qn a honest man, and well informed on the points w necessary to be known by a County Assessor. 0 John L. Corbett is a well educated, practical a engineer and surveyor, who knows his trade, Y and is an estimable citizen. 0. B. Whitford it 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 proper man for School Superintendent-a most im- h portant office, with little pay and much work. e The nominees for County Commissioners e are John Potter-of whom all that know e him say: "John Potter is a good man;" C. C. Housel is an experienced and thoroughly r upright business man, with a stake in the country, and a good citizen. William A. Shroyer is an energetic, practical man, who I r knows all about Madison county and its wants, and would represent the miners with credit to himself and with advantage to them. Conrad Weary, the banker, is just L the man, of exact business habits and com- mercial squareness of dealing, to be Sealer t of Weights and Measures, and we opine that g be would earn his money. 0. F. Strickland ti is well qualified for the position he has held n as Probate Judge. His professional knowl- t edge, together with his fair and impartial decisions, 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 past ty. conduct among us, to believe that they will n- fill their offices satisfactorily, and justify the confidence of the electors. We hope that t the voters of Madison will take their own it. business into their own hands, and refuse to pal follow pernicious party precedents, by elect- I yv 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 I of continued as a serial in every issue of the t n- Post, to the end of the work. The labor of in preparing such a record of fact is very great, t In the utmost care and circumspection being i st necessary to avoid error. The author's de- b id termination has been to lay fancy aside, and r a to produce fact, trusting that the genuine k ," and unbiassed statement of events as they h d really occurred will find greater favor with o h the public than a more highly sensational, d f but less veracious story. 01 e We are the more established in this bi e opinion, by an inspection of a work called in q, the "Banditti of the Rocky Mountains," in which is compiled on the opposite principle. I e There is no more similarity between the pi n scenes described and those enacted in these of r mountains, than is just sufficient to permit " , the use of familiar names whereby to gull pe u the public. The disgust we have felt at mi _ reading this vulgar fable has only stregth- th ened us in our purpose to put a tight curb ha on imagination and to adhere strictly to pi fact. Our narrative will be interesting set enough we trust without any admixture of wl falsehoods. cei 'gY Fox OLD BATCHELOR--We have received 0on a very long letter, dated at Diamond City 1 nk from.which we learn that the claims worked at in Montana Gulch pay from $20 to $50 per ch 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. Mining he tools are dear-picks, from $10 to $15, and n shovels from $8 to $10. Buildings are going er up at the rate of eight or ten a day, and a in company is bringing in water by a new ditch. The principal drawbaek is the high price of e. tools, which hinders prospecting, both in the us gulch and in quartz, of which there isplenty i- around. The suicidal plan of holding many s claims, which will neither be sold at a fair 1k price nor worked by the owners, is practiced h there as well as elsewhere, and eventually .- must be put a stop to by legislation. The a, rest of the letter being a detail of personal 1- 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 the n Mackinaw fleet, bound for the States by the Yellowstone route, will be found in another place. In the matter of a selection of routes for home we cannot consistently advocate any line, by land or water, to the exclusion of all others. If the shoals and the Indians e can be safely passed, the boat route will be both short as to time, and delightful as to accompaniments. On the other hand, if the r stock is lively, the wagon sound, and the I Sioux are not on the ground, the trip by rwagon 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 and rough roads, is, "In all these things be ye fully persuaded in your own minds.' n; Mas. ELIZABH GANT writesto the Mayor < he of this City, from Soda Springs, under date at the 24th inst., asking that enquiry may be made, and information obtained concerning j her husband Benton Grant. The