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THE MONTANA POS._ % \e ýv.paper. LDe x-(te d to the Miiiaerai,. Agric-ultura n. xd Commercial Initerests of Mrnai erioy V( )I.. 4, -NO. -3+ HELENA, MONTANA, FRIDAY, JULY 3. (ý 6 , WHL-N.9 The liontana Post. Ný %Ji2'Ifl Uhi hll Re ublicau Ticket. UA NERAL U. S. GiRANT, OFILLINOIS. nt.: n:Ve of- Deer Lodge ('ounty. ,1: ""t'' ir1c °ti i dn t~l i tai~r t i~~r (..4 e'n,-ýcfPectiP¶ " : * " tt 1 fV:t l f to oiiu ti * : l 1" , a t Vee Lo 1r.L " 1_tl Lt ur' CAP A t '-t . . i ;.e re rtO .-c ':.. 1 Co Cour.t'. Cui ~f) -' \t -1. :l - - 1,i .: 1 I ti o . i.n Ir.. jt 1 1ilt I - ..t t: t' 11ilj cnl tý1' a!. 1 *.11~ýLl.i- * -'v 1.-her them ..,1, I1' cijitbieO. ii dihfal to ttIe Con .11. i to ii in rur ti jil, t \-f !t"::1.I "i nc tin :Int nit a fInert i ' 'I .., 'afrtit .1-md ItcuIe, halving 1r: I 1mw r in :h- Past. w:e believe i\till jxv U- libe -c . tiro future. i. i i.tt \. r.iiallv nIrc the IncP t Rejublican Conven ,. alný tLc.it V.0 4211 tUnit I U * 'cur" ,ue 2 i t:_l"ý f its jprjicli (!- ' 'lr*)Lilt 10" ný(' ii t It (:1 " .: 1, l :!ý"ý- declare : \n : 'Mlitairy Iictator : Court and No ;ý;,.and informiers. P~ro-Con Lia .n1 a:: 111:ts .J alnisarie's or IPra~to i" .n col~ortst, etc.. etc." F'rom all these "? Lord deliver it-,. It'- terrible: 1('rý j- savs so, and although it is (: (clt'ar smini preriseiy Sha" .ing(t to 11:1 ren , it is 'pas, pvz r-:. ivr'1 re that the -adilcals after the * 'I#CT ion in'tell.I t(( changeý the *l-'verntnent to a Military ce~e x!1(r a t ron- governllt~nt of some~ l: irt~v!diII-r'"n t fromn the one we 1, .nl liv("( and 1Proitiperrd un I: - Irety ,,caitral1ly co)nc ded I :¾U 1idtiijt~ ti-tjionfl ar.ti ru( v "it mau-1ý t^. :: i*.ll tthrc iy noet !' tu? habt tiet Nv. hole' truthm. I.'N il.!irt chan ge' i to _.:("~ ~ilace Utution and the law:,- is n.ot so t-tront- gverninent, of -.:kind or ýtlter, will be established, '. qe~rs itf treason and state righits :.r, only s~tunnedI not killed. The e~lec i ii ot rant anAl C olias will bruise t h.t'r iie L- agaiu.Ltý the adamant, and o.ithe i i s f November, (68, we can daftt the detha o1 danger. and the gov xliii lit will Le truly strong, for its en a l.is will hart' perished by the hands 'ut ti~e ;ý "pie. It is the old sort of States !:hiuts that is breaking out again on the ~- ±.Did not JTackson teach you O0.I t -'(Ii on that, and the late war taother' Have you forgotten the ar to t~i of coufederation which made a nativ n" of the colonies and that the i-"m)til to the constitution declares "it i=ordained to form a more perfect niun." Do you forget that Union sig Ullies lhe joining of two or more thinirs into one ;" that it is a consolida tion °Do youL forget that it was "the I nitedi Colonies " that were to be "free an-! independent " and not each sepa rately f The whole constitution is a bond of nationality between the States ; the war has adiudgedit right, and the peo~lde will sustata it with ballots as they have with bullets. You ean add this paprer to those who endorse thes above resel utions. BH:CH ANAN. CoI. A. K. Mc('lure, thtan whom thert cal in Pcnnsvlvani:t. lvritt& the- notice of James Buchiainan for the Franklin Re po.ritory. It is r~nalvtic in its character, and1 the reviewv of his public acts, clxar. acteristics an(' ae~ilities is hi one who wais thor(n'.uilhi couversant with them. aaI (fle wc~lst' w: 1 ei competent to ýpvak:. lie 4o4 " l'":vond t1'"i artiz:azm tttlt..zIlisO round by others untro1den, to view the r ee(r~i of a lon andi busy life. \Ve i Oeit the most inipartial, can(did, ::1(il j":-: of:au 1any the 'lecease of the e r r u! lc ex:t ract~.s Ilhe death of .Jamnes BuicAan:aL severs tit" 1.- ''?l, tht cUouet^"i th. j~re~ent genera tli-i of ý-tate n with the :i~e of Clay, Web ii(" at iion. Oats .t1ni their cotamporzmri(e. '1:"r a the erai of stiiteml:iaship in the his. to.r t f ((r hoven Iuient. V e have ininds no .-ý! I. i lVirat ,r j~r fouird, but ,tatemanship l Ieei .:r!.