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Sentinel Songs,
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when sinks tho soldisr brave,
Dead 1t the feet OF Wrong,
The poet slpgs--and guards his grave
With ssntinels Of Song.
~G9 serss'--he gives commando
~Keep faithful watch and true;
The living and dead of the Conquered Land
Have now no guards save you"
~hnd, Ballads, mark 70 well,
Thrice holy is your trust,
Go out to the fields whore warriors fell,
Aud sentinel thoir DUST
Ana Tho Songs, In stately rhyme, : (
With softly sounding tread,
March forth.--to watch tin the end Of time,
Beside she silent dead.
And when the foemsn's host
Audbats have passed away,
Our guard Of Songs ehs,i keep their post,
~Around our soldiers clay. X
A thou.ana dawns may glow.
A thousand days may wsne,
The dssthiess songs where the dead lilo low,
rrue TO the last, remain.
Tea, trro! They win not yield
To tyrants or to time,
Atey'ty grave and on sv'ry field
Who're men died deaths sublime.
Lone visils they viii keep,
obedicat 70 their Bard,
And they will watch when we shall sleep
Our last and only Guard.
What though our viotors say
No column shall be built
Above the graves whore the men in Grey
Lie moulding In their guIitl
Ah let the tyrant curse r'''.a-
- The dead no trsmples down
Our strong, brave Songs, in their sweet sad
verse, .,s.
Fear not the tyrant's frown.
What though no seulptored SHAFT
y tcornmemorats our Brsysl n--
What though no monument ephitaphed
BE built above their sravei
When marble wears away,
And monuments are dust,
The Songs that guard our ssidiers' clay
WIN still fulfil their trust.
KxoSsiLLE, May 6, 1867.
lFTeenon's Journal.
The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1868-01-15

SCHOOL mistress, while taking down
the names and ages OF her pupils and their
parents, at the beginning Of the term, asked
one little fellow: What's your fathers
name?" "Oh you needn't take down his
name; he's too old to 60 to school to wo-
man. wus the innocent reply.
A FaEScu wit says that the gibbst Is .
species Of Hsttery Of the human rice. Three
or four persons are hung, froih time to
time, for the sake Of making the rest believe
that thep are virtuoBs
HEAVEN sends us ten thousand truths;
but because our doors and windows are
shut TO them, they cit and sing q while upon
the roof and then fly away.
VERMONT bank. which was closing mp
its business redeemed $3.50 more bills
than 1t ever issued.
A brother Of Major General Halleck.
it is feared, perished by the bur u ing Of
the steamer Raleigh.
Reverend Henry Ward Beacher ha.,
given $1,000 to fund for the benefit
Of Gene,al Lees college
When General Grant shaves him.
cell, the fact is telegraphed to the New
York Tribune. -. .-..
The Emperor Napoleon and the
Prince Imperial are said to be going to
visit the Pope.
A fotNu mnchinist Of California,
is abou; applying for a patent for a
steam plow, which pulveriIes the soil
and at the same time plants and bar
rows.
A journeytnah mason in London kill.
ed himself the other day in despair, at
the discovery, the day after his we'd
ding, that bis wife had glass eye.
A splendid cotton plantation of two
thousand acres in Franklin County,
N. c.. was sold lately for two dollars
and fjve ceuts sn acre.
A physician Of Scotland has publish
ed a tract announcing that he has dis
covered in sulphur sovereign remedy
for diptheria aud all the diseases Of
minute fungus growth.
DR.. tardner once attempted TO prove
that ocean steam navigation Was sn
impossibility aud Thiers, in 1889, said
railroads would never be useful or sue.
cessful. -... .a.. ..-
ECLIPSE or fRE Moon Louis Ma.
p oleon's Government has recently dis
graced itself by proceeding against min.
teen opposition papers. La Lane (the
Moon) Was suppressed, Tut has reap
peared as the Eclipse.
THEeE was skating cpon nj he
private ard public ponds # Nr~ YotE
and suburb 90 the Gin. lhn ice vas
excellent and the Pleasure Of the pas
time idulged 10 by thousands.
The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1868-01-15

How TO Krrp Mar FaEsu.--simpiy i'm
merse it 10 bnttermiik. This will keep u
for several days. when the milk should be
changed. and fresh milk substituted. In
this way b'ef. veal, dc. cen be kept for
several weeks and II vii be sweet aud
fresh a. the end OF that time as when first
put in. Our butcher furnished Us With the
receipt. The whole ntiglborbood Is nov
saving its meat 10 this way. II Is equally
efieacious 10 the hottest weather.
The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1868-01-15

