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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12

= NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILRoAD.-The
Kalama Beacon announces by authority
that the agents of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company in Europe have sue.
cceded in negotiating bonds sufficient in
amount to build the road. This announce.
ment is followed by an advertisement for
proposals for grubbing and clearing forty
miles of the track from the Toutle river
northward towards the Sound clearing
to be kept out of the way of tho grading. !"
This section of forty miles extends to with
in twenty miles of this place, somewhere
about Mound Prairie, from which point
there is very good and level wagon road
at all seasons Of the year. There is now a
reasonable probability that the road will
be completed from Kalama to the Sound
within year from this time.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12

"YoU'R ANOTHER. The Tribune, in
it's Who Killed Cock Robin" defense Of
General Ferry, uses the following Ian
guage:
"It is rs absurd for the STANDARD folks to
charge Gen. Ferry with peculation on account
of this disposition of his money as it would be
for us to assert that the STANDARD was sns-
tanned upon the immense sums realized by its
proprietor from the sale of guns, cutlasses and
ordinance stores, stolen from the Quartermas-
ter Generals Office
A parallel case cannot be established,
even for illustration. The STANDARD
publisher was not with the stealing party,
nor had the Radical party then given
up all hope of future success and taken to
indiscriminate stealing. The Tribune
might just as we'll abandon the attempt of
making round men fit square holes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12
County Commissioners.

Vt a regular session o! tie Commits
sioners' Court Of Thurs:on County. ". T.,
held in the Auditors Office of said Thurston
Co, previous legal notice having been
given, the following business was trans.
acted by said Court:
At 10 o'clock A. NJ. the Court was
called to order by Wm. McI.anc, Chairman.
Present, Mcs>rs. Ira Ward, .Jr, &. ".
French and Mr. Chairman.
Mr.. French bcin. duly sworn in the
journal of the special session Of Aug. 9TH
was read and approved.
\ petition praying for the adoption Of Il
certain road from lIiLrcdth's donation
claim, intersecting the county road two
miles west Of the Nashville bridge as Il
county road, aud for the opening of the
same, was received and read. j. :.
French, John Whiteside and James Mix
were appointed as viewers to examine said
road, and to report the same at the next
regular term of this Court.
The following Grand and Petit Jurors
for the next September term of District
Court were now selected:
Grand Jurors-S. n. Cooper. Samuel
James, j. NJ. Shotwell, Oscar Saylcr, l.. d.
Barnard, Kronrod Snidcr.
PctH Professionalism Prince, Jasper
White, VIM. MinSlc, j. NJ. Brewer, Alex
andcr Howard, Alexander Dewitt, G. w.
Ice, ii. ID. Morgon, |. Colvin, Geo. Lu,X
Jacob Croll, W. o. Thompson, Henry
jerks.
Ordered, That the sum of $1,000, or Sc
much thereby as may be necessary be and
is hereby appropriated for constructing a
roof on the county Jail aud digging and
waling we'll for county Jail, aud digging
and yelling we'll for the Court House
end further ordered that Ira Ward, O. B.
McFadden aud A. A. Phillips be APP.
| pointed a committee to superintcncd the
construction and to receive the same when
completed, and that the Auditor be in.
structcd to draw warrants on the Treasurer
for payment Of same when SO received
Ordered, That the order passed at the
November term, 1859, of this Court, in
regard to paying bountics ON scalps of wild
animals, be so amended as to read as fol
lows: That the Justice of the Peace be-
fore whom bountics shall be claimed shall
in no case charge for more than one ccrtiii
cate for scalps presented by any one person
at one time.
Ordered That no person or persons in
the County shall follow the occupation Of a
pcdler, or auctioncer, or shall keep for hire
billiard tables or bowling alleys, without
first obtaining from the County Auditor a
license therefor; and that the following
shall be the established rates for such H.
cense, viz: Pcdlcrs, per annum, so; Auc-
tioncers, So; Billiard Tables, each room,
$50; Bowling Alleys, $50
And further ordered, That whenever
application shall be made for any of the
above licenses, the party applying therefor
shall pay into the county treasury the re-
spcctivc amounts above named, and upon
presentation Of the Treasurcr's receipt t.
the County Auditor, shall be his duty ia
issue license in conformity Herewith
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12

