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The Montana post., 1869-03-26
HOW To CONQUER INDIANS.

The New York Tribune of the 10Th
ult., in a column and half editorial, in
forms it's quarter of a million readers
"how to conquer Indians" 1t premises
by noting the encroachment of the
whites upon their domain, the progress
of the Pacific railroads and the extinc>
tion of game, aud says they are prepar-
ing to and will "stsnd and bay" It
comedies that we can exterminate them,
but errs in saying, that determination
is the advice of border men. Let Mr..
Greeley imagine his family in his home,
menaced every night by an hundred
fiendish cut throat desperadoes, and he
can conceive the condition of hundreds
and thousands of families, as good as
his, west of the Mississippi. The article
then argues that they can be ACCUSE
toned to a pastoral life on reservations
by cultivating their natural love of
stock raising, and will finally surround
themselves with property and comforts
that will break up their nomadic habits,
and to gradually civilize them needs
only time and patient effort. The tone of
the Tribune is very different from that
which characterized it's articles a year
ago, and we trust that Gen. Hazen's ef-
forts, in the direction indicated by the
Tribune, will be successful. In the mean
time, Custars method suits us, and it
would suit Greeley if he understood the
facts of the case as well as the theories
of IT.
The Montana post., 1869-03-26
CLAIMS TO SETTLE.


The kilograms state that joint com
mission of the British and American
Governments to settle the Hudson Bay
Company's Puget Sound difficulties,
were to meet in New York on Thursday
The counter claims TO be adjusted
amount to six millions IF dollars. How
these claims grow. In 1858. when this
dispute began, a small flock of sheep
was landed by the Hudson Bay Cons
pany from a British vessel on the island
of San Juan, in Puget Sound. The
United States claimed the island as
a mart of Whatcom county, Washing
Territory. The American Collector OF
Customs was unable to collect the duty
ON the sheep, but on a tax becoming
due the county, the Sheriff sold some
thirty OF them for it's payment. "A
claim was at once instituted for Sl5,OOO
damages, and now, sixteen years after,
tie accounts have swollen To SIX mill
lions. The United States did not, how
ever. Weld the point, and the old slogan
"Fifty-four, forty or fight, came
near involving the two countries in war
lust previous to the rebellion, but so de-
sirous was England, after thorough
examination of the facts, 70 avoid hos
tilities, that the English Minister, de-
pute6 to negotiate a settlement, was in
strUcted by his Government to give up,
as last resort, to the United States,
even Vancouver Island. Nothing,
save the advantage England had of
the United States during the war. and
the pressure maintained by the Hudson
Bay Company TO retain possession of the
island could, after the treaty signed by
Packenham and Buchanan, have again
raised the boundary question of the
Northwest. The leland is a valuable
one, being nineteen miles long and seven
miles wide, with an area OF $4,000 acres.
The United States has always main
tanned a military force on it. Captain
| Geo. E. Pickett. of the 10Th infantry, af-
terward the famous Confederate General
who led that terrible charge at Gettys-
burg, having commanded it by order of
General Harney, from the commence
ment of the difficulties until he re~
| signed to enter the rebel army in 1861.
At one time during the alteration the
British meditated an attack on the
Americans, and had, in the Sound hall
a dozen war vessels, carrying two thou
sand soldiers and sailors, and 167 guns
but General Harvey, then in command
of the department, quietly reinforced
our troops with several companies oi
! L. S. soldiers and batteries. under Col
Casey, afterward General, and the Eng
lish Admiral, Baynes, thought 1t un-
healthy to open the contest. General
Scott, who was sent from Washington
to adjust the difficulties, found his sub
ordinates had peacefully, but determin'
edly made themselves masters of the
situation. 1t is not probable now, with
Puget Sound looming into such impor-
tance to our nation, that our Govern
ment will yield particle to the claims
of Great Britain tor any territory south
of "a degs. 40 min, and the San Juar
difficulty may yet enter largely into the
question that is assuming a phase of Sc
va st importance-thec claims of Americs
against England for damages to he
commerce DUNG the war.
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

THE Denver Pacific Railroad bill, the
signing of which was one of the last
Presidential acts of Mr.. johnson. guar
antees to Denver the completion of the
railroad from Cheyenne this season.
The Denver Pacific is a Colorado Com
pany, and this bill permits them to con-
Vey to the U, p. K. X. Eastern division
the perpetual right of way and depot
grounds. the right to construct, operate
and maintain the road and all rights and
privileges held under the ID. and p.
charter. ALI the provisions governing
the Z. p. r. Il, are in operation on the
Denver branch. They are also author
lied TO mortgage the road to the amount
of $50 900 per mile 10 secure funds for
its construction, and are granted lands
to the same amount as the L. p. r. r.
The road, however, receives no bond
subsidies from the Government.
The Montana post., 1869-03-26
EXEUNT.

