Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1864-01-23

running between here and tho provinces
furnish opportunities for smuggling, though
this is done upon so petty scale that the
loss to the Government is by no means COM
mensurate with the risk to the smugglers. 1t
is no. customary for the inspectors to oversee
very closely the discharging of these vessels,
which arc simply visited from time to time,
one inspector frequently having the supervis-
ion of several of them. But on one occasion
an inspector suspecting something wrong, de-
voted his whole attention to the discharge of
one of these crafts The captain was evident
ly uneasy-the work of discharging cargo
went on slowly-every one seemed impatient
but the imperturbable inspector, who patient
ly watched the proceedings, sealing up the
matches when he went to his meals. Finally
the captain, seeing that his detention in port
was likely to be long and expensive, an
nounccd that he had on board five hundred
pairs Of stockings which were forwarded by
Union sympathisers in Nova Scotia as gift
to Maine regiment! A grim smile lighted
mp the countcnance of the inspector at this
sudden development Of Union sympathy in
Nova Scotia, and the Collector, in considera-
ton of the munfcence of the gift, consented
to overlook the accidental omission of the
importation in the manifest. So Maine
regiment got supply of nice stockings, aud
xhe Nova Scotians got credit for degree of
goo feeling toward our government which is
hardly borne out by the published advices
from that quarter.
CRUEL PRorosIrIoN.-An exchange ad-
visrs its readers to preserve files of Demo-
cratic papers for future reference, and thinks
that in few years "they will be Invaluable
as proof Of a fact that will seem incredible
when the country shall have emerged from
the dark cloud Of rebellion; that any man
calling himself an American citizen. much
more than an entire party, too. claiming the
sole credit Of having brought the country to
the highest pinacle of prosperity, power and
fame, = party invoking the names of Jefferson
and Jackson-should, at tho moment Of i'm.
minent peril, when the question was salvation
or ruin, have adopted the incendiary's part,
and sought the destruction Of the entire fab
1ic If you keep A. scrap book, cut out and
preserve the list of delegates and candidates,
the proceedings of their conventions. their
platforms. their speeches: paste in their edi-
torals, their news items, their jokes-any-
thing, in fact, from any Peace Democratic
paper, published anywhere; and it matters
not which side up you place tlem-the un.
mistakable stamp Of treason pervades them
all. In the days of cooler thought that will
come BY and by. these sketches will horrify
their painters. and turn to specters that will
not down at their bidding.
No CHrLDREN.-We talk of Adam and
Eve, says an exchange. as having been be-
fore the fall in hapy condition; but one
thing they missed-they never were children
Adam never played hockey" he never
drove tandem of boys with a string, ht
never skated on a pond, or played ball o,
rode down hill on hand sled. And Eve
never made play house, she never took tea
with another little girl, from tea-table SET
out with tea-things; she never rolled hoop
'or jumped rope, or pjeced baby quilt, OF
'dressed doll. They never played blind
,nan's buff, or pussy wants corner. Or hurly
'burly or any games of which childhood dis
ports ITSELF How blank their memory must
have been within! no visions Of early you'll
came swelling up their hearts; no memories
Of childhood floating back from the long past
mo mothers voice chanting lullaby to the
ear of infancy in the still hour Of night; nc
fathers words of kindness speaking from tho
church yard where ha sleeps. Adam and
Eve, alone, of all the countless millions o.
men and women that have ever lived, had nc
childhood.
q The public schools of Vicksburg hav.
been reopened, after noisy intermission O
two years or more. Colorcd schools have
also been established.
~ Calico is eight dollars yard in Mo
bile. and new boots are one hundred dollars
pair.
- Brief and witty, short and pretty.