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THE MONTANA POST.
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VOL. 2-NO. 9.1 CITY OF VIRGINIA, MONTANA TERRITORY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1865. [WHOLE 50. 61
THE MONTANA POST.
D. T~. Tilton dD Co.
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PUBLISHERS & PROPRIETORS.
te at the City Book Store, corner of Wallac r Jackson
S Streets. Virginia City, Mor. Ter.
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LOCAL NOTICEs.-One dollar per line for three lines or
ltss: 75 cents per line fur ten lines or less; 50 cents per
line for eleven lines or more.
O)I "IC'I &TI I)IItlCT'lOI.".
Territorial Officers.
GOovrnor-SIDNEY E I)(ERTON, Banrack City.
Serrc:arn-'-Tll\MAS FILRNCIS MEAGiHER.
( h, .Jstice--l. L. HOsMt.It.
A~.-criate Justice-L. IB. \VII.MSTON.
-L. E. MUNsON.
Ant,rne t-GcCrnTral-- . B. B. N.ALLET, Virginia.
U. S. Marshal--CEO. M. PINNEY.
Assist U. S. lMarshal-.T. X. BEIDLEB
SFur vor- G, nral--. BOYD.
Auditor--Jol S. LOT'.
Treasurer-JOHlN J. HILL.
Superintendent of Public Instruction-T. J. DIMSDALE.
Assrssor-T. C. EvtER:Ti.
Collector Internal Reven se-N. P. LANGFORD.
Clerk of the U. S. Pistrict Court-E. H. FRI.HMUTIH.
Clerkof 'd Judicial District-C. E. IRVINE, Silver Bow.
Clerk if 3d -T. C. JONEs, Helena.
Mlunicipal Officers of Virginia City.
Manor-P. S. PFOt'1i. Acting, J. M. CASTNER.
ylirc Malaistratc-T. W. Talliaferro.
Marshal-\Viiliam Deascey.
Cicrl-Clhas. J. . D.Curtis.
Attorney-Wim. HI. (Chiles.
Treasurer--.llhn S. Rock fellow.
Asesosnr--'liholas Pearson.
Assistant City Marshal-Jerry Lewis.
County Officers of Inadison County.
County Commissioner.-John Potter, Chairman; J. E.
McClurc. Fred. K. Root.
Probate Judge--t. F. Strickland.
Sh.rifW--Neil Iowie.
Deputy Sheriffs-I. L. Crawford, James Williams. J. B.
Cac"rn
7rcasurer--H.nnr C. Caryle.
Recorder-F. G. ilelat.
County Assessuor-J. Arinitage.
WV. F. Sanders,
ATTORNEY AT LAVW and Solicitor in Chancery,
SVirginia City. Montana Territory. 3-1y'
SAx. WoRD. .us. G. SPRATT.
WVord & Spratt,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Virginia City, Montana
Territory. Will practice in all the Courts of
said Territory. Special attention given to the Col
lection of Claims. 4
John R. Gilbert,
A ASSISTANT ASSESSOR U. S. INTERNAL RE
tA VENUE. for the First Division of the Collection Dis
trict of Montana. embracing Madison County. Office, first
door east of City Drug Store.
Virginia City. April 27. 1565. 36-88*
L. WV. Frary,
SURGICAL AND MECHANICAL DENTIST. Of
fice up stairs, in Pfouts & Russell's Stone Build
ing. All dental operations performed in the best
possible manner. Single teeth and complete setts
inserted in the highest style of art. Ladies and
gentlemen will find every arrangement for their con
venience. 8
John S. Lewis, N. B. Hale, D. M. Gillett.
Lewis, Hare & Co.,
EW.ELRY MANUFACTURERS. Every description
ot Jewelry made to order fram the Native Gold, and
warranted. Particular attention paid to repairing Fine
Watches. Also, Engraving done to order. Sign of the
Gold Watch. Jackson Street. Virginia City, M. T.
February 25, 18ti5- 1-13*
Assay O1lce.
W ALI.ACE STREET, one door below Nolan & Co.'s
Bank. Gold and Silver, and Ores or eery descrip
tion Assaved. I guarantee my assays. and will pay any
diffefence which may rise between them and the UI S.
Mint. 5 D. GILBERT.
Assay Office.
THE UNDERSIGNED are now prepared to assay cor
rectly in small or large quantities the ores of Montana.
