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VOL. XX.--NO. 4li. OLYMPIA. "WASHINGTON TERRITORY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1880.;H'Va.cilvinvjtou jH'amVavrt

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H7? l.ctrul notices will oe charged to thealtornev or olliccr authorizing; their inser-

Jlion.* \d vc.'lisentenls sent from a distanceami tr;:os,i'hi nolices. must lie acconipan-yd I v tin' cash.

117"" Aiioouncemcnts of births, marriagesami deaths, inserted free of charge.

K?"obituary nolices, or "poetry" ae-coiiipaiiviiig marriages or deaths, will liecharged one-ball our regular advertisingrates. We will not liervalterdeviate fromthis rule.

Schwalka's Arelic Fxpodilioii.

Mora interest than usual will at-tacli to reports fioin Sebwatka'sArctic expedition in search of re-mains of the Sir John Franklin ex-pedition, as Lieut. Schwntka is anOregon boy, raised at Salem, wherehis aged lather now resides. TheNew York lbrahl'* correspondentrecites the jouruev to Sherman in-let and arrival anions the Netchil-licks, and adds:

We found but few interesting rel-ics anions them, ami only a piece ofthe bow found in Wilmot bay, afterthe l»i*s ship sank, and puit of theblock branded either " 10" or " or"with part of the "r"obliterated. Ifthe ship's blocks were branded withthe name of the vessel to which theywere attached theso would be im-

portant as establishing the identityof the ship that drifted down as theTerror. XVe found among them apiece of wax candle that they hadpreserved all theso years, whileevery scrap of paper had perished.Wo met a sled with a few nativescoining from Kigmuktoo to join therest of the tribe, and with them wasan ngqd crone named Toolooah, whohad seen white men in llothuia isth-mus when a young woman, and hadalso been with a party who found theboat mi l skeletons in StarvationCove, near llicburdson Point. Shecontinued the previous testimony.

than a month's rations, and it i- the| lirst in which the white men of the! expedition voluntarily lived, exclu-sively upon the same fare as itsEsquimaux assistants.

Hie expedition was lirst to makethe Summer search over a route ofthe lost crews of the Ereltns and'/'error, and while so doing buriedthe remains of every member of theill-fated party above ground. Themost important direct results of thelabor of the expedition willundoubt-edly be considered as establishingthe loss of Franklin's records at theboat place in Starvation Cove, nudas ever since Dr. Ross' of1854, which ascertained th 6 fate ofthe party, tho recovery of the re-cords lias been the main object ofsubsequent exploring, in this direc-tion the history ol the Franklin ex-pedition may now be considered ata close. As ascertaining tho fate ofthe party was not so gratifying aswould liavo beeu the rescue or re-lief of any member thereof, so it isin estabiishing the fate of the recordof their labors. Next iu importanceto their recovery must bo consideredthe knowledge of their irrevocableloss.

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Hancock Platform of 1870.' A full vote, a free ballot nud a

fair count."? Hancock to Sherman,December 28th, 1576.

" The bayonet is not a fit instru-ment for collecting the votes of free-men."? Hancock to Sherman, Decem-ber ..'Bth, 1876.

j The boldest blasphemers are oftenj the greatest cowards. " I will give

' you $10," said a man to a profane| swearer, " if you will go into thej village graveyard at 12 o'clock to-night and swear the same oaths youhave uttered when you are alonewith God." " Agreed," " AVell,come to-morrow and say you havedone it, and you shall have yourmoney." Miduigbt cime. It'wasa night of great darkness. As heeutered the cemetty uyt a sound washeard; all was stili as death. Thencame the gentleman's to his mind." Alone with God!" rang in his ears.He did not dare to utter an- oath,but fled from the place, crying, "Godbe merciful to me a sinuer!"

The Man ?Xot. the Party.A Guoil Itxnauu Given for Ignoring the

Tie» of Party.

