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THIE MONTANftA POT. F D. W. TILTON & CO., puibishers and Proprieto~rs . " A u LAS~ Gr;~ x ox~ IH R' N............................... ....." MY~' PW7T~jMA EEALAY E IGT;BT Y VUTY IGT RWRNG " VOL. 2, NO. 23.] CITY OF VIRGINIA, MONTANA TERRITORY, SATURDAY. JANUARY 27, 1866.(WLErO75 the .0UE )ota0tso. D). W. Tiltoni & Co. E). W. TII.TON. BE.x. R. DrrrE8, PUBLISHERS & PROPRIETORS. ofiat the City Book Store. COT, of Wallace 4. Jako St. Terms of Subscription : One Olpy, one year-------....-------------------$7 50 do. six months--------------------------- 4 00 do. three months .........................2 50 Rates of Advertising. buosiness Cards, five lines or less, 3 months,.*.. 6 00 d. do. do. 6 months. ....10 00 do. do. do. 1 year......15 00 Ore square, ten lines or less, 1 insertion. .... .. .. . .4 00 do. do. do. 2 do. ........'.....6 00 do. do. do,. 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NO tirs.-One dollar per line for three lires or ies' 75 cents per line for ten lines or leess; 50 cents per line foir eleven lines or more. Territorial Officers. (iorer,,(r-SI)Nl:Y ED)GIRTONV, Ilannack City. .ýecreoarr-TtnoM~s FIRA\Cti MEA(.1IFR. ,Ss,~rriate Juo.'icr-L. Ii. \VlTLItoroN. -L. F.. M-NeoN . A. A. Afloroev-G; uror-O. F. ST:IIICKLAN;D. Virginia. 1U. S. Maorshal-G EO. 31. PI'NNEY. Assist (l. S. Munrotct-.J. X. BEILRi.i. .'urrryor-Gcnera!-MN. lloyt,. Auditor-JOhN S. LOTT. Treasurer-.T~liNi J. Hub!.. Supcrint'nsidnt of* P'ubic Instruction-T. J. I)I)IsDALE. Asoccosor-T. C. E nIIRT . Collct or Iotern-l Ileren',e-N. P. LANOFORD. Clerk of the U. S. D~istrict Court-hl. II. FluemmnitTEI. Clerk of2d Judicial District-C. E. IhtISYX. .Silver Bow. Clerk of 3d -'. C. JONES, Helena. C'OUNTY RECORDER-.. Maditso....(Geo. X. Hilt Edgerton . __.R. C. Ewing Beaver Hlead Benj.P'eabody Gallatin. -. Theis. ('over [leer Lodge. .las. Brown Jefferson ....rank Wells ?lunicipal Officers of Virginia City. Maoyr-P. S. PFOU'TS. Acting, J. M. CASTXER. Police Mo.Rlutrate-T. W. Talliaferro. Maro1hal-Willhomn I)etiueev. Cleric-thins. .1. I). (.'tisi. Attornes-'A'n. 11. Chlues. 7'reasurer-.johin S. Iisektltlow. Assesor-Tlhsoina. Pear, ,n. Assisotant Cite, .tIarshal-'Terry Lewis. County Officers of Madison County. ('souty (7ommio"sioners-A. Stanley, Chairman ;Ben. Ezerstost. WV. Ii. hRul~ero. Sherri'-Anilrew .1. Snyder. 1Itit~s Sse ri `-. Bteery. J'r qoiti -Andly Leacch. tlrrlr-(. XX. Hilt. ('ouai Aooeosor-Ioaac R~ogers. IDr. A. L. .Justie. (\'~F'lCE ON WAILLACE STREET, next door tothe F. V. P. Moore. P iIYSIC IAN ANtD SURGEON. Wallace street, one Idoor east of (layton & Hale's Drug Store. 4-t6' WY. F. Sanders, ,FTOR NEY AT LAW and Solicitor in Chancery. Vir bginia City. Montana Territory. 3-1Y` Ju(s o ke 1:N\ l AL. AUCTIONEER. Particular attention giv ealt,, the sale of' Live Stock and Ittal Estate. sales "f St iks it' (hood~s in Store. Office at the Etephsant Cor ral. Vjirriuia City, M. T. 4-l6* ~Josephi Marioni, HAY SCAtLES STORE, Wallace Street. Virginia City. H ('oinntissiou Merchant. Casth advanced on consign. 'CCC! s. A' geietaim asso rtmuent of Min.'rs' Outfitting Goods Pros'sionis, V -gitables. etc.. etc. 27` George Secorcl, (,ADDL.ER & IIARNESS MAKER. Constantly on shan~d anid nmanufacturing fron. the best material, all styles of Saddles. Bridles. Sintgle and Double Harness, or anything else' madte in a first ctass saddler shop. 1-2iP Occidental Billiard Hall. R OCKFELLOW & DENNEE'S BUILDING. Jackson Street. Virginia City. The fittest tables in town. The liar stilplied with the best of Liquors and Cigars. 42' JOlIN H. MING. Sam Word, Jas. G. Spratt. Word & Spratt, .A TTIORNEYS AT LAW. Virginia City. Montana 1XTerritory. Will practice in all the Courts of said Territory. Seilatningvnt h olcino Claims.810 John Rt. Gilbert, A ASSIS TANT ASSESSOR U. S. INTERNAL RE £VENL'E, for the First D~ivision of the Collection Die triet of Montana, embracing Madison County. Office, first door east of City Drug Store. Virginia City, April 27, 1865. 36-880 Montania Billiard Saloon. DAM KLESER and George Williams, Proprietors. 1 Bli ard Tables furnished with all the most approved apparatuss required for the enjoyment of the game. Pure li(~jOrs and choice cigars always on hand. Open from 7 A. H.. to 1'2 P. M.. 7-I90 Assay Office. WALLACE STREET, one door below Nolan & Co.'s Rank. Gold and Silver. and Ores of every descrip tion Assayed. I guarantee my assays, and will pmay any ditlforeimme which may arise 'between them and the U: $. Mtint. 5 D. GILBERT. L. W. Frary, S I'R(;ICAL AND MECHANICAL DENTIST. Ofcee Up stain n otoP s & - U's T. W. Harris & Bro. flAVE opened a general store in Bitter Root Valley. Antigand everything can.be procured at their store, from a needle to an anchor, or from a cayuse to a pack-saddle. Call and see us. All goods and provisions at cash prices. 61-if Smith & Armitage, (POPULARLY KNOWN AIS JACK & JESSE,) TN the old stand of WELDON &c SALE, foot of Wallace IStret, Virginia City. I~r Particular attention paid to machine work. 64 DEER LODGE HOTEL, PETER KARTIN & CO., Proprietors. X CELLENT accommodation for guests and boarders. 1iFirst class fare provided. Good_ beds. A large and commodious Feed Stable, under the oare of an experienced and attentive hostler. 68-80` SOLO.1IOA STIR, STONEIWALL STORfl, Wallace Street, Virginia City. ACOMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF GROCERIES, £1.Flour, Wines, Liquors and Cigars. A large assort menut of Box Candies. 