Silver, Gold. Copper, Lead, Antimony. or Bismuth. Office
No. 2, of content's Block, corner of Wallace and Jackson
Streets, Virginia. W. Y. LOVELL. & CO.
18-tf
Justus Cooke,
C ENERAL AUCTIONEER. Particular attention giv
I en to the sale of Live Stock and Real Estate, sales
of Stocks of Goods in Store. Office at the Elephant Cor
ral, Virginia City, M. T. 4-16*
J. A. Gray,
AUCTION AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, Vir
ginia City, M. T., first door below Content's
corner. Liberal advances made on Consignments
Stock and Goods of all kinds disposed of by Public
or Private Sale 47-59*
Jefferson House,
Coraer of Wallace and Van Buren Streets, Virginia City.
H H. PILES, begs to inform the public that he has
. opened this house for boarders, and will furnish
meals to transient customers. His table will be supplied
with the best that the market affords. Special attention
will be paid to the comfort ofhis guests. Good clean beds.
6-18
Drs. Crepin & Justice.
FFICEON WALLACE STREET, Next door to
I City Drag Store. 8
Ira B. Maupin, M. D.
OFFICE Eagle Drug Store, Helena, M. T. 4-16
F. V. P. Moore,
D YVsICIAN AND sBUIGDO, Wallee strews, o
A 4or sas of Clayton & Hale's Drug Story 4-18*
.ILLE.7J J* .ILL.JRD,
VIRGINIA CITY AND HELENA, M. T.
DEALERS IN
Coin, Gold Dust, Treasury Notes, and
Foreign and Domestic Exchange.
B. F. ALLEN, J. H. MILLARD,
Des Moines, Iowa. Virginia City, M. T.
4.16*
Idaho Hotel.
Wallace Street, Virginia City, M. T.,
J, m1. CASTNEB, Proprietor.
T HIS Popular Hotel, which forms part of Castner's
Building, has been enlarged and refitted in a style to
meet the demands of the Public. Its larder is well sup
affords.
plied, and its tables furnished with the best the market
The Idaho Billiard a il.
carried on by HULL & CASTNER, contains four First Class
Billiard Tables, wvh.re the lovsrs of the game can always
be accommodated. The old friends of J. J. Hull and J. M.
Castner, can always find them at the 'Idaho.
Those having Territorial funds to deposit, should call at
the Idaho. where the othfice of the Treasurer is situated. 12*
Metropolitan Market,
Wallace St., Virginia City, Montana Ter'y.
SHOUMAKER & CO., PROPRIETORS.
HIS MARKET has been fitted up regardless of
expense, and will be supplied with Meats of all kinds,
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
tended to. 6-3m
Hosmer and Hauser,
(1LAIM AGENTS, have established an agency for the
/ purchase and sale of Gold and Silver Quartz Claims in
different parts of the Territory. One of the partners will
attend in person. to the introduction and sale of Lodes in
I New York, Philadelphia and other Easteru cities, and the
I other to obtuinine the same in this city. Arrangements
I will be made early in the Spring, for expressing goods to
the New York (ttice, and for procuring reliable assays at
the otlice in this city. Otffice at the Post Ottice, and at S.
T. Hauser & Co.'s Bank, on Wallace Street. 14*
. . . . ... . . . . ... .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . ..______
MontanaR Billiard Saloon.
ADAM KLESER and George Williams, Proprietors.
Billiard 'Tables furnished with all the most approved
apparatus required for the enjoyment of the game. Pure
liquors and choice cigars always on hand. Open from 7
A. M., to 1'2 P.M., 7-tf
Iron and Steel Turning.
M ACIIINElRY Repaired. Billiard Balls turned. &c.
Exery oescription of :un work performed, in good
stvle. Ammunition of all kinds kept constantly on hand.
Powder Lead, Caps, Navy and Dragoon Balls. Shot, and
Cartridges. ALEXANDER KEMP
;6 Gun Shop. Wallace St., Virginia City.
Occidental Billiard Hall.
ROCKFELLOW & DENNEE'S BUILDING. Jackson
Street, Virginia City. The finest tables in town. The
bar supplied with the best of Liquors and Cigars.
16' JOHN H. MING.
George Secord,
SADDLER & HARNESS MAKER. Constantly on
hand and manufacturing from the best material, all
styles of Saddles. Bridles, Single and Double Harness.- or
anything else made in a first class saddler shop. 1-26*
Joseph Marion,
HAY SCALES STORE, Wallace Street. Virginia City.
