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ALEr1ER FROM rRAyeRs DANIEL.

BY the kindness OF Judge Swan
we make the following extracts from
private letter recently received by
him from Travers Daniel, civil engi-
neer, formerly of Port Townsend,
but now residing at Clarksville,
Tennessee:
"Yours of the 10th inst. came to
hand yesterday and was read with
great interest. Indeed j all your let
ters are SO full of intelligent and
comprehensive informa ton that | Of.
ten find myself referring to them as
texts. With regard to my rem.rks
about Puget Sound in my last, they
we're based upon the fact that have
never regarded it as an agricultural
country. There are, it 10 true, many
rich river bottoms, but rs a general
thing the soil is thin and gravelly.
There are also some remarkably rich
soils on some Of the Islands. But,
even If it were more rich, you are
lacking a market for agricultural
products, exoopt wheat and barley.
The peculiar wealth Of the Sound
are her facilities for lumber, ship
building, fisheries and coal, and as a
grand entrepot for the vast noun
famous and mineral region east of it,
and the magnificent agricultural re.
.gion still east Of those mountains.
Oregon is having her day now, the
Sound will have her day to come, q
day which is already dawning and
which no combination can arrest or
prevent. FACTS cannot long be hid
den. There is no parallel in the
whole world to her magnificent sys-
tenn of harbors, bays and inlets, her
splendid climate, and her command
ing position, just where the southern
sweep Of the Kuro Shiwo, the Japa-
nsse gulf stream which sweeps north
easterly past Japan toward the Ku-
rilo and Aleutian Islands, thence
curving around and passing along
the coast OF Alaska and British Col
umbia, shows it's marked influence
off the mouth OF the Straits Of
Fuca, the great artery which will
soon carry the life blood ef com
merce to the heart Of tho future
State of Washington.
From Cape Horn to Vancouver's
Island, there is not a single bay or
harbor that can give even u remote
comparison to the capacity and sta
bility Of the harbors Of Puget
Sound. While other harbors are
subject to change and damage by
reason Of deposit from silt, as coun-
try becomes settled and cultivated.
Puget Sound being deficient in large
rivers, is totally free from such dam
age, and the harbors of today will
be the same ages hence. In addition
they are so situated, that while a
ship drawing 30 feet Of water, il
need be, could enter even the most
Insignificant OF her barbors with ease
and without danger. The approach
es could at small expense be made
absolutely impreg against an
enemy. Port Townsend is the "Gate
City" through which at no distant
day q grand commerce will pass,
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.!, Nc an VINO are suffering from fhe errors
anu s moiscretions OF youth, nervous weak
% ness, early Decay, loss Of manhood, &C.; +
VIII WI r seno you recipe that win cure you
EhEE OE CHARGE. This great rem
Guy was discovered by q missionary In
south America. Sends selE addresse,i lef.
ter 70 the REV. yosTrH I. INnAN, station
ID, New York City. -
, 1880-09-03

A report is iD circulation in Cali
fornia that the Central Pacific Rail
road Company is negotiating for the
purchase Of the San Francisco
"Chronicle." The prics asked is
100000.
, 1880-09-03

THE Liberal Republicans who sup.
ported Greeley are returning to their
first love, and will work for Garfield
and Arthur.
, 1880-09-03

