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The New York herald., 1869-02-21
City Armories-aIr. Kiernan's Bill.


An ill-disciplined, disorganized militia is as
much an evil in State as highly trained and
effective force of volunteer soldiery is safe
guard against domestic tumult and invasion.
Taxpa yers who feel the weight of national and
local burdens count every uniform seen IN the
streets as so much waste Of PUBLIC money, and
experienced military ZEN add their grumblings
70 the volums4f scorp and censure hsaped by
foreign cp.slcs on the gaudy gawks who parade
on p&olic days. The money expended on such
s8Qrganization is uselessly squandered, and the
State which allows its existence is exposed to
merited ridicule. How far our National Guard
merits similar criticism is best known to the
many able and experienced officers in it; but
sSSk those Who have 1eep the militia Of other
countries, but who do hot possess vsfy sxten-
sivs military knowledge, must entertain very
poor opinion Of the dis cipline and training of
our local regiments. There is not battalion
In the First division which, if called into active
service tomorrow, could do any better than
run away, and even that it could not do in
military manner. Automatons in tactics there
are enough, but a company or regiment Of
soldiers there is not in the city. This is
serious charge, but it is true. The fault how
ever, lies not with the members Of the National
Guard. Very many Of the officers are capa-
BILE and excellent, and the material Of the
regiments could not be better. The blame lies
with the State government and the Legislature,
~in3 have systematically neglected to pass such
measures as were necessary to increase the
efficiency of the militia, while they eagerly i'm
pose heavy burdens on the people in its name
in the interests of '.rings" and ciques of ras
cally politicians.
Awe are exceedingly glad to observe, how
ever, that chance is offered the Legislature
to atone for past neglect in this regard.
Mr.. Lawrence D. Herman has introduced
bill in the Assembly for the erection Of large
and commodious armory in central part of
the city, which will render the present expen-
sive and useless cribs used by our city regi-
ments unnecessary, and in which our militia
men can have room for practical instruction.
The building is urgently needed by the First
division. The Elm street arsenal, which it Is
proposed to sell, is useless encumbrance; the
Ninth regiment armory is in such a condition
that the lives of the men who drill there are
imperilled, and the costly State arsenal in
Seventh avenue is tumbling to pieces. With
the exception Of those used by the Seventh
and Twenty-second regiments every armory
in the city is totally unfit for the purpose to
which 1t is applied. The proposed armory will
not interfere with private or public interests;
after two or three years it will save two hundred
thousand dollars annually to the city, and 1t
will give our regiments an opportunity Of ac-
quiring proper knowledge Of tactics and the
duties Of the soldier. The bin will be heartily
supported by those members who desire to see
the National Guard made more efficient Mr..
Kiernans able advocacy Of the measure win
doubtless insure its passage.
The New York herald., 1869-02-21
ALABAMA.

Adjournment Of tho Southern Press C0nven-
tiOu.
MOBILE, Feh 90 1902
The Southern Press Convention adjourned to-day.
Il presented the BOARD Of Trade with pair OF COB
let's as an evidence Of hospitalitics extended and
enjoyed. Some members left for home this evening
Others leave for New Orleans tomorrow. where they
enjoy the hesptaties Of the st. Charles Hotel. The
citizens OF Mobile did all In their power TO make the
visit OF the members OF the press agreeable and the
conventionwa lavish In Its thanks for the hosp-
taiity bestowed.
The New York herald., 1869-02-21
SPAIN.