Mr.. johnson has left Washington for
his home as no other President ever re-
tired from the Federal Capital-hating
and hated. How like banished Timon
he took the last farewell look at
the walls of Athens must have been Mr..
johnson as he gazed upon the Capitol.
and how like his must have been the
soliloquy-
Let me look back upon thee, o thou wall,
That girdest in these wolves.
Slaves and Fools
Pluck the grave wrinkled Senate from the
bench,
And minister in their steads
Bankrupts hold fast
Rather than render back; out with you knives
And cut your truster's throats.
Pluck the lean'd crutch from thy old limping
sire;
With it beat out his brains Piety and fear
Religion to the gods, peace, Justice, truth
Instruction, manners, mysteries and trades,
Days, obseryances, customs and laws,
Decline to your confounding contrarles
And let confusion live! Plaques, incident
to men,
Your potent aid infectious fevers help.
These cold scistica
Cripple our Senators, that their limbs may halt
As lamely as their manners. Lust and liberty
Creep in the minds and marrows of their youth
That gainst the stream of virtue they may
strive
And drown themselves in riot Breathe infect
death ...
That their society, as their friendship, may
Be merely poison. Nothing I'll bear from
81. thee,
But nakedness, thou detestable town
will to the woods, where shall find
The unkindsst beast still kinder than man
kind
The Montana post., 1869-03-26
TENUKE OF OFFICE Law.

The battle over the Tenure of Office
bill wakes warm, in the papers and Con
gress, with the anti-repealists evidently
in the ascendency in the Senate. In this
day when good laws are not any too
plenty, 1t is not right to wipe out good
ones. We think the Tenure law a good
one. The following defines the position
of the New York Tribune on the ques>
ton, and suits us:
If there be those who supported the
act of March 2, 1867, regulating the Ten
ure of Offices simply or mainly because
Andrew johnson, then President, had
proved a renegade and a traitor, and
was bent on thrusting from Office those
who did not unite in his apostasy, they
may with perfect consistency now favor
the unqualified repeal of that measure;
but we are not Of them. We heartily
supported that act because we believed
IL substantially just, benefcent, and in
tended to arrest q baleful practice based
on an assumption of power unwarranted
by the Federal Consultation
These convictions, we need not say,
were formed long before we ever heard
OF Gen. Grant, and are no wise affected
by the circumstance that he is Presi-
dent. We have never asked nor cared
what he thought of the Tenure-of-Of,
ice act. nor whether he preferred its re-
tention, its modification or it's repeal.
We arc not accustomed to recast or
twist our opinions to adapt them to the
merdian OF the White House. r4o
The Montana post., 1869-03-26
HOW MUCH WILL BE BUILT.

Our readers will remember that just pre-
yious to the adjournment of the 10th Con-
gress a resolution was introduced, and
passed, authorizing the Northern Paci-
fic Railroad to issue their own bonds
and sell them for the purpose of con-
structing the road. This gave the road
no bond subsidy whatever, and in view
of the $16, 900, $32 900, and SIS, 900 per
mile given the Union and Central roads
and eagerly clamored for by a score or
two others, we deemed it only feint, or
an auxiliary and dependent movement
with the money subsidy bill. Our
Eastern exchanges regard it differently,
however,-as practical, independent leg
islation, and that there is bona tide in
tent on the part of the company to con-
struct the road on the bare land sub
sidy, if the money subsidy fails. We
are now inclined to believe they are, at
least partially, right, but from different
reasons than they give fo- the action of
the company. 1t is not that there is an
immediate profit in building the entire
road without money subsidy, unless the
charter can be bought up by combina>
tion of east and west State railroads,
ruled out by the central road combi,
nations. The land grant of the
Northern Pacific company, is just double
that granted any other road in the
United States, and is an hundred times
more valuable than those of the U. p.
or G. p. roads. The original charter
for this has expired or is about to, owing
to non-fulfllment of the terms, but by
resolution of Congress, approved July
1st, 1868, the time for commencing and
completing the road was extended. This
resolution requires that the road shall
be commenced before the I'd of July.
1S70-a little over fifteen months hence
that after the second year thereafter,
100 miles at least, shall be built annu.
ally, and that the entire road from Lake
Superior to Puget Sound shall be in
complete running order and furnished
with rolling stock, before July 4, 1877
eight years hence. 1t will be seen by
this that something must be done, and
that quickly, or the land grants are
gone, for the Central roads, working
10000 to 10000 men, a portion of the
time, and building railroad at an un-
parallelled rate, will have been almost
that long in construction. By the con-
structson of one hundred miles of road
each year, on any part of the route. the
lands can be held for several years, and
1t is probably in view of this, and m
anticipation of a subsequent more hber-
al spirit in the administration and Con-
grsss, that the company proposes. In
failure of the Omnibus Bill, to put
their bonds on the market and by the
building OF the minimum number OF
miles. comply with their extended
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