lady has t started West before the expiration of the ' tfime named for as return to his home in Davis Co. MissouiL be is going to Olympia Washington Territn y, where any letters may. be addressed, Her brother, Walter y Linasey, I with hbhdabId, andLisaseyre i wiie with one child is is compsay with M. rs ra t.' ' PplIe's Tick e--a4Ilm Ceutyp. rt Deleate tjo u A $. UPSON. ror Prot•'ote J d C . ALD'N. For County C -WILLIAt P. WZEELER. For bericr--JAMI WILLIAMS. For County Treurer-THEOPHILUS MUFFLY. For County Aemoer-JOHN VANDERBILT. For County Surveyor-JOHN L. CORBEITT. For Coroner-O. B. WHITFORD. _For uperiendnt of Common Schools-A. M. BOUGH. For County Commissioner--JOHN POTTER, CHARLES C. HOUSEL, WM. A. SHROYER. For Sealer of Weithts and Memure-OON1RAD WEARY. For District Attorney-OBED F. STRICKLAND. Letter from Helema. ess U•U•iA, Aug. 22d, 1865. ter Eu. Poer :--Since my last, our town, mpecialy the lower part of it, has presented a lively appear- )as ance. Buildings of better style than those of six i$ 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 and or building, is slack, the mines not having yet com- menced to lay in their winter's suppl,. and I am n afraid that they will not do so, until goods of all on kinds take a rise of fifty per cent. A large number of miners are making preparations for a visit to their or. homes. The several Mackinaw Boat Companies are al 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 and the shelter aforded by the boats. Sprague a Co.' r eet of si ball proof boats will leave Fort Benton ge this week, with two hundred and fifty men. tihould . they reach the lower river in safety, this mode of leaving the Territory will be adopted by all, next he season, as it affords to the traveller a method of transit comparatively easy, when compared with the er 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 can safely prophesy that there will be a great scarcity of skilled hands during next winter, owing to this C. 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 this te Territory is to be found in the gold and silver bear- Sing quarts, of which there is abundance, both in quantity and quality. When Eastern capital and io labor shall be turned in this direction, and mills Serected throughout the Territory, we shall be able to give an account of ourselves that will astonish the Lb world, and set Wall street crazy with the "Montana SGold Fever." Emigrants coming into this Territory need not go to work in the mines, by the day; fora a et large scope of country, east of the Missouri, lies unexplored, needing only the hand of the sturdy 1 prospector to develop it, and reap a rich harvest of or the precious ore. But it is a sorry fact that our placer digging prospectors, after discovering a good gulch will not go to work; but in most instances d they "gobble" as many feet as' they can, in their v d own and fictitious names, and hold them to sell, but v not to work, and in all cases, will demand an exorbi- [ tant price--in some instances, as much as a man can L take out of the claim. Were it not for this mal- 9 practice, hundreds of men that are now leaving the Territory would stay here, and the consequences would be beneficial in their results to the commu- h nity. Goods in large quantities have been pouring t into Helena from all quarters, last week, and the 1 prospect of a sufficiency is pleasant to contemplate, after a retrospective view of the scarcity of last ti year. t rno_._. year. VA JLWL a Oliver Co., the most energetic and persevering of wn pioneer stage companies, have now started a line to to Confederate and White's gulches, completing a ct- perfect communication with all theprincipal mining be camps of the Territory. The weather has been very pleasant during the past week, the thermometer ra'nging from seventy to ninety degrees. The evenings and early mornings h 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 e at, to the consistency of dough; then pressed 1 g in the form of bricks or slals, by any suita- a e_ ble moulds; then, being hard enough to a d retain their form, they are piled up in aii manner similar to bricks in an ordinary brick ne kiln, and a fire built beneath them. Thea sy heat from this source, aided by the presence o th of the salt, derived from the salt water, will L, decompose the sulphurets. making sulphate of soda and chloride of the base metals, and ri leaving the gold entirely free from its coin- ti is bination, so that there is nothing left to h