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The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-06-12
AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.

The resolution offered by Mr.. Ashley
in the House, proposing an amendment
to the Constitution. providing that the
President shall not be eligible to re-elec-
tion, abolishing the Office of Vice
President, and revising the system of
electing the President, strikes at the
root of at least one great and growing
evil. The history of the country shows
that six Presidents have been reelected
to a second term in the nineteen cam
paigns. 1t shows more, that latterly the
disposal of government patronage has
been frequently made with a view to
making combinations to secure re-elec-
tiOn, and that these combinations when
successful, are to the detriment of the
country. One term of the Presidency
is honor enough for one man, and each
four years will certainly present some
one among the forty millions of Ameri-
ca, eminently distinguished enough, de-
serving of the honor, and capable of
performing its duties. The disposal of
SN61bg SAOucUEO O4llCCS anu lOELl
millions of dollars is an immense lever,
for good and evil. When there is a
change of incumbents and squaring of
accounts quadrennially. there is so much
less time to perfect rings, and do "the
bad" "Liie tenure" may do tor royalty,
but il is against the spirit of RepuLli-
canism The abolition of the office OF
Vice President we do not see good cause
for, but the electoral system. as at
present existing, is also susceptible OF
improvement. Since the original Con-
stitution was framed, it has been radi-
cally amended on this point, and at
nearly every succeeding close election
an outcry is raised against the unfairness
of that adopted in place, by one or the
other parties. The ielegrams give only
an outline of the main features of the
proposed amendment, and of it's merits
we may not judge, but certain it is that
tn country has been asking a revision
of the Constitution on these points, not
as a party, but as a national measure.
The resolution offered will elicit the
views of Congress and the press,
and perhaps result in the submission OF
an amendment to the people.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-06-12
The Montana Post.
CONTENTS OF THIS NIrMRER-

PAGE l. VIVA, Will be NextG; Amendments Pro-
posed By What Birhtt; Get the Best - The
Proposed Invasion; On the Mountain Tops; Up
Like Eocket-Down Like a Stick; PendIeton
" Mcclellan Cannot Keep mp.
PACE e-Helena nd Virginia Locals.
PAGE 3-Telegrams.
PAGE 4.-Telegrams Political Items; Pen and
Scissors.
PAGE 5.-frOla Highland From Radersburgh !;
Heavy Account; There and Here The Chase
Proposal The Baruacles Have Dropped on !;
I.o. The Popr-Union Miscellaneous River
News.
PAGE 6-lnklinEs; POetry-Meagher; The Alb
surlity oft River News: From Carpenters Bar;
Pen and Scissors; The Convention; Broke Out !;
Swinging the Circle"
PAGE s.-HeeDa and Virginia Locals; Helena
Letter List; Market Report.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-06-12

WE find in an exchange startling ex-
hibit of the expenditures for intoxicat-
ing drinks, few items of which we re-
produce. There are 10000 licensed
and third more unlicensed retail
whisky shops in America. Their report
ed sales last year were 81 1000, ,9S9, t53,
sufficient to give $500 worth of food,
clothing and shelter TO 4,446, $50 per-
sons. The amount of railroad property
in the United States is $1,654, ,050, ,799,
bat small fraction over the whisky
sales OF one year. 1t exceeds, by ST.
100000 the gold and silver product of
the last twenty years, and is ten times
as large as the entire church property
in the United States, and is over third
of the aggregate earnings of the nation
Strong drink is the destroyer of virtue,
the def architect of ruin, the surest,
deadliest pittall tween the cradle and
the grave-the blighting, whitening
curse of poor humanity, and in no land
is its ravages more fearful than our
own.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-06-12

"If the man who has read all the impeach-
ment speeches through is still in the city, he
is requested to send his address to MT- 2. T..
Barnum, with a statement of the terms upon
which he will be willing to exhibit himself
AL applications on this point should
be addressed to the editor of the Gazette,
Helena, NJ. T. He had "read all the
evidence in the case some three weeks
before the speeches commenced and has
doubtless finished up the speeches ere
this.
The New York herald., 1868-10-21

