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kesources Of Our Territory.

|, fThe following comprehensive
Statement of the resources, de-
veloped and undeveloped, of our
Territory, we extract from the
argument made before the COM
mittee on territories, in favor of
an enabling act for the admis-
sion of the Territory of Wash
ington into the Union as State,
by Hon. o. Jacobs. The infor-
nation given has been gathered
from the most authentic data,
is full and complete, and can be
accepted by persons in the East
who so frequently address US
upon this subject, as correct:
"First. The western half Of
the Territory is continuous for
est, on the southern verge of
which rolls the Oregon, but it
hears other sounds now besides
that of it's own dashings. This
forest is full 200 miles in width
by 250 in length. 1t is mostly
fir and cedar timber. Within
the limits of this forest there is
a population of 10000 people,
engaged in numbering, ship
building, coal-mining, farming,
and fishing.
The annual lumber product of
this section is stated at 370,0O0,-
900 feet. If there is any error
in. the statement, it is too low.
This product is worth, at least,
81, ,0G0, 900 in gold coin. Besides
this an enormous quantity of
laths and shingles are made an
nually. This lumber, and these
laths and shingles, find ready
market in California, Australia,
South America, China and the
Sandwich Islands. To the above
must be added a very large
quantity of masts, spars, piles,
and various other kinds of round
and hewn timber, making the
full amount of over S5,G0O,00O
in gold coin. Yet this business
is but in Its infancy, and it's vol
ume is swelling year by year.
The resources of a quickly re-
producing forest, which yields
from one hundred thousand to a
quarter Of a million feet of lum-
Der per acre, are inexhaustible.
1t is found by experiments
made by the Government that
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with Eastern Oregon and North
ern Idaho, sends vast quantities
of beef and mutton to California,
Nevada and British Columbia
annually. 1t costs nothing to
raise horses, sheep, or cattle but
a little care and attention. AL
ready the country is quite fully
stocked, but the limit of it's nat
ural pasturage in this regard is
far from being reached.
The great basin lying between
Wind River and Cascade ranges
of mountains. and north Of the
44th degree Of north latitude, is
destined, in the near future, to
be the granary Of America. The
Columbia River, with it's various
tributaries, drains this vast ba-
sin. It is the Danube Of Ameri-
ca. AS the country along the
Danube and its tributaries has
been producing wheat for the
last two thousand years, without
any dilninution of quality or
quantity, and is in fact the gran
ary of the Eastern continent, so
will this vast country lying on
the Columbia and its tributaries
in a not distant future be sending
it's surplus millions to the mar
kets of the world.
Walla Walla and Columbia
counties, with population of
about twelve thousand, last year
produced a surplus Of over a
million of bushels. Whitman
and Yakima, will add half mil
lion more. In fact Washington
Territory the last year exported
more grain than California, the
great grain exporting State Of
the Pacific coast, exported for
any one year for eight years af-
ter her admission into the Union
as a State. In tact, give Eastern
Washington cheap and ample
transportation to the Sound, and
she will more than double her
| expectation of wheat, oats, and
barley, beef, mutton, bacon and
wool, the first year after the con-
sumation of so desirable a fact,
and afterwards swell it into the
millions. Her capabilities are
sublimely great. Soil, climate,
and every other factor entering
into the question of growth,
wealth, permanence, population
and power are in her favor.
She has within her borders
near two hundred miles of COM
pleted railroads. About half of
it has been built by her own cit
liens, without lands or other SUBJ
sides, but in Obedience to the
demands of internal trade and
commerce. She has more miles
Of railroad than Oregon, and IS
fast becoming her competitor in
wealth and population.
Her climate is unequaled for
health and it's mild character.
The health Of her people is great
er, sickness less, and the death
rate lower, according to numbers
than any other section Of the
American Union.
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Fresh flowers are daily nlant

Fresh flowers are daily plant
ed around the tomb of Napoleon
IIl.,at Chiselhurst, by direction
OF his widow Eugene. It is
next in order to transfer his
ashes from the island of England
to the banks Of the Seine to be
buried among the people who
were dearest to him when alive.
The Hotel des Invalides is wait
ing to receive the nephew of his
uncle.
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SATURDAY. FEB. 16, 1878
A Chapter on Lying.

