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The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-08-07
THE IDAHO PLATFORM.

The Republican party of Idaho in
Convention assembled, adopted the fol-
lowing local planks in their platform.
Our neigh bors are quite radical in their
ideas on the Indian question. The de-
claration in favor of railroads and tele-
graphs is worthy of ratification by all
the Territories. and the duty of the Ida
ho Delegate might well be one of general
application. .-..
Resolved. That we believe it to be the dn-
ty of the Federal Government to indemnify
citizens of this Territory for losses incurred
by the late Indian wars and depredatious.
Resolved, Thst the present Indian policy as
applied To this and adjoining States and Ter
ritories is faulty and calls for radical reform.
Resolved, That in consideration of the un-
reQuited privations and expenses incurred by
the citizens of Idaho Territory in protecting
themselves against the ravages of Indians,
and other hardehips incident to frontier life,
il Is the duty of the General Government to
donate to each actual settler one hundred and
sixty acres of the public domain.
Resolved, That il is the duty of our dele
gate in Congress to represent and labor for the
interests of our whole Territory, and not for
a party.
Resolved, That il il the duty of the Gov
srnment TO foster liberal and vigorous sys-
ten Of railroads and telegraphs nest of the
Rocky Mountains
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CHAs. G. HALPINE DEAD.

The dispatches announce the death
of Chas g. Halpine, better known, per
haps, as Miles O'Reilly, and late editor
of the New York Citizen. He was an
Irishnan by birth, sought America, the
land of the free, in the dawn of MANHOOD,
and landed, penniless emigrant, in the
great western world. Trudging up the
streets of Boston somewhat in the spirit
Franklin wandered in the streets of
Philadelphia, he entered a newspaper
office and requested work; it was given
somewhat reluctantly, but the Irish boy
had the fire of genius in him, indomi-
table will, steady industry, and brim full
of ambition he worked his way up rap
idly until he attained prominence as a
journalist and poet of acknowledged
merit. Entering the Union Army in
the New York volunteers, he rose to the
rank of Colonel by meritorious service,
and was, we believe, Adjutant General
on the staff of General Gillem, in the
Carolinas. Over the nom dc plume of
Miles o'Reilly, he wrote some of the
iSeenest wit and sarcasm. numbers of
spirited war lyrics, and several of the
most exquisite poems of thewar; among
them, "We have drank from the same
Canteen, and one on the Return Banquet
of the officers of bis regiment, published
with fine illustration in HarpcTs'. AL :
though Democrat, he was the most un-
relenting enemy copPerhead ever had,
and while a warm friend and ardent admi-
rer of Grant and Sheridan, making them
the theme of numerous popular ballads,
he declared against the former in adj
vance for Presidential candidate on the
Republican ticket, while personally lie
recognized him as the Nations greatest
representative, and branded as Infamous
the lies set afloat by political enemies
Impulsive, chivalrous, the soul Of
honor. generous 10 fault. with q hand
for friend or foe, he is cut down in the
prime of manhood,
'Gone TO the land of no laughter"
American journalism has lost one of
its most gifted, graceful. and worthy
members. and not a Union soldier but
will hear of his death with sorrow, and
with n tribute to his memory, las we
drink from the same canteen-
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-08-07
NOVA SCOTIA AND THE FENIANs

dispatch from Nova Scotia states
that the half-islanders of that natural
inheritance of the United States are in
a state bordering on revolt, and threaten
serious demonstrations. Within the
year past, tine government of Canada has
been remoddeled and the Nova Scotians
have never given but passive submission
to the new dispensation. What was
known as Upper and Lower Carada is
now divided into four provinces. Canada
West is now called Ontario, and Nova
scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec have
been consolidated under the general
firm name of Quebec, each province,
however, a subordinate Legislature.
They have over these a confederate Par
lament, and in the dispensation of
things temporal, the '' blue noses,' -
whom Judge Halliburton in his Sam
Sticks Travels" describes as loafng idly
around town groggeries. tumble down
houses, dilapidated fences and thistle
grown fields in the country, smoking
cob pipes and drinking bad whisky
while waiting for Parliament to do sun
thin" for the relief of the country,
think they have been grievously wrong
ed. in view of the fact that the time
has almost expired within which the
Fenian leaders have promised a move
ment should be made that carried sue
cess on every fold, ii looks to us that the
Yarmouth meeting may have other
wrongs to redress" than thuse for which
the Parliament of the Dominion of Can-
ada is responsible. Lying directly off
the coast of Maine, where large quanti-
ties OF Fenian arms and munitions of
war are collected; beyond the reach of
any immediate concentration of British
troops; among people believing they
are unfairly dealt with by the Queen 5
government. and province that might
be held if once captured, il is not impOs-
sible Nova Scotia may be the point of
attack, and this meeting the inception
of the loEg threatened invasion Of Cana
da. How il would surprise Her Majesty s
loyal subjects 20 see the "sun burst" in
tie west some fine morning instead of
across the waves of the Atlantic; or,
have the reform measures OF the Eng
hsh Parliament caused an indefinite
posfp0noment N the great rising
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-08-07
TWO VOICES.

