The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1866-05-26
[WHOLE NO. 81.
NEWS SUMMARY


beld at Provo Utah in session the 24th N th
2eth incusive-Assocate Justice Drake presiding Mar
cded the question arising about tie power Of m. p
bate Court to grant naturalization papers; that bs D.
bate Courts had no legal rghs power in the premises
and that all such papers thousands probsby) were mill
and void. The Judge also declared that no poygamst
was entitled to such papers Mr.. e. 5. Croker Of
Sacramento makes the following to Hill Beachs
of Idaho the closing statement of admiIabls ytt
detailing the advantages to arise from read by the e
kee or the Humboldt and owyhee5 to Montana. The
truth the Nevada mountains the great obstacle All
as soon as the railroad that the trade will naura
come to it, and then too build the railroad rapidly
We hope to lay the track at the rate Of two hundred miles
I year when The Editor Of the
World says that the Vigiantes getone Short
account Of his politics" This is all bosh ysIapeS Com On
mittees any repue entirely ignore politics 1t is the
boast of Montana that Democrats and Republicans act
hand in hand there, and politics have never once bee
thought of Manhood and justice override polite. wEsn
comes to the test. mans politics don't when
Ngiante scout beats the headquarters In this
Terry mad zeaots excepted we like one another nar
sonaly TO well to introduce politics when questions affecting
our real welfare and principles The Nugget noun
tain steamer, was snagged Dakota City, says the
Herald No lives lest and the passengers will 90 up in
the Iron City The California papers declare that
there has seldom been agrcuuray successful sea.
son than the present throughout the Sate-.-.A villain
named Philippe has undergone mis- preliminary examipa-
tion 1t turns out that he has murdered sixteen woman
tve in Algers three in Italy and eight in France He
cut all their throats with Texas Is likely TO be
divided into East and West Texas That its territory is
too large for single State is manifest and the janQ in
teress of the East and the West render unity Of purpose
and justice of legislation practically impossible The
British Government have hired number of good ookino
girls spies Fenianism The reOrganizd Church Of
the Latter Day Saints in Illinois amount $1,000 They
are not Poygamists and at peace with the law and
the people What to do with the negro is now the
cry all Sides Give the adults work and the youth ed
ucaton This is what is wanted. Exact civil Justice Is
their right whatever else they want let them earn
huge black walnut tree of splendid quality, says the
Scientific American recently brought frum wes-
tern State to New York. When cut into would
be worth S3 900 "A field of wheat in Switzerland that
has been twenty-five years covered with the vast mass Of
avalanche recently stripped by the melting the
last of the snow. sprouted and grew al once as II sow
few weeks previously. The 'yedette- notices the
death of Lieut. Clark of the 1st Michigan Cavalry on the
Sd inst, who shot accidentally, while in the pull
ling tent out Of the wagon at South Bend beyond Fort
Bndger One of the poles caught in his pistol and dis
charged it, the contents entering his bowels and killing
him almost instantly Gen. Mason, at SacatOn Ari
zona dispatch from Los Angeles. of tine 9Th inst
in the California Alta" has received information that
Fort Goodwin had been taken and burnt by thousand
Apaches and that out OF one hundred and twenty four
men in garrison, only escaped who hunting
and warned by the noise fire and smoke of what had
occurred The commanding officer had applied to the
General for leave 10 make treaty with the Indians who
had proffered amcable settlement of difficulties and il
is supposed that this preex they got into the For
of the suicide Of T. F. Glover at the Tahoe
House. in that city, by shooting himself through the head
with derringer He left note to Judge Aldrch which
read follows about to start journey 10 that
bourne from which no traveller Cause wo-
man." Deceased was formerly Assemby ymau from Storey
County The bridge the Des Moines river on the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, is completed and a
force of 900 work extending the railroad west 10
the Missouri river: 1t is said that there is an increasing
willingness the part of Congress entire
war debt OF the loyal states that the South may have
to pay its share of the debt incurred by the The
Atchison Kansas, Free Press says that population is
pouring into Kansas the of 1000 per week on the
average, and it expects that this will be feraGe wa
ly ratio of year that addition of sc 900 nav be
confidently expected The settlements large and con
tnues along the prospective lines Of railway On the