Seattle Post, (Republican.)The S. Mail takes us to task

for participating in the doings of theVancouver convention, and then" bolting" its action. Had Mr.Brents been the choice of the party

i in this Territory, had he secured hisnomination fairly, we should havesupported him. It is solely a matterof'principle. We cannot lend ourvoice to the election of a man whobought up his solid delegation Eastof the Mountains. The Mail wasnever more mistnken in its life. Thebest, the purest men in the Repub-lican party East of the Mountainsarc loud in their denunciation ofBrent's practices; they claim that hehas forfeited his right to their sup-port and that he did so by Bettingeverything up before the primaries.He sought out secretly his men, andhad them organized, pledged, tohim so that a fair expression was im-possible. We hold that it is ourright?is the unquestionable right ofevery free man, to choose for him-self. We are not of tboie who claimthat simply because Brent's is a Re-publican we are bound to supportbim. If Washington were a State,ifour delegate bad a feather's weightupon national is; ues, then we wouldsupport him as against any livingDemocrat. But as we have no po-litical voice, it is the duty of citizento vote for the capacity, unquestionedintegrity and purity of Judge Burkeas against the failures and blundersof a man whose sole recommenda-tion is that he is a Republican. Thatwould be a recommendation whichif we were a State, we again repeat,would be paramount to every otherconsideration. Two years ago, hun-dreds of Democrats voted for Brents.Why ? Not because they renouncedDemocratic principles, but becauseof the man. Judge Jacobs in thiscounty four or six years ago, received'the suffrages of many Democrats-men who have been life-long Demo-crats, simply because they thoughthe would best serve the Territory inCongress, Toe men who try todraw party lines now are the men,who, as a rule, have other than pure-ly political reasons for so doing.Men holding offices, men hoping toride into place through the party,raise tho cry. But the great bodyof the Republican party readily ap-preciate that we have 'ocal and gen-eral interests as a Territory, whichare of far graver import to us as apeople than any party issue in whichwe, as a Territory, can have anypart. What political priuciple is in-volved when our delegate has novoice upon any political issue? Ourdelegate can give nothiug; he standswith open bands and receives. Whatthen of principle does any man for-feit in voting with or against Mr.Brents ? Any Democratic followingthe course pursued two years ago byhundreds of his party on PugetSound, could at tho approachingelection support Brents withoutyielding a single jot of his politicalprinciples. It is our duty, as citi-zens, irrespective of party, to eloctthat man who is best able to advanceour material good.

An Fasterii Opinion.Uow Mr. Brent* I* Regarded tvhere He

I* Beit Known.

Dayton News, Sept. 16.As announced last week in our

coltvpins the Republican TerritorialConvention nominated T H. Brentsfor Delegate to Congress, and in ouropinion could not Lave made a weak-er nomination. Mr. Brents' recordin Congress clearly shows him to bea weak man, and therein no deny-ing it. As he has doue so little ofreal benefit to his constituents, dur-ing bis Congressional career, hisfriends are trying to excuse him onthe eeore that be had no show withthe Rebel Brigadiers in the House.It isjkonsense to talk this way; sen-sible mea willno longer believe suchbesk As to Brepts' opponent inthe Vancouver Convention, we knowlittle Or mfthiftg, bnt would be un-derstand as saying if he ever dis-played the least' trait to statesman-ship, then he should have been nom-inated over Mr. Brents, who hasdiiown no mark of legislative abilitywhatever. Two years ago, whenBrents, made the race for Congress,be was then untried, bat it was at

Congress, but hundreds who thenvoted for him have since found outthat they " voted in the air."