27* LEA. F. MARSTON. W. T. ROATH. ROATH & Co., W~atchmakers and .. welers, Corner of Jackson and Wallace St.. VIRGINIA, MI. 'f`., C ONSTANTLY keep on hand, aqd make to order, from Native Gold, all the latest styles of Jewelry. :7'Particular attention paid to repairing Watches.~ (;S-tf Metropolitan Market, Wallace St., Virginia city, Monlana Ter'y. SHOUJMAKER & CO., PROPRIETORS. T rpHlS MARKET has beetn fitted up regardless of I expense, and will be supplied with Meats of all winds, Poultry. Fish, Game, Sausages, Head Cheese, Puddings of all descriptions. etc. Every article sold will be of the the best quality obtainable in the country, and all orders of their customers will be promptly and punctually at .I LLE.7 k *JRJlLL dRIP, f;IRGJNLIA CITY AN'D HELEN4, H. T. DSEALERS IN Coin, Gold Dust, Treasury Notes, and Foreign and Domestic Exchange. B. F_ ALLEN, J. H. MILLARD, IDes Moines. Iowa. Virginia City, M. T. 2tll Fox G-ood1 Articles Of I CLOTHING, GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, HATS; MINERS' BOOTS, ETC., GO1 TO Wallace Street, Virginia City. The quality and finish of every article guaranteed. A ehoice lot of Cigars for sale. 23" H. S( Gbert ChristianRichter. VIRGINIA BREWERY, WVF.HAVE CONSTANTLY OX HAND A LARGE LAGER BEER, MALT, HOPS, BREWERY FIXT URES, BEER KEGS, ETC. Ste All orders its our line of business will be promsptly attended to. 63-76 VORHES & VANDERVOORT, -Blacksmiths, JACKSON STREET, VIRGINIA CITY. (Opposite the MONTASA POST Office), HORSE, MULE AND OX SHOERS. ' Plows, and other Agricultural Implements. manu factured. -MACHINERY NEATLY REPAIRED. 83* --J . H. MINTG,- Corner of Jackson and Waflace Streets, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCER, And dealer in STATIONERY. ALSO, A FINE SELECTION OF iE't csy G-0cds andc Th~ys, Suitable for Holiday presents. ! i Toilette articles of the best French Manufac ture. 65-73* MONTANA BREWERY, PFEEIL. GEED k CO., Proprietors. OF SUPERIOR QUALITY, Delivered to all parts of thte Territory. Connected with my Brewery I have a DISTILLERY Ifor the manufacture of M1All' WMISKLEY. I solicit the patronage of the public for a home manu factured article. 66.tf Dernver .Meat el~larket, Nevada City, a - W M 1. T. ALEXANDER METZEL thr ilalways be found th~e betcuts o FRESH PORK, BEEF, VEAL, MUTTON, LAMB, SAUSAGE MEAT, and SAUSAGES OF ALL KINDS. He also, receives oonqtanuly Game, Fish and Fowl at the season. Try him. 59 Idaho Hotel. Wallace Street, Virginia City, M. T., 5. 3., CAU"TNU, Pwrpto~rtee e as_ ofthssP.S bas ee its wedinp. am his w frdtimd wilth desS est mhe sSr A. J. Oliver & Co.'s Express (Car gthe U. S. Mali between Virginia City and HIe lea ..,) are running a TRI-WEEKLY LINE 0F SIX-HORSE COACHES between Virginia and Rhea Cities, (Jefferacn Gulch) via Boulder Valley, Beaver Town, Jteferson City, Montana Cityr, Helena, (Lasat Chance) Grean Horn, Blackfoot City adWashington Gulch ; A TRI-WEEKLY LINE between Virginia City and Blackfoot (Ophir) via Nevada and Junction Cities, Jefferaon Bridge, Silver Bow City, German Gulch, French Gulch and Deer Lodge City ; A DAILY LINE between Diamond City and Helena via Middle Missori Crossing 61-tf DELEVAN HO1JSE, Wallace Street, Virglala City, oppe site the w. 5. P. 0. W. HI. JOHNSON, Proprietor. W E HAVE ACCOMMODATIONS FOR 150O B OdRD R.S. And our table is always supplied with the Best the Market and Season Affords. Our house Is also provided with NICE CLEAN BEDS. Board per week....$18.00 63-7 7 7 W . H. JOHNSON. BARNARD SLAVIN & CO., -AT THE (oPPOSITE TEE PLANTER'S HOUSE) Jackson Street........Virginia City. 15. T. Keep constantly on hand and for sale PURE RYE & BOURBON WHISKEY, BRANDY, GIN, RUIM, STOUGHTON AND PLANTATION BITTERS, PORT WINE, CLARET WINE, HEIDSICK CHAM PAIGNE, SPARKLING CATAWBA, CARBON OIL, ETC., ETC., ETC., ETC. ['Call and examine our stock before purchasing else where. ~j-'Orders from a distance solicited. '2-, W. H. Davis. C. C. Housel. J. F. Dougherty. DII PIS, HO !JSEL 4' Co., Oppos-ite the Post Office, VIRGINIA CITY, - - II. T., WHOLESALE AND ]RETAIL, G~rocersi, Storage & Commiisson Merchiants, D~ealers in Liquors, Cigars, Flour. Bacon. Lard. Dry Gloods. Cloth ing. Boots, Shoes. Queensware, Glassware. Hard ware. Paints. Oils, Nails. Glass, Putty. Farming and Mining Imple ments. etc.. etc., etc. We have a large and commodious FIRE - PROOF WAREHOUSE ! connected with onr establfemhemnt. Liberal Cash Adv-an ces made on consignments of General Msrchandise and Prod uce. 27* C.JBI.)VE T SLO P, WALLACE ST., VIRGINIA CITY, (Three doors above the Post O051ce.) MESSRS. CLARK & MITCHELL, Beg to thank the inhabitants of Virginia City, for their patronage. and to inform them that they are now ready to supply and till all calls in the following line: Manufacturing and repairing all kinds of fitrniture. turn ing. contracting for building, counters. shelving. Building and Repairing Saw anid Grist 11111s, Setting En gines, Hollers and Quartz Mills. Wheat Fans for Sale. For refereuce in the machinery department. call on No ble & Co.. Indian Creek. Spencer. Harrison & Co.. Gran ite Gulch. House & Co., South Meadow Creek. August 26th, 1865. `6 Joseph Griffith. Wm. Thompson. CRIFFITH & THOMPSON, Contractors %.nd Builders, OFFICE-Co'rner of Idaho and Van Burren Streets,, Virginia City -- ----Montana. !W'All kinds of Mill Work, and Stone, Brick, or Frame Building done to order, or on Contract, on the shortest notice. Pttrticular attention paid to the Building of Quartz Mills. All work warranted to give satisitction. n~ L- 1-E TI' -Judge J. Tufts, New York