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The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-25

AMoss the mysterious disappear
snces" Of the past few mouths, we
not. tina; Of the German artist. Mast.
whose cartoons have been a prominent
feature of the widely spread periodical
known as Hrrper's Weekly. wha, has
cansed his retirement. it il bard TO say.
Certainly bis prolific imagination and
ready pencil cannot have become 80
soon exhausted. for be is a man yet in
the prime Of life and possessed Of fertile
brain. OF late he has fallen into a Sc
ries of personalities ia his cartoons
which may have given offence to the
patrons Of that paper; and besides, he
has shown a prediction for famiiariz-
ing the public eye with his own fat,
sensuous mug on all occasions Probs-
bly, the proprietors of that paper have
become convinced that variety is the
spice If life" and concluded to let him
tikn rest We all remember bow dis
gushing and m.liciously he caricatured
that great and good man. Horace Gree
ley. to the very verge Of the grave A
new artist named keppier has become
the Cruikshank of this era, and his
works arc free from the malicious satire
Of Mast. So they come and go.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-25
TELEGRAPHIC.
Exclusively to the
THE ONLY NEWSPAPER
Receiving Dispatches
WASHINGTON TERRITORY
CALIFORNIA.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23.-Arrived
Bark King Phillip, Port Gamble;
Sailed - Barkentine Amelia. Port
Townsend; Guat bark Frederick Ma
ria, Fort Townsend; ship G-rmania.
Beilins ham Bay; bark Montana, Port
Town,end; bark Cassandra Adams
Port Townsend; schooner Norway. Sc
at,lc; bark James Question. Port Gam
bic: brig Deacon, Port Discovery.
The fire at Butchertown. South San
Francisco. yesterday evening proves to
have been more serious than previously
reported. Mr.. Messenger, III whose
dye house the fire started, loses about
$4,000. fully insured. Funk & Schloss,
tanners. loss upwards of $4,000, with
only $4,000 insurance. NJ. Hornes e.
Co. wool pullers and sheepskin tanners,
estimate their loss at $4,000 on build.
ing and stock. and $4,000 insurance.
The fire is supposed by owners of the
property to be incendiary.
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 23- Working
men held Il meeting in front of the
new City Hall this afternoon. From
six 10 eight hundred persons were
present The meeting was orderly and
good natured. Reference was made
by one Of the speakers to the senti-
mcnts uttered from the stand at the
recent meeting in Union Hall, and
those sentiments were Endorsed by the
assemblage. \ resolution was offered
to have street parade during the
week. but it was finally tabled. the
president Of the meeting suggesting
that it would be better to further per-
feet their organization before taking
that step. and further reminded those
present that if any i'll disposed parties
were to utilize such occasion to smash
q few China wash houses the blame
would be laid on the shoulders of the
workingmen. 1t was decided to con-
tinue holding open Sunday meetings
until such time as they could afford to
hire hall for the purpose. 1t was
announced that at the coming session
Of the Legislature bills would be offered
looking to the amelioratiou Of the
condition of the working classes. and
that next Summer they proposed to
open new branch of export from this
port-that Of shipping Cinnamon back
to their country.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-25

WHEN We hear Of first class brute
we like to pass him around. Several
weeks ago. . boat was upset while on
the passage from Astoria to Cape Dis
appointment. and several Of the occu-
pants were drowned. Among them
was man named II. X. Stevens, whose
body was found and buried ON Sand
Island by the finders. Hearing Of this.
his friends came to disinter the remains
and take them to Astoria for burial
They called upon the man who buried
it. but be refused to show them the
drowned mans resting place unless he
Was paid fifteen dollars. They paid the
money and the ghoul pocketed it aud
then they disinterred the remains On
mstare reflection. we are glad that sand
Island is net in Puget Sound. or yacht
Ing partiss might not find the corpse.
merchsnt = very good neighbor. A
man who would levy blactmail in the
above way would not hesitate to furnish
a corpse once in while himself, Just tn
aid in making his expenses Give us
his name, Mr.. Historian; We wan, to
pass him around.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-25

Washington special says: Senator Conk-
ling is preparing an exhaustive speech
upon the subject Of the Presidents civil
service order. lie will not sssail the
Presidents motives, but will claim that
the President has no more right to cir
cumscribe the lawful action OF a fedora.
official than he has 10 prescribe what
he shall think.
NEW YORK. Sept 2l-The Worjfs
Washington letter, received from q pub
lie man on the Pacific coast, says the
Pacific coast delegation will urge upon
Congress at the coming session the
great necessity Of some legislation on
the Chinese question. The report Of
the JOINT commission If Congress on
this subject was Eot even considered in
the last session, owing TO the oversha6-
owing interest in the Presidential con-
test. i permanent Chinese embassy
and Chinese consulship At san Francis
co will soon be established, it is said.
and vii! contribute to the solution of
existing difficulties.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-25
EUROPE.