d interfere with the ordinary process of me- e( chanical separation. A merit quite apparent at in this process is the fact that no ovens with h, 3 separate fires are necessary for the desul- hi phurizing of a large amount. Nhe quantity lo of ore capable of being piled up in an open w Syard, in the form of bricks, is of course un- or llimited. That the desulphurization must be in perfect, seems to be secured by the intimate pa t mixture of salt (chloride of sodium) with to the pulverized ores. Any other method wl than dissolving the salt in water would ta hardly effect this desirable result. This TI process, however, like every other, must At Sstand the test of actual trial at the mines, in Swhere all the conditions necessary to suc- sti cess 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 left Laramie, and repaired the line up to the South Pass. per After the repair was fully effected, the Indians pulled down fve miles of the line between Sweetwater and Platte Bridge, carned off four miles of wire, and 1O; burned nearly all the poles. The repair train was immediately ordered back from the South pass, to e gmake all good; they started, taking with them all nd the local soldiers from South Pas, St. Mary's and li eetwater, and were shortly after followed by a g relar cavalry escort. Ia The train reached the break Wednesday morning n about 6 o'clock. At 8 o'clock, Harry Creighton f "came in circuit" six miles this side of Platte E f Bridge. and reported to Salt Lake City, to keep a he sharp look out, as he would have the line repaire in ty a few hours. Mr. Creighton stated that the Indians n wy were then all round him, watching at a distance of a a Sfew mile, and that he had only about one hundred S e soldiers with him. ed Since the recipt of the above information from i ly Mr. Creighton, the operators in this city have dis- Ci he covered that the line has been cut again. Mr. Carle- t l ton supposes either that the Indiana followed the re- tC 18 pair train to within sight of the fort, and then at- di tacked them, to draw out the soldiers and bring on a big ight, as they did some two months back; or that they followed the repair train, stripping We - line as they went, as before. Iti c,•t gay. tc The ease with which these interruptions can be w s effected by the Indians, is scarcely conceivabnle. O ne tr ie d.termned man can keep the line contin don, b as he can destroy, in, day or two, that which will take months to repair. pt take months to repair. - " wmcn wi l es 4 TELEGRAPHING AT SIGrH.-M. Eugene God. ard, the French Imperial aeronaut, has made some very interesting experiments in a s method of telegraphing. By the aid of a I be single luminous point, M. Godard sends to messages to any part of the visible horizon. I e The experment s were tried at the Observa- te tory and in the Rue de Puteax. A lamp with a reflector was placed in the third floor . of a house in that street, while a similar lamp was burning in the terrace of the Ob- servatory. The system is extremly simple by means of screens, which, by concealing ,e for allowing the light to eeeape, partial or total eclipses are produeed. The screens are either of white or red glass. The colors r emitted and the duration of that emissiop, easue to form an alphabet aalogous to that of words used by the usual electriot*Iegraphe The extreme simpliety of this method would C be especially useful for osignaling at sea in h a time of war. Two corpp d'armeeold thus f, See easl, *ammauaneate with eek other. M rolk. IWa ina tam.e t S > Sa....... .. I isar A. Vms ha toi Ay t lI ea Asp . la hEam rWsi s... fhiss -' i- SaLrame#sael .• SPizi,•. h1. 8m ci E*l• .!, bj hisdre' .bfore oe Me u. .sti- tute, decred himself agains* n--•" - ad in favor of the exclusion of all (inan the on~crash ,n , fro m the The crh in Yellow Jacket and Uncle Sam, ye- ta, caused almost a panic among the broken, and Moat- omem s nevp. lookdI blear. In running to the Are on Tehama street, yter- day evening, some of the steam and hand engine compani.s got into a fight and knock down. No The ruin of the Palie Warehouse rekindled last evening, au unother alarm. The steamer Subrick, which weas at frst mistaken for the Sama to, rriveu at ten o'clock let night, from the lower coeast. The Second Regiment California Voluntdee, under command of General Wright, has been ordered to Arizona, and will depart as soon mas transportation can be secured. Seven hnndred pamengers leave by the steamer to-m morrow. It is understood