Year: 1864


diers. This, ia the eyes of Col Holt, is no
doubt crime, and when the proceedings of
his secret inquisition are dragged to light and
placed before the public, it will be found that
my greatest crime is that | have been the
commandaDt of Gen. McClellan's Headquar-
ters during his campaign in Eastern Virgin
ia and Maryland. y


FROM HELtGATE.-Mr. John s. Cald-
well, writing from Hellgate, Bitter Root
Valley, to Mr.. John A Simms, under date
of Jan. 3lst, says:


On the Oath inst, twenty-one of the Wig
lance Committee visited HeIgate and hung
= Skinner, John Cooper and Alex. Carter,
and on the 25th they hung Geo. Shears and
Robert Zachary. At Fort Owen they hung
VIM. Graves, alias Whisky Bill and in
December and January they hung twenty
one of the rascas The Committee made
their appearance unexpectedly to every one,
and they had no trouble in getting their vic
Tins They came to the house where was
stopping and got George Shears and hung
him in fifteen minutes. The Committee bury
none they hang, so the citizens have to bury
the dead t


Some of the robbers acknowledged rob-
bing Frush and Sherwood's Rocky Noun
tain Express, last summer. ar sf


The band of robbers had become so bold
that if they saw a man venture out alone
any distance from his house they would kill
and rob him. For instance, at Charles AL
lens man went out about two hundred
yards from the house, and they attacked him.
robbed him of seventy-fve cents-all the
money the poor fellow had-and then beat
him over the head with revolver till they
thought he was dead but he recovered.


Samuel Bunton brother of Bill got into
a row at Salt Lake and had his bowels cut
out.


The merchants of this section cannot 90
down the Missouri river this season for goods
on account of the Sioux Indians; so they
will have to get them from some other
source-from Portland, provided the Mulan
road is put in condition for travel.


Misunderstanding to our latest dis
patches, the bill providing for the organiza-
ton of the Territory of Montana had been
amended in the Senate The word "white"
was struck out in the clause bearing upon
the qualification of voters. The Senate is
so overwhelmingly black, that we are left
in doubt as to whether the bill as amended
DISTINGUISHES white persons or only places
the freedmen" of the ebony persuasion on
an equal footing with white citizens. Car
ret Davis, of Kentucky, subsequently, while
the Senate was deliberating upon amending
the U. S. Constitution so as to prohibit sla-
very or involuntary servitude, except for
the punishment of crime, offered the follow.
ing


"No negro, or person whose mother or
grandmother is or was negro, shall be a
citizen of the United States, or eligible to
any civil or military Offices, or to any place
of trust or profit under the United States"


When the ayes and noes were called for
upon the resolution there was found to be no
quorum present and the Senate adjourned
1t is altogether probable that the Republi-
can members were unprepared to give
vote and left the Senate without quo
rum for the purpose of consulting as to how
they should eyade or meet the question
But in leaving out the word "white" in the
Montana bill, the country can be left in no
doubt that all of the more radical members
would vote against the resolution at once
if they believed anything like majority of
the people would sustain them in SO doing
AS the n Y Times says, "there is
hardly Northern State yet quite ready to
endorse negro equality" and this being true,
as matter of policy, we take it the radicals
will await the progress of events" before
they make practical, by legislation, the sub
lime idea Of the higher-law theorists, that
call men are created free and equal"


The INDIANS in the vicinity of the John
Day Mines, continue their depredations upon
the whites A party of six men, who left
CANYON citv few weeks aoo in nursuit of