The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1866-01-20
NEWS SUMMARY.


"Times, is Presbyterian.
believed that the Veteran Reserve Corps will be
retained and recruited
whole block Randolph street. Chicago, burned
on Dec I'd. Loss, $4,000.
Many of the English coonoperatives coming the
New England States for employment.
The Rev. Alexander Campbell the founder of the sect
of Campbellites, lately died in Kentucky.
The First National Bank of Nevada says the Reese
River Revele of the 26th ult is nowloca at Austin
Ex-Gov. John Evans and ]. B. Chaffee elected
Senators from the new State of Colorado and the Union
party therefore reoiceth.
bill passed the House of Representatives in Indiana
repeating The law prohibiting negroes and Indians from tes
tifying in the courts
The u S. Pacific Telegraph line with double wires
from the far west to the east will be in working order before
midsummer next ..
The Washington Chronicle" pronounces counter
feitng treason, and calls for law of Congress making
it punishable by death.
Advices from ST. Louis received here stating that
the Fenans of that city intend sending full representa-
ton to the Congress on Tuesday next
Anna Caringher of San Francisco has sued William
Daniels of Grass Valley for breach promise and seduc
on and asks the Court to give her 500 600 damages
hippotheatron, of sixty feet front and hundred and
twenty eight feet in depth is being erected in ST. Louis
Fifth street. The cost when complete will be seventy
five thousand dollars.
Nearly twenty-one thousand dollars of conscience
money that is, the payment of the dues of repenant
swindlers of the Govenment-were received by the
Treasury during the last fiscal year.
Yon buy first class house in Japan thirty dollars
and live comfortably in it for two cents day Servants
charge fifty cents month, and horse and groom may be
had for the same time for dollar and fifty cents
The rough and mOsy covering of the soap plant bulb is
being used for filling mattresses The material does
not form into hard Jumps but remains soft and pabe.
Nineteen bales were lately sent from Salt Spring valley to
San Francisco.
ST. Louis and New Orleans tonnage is thirty three per
cent greater than that of 1859 The tonnage the Ohio
river has increased fifty per cent and that of the Missouri
river fifty per cent. up to the present time.
1t is stated that almost all the Texan woogrowers are
ruined by the dreadful mortality that has for the past few
years ragged among the sheep. So anxious they to
leave the trade that good merno be bought for three
dollars
Indiana reckons her school children between two and
twenty and counts up five hundred and ytwo thousand
three hundred and thirty of them The school fund.-
partly raised from liquor licenses gives them only twenty
one cents apiece.
In Memphis negress having died from the consequent
ees OF prohgaey her at the date Of the last
dispatches fostering in the shed where she died This
owing to quarrel between the Freedmens Bureau
and the municipal authorities.
1t appears from General Grants report that Sherman
himself suggested his celebrated march through Georgia
The commandern-chief is - down on General Butler,
concerning Fort Fisher and Bermuda Hundreds. Butler
will shortly reply to his structures.
There is rumOr in dispatch from San Francisco, OF
the 29h u that the Department there had received orders
to organize aggressive movement the northern States
of Mexico The dispatch claims the authority to be first
| rate.
Spain has officially declared that any Africans landed in
Spanish colony will be free They may elect to stay and
work under contract go back to Africa All eoored
will be absolutely free the five years appren
tceshp system has terminated
| The st. Joseph CIo) weekly Herald" heads com
municaton from St Louis Reign of Terror" alludng to
the ascendancy of the rough and the terrible of pub
lie morals 1t blames the municipal authorities for imbe
cty and the police poweress while law openly
dehed in the most public places.
War has broken out in Arizona. The communication
with Prescott is stated be cut off by the Apaches who
have certainly slain two mail carriers and probably three
Prescott itself is safe At Fort Whpple there
companies of troops, and this which General Masons
headquarters, is within one half a mile of the town.