We hope the Kalama Conventionwill act wisely-fcge nominating a manacceptable to the people of the Ter-ritory; with such a man we thinkBrents can be beaten. Takingeverything into consideration we donot regard it as a great feat of agili-ty to leap over Brents majority oftwo years ago. Brents is a weakman and there is no use to try todisguise the fact any longer. Hisrecord for good is almost as bare asthe Plains of Sahara. It is not whathe might have doue, but what' hedid, that will go before the peoplethis full. We trust every voter iuthe Territory willread his " Stalwartspeech" made in Congress; and bythe way, we would suggest that theTerritorial Democratic Committeeprocure a few thousand copies ofthat speech for distribution. We re-gard it as an excellent campaigndocument for the Democrats. ADelegate to Congress can do butlittle unless bo cuu gain the favor ofintlueutial.members Brents admit-ted in a speech at Walla-walla short-ly after his return homo, that ho waslargely indebted to Oregon members jfor what little he had done iu Con-gress, yet lie persisted in making an juncalled for " stalwart speech," jthereby lessening iiis chances to se-;cure needed legislition.

Wo matched in a southeast direc-tion on the inlet five days, duringwhich wo traveled upon it about 45miles, and when we left I could seeit running itt a southerly directionfor about 10 or 15 utiles further.The sun was so low now that wehad neither sunrise or sunset; dur-ing the whole time it was above tlt6horizon. About live miles inlandfrom* Starvation Cove, the nativesbud found during the Summer theskeleton ot a white man, which noone hud ever seen before. On tnyway down, Henry visited the placeand erected a monument over theremains, l'ieces of olothiug |oum>,indicated deceased was a sailor, notan officer. The finding of this gravois worthy of notice as showing thatthe natives were thoroughly aroused

visit aud its object. We hadpromised liberal rewards for every-thing of importance found aud forvaluable information and were al-ways particular to keep our promise.The consequence was that they weregreatly aided us by scat citing every-whereWithin reach of their campsor hunting grounds.

Before reaching Depot Island wolost 27 dogs of privation. On Dec.2Stli, the thermometer ranged fromt!4 'to (ID 3 below. The lowest pointreaelud was 101' 1 below freezingpoint. Our meat had to be eatencold, that is frozen so solid that ithad to be sawed and then brokeninto convenient sized lumps, which,when tirst put into the mouth werelike stones. Some meat was cookedwith moss gathered from the hill-sides under the snow, which wasbeaten off with sticks. The countrybegan to swarm with wolves now aswell as with reindeer, and we wouldmeet them daily. Often they wouldcome close to the Igloos, and onenight Toolooah shot one of three"that were eating with our dogs themeat he had thrown out for foodThey lulled and ate four dogs andattacked him when he went out ofthe Igloo to drive them off.

The correspondent gives a thrill-ing account of the privations exper-ienced in returning to Hudson Bay,the dis ippointment and almost do-

The army should have nothing todo with the inaugurations of Presi-dents. The people elect the Presi-dent. The Congress declares in ajoint session who he is! We of thearmy lmve only to obey his man-dates, and are protected in so doingonly so far as they may be lawful.?Hancock to Sherman, December, IS7G.

I was not in favor of the militaryaction in South Curollna recently,and if General Ruger had tele-graphed to me, or asked for advice,1 would have advised him not underany circumstances to allow himselfor his troops to determine who werethe lawful members of a State Rogis-iature.?Hineoek to Sherman, Decem-ber, 1576.

Our regular army has little holdupon tho affections of the people to-day, und its superior officers shouldcertainly, as far as lies in theirpower, legally and with righteousintent aim to defend the right, whichto us is the hue, aud tho institutethey represent. It is a well-meaninginstitution, aud it would bo well if itit should have an opportunity to berecognized as a bulwark in supportof the rights oft* he people and ofthe hue. ?Hancock to Sherman, De-cern her, 1876.

