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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02

preparing the way in the not distant fu.
ture for a conflict to which tho Great
Rebellion" was but a child's play and,
having given our warning, we tell them
that if blood shall be shed, it must be on
their head, and not ours. The Demo-
cratic party have been aud are now doing
their utmost to guard agaist unwise legis-
lation iu the interest Of the coolies; We
have taken the ground that these people
are curse to our land we have argued
soberly; dispassionately, disinterestedly in
behalf of our common race, and we shall
not be held responsible in history by CON-
ing ages, if in the future gathering Of
half.starved, idle laboriug men in the
streets of our great cities prove the pre-.
cursor of war of races on the American
continent.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02

INSTINCT IN VEGETABLEs.-The root
constitutes the plants mouth. 1t tcrmin.
ates in little sponge. The sponge drinks
up the moisture from the surrounding
earth. Every boy has seen 10 the woods
the roots Of some tree, planted by the
birds or the winds in the crcviccs Of q
rock, wandering down the sides Of the
great boulder in search of nourishment.
DR.. Davy tells of case in which horse.
chestnut, growing on fat stone, set out
its roots thus to forage for food. They
passed seven feet up a contingous wall,
turned at the top, and passing down seven
feet on the other side, found the need
nourishment there, which their own bar.
ren home denied them. Thus closely
does the instinct of vegetation initiate the
wisdom of the animal creation. In anoth.
er instance, narrated by Malherbe, an
acacia threw its roots across q hollow of
sixty.six feet to find its labors rewarded
by the discovery of we'll of water in
which they plunged, and from which they
drew the food they so much needed. What
strange sense drew them toward the water
rather than toward the rock or the sand !
-Lyma. Ab6ott IN Harpers MostMy.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02

THEATER Boxes IN CmuRcH.-Thc
new proposed church in Clinton avenue,
Newark, is to be built upon the latest i'm
proved plans. The main floor will have
aisles and 172 pews. There will be gal
lery around the whole church, with 20
square compartments, or stage boxes, for
families, each capable of holding II chairs,
with tables in the center for hats and
books. The aristocratic worshippers can
thus perform their devotions apart from
the common throns. The ceiling will be
As feet high, the gallery 10 feet high and
II feet in width. Dimensions of the
church, 10G feet by 64. The estimated
cost will DC $4,000. The present chapel,
which is to remain as an extension, cost
$40,O00.-N Y Times.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02

A Po1NT WE'LL TAKEN.-The New
York Herald makes sharp point in re-
gard to the Southern States being required
to ratify the 18th Amendment as condi-
tion of restoration to the Union. As they
could not be trusted to come in and then
ratify it, they ratified first and then came
in. They were, therefore not in the I'm
ion. Either all the reconstruction laws Of
Congress are invalid, or these Southern
rati6cations of the 10Th Amendment are
invalid. IF the States were in the Union.
there was no need to admit them, and if
they were not in the Union they could not
participate in making laws for the States
that are in.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02
The Cinnamon Gardens Of Ceylon.

The spicy gales of Ceylon are so much
matter of notoriety that considerable
amount of interest is necessarily felt in the
cinnamon gardens. Ancient mariners
have always made it point of shifting the
aromatic zephyrs waited to their ships
from Ceylon-over league or two of sea.
Novices, under similar conditions as to po-
sition, have done their best to believe
they smell cinnamon and spice and all
things nice when directed to do so. And
the spicy gales, born of Ceylon, to be met
with in the Indian ocean, have been, and
are, as much an institution in all poetry
and some prose, as the burning mountains
of Africa and India's coral strands.
Strange, to says, however, the traveller
who goes to Gale falls in with none Of
these perfumed breezes. The odors Of
the engine.room, the hold and the galley
have it all their own way On board as the
steamer rounds her moorings, and continue
to predominant while she is in harbor.
Going ashore, the passenger escapes from
the odors Of the steamer, but he searches
in vain for those of the spice gardens, and
when, at last, he goes to the cinnamon gar
deus themselves, disappointment is his
portion. He expected to fiud wilderness
of odoriferous shrubs-a labyrinth Of
tangled sweets; he discovers, in fact, a
desert Of gravel walks, with here and there
small oasis covered by sickly cinnamon
or barred coffee-shrub There are cocoa.
nut palms in abundance to be sure, and
there are other specimens of tropical vege.
tatien, but nothing is to be seen Of such
an extensive plantation of spice-bearing
trees as would justify the title Of cinnamon
gardens, or in any way account for the
spicy gales aforesaid. In point Of fact,
Ceylon is not, as far as the soil is con-
cerned, so richly productive as is often
supposed. Vegetation is rank enough and
to spare in this small tropical island, but
rice aud cocoauut trees are the only useful
specimens of vegetation that can be said
to flourish, and the commissariat Of the
European residents is often uncertain and
generally dependent on external supply.
Butchers meat is frequently a luxury
that can only be obtained at considerable
cost nor is the scantiness Of ordinary pro-
visions compensated by such luxuries as
oysters, brought from any point halfway
between Gale and Colombo, bird's-nest
soup, or sea-weed pudding. a}
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02