Commission Merchant. Cash advanced on consign
Provisions, ýVegetablret . Miners' Onutf . -- .15
E. M. Davis M. D.
OFFICE, Main Street, Helena, Montana Territory,
Snearly opposite the City Drug Store. 7-tf
James N. Williams,
FASHIONABLE Hair Dressing and Shaving Saloon,
Bridge Street, Helena, Montana Territory. 6-18.
H, S. GILBERT. CHItlSTIAN RICHTER.
Virginia Brewery.
HW E BAVE constantly on hand a large supply of
LAGER BEER.
MALT.
HOPS,
BREWERY
FIXTURES,
BEER KEGS, ETC.
f All orders in our line of business will be promptly
attended to.'
CJIBI.YE T SIIO P,
WALLACE ST., VIRGINIA CITY,
(Three doors above the Poet Ofice.)
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 fill all calls in the following line:
Manufacturing and repairing all kinds of furniture, turn
ing, contracting for building, counters, shelving,
Building and Repairing
Saw and Grist Mills, Setting En
gines and Boilers, Quartz
Mills, WVheat Fans.
For refereuce in the machinery department, call on No
1 ble & Co., Indian Creek, Spencer, Harrison & Co., Gran
e ite Gulch, House & Co., South Meadow Creek.
e August 26th, 1865. v2-nl-3m*
liggins, Travis 6" Co.,
Wallace Street, Virginia City, and
Helena m11. T.
IIYVEY AND SALE
STABL ]E] -
LEGANT vehicles, and well trained horses for the
te Saddle, Buggy or Carriage, constantly on hand.
A First Class Turn-out Guaranteed.
THE VIRGINIA CORRAL IS IN CON*
- NECTION WITH THIS ESTAB
LISHMENT.
4- 2-54'
Deaver .Mleat Plarket,
evada City, - - - - . T.
ALEXANDER METZEL
TAKES pleasure to announce to the public, that he keeps
the best stocked Meat Market in Nevada City, where
there will always be found the best cuts of
FRESH PORK,
BEEF, VEAL,
MUTTON, LAMB,
SAUSAGE MEAT, and
SAUSAGES OF ALL KINDS.
He also, receives constantly Game, Fish and Fowl ofe'
season. Try hin.
E'or a G-~rCd .A.rticle Of
CLOTHING, GENTS' FURBNISHING GOODS,
HATS, MINERS' BOOTS, ETC., GO TO
.PIU. HELLJ[,.f1AN C&.'S,
Wallace street, Virginia City.
The quality and nibsh of every artlee guasiseWd. A
bholee lot of Cigas for sale. 10
NEW G600ODS. 1865. NEW GOOD.
JOHN HOW,
TUST RECEIVED me the Missourt River and Fort
i Benton. a large Stock of
Maple and Fancy
DRY GOODS,
-AND
Groceriem.
HARDWARE, QUEENSWARE,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
Tinware,
SADDLES AND BRIDLES,
LEATHER,
Saddlery Hardware,
-AND
Shoe Findings.
-ALSO-
SCYTHES AND SNATHS,
GRAIN CRADLES,
HAY FORKS,
HOES AND PLOUGHS,
IUINERS' TOOLS,
WINDOW GLASS AND PUTTY,
Which we offer for sale at
WHOLESALE OR RETAIL,
And to which we respectfully call the attention of the
Citizens of Montana.
--0-·:o-
Storage X' Commission.
Hlaving built a Commodious Stone Warehouse. we are
prepared to receive Merchandise and Produce, for sale on
Commission or on Storage, and respectfully solicit Con
signmeuts.
Store and Warehouse corner of Jack
son and Idaho Streets, Virginia
City, M. T.
48-60*
CITY' B.I.ER. .
J. OLIVER, Propraetor.
WALLACE STREET, VIRGINIA CITY.
BREAD, Pies and Crackers of the best quality, and in
great variety, for sale by
WHOLESALE ACND RETAIL.
Choice
-.wU 7 I Tm and
of all kinds.
THE FINEST BRANDS OF CICrARS ALWAYS ON
HAND.
CCNFECTIONERY TO ORDER.