PARIS, Sept % Urban Jean Joseph
LeVerrier, the famous astronomer, is
dead.
LONDON, Sept. ga correspondent
who was an eye witness OF Fridays
battle between the Czarowitz and Me-
hemet Ali. telegraphs from Zoroupa as
follows: Five or six different attacks
were made today by the Turks with
from one to three battslions each time
and all unsupported attacks failed
The loss to the Turks was very heavy.
A number of killed and wounded can
be seen lying on the open ground over
which the combatants passed The
Russians maintained their positions,
which consist Of deep trenches There
has also been som fighting at Kndick
Lei by a division of Ahmet Eyouh's
corps. and at Verbatza by two battai-
ions detached by Meh-Inet Ali, but the
Turk, were Unsuccessful at these places
also. The whole action has been totally
different from what Il should have
been. A feiut has been turned into
attack and the real attack has not beel
carried out.
VIENNA, Sept pa Vienna cores
pordent says the encounters Thursday
and Friday near Biela are said to have
been greatly exaggerated by the Turks.
According to information received here
they were drawn battles, and the forces
engaged were not large.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-25

A PRIVATE letter from the Auditor of
Chchslis county. informs us that the
population Of that county is ia, of
which $50 are males aud 325 females.
The TAXABLE property Of the comfy is
set down for SELL 1855 OF real estate aud
t6i, ISL Of personal property. making .
total Of $273.l42. which Is equal TO
t3S2 % for zach citizen. This il good
showing, but it must be borne in mind
that the pro rata is always largest in
tho least settled countries. for the large
cities always attract the poor as well
~ the rich. On the other hand, thin
y. settled county like Chehaiis is CON-
posed moetly Of bona .Ede settlers and is
free from ''trsmps" and those on-pro-
ducers that cucumber the cities and
large towns. Eighteen counties have
hsen heard from % fer. with an az
gregatc population Of 1924. Six more
countiea to hear from.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-25
DANGEROUS IRON SHIPS.

Aaother vessel butt Of iron and bear
ing tho British flag. has gene over 10
the grta, feet called the unheard Of,
and blotted on, from the lists of the
sails that Written every sea. 1t is how
nearly ten months sirce the British
bark Jamaica, 700 tons register. ard
having on board cargo worth So 900,
sailed from Astoria for Liverpool She
is 2sS days oat to-day, and in all the
long lists 0; spoken" which fill the
columns of our cotempories. not a
word comes back from the Jamaica
The building of iron ships in Eng
land has nothing to commend it but its
cheapne.. There they have no falsely
concocted protective tnrifi," by the
sustaining of which few manufac-
turers are enabled TO fleece the .nillibn.
Iron is cheap while wood is scarce and
dear. But the number Of iron ship.
that are sunk at sea and never heard
from, makes iron ship. very costly 10
the nation in the long run. II wooden
vessel begins to leak a. sea. carpenter
can white out A plug or drive III
hank Of oaku'n aud so stop the leak.
But when an iron ship begins leaking,
abe becomes floating slaughter pen.
England is to blame for much Of this
She bas splendid forests Of fir and
cedar on her British Columhia frontier
where can be built ships just as good as
ihe Western Shore, Wildwood and
Cassandra Adams. AZ much less cost,
owing to there being but a nominal
duty on iron imported from England
into those waters. These ship- would
be just as swift "a the iron c1ffins
built ut Grcenock or Snields aid
the high seas We have seen
tables Of vessels lost and burned,
but we have never seen a table
of missing vessels compiled in which
the iron ships were separated from the
wooden ones. 1t is against the manu-
featuring interests Of England to publish
such statistics. aud American journalists
arr generally too lazy 70 compile them.
But once let the fac. become properly
public and the more prudent merchants
will 90 back to the forests for their
kecls.
Already iron steamers are becom-
ing unpopular in the American
merchant service. aud though the mills
on the Delaware are grinding them out
day and night, these feeble limitations
Of the British style will SION go out Of
date. The compound engine is already
proven to waste In repairs what it saves
in consumption of fuel, and the rolling
propcllsrs are inseparably associated
with nausea and tho smell of rancid oil
Ten years hence, the genuine American
steamship. with her ponderous beam
engine and staunch hull, her wide cabins
andaisy state-rooms, will be more popu-
lar than ever. Then the iron clipper
will DO thing Of the past and the
words "never heard from" will DO less
used than ut present. The magnificent
forests Of the Pacific coast will not lie
lido many years longer. and when the
thing once becomes fairly set in motion
there will be as many ships built at
Port Essington aud Bnrrard Inlet, as at
Ludlow or Madison. 1t takes time to
test these great commercial problems
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-25

