The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-02-05
who do not refuse to believe many


may think the President, who will
believe him guilty of designing to
plunge fhe nation into the horrors of
war to CRAFTY personal ambition.
An exchange ventures the opinion
that the Empire title will in the Sec
ond century of the national existence
be surrendered by New York to
PENNSYLVANIA. And that the epoch
is not far in the distance when Penn
sylvania may venture, single handed,
to cope with the resources of En-
gland. This is cheering outlook
for Pennsylvania, and also serves in
a great measure to indicate the Won
derful possibilities that the future
may hold in store for this country.
The natural resources of the key
stone State are varied and extensive,
so are the resources of many Of her
sister States. Time, in a less pro-
gressive era than now, has wrought
out gigantic developments in Britain,
and it is quite as easy to foretell what
may be possible as what may not be
possible within the arena of the Uni
ted States, during its second century.
The mildness fthc Eastern winter
this year is somewhat remarkable.
The reports of it read like the ac-
counts of some of the Washington
Territory winters, when roses bloom
the year round, and ice thick as
window pane is not seen during the
whole season. Only few days ago
the great swimmer, Paul Boynton
swan, with his life-saving apparatus,
IS miles down the Mississippi River
to St. Louis, and this too in the mid
die of winter. A private letter from
the rigorous climate of Minnesota,
under date 10Th january says:
The most of our winter has been
extremely mild and pleasant. Have
had some disagrccable wcather,warm
but fosgy and generally unpleasant.
Such winter has not been known
in Minnesota for long time. A
friend writes from New York that
the farmers were blowing, vegetation
was springing forth, and the trees
actually budding when the new Cen
tennial era made its appearance. The
steamer on Chautauquc lake made
excursion trips all New Years day.
But those Eastern brethren will
probably suffer for it ere winter is
over, and those late cold spells are
generally the most disastrous in that
part Of our country. Meanwhile the
residents of Washington Territory
are r, aling themselves upon the an
.,cipation, and to us of late, almost
realization ofan early spring.
After an extended argument the
Centennial Appropriation bill passed
the House. The vote stood yeas I46
nays 100. 1t is some cause of alarm
that the good name of the nation
came so near being imperilcd by the
defeat of this important measure.
To make such extended preparations
for the international exhibition, to
herald It to the four corners OF the
earth and then refuse to make the
appropriation necessary to ensure
success, would have been an act of
national folly tor which every intel
ligent American would blush with
shame. The success of the cxposi-
ton is now placed beyond question,
and will without doubt, rebound
largely to the our national glory.
The ridiculous story is being cir
culated by those who ought to have
something better to do, that Grant
and other leading men of the admin
istration are members of a secret an
ti.catholic order. This looks too
mue h like magnifying a mole-hill in
to mountain. Who supposes there
is anything about this Catholic ques-