MEN WHO WIN WOMEN.-God has 50
made the sexes that women, like children,
cling to men-lean upon them as though
they were superior in mpd and body.
They make them the suns Of systems, and
their children revolve around them. Wo-
men who have good minds and pure hearts,
want men to lean upon. Think Of their
revereucing drunkard, liar, fool, or a
libertine. Ifa man would have q woman
to do him homage, he must be manly in
every sense q true gentleman, not after
the Chesterfield school, but polite because
his heart is full of kindness to all one
who treats her with respect, even defer
euce, because she is q woman; who never
coudescends to say silly things to her
who brings her up to his level, if his mind
is above hers who is never over-anxions
to do right; who has no time to be frivo-
lous with her. Always digni6ed in speech
and act; who never spends too much upon
her never yields to temptation, even ii
she puts it in his way; ambitious to make
his mark in the world whether she en-
courages him or not who is never faniliat
with her to the extent of being an adopted
brother or cousin who is not er.careful
about dress; always pleasant aud consider
ate, but always keeping his place Of the
man, the head, and never losing it. Such
department, with noble principles, good
mind, energy, and industry, will win any
woman in the world who is worth winning
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02

SHORT WoRDs.-That part Of bur
speech which comes from our sires far
back in the days of yofe Is made up, il
large part, of these short words which w
can speak with one pulse Of the breath and
one stroke Of the tongue. The stream oe
time, through long tract If years, and
from lands not our own, has brought down
to DIS a vast drift Of 4 new aud stransG
terms, poor as they are long I; and 81
which We lose in strength more thaDs ~
gain in sound. But the good old stock a
words is not lost. They shine out hsFe
and there from the heap, in bright point
like stars when fog dims the air, Or fh9
face of the sky Is dark With cloud4 1t
will pay us for our toll to miusa onAs sthaas
gems, and string them on the ehait of 6dF
thoughts, which will then shine wilhss'1
new light; and, though the tohgus ny
lose in sound, it will Ee III the moreft q
speak all that the deep soul cana afselslsalas
: The heart beah throb By thrsos md
thus the tougueshould keep piutuA9 xAiIeit
vents the hearts joy and pains. The tlrs6f
life and lore Of the head may cal tor teema
cold and long; but let al that ths hsssA
thinks and feels como from thsv dsT1hpsse
the soul in "thoaght that bleal1A ~
words that burn" 50 sing the fspl tl
of earth a they twang tho lyre, and LA
The Gre Of thsir sonh she'd - eWn Iight
and gilds the seens with il own eAsznA
st will bs seen that all the words n tAle
article are moncsyllables,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02

- They evidently don't believe in
cheap legislation down in Alabama. Some
enterprisiog reporter has been figuring ur
the cost Of the General Assembly Of that
State for the last month and comparing il
with the work done, and he finds that the
people have to pay just 5000 for every
bill that reaches the Governors table!
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02

B6r A French chemist has invented .
fluid which will be found extremely valu-
bic by swindling debtors. A man who
gives his creditor promissory note moist
ems the paper with the fluid, and a month
afterwards nothing remains oft but little
dust.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02

