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Compliments OF Each Other.

In the Port Townsend Argus of 9th
ult. is an article relating to the visit of
Ben Holiday and European banker to
the Sound ports, the previous week on
board the steamship Oriaamme-in which
hint is expressed that their presence
manifested the construction of competing
railroad to Puget Sound, as an extension
of the great Penusylsania Centrsi .syste1u.-
Of lines, to enter into competition with the
Northern Pacific road.
IF it is true that the famous Z" Tom"
Scott, ycleped "the railroad king" has
determined upon such project, instead Of
being competition with the Northern
Pacific, to our idea, it is the very adjunct,
that seems the fruition of completeness to
what must have been required by the plans
Of those who devised the Northern Pacific
enterprise. The main trunk of the lafter
road running on the 46th parallel, has at
present no developed scheme Of laterals 10
connect the transit of China and 1ndia
commerce with the Central and Southern
States; this would continue the Asiatic
trade to the Central line from San Fran
cisco, as the shortest route to those sec-
tions.
When the road is made from Montreal
to Duluth, which is now in process Of COM
mencement, the Northern Pacific line will
be, per Sc, the ans-contineDtal railway
from Asia to Europe-having continuous
line from Puget Sound to Halifax, dis
tance Of 31O0 miles-and within FIVE days
steam Of European ports. For this trade
and transit 10 other road can ever compete,
unless the Dominion shall carry into effect
their overland road, which does not seem
likely ever to be constructed, from the
present Canadian temper on the subject.
The entrance of the Central system of
railroads upon the Sound, will only assume
the business which otherwise would 20 to
San Francisco, and gives the Northern
Pacific, at least four hundred miles interior
on the western slope, connection souther-
ly and central, by which all their Chinese
and other Asiatic goods will avoid back
transit of thousand or more miles, iU
competition with the Eastern transporta-
tion from San Francisco. This so.called
competing line is said to be run from Salt
Lake to Puget Sound and if ever COM
pleted, will be one Of the most profitable
feeders to the Northern Pacific that enters
into its system Of connections. It enters
into no competition with the shorter route
to Europe nor the way business on the
north, and makes the Northern Pacific
practically Central road Kalama
Beacon. -.... f.. .r..t
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The Governments Pet.

Smith, the negro cadet, after keeping
West Point in hot water ever since he has
obtruded upon the Academy, has finally
been court-martialed for divers offenses,
found guilty, and sentenced to be expelled
from the institution. The finding OF the
Court Martial was forwarded to the Secre-
tary of war, whereupon he issued the TO-
lowing singular order:
In conformity with the sixty-ffth ofthe
rules aud articles Of war, the proceedings OF
the general Court Martial in the foregoing
case have been forwarded to the Secretary
of war for the action of the President OF
the United States. The proceedings, find
ings and sentence are approved; but in
view of oil the circumstances surrounding
this case, and believing that the ends OF
public justice will be better subserved and
the policy Of the government, Of which the
presence of this cadet in the Military Acad-
emy is a signal illustration, be better main
tained by a Communication Of the sentence
than by its rigid enforcement, the Presi-
dent is pleased to mitigate by substitut-
ing for dismissal from the service OF the
United States reduction in his Academy
standing one year. Cadet Smith will join
the succeeding fourth class at the COM
mencement of the next academic year.
The sentence as commuted will be duly
executed. w. w. BELKNAP,
Secretary of War.
The New York World puts into the
Presidents mouth the following good rea-
son for so remarkable an order:
"All that we want at West Point is ne.
gro. Smith is worthless fellow, to DC
sure, but so for the matter OF that are all
negroes. We probably should be no bet,
ter off with any other negro. They are all
alike. Let us put Smith back for year
That will save us from the necessity OF ap-
pointing another negro to succeed him
He is our black flag Let him wave.
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voice he loved so we'll only two years be-

