The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1866-03-31
[WHOLE NO. "a.
NEWS SUMMARY.

rari
ent The population of New Orleans Z now 6O 600 -,
er than ever before The California Legislature inSs
nely postponed the resolution endorsing Preden, Jh
son. On the 18th ult ouly four members voting a0a;ns
motion. In the Senate only two members yotsS Ca az
resolution. The bin for the sale of the mineral ioJ
Snno. pass the Senate In speech at San Francisco
Delivered in October last Senator Stewart of Caforns
do not propose to turn these States over into ,h
hands OF the men who still defy the flag and the overn
ment and who send to Senators and Members 81
Congress men with their hands still red with Ire No. -
American citizens whom they have slain in their atten
70 uesuoy our country do not propose to receive such
men, ana do not believe that the State which sends them
Is ready to return to the Uniou The kilograms sfa,
tnat he was an endorser of the but the latest news
states that ne is welcomed convert to universal sns
trage. Nye is with the Uuion party The faIifors.
Legislature adjourned the lst of March The We
dete against the cutting off the mineral lands from
ntah looks to mining enterprise the regeuerator of
Utah The Custom House employees of San Franc;sca
refused to man. to subscribe the expenses of the Jobn
son meeting tremendous landslide occurred during
tne latter part OF February, the banks of the Yuba
rlver from seventy five to hundred acres were covered
and the river damned. 1t was caused by ditch running
along side HILL which leaked and the water running 10
the bedrock, undermined the earth bch
Slid down with heavy crash and with resistless force
trees are standing in the moved earth at present
S Louis Is IN earnest in the competition for the Mon
aa trade One hundred steamboats, are either fadn r
preparing for the mines Some have already headed for
sd tne raging Missouri the people of the East our
ade they must build boats of the kind suggested in this
paper, able to run loaded in two feet of water The
virginia tNevada) people are really scared of their
wits about Montana. The Enterprise" which eons;ders
Virginia the centre of gravity calls the mines of Monan
Outside wildcat" They have ony one lode worth ,1
ing about down there the e. Comstock y they have
spent in the extraction of the silver Nevada good deal
more than it would sell for put in the most favorable
light We propose to alter the of Virginia and cali
It oneChickyiie All the outside capital invested in
Montana mining would not up to this date make more
than good fortune for dry goods firm in New York ana
the scores OF millions of gold unearhed have paid the
miners the merchants and Uncle Sam pretty we'll More
than three thousand fortunes have been made in or ;sa
within three years and farmers numbering as many
VIII nave made their pile by next winter very many have
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IS GO Rich gold diggngs have been discovered with
in eighteen miles of Panama The Golden Era aCaI
ifornia) says Reports from the New Granada gold dig
gngs are not entirely favorable One party writes thar he
Is In the gold feds-that there is gold there man
can make pretty good wages but the Government takes
nearly all of it. The natives have also got their omen
and will grant leases" The total amount the
precious metals yielded by the mines of Pacific coast
during the past five years has been estimated S7O5 OO
OOO The San Francisco Z" Golden Era SAYS one John
H. Moore with many scoundres and some honest dupes
as partners in his enterprise has endeavored obtain the
ownership OF two hundred and forty blocks in the Western
Addition. is covered with laborers and mechanics cot
tages He will be banked The Buenos Ayers Stand
ard of November ID contains account Of the killing
OF eight hundred cattle, by an aerolite Rather fishv
long account of the suerngs of the prospecors who
discovered the Big Bend mines on branch of the CO..
ium6ia appears in the VictoEs V. L. Chronicle" They
lived seven weeks -four straight without salt Their
names were Louis Veullet Francis ArchambanIt French
Canadians, American named ...--.... and James
Spery an Irshman. After months of toll through forests
swamps ETC.. they built dugout, and having endured
tremendous haldshps, and wntered the ground they
took out thirty ounces per day. al place called French
Creek They have taken $40 600 and that there
are numberless rich creeks in that vicinity In British
Columbia which is full Of quartz there not ons mill
erected yet The TennO steamer made the first trip Of
the season up the Upper Columbia the LIST of March
The bond OF the Collector of Customs San Francisco is
81 AT Atchison, any stranger not at work is
supposed to belong to the burglars gang and the police
go for him accordingly The Idaho Weekly States
man says that Captain Mckay will from Boise with
wagon train, by way of Camas prairie for city, and
that will l65 miles. The distance by Fort Hall is
ht- anE. train rra,l = ~
route wagon road 325 miles The Nevada Legislature
has passed law that voters must previously pay their poll
tax The Acting Attorney General of Vancouvets Is
land has proposed TO amend the law concerning the Of
liquor TO Indians by making the penalty in aggravated
cases fifty lashes the bare back The richest estab
lshed church in the world is that of Mexico One arch
bishop eight bishops and about ten thousand clergy are
its officers Landed property mortgages and rents est.
