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The Montana post., 1869-03-19

ing the rancheros with fruit trees, and
doing a good business He has been In
Denver the greater part of the time
since leaving Montana, and will return
to Aurora, Ill, in May.
From our San Francisco exchanges
we learn that Ben. Cotton, the famous
Ethiopian delineator, and his son, Mas
ter Bennie, are on their way to Callfor-
mia from New York, under engagement
TO E. e.. Bert, of the Olympic Theatre.
A. NJ. Swaney was married in Stock.
ton, Cal, on the 9TH ult. to Mrs. Adelia
Scale. These parties were indicted for
the murder of II. w. Scale, in Maripo-
sa, in September, 1867, but were not
convicted. Swaney was tried at Stock
ton last fall, but the jury failed to agree,
and a nolIe prOseQui was entered.
They are playing an original and
thrilling drama at the Olympic Theatre,
San Francisco. entitle Life at White
Pine" Its style may be imagined from
the characters. Among others arc Hell
Roaring Jim," Numbering Bob, Poker
Bill" "Short Card Pete-a man for
breakfast" etc. The actresses are de-
nominated Nuggets
! The stage which left this city for
! White Pine to>day was fuller shan a
stuffed toad. 1t was chock full inside,
/ and it was nearly out of sight outside.
| 1t looked like an irregular pyramid oi
men and women, cats and dogs, China~
men and gimcracks. trunks, bandboxes,
4 packages, parcels, blankets, bottles oil
whisky, sacks of flour, fresh beef, a
plough. bars of steel and iron-all held
together somehow and drawn by four
horses.-Reese Rioer ReUeitte, Feb. 10.
Bonnifeld's Joint Resolution, says the
Tidal WdUe of March I'd, with reference
to making Snake River the line between
Nevada and Idaho. passed the Nevada
Legislature on the 9th ult. with an
amendment by Senator Tritle, provld'
ing, that in the event of a general di
vision of the Territories, in order tC
form States, it is urged upon the Neva'
da Representatives in Congress, to use
their utmost exertions to annex Owy-
hee county to Nevada, as specified IN
Bonnifeld's proposition.
Captain w. II. Freeman, who has
been employed to explore a line of rail
road from the Blue Mountains TO Puget
Sound, arrived at Seattle, w. t., Feb
l25-distance. PAT miles. He furnishe:
the following items: Left the Blue
Mountains January 2; arrived at the
Snoqualmie Pass February ID; founC
the snow in the pass about 81 feet deep
length, % miles; grade CD feet to a mile
considers the route one of the finest min
eral and timbered countries in existence
terminating at the finest harbor in tn,
world.
The Montana post., 1869-03-19
WOMAN SUFFRAGE In UTAH.

A bill has been introduced in the
House "to discourage polygamy in Utah
by granting suffrage to women" We
do not see what is to be gained by such
q measure. In the first place, women
are naturally more religious than men.
whether their worship is of objects Gin
the heavens above, in the earth be-
meath, or in the waters nder the earth,
they put little more enthusiasm in it
than men are capable of. and .classically
speaking, "go it blind" Now as "po-
lygamy is part of the Mormon religion"
according TO the revelation of the "big
gun" of the Ne,cs, all that is necessary
is for Brigham to say ''vote for polyga-
my" and the Mormon women would do
it, on penalty of being "cut off" The
result would be a Territorial law,
brought about by act of Congress. in
direct hostility TO the act declaring
polygamy a crime. Again: If they
should. by their suffrages, secure a leg
islative enactment against polygamy,
Brigham's word would make it nulli-
tY. Those women who would then vote
against it, can as readily refuse half
hitch now, and the remainder would do
as they pleased despite the enactment,
for if United States law is defantly
violated, Territorial law gives no bet
ter promise. The Fabian policy of Con~
gress is humbug, and as long as an
hundred thousand Mormons are per-
mitted to defy its authority, the strict
enforcement of the reconstruction laws
upon the South, stands in bold relief as
an unequal exercise of authority. Each
Of the rebel States should have "a Re
publican form of Government" and are
likely to get it, but the Government
that had the nerve to stamp out the
most powerful rebellion of modern days
and revolutionize the entire political
minces and hesitates at this Insignificant
Mormon problem" more hostile in
every respect to Republican form of
Government, than any rebel State Gov
eminent that was organized. Brigham
Young propounded to the United States,
many years ago, the conundrum "Why
am superior TO your Government
and the United States instead of teach
ing him he is no:, has been guessing,
and guessing why it is, until all the
world is laughing at its stupidity. This
suffrage proposition is, of all. the most
absurd. If the Government puts a bal
lot in their hands Brigham will cover it
up with baby, and that's the end of it.
Skir mishing will not win the field, and
since moving into position in 1862, there
has been nothing but skirmishing.
Fight the foe or leave him alone.
The Montana post., 1869-03-19
SIGNIFICANT.