(lLp poMINIoS STEAMSHIP coMPANY,FoR NOR.
ion ssmyhps my psn IsA3c pELL mATrERAa AiBs
MARLE, sARAfoGA AND NixG1nA. One Of lhe above
aud lRIchmond, Tuesday Thursday and Saturday At
Ing with The scaboard, Inland Air Line Virginia and Ten
nsssee Air Line southsde and Petersburg Railroads, and
ichmond and banvillc and Virginia Central Railroads. TAX
ing freight and granting through bills Of adng to all points
sonth and Southwest BIS o. iading signed on he pier up
s"1' '''YS'A " L. McGREADY, President
SGrsenwch. eayng pey street.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-06-03

NATIONAL REPUBLICAN EXECUTIVE CoMNIT-
rEE-William Claflin, of Massachusetts,, is
Chairman, and William E. Chandler, of New
Hampshire, Secretary of the National Repub-
lican Executive Committee. The following
is the full committee
Alabama, Joseph P. B. Stowe and E. F
Rice California. George G. Gorham; Col
orado, Daniel Welter Connecticut, II. H
Starkweather Decotah, Newton Edmunds
Deiacare, Edward G. Bradford District 0,
Columbia, B. Canover; Florida, S. 1. Bowler
Idaho, j. Cheney Ainois. j. R. Jones In
diana, c. NJ. Allen; Io,oa, Joshua Fletcher
Kansas, John A. Martin; Kentucky, Allen
A. Burton; Louisiana, M. IL. Southworth
Name, Lewis Baker; Maryland, Charles c.
Fulton Massachusetts, William Claflin
Michigan, Giddings Minnesota, John
T. Avery Mississippi, A. G. Fish Missouri
Gen. Ben. Loan Montana, S. Wilson Ne.
braska, E P. Taylor Nerada, c. T. Delong
Ne,o Hampshire, William E Chandler Neu
Jersey, James Gapsell Ne,o York, Horace
Greeley; North Carolina, William Sloane
Ohio, b. r. Cohen Oregon, H. w. Corbett
Pennsylvania, William III. Kemble Rhod,
Island, Lyman Friese South Carolina, Jos
Ill. jerks Tennessee, William b. Stokes
Teras, A. j. Hamilton Vermont, T. w
Park Virginia, Franklin S. earns; Yves
Virginia, Samuel d. kerns Wisconsin
Davis Atwood.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-06-03
The War Office.

When the nomination of Gen. Schofield
came up for action in the Senate last Friday
the approval was couched in this form
Whereas the order of the President removing
Secretary Stanton from Office was unconstitutional
and Illegal, but on account of Mr.. Stanton's having
on Tuesday, relinquished the said office, therefore
ResOtCed, That the Senate do advise and consent
TO the appointment of General SchofieId.D
The vote was taken upon the preamble sep
arately, and the senators who voted against
Impeachment, voted, if at all against this
declaration that Stanton was illegally re-
moved. The principal reason why the pre-
amble was insisted upon was because the
President, in sending in the nomination,
used the phrase, " in place of E. NJ Stanton,
removed and the majority of the Senate
were not willing to commit themselves, even
by implication, to an assent to the doctrine
that the removal did not require the approval
of the Senate. To the resolution, confirming
Gen. Schofeld, there was no opposition.
This puts Gen. Schofeld in the War Office,
and makes him Secretary, unless he resigns,
until the incoming of the next admins
tration.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-06-03
The Platform

The declaration Of principles adopted by
the Chicago convention is generally unexeep-
tionable. In convention composed of del
egates from our wide extent of territory, and
representing great variety of interests-in-
terests in some cases cOnf1icting,-it was not
possible that absolute unanimity of opinion
upon all points should be found But as
general announcement of Republican prin-
ciples, the resolutions passed with a near ap-
proach to unanimity by the convention, are
an advance upon any national platform ever
adopted by the party. We should have pre-
ferred more unequivocal declaration of the
right of all men to the ballot. and it might
have been done without raising the question
so much pains were taken TO avoid in the
second resolution A few Republicans, how
ever, in the Western States, and perhaps in
New York and Pennsylvania, are vet tender
gro in their own states, and to leave them
without an excuse for boiling the platform or
the ticket, the convention adopted the some
what contradictory doctrine that the federal
government did right in giving suffrage to the
blacks at the South, and also does right in al
lowing Connecticut and Ohio to refuse it to
the few blacks in those States. general
declaration that wherever Congress had the
power it was its duty to give all men equal
civil and political rights, would have been
out the suffrage, more hopeful announce
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-06-03