mated at hundred and fifty millions of dollars with
massive cathedrals and church edices worth to-day
much as when they were constructed valued at much
more tell its riches The South Yuba CCaouia) Canal
Companys new reservoir made by closing up the lower
end of Fordyce valley is the largest in the State 1t is
three miles long by broad and will be ready catch
the melted Sacramento be fast becoming
the great manufacturing city of California The Lyon
County Sentinel says that the flour mills turn out
5 barrels daily besides larger quantities of corn meal
and ground feed; there large foundes boiler
n-works machineshOps steam mill many wagon
and carriage builders, agricultural implement makers
match and broom factories large native marble works
spice and coffee mills willow jewery, billiard table
small arms gunny and -four sack establishments (be last
making 10 600 day and l 500 900 brick made last
The Yreka (Cal) Journal saws that on the Cd
inst the bed Of the klamath river fifteen miles above the
Jacksonville road suddenly rose and hill as suddenly
sunk to level The town liberay supplied with
trout left high and dry by the receding The
Professors of the Columbia College have undertaken the
forwarding of mineral specimens etc. from the gold and
silver regions of the West the Exposition UAiursss
The latest fashion for the adonment of ladys full
dress cherelure is sprinkling of powdered gold and
diamond dust. When the mines are developed we shall
expect such freaks of extravagant folly in
Western ball rooms. Benjamin Phnney Of Rockport
wife, pretty girl whom he had married six weeks prev
ously. The Oregonian, commenting the remark
OF Webfooter raining usual" declares that the eli
mate is the finest of any in the States Territories
better than Italy 1t claims that people live longer there
than anywhere else, and that Web-foOt means adapt
ed to the grazing of cattle The goods of the Oakland
cotton mill in California compare favorably with those Of
the East Brown sheeng sells at 2f cts per yard gold
There were two hundred and seveny-fve divorce
cases last year in Chicago Two brothers named Law
renee gamblers succeeded in fleeing soldier On their
arrival at Greyown they engaged in alteration which
resulted in his woundng if not both Of the mortal
ly- In Nevada Call butcher wrapped in the sunny
memories OF the past rolled up his eleaver instead of
steak carried it home and reused consciousness
only by Biddys laughter. February 18th was aa snx-
ions day TO California wonder if the Legislature are
fools enough to repeal the specific contract all
mems lips "A ray of hope for the bachelors is darted
from the center Of Paris In the bureau they havs
discovered that the majority Of suicides are married men
for all that the liberty of the bachelor is desoate
and ill regulated freedom of the wild The Black
Hawk (CoL) Journal says, that the date Of the New
York Mining Convention has been fixed for the 18th Of
April proxmo The Oregon railroad is much talked Of
in California Ii would place Portland within three days
travel of San Francisco The Chico Couraut" says il
expects to the ronhorse snoring into Chico
his northern tour beyond Mt Shasta, within eighteen
months Next to the Pacific railway ii is the inn
porant public enterprise for California and Oregon. "A
Marysvillian in Montana informs the Marysvile HEx
press that there only four good guches in Mon
taa, viz Alder, Last Chance Confederate and 0phif
We know Of sixtyve paying gulches and 1.-THE Of the
places not yet worked Spanish the
late Admiral Pareja has been instructed annhae every
habita:ion the South American coast within reach of his
and to Immediately regain possession of the Chncha
Islands The directors of the California division of the
Pacific railroad employing five thousand coolies
and hope TO the services of teen thousand
They expect to reach Great Salt Lake City in 1868 and
propose TO meet the Eastern line at that point. joint
stock cotton raising company is organizing Vsala Cal
forna. The cultivation OF the plant in the Tulare valley
is great success In Mexico costs four hundred
dollars TO buy exemption from the DRAFT The Idaho
Legislature searching for the frauds Of their predece
sor and of the Office holders. They successful in
every case The San Francisco people beginning
advocate increased Chinese mmgratou not that they
hate the amondeyes less, but that they love railways
Mr. Doole in his speech reconstruction said
that every dollar taken out of the mines OF Colorado has