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NTe Rocky Mollntaill Husbandman. R. N. SUTHERLIN, Editor. THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1878. A WORD of welcome and encouragement to the immigrants who are daily arriving in our Territory would not, we think, be amiss, since man has a strong propensity to look oni the. dark side of things,. particularly when he feels himself to he a stranger in a strange land. There is ample room in Mon tana for all who are here now and may come for.yealrs, and opportunity in every branch of industry for labr whereby they may be come useful citizens. The great question which naturally suggests itself to the new comer is what. to do torra livelihood. This question may be easily answered tas follows: Do whatever you, wish,, if you have the means; if Iots do whatever you can. There is no lack of opportnuity for investment to those who have. means. Those who had only money enough to bring them here, and who find themselves afoot and alone, with> out a dollar or a friend, may, of course, find it a little rough sailing. until they become acquainted with the.customs of the country. The only course for such is to accept. the first thing that offers. After they have worked a few months, and are a little ahead, they will be well enough acquainted to look out for ,suqh an occupqtion as suits them. Our mjners are without limit, and will. affortl remuperatiut employmgnt for thousands. Our valleys are the most beautiful, and fer tile in the, Wst ; ..only tickle the soil' with a plpwshare, throw. ,on the grain l~gadcast, open the flood., gate of, some, mountain stream, and in due time it.will smile with a golden harvest. Our stock range is limited omly by our Territorial, boundary, and all that is required of the.. herdsman is to get the stock and tend ,theiir, breeding; nature will furnish feed, winter :and summer. The voung man who has lust arrived fromr the States should not ,become discouraged because gold nuggets are not as, thick as. gravelstones, and dates grow notupon our forest pines, but set to work in earnest. H.omestead orpre-empt a ranch and set about ,to improve it.; gather a few stock about you -they.,will multiply without care-and In a few years, by industry and economy, the poorest of to-day may be the possessor of a home-a bright, sunny mountain home that he would not exchange for two such as his father's in the far-off States-vine-wreath ed and shady though it may be-productive ness, scenery and health considered. The immigirant must banish the thought of pick ing up a fol:tun9 in ta year or two, if he wishes to succeed, and set about his work as if located for life. He should not rush from. one business to another becaus'. dollar..io nt roll up fast enough t9 .met-lis youthful, anticipations. Tliere dis lthh* madetJy. hurrying. Begin upon a sure. founda~oji, and be content to gr.w with the growtih!of the country. That will be rapi,!.,, THERE is a class of <rcading,"mattee, with which every printing office irsthe land is be ing flooded, such as "Our Washington Let ter," "Our Special -Correspondence from New York," etc., which in h our qstimatio1l, sinks below the .patente newspappr in point of value. These letters, are gotten up in some dingy office in a remote part of the great cities, by experts, .who haveaio more personal knowledge of Ole things of which they write than we llave,, but, mnake.-their letters from the city papers, intermigling enough fiction to give them the appearance of having emanated frolm one thoroughly. acquaited ' with the matters .ud having taken actual observation of events as related. These letters are offered us for a mere nom inal sum in cash pr advertising, with the as surance that no other paper in the vicinity is to have the same letter.. The offer is in deed generous, aigl woul dsave us labor. It is cheaper tihan writing, mand, we regret to say, of a cheap quality,: too cheap to be worth! printing, r even worth vuading when it is pritoted. , 'he leading feaure in this tine tie coming summer.will be .ýQur.Paris Letter," or -'The Great Exposion." ThIese wifl be gotten up,in the same dingy office where "Our Centennial Letters" were coin ed, andl will be a rehash of the same matter, with a little French interspersed here and tltere just to give it tone. We are necessar tl .N-ouipelled. to decline all su)t shoddy ef fairs. Our space is valuable, and whbn we fill it with correspondence it must be from persons whom we know to be reliable, and written expressly for our columns. We oc casionally have a New York letter, but these are prepared for our paper and no other. During the summer we may secure a Wash ington or a Paris correspondence, but, like our New York correspondence, they will be genuine and written for our paper alone, and have the merit of truth:. REWRITTEN. --Thte M iirphy movement is spreading likewild.