Inc ReV. MI. buckley VI OtaHl-
ford, Conn, has been arraigned
before a criminal court OH a
charge of procuring by dccep-
ton the conviction of certain
yiolators of the excise laws. In
extenuation of his crime he cit
ed the Scriptures, stating that
he could produce twenty-five
cases from the Old Testament
and five cases from the New
Testament in which deception
was used to further the ends of
God. This attempt of the rev
erend gentleman to constitute
the vllest of all sins, a CLAUDIA
BILE virtue" is ably discussed as
follows by the New York .S,tn:
"The question raised by Mr..
Buckley's argument is an old
one, and has been fiercely de-
bated by many eminent casuists
of both ancient and modern
times. Oddly enough the warm.
est defenders of the liberty of
lying have been Christians.
while heather nations, like the
old Romans, have furnished some
of the most earnest stlckiers for
the duty of telling the truth.
Mr.. Buckley says, truly, that
the Bible contains numerous in
stances in which falsehood has
apparently met with divine APP
proval; and persons so disposed
may easily fancy that these in
stances are related to guide our
conduct on like occasions. But
others dissent entirely from this
conclusion, and regard the lies
mentioned in the sacred record
as they do the adulteries and
murders Of which it speaks. If
Jacobs deceit OF his father WAS
followed with useful results, so
too, they say, were David's adul-
terry with Bathsheba and his
murder Of Uriah. In both cases
the sin of the individual was
overruled to a furtherance of a
divine purpose, but it was none
the less q sin. Rahab, the har-
lot, lied to protect the spies who
took refuge in her house at Jer
ice, and was rewarded by Josh
ua for her conduct; but she was
no less harlot and a liar than
Delilah was. when, by similar
practices, she betrayed Samson
to the Philistines. Jacob, again,
cheated his father-in-law out of
his property, and abetted the
stealing of his jewels; but tho
he became the patriarch of the
Hebrew nation, his conduct was
In itself no more praiseworthy
than that Of Gehazi, who was
smitten with leprosy for a much
smaller offence Of the same char
acter. We confess to a sympa-
thy with this Interpretation of
the matter as the more robust
and wholesome, and to feeling
that Mr.. Buckley's doctrine is
unsound in itself and dangerous
to the public welfare.
"The exlgencies Of life require
us continually to rely upon one
another's truthfulness. Not on
ly business, but ordinary social
intercourse would be impossible,
if we could not safely assume
that what people tell US repre-
sents the actual fact. A simple
Yes or No is the foundation up
on which contracts are made,
property changes hands, and ar
rangements are entered into in
volving the destinies Of q life
time. If we had to stop at ev-
cry moment and verify the as
~orA.ooo M a Jo fn no pN onnopt,1
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NOT superior 10, HVe-Oak IN
strength, durability, and hold
ing qualities for ship-bpilding.
Hence that business, although
yet in it's infancy, ls fast dcvel-
oping, and promises at no dis
tant day to become one Of the
leading industries of Western
Washington. Last year fifteen
vessels, ranging in tonnage from
$50 to 1900 tons, were built on
Puget Sound, and company was
organized, with a capital of one
million dollars, to carry on the
business in the future. No
where else in the world can
wooden ships be built so cheaply
as on Puget Sound. Fir knees,
the best in the world, and of
any size or dimensions, can be
obtained in inexhaustible guam
titles for from fifteen to thirty
cents per lineal foot. Planking,
free from knots, strong and elast-
ic, and from fifty to one hundred
feet in length: can be delivered
at the ship-yard for fifteen dol
lars per thousand. Masts from
one hundred to one hundred and
fifty feet in length, are delivered
into nayigable waters for from
$50 to $50 each. Ship loads af-
ter ship-loads of them are taken
every year to nearly every for
eign port in the world. With
all these and other materials at
hand and cheaper than they can
be obtained anywhere else, the
speedy and immense develop
ment of this business is se-
cured.
In this connection suffer a
brief statement of the amount
Of shipping, and incidentally,
the commerce, domestic and for
eign, of the Territory. A fleet
of thirty steamers, some of them
costing s150,000 are registered
and owned upon the Sound, and
are actively and proftably en-
gagged in the carrying of the
mails and passengers, and in sup
plying the wants Of internal
commerce of the-Sound and the
river affiuents. A large fleet of
steamers are daily plying on the
Columbia river, some Of which
are owned and registered in the
Territory, and all of which on
the upper Columbia obtain their
principal freight from the Ter
rltory, and much of the immense
freight of the lower Columbia is
also supplied by the people of
the Territory. There is also a
tri-monthly line ofsteamers run
ming between the ports Of the
Sound and San Francisco.
Besides, the coastlng and for
eign commerce Of the Territory
is very large in proportion otis
population. An average Of three
deep-sea ships enter and depart
from the ports of the Sound dai-
ly, engaged in the coasting and
foreign trade. Their loading is
principally lumber, round and
hewn timber, coal and agricul-
tural products. The tonnage of
these ships is over 1000 tons
each. We get our sugar direct
ly from the Sandwich Islands.
our tea directly from China,
and oar coffee directly from the
ports Of South America. No
middlemen increase the price of
these articles by their labors or
eXtortions.
The explorations Of late years
have fully demonstrated that
the eastern portion of what is
known as the Puget Sound basin
is an immense coal field. The
coal is already known to extend
over an area one hundred and
fifty miles in length, by at least
thirty in width. 1t is an excel
lent quality of bituminous coal.
But little Of pure anthracite has
yet been found. In six years
tho amount +alron nut 4. Gun
The Morning herald., 1878-06-20
LOST.