A commodious Saloon for the accommodation of guests,
and good music provided for their entertainment. 48-50*
H. J. BRENDLINOER." . P. STONE.
H. J. BRENDLINGER & CO.,
DEALEIE IN
TOBACO,
CIGARS,
PIPES,
8NUFF~
AND
.-. A CNY GOODS,
Three Doors below Kiskadden's Stone Block
Virgilaa Clty, I. T. 3-3m*
HIGGINS TRAVIS & CO.,
Wallace Street, Virginia City, and C
Helena, M. T.
AUCTIONEERIS AND COUXISSION
.VERCBJA.N'TS.
CTORAGE FOR GOODS. Liberal advances made on
SConsignment. Stock and Goods of all kinds disposed
of daily by
P URBLIC .e UCTIO
-OR
Private Sale.
Strict Attention paid to the Sale of Goods.
& ,..L, EOF DIRIIGooiDe
T SANDS, whose store is utesld two dam ehw*
to rturn to th Statue, in samS gtw bai aib will t oditt a ,
of hi entiro 8tock of Dry Goods t Easte Cost. HU b
in his steea, sa very as Blumb Cloa, de.m a
Sassore e all artles 1i f o Now ss
bargauns.
TEtLEQRAPmIC.
New York, Oct. 3.
Texas advices say that large quantities of
land have been purchased by Polish agents,
for the purpose of introducing a colony of
Polish emigr:nts. The first party is expected
in December.
The Herald's Washington special says: Of
the 37 forts comprising the Washington line
of defenses south of the Potomac, but eleven
have an arnmament now, and they will prob
ably be dismantled before the 1st of next
January.
Philadelphia, Oct. 4.
It is established beyond a doubt that in
convention with distinguished Illinoisians,
a few days since, Gen. Grant declared that
the Government will vindicate the Monroe
D, .ttine tt an early day,and that Ma.imnlian
must leave Mexico. It will be, he says, less
expensive, to rid Mexico of the presence of
the enemy than to guard our borders against
him. It is his opinion that it will require no
call for troops, but with the present army,
he can spare enough to give efficiency to the
forces of Mexico.
The news from the interior of Turkey is
very discouraging. It would appear that
100,000 refugees, who fled from the cholera
in Constantinople, had carried the disease
with them into the provinces. It is now not
only in the seaports, but in the interior,
that the ravages of the epidemic had com
menceu.
Washington, Oct. 3.
Authentic information has been received
here that Duke Gwin and Gov. Clark, late
of Missouri, have beeq arrested and commit
ted to Ft. Jackson.
Washington, Oct. 5.
Minister Clay has transmitted to the State
Department an official copy of the conditions
stipulated between the Russian Telegrapb
Department and Hiram Sibley, for the estab
lishment of telegraphic communication be
tween Russia and America. The exclusive
right is granted to the latter, plenipotentiary
of the American W. U. Telegraph Company,
for thirty-three years from the day the line
shall be opened. The Russian Government
is to grant a further term, as it may judge
convenient, in order to encourage the un
dertaking. The Government allows forty
per cent. on the nett proceeds of dispatches
transmitted by it over lines to and from
America, and in order to contribute as much
as possible to the success of the present un
dertaking, the minister of public utility will
adopt the measures necessary for securing
the company's telegraph from being mali
ciously injured by the local population, but
at the same time the Government refuses to
take upon itself any responsibility for such
injuries of any nature whatsoever. The
company Is allowed to import material free
of duty.
The CentralCouncil of the Fenian Broth
oGse, Ti tis"h y.lh"^yi air l i4axed
special general congress of the entire organ
ization in the United States, to meet at
Philadelphia, on Monday, the 16th of the
present month.
Cairo, Oct. 8.
A Jackson, Miss., dispatch of the 5th,
says that Humphrey's majority for Governor
will probably reach 10,000. G. L. Potter,
the anti-negro testimony candidate as Judge
of the Court of Appeals in the Jackson
District, has a majority of 3,000.
Farther Point, Oct. 9.
The French Government is preparing to
evacuate Rome.
New York, Oct. 9.
Mayor Macbeth and the Common Council
of Charleston, S. C., have been rebtored,
and the Mayor is to have jurisdiction over
the whites. The negroes are turned over to
the Provost-Marshal. The militia is to be
organized and to take the oath of allegiance.
The 15th will be the day of election of the
State officials.
In North Carolina, the popular feeling is
entirely against secession, and the obnox
ious ordinance is declared null and void
from the beginning.
