The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1866-10-13
CORRESPONDENTS.
HELENA, Oct. 7. 1865.

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with the usual hustle and confusion and
with the usual number of drunken men
lying around the streets, but withal
peacefully. Nothing of more than ordi-
nary interest has taken place within the
past two days. grs,f -s -eI
Foster again is obtruded on the pub
lie attention. On Friday afternoon the
Grand Jury found an Indictment against
him for the second time. He was ar
raigned, and by his counsel, Mr.. Cava-
naugh, pleaded to the Indictment, guilty
of manslaughter" This plea the Court
refused to receive, whereupon his coun-
sci withdrew the plea, and upon the
prisoner answering not guilty." he was
remanded for trial at the November
term His Honor, the Chief Justice,
very properly refused to accept the plea
first offered, holding that as the prisoner
had once been tried and found guilty of
murder, he could not take the case out
of the hands of the people, and that they
and not he, must decide in this matter.
In this connection it may be well to cor
rect a misstatement of the last Gazette,
to the effect that the Judgment in this
case was reversed for want of jurisdic-
tion in the United States Court. This is
not the case. The action of the Supreme
Court, at Virginia, in this case, was
founded on a defect of purely technical
nature in the Indictment upon which
Foster was originally tried His trial
next month will be before the same
Court, and in the same county as was
the trial in September.
Notwithstanding the great rush for
the States, unoccupied houses, or huts.
rather, are not very numerous, and rents
are high sshigher than they probably
will be few weeks hence, when many
who are now busy mining will have gone
out in the country where wood can be
had for the cutting, and meat will cost
only the value of the ammunition used
IN killing wild game. As yet people
cling to Helena with strange tenacity.
The Ten Mile Ditch has been pushed
! forward vigorously during the past week,
bui it is doubtful, to say the least,
whether it will be complated this fall.
There is great deal of work still to be
done on it; among other things a tunnel
of over fifty yards through the hill west
of town, which is about half completed,
and fiuming without limit.
The miners in Lower Last Chance
are having better supply of water than
formerly, and are consequently seeing
better times. The work which has been
doee there during the past two or three
weeks has materially changed the ap-
pearance of the ground.
Dogs are so numerous here that one
regrets that our Chinese inhabitants
have become so far Americanised as to
dispense with their national delicacy of
"bow-wow, roasted, boiled and fried.
The CANNES are sad nuisance, both by
day and night, and they should be
thinned out.
Captain Fiske is in town, from Sun
river. The Minnesota boys who went to
that region have abandoned the enter
prise, and are now camped at widow
, Durgan's, on the Ten Mile. Their re-
port of the Sun river country is vanity
of vanities."
Among the improvements lately made
in the buildings of our city, we notice
that Heatley & Chase have raised the
roof of their building, the Bank Elk
change, thus doubling its former capac-
ity.
y Joe & Frank have completed the
second story of their building on Main
and Wood streets, and the new law firm
of Vinton & Lawrence occupy the offices
therein which were formerly occupied by
the late firm of Burson & Vinton. !.
!, If, as stated in the last issue of the
RIWEEKLY, the Novelty Gift Enter
:, Prise is one of our Institutions, what shall
be said of the sable-hued bell-ringer who
!, forms part and parcel thereof 1t is
reported that several old pioneers, regu
lar "leather stockings in fact, left town
when they heard that bell, under the i'm
preston that the locomotive was coming
/. Cole had better see to this. '-7
Last evening George Chapman re-
ceived benefit at the Helena Theatre
ON which occasion Uncle Toms Cabin ,
: was produced Mrs. Slows great work
is one of the few which bear dramatizine
WlIHou1 ocCoiuluS ud1 anu luSlplu. MI
Chapman as Uncle Tom had a rather
g slow part, which gave him little op
opportunity to show the stuff he is made
: of. Harry Taylor as st. Clare. was good
though contrary to any anticipation, moi
| SO good in the airy and careless as in the
emotional parts of the character. .dMrs
Waugh as Miss Ophelia, if we accept hel
! idea of the character, was the best of the
! lot. 1t is mistake, however, to suppose
E that the usual twang is a popularity O
! New England, or that Mrs. Stow so mis-
: represents the intelligence of Vernon
. as to allow her Vermont woman to say
9 what on airth." This may be the faul
! of the dramatist rather than of the &C
tress. The other parts were fairly rem
ldered, and the whole play well done
with the exception of the scenery, which
by the way we can hardly expect to b.
very elaborate in Helena. ..