The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1866-03-10
[WH0LE NO. 81.
NEWS SUMMARY

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since the abolition Of slavery General F.rs~, I'm
summoned before military commission in Wash;,,.s s.s
snpPed on TO Mexico The Colorado river nayrsbje
or SIX hundred miles from its mouth by steamers r
Denver city clerk has posted notice on the miiils -, ~,
street bridge which reads SIS fne for haing M ,sI
tndge Every man pulls mp to read it. The 5sniaI -
suffrage and Office to the colored race Is the h % VI
Tue entry Of Colorado into the States ladv s,;,s.
tne Salt Lake Telegraph, advocating she right Of To
men 10 Vote She says they will put down brofhsi.
gambling -hells and whisky shops - The younS ';s;
whose escape frum Mormonsm recorded In os,, a..
supplement- froze her feet while in the hav-s,sct e.
twenty three days without food at MI Jaeksn -. '
where she was found On lifting her on to the abls g.
she ampuation, one of the feet fell of the anee
senator iuthrie stated in the Senate short ta sine.
tat the losses Of the Southern States by the war 80
Thousand millions Of dollars The cost of mainsa;,in
and renewing the furniture Of the White House e. ,Sss
past fvc years has been 500 600 II is the relic hon,
who steal everything they lay their hands On an5
damage pieces they cannot remove Relic hunters Ia N,
shun- oox and purse department 90 10 Sing Sing. 40
should these aristocratc silver-spoou steaIers rh
Reseiile says Grenada Montana or anythin, aise
on I e eontlnent as mining country Is humblg CON-
pared TO Nevada is fine fun for the Muntanans 10
hear the spunky little Snowland rooster erownr IT,.
are nore lodes in Madison County in the whole col
lection OF spurs, dips angles and slides in their ,ro,
state where man might travel an hundred miles vs
out seeing enough grass sod lark and bere ga
Is SO scarce The above spirited Journal referring 4, the
petition of the colored folks be admitted To ensl ~;
eges with the whites in that State says it would Ike "a
near the OPINION of the people subject and s,Ir
remarks that 1t is unfair to the colOred folks for sbos
ana then exclude their children Colorado peope
IN the funess Of conviction that Colorado the eep,s a.
e Earh and the center of gravity of the Uuts States
SPEAK through their able exponent of the Black Hawk
Journal as follows concerning Summers amepdn,.n,
providing for suffrage without any distinction of eolor
. OF ol nationality mistake of the majority Of tbs
hlrty ninth Congress in this and kindred matters viii he
very lamentabe for it. for Colorado for the Repubean
party and for the nation at large whole road on
Mexico to Vera Cruz is patroled by Maxmans sodisrs
and is safe for travel for the first time for many wear,
California produces barley than all the rest ~ the
Cnon She has an annual surplus of about FIVE million
bushels The celebrated Poorman lode in Idaho an5
the north shaft of the Hays & Ray" are by consent
locked up till the 9th of June No rock wi be tks
nom them Probably the suit will then be heard They
nave found rich aurterous quartz vein Massaehuses
Rich ores extend district of sixteen miles In epg,b
Attempted suicide is high msdemeanor in England
man imprisoned for three months for attemptin ~
hang himself In Massachusetts has been decided ts,
regularly ordained lady preacher can mGry people The
Rev Miss Olympia Brown did and the court saws is
Vad Colorado has memOrialized Congress 10 alier ba
charter OF the Central Pacific Railroad so that the line
shall run from Fort Riley Denver Ii is on the Central
line from New York Philadelphia and s. Lonis m s.
Francisco two hundred miles shorter the present
route and the land each side of track is habtabs
and eultva6e For nearly thousand miles present
Location IS through barren and unenviting wilderness
"A MIR. Wolf Uf Denver announces his intention of IN
dertaking to forward specimens OF quartz etc FINN,
Denver to the Paris Exposition Universelle The whols
OF the Territories should be represented CambIing 4;
punishable by fine in California. The authorities mads
raid short time since and ueed 81 OOO - The Iyon
process attracting great attention and column rtle.
are to be found in numbers Of the papers concerning
but for all that there has vet appeared deeon
OF the process step by step from the ledge the but
III
proved success Mark Twain writing to the Enter.
prise from San Francisco under date of February 9Th
says: There are IA number of persons here from IN,
Blackfoot country and they making arrangements To
leave here for Montana again in the course of month on
six weeks They will GO by Johns rad frorn Red B,pff
To Owy hee which possesses advantages of penv of
grass water at convenient camping intervals only two
streams TO and tolls pay 1t Is supposed with
reason that the bulk of the emigration in the spring will
pass over this road Michael Reese the millionaire will
have to go into court at the suit of Mrs Clark an inter-
esting lady-ke and eomey young widow who has sued
HIM Tor breach OF promise 1t is said he will 60 court
and offer to marry her. This NAV altogether sur
Mr. Reese is nice man, but he has been nee for usrV
long time Mark Twain prophesies that Forrest the ira.
