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The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29
yENNsYLvANIA ON FIRE.
A Vast Subtcranean Con.Ia@raIIon
Burning OF a large CoaI field.
From the Louisville Courier, Jan. II

From the Louisville Courier, an. IL
We learn from parties in whom we
believe we may place the most implicit
confidence that a great conf.agration is
now at the height OF its progress in the
celebrated Miller coal mines, on the Mo
nongahela river, at the mouth OF the
Youghiogheny, fifteen miles southeast
of Pittsburgh. The fire began some
time since. and great efforts have been
made to e1tinguish it, but 10 nC purpose.
An attempt TO check it's fierce career
was made by the erection of mud walls
ana the pumping in of large quantities
of water, and by this means the fire Was
partially smothered, but the heat be-
came so intense and the pressure of gas
I so great that the walls were burst, and
I the flames are now sweeping onward
with greater force than ever. The fire
/ is SPREADING through the old mines at
/ the rate of sixty yards per day, and it is
/ feared the entire field may be destroyed.
So much progress has been made 10y the
\ flames that it is estimated the cost of
extiaguishing them before they have
spread over n space of a thousand acres,
will be not less than $l50000. Twenty
two loaded wagons and all the tools of
the miners, have been lost thus far. The
/ Miller mines are carried on by A. Miller
* Co, of which firm Mr. Charles Miller
of this city, was formerly a member.
| The coal field over which this great
subteranean deluge of fire is sweeping,
is one OF the most valuable on the Mo-
nongahela, and extends distance of
some eight or ten miles. 1t is difficult
to say what will be the result of this
underground conhagratiOn, if it is not
checked very soon. Wherever a vein
of coal extends, the fire must follow it,
and the whole Pittsburgh coal region
may yet be endangered. Let some great
lake of Pennsylvania oil be touched by
the resistless stream of fire, let the IN
derground gases be turned on, let the
vast beds of coal throw out their
strength, and the old Keystone State,
or at least large portion of it, will form
the vent of a subteranean hell inferior
only to those which in other quarters
of the globe break out in blazing volca-
noes from the surface of the earth.
The Courier is undoubtedly excited.
Fires in ccal mines are not unusual.
Pittsburghers will remember the sub
teranean fires in Coal Hill, opposite the
city, that burned for many years, and al
though many million barrels of oil have
sihSo OOLhO w bhO SNilaS0 W CREASE bho
wheels of progress and light the nation
to glory, that were then in the great res
ervoirs, there was not anything touched
off" ear so resistlessly as the above
story. The surface "gasses" have antici-
pated the underground gasses-" We
would cheerfully take an interest in
any kind of Pennsylvania real estate
exceeding six by two, and run the
risk of all kinds of explosions except do
mestic ones.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29
TELEGRAPHY.

Mr.. William Orton, President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company
made speech at the Morse Banquet in
New York City, recently, and of course,
combatted with the earnestness of dol
lars and cents the proposition to unite
Postal and Telegraph service under goy>
ernment control. While his PROPOSE
tions on this point are we believe, as
did his audisnc, unteDable. he yet gave
many interesting facts concerning tele-
graphy, some of which we produce be-
below:
The telegraph in the United States to
day is represented by more IL an 10000
miles of land, by more than 10000
miles of wire. 1t exceeds by far the sYs-
tenn of any other government on the
globe; it equals nearly the combined
system of continental Europe. Ap-
plausel 1t will transmit during the
current year thirteen million messages,
nearly equal TO all the messages trans
mitted during the year 1866. the last
concerning which we have authentic
statistics of all the governments of Eu-
rope.
Within a year and half the British
Government has decided TO open nego-
tiations with private parties controlling
the telegraphs in England, with view
of making the telegraphic department
part of the postal service. A COM
mittee appointed under an act of Par
lament has completed it's negotiations,
and the result of its operations is SUBJ
stantially what follows: That the lines
of private corporations in Great Britain
shall be acquired on paying twenty
times their current profits for the year
1868. l submit, sir. in comparison with
that, the proposition pending before
the American Congress, not that 1t shall
pay private enterprises anything, not
that it shall recognize as of any value
that which was offered once for $100,-
600, but that the Treasury itself shall
compete with the citizens of the United
States in race for rs own property.
Under the present arrangement, the
company with which / am connected
controls more than ninety per cent. of
the wires of the United States, and
transmits more than ninety-hve per
cent. of the business OF the United
States. During the current year it will
deliver TO the press of the United States
more than 350-000,000 words Of press
matter, [applause, which, divided by
twenty, the unit of messages on the
continent of Europe, will make more
messages than are transmitted by all
the lines of Europe, including Great
Britain, during this current year, their
compensation for that service being in
the neigh borhood OF $lS,OO0.0O0, and
ours for this specific service 10 the press
being about 100000. IApplause.l
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