The telegralns state that Sumner is
soon to make a speech on the RESPONSE
bilify of England for her conduct during
the recent war, taking the same view
as Grant recently expressed. Mr.. Thurn-
ton bristled up with the assertion:
That means war, while Mr. BeIthemy
gently subdued his choler by adding,
'and that (war with England) means
expansion of territory" The mere fact
of speech being made by one of the
forty million people of America. in this
day when speech making is one of the
popular manias is not ordinarily of great
significance. But there are attendant
circumstances that account for this matt
ter raising considerable stir in diplo>
matte circles" Charles Sumner is the
oldest member, the best informed on
international law, and the leading di-
plomatist in the Senate-and he is
and has been for eight years. Chair
man of the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions. The subject of his speech involves
AuC EIGdtGSt ISSUE upw AllN e DEtntEu
the United States and any foreign govs
eminent; he proposes TO avoid all the
smooth but nauseous mush that has been
boiled by Seward. Lyons, johnson,
Thornton, Stanley and others during the
last three or four years, and make the
demands of this government from the
American standpoint. England has ar
bitrarIly and imper:ously refused to ac-
cede to the most moderate proffers sug-
gested as basis: Now America is to de-
clare her just rights through repre-
sentative man, giving reasons for the
views of her President. and vent TO the
feelings of the people. Mr.. Sumner il
charged with being a man of one idea
Freedom to all men in the nation. he
has seen that theory advanced against
the bitterest and strongest opposition
become practical fact, and in the advo.
cacy of it, he has written lessons that
year after year this nation has learnedby
heart, and given them realization. His
"Anti-Slavery Duties OF the Wing Par.
ty," the speech on the Fugitive Slave
law, Crime against Kansas and ''tht
Barbarism of Slavery" have been indicei
pointing directly the way this natior
has followed. That purpose is accom-
plished, and when he grapples the Eng
lish-American question he will as prob
ably lay down the formula this natior
will accept as he did upon the other
For these reasons We deem the proposes
speech significant
The Montana post., 1869-03-19
PUBLICATION.

OVERLAND MONTHLY, MARCH, 1869. A. Ro-
man Co., San Francisco. For sale by
Helena Booksellers.
CoNTENrs.-The San Juan Difficulty; Six
Weeks in the Mud; Waysids Views in CALI
fornis; How our Cinnamon are Employed;
Trade with Cannibals; Better Cheer; Our Art
Possibilities; Ny Cloth of Gold; Footprints
of Early California DISCOVERIES; An Unincor-
porated Institution; Up in the Po-go-nip;
Etc.
This is one of the best numbers yet
issued of this delightful Pacific Coast
publication. up in the Po-go-nip" is
one of the finest written jottings we have
read. ALI White Piners should read it.
The Montana post., 1869-03-19
ALKALI LANDS.