City; Chatam Bank. New York City Clark & Upson Mining Co.. Hartford, Conn. ; Prof. H. A. Ward, Rochester, New York ; John G. Copelin, St. Louis : Erfort & Petring, St. Louts ; And to business men generally of Virginia City, M. T. CITY' DRUG "STORE, ne Dr. L. DAE1YI, Proprietor, Ar of WALLACE STREET. - -- -VIRGINIA CITY. O ALARGE. WELL SELECTED AND GENUINE Nh assortment of foo Drugs, Patent Medicines, tb PERPUXERY & TOILET ARTICLES. e; w ALSO, T; FINE WINES AND LIQUORS. G Pre.erIptIi.a Catefaflly C.i npmintded, bi tk And attendance for this purpose at aU hours, day andnuignt. IE A choice Stock of a PAINTS, OILS, BRUSHES, TURPENTINE, &C. P 64-81` ______ - i A.H.Forn. J. A. CULVU. A8 C E.1 GLE COIR.elL, POSTER & ---ER,-- - Proprietors, : ti Csrser Jaekusm Cover Its., nhgb" City. F FIRST CLAU LIVERY & FEED STABLES. TURIN CATTLE YABI)S On the pimmiess, with plenty of good saheer mmd water. Hoam m wITH GRAIN OR RAY, And cavef fly attsaemait Stylish 8Iaihlu Turnouts" WWff VAT AM. T. - - ý f *akaa 1 . NEWS BtTMMAIW. The Supreme Conit of Nevada has decided that the Spacieo Cosiract Law is unconsetitutlonal, whereupon B. F. Hatnpe.,theCantheBnko alifornia, Wells, Fargo &Co.. Paxton, Shiwaburg & Co.. Rubling & Co.. the lead. ing financiers of the Territory, having taken the alarm, have issued a circular, in which they decline all dealing with parties who repudiate the contracta made on a bullion basis, sand refuse to accept anything but gold and silver on general deposit or in ordinary business ... .Nitro-glyrcerine, the new blasting power, is about to be introduced into Ne vada, says the " Enterprise " of the 31st ult. It is an oil, twelve times as powerful in effect as gunpowder, and much safer to handle. A spark or even a hgghted niatch does not ignite it. A heat of 3600 Fahrenheit is required to cause an explosion. The drill hole can he filled with snod or water -..Peter J. Curceel was executed on the 25th of Novem ber, at Morristown, N. J., for the murder of his wife. Be was so paralyzed with terror that he had to be held in the arma chair in which he was carried to the scaffold. On the 24th of the seame month, Kerchner. a murderer, was hanged at Buffalo. After asking for a chew of tobacco, he said, when all was ready, " Yon muat watch the brave Dutch man here, how ho dies." His last words were, " I never shed a tear; I would not change pisces with Bishop Ti-dr here the drop fell. He would have said Timon. - - - At the funeral of Tom Sayers, the pugilist, 30,000 people were present, and the assemblage was the reverse of respectable and well-behaved. Tom's big black dog was chief mour ner. His collar 'was trimmed with crape. - . The Leaven worth "Bulletin " having been renovated and expanded. rises to the dignity of utterance becoming a great journal, and says, "St. Louis, for a few years, will be our comnpeti tor ; but the time is not far distant, when we shall outstrip her in the race for commercial ascendency ". - - .The excuse made by the French for the shots fired at or near the Aumeri canus, on their own side of the Rio Graptde, was that the river was so crooked that they were believed to be a party on the other side. It is likely that the whole Federal army may, one day, make the mistake of marching into Matamo ras instead of Brownsville - . It appears that the reason why England and France stood by Chili, and compelled Spain to abstain from war, was that English and French subjects would be-inuored by the stoppage of the export of Chilian copper. This fact, of course, gav-e a heinous char acter to the conduct of Spain..-.Martha Grinder, called the "'American Borgia." was, on the 27th of November, sen tenced to be hung for the murder of Mrs. Mary Caroline Carruthers, in Aileghany Co., Pennsylvania.. Between $18,tJOO and $20,000 worth of gold and silver has arrived in San Francisco, as the first considerable bullion shipment from Northern Arizona. It is from tt~e Teechatticup and Queen City mines. El Dorado Cation. _.. Gen. Grant's pay, as Lieutenant-General. was insufficient to maintain the ne cessary establishment fur his rank. When he is promoted to the rank of General, Sherman will, probably, succeed to the Lieut.-G~eneralship-..During the war, the United otates exportert to r urope two anti inree-zourta times as much wheat and eight times as much hajzi and bacon as during the same length of time previous to the breaking out of the rebellion. We had an average of a million of men in the field-all non-producers-at this time. This ac counts for the commercial prosperity of the nation, and., in view of all the circumstances, is the most remarkable fact of the kind mentioned in history.... General Heath is now organizing another expedition against the Indians in the Plains. 