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, 1873-04-17

RECIPROCITY The Olympia Courier,
in speaking of the proposition for secip-
rocity in trade with the Sandwich Is
lands. says sit is of doubtful propriety to
enter into any such arrangements with
any people. We know this objection
is in accord with the policy of the rnl-
ing party of the country. but whai is
the sense or philosophy of it? Who
would beinjnred by abolishing all the du-
ties and restrictions upon commerce be-
4ween ourselves and neishburing na-
tions. Protection to home industry :"
is the transparent sophistry by which
the prote ctive tariff system is sustained.
But who does it protect? Certainly not
the laborer for it inhances the cost of
his living to q much greater degree than
it increases his wages, while it offers no
restriction upon the importa ion of
cheap laborers. Under this system We
compel every laboring man to pay from
so to $50 per cent premium upon every
manufactured article, and upon the sn-
gar, tea, coffee, and spices which he uses
in his family, and leave tie labor mark
ct open to the unrestricted competition
of the surplus populations of the world.
With free trade our products would sell
i>atr OF .yronttv aE runPad
rates and we could buy the products of
cheap, or pauper labor, for a great deal
less than we now do. We now supply
our British neighbors with fruit. vegeta-
bles, beef, pork, and mutton; all sub
iected to large duties, and buy Of them
manufactured articles subject to rluch
heavier duties. If these duties were
abolished we could sell for much more
and buy for much less than we now do.
Who profits by this Not the producer,
the consumer, the merchan: Or the trans
porter; but the capitalist solely. Is it
good policy in free government to
compel tribute to capital at the expense
of all the inhabitants of the country
Call this tariff revenue or protective,
it amounts in degree to the same thing.
Under no tariff system ever in operation
in this country did the Government re-
alize ten per cent. of its actual cost 10
the people. The system is false in econo-
my, oppressive in its operations, and
hostile to free government. 1t is the
fi,st principle of freedom that all men
are entitled to the full enjoyment of the
products of their own labor. subject only
to such direct contributions as are ne
cessary for the maintainance of organ
lied government for the protection OF
their rights. To restrict citizens in the
natural right to the free interchange of
the products of their own industry, is
to exercise arbitrary power at the ex-
pense of personal freedom.
, 1873-04-17
r. The Tribune says Judge o. B

n The Tribune says Judge o. B.
McFadden has received notification
from the Department at Washington to
the effect that there was a vacant cadet
ship in the Naval Academy at Annapo-
lis, subject to his nomination. The
Judge has no one selected for the place.
and we hope he will make no ncmina
ton. The appointment is delusion
and snare to any boy who accepts it
from this Territory, unless he has pow
erful friends in the Government who
will see to him. The Navy has no use TO,
one-teEth of the number of officers
which are provided for at the Academy.
and hence the surplus must be got rid
of by hook or crook; cadets from dis
-tance being almost certain to be made
the victims. During the last three
years Mr.. Garfielde has nominated three
of as promising youths as could be
found i'll the Territory, all of whom
were rejected and sent home at their
own expense as they came, which was
not less than $500 to each. deeply NOR
titled at their failure. The first one of
these is now, at the age Of 10. commanS-
ing a Columbia river steamer with an
ability rarely exhibited at that age, the
second is leading student in the Terri
torial University, and the third carried
off the prize in competitive examina-
ton. Four or five from Oregon We're
successfully rejected or dismissed. and
the last cadet from that State, after
maintaining his position in the Academy
for two years and half, by appealing
to the Secretary of the Navy against an
arbitrary dismissal, resigned in the
middle Of tenn, and is now setting
type in this Office as a preference. Ii
in view of these facts any partial father
Of promising boy is willing to expend
900 or 5000 in the experiment. Judge
McFadden has the power to offer him
the privilege.
, 1873-04-17

OLYMPIA ELECTION The annual cleo
ton of Town Board came off at Olym-
pia on Monday last, and was holly con
tested, previous to the voting, on the
issue of building wharf to deep watei
and other public improvements at the
expense of the town. We judge from
the returns that the Board elected are
opposed to the tax for the contemplated
improvements. The following is tLt
vote for Town Trustees:
First Ward, s. D. Howe, Il Samue
Coulter, 20, and Chas. Burmeister. 65
Second Ward, 1. G. Ellis. 60, I. F. Nc
EIroy. GO. Marshall Blinn, 5S and J. NJ
Swan. Third Ward, J. S. Dobbins, 80,
S. D. Ruddell, "a, Dudley Henry, 1s
and Francis A. Hoffman, II. For may
Or, W. W. Miller received PA votes.
and, w. N. Horton % votes; scatter
ing, 8. es
, 1873-04-17