soi00 "0 Ao'ou oo "oA oniy wv ye"io W.
fore.
"What are you making, Lizzie?"
GA pair Of slippers. Don't you re-
member how much you admired the pair
worked for you, oh, ever so long ago."
Il remember-black velvet, with flow
ers on them. l used to put my feet on
the fender, and dream of blue eyes and
bright curls, and time would move faster
to the day when l could bring my bonnie
wee wife home, to make music in my own
house"
Lizzie's face saddened for moment as
she thought of the past two years, and
how little music she had made for his low
ing heart, gradually weaving it from its
allegiance, then she said
II wonder if you like music as we'll as
you did thcn?"
"Of course I do. I often go in at Miss
Smiths for nothing else than to hear the
music"
II can play and sing better than Miss
Smith," said Lizzie, half pouting.
"But you always say you are out Of
practice when l ask you"
Il had the piano tuned this morning.
Now open it and VIC will sec how it will
sound"
William obeyed joyfully, and tossing her
sewing aside, Lizzie took the stool. She
had sweet voice-not powerful, but most
musical-and she was very fair perform
er on the piano.
Ballads, Lizzie ?"
"Oh, yes, l know you dislike opera
music in the parlor."
One song after another with mcclure
or lovely instrumental piece occasionally
between them, filled up another hour
quite pleasantly.
The little mantle clock struck eleven.
"Eleven l thought it was about nine.
l ought to apologize, Lizzie, as l used to
do, for staying so long; and l can truly
say, as l did then, that the time has passed
so pleasantly can scarcely believe it is SO
late"
The piano was closed, Lizzie's work put
in the basket, and William was ready to
90 up stairs, but glancing back he saw his
little wife near the fire place, her hands
clasped, her head bent, and large tears fall
ing from her eyes. He was beside her in
q moment
"Lizzie, darling, are you ill p? What is
the matter
"Oh, William, I have been such bad
wife. I heard you tell Mr.. Moore last
evening how had disappointed you; but
l will try to make your home pleasant, in
deed will, if you only forgive and love
me-"
Glove you! Oh, Lizzie, you cannot
guess how dearly love you"
As the little wife lay down that night,
she thought, 81 have won him back again
Better still than that, have learned the
way to keep him"
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b% A traveller who saw pretty girl iu
the same car with himself, says: /" In a
few years." thought I, "that infant will
be an ornament to society; but had she
not better die? Very soon they will tic
some dead womau's hair to the back of
her head, fasten her ribs with a corset,
and hang a bird cage around her lower
limbs. Worse than that; when she ar
rives at maturity she will be compelled to
determine whether she is for protection or
free trade, to understand the intricacies of
pig iron, and 50 to the polls and vote,
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1~ The N. Y. Sun (Republican) says
President Grant has no longer follower
among the Republicans of New York, ex-
cept among the ofice-holders, and they
are not for him except for the time being.
Ills inconceivable stupidity in breaking
the Republican party in pieces his cor
ruptlon in appointing men to office; his
quartering his own worthless relations
upon the Treasury; his betrayal of the
Cubans to Spanish slave-traders in conse.
quence of money paid to Sydney Webster,
and his elevation of convicted bribe. .taker
10 high Office in the State Department,
have disgusted honest Republicans with
him. His administration is the most indie.
cent ever witnessed in this country. May
Its like never be seen again."
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BUTLAREAN.-In his new paper, the
Capitol Don Piatt pays the following we'll
merited compliment to Beast Butler:
I'VE hold Mr.. Butler to be the wicked
est demagogue let loose upon this country
since its independence. His instincts are
treacherous, revolutionary, merciless, and
avaricious. That he is able to lead any
number Of Congressmen, is proof satisfac-
tory that Republican politics is in a great
measure debauched. That he influences
President Grant, is not only national but
human calamity. With the final down
fall of free goverumest, such causes as his
character must be conspicuous. Rapacity
is his one trait, an Asiatic quality never
before entirely on this hemisphere"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-07-15

LEpERs IN HoNoLULU.-The Honolulu
Pacific Comcrcial advertiser has the fol-
lowing:
The spread of leprosy in and about this
city is subject Of frequent remark.
Scarcely day passes without our seeing
on the street individuals who have all the
outward appearances Of this loathsome
disease. One noteworthy case was that of
a recent native witness on the stand in
the Supreme Court, whose. occupation was
that of a fish dealer and sometimes a meat
butcher. Think of such person manipu-
lating your beefsteaks ! If it is contagious
and we assume there is little room for
doubt on the subject-more vigorous
measures should be adopted for the sepa-
ration and isolation of the suspects" 1t
is said that various kinds of cutaneous dis
eases very much resemble the leprosy in
appearance, but that the real disease is
readily distinguished. This may be, but
it would seem that the leprosy itself takes
on variety of forms. 1t is undoubtedly
a serious thing to assume the responsibility
of taking a person forcibly from family
and friends and doom him for life to BAN
ishment, but the "greatest good Of the
greatest number" imperatively demands
It. 1t is evident that degree Of laxity in
regard to the disease has latterly obtained
that is dangerous to the public safety, and
We therefore call the attention Of the prop
er authorities to the subject.
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DULUTH.-This n p. Railroad city is
the eastern terminus of the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad. 1t is named after Captain
John Duluth, an officer Of the French ma.
rine corps, who visited the north shore Of
Lake Superior nearly two centuries ago.
The city is now about two years old, and
numbers population Of about $500; a
few weeks ago, at the city election 10.
Mayor, S35 votes we're cast. tits situated
at the head of Lake Superior. The town
has four church buildings. public school
house, three weekly newspapers, and Is
soon to have daily. Average business
lots in Duluth arc held at 500 per foot
they are 25xI50 feet.-Kalama BeacoS.
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Live Issues.

