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The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-10-05
Another North Pole expedition.

Saws the New York Times 81 I'm
daunted by a hundred failures, from the
days of Parry and Wrangle and Scoresby
and Franklin to those of our own Kane
and Hayes a society of fifty well known
Frenchmen are going to make new eff
fort TO reach the North Pole. A gradu-
ate of the Polytechnic School, young NJ.
Lambert, is the enthusiastic adventurer,
for whose outfit $4,000 francs are to be
raised The curious point is that M.
Lambert is going to essay route never
before tried This route we can hardly
figure to ourselves, as the commonly re-
ceived maps of high latitudes are crossed
in every direction with the lines which
represent the keel-tracks of exploring
ships.
:" But the spirits of polar adventure is
one 10 be encouraged, not so much for
what may be found 'on the Pole, as for
collateral scientific results. Let us hope
that the French expedition will go better
equipped than those our own country
has sent. Everything, as experience
shows, depends on previous preparation.
Two excellent iron steamers ought to
accompany every such expedition. DR..
Hayes went in a single wooden schooner,
lacking many things and his book re-
cords how far short he fell of his object
The Russian Government have, we be-
lieve, an expedition preparing under Inn
perial auspices, from which mneh may
be hoped Here is a fine chance for
match between France and Russia,
with the North Pole as both stakes and
goal"
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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER.

--v. Suffrage General Election of S67; The
ss+-atf0us The Northwest Indians; Show your,
.yIoTs. A Startling Confession The Pioneers
So. over the Range; The Reason Why
asjrhts Majority; Mining Matters; Another
X1Tth Pole Expedition Uncle Thsd-POetry-
r,-r a-Pen aud Scissors California, Nevada,
1regou. California, Idaho, Utah, Kansas, Ne
E-lska. Prom the Upper Missouri; President
Tsking; Life al Newport; Who Killed Maxi
Mill an: Resolutions The Strongest Man in the
World. Miscellaneous
p,EE 3-The Correspondence; Indian Troubles
+, Nissaula-Petition TO the Governor; Cyrus
HsmliB Dead; Mining matters; How Paper Col
T.rs are Made; Miscellaneous.
rsEr 4-Telegrams Handkerchief FliTtatiOns
How TO get up a European War; The National
Dsbt: Pen and Scissors; Judicial Proceedings;
Viii Of Barey the Horse Tanner.
p,sE 5-A Week Among the Hills Around Bran
51p The Indian Side Of the Story Official Vote
f1r Congress Virginia Market Report Helena
Market Report
PAGE 6-The Josh Billings Papers; Satisfied with
Him.
PACE 7-Poetry-N1eu Wanted; 1. II. s; From
REYNOLDS City.
PAGE s-Yfginia Locals Helena locals vir-
rinia Letter List
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UNCLE THAD.

Private Miles o'Reily," though a
Democrat, is not an unmitigated Philis-
tine. He can even appreciate the good
points of Thad. Stevens, whom Demo
cratic editors generally seem to think it
a party duty to represent as devil in
carnate. Miles" has been writing a
screed of verse on the great Radical, oi
which the following is a specimen
Gnarled and tough from seventy Winters,
A gritty, grisly, bitter RAD
Though our Union fall to splinters,
Here's to Pennsylvania Thad
Though lame his leg, his mind is rapid,
And all the House is hushed and glad,
When to sqGelch some talker vapid-
Rises Pennsylvania Thad.
He's in candor believer.
All may know the hought he bad;
For no mealy-mouthed deceiyer
Is our wrinkleh Uncle Thad-
Colt, my old shoulder.hi
For though we think your logic bad,
You're just as brilliant as you're bitter
Here's to Pennsylvania Thad
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THE PIoNEER,s SIDE.