` ? 1 the geriet-al dlernoraliza tALAt ot thi- .A;e. aoli the p"'a of the future h: w jl j 3i.-1 of -r-vrenc' for Izhe tC." VpioU ie' 1'e ort '-'t io ' i ... .i . . ~i. All the (it;,:r statsme (1 AL-A li WA lu1re '1 :1)e.1 [IA 1 it: (11.1' irz'** t:11" th'at Bentonf Ioi ti cAifl an1d too i AU( h of a pol itIici.an to 1.: ao goul -ti~te-man. Ii"' wv ever a rtulien of cx'el.a1eits.-~ n-iA ":- av .d.r. in Il 1440er.'.lr rai 010(1 A A A Il Clii'1-- I: 3 Wily A Al~n.:.!. ':ili ic:1'. LAO' until 1. L"C.AAdIe I'e-id'n" nau-I even i:, ti"e i're.idency. b." se c, ~t ý 1r . t.., c": i;,,1 timc f..tr'.l policy oý 'i. 1:i , '. ? . . the in.31 i,." c; :toll 1,: t,o nd, but judged 1 ~ irit en ::: . ,.: . t: t., t.'n 1t p litical t. t" ., .r. eli. pas-jons of lsby t'ii p i n ier the 1. _ .t "1 thii (Hl1",3 i iiie'& br eight ...:1. v,inr it: 1; "i. IPut i~n'oirtinl 1-to-v w-il uiea-Ur :uiv iiipel the clouds i-h1ci LI:r: i'u iii- lutio. It wil~l not be tao wiork of a yr :r or l riaap- of 'decade, Lint 1e w:11 roilft ro b"' esteezroi ai hetter man riO 0n n("« a'UP' ,1 Ctii Pu ian was not atraitor, nor vet Olizunxi-ti~ I I, lieve that he sin cerelv "' "ireil to -ave the country from di= m1'ui ~moix.:nt Otto 2:uisa:. liat hie lost his .'iqýrt ait}, t- ot:; t ) ,Ii drajed, but it was ht- chaiact"ri~tic v 'rknes_. ternporizin.; andi LlitattrL . :11 f lint ii ctiiF he was in rympa. tliv with i..- _trt i to dei:rov the 1"t rnmne:i1. liP' coal . ?;. - o the ... <, acountry redieemeid. but l:! wits too long the follower of wrong-hie ,vas to !eeble to act-too old to leairn. 'i itt, with on honest liurpose to avert wa1:o~ .: : tn:titi, h. c:. ixied his ad mumnxitm it aim tit'. the unspteakable calami ti- 'Cur b ix in icr th~rillio- history of the 'In ' i l Suchi is' thm- nil, such the reward, of om~e great life. TLini.? will nevi-e: pronounce it worthy oif imuitation, none will be so rash as to paunt to it: +. tn success I ut the future will removre tlx starless gloorx that now en velope5 it. and tLae judgement of imnpartiaml blitory will V,, that James Duchanan was one of the 104-t: ahi ', nioL si:2ero. but most fa tal li- mnioguid'ol of our ojoinent rulers. ~T. LOUIS AN'D CHICAGO. >t.~ aak~ingto the fact tth. t Liti iO1s 1 ,':i living, on tihe iiarveS' ctf Old tithe itidustrion s enter pris~e. Cliica--o has iii'e~n sowing piefltl%" fully in the new and more fertile fields of trade' sinlce (1Cfld. Something is absolutely niecessary to 1c (done, and the , 7irnais of that city are advising their ire: pie to give aid to connecting lines .f Hanil load. (iiica-o, has found anf outlet to Yiontan t 't, the Sioux City road and the Ml5sicurl river, and has connlect'cII with the Kanisas branch of thle Pacific road by way of Kansas City and QCrmeron. St. Louis now looks to the extension of the North Missouri rail road to Omaha to give them communi cation with Om~aha, and ashare of the trans-continental and the upper Miss oori traffic. By this route St. Louis is 10; miles nearer Omaha than Chicago is. Tile Th'mnoirat says the Brunswick and Chilicotho road is now being con structed. somne 300 men being employed upon it, and will be completed in four months. This will complete the cut off Sfrom St. Louis to St. Joe. For the com% pletion of the road tromn at. Joe Lo Omaha over $000,OOO have been sub scribed. and the point is urged to carry the project to completion at once. This It is claimed will throw traffc and) travel to and through St. Louis in pre.. ference to Chicago. The following fig ures are given as the distances by the respective routes from Omaha to New York, ria Chicagopnd New York Cen tral, is 1480 miles, via Erie, 1478 miles, and nia Pittsburg and Fort Wayne, 1398 miles, while, by Chillcotbe and St. Louis, via Terre Haute and Pittsburg will be only about 1d00 miles, with bet. ter grades and routes. While the comn pletion of this line would offer better facilities to that portio of trade and }travel which 8t. IAoma old mturally draw, and its oo.5t151u~tiowould Sid so develop the ouentry -smog she sw5m+ bank of the Mhessuui, It bM04st be apparent that Chicago has taken the lead in securing connections, the most direct, while St. Louis was apathetic and careless, and, that, if she exhibits her usual tenacity and energy, she will ever hereafter retain the lion's share of the advantages accruing from their pos session. TWO KINDS OF ECONOMIY. The telegrams state upon authority of lien. Sc'uotield, Secretary of WVar, that the amuy will be reduced in six mouths to 29.66J7 men, andi in twelve months to 17,150 men. This, coming from one whom Andrew Johnson has appointed ac succe'ssor to) Edwin MI Stanton, and therefore not open to the charge of be, ing a rad~ieu HeI. told for electioaeering lprneis a tribute to the admninistra tive ability of Stanton, the economical policy of Grant and Congress, and a stunning retutation of the charge that the p~urjmse of thime Republican pafrty is to preserve a s.,idLicr-ridden despotism in the Southjern Stute:. TVhree years be fore' th'* rejeliion. thet army exceedad, uu~l'"r a (I''Iiiocra .c admninistration, 17, t000 menf. i)uriig tne war '_,7)9,049 men (a,- .i li: t lfito sore ic~. , Wi Iowl '-,(W , 55:3 \.-tre furnil:!t b iy tix" various states. 'flair t a~t: thie scr the number is again rtediw'd to 17.OjO inen, and this reduction is the work ofi a R~epublican ndlninist rafloie. yvitb t..u states in which, at tb~e urg 3:i a.t' t;ll goodl citizeiJ5, troops were stationed to px~euL the out lawry that in every in:-Lance where they W."., Ii:. !,re slit, existed, and to garri Soil )t .iigLu a rapidly develop ir iiahlijozu and ia half sqjuare miles of frontier, and alonig routes of commnuni cation hit horto unprotectedl. The nun l)U o: "riojs requirel to do this has been rapidiv dinu~nixded, until at the Icominiencý_ment of the present fiscal year, there were 56G,000 inen in service, whose CIexflses to tie governmecnt were not greater than the 17,GiJO men under a Idemocratic administration. For this redunction in expenditures the country is indebte~l to (Gen. (irant, while to An drew Johnson and his whiiskty ring, it its inooebte-d for boein, swindled out of suf ficienlt money to pay the0 entire current expenses of the government without a (lol!ar of direct taxation. Because, how , evr, the latter stand~s by the principles that a dlebt honestly incurred shiould be rs ixonestly paid, he is sty led the bond holders candidate, and by tho~se who would barter every prnil that honor inculcates for the control of a govern weat they abandoned or endeavored to subvert in its days of danger, and seek to evade h')nest, payment of their debts, that they may have the spoils to divide 1among themselves, as the trophies of Itheir illbgotten victory. GRANT AND THE JEWS. In a lifetime, seven rears of which have been prolific of decisivve deeds that tlhe worIld has learned by heart, Gien. Grant, a nominee for the Presidency, has been arraigned but upon one-per secution of the Jews. The opposition have reconnoitered the camp; it is guarded at every avenue of approach and its position is impregnable. They search the record of our leader, and with a name, around which clusters deeds of Ipatriotic heroism, greatness, aua4 wob)g ness of character, equalled by bftt cooe in all our coantry's annals; an escutch eon stainless as Washington'.; a fame Sas brilliant and immortal as ever wreath ed a hero, or endeared itself to the memory of a grateful people, thwy find 'but one act available for partissa dls.. tortion-Order No. 11, Department of the Mississippi. In this an attempt is made by Democratic papers to stir up }a sectarian religious antagonism to GI(rant. Does any one suppose that a party. whose existence is a record of holding in the most abject, debasing slavery a whole race of men, forbidding them religious toleration, or instruction in the rudiments of education; grinding ,,out beneath the heel of the muster, the liberty, manhood, and life of four toil lions o1 people, and oven denying they Iwere human being., cares a fig for a Jew? We tell you No. The Jews have tvotes, De mocracy has candidate. that will need them. They would use the IJews as cats-paws, and cures them of~ {terwards for getting ueorehei. The order was issued in Grant's absmen a~d and revoked on his return, the !m&.ter tional blunder of a suboediaete havling altered the purport of what wee inted ed to be, and would have bees a uwu~u. lation that every depeutmeam of the army should have enforced. Any Jew or gentil. in the arty knew. it we~ neesry~, that the ineW VM;i rene with spies, ble~elie umaaum, jeswindlers, sad violaters .1 Ok aply *.ge w Ia~ e.s 1!sadout et *b t, 1 il jsrdes ot'maw tri ýd tLis~l ty to trade and their mischief making1 dickerings and evasion of orders was resuliting but little less injuriously to their licensed countrymen, than to the country. It war at the instance of those who were legitimately trading the order was issued. They had become a fearful evil, and required a severe remedy. Those who were not furnish ed with permits from department head-! quarters were ordered to be expelled from the lines. This is the action that the disloyal press are issuing to incite the Jews to hostility to Grant. Grant was then hurling his victorious forces on the southern democrats; his success over their great Generals, filled them with malice ; a hubbub was raised then to have him removed that rebellion might conquer, and now when the na tion will testify its gratitude, and its faith in the leader o: the Union armuies, the same element would stir up a pe-o ple to oppose them whom tlhey would spurn with contempt were it not for their votes. We do not ask a Jew to vote for (1rant or with the party, unless he believes the one a man above the spirit of intolerance attributed to him and the. other the great liberal, tolerant and only loyal party in the country. We hayve taken measures to ascertain the facts, and know this much talked of anti-Grant feeling does not prevail with the intelligent Jews here. We have no solicitation on the subject. They cannot be gzulled into any such suicidal folly, and will v-ote just as independent of order No. 11, anal the harpings of office seekers, as ainy claiss of mien in America. By It fai al miistake the issue was sp~rung too soon. and' consideration always dis1*lIs a (delusion. It was flash ed over the country, adfillIor a moment blinded the credulous and unthinking ; but it bus vanished us suddenly, and u ill tell against thos' who would have forc ed a people who have been p~ersecuted t.-rough ages, into hestility against the saviors of the only governmuent under which they haave' enjoyed equal lrivi leges. TLe tolluiwinig ext ract from the Jeerials fesxcuiyjcr. shows how quickly that people have d~iscernedl the folly into whid.i they would have hL en thrust- It speaks of a nisiting called hy democratic demagogues ini St. Louis : "No een'ible Jews are taking part in the public meeting called at St. L~uis to oppose GIrant. They would only be the toola of de signing politicans who hsve no luwe for the Union, and who seek to create a sentiment in favar of principles and men antagonistic to the true interest of all good citizens. If He brew members of the Republican party decline to support its candidate, they will certainly do so on their own responsibility, and neend so pressure. They will not identify them selves as Jews with a partisan movement. A A minister of a Jewis~h congregation once pre~ached a political sermon, to the surprise and regret of his brethren. The experiment has not been often repeated. Israelites are too intelligent and too self-asserting to be driven or led by their minister, especially in matters that have no connecton with religion.' THE DElMOCRAT'S MISTAKE. In the last two issues of the Democrat some five columns