DECORATING THE GRAVES OF UNION Sol
DIERs.-Our exchanges from all parts of the
country are full of reports of the impressive
and beautiful ceremonies of last Saturday
when the graves of Union soldiers through
out the land were strewn with flowers. The
afectionate living could give no more fitting
tribute to the heroic dead.
DEATH OF KIT CARsoN-Kit Carson, the
famous man of the mountains, Fremont's old
guide in the original overland explorations,
and who also distinguished himself a fed
eral scout during the war, died at his home
in Colorado on the 23d inst.
Ex-President James Buchanan died at his
residence at Wheatland yesterday morning.
He has been i'll several weeks He was in
his seventy-seventh year.
Counterfeit five dollar bills on the Peoples
Natsonal Bank of jackson, Mich, are in
circuli ton 1t is an imitation of the genu-
inc, but very poorly executed.
The liabilities of Bedding Keith & Co. oil
London, lately failed, are roughly estimated
at from $50 900 to ESQ, 900 and an unfavor-
able liquidation is expected. The present
house has been in existence only about two
years The losses have been chiefly in pc
troleum. Most of the creditors are in the
United States, the number in England not
exceeding twelve.
The Chicago Tribune states that the Con
gregational Association of Michigan sus
pended its regular exercises when the news
was received of the nomination of Grant
and Colfax, and sang the doxology of the
church amid the greatest enthusiasm.
The English Premier, Dsraeli, has written
to Gladstone informing him that he shall nc
longer oppose the Irish Reform bill. As
Disraeli has been beaten on every division
thus far, the Liberals are probably quite in
different whether he continues the fight Oh
not.
There is but the difference of a year anC
month in the ages of Grant and Colfax
They are of about the same stature and
weight and not unlike in personal appear
ance, though it would be easy TO tell from
their faces which is the soldier and which
the civilian.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-06-03

! tuesday afternoon of last week after the
result of the vote in the Senate on the second
and third articles of Impeachment, the follow
ing letter was forwarded by Hon. f. NJ
Stanton, Secretary of War, to the President :
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON. }
May &c, 1868
SIR The resolution of the Senate of the
United States of the 2lst Of February last.
declaring that the President has no power
to remove the Secretary of War and desig-
nate another officer to perform the duties OF
that Office ad INTERIM having this day failed
to be supported by two-thirds of the Senate
present and voting on the articles of impeach-
ment preferred against you by the House of
Representatives., | have relinqushed charge
of the War Department, and have left the
same and the books. archives, papers and
property. in my custody Secretary of
War, in care OF Brevet Major General Town
send, the senior Assistant Adjutant General,
subject to your direction.
(Signed) EDWIN NJ. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
Secretary Stanton subsequently addressed
the following note to Gen. Townsend
WAR DEPARTMENT. WASHINGTON,
May &c, 1868
GENERAL You will take charge of the
War Department and books, papers, ar
chives and public property belonging to the
same, subject to the disposal and direction of
the President
(Signed) EDWIN NJ. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
Brevet Maior-Gen. Townsend
Assistant Adj utant General.
Probably Mr.. Stanton has taken the wisest
course to settle the strife over the Office he
held by this REIMBURSEMENT of it, although
we do not see that the failure of impeach-
ment proves that the President had the right
/ to remove Mr.. Stanton. The majority of the
Senate might still have held to their opinion
| that the attempted removal was a violation
of law, and have declined to approve the ap-
| pointment of a successor, but they have done
a wiser thing to end the matter by confirm
ing the nomination of Gen Schofield, -
which was done last Friday Gen SchofeId
Is unohjectionable, is a friend and hearty
supporter of Gen. Grant, and the con-
| gressional policy of reconstruction. and can
not be used by President johnson for anv
unlawful or dishonest obstruction of the
process OF recognizing the southern states
under the laws of Congress. We have never
J UGH dH duIniTer OF MT. stanton.
although in his contest with the President
our sympathies have been entirely with the
Secretary. But the controversy could not
be continued proftably for the country and
1t became quite important that all further
complications aud conflicts between the Sec
| rotary ad interim, and the Secretary actually
in possession, should be terminated by put
ting into the Office a person having the ap-
prevail of the President as well as the Senate.
MIR. Stanton's REIMBURSEMENT of the office
was, therefore, in the interest of peace, and
relieves the action of that department of all
further embarrassment and it is quite in
accordance also with the declarations fire.
quently made by him that he remained in the
Office only to vindicate the rights of the SEN
n to and tho peopIa
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-06-03