We give in another column the letter
of F. h Head to the Indian Bureau. 1t
is incorrect in stating the Powder river
route "a circuitous" one, as it is several
hundred miles nearer than any of the
routes to the south and west of the
Wind river range. AS regards wood,
water and grass" being scarce, it is
monstrously absurd. With the excep-
tion of belt of perhaps 80 or 100 miles,
between the North Platte and Crazy
Woman's river, it abounds with multi
tudinous streams of water as pure, cold
and sparkling as ever leaped down from
the mountains; every valley and hillside
is luxurant with nutritious grasses; wood
is abundant, and there are no unford-
able streams south of the Big Horn.
There never has been either a toll
road or bridge on the route, and the en-
tire amount of ferriage and tolls from
Omaha to Virginia city, by the Powder
river route is less than from Salt Lake
city to Virginia. Freighters can make
the trip in three or four weeks less time
than on any southern route and the
only det0ur was between Fort Smith and
the Bozeman Ferry on the Yellowstone,
and the direct route is now open through
/ the Bfidger canyon. The freight taken
over that road has not cost the govern
ment 81 900 per pound, or else the cost
1 he,
| 1t would be as proper to charge the
Powder river route with the money paid
or to be paid, for Alaska, as with the ex-
penses of the military. They have never
afforded an hours protection to an emil
grant or freight train on the route;have
been hindrance and annoyance to
travellers: an unmitigated nuisance, and
that is ALL "All freight for the last two
years has not ''gone by the Missouri
river" nor the one half of it. The pros
perity of Montana has been most seri-
ously checked this year by the Indians
and the military on that route, and we
believe it, without exception, the most
productive agricultural region west oi
the Missouri. The tribute to the "regu
lar traders" put into the mouth of Was
hakee is a thin arti6ce and does not con.
ceal the dnimus of the writer. If the
government cannot do better than it has
this season, let it withdraw the troops
notify emigrsnts that they have per
mission to get through if they can, and
our word for it, the emigration over that
route next season will reach four thous
and and the government will be spared
the painful necessity of making peace
treaties with Indians who insult the
officers with their naughty insolence.
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THE NORTHWEST INDIANS.

The Indian difficulties are springing
up in new quarter Colorado, Kansas,
Wyoming and Dakotah are compare
lively quiet, and not even rumor comes
from the Big Horn camps; when sud
denly from Oregon, Idaho and our north
western settlements comes tidings of
depredations in the region of the Ceur
d'Alene, Flathead and Pen d'Oreille
Lakes. A dozen or more prospectors
have been murdered, and the Flathead,
Snake, Unatilla, Kootenai and Pen
d'Oreille tribes are thought to be bent
on destruction. The prospectors on the
other side have gone back to procure
arms and ammunition, while the same
appeal is made to the Governor OF Mon
tana from citizens of Missoula, stating
the Indians have burned the country for
a adistance of two hundred miles, and the
Missoula valley is in imminent danger
of raid. The Governor has, and we
think wisely, furnished the settlers with
arms to protect themselves. The densely
populated camps OF Deer Lodge would
turn out hundreds of the best kind of
Indian fighters on the first indications OF
a raid in Missoula, and these minute men
working soldiers are the best protection
after all. General Crook is having the
various stragglers on the other side
placed on their reservations and has his
force so arranged as 10 prevent the
Snakes from committing any serious
depredations. With the prospectors
crowding mp to the new mines from the
east and west and as good backing as
General Crook and the Deer Lodgers.
the peaceful inhabitants of Missoula
need not, we think, have apprehension
of mOlestation.
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VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 16s

equally probable. To harmonize all
these conflicting systems and establish a
universal system over all the land /: to
carry equity Snd equality, right, justice
and progress right up to the acme with
fearlessness and expedition, there is only
only one course left. Let Congress en-
act a Constitutional amendment, whose
basis shall be Impartial Suffrage-re-
strict, qualify, and make such provision
as they will, but making it impartial to
all races, sexes and colors and submit it to
the people for their ratification. If they
reject the first, amend and repeat the
experiment until they accept, and when
once accepted we will have a uniform
system, and the suffrage question Will
be finally disposed of.
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THE REASON WHY.

The cause of the Union defeat in Cali
fornia was well known to be a local
quarrel in the Union party, having no
significance, although it did have effect,
with regard to national politics. The
Democracy rejoiced exceedingly, as they
also did at the decreased Union majority
in Maine. The eastern mails evidence
that this too was the result of a local
irritation. The Boston AdDeTtiSer, Union,
and the Post and Herald, both Demo
cratic, coincide that the cause of the de-
crease in the Union majority was the
direct result and solely caused by the
prohibitory liquor and constabulary bills
passed by the Union Legislature last
winter. So after all the ado, Democracy
have made a great cry over very little
wool
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SHOW YOUR COLORS

