The Montana post., 1868-10-09

Rush N PRosPEcT.-Business from outside
camps has been rather light during the past
few days, from the fact that everyone is wait
ing until fair week before visiting Helena.
The probabilities are that while this great
territorial exhibition is in progress there will
be a grand rush TO this city from every por-
tion ef Montana, and the business of a month
will be crowded into n week. Our merchants
should, therefore, Immediately put their
houses in order, rearrange their goods, brush
down their shelves and make their establish
ments as attractive and convenient as possible.
BULL.-Such as would take the premium
at any Fair, was perpetrated by the correspon-
dent of the Panama Star and Herald, copied
IN the Morning Chronicle, and a few days
since reproduced by us. In speaking of the
great South American earthquake, be says
"The United States steamship Fredonia was
bottom upwards and every soul on board
persisted, Excepting the captain, surgeon and
paymaster, who were on shore and we're
sayed.)" That correspondent would make a
fortune in writing for the Dublin press, for
he seems to understand to perfection one of
the peculiar idioms Of the Irish people.
GIFT ESTERPRIsE.-we call attention to
the great gift enterprise, the advertisement of
which appears elsewhere. Seventy-five prizes
valued at S3,4OO, consisting, TO n great ex
tent, of desirable furniture and house orna-
ments, and all of the most beautiful descrip-
tion, are to be distributed among those pur-
chasing tickets. These tickets are sold at
only five dollars each, in currency, and cne of
them may make its holder the possessor of a
$3.50 Parlor suit. The prizes can be seen at
lsaacs' Furniture store, and portion of them
viii be on exhibition at the Fair.
DIAMOND. The ground in Confederate
Gulch below Diamond City, bids fair to very
nearly equal in richness that above the town.
In the claim recently referred to by us, stu
nted about 500 feet below the head of King
Il Gillett's fiume, a prospect of S2,6S to
a pan of dirt has been obtained, and the small
est sum taken from the bedrock is twenty
cents to the pan. This being the case, the
prospect is, that when King & Gillette
strike bed rock, their hume will be trans
formed as by Midas touch, into n perfect
River PEctolus, from which they will need to
make only one clean up in order to secure n
fortune.
CoURr RECORDS AGAIN.-An attachment in
the matter of Valentine Mccartney against
Fisk Stuart, for the small sum of two
hundred dollars, balance due for freighting
material from fort Benton to this place,
was issued yesterday and served on Fisk a
Stuart.
From Saturdays Daily.
FIRES IN THE WooDs.-This is the season
during which fires in the woods work their
greatest destruction. The grass, leaves and
branches are dry, and a FIRE once started !
spreads with such rspidity that it is soon be-
yond all control, and thousands of acres of
timber are destroyed before any visi- |
tation of Providence in the shape OF heavy |
shower puts a stop to il. Such has been the |
case in former year,, aud such has this season |
been the case in Oregon and California, where |
the whole country between the range and the /
coast, is enveloped in smoke, so dense in some /
cases as to prevent the navigation of rivers, /
and even the travelling of stage coaches, and
the clouds Of which can be seen tor n dist
ance of over hundred miles out at sea. We
DO not apprehend any such disastrous confa- |
Srations here, but wish TO caution our read
ers about the careless lighting OF leaving of 1
fires In the woods or on the prairies, and to |
remind them that the Legislature, at its last
session, made such carelessness a criminal
ofense. This law provides as follows
'fThat any person who shall wantonly or care
lessly set FIRE to any timber or grasses, except
for useful OF necessary purposes, or who shall |
at any time make any camp FIRE, or shall light !
any FIRE for any purpose without taking sufE- I
cient steps TO secure the same in spreading |
from the immediate locality where the same
may be used while using the same, or shall fail |
in any instance TO put out or extinguish every
vestige of said fire or fires before leaving OF /
the same, shall be deemed guilty |
of a mIsdemesnoT and upon conviction there
of IN any court of competent jurisdiction,
shall be fined m n sum not less than twenty
five nor more than five thousand dollars, In i
the discretion of the court and in addition /
shall be Imprisoned In the county Jail or ter Il
ritorial prison for the term of not less than
one nor more than five years, and shall be LA
bic for all costs and damages accruing from
said act"
MAIL CoSTRAcIs.-The contract of Wells,
Fargo & Co., for the carrying of the mail be-
tween the terminus Of the U. P. X. r. and i
that Of the G. p. r. r., expired on the lst
inst, and their place was TO be supplied by
Messrs. Spade Co. We learn, however,
that up to within few days the latter parties
had failed to furnish their route with stock |
or any facilities for carrying the mail, and 1t
is thought that they will be obliged to throw
up their contract. In that event we shall rely |
upon Wells, Fargo Co., for the trRnsporta-
tion OF Uncle Sans sacks as heretofore. We
believe that the fears expressed by some, that |
we may have no States mail for n week OF
two, On account of the new parties having |
failed 70 stock the road. are unfounded- AL |
though not compelled to do go, Wells, Fargo
a Co., viii probably carry the mails until the |
matter can be arranged. On the lst inst. the |
contract for transporting the mails from
Lockwood & Co., and Wells, Fargo a Co.,