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THE MONTANA POST.
A-: N ewspaper, Devoted to the Mineral, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of Montana Territory.
V >l.. \. NO. 13. HELENA. MONTANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER t, 1868. WHQLE NO. 222
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pit-siredI that the celestiaI
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: , St lptt lber. the actual
S rtgin n t its in service was-4t,
:.. r,. ,.i, - 4.3: 10 in the engineer,
:. ., a,, i -,,tr s. eciai branches.
, I Ii 1.-.t 4 atM will bet mustered
t1 \ira i ,tU of te.rml 4) service.
:.; .r tt t ,.ertiouas was 2700 less
Sr \ i ' y.tar, ann the nuniber
• -' H) lm,re. l-tccruiting was
- \ r" l :11i . I oGN. ordters having
.. 1,1. 2 6. 1.e, to reduce all
and artillery. except ten
.t:,,lit·s to ,.l privates to a co)i
li." .\,!iutant t;eneral renews
in'i el, atietn that enlistments
. ;.ie, :e,r hive years instead ot
:i tla: mu.icians be enlisted
al. n1 e ot 12 instead of 16
S :itlelS that the President
*.,,r ti to drop any officer tfrom
i.: army who deserts and
i rre ted for court martial
It :, .. ,,nt he after desertion.
S:':: .l-r tf volunteer otfieers,
S,: neral Howard, have been
, Ii Itnlt whit.ll t e last year. He
It r. :, ule.,is the establibbment or
" r'.., y prittons, the first in New
S!.ri,-, ~ cl.h pIroving successful,
. :, t . ii, I bland. one in the Mis
1'i \1 !. a. nd one on the Pacific
O(CIDENT AND ORIENT.
The progress of civilization has ever
betn westward. Its cradle was in the
North Temperate zone and moving to
ward the occident. population, arts. sci
ences and letters, the energies of ('oam
mierce, the hum of industry, improves
ment in government, and the .levation
of humanity. ha'e had inception and
successftul nurture almost wholly with
in the same limits. In six thousand
years its tide iies never turned back,
and scarce transgressed the narrow
boundaries. (i' ies. kingdoms, nations,
and peopl)es have been overswelt in its
resistless course, to live in the glories of
its golden day, and sit after in its linger
ing Twilight rememblaering happier days,
or. in the darkness of desolation and for
getlulness,. with their banners and deeds
alone reproduced on the canvass of hin
sryv. or crumbling to decay on the gran
ite pages of buried cities. Evolved fromn
tih (4rlent. westward over lands, seas
and ;rand divisions it has passed until
,n the Pacific shores of America its
course is stayed, as the fire ceases when
the fuel is consumed. And now the
We1-st. li.zlting new torches at the sacred
dame,. and preparing the way with
roads, canals and telegraphs, re
turns to lihiit up the waste i lacs of the
,,old world. to revivity with the electric
illllillpule f enterprise the dormant fac
ulties, and call inta, vigorous exercise
thli xhausaittiess capabilities of the East.
India tfireen years ago had not a rail
ruad withinl its vast domain. now it hias
tur tlhou-iand miles built by English
capitalists, and tast completing lines are
concllc:in the princi pal cities. The
Su.z si hip canal. that stullpendous work
,t France. is nearing cmciletion and an
lti pe r iof the nineteenth
,...n t a re ··af-ca ., Yntri· t
Cent ur' is thile lister slirit
% lho turns froam the west to c('oilielte
and render usetful the pre ject of the
'tPerian King. Darius. halt a century
be,r'ore the ('hri.tian era. American cap
italists turpo~e- ancothler ashil, canal across
thioIt i tlnus tof Darien, that the corn
ti,'re o th,. East may nlot be alonolpo
lizrd by Eur,,ie. or American ships be
conipellicd to sail throughl canals owned
ly i.: n powers, and liable at any time
to. Ie 'l,. d t, ,ur tt,-t-ts. It is ui,on the
anti,'il,pated heavy trade- with Asia, after
its Iarts hiave beet--n olWned Jby treaties
and eInlargemtd Iv trade, that the estab
li-it,ed and linjeet.-d trans continental
railroads ot Alnmerica dtel,-end, in a great
i.:l'..re. for successftil operation. 'l'i"e
Eilbn-svs. oft which Mr. Burlingamlne it
the .,okeslmaa. appointed iv the Em
,eror. tnianitests the diesire of that ,o
te.nti:e to unlock the. iortsc t 'lf China. to
th row djown the wall. ot seclusion, share
the- lhene-i's of trade, and welcome tihe
glowin-z etfulgence of that intelligent
lighlt.whlose lprimal sparks were placedia
tile hands of t.ie western hound. thous
ands of years ago. Not the leastimalportant
of the many kindred enterprises tending
to this purpose is the establishlment of
the East India Telegiaph Company.