Prnr AND TRuh-Elder Swan ussd to say
that II the doctrine of Universal salvation
be TRUE. then the Bible ought to read
Wide is the gate and broad Is the vay
that leads to heaven, snd everybody goes
there; straight is the gate and narrow 10
the way that leads to hell, and you cant
find il II you try"
The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1868-01-15

and tho laws Of The country, aud in fact by o
systematic course Of fair treatment to win
their conadenee and respect, and thus make
them valuable citizens In & community In
which, althoa h natives, they have acquired
new rights, NIX. SCOTT.
Bet. Aejor Ceaeras.
Assf. Commissioner.
The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1868-01-15

UsE SALT N KEnosEsE L.afS IA number
Of persons in this town have found by ex.
Parience that the light Of coal oil lamps is
greatly improved by adding to the oil one.
fourth its weight OF common salt. II make.
the light much more brilliant and clear.
keeps the wick clean. and prevents sraok-
Ing. .--RorJois journal.
The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1868-01-15

RobrssoS CRusoE is as popular In France
as In England. He and his man Friday are
esteemed in every household, and the book
in which his adventures are recorded 10
constantly given as q prize 10 school
children.
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Marriage and Long Life.

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-all bs~n b,,,,oh, s..w.,af, a;..,,..,.
aue.,;o. :. 4.,,.. ...,.,.
,;,... 81 a.,,. -, Tsc...,',
and uouarr;sa T,, ...,;., ..,..
sidered n. oivsn T., 6.vo. ~ a.. .;.a
but with III. rs.e,,a,;,a ,h., H. .,,.,
tsges are not EQUALLY .n,ovsj bv The two
sexes. Al far a. regard. IN. ,so,,s of
Scotland The op.u,on ...,n. % h. oo,,d,.
.iyeIy answered In /. p.p.r ,e,a anne
months MO nv DIR. lame, s,o,t bs,o,. IN.
Royal Society of Edini,urc. n. begins nv
the remark. that a nine years, average az
the deaths in Scotland sb,ws hjyber ratto
Of deaths among males than sfnong females
at all ages, except In the early period of
lif-, from ten to fifteen years.
a more important Inquiry, however, Is
the effect Of marriage on male and female
life, An Interesting answer to the question
Is brought by a table prepared by DIR.
Stark. 1t shows ihnt at every age, from 20
to ss years. the death rate Of the married
men is very much smaller than that Of the
unmarried. At the s6th year oi Lille, 'he
numbers are too small to justify any com
rarisou- 1t appears from this table that
out of 100000 unmarried men between 30
and % years Of age, ,l64 died during the
year 1868; but that out Of like nun,Isr Of
married men. only 697 died, or just half the
number. In other words. between the age
OF 20 ard rs years. the death rate Of the
The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1868-01-15

SINGULAR SYMPATHY or A Doa.--At a re
cent agricultural fair held at Egg Harbor
City, n. j., thrre was very curious exem
p''tieation "f the affection OF a young dog,
of the spaniel species On the farm Of Mr..
Bullinger. an old hen, shortly after hatch
ing out number Of bantam and guinea
chickens, died. leaving The young brood
without maternal care. and likely to perish
puppy dug, also belonging TO Mr.. Bull
linger. was lying asleep not far distant
from the tender little chickens, and one
after another they nestled around him. and
by the warmth Of his body were kept alive
IL seemed the canine rather liked the com
pany. and knew the wants of the mother.
less chickens He curled himself up 81 as
to afford them protection. and from that
time he never f"rsook them. He watched
over them by day, scratched the sand and
gravel for the little ones until they became
big enough to relieve him from his self i'm.
posed duty.
The dog and the chickens were exhibit ed
In cage at the Fair. where thousands o.
visitors raw them. The chickens were
now ahou, half gtown. and It was amusing
to watch their movements. and it was also
interesting to Observe the care evidently
manifested by their guardian for them! The
dog w2ches over the brood by day. and
sleeps with them at night and had never
been known to desert them from the time
,hey first nestled under him for prot tecti"n.
SENSIBLE VIRGINIA FARMER.-In speech
at the close Of fair in North Carolina. Mr.
Mott OF Virginia, saiL!
l have man in my eye who, wher
| Richmond fell, had due him but $50; h.
rented a farm for slO0. and bought a mul,
f"r $4Oo; and the first year he made $500
hiring no other labor than WIS necessary
for cutting. ihreshing and getting up hi
wheat lie now pays 1900 for one hun.
dred acres; aud has sold $1,000 worth O
wheat. having almost paid his rent in veg
etables. etc., etc, and his profits are between
$4,000 and s25OO. Then for our young mel
to 60 about with long faces, complaining O
having nothing to dol When Richmon,
fell. Mr.. President, l was fifty years old
aud have been delicate all my life; wen
into the field and ploughed regularly. ano
made good crop and fail my family. An,
then for young men to say they cent work
It's q sbame--a burning shame
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-02-22

