Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-01-22
From Our Poi tland Correspondent.
PORTLAND. dan. II

yood-naturci editor the burden ofpub!ish-
ing his views of m .stcr, and thing, in gen
eral aud putting stage lines, hotels and
steamboats, in particular, provided the au
thor has been dcad-healcd. which is the
case in many instances-m the expense of
Tie cditor, of course. 1t looks to me the
hight ofaudaciiy for a correspondent to APP
rropriate to the base use Of quitting the
editors select columns. The general adj
ycrtiscr can not get these columns for any
price; but your dead headed cores
pendent uses them to inform the c,.itor
that he "spuncel' his way at his expense.
Now Mr.. Editor as have paid all my
little travelling bills, do not propose to
'pur' anybody. stage Inc or hotel Let
them advertise themselves if they will and
pay for so doing.
| FROM OLYMPIA TO MONTICELLO.
In company with eight Olympians took
the stage at your city for Monticello on the
18th inst. At the Halfway House we were
put in an open wagon and two more pas
scngcrS added to our number, together
with nearly half tom OF fret .ht The road
from here to >lcDona!d's is very bad and
we had no change Of horses for distance
of 20 miles The poor dumb brutes were
objects Of pity, and many steep hill did
we walk to relieve them of their burdens.
IT'S a shame and disgrace to thus abuse
the poor animals. | am sure that the So
ciety iorthc Prevention of Cruelty to AMI
mails would find objects worthy of their at
tcntion on the road between Olympia and
Monticello But what can be said in cx-
tcnuation of a company that prctends to Cur.
ry passengers, and charges high rates too,
when they fail to make any effort to fur
nlsh the necessary means OF transportation
Ten miles from Monticello, near dark. our
wagon broke down, and we were cody told
to walk 20 town" The passengers held
an Indignation NEE, ing on The roadside and
unanimously resolved that the stage COM
pany carrying the mail from Olympia to
Monticello is in every way unworthy of
the patronage ofthe travelling public. Your
correspondent having had some experience
in ." iuraging' in the war, struck out aud
seeing farm house in The distance made
for it and pressed wagon found there
into friendly service to carry us TO Month
|
| received Il vote Of thanks from my COM
anions. 1t is not to be wondered at that
you complain of the irregularity of your
mails. Our average time from the Half
way-lTousc to Monticello was, tw0 miles
az hoHr.
At Monticello saw Wilson and Pris0uc
st. Martin, the halt-brced on their way
back to Stcilacoom, the former to serve
three years and the latter his uncxpire1
time. Wilson is ayoung man, whose looks
do not denote the hardened criminal. His
look. and lcmeanor rather excite sympa-
thy than rcproach But the halrhrccd
seems TO be a hardened wretch, devoid Of
all the finer feelings which raise man above
the brute creation. 10 use common
phrase he seemed to care very liltle whc:h-
CT school kept or not
PORTLAND
Still stands on the - Walamct." aad is
very Jealous of its neighbors. 70 talk Of
Sound cities over here is dangerous. Poor
innocent souls they imagine that trade
and commerce will pass right by the safe
and commodious harbors of Puget Sound
and wait two or three weeks at the mouth
of the Columbia, with Il fair chance Of be-
ing dashed against the rocky beach, and
then to crawl snail-lkc up the circuitous
course of the muddy rvcr-all for the sake
of Portland. let Portlanders hug the de-
lusiye dream 1t does them so much good
'twere wicked almost to deny them this.
Railroad seems to be all the excitement
at present. The first section Of Holidays
road is finished, so say the morning papers,
and they ought to know for they were on
:Lc committee en- inspection, and wrote the
usual "pufFs "--may be they got some clar-
ct and piece of Holidays cake. The
road must indeed be in good condition
when it received the appreciation of the
judges in the State, they having come the
plains across-in al or ecagon
The Commercial man. on the contrary,
says the road is not halffnishcd and strongly
insinuates that its morning contemporaries,
are either pettcd by Holidays favors or
held in awe by his uplftcd cutlass. You
have no idea what healthy influence that
little editorial fracas" has had on our two
NOR ming journals. Now people get the
news instead OF the personal quarrcls nth
crto served to them in daily doses. And
they speak so nicely of each other. Hth-
crto it used to be " Unparalleled Stupidi-
ty," and the organ Of the "Black Mail
Ring" now it is ga morning cotcmpor-
ary," a" city journal" That's what comes
of little hickory put to proper use.
Couldn't you prevail upon some of your
quarrcling Republican editors to try the
remedy Of our POULAND, qull-drivers. l
am sure it would succeed. And wouldn't
the result be God-send to their readers?
Try the hickory, gentlemen. There is vir-
tue in it.
The Democratic State Central Commit
tee met here last Saturday and appointed
the 23d of March as the time and Albany
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