fondest wishes, Tor the Cascades will
be pierced in more than one place,
and from her chores will be shipped
the major portion East and West of
that enormous trade that now CEN
tres at San Francisco.
You have been very sanguine
about Puget Sound, and Port Town
send in particular, for many years.
Ever since you and were connected
in the old "Port Townsend Regis
ter" you have constantly contributed
to the public journals valuable infor-
nation about Puget Sound. be-
lisve al! your predictions will come
to pass. They will be brought
about, not by sentiment or sympa-
thy, but by the square Ledger acts
of profit and loss. The Columbia
River Bar is probably the most dan
gerous in the world, and can be fair
ly called the graveyard of ships"
As the Columbia Valley increases
its plowed area, SO will the dangers
of that dreadful bar increase.
myself have seen the mouth OF the
Columbia, from Cape Disappoint
ment to Point Adams one solid
breaker impossible to ships, a feet
of whom loaded for sea lay at Asto-
rii. for 30 days unable to get over
that bar. Such condition is simply
impossible for Puget Sound, with its
eighty fsthoms of water at the mouth
OF the great Strait Of Juan de Fuca;
where the great trouble is, not to
fad bars, but to find any bottom at
all. / have in times past entered
the Strait without fear or doubt, un-
der close reefs, in the middle of the
right before there was even q light
on Tatoosb Island. Every engineer
who has given any attention to the
study of the Columbia river bar,
knows the utter folly of wasting the
public money by attempting to
scrape of, or dig out the silt and
sand Of which it is formed. That
bar cannot be dug out any more than
the bars at the mouth of the Misss-
sippi. II removed at all or improved,
it can only be done by a system of
jetties, such as Capt. Eads has used.
am Of the opinion that such sys-
tenn could be constructed on the AS
torian side Of the river which would
force the volume Of the water over
to the north side, and, by having :he
rocky barrier Of Cape Disappoint.
ment to prevent its washing away
the northern shores, wonld force the
river to scour for itself channel
where the old north channel former
ly was. But such plan would make
Bakers City the rival of Astoria,
and that would never be permitted
by the residents of old Fort George,
so they will conaknt themselves BY
futile experiments with governments
scrspers. But, let Jay Gould once
get his road to Puget Sound where
he will soon have it, aud the North
ern Pacific must follow whether they
will or not, and the natural resuls
will be, that Portiand will be forced
to 60 with her road to Puget Sound.
ltis with her simply matter of dol
lars and cents. Which will be the
best, to expend money to build a
railroad to a good and permanent
harbor on Puget Sound, OF spend
money fighting against nature, in
digging out the mud of the William
cite, the silt from the "Hog's Back"
at Tongue Point and scraping away
the quicksands at the mouth OF the
Columbia river, which last is like
Mrs. Partington trying to keep out
the tide with broom. But | find
myself getting into an expression of
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mo- TIC Z.

The parties thar have been emitting wood
and hanling " from eff Block 8, IN Al.
PettygrOye's addition, will save expenses
and trouble BY paying the Undersigned
hr ihe same.
26t JN0 FIT7vATnCK.
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rvnmv business now before che ppblic.
MNlktM fou can make money faster at
~ MlkENI work f0r us than at anything
hNlN else. Capdtal not inquired. we
NHlllVN VIII start you. sl2 a day and
DA4O II upwards made at home by the
Industrious. Men, women.
boys and girls wanted everywhere to work for
us. Now is the time. You can devote your
whole time TO the work, or only your snars,
moments. NO ether business viii nav Won
nearly as well. No one willing 10 work can
fail 10 make enormous pay by engaging at
opportunity for making money easily and
honorably. Address TRUE q CO., Augusta,
Maine.
, 1880-09-03
REMOVAL.

Mr.. O. II. HOLCOMB desires to In
form tie pubic that he las removed his
Restaurant and Variety Store
From the old Custom House Buildiag TO-
the corner OF Adams and Water Streets.
opposite Cosmopolitan Hotel. where lie
will lnlve constantly Oh hand
NUTS. CANDIES.
CONFECTIONERY
STATIONERY,
CAL. CRACKERS,
TOILET SOAP,
=. PERFUMERY,
TOYS, &c.
EY Choicest varieties of TOBACCOS;
Imported and Domestic CIGARS OF the
finest brands, and
All Kinds OF NrrxaAtws
Oranges. Lemons, Dates, Figs, Raisins,
Apples, etc. Also
BOOKS, BLANK BOOKS,
PICTURE FRAMES, INKS,
STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS
CABINET PHOTOS,
PENS, &c. &c. A
'FIRsT.CLASs RESTAURANT.
where meals win be served 10 Or,ier Mt oil
hours. Dinner parties served Oh short
notice
GIVE us CALL.
PORT TOWNSEND, W.T.. 70
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nE IN Nfn per day at homo. Samples wort h u
VJ " NLU Tree. SRISsoN Co, Portland, Ne
, 1880-09-03

n aweek in your own town. Is Out
$ : : 4: ! i: e; i: J; !:
Portland Maine.
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}IOlltica1,