gedan will have hot time in California from the critics
The bill repeal the Specific Contract Law of Cali
foruia defeated the 18th ult Tie Enterpriss
OF the 18th ut announces that the receipt of letters from
New Grenada has increased the stampede fever One
man received check for five hundred dollars and an in.
yitaton to come along at There is some idea of
light with the local government but there are soue who
would as soon go as n0t--The Virginia Enterprise"
noticing the extensive preparations for a stampede 10
Montana and Idaho in the spring, thinks il will not do
them any harm in Nevada There will be enoagb lef 10
do all the work The San Francisco Flag having
represented that the defeat of the bill for repeal of the
Specific Contract Act cost the bankers of California slO
OOO of which that paper stated Senators gor 900
each the baanc having been expended in lobbying and
for incidental purposes the Senate California ordered the
Segesntaarms 10 proceed to San Francisco and bring D.
u. Mccarthy, editor of the American Flag" before a
committee to inv estigate the charges made writer in
the Idaho World has heard of only three people going
to Montana in the Spring There viii be Ignorant Peops
everywhere. The Virginia Enterprise will gran IN
the spirit shortly 1t says concerning our present condi
ton Governor Meagher could convene the old Legsa-
ture in extra session aud get the difficulty remeed 6aths
cont do because ttcg dH Democrats and he is strong
Union One of the planks n the south.
ern PLATFORM is the Reputation of Fed raj debt accord
ing to the Richmond Examiner Every paper that
we take up from California Nevada, Idaho and Oregoh
speaks OF the large western emigration Montana while
from the East thousands ere ready TO pour The San
Francisco " Bulletin" says Maltese fisherman was fned
s., for telling Dr. John b Rice to go To hell There
were ripe olives near Santa Cruz, while two miles from
there the mountains were covered with deep Cali
furnla has wonderful climate Thomas Maeken eug-
neer of small produce steamboat the Ser Imento river
has been arrested for attempting explode the boer BY
plugging the feedpipe with potaOe cut like cork IL
is Thought that he expected his discharge and acted in
revenge but finding that he going remain he took
an early opportunity OF removing the obstruction. IA
prays that Congress will obtain from Russia the privilege
of wood water refuge and repairs in harbors of her
possessions for our fishermen that such log books etc.
may be forwarded as will enable them obtain the same
bounty the Eastern and that ships employed
otherwise, may survey the fishing banks which extend
from Cortes Bank to Behrng Straits II stated that
Judge Beatty of the Supreme Court of Nevada could
have had SlOO0O0 in gold for pronounciny Judgment in
favor OF the Specific Contract Act and Judge Brusnan the
same. The two worthy old Judicial trumps refused the
money. Doctor Hayes, on his late Polar expedition
sailed with his little vessel Of l0 and fourteen men,
mines are creating quite excitement in British Columbia
aud Vancouvers Island. The Victoria Chronicle" Of
January % says that they throw Backot in the shade
BlackfUot always in the shade-of the mountains.
Several Irish counties have been proclaimed the Feniaus
pasted pieces of green paper the official God Save the
Queen" which then read, God Save the Green.
There quite excitement in the West about the M0n-
aia supply trade Portland Oregon and San Francisco,
the main competitors; but Sacramento Cal) and vr
yina (Nev also enter the field, the base Of sup
plies and the oher point The Nevada
people frightened out Of their wits about the emigration
70 this Territory and the papers copy and insert all
of items about bad weather deep snow mines played
'u ETC.. There fifteen oil companies actively work
n California with capital of $50 O01 0OO The New
lreaus "Poayune sPeIks of oil in different parts Of
Louisiana, and that, in Texas well produces natural
icid srUn enough to work the telegraph batteries Hous
on and that the writer eyewitness of the flct
The cabin fare om San Francisco TO Portland eny SO
On the 10th ut. there most brilliant exhibition
Il the Aurora Boreas. The electricity developed in such
ses is so sirong that where strips of paper usei to
eceive the magnetic imprint Of the dispatch from the in
trumen several thicknesses burnt throagh by the
rce of the current of electricity which, first shows IL
elf by faint blue mark. On this occasion the operator
{ san francisco talked with New York elsy with
iod Hill, (Ney,) when sudlenly there an Interrupt
on and afterwards resumption ef work through to
;ieago. In Virginia lNev..) they thought there