Good news from Georgia generally. The
civil authorities are satisled and, only one
ticket was run at the late election. Com
plaints are made thai the negroes are so lazy
as to threaten a fa;lure of the crops next
season.
Fifty thousand American tourists, it is
said, are spending $100,000,000 in gold per
year in Europe.
This morning the counsel for Ketchum
announced that he would put in a plea of
guilty to the indictments charging his client
with forgery. As matters affecting his late
firm and their creditors are still pending,
and his explanations and testimony are still
required by those interested, it is desirable
to defer the plea to as late a day in the pres
ent term as practicable. This arrangement
was agreed to.
A special dispatch to the Post, from
Washington, says that the Navy department
has ordered the ex-rebel ram Stonewall, now
at Havana, to be brought to one of our navy
yards.
The steamship China, from Queenstown
on the 1st, has arrived.
The Fenian prisoners were brought before
the police pagistrates, including the editor
and proprietor of the Irish News. Mr.
Barry, counsel for the crown, made a long
speech and said that within the last fort
night, £3,500 had arrived from America, to
be expended in revolutionizing Ireland, and
by that day's mail the Government had
intercepted a letter for one of the prisoners
named Lapper, containing a draft for £415,
on the banking house of Rothschild; also
several other letters which contained bills of
exchange.
The making of pikes had been extensively
carried on. One of the prisoners had made I
two thousand of these murderous weapons. i
Numerous revolvers and breastplates were ,
found in the possession of the prisoners
connected with the Irish People newspaper.
He quoted an incendiary paragraph, urging
the employment of force, from a noumber of I
that paper, which was about to be issued i
when seized.
Mr. Barry concluded his speech by assert- 1
inug that the Fenians were powerful, both ini
Ireland and America, and trusted that this
affair would end forever such hopeless con
spiracies.
Evidence was then given against the ri
oners. Some of them were identifted as
having been conneeted with the aupplre ed
Fenian orgar.
The i titon was still peding when
the steamer siled, and would probably lat
several days.
Biegraphical Skesch of wrevels Majr
General Meagher.
Thomas Francis Meagher was born on the
3d of August, 1825, at Waterford-one of
the oldest and most renowned cities of
Ireland. His father was the senior member
of a great commercial firm, in the New
foundland trade, and T. F. Meagher is often
humorously claimed to be one of the oldest
representatives of the "Codfish aristocracy."
His grandfather and father had no less than
seven ships engaged in that trade.
At eleven years of age he was sent to the
Jesuit College, Clongoes' Wood, County
Kildare, Ireland. For five years he remained
there, and then went to Stonyhurst College,
the celebrated seminary of the English
Jesuits in Lancashire, within forty-five miles
of Liverpool. Hero he deosed iui...tto
the routine of studies prescribed, and made
himself popular by his hearty identification
with the adventures of his fellow students.
He was, in a word, a favorite with themn;
but was as wild as he was brilliant. At the
close of the collegiate course at Stonyhurst,
he carried off, notwithstandinghis wildness,
the silver medal for rhetoric, and was
acknowledged as the foremost orator of that
school of rhetoric and eloquence.
He left Stonyhurst at an eventful moment
so far as his native country was concerned.
His disposition and tastes were to be an offi
cer in the British army. Some of the best
men from Ireland were in that army, as for
instance, Wellington, Harding, Gough, Sale
and many others. It was a question between
him and the liberty of his country. His
father was at this time Mayor of Waterford.
O'Connell had raised what was recognized
as the flag of Irish nationality, and Thomas
Francis _Meagh r, flinging aside his prospects
as an officer in the British service, boldly
and irrevocably threw himself into the ranks
and fortunes of the cause of Irish nation
ality-as it was magnificently presented to
him by the eloquence of that great Irish
patriot. The poetry and earnest action of
the movement was embodied in what was
e then called "Young Ireland "-the intel
t lectual party which proceeded not so much
e upon the historic wrongs that had been
indicted upon Ireland, as from a thorough
conviction thai its faculties and resources
were such as could make itagreat and inde
pendent nation. Thomas Francis Meagher
identified himself with this party, and accep
tall the fnrinnoa of it_
In the abortive attempt of 184b, he there
fore exposed himself to the power of the
British Government; :and, after feeble and
futile efforts among the mountains of Tip
perary, he was arrested and transported for
life, (never again to see his native land),
which sentence still holds good. Coming to
America as he did, with an honest and chiv
alrous renunciation of his parole, he arrived
in New York on the evening of the 27th of
.Tune, 1852. Immediv.tla jl on his arrival
citlzeni s ai p Jrtias, zre s W rs,
from the highest to .he loweet. The Common
Council of New York presented him with a
most complimentary address, and invited
him to a public procession and the hospital
ities of tke city. This he respectfully de
clined in a most aioquent letter, alleging as
his principal reason for doing so, that the
comrades who had shared the dangers and
misfortunes of the attenpt to free 3is native
land were still in captivity, and that it would
be unworthy of him, while they were in exile,
to accept any ovation.