A TABLEAUX.-One of the most touch.
ingly beautiful exhibitions of the season,
we are told, came off at the Tribune Office
on one of the recent warm days. 1t was
no less than the Chcstcrfeldian head of
the Surveyor General resting upon the
ample bosom of the Pickwickian editor,
while mutual protestations and regrets for
past misunderstanding, mingled with tears
and sweat, were interchanged. The be-
nevolent countenance of the ex.Clcrk of
Indian Department beamed over all, while
his hands were raised in the act of pro-
nouncing the benediction My children,
God bless you" BLESSED arc the peace
makers"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12

COURTESY TO VIsIToRs.--The Trans
cript assumes to lecture us on courtesy to
distinguished visitors, because We had the
temerity to use little badinage in speak
ing of Judge Miller and Horace Maynard,
during their late visit to this town. Per-
haps we were not duly impressed with the
dignity of these officials, from the fact that
We knew something of their antecedents ;
but We assure the professor of department
who retails last years almanacs in weekly
doses, that we agree with Josh Billings
that ga man who has not well.balanccd
brain is right in parting his hair in the
middle; all of the original abolitionists of
our acquaintance did it, and Judge Miller
was one of them and our allusion to his
voting with his party every time was not
intended as reflection upon the multifar-
ious editor of the Transcript. Horace
Maynard has an undoubted right to be a
Yankee schoolmaster, talk through his
nose and wear long hair, because he has
made it pay; but we recollect the time
when he followed Parson Brownlow in in.
Weighing against the Yankees, defending
slavery and denouncing the Democrats Of
the North as Abolitionists." That
paid best then, before loyalty came in
vogue. If the Transcript can recover its
lost standing with its party by toadying
to Radical officials, we have no objection
to that, either; but we donbt If it will
nav.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12

There is no doub, tina, this country la,
suffered much dctr;men. on account Of the
publications put in circulation for the
purpose of inducing immigration. Those
who have visited i, on account Of its sup
posed agricultural advantages have been
disappointed in its appearance, and have
ignored all it. other advantages in their
reports to others depending upon them for
information. Agriculture is not the chief
source of wealth to this country; though
patient and pcrsevering industry in clear
ing and tilling the soil is as certain Of its
results here as in any other country. But
this country is favored beyond almost any
Other in the elements of wealth which Of
fer the greatest inducements to capital, en-
,crprise and skilled labor combined. 1t
abounds in the three great staples of
commcrce-lumbcr, coal and iron; its
fisheries are sufficient to supply the de-
mands of the world, and its position on
the shortest aud best highway of the COM
merce of the world, makes all its advanta
gcs available. Its Development and ad-
vanccnent must necessarily be slow, at
first, but its resources are inexhaustibc
and increase in value the more they arc
drawn upon.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12

Til. following named gentlemen are aut'or-
aed to receive and receipt for money due on
subscriptions to the STANDARD:
NJ. ". Watt, Victoria, v. L.:
NJ p. HARPER. Rockland, klikitat Co.;
&c. CARY; Yakima county;
l.. l.. DuBEAu, Cowlitz;
WARREN GovE, Nisqually.
r. A. WILSON, Arcadia;
STEPHEN JCpsoN Stcilacoom
=. A. LiGHT. g
HEYMAH GOopTIN, {!
FREp. MYERS, Fort Montgomery
S. F. CooMBs, Seattle:
q. J. McCAUsLANp. Port Blakely:
Mai. G. o. HALLER, WILDLY Island;
JAMES MURPHY, Utsalady;
HOLDEN A JuDsoS, Wh,tcom;
JonX p. JUpsoN, Port Townsend;
JonN CoNDor, Port Gamble
ORRrN 4. HALL, Port Ludlow
d. X. SIMMONS, Grand Prairie
q. w. CANNON, Portland, Oregon.
DH- Money can be sent through the mails
at our risk.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12
TIE "VOw REGISTERED IN HEAVEN"