that O'Byrne has pleaded guilty to a part of the chaJes against him before the Court Martial. The steamer Sacramento arrived from Panama this t morning, with the mails and two hundred ad fifty passengers. No celd quotations since July 22d received, but a large demand for conversion in U. S. Bonds, and ng forfeits in liquor seizure casm, caused green- aks to advance to 74@71i. a ion 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 by the officers to sleep on deck without any a-. covering, his feet being frozen through the y, exposure. On the 12th inst., he was award- ed $10,000 damages, The boiler makers of San Francisco are on hisa strike. In Carson, recently, a pigeon attacked a "e. bull dog, a fight ensuing, resulting in the is death of the warlike dove. The owner of the latter shot and killed the dog, for which a ad jury adjudged that he should pay $71 to the is 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 the es 6th California Volunteer infantry. His ly 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. ie the rces A SINGULAR CAsE.-Some weeks since a mu- highly respected young lady of this city tin went on a visit to her friends on the Sacra- ate, mento river, above Sacramento, and while last there went out with a party who were run- ning about the bluffs. the weather was o very warm and the young lady became ne sufficiently heated with the exercise to pre- ng spire freely. Some of the party went Into a boat and commenced rowing about on the mat river, and while doing so they took off their to shoes and stockings and bathed their feet an in the cool water. Our young lady friend from San Francisco held one of her feet in the water so long that circulation, suddenly of. checked, became permanently suspended, a- and on reaching shore the limb commenced .: swelling so rapidly that she was soon unable r; to walk. She was brought to this city, and er every effort made to subdue the inflammation ed but without avail. Mortification commenced, a- and yesterday it was found necessary to i to amputate the limb half way above the knee a in order to save her life. The operation ,k was skillfully performed by Dr. Holman, e and the unfortunate girl is now considered ee 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 Rebel soldiers. Nearly every day a few hundred it are landed here and distributed to their h homes at the cost of the Government they I- have been seeking to destroy. Every day ti y long lines of them reach from the ticket r a window of the Transportation office far out on the wharf, each one with a scrap of paper R e in his hand, waiting his turn to have his e paper examined and receive a passage ticket a Sto carry him further South. The papers y I which the Rebel soldiers flonrish so osten- I tatiously, are to them a sacred talisman. di s They have them ready on all occasions. i t Ask'them a question, the paper is fluttered ix in your face. Railroad conductors and ct steamboat clerks have become tired of read- cl ing them ; and men in gray clothes, with long ha hair, and swarth complexions, may venture O to take passage without money in their m purses, for many months to come, so that en they have a dingy piece of paper to produce; no ticket collector will care to examine it off closely."- Cincinnati Times. S as A Tiut MEMBER or THE FAMILY.*-The to energy, determination and large amount of all every-day practical good sense of our late nd 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 of our late President. Said he was without w means, and wanted work. He was accepted a and entered upon his duties as hostler. ad Since then it has been ascertained, that he is 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 the itriumph of its arms in suppressing the re- a, bellion and to express his good will. Itwill 1 probably be General Heusin, who has written an admirable letter on Tunisian slavery, and will be accompanied, at the e Bey's desire, by Mr. Ames Perry, our Con- a sul at Tunis. The Bey has hadhis portraitp a painted, which, with some specimens of d manufectures, will be sent as a present to the President. Tar Nevada (Cal.) Gazette says about P 140laborers commenced work lately near Gold Run, excavating for the Central Pacific Railroad. 