'The troops are now rendezvousing at Cottonwood, and will march South to the Smoky Ilill. The Detiver -News" vouches for this being correct. The Atchison (Kansas) "Chanmpion," of the tutui says no more troops are to be mustered out at Leavenworth. and all the forces there are to he sent out on the plains to operate against the hostile Indians...V iatricide " is the new name for death caused by railway accidents... aninal Wiseman's memory is to bepre tuatei aong the Roman Catholics 'n England on aclsasclby the construction of a cathtedral of unpar Ialleled magnificence, for which nearly £t2.10.0O has been already collected .... Dr. Biarthi, the African traveler, is dead .... The Chicago "Tribune" of December 11th, says that the early completion of the one hundred anil thirty miles of railroad line between Itoomisboro and tDes Moines river, and a point on the Missouri. opposite Omaha. is now contracted for, and will throw an immense carrying and supply trade with Colorado, Montafla and Idaho, int' the hands of Chiougo merchants .... The newest smuggling dodge on the Canadian frontier is the carrying of whiskey in a three gallon tin can. fatshioned like a baby and dressed to match Thirty ladies were caught while playing this game. ... The number itf hunters and trappers living in or near the "Red River of the Nosrth." is estimated at thirty thousand. They have no newspapers, no political orgattiza tion. and only a limited communication with the cuter world. The larger portion of their furs find the readiest way to market through Minnesota to the Mississippi river I ... The number ol emigrants arriving in Missouri is esti mated at one thousand a week. Sales of land are being mnade to a very large amounit. $70.tK0) worth being disposed of in the mouth of October, by the Hannibal ansd St. Joseph Railroad Company alone.. Dr. Soule. of San Francisco. has taken one hundred and eighty-one oinces of water from a nian named Artwell. aitlicted with dihliteally of breathing. Hie felt relieverd immediately... Juleeburg, N. T., with its fortifications and works erected durnitg the past season, has been adopted by the Secretary of War as a permanent military post, to be known as Fitrt Sedgwick. - It is re:.trted that Glen. Ave: ill, of cavalry famie, is a resident of the oil regions, and the proprietor of a gang of oil teams. - - The wreckers have raised a large portion of the famous rebel iron-claid, the Merrimac, which was suink ott Norfolk. The ctompositlion wheel of niiiie tons, fifty feet of the stem, and a section of the shaft were brought tip at one lifting, and have been carried to tltt navy yari d Gen. Burnside has a huitdredt men at woirk on a brotad guage railrioad between Reno and lilt Hole. Pa.---- At the Watervteit Arsenal, twenty-five hundtred men were cut ployed during the war. The nitmber is to be redcdtted to less than itwo hundred.. - A A cake of gold worth $'26,000 (weighing 1,200 ounces), was recently itn exhibition ini the windlow if a hanker at Melbotirn. What a nice bridal cake that would be.. t-he newest bibor-saving idea is that of laying down a pipe twelve miles long. frism Titus ville. Pa., litr the purpose of saving the expense and trsou ble of hautling oil, by horse-power. It is calculated that, at the present rate of yield. sixty thousand barrels per month, the whole capital required will be ri-paid itn a month-li Te United States Gotverntent is treating for the purchase of Spezzia, a small, rocky islanid in the Ar chipelago, situated about three miles from the coast of Argolis, at the mouth of the Gulf of Nauplia. Autsori -ties differ as to its size, the extremes of calculations being twelve and twenty-six square miles. it is capable of he tug tutj~tegutut.ttt viuet. auu witi tue t tittitette service as a rendezvous for our Mediterranean fleet. Thert' is a town, contaitning about three thousand inhabitants, on thte island. European powers are much exercised in mind at the purchase.... It is stated on good authority, that the President is fully in accord with the average sentimtent of Congress, on the Southern question. and has expressed himself mutch annoyed at the refusal of many States to ac cept the plan of reconstruction offered to them. ... A bill has been introduced into the State Legislatture of Nevada that all salaries, lines and taxes, hereafter to become due. shall be payable in National currency commounly called "greenbacks." There is an exceptiotn made as regards salaries already fixed under the Constitution during the present term of the incumbent, and all principal and inter Sest of public debts-floating or funded are also to be paid in United States gold coin. The Carson reporter of the Virginia "Enterprise" thinks the bitt will pass...It has been determined that the graves of ottr soldiers who ftill on Southern soil shall be piteserved from desecration, and the names of all that can be identified will be recordled.~.. Artificial rubies, the composition, lustre, specific gravity and other properties of which are identical with the genu ine specimens, are now made from a mixture of the fluorides of alumninium and chromium, subjected to the vaptor of boracic acid, evolved by strong heat. ... At San Francisco. the colored people had a gorgeous looking procession on New Year's day. According to the "Alta," many white folks assisted in the choir, at church, with perfect absence of prejudice...The Nebraska City "News ' mentions the organization of a vigilance cotunittee, who will deal with the cut-throats and vagabonds infesting the city.... They have collected one hundred thousand skeletons of horses and cattle, killed during the war, in the Shenandoah Valley, at a bone factory near W inchester... . Petroleum, it is stated, will be largely employed for fuel, in place of the coal used by steamship.. Smoke will be avoided and space saved. The matter will be thoronghly tested in the British Navy. - .From the Memphis "Bulletin" we learn that the Government has been moat extensively defrauded by rob beriee of cotton. It says : " Not less than ten thousand bales of Government ecetton have been stolen from along mouths." A Brigadier-G~eneral and a Captain in the army are among the abstractors, but a regular organization seems to exist all along the road....The Gulf Siquadron is at present composed of twenty vessels, mounting one hundred and thirty guns. Of this number, six are tug-boats andl one is a salling frigate. The squadron is conmmanded by Rear A~imirsl Henr eH. Thatcher..