TRUE.-The Ohio State Journal, which
is thoroughly Radical, says that "Protee-
tiou is nat fpv farmers;" but that " Protee-
lion i. for tie Iankee capitalist, UAe I"
starting a n,anufaetory Of some sort"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02

pS- At least thousand Radicals, all
through the country, have the identical
gun with which John Brown defended
himsclfa at Harpcr's Ferry.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02

n There are 12S monasteries in the
United States, where men live under the
vows Of celibacy and poverty, and 500
nunueries Of various grades.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02

TIE FOoT LATHE FOR \ PROFESSIONAL
MAN. trust my admiring reader will
not think | have taken up a new fancy or
have become hobhyhorsical. 1t is now
over 40 years since became the owner of
lathe. 1t was clumsy. wooden concern
even t" the driving wheel, and the whole
apparatus cost but seven dollars. Since
then | have seldom been without one
though always, till very lately, had some
very cheap, second hand affair, But the
difference in the enjoyment of il good tool
over a poor one is imncasurablc.
1t you want tool to be the center of
all manner of tink"rin. and mcnling. or
for exercise that is gentle and cheap or
for calling the mind eli from anxiety or
hard thinking, or for the training Of the
boys in the family, or for hca!thiul and
artistic creations, know Of no instrument
to be compared to the lathe. Unlike the
horse, it does not eat it,elf up in Il single
winter, nor demand Il hired man to groom
it, nor fill your clothes with the smell of
the stable if you groom it yourscH. 1t
will not get spraincl or lame. 1t is easily
kept in order and the results are so quick
so varied and so beautiful that you never
get tired of it, 70 men in my profcs.ion
and to artisans. and to men of taste and
means united, | can hardly speak of it too
warmly. In Europe, many 1T the very
best amateur turner's are among the pro
fcssors aud clcrsy.-Hcc. DR.. Ioli
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02

Rssyn Blanks, bil-hcnls, cards, circulars,
catalogues, bills of fare posters programmes
pamphlets, etc, printed ut reasonable rates.
OFrIcE-Corncr of Second aud Washington
Streets.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02

SIZE OF OuR GREAT I.AKEs.-Thc la
test measurements of our fresh water seas
arc these:
The greatest length Of Lake Superior is
735 miles; its greatest breadth, l6D miles !;
mean depth. GSS feet; elevation, G27 feet; !;
area. $4,000 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Michigan
is 800 miles its grcatest breadth, l0S
miles; mean depth, 900 feet; elevation
507 feet; area, 23 3,o00 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Huron is
200 miles its greatest breadth Of lGo
miles; mean depth, 900 feet; elevation,
pa feet ; area. 20, 600 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Erie is $50
miles; its greatest breadth, 80 miles !;
mean depth, 81 feet elevation, 555 feet !;
area. 5000 square miles.
The greatest length Of Lake Ontario is
1S0 miles; its greatest breadth, 50 miles !;
mean depth, 500 feet; elevation, 2Gl feet !;
area, 6,O00 square miles.
The length of all five is 1885 miles,
covering an area of 10000 square miles.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02

st will bs seen that all the words n thlo
article are monosyllables.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-06-10
[Pubiic-No. 59.l

An Act to incorporate the Washington Hence
pathic Medical Society.
| BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
reseata .ives Of the United States of America in
ngress assembled, That Tullio s. Verdi. Gus
| tave W. Pope C W. Sonnenschmidt. L. S Kim
ball and Jehu Brainerd, and their associates and
| successors. physicians, be. and they hereby are,
made a corpOration BY the name of the Washing
ton Homeopathic Medical society, with all the
powers and privileges, and subject to all the
duties, liabilities, and restrictions set forth in
this act.
SEC = And be it further enacted, That said
corporation may hold real and personal estate to
the amount Of twenty Thousand dollars.
SEC. 3 And lie it further enscted. That tie
members of said society, such of their Officer )
members as they shall appoint shall have the
power to practice medicine and surgery and col
lect their fees within the District Of Coluinbit-
SEC L. And be it further enacted, That the
members of said society, or such Of their oficers
Sr members as they shall appoint, sha In. fun
power and authority to examine all candidates
FIR membership concerning the practice of specific
medicine and surgery, provided said candidates
shall sustain 4 geod moral cha acier. ami shall
pre-en, letters testimonial Of their qualifications
from some legally authorized medical institution
and if, upon such examination. the same cand-
dates, without exception on account Of color,
shall be founl Gualihe,i for the practice of medi
cine and surgery they shall receive the certificate
of membership or the license TO prsct &c medicine
or surgery within the District of Columbia.
SEC. ). And be it further enacted, hat any
acts or parts Of acts conflict NJ with the proys
ions of this act be- and are hereby, repealed.
Approved April y $50.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-06-10
(Publ,c Resolution-No IS.