Tho Duke Of NIontpensicr Permitted to Re-
turn.
PARIS. Feb 20-Evening.
The Gdu,ots says that Montpensier has been per-
mitted to return to Spain as private citizen.
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

pa~vsIsss. Law Reports, txc., Escruted
with nsstusss queknsss and despatch ar 800
cheaper Than Al any other printing ~ ,nn
a ~ HGTROPOLirAN y0B fRiNIlN. ESfAbhi'a
MENT VI NASSAU street
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

Important N"sice.-Thc Havana uotiery:
articles have appeared In several papers IN the Nnrd
States stating e Royal Havana Lottery of CUBA wotd
he discontinued authorized by the AdmnisiraJr %
reports. TAYLOR a Co, ~ Wall street
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

The Boston Transcript gives report that the OK.
istlng express lines will not be allowed ON some of
the Sound boats the coming summer. The steam
boat proprieors think or establishing express routes
of their own.
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

NIiasis1nci Spring Wnier-Ouiy knswn
remedy Tor cancer and a Of the kdneya SOLD "
druaQfsts. DEPOT, b3S broadway. NJ "
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

Good bourbon so Gents, Old and Choice
III per bottle BORDEAUX WINE COMPANY,
Vaults, w FULTON street, corner VI NtAan-
The New York herald., 1869-02-21
EUROPEAN MARINE NEWS.

GLASGOW, Feb. 20.-The Anchor line steamer Co
lumbIa. fDm New York, was slgnallcd Off Movelle
this morning.
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

H1.-fDress Your Hair With Nnrry,s TIf-
corhero then ask mifrnr " ever looked -
handsome But II in not dressing merely n renews,
strcnglhsns nourshes Tho hair For .ae By all draa
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

For Black Worms, CRIBS aud Pimpss su
,hs face use PERRY's CONEDONE Ann ffarLE
REMEDY, prepared only by Dr. u. o. PERRY, ~ bond
street, New York. Sold by all drus1ists.
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

Crt.t,dcrs,~ rnrivrticd Hair Dyc.-Soid aud
appl,ed Al No Assor House Mandatory 6s Maiden lana.
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

Troknw Brothers, Great IotLing Lmpert.
um. and boys Wholesale and retail orposte Cooper
Institute
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

TSatchcIOr,s Hair Dyc.--Tho Best la tia
world. The only perfect iye harmless resbs ns,s,ans.
Gus. Factory ~ Bond street.
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

Al F0untuin,s--yust Opened, Fine psnEcrs,
Canton Grapes Pineapple Cloths batnbco Cloths for young
eentetnen Imported ths country Secfsueeerr,
EAnk eens 6o., wholesale and roiai. FOUNTAINS fnda
store s58 broadway Fourteenth street, up s'srs
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

Look Ost for the Cartoon by the s.rcat
American artist Hunk E. Doc Last OF the Orccisn
Bond IN tho EVENING TELE6kAM OF Monday.
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

Regal Havana Lottery.-Pr,zcs rnia 70 s. ~ so,u
fnfornalion furnished iss n,an'" '"ss P-s''' ~
aal al kinds e f9s aa' CO.. S.nssr is wall street. NY
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

CircuIsrs of Every Description and Noiicrs
10 stend meetings printed IN the neates poee manner.
Al An hours notice twenty-five nrr cent less than ~ any
other ain place the cit, At tho METROPOLITAN jtb
pRlNTIN0 EsTABLfSifNENf. W Nassau street
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

Past, Present and Future. ~ ,hi"S - ~, g
was, - d u, and ~ viii be. See 'he h'hSiN" '"
OKkM Of Monday.
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

A.-Novelties In Dry t;cca-. -ugden sys
BRADBURY, corner Bowcry and Blencker. tiA,e with
Lord 1ayor.)
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

I,-srbII-,,ed In ISOO.--The Metropolitan Job
Printing Es.sbiIahment. W Nassau street.
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

For First Glass Printing Of Evcry Dc-crig-
ton 90 10 the Metropolitan job Printing Establishment "
k.ss
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

hs interior bark The Soap Tree Of Chile admitted ~
10 cleansing and prsserv~lvc qualities IN
shared BY any other known substance lie naye name qu
- Il from qniian make clean. This mAtchess sntsopuo
main Of the famous preparation Tor ihs este
Known Scyodon which hes long since taken e est o.
The New York herald., 1869-02-21
-..,- a.,w.esn~.