The little repeating offices" of De-
mocracy out here in the mountains, of
which the Gazette, IadependeHt and
Democrat are fair specimens would
have their readers believe the nomina-
tions at. New York, receive the enthu-
siastic approval of the party. 1t is 'the
blind leading the blind" the grave
yard whistle, the Falstaffian braggado'
clio, that will develope into another mag
nified and metamorphosed story, of the
villainous score in Kendall green, re-
habited with frauds. military tyr
amy" etc, to suit the occasion. Just to
show the unanimity of enthusiasm over
the candidates and Platform. we give
the following extracts:
The Journal IF Commerce. :he oldest
Democratic paper in New York, says:
1T is not for US TO say that the COnven-
tion has not chosen wisely.
There is an out and out repudiGuon
OF solemn obligation. as we under
stand il, 10 pay all the bonded debt in
gold. On the question of reputation
the Democrats are boldly committed to
the baser alternative and will reap the
main advantage. Where this heresy is
fondly cherished there is no excuse for
such proposition. 1t is both wicked
and disgraceful The authors know
very we'll that the money was borrowed
with the express understanding that it
was to be paid in coin, and that any
thing short of this is repudiation of n
solemn covenant Governor Seymour
has always warmly insisted on the OBJ
legation 10 pay the bonds in gold. The
platform is thus the very opposite TO his
well known views. How the two are TO
be reconcilcd is not for us to decide"
The New York Hfr0ld says; "The
die is cast. The Democratic convention
has decided that our next President
shall be Gen. Grant. The old tale of the
mountain in labor has been fully real.
lied. and the delivery is ridiculous
mouse as the Presidential candidate
against the conCueror of the rebellion.
Seymour against Grant in 1868, amounts
to Democratic surrender, or, disband-
ing ofthe Democratic party The ticket
OF Mcclellan against Lincoln was Il
strong ticket compared with this of Sey-
mour against Grant. IL has no prestige
but that of defeat Seymour against
Grant will bring ali the Republicans
into line, ana the result Will be anOther
political reaction which will give New
York to Grant 10y twenty, thirty or forty
Thousand majority. We can give no
COnEtCuance 70 this rctrograde move
ment of the democratic party. The sue
cessful movements OF the aga are pro-
gressive, and we mnst go with theul-
All the world is going forward except
our democratic party. 1t is behind Aus
tria, Russia, Turkey and China. for they
all recognize the necessity of shaping
their policy to the pressure of living
events. Seymour is behind the age, and
Blair as soldier pinned to his ticket,
makes a mockery of the combination.
Grant and Coltax against such ticket
will sweep the country from the Allan
tic to the Pacific, because the blockheads
of the democratic party will have il that
we are still living under the regime of
poor Pierce and Buchanan"
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-08-07
THE PEACE COMMISSION.

