The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1866-04-21
NEWS SUMMARY.

Perhaps the most important item of news of a CONNER
cial character which shall publish for time is the
announcement taken from the Pittsburg Dispatch aud
Commercial that the steamboat Peter Balen from Pitts
burg, Pa, to Fort Benton, will be the first Of line of
packets direct from the iron region to the gold region
Inc boat is model river steamer said be the finest on
the Western waters She armed with brass swves
and her pilohouse is bulletproof The distance be
ravesed by the Peter Baleu four thousand hundred
miles The vessel is hundred and seventyfve feet
keel thirty feet BEAM and five feet depth of hold
She carries saving machine to cut the wood necessary
run the Upper Missouri The fare the Montnha
cities is 1920 from Pttsburg and S35O from St Louis
Captain John Williams is in command. The Queen Of
Great Britain opened Parliament in person. without her
regal robes the 9th of February There but Que spe
ciay inexestng paragraph in the speech it relates
Fenianism and is as tollows " A conspiracy, adverse
alike to authority property and religion and dsapproved
and condemned alike by all who interested in their
maintenance, without distinction of creed class has un
happily appeared in Ireland The St. Joseph CMo9
Herald of April 1st gives of society called
the and daughters of the South Nonntercourse with
the Ncrth il the leading dogma They have words
signs, etc. all complete and promise oath neither
eat pray dance sing trade with parouze NOrtherner
The organization is said 70 be immensely popular II is
the most ndiseee exhibition of bad spirit that threw
stumbling block in the path of Union and Peace espe
ciay at the present critical uncture Of affairs An ac.
of Congress- passed last year and decision Of the
Supreme Court have settled the question whether posses
sion and custom of the district create title mineral
lands Both decide in the affirmative. Branch Mint
is to be built at Carson Nevada forthwith Owing to
opposition in California has been delayed six months
On the 18th of March the reciprocal treaty with the British
Provinces ended and the right of the Americans to fish in
British waters terminated at the same time As a
peusaton for this loss may be mentioned the dis
cOveries Of eodfshng grounds Behring's Straits.
The Fenians making ready to attack Canada This
all wrong To achieve the independence Of their native
land is their undOubed right if they do To attack
Canada because they hate the British is about justa
be and valiant kick mans child because its father
called you rebel. "A certain Charles p. Brooks we'll
known in Sacramento has returned from Barbaeoas New
Grenada, after several months residence. He is satisfied
He says only claim the Cargazon paid dollar.
1t precisely like the bluff claims at Chile gueh Caave
nd NaIu
work lady sleeping in house at CopperUpOs which
had taken fire. awakened in time TO her life and
to preserve the building, by the sagaeity Of dog which
jumped up and put its paw her face Jefferson Davis
highly approves the veto of the Freedmens Bureau Bill.
The Downieville (al) Messenger" meutiOHs Of
man named Scanlan who was dying in extreme poverty
and who suddenly received of his inheritance Of
rich property, (S30 000. 1t brought fever and he
Point Cypress, Monterey they have killed
right whale which yielded hundred and eighty bar
rels of OIL and fifteen hundred pounds Of whaebone
L. will be worth 81 000- The Philadelphia Ledger"
advocates the withdrawal of all paper currency below ten
cents They had another earthquake in California
the Goth of March. The Judge OF Police LEFT without
dignity; the reporters asked who josed the table; the
people at the restaurants from dinner and many OF
them strange say came back 10 pay their score
The Virginia Enterprise" says that the Central
Pacific Railroad Company employ between six thou
sand and thousand eleven hundred horses and
hundred carts The same paper says Of the Gold
Hill News" which declares that the passage of the Civil
Rights Bill would enfranchse the ChEanen, ETC., that it
does not know whether the News represents its thirty
three subscribers no but that there provision that
nothing in this act contained shall be construed to affect
the right of suffrage" Twelve left Silver City
New for Montana the Both of March This Is nos
singular Thousands route for this Territory,
thrcnghg through Omaha St Joseph up the river fron
California Oregon Nevada, Utah and elsewhere yet these
are only the vanguard AT Maguires Opera House,
Virginia Nevada there dstributien Of prizes Oces
Edwards of the Police, the gold watch awarded to
the man who should bring the most ladies TO the show
He escorted six The first cargo of goods direct from
San Francisco Salt Lake via the Colorado river waste
leave the 18th of March On the 9th of March, str
Concord coaches left Virginia Nevada, for Virginia NJ
t.. laden with merchandise, and carrying passengers
Greenbacks sold in San Francisco March 9Th atsghty-
THIS the highest price reached in two years past
Billy Sheppard has been acquitted after three days
trial of the murder eff B. W. Ballou at Virginia. Nevada
An honest miner attacked by fo0tpad IN Six.
Mile canon half mile above the Gould & Curry, near
Virginia Nevada He had pistol but did not fire; the
robber had knife. After struggle the foot pad cayed
whereupon the honest cut off his for rOphy and
announces that have it by calling for it, at the
Cholar Potos boarding house poles for the PaeIno
Telegraph Line distributed between Virginia City.
Nevada and Salt Lake. the wire is up within seventy
miles Of Austin The Porlauders (09 dscontented
They had laid in large stocks Of goods for spring tre
which they had paid the high fghts Of previous years
and that the opposition line has reduced the charges
the high rates neeetaed BY CREATED expense Of transport