The Cheyenne Argus gets warm un'
der the collar because his democrats
cotems did not show their colors at the
bugle call of the argus on Territoria
representation. Hear it
But there is no reason why demo-
cratic papers should fail in their duty,
duty ever a recognized constituent o.
their principles, for it has always been
the boast of democrats that they wer
fearless champions of public rights
Shall we say they are as treacherous
republican institutions, or as coWardp
in the maintenance of them, as their oP
ponents, or that there are no democrsF
ic papers in the mountain regions Dc
tween Omaha and Helena, except ih'
Argus. If there are, why do they no
maintain the principles of their parry
and fight manfully for public rights
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

is a power which is greater than all.
Their operations are but local, partial
and temporary; this can replace what
they destroy-this can rebuild what
they have hurled down; all gave
"The touch of vanished hand,
And the sound of voice that is still,
can this bring back to its posssssor.
Forth from this black cave in the top
of the cloud capped mountain shall flow
a stream which all shall see, and whose
force the millions yet unborn shall feel.
SMELLING THE ORES.
Down in the canon at the foot of the
mountain swarthy men in smoke~soiled
garments through all the long night are
bending anxiously over the furnace,
from whose open mouths leap whites
forked tongues of flame. What do they
there while others sleepy They have
learned the secret of the Fire>king' s
power, and master no longer, but sub
missive slave, he is toiling in bonds at
their bidding. He touches the black
stone as they hand it down, and il be-
comes as white as the snow on the
mountain. Henceforth it shall know no
change, whatever outward form il may
assume, but 1t shall go forth through all
the world, the standard of value, the
emblem of purity, blessing ard a
curse to all nations. Men shall slave
and women sin for it; kings shall fight
over it; beggars shall clutch at it; mill
lions shall die for it. 1t shall blunt the
edge of the sword of justice, soil the
hands of the judge on the bench, and
change the color of the ink in the pen
in the hand of the son of genius. In a
thousand forms il shall glitter as a thing
of beauty; in only and to only few shall
Ii Inrnve a inv fnravRr
The Montana post., 1869-03-26
Langrishe I'm Denver.

Goldrick, of the Colorado Herald. who
appreciates any thing good. from bon
mot to a bonnet, thus notices the re-ap~
pea-ance of the Langrishe troupe in
Denver:
"The grand opening of the Denver
Theatre took place last Saturday night,
by its worthy proprietor and manager,
Mr.. j. s. Langrishe, with his large and
respectable troupe of new faces and old
favorites, Mrs. Langrishe, Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. B. Waldron, Mr.. j. NJ. Martin, Mr..
and Mrs. f. A. Shields, Mrs. Fitzwil-
liams. Messrs. l.. NJ. Browne, j. Griffith,
NJ, s. Mobiles, E. Wright, w. j. Gross, j.
c. Spencer, Chas. Bray, Ed. Shapter,
Jack Speed and few others, whose
names now escape our memory. AS a
whole, the present company is as large
and versatile as any you can find outs
side of the great cities. Mr.. and Mrs.
Langrishe, Mr. and Mrs. WalSron, with
Jimmy Martin and a few of the others,
are equal to anything you can find in the
largest cities save the bright, particular
stars" Indeed, they discount many of
the people at present playing in either
San Francisco or Cincinnati. The OPEN
ing play of "The Marble Heart" had a
splendid, crowded house, and was haps
PLY rendered. Next came Richelieu.
on Monday night, one of Waldron's s
best efforts. Mr.. Waldron has greatly
improved since he used to star it on the
Salt Lake stage few years ago, and
may now be truly called most able and
accomplished artistic. Mr.. Martin has
hugely improved also, and shows this
fact from night to night. Mrs. Waldron
| l. nN~ nA uI,r Il
calculated to wear well. The oftener
she appears, the more she pleases. The
inimitable Langrishe is himself again.
He is host in himself. With such q
troupe as this, not to speak of new stars
and stock actors en- route, the people OF
Denver and Central city can congratu-
late themselves for the season, or SO
long as Langrishe intends to stay for
their especial benefit.
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