THE intimation that Goidwin Smith
Professor of History at Oxford, England
and one of the firmest and most able
champions of the institutions of our
country, designed visit to America is
confirmed by letter written by himself
to the London correspondent of the 7Si-
bune. 1t will be seen by the following
extract that he designs a protracted visis
and the preparation of an American
History, which, from the ability and
scholastic requirements of the writer, it
would not be perilous to prophecy viii
take the foremost rank in literature:
am going to devote myself to the
study, and if, after due study, feel equal
to the task, to the composition of Amer
lean history. With this view, shall
probably take mp my abode in the Uni
ted States in the course of the summer.
At what place must depend partly on the
where there are books and records, and
where / can obtain permission TO use
them.
My undertaking necessarily implies q
prolonged residence in the country where
1t must be carried on. But 1 am not
going to seek naturalization in America,
or to cast of my allegiance to my own
sovereign and my native land. shall
be a candidate for no citizenship in
America bat that of the Republic of Let
ters. In the present state of English
affairs, 1 can imagine. though l do not
anticipate, the occurrence of q crisis
which viii render it incumbent on the
honor of every Englishman to share,
though he might be unable to influence,
the destinies of his country.
GOODWIN SMITH
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-02-22

RACES or massacres before reaching the
States Something, however, happened
in this place to-day which is really hor-
rible. A man named Campbell Qate
steward of the Planters House in Vir-
ginia) has been keeping n restaurant or
beer saloon at this place. He has had
two girls employed as walters in the
saloon. One of them is notorious under
the name of Fanny st. John the other
Is her sister and was of no better repu-
tation. The relations existing between
Campbell and the latter were not of a
character desirable to detail. Last night
Campbell was dragged from his bed,
shamefully maltreated by the police,
and this morning brought before that
Mormon reprobate, Justice Clinton, ON q
charge of seduction (fff) After par
t;al hearing, the case was adjourned un-
til next day, when the girls father
got up and deliberately and in cold blood
shot Campbell through the breast. The
papers here and the Mormons justify the
act, and the would-be assassin has qui-
etly gone home. 1t is time the govern
ment would assert its power here to pro-
tect its citizens. Here, Gentilcs may
think, but they dare not express their
thoughts if adverse TO Mormonism with
out danger of the assassin's lead or
steel. How much worse was Campbelps g
crime than that recognized as a part of
the creed and recommended by the Head
of the Mormon Church We had q
pleasant ride down from Virginia. Wells,
Fargo & Co. keep their stations and stock
in excellent condition. The fare is well
served at the stations and travellers are
under many obligations to Mr.. Taylor
and his Division Agents for the superior
condition of things on the line. In
haste, Yours, truly,
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-02-22

security. prevent the necessity of n gem
eral military organization other than
that of the regular army, and meet the
requirements of the case. Last year.
petitions came from Gallatin and Mis-
soula counties; from the former when
not a hundred guns could be had in
Virginia-this year from Edgerson. An
Executive would be severely reprehensi-
bic who would refuse his efforts to aid
the people in times of danger, and we
are assured none will act with more
earnest desire to assist them than our
present Governor. Wedo not anticipate
these 6epredations will be extensive in
Montana, but the life of a poor ranch
man on the border is as precious to him
as that of the highest dignitary in the
land and he is entitled to as full protec-
ton. Our Territory may suffer from
having it's approaching avenues cut of.
without power to prevent it; bat with
willing citizens and the means to pre-
vent it, no plundering invasion of our
settlements should be permitted. We
think the furnishing of arms to settle
ments distant from Helena and Virginia
on the application of responsible parties,
will lead to the safety and welfare of the
people, and that they will voluntarily
and with alscrity lend mutual support,
and render any other action unnecessary
to prevent in Montana the barbarities
that from the history of the past we may
expect to recur throughout the country
the coming season.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-02-22

