Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-09-02
Local and News Items.
FROM THE DAILY or SATURDAY.


cavalry Lieutenant, whose marvellous escape
from the Sioux makes a thrilling border
episode. HE is the same Rudio who JAM
uary IA, 1853, participated with Orsini,
Gomez and Pieri in the attempt to kill Ma.
poleon Ill, by throwing hand bombshells in
his carriage almost in front of the Paris
Grand Opera. The building which was .
witness to the act has disappeared having
been burned in the fall of 1s73 and we think
that Gomez, who was sent to Cayenne, has
died Orsini and Pieri were guillotined,
though not before the Emperor, in a myste-
rious interview, promised to Orsini. his for
mer comrade in the Italian sect of the Car
bonari that he, Napoleon ILL.,, would keep
his promise and deliver Italy from the
Austrian, which he did at Solferino, eighteen
months later. The last surviving of the prime
cipal actors in the tragedy of the Paris Grand
Opera would have disappeared also if the
Indians had discovered the retreat of Lieut..
Rudio in the underbrush of the Big Horn.
1t has been charged that in the trial before
the Court of Assizes, Rudio had turned
States evidence and been pardoned. The
Lieutenant experienced, in fact, some annoy
ance ON that account when he first entered
the army of the United States. But all this
part of his life falls into insignifcance, es-
pecially to the eyes of an American public,
when compared with the recent record of
Rudio in the Indian war.
WE find the following bit of interesting
news in the New York Times of the 18th
inst: Among the records of the rebel gov.
eminent captured or taken possession of as
abandoned after the fall of Richmond was q
letter from the Pope of Rome to jefferson
Davis. The language used was Latin, and
the signature in different hand from the
body of the letter. The letter is accompanied
by another to jeff Davis from A. Dudley
Mann, who transmits q formidable Latin
document, which is nothing less than rec
ognition of the Government of the Confed-
crate States. 1t may, when sufficiently en-.
lightened by other documents referred to and
the testimony of living men, be of sufficient
importance to find a mention in the true hiss
tory of the rebellion, hereafter to be written.
The following is the glowing letter of trans.
mission, written by Mr.. Mann. Mann was
formerly Assistant Secretary of State of the
United States, and was sent abroad by Davis
as Diplomatic Agent or Commissioner:
BRUSSELS. May 8, 1S64-1Kr Presidents
Herewith have the honor to transmit q
letter which his Holiness, Pope Plus TX,
direct to your Excellency on the Sd of De-
has Last ToAo hnn
obligingly undertaken its conveyance, and
will deliver it in person. This letter will
grace the archives of the Executive Office in
all coming time, and it will live forever in
history, as the production of the first poten-
tate who has formally recognized your official
position, and acceded to the request of one of
the diplomatic representatives of the Con-
federate States for an audience in an estab-
lished Court, similar to that of St. James or
the Tuileries.
In the San Francisco Bulletin, of the 10Th
inst, appears the first of a series of papers
by Alphonse Pinart on the subject of Indian
mounds or cairns on this coast. 1t will be
remembered that this gentleman made a
short stay in Olympia few months
ago. The paper thus mentions him ed
itorially: m. Pinart belongs to that class
of scientists who are patiently interpreting
unwritten history. They are original inves-
tigators, Drawing all sorts of hardships and
exposures to discover some new fact touching
the history of races who have left their records
only in mounds or implements buried
in the earth. The ethnology of ancient races
is learned from the mounds and tumuli in
which they have been entombed; their lam
guage from hieroglyphs and from remnants
of tribes still living. Thus, in the prosecu~
ton or chronological and biological inquiries,
it sometimes becomes necessary to fraternize
with wild tribes, and to learn the language
orally. M. Pinart's dictionary of the tongue
spoken by the Aleuts is probably the most
complete which has ever yet been pre-.
pared, if, indeed, there is any other of any
worth to philologists. After writing up his
reports for transmission to Paris, he will
make some researches in the interior of Cali
fornia, and will then 60 to the Centennial, and
after brief visit to France, will return to
prosecute his researches for some years more
on this coast. He has some plans not yet
matured, for Polar researches by way of
Behring's Strait"
Tue New York Tribune compares wages
in 1876 and 1870 for sixty trades, and reckons
the decrease at from ten to twenty per cent.
while the reduction in rent and the necessa-
ries of life has been more than that. It con.
cludes therefore, that there has been an acs
tual increase in absolute wages-that is, that
the amount of work will buy more of the
necessaries of life now than in 1901.
THE run of salmon was SO light this sea-
son that the fisheries were unable to supply
their orders. The season on the Sound is
now just about to commence and it is great
pity we have no canneries in operation to
take advantage of the condition of the mar
ket, as they could dispose of their catch at
high figures.
The new daily mail service between Ia
coma and Seattle will 60 into operation the
first of next month. We shall then have
mail communication between here and there
every other day, or an answer to q letter
mailed here should come to hand 48 hours
afterward.
The Changers of California held con.
vention in San Francisco, this week, and
adopted resolutions not to sell wheat in that
market for less than $1.65 per GENITAL, or 80
cents per bushel.
THE assessment of King county, now just
about finished, foots up the handsome
amount of 81, III, 06. The whole number
of persons assessed was about 1890. The
assessment of 1865 was 81, ss3, 600, and of 1874
81, 657, 5sS.
ONLY five buildings remain in Boston
of those standing century ago. These are