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HE HELENA J0URNAL.-Ouf late n0- tee of this little tool of Reorganization, in which we stated that 1t was under the control and in the pay of Col. Ashley, has excited its ''owners, editor, and publisher,' , 10 such pitch of rage, as to draw from them trade of coarse and vulgar invective which the veriest black-guard might envy, but which has no parallel in the newspaper press of our country. For such scunility, we have no reply; but leave 1t to its sure reward, in the disgust and contempt of every decent man who may chance to read Il.

 As something of a curiosity, we will direct attention to one position, assumed by the Journal. He says-s.No honorable man will make statement, which he cannot proue. [ If he does, he heS.n In several respects, this position is characteristic of the source from which it came It is ridiculous, preposter- ous and absurd. Not say thing, atho' it is known to be true, unless it can be proven! If this be so, there is no man in the commit my HoNGNSl Hutfllul dllu CONSCIENTIOUS ie may be, who cannot be convicted of false hood, almost every day of his life For, how many things does he hear, and see, and know, which he may not be able to prouet And if the Journal feel secure against the public judgment and popular censura, be- cause il may not be arraigned in a court of justice, and convicted of venality and corrup- ton, by. positiue proof, according to the technical rules of evidence, let it so abide Butthe repeated declarations of Col Ashley, that the Journal was in his interest and un- der his control, together with the sefvile course of that print in his behalf, leave no room to doubt that it is his organ, and in his pay. If our statement be not true, the falsity of it is chargeable upon Col. Ashley, for he was the first to make it-while the contents of the Journal afford abundant confirmation of it's truth. Even this clamorous demand for s'proof," However awkwardly and absurd ly made, furnishes the strongest evidence

 

 ter, whom it blindly serves, and awaits orders, from s.head quarters" before it dares to speak at all. See the Gazette of last week, and the last Helena Journal, for simultaneous denial of every thing, and demand for proof Who doubts that this troke of policy (wor- thy of its author) was dictated by one ndivi. dual-and thM individual the master spirit and expectant beneficiary, of this company of disorganizers If any doubt it, they eith- CT cannot, will not, or dare not see and think for themselves.

 Lest it may be thought that we have be- slowed more attention upon the Helena Jour- nal than such sheet is worth, it is proper to remark that we are writing for the specia benefit of the scheming speculators who owr and control, rather than any care we have fol the pettiiogger who edits, or the shoe black who publishes it.