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The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23
THE RAILROAD STRIFE.

/ The rivalry between the Union and
| Central Pacific Railroads to get possess
sion OF the disputed ground between
Ogden and COrinne, has developed a war
In which botlf parties are Intensely earn
est. They have enlisted or retained the
Leading newspapers in their respective
interests, and the construction of both
roads, the manipulations, motives, OBJ
Jects and shortcomings of the opposing
companies are subjected to rather
searching review. So far, the Union
Pacific has the greatest strength with
the Atlantic coast press, and il may be
owing to the pressure from that source
the committee resolution locating the
city at Ogden was rescinded. If the
facts are as set forth, Corinne Is likely
To be decided upon by the commission
appointed to investigate and decide upon
the connecting point of the two lines
The different acts passed authorizing the
issue of subsidies all tended to one pur~
pose, TO instigate and facilitate the rapid
construction IF both roads, and while
no definite point was named, each was
privileged to build as rapidly as they
might, until they should meet and
connect. The Central believed
it could reach Ogden as quickly
as the Union, but the latter, by extra
ordinary exertions and good calcula~
tiOus, made better progress than was ar
tcipated, and evidenced some time since
that IL would at least reach Corinne or
PrOmontory before the Central. 1t is
now alleged by the Union, that on per
ceiving this, the Central took unfair ad-
vantage-procured the acceptance by
the Secretary of the Interior in October,
of a route they had not located, and
procured a certificate from the Central
Il. r. Commissioners that $50 miles had
been built at an expense of $4,000, 900,
while in reality no such work had been
done or money expended. 1t was upon
this certificate President johnson au-
thorized the issue of 81 ,400, 900 in bonds,
against the protest of Secretary Scho-
field, which bonds were partially issued,
but at once stopped on President Grants
succession. The result is, that the u.
p. has built the road from Ogden to Co.
rinne and Promontory without receiving
pay for it, and the G.. p has received
the pay without building the road. The
Central now proposes TO continue on
laying track to Ogden, parallel with
the Union, and forcing the connecting
point at that place, and even contem>
plates an extension to the Missouri
river, while the Union insists they
shall connect" al Corinne. or further
west. They. having complied with
the law and charter, demand their
bond" With the question open as to
whether they have built such a road as
il seems the Union has the
balance of testimony in its favor Ii
rests with the Commission to decide, and
from the rush to Corinne, the popular
faith appears to be that IL will be finally
designated as the connecting point, the
location of the immense shops, the de-
pot and radiating point for the Great
Western Basin
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23
FREE ROADS.

Among other measures of a like char.
saw proper to defeat. was one making
an appropriation for a free road aud
bridges between Gallatin Valley and
Helena-free roads being public extrav-
agance of which our Democratic legis-
lators are not guilty. This feeling was
probably particularly evidenced against
this route because it was projected be-
tween two natural and reciprocal points
of market and demand, one of which
was TO be the capital of the Territory.
The citizens. we are glad to know. have
taken the matter in their own hands,
and by individual effort the object will
be accomplished. The citizens, meeting
in conventions, have elected three Com
mlssioners from each of the counties of
Galla:in and Jefferson, who have disr
played laudable energy in the work, and
the project will, in a few weeks, be
practical, completed fact. The Gallatin
Commissioners have purchased one
bridge across the Gallatin river, and two
others are being built across the Madi-
son and Jefferson, Immediately above
Gallatin City. The entire cost is esti~
mated at about $4,000. and the struct-
ures, we are assured, are of the best
character. This will enable comm uni
cation az all seasons between Helena
and the valley, and save time, expense
and danger in travel and the transport
tation of commodi ties. The citizens of
Helena and along the route have been
liberal in their contributions, and the
proper acknowledgements will be made
publicly by the Commissioners on the
of the work
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23
\ THIRD PARTY.

A movement is on foot for the forma~
ton of new political organization in
New Hampshire. TO include as many as
possible of the Conservative members OF
the two existing parties. The matter
is now in the hands of twenty promi-
nent men. ten of them being Republi-
cans and ten Democrats. Private meet
ings those having the thing in charge
have been held, but nothing can be OBJ
tanned A. to the prospects of the moves
ment. Ii is said that the whole scheme
viii be made public in June next.-COr.
B.lsi8H .JOUFHUi.
That's old Granite State grannyism.
Poison and antidOte cannot be mixed
and made into a wholesome mess no
more can be Radicalism and Democracy,
They have il ia their hands now /;
they will have il on their hands if they
iabblc with it much longer, and the
faint Of Carolina pitch or Philadelphia
convention pusillanimity, will be sweet
ness compared toit.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23
NEWSPAPER PUFFS.

