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so kaossn, and riH all diseases resulting from
bad blood Keep your blood pure; keep your
Lsver in order; keep your digestive organs
= fn sousi, healthy Ucoadition, by he use
of Asse remedies and no disease eiH
assdif you The best the country recommend
i6sm. " years Of honest reputation go for anything
you msa tSy these preparations.
The Montana post., 1869-01-22
PLAIN ANSWERS.

Mr.. Y. =. Langford is an applicant for the
position of Governor of Montana Now, we
would ask, what claims has he for the Office z
What has he ever done for the Union party !!
Is there one man in the whole Territory who
will or can to-day hold up his hand and de-
clare that he ever knew Mr.. l.. to take u de-
cided stand upon any of the great issues which
have convulsed the country, from the peri od
of his accidental, fortune seeking, Union-de-
serting migration to the mountains Has
he not always occupied an underlined, ancer-
tain, behind the curtain position among our
public meny l. he
not two-faced and treacherous?
Who ever heard the gentleman whis-
per his political views Fl Herald, 18th.
The above are a few, and gist OF the
plain questions asked by the Herald
last evening. The Posi- is not the ad-
vocate of n. p. Langford for tiovernor,
and is under no obligation To him tor
any extraordinary gush ut friendship
since The Herald undertook his champi
onship as against his enemies OF the
Posr ring. We do not conceive il
within the province OF this, as n party
paper. To run up the name OF our indi-
vidual choice tor Governor, and iierceiy
assail any opposing candidate OF the
party who may DE in the field. But last
of all from whom We should an. icipate
an assault upon the Repubiicari,lu %
MIR. Lang:ord, is the HeF,ild. 1t is Oh. y
few months since tie Htrdld ialJeu
him To the skies a. Il sterling l,e luui4-
can. whose reputation Tor IhirErI'y,
candor, and efficiency as man ana an
official is above repraach. suspicion or
doubt, as II man who was tou honest
TO be made u tool of etc. I'D ad IseuDt.
lie WAS President OF the last Territorial
Convention of Montana. nominated by
Judge J. }. W iiliams. we believe. elected
by The votes OF the Ueraid combination,
ana politically putied by them in un
measured terms. How does this COM
port with The extracts at the head OF
this article Mr. Langiord has al ways
been recognized as Republican by all
parties In Montana Now. be-
cause the N.r0ht has Some particular
iav0rItc 10 rub down 'p- tne nuUerna-
The Montana post., 1869-01-22
SENATORlAL ELECTIONS.

The dispatches announce the election
of Senators in Missouri, Michigan, Min
nesota, Maine. Delaware, Massachu.
setts and New York, and an eneute ex>
listing in the Indiana Legislature. OF all
these, Delaware alone has chosen n
Democrat. Hon. James A. Bayard. to
serve until March 4th, and his son.
Thos. Bayard. to succeed him fer six
years. Delaware has a penehant for
sending the Bayards to Congress
grand father, father and son having re-
ceived that honor. James A. Sr., was
elected to the House in 1906; James A,
Jr.. in 1850. 1856 TO the Senate and
James A, Jr., and Thomas, to the Sens
ate in 1869.
Missouri has chosen Carl Schurz, a
soldier and statesman, who will do
honor to his State and party. and labor
diligently for the welfare of his adopted
country. No other choice could have
been made in Missouri that would have
been received with such hearty ap.
proval by Republicans.
Michigan has returned Zachariah
Chandler. Although opposed by seven
teen prominent papers. the success
sor OF Lewis Cass returns with his
record approved by the unanimous vote
of the Republicans of the Legislature. 1t
he serves out his coming term, he will
have been in the Senate eighteen years,
He is fifty-six years OF age, combining
physical vigor and large Legislative ex-
perience, and is one of the energetic,
industrious workers of the Senate.
Minnesota, after hotly contested
fight between Ramsay. Donne,ly and
Wilkeson, finally settled down to an
almost unanimous vote for the former,
and his first full term begins March 4th
Senator Ramsay probably comprehends
more fully than any Senator east OF the
Missouri the resources and wants of the
interior Northern Territories. and the
interests OF Minnesota being largely
identified with them. We naturally look
20 him as an advocate ia enterprises @.
mutual benefit. With twenty yeaTs'
experience in active publ C lite since he
was first appointed Governor Of Minne-
sofa. during which time his attention
has been particularly directed to this
The Montana post., 1869-01-22
APPLICATION FOR SEPARt-
TDON.
a glorious old couplet runs

