The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1866-09-01

ers, form in line for their mail matter,
they are subjected to the rays of the sun,
pouring down upon them in a way that
must be felt to be appreciated.
No cases of sun-stroke have occurred
selves to any circumstances, they will,
perhaps, come to like even this.
The building is more convenient for
the insiders and employees than the old
one, having better supply of light, and
in this respect alone, as far as can. see,
is an improvement. .r.
The great sensation connected with
mining has been the arrival of 2200fbs
of dust from Montana Bar, the fame of
which has reached you ere this saw
the three fortunate owners of this mag
nifcent pile, and have also seen more
than three who have sought long and
diligently for riches in the bowels of the
earth without success. Such great strikes
doubtless stimulate many faltering
heart to further exertion in hopes of sim
liar good fortune. But here, as else
where, the rule holds good, success is
for the few, disappointment for the many
What do you think of prize fighting?
Every one saysit is brutal. Well, so it is.
But there must be much that is brutal in
the best of us, for l observe it is very
hard to see fight going on without be-
coming interested in it, or at least max
ing very strenuous efforts to see the end
as well as the beginning.
We have had one of those encounters
scientific they are called by those who
| favor them-and the result was that two
stalwart fellows bruised and disfgured
each other considerably, and the big man,
whom we, the uninitiated, thought the
the better man, lost the fight by foul
blow. All seemed pleased until it was
suggested by some of the knowing ones,
that the whole affair was pre-arranged,
and that the gate money was divided
among those interested, this being the
only money that changed hands. But
it was consolation to think that those
who endured such beating for money
must have had the worst of the bargain
! A Democratic ratification meeting is
the next thing in order of time, and de
serves less comment even than the fight
The weather was unfavorable, the crowd
small and unsympathetic, and the speak.
ing not good.
One of the orators was hooted away
from the stand, although he told them
he was an " old line Democrat" and of
fered to say anything they wished, il
they would only tell him what that was
Another should be indicted for mayhem
by the next grand jury, for he inflicted
severe wounds upon our mother tongue
with every sentence he uttered. The
burden of the song was something about
a Legislature, which horrid Radica
judge had pronounced not a Legislature
and something about swallowing Andy
Johnson boots and all. You know the
rest. Indeed, met a person who gave me
an accurate account of the whole affail
without having been near the meeting
The complaint in the Posi- against the
temple of Terpischore in your city, will
apply to the similar pest houses here
What we need more than anything elst
at present, is a thorough and vigorous
police Disorderly conduct, riot anC
breach of the peace are too common ant
it is time that decent people have some
respect paid to their rights. A night.
rest undisturbed by drunken brawlt
would be very agreeable novelty.
One branch of business must be goot
here-the sale of horses at auction. Oul
auctioneers seem to have sold all tn,
horses in creation, and still keep sellins
more horses Pedestrians have no rights
either in the street or on the sidewalk
one would think from the wild way ou
Jockeys speed along. Something ough
to be done to stop this, or at least rende
travelling less dangerous.
The telegraph brings us the report o
what the Philadelphia Convention ha
done, and we feel an interest in nationa
politics, even here among the mountains
! Messrs. Doolittle and Raymond have, b,
the good natured concession of Fernando
Wood and Vallandigham, attained tn
bad eminence of chief actors in thi
strange movement. Viewed as Repuh
lican measure, it is a concession to tn
prejudices of the enemies of the country
policy which has been tried again an,
, again, and never with any other thai
. evil results. AS q Democratic measure
lit has some significance, and shows tn
, usual shrewdness of that party's leaders
; With them, it is the first step towar
undoing the few good acts of the lat
, patriotic, but often indiscreet, Congress:
: The principle set forth in the resolution
! that no State can 60 out of the Union
| nor can representation be denied to an
r State, is specious but will deceive non
, but those who wish to be deceived. Pet
, pie who cannot exactly point out tn
policy of such a doctrine, feel well enOug
! that it is false, and the few respectabl
: names connected with the Philadelphi
3 movement will not reconcile them to th
absurdity.
e Mr.. Lincoln completely exposed til
g doctrine of Popular Sovereignty ty-whic
r in its day was an equally great stumblin
a block-by showing it to mean that :"
{ A. wishes to enslave B., C. has no rigl
to object" The reductio 0d absurdam
the. new dogma is equally easy, and
this: Granting it to be true, it follow
that any portion of our citizens, provide
Il they be sufficiently numerous to make
v impolitic to hang them all in case
. failure in their undertaking, may reb'
and upon being subdued by the nation
q authority, have right to exercise /;
v the political franchises they possess
4 before. To make it still more glaril
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