Senator Sherman's bill, now under
consideration, which was originally in>
trodueed to provide for airline roads
from Washington 10 New York, and to
Pittsburgh aud Cincinnati, but which
has now been amended 10 provide
merely tor the Washington and New
York road. is attracting a great deal of
attention in Congress. The bill occu-
pied one and half hours In reading.
and was sustained by Sherman in a
written speech of equal length, atten>
lively listened TO by many of the prom
inent railroad men OF the country. II
covers the same point as the Postal
Telegraph bill, in the policy of the Gov
ernment becoming a competitor with
private corporations and a power to
break up oppressive monopolies Mr..
sherman said unless the Baltimore and
Ohio monopoly of the road from Wash-
ington 10 Baltimore was broken up, the
result would be the removal of the Cap
itol 10 some Other locality. There seems
- iie little doubt of the construction of
tao Washington ard New York road.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

tHE petition of Mrs. Abraham Lin
coin, published in the kilograms. we
conceive TO be written in very bad taste
yet II Is more excusable than the pan
ueFIng 20 morbid appetite. manifested
gy those, who. knowing the weakness of
Nlis woman, evidenced by so many pub
.e - acts OF folly, give publicity 20 this,
nat might have been treated with that
ouarltable silence accorded TO so many
etltloners. IL is gossipy sensation
ZEN Tor breakfast but IL the follies of
many OF as who condemn Mrs. Lincoln
we're we're published TO the world, they would
nave the same recommendation. We
.lust she will be recorded a respectable
pension. that it may not b.. said of tbis
ras,op, !, 80 It permitted an opportunity for
- 70 'e charged with parsimoniousness.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

No move having yet been made to-
ward rebuilding the Pacific House in
st. Joe, the Union says a number OF
capitalists have determined to erect a
fine Hotel on the southeast corner OF
Third and Charles streets. IL will be
160x140, with two broad entrances, one
on Third and one on Charles The
ground floor will be devoted to business
houses, six of which. each 24 feet in
width. will trout on Third street, and
four. 90 feet wide, on Charles street.
In the basement will be three business
offices, each 20x40. and large billiard
hall 4SxS0 The building is to be of
brick. four stories in height and to cost
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

We made quite an error in publishing
the name of the Senator elect from
Pennsylvania It came by telegraph
Hon. John Scott, but as there was no
one OF prominence Of that name in Penn
sylSania, we presumed it was Hon.
hos. a. Scott Assistant Secretary of
War with Mr.. Cameron. Ii turns out
20 be Hon. John Scott. q young LAWYER
oi ability, resident of Huntington. but
who has never held any public position
except as a member of the lower House
IN the Legislature of PENNSYLVANIA.
lie Is said 10 be Radical Republican
Of the strietest type" is very young. an
eloquent speaker, and a genial, unob>
irasive gentleman.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

