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The Montana post., 1868-10-16
TEE IVES a.

At last accounts it had .rained for
thirty-threc days at Prescott, Arizona
The Governor of Oregon. advises the
organization of Bareau of lmmigra
tion.
The Auburn Stars 0Rd Stripes offers
from $500 to $4,000 that Grant will
carry California or that he will be elects
ed President.
The assessment of Siskiyou county,
Cal, is 81, ,45S, ,64S 53. to which $3.50, 0,00O
will probably be added by subsequent
assessment.
The heat at Baden and Hamburg has
been so great that in some instances
people have actually burned their fing-
ers at the gaming tables.
4 drive of $4,000 ties for the Central
Pacific will shortly be made down the
Truckee from Lake Bigler
The Rocky Mountain Nc,cs advises the
shooting of Indians on sight, and says
At the present rate, Colorado is not
getting scalp for scalp by good deal. >
1t is estimated that The wheat crop of
Oregon this year will amount TO 5,OOO,-
600 bushels. One farmer in Iamhill
county raised $500 bushels on fifty
acres.
James w Davis x Co. have over , 500
men in their employ in Wyoming, get
ting out ties and bridge timber for the
Union Pacific Railroad.
A dispatch to the San Francisco Times
says Ben. Holiday & Co, have pur~
chased the contract of grading the Ore
gon & California Railway, and that the
work is To be pushed forward as rapidly
as Cinnamon can make il go.
In one of the upper counties of Cali
fornia lately, a gallant, in his hurry to
assist a fainting lady, got a bottle of
mucilage instead of camphor and bathed
her face with il. She was good deal
stuck up by the attention.
Hyatt & McCarty, Advertising Agents
at San Francisco, have failed. Newspa
pers on the Pacific coast are losers to
the amount of from $4,000 TO $4,000
Mr.. Mccarthy takes the benefit of the
Bankruptcy Act.
On the prairies they have abandoned
the spade and post augur in setting
fence posts, aud adopted the pile-driver,
similar to that employed on wharfs
The machine costs about S25, and two
men and team will drive three fourths
of miie of posts per day. The posts
are sharpened and are usually sent to
the proper depth by two blows of the
wooden driver or monkey.
The Montana post., 1868-10-16
THE WEST.

A man could carry on his back, forty
years ago, the Southern mail from New
York City to Jersey City; now 1t re-
quires eight four-horse teams to do that
service.
In Canada most of their pork is fatted
on peas, six bushels of which are equal
to ten bushels of corn, and more can be
grown from an acre. Pigs are not very
found of peas, but pea meal and other
meal mixed is excellent.
Lusk, of Alameda county, California,
has a field of fifty acres which yielded
an average of at least 5000 pounds of
raspberries per acre, probably more, say
seventy-five to eighty tons all told.
The steamer Idaho sailed from San
Francisco, Sept. 18th, with a cargo val
ued at $4,000, for Honolulu. steamer
will leave every twenty days hereafter
for the latter port.
The Esmeralda Union quotes the mar
rage, in Lone Pine, lnyo county, CALI
fornia. of l.. Peayson, aged 40, L. Miss
A. Harrico. aged 8 years and months
married at the residence OF the
brides father"
The Frontier Lader of the 22d inst
tells of the arrest in Green River City
on the 14th inst, of two horse thieves,
named James King and Z. Ortield, 0ii0s
Bannock Jim also the killing OF two
others of the same profession ou the
20th. a third, named John Oxford, was
arrested, taken to Green River and
lodged in Jail TO await the action of the
authorities there.
The Montana post., 1868-10-16

The "wickedest man" went to deliver
lecture recently, and his neighbor,
Kit Burns, thus describes the venture /:
"Took three hundred and seventy-four
dollars in New Haven, te he he-he. said
Kit to a well~dressed young man who
was leaning against the bar, with both
elbows on the counter and a glass of
soda water in one hand and a cigar in
the other. (Kit is incapable of a broad
hearty. honest laugh, but throws down
his knife and fork, lays his forearm along
the counter, rests his head on it, and
breaks into boisterous giggle, wkenev-
er one of his retainers says something
that is intended to be remarkably witty
who did 7" "Why, John, d-n il.
went up thar with Slocum and Sterling.
charged a dollar head. got the people
all -he-he-somebody's pocket
picked, big row-te-he-he"-and down
went kits head-"things smashed up.
all have 10 walk to Bridgeport to take
the cars for home"
The Montana post., 1868-10-16
AHE EAST.