are devoted to sus taining the Major's peculiar theory, that the Northern Pacific Rail Road project should be abandoned, and the influence of Montana thrown in favoj, of a Branch to the Central. His theory on this sub ject will meet with about the same en couragement and popular favor as his attempt to have Montana organized as a State. This last fusilade is foimed upon the debate in the Senate, occasioned by Howard's reporting the resoluton asking for an extension of five years on the vbsrter of thie Northern Pacific road. The Democrat argues that this means the Indefinite postponement of the building of the road, while In reality it means nothing only that the original :and grant would have become void, if .his resolution had not passed, and the passage of the resolution, giving the company an extension of two years from the 2d day of July, 1868, with forty miles of land on either side of the track, dosbae that ever granated any other rail read company, is one of the sunrest evi dences that the Senate is favorably In clineal to the Northern Pacific, and that the subsidies asked will be granted it at the next session of Congress. The D mwer-at compares it to the Central proad, and points to the delay of the Nor road, and points to the delay of the Nor thern road as an evidence of apathy on the part ot she company. The Northern road has never had any appropriation, except a land grant, while the Central has had a subsidy of x119,OGO,000 be:, side the land; i. e. the geverninent goes security for the bonds or the com pany, as fast as the road to completed and aocepted. The amount asked for the Northega road is about the same. The dillhuwse beswess having the ov - senm t as seulity and net, is this ; while if tla6 company construct the road upes its own less. of bonds, they Isevi tmy dqsIass, mrdall sanauag., and My m~utun. to the e jaay would, M> so" m tb he wont. at least re~daw PWsOW Its Seandwa to aaptmr. eom 7bIf the win~rmt bscos s. - d &ewe- be ,wsimaytli replenished, and the work goes rapidly Iforward. This is what the Northern Icompany is leboring for, and as certainly as the next Congress convenes, the road will be subsidized, and the work begun. The extension of the charter, has no other significance, than, that Congress is willing to permnit It to retain its grant of land. We cannot but believe the Democrat is sincere in its views, but also believe it fearfully in error as to the best interests of Montana. The branch road If built would be comparatively nothing to us ;a main trunk line everything. IThe establishment of the coach post service from Helena to Abercombie, the extension of the charter, the known fa vorable feeling in Congress in respect to it, the surveys now in progress, and the united voice of the Northwest, all indi cate that unless wve are recreant to our selves, the time is near at hand when it wvill be undertaken and completed. The company composed of eight Direc tore of east and west lines between the Atlantic and Missouri, representing over thirty millions of dollars of capitol. is the strongest railroad combixfi~ion ever framed on the continent, and when the saine aid is given this that is given to the Central, and that they have the right to expect, it will be constructed with an expedition and energy never before witnessed in railroad construc tion. We have so frequently urged the inducements; to this great project that to name them would be but to reiterate. If the Demzocert would have "all unite on one common platform" and labor for the best interests of Montana, it has but to join hands with all the other papers of' the Territory, which it would (10 if the subject was given that considera tion which looks beyondi the imnme~di ate to the eventual. RUM AND RAILROADS. Trhe Winona Repiibliran makes up 1from the report of Commissioner Wecll' 'and Mr. Delmar's statistics of -railroads, a comparative statement of rum and railroads in titer nited States. We gave, some days since, an aggregate, but the following, specifying 31he several states. will prove as interesting as starl~ling : Value of retail Tutaf'value of liquor sales for railroads and one year. their equip tr. New York .........246,607,520 *169,:305, ise Massachusetts.......27,979,5 75 71.731,934 Peunsy l Cania.... ..... 