The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1866-04-28
VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA TERRITORY SATURDAY, APRIL 49, Is

nouuced by Poland johnson, Fessenden Sumner Brown
Pomeroy, Cregn, Edmunds and MoDougaL II Senator
Cowan has begun welding the which he he has
the power TO against the Pennsylvania radicals Tho
most prominent feature of the scheme to turn the radicals
out OF office and supply their places with soldiers Judge
Peabody waited the President to-day and asked par
don for T. c. A. Dexter late Treasury agent at Mobile
and now under sentence by military court-martia or at
least some that the habeas corpus might be
invoked under the proclamation. The President informed
Judge p that the proclamation simply declaration
of policy and not to declare the termination of martial law
in the States. General Howard wants Congress define
the powers of the Freedmen Bureau and the period of its
continuance. and whether Maryland and Kentucky are
within its jurisdiction
Washington, April 13h.-In the House Highly, from
the committee mines and mining reported back reso-
uti recommending the removal Of the United States
Branch Mint from Charlotte, n. c., to Boise city, Idaho
and asked that be referred to the committee of ways
means ordered.
New York, April 13th-The Board of Health to-day.
adopted report recommending the government make
address setting forth the imminent danger of cholera
and giving the board extraordinary power within the
Metropolitan District.
Chicago, April l3th-The Tennessee House of Repre-
senatves had exciting session yesterday ending with
the newly elected radical members being admitted In s
sent @ number to form for Yer which the franchise
only to white suffrage but excludes the rebels and rebel
sympatfzers under the most stringent penalties. Pri-
yae news from Washington the United States Supreme
Court stood unanimously opposed to the ministerial oath
the Missouri constitution and the question of law
yers oath. five against its validity and four for it.
Judge Field will write the opinion of the court Gov
Hamilton of Texas dsapproves of of the ordinance
passed by the late convention; only one that nullifyng
the Confederate debt according with the Presidents
policy The Southern papers have vigorous articles
on the Federal situation called out particularly by the
civil rights bill They counsel the people of the South
wait until the next Congress and put all their trust in the
President Christopher Deerug, wife, four children,
nieces and servant boy in all eight persons have been
found myseriousy killed, under showing
hesh brutality in the of weapons. Ii is supposed
the murder committed by German laborer four days
before its discovery The National johnson Committee
Montgomery Blair President published lengthy address
Not, I,.a1 .
gst of the argument be that the South no
guilty than the supporters of the Essex Jupto and the
Hartford Convention of 1921 that both aimed at dssolu
ton Of the UniOn that the radicals striving to make
Congress absolute and that by OF their
the African population Congress- SAYS is now revo-
ntonary convention The address concludes with quo
atOn from the Presidents speech of 22d February:
stand to-day, prepared far can, resist these
encroachments upon the constitution and the Government
Thirty volunteer general ofcers-three Major GENERALS
and Bgadierare mustered out of service
The Secretary has sent fleet to the fishing grounds pro-
ect American interests Congressional action needed
at present.
Chicago, April 14th-The Pennsylvania Legislature
has passed resolution requesting Senator Cowan TO resign
Governor BrownlOw has transmitted message TO the
Tennessee Legislature in which, audiDg to the election
to fill vacancies he the result may well excite
tensions the franchise law Of June 1865 was almost
totally disregarded and in framing law the ques
ton should not be who shall be disranchsed but who
enfranchised In crisis like this should take tind
course. The anniversary of Lncolns assassination
being generally observed to-day in all eastern cities The
public offices closed by order of Secretary Seward and
flags at half mast
Washington, April l4th-The Indian Bureau yesterday
received telegram from Colonel Taylor at Fort Laramie
saying that the Sioux chiefs Red Cloud and Spotted Tai
assembling their bands the North Fork Of Cheyenne
river called the Belle Fouche. The Lame Minnie Gou-
gon and Ogallaa young tried to get party but were
quickly suppressed by Red Cloud and other chiefs who
killed their horses and up their lodges; this cousd
cred important establishing the power and authority
the chiefs Colonel Babcock of General Grants staff
going long tour of inspection through Idaho Montana
Oregon and CalifoRia. Secretary Seward, yesterday,
ordered that Forneys Chronic DE- should not be left al
his residence
Chicago April l3tn.-speaksf Coliax in a serenade
speech in Washington Tuesday expressed his increased
pride in the Union since the passage of the civil rights bill
proud recollection Congress had plainly indicated its
right to declare State and individual qualification. He
regretted tha Congress had early last summer
The President had entered and proceeded with the
periodically testing things before Congress met but moi
developing much Southern loyalty. His policy was thai
loyal men should govern preserved republic.