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 of Cuba to our iron cs ad naval steamers, as the,. in the harbor of Havana, the Monadice honored him by Bing o of her Ifteen-jnch gum. This sosrtled hi from h.s;eqni*mity that he j . bk- ward and by acident spannd ka left lg. warus ateed- by th. at surgeon. lvlauAlb an .TauJ.. f er - a. nt Ise fiufrom waUl, Tku an lsbors'g He W BIIY jjSW Oi.bt W t x# 4 l fll~klr~i~ apc~;~~P4-;6~-I~ From the~bi)ver Nbws we learn gat a movement is on foot, Ibav~ri for its jecl the discharge of married sold'ers. The sof- fering of many of. their families is great and the number of men so cireumstanced is not so great as to make their detention indis- pensable. A primary meeting was called in Denver, and similar ones throughout Colorado, for the 29th ult., to elect delegates to a conven- tion, to meet at Denver on the 8th inst., to consider the propriety of a State organiza- tion, esi. W. Edward Dorris, a muoh respected citi- zen, Route Agent on the Kansas City, Santa Fe and Denver Stage Line, died at Bent's Fort, on the 21st ult., from the efects of a scratch while dissecting a mule ihich had been poisoned. The Chicago Tribune's St. Paul corres- pondent informs that paper of the arrival of the lot of six dogs for hunting the Indians. An atgent is purchasing more of them down So.th. The Miner's Register says that Carlos Smith and Henry Glover, of Denver, and Sommers, of Mountain City, were waylaid and killed by Indiana, in Arizona, with the exception ef Glover,who was badly wounded. Joel C. Wood, of Denver, was accidentally shot while out hunting. John P. Myers, proprietor of the Everett House, Black Hawk, was killed by. the bursting of his gun. New Zealand papers speak discourage- ingly of the prospects for the termination of the war. Rev. Mr. Volkner, German mis- sionary, was murdered, his brains taken out, cooked and eaten by the New Zealand savages. savages. In a Court over in Washoe. a juror was asked if he was in favor of or opposed to capital punishment. Here is his reply: "Well, Judge, you, see before I left e Atlantic Statee, I was always opposed to cap- ital punishment; but since my arrival on the Pacific slope, my mind has undergone a slight change, and I am now decidedly in favor of the experiment of hanging." The Denver News says that sixteen years ago this July, Lieut.-Gen. Grant was mining for gold or the North Fork of the Americar river, California. He, dressed in blue flan- nel shirt and coarse miner's rig, labored away for about two years, literally earning his bread by the sweat of his brow. He was not successful, however. We learn by a dispatch from Placerville, Aug. 11th, that a tremendous fire occurred there, 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 of the country. There is neither headstone nor monument to denote the sacred spot, and the place where the remains lie buried is an unfrequented locality, or comparatively so. A short time before his death, Mr. Lincoln wrote a letter expressing his inten- tion to visit the grave this summer and cause a suitable monument to be erected; and in this letter (to an old friend) he expressed the regret that the business cares of life had so long compelled him to postpone his duty. [Advertisement.] Boat ExpedIogta. Bridger's crossing of the Yellowstone, below the kanyon, is within the distance of ninety miles of this city, and not to exceed thirty beyond the already partially settled valley of the Gallatin. Our citizens know but little concerning the Yellowstone; but those who have visited it, and sailed down it, concur in the opinion that, as a whole, the valley through which it passe. i the riehest and most extensive on this part of the continent. From all accounts, com- mencing with that of Lewis and Clarke, who descended the river in boats, from a point near Bridger's Crossing, to its mouth, more than sixty years ago, the navigation of the Yellowstone is almost entirely unobstructed for the whole distance of 850 miles, to its junctioa with the Missouri. For the benefit of those persons who contemplate going East in the flee! of Mackinaw boats, now building at Bridger's Crossing, we transcribe the following general account of the river from Lewis and Clarke's Travels: .'The Rochejaune, or Yellowstone river. during its whole course 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 impede the navigation of the Missouri ; and only a single ledge of rocks, which, however, is not difficult to pass. Even Its tributary waters, the Big Horn, C('larke's Fork and Tongue River, may be ascended in boats for a considerable distance. The banks of the river are low, but bold, and nowhere subject to be overflowed, except for a short distance below the mountains. The Predominating