Where are the greenbackers: Has Car
celonism strangled them all:-N Y NaH
President Seelye, of Amherst, declines to
go to the Chicago Convention.
Levi F. Morton, of New York, is sugges-
ted for Vice President on the Grant ticket
If Tilden can't convince his own State
Committee that he is robust enough to run
again, he NAV as well plug up the barrel and
retire.-7ribune.
Take ont the republicans who will not vote
for Grant if he is nominated, and 1t Will
leave hole in the party big enough to sling
the State of Texas through without touching
the edges-Ciacinaati Commercial Md)
Vice President Wheeler is quoted as say
ing quietly to a stranger who in his room at
the Capitol asked him if that was the place
where Mr. Wilson was struck with paralysis,
Eyes; and almost every man who has held
the position has had an attack of the same
kind
We take the opportunity of correcting the
slight mistake in the article referred to,
which reprepresents Mr.. Murch as having
been elected to Congress without fusion. So
far from this. he owned his election solely to
the fusion of the greenbackers and demo-
Gratis for without the votes of the latter, he
would have been shamefully beaten, as he
will be this year without their support. We
regret to feel compelled to say, that Mr..
Murch, whom we were cordially in favor of
at the last election and hope and expect to be
this year, has made some very impolitic talk
about fusion with democrats while being in
debted to them for his election, if he expects
to run for that place again next September.
The quicker he switches off of that track the
better it will be for him and that union which
has already been determined upon, and will
be trumphantly carried out LET him who
thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall"
-Bangor Commercial.
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For Sale by G. G. HUNT, Augusta.
Marston & Mitchell, Waterville.
apr2lteod4w
humming-bird's nest recently brought to hi

humming- birds nest recently brought to his
office: SIT was set upon limb of tree the
size of a mans thumb, and coated outside
with the moss of an oak, SO as perfectly to
represent a knot 1t was about the size of
a large hickory-nut, an inch high, and con-
structed of cotton and hair. 1t contained
two little white eggs, about the size of a COM
mon snap-bean.
The following from the Haverhill Gazette
illustrates finely the humorous side of the
telephone business:
"a citizen in the suburbs, whose telephone
is on circuit with several others. independ-
ent of the Central Office, was about two weeks
learning that all loud conversation anywhere
near the instrument could be heard by any
one listening near the tube; but he did learn
it, and it developed his organ of caution.
The other night, after parties on the line had
caught the words, I'm boss of this house
don't sass mel won't do it--who cares-I
say you did?'-a bland voice came over the
line, saying: If any of you have been lis
tening, let me explain that my dear wife and
myself are, practicing our parts in play by
| amateurs?'"
A very sad story is that of the young clerk
Dollinger, who, in futile attempts at suicide,
WOuuueu Hiiuseu seNtTeIy. anu HOW lies Ill
Roosevelt Hospital. Like so many of the
vast army Of the disappointed, he thought to
| improve his prospects by coming to the great
! City, but found it too hard for him. He was
NOT very strong. and ~ to Is hours day in
| the close atmosphere Of store exhausted
| him. Moreover, he was sensitive, and shrank
| from the hectoring tone which the Patricks
and Biddies of our kitchens and servants
| halls will not endure for an instant, but which
| is cross that the poor clerk must learn I'M
| cOmplainingly to carry. Young Dollinger is
silent revolt against grinding. destiny, but
| his story has come to the fore, and will, we
hope, be extensively read in our rural dis
| tricts. If it has the effect of thinning, IN ever
so slight a degree. the ever-increasing flow
| into the ranks of the great army of clerks, it
will not have been without its use They are
to-day the least regarded section of the COM
munity, because there are always hundred
ready to accept, at almost any rate. an empty
place. 81 am astonished," commented a
| friend to a clerk-a really highly educated.
| accomplished person-''that you stand such
| bullyragging from that ruffian.'' 81 think of
my wife and babies was the meek rejoin-
| der; there would be fifty fellows after my
place tomorrow. The friend had no reply.
| Still ''they come" by reason of the delusion
largely fostered by women. that the occupa-
ton is ''genteel," and that the labor of
| mechanic or farmer working with his own
hands. is low. 1t will be good day for the
community when such stuff and nonsense is
Knocked out Of it.-Ner York Times.
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A Frank and Strong Letter.
J. SWIFT ROWE. secretary.
Augusta, April "a. 1880.