Virtues of Charcoal.A scientific exchange has the fol-

lowing:" The value of charcoal for other

purposes than fuel is hardly uuder-stood l>y the public. When laidflat, while cold, on a burn, it causesthe pain to abate immediately; byleaving it 011 for an hour the burnseetn < almost healed when tho woundis superficial. Tainted meat sur-rounded with it is almost, tin mediate-ly sweetened. Strewn over heaps ofdecomposed pelts or over dead ani-mals, charcoal prevents any unpens-unt odor. Foul water is purified byit. It is a great disinfectant andsweetens offensive air if placed inshallow trays around apartments.It is so very porous that it absorbsand condenses gases rapidly. Onecubic inch of fresh charcol will ab-sorb nearly 0110 hundred inches ofgaseous ammonia. Cliaicoal formsanrxeelleut poultice for malignantwounds and sores. In cases of whatis called proud llesh it is invaluable.Il given no disagreable odor, cor-rodes no metal, hurts 110 texture, in-jures no color is a simple and safesweetner and disinfectant. A teu-spoouful of charcoal in a glass ofwater ofien relieves sick headache.It absorbs tho gases and relieves thedistended stomach, pressing againsttho nerves which extend from thestomach to tho head. "

The Truth Precisely.

Garfields's nomination ineaus theendorsement and approval in themost positive and offensive mannerpossible of the Presidential fraud of187(1-77. He had more to do with itthan any other man, and was theonly man who occupied toward it adouble relation. After the electionGarfield went to New Orleans by re-quest of General Grant, without au-thority of law, as a partisan. Hewent there to assist his party inmaking up a case, and after his re-turn to Washington, of all his asso-ciates he has the only man who tookhis seat upon the Electoral Com-mission. By every sentiment of fairplay he should have been excludedfrom the jury box. By his ownsworn statement of what he did inNew Orleans, Garfield had charge ofthe returns from West FelicianaParish. In one of the inner roomsof Packard's Custom House he did hiswork, examined the affidavits, andwhen they were not sufficiently fullhe prepared, or had prepared, ad-ditional interrogatories to bringthem within the rules adopted bytho Returning Board. Tho testi-mony, so received by Garfield, wentback to the Returning Board, andthe result was that West Felicianawith itß Democratic majority, waathrown out. In Washington, Gar-

i field's vote was that Congress could' not go behind the returns thus made.

CAVUHT FISH BY C.ANDLK LIGHT.?A Jyoung man of the city did start out ;fishing once with a lantern and the jboys chuckle over it to tliis day, but Ithe following did not happen in!Walla-walla, but way back East:;The conductor and engineer of the jnight train north 011 tiie Delaware,Lackawanna and Western Railroad, JSaturday night, were tho victims of,a rather questionable joke. Half amile ibis side of New Hartford theengineer suddenly saw a red lantern(the signal of danger) ahead andbrought ttie train to a sudden stop.Tho chap with the lantern seemed to

bo takiug things rather leisurely fora 1111111 with bad news. ConductorKincuid called out :

" Ilello, there!hurry up! what's tlie matter?" Theunconscious fellow replied: " \as isdas?" Thoroughly angered the en-gineer chimed in: " What the devildid you come from?" The aston-

ished Teuton looked up smilinglyand held aloft a generous striug ofsuckers, exclaiming: " Ich babetisch gefangen!" (I was fishin.) Theold man was allowed to tramp along,and to this day does not know thatthe train stoppe 1 on account of thered light which he carried on hisfishing excursions.

Horn reaches beyond the grave.

spair at not finding food supplies ithere as premised, the almost star- jration of the natives ami the mem- ihers of the expedition, which was]relieved hy the hilling of a walrus, jthe terrible cold, an I continues:

I reached the f«Y«/?;/(\u25a0 mul Mnrij\(ship on Marble Island) on the 21st:and was kindly received. During ithe year wo were absent from civili-;/. itien we tiaveled 2,fill* geographi-cal miles, or 1},15-V2 statuto miles, bysledges over entirely unexploredcountry. Through the entiro courseof an Arctic Winter regarded by thenatives as unexceptionally cold, theparty successfully withstood thelowest temperature experienced bywhite men, recording one observa-tion of 71 degrees Fahrenheit, 10days whose average was 10(1 degreesbelow freezing point and 07 whichregistered belo.. o degrees Fahren-heit, during most of which the partytraveled. In fact the expeditionnever took the cold into consider-ation or halted a single day on thataccount.. Duiing tho entire journeyits reliance for food both for man orbeast may be said to have been solelyupon the resources of the country,as the expedition started with less

Profanity.

