Year: 1878

SEATTLE IT'S S1TE.-A party OF
gentlemen from San F. a lcisco. who
recently paid our city visit. were
enthusiastic in their admiration of
its natural surroundings. Well, ma
ture has been rather lavish of her
wealth in this vicinity, and certainly
more beautiful site could not have
been selected upon which to estab-
lish the future grand metropolis Of
the North Pacific. From the waters
edge to distance of quarter of a
mile, the land is perfectly level. and
contains the business portion of the
city. From this a hill rises TO an
elevation of perhaps from 20 to 300
feet above tide-water, upon which is
settled the resident population. The
formation of the. hill affords an am
pie opportunity for terracing, which
has been generally observed by the
people, and which renders their
grounds attractive and beautiful be-
yond description. Standing upon
the hill side. there bursts upon the
vision prospect well calculated to
crafty the passions of tie poet or
painter. A grand bay stretching
out twelve miles in width, skirted
on all sides with forests of eternal
verdure, with the Olympic Noun
tains, their snow-capped peaks kis-
sing the skies, forming a back
ground, and you have sight in
comparison to which the storied Bay
of Naples is tame indeed, and which
is not equalled within the bounda-
ries of the United States.


CHINESE SrARv1NG.-It would
seem from the statementof gentle
man of this city, that the Caucasians
are not the only race affected by the
present financial crisis and depres-
sion in the labor market, but that
the Tartar suffers from the same
causes. No matter how cheap
Johns" labor can be purchased.
if there be no demand for it he must
60 hungry or depend upon the char
ity o: the wealthy of his class. Like
the "bloated bondholders" of our
own race, the heads of Chinese COM
panies are not overfowing with the
milk of human kindness, and hence
it is stated that numerous cases of
suffering for want of the necessaries
of life are known to exist in the
Chinese quarters in this city. This,
undoubtedly arises from the fact
that numbers of our citizens who
have heretofore employed Chinese
have discharged them and placed
white men in their places. thus cut
ting off their supplies and reducing
them to starvation point. We also
learn that unless the labor market
revives hosts of these sons of the
Flowery Kingdom will soon make a
straight wake for the land of their
fathers. This, then, is q simple So
luton of the Chinese problem. with
out the Intervention of legislation or
workingmen's parties: Refuse the
Chinaman the means to earn q sub
sistence and he must either starve
OF emigrate. and our word for it he
will in every instance choose the
latter alternative.


The Seattle girls are very sensi-
tive about their alleged big feet, but
we suppose they will give it up after
this. One of them got married the
other day, and the same night her
husband, who is Frisco fellow,
woke up and saw couple of bur
glars standing at the foot of the bed.
He quietly slipped his revolver from
under the pillow and fired at them.
His wife sat up in bed with terri
BILE scream. He had blown off her
big toe.


SENs1BLE.--After some trouble we
convinced one Of our merchants that
a judicious system of advertising in
the DISPATCH would enhance the
volume of his business. To-day,
when his bill was presented to him,
he did not order his advertisement
discontinued, but stated that since
it's insertion he had discovered a
marked increase in the sale of his
goods, and ordered his advertise
ment to be increased to double its
present size.


The htelligencer. "the only news
paper receiving dispatches in Wash
ington Territory" will be seriously
put out by the contemplated change
in the running schedule OF the Starr
steamers. 1t will then be unable to
receive its exclusive telegrams"
until 6 o'clock in the morning. and
will be urable to make use of them
until II hours after their publication
by the DISPATCH and Tribune -1,i-
JMne.


For HoME.-Arthur Attridge, Re-
publican nominee for the Legislature
at the last election, for Is years a
resident of Ludlow, L. E. Rickley,
and Isaac Hall. of Hall Brothers,
the famous ship builders, who have
built l3 ships at Ludlow, have left
IN n visit tn their old home in