Senator Robertson's letter, found n ihese
columns. declaring that he shall not be
bound by the instructions Of the Utica
convention, but that he shall vote Tor Mr..
Blaine first, last and all the time, is bold
and emphatic expression of the sentiment
which sways u majority Of both tie New
York and Pennsylvania delegations, and
Is approved by the republican party OF
the country at large. He hold that the
delegates-at- large only are bound By the
instructions Of the State convention. that
district delegates should obey the voice of
their respective districts. and As hi dis
tvict is in favor of the nomination of Blaine,
and he believes Blaine is the strongest
and most popular republican living, and
will be- safe AMI wise ruler" if elected,
he will give his full support to him until
the nomination is decided.
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Besides doing a Il irving local business INC
Bond Brook Ice Company has 200 tons VI
first quality ice stored in houses, awai''nS
shipment. This company began its season >
work of distributing ice among Augusta Peo'
pie on the 9TH Of May. Last fall house 'V
feet long, 50 feet wide, and 90 feet high was
erected near the brook, with storage cspaef
ty of $500 tons. This is filled with the pe''
quality of spring water ice, and which VIII w
delivered to consumers in the city. we nave
noticed one of their wagons on our streets VI
late. The company's Office is over the Aa'
gusta Savings Bank.
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The Salem Mas, Gazette saws: tine

The Salem Mass Gazette says: "lhe
result of the next election will. in all hui
man probability, depend upon two or three
Northern States. 1t is the sentiment in
those Sthates that is most to be considered
in weighing the mere question OF ayalla-
bility. Itisour impression that the friends
Of Gen. Grant do not give sufficient
weight to this consideration. The repuo-
lican enthusiasm in his favor in States
which cannot give him vote is not suffl-
Gent to control the next election, even II
it may control party nomination In
view Of all this, thousands Of republicans
all over the country, who are not inclined
to join in any unreasoniDg clamor against
Grant, but who will give him cordial
support if nominated. are of the opinion
that any one Of the other public men who
have been named and who are thorough
Iy identified with republican measures,
will be most available at the polls"
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General News.

Jay Gould has purchased library of 5000
volumes for his elegant house at Lyndhurst-
on-the- Hudson.
In these oleomargarine days no one knows
on which side his bread is buttered.-New
Orleans Pieayune.
False hair is now so perfectly made that
when a woman's head is fixed you can't tell
which is switch.
The Harvard Club of Maine will support
the Rev. DIR. Hill of Portland, formerly
President of the university. for the position
of Overseer.
Mrs. Victoria Woodruff, it is reported,
is soon to marry an Englishman of note,
whose name is for the present kept a secret
Gold is found in fifty-six counties in Geor-
gia, silver in three, copper in thirteen, iron
in forty-threc and diamonds in twenty-six.
Mr.. J. NJ. Robbins, contractor for the
building of the railroad of Old Orchard Beach,
has crew of % men at work grading, and
will probably have 80 men at work very
soon.
A small boy in Massachusetts,, who for the
first time noticed cherry tree in blossom
enthusiastically directed the attention of his
mother to ''the popcorn tree
a number Of young girls, headed by May
Queen dressed in blue and white, and carry.
ing May pole decked with ribbons, visited
the Central Park the other day.
Six of Brigham Young's daughters have
been turned out of the Mormon church be.
cause they accused the saints of defranding
the heirs out of million dollars of the late
prophets money.
The Lowell Courier thinks it is more like
ly that the census will show that the popula.
ton of that city exceeds than falls below six.
ty thousand.
In the past twenty years nearly four thou
sand miles of railroads have been built in the
State of Iowa. The State will soon have a
cspitol building-at a cost of two and a half
millions of dollars.
A: Salem, n. j., war is to be made on the
English sparrows. They are destroying
tomato beds by pulling up the young plants
to obtain the seed at the bottom. Many hot
beds have been entirely destroyed.
Mr.. Tilden discreetly invested in license
for his two dogs Tuesday afternoon. In ad-
dition to his valued St. Bernard and q mas
tilt. he has political pack upon which he
evades the tax. Y. Nail.
loaded revolver was discharged in
trunk which was being handed by q reckless
baggage smasher,' in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
the other day. The bullet whizzed bv his
ear. He lifted the next trunk very careful
ly.
Bostonians will miss their usual rhododen-
dron show in their public garden this year,
some malicious person, apparently trained
florist, having cut every plant of the kind in
such manner that they cannot bloom this
season.
A Georgia paper gives this description Of .
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1t appears by the records of the coun''
commissioners in this county that an unu''
al number of peddler's licenses have oe."
applied for this Spring. Twenty-seven II
cences have been issued since April ISL A"'
thirty-two in all since Jan. lst. VI the''
only five are free licenses. being given
disabled Maine soldiers. At SO each, sI'V
is the revenue accruing to the State irom
this source. Magistrates and constables ."
over the State would do well to be more VIZ
liant in arresting persons travelling for .n'
purpose of retailing goods and merchano'''
without license, thus securing the duties We
longing to the State as well a. equaiizlhs '"'
burden of taxation upon such property.
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senator ROherfs0n's Letter.
He Will Vote for Blaine at Chicaso'