--- The Rtelief Bureau of the Sanitary Commisaion closed on the lit of July. The Claim Bureau terminated its labors on New Year's Day. The receipts were $4,813,750.64. The disurasemeate were $4,530,774.95, Cash on head, $ xm97&~69. With thiasur plne it ls proposed to createa historical society, which shall collect, olaseify and record the many inns of documents connected with the Department.... At the time guns were thundering in salvos sad royal salutes, at Cherbourg and PortaotDuke COmartnins, without steof the dis play, led his fleet of irne-clads acroes the ltic, on a visit to teKin .f Swede., at Stoekhesh.Us*ows ae~s monitors, In every respect Identical wihthe American tees-clads. The New York "Tmese" says: "Against their twelve-lack thick, wrought irca taerres, whet will avail the puny artillery now mounted ea English Beetb? Against the worsmen gus !s, which these Sar! are pirewhat will vi the O son veneer of tits W~ander, gian P i c a d $i-- ?" EgIan be. lest the sen ui f te altc, ndIs ublongs of then eSas. -...A ahead 4hrss miles less, wtth three mlilepdfsiding is in smrs o aestaatsa unkIrvngto Oil O NY, Ph., the whoes to he eam5pleisi by May peit, or Aye m~edha km I s.Iseienh qr est.lTm is 1about eisvmilespa s sv msersissl aii 4l i O ewe i~hb helshm tohl.Dr letter from Elvemuge Gulch. Bivix's Guic.CH January 221, 1866. Dma Pour -Perjsaps thuee are but fe of your aomer vam readers that have ever visited Bivens' Gulch, and havinff ately paid a visit to the spot, where, as a "p11 germ, our first effouts were mtade to dig out the anriferous depoits. we thought that a few items concerning this gulch might not be uninteresting. Bivens' Gulch takes its rise in the same range of mona talus, and runs in the same direction, as Mill. Wiscousts. Indian sand Ramshorn Creeks. Its length is some nine miles. to where It enters the Stinkingwater valley. Its general cour-se is West. Its distance from Virginia, by the most direct road is twelve miles. It has been wosrked. and has paid well, for a distance of eight miles. Perhaps no other gulch In the Territory, with the exception of Alder, has ever paid so evenly and so well as this. Certainly. there has been none in which more men have made their " pile " in so short a space of time, and returned to the States, as in this. The depth to the bed-reck, on an aver age, is about six feet. The gulch is narrow, which allowed the pay streak to he worked by a single row of pits. The highest amount taken out of any one of the claims. (which were 100 feet each,) clear of all expenses, was t'60.000. It, is now nearly worked out. Some few claims, which were owned by large companies, are not worked out entirely, butar rigtthfvemn$10prdy Dungtes sion of' the last Legislature. a company was formed and a charter obtained, to bring in the water from the ltamsho-u. This has been accomplished during the last summer. The gold in this gumlch was coarse-the largest nugget weighing nearly two pounds. The gulch has a fall of about six feet to the hundred, rendering the working of the old ground, by bed-rock flumes-of which there are a namberaiready con structed-an easy matter, These floum-s, as far as have been tried, are a pecuniary success. Organic remains of animals, which have long been extinct in this country, have been dug out to several places. An enormous head was taken out in the summer of 1fl64. nearly perfect, the weight of which I do not remember, and was carried to the States. Large teeth have also been found, similar to those discov ered in other parts of the Territory. Numerous lodes have .been opened along its whole ex tent, the most noted of which are the White Cloud and At traction lodes, both siiiver; the latter assays 8746 to the ton. The Victory and Saginaw. gold leads, are both good ; the latter assays $90t1 to the ton. More anon.- NewroN. Letter from Mill Creek. MILL CREEK, January l6th. 1865. MR. EDITOR: Whilst the improvement; that are being made in different parts of our county are noticed through your columns, we wish to harp it remembered that the citi zens of this place are not dead to improvement A school district has been orgauized. which contains torty scholars. and a school has been started, which numbers about twenty pupils. The farmers are all busy feheing. building and preparing for spring crops. 'The time is nut far distant when this val ley will be madte to bud and blossom as the rose. Messrs. Cowan and Hall have sent fur the machinery of a first-class grist-mill, and are now busy getting out the timbers for it. There are two saw-mills in this neighborhood; but they are not running, on account of the cold weather. A dry gulch, between Indian and Mill Creek, has been prospected this winter, and as high as a dollar and ten cents taken out to the pan. It wilt probaebly be worked in the spring. Prospecting is being done on some of bars on Mitt (,reek. Two or three lodes only are being worked. The ores promise well. The POST is a weekly visitor at our domicil. By the way we should he glad to receive a visit from the Editor at any time, Youtrs, etc.. AU1QUIa. NEWS FltoMl ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO.