The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-02-09
NAIL THEM DOWN.

Inc reports from Montana indicate serious
danger from a famine in that Territory this
winter. The cold season set in earlier than
ws expected, and the supply of provisions is
very meager. Starvation prices have already
been obtainable IN the mining towns.-[''Clip-
pings" Cincinnati Times.
As to the women of Montana, many of them
young and good looking, go about dressed up
In mems clothes, wear short hair, and have the
staggering gait of a gambler and drunkard.
-ICorrespondent of the Kearney Herald.
Different persons are differently con-
stit'ted, and view objects through me-
diun tinged with color corresponding
to their mental condition. 1t is this fea
ture hat in great measure gives vari-
ETY. and spice to correspondence, but it is
unfortunate that in some cases writer's
are so constituted as TO contribute such
foul SANDER and base calumnies as the
above are examples of 1t is indubitable
evidence of the total depravity 70 which
mankind may be reduced. These are
not the only instances of misrepresenta-
tion we have noticed going the rounds
of the press, nor the worst Scarcely an
arrival of exchanges but contain express
sions fully as untrue as the above, clip
ped from some windy correspondence /;
and paper after paper copying them, Civ
ing an incorrect and injurious represen-
tation of our Territory. 1t has been
stated that mans life is not safe in the
streets of our largest cities in broad day !;
and that it is no unusual occurrence to
see three or four men shot down in cold
blood by murderous desperadoes who
defy all law and order. Who was before
aware that last fall the cold season set
in much earlier than was expected ,"
We had thought that when the ther-
mometer indicated 35o during the day
until the middle of December, that it
was rather a pleasant winter. The
supply of provisions is very meager"
There is grain and -four sufficient in
the Gallatin valley, grown and ground
there, to feed the people of this Terri
tory six months and there is scarce a
warehouse in Virginia or Helena that is
not piled from floor to ceiling with -four,
bacon, coffee, sugar, and every necessary
of life. Starvation prices have already
been obtained" Yesl Flour is selling
here for 50, and other commodities in
proportion, while in the valley it is so
abun dant that. holders are unable to re-
alize on their hrge stocks. "The women
of Montana go about dressed up in mems
clothing, etc" The only instances we
have seen of this kind have been among
the Chinese, and short hair is luxury
they do not indulge in. The Gazette in
calling attention 10 one of these state
ments, demonstrates it concentrated
lie" which is about the best and truest
name it could receive, although there
is not much soft soap" in it for the
writer. Our Territory is only in its in
fancy. its mineral and agricultural re-
sources still comparatively undeveloped,
and society only resolving itself from
the crudity attendant upon the usher
ing of an immense mass of people into
one locality from every portion of the
world. We have, however, great veins
of rich minerals and extensive placer
mines extending throughout it's length
and breadth and wherever they have
been properly worked have not failed to
make rich returns. Our valleys have
yielded bounteously to the hands of the
husbandman. Peace has bound her gold
en- cestus around the hearts of our peo-
pie, and Plenty emptied her cornucopia
at their feet. Life and property are as
safe as in any Eastern city or rural dis
trict, and to say the least of it, the wri-
ter of the above statement was very un
fortunate in his associations when he
saw so many women with the swag-
gering gait of gamblers and drunkards." !"
Correspondents should state the places
in which they gather their items, to pre-
vent mistaken ideas on the part of read
ers. AS base a slander as we have quo
ted is conclusive that the writer had not
been received into that class of society
which fortunately predominates in the
Territory.
THE IMPEACHMENT.