a glorious old couplet Iuns:
The union of lakes. and the ur"n "f lands.
Aud the union of state. D"n- may s-ver.'
But against the division oi states into
separar. comInonwe-lths NO such pa
exist. Thad Stevens proposal to carve
up Texas into three slices to suit the
various tastes of the Mexicans. Germans
and negroes who congregate in different
portions of the Houston empire, prom>
ises To receive favorable consideration.
Provincial New York manifests a wills
lingness To have III. Manhattan political
ulcer removed by legislative surgery
and now East Tennessee comes into
court and asks To be divorced from the
Middle and West. The Banner and
Wig have said aye, and il will prob
ably be brought to issue this session
The decidedly sectionalized state of" the
river OF the big bend =" has never been
noted for the pleasant relations existing
between its eastern and western people.
Barnum's happy family has never
typitied it's people. or have they ever
evidenced the devotion OF Ruth. II the
matter could be taken into an Indiana
court the incompatability of tempera-
ment" would come in with potential
effect and seperate maintenance be
granted on self evident facts. Whether
or not these divisions OF States would
be fraught with good results is "A ques-
ton for Statesmen To discuss and Time
TO decide, but since West Virginia alb
solved iiselt from the sins OF the Old
Dominion il il becoming the fashionable.
faf0re among the Columbian sisters,
and has the merit of being pronounced
by Constitution haters
The Montana post., 1869-01-22
u. II. R. R.

The friends of the Union Pacific rail-
road are making somewhat furious
demonstrations over the alleged reten-
lion on ind-fensible grounds of some
$4,000 600 or 81 ,OOO,O 900 money due the
road, and Mr.. johnson is charged with
completely in the act. 1t is stated there
is being made a systematic attempt to
black mail the company by these par
lies. and that the report of the Commis>
sion sent out TO investigate the con-
struction of the road, has been sap =
pressed because il WAS favorable To the
road. while synopsis published in the
National iHttitigsnrer is prejudicial, and
part of the deeply laid plan. However
that may be, we condense the following
from the MteiitgeHcers' synopsis. presu-
ming, al least, that the figures gwen are
correct. The distance from Omaha to
The head of Salt Lake is LIS miles
There is not a yard of rock excavation
for the first 535 miles. and the only
tunnel is at 81. Mary's Greek. $50 feet in
length. There are many places where
the line is located wrong, sharp curves
have been introduced to diminish cost,
and grades in some places are ninety
feet 10 the mile while the profile shows
much less grade. The charter requires
the road bed to be fourteen feet wide on
top, but in many places the road bed is
not a. wide as the ties. The cotton,
wood ties in the Platte Valley will have
20 be replaced. There are in the first
$50 miles of tie road 944 bridges. of
which $50 are deemed permanent. The
remaining 6l4, which are 1871. feet
tnrarly eight miles, in length. will have
20 be replaced. There are III loccmo-
lves and twenty seven passenger cars
The commissioners estimate. il will cost
300 20 complete the work This
includes the purchase OF Sky locomos
tives, sS4O.Go1; iorty-iour passenger
cars, S2Gi 900, and $50 other cars. Sl;6I
900 The estimated cost OF CONFLICTING
ihc road from Weber Canyon 10 the
mead u Salt Lake is SJ.jlj. 800 Who
- night. tie company or th,. Govern~
meEt officers, will tran pir. ere long.
and II Is scarcely Probable. il the road
has been properly built, that an att-Inpt
VII be made 20 deprive The former ot
.LeIr payment. From what We have.
seen ui the road we know The narrow
H's7 "i IaGd bed. heavy grades. sharp
curves and numerous u-.ours ar, .gc:.
and The Commission appears 20 have
reported them
The Montana post., 1869-01-22
rnE ROrrENNESS IN DENMARK