The osrsc,ss u ,ss EVENING fEIEGRxs q Monday.
The New York herald., 1869-02-21

wIss. Tsupecs ana Orna mental Hair lea
L0g'5. II neaa sxest
The Montana post., 1869-01-15
WHAT OF THE PROPOSALs

The dispatches indicate that the Pa
cific railroad projects are to be sprung
in the present session of Congress. and
the strength OF the supporters and op-
ponents of the measure be tested under
the Johnsonian dispensation. The first
move is in the presentation OF memOri-
ais from certain capitalists offering to
construct the Eastern Division and
Northern Pacific roads for $4,000 per
mile and the land subsidies already
granted. As the Northern road from
Lake Superior to Puget Sound is l115
miles in length this would make total
money subsidy of SD, ,625, 900. By the
estimate of the engineers employed to
survey the route the cost of construc>
ton OF single track. including tele-
graph line estimated at s.. 400, 900 is as
follows. From Lake Superior to the
South Point of Judith Mountaint, long.
1899 w. S95 miles S44, 10000; From the
South Point OF Judith Mountains to the
Columbia river, long. 1l9s w. 66O
miles. S56,s.5,OOOO: From the Co
lumDia river TO Seattle on Puget
Sound 900 miles Sl5,Gl2 900
making a total OF Sl16,6S3, 900, or over
$65. 900 per mile. If this is n correct
estimate of cost, the earnest offer of re-
liable capitalists to accept $4,000 from
the Government. take the chances of
selling first mortgage bonds at $500
more, and put up the remaining S35. 600
per mile themselves. manifests a high
confidence in the lands along the route,
and the ultimate success of the road as
a great highway. But We incline to
look with suspicion on this movement.
hoping we may be mistaken. 1t is Just
such a move as would be made by ene-
mics of the measure, to prejudice Con-
gress against it. A certain Company
holds the charter, and land grants OF
alternate sections in forty miles on
either side OF the road, which latter
was extended n: the last session of Con-
gress fos two years more. They ask u
certain subsidy from the Government
10 aid them in its construction, without
which they would not De justified in at.
IT, Other parties. the Union
Pacific and Centra, Pacific Railroads, tor
instance, are Interested in preventing
lis construction. Is il not pla usibie that
they, knowing other parties held the
charter, and ths- their proposal could
not be scceutsi world see in The pro-
pcssl - build tie road for thirty or
The Montana post., 1869-01-15
SETTLED AT LAST.

That the Capitol could be removed
from Virginia without struggle on the
part of the Madison delegation to retain
it was not to be expected. That, when
it fitted, different localities would make
an effort to secure the prize was natur>
al. But the seat of government having
once been located in Helena, subject To
the approval of the people, by clear
majority in both Houses. and received
the sanction of the Governor AN attempt
like that of Mr.. DonEegans to revive
the sQuabble over il was an absurd
grasping after straws, and has met the
fate il merited. There was no excuse
but selfishness for the introduction of
such a bill by a member from Madison.
and il was an effort to defeat, or n reiu-
sal 10 submit to, the will OF the people.
The question was to he left to the decis.
ion of the leople as between Helena and
Virginia: if a majority did hot ratify
the removal it remains at Virginia. Mr.
Donnegan has, therefore, put himself on
the record as unwilling to abide the ex-
pr-ssion of the majority, and has done
himself more harm than good by his
glorious defeat and failure is never tor-
given There has also been some vim
dictiveness or stupidity shown in this
Capitol question in the Ladependent,
Messrs Bagg and Rand having probably
been annihilated by mis- spelling their
names in that paper, but as il may have
been typographical error. which es-
capped the editors correction, it is not
probable any enmity will be entertained
toward the seven hundred dollar man
by those gentlemen although spell
ing negro with two "g's" and Bagg
with one is an indignity, and an evil
dence of cussedness which the Sir Hum
phrey Hurricane, OF the Council, cannot
swallow without either humiliation
or contempt. Helena having
come off victorious in the three contests
over the Capitol bone, and the Legisla-
ture being in It's last hours, ii Is proba-
bic the struggle has ceased and Helena
is tor all practical purposes the Capitol
as well as metropolis OF Montaaa.
The Montana post., 1869-01-15
THE TRIBUNE AND THE MAILS