The Vedette" informs that the 9TH inst the fire
of the 18th of December was still smouldering Colonel
Potter has saved much larger quantity of stores than could
have been expected, which will be slowed away in the
Camp Douglas Theater Three reiefs each of two com
mssiOned officers and three companies have been working
zea0usly since
The Vedette," in article Mormonism thus states
the issue TO be met 1t is to be decided how far thai
clause in the Constitution guaranteeing the right
ship God according the dictates of conscience shall give
immunity to crime against the civil law" and whether
Congress has not the to gsae for the suppression
of moral evil.
| The ''Oregonian" seems Jealous of the Cafornans
because they call the the harbor of San
CISCO the Golden Gate" They say that if they caunO
wrest that title from their neighbors they will call tn,
mouth of the Columbia the Silver Gate and they
maintain that long before they have thrown away muet
money the Washoes that the exports of bullion
thence will altogether exceed the shipments from SaI
Francisco.
An association called the California Prison Commis
son has been organized having forits objects the ameor
alton of the condition of prisoners whether detained TO
trial witnesses when convicted and the improve
ment of prison and prison discipline; the gOvernmen
OF prisons and the aid and encouragement of discharged
prisoners wherever 1t may appear hopeful and wise so
assist them. 1t is useful and philanthrOpic
JAS Woodwork of San Francisco is the Secretary
Josh Billings expresses views the subject of auto
graphs precisely He thus replies TO an anxious CORES
pondent who asked for his autograph: We never fur
nsh ortOgas in less quantities than bi the packg 1t
Dizziness that crate hev got into but it don't strike
being profitable amusing. We furnished an
very dear friend orogra few years ago for 80 days
$500 to get back We went out the Dizziness the
and have not hankered for it since"
According Secretary Stantons report since the l3t
of April, 1865 800 963 men have been paid off and mus
tered out The estimated expenses for the next fiscal
S33 S4 46lS3 based upon standing force of 80 90
men, organized admit of increase without add
tonal organizations to 81 600 troops of all arms TIL
means of raising equipping and maintaining army
the field ample. Small arms and artillery in
of any possible immediate requirement and there is thre
years supply of ammunition on hand for all the
! The New York papers of December 9th publish a lii
of five hundred prominent Englishmen who subscribed
the rebel loan John t. Deane, Editor of the Times,
several lords by courtesy, (Ons of Peers Earl FZharC
nge the Marquis of Bath Sir Frederick Pollock, (or
Chief Baron of the Court of EXchequer who decided IL
Alexandra case) Geo. Augustus Sala, c. A SpottswooC
the Queens printer, members of Parliament literary
and lawyers. James Whitesde the greatest orator th
Ireland has produced of late years. and who ATTORNEY
General for Ireland in 1859 the list together with
host of arisocrats, and traders misfortunes.
The Hon. Hugh McCuloch, Secretary of the Treasur
has furnished the annual financial report to Congress II
three subjects, currency, revenue and public debt, a
handled in mastery manner. He advocates coin bas
the only safe and Government has author
to create paper money except in great emergencies
for the time only. He advises therefore, contraction
final extinction of the paper currency by actual and gra
ua redemption. He proposes issue of six per Ger
bonds, to be exchanged for greenbacks and compou1
interest notes which latter he says should be immediate
redeemed He calculates that the for the
year will pay all expenses of Government the interest
the national debt and leave Sill 6s 3ls12 to be paid
the debt itself which, the 3ls of October amounted
So s06 $40 So. The paper circulation up the 3lst
October S704 2ls 03s. In addition this there
compoundinterest notes raising the 70 S4 2ls 0
He proposes appropriation of $500 0O0 600 annually
the payment of the national debt.
The report of the Postal Department for the year en
June 30th 1865 has been published The revenue for
year was S4, $50 $50, and the expenditures amount
to $l3 694, 72S.2s leaving surplus of S6s 430.42 II
increase of seventeen per cent, against Gig
per cent of expenditures The estimated expenses for
next year SIS, 67s, 600; the estimated
Sl7 40 SAB: deficiency 81 2O7 457 There are upe