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The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-09-14
THE vULTUREs ASSEMBLING.

The morning of the battle has dawned
and fierce onslaught is made upon
Grant by large number of journals.
He is to be Immediately immolated up
on the political altar, and Prometheus-
like, bound to the rock of silence by
military regulations, he is beingplucked
at by every newspaper carrion bird that
circles in the political atmosphere.
Why? Because he is prominent per-
soRage in anticipation of the coming
Presidential campaign. He is General
of the armies. The President. by his in
depreciation of the statutes, removed
Sec. Stanton in the face of the Tenure
of Office bill, framed particularly to pre-
vent that cOnsummation. Over this
Grant had no control he was the firm
est and most faithful supporter of Stan
ton, and at the solicitation of Stanton
accepted the position of Secretary of
War ad interim position established
by precedent for the highest officer in
the armies. This was taken as an op-
portunity to raise a clamor against
Grant, as groundless as malicious. Again
the President issues an order for the
removal of Sheridan and Sickles. Grant
protests and claims the authority is
vested in the General of the Armies, as
it is. President johnson, as Commando
erin-Chief of the armies, is his military
superior. The President is firm, obsti-
nate and immovable. Grant, under pro-
test, submits, as he is IN duty bound as a
military officer, and sustains Sheridan
BY ordering his successor to enforce all
Sheridan's orders, and even persists
until a personal estrangement takes
place between him and the President.
In the case of Sickles the President over
rides Grants order endorsing Sickles'
Order No. 10, and Grant as before sub
mits. He knows as well as every think
ing man in the country that in Congress
alone rests the power to check the head
long course of the President. Any 9TH
er course would lead to a revolution.
! He is not the less steadfast and inflexi-
BILE that he is controlled by reason and
law. But here is fresh field for attack.
and tho vultures pounce upon hum again,
led by that uncertain bird ;. the n. Y.
| Tribune, with a noisome, mongrel flock
/ close in the rear of ultra radical to cop
I perheads with motives as multitudin-
Gus as they are discordant in ti,eir clam
ors. Republics are ungrateful, and the
hero that led us out of peril into glori-
Gus victory is denounced by the Denver
Netos as rebel sympathizer. Endors-
| ing Sheridan and Stanton, condemning
the action Of johnson, and maintaining
that the policy of Congress is the will
of this people, we believe that the action
of Grant, as Acting Secretary of War,
is pure, and worthy the confidence and
support of thu Union party; that he is
wholly and closely allied to the Cons
gressional policy, and that shame will
come upon his traducers in the Union
party by his unequivocal vindication in
the acts of the Forty~frst Congress.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-09-14

INSTRUMENTS REQUIRING STAMPS
The following are the instruments to- be
stamped, and the stamps to be used In
ordinary business transactions. Cut
this out and preserve it for reference:
All notes and evidences Of debt, five
cents on each 500; if under 500, five
cents; if over 800, five cents on each
additional 500 or part thereof.
All receipts, for any amount without
limit, over $40, two cents; if $50 or un-'
der, nothing.
All deeds and deeds of trust fifty cents
on each $500 in value of the property
conveyed, or the amount secured; when
a deed of trust is duly stamped, the note
secured must not be; but they should be
endorsed to show the reason why.
All appraisements of estates or of es-
trays, FIVE cents on each sheet or piece
of paper.
Affidavits of every description are eX-
empt from stamp duty.
acknowledgements of deeds, etc, are
also exempt.
Contracts and agreements, five cents,
except for rent; when for rent, fifty cents
for $500 of rent, or less; if over $500,
fifty cents for each $500 or less over $500.
Any person interested can affix and
cancel stamps.
CosT OF THE MONITOR FLEET.-The
remarkable statements of Mr.. Norman
Wizard that the cost of our monitor feet
exceeded two hundred millions of dol
lars has brought out in the New York
Times a writer who appears TO know
more about the subject than Mr.. Wizard.
His statements possess an interest TO
the general reader Independent of the
correction they furnish to Mr.. WARDS
charges. From them it appears that the
first monitor cost $275,000. The con-
tract price for the ten of the Passaic
class was $4,000 each there were
nine of these, which makes the cost of
! this feet So, 10000. The four monitors
of the Monadnock and Miantonomah
class averaged $1,500,000 each, which
makes the cost of this class $6,000,000
| The cost of the twenty Light drafts +"
was. on an average, $50O,000 each,
which makes the cost of this feet $10,-
100000. The total cost of the forty-six
iron clads was, therefore, $29 900.
The cost of the iron clads used ON the
Atlantic coast during the war did not
exceed $13, 100000. The above figures
include the cost complete, ready for the
| guns, which cost, on an average, $4,000
each and the whole of the above ex-
penditure, with the exception of the
| original monitor, was made with a great
| ly deprecated currency, with the pre-
MUM varying in gold from so to $50
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THE GAME Is oUT.-The organ of the
Democratic Central Committee takes
refuge behind dead man" and claims
amnesty. Its a very ludicrous appeal
indeed, but irresistible. Go in peace,
your whole party is playing the same
game behind Andy Jackson and it is
hard to tell which death has the closest
grip on.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-09-14