Albany has the credit of having fur
nished New York with its "wickedest
man" John Allen was a graduate of
Albany Academy. His name of Allen
is said 10 be assumed.
A Buffalo wedding was terminated by
the arrest of the bridegroom, at the in
stance of the bIide's parents, and sent
to Jail sixty days as vagraDt.
In Ohio fruit farmer is planting a
mammoth orchard, which will consist
of 5000 apple trees, 10000 peach trees,
1900 cherry trees, 1,50O Chickasaw
plums six acres of ounces, twenty acres
of raspberries, eight acres of blackber-
ries, and eighteen acres of grapes,
The Valley of Virginia retains it's old
reputation for fruitfulness. Scarcely a
vestige of the late war is visible" SAYS
the Lynchburg NelcS, ain this beautiful
and highly favored section of the coun-
try. Ii was secured from one extreme
to the other by successive inroads of
Federal cavalry, and was the theatre of
many desperate battles, but every wound
has been healed. and every scar has dis
appeared, and her green fields, full of
fertile promise, bespeak a speedy return
of the blessed abundance of antebellum
days"
The Springfield Republican says that
Speaker Coltax is engaged and will soon
be married to Miss Nellie Wade, of
Ohio. She is described as "a sweet,
sensible, accomplished lady of thirty
years, an Ohio farmers daughter. quite
worthy the place she has won in the
heart of the second man in public life
in the nation, and of the position by his
side, in home and in society, which she
is destined soon to take" AS Mr.
Bowles, of the Republican. is an init
mate friend of Mr.. Colfax, this state
ment may be considered official. 1t is
said that the mountains of Colorado
heard first the sweet whisper" of
Schuyler TO Nellie, and Nellie To-
Schuyler.
A New York tradesman having three
customers, a father and two sons 10y the
name of Wheeler, and fearing a confu-
sion of accounts from their different or
ders, solved his difficulty by styling the
stern parent "Stern Wheeler" the eld>
est son, Side Wheeler" and the young
est, rather fast youth. Propeller"
A boy living in Rome, Ohio, recently
picked up a small bright stone from the
grade in the town, which proved to be
valuable A Cincinnati firm offered him
$400, then $3.50, and finally $475 for it,
He took it to another establishment.
however. who said it was either a ruby
or diamond, and very valuable, prob
ably worth $1,000. He sent it to New
York to dispose of.
A New York correspondent tells a
story of a gentleman of that city, who,
for twenty-five years had not known
what a money embarrassment was,
which proves this. His business was
easy, he lived in luxury, with city and
country home, and could draw his check
for any amount he needed, without the
Endorsement of his friends or accommo-
dation from the bank. A friend came
to him for assistance. He tried to help
him; went in little way, went further
to save that found his friend fraudu-
lent and n defaulter, and now can't tell !
in six months he will be penni- |
less or not. He Endorsed for friend"
used TO be the proper inscription for the
bell door of every debtor.
The Montana post., 1868-10-16
LIST OF PREMIUMS
Awarded at the First Annual Fair Of Mon
tana Territory.