Senator William H. Robertson. one OF the
New York delegates to the Chicago conSen-
tion. declares for Blaine openly in the follow
ing letter, which is published in the Albany
Evening Journal:
ALBANY. May 6, 1880.
To the Editor Of the Albany Ee<"'"g Jour
nal:
Nav avail myself Of the columns OF the
JournaI for reply to Inquiries Of friends from
various parts of the State in regard to my
course as a delegate to the Chicago Conven-
ton: The last Republican National Con-
yeption held that where a State Convention
had instructed its delegation to vote as unit,
each delegate has the right to vote for MS IN
diyidual preference. With Republicans tnat
decision is final, and the Utica Convention
had no power TO overrule it. As well might
the General Term of the Supreme Court re-
verse the Judgment of the Court Of Appeals
The delegates at large are bound by the IN
structions of the State Convention. The as
trict delegates are under no such obligatloh.
4 district delegate should represent the wish
es of the republicans of his district.
The republicans of my district, with great
unanimity, prefer James u. Blaine as the re-
publican candidate for the Presidency, and
With them in this respect am in full accord.
On the first roiicaU at Chicago, and on eneh
syIsegpest one till nomination shall Be
made. I SHALL VOTE FOR JAMES L.
BLAINE. l shall vote for him because he Is
the choice of the republicans of the district
which represent. shall vote for him be-
cause to-day he is, in my Judgment, the
strongest and most popular republican living
and these qualities it will be well for the con-
yen,ion to consider. in making its choice, as
on the election of its nominee will depend to
q great extent, the nations welfare. l shall
vote for him. because, if elected, he Will
make a safe and wise ruler. Under his al.
ministration. all rebellion will begin and
continue TO respect the Government. ana the
country will enter upon a career of prosperity
and greatness hitherto unknown.
Yours truly, W. II. ROBERTSON.
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The Tribune says what. then. is the
probable result of the contest at Chicago?
Mr.. Blaine has unqucstionably long
lead. II is hardly to be expected. how
.ever. that he will have votes enough to
nominate him on the first ballot. Under
the ordinary circumstances Of n National
Convention. this position would be peril
GUS if not fatal to his candidacy, rs it
proved in 1876: but he is much stronger
now than then. from the fact that the sup
porters of his rivals are not all hostile TO
him. A combination against him is likely
to be effected. but it cannot enlist all the
delegates who vote for other candidates
on the first ballot. He is known to be the
second choice of many OF the Grant men
from New York and Pennsylvania. and of
most of the Sherman men from Ohio.
First in the order of chances would. there
fore, seem to be the nomination of Mr..
Blaine on the second ballot. Next in or
der is, perhaps, a successful union upon
Mr.. Sherman of all the elements in the
Convention opposed to Blaine. The third
probability is the nomination of dark
horse BY . movement like that which
brought about the success of Mr.. Hayes in
the Cincinnati Convention. Mr.. WASH
burne and Mr.. Edmunds, from the small
ness Of their original strength. must be |
put in the category of dark horses. and it
might be extended to include Mr.. VIM
dom, Of Minnesota, Gen. Harrison of In |
6iana, and Gen. Garfield Of Ohio