Resolution to pass TO the credit of the National
Asylum for disabled volunteer soldiers the
funds belonging to it for the relief Of sick and
wounded soldiers.
Res lived by the Senate and House Of Represen-
tatiyes of the United stafes IF America in Con-
gress assembled. That the unexpended balance
If the fund created by the seventeenth section of
the act approved February 24ih, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-fsur, for the benefit Of the sick
and wounded saliiers. shall be transfer ID t the
National Asylum fr Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
for the support Of its benehciaries.
Sec , And be it further resolved. That the
M neys wthheld because of the desertion Of any
person fl ON the volunteer forces of the United
States, who il borne tie rolls as deserter,
shall not be paid to him except the record Of de-
serien shall have been Cancelled the sole ground
that such record has been made enormously and
contrary to the facts, but such money shall be
and remain the property of the National Asylum
for DiSbauded Volunteer Soldiers for the support
Of its beneficiaries.
Approved March l, 1870.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-06-10

emu Zone
Reit enacted by the Senate AMI House Of Repre-
sentatiSes of the United States of America in CJn
gre,s assembled. That the following sums be, and
the same are hereby, appropriated ont Of any
money in the treasury not other wise appropriated
for the support Of the Military Academy for the
year ending the thir;ieih of June, eighteen hun
ored and seventy-one:
F.r additional pay OF officers. and for pay of in
structOrs. ,dets. and mu.ic ianS two hundred and
five thousand hundred and ninety three dollars
and twenty cents;
Fer clerks to treasures, one thousan fved hun
Dire: dollars;
For contingent expenses Of the departments of
mathematics, artillery, cavalry. and infantry,
and military engineering natural and experiment
tai PHILOSOPHY, AMI compensation to attendant,
three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;
For new press, type. and materials for office,
aud diplomas for graduates, one thousand three
hundred dollars;
Eor transportation. twelve hundred dollars;
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-06-10

A Resolution to extend the port Of entry Of the
collection district OF New Orleans
Resolved by the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatives Of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the limits OF the port oil
New Orleans a port Of entry be enlarged and
extended so as to include all that portion of the
parish Of jefferson, left bank, in the State OF
Louisiana, lying between the Mississippi river and
Lake Pontchartrain. and between the upper line
Of the parish of Orleans, left bank, and line
running parallel thereto, commencing at the
Mississippi river at the upper lire Of the city of
Carrollion. and extending to Ial Q Pun'chartrain.
Sec , And lie it further Owed, That this
resolution >hali take effect frem and after the
date Of its passage
Approved February ,, $50.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-06-10
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
OFFICE OF THE COUNTY AssEssrR.)
OgxsBY COUNTY, NEVADA,
Carson CRY, May Q 1870.
A IL PERSONS LIABLE TO PAY STATE AND
n County Taxes, for the year 1870. are hereby
notified that the annual Poll-tax of Four Dollars,
for the use of the State and County, due from each
u.ale resident Of this State over twenty one and
under sixty years Of age,
Il Now Due and Payable.
To the County Assessor or his Deputy; and all are
expected to pay said tax when called upon. And
also, that the taxes on the personal property Of
persons Who do not own real estate within the
County Of sufficient value to secure the taxes on
both their real and personal property, are due and
payable when the same is assessed. All taxes
payable in United stat.s gold coin.
The laws provided for the collection Of the above
mentioned taxes will b. strictly enfprced.
GEORGE ". CHRDIC.
Coanty A0sssor.
OS1se: Next dor = q Cos.ty Clerks o9ss.
UseAty building. axlEsY nvS.An
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lOFFICIALl
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Second Session of the Forty
FIRST Congress.
CIIINA-ls6S.