LOsT.-On Monday afternoon, an enve-
ope contaipins business letters. Please re-
turn and receive reward ~
923 ORANGE
The Morning herald., 1878-06-20
HERALD NOTES.

Pennsylvania is bothered with female
tramps who faint away on the doorsteps
n q pail OF water is thrown over them they
20 into commissions and tear up the gar
den.-[ Rochester Union.
San Antonio Is the prettiest and Oldest
town In Texas. and 10 Inhabited chiefly BY
Germans and Mexicans, with only sprink-
ling of the American race, white and black.
Life Is very orderly there, and the popula>
ton Is rapidly increasing.
The will Of Thomas Winans, of Bslti-
more, contains bequests to friends and rela-
lives ranging from $1,000 to $4,000, and
amounting in all to $3.50, 900. He bequeaths
all his household furniture, pictures, jew
elry and plate to his daughter Celeste, and
all tho rest of his estate to his two child
rem.
When you find . man who claws over all
of the papers on the desk, looks through
the drawers, searches every pocket in biz
clothes and explores the region above hif
ears In search Of his lead pencil, and finally
finds It between his teeth, don't lend him
money-he Is absent t-mlnded.-L Ksokuk
Constitution.
The Morning herald., 1878-06-20
THE ARMY BILL.
THE PRESIDENT SIGNS IT-THE WORK OF
REORGANIZATION.

TIE PRESIDENT SIGNS IT-THR WORK OF
REORGANIZATION.
President Hayes yesterday signed the
Army bill, and the commission provided by
the law for the re Organization Of the army
will be appointed to-day In the Senate and
House, consisting of five from the lower
and three from the upper. 1t Is understood
that General Banning will be chairman, and
that Bragg and Strait will not improbably
be the two other members. Mr.. Scales
will be chairman OF the commission on the
part of the House to consider the transfer
of the Indian Bureau to the War Depart
ment. The paragraph limiting the use of
the army to occasions specified in the Con-
stitution and the laws has been the subject
of some discussion among members of the
Cabinet, and 1t is to be made the basis of q
circular of Instructions to the army, con-
ceived somewhat in a sulky spirit. but none
the less valuable for the lessons II will teach,
The attention of officers and men v Ill be
called to the new law, and rigid construc-
tion intended to prevent the use of any de-
tachment of the army by the civil authori-
ties Of State in suppressing LEGAL disturb
ance,
The Morning herald., 1878-06-20
COUNTERFEITERs
THE swINDLED MIGRANTS TO BE REIN.
BURsED.

THE swINDLED MIGRANTS TO BE REIN
It will be remembered that short time
ago discovery was made that the immi-
grants who came from Hamburg were
being swindled in an outrageous manner BY
q gang of expert ceunterfeiters, who were
palming off on them spurious $50 bills, pur-
porting to be good American currency, in
exchange for foreign coin. To such an ex-
tent were the immigrants s";ndled that the
attention of the United (, les authorities
was attracted, and sps were taken to ap-
prehend the couDterfelters. Every ship
that arrived from Hamburg brought fresh
indications that the plans of the "gang"
were we'll laid, and that many innocent
persons were helping the swindlers to carry
out their schems unknown to themselves.
TIVE men were arrested about two weeks
ago in Munich, having In their possession
sixty four $50 bills on the Broadway Bank,
aud forty four on the Tradesmen's. They
said they were Americans, and claimed to
be travelling for pleasure. They gave 0
long and very garbled account OF their
movements, but their statements were not
satisfactory, and they were held for further
examination, and to give the authorities an
opportunity to investigate the matter fully.
Tue money was sent to the German Consul
here, and by him taken to the New York
banks, and there the bills were declared to
be counterfeits.
The Consul Is now in communication
With the Secret Service Department at
Washington, and all the evidence that can
be gathered here will be forwarded to the
German authorities Meyer & Co., the
Hamburg bankers, have stgnifed their
willingness to refund all the counterfeit
money given to immigrants by them, and
the Commissioners of Emigration a few
days ago received check in redemption Of
thirteen national bank notes received BY
some of the passengers of the steamer Less
ing of their line. Further developments
are expected, as it is believed the money is
being manufactured in New York City.
The Morning herald., 1878-06-20
80, 600 PERSONS PRESENT AT THE oELKBRAIi
TON