Ii required three articles in the LIer-
ald last evening tn explain itself and
reply 10 the ''score Of editors who
pointed out the motives of that paper
yesterday Is il not An admission that
the ring" is respectable IN numbers, At
least, when IL is charged there are
twenty of then. employed in writing
for the POsTy After r-tractine its epi-
tibet of rebel" To Mr.. Hauser in one ar
,icle, and virtually retrac,ing it's NAL
content epithet of bogus" to the Ter
ritorial Central Committee in another,
and svidencing several other curious,
crankey and suspicious cricks in the
very stiff back il showed the previous
two days. it finally SINNERS down into
n tepid. brackish current Of thought,
purporting to express "The Hernlfs Mo,
tives." The substance of il is an as
sumption that the Republicans who do
not affiliate with. ana recognize The
Herald. are all consorting with Rebels
and Democrats, and the Herald prefers
eternal discord" aud "disrupting the
party" to any such state of affairs.
Now. as nine-tenths of all who vote
the Republican ticket in Montana,
and every infexible. steadfast
Republican recognized the action of
the Herald last summer, in declaring
itself independent of the party" and
the Grant and Colfax ticket n "sec-
,iona," one, as seditious, traitorous and
rebellious. and that as an enemy in our
own ranks il WAS more harmful than
any declared Democratic paper. we sub
init that i:s present avowal is puerile.
inconsistent, trashy and contemptibly
rotten" IL won't do. There is cat
in the meal, somewhere. The exalted
ideas of the impropriety OF associating
with Democrats, does not accord with
the record OF The Fiskes, who were the
supporters of Henry NJ. Rice. the out
and>out "Moccasip Democrat" Sena-
tor of Minnesota. whom Alexander
Ramsay beat in the Senatorial contest
in 1868. All the Herald can offer IN ex
cuse tor pronouncing the Union Terri>
torial Committee bogus" will not wash
the reasonable stain from its pages.
1t is purely a malicious spite against
!he members OF that Committee, be-
cause they can neither be black mailed
coaxed. cajoled or intimidated into
countenancing the corrupt schemes of
the U,ala. We have stated what we
believe true, that any Republican, not
on the HeraLd sla te. appointed To office
in Montana will be berated and LAM
pooned in its columns, 10 extort hush
money or excite opposition until it's
precious pets are provided for. II we
are righ, or wrong. time will show, and
IL will prove conclusively 1.-The Heralds
motives
The Montana post., 1869-01-22
THE TENURE.OF-OFFICE BILL,

That we are the creatures ut circuul~
stances is exemplfied in rh. change of
front by both Republican and Demo
cratic leaders and newspapers on the
Tenure of Office Law When il was cre
ated the former advocated 1.-THE latter
condemned. Now many Republicans
manifest des,r- for its repeal, and
many Democrats support it. Ii was the
neares; approach toan adequate remedy
possible tor checking tii. corrupt cd
ministration of Johnson in suboidi>
mating all the Government patronage to
personal interest and Government i'll ].
for if il could not compel the removal
of dishonest officials, il prevented the
wholesale removal of honest ones. The
arguments for it's repeal are: the un-
questioned integrity OF Grant the ne>
cessity of reform in the administration
of the Revenue Department ; the barrier
the Tenure law j. TO Executive action
during an adjournment of the Senate.
and the questionable propriety of res
stricting a tree service of arbitrary au-
ihority in making up his Cabinet.
With. perhaps. Ms implicit confidence in
Grant AS any. and as little affection for
modern. so>called Democracy and it's ad-
her-nts. ms is required in n priest OF the
inner ten Pile Of Radicalism. we still sd-
here to the general spirit of the Tenure
ot-Oifice bill as in perfect consonance
with our institutions. and believe a law
of the same general import should stand
perpetual on the statute book. Ii should
however be amended =" as not to inter
!err with Cabinet officers. Thus amend
ed il would be n law no good President
would desire 10 violate, and no bad one
could. with impunity. IL would be no
more oi detrimenr to u good President
than IA vacant penit-ntiary or an empty
gibbet is To good citizen However.
the indications are. il will Ice repealed
at All early day To take effect about the
time His Excellency, Andrew johnson.
returns to Tennessee. when the dispsn-
sation of patronage and the formation
of political combinations will be wiz.
him thing OF the past.
The Montana post., 1869-01-22
THE lNEXPR ESSs BLE CON
RLlCr.