The Gazette, yesterday. in publishing
one of the many extravagant notices
which have recently appeared in East
ern journals, and of which distin>
guished Montana quartz man is the
theme, rather inconsiGerately, we think,
sneers at it. The Independent, too. not
long since, committed itself fully against
personal puffs," and the Democrat,
from the emInently conservative man>
nerin which it alludes to Mr.. Cavanaugh
is also doubtless opposed to the puff
system. Still, with the balance of tes-
timony against US, and a contempt for
puffs of the degree nauseous, which all
newspaper men except Forney acquire
which gods are often manufactured from
very inferior mortals, there is something
to be said in it's favor. Though the
surface indications are inferior there is
shrewdness and good sense. in appa-
rently the least philosophical puff, and
it hurts nothing except the vanity of
some rival. Our cotemporarIes will
doubtless concede the eminent proprie-
ty of advertising a popular lecturer, or
orator. or actor In glowing terms; of
landing their political candidate or of
fetal 20 the seventh heaven of virtue
and ability; of noticing this person g
potions and chat ones pills, the inge>
nuity of the mechanic, the enterprise of
the merchant, the heroism of a soldier,
the piety of prelate, the depravIty of
a scoundrel. These are all puffs, to a
certain extent personal. laudatory and
almost invariably overdrawn or wholly
undeserved. But journalists, who see
in this only the commendible, take um-
bragg at another class of puffs, often
undeserved and productive of better re-
suits.
Whether they are voluntary or paid
for, in a business like, up and up man
ner, is simply a matter between the
publisher and person. Their effect is
not confined to the individual, and if
himself he favorably adver-
tises the business of the locality TO
which he belongs. he is public benes
factor. Personal puffs for Columbus
advertised America; personal puffs for
Morse advertised the telegraph; personal
puffs tor Kit Carson advertised the
w est, and If personal puffs tor either of
the three "Jameses," Ashley, Cavauaugh
or Whitlatch, win BRING Montana into
favorable notice in the East, we need
not dissent though we think we can
see farther through the milestone than
the enlightened East. We unhesi-
swallow some monstrous in
of genius in the make up of
their heroes of the hour; let them swal-
low ours. The life, exploits and perS
sonal characteristics of a twenty-six |
year old Montana quartz millionaire,
yarnished with suit of rooms at a |
Broadway Hotel, the fastest team and I
handsomest equippage in Central Park,
g just about the best advertisement \
Montana could have. Besides, "Jim /
Whitlatch" is only put down at one
million when it should be ten, and no /
man in Montana would expend a mills
ion with more benefit TO the country, |
or has better practical knowledge. judges
nent and experience of quartz than he. \
success To him, and hurrah for the pu fl I
Quartz King of Mons
ana"
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23
How Continents are warmed.

Many persons are not aware of the
fact that the climate of the Pacific coast
is much warmer than the same latitude
on the Atlantic. Many persons who are
informed on the subject are at loss to
account for the fact. IL is cue to the
effects of great Pacific oceanic stream
called the Buro SLOW, or Japan Current.
1t results from two currents of heated
water from the Indian Ocean, one pass
ing through the Straits of Malacca and
the China Sea, and the other skirtlng
the eastern coast of the PHILIPPINE ISL
ands, at the northern extremity of which
they unite. opposite the Japan Islands.
This united current again divides, its
main branch tending north east, strik-
ing the Pacific coast about midway be-
tween Vancouver's Island and Sitka
The waters of this current are four or
FIVE degrees warmer than those that
surround them.
The Gulf Stream in the Atlantic
Ocean exercises a similar benefcent in
fiuence upon the climate of the British
Islands and the western coast of Eu-
rope. The waters warmed in the torrid
seas of the Eastern coast of America
rush northward. and in the Deighbor-
hood of Newfoundland defect across the
Atlantic, aud expend their superfuous
heat for the benefit of our trans-marine
neighbors. The curious and important
question now arises, why do not the
eastern shores of the United States
have their climate moderated by the
same Gulf Stream The reason seems
to be that the channel of this stream
lies seventy or one hundred miles of
our shores, and the intervening space is
occupied by waters of temperature
like that which pervades the Artic Seas.
Should American energy and enterprise
ever be adequate TO the tremendous
task of changing little the direction
of the Gulf Stream, to make it How
along our shores, our rigorous climate
would be suddenly transformed into a
semi>tropicaI blandness. 1t would be
vain to ask for Congressional subsidies
for such work at present.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23
p.o portraIt OF bismarck.