BRIGHAM YoUNG seems 10 hDl3 ct4ecs-
fu' views as to the prospects Of NorGlqI.5
dom, notwithstanding the vass amount
of threatening thunder which Ii 5eias
launched at him from Washington, nay
a-days. In a recent conyersatiop he
remarked: !" As to the new Goyernas. va
care but very little who is appointe9;3he
can do but little good and bat little il,
and, to confess the truth, we weuId lilss
to see Sheridan and 10000 troeps il
Utah. Tley would put money into ev.
pockets, as Uncle Sans soldiers slplSs q
always done; and then Phil. Sheridan
is jolly good fellow and would he
heartily Welcomed" ,fl
, 1873-04-17

ATTEMPTED BURGLARY.-We ere 10
formed by gentleman from 4efbecl4
that the store at that place was brekpai
into on Monday night, the 7ih instant
The book-keeper being awakened by
the noise, frightened the burglar away
before they were able to abstract an.
thinge
, 1873-04-17

UNIvERsITY.-The weekly singing class
will be continued through the prcsanf
term for the benefit of thes studsHfY:-
and the time will be divided betweaE-
the beginners and advanced Students :
Others wishing 20 join the class car. %
so for 81 paid in advance.
Z. X. HILL i
, 1873-04-17

! In the San Francisco lumber market
the orders from the interior are reported
remarkably large. This is the evidence
and measure of the progress of improve
ment. The coming season promises to
be good one for carpenters and build
-fYg
, 1873-04-17

TUNER.-There will be first class
Piano Forte Tuner and Repairer in Seat
tie aboat the 18Th inst. Any one yisoa
ing instruments tuned or repaired can
have it done by leaving their orders wi,isi
Pumphrey g. Young at the Picneer Book.
Store. - e ,aeaf
, 1873-04-17

MARRIED.-On the 11th inst, a. the
residence of Prof. E. X. Hill, hy Rev.
a. G. Fairchild, Mr.. C. J. Cootes, Sher-
iff of Whatcom county and Miss S /.
Becker of Fidalgo Island. s
, 1873-04-17

BAD APPoINTMENTs-The President
is very generally and very properly sen-t
sured by the independent press. sor 4f-
pointing Holden, the imreacha;! and.
disgraced Governor of North Carolina.
Postmaster at Raleigh. This Is mn
questionably a disgraccful appointneps;
no less so than would be the appqint-
ment of either of the late Kansas Sera-
tors to a responsible Federal ofice. bn6
we ask in all caHdor, is that appUot-
mentin greater contempt Of pnh,lc sADs
timent,' or more insulting 10 the ,aefse
of North Carolina, than is the appnnt-
ment of an impeached ,deposed md dis
graced Delegate to the most Responsible
and lucrative Office in the Territory, 10
his people? We pause for a reply. 5-
, 1873-04-17

~ DR.. B. r. Freeland, the distin-
guished Dentist, has gone tt Oily npia
to remain till The 1st of May, when he
will return to this city.
, 1873-04-17
ON THE $ Qua Ie e.
Our stock consists in part of the following, viz:


Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats and Caps, Boots and
Shoes, Groceries, P,ouisions, Liquors, Tobacco and
C euys. Cyoc}cery and Glassware, Paints, Oil, Var
nisl, Brushes Ca1pehs, O1-clotts, Curtains end
W1,ado1o blinds, Shelf Hardware, Carpenter and
Blacksmith tools, Hon Steel, Chain, Bolts, Riuets,
Ship Chandle,y and Co1dnee, Linae Cement, P2as
ter of Paris, Hay, Feed, Cumberland Coal, Ploz0s
and other farming implements.
In fttct anything and eueryt7ainS In general
use in this country.
We but firm keeps Chinese
servant whom he imported DIRECT from Oregon
Market made to h
ADVANTAGE.
To Country make
Saving by purchasing of instead OF going below
patronage take this method inviting the Public to
call and guarantee that they shall not regret doing So
SCHWABACHER BROS & co.
Fe!F /
, 1873-04-17


