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The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-01-12

the feeling against the President and
the judiciary, who are believed 10 be
hand in glove combined together in
their opposition 10 the representatives
of the people The evil effect of these
decisions cannot be over-estimated. 1t
and military uthorities-disurrange the
entire political and social system of the
country, and plunge US in sea of ruin.
The commission who tried and con
victed the assassinators of President Lin
coin are guilty of murder, and those who
were exiled to the Tortugas are free and
entitled TO bring action for false arrest
and imprisonment. The probable conse-
quence of this action will be the inn
parchment of President johnson Of high
crimes and misdemeanors, and when
he is impeached he will be convicted and
the people of the North win sustain the
action of their representatives. We base
this assertion on the facts that the en-
croachments of the Executive renders
his. impeachment matter Of selrpreser-
vation. That his conviction will follow
is evidenced from the fact that there are
but three members in the House. and a
like number in the Senate, who sustain
his policy and the caucus of the Repub-
licans showed an almost unanimous feel
ing against him awaiting only the ac-
ton of the Judiciary Committee. 1t is
not the question, whether or not it shall
be done; but. how. That the people will
approve the most radical conduct of Con
gress, is proven by the 400,000votes that
declared against him at the recent cleo
tions. In case of impeachment it rests
with the House TO draw up the charge,
or charges, which are presented TO the
Senate, and with them rests the convic-
tion or dismissal, il requiring a two
thirds vote to convict The following
are the probable pleas which will be
made in case he is impeached: First
For publicly and officially making indie
cent, inhamatory and dangerous har-
Tangues Second-For an abuse of the
pardoning power. Third-For compile
ity in the New Orleans massacre. Fourth
For refusing TO execute the laws.
Fifth-For appointing rebels to Office in
defiance of law
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STILL ASoTHER.-We have on our
table the first number of the Transcript,
published in Golden City, Colorado.
That genial gentleman and accomplish
ed scholar, Geo. West, Esq, is editor
and proprietor. 1t stands on the indie.
pendent platform, proposing to be 'own-
ed by no clique, controlled by no faction,
and hampered by no local prejudices."
The first number contains sixteen col
umns of reading matter devoted to the
interests of the Territory, and will no
doubt be properly appreciated by Colo
radians. We extend hearty welcome
to the newcomer, wish it abundant sue
cess, and note the ''P. Y with pleasure.
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The Trouble. i'm Utah.