Grown bold by victory, and rash as
irresponsible, the Gazette, in an i1npul-
sive leader under the classical caption
You BET" launches out furiously in
favor of Taxation of United States
bonds or reputation without qualifica-
ton" 1t also proposes the immediate
redemption of United States bonds in
greenbacks." The Gazette has blunder-
ed. In its eagerness to inspire anarchy
and manifest its ardent sympathy with
the enemies of the country, it has mix
ed up Brick Pomeroy's reputation poll
cy with Pendleton's redemption policy,
which. although aiming at the same Sb-
ject. are claimed by Mr.. Pendleton's
friends to be radically distinct. These
suggestions both appear in the same ar
ticle in the Gazette. We ask, If the
bonds are redeemed Immediately how
can you tax them? If you tax them
your purpose will have been accom-
plished without redemption. Why adj
vocate both schemesl The Gazette asks
the proposition treasonable,? Unhesi-
tatingly, yes. 1t aims at the violation
of the pledged honor of the nation.
That violation affords laid and comfort"
to the enemies of the country. The
press of either party will tell you the
enemies are numerous. 1t is only ex-
cusable under the plea of ignorance, and
that is certainly not claimed by the con-
stitutional lawyer of the Gazette. 1t is
no time now TO question the propriety
of the act exempting bonds from taxa
ton. 1t is law of the land. The Su-
preme Court, with FIVE Democrats to four
U Union Judges on the bench, decided
it a constitutional enactment when the
issue was brought before them. The
act provides that at any time between
the five or ten years named ON the bond
and its maturity they may be redeemed
by the Government, but not before If
this agreement was made previous TO
the act establishing the currency dollar
as legal tender for all payments, would
not the Guzette admit the Democratic
Supreme Court decisions against er post
t1et0 laws? The United States bonds
c;n neither be taxed or redeemed at
present except by violation of law. The
Gazette can take its choice of designa-
tions, knavery or treason. The name
applied neither adds to or detracts from
the guilt of crime. The Gazette only
needs to add one more article to its
creed, and it will be shoulder and shoul-
der with the < old Guard the "!Senti-
net on tie Border" and the La Crosse
Democrat" 1t is in late number of the
Old Guard imbibing encouragement
from the news from Connecticut, Cali
fornia and Kentucky. We have an
swered the question of the Gazette We
ask if it endorses this old Guard senti-
ment. Come up to the work Yes or
no. Democracy will resume its glo-
rious march and the dreams of the Sc
cessionists become the living realities of
the future" .
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L STARTLING CONFESSION.

The Denver News of the 10 says that some
one at Ellsworth Is telegraphing Indian hoaxes
to the st. Louis and Chicago papers for the
purpose of driving travel from the Smoky Hill
TO the Central Railroad route. We strongly
suspect that good deal of that kind of work
has been going on all the time.-[Salt Lake
Telegraph, Sept. %.
Indian hoaxes are no new things, and
we know of no one more competent,
on the principle of set a rogue to catch
a rogue" to fathom such things than the
Telegraph. That Mountain Meadow
affair suggests itself at once. Three
men-Charles Wilson, Isaac Potter
and John Walker-not good lNoImOns-
were arrested at or near Colville,
Utah, in August last, upon the charge
of threatening to bring Indians and
clean out the town" They were put in
Jail. Two Mormons guarded them. That
night sixteen men took them out. Here
is the account given by the Telegraph :.
/" About IL p. m, one of the guard hav-
ing occasion to go outside, the prisoners
attempted to escape. They were fol-
lowed short distance and the guard
fred. Potter was killed instantly, and
Wilson was killed and his body was
found in Chalk creek. Walker was
wounded but escaped. A Coroner's
inquest was held to-day. A number of
Indians 1cere seen around here last night" ="
That last remark is intended to be very
suggestive. The first assertion was
sworn before Judge Titus to be false by
Walker, who reached Camp Douglas
three days afterward. He identified ten
good Morlnons as parties in the affair.
They were examined and sent to prison
in charge of e Mormon marshal; bid the
marshal good bye at the gate" and
drove off We look upon the affair pre-
cisely as the Telegraph does, that a
good deal of that kind of work has been
going on all the time" But it is very
indiscreet for the TeLegr0ph to admit il.
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With malice toward none, with charity for AL,
" s--+oess in the right as God gives US to see
Fil- FiLt Iet US finish the work we are in, 20 bind
i8s ~ Nations wounds, 20 care for him who shall
W - Wt0r,e the battle, and for his widow and orphan
y, an hich may achieve and cherish Just and
eu.71,- peace among ourselves and with all
s...so-s-ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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HAIGHT's MAJoRITY.-The Sacra-
mento Union gives the official returns
from thirty-three counties and the re-
ported returns from fifteen others, leav-
ing two to hear from. The vote in ,foots
up "a, ,107 with a majority for Haight
over Gorham, of 8.745. Klamath and
San Diego. the counties not heard from,
only polled 25S votes at the general cleo
ton of 60. This would bring the State
vote up to S4,395. The two counties
will probably increase Haight's majority
100 votes. The total vote in 1865 was
80, ,466. In 1864 it was 1O5.975.
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General Augur estimates the force
necessary to subjugate the Indians at
10000, three-fourths cavalry. Gen. Har-
ney fixes the number at 100000.
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rAs. III. MILLS, - EDITOR
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-03-28