-The follow ing items from Arizona and New Mexieso we clip from the Vedette " of the 11th inst.: Snow ti-It six inches deep at Santa Fe. on the 6th otlt. Gien. Carleton got hack from a trip to Meesilla Valtey. At Albuquerque. en route re turning to Santa Fe. he was feted with a grand compli mecnta~ry festival by the leading business men and citizens. Ice at Santa Fe was ten inches thick. T[he - California Volunteer Minstrel Troupe" were holding forth at the Ex change Hotel, or fonda. The papers are still quarreling about the merits and measures, pro and con, 01f Getneral Carleton. Secretary Arne). Judge Houghton and others. Col. Christopher Carson got hack to Tans, New Mexico, after a v-isit to St. Louis. Alfred Bent, (son of Gov. Bent. who was murdered in Taos. at the time of the Mexican in surrection, twenty or thirty years ago,) was shot at and killed at Taos city, Northern New Mexico, on the 95th ult.,, by one "Greek Gheorge."' who afterwards ended his own desperate existence by' shooting himself through the head. The Albuquerque - -Press' editor received a Christmas present. in the shape o01 a watch and chain and some thirty pounds of dried pears."' all of which he eloquently acknow tedges at length. The Prescott, Arizona,"' Miner," of Dec. 6th. chronicles the arrival, from the States, of Acting-Gov. McCortnick and bride, who were welcomed to their "moun tain home'" in that Apache countr" biy a series of sreeches. and a grand big braile in the evenin'g. McCorm'ick will doubitless be appointed (iovernor'in-ehief. AUpACIoCS ROBBERY.-The following account of the robbery of Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express appears in the Virginia -- Union " of the '20th ult : "About three o'clock this mooming, the Overland stag-e arrived at the office of WVells, Fargo & Co., for the purpose of discharging freight and bullion, at which time the driver missed one sack of bullion from the boot, As near as we cotuld learn the par ticulars, they are as follows: The driver says there were two sacks of bullion, weighing two hundred and forty pounds. in the front boot; that they were there when he stopped at the International Hotel for the purpose 'if allow ing the passengers to gel out; that he went into the saloon for the pturpose of getting a drink with a friend ; as he was going in, he reqtuested one of the parties standing near to keep a lookout fur the horses: he was gone but a few mome'nts, when hie returned and drove to thme office, where he missed' the bullion, The driver is quite confident that the bullion was on the coach when tie stopped at time Inter national Hotel, A man w-as arrested and charged with the robbers-, when he agreed to show the otticer where the bul lion was, providted they would allow him to leave the county without plrosecution. Whether the officer agreed to this or not, we cannot say ; however. they weal with him and returned in a shorti time with the bullion, which was taken to the office, The bar is valued at $&15." MININt: IN NEVADA COUNTY, (CAT,,-The following is frion the Nevada "Transcript'" of December '2:-d: " The city of Nevada stands upon some as excellent placer mines as any ever found in the vicinity, In some places the ground has been worked close up to Ithe buildings, and gravel ranges, known to be exceedingly rich, run under the cit. 'T'he ground about Main street, near the bridge, is thought to contain considerable gold, and parties have gone to work with a view to prospect it, A company are running a tunnel frtns near the abutmenet of the bridge under the street. The tunnel is being strongly timbered, and the dirt is being run through sluices as it is taken out, Although the enterprising prospect ors may make money, we do not think the work will be calculated to add solidity to the cit} foundation. A quartz ledge, which shows exceedingly well iu the croppiugs, has recently been located in the viciniti' of Gregory & Co.'s saw-mill. The owners are now engaged in sinking a shaft for the purpose of gett~ng out rockenoiugh for a mill test, A new claim was loeated on Wednesday last, about two miles east of Grass Valley, which promises to be a big thing. The ledge is twenty'two inches thick, and is very rich in free gold and suiphurete, ASHLEY'S IRRIGATION BILL.-The Denver "'News" un derstands that the above bill, "to develop and reclaimn public lands, requiring irrigation in the Territories of Idaho. Colorado, Arizona. Montanta and the State of Nevada," provides for a system of ditches to be taken out of the mountain streamns, upon the highlands and to be of sufficient capacity to irrigate the whole country below to the valleys ; the companies making these ditches to have grants of al ternate sections or parcels of land contiguous to their works, in much the same manuer as now provided in the various bills granting lands to railroad companies. Utah. as usual, has no share in the benefits of the bill, she having~ demonstrated, long ago, that "government pap " is not essential to her existence and prosperity.-&atU Laek Tele graph. - CQMPENt5ATION TO VOLUNTEhRSu-Senator Lovett has intrimiced a bill into the California Legislature, for the purpose of appropriating a sum of $200.OOO0 towards corn pensating the State Volunteers for the loss they sustained by receiving their pay in greenbaeks, their erpenses being disbiursed in gold. The Sacramento "1Union," after acknowledging the useful, though not brilliant, services performed by the California soldiers during the war, says they have no just claim for the relief sought by the bill. As ftr as the officers were concerned, no oosaudsaion ever went begging ; but a hundred were ready to fill every vacancy ; and. after all that can be said, it must be admit ted that the United Slates are the best paid of any mrilitary men in the world. SIOUX Cmr MaiL Rou'ru.