T'he- privilege of connecting the princi
pal cities of China by telegraph was
give-n to) this 'Ionmpany by Mr. Burlin
ganme on Is half of the Chinese (iovern
nieut. and incorporated under an act of
the New York Legislature, and we no
tice by the Trluoae that all arrange
unents are perfected, and the Company
will proceed. at. an early day, to carry
it into operation. This line of 900
niil..u -ill .li-.tl. or sawt olttle, It·ume,
miles will directly connect cities having
a commercial population of six million
li).plie, and indirectly aflbrd facilities of
comllmunication to the peouIle of all
China. numbering 414,1OO).000 people, or
omver one-third of tihe entire population
of the earth. It is almost incredible.
yet tru,. that the foreign trade of a
dozen of tlhe.-e cities amounts to one
thousand mmlillion dollars annually, and
it is doubtless in part owing to the
American (iovernmneat having secured
this desirable privilege, through Mr.
Burlingame, to the exclusion of England,
that he was so rudely treated on his first
arrival in London. The paramount im
o'rtance of securinga portion of the trade
of the t'elestials to nourishing a petty
spite has induced more civil treatment to
the Embassy recently. and its presenta
tion by the Premier to the Queen at
Windsor. It is better for all that Amer
ica has precedence in the new field for
the tendency of British companies to
build up destructive monopolies like
ihe East India and Hudson's Bay has
lodeimonstrated itselt and universally pro
\vn an evil to all except the company.
A vast proporti(,n of the Asiatic trade
will naturally be with America, and up
on general principles as well as in view
io the partial dependence tor some years
of the Pacific railroad upon it, it is well
that our government should generously
encourage all enterprises calculated to
establish and build it up. The West is
going hack to pay a visit of enlighten
ment to the East. and America is the
favored guest. Who would hazard the
prediction that Asia will not be a clues
ter of Republics in a hundred years.
reared on the ruins of present empires?
A New York banker named Duff, re
cently married Miss Grace Shaw, daugh%
i.er of the great humorist "Josh Bil
lings." The latter in sending the no.
tice to an editor friend, accompanied
it with the following note. There is a
good deal of human nature in it :
My DEAR - . They have taken the
last bird out of my nest, and there is
nothing left for the old ones, but to sit
on the top limbs and sing to the setting
sun. If you please, will you place this
knottyJ' matter in your valuable columns
escorted with any trifling remarks that
may euggeet themselves, about the un
fortunate vagrant in the role of comic
humor, who continues to remain,
Your obedient servant,
Josa BILLINGs.
Oregon proposes to have a Bureau of
Immigration.*
TEAT DKUT.
Our neighbor of the Democrat, as well
as the Gazette, has made a reply to our
article on the "Debt of Montana,', whtch
would be creditable to him if it were
true. But the premises taken are false.
The Bannack Legislature. as it will be
seen, from the names composing it, was
largely Democratic. Read :
('oUNCl.--Lawrence, Bagg. Potter,
Worden, Merriman, Thompson and Lea
Vitt.
HloUre-B,-ll, Buck. CourtwriKght, Det
wiler, Faulds, Huffaker, Johnson, Ma
hew. McCormick, Ryan. Stuart and
Smith.
There were four DL)uocrats in the
Council and eleven in the House. It
these were under the control of Radi
cals, we would like to know how. Will
the D'euo'r,tt or (Gaze tte enlighten us?
According to thel showing of the (Gazette,
they voted $28,297 extra compensation
to themselves. Code Commission, cornt
posed of two Democrats and one Repub
lican. $f10.3;3.3-2 : ('ommissioners to lo-,
cate 'apital--one Republian and two
Democrats. $222. The other expenses
were such as the laws, adopted by a
Democratic Legislature, allowed. It
I~adicals were fortunate enough to get
any of the money it was siimply because
they lhappend at the time to hold posi
tion. They were not to blame for that.
The wh,,le debt of $8.'..004.50 was of
Democratic origin, and could not have
been made without the sanction of laws
lpa-ued by a Democratic Legislature.