The Gazette has "swung tn. logical
circle - extremes have met: the serpent
is swallowing its tail Fairly eu-
chered on it's lone hand. It despair,ngly
trumpet in yesterday with a card played
twice from the same hand. and s.rio-
comically set up it's claim to til. point.
In SO far AS il can draw consolation iYo,s,
having caused us to brush up our his
tory the G0zetse has tine gentle assu-
rance that the ''set TO" with il has been
to us an easy diversion, permitting
barely mental exercise sufficient to rem
der il n recreation. As il cOnfesses ina =
bility TO see how the alteration of any
one word could effect" I'll. statement
which caused il 20 much pain. we give
the sentences. analogous in that they
were merely a comparison of forces. but
one made tn assert nationality by the
typographical Substitution OF Their"
for the"
'rrhe di.proportion, although not nearly so
large as when the ten and half millions OF
Nerxes were confronted and stayed in Their
mopyle by the heroes of Leonidas, 10 still
sufficient for all practical purposes, etc.
The Turkish navy is not go numerous as
when the (tf eI) five thousand vessels, bearing
half million men were put to flight by The
mistocles, etc."
The Gozette will see il was in neither
case expressed. assumed or implied that
in the engagements mentioned the enc
mics Of the Greeks were Turks. And
here. in fraternal friendship. prompted
10y liberal views and n desire tn retain
our Post office box" We venture 70 in-
iorm our "cotem that smoking Turk
ish tobacco, eating 'Sultana raisins' and
admiring graceful ''Grecian Benders" is
not nearly 80 good way of acquiring
ancient history AZ by careful and syste-
matte reading, and that making Greek
meat cut % Greek had better be lett To
Abdul Axis than attempted by the Grand
Mogul OF the Gdzette.
The Montana post., 1869-01-22

y remarkable sensation story now ex-
tgnt is. that President Lincoln consents
ed 10 the proposal OF Judge Campbell
that South Carolina, when he visited
Washington with the Commission, that
South Carolina should seccde. and wrote
a proclamation TO that effect but its is
suance was prevented 10y the popular in
diguation at the rebels firing on the Star
Of the West IL is sad to spoil such a
iine sensation, but still. here are facts.
The South Carolina Commission sought
rs interview with President Buchanan.
Dec. 20. 1860. but was refused the Star
of the West was fred upon Jan. .. 1861;
Mr.. Lincoln did not leave Illinois .or
Washington until Feb. 11th arrived
there Feb. 22d. and was Inaugurated
March 4th. IL did not take two months
.or popular indignation" Ia manifest
Itself in those days. nor was Mr. Lincoln
likely issuing proclamations two months
before he was President. Besides, se-
cession WAS not tavorite hobby with
him or those who elected him.
The Montana post., 1869-01-22
THE RAILROAD SUBSIDIES.

The contest over subsidies 10 Pacific
Railroads now before Congress will be
watched with intense solicitude by all
interested in the extension of railroads
into or through this great region
ward of the Mississippi. The
labor. material and transportation o.
the absence of local traffic or ..-...
sufficient To warrant individual enter
prises in undertaking these mammoth
national enterprises, renders it an abso-
lutte necessity to secure Government
assistance. But with the intent to Sc
cure rigid economy and retrench ali pos
sible expenditures until the nation is
relieved of the financial difficulties that
now burden it, the many millions ne
cessary TO the purposes of any one of
them will be stubbornly defended by
many of those who can control them.
The resolution adopted by the House on
the 18th against granting any further
aid in money TO Pacific Railroads, was a
test vote showing the majority opposed
to il. 1t is probable the issue will hA
brought on the bill TO aid the Denve-
Pacific road. AS that is only u asaarl
from Cheyenne to Denver, will -
name of Pacific tagged on to it for
effect, it would be wholly unjust for the
fate OF continental routes TO be decided
by it. IL wonid be a parallel case, 80
far as the justice of il goes, To bring two
persons into court, one charged with
murder and the other with petit larceny,
and sentence both 10 be hanged. though
the one accused of murder were proyeg
innocent IL is 10 be hoped Gen. Graai
has not decided agains. all, BEG
some are without merit. We know the
influence his views will have upon Con-
gress. and the tenacity with which he
flights il out On that line when ia,
! movement has begun. bat he has NJ
We, in any public act hastily and iaco
siierately jumped 10 decision nor
We believe he has nuw.
The Montana post., 1869-01-22
GOLD CONTR sCTS.