There are LIZ feet yet TO be drlIs, ss,
through in Tunnel No. 3, in meS, ~.
Canyon. Progress is being made 81 Al
rate of four feet day. The tunnel w
surely be completed by the 18th OF app I.
Tunnel No. 2, head of Echo Canyon ;
entirely excavated, and tinbers als
ing put in with the greatest disPs5
When these two Tunnels are comPie
all natural Instructions on the hne IN,
the u. p, Railroad, from Omahs |" al
valley. will have been removed
Lake Reporter, Nnrc4 IA
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

WHEN the Virginia New Safeguard,
Democratic paper, after the strictest
kind. died some weeks since of its inner
ent ills, it left the following warning as
slegacy to its surviving family. To all
Democratic editors we send greeting:
Paste this in your hat"
Progress, take up new issues, but
above all promptly spike the plank of
universal suffrage to the platform of the
party"
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

WE give it up. Euclid" can "do with
it, as he will. We waded into one sen
tence of seventy-three words, dived into
another of seventy-eight words, plunged
through a third of one hundred and
eleven words, holding our breath. but
stuck like Union Pacific locomotive in
a snow~drift on fourth of one hundred
and twenty-five solid combinations Of
letters. We saw the point. 1t is Dem
ocratic trick to carry the next election in
Montana by killing off all Republicans
who attempt to read it. We leave
+" Euclid" a>top of an exceedingly
beautiful monument" towering above
the eternal ruins" and grinning Ikea
Gorgon at his victims turning to stone
at its base, twenty-four feet in circum
ference" The forty-fifth problem Of
Euclid we wear next our heart, bu!
the solution of the problem in the
Gazette, we leave in despair, and the
Testing oaspots" can have it all Their
own way.
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

NJ. BERTHEMY the French Minister
who is accredited with the laconic rePal
tee to Thornton the other day that WIZ
become historic, it Is reported will so0n
be transferred from Washington to OOD'
s.antinople. His probable successor y
M. Gauldree Boilleau now French ME-
lister to Peru. His wife is sister y
Mrs. Jesse Fremont-daughter OF lpO'
II. Benton of Missouri.
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

Our Montana neighbors differ with
Noah Webster and ether photographers
as 20 the correct photography in spelling
Bowlder. The Books say Bowlder. Mon-
tana says Boulder. Which is right
Tidal WdUe.
IL you ask any more conundrums like
that, Butler, we will take you (u) out
and double you (wl up. If you wont let
us so u" well "owl." Noah Webster did
not knOW a thing about our country
and as he has 'left," of course. we are
right"
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

THE Herald, true to its instincts, dived
of into personalities again last evening.
We let that pass, as we have many
other instances. Hereafter, the editors
of the Herald. Mr.. Fisk and Mr.. Stu-
art, have the assurance that if the Eng
lish language holds out, they shall have
many fold their givings in that line.
We neither avoid or invite. Ii is at
their option.
The Montana post., 1869-03-26
"wHAT Will HE DO WITH Ir,n