The Mormon Church Counsel hav-
ing recently decided to confine the deal-
ings of the Saints to their own people,
quite number of GENTLE merchants
took umbrage at their proceedings, and
the following card was presented:
To THE LEADERS OF THE MORMON
CHURCU.-GeHttemeH As you are in
structing the people of Utah, through
YOUR Bishops and Missionaries, not TO
trade or do any business with the Gen
tile merchants, thereby intimidating and
coercinn the community to purchase only
of such merchants as belong to your
faith and persuasion, in anticipation OF
such crisis, being successfully brought
about by your teachings, the under
signed Gentle merchants of Great Salt
Lake City, respectfully desire to make
vou the following propositions, beliey-
inc il to be vour earnest desire for all to
leave the country that do not belong to
your faith and creed, namely;
On the fulfilment of the conditions
herein named;
First-The paymenF of our outstand-
ing accounts owing us by members OF
your Church.
sSeeOudIy-All of our goods, merchana-
Use. chattels, houses. improvements, etc,
10 be taken at cash valuation, and we
10 make a deduction of twenty-five per
cent. from total amodnt.
To the ful6lment of the above we hold
ourselves ready, at any time, 10 enter
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into negotiations, and on final arrange
ments being made and terms of sale
compiled with, we shall freely leave the
Territory.
Respectfully yours, Gilbert a Sons,
Walker Brothers. Rodenberg x Kahn,
w. Sloan, G. Prag, of firm of Ransohoff
q Co. Ellis & Bros, by j. NJ. Ellis !;
AIGrorty & Henry. j. Meeks, f. Auer-
back & Bros, Siegel Bros. Oliver Du-
rant, l.. Cohn < Co, :. Lesser & Bros,
KlopstOck 81 Co. Glucksman & Cohn,
Wilkinson & Fem, Morse. Walcott & Co.
j. Walters, J. Bauman & Co., NJ. B. Cal
lahan, Norris Elgutter, Thos. ID. Brown
Sc Son.
Great Salt Lake City, Dec. 20. 1866.
On the receipt of this Brigham Young
replied in a communication of consider
able length, of which the following is a
synopsis
GentJemcR: We will not obligate our
selves to collect your outstanding ac-
counts, nor buy your articles of mer-
chandise. We as merchants, would like
to find purchasers for our own goods
upon the same basis. Your withdrawal
from the Territory is not matter of
anxiety to us, and you are at liberty to
remain or depart, as you please. We
have used no intimidation or coercion to
prevent the people from trading with
any class they may choose, nor do we
contemplate such a purpose; and we
have not sought TO ostracise any man OF
body of men because they were not OF
our faith. We have not been exclusive
in our dealings, but every man who has
dealt honestly and pursued legitimate
business has been fairly dealt with. 1t
=
viii treat him with kindness, if he is
just in his dealings and conducts himself
as a good citizen should. There is a
class, however, who are the avowed en-
emies of this community, and they have
used their every energy to accomplish
our rain. They have encouraged viola
tions of the law, and retarded the ad-
ministrations of justice; they have sus-
tanned a venal press, which Hbelled our
best citizens, and while deriving support
from our people they have used their
means to destroy us; they have ennis
saries at Washington to villify and mis-
represent US, and entered into secret
combinations to resist the laws. Such
persons have no claims upon our patron
age. 1t is these men alone to whom
am opposed, and / will use my influence
to prevent our citizens from dealing with
them. BRIGHAM GOUNG.
Salt Lake, Dec. u. 1866.
This all appears frank, honest and
charitable, but the Vedetto of later
date asserts that it is a mere disguise to
deceive the outside world, and that a
spirit of fierce intolerance actuates the
Mormon leaders. In proof of this it
gives the names of a number of mer-
chants residing in remote portions of the
Territory who have been compelled to
quit business because the counsel .
was received by the people as the die
tum of the Church, and was implicitly
obeyed. In nearly all of the one humid
red towns and settlements the bishops
have scanty stock of groceries and dry
goods of inferior quality, which they sell
at a heavy advance, and this is supposed
to reveal the method in their mad
ness /"
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PETITION FOR A POST OFFICE.