The following, corotorative of Mr..
Claggett's Lecture on "Alkali," !" we find
in the Santa Clara (Cal) Argus.
A remnant of volcanic matter stretches
through the eastern side of Santa Clara
Valley and is iamilliarly known as the
"alkali streak" This curious belt va-
ries in width from one hundred yards to
a quarter of a mile. and the soil con-
tanned within it is completely saturated
with salaratus and other alkali salts.
At present. the alkali streak is almost
valueless for agricultural purposes, and
is considered positive detriment to the
farms through which it passes in it's
natural condition. The only vegetable
life which can exist upon il is species
of tough, why grass, known as "alkali
grass" and a few stunted specimens of
marsh weed. Experience has proven
that the alkali grounds can be reclaimed
by cultivation. At present, some of the
handsomest gardens and orchards in
San Jose. are thriving in the very heart
of the alkali streak. 1t requires time
and labor to accomplish the reclam>
alton, but in the end it is found that the
subdued salt acts as first class fertil-
izer.
Every farmer is familiar with the fact
meadow or green sward, the excess of
potash which the rain leeches from the
ashes. will completely destroy surround
| ing vegetation. The same effects are
produced by an excess of alkah in the
soil. If the pile of ashes is scattered
broadcast over the meadow, they form
an excellent manure, and will be of
great value TO the growing crop. If by
constant cultivation, the alkali grounds
are constantly stirred about, the delete
rious salt will be equally distributed
through the soil, and will become a sup.
ply of natural manure. The longer such
grounds are cultivated. the more pro-
| ductIve and valuable will they become,
and instead of being considered worth~
less wastes as they are now, will be
sought after by the farmer and gardener.
One of the best methods for reclaiming
these lands, is TO SOW them in beets. 1t
has been proven by experiment that
the beet thrives finely in the alka.i
streak, and as these tubers grow large
and penetrate the soil TO consider cradle
depth, they serve better purpose than
! deep plowing. Now that the sugar man.
ufactory is about TO start at Alviso, we
shall expect every rod of alkali land TO
be grown in sugar beets.-Santd Clara
! Argus.
The Montana post., 1869-03-19

OPPOSITION To MAsoNRY.-A petition
was presented TO the Senate, January
2Sth, from citizens of Ohio, protesting
against Congress granting charters to
any secret associations, such as Ma
sonic Lodges, and asking a repeal of
the charter of the Masonic Hall Associ.
alton of the District of Columbia, be-
lieving that they are dangerous TO Re-
publican Governments; that Masonic So
cieties have tor long time directed
their efforts in our country toward the
support OF slavery and the inception of
rebellion in its behalf. as a proof of
which, wherever pro-slavery sentiments
most prevailed in the United States,
there Masonic Lodges have most abound
ed; that the members of the Lodges
are bound by barbarous oaths. that are
repugnant to law, both human and Die
vine; that they teach the youth of the
country the pernicious practices of con-
spiracy, and through a use of vague
signs and symbols, insldiously calcula-
ted to deceive, they habituate the young
and innocent to the ways of duplicity
and decentralization, etc. The petition
was appropriately referred.-EE.
We do not see how that could be ''ap-
propriately referred" without the Senate
has Committee on Snubbing Fools A
large proportion of the Continental Con
gress, and every general officer in
Washington's armies except Arnold
the traitor. were Masons. The first
Lodge in America was opened in that
Radical womb, Boston, over one hun
dred and thirty years ago and it ha:
just about as much to do with slavery
as Whittier's Ode to the Pumpkin. III
thousands of instances, il conquered OF
our battle-felds, passions that no othel
power on earth could control, and tb,
trowel of Masonry is doing more to ce
ment again the union of States and the fra
ternity of our people than any Other
moral influence in the land. Even haC
it been pro-slavery, slavery is dead
Masons who read the assertions of the
petitioners will alone know how absurC
and false are the allegations.
The Montana post., 1869-03-19
"GLIMPsES.o -