1Blt the people understand this. N,)
reply is necessary to the tissue of mis
representations which lack even the
dignity of respectable sophistry that
they have paraded before the public as
an explanation of our financial condi
tion. Both the (;,rzetth and I)isoerv,t
feign to laugh at the idea of sixty thou
sand dollars being a large debt. Tax
payers. who have to pay for it. and get
nothing in return, think differently.
The Gaze'tte, on thie strength of it, pro-I
claims that the debt has been reduced
$210.))O. This is simply untrue. The'
fi0.000 is the funded debt-the addi
tional debt is nearly half as large, and
uniprovided for, and was made by the
bogus and last Legislature. But we
have no patience in exposing these mis
representations. We reiterate all wet
satl in our former article, which is c,,r-'
r4olsrated by the records of the Terri
tory, and which we will have a trans
W rint at in a t.w ahvra ... W. '
cript ot in a few diays. e w...
then publish and ask the people to
examine for tLemselves. A muere battle
of contradictions between the I)tN meorat
or the Gqtz1te and the I',PTr, proves
nothing. (o to the records. See what
party made the laws, and enquire into
the reasons of their passage. See which
party has been in power, ever since the
organization of the Territory, and what
they have done by legislation to develop
it. or provide, it with conveniencies. See
into whose pockets the money goes that
is now yearly raised by taxation. There
are no Judges paid now-no ('ode Com
mission-no capital locators, but an i,
creased legislat( r ai.enhly---r, inrreda'ed
n Imb.'"r of 7T rritorild offeers--and they
are undeniably Democrats, and for that
reason get the people's money; all the
blather and nonsense of our neighbors
to the contrary, notwithstanding. Will
the ;,oz, tl, tell us how much has been
paid them for public printing. at diff"r-,
ent times, and will Major Bruce tell us
whether it was ten, twenty or thirty
thousand dollars, in all that he received
from the Territory on the same account?
To the charge that we are governed by
,e-lfish motives in the exposition we have
made, we plead guilty in one respect.
We are tired of paying taxes, when the
benefit is all partizan and at the people.
expense too; but whether selfish or not,
we invite investigation. If we are wrong
in our statemen.s, prove it. Our selfish
news has nothing to do with the matter.
We love Montana, its resources, and its
citizens. We know that it is tocday
the richest and most oppressed Territo
ry on the continent, that it is receiving
and has received ever since its organi
zation, more injury from those who
ought to have been its friends, than
from any other source. We are tired of
it. Our people are discouraged. Thou
sands have left the Territory under dis
couragement which sprang from bad
legislation, and Territorial mismanage
ment. The party in power has hune
like a leech upon our resources, until
the life blood of the system is terribly
depleted. We wish to see the remedy
applied before it is too late. If out
neighbors of the Territorial press will
not help us, we will work single handed
until the people arouse and thorough
reform is secured in our legislation.
The Reno (Nev.) Creasent says: '"I
all the county from Chief Justice to JU
tice of the Peace, and from Constable to
('ongressman, it is a clean sweep for the
'nion, a magnificent, triumphal victory.
The Crevwret figures the Union majority
trom seven precincts at 191. The other
precincts, it says. will make the Unias
majority 2~35 in Washoe county. ]
Reno, Chief Edwards was elected Coan
stable over Tom Andrews (Dem.) and J.
Hubbard (Independent). At Crystl
Peak E. J. Campbell (Union) was elected
('onstable by 19 majority over N:".
Chandier (Dem). J. 11. Lovejoy (r.)
was elected Justice of the Peace at Cry
tal Peak.
John Brougham has writtena as-
drama, called "The Emerald Ring."
It's time. "'The Whiskey Ring" .
about played out. d _
W. Coot has been appalated Ir
Bevenuen leret a nd Lewis ..
caug,, hSr W Terutery.
IBIrTI A'TISN vs. AUADo.
The editor of the Gazette. confirming
hhi right to the sobriquet "Artful Dod'
ger," has "Another Dodge" in yester
day's issue. The suggkesion tor a Reg
istration Law inspires his feeble soul to
reply. With assumed airs of lofty prin
ciple he expresses a desire to " prevent
illegal voting and protect the purity of
the ballot box." and "will recommend to
onr legialatre any improvements which
may suggest and recommend themselves
to aour judgment." Here is exposed the
hypocrisy and dishonesty of the Gazette. I
We advocate a registration law because
itbs the only eiectual mesas of pre
\sating a-M #a thbe pdtL The Ga
r UW opposes it because It believes suac
a law would disfranchise some who now
vote the democratic ticket. We advo
cate a general law by Congress. because
such laws where possible should be
general and permanent, and the right is
conferred on Congree by the ('onstitu
lion "to make all needful rules and reg.
ulations respecting the Territory." and
"to provide tor the general welfare."