For the first three years of his residence
in the United States, he devoted himself to
lecturing c:. various subjects of public inter
est, visitinr on the invitation of the literary
societies of those places. all the great cities
of the Union. He was thus erabled to be
come per.onally acquainted with the lead
ing citizens and most distingui.ted men,
not only of New York, but of Philadelphia,
Bostoa, B:.Itimore, St. Louis, Richmond r.nd
Petersburg, Vat., Wilmingtoa, N. C., Mobile,
New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg,
Natchez, etc., etc. At Baton Rouge, he was
the guest of the Governor of Louisiana, and
at Jackson he enjoyed the hospitality of the
Governor of Mississippi. In these places
and in several others, he was voted the
Legislative Halls to speak in, and was pub.
licly entertained. .
Early in 1856, Ueneral Meagher startea
the Irish News, a weekly paper devoted to
the illustration of Irish interest', and advo
cating the broad principles of citizenship,
from which he has never swerved; but, de
sirous of having a more active field for the
exercise of his talents, he resigned the edi
torship, and with it, the ownership, of the
News, early in 1858, and betook himself to
Central America, which he extensively ex
plored, and the results of his observations
in which appeared in the most charming
and brilliant illustrated articles, at different
times, in Harper's Monthly Magazine.
It was immediately on his return from his
last visit to Central America that the war
occasioned by the rebellion of the South
broke out. Though warmly attached to the
South from personal associations of the most
cordial character, and strongly repugnant
to coercive measures against a section of the
country in which he had formed many cor
dial friendships, and which he greatly ad
mired, he saw and felt that it was his duty
to sustain the authority of the United States,
and upon mature deliberation, he deter
mined to support it in the field.
The famous Irish regiment of New York,
the old 69th, under the command of the late
General Michael Corcoran, having proceeded
to the seat of war, he undertook to raise a
compa:;y for it, and, early in Ma.y, 1861,
joined it. He left New York for Washington
at the head of as splendid a body of young
Irishmen as the Union army of that time
could boast of. In the disastrous battle of
Bull's Run, on the 21st of the July follow
ing, he participated, with the gallant 69th,
in the perils and glories which his regiment
| encountered and won on that day.
A few days after that battle, the regiment
having served out its time, he retnzned with
it to New York ; but he felt that his term of
i service had not yet expired. He applied to
the Secretary of War for sathority a raise
that Irish Brigade, the impetuous pln..try
a of which shone so conepicuously in every
Sbattle of the war, in which the army of the
Potomac was engaed, and the hist. . o
which has become a splendid portion.o( the
, more comprehensive history of the nation.
a On taking command of this noble bad of
Stroops, he was commissioned as ri
6enera.
* We have not room, in this rapid s
t to give anything like a detailed am o
the honorable and noble explotseof the 1.b
Brigade. Suaes it to say that at Gaines's
Hill, dashing up magnificently to the rescue
of the right wing of McClellan's army, it
repeated the memorable achievement of its
grand prototype-the renowned Irish Brigade
of France-at Fontenoy. In the battles of
the retreat to James River, it fought with
the most heroic energy and fidelity in the
rear guard of the army ; whilst at Antietam,
it so signalized itself that Gen. McClellan,
in his report of that battle, speaks of it in
terms of the heartiest acknowledgment. Its
conduct at Fredericksburg, in advancing
against the impregnable heights which over
look that city, and where it left hundreds
dead upon the field, at a point the nearest
to the enemy's lines that any of the Union
troops had reached-extorted, in an almost
extravagant measure, the praise of even such
an iavet.rate Toe of the Irish rae. as the
London Times. Then came Chancellorseille,
where it swept with headlong alacrity to the
extreme front, as Stonewall Jackson's men
were crowding and crushing down upon
Hooker's position, and where it held its
ground under a blinding fire, until the rest
of the Union army had fallen back, and
formed its second line of defense.