ment, and it certainly would have been what
is, and what must remain the doctrine OF the
Republican party. The party need not have
said in terms that Congress had no power
to touch the question of suffrage in the loyal
States In its past history it has unneccssa-
iIv asserted what it could not, and would
not, and had no purpose or power to do ana
such resolutions have generally returned to
plague their inventors. The Convention at
Chicago should have profted by such expert
ence. Congress has power to regulate suff-
rage in any state, or the declaration IN the
Constitution that the United States shall
guarantee republican form of government
to each of the states is meaningless and use
less. Why, then, should the Republican
paaty say it has no such power? Such equiv
ocations, and contradictions never save
vote worth saving, and are the seed from
which plentiful harvest of reproaches, re-
ordinations and repentance are sure to be
gathered The resolutions afterward adopt
ed on the motion Of Carl Schurz are nearer
the true doctrine ofsuffrage but they lack the
directness and explicitness of statemen
which ought to have found place in the
platform of the party Suffrage, equal and
impartial suffrage, for all, is now the dlstn-
gushing principle of Republicanism, and we
regret that the convention had not the cour-
age to announce it
The position taken on the subject of taxa
ton and the national debt is strong and I'M
as-ailabIe. and was as heartily cheered by
Western as Eastern men. Reputation finds
no place in the creed of our party. That
banner we leave to the party led by the La
Crosse Democrat.
The resolution in respect to President
johnson &c d just and true impeachment OF
that official, and expressed the sense of a
great majority of the Convention. There
were many present whose feelings were so
much enlisted in the subject of impeachment,
that they were eager to have the Convention
denounce the Republican senators who voted
with the Democrats against conviction, but
wiser cOunsels prevailed. Reflection salts
fed all but the most ardent impeachers, that
the trial of President johnson was. after all
a legal and not political proceeding, and
that while it was not, perhaps, improper to
approve the course of those whose conscen-
tious judgment warranted vote of guilty,
it was quite another thing to denounce those
whose conscientious judgment compelled
them to vote for acquittal.
The rest of the platform, while raising no
issue of any practical Importance now or in
the future, is well enough, and is appro-
priately expressed. The tariff was let alone
because the party is by no means a unit for
protection or free trade, and the currency
question not raised because the party is
not a unit upon that subject On the whole,
while the platform might have been better,
it might have been much worse
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-06-03

THE HAIR AND SCAIP.-Dr. George w Babcock
Scientific Dermatologist, % Winter St, Boston, sue
cessfuy treats all diseases of Hair and Scalp Loss
of Hair, Premature Greyness Badness, etc. Dr. Bah
cock treats the Hair and Scalp physician-not upon
any One Remedy System but adapts the remedies
OF The special requirements of each case He devotes
his attention exclusively diseases of the Hair and
Scalp, treating them in the most approved European
methods. and in the imperfect hitherto ge n
orally adopted in the United States. charge for
suation. pamphlet with the State Assayer's report
upon DR.. Babcock's thirteen remedies free
To Persons distanee-Dr. Babcock is treating par
ties all parts the United States, Canada etc. per
sonally when they visit him. otherwise by correspond
ence No charge altaton by letter. Remedies
carriage prepaid all parts of the United
G- Send for circular. Fl3AMl6yleop
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-06-03
COMMERCIAL.

M.BKETs.-New York, June l. Flour-i9lO bbls
Stale and Western du and 10 zoe lower; superfn a
10 fancy State 81 20 TO - so round hoop Oh
- 30 10 80, choice Western 70 To "A
southern dull and declining - 20 =
Il p; California heavy and lower at SII o. I,
II o1l3 Is Wheat 10 &c lower and heavy; saies
$500 bush Chicago spring No. 81 - @ % No. >
s. 10 Corn TO &c lower and more active sales 29>
900 hush Oats lie lower sales 81 90 bush Beefsteadv
satss 2oO bills Pork lower sales 2250 bbls. mess
SGT 90 to % l2 Lard dull and lower; sales $50
Butter steady Cotton steady sales $50 bales- Sugar
quiet and verv firm Coffee very firm. Molesses quiet
and unchanged. Oils quiet. Taow steady.
MoSErARY.-Money unchanged. Gold 1898. L. :.
Skies, 1881, coupons, 1851 Us, SGD 1862 coupons
ll2t u = 10 Hos, coupons, Ice; U. :. 7-39s I09l
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-06-03
PE9THVsAN SYRUP.