The Gazette, on the contrary. advocates
the dabbligg in such affairs by the dem
ocratic Legislature of Montana. with
partisan objects in view. as is clearly
evidenced by its objection to submitting
the question to the general government.
Tie law of ('ongress would apply to all
Territories, have some intelligent con
aideration and action, with due respect
to the welfare of the people without re
gard to party, and be irrevocable except
by the same authority or the erection fo
the Territories into states. The govern
meat of Montana is only established as
a temporary affair; its statutes are
ephemeral at best and subject to amend
luent by Congress, as is the entire gov
ernment, and the records of its Legisla
ture from first to last are but multiplied
pages of stupidly ignorant blunders, or,
iartisan preferences and prejudices and
schemes for personal aggrandize:nment.
The two attempts to amend the election
law last session, leaving it at last in di
rect violation to the United States stat
utes ; the resolutions censuring thet judi
ciary, repealing extra compensation to
Republicans and bestowing it upon
Democrats ; the enactment of oppres
sive private charters contrary to the
amendment to the organic act, atid sin
ilar enactments, ad infinitln,,. are sufli
eient evidence of a lack of both ability
and moral honesty. What "the configu
ration d the country" has to do with a
general registration law perhaps the
Naze.dt can explain. The fltzette wholly
meisman-nats or misrepreseata our
eittlou, w j a mes that we pro
ped to Ics[el those who have
taken out their first papers, tfr that is
where held to constitute the es
-.ial rIquislte '.to obtaining citizen
lp.al to eal . the person to sut
age. oee to se'tion o.5 f the
ganlb dI 6lll ntana, the organic act
Idaho amd ther States and 'Territo
will enlighten the (Graette and pre
vent the recurrence of a statemlent so
prejudicial to its claims to intelligence.
We ask a general registration law, to
prevent voting by aliens, and "repeat
ing" by those entitled to suffrage. Such
a law is necessary. The party, paper or
person who opposes it is the advocate
of crime, and no desire to subserve party
can excuse them. We wish it general
and permanent, and therefore advocate
its enactment by ('ongrtes; and what is
more, will labor for it pe sistently, and
trust confidently it will 4 in full force
and effect in this Territ r beftore an
other general election.
A DIVISION OF NEW YORK.
The people of the great State of New
York, outside of IGotham. are getting
tired of the domination of that fester
long spot of political iniquity, and the
proposition to divide New York into
two separate States is being earnestly
discussed. Massachusetts, pre-eminently
the Republican progressive State of the
Union, gave 71,000 maj. for Grant. New
York state, independent of New York
city, gave 58,000 for Grant, ranking it as
the second Republican State in the
Union, yet the thousands of money pur
chased, fraudulent and whiskey traf
-icked votes of the human offal in the
John Morrissey and other like districts
of Gotham, gave up the State to Seymour
and fraud by nearly 10.000 majority.
The political status of the 4,300,000
people of the Excelsior State is wholly
subverted by this influence. Like a
foul ulcer on the body it effects the
entire system, although but local in
itself. The proposition is to erect New
York, Richmond, Kings, Queens, Suf
folk, Westchester and Putnam counties,
having an area about the same as Dela
ware, and a population of 1,282,327 peo
ple into a State, to be known as Man.
hattan. This will give the Tammany
ring fall sweep over that State, but it
will rid the other three millions of New
Yorkers of this political "old man of
the sea," and place the State in the true
position it is entitled to, a strong Re
publican State. As it is now, these three
millions of people are the victims of the
worst ring of thieves and swindlers on
the continent, with headquarters in
Tammany Hall, and their reserve corps
eqaual to any necessity, massed in the
Five Points and ambushed among the
dasks, with a apisate strength in
fl.datlet matalInemae papers. "If
shy stght hand ol.ad thee, tat it offt."
CAST all tSA L UP.N TUEs
WATERS.