TIE Vow REGISTERED IN HEAVEN"
The Tribune Of Wednesday relates what
Mr.. Cleal knows about clambakcs, in the
following graphic manner:
"The Commodore raised himself on one ell
bow, shifted his pipe, pushed his straw hat off
his brow, gave IL quick glance all around as
though fearful! of being overheard, winkcd out
OF his right eye then of his left eye, and said,
Come with me and I'll show you what it is. )
We followed the Commodore round II little
bend of the bluff, saw him push aside some
thickly orerarching boughs, saw him draw
something out from its hiding-plscc in the
bank, took it from him to inspect and heard it
say OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES The Commo-
dore took 1t from us, turned it to the sky, and
itagain said 'gurge-gnrglc-gu That 5
all we got from the Commodore"
1t will be perceived that although the
writer of the above is member of Tacoma
Lodge of Good Tomplars, and of church
besides, wee drop taken on the sly is his
prevailing weakness. With what delight
full JUNCTION he rolls the words describing
the scene under his tongue What bright
memories are evidently coujured up by
the fervid language of his description
We reproduce it simply to inquire, what
confidence can any body have in party
acknowledging as its leaders men who
glory in the violation of most solemn
pledges to God and man?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12
DIR. j. p. NEwMAN.-The Tribune

says:
!" a letter purporting to be written by this
distinguished clergyman, with his name APP
pended has been for some time going the
rounds of the press 1t is published exclusive
~ in the Democratic papers, with the sole
view of scandalizing and bringing into disre-
pute the Methodist church. The STANDARD of
last week contained the letter in question, with
an endorsement of its authenticity knowing
at the time, we sincerely believe, that it did
not emanate from Rev. DR.. Newman, but was
base forgery. 1t originally appeared in a
Democratic paper of Iowa, whence it has OBJ
tanned general currency in the organs of that
party"
In regard to the letter referred to, its
authenticity has not been denied by any
one authorized to make such denial, and
therefore the statement of the Tribune is
altogether gratutous, and without any
foundation in fact. 1t is true that Senator
Harlan has written letter denying that
he had any knowledge of the Newman let.
ter, and Newman followed this by the
statement that he had written no letter
at the instance Of Harlan, but that he
claimed the right as citizen and voter to
write such letters as he pleased upon pc.
litical questions. Both of these explana.
tory letters were evidently written to dis.
credit the first, but neither of them denied
the authenticity Of the same. If the
Methodist Church is scandalizcd and
brought into disropute" by the publica.
ton of DR.. Newman''s letter, the offensc
rests entirely with the Reverend politician
himself 1t is sneaking and hypocriti.
cal subterfuge of political party clergymcn
to pretend that the cause of the church or
religion is assaulted whenever their own po
litical intrigucs are exposed to public cen
sure.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12

WE RISE TO EXpLAIN.-The Trans
cript thinks it smart trick to copy the
Echo's item charging unjust discrimina-
ton by the Board Of Trustees of Olympia
in the matter of show licenses. We can
pardon the De,odrop Orgcn, on the score
of ignorance, but not the Transcript. The
matter of license is regulated by ordinance,
and their collection rests with single
officer, and the Board has nothing to do
with ieexcept to modify, change or repeal
the law in due form. We do not believe
the Clerk committed a very hcinous of.
tense in his construction Of the law and
his duty under it, when he permitted the
Columbia Engine Co. benefit without a
license, especially when fairs, tableaux
vivants, and charades, have been of frc.
quent occurrence in aid of some one of the
many charitable objects of the place, with
out it. The Trustees considered that the
law should be more rigidly enforced and SO
instructed the Clerk, and this is the sun
and substance of their offending.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12

kErURNED.-Ben. Bettman, Esq. re-
turned Thursday evening from San Fran.
cisco, whittier he has been to purchase
goods. A part Of his stock has already
been received and more are coming. Mr..
WIN. Watt also returned the same even.
ing.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12

LEcTURE.-We are requested by Judge
Wyche to announce that Laura Dc Force
Gordon will lecture this evening at Olym.
PIC Hal. Subject" Our Next Great
Political Problem" This lady, we arc
assured by the Judge, is the most attract
i've lecturer ever heard upon this coast
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12

The FoRREsTELLE TRoupE.-This OK.
cellent company will perform at Tumwater
this evening (giving way to Laura DeForce
Gordon's lecture at this place. and in Co.
lumbia Hall next Monday aud Tuesday
evenings. They are worthy of patronage.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12

GOLD EXCITEMENT.-Thcre was con-
siderable excitement in town in the early
part of the week, by the report that gold
had been discovered in Black Hills, west
Of here. A number Of our citizcns-inclu-
ding Postmaster Burr and another Chi.
namen," as the Tribune says-went out to
prospect, but since their return have kept
their own counsel no information can be
derived from them, for the reason, we con-
clude, that they have none to give.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12