phlInHtnroptc OpeTuIlOn ne mao Tile mo
LITIGATION toSsce thaAit WAS beneHttine
the Southerncr also, and III at once his
puritanical conscience bccame veryfte
der, and NJ turned abolitonist aud Sc,
about to destroy the institution 81 his
planting. Slavery then became in lis
estimation what bear batting had been
to his ancestorsr-that is, "thg sum OF
all villainies'i But, it has transpired
that his hatred Of slavery is precisely
like the hatred of bear. batting Fol
the ancient Puritan managed to destroy
both the bear and the spectators, and
his modern desce ldcnt is iaboring with
all his might and main TO destroy boAh
Tie Stare and his master!
But let us turn to England again for
q moment. The Puritan got control
Of Parliament, or rather of the House
Of Commons. A quarrel ensued be.
tween that body and the King The
latter was impolitie, stubborn and I'M
reliable. A wal was the result. The
Parliament called alarge army into ex,
%istence and was successful. The Par
Lament wanted to dispose of the King
entirely, and in order to accomplish the
purpose, laws in violation of the letter
and spirit of the British Constitution
were passed and the King was led to the
block and Pnritans reigned triumphant
for a time. But the Parliament was
not long in finding ont that the army
Of its own creation had given it and
the country a master. Oliver Crom-
well dissolved and dispersed the Par
Lament at the point OF the sword and
ruled old England with far more rigor
than any Stuart ever dared attempt
The nation at length became tired of
%Puritanica! misrulc and hurled that
patty from power and recalled the ex-
lied son of the murdered king, and re-.
stored him to the throne of his father
wiM 1.-THE preroydtives claimed by the
latter, In the days of their power the
Puritans had coniscated the property
of their opponents they now suffered
by confiscation in turn, or at least they
had to restore the property they had
taken by coniscation. Let Butler b,.
ware! So .....qtr.. E .ialE.au,-
History. repeats itself. Puritanical
New England has always shaped the
policy of the Government to protect and
advance her particular interests. New
England now controls the House of
Representatives, the Commons of
America. The House is passing cx-
traordinary laws looking to the i'm
parchment Of the President. 1t is
creating an army. The army may give
the country a master, some Oliver
Cromwell, who will enter the halls of
congress and dispense that body at the
point Of the sword.
History repeats itself. The nation
may at some time, get tired of Radical
misrule and hurl that party from pow
er and recall the Conservative party
with all Of its constitutional principles,
and restore peace, prosperity and hap
pincss to our now impoverished and
suffering country. History will repeat
itself. g..
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Found Dead.

Jerry Burke. Il well known citizen OF
this county, left town on the evening OF
the 10th inst, for his home some ten or
twelve miles away. He got within
about three miles Of home, when, il
seems, he got down and tied his horse
to a tree, and taking the blanket from
under his saddle made it a pillow for
his last sleep. His family had heard
nothing Of him for neal q week, when
a general search was instituted, which
resulted in the dicoycry of is %lifeless
body. His horse had gotten loose, and
was picking grass near where his mas
ter was sleeping in death.
Mr.. Burke seems to have been highly
esteemed, and his death is much re-
GREETED by those who knew him. The
cause ofhis death is not known, but it
supposed that strong drink had
most to do with it. At least, when he
left town he was under the influence of
An additional warning to the
thousands We constantly have, that we
should touch not, taste not, and handle
not Intoxicating beverages.
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New York Politics,