The many who are departing for the
States on pleasure, commercial business
or to prevent the total destruction of
the government, inevitable should any
other person be appointed to the Post
office or Indian Agency for which they
are aspirants, can incidentally do a good
service to Montana and their friends by
telling the truth. The capital that is to
develop the vast resources must, as it
has in a great measure, come from the
East. The amount of capital in Mon
tana it little more than sufficient to sup
ply the demands of trade, after except
iag the product of mills shipped to
eastern stockholders and the placer
gold carried out by those who having
acquired a competence return to the
States for investment. With capital
thus employed and rates of interewt ex
orbitantly high, Montana, although pro
ducing her own breadstuffs and $12.
000,000 to l;.(NhI,000 in precious met
als annually, depends upon this out
side capital for rapid development. To
those who are acquainted with the
facts, and know how requisite to suec
cess is practical knowledge of mining
in the persons having charg.' of compa
nies, and development of leads prior to
the erection of expensive buildings and
the putting up of costly machinory.
the gross ignorance and absurd
ideas entertained on these matters by
many persons in the East who have in
vested or may invest in mining enter
prises. will be astonishing. As an in
stance of this, a company of business
men last year organized a company with
$100,000 capital, purchased a fine mill
and shipped it to Montana About the
first of September we met the Presi
(lent of the C'ompany in ('hicago. lie
was about to despatch a Superin'end -
ent, amalganmator, and another employee
to Montana to erect the mill immedi
ately and sledge out golden bricks. On
the three leads owned by the company
there were said to be two shafts(') fif
teen feet. and one; thirty feet deep. The
party of whom they were purcliasP l
had been absent from Montana two
vtears, during which time no one had
touch-ed the leads, and neither of the
three persnoe to be sent out had ever
been in a mining country, yet they were
counting confidently on most astonish.
ing success, and considered they had a
"dead cure thing" on a fortune in six
months.' A recommendation to house
their mill in Helena and develop the
prope-rty before the erection of the mill,
was treated almost with contempt. The
assertion that fifteen, or thirty feet, was
no development at all-that they were
not sure of their lead a foot beyond the
bottom of the gopher hole, and that they
were recklessly and unnecessarily haz
arding many thousand dollars in the
employment of impractical men and by
not ascertaining the existence of a lead
before expending money in transporta
tion, buildings, etc., was rebutted by the
testimony of a dozen book worms who
had been consulted, and reference to a
tract published by the Company, in
which dividends were set forth in a
glittering, fascinating array that would
seduce dollars from the bags of a miser.
It is a gratification to know that good
counsels prevailed, and the (ompany is
now proceeding in a manner that would
be approved by the successful miners of
Montana. Our State-hound residents
are generally cognizant of the right way
and the wrong way to achieve success
in quartz mining, and in their driftiugs
up and down the States may do great
good by exerting, when circumstances
are favorable, what influence they may
to have capitalists, who may invest in
mining, proceed in the manner experi
ence has demonstrated is free from the
unnecessary perils and breakers on
which many companies have wrecked
their fortunes and done Adetriment to
a Territory whose gold and silver leads
will generously yield to the "open sesa
me" of well directed enterprise.
WILL-O'.TIE.-WI P.
A halt dozen times at least within the
last six years we have been informed
that the Alabama claims were on the
point of being amicably and satisfac
torily adjusted. A half dozen times
within the last six weeks the arrange
ments were said to have taken definite
form, and the chaotic millions involved
were about to array themselves in serried
Icolumns in their proper places, to re
enact the collision of the Kilkenny fe
lines, and leave nothing but their diplo
matic tails to drabble the inexplicable
pages of State history. But like crea
tures of a dream they disperse in shape
less shadows at the approach of practi
cality, and at each touch of the sags.
clous Ministers and Secretaries upon the
govermeatal kaleldosoope the beauti
ful illusion takes some other form. A
week ago our immensely popular repre
sentative at the ('ourt of St. James, hav
ing shaken hands with half England
and dined on mock turtle with the oth
er, very complacently accepted the terms
of the proctecol drafted by Lord Stan
ley, whereby our little bill of eighty
millions for American merchantmen de
stroyed by British pirates was to play
the part of Jonah to .Johnny Bull's
\Whale, in the high ,old
comedy of English Equity.
In a patronizing kind of way, he inci4
dentally submitted it to the considera
tion of our au ftit stage manager, Mr.