Wallack is to build a new theatre.
Karl Forms has turned actor in Eng
land.
Deer are plenty in New Hampshire.
A wooden wedding-Marrying block
head.-CitizeH.
Gen. Buffers daughter, Miss Blanche,
is soon to marry an army officer.
Paris has raised $4,000 toward a stat-
ute 10 Voltaire.
Ohio railroads only killed 156 people
last year.
Rhode Island pays it's Legislators
dollar per day.
A Cincinnati firm makes 1 600 veloci-
pedes week.
Rents in Philadelphia for houses of
the larger class have dropped very
much.
The Hoosac tunnel will cost Massa-
chusetts twelve million dollars.
Putnam has sold the second edition of
"Blindpits." 1t is the success of the
season.
Red hair is to be the fashion now.
Cora Pearl has had hers fired up at
cost of 200.
Joseph Metcalf who died recently in
Erie, Pa, was the oldest Freemason in
the United States.
Chicago raised the assessed valuation
of her real and personal property from
$192, ,249 ga in 1867, to $3.50 PAS, 900.
The warden of the Massachusetts,
State Prison insists that he never knew
criminal who was Mason.
! George NJ. Lee, a distinguished law
yer of Cincinnati, has been sent to
Longview Lunatic Asylum, insane.
The little girl, Minnie Rauch, of Bur-
! lington, Wis, who has lain in a trance
so long, is at last pronounced dead.
In the map of the earth made by the
| Hindoos, America is the principal town
of Africa, which is a small island
The canton of Uri, in Switzerland. is
about to erect a statue to William Tell
in the town of Altorf. II is to be execu-
ted by Nj. Imhori, sculptor of Berne.
A fog>whistle, TO be worked by 4O>
horse power engine, is being constructed
for Thatcher's Island, off Salem, Mass.
1t will be ready by the first of June.
This will be the largest and most pow
erful fog-whistle in the world.
Mr.. Thomas Dutton, of Delaware
1 county, FennsyIvanla, who celebrated
his Tooth birthday recently, is said to
be the only man living who heard the
/ firing of the cannon in PHILADELPHIA on
the 4th of July, 1776.
y writer advises bachelors to marry
"blue eyed" wives. What's the use
They are just as likely to get "black
eyes" afterward.
A poetical contributor sends us a pro-
duction, and naively adds: did burns
ever rite anything like this?" Accor-
ding, to the best of our knowledge and
ability he did not.-Zanesville SigHdL.
Gen. Grant, as is well known, was
once a tanner; so was Jay Gould: so
was John Scott, United States Senator
elect from Pennsylvania; and Speaker
Toungloye, of the New York Assembly.
was a member of the craft.
An Australian horse recently ran ten
miles in twenty-three minutes and
thirty>five seconds, said to be the fastest
time on record for that distance. It is
estimated that thirty thousand men in
the United States are at work eyery
Sunday on railroads alone.
At monastery in Thibet, a praying
machine is turned by water power, and
while prayers are thus offered at the
rate OF two minute, the monks occupy
their leisure In playing cards. The
praying Is no doubt just as effectual as
IL the monks did IL.
The Montana post., 1869-03-19

THE Reese River Reyeile, in COM
menting upon the complaints of Terri
tories against the Congressional enact
ments, which have recently been of an
extremely bungling character, supercili-
ously adds: "We are inclined TO think
some of these Territories have become
too large for their breeches." Well,
that's sign of health, anyhow. and a
better indication than having them
worn through at the seat OF govern
ment-as is the case in Nevada.
The Montana post., 1869-03-19

A San Francisco dispatch to the Union
says a private letter from an eminent
merchant in Chicago furnishes the in
formation that the Pacific Railroad Co.
has disposed of 10000 passage tickets TO
white Pine for the month of March
alone, and refused to sell more on ac-
count of inability 20 transport larger
number.
The Montana post., 1869-03-19
Town OF Helena.

