The Montana post., 1868-02-22

Frederickxburgh, Virginia, latitude 3so 20
minutes, few days before, stated it had been
showing constantly for twenty days and was
lying two and a half feet deep. It is the
same depth at the Sweetwater mines. Lati-
tude does not regulate the quantity of snow,
and there are no routes north of Washington
more exempt from IL thal the great valleys
along the proposed route of the North Pacific
Rail Road.
AZ Basin StatiOn we reach the foot of the
fourteen mile Boulder Divide, and changing
the coacb-and-four for a sleigh-and-six, the
outward bound go briskly whirling up the
ascent. We are among the mountains Well
it may be called Boulder, where the adamant-
smooth-worn by time and the elements-pre-
sents itself In every variety of shape, size, col
or and congregation, Right, left and ahead
OF you boulders of enormous magnitude stand
boldly out, alone or hesped together as con-
fusedly as are Washington politics. We have
sometimes thought il peculiarly fortunate,
for Sir Walter Scott, and n little apochryphal,
that King James found that great rock so con-
venient when he gave the fierce challenge to
the hosts of Roderic Dhu-but will never again
read the smoothly cadenced lines of the Lady
OF the Lake without reyerting TO Boulder Di-
vide and the Valley of White Tail Deer.
number of ambitious apirants for cheap no
toTiety, have somewhat defaced the natural
beauty of some of the finest boulders adjacent
to the road, by daubing them with irregular
letters, figures and hi eroglyphics, intended to
inform travellers that beings upon whom at
the baptismal font, during a more christian
and more rational period of their existence the
name represented thereby had been conferred.
A name so inscribed is always suggestive of
quack venders of Patent Medicines. new
driver held the reins, E" Bradley" Clad in
Buffalo coat and pants, perched on an eleya-
ted seat, his proportions were prodiglously ele-
phantine, and n conjecture zS to his proba-,
bic weight Immediately suggested the avoir-
dupols quantity of ''tons," just rs we think
of billions" when the statement of the Ma
tional debt is presented. Brad is a driver
all over, has been n sailor, and Snowman,
'tsince his arms had seven years pith."
Square built, and to strangers close and
uninviting as an oyster. Probably you think
there are no virtues in a man whose life has
been spent on the forecastle, the stage box,
In the stable and the ring. Returning, we
rode sIxty-fve miles by his side, driving over
a bad road with a trsacherous team and no
other passenger. He is a rather conversable
companion and has had many interesting ex-
periences, but in all that day he never spoke
unkindly to his horses or uttered a profanity
or vulgarism. How many gentlemen could
the same be written of? We chalk a score for
stage drivers We are nearing the summit
To the left, billowy sea of cone shaped, pine
covered hills; to the right, heavy range of
mountains, rock ribbed, aud reaching precipi-
prospect, drive fast. Past Boulder, Jefersou
City and Montana, at a spanking pace, and
an hour ahead of time, we entered Helena, the
commercial metropolis of Montana, and in
serting our autograph in the Register of the
International, we learn there are Russian
Baths, and as We rush in-pray excuse US a
moment.