, 1875-10-07
Snohomish Correspondence.
SNoHoM1sH CITY. October l, 1875.

| oNo1tO-hAoAi SAAAb OShOOSA - AO'O'
The steamer Zephyr at her usual hour
on last Monday rounded the bend in
the river one mile below town and was
soon alongside the wharf, looking as
natural as life with new shaft looking as
if it had beeu in position and u SO ever
since she was launched. That was
prompt work, putting her in good run
ming order SO soon after her accident.
Little things don't seem to ruf1le her cor-
mander at all. That is the kind of a
boat and the kind Of man for our riv-
er trade. Something and somebody to
depended on. We all like to see the
Zephyr. She brings us our. mails,
promptly, excepting occasionally when
her Capt. gets in hurry and steps away
from Seattle before the P. NJ. there has
finished ihis morning nap. Then ste
don't bring them.
The Fanny Lake came this week ON
Wednesday instead Of Thursday as usual
heretofore. She remained in the river
all night, took on o load of hay for
Messrs. Robb & Co.; of WILDLY Island,
and left early in the morning with sew
eral passengers among them, E. G. Far
geson, representative elect for the Terri
torial Legislature, on his way to Olym-
pia, and f. Morse Esq. and family
bound for Seattle. we hope our wise
legislators while having their usual semi
annual Information at the capitol will do
something moro than suck their paws
and growl at each other over the plum
der; will stir round little; wake up and
look sharp after the interest of their
constituents. Let them stir up Congress
little, and see if they can't induce that
carniferous body to ameliorate our suff
erings little by removing that dead
weight to our progress, the land dona-
ton to the N. P. r. r. Co., which oper-
ates on our Territory like bran new
pull back skirt on a young miss in her
teens, retards progress. exposes deform-
aties and pinches wofully everywhere
20 matter what the position taken, sitt-
ing. standing or trying to walk. Then
if there are enough sain ones among
them to constitute committee, let
them go down to the Asylum and see
what can be done for that overcrowded
institution. 1t has been raining cards,
letters, pamphlets and correspondence
of all kinds, some certified to and some
not. relating to the management of that
institution, and it seems to fooker on
as though there must be some fire when
the atmosphere is SO smoky.
| Then we have a what is called Ter
ritorial University, which has had lib
eral slice of the public domain to help
it along. but it seems to be sadly behind
the times. II is charged by some to be
in sectarian hands. If so, it should be
oyerhauled at once. Sectarian educa-
ton should be supported entirely by
sectarian societies. Not dollar of the
public money should be spent for other
than a literary, scientific and moral ed
ucation. If this charge is well founded
the sooner the legislature puts its veto
upon it the better for ths cause Of edu-
cation in the coming young state. In
some of the states east, the public
schools have been nearly ruined by this
question of sectarian education. Let it
be taken in hand here, before it assumes
elephantine proportions. Let there be
clause in the fundamental Law, 80 plain
that no lawyer can pick it to pieces,
forever prohibiting sectarian education
out of any funds arising directly or in
directly from any form of taxation
whatever. Sectarian teaching should
ave thrown around it the mantle of legal