Awarded al lne rlrSt annual rdF oi HoH-
tana Territory.
We publish below a list OF the pro-
miums awarded at the Fair so far as we
have been able to get them from the
books of the Secretary. The books as
yet are not fully posted, and hence the
list is not entirely complete, but there
is enough To show that the Fair has
been success even beyond our most
sanguine expectations. The receipts
of the Fair, in addition to the liberal
subscriptions of,our> citizens, will enable
the COMMITTEES to meet all demands
upon the Treasury. The general sue
cess of the First Annual Fair of Mon
tana, is a matter of cOngratulation to
the officers of the Association, and
encourages ms to hope that we may
have a still better exhibition next year ::
The Montana post., 1868-10-16
POLITICAL.

An Atlanta (Ga.) Democratic paper
urges the ladies to form Seymour and
Blair club. It is an excellent sugges-
tion. One or two elections like that in
Maine would give them the "Grecian
bend" without the trouble of looking,
glass practice.-Hdrttord Post.
Beecher in late letter TO the Grant
and Colfax Club of Washington City,
says: utterly lost TO all moderation.
the Convention in New York has laid
down a platform which will bring civil
war to the South, unless prevented by
the victory of the Republican party"
Rights Convention that few years ago
the only luxury he enjoyed was a whole
seat in a car. Even elat luxury he did
not have now. The other night he was
riding, muffied up in his blanket, when
some one asked him for half his seat
He stuck out his head and replied, "I'm
nigger." "I don't care what the devil
you are-I want a seatl''
Cory e. 0Lanus, the Brooklyn humor
list, who airs his pleasantries in the
Eagle, gets off the following burlesdue
on the Worlds figuring up Of the Demo
cratic victories in Vermont and Maine :.
II .l. SQUEDUNK, NE.
To @. O'LdaHs, Esq:
The election in this town has gone
just as we expected. Tie Republicans
have carried the town by an Increased
majority, but the heaviest proportionate
gain has been on the Democratic side.
as you will see by the figures:
The Montana post., 1868-10-16
FOREIGN ITEMS.

The Queen of Prussia is doing
France iRc0gHito. under the title of
Countess Hohenthal. She has thirteen
attendants.
Niagara has found rival i'm the Vic
toria Falls, on the Zambosi river, South
! Africa, which are about nineteen hun
dred yards wide, and four hundred feet
deep.
Only eight soldiers OF the first Ma
| poleon are alive.
! Paris is looking at plan of a theatre
which may be made large or small at
pleasure. The walls are movable and
shut together like an opera glass.
There are four hundred noblemen To
every square mile of Hung0ry, and one
to every eighteen of the population.
IL is said that there are about 100000
native Christians in India. There re-
main 149 800, 900 To- be converted.
Professor Agassiz says the Emperor
of Brazil is man of more culture and
refinement than any man who now
wears a crown.
Recent news from Berlin gives an un-
! favorable account of Count Bsmark' ;
health He can only obtain rest by re-
sorting to brandy, and delireum iremens
is feared,
The widow of Stonewall Jackson has
presented to David Macrae, of Glasgow,
the coat worn by him when he fell on
the battle of Chancellorville. 1t is To be
placed in some public museum in Scot
land
A tremendous earthquake visited
China in 1862, which destroyed 200 600
people in Pekin alone.
Velocipedes can be called from the
stand" and hired like cabs in Paris.
In England the prices of new varieties
OF grape vines sell from one TO twenty
dollars each.
The Burial Board of Carlisle. Eng
land, has been bigoted enough TO refuse
a daughter the privilege Df placing on
the tombstone of her father the words,
mot lost, but gone before" because he
had been an actor and clerk of a race
course.
Since the discovery of America, the
number of disastrous earthquakes that
are known to have visited the belt of
country through which the late one
passed, exceeds that of any other vOl-
canic portion of the globe. In 1885 ii
very destructive earthquake laid Lima
in ruins one hundred years afterwards,
or in 1867, the city was again totally
destroyed and in 1746 an earthquake,
divided into three hundred distinct
shocks, destroyed Lima and Callao, and
the sea rising in an immense tidal wave
sank ships, deluged the country, and
destroyed every living thing that had
not reached the mountains. In 1850 the
city of Conception, in Chile, was de-
stroyed. and in 1T74 a shock was felt
all along the coast of South America,
which eliminated in Guatemala, where
il overwhelmed 5000 inhabitants In
1897 an earthquake, extending from
Santa Fe to Quito, including Panama,
destroyed 10000 people. In 1912 the
VENEZUELAN city of Caracas, with 10000
souls, fell before a decimating earth>
quake which was felt on the other side
of the Andes. One of the most remark
able volcanic disturbances on record, is
the earthquake which in 1922 rayaged
Chile, Bolivia and Peru for distance, in
a straight line, of over 1 200 miles, and
which raised the surface of the earth
between six and seven feet, over an area
Of more than 100000 miles
The Montana post., 1868-10-16

