The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1866-10-06
CORRESPONDENCE,
HELENA, Sept. 80. 1866.

EDITOR PosT:-Helena is dull. Andy
johnson, beloved of the 'Pikes," were
he to arrive here with his great show,
could not command such an audience as
ere while assembled to witness an i'm
promptu dog fight. The maskinaws
have depleted the place, and the desire
of seeing home and friends once more
has overcome fear of Indians, and the
dread OF attempting the perilous navi-
cation OF the Upper Missouri. There
are so few, comparatively, on the streets
now, that were man to fall down in a
ut, do not think he would be suffered
to remain there as long as the DOOR fel-
low Gleason did, who met violent death
last week. Under these circumstances
1T was positively unkind in the proprie-
tors OF the REPUBLICAN to remove that
paper from us. All feel that an indip-
nifty has been put upon us, and undeser-
vedly; for with all our late misfortunes
Helena is still quite place compared
with your city. -,..-.-.,. .... -.
.-. DOUBLING UP. ..
As result of the great movement to
the States, many of our legal and medi-
cal firms are split up, especially the
former, and the odd oxen are yoking up
together. For instance, Burson & Vim
ton and Lawrence & Hedges, by cancel
ling Burson, from the first, and HEDGES
from the last, become Vinton & Law
renee. Some excitement was caused
among the present houseless LAWYERS by
the report that Joe & Frank We're about
TO let the upper story of their building
for a billiard saloon. But this turns out
a false report, and the place will soon be
occupied chiefly by its old tenements,
devotees of Themis. ...-.: 81,
THE OLD COURT HOUSE -
On Main street, is desolate indeed. The
Judge has gone, the clerk of the court
and the o. S. Collector, have removed
their offices, leaving what was once the
best tenanted building in town, abso-
lutely empty.
QUEER HORSE CASE. s.....
1t is not often that a lawsuit i'm
which this noble animal is the subject
of dispute, has any interest for the pub
lie. Perhaps the following may prove
an exception. A Californian arriving
here some three months ago left a fine
black Morgan colt who could do his mile
in 2:4O, or thereabouts, with one of our
corral keepers to be cared for. Upon
calling for his property few days ago,
cayuse was rendered him instead of
his own proud animal This is his story.
The other party says that his horse had
improved SO much under their care that
the owner did not know him. A law
suit was the result, which was tried to-
day before Judge McCarty and jury.
The result was verdict for the defend
ants, the stable keepers thus showing
that In the opinion of the jury the plain
tiff didn't know his own horse. .-.
MISDEMEANORs ....-. ...l
Are frequent enough, so Judge McCarty
says, and it seems he don't hear of them
all in his official capacity, If we may
judge from the case of Kate Silyers. who
having brought from Confederate" !"
where she has been doing business this
summer, the lawless manners of that
bad place, drew Derringer on the
keeper Of the Free Concert, THURSDAY
night, but who, probably, in considera-
ton OF her youth and beauty, was not
arrested. Miss Silvers is rather brassy
one. . r.
..H.. NOT ALL DEAD YET, .....
Are the fools. An old man of over sixty
years, who has spent the last fifteen
years of his life among the mining camps
of California, Nevada and Idaho, was two
or three evenings ago taken in at the ten
dice game to the tune of $120, and his
watch, and then came to friend to bor-
row money TO continue the contest. He
is probably glad now that his friend
didn't have any money to lend for that
purpose. --.. . sr.. .....-
u H.TH -Er 4 COMIC PAPER a Y
Has been started in Helena. 1t is called
the Rocky Mountain Gazette. Perhaps
your correspondent is the first one to dis
cover the fact, but such is the case new
ertheless. Its two editorials, one enti-
tied !" Slander Refuted," and the other on
the Southern Unionists Convention, ,"
place it on par, if not with Punch and
Char6Ua7s, at least with those great
"buff" and blue organs of Mr.. Pick
wick's day-the EdtanspiN Indepeadeat
and EatanssoiU Gazette. The editor of
the late REPUBLICAN made great mis-
take in treating these articles as seri-
ously intended. The Gasette's allusion
to Cromwell as a blockhead is as laugh
able as President Johnson's reference to
the beheading of James ii. Some more
OF these good jokes | may at some future
time reiterate for the amusement of your
readers. lc. ,4ts af a--i HAL.
OUR MINISTER AT FRANKFoRT.--By
the subjoined paragraph, which we find
in a London paper, it will be seen that