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only publicity, but distinguished
and detailed publicity, to crime in
its most repulsive forms, has famil-
iarized the people with all kinds Of
iriquity, and poised the minds of
the young with impure thoughts,
and inspired them with unholy am
bitions. not only.sapping the foun-
dation of all piety; but fitting many
for career of lawlessness and
crime. 1t is said public journals
are newspapers and not vehicles to
convey moral truths to the people.
Grant all this, does not the news
paper owe something to society 7
If an editor should come into gen
tleman's family and entertain his
sons and daughters by the shocking
details of a murder or a divorce or
some more immoral suit at law,
would he not be unceremoniously
expelled from the houses And yet
the effect of such detailed state
ments in the newspaper is just as
pernicious on the mind, aud even
more so, than if recited orally. We
do not believe in turning the secu-
lar press into religious journals we
believe they ought to give the news,
bat this can be done without the
sickening details now so unhappily
familiar to the American readers OF
leading city daiiies. Well, where
is the remedy? 1t lies in a revival
of old-fashioned Bible sentiments
among the people, and in recon
struction of the methods of the press
The pulpit and the press are the
two great levers to effect the needed
reform, but will they do it,
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When a town is quarantined,
as all merchants know, they can
work off old stocks of goods Of
all sorts at famine prices.-[Aus-
tin Statesman.
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The shining lights of Radical
ism in Texas have suddenly be-
come transformed into teachers
and expounders of the Green
back doctrine. 1t was a leap for
life, though, and they jumped
fiom the hard money platform of
the Republican party to the soft
money structure of the Green
hackers. Verify, "extremes do
always meet. p Texas New Era.
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Hon. J. B. Elan spoke Tues
day night at Shreveport. He
reviewed the political record of
the two parties, dwelt particu-
larly upon the financial ques-
tlon, and was attentively listen
ed to, says the "Times."
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The Columbus (Indiana) Dem
ocrat says "the democratic skies
are frightening not only in our
own locality but all over the
state" Indiana elects thirteen
Congressman second Tuesday in
October.
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. Caddo has five aspirants for
the office of Sheriff, viz: John
A. Currie, E. M. Laughlin, Capt.
r. T. Vinson, Colonel P. w. Fl.
Cumming and Israel w. Pick
ems.
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W Have you Registered +!

The Petersburg (Va.) Index
says the increase of insanity
among the colored people has
been very marked during the
past few years.
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Result of first primary cleo
ton of Webster parish, Satur-
day, Sept. 7ih: For Represen-
tative-J. J. Carter, 800; N. A.
Thornton, 209; Geo. W. Tomp-
kins, 100. For Parish Judge
Il. g. Drew, 495; NJ. G. Mosley,
1853. For Sheriff-W. N. Collins.
SOB; John A. Colbert, 1856.
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"The bachelors Of River View, +"
Bossier parish, through DR.. h.
T. billiard, contribute s25 to aid
the yellow fever sufferers.
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W Register! Register!! Reg
ister!!! everybody. See Mr..
Arnold's appointments on third
and fourth pages.
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must register.
DISTRICT COURTS.-The 18th
District, Hon. Richard W. Turner,
Judge, is composed of Bossier and
Webster parishes. Terms will be
held as follows:
Bossier-Third Mondays in March
and September.
Webster-First Mondays in April
and October.
The Eleventh District, Hon. E. NJ
Graham, of Union, Judge, is com.
posed, and Court is held, as follows Z:
Red River-First Mondays in
March and September.
Bienville u Third Mondays in
March and September.
Union-First Mondays in April
and October.
Claiborne-Third Mondays in
April and October.
Jackson-First Mondays in May
and November.
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Iowa farmers are reported
working night, day and Sundays
to get in their crops, while the
State is flooded with tramps who
refuse even as high as $3.50 a
day and board.
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The Prevalence Of Crime.