Finding, after this battle, that his noble
little brigade, as he affectionately called it,
was reduced to a mere hand rul, he felt it his
duty to resign his commission, with the hope
that his doing so might convince the Gov
ernment at Washington that, being so ex
hsusted, it might justly be spared a little
time from the labors and sacrifices of the
field, to enable it to revive and renew its
strength.
Ot the dea:h of General Corcoran, how
ever, toe War Department renewed his com
mission, a:d the next thing we hear of him
is at Chat'aneoga, in command of the Dis
trict of the Eutawa. which he held in a
masterly way during Hood's invasion of
Tennessee, and until after that General was
driven back, in an utter route, into Alabama.
General Meagher was then ordered to take
a division of se-,en thousand western troops
to unite with General Sherman, in North
Carolina. This he did, and this ended, for
the time, his service in the army of the
United States.
The week of the Grand Reviews at the
city of Washington, on the termination of
the war, he was placed on the list cf Brevets
by President Johnson himself, in acknowl
edgement of his gallant and devoted services
in defense of the national cause. Major
General Meagher was not only distinguished
by his bold bravery in action, but by his
affectionate devotion to his men, who dearly
loved him, as well as by his humanity and
tenderness to the prisoners who fell to his
charge. It has been said of him,andtruly,
that he never ordered his men to go into
any danger that he was not the first to lead
the way, and the last to come out. His treat
ment of the enemy who, when wounded or
otherwise captured, fell into his hands, was
of the Southern soldiers, to his disparae
ment. The interview on the picket line
with General Roger A. Pryor, of Virginia,
under a. flag of truce, the day after the bat
tle of Antietam, marked as it was by the
manliest frankness and the heartiest friend
hness, on both sides, testifies to this.
The rest is well known. and he is now
amongst us, pith this record, to help us with
his administ'ative energy, quick discern
ment and fertility of resource, to build up
our young Territory into one of the most
powerful, as it must be one of the most opu
lent, States of the Union.
WITH all the boasted ability of the Yankee
nation, for superiority in monetary trans
actions, our English cousins over the water
seem to have a clearer view of the future
advantages of our western Territories than
these same shrewd calculators of America.
It is a humiliating fact that some of the best
paying enterprises in our country are owned,
directed and controlled eatirely by English
capitalists residing in England.--Denmer
I News.
DISTInGUISHED MxxICAr.-LGeneral Gaspar
Sanchez Ocboa, who arrived from the west
the other day, is reported on his way to New
York, to attend to negotiations now pending
in that city for a loan to enable him to com
mence a campaign against Maximilian. He
originally intended to go via the Isthmus,
but was apprehensive that the French com
mander at Acapulco would take him priso
ner.-Daily Telegraph.
ON TUESDAY, the 8th inst., says the Sac
ramento Union, one of the Buislay family
ascended upwards of a mile, performing
feats on the trapeze or horizontal bar-his
only support-attached by a cord to a Mont
golfier or heated nir balloon. The aronaut
descended in safety. There are ten of the
family, who all in turn ascended by this
most perilous method, and without basket
or car of any kind.
Wi learn from the New.. that the w.
warm times in Denver. Mr. Stanton, of the
Gazette, wrlked out of jail, and deied any
Sforce to arrest him. Having been retaken,
his trial for resisting the officers was to have
come off on the 3d. Wq should like to see
a gentleman try his hand at such a joke in
Virginia. Whew! Wouldn't a pair of
hands fly up in a harry !
eA Tno^rton. investigation is being made
d of the facts connected with the issue of the
a forged $100 compound interest notes. They
1, are so like the genuine as to be nearly ma
n distipguishable, from their face supposed to
g have been electrotyped from the origiunals,
Le in some way unknown to the authorities.
LINoLrum, or artiicial lndia rubber, ia the
subject of a new patent taken out in iEgland.
I is made from linseed oil conveted by
some chemical action into a jelly, quitelike
rubber, and is said to be impervious to acids
and water.
T .a Thirteenth MI-sarl Oavalry arrived
in Denver on the 9d inst., under the ear
mand of Col. A. A. King.
uanWe. Urna, the mow Oemm Wr d
the District, was to lea. Deaver, .ny tM
Nan, on the 8th inst.
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