CHICAGO Sept. s3--A dispatch to-day
from Fort Ellis to Gen. Sheridan. says:
Sturgis.writes under date of Muscel-
shells. Sept. 10th, that in the fight on
the 18th. and the pursuit on the l4th
and 18th, 20 dead warriors were found.
He believes more were killed and es,i.
mates the loss in wounded at 60. His
own loss is French, Nicholson and Ores
ham slightly wounded. four soldiers
killed. IL wounued. several scouts killed
and wounded. Nine hundred horses
were dropped by the hostiles on the
10th. lie had dropped many If his own
horses. His command had teen living
five days on mule meat. The Crows
are returning to the agency aud say
Sturgis sent them in. telling them not
to fight tho Neg Psrces any mere, be-
cause tine soldiers were not 10 fight them
any longer. Crows say that S,urgis'
and the Neg Perces' camps are only
eigh, miles apart. aud it may lie they
have surrendered. This report needs
confirmation. Nothing from Howard
since my last
BESHAM, commanding.
NEW foRK. Sept. 23--The Califor-
MIA ride team leave for San Francisco
Monday evening. The Erie Co. have
decorated the ours,de Of the car with
festoons Of red, white and blue mus
lin surrounding the words California
team homeward bound with trophy Of
victory" A delegation Of friends will
see them off
Clarence Commercial. SOL of New
York broker. WAS shot aAd killed in
Newark. N. j.. yesterday, by AN infu-
rated husband in whose house Gom-
merxall was found.
CHICAGO, sept. eS--The Timss'
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-25

EUROPEAN DRAFTs.-Draits issued
mt lowest rates on Great Britain. Ire.
land, Germany. Russia, France. Norway
and Sweden. Tickets to and from
Europe sold at lowest rates by Andrew
Chilberg, Seattle, W.T..
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-25

PARIS. Sept % Urban Jean Joseph
LeVerrier, the famous astronomer, Is
dead
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-25

NOBODY has found Charley Ross yet.
but everybody has found the best place
in Seattle to get Oysters--at PIper's. of
course.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-25

THE CENTENNIAL SALOON still MAIN
tains It's reputation for keeping the best
Lager Beer in the city.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-25

NITROUS OXIDE Gas az Lockc's
Dental Office.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-25

PURE Mocha Coffee for sale cheap at
Chilberg Bros.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-25

For SALE, in lots to suit. 30 900
grain sacks. S. BAXTER & Co.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-25

For GENUINE GERMAN Milk Bread,
GO to Piper's.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-04-21
Poor Katy Del0u.

With cheeks like Pink roses abloom in May
And eyes ike tue stars, so sparkling were they
With breath like sweet clover, or new-mown ha v
All pretty and sweet was Kitty Delay.
And good and wise we should ind her this day.
Had il no' been for very bad way.
>r- hal. whenever her mother would say,
" Cone katy, and learn" q! crying, III stay,
Iu,t tx. minutes more - or. " De,r mother, pray
Wait til :o-mcarow-I want So to play"
Now 30 3. old and wrinkled and gray.
AMI Eu1ss 10 more than they do AT Cathay
Foolish aud Old. and never a ray
OF c,mirrt fnr her who once was so gay;
And all because she would have her own way.
,tnaauN other tits al ways to-day;
,-ra rev.> has Sound, I'll venture to say,
AIy tr-..orrov. Poor Katy Delay,
81. NichOlds f0r March.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-04-21
sternne>s nor ind gnation in his counte-

sternness nor ind 'gnation in his counte-
nance.
o. he said, in kind tone, 'you
do not look at all we'll this morning. l.
there anything the matter with you: "
caught at the idea, and said | had
not felt well for the last few days.
81 thought not" he said, and only
sent for you 10 say, if it were the case,
you had better return home and take q
day or two's rest. You will then be bet
ter, and We can do very well without you
for that time
A reception so different from what
had expected, made such an impression
on me that the tears came into my eyes,
and | felt halfinclined 10 confess the
whole truth. The senior partner, how
ever. putting out his hand, and shaking
mine warmly, said:
Now go home, and keep up your
spirits, and you will do very we'll
At that moment one of the clerks en-
tered the room, and | left it and pro-
ceeded homewards, the man whom had
imagined to be detective being nc
longer there. For what purpose Jackson
visited the Office the evening before !
know not. Certainly it was not con
nected with my business.
1t will be too painful for me to &C
further into the matter plunged
deeper and deeper int crime. | at.
tempted to conjure up a reckless frame
of mind, and in the daytime to consid.
cradle extent succeeded. But then the
nights--how can describe their misery
could not sleep without opium, and
the more | took Of the drug the greater
the quantity l required, till at length
was obliged to take each evening as much
as would have killed any ordinary man
1t had also its effect on my countenance
which assumed the paid hue of the
regular opium-eater. At last the forgery
was discovered, jackson having sold my
note; l was arrested, my defalcation;
came to light, and soon after found my
self here.
One word more, in justice to myself
heard that in the newspaper report o.
the trial it was stated that when, after
my sentence, | left the bar, it was with q
jaunty step and Indifferent expression Of
countenance. Never was there truel
remark. If, indeed, any objection car
be taken to it, it is that it did not go fal
enough, for the imprisonment to which
was condemned, and the utter ruin Of
my projects in life, were but feather
in the balance, when compared with the
weight of horrible mental torture and
doubt had been laboring under fol
months before the termination of my
career of crime.
"Where is Thornton, you ask ,"
He occupies the cell adjoining mine
Illustrated Weekly.