-In reIs{enee to the proposed Sioux City Mall route, advocated by this paper, the `-Ore gonian" says : Weocould get oar mails in much ehoeter time, and, we belietre, at a les anpeuse in" th may, than by the long, tedious ansd circuitous route by Salt Lake and CalIfornia. It in seldom the case that we get smcythin oeretand in sheeter time than two 10041L It f fai succeeds Ia obtalnn the Wils In the utss now pre poean extteesica ath osteOsegca sh# nouoght frWe rglst expeet te a mesh's etalls thrcuOferia the East by this maet wtlt* these orfour weesha Tan "Vedette" I. el105 ...uta3pon the is~th, from, es u d, Mw. .. Bibso., lately the Is"a i~ ehe at te SoLakeTbhes., which toek place 1 "s MMl aft*s oef thetau al~~ , 4u =dsW esd foe sseas aat.MwJ 5.4 pa esa . ea. cUmJksu D 4m-tbas let ha .1 wi ee At wa~ w a tir heAfIt~sa, islVs Ntsu~ New 3'UfIiN~ 01~zO rm A OQ- XML The Rtoetea years, was 5set off Lea aunter, with a small ear-boat, eostahdai eight quarter kegs ofpwergdo. ide delivered to Tilde,, Lee's husting partner. The lad was towed down the river hr a dish ass of about nine mikes by the steamer Paul Pty. The river being saarow at blme IMile Slough, in making sharp turns the steammer disturbed the water so much that he had scout loose his hiltsalug and hill bmcka He mooitned his journey by the use of the ease to within about two miles and a half of Disappoltatmeu keeping close to the shore to avoid the curreut bfTe bow ing tide, when, unexpectedly, he was hailed by a -ea is a boat, who approached sand ordered him to stop. The led paying no attention to the crder, as he says, was again. with a threat of having his bead broke. peresplosily or dered to stop, and at once complied. Then, being nearthe shore. he was ordered to get oat of the boat, which he did. stepping into the water knee deep. The man took the boats to the side of the river, fastened theta to the tales, then took the boy, hound him hand and foot and lerft hima. The vagabond thea took away both boats, robbed the lad's ,of its cargo and sank it. The boy massaged tp get clear of hit slitekles, waited until ndit monngrl,r whenubytrnveling about six miles he succeeded on Tuesday morning in lad ing some Chinese fishermen who took him across the river to Branohe's. During all this time he was without kod. He was captured and hound about eight o'clock on Satur day night. He describes his ouptor a* a stout man with l~ack mustache, rotten teeth, and wearing a brown hast wittha broad black ribbon, and a coat of a Port of lated yellow. The boy says it was clear moonlight at the time, and he particularly noticed the man's hat, coat and teeth. He thiniks the river pirate is a foreigner, juderini by his voice. which the boy says did not sound like that of an American. Fears were entertained that the bo~y had been drowned, as the boat had been swamped with only its bow appearing above water : but fortunately the boy and the boat were both safely brought back li.st evening by the steamer Arrow. Tile Ntw AMALGAMATING PROCustt -A correspondent at Black Hawk, Colorado. writing to the Denver -'Neves under date D~ec. 11th. says : ' Last week, a new prroces was tried at Nevada, which has since atwacted mauch atten tion. It is T. B. Atwater s amalgamator. Mr. Atwater forces his pulverized ore thro~igh melted lesad. without desulphotrization. This lead being combhined isith chem icals, does not become oxidized, and c'rabines only with the precious metals in the ore. The chemicals used enable the tead to be heated red hot, a te'npera'ttre much above its melting point. It is a curious fact. seeniinyly proved by the experiment, that the galena. iron, or copper pyrites the ore may contain, are not decomposed by their pa sage through the molten lead. but merely deprived of the bullion they tnay contain. The apparatus by which this separation is effected, is simple. cheap and light resembling somewhat a water-wheel, the floats of which force the ore under the tmetted lead, the wheel revolving in a trough oif that metal. Its weight is about twelve thousand pounds. and the whole apparatus, capable of passing through twenty tons perday, can be packed in a single wagon. The experiment was unfortunately brought to an untimely c~oee by the b ek'ing ol a pinion. but will be again renewed shortly,. when I tttst Iwill be able to write you of its stiocess. Ct'lonel flare, it is said. nssayot some of the ore run through the tmachmine, on the day of the trial, and found it to be completely deprived of its precious metals, not ev-en a trace of gotld or silver being left behind. If further experiments prove the success of this amalgamator. the long wished for desider atum is found'" Govgayout Banes. of the Chicago "Tribune," who lately visited Brigham Young. this dliscosirses of the character and political influence o` the Mormon Hierarch : "As some one said of Nampoleon, bhe is one of the thv-tred few, born to command,' He is also one of the s~irewdest and most cunning of men; and, sensible of the tower moneyi gives. and withal possessed of business talents of the highest order. he is now, it is believed, one of the wealthiest men in the nation. While be lives, the Mormon comnatnity-- unless he and they determine to dlefy the taws of Cjmng css on the subtject of itwlyytom -will grow and prosere; lint that firm hand antd iron will must. ere long, dest'ito his re;.ular and strictly temperate habits-hre uses nos !'haceo. nor liquor of any kind-moust tremble antl how t'efre the resistless march of time: and when Brigham Young sleeps with his fathers, then will come the searching tc-'t before which we predict the whole Mormon lisbric will crumble to the dust. It may, and doubt'ess will. cotntinute to exist as a religions sect: btt, as a compact and tremendot~sly effective or>;aa izatiotL its power will cease when Brigham Young's heart is forever still. In tbe settlement of his vast estate among his twt score and more of wives and some sixty children, there is ample room for quarreLs and law soils potent enough to break up' the entire community." (iit. Itt CALIFORNIA.