APpr0pos of the test struggle on Pas
cific Railroad subsidies, on the Denver
Branch Bill, we are in receipt, under
the frank of Hon ]. Nj. Cavanaugh, of
the speech of Hon. William Windom.
of Minnesota, on the Northern Pacific
Railroad, to the House in Committee of
the Whole, Jan. 5th, 1869. The princi>
pie advocated IS Develop the Nations
al resources and thereby diminish the
National burdens political economy
in its broadcast sense. II is carefully
prepared, and is the most comprehen-
sive, statistical and argumentative con~
tribution yet offered on this project. and
we shall take opportunity to reproduce
some portions of it for our readers.
Mr.. Window gives the following letter
upon this subject, which is rather
clincher upon the President elect:
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE U. s.,
April 2Otb, 1865.
The construction of a railroad by the pro-
posed route would be of very great advantage
to the government pecuniarily, by saving the
cost of transportation TO supply troops, whose
presence in the country through which it is
proposed to pass is made necessary by the great
amount of emigration to the gold-bearing
regions of the Rocky Mountains. In my
opinion, too, the United States would receive
an additional pecuniary benefit in the con-
struction of this road, by the settlement it
would induce along the line of
the road, and consequently the less
number of troops necessary to secure order
and safety. How far these benefits should be
compensated by the General Government, be-
yond the grant of land already awarded by
Congress, would not pretend to say. /
would merely give IL as my opinion, that the
enterprise of constructing the Northern Pa
cifc railroad is one we'll worth fostering by
the General Government, and that such aid
could well be afforded as would insure the
early prosecution of the work.
U. s. GRANT,
Lieutenant General.
The following quotation from the LETT
ter of Governor Fuller is commended to
the ignoramus of the St. Louis Demo-
erat, who thinks nobody lives" north
of Pike county, Missouri "The road, as
projected, follows the wavy outline of
the isothermal temperate zone of the
northern hemisphere. along which civi>
lization makes the circuit of the globe.
This zone contains the zodiac of em>
pires. Along its axis appear the great
cities of the world. Along this belt,
csncircling the globe, we discover the
chief centre of intelligence and power,
al the greatest intensity of energy and
progress Along this axis, hardly va
rYipg one hundred leagues, civilization
has, travelled, as by inevitable instinct,
since creations dawn" I I.t.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

SENATOR STEWART was unanimously
nominated for another term, on the first
ballot in the Republican caucus at Car
son, Nevada, Jan. 9Th. AS there are
fifty Republicans 20 nine Democrats, on
joint ballot in the Legislature, he was
undoubtedly reelected. We believe
Sumner and Stewart were the only two
Senators nominated on the first ballot,
this year. IL is as creditable 20 the
good sense OF the Legislatures as the
Senators are 10 Jhem- ,. r.-
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

An enthusiastic futurity philosopher
claims that WInuemUcca, New on the
Central Pacific Railroad is eminently.
Pre-eminently and absolutely "hle in
land city OF the FUTURE He may not
own town lots in Winnemucca. but then
tLe assertion that branch roads will di>
Verge from there TO Oregon, Idaho. Ara
BONA, Montana and Northern and Sout h
ern California has real l-estate for-sale
tone abuutit something like the paper
city prospectuses of other years. We
hope II 1t Is 10 be such a wonderfully inn
portant town il will receive name more
rlsiIv handled.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

- IN an article on the Kansas River
water power" the Lawrence Tribune
says, il Is estimated that the river would
afford four thousand horsepower, which
rs power enough to run all the ma
chinery now in the State.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

A velocipedist. in England. recently
travelled 1876 miles on his tread wheel,
starting at p. m, and arriving at his
destination at 10 o'clock next morning,
having remained over night at way
station. ana. W ..| d..
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

~. Thomas adyices say President Da-
-E has ~H'd ;he famous cuauo island,
AHA Tria. which made the rapture be-
-w.au -Hr President and Jerry Black on
Gilt. Impeachment trial. TO French
Company. ignoring the former sale 10
-ar American Consulate What is Mr..
seward doing
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

Tl. -ale 90 prws in Henry Ward
Rarr--.s church in Brooklyn, Jan. 9Th,
.maarral ro so 900. That is the pre-
u54u HUtiami-es pay 10 have genius
Ia rEIelr gospel. for Plymouth Church is
.a.a. t.l. Elalnr~t in or about the great
NV
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

Ir is proposed to industrially anathe-
matize the East River: In other words
20 build a dam or dyke from the South
Ferry across the Shadows TO Brook lyn.
Il is to be several hundred feet wide, 10
have streets, warehouses and dockage.
and to stand perpetual. Mr.. Edwin l..
Brady. late engineer in the United States
Navy, is the author of the plan. He es-
Inmates il will cost $16.OOO.OOO Where
are the Dover Bridge and Atlantic Tun-
nel men, Mr. Brady may want a part-
urT
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

R.-~T>I~ funeral was postponed three
a-r- fu order fp rehearse the music.
in rLaf case, wouldn't the coffin need
...r-.-.g -Dug
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

ErE Governor OF Missouri, IN his
r.-- sage. states the population of that
SAT. aa~ increased fifty per cent in four
year. Query Is radicalism running
rl- --at-.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

