The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1866-01-27
NEWS SUMMARY.


+. Hastings &c Co., the Bank of California Wells Fargo
Co.. Paxton, Shornburg Co.. Ruhlng Co, the lead
have issued circular in which they decline all dealing
with parties who repudiae the contracts made bullion
basis and refuse to accept anything but gold and silver
general deposit or in ordinary business Nitro
the new blasting power is about to be introduced into Ne
vada says the Enterprise of the 3lst ut 1t is oil
twelve times as powerful in effect gnpowder and much
safer to handle. spark lighted match does not
ignite it, heat of 5000 Fahrenheit required cause
an explosion The drill hole be filed with sand
Peter j. Curcuel executed the 25th of Novem
ber at Morristown N j. for the murder of his wife, He
was parayzed with terror that he had to be held in the
chair in which he carried to the scafod On the
Gath OF the same month Kerchner murderer hanged
at Buffalo After asking for chew of tobacco, he said
when all was ready You must watch the brave Dutch
man here how he Dies. His last words were,
shed tear; would not change places with Bishop T-r
here the drop fell He would have said Timon AT the
funeral of Tom Sayers, the puglist 3d. 600 people
present and the assembage the reverse
and wellbehaved. Toms big black dog chief
His collar was trimmed with Grape The Leaven-
worth Bulletin having been renovated and expanded
rises to the dignity of utterance becoming great Journal
and says, St Louis for few years. will be competi
tor but the time is not far distant when shall outstrip
her in the race for commercial ascendency
made by the French for the shots fired the Aer
their side of the Rio Grande that the
river crooked that they believed to be party
the other side. 1t is likely that the whole Federal army
may, day, make the mistake of marching into Maamo-
instead of Brownsville 1t appears that the reason
why England and France stood by Chill and Compelled
Spain to abstain from war that English and French
subjects would be injured by the soppage of the export of
a
acer to the conduct of Spain Martha Grinder called the
American Borgia was, the 9th of November, SEN
fenced to be hung for the murder of Mrs Mary Caroline
Carruthers in Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Between
$S 900 and $4,000 worth of gold and silver arrived
in San Francisco the first considerable bullion shipment
from Northern Arizona. 1t is from the Teschatcup and
Queen City mines, Ell Dorado Canon ~ Gen. Grants pay
Lieutenant General insufficient maintain the ne
cessary establishment for his rank When he is promoted
to the rank of General Sherman WILL probably succeed
to the tGeneralship During the war; the United
States exported to Europe two and threefourh times
much wheat and eight times much ham and bacon as
during the same length of time previous to the breaking
of the rebellion. We had of a million of
men in the feldall producersat this time This
counts for the commercial prosperity of the nation and in
view of all the circumstances is the most remarkable fact
of the kind mentioned in history General Heath is now
organizing another expedition against the Indians the
Plains The troops rendezvousng Cottonwood
and will march South 10 the Smoky Hill. The Denver
News" voucheS for this being correct The Atchison
(Kansas) Champion of the 10Th, says troops
to be mustered at and all the forces there
be sent the plains operate against the hostile
Indians Viareide is the for death caused
by railway accidents Cardinal Wsemans memory is TO
be perpetuated among the Roman Catholics England
colossal scale by the construction of cathedral of unpar
aleed magnfcence for which nearly $40 600 has been
already collected Dr. Barth the African traveller is
dead The Chicago Tribune of December llth says
that early completion of hundred thirty
miles of railroad line between Boonsboro and Des Mones
river and point the Missouri, opposite Omaha
contracted for and will throw immense carrying and
supply trade with Colorado Montana and Idaho into the
hands OF Chicago merchants The newest smuggling
dodge the Canadian frontier is the carrying of whskey
in three gallon tin fashioned like baby and dressed
10 match Thirty ladies caught while playing this
game. The number Of hunters and trappers living
the Red River of the North" is estimated thirty
thousand They no newspapers no political organz
ton, and only limited communication with the
world The larger portion of their rs find the readies
way market through Minnesota to the Mississippi
The number of emigrants arriving in Missouri is es-
mated at one thousand week Sales of land being
made to large amount $4,000 worth being disposed
of in the mouth of October by the Hannibal and st.