Tlio wicked practice of swearing,which is so common as to offend theear in every hotel aud on almostevery street, is mere bravado. lio3-sthink it 6eeins manly to bo profane,and meu think it gives force and char-acter to their sayings. Unkike mostvices, it is done openly aud intendedby the swearer for other people'sears. It is a public sin against Goduud a public insult to all good men.

gmittfl to 3ta<, §Mia. th» glwralimtion of %rfnl Jnforourtiw as* the promotion of tit §«t g*t»r»rt» of atrasMngtoa imttotj. .

WHOLE NO. 1035.As agent for bis party he helped tomake returns by manipulating theevidence, and as juryman for thenation he held such evidence as coo*elusive and binding.

T. A. HENDRICKS*

Garfield's Reputation.

The New York Staals Zeitung, theleading and most influential Germanpaper in the United States, says thai" the Republican press is constant*ly informing its constituents thatMr. Garfield explained his aotion inthe Credit Mobilier swindle and dem-onstrate 1 bis entire innocence in thatstock bribery.

Whatever defense Mr. Garfieldhad or any justification of bis con-duct in the matter, be bad fully pro-duced long before the entire Repub-lican and Democratic press badbranded him as a corrupt public of-ficial.

We desire our Republican friendsto inform us when Mr. Garfield pro*duced the evidence of his innocencesubsequently to 1873 and 1874, theperiod during which they condemnedhiß participation in that swindle isunmeasured terms.

Alas! the evidence is not forth-coming, a circumstance we moch re-gret, for we should have cheerfullyreceived the same. We ere not suf-ficiently imbued with petty spirit tobelieve in the ntter impossibility ofelecting Mr. Garfield, but we pos-sess, most assuredly, more patriot-ism to deprecate the mere possibilityof placing ii) the Presidential chairsman whose official conduct has beescondemned.

In spite of the manifold corruptionsexisting in the land no one has yetbeen placed in nomination for tbSexalted position of President wboeename has been associated with official -dishonest or whose public conducthas ever been suspected of corrup-tion.

It is a positive fact that

bilier and DeGolyer jobs to every..

member of Congress and the lobbiesas a 4 jobber,' an out-growth of thecivil war and tb® . period of recon-struction. Our ideaa of propriety*cannot be reconciled to the possibil-ity of electing a person of each an-tecedents, and we cannot compre-hend the act of those German Re-publicans who would close their eyesto the reputation of so unworthy sperson, and permit the same to re-main unquestioned.

We know that at least some of therepresentatives of the German Be-'publican press possess sufficient in-dependence not to aocept every oneoffered for their suffrage."

Temperance Alliance.At a regular meeting ofthe Olym-

Eia Blue Ribbon Temperanceleague, Sept. 13th, 1880, it was

unanimously voted to issue a call toreorganize the Territorial Temper-ance Alliance of Washington Terri-tory.

Accordingly at the next regularMonday evening meeting of saidLeague, Sept. 20th, 1880, the follow-ing call was unanimously adopted:

Believing that the great temper-ance movement now in progressthroughout the civilized world canbe much accelerated iu this Territoryby a union of a 1! Temperance or-ganizations, in an alliance composedof delegates or representatives fromsaid organizations, and that theprohibition by law of the importation,manufacturing and use of all alco-holic Leverages, the end and aim,of all sincere friends of temperance,willtie much sooner accomplishedby the concert of ? action to beattained through such an alliance,this League respectfully and earn-estly invites all Temperance organi-zations in this Territory and allchurches friendly to Temperanoein each town and neighborhoodwhere there may be no temper-ance organization, to send one ormore delegates, to meet at the GoodTemplar liali,iu Olympia, on Wed-nesday October 13th, 1880, at 7v.H., to reorganize the WashingtonTerritory Temperance Alliance.