On the introduction of n resolution In
Congress asking an additional appro-
priation of S172, 900 for the Peace Com
mission expenses, quite a lengthy de-
bate ensued, in which Conness and
Stewart, of the Western Senators. took
strong grounds against the appropri-
alton. It appears that 100000 was
originally appropriated. of which the
Commissioners received $4,000. The
remaining 100000 was expended by
contractors in feeding the braves and
squaws assembled to make peace. Not
satisfied with the profits on the appro-
priation they continued in the business,
and Messrs. Osborn and Stettauer sent in
a bill for StG2, ,S27 more for feeding the
Sioux, which the Senate was asked 10
incorporate in the deficiency bill with~
out showing any vouchers for the ex-
penditure, and after a lengthy discus
sion it finally passed. 30 to %. This
makes n total of nearly half million
dollars During the debate Senator
DooIittIe stated that there were $4,000
troops now on the Platte and Smoky
Hill routes, costing the Goyernme:
500. .O0O, 900 per annum. Senator Mo-
rill stated that tue Indian war of "a and
60 cost the Government $45, 100000.
and tlat treaties OF peace had been ma, r
with over 100000 Indians who were no.
quiet and would otherwise have been 81
war. Their deduction from this was
that these heavy war expenses were Oh
Waited Ly the treaties. While the ps1r
pie of the West have no choice how that
end is attained. they are anxious thot
their property, houses and lives, be prJ-
tected from the savagss. The expeTi-
ence of the past has led them to place
but little reliance in the Army, still les
in treaties. True, there arc instances
where good officers have compelled
peace, desirable and lasting, with Ger
tain tribes, and there are worn out, de-
cayed and fast perishing bands like the
Bannacks, who have not vitality enough
to break a treaty; but we have seen
gGrrisons besieged and commands
slaughtered, treaties made and quickly
broken, and the while the ruthless sava-
ges We're devastating settlements and
piling horror on horrors head in their
fiend-like massacres. 1t is rue the
anticipated war has not fallen upon the
frontiers this season; but it las been the
season of treaty making, the next is the
lone in which trouble is imminent. The
i gooG hi.l which is depended upon f1r
the western millennium, has never been
kept heretofore, and we have no assn
rance that it will be now so that
counting the savings in tine military -
an offset to the expenditures in the lIf-
dian department, is counting chickens
before they are hatched. We already
hear of fighting on the Southern reser-
vations among tribes who have old
grudges that tue treaties will not re-
move. If the attempt TO make those
contending breeds homogeneous proves
a failure, as we anticipate it will, she
season of repose and petting will only
whet their warlike appetites TO keen
ness, and this summers calm be the
precursor of a fercer storm in the iu-
ture. ....
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-08-07
SUPPRESSING.

The Gozettc of this city was not the
only Democratic paper that suppressed
the telegram quoting from the speech of
Henry a. Wise, declaring that portion
OF the Democratic platform which says
the rebellion is dead, is lie:" also the
speech of Governor Vance, declaring
that what the Confederacy fought for
during the war would be won by the
election OF Seymour and Blair. 4 num-
ber OF leading Democratic papers east,
also suppressed it. The G0zotte tried 10
eei ont oft by charging il to radical tel
eEruph operators. bat the speeches were
made Notwithstanding. Democracy,
North and South, is now in that situa-
lion that what is bane tor one is anti
dnte for the other. IL has two stomachs
and the pap makers for the child have
in ue very careful how they distribute
their spoon vieJuals. More than this.
the nurses are overburdened with the
charge. weak in the knees. and afraid 10
stare fate in the face, tor not over halt
tue leading Democratic papers published
the cable dispatch containing the opin-
ions of the London Press on the Demo-
cratic nominations. IL requires little
more nerve TO consult the oracle when
81 beudes than the untcrrified % are
fsossessed OF
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-08-07
HOW 1T Is.

In reply to the inquiry as to Why there
was only one Councilman on the Repub-
lican ticket of the 3rd Council District.
the sore head organ answers by pub
fishing communication from Spartan
doubtless a worthy member of that ring,
who very conveniently happened to be
in Helena the day after the election. al
though no returns came in from Jeffer-
son, and the presumption is lie was not
where Republicans should have been
at the polls. The inquiry was made 10
show that the men selected as a re-
lected an important duty, and were cast
ing stones when they were not without
sin. a piece of sublimated impudence,
which even their prototypes many CEN
turies ago hesitated At and declined We
felt inclined for the present, to touch the
Herald clique only slightly on the flank.
and therefore put the thing on record
mildly, wishing them to run out the line
and add to the sport, ere they feel Tho
hook is in their throat and the line
drawing tHut. The explanation of
Spartan" is one that any person cons
versant with the duties of committees
should be ashamed to advance q poor
excuse is worse than none. The whol
chicanery of the primary meeting the
barter and sale with the Herald; the
manipulation ofthe County Convention
the intent andpurpose of it, we have in
prime condition for delivery in good or
der, and are waiting somewhat impa-
tiently the action of the Herald ring
We do not propose to precipitate the is-
sue the County Committee have their
instructions and the offensive. We
merely refer to the increase in the Dem
ocratic majority in this county az The
present election, notwithstanding we
had our best men ON the ticket, and cell
attention to the following from the Ga
zettc of yesterday
And while we are ever ready 10 give credit.
where any is due, we must confess that the ar
rogant, irresponsible, self-constituted CLIQUE
which runs the Herald, by its selfish vierrs in
foisting upon the Republican party known
members of that clique, contributed CONSIDER
ably to the success OF the Democracy.
Even he who runs (for Commissioner
may read.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-08-07
NmNTENTS