Among the many disadvantages which
the settlers of our mining camps and ag
-ricultural districts labor under, there is
the want of postal facilities. They live
remote from each other, having but little
reading matter, and longing for news
from absent friends and the great out
side world they await with feverish anx-
iety the coming of the erratic express
man, or the return of some random trav-
eler who has made trip to the post
office town, located, perhaps, hundred
miles distant. The expressmen, as a
rule, are not regular in their trips, and
their charges tend to diminish the num-
Der of letters and the circulation of
newspapers. 1t is the duty of Govern
ment founded upon Republican princi-
piles, and whose prosperity depends upon
the intelligence of its people, to grant
them all the privileges circumstances
will warrant, which tend to enlighten
and cultivate them, and one of the chief
of these is postal facilities. In Gallatin
county there is population of 5000, of
whom 1000 are entitled to suffrage, and
yet there is not a post Office in the coun-
ty.. On every letter they receive they
pay fifty cents in dust, and for each news
paper fifteen cents. That this has per-
nicious effect upon the people is beyond
question and being a permanent popu-
lation, engaged in. agricultural pursuits
in the largest and richest valley in the
Territory, they feel they are entitled to
at least one post office. As an express
sion of this feeling they have prepared a
petition to the Postmaster General for
the establishment of a post office at a
central point in the valley. 1t is signed
by a large number of the inhabitants,
and recommends Hiram Blake, Esq, for
postmaster. This petition will be for
warded at once 10 Washington, and it is
to be hoped that before the ides of March
there will be a regular mail to the Gal
latin
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the conviction IS had and from tho
number of the violations of the law, we
apprehcnd that If the proper person does
his duty. there viii be quite an addition
to the schooI-fund of Virginia after the
next term of court The proprietors OF
these institutions are either making
sufficient money to enable them TO defy
the law, or have an abiding faith in the
decision prcnouncing the Legislature
that enacted it illegal However well
meant, this law is of but little avail !;
and we predict that, legal or illegal, it
will be but dead letter on she statute
books, and is in itself an abortion We
are not in favor of gambling; never
have, and never purpose stalking u pen
ny and yet, we believe that if these
men pay their license, they have the
same right to conduct their games on
Sunday as the merchant has TO sell his
wares or the manufacturer TO produce
them. The merchant is equally guilty
with the gambler; for the law is either
founded upon the precepts of the Bible,
or the custom of civilized people. The
first will condemn the merchant as soon
as the gambler, on the abstract question
of the violation of the Sabbath-and so
will the latter The public and univers-
al desecration ofthe Sabbath, is "a subject
worthy of consideration. and any means
that would lead toits better observance
would be a blessing indeed but if it
consists in the closing of the establish
ments of few of the desecrators, while
the mass are permitted 70 go scot free, we
are unable TO appreciated it. 1t is point
which law is not competent to reach.
The reform must begin in the hearts of
individuals, who by good example will
influence others, and thus lead up to
that contamination most devoutly to be
wished" The questions, as to the neces-
sity of one days rest in seven, and the
necessity that all men in the same com
munity shound fix upon one day, are be-
yond controversy. Experience has pro-
ven the former, and the latter is self
evident and laying aside the commands
of the Bible, a respect for the moral
sentiment of Christendom indicates the
first day of the week as that upon which
weshould refrain from unnecessarylabor,
and offer up those alterations to Deity
which are instructive in every rational
being. Considered from practical, bust
ness point of view, it is advantageous.
When the custom is established, people
will feel no more necessity for seven
days labor, than they do now for eight.
Let business be suspended on this day,
and purchasers will come on some 9th
er; your receipts will not be dimished,
while your expenditures will; you will
have one day of liberty from toll, and
your employees will feel grateful for a
day of rest. During these wintry times,
when all are complaining of dullness in
trade, let conscientious men 60 hand-in-
hand in this good work, and set an ex-
ample to the goddess and the gamblers.
Then it will be time enough to cast
stones, when yourselves are sinless.
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sABBATH DEsECRATION.

Any one who has been in Virginia
on the Sabbath day since December 13,
1866, would hardly suspect, from the
crowded gambling-houses and concert
rooms, that since that day an act of the
Legislature has been in force which
makes it unlawful for any person or
persons to keep open any playhouse,
theatre, dance-house, hurdy-gurdy house,
prize-ring or race-ground or any house
or other habitation wherein any game
of chance is played; or open any bank
ing game at cards, on the Lords day, "
under penalty of from five to one hun
dred dollars, or imprisonment for from
one to thirty days for each offense. Yet
such bill was passed and duly approx
ed. and so stands upon the statute-books
of the Territory. The proceeds of fines
thus collected are to be devoted to the
common schools of the county in which
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-01-12

The CAPITOL AT WAsHINGToN.-Bot
wings of the capitol at Washington are
announced as completed, with the excep-
ton of the large columns which are to
ornament the House extension. These
columns are of Maryland marble, the ex-
tension having been quarried, at Lee,
Massachusetts. The sandstone of which
the main edifice was constructed was
from Virginia quarIies, and much of the
interior of the extension is from Tennes-
see. In the huge dome there are about
100000 pounds of Pennsylvania iron
the roofing is of Lake Superior copper,
and much of the lumber used is Georgia
pine. 1t has been the endeavor to con-
struct the capitol, as far as possible, of
American material, and in it to repre-
sent the production of all parts of the
country.
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WHOLE NO. 125.