leading cities, must have been
struck with the prevalence Of crime
which their pages show. In New
York, Boston, Chicago, st. Louis,
Cincinnati, and other large cities,
crime is fearfully on the increase;
indeed, this is true of the entire
North and West, and partially so,
we presume of the South, although |
the papers of the latter section do
not reveal tithe of the crime which !
abounds in the other sections.
Swindling, defalcations, robberies,
murders, seductions, and other
crimes are so constantly described
in the daily papers that they have
ceased to attract public attention,
unless there be some unusually ag-
gravating circumstances connected
with them.
Now, there must be cause for
this avalanche of crime there must
be some radically defective tenden-
cies in society itself, or in the laws
made to govern society, which rem
ders this increase of crime so con-
spicuous. Heavy penalties do not
seem to have any perceptible effect
upon the law defying classes, and
we are, therefore, persuaded to be-
lieve that the cause lies much deeper
than the surface. We may be old
fogyish, but in our view two of the
main causes of this deplorable state
is, first-the growing disregard
among the masses, particularly of
our large cities, of all religious re-
straint; and secondly, the wide
spread publicity given to all species
of crime by the public press of the
country.
That the first of these causes has
produced and is constantly pro-
ducing bitter fruit cannot be denied.
The old fashioned belief in the Bible;
in its promises and threatenings ;
in it's incentives to virtuous life
and in its threatenings to vicious
one, are the most wholesome re-
straints which ever have been or
ever will be thrown around society.
Mere civilization cannot supply
their place; for civilization without
religion only produces more refined
/ types of crime. No human enact.
ments, however severe, can ever
take the place of the Divine com.
mands. To man who firmly be-
lieves in the Divine authority of the
command Thou shalt not kill" and
in the threatenings of future retri
button suspended above the head oil
the murderer, these simple com
mands are more powerful restraint
than any human enactment fixing
: the death penalty to murder: The
lOoseneSs with which men hold tC
any religious faith is traceable, in
our opinion, to the "free thought,
the "higher law principle inculca
ted from SO many platforms and
3 pulpits. When the Bible became
I too old-fashioned for the clergyme.
I of advanced thought, who love te
preach to itching ears, and when
they begin to substitute a new gos
pei better adapted to the refined
sensibilities of their hearers, at tha,
moment the moral plague which
: now aff1icts us began to fasten itself
in the heart of the people, and i,
has continued to spread, becoming
!, more and more malignant as the
:, years passed by. The late war pro
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W Delays are dangerous
Register your name as voter.
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W Don't put it off. Regis
ter at once.

A Republican Convention of the
Fifth Congressional District was
held at Monroe, La, last Monday,
10th inst. x-Chief Justice Lude.
ling was nominated for Congress
for the long term, and J. W. Fair
fax, of Tensas, for the short term.
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Is the next Congress to be
Democratic in both branches?-
IN. Y. Tribune.
Its. Now be quiet.
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General News Item.
g=h
P0Il'