TlON
VALLEY FORGE, June 19.-At dsybreak
this morning the Reveille was sounded and
the morning gun fred, and at sunrise .
Federal salute of 13 guns was fired by
Griffin Battery, of fbenixvills. after which
everything remained in q sort OF mixed con-
dtion until the time for opening the memo
rial services which were to be held on the
hills at 9 O'Clock, but owing to the want OF
room these exercises were held In the large
tent before . perspiring audience OF aoons
80, 900 persons.l3 g,fif .,at5 ,t..
Mr.. Henry Armitt Brown, fn bis oration,
spoke first Of the meaning OF the snniVer-
sary of the gloomy times it recalled: OF
Philadelphia and the country adjacent, as
it appeared 100 years ago: of the strategic
reasons for camping at Valley Forge: OF the
hunger and suffering Of the troops, OF the
coming of Lafayette aud Won Steuben, and
thus closed:
"But in the impenetrable TO be the end
less generations are advancing to take our
places as we fall For them as for US shall
the earth roll on and the seasons como and
90, the snowfakes fall, the flowers bloom
and the haryests be gathered In. For
them as for us shall the sun, like the life
of man, rise out of darkness in the morn
ing and sink into darkness in the night.
For them as for us shall the years march
by in the sublime procession Of ages. And
here in this place of sacrafce, in this vale
of humiliation. in this valley of the shadow
of that death, but of which the Life OF
America arose, regenerate and free, let us
believe with an abiding faith that to them
Union will seem as dear and Liberty as
sweet, and Progress as glorious as they
were to our fathers and are to you and me,
and that the institutions which have made
us happy, preserved by the virtue of our
children, shall bless the remotest genera
tions of the time to come. And unto Him,
who holds In the hollow of his His hand
the fate of notions, and yet marks the spar
rows fall, let us lift up our hearts this
day, and into His eternal care commend
ourselves, our children and our country"
The Morning herald., 1878-06-20
MURDERoUs ATTEMPT FRUSTRATED


WHEELING, W. Va, June ia horrible
Issse of attempt at wholesale slaughter has
Been discovered here. The Monitor Tug
and Lumber Company have q large barge
at their yards, which is being repaired. It
is held In its position on the stocks by large
ropes and blocks. During Monday night
some one cut these ropes In q place where
they were covered, and only the blocks kept
the barge in it's place. IL.
1t had been determined to raise the barge
with jackstrews this morning, and It was
found not to be necessary. Had 1t been at
tempted at least dozen men would prob
ably have been instantly killed. It is
thought by the company that the cutting
was done by some men whose wages had
been reduced and who have been talking
ugly for some time. Detectives are at work
on the case. This is the first display OF
anything like labor troubles In this city this
summer.
The Morning herald., 1878-06-20

&W JONES. Fancy Dyers, ,432 N. From
T. Street. Branch Office corner Ninth and
vine, Streeta Philadelphia. Ladies' and
Gentlemen's Garments of every descrip.
uon Dyed or Cieansed. Kid Shoes. Feath.
era Gloves and Dyed or Oleansed.
l87, April
The Morning herald., 1878-06-20
BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH.