ing. If You have a big stock, good
stock, or a cheap stock, tell thepeople Of
it in every conceivable way YOU can do
SO, aud persist in calling their attention
toit. They may vote YOU 2 bore, but
they Will buy your goods. They may
laugh at your presumption, but they will
acknowledge your enterprise, and when
you build that corner house with the
huge vault, and fill it with the best
stock in che market, they will say: He
had go ahead in him. and deserved sue
ross
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: goo. .3I9. 5s5 90
MAR nEPNRTMENT.

Since the date of the last report, Nov.
Is. 1855. there have been mustered ont
222. .O5S volunteers, including 1904 col
ored troops. leaving 11,045 in service,
10000 of whom are colored. Upto Nov.
Z 1865. the entire number Of volunteers
mustered out amounted TO l,O25,62l.
From Nav /. 1865, TO Aug. ,, 1866, over
2O7 600 horses and mules were sold for
S15 26g O75. 400 barracks, hospitals
and other buildings were sold for S44',-
s7314. Damaged clothing S902,7'O-
The immense fleet of $50 ocean trans
1,orts. which were maintained at a daily
expense of SS2, 400, have been almost
wholly discharged. The river trans
,,orts have all been disposed of, and the
military railroads and telegraphs have
either been sold, transferred or discon-
timed. The regular army now mum
hers 543O2 officers and men, and the
total strength when filled up viii be
"a $50 During the fiscal year ending
June 30. 1866, S1O.431.O .OO4 were dis
burzcd 10 the army and military
academy. and S24s,943,3l3 to vol
unteers. The estimate for next year
IS fixed at S17,72S, $50. About l59'-
600 freedmen are being educated by the
Government. and schools are also estao-
-ished for the children of white refugees
In view OF the depredations COMMITTED
by the Sioux. Arapahoes, Cheyenhes'
Eiowas. Camanches. Apaches, NaVaJoes
and Utes, General Sherman proposes 70
-onfne them within certain terrltorlai
limits, leaving the whites the exclusive
use of the belt east and west between
The Platte and the Arkansas, through
which passes the stream of travel 70 the
mountain territories. The Generals IN
command in New Mexico. Oregon, WASH
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-01-12

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has written
a letter descriptive of the Pacific railroad
excursion. On the trip the party cross.
ed prairie-dog village, of which Train
says A million dogs. Two shot. An
coma kills dog; Painter a rattlesnake
five hundred shots, and two killed. ]
shot none because / could not see what
harm they had done. They were not
rebels. How peculiar they live A
prairie dog, an owl and rattlesnake, in
one hole. A radical, a conservative and
a copperhead, living in one happy fam
ilv -
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PEN AND SCISSORS.
Colorado.