New Orleans, Sept. a.-nlpnnl
cases, 23o; deaths, 80. II. d..s Pr
list includes 81 minor, 10 NJ. :.r /,
under Z years. Among u. an -.
is Miss Hannah Bsrusa d.,.I. .Aer
of the late E. W. Balns, - ant
the Western Onioa Tsleenpl 4 r
New cases, DR.. Cullen justin. I. n
Holland. Mr.. J. Nat. Barb,,l !. rs.n
the Picayune, is couvalescinr: i. co
Paul DaLoup, telegraph ope,,,,' ,,.d
Port Gibson. Sept. 1o.-Yss .gar,
number of cases 475; deaths q ..uiu
Holly Springs, Miss, Sept ia Icted
Deaths during last "a hours Il :. ,.ad
cases 4. Six of the seven reda.,, [ner.
p.y "o uo"n' bley,
Vicksburg, Sept. 1O.-Ths f,. c,ar
continues to increase. Nearly Am nit,
are Frustrated. The exciteneuti When
the eastern part of the State in 4. .oess
sequence of fever at Lake and L, Uber
renee stations on the Meridian Ri tee $
road, has resulted in the stouoa. vi
of trains on that road east Of J,4 nmit
son by quarantine. Travel is alnm d th
Impossible and the afflicted cop, Pa,
mites must continue to rely um Ne to
the people at home and abroad d B rec,
support. Drs. Robbins and Baliw ra ut
are out again. DR.. O'Leary il On 1.-The
valescing. an,
Grenada, Miss, Sept. 1OAnI St
citizens of Grenada assembled the
Mass-Meeting yesterday, aud bpted
solved that inasmuch as the RsN es
Committee of Grenada, whose mus alth
are John Powell and Robert MIN keep
have tor weeks past absented then Itroy
selves from Grenada, and uttdt ling
neglected to attend the sick Or bur troy
the dead, or provide for our suss bu,
ing and destitute people, and h,u| rible
resisted all appeals to return toM city
city and perform their duties L I {
the sense of this meeting that M in l
necessities Of our community q bn I
mand the appointment Of at fh al
relief committee whose duty itiia be t
be to solicit and receive contrib Din Il
tions of money and provisions diIe eepti
kinds from the sympathetic peet our
of the country and disbune " onv
same for the benefit of those w % 81
are suffering from the epidemic es.
Memphis, Sept. 1O.-At an eaa sal
hour this morning a rain commend ted
falling and has kept up incessaud! oss
Up to noon SO deaths have been ! Gil
ported, making lis deaths ast rt,
yesterday noon. r.
Boston, Mass, Sept. lon thol
Democrats of this city held sus tho
ems last night for the election a%,a. %
Delegates to the State Couvsusis I'VE
In nearly every ward Butler D'A a'n'
r gates were chosen. The geos ~ NV
complexion of the entire Bostosa6 lee,
!, egation is said to be decidedly ae
favor of Butler for Governor !.
, Portland, Maine, Sept lO-n th
Representatives known to be Wa ~
! ed thus far are 30 Republicans sa;, ~
GreeDbackers, Is Democrats y lara
, reported, 36; of these 10 are kse' u !,
to be Democrats or Greenbsc1u nm,
If all the rest are Republicans = ns
: will still lack one Of . mejMg ~
while it is apparent the GreNs m' =
8 ers and Democrats will control ? Inn,
House. The result of The u 9,
r known Representatives will p ise
I quired to settle who controS bite
9 Joint ballot on the election rey
i II 4 Af0I4 Mns,.
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Now is the time for business
men to advertise their goods.
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Geo. Fl. Wells, of Calcasieu,