In recent article which seems to have
attracted considerable attention, save from
Radical newspapers devoted to misrepre.
sen ting the views and opinions of large
majority Of the Democrats Of the West, we
stated what were held by us to be the dead
issues of political controversy in this coun-
try. They were distinctly enumerated as
follows:
l. All questions concerning slavery
which was fought out of existence and
abolished in the late war.
2. Reconstruction, which became obso-
lete by the reAdmission of States to the
Union which had never been out Of the
Union.
8. All questions concerning the civil
rights and imnunities Of the ex.slaves as
finally settled by the ratification of the
Fourteenth Amendment.
4. Negro Suffrage, settled by the ratif-
cation of the Fifteenth Amendment.
5. All issues relating to the payment of
the 500 bonds and the debt.
These are what we consider the dead is
sues of the past. They are the political
corpses over which VIC expect to see the
great Conservative party of the nation
march with steady step to victory in 1872.
They are the issues which it will be certain
death to the Democratic party to attempt
to revive, and the National Convention of
next year must not merely pronounce dead,
but formally bury. So much more in
further answer to our own question: What
are dead issues?
And now for the live issues: What are
live issues?
Answering, we place them distinctly
before our readers in the order Of their
importance, as follows:
/. State Rights; by which is meant op-
position to Capitalization and to Federal
encroachment upon the reserved rights of
the States, and the maintenance, inviolate,
of the following express provision of the
Constitution of the United States:
"The powers not delegated to the Uni
ted States by the Constitution, nor prohib-
tied by it to the States, are reserved by it
to the States respectively, or to the peo-
ple."
2. Rigid economy and accountability in
the administration Of the government.
3. Reduction of taxation from over four
hundred millions of dollars to two hundred
and fifty millions, with such readjustments
of the tariff as will extinguish bounties
paid by the poor to the rich, or "Protec-
tion," thus lessening the public burdens
and increasing the revenue by low duties
upon articles now prohibited by high du.
ties.
4. A full and complete recognition of
the binding obligations Of all amendments
to the Federal Constitution, which, ceasing
to be political, have become judicial ques-
tions.
5. Free banking and specie redemption,
stopping the interest on the United States
bonds pledged to secure circulation.
6. Absolute repeal of duties on all ma
terial used in ship.building, which have
driven American ships from the ocean.
7. Removing of all political disabilities,
including those which are imposed upon
foreigners through the naturalization laws,
upon the principle that white Irishman,
German, Scandinavian, Euglishmau, or
Frenchman is as good as negro, if he
behaves himself.
These are among what We call the live
issues of the future, under which the dead
issues of the past should be forever buried.
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u The Chicago Journal, Mongrel

u The Chicago Journal, Mongrel
sheet, tells its readers that the only ami
mating principle left in its party is "sec-
tional hatred" 1t states that the moment
this dies out, the moment the reconstruc-
ton issue subsidies, the moment general
amnesty is accorded to the South, and tho
bond Of union once more becomes COM
plete, and universal brotherhood again
holds sway. its causeis up; its party gone /;
defeat inevitable! I! That party, with U.
s. Grant at the head oft, thrives, moves,
and has its being in riot, lust and al man
ner of abominations. Its life is the death
Of the country at last. The life and pros
perity Of the nation, are its destruction.
Shall it be allowed to live after 1872.
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u While the largest breweries Of Eng
land produce each from seventy to ninety
million quarts Of beer annually, the largest
brewery Of Germany produces about twen-
ty-three million Of quarts, and the largesl
Of Austria about thirty.eight million d
quarts. Irrespective Of its export and in
port, England consumes about one humid
red and twenty quarts Of the beverage ans
nually to each head Of her population ;
Belgium, sixty-four; Germany, forty
eight; Austria, twenty; France, eightesa ;
Switzerland, sixteen quarts. At Munish,
Bavaria, about two hundred and thirty
quarts of lager beer to each head Of the
population are consumed annually. Ma
nich is the most noted city for beer drink
ing in the world.
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Gatherings by the Wayside.