Sherman's bill legalizing coin con-
tracts and authorizing the Issue by the
National Banks of notes redeemable in
coin on demand, is the most direct, feas
ible, and practical move yet made
toward a return to a specie basis. The
gold dollar being the recognized unit or
value. it is apparent that business men
will seek 20 establish their transactions
upon that stable basis in preference 10
the fuctua;ing currency. The result
will be that money will be loaned, and
the commercial transactions OF the
country gradually tend to the gold sys-
tenn Guarding against the shock that
might he occasioned 10y the repeal or in
valida,ion of the Legal Tender Bill, and
by the use of gold notes render the
eventual resumption oi specie payments
An easier matter. The bill also pro-
vides for the conversion of Srecnbacks
as part o. the plan. and bears many
evidences of being iGdicious and de-
sirable measure.
The Montana post., 1869-01-22
WHOLE NO. 229

vast region, a man OF unquestioned in
tegrity and patriotic purpose, We deem
it happy event FOR Montana as well as
Minnesota that he is returned
Maine has chosen as successor of Hon
Lot NJ. Morrill,, Ex-Vice President Han
ribal Hamlin. Morrill, having been
chosen To succeed liamlin in the Senate
when the latter became Vice President.
this may be regarded as an instance of
political compensation, in this case n
fair one. Upon Morrill's escutcheon
there is no stain, and the caucus vote,
showing Morrill's "A votes TO Hamlin's
IS, makes it "A fair conjecture that he
will be chosen as successor to Mr.. Fes-
sender in 1871. Mr. Hamlin is a
worthy, able and steadfast Republican,
and IL would have been well for the
country. had that sturdy patriot been
elected on the ticket with Mr.. Lincoln
for his second term, as well as the first.
->s-----~---~-.~ s>v-s-v v~srsucr, ur srsv
dauntiess heart and eloquent tongue, to
inspire with fervid utterances devotion
to the principles of liberty, pure and
undefled. The statesman Gamaliel, at
whose feet Senators may sit and learn
wisdom scholarly and cbsste in speech
as he is wise in thought and rich in the
lore Of nations, is the leader of the
Senate, and unquestionably the first
diplomatist of the nation. He entered
the Senate in 1851, and if he lives TO
complete the ensuing term will be the
oldest member. Wade's term, who en-
tered the same year. expiring on March
4th, and CsmerOn's, who took his seat
in lS49. expiring in 1873. IL was no.
BILE utterance of one that "he would
rather be right than President" and it
is believed by those know him that
Charles Sumner would say. IL would
rather represent progressive Massachu-
setts in the Senate than to sit in the
Presidents Cabinet" Long may he be
her Senator.
New York waited but for the Guber-
Material mantle to drop from the should.
ers of her favorite son, to clothe him in
the robes OF Senator. His career in Con-
gress and the faithful manner in which
he discharged the duties of Governor
are full assurance that the Empire State
will be well represented by Reuben E.
Fenton. He succeeds Edwin d. Nor
gan, and it is to be regretted that the
services of both cannot be retained in
that capacity to the country. We give
in another column from the N. Y. II
nas, a testimonial to the abilities of De
new Senator, eminently deserved. Tie
confidence of New York in him has thus
early found practical expression, and
we trust, will be continued.
AS a whole, the choice of Senators in
the several States has been well made,
and each has evidenced by the past that
faith in them tor the future will be well
placed, and the nation have wisdom,
patriotism and integrity in it's councils.