All newspapers in the- Territoryare respectfully requested to publishthe foregoing call.R. H. MILROY, C. A. HUNTINOTOK,J. MCCORMAC, IS. B. HENRY,JORIE E. SU.BBT, EMILY T. MCNBOK,

J. H. MDNBON.

IT is a common mistake to. pic-ture Mtinc t§ a barren, unproduo-tive region. The ice crop seldomfails, the granite crop is always good,and the crop of voters turned out atthe last election a miracle reoallingthe loavea and fishes.

Abusing Their Own Country.Ilnlflllcenccr.]

It is entirely too common on l'u-get Sound for the people to abusetheir own country. This is not doneby temporary sojourners alone, butby old resident, and by farmers aswell as bv townspeople. A strangerparhaps finds fault with the climate.He may not have been air our usforty-eight hours, but on the strengthof what ho has heard and someth inghe may have seen, he assures us that?our climate is disagreeable, un-healthy and generally bad. Insteadof letting him growl it out by him-self, or instead of correcting theerror into which ho has fallen, ourpooplo too often side with him, anddenounce the country and climatemore bitterly than he. Again, mencome hero looking for farms. Theyask for the location of vacant ugri-cuUurnl lands, and moro than halftiwtime are told there are none.What little good land is in the coun-try, according to these people, wastaken up long ago, and nothiijg inleft the farm hunter of ISBO but togo East of the mountains. He isn'ttold of the wonderful productionper acio of hops, grain, potatoes;and other etufl, nor of the high

prices realized hero for poultry, but-ter, bam and bacon, fruit and ascore of other articles, which can beproduced hero to the utmost advan-tage, but which are largely importedfrom Oregon, California anil theMississippi Valley. Neither is any-thing said to iiim of the ease andeconomy with which farm produceis marketed. While none of thesethings are told him, lie is told andretold that this is not an agricul-tural country, that it never has pro-duced enough for home consump-tion and never will, and that ourclimate is unreliable if not actuallyexecrable. Our people sometimesliud fault with pooplo .elsewhere forunderrating and belittling us, whenthe truth is tliey aro themselves more Igenerally guilty of perpetrating this iwrong.

Sir.Ns .vxn I'oiiTiATs. It has al-ready been shown to the supersti-tious that tho initials of \V. S. Han-cock stand foi " Will SucceedHaves." Now an Ohio eonvspon-<leut of tho New York Sun showsthat:

IjfcTakim,' all the letters in theof Wintield Seott Hancock,

and tfiviurf to each letter the num-ber of its position in the alphabet,the numbers sum up Tlo, which re-presents the electoral votes claimedtor Hancock, to wit: those of Ala-bama, Arkansas, California, Connec-ticut, Delaware, (loorgia, Indiana,Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,Mississippi, Missouri. Nevada, NewJersey, New York, North Carolina,Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee,Texas, \ irginia?-To Slates, in allCllstino o leleetoial Votes.

T. Taking in the same way theletters embraeed in the name ofJames Abiiiliam(lurtieid, they repre-sent. 1o-I which makes lip the elec-toral college, the total being Mi'J.

It. There is in this fact, a singu-lar coincidence with the lute Presi-dential election, wherein Samuel J.Tish n in tho sauio way represented?<u; electoral votes, which lie actu-ally received, (though he was robbedof nineteen), and Rutherford 15.Hayes ltiti, which lie received andWas entitled to.

Mis ?u.tu'i ii, England, has.foundmat tho draining .an 1 piviti< oftwenty stroits diminished her rnor-t;,4lly in n'o tiiau ouo sixth.

FUR city of New York's cousu rnp-hon ot postage stamps amounts toftbou >_)),))) week.