"A cut and dried affair-jerked beef.
How to make time 60 fast-use the
spur Of the moment.
What is that which must play before
it can work? A fire engine.
-" Long and successful rcign'-The
deluge.
"A humorous grocer labels his soap
Cheaper than dirt"
The cheapest and longest conveyance
A train Of thought.
1T is not always he who has the most
nose who knows the most.
No class put more real feeling in their
vocation than pickpockets.
Ambition and religion should both be
in harmony. The symbol Of both is a
spire.
"A man who is sleeping in bed, lies
asleep; one who tells falsehoods, lies
awake.
--" Mamma" said little boy who had
been sent to dry towel before the fire, sis
it done when it is brown"
Boston people who are in doubt as to
the best watering places" have got into
the habit of asking tho milkmen.
-Greely says that in order to raise
baseballs of the average diameter and den
sity, subsoiling is absolutely necessary.
"A lady remarked on very ignorant
man, who was complmented on his good
sense: He ought to have a great stock
of good sense, "for he never spends any"
1t was Coleridge who said of school
master who was fond of applying the birch,
that it was lucky for the chcrubim who
carried him to heaven that they were all
heads.
There is one stimulant that never
fails, and never intoxicates-duty. Duty
puts a blue sky over everybody-up in his
heart, it may be-into which the ky-lark,
happiness, always goes singing.
Some inquisitive fellow in New Or
leans, who thinks Horace Greeley knows
everything, asked him how to stop the
crevasse. "Dam it, sir; don't ask me-"
was the characteristic, not to say appropri-
ate reply.
VII. Alduuuii, u A>oW 1UTh CdT-uTlV-
er, persisted in propelling two lame horses,
and when one Of Bergh's men interfered,
went for him with the car hook. The off
Ger had club, and "that's what's the
matter with Hannah"
In court, the other day, a witness be-.
ing asked how he knew that man and
woman were husband and wife, replied,
Because he had often heard the lady
blow the gentleman up" Tho evidence
was held to be conclusive.
.-"'Tis strange" muttered young
man, as he staggered home from supper
party, show evil communications corrupt
good manners. I've been surrounded by
tumblers all the evening, and now I'm a
tumbler myself"
The readiness and determination of
the Democracy of the whole country to &C.
cept the accomplished facts" of the war
the constitutional amendments, recon.
struction, etc.-distresses the Radicals, as
it deprives them Of the power to gain their
ends by misrepresentation.
- - -
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"A reliable exchange says that il knows
Of boy who accidentally swallowed ell
YER half dollar. They gave hin vszu ~
ter and tartar emetic and astineaial vise,
aud poked their fingers down hia tAapas
until the boy thought he vonA throw up
his toe nails. Alter whils dostse sq1e
along who understood such easss. He IL
ministered small dose of passsG asdisiss,
aud iu less than ten miaufss The bsy lhssw
up the hslf dollar in 6ve-cent piss1l 81.
enee is . great thing.
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SAD CASE.
A Country Family Beaten by Confidence
Operators. .NH


The st. Louis Democrat Of the 18th inst. says:-..
Mr.. Seth p. Fargo, or Wflney, Jefferson county,
was made the victim OF confidence operators last
night, just before reaching the depot In this city
Fargo, with his wife, daughter, and grandchild were
route for San Francisco, thence to Oregon, where
they design settling Soon after leaving Rome last
night on the night express train, .gentlemanly
looking man began showing considerable attention
to the infant and thus worked his way into the good
graces Of the whole family. In addition to their
tickets, the party had about seven hundred
dollars IN bills, which were In the
child. When nearing the city the young man sud
denly remembered he had heavy freight bill to
pay but had no available means save q check OF
f25ee, and as the hour was late he was in a guam
Diary what to do, as great loss to him would result
In having to wait till daylight. Had his new friends
any ready money that they could lend him ull they
reached point further West where he could get
the check cashed? II Sc, he would give them fair
bonus for the use OF the money and the check for
security. Not having read the papers, the request
was complied with and the sharper was given
s704, the entire cash capital OF the party,
as security until their friend could get it
cashed further West. AS soon as Confidence had
secured the greenbacks he had urgent business In
the next car, and decamped so suddenly that the
suspicious OF the party were aroused, and few
answers to their questions bv the conductor, and
an exhibition OF the check, soon made them realize
that they had been badly beaten. The conductor On
learning OF the robbery instituted search for the
rascal, but the train having slowed up considerably
t s probable he had jumped from the train east OF
the tunnel The destitute party left the train at the
depot in hopes OF getting some track Of the rascal
Mr.. Fargo MADE known his loss at police head
quarters, but the police were unable to aid him In
recovering his money. Several persons at the depot
on learning OF the case gave small sums to the un-
fortunate family.