A communicated editorial in the Ga
zette, gotten up on the "to-be-continued"
system of the New York Ledger, and
discussing the national debt from geo
graphical, or rather astronomical stand
point, by the aid of comets, comic Sec
tions, the calculus and beautiful mons
umental pyramids" has suggested the
above caption. 1t is truly remarkable
productions kind of algebraical blow
pipe assay of the national debt by
starlight. We are not more inter
ested in "what he will do with it" than
what will become of the writer. The
coast survey calculations are compare
tive trifies besideit. Like an acrobat who
tosses 56~pounders about like marbles,
he whirls ponderous cubes, cones and
pyramids of gold through trembling
space with frightful rapidity, and has
left them still flying with various We
locities" and "blue streak behind
them" while he makes q graceful "to-
be-continued" bow, salutes the audience
and bounds out of the saw-dust into the
retiring room, leaving us in speechless
amazement. And yet-if he should
make a mistake In his figures. We
have all read the sad story of the poor
unfortunate fgurist who strolled up and
down the chill corridors of a Berlin
mad-house for thirty years, repeating,
"once one is two" He was honest, hut
in error We all sec the effect this
financial problem is having upon Gree
ley. He was once of sound mind-it is
now reported he will decline, if he has
the opportunity, the mission to st.
James. 1t is also said lunatic asylum
of gigantic dimensions is projected, for
providing necessary comtorts-and con-
finement-for those who have gone stark
mad trying to pay the national debt
with gas. Serious apprehensions are
certainly in order. Were it not for this
we would make the following sugges-
| tions
He says, substantially, "$2 ,9S5, ,9S4, 900
| is q low estimate of our national debt,
on which interest must be paid in gold
| The Secretary of the Treasury must
have made last July fearful mistake
only $776,751 ,569. He estimates the in-
terest for the present fiscal year at ga
beautiful monumental pyramid of pure
and solid gold, five feet square at the
base and forty-eight feet high" and
| again, 400 cubic feet of gold, at $216
per cubic ounce"-in English, $139, ,299.-
200, while the Secretary of the Treasury
makes it Eli ,299, 900 less.
We quote again: ullp
no9iI pe "eli ioi sne PeoPis 20 hany
49, ,hat ~ i NOT onIy an ;r,ros.;b;i;tv 70,
us 70 ever nav the whole debt. honest AZ h
| NAV seem, but that it is also utterly prepos-
ferrous to suppose i, possible for US to pay a
single years interes. upon it, either in gold
or silver" t...... ...-.. -..... .--f.. q
Very cool, when we have been paying
| the interest every year, and when we
are spending enough money every two
years for whiskey and tobacco alone to
pay the entire national debt. II we can
not pay ours what will England do3 She
owes 81 ,397 o79, ,260 more than we do
or nearly $50 head more for her entire
population. What will France do, owing
within years interest as much as the
United States, or prudent. thrifty little
Holland with per capita debt as large
as ourss
| But he goes on to show why we can-
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

AS we had anticipated, Major Bruce
in the Democrat of March 10th, makes
one of the most triumphant vindications
from the aspersions of the Gazette. that
we have ever seen in print. The crowd
ed condition of our columns alone, pre-
vents its republication entire, but 1t is
q bitter pill for the Gazette, and we cam
not see how it will escape.
The Montana post., 1869-03-26
SECRETAR'

SECRETARY boutwell, has announc-
ed his intention to make all gold sales
publicly hereafter. This does not look
much like favoring the Treasury ring as
the New York Herald special in it's
strangely enthusiastic support of Stew
art, strongly intimated he would do.
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

the financial prodigy of the Gazette has
made the most silly, ridiculous blunders,
imaginable in every calculation he has
ventured upon. But then, we would not
say so-we desire to see what he will
do with it"
The Montana post., 1869-03-26
"KERN RIvER.r

Noticing a sentence in the OeerLdnd
Monthly, which might be construed
"Kern river, ,Montana" or Kern river or
Montana" and recollecting q heavy ar
gument ia the Herald few days since
that the force of the Attachment Law
was impaired by the omission of the con-
junction @or," we concluded to try a lit
tle eIpedient to put them on the other
side Of the question. It worked to a
charm. The Herald went off full swing
last evening on the assumption that the
series was complete without the cons
junction. Ifthe Herald was right In it's
exposition of the Attachment Law, then,
in this instance. il could only have in
terpreted the expression that Kern river
was in Montana. You won't run in the
smbuseade next time, will your @
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

THE Lower House of the New York
Legislature ratified the 18th amend"
ment on the 18th.
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

The deed is done. Another nail in tn g
coffin of Constitutional Liberty has bee n
struck.-Sdc. Reporter.
The RAIDS are "nail drivers" sure.
They strike hard too when they hit cop
per-heads, and are nearly through with
their Undertaking"
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

THE Saint Louis Democrat says :"
Northern line is the worst of all theP'
jected Pacific lines. We think ihS'''
Louis Lyin' is the worst.
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

ALVIN FLANDERS, delegate from
Washington Territory. announces HIM
self candidate fo- reelection.
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

IL is rumored. says the Vallejo Chron-
Icle, that the California Pacific Railroad
Company has purchased the Nspa Val>
ley road. and considerable portion of
the purchase money has been paid
down. The transfer Is TO take place in
q week or two. The Chronicis conGrat-
olates itself that this purchase will be
the smeans of extending the road from
Calistoga To HeAidsburg during the
present year. and ultimately TO HUM
boldt Bay. W 60. = gisa- ttE. 1fna nfl
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

ANDREW JOHNSON left Washington
for Tennessee on the 10th.
The Montana post., 1869-03-26

THE Nevada Legislature adjourned
March 4th, at midnight.