The New York Tribune in alluding TO
the cost of mail transportation on the
plains says.
we hold il clear that the initial
trouble lay in the action of Congress. in
yielding To the Unfortunate dem ,nds of
Territorial delegates that the mail bags
shall be open tor all manner of bulky
packages. We have had an unwise
habit of according these delegates what
ever they asked, that must be corrected
before any rigid system of economy can
be enforced
From some inexplicable cause Horace
Greeley, notwithstanding his liberal SEN
timents. and large experience, generally
gets off on the wrong foot at first in
matters effecting the Territories, as
was evidenced in the harsh injustice of
the Trib..c towards our people on the
Indian question until within the last
four months. Expressed dissent to the
averme mt that Territorial delegates have
been conceded all they asked or all they
should have asked, il unnecessary. But
in 30 far AS this particular postal matter
is concerned the fault lies in another
direction. Sec. 4, of the postal act, re-
quiring letter postage on all printed
matter delivered between Kansas aud
California was unjust as a principle and
as TO fact of cost. Our delegates asked
its repeal and it was granted. The add
mission of paper mail to the Territories
would have made but trifiing in.
crease in expense. but no sooner
was the act passed than the news
paper mails for California, Oregon,
Washington, China, Japan, the Sands
wich Islands and halt the globe were
diverted from their former transit by sea
and trundled across the continent partly
by rail and S3s miles 10y coach. The
quantity was increased from 600 pounds
to 1000 and 5000 pounds per day. and
the consequence WAS, a contract with
Wells. Fargo n Co. by recommendation
OF Mr.. Greeley, at nearly a million and
a half dollars more than Spades bid for
the letter mail. Are the people of the
Territories Ia have 96 cents per pound
imposed on their newspaper mail be-
cause the Postoiilce Department sees fit
To send twelve hundred tons of mail per
annum across the continent instead of
the cheaper route by the lsthmusg Ii
it is desirable to send it by this route
let the cost be entered up to the proper
parties and not make the Territories
scape goat for the sins of other commu>
mites. With a likely prospect of Mr..
Greeley succeeding Mr.. Randall, we
hope with some solicitude he will take IA
more just view of this Overland post al
matter and announce an amended opin.
ion," as he did on the Indian question
on th. first of October last
The Montana post., 1869-01-15
SErTLE

The Paris Conference has undoubted-
ly nipped the Turko-Grecian war in the
bud. This is particularly fortunate for
Greece. Turkey has forty millions OF
people Greece one and halt millions
Turkey has regular, active and re>
serve army of 0O.OOO men Greece only
1900. The d;sproportion, although
not nearly so large as when the two
and a half millions of Xerxes were
and stayed in Thermopyle
by the 1000 heroes of Leonidas, is still
sufficient for all practical purposes, and
the Greeks have reputedly degenerated
since Spartan mothers taught their
or on them" The Turkish navy is not
SO numerous as when their five thous-
and vessels, bearing half million men,
were put to flight by Thermistocles and
his hundred oyster boats at Salamis
but they have a fleet of efficient men-of
war, while the Greeks have none, and
Farragut has perhaps taught some
modern Solyman how a mast-head may
be made conqueror throne. Besides,
Marco Bozarris sleeps the sleep that
knows no waking" and Walt Whit.
man lie not likely to resign u good, fat.
easy clerkship in the Tressurer's Office
at Washington to organize a Suliote
band, diet Oh dry maccaroni, and die in
despair al Missolonghi. like his immor-
tai predecessor In the fields of fervidly
roesy-lord Byron. We don't
like the Turks a particle, but circum-
stances Indicate that il the Ottoman
scimetar was drawn against the penin>
sular belligerenis, it would create the
worst case of Grecian Bend yet re-
ported.
The Montana post., 1869-01-15
SAND CREEK AND wASHsTA.