22d April wall of building being pulled down Orange
Lane Boston Mass fell and buried in the ruins three lit
tie boys who instantly killed and girl aged ID
named Mary Fisher had both broken BESIDES reeev
ing other injuries. AT Albany n Y on the 2ad
April, two men assaulted the of David Pellet a far
mer about mile from Norwich and robbed the house
$1,000 in money and Government bonds The lad was
beaten severely, and nsensble when his father re-
turned The Mobile Nationalist believes that the
cotton crop will be 100000 bales and that its very large
amount will be highly preudcia TO the country, because
will make the prices too low at present hg of pro
ductiOn, TO pay expenses The Treasury is informed
that large number OF eountereers have engraed find
ing the trade too hazardous al home and they
what they can abroad in the eounteretng and sale Of
American securities In Chester Mass they have dis
covered fine deposit of emery, which is daily becoming
more valuable account Of its adaptation 10 cutting
performed with and rapdity, by of re-
vOying disc of iron full of holes This put core of
mould which is then flied with molten lead, which passes
through the holes in the plates and yes both sides Of the
lead casing together This leadcOvered disc spTnked
with emery from reservoir and cuts its way by attrition
with marvellous rapdity The Chester emery is PECULIAR
does not Oxydize in the air. Nearly all emery VIII rust
and this is a great drawback The COulty Clerk o:
San Francisco issued during the month of April last 4s
marriage licenses This is greater rage for matrmony
than recolect before except in August 1864 when
l6l licenses issued The American Journal of
Mining has special article written by Doctor E. H. Grant
late State GeoOgs Of Virginia in which he asserts that
there is god regon-placer and ead-n Virginia of
large extent and valuable and rich anything in Cal
Orna. The difficulty Of the lode mining consists in the
slide; the surface indications being remote from the lOdes
and there frequent troubles from the intervention of
hssure lOdes and barren rock The also rapidly and
frequently changes in character The paces are easily
washed and yield coarse gold equal to Australian. The
writer had seen nuggets of two weight Though
there tho
Fort Goodwin acre Goodwin himself declares
he believes it. The difficulty fo the numbers
which is greater than that of all the aborigre The
most favored theory of the production OF petroleum. that
it formed from vegetable and animal remains and
from COAL as the petroleum and the coal found
in contact in situations where the could reasonably
be supposed TO have been distilled formed from the
other The American Mining Journal" advocates
Government Mining Bureau-pure and smplH-not a Bu-
which is compound Of trade commerce manufaco-
res mining etc., proposed There is enough work
for Commissioner, it says and dozen clerks without
1t seems that the females 1--WE cannot write ladies'
of San Francisco in the habit of dOnnng male attire
Chinese dens and the Anatomical Museum, for curiosity
such curiosity, when indulged in ought forever dis
qualify girl woman from the company ofthe honest
aud yiruous of either The Washington 'ChOn
icle speaks Ola boomerang General Spinner
from Australia. 1t childs toy in Europe thirty
years ago 1t resembles tOOthed grain sickle than
any other white mans implement and is thrown forward
In white mans hand ungoverable toy, flying in
all directions like pigeon wounded in the head but
National" says that the 7th inst. the miners at
Smartsve California left work and marched TO the claim
belonging to r. L. Creary where they made the China
men work there pack up their traps, and having loaded
them their backs the Celesias formed in process
sion and walked out of town. Union league Of white
men was the act Of the drama The Reese Rv
Reyeille mentions the death of Nees thearmess
a citizen of New York, at Lapuez Bolivia. He could
write good hand with his foot and as cutter of pro-
files and ornamental valentines with scissors had
equal in the West. 1t seems that hogs very
IN Missouri The State was run over by Feera and Con,
ederae armies and every porker considered lawful
prize The Eastern papers say that Edwin Forest the
ragelian, is going California br his health He is lame
and TO drink the water of certain California springs
hat good for his complaint The Atlantic Cable
weighs in air 4se lbs per mile, and in $50 lbs
It's breaking strain is the weight of eleven of the
Dle The shipped is said to be 273n miles The
submerged cable lost last year, perfectly insulated
han when it was psyed out.
GENERAL CoNNoR-This able and gallan; officer was
Ipon his application mustered out of tie volunteer
ervce the Both ult He solicited remain ser
by War Officers well by nearly all ofonr