The mobilization of the Austrian army
progresses steadily.
Alonzo Gareelan, M. D., of Lewiston, has
been nominated for Governor of Maine.
The race for the Royal Hunt cup at the
Ascot meeting, in England, yesterday, was
won by julius Cesar.
The hour for the final adjournment of
the first session of the Forty-fifth Congress
was o'clock yesterday.
Edwin A. Andrews cashier Of the wrecked
Greenwich Bank at Greenwich. Washington
county, N. Y, hanged himself yesterday.
A despatch from ConstantInople says
much excitement prevails there owing to
the suspicious movements of the Russians.
Pope Leo XIII has expressed the wish
that the European Congress should take
the best possible care of the Christians In
the East,
The cotton mills throughout Lancashire,
England, we're opened yesterday, and ma
iority OF the weavers rtsumed work, but the
spinners refused to resume.
General Miles, with company of cavalry,
LETT Fort Keogh, D. 7. on Saturday to make
an inspection of the Custer battle field and
see what condition the graves are in.
The Delaware, Lackawana & Western
Railroad Company advertised yesterday af-
ternoon to sell so 900 tons Scranton coal at
public auction on Wednesday, June 10Th.
An American gentleman has bought the
library collected by the late German poet
English books. Tt will soon be sent to
America.
During the interview on Sunday between
Bismsrk and Gortchakoff, the largo Danish
dog of Bismarck made ferocious attack
on Cor: chakoff, who was rescued after
consider able difficulty.
The physicians in attendance on Empe.
Tor William publish formal declaration
that bis progress has been satisfactory al
most beyond expection, but the patient,
besides transitory pain, suffers much from
helplessness, being unable to use his arms.
The illusion that the Berlin Congress
would finish It's work 10 ten days has given
place to the conviction that 1t will last
many weeks The Congress met again yes
terday at O'Clock P. M, when It was ex-
pdcted that Bulgaria would be the subject
for consideration.
On Tuesday night at midnight drunken
row occurred at Mapleville, R. l., among
the mill operatives, who had just been paid
off. Nelson Armstrong, the owner Of the
building where the row centred, went out
In his night clothes, with revolver in bis
hand to quell the disturbance. Most Of the
rioters fled, !, isinp tie cry Of "Ghost," but
one Epglishnl -, Lamed Samuel Hoyle,
attacked Armstrong with q stone and
Knocked him down. Armstrong, who ID
over sixty years of age, managed TO get up
when Hoyle again attacked him and was
shot, piobably fatally.
The Morning herald., 1878-06-20
THE TINE TO BUY.

The great clothing house OF Nathan
Liebsrman, on the 8. E. corner Fifth and
Market streets, is the best and cheapest
place to buy spring and summer clothing.
The stock Is the largest that has ever been
offered Ia the State Of Delaware, and an
assortment equal to any retail house in
America, and all about one-half the usual
price. The goods are unsurpassed In style,
quality and workmanship.
The Morning herald., 1878-06-20

TELECRA ANS.
INDIAN TROUBLES.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1S. According to
a Boise despatch, Captain Bernard arrived
yesterday at Oweehee crossing, three miles
above the mouth Of that river, with his
company of cavalry. Here he was Joined
by Captain Whipple with his two comps.
MES. General Howard is supposed to, be
twenty. five miles in advance. +
Winnemucca, the Piute chief came into
Captain Bernard's camp last night, bring
ing with him small party Of his men. de
tells story regarding the designs Of the
hostiles similar to that OF his daughter b.
rah.
AN INDIAN RAID. .ttt
A despatch received here last night from
Baker City says the hostiles raided Burnt
river, yesterday, stole twenty-five horses,
and probably did other mischief.
Captain Biudier's company of cavalry
left here early this morning for Old Ferry
and Snake river.
The Morning herald., 1878-06-20

sslt seems as If should cough my head
Off" is someti mes the impatient { tXcl anna
tion Of sufferer from severe Cough,
QuelI the paroxysns with Hale's Honey OF
Horenound and Tar. TIE relief is imme.
diate and the cure certain. Sold by all
Druggists.
Pixies Toothache Drops. Gu In one
minute.
The Morning herald., 1878-06-20
THE BROOKLYN THEATRE.
REPORT THAT IT WILL BE REBUILT.

The New York Star says:
1t is stated that the Brooklyn Theatre is
to be rebuilt by contractors VIM. G. Kings
ley and Abner c. Keeney, In case Messrs.
Shook g. Palmer will agree to lease the
building for o certain number of years. The
story is not generally believed. because It Is
known that the owners of the Brooklyn
Theatre ground have been and are anxious
to sell 1t to the United States Government
as site for q new post office.
The ruins still stand as they did the day
after the fire; the place presents . dreary
and desolste aspect. It is visited daily BY
curiosity seekers from various places. Oc-
tasionally woman in black pass with averted
heads; they are widows and mothers who
lost husbands and sons 10 the dreadful fire
of december 8, 1876.
The Morning herald., 1878-06-20

Ur-Hayes-ey lies the head that wears a
crown.-[Dexter Smiths.
Edward L. Pierce, Charles Summers
biographer, is preparing for the July num-
ber of the North Review an elaborate de-
fense of Sumner against the charge ot
liatoriness 10 committee work. 1t will
contain letters from alarge number of Con-
gressmen.
The Morning herald., 1878-06-20
VALLEY FORGE.

.isIII.I qIa3,1A8Tg
The Morning herald., 1878-06-20

T OST.-A kireman's Badge, No. 1l8, was
Ia lost at the fire at Sixth and I&tnal
streets. The finder will please retul 1t TO
the PH1END3HlP FIRE CO.,
ju7-u Tenth and Shipley streets.