Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-07-01


This was a brilliant success, and was so
decisive that it virtually ended the war.
The splendid victory at Yorktown
filled the suffering people of America
with exuberant Joy. When news there
of reached Europe, it created pro-
found impression. Every sensible man
saw that the country could not be sub
dued by the armies of England. The
voice of the stubborn King was still for
war; but his wisest statesmen perceived
and felt that his subjects demanded
peace as the price of recognizing Ameri-
can independence. He had, therefore,
no alternative but to submit, or endan-
ger the safety Of his throne. He finally
yielded to the public demand, but with
such i'll grace that his consent to atreaty
of peace merited no praise. The treaty
was signed in Paris on November 80,
1882. On that proud occasion the
Duke of Rochefoucald kissed our astute
Franklin for joy, and that wise patriot
said, " My friend, could I have hoped at
such an age to have enjoyed so great
happiness?'
Great and ineXpressible was the Joy
of every American patriot when Eng
land sheathed her sword, when the
world gave his country welcome admis-
sion into the sisterhood of nations.
Nevertheless, there was grim shadow
of discomfort and mutiny lying athwart
the path OF the infant nation. The
army, which had purchased it's exis-
tenco with unimacinable sufferings and
torrents of blood, felt that it's just claims
had not been fairly met by Congress.
Murmurs spread through its ranks;
threats were muttered; conspiracies be-
gan to organize themselves. 1t would
have been easy at that moment for
Washington to have played the part of
Caesar, for he was the idol of his army.
But in his great soul patriotism regu-
lated ambition. He sought not his
own, but his country's veal. Hence,
instead yielding to the evil spirit of the
hour, he combatcd it, reasoned with it,
subdued it. Instead of violence, he
counseled patience. He became the ad-
vocate Of his army before Congress, OBJ
tanned a satisfactory recognition of it's
claims, and saw it disband and return to
peaceful pursuits in the spirit of loyalty
to the Government it had helped to
found '..
After this noble deed he did yet
another, equally worthy of admiration.
On December %, 1888; he appeared in
the hall of Congress at Annapolis.
There, standing, sand with an air of
inexpressible dignity he modestly,
briefly, referred to his motives. in first
accepting the commission Of command
er-in-chief, and to the successful issue
country to the care OF ITovIueHce ana
then, advancing to the chair of the
President, placed his commission in his
hands. The President replied in few
suitable words. After this long and
profound silence prevaded the deeply
moved assembly, The recollection OF
Washington's many great and noble
deeds, thoughts of the mighty future
his prowess had inaugurated, and the
exquisite felicity of that auspicious
hour, impressed every heart. A grander
scene was never enacted in the history
of nations. When it broke up the
praise Of Washington was on every lip.
To him the greatest spring of Joy was
his consciousness of high duty success
fully performed, and the prospect that
henceforth his life would be passed not
in camps and on battle-felds, but amid
the quietude of his home and in the
peaceful pursuit of his country's veal.
sE The Women's Centennial Union
of New York has issued report as cred
table to the patriotism of its members
as it is substantial in it's financial exhi-
bit. Its receipts have been $21 ,161-
u, the expenditures 49, $50 81, leaving
balance of 81 ,4O121, which is retained
for contingent expenses, etc. OF this
sum SIS 900 has been sent to Phil
adelphia to be used for purposes con-
nected with the Woman's Pavilion,
either to aid in the erection of the edi-
fee, or to encourage the exhibition of
the artistic, inventive and useful capa-
city of the women of the city of New
York, who are now represented iii
the Woman's Pavilion by one hundred
art exhibits, ten inventions and thirty
skillful handmade articles. A Centen-
NAL banner has also been presented by
the New York organization to the wo-
mans department of the Exposition. It
has already been unfurled in the Wo-
mans Pavilion, where it will remain
during the Exhibition, and afterwards,
it is hoped, be kept in Memorial or In
dependence Hall. The banner cost $2,-
00O.
* The new British man-of-war In
flexible will carry in turrets four eighty
one-ton guns; her turrets will be pro-
badly eighteen-inch armor; and the cita.
del or vital part of the ship, will be
guarded by no less than twenty.four
inches Of armor. She is designed to
be floating castle, the rest OF the ship
beside the citadel being mainly useful
{ for the purpose of giving huoyancy to
tho central stronghold. She will be
fitted, however, with spur, which can
be taken off at pleasure, and her enor-
nous bulk will give her terrible power
as ram. Her displacement, when all
her weights are on board, will be no
less than II ,407 tons-exceeding that of
any ship yet constructed.
@ Here is Centennial love-stOry
worth reading. Bishop Mead tells it
in his "Old Churches and Families OF
Virginia" A young man fell in love
with a young woman named Mary Carey.
He asked her fathers consent to their
marriage. The old gentleman re-
marked, eff that is your business here
sir, wish you to leave the house, fol
my daughter has been accustomed to