tor by the Democrats of the 10th
Senatorial District recently. Mr..
Wells is a leading member of
the Lake Charles bar; a man of
prominence and ability. The
Echo says:
AS this is the first time in her
thirty-five years history that
Calcasieu has been honored by
the nomination of one Of her cit
liens for district Office, we feel
confident that she will give Mr..
Wells 1900 majority. She will
give him over 1000 majority if
there is a full registration and
vote, because she is entitled to
registration of over 22OO voters,
and has never yet polled ninety
republican votes.
"Over 1000 majority if there
is a full registration and vote!"
Ominous words! The 500 votes
that the Echo fears will fall short
in one parish, by negligence,
might secure rs Burke as State
Treasurer, or send Acklin back
to Congress. And for the want
of one Democratic vote in Con-
gress, a Democratic President
might be defeated, for there is
an idea prevalent that the next
Congress elected this year may
have to elect the next President.
The Democracy of Louisiana
have no votes to lose. want
a full democratic delegation from
this State in the forty sixth Con-
gress. Let the friends of Glib
son, Ellis, Acklin, Elam, King,
Young and Robertson, see to 1t
that not a democratic vote is lost
Parishes may feel safe as tc
their local tickets but more is
expected Of them. The redemp.
. ton of Louisiana, complete and
permanent, is demanded Of the
Democratic Conservative voters
Of the State. Look to Congress
Had Grant have had a Radica
Congress to sustain him in 1875
no one knows what Louisian;
might have had to endure. W.
: want no such men as Mat Well:
and John T. Lewdling to misrep
resent us at Washington. LIE
] US register and vote them down
1t is the duty of the hour.
The following, from the Aus
, tin Statesman, is somewhat ap
plicable to Louisiana as we'll a
: to Texas:
Governor Throckmorton, il
his late speech at Mckinney
: said the money paid for convict
ing and transporting a prisone
to Huntsville would almost pa
, a mans expenses to, the Inter
. national Exposition at Paris an
keep him at the best hotel in tn
: city for a month. While tn
: picture is probably overdrawr
s it cannot fail to impress upo
, the people the necessity of elect
ing men to the Legislature VIII
will see to it that the expense
/, OF criminal process are reduced
The shining lights of Radical
: ism in Texas have suddenly be
( come transformed into teacher
D and expounders of the Green
G back doctrine. 1t was a leap fo
s life, though, and they jumpe
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District Court next week.
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W In order to vote, you
must register.
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W- Don't fail to Register.
, 1878-08-22
- Z: Z. r TON

! TO II A Y f 7 II T. MAIL AR.
RANGEMENTS FROM PORT
TOWNSEND, IN JEFFERSON
COUNTY, TO COUPEVILLE,
IN ISLAND COUNTY, IN
WASHINGTON TERRITORY
ca PORTION OF ROUTE NO.
43l2O - CHANGED INTO A
DAILY MAIL. q,
To TIE POSTMASTER GENERAL:-
The undersigned, your petitioners,
residing on WILDLY Island, in Island
county, Washington Territory, beg
leave to represent, that,
They have daily ferry established
between Port Townsend and WILDLY
Island, and daily express from the
ferry landing on said Island to
CoupeviIIr; whereby the expense OF
carrying a daily mail between the
two Post. offices above named, would
he but little more than the present
compensation, and be triAing in com.
parison with the amount of accom-
mediation it would prove to the pub
i lie.
Since the establishment of a daily
mail from Portland, Oregon, and Ia.
coma and Seattle, w. T., to Port
Townsend, your petitioners feel the
great need of "a daily mail to con.
meet there with, as they are by phys
ical distractions deharrcd from tele-
graph, and the daily mails would in a
great measure remedy this depriva-
tion, by supplying the morning pa
pers published in Portland, Oregon,
containing telrgraphic news from all
parts Of the world, to the inhabitants
OF this Island, onthe following morn
ing, besides the incStimable privilege
of dali intercourse by letter to facili-
tate and stimulate business enter
prise.
Your petitioners beg leave to rep.
resent further; that the late changes
on route No. 43l2l of the departure
of the mails from Port Townsend to
Coupevle, from Fridays as former.
ly, to Tuesdays as at present, oper.
ates to the disadvantage of this com.
munity, by reason of the facts, that
on Mondays the mail is brought to
Coupevillc' from Seattle, on route
No. 43lOS, when all persons interest
ed in the mail assemble from all parts
of this Island to receive their mail
mattler; and, that the mail from vi :
loria, British Columbia, does not ar.
rive at Port Townsend on Tuesdays,
in time for the Tuesdays mail for
/ Coupeville, hence lies over eight
days in Port Townsend, &c, so that
at best there is very little from the
Port Townsend post. Office on Tues
day s, and fow call to get their mail
until the following Friday, when the
mail on route No. 43lOS returns from
Seattle.
As the present arrangement is in
convenient, your petitioners respect.
ully pray,
That Daily Mail be established
from Port Townsend to CoupeviIle,
w. r.
And your petitioners will ever
play, &c.
, 1878-08-22
Notice to Shfpmastefs

beg to give notice to all ships masters
visiting Puget SOnnd to load for foreign
ports with lumber or spars. that on auh af-
ter the lst day of Oct, 1873, shall b. pre-
pared to load vessels ut the very lowest
rate. Having had an experience Of 20
years in the business, aHd having the rec
ommendation Of all the mill owners on
Puget Sound, guarantee satisfaction.
W. II. GILBERT.
Oldest SeSedo!e OIL Puget Sound.
, 1878-08-22
Local and News Items