of little profit. Such a vast difference in
the rates of compensation places us un-
der the control of foreign artisans and
manufacturers. Mr.. Durant, like thou
sands of our citizens. buys in the cheap
estmarts oftrade. Is anybody to blame
Who can remedy the gigantic national
evil2 The statesmen that can devise
any system of legislation based upon
sterling principles of political enconomy,
which will enable the people to retain
the gold that is extracted from our lodes
and gulches, and develop our hidden
wealth, that is now useless because it is
unsought, will be triumphantly placed
at the head of American benefactors.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-02-22
THE SALT LAKE TRAGEDY.

Our readers will remember dispatch
from Salt Lake City a short time ago,
mentioning the shooting of s. M. Camp
bell by VIM. Hughes, in thecourt room
in that place. The Telegraph and Neaos
have published their account of the
matter, putting Hughes under the rose
colored light of an injured and indignant
father whose innocent child had been
seduced by Campbell, whose nlonstrous
outrages upon society no good Mormon
or GENTLE would palliate or excuse. and
fully justifying the deed. Before tri-
bunal of Justice, under the protecting
guardianship of the Law, the life of a
person charged with crime however
monstrous, is held to be sacred, but
Campbell was shot, and the intending
murderer went forth triumphantly from
the Mormon court. The indignation
with which such a recital would ordina-
rily be received by law-abiding people
was turned to charitable silence by the
accompanying statement that Campbell
had been guilty of crime, the punish
ment of which in all civilized communi-
ties appeals to the better feelings for
approval, and the moreso here as his
record was not of a reputable character.
The following communication from a
gentleman in Salt Lake City at the time,
and whose veracity is unquestionable,
puts the matter in quite different light,
and makes the deed a cold blooded,
cowardly murder, without an ameliora-
ting feature, except that which is not to
the credit of Hughes. the little value OF
Campbelrs life:
SALT LAKE City, Feb. 4, 1858.
Ed. Post did not expect or desire
when left Virginia to be called upon tc
record for your readers any violent out
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-02-22

1T will be seen from the kilograms
that a bill has been introduced for the
establishment of Branch Mint in Mon
tans, we presume at Helena. Mr..
Cavanaugh, in the House, Nov. 81, gave
notice for leave to introduce bill
that character, and the one above re-
ferred to is, we presume, the bill. 1t is
to be hoped it will pass. Colorado, with
her gold product of one and one half mil
lions, has a Branch Mint. Why should
not Montana with her. twelve and
eighteen millions bullion per annum2
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-02-22

RDcEIvED.-We received per last
coach, the first number of the Rocky
Mountain Herald, published at Denver,
Colorado, o. j. Goldrick, editor and pro-
prietor. 1t proposes ans..." independence
in politics and everything else" and is
devoted to the material interests of the
Rocky Mountains. Geographically It
is gotten up in good style and regard
less of expense" if we are to judge the
whole from the fine quality of book paper
on which the first issue is printed 1t is
a credit to Colorado, and we welcome il,
to our list of exchanges
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-02-22
The Montana Post.
0. W. TlTON & CO.. PUBLISHERS
CONTENTS OF THIS SUMBER.

PAGE 1.-Praetical Nationality Self Profession
Proceedings of Republican Central Committee
Before you Start; The Salt Lake Tragedy; APP
peal for Arms : Editorial Notes Miscellaneous
PAGE 2-The Sweetvater Mines; From Silver
Bow kilograms; The United States Supreme
Court
PAGE 3-Pen and Scissors; Churches and SOcie-
ties
PAGE 4-Telegrams;
PAGE 5.-About the Country; Pen and Scissors
Miscellaneous ...h
PAGE s.-FrOm GaIlatin Valley From Sterling
PAGE T.-Poslry-The Outside Dog in the Fight
The Josh BuHngs Papers: Virginia and Helena
Market Reports
PAGE s-virginia and Helena Locals; Virginia
L.tter List.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-02-22

IT is safe to assume that the tsfal yield
of Colorado mp to the end of 1867 was
thirty millions of dollars 1t ;ssaninter-
esting fact that .af the whole amount of
gold contribuSezsz at the present day by
civilized natpppss the United States coa :
tribute nearly one half. The present
annual supply of the American continent,
Europe, Russia. Australia. and New Zea-
land may be computed as follows !:
America, $74,7O0, ,000s. Europe, S2.000.-
O55: Russia, $15.000;O00; Australia and
New Zealand, "a. 100000 Totak $685.
700. O.OgO. E -s r
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-02-22
GREEN CLAY SMITH, Governor.