OREGON Journalism. - Mr.. Charles
Newell, for some months past managing
editor of the Herald, becoming disgust
ed with the idea of making his party
merely an organization tor fighting a
single individual, a short time since an
nounced his purpose to change the tone
of the paper in reference to Ben Holli-
day, and to treat that distinguished in
dividual in the future with the courtesy
due TO a man engaged in a great public
enterprise in which the people Of the
State were deeply interested, and not as
the sole antagonist of the Democratic
party. To disinterested outsiders this
seemed sensible change, not at all af-
fecting the party character of the paper,
but the Oregon Democratic press and
politicians took a decidedly different
view of the matter. they regard it as the
foulest kind of treachery and a sale of
the Democratic party outrlght,and New
ell Is denounced by every opprobious
epithet SO common to Oregon Journal
ism. From this, as also from the tone
Of the Republican journals no other
conclusion can be arrived at than that
the parties formerly existing in that
State have been merged in n Holiday
and an Anti Holiday party, and that no
other political distinction are row re
cognized in that State, and our personal
observations, while recently i'll Port
land. confirmed that i'm ression. The
two factions are headed respectively by
the Holiday ring and the "Salem
ring The former is sustained by the
vast sums of money brought 20 the State
for pnblic Improvements; the latter by
pickings from the public treasury. The
former has enriched, while corrupting
the people; the latter has only enriched
themselves at the expense of the peo
pie. The Intelligent portion of masses
are thoroughly disgusted with the parti-
zan management of both, and are anxi-
ously looking for some organized plan
to redeem the State from its present
thraldom. We respectively commend
to them the example of Washington
Territory, in cutting loose from party
dictation and asserting the right OF the
people to rule without the Intervention
of professional politicians.
A FAILURE.-A Washington telegram
of tie 31st ult. to the New York papers
says:
1t is said the principle of Civil Ser
vice reform is about to be abandoned by
the Government as impracticable under
our present political system. George
W. Curtis has withdrawn from the ad-
visory board, being opposed to certain
appointments recently made irrespective
of the Civil Service rules. There is no.
body left on the board of any influence
, 1873-04-17
KING CAucus DErHRoNlp a lac

KING CAUcus DETHRoNtD. "A late pn-
luth paper, in speaking Of the plipgar}l,
meetings for the nomination of city eli
GERS for, that city. says: cd. }. ~
Culver, lifelong Democrat, received
majority of the votes at the Republicen
caucus meeting in the second ward. =
This is but one of many ike instance,
occurring in every section Of the h.ts.s,
which clearly Indicate. the oyerthrows ~
party discipline, which has heretpf,ge
resulted only in the success, Of the nla-st.
unscrnpuloas party backs who ppdsra
stood the manipulation and management.
of party machinery. 1t is no longes r.,
garded az infamous. or even disrepnte7-
BILE, for voters to go outside Of their par
ty in the selection of their public sex
wants, fitness for the position being con-
sidered paramount to party services. >
The sooner the people everywhere are.
prepared to- adopt this position. tie,
sooner may We hope for the establish
ment of reforms in the civil service
which all acknowledge the necessity u.
How IT WAS SETTLED. D.-The Co,u,s,'
denies that there was any misund-r-
standing between DR.. Minor and G..r.
fielde in regard to the mail contract he
tween Port Townsend and San Juan Is
land. Had the Courier stated that the
difficulty had been compromised. it
would probably have been nearer The
truth. While this matter was under
discussion. mutual freni Of the partis,
remarked to US: "Garfielde has Minor
in tight place, and he will have "a
come down. The greater portion IF
Minors means are invested in tie Ms-s
I rine Hospital, and Garfelde, as coll
lector, has the power to remove 'iii
from that position" While there Is A5
reasonable doubt that Garfelde decsiva
ed and betrayed the Doctor, as Re has
every other man who ever trusted lira4
when his own interest prompted it fAvi-
will blame the victim of his tre&eil cry
for allowing prudential considerasiofs'
to smother his resentment. 1A - -
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CLIFTON ITEMS.

