The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1866-03-17
NEWS SUMMARY.

NEWS SUMMARY.
The San Francisco Spirit of the Times saw, I'VE
suggest TO Congress to give the Central Pacific Raruad
company 9nelaim deed to the State Of California be-
cause they will ask for before they get through n on5
at least save considerable time The real motive f The
objections to the resumption of specie for the cur
reney IS well expressed by the New York Tribune 7,
states that 500 900 600 Of Greenbacks aaoa, mnt r.
high prices fund them and down we come 10 hard nan
AGAIN II the mineral land sales bill pass the new com
parson Of mine will be a reality viz Mine Mnsr
Minus The paid fire department bill for San Fran
| CISCO passed amid rejoicing. The old method of sx
hres was considerably worse to bear than the
losses The hremens souls all FIRE and besides
the saturnala free fights and incendarism for the sake
OF the un which constantly occurred work was not
half done at any rate first bell ever cast from native
metal IN Calf'rnia, was made lately by w. T. Gar
rat OF San Francisco One hundred and twenty egb,
asprnts Tor emigrnts bed rooms, six feet by two left for
New Granada from San Francisco by the Golden Ctv o
the 18th ult. The San Francisco Aa saws that any
who wishes TO ladies dressed in beeches and boo
go and hear Mrs. DeWoe lecture on The Re,r,n in
Dress ANY one who wants TO make women look like
men, has very little taste .Apropos Of the yst, several
OF the Major Generals commanding in the South said when
giving their testimony that unless the militia were dis
armed and dismissed the extemnation of the blacks and
the expulsion Of men of Northern birth were ceratie
discovery that several of the Cabinet ministers Of
Brazil are black OF only little beached amaIgalnatou
has rather Mortified the Southern emigrauts 10 the land of
diamonds Michael Lewis, who wounded David Peeyil
on Olive Creek North John Day mines Oreron has been
arrested after long chase and is now prisoner in The
Waa Wala Jail circular saws that ceilings of
metallic plate ornamented with cast metal floral and orna
mental devices, have been invented by Mr. Little The
Governor of Idaho III his annual message has apoked
the dictionary pretty extensively but he sensiby
mends making good road of the Lolo trail the clearing
out OF the Muan road etc Beet sugar rapidly beco
ing article of commercial and agricultural IMPORTANCE
in Illinois The sugar is much used France IL is dis
ngushabe from the loaf sugar of commerce by being of
dead chalky whteness. 1t very good when pruperl,
made. The great emigration from Canada 10 the STATE,
turns out to be mainly composed of skedadders" from
the draft The greatest curiosity in the world Is said To
be the Spring thaw in Moutana Thousands are rushing
to it, and what much stranger the new arrivals ali
freeze to the country at sight IA 900 dead letters sre
received daily at the Washington office Ccs mora ia
the public that this will be the fate of all upuaid
letters The Merchants Exchange comffttee Of San
report that they have conferred with the citizens
OF Portland and find that by building sixtH miles of new
road from Pen dOree lake eastward passengers can 90
from San Francisco to Helena in ten days Freight be
shipped through in thirty days fifteen cents Der pound
There only $50 miles of land transportation on the whole
route from San Francisco to Helena The committee be-
eve the opening of this route will divert Montana trade
from ST Louis "A San Francisco paper says Stafford
well informed gentleman, has just arrived in this city
from Helena, Montana He has here for the purpose
of purchasing stock Of goods which he Intends 10 trans
port from California to Montana in wagons The routs
which he proposes to take and which he recommends as
best in all respects via the Humboldt river Goose
creek City Rocks and Fort Hall He says the above de-
scbed by far the shortest the mines and that
there more water and grass and fewer deserts
to cross than on any other route Teams can go from
Sacramento to the Humboldt river either bv way of
Placerville and Dayton Virginia city Neyada6 or
by the Bonner Lake or Truckee River route. Amuse-
meDts OF all kinds rather dull in California there
regular exodus of the theatrical profession The money!
order system is full blast in California and Is rap
dy extending throughout the Territories Ferd- Pat
terson who killed Sheriff Pnkham, was On the 18th uL
shot dead by young man named Hugh Donohue. The
murderer says that Patterson had threatened settle
old grudge with him. The Daes folks make all the
cOnvicts work the street with ball and chain
The Idaho Statesman says the best road from Boise
to Helena is by way of Fort Lemh. The line is nearly
straight The project OF traction engines exciting much
attention and companies forming freight over
the Plains with them next writer n the Waa
Waa Statesman says the Vgilantes of Montana ere
thousand and he
the Parsan poce that the COMMITTEES has been the great
moral balance wheel Of the Territory This true; for
there country in which such peace order
and safety exists in Montana is said that 10 600 men
from Oregon will be in Territory next summer The
owyhee avalanche says that forty pounds Of amalgam
taken from hundred and pounds OF Orc Fno
Poorman and Morning Star rock The Idaho States
men says that party of Indians made a raid Camp
Avord on Christmas day, and drove OFF head of
mules but that Captain Spague with about dozen men
pursued them recaptured the mules wounded
three Indians The latter closely pressed that they
threw away their camp equipage and Every
lot of exchanges brings the OF preparation
test between the East and the West about free and
protection Their interests directly anagouse II is
true that great benefit is derived by having home
ket for produce around mineral and manufacturing centres,
but the shoe pnche when for hundreds of miles there
none and from the nature of the country there will be
none. These people, it is urged have pay the high
prices without enjoying the benefit of market This is
the of the whole West with few exceptions fhs
Dalles Mountaneer" takes sensible view Of svan-
tages to be derived from the trade with Bitter Root and
Hell Gate valleys. This 1t says, viii endure permanently
the article referred to- the extensive placer dggrgs Of Elk
creek Bear creek etc. have been discovered the Pen d
Oree lake route is being built and furnished and the
Muilan road TO be cleared forthwith Each will have rs
peculiar traffic and both will be wanted s 600 miss
ing at Boise of the Congressional appropriation for the Ter
rtory. The Secretary of the Territory Is pronounced
defaulter by the Governor Rio Vista Cali IS unos
tunate spot for steam vessels the Nevada" the
"Washoe the Yosemite" aud the 'Visaa" have all
met with severe accidents there On the 81 ut, the Vi
saia colided with schooner and Just below the
wreck OF the Nevada" The reasons given by the Viz
gina (Nevo Enterprise against the adoption OF green
back basis OF circulation and the repeal Of tho Specific Coz
tract law are, shortly, follows: ls That greenbscks
continually changing in value Ia the East and will
he abandoned basis there I'd, That il would drain the
State of gold and silver leaving them without medium
Of exchange; 3d. The intimate relations Of Nevada with
California forbid it, for gold and win be the basis Of
tency there 4h Because the hope Of attracting Eastern
csptal Is llacous and the suggestion Of desperation
this is not argument bat asssrtou) h prosper
season is commencing and tbs prosperity inauguused
win be jeoparzed and probably destroyed (assertiesJ
while good cannot be done 9th Because the Union party
passed it. and their character for good faf Il involved IN
It's being left the statute roll whether prcnounced
constitutional or not.