l'r... .-Ia..YE-'Yar Country The Aurora and
I,..-.rr ..-- uii -rtS-lug-Thp NaTE yst-EoVa
rr-rH lu. fIH l-uitn--rW- yUice--Huw is it,
Do. lagB pIstiu-.I- AiJa tsIls Ee.uamaell-
I..... -r..I4ci--t'Ls1s ~ IIlipiue D-Id--Ihe
f.r-.. tr-"mruf-FS - hift ut EIgvk-tur Peace
a.l....-...--Fs Fs uU 70 lsH
"E-s- s- Tr u.-cSEgt 1ud B5cs-Iuiafsstial,
I."ra .- r.zs.l Eys aT-l- ~ The Territory al
~ Uraas-tdTagrumcst ut CouEgoss-Cu'urgdO
.H..r'- "a l-..s-siry badlry- Political.
rE-E-i-k&FsrF. rF.s.au.uf~.
l'NeT |-Hu rte D. p T. yuMIU--AJJr-ss-
.r- LT'tsr--Pub.io Istuds-MiurTiI Resources
aai IHH Territory .t sIaLt.lua-Bou-drF Valley
.U tIu Wf-r-llg k, ,C-t-i'ulItisa'--iH Hs Tunnel
r-u,.s= 'uF Isr@'.-I Cl.anaa.-TISriug-.
3'r.tl 81 r..g.s-lA. --LATEST rpi.E'as Vote ir
rsyit s-.srt-t tHr josh Billings TstPers-IllNts uI
rlH Unset State AGytTlis cT-=u---
I'N.F tiIS ir--s-ITs7 r Tt.-S ua1r-fC',. .tsl,l.s
.-tIsr i}e-f-I;iH.H-d uT IS67.
.tlrL --tSrIHr Iu NaI-Gess,l u1t ba-tlfjoa-
~sl ltt6ur aud 'Ar IssuTs-|uu MS War-s-lis.
~f7-l-~-llaf-,r.-r Ei1rs iu Montana.
tb-E Interesting I.1cli---Leger last.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-08-07
MONTANA RECLAIMED.

Wehad hoped to have written il ''Re-
deemsd," but the gods-of democracy
-willed it otherwise. The democratic
creed is, the party and the candidates
right or wrong, and the more wrong the
better. The momen: you show dem
ocrat chat his party is guilty of gross
misdd DIS he construes the counsel into
an attempt to sap the foundations of
constitutional liberty, and to prove an
officer unfaithful is persecution that
insur his re-election. We were as
sured of this yesterday, and are COM
PEELED by confirmative circumstances to
believe it. We therefore have the sat-
isfaction of knowing we did our duty in
exposing tho skeleton in the demos
cratic closet, while admitting we may
have placed too much confidence in
humanity of democratic proclivities.
The vote in the Territory will not prob
ably exceed two thirds that of 1861, and
there. will be a still heavier proportional
falling off in the democratic majority.
In Helena the democrats expended
largely in gRs and money, and polled a
full vote, but the outside camps voted
light. Madison county has gone to the
bad the depopulation of that county,
and the stand IL has taken in favor of a
hand cart railroad having predeter-
mindt the old fogies would win the
day In Deer Lodge, to save the waning
fortunes of the party, they put up the
names ofthe most popular men they had
and withal the majority will be mate
rally decreased. Our democratic "c0~
tens" can trot out their roosters for il
is the last use they will ever have for
then. aud they will all die OF the ''gapes'
in November any how. When the re-
turns all come IN il will be found that
democracy has received the hardest
blow it ever Lad in Montana and Re~
pubiicans can telegraph east that we
haves-ainei a stronger position and re-
duced the majority 800 votes. We in
tend to show this by Saturday. The
returns, up TO the hour going To press,
are as follows;
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-08-07
THE HARVEST.

