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Show THE TERRITORIES. There are 23 prisoners in custody at Port Townsend awaiting trial. Marshal Kearny has two prisoners for the California Penitentiary, convicted con-victed at the last term of the District Court at Seattle. The town of Del Norte is rapidly-improving, rapidly-improving, and no doubt it will ultimately ulti-mately be the metropolis of Southwestern South-western and Southern Colorado. Boise City has 224 inhabitants between be-tween the ages of five and twenty -one years. This is two less than last year. There will be lots more next year, and after that they will be coming com-ing along very fast. Mr. Ackerson, the Taconia postmaster, post-master, has received an official seal from the department for the post otlice of "Tacoma, Washington Territory." Ter-ritory." Hitherto the seal consisted simply of a steel pen, with an ink scratch over the stamp for defacement. |