IICIcR lAw.-t nder the law Of til.
Territory regulating the sale of in,oxcst-
nc drinks by the glass, the County Com
mi>sionors were authorized to grant license,
on the ctition of a majority of the inhaL-
tants Of the town wherc such business i,
prosecuted. The uniform practice has
heretofore been to grant licenses on the
petition Of a majority of the electors,
which undoubtedly was according to the
meaning and intent Of the law, electors
being deemed the only proper arbitcrs of
their own domestic policy; but the new
Board for this County-composed exclu.
sively Of the most radical kind of Radicals
think otherwise, that the men to whom
the elective franchise is exclusively en-.
trusted, are incapable of self government,
and therefore it is the duty of the Board
to put them under guardianship, against
their own protest and at the expense of
the County revenues aud hence have de-
tcrmincd to construc the word inhabit-
ants in the law, to mean the entire adult
population, without distinction of sex,
color, nationality or other qualifications,
upon all Of whom the Commissioners con-
fer the right of suffrage for the purposes
of this law, the consequence of Which is,
that the obtaining majority of the sigma.
lures of a large class who can neither read
write, or understand the English language
as basis for the action of the Board, is
impracticable, and therefore no licenses will
be granted. The petitions of James b.
Pray and Philip Hiltz & Co., for license,
each signed by majority of the legal vo.
tiers of the town, were rejected. The poll
cy Of this arbitrary construction of law
against uniform preccdents and the mani
fest wishes of a majority of the legal voters,
may we'll be questioned. AS a measure to
promote the cause of temperance, it will
sigually fail, as all attempts at the same end
W PlOoSiiptiOu utIu HOWCI uuSC
failed heretofore. There will not be drop
less liquor or larger sold or drank in this
town in consequence of this action of the
Board, and the school fund will lose about
fifteen hundred dollars year derived from
licenses. Every member of the Board as
we'll as every officer in this county, was
elected by the active influence Of the Ii.
quor saloons, cooperating with the Good
Templars for the success of the party.
The triumph which the Radical saloon
keepers then spent their money and their
whiskey to achieve, has proved triumph
over themselves, through the treachery
of their Temperance allies. There never
was Radical party success yet in which a
portion Of its supporters were not badly
fooled and cheated.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12

NEW PAPER IN OLYMPIA-Thc last
issue Of the Port Townsend Message an
nounccs the suspension of that paper and
the intention of the proprietor to remove
his printing material to this place for the
purpose of commencing the publication of
new papcr-daily and weekly. The new
paper is to be called the Puget Sound
Courier, and is to be conducted in the in
terest of Garfelde, Smith, Ferry, ct al j.;
and it is privately announced that it will
ego after Solomon and lis Chicago carpet
baggcrs;" from which category Ferry es-
capes by about forty miles. That is the
present departure but like the Yankee
schooners in the "shook" trade, they clear
for "Fayal and MARKET" that is, for
any port that offers a market. The estab.
lishmcnt, We are informed, was offered to
the Governor on favorable terms, and it is
possible he would have purchased if the
funds under his control had not been tied
up in ga big land speculation" The on
ly possible chance of sustaining a newspa-
per in this town of the style and character
proposed, is to make it the subsidized organ
of somebody or some combination with the
control ofplenty Of money-whcther pub.
lie or private funds makes no difference to
the present ostensible proprietors.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12

By" The contract for painting the Pub
lie Square fence has been let to Mr.. Coch.
ran, Of Tumwater, for s3s Is, coin.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12

STORM AT WALLA WALI.A.-A fearful
storm Of wind, hail and rain visited Walla
Walla, on the 10Th ult., doing considera.
bic damage to crops.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12
Agents In the Atlantic states.

Hrpsox L MExEr. arc the only Eastern Adrcr'
Using Agents, with whom VIC do business
direct in the Atlantic States. Office, i
Park Row, Tnnes Building, New York City.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12