TNHE property holders and lot owners " ~,
u town OF Helena, NJ Il, hereby uotihed u 70
the entry of the Town-site has been alloWed y
the Com missioner and Patent granted, and ne
the uDdersignedis Is now ready 70 receive spPii'-
tons for same.
All persons must come forward and file then %
plicatiOns Immediately as no proof will be reoes
after the expiration Of sixty days from tns ""
hereof. NJ + TRu ubi4i
Probate Judge Lewis & Clarke County
Helana March ID 1860 Ma5dOw3mO
The Montana post., 1869-03-19

The Tidal Wace of March Cd, says:
"The Democratic career of the Idaho
Statesman is over. The Office, fixtures.
stock aud good will of the establishs
ment, have fallen back into the hands
of j. s. Reynolds, the fonaer proprietor,
who will hereafter conduct it as q Re-
publican paper. Its Life under the Demo
cratic management CT H. G. Street, Esq,
WAS short. II not brilliant.-
The Montana post., 1869-03-19

A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years IVI m
IA Nervous Debility, Premature Decay, az ,Ss
the effects Of youthful indscretioD wiHs lo1 =
sake OF uffering humanity, send free to all ". S.
need it. the receipt and directions tor masiae =,
simple remedy by which he was cured. SUI "a
wishing TO profit by the advertisers exPeilsD'''
do 90 by addressing, In perfect conhdence.
JOHN b. OGDEN, -
y.1E3 100 No. az Cedar St. Ne " fo'A
The Montana post., 1869-03-19

A DELEGATION OF Cherokee, Creek
Choctaws and Cbickasaw Indians have
called on General Grant. The kilograms
say "the interview was of very pleas
ant character" The call made by the
Sioux upon few herders in Gallatin
Valley terminated in the death of the
whites. Circumstances, alone, altered
the cases.
The Montana post., 1869-03-19
Town Site Entry.
U. S. LAND OFFICE,

=.
Helena, M T., March l, 1862
Nj IERS f. TRUETT, Probate Judge OF Lewis
WI and Clarke county NJ 4, having this day mao
application to enter under the town site Act o.
March 1867, the South East quarter Of tas
South West quarter of sectinn No thilty 80 ID
township No ten TO- North Of Range No three
West, which has been returned as 4" mineral
alleging the same to be portion OF the toWn Z.
Helena M It, Miners and all parties interested 81
hereby notified to appear at this Office at 10 eioT
M, on Saturday the Goth day of Mach A ~
1863, 70 contest the sIme. o, B. O'BANNON,
ModItawtf Register.
The Montana post., 1869-03-19

Most of the Chiuamen, after landing
on our shores, start off Immediately in
search of employment, and they travel
till they find il, though il be 70 Kern
River, Montana, or 10 "the End Of the
Line of the Pacific RaIlroad.-Orer-
land Monthly, March.
Will somebody tell us where this
Kern River" isf
The Montana post., 1869-03-19

A San Francisco dispatch of March LIST
says: John It. Meagber, brother of
Thomas Francis Mesgher. Was natural>
lied in this city to-day
The Montana post., 1869-03-19

THE report in the kilograms that
General Custar has been captured by the
Indians, it is to be hoped is incorrect.
He was one of the most gallant spirits
in the War of the Rebellion, and has
done noble service for the people south
of the Platte, in the only sensibly conN
Quoted Indian Campaign the Army has
engaged in for years. II is to be deeply
regretted if he has lived through so
many hard fought, glorious fields to fall
at last, victim 10 the atrocious cruel
ties of the savages.
The Montana post., 1869-03-19

THE House not long since passed a
bill repeating the TenUre-of-Office act.
The Senate, it will be seen bs the tele>
grams, amend it by suspending
the law until the next session. 1t then
remains for the House TO approve this
amendment, which il will probably do,
as the nearest approach TO an uncCndi-
tional repeal. The Senate's view Is
the better of the two. If the suspen-
sion proves evil, the law still remains.
The Montana post., 1869-03-19
A correspondent sends us a communi>

A correspondent sends us a communi>
cation with the couplet from Marmion
for the text.
ooh what 8 tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive"
If perfection comes of practising. a
good many people we know, ought 20
have their strings" mighty straight by
this time.
The Montana post., 1869-03-19

WE are now prepared to furnish superiO
w quality of the following kinds OF
enand at the
The Montana post., 1869-03-19
Notice the reduction in price !