Prince Albert remarks, concerning his
late visit 70 the colonies Of the southern
hemisphere ''In Adelaide they robbed
me, in Melbourne they mobbed me, in
Sydney they shot me. but in Queensland
they took-me to Jondayon." This mys-
terious announcement is cleared up
when we learn that Jondayon is huge,
uninteresting plain, where Alfred got a
"second-rate feed" at an unreasonable
hour, and slept in the railway station.
The Montana post., 1868-10-16

The Democratic gain is one hundred
per cent. while the Republican gain
only twenty per cent. At this rate the
redemption of Maine is only N after
of time. Yours HUeH b. BLoDE
The election of Seymour and Blair
lsays Corry) is now as sure as il was the
day they were nominated.
The Montana post., 1868-10-16

William Wheatley, who made three
quarters of a million by the "Black
Crook" white Fawn," and other spec
tacular dramas, has taken his final fare
well of the New York stage, and has
gone on a tour to Europe.
The Montana post., 1868-10-16

Some one in the interior of New York
claims to have captured the champion
mosquito. 1t is Al inches in length.
Twelve dollars has been refused for il.
The Montana post., 1868-10-16

Napoleon is making so many French
Senators of small calibre that the French
are beginning to call the Senate the
Second Hotel des Invalides."
The Montana post., 1868-10-16

Prussia has offered Professors chairs
to all the French scientific men menaced
with ostracism by the French clergy.
The Montana post., 1868-10-16

The Grand Duchess of Russia received
a diamond necklace worth $32, 900 on
the occasion of the birth of her first
born.
The Montana post., 1868-10-16
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III ''ii "
BOStOn Mass.

The very importantande extensive improve me9e
which have recently been made in this PoPoS
Hotel, the largest ia New England. euable iSs
ProprietOrs TO offer To Tourists Families and tns
Traveliug Public, accommodations and coess
nieucies superior 10 any other Hotel in the cit,.
During the past summer additions have been ws@s
OF numerous suites OF apartments. with hsibss
rooms reading noOms &c. attached one Of lu.'
magnificent passenger elevators the best ever % eyy
structed, conveys guests the upper story OF =,
house in one minute the entries have been pew
and richly carpeted. aud the entire house inVs
oughly repleDished and refuruished. making y -
all its appointments, equal 10 any hotel VI ~ ~
country. Telegraph Office, Billiard Halls -
Cafe on the first floor
iy2sd3mo LEWIS RICE g. SON, ProPA
The Montana post., 1868-10-16
NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given 10 the public tina: The
SPOSE PUBLISHING CO.'S
will not hold itself responsible for any bills in this
Territory, unless they contracted by order Of
ALEX. II. BEATTIE, OF myself
GEO. NJ. PINNEY,
MANAGER 7
''MoNTANA POST PUBLISHING com PhNY."t
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MARRIED.

On the 9th of January, at the residence OF
the brides father, by the Rev. 4. II. McKim,
JAMES K. SMOOT to HARRIET j.. daugh-
ter of Charles L. Powell, esq, all of this city.
At Rose Hill" in Cecil county, Nd, on the
I'd day of January, 1868, by Rev. G. II. Shield,
HOLMES CONRAD, esq, of Winchester, to
Foreman, esq of Savannah, Ga
In Baltimore, on the Sth instant, by the Rev.
Jno McNal]y, JNU. A. WILSON to ELLEN
D. GORDON, daughter of D. II. Gordon, esq,
lately OF fredericksburg.
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DIED..