The Denver Nens, in noting the ex-
pressions of the Eastern press on Gen.
Custar's Washita battle. and the Othel-
liam vigor with which popular senti~
ment has smothered the lachrymal pros
testations of Wynkoop, Tappan, and
their ilk, considers il proper time TO
recall the Sand Creek case for new
hearing. IL submits the circumstances
attendant on each, the evidence of cons
plicity in previous atrocities by the In
dians punished, and fairly assumes that
if regular officers are commendable for
the battle OF Washita, the circum-
stances being more justifable at Sand
Creek, the credit should not he with
held merely because volunteers con-
Quoted the fight. Custar tracked their
murderous bands straight from the
corpses of their victims in the Kansas
settlements to the field of Washita, and
punished one band before two others
had rendesvouzed from the war path
Chivington followed their bloody trails
from captured trains on the Platte and
the funeral pyres of Colorado families
to the Sand Creek camp. Washita was
an easy victory /; Sand Creek stabbornly
contested. Custar found fresh scalps
readily recognized, and captured United
States mails in Black Kettles posses
sion Chivington and Shoup found the
supplies captured en- route for the i'm
pOverisLed Denverites, the clothing of
murdered citizens, their scalps with
blood yet undried, and the saddle blan-
ket of chief fringed with tresses torn
in death from the heads of dozen wo-
men to ornament his trappings. If the
case is not parallel, the odds are in
favor of Sand Creek. They who de-
nounced the first denounce the last, un.
der the same plea. They succeeded in
eliciting the verdict of infamous for
one they have invoked it on them
selves in the other. The stigma still
rests upon the remainder of the five
hundred, every tenth man of whom was
a victim in the fight, and it is well tha,
justice should be rendered, even though
il bc tardy.
The Montana post., 1869-01-15

forty millions less, means of prevent-
ing the appropriation asked bv the
Chartered Company, and thus accom>
plish their purpose! This may be an
unjust suspicion, but ever since Judas's
thirty pieces OF silver got into circula-
tion it has paid to keep a look out for
their turning up. and Railroad Directors
do not travel around with George
washington's hatchet swung over their
shoulders. We are no. particularly
partial TO the Northern Pacific Company
as now organized, believing it is unfor-
tunate the charter is not in the hands
of those having greater influence to se-
cure its construction, but would not,
tor the welfare of this great Northwest,
and the Nation. wish to see them de-.
feated by artful lodges. We shall
await the development of the Freling-
huysen movement with interest.
The Montana post., 1869-01-15

THE S5,000,0o0 Sutro Tunnel project
being again revived we may look tor a
reproduction of the editorial and epis
tolary advertisements which crowded
leading eastern journals on that subject
last winter IL is an original and de-
cidedly attractive method of advertising
but the recent Alaska investigation has
developed some rather dama.ing facts
discovering the motive for such earnest
appeals tor Legislative aid. The cores
ponden is of the Times, World and 1ri
5une of New York, the Chicago Tribune.
and Post, Boston Journal and dduertiser
and Philadelphia Press are mentioned as
receiving $1,000 or $1,000 each. while
the Washington Chronicle had $4,000.
and Robert j. Walker. who wrote the
advertisements $4,000 Hereafter stills
cd laucation OF particular projects by
papers extensively circulated among
members of Congress will be looked up
on with suspicion.
The Montana post., 1869-01-15