MISFogTUNE,-Rcv Mr.. Strattom re-
Gently. while at san Juan, purchased a
fine Young American horse from Rev. I.
J. WcckrS, OF that place, but Unfortunate
~ lest it after leaving Tacoma on ~ way
bomr. 1t seems thai the door OF the ear
in which it was placed was accidentally
lrit unlastcned and the fretiul animal
lumpcd ont when the ears got in motion.
killing itself by the tall. Mr.. Stratton is
nricvcd over his loss far more than its
mere peclmiary value would indicate. aS
also wa, Mr. WcellcS with whom the ami
nal was Il pet.
CHANGE OF STEAMERS The Isabel will
hereafter make four trips week between
Victoria aud Port Townsend, making Tie
round trip on Monday. Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday. In order to enable the
week. the days of the Otter and Annie
Stewart have been changed.
Mr.. FnLD. COLE, OF Portland, has So
cured the permanent appointment as mail
messenger Oh the Port Townsend and Ia
coma route. Ile Is again doing duty on
the Annie Stewart. PurSer llarkcr, for
ucrly Of the Aida, has become captain of
Otter.
The grand jury Mt StcilaCoom have re-
turned mot a true bin" in the case Of T.B
Hoover ESQ, who was charged with abct-
tiny II fraud on the county. No one
WHO knows Mr., Hoover ever supposed
him guilty.
Mr.. JAS. DALGARDNO, OF this place,
having been appointed Puget Sound Pi-
lot in place OF Capt. Hines, lrcsigned has
retired from the hotel business. We under
stand his family will remain in Port Town
,cud,
THE l.. ). Revenue Cutter Thos. Cor
win arrived at this port on Tuesday @tt"r-
noon from Astoria, having come to the
Sound 10 take the place of the Shubrick,
disabled as light house tender.
PROr. GUM. Of the Puget Sound BuSi-
ness College, ut Seattle, contcmplates
Gangug and enlarging the advertise
mrut Of that worthy institution. We I'M
derstand it is on a substantial paying
basis.
THE new NJ. L. Church building at Ia
coma was formally dedicated on last Sun
day. Rev G. V. Anthony, OF Portland,
wa, expected to assist Rev. NJ. Judy, the
pastor, in conducting the ceremonies.
The proprietors OF the North Pacific
Cheese Factory, located at Chimacnnl,
claim, and very justly too, we believe,
that their factory Is the largest institution
OF the kind in Washington Territory.
TIE Canadian Dominion government
has concluded to allow its subjects at Vic
toria a tri weekly mail to this port.
POTATOES in San Francisco are worth
rs cents per cwt,, tor poor, and $l.35 for
choicc-tlc latter the extreme rate.
GEN. HOWARD has returned to head
quarters and the Indian war is reported
Virtually over"
COOK, OF the Tacoma, "HeraId," the
Stanley OF Washington, is oil on another
exploring tour.
THE steam tug Mastick has been to
S,atlc this week, undergoing inspection.
WE'LL not be y bit surprised when the
news comes of that wedding in Chimac'lm.
A COMMUNICATIONS from Port Discovery
arrived yesterday too late for insertion.
PIcKErr's paper, the IN. p. Times V
has been issued at Tacoma.
JUDGE SWAN Is now U. S. Inspector of
Customs mt Neah Bay.
DRIVEN wells are still increasing in
town.
, 1878-08-22
COMMUNICATED.