Though all else were promising, if the
earth fail TO yield its increase, there is
so=rowing in the land. 1t is a good
omen, then, that with the dawn of peace;
with the country emerging from its
financial troubles; with the re-enlist-
ment of the rebelling states under the
old banner; with n prospect of better
days for the laborer and the capitalist;
with but one more breaker TO pass be-
fore we are out on the deep of national
ity with the old ship staunch and well
manned. we have evidence that the har
vest will be good, and Plenty fill the
land. The abundance will lessen the
cost of the necessities of life while yield
ing we'll to the husbandman. and Hun
ger will lag despairingly among the
shadows of the past. In the item of
corn we have 100000 acres increase
ia the United States. Think of it, an
acre more 70 each person in the coun-
try, California has cut abundant har-
vests of wheat, and the yield of the
PacifcsIop is above average. With the
exception OF Vermont, Connections, and
the Southern States, wEca, is above the
average. In Michigan and the Wabash
Valley, they have not had such harvests
for fifteen years lows, Minnesota, Wis
consin, Northern Illinois. Michigan, the
Middle States, and along the Atlantic
se8board, as far south as the Carolinas
thcyicld is average and above. Potatoes
arc good in ali localities ; cotton is esti-
mated NJ half as large apypduct as be-
fore thr war. and the freedmen are re-
ported working more hours and much
more faithfully than as slaves, The
fruit crop cf the New Elnglanu States and
New Jersey viii bc about average; north
ut Ncw Jersey bcs;er than last year f;
souJi, rot 80 good. In Ttah. Colorado,
Wasbiagten. and Montana, there will
lr average CROPS, unless Il raid Of grass
hoppers should injgsc theu: in fact there
are fields iuuuIner,Dle ripening TO the
sickle in Montana, equal to any in the
United States. With all this. -four re-
mains firm here at double State prices.
1t SELLS in New York, Chicago and St
Louis per barrel, for what it is worth
here per sack-rapging from $3.50 10
S9-and the margin is not sufficient be-
tween Salt Lake and Helena to warrant
shipments. IL appears to us that with
the safe harvesting of the Montana and
Utah crops, there should be a decline
from present rates. 81 least il should
not advance, even if none is imported
from Utah, although the amount in store
is short, for the product of the territory
should be fully equal to the consump-
tion. Whatever good or i'll may betide
our local crops yet unharvested, they
are past injury in the States. and the
reports from Europe speak as flattering,y
oflocalities there, where heretofore there
has been complaint. There will be no
faInine this year. .r..
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-08-07
THE EAUR0RA AND TELEGRAPH.

One of the most plausible explana-
tions we have read of the many that
have been advanced regarding that
wonderful phenomenon, the Aurora Bo-
realis, is given in the appendix to Miss
Emmo Hardinges' lectures on spiritual
ism, and purports to be a revelation
from some kind, departed devotee of the
sciences. IL is explained by the action
oi magnetic currents, and the following,
which we clip from the Ttlcgraphsr. is
not only cOrrobOrative of the truth of
the theory. but may induce our noun
tain knights who wear the lightnings
on their coat of arms, to give il practi-
cal test during the fine displays TO which
we are So frequently treated at this end
oi the iron nerves. Try il, Messrs Will
ley. Wild 4 Co.
During the displays of the magnetic storm,
or Aurora BoreaIis, on Friday evening, July
18th, which was an object OF wonder and ad
mIratlOn, the telegraph operators at Nalpa-
raIso and Fort Wayne, Indiana, curious TO test
Its effect in working telegraph lines, discon-
nected the batteries from the line and put in
ground WirrS, when they got magnetism suf-
hclent to work the instruments quite we'll,
enabling them to communicate with each
other. The magnetism was vnried in iuten-
sity rs the current between Aurora and Val
narllsa changed
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-08-07
YELLOWSTONE COUNTRY.

We notice 10y Tie Gipts, OF July 2Gth.
tlla, tn" Report uf Br'vr Brig. General
e. " Eayuoits. ot his exploration of
tho IriIowstnna river. has becn ordered
printed The report as originally made
20 t'5c Secretary Of War was Uccympaa-
l,I with numerous sketches for engra~
wings with several appendices. and the
r~Jimarei cost OF publishing one edition
was S45.O00 The Coumiticc decided
against the resolution contemplating the
publication os tho cnErayiugs ana APP
prndiSvs, ana substituted q resolution
tor the printing Of 5000 copies of the
report proper, with the accompanying
map. for the use oil the Senate. The
rural cost Is estimated at $1,000 In an
-ic!VaJion ot the Northern Pacific Rail
road being located along the Yellowstone
valley. 10 would have been desirable
thar the report Of the engineers, con-
tanning valuable tables. should have
been published. The commission OF the
eNtravagantly costly cngravings is a
matter Of less regret, in the present con-
ditiuu of finances, although. the Vel
lOwstOuc, lying almost within the bor-
dcrs q Montana, they would have been
Of interest 70 our people, and have at
tracted more attention to the fertile val
ley IL desert Oes.