Editor Register
Weather extremely warm.
Several foot races and a knock down were
the sensations for Saturday,
Cashier and Minnie More run at Gallipolis
for $500, August 18th.
Rev. HardwiCke, of GnyandottG, preached
in the NJ, +. Church to large congregation
Sabbath evening,
Tie Bedford Salt Company is in full blast
again.
The Clifton Iron and Nail Company will
commence operations this week
]. g. tanning, Esq, has returned from his
trip up Kanawha, where he has been enlight.
enng the Masonic Fraternity.
Friday morning Lawrence Lacy, an employ.
ee Of The Bedford Salt Company, was taken
with violent orampings and Other symptoms Of
that dreadful disease, cholera. Dr.. Waiter.
man was called and the man taken TO his home
in Mtddleport, Ohio, where he lied about I p.
m. Deceased had been uRwell for some days
and that with eating green APPLES is supposed
10 have fastened his death MlxGY.
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LETTER FROM MR.. BIRD.
MSsON Cry, July 2lst, 1873

@NNSSN va 49,
.H. Editor
The coming election is elicitiug some
attention in this community Signs III tue
political horizon indicate that the race for
the Office Of County Superintendent Of free
schools Of Mason County, is assuming q
political aspect. This is clearly demon
strated by the nervous, feverish anxiety
manifested BY some Of the candidates now
before the people; aud also by the jealous
scrutiny with which every thing pertain
ing to the coming election IS watched BY
some Of the faithful, clear headed, (ar.see-
ing opponents Of the two rival political
parties of the county, Now, we think, this
state of things ought not to exist, especial
y in selecting suitable person to gil the
office Of County Superintendent lutellec-
tual and moral qualifications should be
sought for especially in selecting a man to
dII this Office, with these qualifications,
and o reasonable amount of energy and
industry, County Superintendent may
accomplish much good. His mission dur
ing bis term Of Office is to assist in the
great work Of developing the better and
uobler faculties of the mind-the moral
aud intellectual. The man who is will
ing and competent to engage, successfully
10 this work is the man We want for the
Office; but in the absence Of these qualifca'
tons in County Superintendent, the office
is a perfect blank.
In the last issue Of the Register MY
name is announced as o candidate for tho
Office Of Suporiuteudcnt Of Free Schools Of
Mason County Unauthorized by me- One
reason why am not q candidate at this
time, is that | cannot aatter myself that |
possess all the qualifications indicated as
necessary to 6II the Office successfully,
and another reason is that the race to q
great extent will be political one; and as
there are other gentlemen who are now
before the people as candidates represent
ing, in principle, the two political parties
Of the county, I therefore am net a caudi.
date. And thank my friends for the com.
plmeut they have been willing to pay me
10 announcing my name as candidate for
40 Office Of as much responsibility.
JACOB BIRD.
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CITY MARKET,

o. eco PoGST PLEASANT, July-2S;
FLOUR-A -four 50; XXX IS so;
Xxx 81 rs; X So rs.
WHEAT-NeR wheat 81 toSl IS,
CORNING quote corn at 50 cents per
bushel,
BUTTER-Good bard pressed butter
is quoted at 20 cents per pound.
EGGS-Eggs are 10 good demand, and
our merchants are Offering l23 cents per
dozen.
MEATS-Sugar cured hams II cents;
plain hams Is; shoulders 10; sides l2!;
dried beef FROM % to 80 cents per pound.
COFFEE-CoHee is quoted at % to 50
cents,
sUGAR-New Orleans, 12I; white
Is to 20 cents.
MOLASSES--New Orleans 900 to 81
per gallon; syrups 81 tOS1 25.
TEAS-Tea ranges from 81 to 81 80
pcr pound.
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who know me fail to attribute to me, who
feels conscious Of popular favor in the dis.
charge Of his duties at all times as clerk Of
Fleetwood.
Please correct the statement Of Col
Cruikshauk aud Oblige,
Respectfully yours,
JOHS TRoRNBURG.
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From the Courier.
Gard from Mr.. John Thornburg.
POISr PLEASANT, W. Va
July II, 1878.