-fire in Missouri.. -A.new motor has been invented (carbon) whose. power is said to be triple that of steam,: -In the Indian TIerritory the style of mourning has been changed from black to spotless white. -The first bar of steel ever manutacired in the South was rolled last week at a mill in C-hattanooga, Tennessee. -Caleb Cushing is the only survivor of the large company raised in Newburyport, Mass., for the Mexican war. -Bishop Elliott, of Texas, is trying .to ef fect a repeal of the law under which bull fighting is licensed in that State. -It is stated that as many as 7,000 salmon are often. taken at one haul of the seine in Alska, some of them weighing.from 45 to 100 pounds each. -The graduating class ot the Women's College, at Binghampton, has -voted, to pray for Bob Ingersoll's conversion ,"to religion and common sense." -Another good man astray!'George S', Stevens, Treasurer of the Pittstield Tenmper ance Club, has been arrested for the embezzli ing money set apart for free soup. -I-a the schools under the control of the London School ,Bbard4 teachers, male and female, usually begin, at $350SO year, and thegreateronumber do not getlbeyond $450. -Russla.preserves eight crowns.of prov inces conquered at various times and joined to the empire-Siberia, the Crimea, Kiew. Astrakan,. Kasan, Finland, Poland, Krus slnia,. -The Roman Municipal Council has re solved, '"in homage to liberty of conscience," to limit religious instruction in its schools to those scholars whose parents request it, -and at separate hours. -India is becoming a very serious com petitor with the United States in the wheat market. The value of wheat she exported in 1875 was £14,141; in 1876, £223,47, ,.and in 1877, £500,733. -Alaska is reported ,to abound .in silver and gold mines, .and ,experienced. miners predict that the 'Teuritory will eventually yield more precious, metals, -than bh i Cali forniaand Nevada. -John Morrissey was supposed to beal most a millienaire ; but since hisedeath:it, is. discovered that he has property valued only at $40,000. He leaves all to his wife except $10,.000 to three sisters. -Th.ere is a factory ,in Davenport, Iowa, for making sugar frim Indian corn. The product somewhat resembles maple sugar, at.teisells readily in the .neighborhood.. The syrup is especially liked. . -We hear of odd things sent< through the New, York Post Offlee, such as live snakes, turtles, etc., but a short time ago a goose berz. pie was forwarded through the Lon don General Post Office. -Bull fights have just.been introduced at Marseilles, atnd attracted ap. immense crowd., iucluding;, .however, very fem.. women; but the.danger and cruelty of a Spanish exhibi tion were to some extent avoided. -It has cost the: Lake Shore and Michi gan Sdut ern Railroad $453,800 to settle the claims of one hundred and thirty-nine of the, victims,.living and deadl of the Ashtabiula disaster. Therg are $eventeen cases still 'umadjudicated. -The Pope has. recentlyireceived a mag nificent present. The Marquis Duplessis Bellieri has presented lis hotel at: Paris to him for the ý'apal Nun.cio at Paris, and be sides that gilen, l4im lands to the value, of two millions of francs. -Some monasc·ago a man named Packer organized a large colony.. of emigrants in Alleghany county, Md.,t collected consider able money from them, to pay for haudsolne homesteads in Nebraska,4 and conducting them as far as Omaha. "disappeared, leaving them ~ew) ilýs a4Ud frien.udes. -A meeting of the Silk Association of America was held in New York on the 8th. The value of products manufactured during the year was $21.411;436, and the total value of material consumed $12,105,095. -A bonus of £10,000 has been offered 'by the government of South Australia for the, discovery of a coal field within the limits of time province, the reward to he.payable to the discoverer ini sums of $1,000 on each 1, 000 tons oft narketable coal raised at the pit's mouth. -The Supreme Court of theIT.ited States has done very wisely in deciding that the eight-hour law means- eight hours' pay for eight hours' work. There is a manifest in justice in a law which confers upon a few' working men ten hours' pay for eight hours' work. --li is rel)orted to ,thle BRitish Atmiralty that the steam torpco launches ii the Med iterranean have proved failures, on account ot there being iirsufilcient space withbii the shields for the stokers and the men working tihe craft.. 'rie arrangements for steering withih the cover of the shield are also pro nounced inadequate. --A new Irish organization against Eng land is the United Sons of Liberty, which has spread, throughout New England. The I-lead Genter is VWilliam Coninor, of- Law rence, Maiss., all exile of '48. He says that the mnemb!bbrs intend to arm themselves and beready to make an onslaught on England at the first favorable opportunity. He is soliciting contr:itmtions from mill hands with considerable suvcess. -Alaska is a wonderful place for thieves. A correspondent of the San Francisco Chron idle says one merchant in Sitka hires Indians to steal for him, and recently shipped away, a ton of copper that they had taken from the flooring and walls of a Government building for storing-furs." The candlesticks and other silver articles were long ago stolen firom time church, and even metal crosses have been taken trom graves in the cemen tery. There is not a constable -or-:a-j ustice in the Territory, and there is noattempt to enforce any law. -The National declaration of principles is a long one. In the first plice it is declarl ed that the Government should furnish aid' to all who wish to settle on the public landl that is, they