The Montana post., 1869-01-01

engines were completely smashed and the cars
burned. 1t is stated the body of a young
y lady was found In the wreck burned to a crisD
from the waist up. A train on the Iron
/ Mountain Railroad was thrown from the track
I ju-t below Jefferson Barracks, yesterday after
noon One car containing about 20 persons
was precipitated down an embankment, max
7 ing two complete revolutions. Nearly every
I person inside was injured, some severely, but
none fatally.
Gen Sully sent a detachment of cavalry
j from Fort Harker on the 2lst to Two River,
kansas, 1t being reported Indians had been
recently seen there. Gen. SulIy thinks Sher-
idan will return from his campaign within 20
or 30 days.
The Cuban War.
Havana, Dec. 27th.--The Government pub
fishes m the Gazette the following account:
Alter the battle of Moran the troops found
among The baggage captured from the insur-
rectionists several jars of strychnine.
Information had previously been received
\ uy the government which stated that strych-
nine was TO be used to poison the Spanish
I troops throughout the island
/ The official account of the battle states the
\ government troops came up with the revolu
I tionists on the 18th inst-i5 miles from Puerto
( Principe. They stormed the en.renched
camp of the enemy and attacked them with
/ bayonets. The latter were routed losing
I many killed and wounded. The government
loss was one man killed and eight wounded. /.
b BY the Cuban account of the affair the gov
! ernmeOt troops lost heavily in killed and
I wounded. The revolutionIsJs also deny the
/ statement that the government troops cap
\ tured all their arms and ammunition.
/ General Latedro sailed yesterday for SantI-
| ago, with trO"ps to take command &C the
/ eastern department,
I The Revolutionists destroyed the Light
l House &C LucretIa Point, endangering navI-
Il CATION In the Bahama channel.
/ Eight hundred FIllibusters landed at the
/ Bay of Cochines, Santiago.
The government has only 500 troops in
4 that part of the Island. They surrounded
\ 10y ten thousand ReyOlutIonists. Business is
| suspended and impoTtatiODs stopped. The
| authorities are without funds. Distress and
/ gloom everywhere prevails.
/ MnTEanello, Dec. IS, via Lake City, Fla
\ The government force here numbering GOO Is
closely beseiged. Occasionally skirmishes
l take place between the revolutionary forces
aud government troops, but lead To no impor
| tanJ Tes1lJs. The government troops are suf-
| feIiDg from bad and insufficient diet, and the
| cholera has broken ont among them.
From the south.
Memphis, Dec. 2S.-The Avaianche's Little
! Rock speciaI says Generals Babcock and
| Porter, of Grants staff left for home to-
night. 1t appears they were not authorized
To investigate the militia outTages.
All the militia except twenty are TO be
withdrawn from Lewisburg, and the citizens
allowed TO form company
The civil authorizes IN Conway county are
to preserve order. The Conway refugees are
prep Ting TO return home
Augusta, Ga, Dec. 2S.-Gabriel Martin
and two maiden sisters residing IN Columbia
county, were murdered and robbed on Thurs
day nj ght, and the house set on fire and their
bodies consumed. Suspicion rests on some
negroes in the neigLborhood.
Savannah, Dec. 2S.-The Supreme Court of
fha al Of ri he
court, which held that the consideration of a
note given for borrowed Confederate money
was a good aud valid one.
4 Modern Lueretia FSorgin.
New York, Dec. 2S.-In Lafayette. New
jersey, widow named White, just previous
20 her death, sent for some fellow members of
the Methodist church, and confessed to them
in her dying hour that about seven years ago
she poisoned her infant child, and about n
year afterwaTd she poisoned her husbands
father. and later still when her husband re-
turned from the army she also administered
| fatal poison to him. The woman bad always
borne good character, being u member of
the Methodist church. Her only reason for
making this confession was the des ire TO rid
her conscience of this load of crime. She
was perfectly same up to the time of her
death.
Chicnso. Dee. zs.-The .TournaIs' special
State department that the Revolutionists are
gaining sire myth daily, and unless large con-
cessious are made by the Spanish government
it will take some time to defeat them with
powerful armies.
The official reports OF the battle near Hal
loquin are confirmed.
The Diaro says the InsuTrectionists confess
their loss TO be 500 men and two cannons.
Small hands of Revolutionists have made
their appearance near Gibera.
Iutelligencs from ST. Domingo, state that
the government troops defeated the insur-
gents at Los Matos.
HanqueT IS Senator Casserly.
New York. Dee % r. b. Roosevelt, OF
the New York Citizen, gave an elegant dinner
at Delmonicos tonight 20 Senator Casserly,
os California. Many other guests were pres
snt, and leading members of the New York
Press, who were invited with view TO max
iBg Casserly's acquaintance pleasant, and q
social evening passed. Speeches were made
by the host Mr.. Casserly, VIM G. Bryant
| Horace Greeley and many Others Casserly II
the course of his remarks, alluded to the ar
rest OF Saml. Bowles. and said the man who
committed such an outrage upon the hber
ties of the press would yet have reason to rue
Under the River
Chicago, Dec. 29--The last brick was laid
in the Washington street tunnel, under th'
river, last evening. The tunnel will be for
maliy open ed on New Years day, with eere
monies ON the part Of the municipal authori
ties.
Gen. LoDgstreetss Views.
New York, Dec. ga long letter from
Gen. Longstreet is published He ridIcule'
the idea that Grant Is a Democrat; says he re
CARDS his past course and decided character a.
the surest guarantee of mis- future course
His antecedents clearly mark him as Ma
tiOual man, and as such he gives adhesion &
the party whose basis is the Union, and be
lieves that the influence Of his administra
tion will be applied TO its complete and pros
porous restoration. lie tells the Southerr
people all that Is required for perfect peace d
their hearty corporation in Congressional re
construction.
ForcI.n.
London, Dec. 29.-1he following dispatch
dated Co-staatiaople Dec. 26, IL received