15:2, , 495 t21 674, 457 Il1iois.................. 1O6, 5t1395 149,060,657 Ohio .................... 151,734,875 149,540,950 Maryland .............. 40.564.6l0 :17,106.685 Missouri ................. 54. G27, 353 55,3734.105 Indiana ................. 61,418,890 et9,560.722 Califer-la................ 59,.')24,080 27,090, (1271 Kentucky............... 50,222,115 23,719 404 Wisconsin ............... 43.848,845 40,956, 12 { Iwa . .............. 15582,68.7 49.190,459 Connecticut ............. 35 001,230 24,997,:41 1New Jersey............. 42,648,740 54,55,'42 Maie ................5,257, 015 15,939,779 IRhode Island...... 10,254 240 4,973,6x5 New Hampshire......12,629,17. 22.230,337 Minnesota ......... 14,:394,9'70 11.25e 00 District of Columbia.. 10,376,450 ........ Vermont . 6,766,06i5 24.45 9893 Kansas .......... t+,SIX,850 2,2500,ux~u The retail cost of liquors per annum is $1,483,400,405. or $43 for each person in the country. It ~is only one-eighth less than the entire annual sales of mer chandise at wholesale rates. While we complain of hard times and oppressive taxation, and reflect that we spend for liquors e'very twenty months, enough to liquidate the indebt'idnees of the nation. we have more cant'e to be ashamed of beastly dissipation, than to complain of the treasure cost of the Union. The following table shows the pro portion of every 1000 persons who can - not read or write. That of the United States Is from the census of 1800: United Slave States............. 368 States. Free "........3 Russia.........................96 (ireece......................... 5 Poland ......................... 910 Austria.....................80 Spain and South Italy............ 5 France.............. .......... r0 Great Britan ................ ... 400 Hololand ........................3 German States.....................1 IF UN DUS'NIT WHAT DOES MR? As to your statements of Mr. Pendle ton's policy, they are utterly incorrect. What is known as his plan does not propose to increase the volume of the currency one doll- r.-merely to change its character-Gazette. If the GJaette Is correct we confess error, but is it not Brick Pomeroy's sch eme of REPUDIATION the Gazette has iunoceumtly mistaken for Pendleton's. That, in we are informed by Bdlck, " does taot propose to increase the vol urn.." Mr. Pendleton proposes to eon vert the bonds bearing iatese lnaw cur reaey beaimg no interest. Hands ar. not curreiny. How shoe can he emeom p11mb his psrposs wihusat uwesssing its Voaume? The Gen tis tioidne what Kr. Penleton does -me pIopWre to 40 uwas1i~g SA ace, W rw it be so kfi Ls. UAs es O to *hat .he FWoS' º Av. '% Gp~s.tSW.qy JA inIi a's saeb d.ai Nf wroen ~a. aft mes st OOSV I65e. HRE WOULD DISCUSS. The Independent does itself up in a robe of "gray" glory because we d' dlined last week to strike at its shadowy sophistries, as it desired, and went after the substance. The best way to dispel heat is to put out the fire; when shot comes from a battery, it is better to cap ture and spike it than to spend time in pulverizing the balls and analyzing the iron to see if' its component parts are dangerous. The quotation was made, knowing it referred to Mr. Royce, but nine in ten of the Indep, dcui'a readers did not know it, and swallowing it for pure Southern applejack, it would h'ave as exhilirating an effect as the order of a Ku Klux Klan. You make a sorry explanation of your joke. Why does the Inidepenldeft not, explain the first qluotation of the two, ere it demands Iwhy we did not quote its entire con tents? The interogatory as to who we would vote for was answered to the Ga zette in as ninny