should be carried out there tree of charge and set upon farms at the.Govern ment expense. Second, all money to be is sued by the Government, and plenty-of It; the rate of-interest in no case to exceed three per cent, Third, i:jerest in Government bonds tobe paid: in.paper, and no more is sued. Fourth, no speculation in any of the necessaries of fife, money, bonds, food or land.. Next: an income tax- and labor-sav ing machinery to be controlled by the Gov ernment. This is not exactly Communism, but it is quite near enough to it to make all thinking men view the future with alarm. THE TERRITORY. Some parties prospecting towards the head of Gallatin river have recently discovered a gold quartz .'ledge that appears to prospect well on the surface. They intend to sink on the lead, and-1 conk&lently expect to find something veryrich,.hThe same parties also report discovering rich outeroppings of both silver and copper are, specimens of which they brought with them totown the otnih day.-Courier. 0. 11. Churchill arrived 'yesterday from Missoula county with a cattle drive of 1,200O head, destined for the Sun R~ier ranges. Thirty pilgrims arrived to-day from Ben ton by, private conveyance, and .stiltl:the Bentoi} road is thronged, with others comn ing.. Wny Theyser, ot. Bannack City, was re cently: ,found nea:rrSalmon.Cit3y in, a dying condition When discovered.hehoeld, a pistol in Jhis hand,. An examination reveeled the fact that he ,was shot through the head. Be ingta man of good, morals; and one highly esteemed in the community, it seems strange what would cause him to commit such a rash deed. Is there- not a probability that he was follly dealt with ?--He)ald~. A heavy drizzling rain which begain at an early hour Thursday evening gathered force .during the night and toward morning pour ed down in torrents, and .in the early morn ing little crooked streams were induntriously engaged working , .trail t! he..gutters. for, the muddy waters behind. shone out warm and bright a rae sented itself.to the passers-by., walks were 'covered by hi ued, angle-worms, from halIl inches in length, ite, Slelder lows, who squirmed and erigli the sult heated the flfgstones. On the petition of Judge Blh'keaW good citizens cognizalt of the cir ces, John McDonald,' under sentel. year in the Penitentiary for ascalt lent to kill a nman in (llatin cout Tuesday last restored. to liberty i of Governor Potts. Tlie proposed, constructi6n of n telegraph line frbm )Deadwood to.r which now ioly awaits titpl),0 Seniat to become a law, with a so propriation' to construct it, h05 strongly to Montana the advanutage ing connection with the East overti as well us the WV.. U. line. It will strong and reliable for several year as the IV. U. Co.'s line from Franki has been and is in a deplorable eon New North- West. FULL. PARTICULARS OF Te &AID. Len Lewis was at his Jersey rand day night, as usual,i to attend the Early Monday morning, 20th i found his three hbrses'were out of ture; and supposed the creek had away the fence until he examni found it hhd'been taken dowlr:uld casin trackb. About the same W!ilters; who is; working for John came rulnlnginp afoot-John Moo0 in Diamond'Lsaying their horses from the stables and pasture, also dles. bridlhs and halters were gone, had seen eight or nine Iddians folio road leisurely up .the hill thi Moore's. Direetlyt.they saw two of horses coming up on the other side creek, evidently tlly had been and run oft. Len Lewis wahiedd (.reek and caught thim. Cal00took he the other and started home. fid' driving in one band 'as they, wenl s3reakfaist was just over and e t once armed 'themrnel-es. Lbe hadI (hiis favorite horse) out of 'the slat was off toward Moores, soon 'fofl Lon Giles and M. J: Morgan, td i course the Indians had taken.' Cli went to Joe Stephen's and A. IL went from there to Camp Biker formed Col. Gilbert. At 9 o'clbek back. They had found the trill lowed it to one of the gulches lendi dry range-there ]dlt it and separd coming this way and the others he soon ltinnd it again, but the bo out ofhearing, so he 'followed Found where thbey had evidently built a fire and got ready for a l Hle followed it to th& summit of range, and after riding a few mile', ly came in sight of the Indians, traveling very leisurely. There of thebn, so he turned and came hbi help.' C4~. Gilbert got to Lewis' same tUei saying Capt. Cliord on hamit '5soon with fourmen. hasty breakfast an~l changed his still wet tto the waist, andrih half Capt Clifford was there. Gel. Gil back to start a team with sulplies tonwood, where Len believed. heading. Clifford had foul S him. One (McKenna) had been d but re-enlisted to join the party, 5dI stop to change his clothes. In t' time Morgan had returned andj and Charlie Sayre gave' up li Wells. - Lon Giles would have was too late. He and Carl Walt two horses abandoned by the hd belong, to Potter an McDonaald, Len, Morgan and Wells were izens with Clifford. ,, T'hey went where Len abandoned the'Frail, reached three hoItr aftervn't + ed it over a very.rpugh, bird r ver flat. Here they~had:soie keeping it across the stats over t stead of going to CottonwOO, 's> posed.it would, it took the atb road to within a mile and a, = mit, whereit turned intoi the tib nt..,w [es Seventh OD " --