-FromI the Santa Cruz "Sentinel." of Dec. 23d, wee learn that the first shirruenit of oil from the Santa Cruz Petroleum Company's Oil WVorks, in that county, was made on Tuesday last. The lot consisted of seven hundred gallons. which we are assurod is a liue ari tie. equal to the best hurninc and lutrreating oils o~f East em manufacture. The supply of illuminating and lultrica tingoils, as also a first rate article of coal tar, will now be constant and of considerable imp~rrtanee. Some twenty retorrts and a large distillery tfrr reiinirrr thle rrits will he run. nling night and day, turning onta large- quantity ready for market. We leare that several parties are nregociating ty erect retorts and refineries at diiferent places 'in the San Itrecorik Ranchrt, and other poinrts on the errat in the vicin itv of Pesearlero In a few years. Calilirruia will undoirbt edly produce not only oil enough for irir own ruse, hut sup ply the whorle P~aoific coast and the Islanir woriLd TrnE Gaiena ' tazette" of the 1.th December. has the followvirng ins relation to tire "Uncle Sau* lIsle : "It will be rernemrbered that we recently published a statement from the Mtontaiia "-Post "relative to a great goid discr'v ery lately marde near Helena, Montrflia Tr-mtorr. The naccount says the new discovers- ii an immense hedge of almuost soiid gold. which glitters before tire bewiltrierd vision of the beholder. Mr. C. E. Direr. formrlyri of this city, writes to his friendls here that the storv of this great discovery 'is no humbug.' He has sern sorie of tihe gr 14 from this lode, and says it is remnarkably pore. It is eer tainhy the greatest dliscovery of gold over yet made." FtRhcatTFur.7 ArroPE\T.-lnn Atnador coiunty, California, tDecember 20th, two mnen, J50. Merrill and Dinvid Campbell, engaged in the shaft of tire American Company's bed-roek tanuel, in Morristown. were broken in uprir by water. which swept them, mixed upr with murd. borrlders and Igravel. through tite rocky and rrrugh tunnel, a dintane* of 'twelve hundred feet. dumping them into the ravine, a drop of about fifteen feet. from whinch place they were carried down tire gulch a distance of tome seventy feet. Miracu l ous ho relate, neiti~er of them had a bone broken, It is thorught they will recover. 1.SatLk "V et"sas Mh htoyf Mexiero shows that during thre last firty years Mexico has had thirty-seven different foircs of gov-erinrent. thirty-two of which were " Republics;: " and seventy-five Prerlttents I Its revoliutirons during that time have :sronrrnteri toover two hundred -Many years since a lexir;ant; pr-otertowate war urged rrjon the' hkited States Serrate by General Horuston. u npon the grounrd tirat the Mexican people ritherwise would Ifinll a prey ton-hine Eurosputan power. 'Fir" pi-oject was con demne-.l and abandrned. tBut per-haps, in view of the pest arrd present, it would hiave been well, ,d..EGlir.Afrl E Fix.-In Colonradio. we learn from the pa pers. they hrtvc too much legislation. Gov. Cammiuics. of the Territory of Colorado. summoned the Legislaturs tsr meet at Golden City. ora the 1st January. tSltl hibnt Gover nor Gilpin. rrf thie emhryro State of Corlorador, hart already (16th Dec.) delivered a message to tire S'tate Lnsgislasture. The Secretary of the new State, (that is tin be,) it it rwirsn. intenrda to dissolve the Territosial Leglalature. when It meets. Colorsdo has added to the difleulty by issr action on the Negro question, which will probably not be plema lug to Congress. A special diipntch to the Sacramento " Union," dated Oregon City, lDee. 23d.. says : The Cascades browght up the passengers and express of the Pacifie from rSt. Helen s 1estert~y and leaves with passengers amnd expres ais hmoam tag. The Colombia is full of running ica. Th. heavy mauts and sleet which have fallen the past two days have been very destruotive to the telegraph liue between Salem and Portland, breaking the wire at the crossing of the Willamnette river, and in many other places Theweather is still stormy). CoPPMeeoLous RAILROAD.-Last w ralm, lays the Stockton (Cal.) "Jndependent," of Dec. 28th we brresd that th. corps of awreynis at work on the Iiae of the Stockton & Copperopolis Raikos4 haed reached a PalW about nine miles oast of the city. They aem smyleg three routes, aiming to enter Salt SWtng VM~ Shs 0 Reservoir, by way of Roek creek. The objec of sMey` lng three lime bin enable life compsay toeaa ss a B bee route tbreegb.ti valley. A 0o00 Wort.-A& washrwe epwast Os. Flee mise basaee e a of~ a mill with a sweep eorsebaiL mct tsini ae omld well apparsate, with whisk she stomps emeugh vet esiags smd much reek me is l arousmA looes %atouae twise thew that Drbe~ does, wh Ih woslsg by 1i dg. Te supi. k when t S7 iU.S t"I.I rest ewsry won..thOeqDl ý VA a coo amp ,. sae_ .. wee Ovy TOS 1ýSe~ Ueei wil be tr o IbRaBw wi tt~~le 1~Mi rlitheis .ý ý