Jester day in Baltimore, in the 44th yea: OF
his ege, THOMAS VOWEL DAVIS, son of
the late Josiah H. Davis, of this place.
AtHeathsvlle, Northumbe rland county, Va,
Oh Monday, the Goth day Of December, 1867,
after a brief illness Dr. GUSTAVUS B
CAMPBELL. DR. Campbell was I'd accom-
plished scholar and gentleman. No man in the
community in which he lived was more honor
ed and respected for his many noble virtues ;
lie was of that type of character known as the
"Old Virginia gentleman" Ever honorable,
Just and generous in all his transactions, it is
not believed that he left in the breast Of any a
single unknJ thought or feeling. Peace, to
his ashes E.
At his residence, near Liberty, Bedford co :,
Va, on Wednesday, the 25th uitimo. in the 10th
year Of his age. GEORGE NJ. l., KNEE,
formerly of Orange county. leaving 3 wife and
four children
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Two Kentucky mule traders write from
Vicksburg to the Louisville Courier, saying
that the people in Alabama and Mississippi are
bankrupt; and that they can buy hundreds Of
mules in those States for from forty to fifty dol
lars per head The same mules sold within
the last two years for two hundred dollars.
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sep 28-6lli
PAPER BAGS!
PAPER BAGS!

4
PAPER BAGS!
PAPER BAGS
THOSE PAPER BAGS Chat is, another
supply have just arrived, and Will be constant
~ arriving, if they continue % depart 4, they
have done recently.
These Bsga come direc! from the factory, and
go direct 70 the purchaser q: factory prices.
FLOUR SACKS, Of any size Furnished 10
order will. your name and place Of business
stamped Oh them without additional charge,
and as Our ranu!Actory is pressed with orders,
we have TO adopt the ''Miller's Rule" first
come, first served so don't wait until you arc
entirely out before you order more.
JOHN II. PARROT,
Dealer in Blank Books, Writing and Wrapping
Paper, Stationery of al sortt, Sheet Muse,
SC. &C, corner King and Water streets.
n. B I emitted to state that my goods come
direct fr0ln the manufacturers; importers and
publishers, and as l deal upon strictly cash
principles, give ny friends the benefit. hay
ing adopted tho motto, small profits and quick
sales" j. ii. T.. as above stated.
=. S.--As zone good turn deserves another,
according to the Old adage / patroHlZe ihGS"
who patrcnze me, aad having q largo fn.nity
to feed, who are fond Of good things, you will
please make note Of it. j. II. p, do, do, do:
Fourthly and Lastly for the Present.-lf
do not sell you goods rs cheap rs any one Csc
| do not expect you to buy Of me, and wee
v.rsa T charge nothing for showing goods.
JOHN II. PARKQfI.
;onT-tf as ! said before
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WISHING OUTFIT FOR SALE.

