Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-03-05
Prom the Seattle Tn,eIlIgencer
Puget Sound and Washington Terri
tory,

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King County has a population of
about 1000, being nearly equally divid.
ed between town and county, the popu-
lation Of the town having doubled with.
10 the last eighteen months. There is
no other town III the county, Seattle be.
ing the county seat. There are eighteen
stores (of all dpscriptiOns,) some of them
with as fine stocks Of goods az can be
found In any towns otitside Of the larger
cities Of the coast A large steam saw.
mill contributes largely to the business
Of the place, and is kept running the
greater part Of the time 70 supply the
local deniand for lumber. Although
soniewhat behind our neighboring conn.
ties III regard to Public Schools, am
happy to say that the foundation is laid
for splendid Public School House.
which Will supply long needed want.
II Is scarcely necessary to state that our
Territorial University, under the manage
nent OF Professor Hall, has proved a sue
cess, as the large number of scholars now
in attendance will bear testimony. The
farming lands bordering The shores Of the
Sound and our rivers, are nearly all taken
for distance of thirty hiles, but there
are $4,000 acres of the finest agricultn-
raj lands, great portion of which is pra-
RE, which are as yet unoccupied, though
rapidly being taken up and improved.
1t has been the object of all the early set
tiers to get farms on the river, or with
water communication to Seattle. and by
so doing have overlooked the most valu-
able portion OF the farming lands. Our
soil is unsurpassed by any State or Terri.
tory in the United States for productive
ness; Our climate is most invigcrating-
our summers delightful, and our winters
with scarcely any exception SO mild
that vegetation grows the year round.
The writer, has growing in the open air,
rose bushes that are now in bud, nearly
to bursting, and tulips, &c, that are in
bud and nearly in blossom.
Town property can be had at most rea-
sonable figures, Notwithstanding this is
the n. p. K. X. Terminus. Good build
ing .ots, five blocks from the business
center OF the town, can be had from $l25
to $3.50; building material and labor as
cheap as in the East labor is hard to be
got-a good laborer readily earning from
50 so to 50 so per day; hands in the mill
usually y receive $40 per month; choppers
in the logging camps from $50 to $50
per mouth. As a general thing the log
glng camps are independent of the mills; !;
loggers sell their cargoes where they can
do the best. Many parties have come
here with limited means, and gone to log
ging, and are now running large camps,
and making money.
Foi persons Of limited means Pnget
Sound is the place, We want emigra-
ton to open up the different resources OF
the country, and | think | will be horne
out i'll the assertion that any person com
ing here, possessed of ordinary intclli.
gence, that will enter int, any business,
trade or occupation, wi !, with proper
economy and industry, make tor them
selves Il fortune.
HUMAN LIFE Human life is as the
journey of day we rise in the morn
iug of youth full Of vigUr and full of eX-
pectalion we set forward with spirit
and hope, With gaiety, aud with dill
gence, and travel or awhile III tire direct
road, piety, towards the mansions of rest.
In Il short time we remi. our fervur and
cndeayor 10 find some mitigation of our
duty aud some more easy means of OBJ
tanning the same end. We then relax
our vIgor and resolve no longer to be ter
rtied with crimes mt Il distance; but rely
upon our own constanc7. and venture to
approach what we resolve never to touch;
we thus enter the bowers of ease, and re-
pose in the shades OF security. Here the
heart soitens and vigilance subsidies; we
are then willing TO inquire whether an.
other advance cannot he made, and
whether we may not at least turn our
eyes upon the garden OF pleasure. We ap-
proach them with scruple and hesitation;
we enter them. but enter timorous and
trembling; and always hope to pass
through them without losing the road of
virtue, which for awhile we keep in our
sight, and to which we purpose Ioreturn.
But temptation succeeds temptation, and
one compliance prepares us for another ;
we in time hose the happiness OF inno-
cence, and solacc our disquiet with sen
sual qualification. BY degrees we let
fall there mcmbrance of our original in.
tention, and quit the only adequate OBJ
iect of rational desire. We entanglc our.
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selves in luxury, and rove through laby.
rinths of Inconsistency till the darkness
OF old age begins to invade us, and dis
ease and anxiety ohstruct' our way we
then look back upon oar lives with hor-
ror, with sorrow. with repentance, aud
wish, but too often vainly wish, that we
had not forsakcn the Ways OF virtue
Happy are they who shall learn from thy
example, not to despair, that reformation
is never hopeless, nor sincere cudeavors
lever unassisted that the wander may
at length return, after all his errors, and
that he who implores streugth and cour-
age from abovej shah find danger and
difficulty give way before him.
A WORD TO BoYs.-Make yourselves
Indispensable to Your employers that Is
the golden path to success. BE so indus
trious, so prompt, SO careful, that if you
are absent one hour of the usual time you
will be missed, aud he in whose service
yod are shall Say, 81 did not dream
that W--was SO useful" Make your
employer your friend, performing with
minGteness whatever task he sets before
you, and above all, be not too nice 10
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