COMMITTED TO AWAIT THE ACTION OF
THE GRAND JURY.-On Wednesday the
examination of witnesses in the case of
the killing of Potter and Wilson and the
wounding of Walker, at Coalville, on the
1st of August, terminated before his
honor, Judge Titus. The following
named persons were ordered 10 be safely
confined in the Territorial Penitentiary
on the charge of murder TO await the
action of the Grand Jury: Joshua Wise
man James Mahoney, Edmund Eldredee,
Hiram Eldredge, Alma Eldredge, Nah
roni Cahoon, John Staley, Thos Dobson,
John g. Livingston, ARA Hintley. The
following persons were examined as wit
nesses in the case and their testimony
reduced to writing in their presence and
in the presence of the accused, by the
Clerk of the District Court John Walk
er (the man who was wounded), VIM.
Wilson, Jesse Walker, Nephi Williams,
Alma Lewis, John Dalton, DIR. Hamil-
ton, James Huff, George G. Snyder, Ran
soma X. Potter, Hiram B. Clements. Jno,
Spriggs, VIM. w. Cluff, Isaac Shaw,
Leonard J. Randall. The Court ordered
Grand Jury impannelled. to investi-
gate this affair, on the 14th day of Oc-
tober next.-iS. Il. Yedetts. Sept. g.
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JOHN DoAK, Who had his arm ampu-
tated in Boise CITY some timc since, says
the Idaho World of August IL, died from
lock jaw on last Tuesday. He was shot
in Silver City Las winter.
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The Montana Post.
JAS. H. MILLS - EDITOR.

With malice toward none, with charity for all
viii hrmness in the right, God gives us to see
The ght Jet finish the work we are in 20 bind
M, the Nations wounds, 90 for him who shall
have torue the battle ud for his widow and orphan
1s do all which may achieve and cherish Just and
a lasting peace arnoGg ourselves and with ali
Eations-ABRAuAN LINCOLN.
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A. II. CROSBY. n. D.

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LEONARD FRENCH, N. D.


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C0Hcosp, Jaee /, 1865.
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DIR. J. ". BARNEY.

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J0eWs eopoCJobly u . CQ9unCS0r0 IKE tOo
present; their applicatioa to our actual con-
dition is % apparent that they now come 70
as o. warning voice to b listened to With
moro attention than any previous period Of
our history. We have been cad are yet 10
the midst of popular commotion. The pas
sions aroused BY great civil war are stin
dominant 10 10 time favorable tor that
calm and deliberate Judgment which - the
euly safe guido wheo radical ehasgss in eur
institutions ere 70 b made. The measure
nov before me is one Of these changes. Il
initiates an untrisd experiment for . people
who have said, with one voics, Il ID not Tor
their good. This alone should make ~
pause, but Il 10 not Ill. The experiment
hes now been tried, Or % much - 10 de-
manded By the people Of he several States
for themselves. In but few Of The States
has such On innovation bsen allowed %
giving the ballot TO the coloeed people with
out any other qualification than residence
Of ono year, and in most Of them the denial
Of the ballot 10 this race ID absolute by fun
damental Law, placed beyond the domain Of
ordinary legislation. In most Of theGo
States the evil of such suffrage would be
partial; but small - il would b u 10 guar.
ucO W . SVuOSAs0SsVsb0s OoSIt0I 0VbO lOUs
walton assumed formidable proportions
which may easily gov to such an extent =
TO make the white population . subordinate
element in the bsdy polite. Aftes : fair
delibefation upoa sAie meosnse l can not
bring nysslf 70 approve It. even upou
local considerations, noe vst - The begin
ming Of 40 experiment on larger scale,
yield to no one in attachment 70 that rule Of
great suffrage which distinguishes our poll,
cy q nation bot there 10 . limit wisely
observed hitherto which makes the ballot Z
privilege and right and which requires a
some claasss time suitable foe probatioa
end preparation 70 give Il Enthusiastically
A aew san wholly unpsspaeed By previous
habits and opportunities 70 perfssm thu
trust which il demands, is to degrade il,
and finally destroy ito power, for it mag b
safely assumed that no political truth i,
bettsr established than that such iudiscrim
mate and all embracing extension Of popu,
lar suffrage, must end At last in tie destruc
ton.
| [Signedl Axpasw JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5th, 1867.
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CONSTITUTION Of virginia, OBJECTED tnaS Oy
its provision al powers Of the Government.
The legislative, executive and Judiciary, 70
sorted to the legislative body, holding thas,
by concentrating these in the same hands,
10 precisely the definition Of dsspotic gov.
eminent. II will be no alienation that these
powers will be exercised by . plurality Of
hands. and not BY single one. One han.
drcd aud seventy three Of these despots
would be - oppressive % one, little - Il
could avail us that they are chosen BY our :
selves. An elective despotism was not the
Government No fought for, but one which
should not only be founded on free princi>
pies, but in which the powers Of govern
mcnt should 10 % divided and balanced
among the several bodies Of magistracy -
that no one could transcend their legal lim>
ito without bsing sGectually ehesksd end
etssined By de others. Fer this
reason che convention which pass
ed the ordinance Of Government
laid it fouudasien on this basis, that the
leeislstivs, executive and Judiciary depart
msnts, should b separate and distinct, o
that NO person should exercise powers q
more then one Of them q the same time
but no barrier was provided bstwssn enes'
several powees. Thsjudieiary end sseeatvl
members were len dspsn6sot On H. lsgissa
i've for their su6siseenee Ia o(1so, ed 800
Of them for their eentiaoance Of It; Il
therefore. the Legislature assumes execasiv'
and judiciary powers, no opposition
likely to be made. or IL made, can b eject
nal, becsuse In that case they may put thei
proceedings in the form Of M oct Of assem-
bly,, which will render them obligatory
On the other banches they have, in mani
instances, decided the rights which shouls
have been LEFT 70 the judiciary. The con
troversy duriag the whole time Of the ses
sion Is becoming more habitual and familiar
NJ. Justics Story, in his cowmeuta'ie
on the Constitution. reviews the same sub
ject, and says: The truth Is the Legislative
power 10 the great and overriding power il
every free government The representa-