The charter elections, in this State,
50 far as heard from, present some graf
flying results. The Democracy carri-
ed Rochester, Fish heing elected May.
or by a majority of92, which is q Dem
ocratic gain of 1896. The Democrats
also elected ten Of the fifteen Alder
men.
In Troy the whole Democratic tick
ct was successful. Hon. j. l.. Flagg
was elected Mayor over James For
syth, by n majority Of 2I5.
In Albany Charles Wilson, Demo-
was elected Mayor, and the Demo.
carried Lansingburg. Oswego,
E!mira, and Auburn, have gone Radi-
cal.
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At Home and Abroad.

We hope Senator Nye and ex-Speak
er Banks are half sincere in their pro
LESSONS of sympathy for Ireland, but
we doubt it, much as we dislike to ques.
ton the motives of gentlemen in high
places, and our reasons are that these
men,who cry aloud against England and
Austria. are, by their votes, imposing
worse expressions upon the South than
ever Austria or England imposed upon
Hungary or Ireland, When the Hun
garian revolution was in progress, all
denounced the despotism of Austria
But in that absolute monarchy, there
are. at this time, in the Diet of, Hunga-
~, a majority of pardoned rebels. In
the case of Ireland, we see her, with
her six millions of people, represented
in the English House of Lords, and
with one hundred representatives in the
Charity, gentlemen, is al.
ways kind and wise for the oppressed
as for the hungry, but it HIGGINS at home.
You are treating the South, to day
than ever Austria or England
treated Hungary or Ireland.-N. Y.
Express. 'l4 Fob ~ slI-9 a-o
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A Nice Present.

A young gentleman asked a young
lady, to whom he "owcd u present."
what she would prefer. ~ would pre-.
ter,' said she with a bcwitching smile,
"to have the Winchester Home Jour
nal sent to me for twelve months. 1t
will cost only IS and ! will be certain
to think of you every time | receive a
copy, Any other present l might put
away, and tire of it perhaps, but a fresh
newspaper, besides atrording food for
my mind will be used in a thousand lit
tie ways, and the person who thus con-
tributes to my enjoyment and necessi.
ty will rarely be out of mind or heart"
1t is unnecessary to say we have put a
new name upon our books, and our cash
receipts have been increased. This
WAS Il sensible "sonsie lass" and we
commend her advice to young men
who are at a loss us to what they shall
give their hearts idols, and finally, per-
haps, fall upon some such stuff as their
picture, or gilt-cdSed novel of nom
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A Fashionable Wedding.

From the n. Y. Home Journal
On Tuesday evening the Church of
the Holy Trinity, corner of Madison
avenue and Forty-sccond street was
thronged by the fashion and wealth of
the city, to witness the marriage of Mr..
Charles Rockland Tyng-son of Rev.
DR.. Tyng--to Miss Mary Edmonds.-
1t was one Of the most picturesque
and beautiful weddings we have ever
had the pleasure of witnessing. The
interior Of the church is very beautiful,
and, upon tho evening of which we
write, filled with elegantly dressed la
dies, it looked anus lally so The gas
is so arranged that no fixtures are seen,
and when the stained glass dome and
windows are Illuminated, the effect is
truly grand. The cards announced
the commencement Of the ceremony at
eight O'Clock but, as it if not fashion
able to be punctdal at a wedding, the
brida! party did not make their ap-
pearance until half-past the hour. Tie
bride wore a white corded silk, cut
low, with an immense train, and tulle
vail.
Rev. DR.. Tying performed the ccre-
mony in an impressive manner, and, as
the bride and bridegroom stood be-
fore the ALTA, with the purple and Grim
son light shining upon them from the
dome, it formed Il most beautiful, and
withal, impressive picture. At the
conclusion Of the ceremony, Dr.. Tying
embraced them both. Previous to the
arrival of the bridal party, the organist
performed q beautiful selection ofopera
music. We noticed that some Of the
ladies wore their Mignons very high,
and Of immense size, with two very
thin and cx%travagantly long curls down
the back the whole effect, indeed being
very ridiculous. 1t is in better taste
perhaps, to accept the fashionsin mod
Grafton, tlian to adopt these eccentric
nctrr,onS .ll'.a- .. .H ..t|'. . .r