The wife of Mr.. Noah Hay, of Terre
HAute, Ind, presented him, as New
Years gifts, with three eight pound
boys - ..'s 81 az 1o s67,- vd Errg
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

THE Georgia Senate rship divides the
Senate Judiciary Committee. The ma
iority report adverse to the admission
of Mr. Hall. on the grounds that he re-
ceIved the votes of number of mems
bers Of the Legislature disqualified by
the 18th amendment, and that Georgia
Is in a condition of anarchy, $50 muir
a-rs having been perp-trated there in
the last year. Trumbull presents the
minority report that Georgia having
been declared entitled to admission,
neither House can refuse seats 10 her
duly accredited representatives
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29
The Montana Post.
IA. Il. MILLS. EDITOR

GI.lD. NJ. PINN IGE.
Associate Editor and Manager
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

The kings of PrSssiA, Belgium md
Bavaria, are the only robust, healtts Eu-
ropean sovereigns. r-..., -.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

THE London TsLgroyh heads an arti-
ticle with the sentence: I'VE never
knew exactly what the Americans
meant by calling a man a festive cuss. ="
Tie Telegraph can obtain the needed
Information by applying to Hepworth
Dixon. editor Of the AtBoRaeBm. He
had practical knowledge of them in
Denver. Reverdy Johnson is not fair
Zponent of the idea.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-01-29

o. Is asserted ia at Andrew Johnson :
r.t weakness next 10 drinking Bourbon
and writing vetoes, II wearing white
cotton gloves. lie sported pair IT
.l.ssr .igital coverings at his New
Years reception of the foreign minis>
we're past all reconstruction 10y twelve
o'clock, and gave no sign of previous
rare OF color.
Evening star., 1869-08-09

How TO BRING Down THKPRIcR OF Coal
Ihe New York Journal OF Commerce advise.
coal consumers not TO lay in any forward stock,
under an apprehension that the present exor-
bitant scale Of prices-the result or speculative
comblnations-can be maintained. Ii adds =
up to last week, in spite OF all the death s.
head symbols and other threatening posters
aoost the mines (the Journal says, the attempt
% cat down the product permanently has
Jailed. Some OF the operators ha We been com.
pelisd 70 keep behind, and the yield in the ag-
gregate is far less than II ought 10 be- but there
mas been no little done on the sly, and the total
OF anthraeite put on the market up TO July 90
was 6,SO6,3eI tons against 6,s1Ss50 for the pre.
vions year, a difference of only 7e,453 tons,
while the production for the week then end
ing was 351 -6S tone, so that TODAY tse yisld
for the current year - nearly two hundred
thousand tons ahead OF the corresponding fig-
ores OF 1868. Let us all keep cool, and not keep
coal Buy at Sl2, or $40, or 50, or whatever
price you must pay, but buy only as You need
Leave the great bins empty, all OF you, all over
the land. This will give you falling market
through the autumn, and teach the deluded
men who have tried TO coerce You into their
grasp lesson by which they may profit, il
they can pront by anything. Meantime every.
tnIng Will werk against them, and in your ia
yOr.'
Evening star., 1869-08-09

ARREST OF AN ALLEGED MURpRRRR-A
negro man sporting the soubriquet of eJohn
WaiKabout" was recently arrested on Chinco.
league Island, ON suspicion of being concerned
IN the murder of Ayres Tatem, of Accomac
county, va, some three or four years ago
Our readers OF Accomac and also Of this vicinity
VIII prooaoiy call afresh TO their minds the
horrid transaction when We state that Taten' g
wife was tried and convicted of his murder
but the testimony which convicted her being
NANNY circumstantial. she was subsequently,
pardoned by the then Military Governor of ths
State, and soon after remarked. John, how
ever, since his arrest, has made a clean breast
OF 1t. and says that Mrs. Tatem hired him 10
nu[asr neI husband 10 make room for him who
now legitimately shares her bed and hoard
mrs J., we presume, cannot be rearrested aud
tried, but Mr.. Walkabou., like the silIy min.
now, stands some little chance of dangling
Gazette N~''
Evening star., 1869-08-09