AprrrIoxsL ARTICLES TO THE TREATY BETWEEN THE
UNITED STATES AND ceINA. OF JUNE Is. ISIS.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-06-10
Public H.

An Act making appropriations for the support of
the Military Academy for the fiscal year end
ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sew
euIN-nue.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-06-10

An Act to incorporate the Washington Hemeo-
pafhic Medical Society.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-01


The grocery trade of our city, next to.
cotton, is our most important interest, and
the capital employed is large. We have
in our midst eighty-four wholesale liquor
and grocery houses, whose aggregate
sales viii foot up about. SIS, 900, 900, several
houses doing each a business of over
81, 600, 900. This branch of trade has In
creased during the year, md bids fair to
improve more rapidly during the coming
season. Several new houses commence
business to-day with the new commercial
year. While business has been heavy, we
cannot boast of the profits aceruing from
the trade. The shrinkage of gold unset
tied values, and for some months dealers
were selling at a loss; but the war ex-
citement in Europe and the consequent
advance IN prices, may Offset the decline
to some extent. We know of no failure
in this trade during the year., and our
houses are now upon the sound and SUBJ
stantial basis they enjoyed and were
noted for previous to the wan. Besides
our wholesale houses there are hundreds
of retail dealers, who. in the aggregate, do
an immense business; but our space will
not admit of going into detaiIs. ~
Dry Goods. -o-s
Our next interest in point of value Is
that of dry goods, The wholesale trade
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-01
Sales of Reyenue Stamps.

The chief of the stamp division of the
Internal Revenue Bureau at Washington,
has prepared a tabular statement showing
the amount of business done for the fiscal
year lSG9-70, which will be Incorporated
in the Commissioner next annual report.
The number of document stamps printed
by tho Continental Bank Note Company
in 1869, was lis, oil pa, and for 1870, $780,
295, l41. Notwithstanding the increase in
the number of stamps the government
has realized less by $63, 13l than from the
sales for the year 1869. The increase in
the sale of stamps seems to have been con-
fined TO those of the lower denomina-
tions, ranging from two to fifty
cents. Tho. falling off in the receipts
is attributed to the lessend demand
for stamps Of the higher denominations.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-01
Memphis City Tax Assessment.

The city tax assessment has been agreed
upon this year at 81 per 500 in the old
eight wards and 81 so in b Ninth and
Tenth Tor newt wards. This, regarded by
many persons as an excessive rate, Is
really less and will produce less by $26,6 GIL
than the assessment of 81 rs made last
year. Thus, last year the taxable vslua-
ton OF property in the ten wards COM
prising this city was SIS, SIS, 304, upon
which there was assessed a tax of 81 rs on
the si00, which produced q total tax Of
$499,2 46 SO. This yea the total valuation
of property in the ten wards of the city
amount to S24, 075, 600 "a, 49, 1874 less than
last year., from which, at a tax of - on the
500, there will be produced a total take Of
A72,625, or S26,6l1 less than the tax re-
ceipts of 1869.
As an item of information we append
the following tabular statement of the
valuation of real and personal property
in the city of Memphis from and inclusive
of 1S60 and 1870:
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-01

reflex. We shall be happy If they lead to
Che only result we aim at-correctness and
hdellty in presenting the trade transae-
tons Of our attractive city-which may
1--WE viii respectfully suggest) be done in
the future by the employment by the
Chamber of a sufficient clerical force ade-
quately remunerated. And this, we are
assured, cannot be afforded by that body
until a majority of the merchants of the
city voluntarily and heartily support it
as members. and exert themselves with
pride to keep it up. We subciit our re-
port, as follows:
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-01
FINANCIAL.


BY the kindness and courtesy ofthe city
authorities, we are able to lay before the
readers of the APPEAL as not the least
valuable part of this report, the following
tables, showing the assets and liabilities
at the close of the financial year, and the
receipts and expenditures of the city Of
Memphis for the year ending August l,
1870; also the character and amount of
bonds outstanding, the taxable property
and that exempt from taxation:
AssETs AND LIABILITIES OF THE CITY
" OF MEMPHIS, AUGUST 1, 1870.