From Tie Courier.
In tue Charleston Daily Courier Of the
10Th inst, | see long and tedious de-
scriptiOn of the excursion taken BY The
Maryland editors from their native State to
Louisville, KY, from the pen of Co.. G.
W. Cruikshauk, proprietor Of the ElktOu
(Md.) Democrat. While in perusal Of the
same, | was astonished at the unjust aud
cruel alIusiou to myself as clerk Of the
steamer Fleetwood. At the time Of the
trip alluded to, | was at my lather-iu laws
house in the Kauawha Valley, and de-
voted to other avOCatiouS, where even il
desired, | could not return "rudsness for
dignity" trait Of character that those
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Ne are authorized to announce DR. O. T. B.
MOORE as A candidate for reelection to the
Office Of County Superintendent of Free
Schools.
We are authorized by the friends Of JACOB
BIRD, Of Mason City, to announce him as a
candidate for the office Of County Superintend.
ont of Free Schools, at the coming August
election, who ask the support for him Of all vO
ters, without regard to party.
TO THE VOTERS OF MASON COUNTY,
Through the solicitation Of many friends, l
will be an independent candidate, at the An
Wust election, for the Office of Superintendent
IF Free Schools Of Mason County, and res
pecllully solicit the votes Of all citizens ires
pective Of party. o,,nrn,r
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Tue Postal LAW The new postal
law aboIishiug the free circulation Of
newspapers 10 the counties where they are
published, went into effect on tue July LIST
Subscribers to the Register should pay 10
cents postage which will pay up to next
January, by which time tho law will, in
all probability, DO repealed,
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A. 8. PARKs, ESQ, is our duly authorized
AGENT at Buffalo, Putnam County, West Va,
70 receive and solicit subscribers, aud to col
lect and receipt for money due this Office At
that Mace
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We trust our readers viii excuse the
luck Of local matter in this issue, In our
desire to lay before our readers all the in
formation We could gather relating to the
school election, we have neglected this de-
partmCHt somewhat.
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We understand that little sou Of Mr..
Clarke, who resides at EIlinipsico, had bis
arm broken at the Barrel Factory, while
wrestling with some boys.
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There is at present no little amount Of
excitement in this county over recent dis
coyeries of rich beds Of iron orc and COAL
aud other valuable minerals. 1t does not
surprise US any, as We have always beIie0'
cd and have asserted in these columns,
that the hills Of Mason and Putnam
abound 10 mineral wealth
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We are glad to announce that our much
esteemed fellow.towusmau, B. +. Butler
is Improving rapidly, and will soon be
able to be upon the streets.
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SgpSEnE CoURr. State Of West Virgin
ia Us L. D. Allen, Mason county. Writ
Of error allowed No bond required.
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B. ]. TAYLOR.

We have a young clark" in this village
whose idea of heaven is to soost on fence
on Sunday aud make remarks about church
goers. He is considered smart" by his
psreBIS.
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DEDICATION The new Presbyterian
Church in thi, cityIwas dedicated on last
Sunday morning. The dedication sermon
was preached by Rev. W. L. Bailey, of
Augusta, Kentucky. Rev Mr.. HILL
Pastor, announced that there was still due
on the church the sum Of 1868 81, and
asked that the debt might be discharged
,he.oall vas responded to, and in q very
short time very iarge amount Of money
was raised for the purpose. Tho building
is finished up in nice style, and is credit
and monument TO the llbctati'y Of our cit
liens. Mr.. Bailey also preached at night
FINE Srook We take the following
from the GaIlipoliS BaletiM
Speaking ofstock, Maj. W Il. TomIiO'
sOn, q Mason County, w. Va, I hear
asserts that he has an Attorney COW whose
milk $50 rich that,he can make one pound
of butter from a pint of milk. This is
tough, but it may be so, as the Major says
he has foe grass farm to feed upon, from
which be raises three crops year
FARsIER,
GusN HoNs, W Va, July s, 49,
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The plates for the new fifty cent note
have been prepared and it will be issued
some time during the present month.
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A CARD Permit me through your pa
per to return my sincere thanks to the oitI,
zeus Of Clifton and West Columbia for
their kiudnes, in assisting in recovering
the body Of my,sou john B, Taylor, who
was drowned in the OHIO river on Satur'
day, July 18th, 1878, as we'll as their
sympathy aal service throughout the fun
crll Coram)nes.
II TAILOR.
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We are inNormea that in the neighber-
hood Of Beech Hill, this county, the recent
heavy rains have been very destructive to
the wheat and corn.
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WI Small is appointed postmaster at
Harmony, Mason County, West Virginia
Tice n, Long, resigued.
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ANNOUNCEM ENTS.

All announcements must be paid for in ad.
ance TO insure their insertion. Price, S.,
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G1sx HONE, W Va, July 5, '73.

Peters Musical Monthly for June con
tains large amount Of New Music
You can buy the Monthly for 80 cents :
Send 81 for tho last six months numbers
Of Peters Musical Monthly" and you
will never regret it. Address, j. L. Pc
tiers, 800 Broadway. New York.
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NOTICE!

A Ii persons indebted to me arc hereby no.
n tilted that their accounts and my books
have been placed in the hands Of Mr.. A. E.
Bickel, with whom they are requested to max
immediate settlement. all accounts must be
settled within the next thirty days. Longer
indulgence cannot be given.
july lO-4w. B. l.. NILES