The Smith x Parmalee Company have
struck rich pay on the east end of their
mine, and are running three mills, num-
bering fifty y-seven stamps. The Tunes
complains of n want OF milliners, and ap-
peals to philanthropists for a supply
We would think " millionaires prefer
able. Morton G. Fisher, formerly of
Colorado, is contractor of a line of street
cars in the city of Paris. a.. Persons leav-
ing Denver on Monday morning, reach
New York the following Saturday.
Boulder county is coming forward in the
estimation OF operators, and James creek
is claimed TO be I" the best thing in the
mountains There are 900 men at
work on the Smoky Hill and Denver
Railroad. . The wife of John Daley,
Esq, one of the proprietors of the Rocky
Mountain Nelcs, died on the 22d ult.
100000 worth of revenue stamps were
used in the last twelve months on the
deeds of mining property recorded in
Gilpin county. =. The Denver papers as
sert that crime is on the rampage in that
city, and that " the bloody days of go
seem to have returned" The last ex-
plot is that of Mary Chaffee, who en-
tered Cheney's billiard-room and made
an attack with cane and dirk upon Jo-
seph Eevine. With the latter she sue
ceeded in infiicting three serious wounds
upon her victim. One of them quite dan
gerous. There are two sons of the fa-
nous Fred. Douglass now setting type in
Fred Stanton's Gazette Office, Denver.
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4 CoUNTRYNEN who attended fash
ionable party where the ladies wore
their dresses cut very low in the neck,
was asked by the host if he had seen
such a sight before. "NoP said he
most emphatically, not since l was
wssaned +"
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ARIZONA. = Governor Mccormick. of
Arizona Territory, in his late message
says, there is not single stage coach
running in the Territory, although it
has been organized nearly three years.
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= O1rr igcats az the different toirUs
ltd uniai"g cstmps qf tic T5rritory and
ssrfrrr 5-iH Ple0Sa take Hotice that the
-rlts ct' subscription fer TIE PosT Hcre
r.e 'ncroased to $3.50 per qyarter, $500
,. s.r months, and $500 tDy one yc0r.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-01-12

IN life of fifty years a man makes
upwards of 500,000,000 of resPirations.
and drawing through his lungs nearly
40 tons weight Of air, and discharging
nearly 20 tons weight of carbonic acid.
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Utah.

John T. Geary, formerly book-keeper
for Staines & Needham, attempted sui
eide on the 31st ult. He shot himself
through the body, the ball passing just
below the left lung. Wound probably
fatal-cause. family troubles. :. "A Mr..
Butler, formerly government herder,
was attacked by two ruffians armed with
clubs, near Grantsville, while returning
from ball. He was severely beaten,
but escaped with his life. . . Brigham
Young in his Sunday sermon designated
an old and well established firm as one
that must not be epatronized by the Saints.
THE Mormons have stolen our thun-
der. Father, come home" was an
nounced for new years eve. The Tel
egraph is highly indignant at the action
of Congress in interfering with their "pe-
culiar institutions" and denounces the
rotten-hearted clique who are urging des-
perate and despotic measures against
Utah"
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The reports of the different heads, of
apartments are too lengthy for inser-
sion in our columns. and we present
merely a summary containing the most
important points.
THE TREASURY.
The Secretary recommends the dimin-
.,ipn of internal taxes, and says with
proper economy the present generation
an pay the debt. He regrets that, not
withstandinE the satisfactory condition
NJ the national treasury in other respects.
hut little progress has been made toward
-he resumption of specie payments. He
IS of the opinion that the honor of the
government requires an early withdraw
Al of the legal tenders, leaving the ma
sional banks to supply the currency.
Ike recommends reduction of the cur
-cnCy, and such revision of tho tariff
IS will give new vigor to productive in
iustry throughout the Union. He urges
the issue of bonds at four and a half or
five per cent. payable in Europe, to be
exchanged for our bonds now held there,
federal stock IN Europe Upon the
-,,,.s+;,,, of contracting the rurrppry- ba
5 of the opinion that il would have n
disastrous eHecIND ne explains AT
length his action in the disposal of sur
plus gold, and is of the opinion that
- ,,,,-,,,ar,t., ,,,a,. no or ouob+ 20
=, ras,,,,,a5 l,,- Jr1v 1858 The follow
=rr &c = statement of the debt of the
.,,,,
Anlteu SIaOes Oh beS- l. lOOo-
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The decrease in the public debt from
-he highest point is stated by the Secre-
-ary as follows:
Debt August tlS65..--..--.--...S 195, sU3 6c6 90
NH October 81 IS66..........-.. ? 55l 424 l2l 90
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GOVERNMENT REPORTS.

The reports of the different heads, of
apartments are too lengthy for inser-
sion in our columns. and we present
merely a summary containing the most
important points.