IT will be seen by referring to the tel
egrams that Wilson, of Iowa, has report
ed the bill providing for the arrest and
return to the country from which they
escaped of all persons found guilty of
certain infamous crimes, and escaping
to America, and that the bill passed the
House. 1t is most earnestly to be de-
sired that bill of that purport should
become a law. Although from its tenor
the inference would be that it is merely
to make the officers of the United States
auxiliary to those of other governments
in the return of convicted criminals, its
scope is probably greater and its Provis-
ions more comprehensive. 1t should
and probably does contemplate indepen-
dent action on the part of this govern
ment in returning to the governments
from which they oftentimes escape by
the procured :onnivance and completely
of the officials, criminals whose selfim-
posed Punishment relieves those powers
from the expense and danger of their
presence and swells our calendar of
crime. Every land produces a suf-
ficiency of bad men, but in addition to
this, our society is the vortex into which
are drawn the adventures, outlaws and
worse elements evolved from the espion-
aged vice teeming centres of Europe,
We have held the same position in their
eyes as did the Cities of Refuge to crimi-
nails in the olden day. A law that will
be net to catch this rotten drift, sweep
ing in on the current of emigration, and
send it back from whence il came, viii
accomplish nuch good. and is essential
TO peace and the public welfare.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-02-22
BEFORE YOU START

Are You going to Sweetwater2 Prob
ably a thousand or more Montanians
will answer directly or quali6edly in the
affirmative. What for2 There can be no
inducement except to make money. We
would like to know how many of those
who now are afflicted with the Sweetwa-
ter fever have any reliable information
that convinces them they can better
their condition by going there Is it not
rather restlessness, and blind, reckless,
unchecked impulse; throwing them
selves on the spring tide current of hu-
manity that each year pours it's infatu-
ated tide toward one locality or another
at the instigation, and to fill the pockets
OF interested parties. Have You forgot
ten the Sun river and Salmon river
stampedesH How many lit the torch of
wealth from the ignes fatuis that flashed
SO brilliantly above those places, and
allured so many hundreds to suffering
and ruin. Old miners talk wisely about
the folly of stampedes. suggest the falla-
cy of rushing off to mines that pay best
when they are under several feet of
snow and have never been opened, but
= somehow they are among the first
to go. The Salmon river mines were
claimed to be placers-three thousand
men rushed there-perhaps as many
hundred can make good wages. The
remainder have come away poorer than
they went, having lost a years work.
The Sweetwater mines are not claimed
to have rich placers, quartz being the
principal attraction, What are you
moneyless placer miners going to do
with quartz? You can find fifteen thou
sand leads recorded in Montana and
earn probably as good a one as you
would find at the Sweetwater, by a
months labor. You hear of fine speci-
mems of quartz and nuggets in Salt Lake
City and Cheyenne. You can see speci-
mems in almost any cabin in Montana
that will assay thousands of dollars to
the ton, and nugget exposed in a
bankers window does not bear evidence
of where il came from. Cheyenne and
Salt Lake see money for their merchants
in stampede to Sweetwater. 1t will
circulate and some of IL eventually reach
the newspapers. Self interest, always
controlling, would prompt the most fiat
tering accounts of the new mines. Their
columns are open to interested CORES
pondents. Do not place too implicit faith
in newspaper accounts. This year will
probably be a much better one in Mon
tana than either sc or 81. Many new
gulches have been discovered and suffi-
GENTLY developed to establish the fact of
good wages being obtainable by all the
labor this winter unemployed in the
Territory. There will be more money
expended to labor for developing and
reducing quartz than ever before. The
Sweetwater mines, with the Indians on
the Bozeman route will attract a large
proportion of the eastern emigration,
and the advance of it is already at
Omaha You who are doing well in
Montana have no cause to wander. Let
well enough alone. You who are not,
see the prospects Frightening for sue
cessful mining season. Take two
thoughts before you go to Sweetwater.