A CoMpARIsUN.-The kalama Beacon
says that town will peacticaUy be the ter
minus of the Pacific end Of the road, instead
of the Sound, because the latter is entirely
surrounded by belt of sterile soil, has no
navigablc interior communications, and is
surrounded by ranges aud spurs Of the
Coast Range. Such surroundings preclude
a business center there because no product
i've industries in its vicinage can be sus
tained-savc and except lumber; that will
continue as an export for few years"
BY that rule-admitting the premises
for the sake of the argumcnt-what will
become of Duluth, at the other end of the
road ? That town is situated upon as bleak
and desolate coast as can be found this
side of Alaska, is bordered for hundred
miles or moro by country more forbid
ding and desolate than any portion of the
country between the Sound and the Co.
lumbia River, and for nearly one half of
each year its citizens have no means of
egrcss in any direction but by the railroad
to the interior. And yet We saw in the
Beacon the statement that that town, with
all its disadvantages, had accumulated
thirty five hundred inhabitants, and that
business lots, 25 feet front, were selling
for thousand dollars, and that one daily
and three weekly newspapers were 10 sue.
cessful operation. We don't know what
Puget Sound was made for if it has to be
tributary to the Columbia River.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-08-12
AGENTS FOR tue STANDARD.


L. r. FIsuxR, 20 and Il New Mechanics Ev-
change. is our authorized Agent in San
Francisco. For Eastern advertising. Mr..
Fisher is represented by 5. T. H,t,insiil y
Co.. of New York and Boston.
BRAN 4 CO.. 40 Montgomery Street. are also
our authorized Agents in San Francisco.
New Orleans Republican., 1871-08-30

Eight months ago the Democrats oo-
tanned control of the administration OF
State affairs in Alabama. The results are
thus shown by the Montgomery Journal:
The Republican administration in Ala
bama paid the sum of 100000 to close up
the failures of the Patton so-called Demo
cratic administration in this State. The Re,
publican administration in Alabama paid
the States interest, paid the school teach
ers, and settled up over 5000, 600 Of warrants
contracted by the Patton administration,
and closed the books with clear balance
in the treasury of $40, 900, which was turned
over to the Lindsay Hodgson so-called
Democratic government To-day the treas
ury is bankrupt and Alabama paper is Pc
ing bought up at a discount OF twenty-five
per cent on school warrants. Eight months
of Democratic sway has run the credit OF
Alabama into suspicion, and the State
treasury publicly states and publishes
that Lindsay -Hodgson can not pay school
teachers
New Orleans Republican., 1871-08-30
On the subject of the cane crop the En-,

The crop of cane, in it's present flourish
ing condition in Plaquemines, is the pride
of the parish. The plant never looked bet
ter at this period of the season, nor gave
token of so promising yield. The planters
are all preparing for cutting and grinding.
The machinery Of the mills is being put in
thorough repair, fuel is being procured, ex-
ira labor looked after, and barrels and hogs
heads manufactured. So, when cutting for
the mills commences, there will be lively
times on the sugar plantations OF this parish,
and the sugar market may expect TO hear
from Plaquemines.
New Orleans Republican., 1871-08-30
auaa ses . Sheriff Of the Parish of Orleans
state of Louisiana VS.. III. Carer.

TTyHIRD DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF
l. Orleans, No. l8, ,9i3-By virtue of writ of fieri
District Court for the parish of Orleans, in the
above entitled cause, viii proceed TO sell at pub
lie auction, at the Merchants and Auetioneers'
Exchange, Royal street, between Canal and Gus.
tomhouse streets, in the Second District Of this
city, on MONDAY, September ID, 1871, at twelve
wit
CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND situated in the
Fourth District of this city, in square No. a05.
bounded by Coliseum. Prytania, st. Andrew and st.
Mary streets.
Seized in the above suit.
Terms-Cash on the spot.
G. 8. SAUvTNRT,
aul7 sel II Sheriff Of the Parish Of Orleans,
New Orleans Republican., 1871-08-30

Sworn to and subscribed before me the third day
of June, 1871.
JOSEPH CUvILLIER, Notary Public
At meeting of the Board of Directors, held ON
the third day of June, 1871, it was resolved to de-
clare scrip dividend of thirty per cent on the net
earned participating premiums for the year end
ing thirtyfrst of May, 1871. for which certificates
will be issued on and after the first day of August
next. Also, to pay on and after the second Mon
day in July next the whole iss of Scrip for the
years 1862 1864 and 1855 and six per cent interest
on all outstanding scrip of the company.
DIRECTORS
p Fourchy, L. r. Generee,
P Maspero, P.S. Wiltz,
D. McCoard, s. z. Rel,
N. Puig, Joseph Hoy,
D. A. Chaffraix, Charles LATTE,
ie4 1y j. ]. Fernandez.