Sewa rd, who declines the honor of put
ting in an appearance as peremptorily as
Parepa Rosa did to appear betore a 08W
house in ('arson. And now the tele
graph, which has giv'en a surfeit of ru
mtors in detail ou this subject, adds. by
way of an em;llient to allay the univer
sal irritation that nothing will probably
be done in the c'ase, until everybo]y
nterested, or who has any knowledge of
the matter, is dead and decently buried
in Auburn or lVestminister Abbey. It
is to he .Iarndvce vs. Jarndyce over
again. Th'le briefs aul attorneys thick
en. and costs accumulate:1 . lit+- parties
litigant wi!l hliutll, into coirt and hlut
flte out stf t iste.ne*.. l-equeatl.inug their
enlllllities and interests to some unfortu
natet survivor, and the tog will grow
t bicker until tile great case grows as corn
plicated as the Schleswig-llolsteiu at
fair and dliplomacy will have achieved
another brilliant triumpll of masterly
inactivity. It is a delightfuli state of
affairs for those whose all is ivjol.v-el in
the adjudlication ot the cast-.
FrOMI WANH1NGTON.
ilesignation of Judge Munson.
EL'oT..S PosT: You have probably
heard ere this .t the resignation of Hon.
L. E. Munson. as Associate .Justice ot
Montana. Mr. AMunscn was in town a
day or two since on business, but made
only a short stay. Hl. returned to his
home. New Haven. ('onn., but intends
to visit .lontana the coming winter or
ensuing spring. It has not yet been de
cided who will be nominated to till the
vacancy thus created. Severai names
are suggested. among which are those
ot Mr. W\n. M. 3Stafford of Virginia, W.
\V. Dixon, Eq. of Deer I(lge, and R.
B. Parrott oft elena. Mr. Staflord's
name having been already sent in at the
last session of ('ongress. but not then
acted upon, will stani a goodl chance, as
Mr. ('avanaugh vill not withdraw it.
Some other person may be suggested
however who will be recommended to
the President for nomination, Mr. ('ava
naugh proposing to follow, so far as pose
sible, the wishes of the attorneys re
siding in the district in which the.l udge
will be located.
(4"MMI-. 1ON EH WIL.ON :.- i:: 1P'l " N
M ONTANA.
Much attention is now being drawn
westward by the prospective speedy
completion of the Union Pacific Railk
road. Montana especially is the centre
towards which most inquiries are being
directed. The Commissioner of the
General Land Ollice, lion. Jos. S. Wil
son, in his report now. being prepared
for the coming session of ('ongress.
speaks .very highly indeed of our l'erris
tory. IHe read to us a day or two since
all that part of the report concern!ng
Montana, and also Lis views on the
railroad system of the United States as
connected with the development of
the resources of our country.
and opening of the public domain
He gives Montana a more extended no
tice than any other State or Territory,
placing her in the post of honor. iHe
speaks in the mose flattering terms of
her growth in the past, her prosperity
at present. and brilliants prospects for
the future, awarding at the same time
just praises for her energy in developing
her resources, both mineral and agricul%
tural.
In the 1,rcious "ieta!s. and this pro
duction he renders just dues, and when
the report shall have been issued and
read, Montanians will say that its au
thor is a truei friend ot the "Golden
Summit" Territory.
rilE NOlTIIERN I'A(IF'I( It.li.lt'AI).
Mr. Wilson, in his report, warmly ad
vocates a Northern Pacific Railroad, to
be aided by C'ongress in the same man
ner and amount as was the Union Paci
fic Road.
That portion of the report, regarding
the railroad system referred to above, is
especially interesting, and contains
much wholesome instruction for all who
have the interest of our country at
heart.
The closing portion of the report con
sists of reflections upon the prosperity of
the nation at large during the past-our
increased Territory-advantages of rail
communication between the two oceans,
with other subjects, all of which, taken
either together or separately, are very
In our humble opinion the production
can not be surpassed in diction, arrange
ment, correctness of statements :r gen
eral information. It is full of valuable
truths and statistics, which will, when
read, direct the feet of many pilgrims
mountainwards, most of whom will un
doubtedly turn their steps towards Mon
tana.
(AI'ITOLI.AN GOSSIP.
Portions of Pennsylvania Avenue are
being paved with a pavement of wood,
resembling the Nicholson plan. We
Lope the work will be made uniform and
that soon the whole Avenue will be so
paved Instead of with cobble stones as at
present.
We are having our Indian summer
summer just now, and the weather is
fine Indeed. .
Washington, D. C., Nov. 2, 1868.