Joseph Railroad Company alone DIR. Soue, of San
Francisco has taken hundred and eighty
water from named Artwell afflicted with difficulty
OF breathing he felt relieved Immediately Julesburg
N t. with its Notifications and works erected during the
past has been adopted by Secretary of War as
permanent military post be known rs Fort Sedgwek
1t reported that Gen Averi of cavalry fame
resident OF the oil regions and the proprietor Of gang of
oil teams The wreckers have raised large portion of
the famous rebel iron-cad the Merrmac which sunk
OIL Norfolk The composition wheel of nine tons fifty feet
of the stern and section of the shaft up
one lifting and have been carried to tie navy yard.
Gen. Burnside has hundred men at work a broad
guage railroad between Reno and Pit Hole, At the
Watervleft Arsenal twenty-five hundred men enl-
ployed during the The number is be reduced to
less than two hundred cake of cold worth sos o0O
weighng 200 ounces recently exhibition in
window Of banker at MebOurn. What nice bridal
cake that would THE newest labor-savng idea is
that of laying down pipe twelve miles long from Titus
Vile Pa for the purpose of saving the expense and
BILE OF hauling OIL by horsepower 1t is calculated that
at the present rate of yield sixty thousand barrels per
MONTH the whole capital required will be repaid in
month The United States Government is treating for
the purchase of Spezzia small rocky island in the Ar
chpeago situated three miles from the coast
Argos at the mouth of the Gulf of Naupa. Authori-
ties differ as to its size, the extremes of calculations being
twelve and twentysx square miles. 1t is capable of be-
ing impregnably fortified and will be of immense service
as a rendezvous for Mediterranean fleet There is
town. containing about three thousand inhabitants the
island European powers are much exercised in mind al
the purchase 1t stated good authority that the
President fully in accord with the average sentiment OF
Congress- the Southern question, and has expressed
himself much annoyed the refusal of many States
cept the plan of reconstruction offered them. A bill
has been introduced into the State Legislature of Nevada
tO hpon
shall be payable in National currency commonly called
"greenbaeks." There is exception made regards
salaries already fixed under the Constitution during the
present term OF the Incumbent and all principal and inter
est of public debtshoatng funded also to be paid
in United States gold coin The Carson reporter Of the
Virginia Enterprise" thinks the bill will pass 1t has
been determined that the graves of soldiers who fell
Southern soil shall be preserved from desecraton and the
names of all that can be identified will be recorded
Artificial rubes the composition, lustre specific gravity
and other properties of which identical with the genu
inc specimens made from mixture of the duorde
of aluminium and chromium subjected to the vapor o
boracc acid evolved by strong heat. AT San Francisco
the colored people had gorgeous looking procession
New Years day. According to the Alta, many white
folks assisted in the choir church. with perfect absenc
of prejudice The Nebraska City News mentions th
organization of vigilance conntee who will deal witt
the cuthroas and yagabonds infesting the city They
have collected hundred thousand skeletons of horses
and cattle killed during the in the Shenandoah Valley
at bone factory near Winchester Petroleum stated
will be largely employed for fuel in place of The coal
by steamships. Smoke will be avoided and space saved
The matter will be thoroughly tested in the British Navy
Government has been most extensively deanded by rob
berries of cotton. 1t Not less than ten thousant
bales of Government cotton have been stolen from aon
the line of the Ohio Mobile Railroad during
months" BrigadierGeneral and Captain in the arm
among the abstractos but regular organization
to exist all along the road. The Gulf Squadron is
present composed of twenty vessels mounting hundre
and thirty guns of this number six tug boats and
is sailing fgate The squadron is commanded by Real
Admiral Henry K Thatcher The Relief Bureau of tn
Sanitary Commission closed on the LIST Of July. TIL
Claim Bureau terminated its labors New Years Day
The receipts a. 5l3 75064. The disbursements
81, $50 77495, Cash on hand $3.50 97569 With this SUI
plus proposed to create historical society which sha
collect classify and record the many of document
connected with the Department At the time guns
laundering in savos and royal saute at Cherbourg
Portsmouth Duke Constantine without ithe of the dis
play led his fleet of ron-clads the Baltic, Wis
to the King of Sweden, at Stockholm. The vessels ar
monitors, in every respect identical with the America
iron-eads. The New York 80 Times" says: Again:
their welveinch thick wrought iron turres what wi
avail the puny artillery mounted English fleets
Against the guns for which these turrets
nier hat the of