words a short time since, and the second Article of the Clhi cago Platform, which was framed on the. corner stone sentiment. expresseu by C2olfax a year ago, that "those who love the flag shall rule the country" meets with our fullest concurren"-e. M~r Rogers, holding hits avowed opinions is. to speak it mildly, at heart an alien to the United States government, lie did not wait for us to pharge hint so, hut avows it in every issue of his paper, and while he. is that, we hold that he has no more authority to instruct Union men of their duty, than Satan had to give away the world when lie .? 'ered the tempta tion on the mountain. OIn this proposi tion we started, and by it we siand. Just now the Isdeqwndent is trying to rival the La Crosse Demee'r't in % it~lperatioii against radicals, and assumes to call it argument. It says "Blen. Butler would steal the picture of Jesus Christ to or nament his parlor, etc." T'r'is is one of the "facts and principles' MIr. Rogers would like to "elaborate" upon, and is about as tangible an idea as lie has yet presented. It is p~erhaps sbamnef'zl for us to "decline" a controversy on such p~ropositions, but really we have too much regard for a worthy namesake of the great martyr to dispute with him upon such fioell/' (rawca theological points. FIHST TO THE FRONT. e publish to-day. the call of tieorge W. Irvin, Chairman of the Itepuhlican C~ounty committee of Deer Lodge, call ing for the election of Delegates on the 6th inst., to a County Convention for the nomination of candidates for county of fices and the L~egislature. Although the other counties are moving in the inatt'er Deer Lodge has the honor of making the first call, and we urge the Union men to turn out and elect Delegates who will go for practical, honest, andi capa ble men. The unwise local legislation of last winter has been made as apparent to the miners of Deer Lodge as they could desire, and we feel confident, that although Deer Lodge is the Democratic stronghold of Montana, a Union selec tion can be made that will appeal to the common sense of Deer Lodgers andI send a different delegation to Virginia this winter from that which went last. We hear the names of several prominent and talented men, mentioned for thA Legislature and hope that if chosen as candidates they will deter any personal desires and go into the field. But a few weeks intervene between this and the election. Republicans of Montana nev er had so fair a prospect of success, and the opporunity appeals to them for a united and vigorous effort to place men in the Legislature who will meet and combat any such partizan and unjuset legislation as that of last winter, which was as disgusting to fair minded Demo crats as to Republicans. There were members of that Legislature, capable men, above the contamination of the narrow selfishness that predominated. We hope to see them returned and with them fully as competent and liberal 1e- publicans, that the Legislature of the Territory may not be a bye-word of de rision in the mouths of the people. It is tiwe now that each county should call its primaries and follow quickly upon the nomilnations of the Democracy which which will occur during the next two weeks. The House Military Committee report that the saving to the G~overnmient in transportation by the U. P. R. R. in the past year has been $848,382, 82. The eomapietoln of the road to New Mexico would save in transportation $i,083, 872, and its completion to Albuquer que would save its entire cost to gov ermnent in aix years. We think these facts an argument which the opponents of the trans-contlnejatal railways can not successfulily rebut. Eastern exchanges state it has do 'usloped that the money expended by Woaley, a" which was bsaieved to hae" bees wied to pa the acquait.. tal ofth. P2reddent ma mnlmd by the Wb y and .ipea4ed by him to e..min,~'tax 0nUwW*ilt at >P per plisma' '4ewss Inab J~~s~li eret ae~.te~ will reads= uvaqisa a