IT will be noticed by the dispatches
that a bill is introduced in the Senate
10 preserve the purity OF elections in
;he Territories" This is probably q re-
vision of Senator Williams bill pre-.
srntrd last session. providing Il r.gistra-
i'ation law. We have advoraI-d the.
passage, ot such an aci. and b.licv- il
81 absolute r'crs-itN Ia guarantee a.
ialr oppression e Th, will oi 'Hr people
IN these Territories along trv uoutI,r
of the British lin ~h-Ir il - IN uu
question; iacl that q iaT.,r ,,rnppfgrs II
oi thOsr who NuEE Hr'. Ff4..i,s. end 'uo 20
er large prupp-rt a. r.su-. .-T.. o.. -tn-rm
to "sutr early aht ..'I .tt rc, tta
will limit ruii5 .us So ir- ,aCl
qualified rl-c .' ... zee lmIn -l.f
right couta Ia Il 80. ~ ~ s,qul
site II 10 wal I...-tTy .-' "a" p .l'
iptroduT1Iuu co. .... 90. g. - .r1.cJ-r
and rru-i j. vi ... r.r5L. i "ur. UU4
shortly. sIaIu, fy Il IT
The Montana post., 1869-01-15

In the county in which Chicago is To-
Gated there were last year 5,S.S law
suits, OF which } Az were disposed of: -
.l33 applied in bankruptcy, 4S2 dischar>
yes were granted: 116 husbands and
2S4 wives applied for divorce which was
granted To 227 wives and Ia husbands.
Ask and il shall be given unto you. :"
1851 couples weIe married during the
same time. Two into one goes ten
times ii day. Great IL Chicago in math-
ematics, their divisions are all compen-
sated by the provisions tor multiplica-
;lon
The Montana post., 1869-01-15

II such an appointment has been made
our Delegate and our old Nashville friend,
candy Johnson" for their good will. That
if the Senate, we do not expect
As for General Grant, We respect him for
stand that Mr.. Potter is looking up some of
our editorials against Grant with which to
oppose our confirmation.
We assure our citizens that each one of them
can have the same box that he now has, and
II shan't cost any one scent to ask for his
letters.-Gaxette, 18th.
The last man." next to Brick POM
eroy, that We had expected would break
ranks" with the Democracy and come
into our camp claiming party fodder.
When Andy Snyder carried II Tanner
lamp in Ohio; when Reverdy johnson
decared it WAS for the good OF the coun-
try that Grant was elected when Major
Cullen did the same thing, and Belmont
subsidized AS gracefully as swooning
spinster, there was no serious fears of
the immediate disruption of Democracy.
because when axes need grinding men
are not expected to be particular about
the stone, so it has the necessary grit.
But when the organist OF the organ par
lively and triumphsntly Democratic,
ceases To play the Ic Deum Mudamus
to the disciples of Seymour and makes
finger music to ingratiate himself into
the affections Of Grant and get Govern
ment Cruel from the Radical bowl, the
day Of dissolution il drawing near. The
proffer of "the same boxes is an ilIur-
ing but deceptive tait to get Radical
support. an1 retain monopoly, for be
it known, the Gaz.te has clandestinely
concealed in the rear of the Post office
it's box, twenty times rs large rs that
for which - uly loil Radicals are
charged innu .,erable legal tenders per
annum. Nasby never made So strcnu>
Gus and traitorous an appeal To retain
the Office of the y Roads. Tisae was.
when to be placed in the Pott-r's field
was a misfortune only falling On minor
portion of the people, now il is sought
by the Major. With the erudition of
an A. NJ. he would have the cmoluments
of p NJ. \ man of letters. he would
be the letter man, and while protesting
friendship tor Republicans rob them,
even Of their drawers Can the PosT
of one party look upon the piiior of the
claim, Tm SICK. send yor Moginnis!
Never, There are other worlds to con-
quer. Turn your cohorts. valia mt son
of Mars. from the portals of our party
patronage. We bid you Good A. NJ but
not Good T. NJ.