THE BOSTON TRAGBDY-The IRques, on the
Body Of Mrs. Hobbs.-Tne inquest ON the BODY
OF MRS Hobbs was continued in Boston on
saturday. The verdict will be rendered to-
day. Miss Nellie Hopkins, a niece OF the
deceased, where she was visiting, and a resi-
dent OF Philadelphia testified 70 the manner
otshootng substantially as previous witnesses,
as also William T. Bullock, a physician OF
providence, and who attended Mrs. Hobbs
when she was shot. Both OF these witnesses
testified that the pistol shots were fired when
the door was shut, and neither saw who fired
them. A third witness was Lieut. Graves
who had charge Of the police station when
White was brought in. He merely testified 10
the fact. The last and most important witness
was oficer Riply, who Sat mp all night watch
ing the prisoner, who conversed freely The
witness said White was much excited when he
was brought in, and expressed the reyret that
ne mad not killed himself Shortly after he
was locked up an officer came In and said TO
Whlte that he ought TO be hung. White be-
came angry at that and said that It was
cowardly, but when the question was asked
If II was not more cowardIy to draw a
pistol and proceed To fire away at adefease-
his face in his hands and said nothing
His shawl and military overcoat were brought
10 nim When he took the coat he held IL up,
looking at II, and said - 1t would have been
better if had been killed when L Wore this,
He said he ought to have gone away in the af-
iernoon as he intended TO do, but something
me next day. During the night he was rest.
less. witness asked him " he could not sleep
and he said, On, no there is no sleep for the
wicked; there is no more sleep for me-" He
said If he was the snly one to suffer it would
not be so bad. The remark was made that the
latter 8 boy was almost frantic with grief, when
ne replied, "Oh, he is young; there are Others
who will suffer more" He in q uired n She Vas
dead. Witness replied that he did not know
and If he did, perhaps he shoaid not be per-
mitted to tell il. He replied, " That's right; do
not tell me anythingi you have not the permis.
SION to-" He wanted TO 60 70 the captains
room TO write note 70 a person who had mis-
iunde he also talked a6olt his counsel and
sald ne would like 10 have Chas. l.. Lincoln
He said he would also like TO see Mr. Burt the
postmaster OF Boston. During the night he
also muttered 70 himself something about being
an honest man yesterday, and now an occu-
mony.
Evening star., 1869-08-09

- Erpy, who tried TO kill the two Tsrr
Haute editors, is out ON $1,000 bail.
- Miss : arah r. Morrison, of Indianapolis
is the first lady graduate OF the Indiana State
University. -
a%Itis not always safe 70 whip clerevm,p
Major j. NJ. Hubbard, of Holden, Ohio. tr,eo 10
ccwhide Rev David Nation, OF q paper. tp-
Union, In that town, and Got q bullet an hIs
arm.
~The German Frauenverein win meet 3.
Cassel from the 3D. % the 9th Octobsr Tn
principal subjects of discussion vii ,e ,h.
educanon OF women and the position of femsIe
teachers.
80 ArIonlnltion on an Boston means I've hundred
places open where liquor Is sold. onenly -, ~
denianee Of the statute, not ONLY on weeE ssys
out on Sundsys.-N i. san.
~ mr. Green. Of Indianapolis. last u,-s,x
upon opening mas new grocery held nrsvsT-
meeting thus cOmbiaIng ba siasss and rsiigiSn-
poyel advertisement inssed
" hncnael Smith, plastener, OF TerTs
nahte, Ind, shot himself IN that Guy on Taes-
Gay. al the bedside OF his brother. who mai
ci~d ~ congestion Of the BRAN He lsf. 4 ist-
ter saying Bury rs together"
Evening star., 1869-08-09

AMANDA TAKING ELIsHA's DoILAps
Elisha Sprague stands In danger OF having 10
pay the amages OF $4,000 TO the sentimen.
tal Amanda Craig. Sheriff Fischer has levied
upon I.oo 8, :, 8, 9, 10, and III m Fort Dear.
born Addition, except four feet on lot in
the Illinois Central 50 odivision Of the Sprapue
properly. and II Is advertised for sale on
Aueust q. The very s'golsts" where Elisha
sat inditing his loving epIstle 10 his aA man.
dy," ane whence he evoked the Divine
blessing ON ssthar 2 harts and soals,n are 10 he
sold 70 meet the demands OF .poitIk justns. |"
InaIs enough 70 make has ..arispIace" break on Z
afresn, Probably ne wouIc now be wilIine'
IKE MS liiustrious name-sake of old, 10 60 up
IN "a cnarryot OF re.'-Chicaq0 TriBnae, an