The following explains itself;
PoRT DISCOVERY, Aug. 20, 1878.
Mr. ALLEN WEIR, Port TOwnSehd-
Warming to muscle eaters. Three North
rm Inhians. 2 bucks and II squaw, died
here yesterday from the effects of eating
muscles gathered in the bay. They died
in about two hours after eating them.
Yours, sc. Downs.
, 1878-08-22
INDIAN CURlOSITlES FOR SALE,

THE whole of my collection of articles
procured from the Indians of the North
west Coast, consisting Of dresses, masks.
lernllic carvings, model houses, canoes,
gambling sticks, rattles. baskets. mats.
hcad-oramcntS. etc. etc, which may he
seen in my office. Is now tor sale. Each
article will b. described and properly
labelled, and the whole will be ca:alogued.
- n to make this collection very tlcsir-
able one Tor the colleges. schools. museums,
etc. or for pcrSons'who may wish for u
private collection of their own. All intor-
nation given, on application to
JAMES q. SWAN.
Port Townsend. W. T. tt
, 1878-08-22

The Republican Territorial Com
mittcr recommend that all Courty
Conventions be held on or before the
'th day Of September next, insteed
Of the time first designated.
DANIEL BAGLEY,
Chairman.
, 1878-08-22
Shipping Intelligence.
Port Townsend.

CLEARED.
Aug, Is. biz Jenny Pitts, Honolulu.
PoiitkotSky, Victoria,
SchrC. G.. Perkins, -
Panama, NanaimO
brig Hesperian, SF
II, California, Portland
Olympia, "
~, DiSpncth Victoria
Blnkclcy, Nanaimo
20, bkt Eureka, $ +
ENTERED
Aug, II, brig lIesperian, Honolulu,
lG, Panama. Victoria
II, California, 4"
Olympia,
10. ship DauntlesS, 5 +
20, POtitkof.ky. Victoria
q, Dispatch, Victoria
, 1878-08-22

Z Il rlr National Gold Medal was
awarded to Bradley 4 RuloIson for the
hest photographs IN the United States, and
the Vienna Medal for the best ia the world
l29 Montgomery street, San Francisco
, 1878-08-22

,bEn II week in your own town A. outfit
MIX free. No risk. Reader, If you want Il
DlWD business at which persons Ot cit her sex
Wv can make great pay all the lime they
work, write for part iCulars to II. Ialirtt Il Co..
Portland, Maine.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-09-11
AIJsJTassly HIAEES.
Bv Green Is Wise.


lReal Estato Agents snd Auctionoers.
TOMMISSIONER SALE OF NALU-
u ABLE PROPEKTN.-By virtue of a de-
exandria, Va, rendered ut its May term, 1873.
in tho chancery csuso Of Whitt!osoy VS.. Whit
1losov. the undersigned commissioners ihnroin
named, will otlor for sslo by public auction. on
HATURDAY, tho 18th day of September, 1872,
at II clock nl., in front of the entrance to iho
court room, on Fairfax street. in Tho city ci 81
e1andra, We, the following property, 10 W.T.; W.,
THE LOT OF GROUND with tho I'M PEO u
MENTS thereon, known IS No. 50 situated on tnn
north side of Prince ST., beginning at point :"
feet 10 inches, more or loss, east OF Fairfax s. ;
thence east on Princes street II teet more or less
thence north G6 feet 8! inches moro or iess;
thence wost ~ feet moro or lossi thence soGth
parallel to Fairfax street TO the beginning.
Terms Of Sao--Onc.fourth OF tho purchase
money in cash, and tho residue in equal lnslal"
ments in six, twnlve and eighteen months l:oIa
day of sao, with interest; tao deferred paymnnta
to bo secured by tho bonds Of tho purchaser,
with good security, and tho title to the property
to be retained lutl tho purchase rTico IS fully
paid.
UHAS &. STUART, Conm'rs'
T. FERGUSON BEACH. ! Of sale.
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