Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-03-09

It is scmi-officially stated that Gen. Bah
cocks connection with business at the Elk
ecutive Mansion has ceased.
The Attorney General has been in consul
tation with District Attorney Wells relative
to Belknap, and preliminary papers With a
view to his punishment have been prepared.
They will be sent to the grand jury this
week, when an Indictment will probably
follow. Similar proceedings will probably
be Instituted AGAINST Marsh. The Attorney
General had a consultations with the Presi-
dent an the subject, Saturday.
The President has signed the act as an
amendment to the act admitting Colorado to.
the Union on an equal footing With the rest
Of the States.
In the Lower House Of the Massachusetts
Legislature, the chairman OF the finance
committee made a charge, based on the al-
thority of Lieut.. Governor Knight, that
$4,000 had been paid to members to carry
through the new prison scheme.
1t is stated that Senator Morton has been
requested by the President to accept the po-
sition of Secretary Of War. Morton had an
interview with the President on the Sd. The
President is still greatly agitated.
A dispatch from ST. John, n. g., says a
movement is on foot to raise flnds~to send
st. JOINTS Paris crew to Philadelphia. A
boat has been ordered from JeWett, an En-
glish builder, and the crew will go into
training early in the spring.
Negotiations are pending tor the marriage
of the Duke of Geneva with the Arch Ouch
ess Marie Christine, daughter of Arch Duke
Charles Ferdinand Of Austria.
The signal service reports an Italian bark,
bound for Baltimore, Went ashore near Ty-
bee island on the night of March 1st, and
went to pieces. Nine of the crew of thir-
teen, of the life saving crew, attempted to
board the bark, and every man was drown
ed. Six bodies have been recovered and
three are still missing.
SHERIDAN TO TIE MILIT AIRY COMMITTEE.
Headquarters MILITARY DIVISION
OF THE MISSOURI,
t fs CHICAGO, ILL.,. Feb. a9,t 1876.
The necessity for military posts on the
Yellowstone has been apparent to me for
two years past, and I have recommended
their establishment in all my reports. So
strongly have [ been convinced OF their ne
cessity that | have, at little expense to the
Government, made an examination of the
Yellowstone river and selected the points at
which they should be built. The Indian
question in the Black hills must now be set
tied Dy the establishment Of posts on the
Missouri river, and in the accomplishment
OF this purpose the two posts mentioned
above to, be located, one at or near the mouth
of the Big Horn river, the other at or near
the mouth Of Tongue river. These posts
can be. supplied by steamboats, up the Vel
lowstone, and can be constructed of materi-
al found in the vicinity Of the points men
toned. think / can have them built for
$780, o0, each in other words, [ will try to
build both for $780, 600 instead of the $780,
900 mentioned in the bill. The Black hills
! country will probably be covered with own
: and villages during the neXtfive or six years.
: It's value will cause the extension of the
Northern Pacific railway on the south side
! Of the Yellowstone as far as the Gallatn
valley, in Montana, and will also build an
. other railroad from North Platte station, on
the Union Pacific railroad to the Black hills.
: ! am Of the belief that the largest deposits
: of gold are further west than where the
: miners are now working. The ]leadwaters
Of Wind river are gold-bearing; the Owl
Creek mountains are collaborating; the Big
: Horn valley is geld-bearing; Powder river
7 IS goki-bearing; also, Clark's Fork OF the