George Alfred Townsend, in recent
lecture, gave the following pen picture
of Bismarck:
Three times within three months L
sat in the presence of Count Bismarck
A reactionist-in other words, an enemy
of every idea on which American Re-
publicanism is based-by sheer boldness
he precipitated the great war OF tooo'
and made himself a name in spite Of hi~
arrogance and unscrupulousness. Al
most a giant, both in height and indus,
try. measuring six feet two. huge and
homely in feature, creased skin, ana
an ear big enough tor railroad uePos,
. ,nouth wide and so cruel that 1t
could bite State in two, a neck into
Which YOU might turn q river-of any
thing but water: his powers OF mind
are profound, his speech resoluts' a,Is ,sho Iue
With YOU and me, common people VINO
5.n,.nd a chance and influence, Count
bismarck has no more sympathy than
with so many horses.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23
NEW OFFICERS.

The telgrams state that Mr.. w. w.
Johnson is confirmed Collector OF Cus>
toms in place of J. y. Beidler. Mr..
johnson is an estimable gentleman. we
are informed. and an excellent Surveyor,
having served in that capacity with
Governor Stevens exploring expedi-
tions, and in Montana as well as on the
west coast. He has been in the noun
tains many years. What he could want
with an Office that only pays 81 900 per
annum all told, can only be conjectured
1t was merely an auxiliary office with
Mr. Biedler and in connection with oth-
er duties. those pertaining to il were
more readily discharged. 1t is not pro-
bable AK was very tenacious" about
retaining it,but we regret to see him SUI
perceded by any one. He is an old res
idsnt. has been faithful TO all trust re-
posed in him, served efficiently in every
capacity he has been called TO. and
counts his friends as officials take the
Census.
We are also informed by Mr.. Cava>
naugh that Major Blake, of Missonla,
has been appointed Agent of theBlack-
feet Indians. 1t is deemed q worthy
appointment.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23

a number of our Territorial excnang-
es are approving and advocating the
proposal to hold a general Territorial
Convention to take measures to secure
fuller representation in Congress, etc.
The Colorado Tribune comedies with
rs that it will end just where it began
in talk. IL urges, as more promising
and expedienJ, the erection of the sew
eral Territories into States, thereby se~
curing representation under existing
laws and customs. We wonder Colora~
DO has not weakened on the State busi~
ness. If "hope deferred maketh the heart
sick the sanitary condition of the organ
OF lite IN our sulphuretic neighbor must
he susceptible of considerable improves
ment by this time,
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23
From BOZcman.
MINUTE MEN" ORGANIZED.

| EDITOR PosT:-Since the Indian fight
occurred on Sixteen Mile Creek. the SET
tiers in the lower part of the Valley
have become some what alarmed over
the prospects of the mobility" of Amer~
ica returning to avenge the death of
their departed nine. To avoide a sur
/ prise they have organized q company of
minute-men and employed four scouts
with good horses, TO remain out in Flat
Head Pass, and give the alarm upor
their first approach.
ANOTHER RAID.
Last night cattle were stolen again
and run off by Indians; one of the scouts
saw the trail this morning where they
had drove them of, f,and heard firing and
yelling that seemed to come from large
body OF Indians, but saw nothing. He
came in, however, and gave The alarm.
Major LaMott Immediately SEM out a
detachment from Fort Ellis of thirty
men, under command of Lieut. Codding
and Lieut.. Wann, Quite a number of
citizens accompanied. Will keep you
posted as to the result.
THE FIRST vELoCfPEDE.
We think il has never been made pub
lie that BoZeman claims the honor of the
first invention of velocipede in Mon
tana. 1t was first brought into exiss
tence and Launched upon the
ocean OF life" by Shelby
Dogget, the manufacturer, a few weeks
ago. but proving failure, has since
been remodeled and is now running
with pretty good success. Your cor
respondent can testify as to its locomo-
tive powers by having mounted and
tried the same, but owing either to his
inexperience or the bucking qualities
of the creature. he was only enabled to
perform certain rotary motions in the
capacity of a tumbler by successive
sommersaults and headlong plunges,
much to the amusement of the small
boys and apparent satisfaction of the
older ones. Mr.. Dogget has proved
himself quite a velocipedian, and his
velocipede success. He contemplates
making trip with i: to Helena in a
short time.
Improvements are still rapidly going
on. We have one of the neatest little
Post-offices in the Territory, set IN order
and kept in running condition by one
Joseph Roth, p. NJ, which is Post>
master"
THE WATER DITCH"
The 1. o. G. T.-"water ditch" for
short, is progressing finely. and con-
stantly bringing In new members. Our
friend over the way, who keeps a keg
saloon, declares the efforts of temper,
ance has nearly broken him up in busi>
ness, and would have done so quite had
it not been for a mastery invention of
of his-a delicions dIink called "fioat,'
Wis glass of water with a cork in it
which he sells at reasonable figures 1t
makes a man healthy, wealthy and
wise," etc. The institution was never
in better working order-we mean the
Good Templars-and many happy and
instructive hours are spent during it's
literary exercies. The follwing COM
prise the officers w. w. Anderson. w.
G. r.; J. J. Davis. p. w. c.; Mrs. Amer
ica Fridley, w. V. T.; Willie Davis, w.
S; Arthur Coats, w. +. s.; Miss Clara
Ward. Treasurer; NJ. Bird, Chaplain; J.
Taylor, w. NJ; Miss j. Davis,
Asst. NJ; Mathew W. Anderson, o. q.
Yours,
ID. w.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23
nIAPPING A ROUTE.