color of the river is a yellowish-brown that of the Missouri, which possesse more mud, is of a deep drab color, the bed of the former being chiefly composed of loose pebble, which, however, diminish in size in descending the river, till after passing the Lazeka. The pebbles cease as the river widens, a-d the mud and sand continue to form the greater part of the bottom. Over these, the water flows with a velocity, constantly and almost equally decreasing, in proportion to its distance from the mountains. From the mountains to Clarke's Fork, the current may be estimated at four and a I hal• miles an hour; thence, as low as the Big tHorn, t three , " and a half miles; between that and the Lazeka, at three miles; and from that riverto the Wolf apid, at twoand e three quarter miles; from which, to its entrance, the gen-3 era1 rapidity is two miles per hour. The appesanee mad charaecter of the eountry present nearly similar varieties of fertile, rich, open lan. Above Clarke's Fork, it comists of high, waving plains, bordered by stony hills, partially supplied 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." o ie spreads itself into extensive plains." w' - `` uunwy SA more de•lghtful trip than that which will be afforded of y the MackiMnaw fleet, down this beautiful river aet te month, it would be diflcult to imagine. In ontrt with i. the louf. tedious laborious and monotonou journey acrss the plains, it certainly possesses charms more than corn- it pensatory for any supposed difference in the risk of life, by 9 exposureto theIndians, especially when it is considered 1 that none of the dl ect ruotes to the States are free from)d S. this danger. Alm,• ever =mal, despite the.. le n mn y )f under acmrmad of en. Conner, bringsu insuigelise eof lt attacks upon trains, and the murder• of ants ct f l. o greater r'it , certainly, a be irr b.,st. T.hxe feet will consis of thirt •., .z=- . y or ;botseach r. thirty-six feet in length by eight f.et in.br•w,,t•, good , oors and afford accommodation, for s _- or eight hundredI psengers. The boats will be protected by double gun- wales of two Inch plank, rendering tha patially imper- I vious to bullets, and entirely so to an arrow. Port hoesI will be mede between the gunwale and the covering orrole Sof the boat, through which a defense can be made roih e comparative safety to the passenger; and over all Will be > a rof or covering, composed of double thicknesses of pLa slaced at an be l=which will resist arrows aloether, sad I board fi~s red is early eadty H.ol All o alc n warith p me protected by this roof Each boatis provided withapump. A skillful p-ot-, who h descended the Yellowstone eight or ten times, amnd is cquinted with Salmost every stone in its channel, ,has been employed to conduct the fleet. He is, moreover, on fil t•es with 1 the Sioux, sad inaso. of dilt 7 , could priiably nego- -aieya n advance of a ctu ld hstHite, le is to be ban exqerleeaed guide, wh, last year oondnct I 8ully's army on its march up the Missouri. Tyesr, ided Swhile passin throg g the Indliaeonntry, its the uitentic. ralem m v•lboth night ad day; and with such power as six or eihr t oarsmen in each boat can affo dm 81i t itt Isalclatd that aspeed cue be aJned aveeas~hug 8i ten to fifteen miles per hourthus cos av g, Si trip h 01 81 Bridger's Crosing to the Missouri in uror ix da Si SA single point only on thel Missouri, below the Yellow- 8 stue, I- rm edas at all dangeros, Thatisithe 81 As theeri of or tlathrebdsad miles below. Si Sthem o i part of the route is wide and deep, nd an te ey Howty in s of daet, hr bots f itseas 'I employed b y the expediti , to il he steamboat hm Ti ee t danger can be"rty statP ,,eatiy T .overcome, by shunning either snore, andvt epn as y Ti hmidde of the stream as p.de. The Id camp t i is ,eaposd o Ou Vet es, who are tirely T w y. 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Page 1: Montana post (Virginia City, Mont.) 1865-08-26 [p ] · THE MONTANA POST. THOS. J. DIMSDALE, EDITOR. Saturday,..... . .Aug. 26, 1 en5. N~rsc.-For the information of the public, we

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.' '

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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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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.

[Advertisement.]Boat ExpedIogta.

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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