TISHING OUTFIT FOR SALE.
BY virtue of deed Of trust from j Ohm vii
liams to the undersigned Of record in the
Clerks Office of Stafford county, shall offer. at
said county, on TUESDAY, the 10th day of
December, 1867, one large Seine Boat, Scows,
Lookout Boats, Seine Rope, Corks, Capstans,
Three Horses, Office Furniture: &c, comprising
the entire Fishing Outfit Of :aid Williams.
Terms cash. JOHN II. SUBTLE, Trustee.
Stafford CO, dec Its
POSTPONEMENT-~T The Aboye sale is post
poned until FRIDAY, January L, 1863.
jan l0-ts
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THE HARPERs FERRY SUIT.-Some months
ago, So US the Berkeley Union, Mr.. Faulkner,
the counsel of Jacob B. Brown, of Jefferson
county, instituted an action of ejectnent in the
Circuit Court of Jefferson County, before Judge
Hall, against Daniel ]. Young, to recover some
twenty odd acres of land, embracing all the
valuable water power at Harpers Ferry. Mr.
Brown claims under patent from the Com mon
wealth of Virginia, aud denies that the title OF
the u. S. extends 10 the land in controversy.
The property in dispute il estimated to be
worth at least million of dollars Daniel ).
Young, the defendant, and the ordnance officer
in charge of the interests OF the u. ). at
Ifarper's Ferry, has twice moved the court t.
dismiss he case as to him, upon the ground
that he had DOT such an interest ard posses
sion of the property as would authorize an &C
ton of ciectment against him, but Judge Hall
has twice overruled that motion. a few days
ago writ of certiorari awarded by Chief justice
Chase was served upon Judge Hall, restrain
ing him from further proceedings n hls court,
and ordering that all the original papers IN the
cause be removed before the Circuit Court OF
the United States for the District OF West Flr-
ginia. held at Parkersburg. The right of Chief
Justice Chase to enforce obedience to the writ
Of certiorari is not conceded, ard some Interest
ing points for discussion may arise before the
next Jefferson County Court upon the qurs,
| ton OF the jurisdiction of the State and Federal
courts over the subject in controversy.
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ssapMousD TooL.--WeI see that "a patent
hg been obtaiEed for = So Compound tool, for
sath9gs pnnehing and upsettiDg. Must mean
The 6Adisal Congress. Native Kvyintan. ~ I
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$1,000 600 IN WATCHES t
FOR SALE on THY POPULAR

ez~ ONE PRICE PLAN. 81
GIVING EVERY PATRON 4
HANDSOME AND RELIAbLE "ATCH
For the low Price Of Ten Dollars
WITHOUT REGARD TO VALUE,
And not TO be Paid Tor unlcs: perfectly sat
isfnctory..
100 Solid Gold Hunting Watches, $3.50 70 sl,nJ
100 Magic Cascd Gold Watches, goo to oDU
100 Ladies' Watches, Enameed, 100 10 %J
200 Gold Hunting Chron'ter Watches, $50 70 800
200 Gold Hunting English Levers, 200 TO 30
800 Gold Hunting Duplex Watches, $50 TO ~
500 Gold Hunting Amer. Watches, 100 to $50
500 Silver Hunting Levers, 90 TO l5J
500 Silver Hunting Duplexes, rs 10 800
500 Gold Ladics' Watches; 90 10 %3O
1000 Gold Hunting Lepincs, soto IS
1900 Miscellaneous Silver Watches, 30 TO ioJ
1900 Hunting Silver Watches, % 10 ~
5000 Assorted Watches, all kinds, 10 10 30
Gs-E Every patron obtains 8 Watch by the
arrang cement, costing but $40, while II may hs
worth 81 600. No partially shown.
We wish to Immediately dispose Of the above
MAGNIFICENT stock. Certificates, naming the ar.
ticles, are placed in sealed envelopes, and well
named on their certificate upon payment OF Ten
Dollars, whether it be 3 We tch werth Sl,0O or
one worth less. The return Of any Of our GER
tifcates entities you to the article named thers-
on upon payment, irrespective OF It's worth, ami
as no article valued less than $40 is named o!
any certificate, it will at once be seen that ths
is no lottery, but straightforward Legitimate
transaction, which may be participated in ever.
by the most fastidiou5.
a single certificate will be sent by mail, post
paid, upon receipt of Is cents tive for 81, eloven
for 81, thirty-three and elegant premium s.,
sixty. six and more valuable premium for $40,
one hundred and most superb watch for SID
To Agents, or those wishing employment, this
iz rare opportunity. It is a legitimately con-
Quoted business, duly authorized by the Gov
eminent, and open to the most careful scrutiny.
Try us! WRIGHT, BRO. & CO.,
Importers, 16l, Broadway.
sep 2S-6nl NEW YORK.