The New York Herald, of April 1st,
works out a most remarkably theory
or, at least, it would be remarkable in
any paper save the Herald. 1t states that
Grant blundered at Belmont and Shi>
lob, but conquered gloriously at VIcks-
burg and Appomattox. Then assuming
that his political movements so far have
been parallel with his first military
movements, il argues that his civil adj
ministration will be analogous and
crowned with success in the end. But
the Herald is going to have a different
glory for him from that Republicans
anticipate.
He cannot be impeached, because the
House would not originate the proceed
ing, Therefore he might as well go on,
make his appointments, let the Senate
slide. and, after demoralizing the radical
party by a magnificent strategic moYe-
ment, erect a party of his own that VIII
rally around him In any emergency.
Thus will his political mission-begin>
ming like his military career, in a some-
what bungling manner-end as that
did, in an effulgent ray of glory, impart>
ing alike union and harmony, confidence
and prosperity all over the country.
Andy Johnson tried that, a man per>
haps as popular in his palmy day as
Grant How about the "effulgent ray?"
Absolutism is losing game in the
United States, the Radical party can
neither be made or killed by one man.
The contamination is doubtless the
wish of the Herald ilk, but it is the last
one rant will work toward.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23

General Sherman has entirely revolu-
tionized the way of doing things in the
War Department, and is instituting vig>
orous economical measures. Hereto
fore the various bureaus have been prac-
tically independent, and the Adjutant.
Commissary and Quartermaster Gener>
ais have been in the habit of issuing
orders relating TO their bureaus on their
own responsibility, without even con-
sulting the General-in-Chief or Secre-
tary Of War, No order of any sort is
now allowed to go out without having
first passed under General Sherman's 8
eve. General Sherman illustrates this
by saying il has often happened hereto
fore that supplies have accumulated, at
considerable expense, at district stations
from which troops were about To be re-
moved, which could not have happened
bat for bureaucratic" system in vogue.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23

AN. OLD PLAN REvIvED.-A steam
driving-wheel for canal boats is being
adopted on the Erie canal, constructed
upon an old fashioned plan. 1t is placed
in the middle of the boat, and rolls on
the bottom of the canal, being armed
with spikes 20 give il firm hold. 1t is
30 arranged as TO rise and fall. and thus
accommodate itself 10 the uneven bot
tom. The speed attained is two or three
miles an hour.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23

Deacon" Walker, of the Denver Irt-
buae. and Nathan Harris, Esq, rode ve-
Iocipede race in Denver, April, LIST, over
a half mile track. The Deacon . steed
bucked when within a few feet of the
winning post, and Harris was victor in
1:10. The Deacon is a better Walker"
than rider, and should not HdrrdSs him
self in that way.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23

The Denver Ners corrects our state
ment concerning their railroad matters,
rbe transfer and confirmation of rights
and privileges being from the Kansas
Pacific railroad to the Denver Pacific
arstrad OF rice rFrsa.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23

ME JOSEPH WRIGHT has assumed
entire editorial control of the Democrat,
during Major Bruce's Congressional
canvas This is done that no unfair
advantage may be had against other
candidates through the power of the
Democrat with the party, and if from
the past, we may judge the future, the
paper will lose no interest under his
pen and control.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23

New York paPers say there is plenty
ri money in the East awaiting Invest>
meut, and the recent stringency was an
artitice. As an instance Jay Cooke &
40. put S4,jOO,0OO in Lake Superior and
Mississippi Railroad bonds on the mar
ket. and they were all taken up in six
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23

\ Washington letter tells of two in
sane women who are among the lnnu-
merable throng of ofiice-seekers, one of
whom has recommendations for the
Queen ot the White House, and is will
ing marry Grant in a minute. "-E,r-
-}IByc
They must be two of the Mormon
twenty" who were reported en- route
It was matrimonial instead of railroad
bonds, they were after.
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23

THE Drtg0Ei0H says the democracy o f
that State belong TO the Azoic age
The Montana democratic fossils be-
long 10 the Diluvian period. their antip-
athy 10 water cannot be accounted for
in any other way
The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-04-23
The Montana Post.
Jas. II. MILLS. EDITOR

GEO NJ. PINN ES,
Associate Editor and Manager