DEING PRACTICAL TANNERS OUR
ID SELVES, and determined that Montana shal
supply her own Leather, we are daily turning GU
finished leather Of all classes which for quality
price
The Montana post., 1869-03-19

FIRST QUALITY SOLE LEATHER, per ID. So CTS
FINISHED CALF SKINS, per dozen, $50 TO SiiO
do KIP do do SIS 10 $40
FAIR and CoLoRED SHEEP SKINS,
Per dozen, SIS toll 50
FINISHED UPPER, per Side, S6 10 SO
The Montana post., 1869-03-19
PIONEER TANNERY.

EQUAL in Tannage, Finish and Durability to th
very best quality of Easter tanned Leather
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-08-03

The great want Of this age is men.
Men who are not for sale. Men who are
honest, sound from center to circumfer-
ence, true to the hearts core. Men who
will condemn wrong in friend or foe, in
themselves as well as Others Men whose
consciences are as steady as the needle to
the pole. Men who will stand for the
right if the heavens totter and the earth
reels. Men who can tell the truth, and
look the world and devil right in the eye.
Men that neither Drag nor run. Men
that neither flag nor finch. Men who
can have courage without shouting to it.
Men in whom the courage of everlasting
life runs still, deep and strong Men too
large for sectarian bonds. Men who do
not cry nor cause their voices to be heard
on the streets, but who will not fail, nor
be discouraged, till judgement be set in
the earth. Men who know their message
and tell it. Men who know their places
and fill them. Men who know their own
business. Men who will not lie. Men
who are not too lazy to work, nor too
proud to be poor. Men who are willing
to eat what they have earned, and wear
what they have paid for.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-08-03
Light Literature.

THERE is a class of readers who make
it a special business to con every new
novel that "comes out" THAT very proper
ly expresses their origin as with the
Topsies who were not born but "growed")
to the end that they may get together and
rehearse the vapid and stale flights of
modern flash writers; and if, by accident,
some person who devotes his time to delv,
ing in mines of rich and useful learning
stray into their presence, be is intolerably
bored by the questions, "Have you read
Jack the Giant Killer'' or Mother
Goose's Melodies 7" or something equally
profound. OF course the stranger is COM
PEELED to say "No' to every one of Icing
series of like questions, slightly indignant
that he should be suspected of being
accomplished in this kind of literature; :
and every answer elicits the ejaculation of
surprise, "Whyl" This process is continued
by these Cesterfelds, who are delighted
to find an occasion to ventilate their polite
culture, because they mistake their victims
silence of contempt for the embarrassment
and confusion which the ignorant expert
ence in the presence Of the erudite, until
they have exhausted their capital, where
upon they abandon him as illiterate.
A man who can stand this inquisition
without losing his temper, or getting
entirely disguised with those whose minds
are so shallow, that long-drawn, sickish
'love story can satisfy their deepest long
ing, and without telling them all about it
right on the spot,is paragon Of Christian
forbearance, and should have leather
medal hung to his neck with life-sized
calf stamped upon it.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-08-03
THE CLIMAX REACHED.

The peerless" Cooking Stove for wood and
coal; manufactured by Pratt & Wentworth of Bos-
ton, the best in the world; the one that receiv-
cd the grand prize modal at the Paris Exhibition,
and has never failed TO carry OFF the first prize
whenever exhibited. Call and see the recommen-
datons Of those who have 1t In this vicinity.
9u j. DAVENPORT, Agent.