protected solution of the protaHide of Iron, which
prepared that it assimilatss with the blood,
giving strength, vigor and life to the whole stem
To take medicine diseases oCcasIonei by a
deficiency Of IRON IN THE BLOOD, without restOr-
system is like trying repair building
when the foundation l. gone.
An eminent divine says: - / have been using the
PERUVIAN SYRUP for some time past ; il gives NE
vigor buoyancy OF spirits elasticity of muscle.
Pamph lets containing certificates of aud recon-
mendations from of the eminent physicians,
clergymen and Others, will be free any address.
The genuine - PERUvIAS SYEUP'' blown in the
glass. J. P. DINSMORE, Proprietor
Ne. &c Dey 81, New York
Sold by ali Druggists. F&s2OW3=p
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-06-03
THE M ETS
BOSTON CATTLE MARKET,

THE MARKETS
BOSTON CATTLE MARKET,
Reported elsgraphed erprsssy 10 .ss Gree& -Mep
tain Freeman.
At Cambridge and Brighton. for the ,o,et
ending June 3, 1868.
The following Is the amount OF Stock Market:
''''' cattIe. Sheep. shoiss. swine Veal
This week. l742 5943 1900 1000 COO
40 1855 IS. sss 500 $1,000 $1,000 Sc
Beef-E1tra SIS 90 to sI5 IS; hrst quarry 81 %
Sl4 rs; quality SI4 90 TO Il IS Sd quality SIS 0c "a
tls IS, per ewt, on total weight Of hide tal.%w ana
ais so poorest, SC, $l2 90 to - -.
Working OIen-S225 to 325 per paIT or according Ca
their value as Beef Handy Steers $50 10 ss2o
without calves be agreed farrow and ordiHa
sroRE.-Yearlings soOto 500; twoy years ola 10 to
90: three years old, 800 to 90.
Veal Calvss-s4 to sll per head
h. on live weights or So per head live weight
shotesEWhoIesae. : to loc retail to llc
Hides-Brighion 81 TO 10 cts; Country lots, 10 81.
I,llow-7. to 81 C ss sJ lots 5n to &C.
La mbs soc fhorn 25-
Calf skins, ls TO 90 cts
Enthusiastically, of cattle this week from Name
2l New Hampshire IS Vermont 70; N4ssachuse,t-
So Canada los Western 1866 OF the Western. tey
ppy week must be small W ta the fact hat
of butchers in pressing need of cattle, some
nut the arrivals Northern r0ads3)2 hes
larger one-third, and Brighton, the
celpts o. Tuesday a much larger than anti
paed-makng the entire receipts l742 IN pisce of 1850
Tae quality and the stock ia better this week
thsn last From this fact and from what We saw q" IN .
uran.acrio conclude that the sales this week
much less uniform prices than usual Some buyers
think prices nifty certs per 100 lbs m CHER While
believe their stock, though better, cost les than
last <eek Evidently last Saturdays advance l.
sustained TIA 1ugh think this average sales ere
fracton above last weeks figures.
Business seemed rather to drag towards the close
The bulk Of the Western sold at Ii - cts 90 Il
though lot of coarse Western oxen We're -nf
cts-39 SIX, others az ID cts 10 IL cts li 3
cts IA Northern cattle Were peddied or ae
cording quality from ~ to - cts. per h SIS there
were a few premiums pairs
The sheep trade is quite different from last week
decline OF about per pound in the cost "i
sheep has seriously disturbed the balance 81
trade The butchers say they little crazy lsSl
eek in III purchases that they gave moIehan the /
were womb Iney have found TO their sorrow. The
drovers the butchers have backed down On them
al of per pound in one week, and some q
admit nearly great difference. NJ an
OF the Northern sheep rather slim- p Rice soi'
800 New York yearlngs for IL cents " hIch he - "
would have sold for 8 LIZ last week easy 50
sold at cts IS al 5 cts. per 10. &c
Live hogs rather lower