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Astoria, Oregon, Saturday Morning, Nov. I, 1873.
No. 1.
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CITY INTELLIGENCE.
SIf you have a farm for sale advertise- in
the Aktoriax.
A. J. Keton has arrived with sixteen
head of beef cattle for Mr. Loomis, from
Tillamook.
The Theresa Bchn was loaded at len-t
a foot "deeper than her marks indicated.
A foot is it always an exact foot? not all
the same in Dutch any how.
No" doubt it would be highly gratify
ing to many if our city authorities would
cau-e some thirty-live or forty canine fun
era U to take place.
The wlieat cargo of the brig Orient,
M.9S7 centals, was ottered on 'change in
San IV.mci-co, on arrival. It was held
at $2.27)4; 2.22K was ottered.
Fen-ell's mill, saws, and machinery,
having recently been put into the finest .
2)0-sible trim, he i now turning out a
good quality of lumber from a well stock
ed boom.
II. ,S. Sale has received a request to
furnish grasses, etc., to a New York iirm,
to be transmitted as plants through the
mails. Ceitain Oregon grasses arc very
rare in the Eastern States.
CSTlf you want to buy a farm say so through
the columns of the Astoiuax.
There are now orders ahead at the
Hemlock tannery in this city for several
tons weight of leather. Messrs. Leinen-
weber & Co. would themselves be glad to
see another tannery started here.
" S latched from the Sea," is the title
to an interesting paper showing how the
tide lands of Holland have been reclaim
ed. It is so applicable to parts of this le
gion that we shall soon quote Irom it con
siderably. Mr. Nowlcn will please accept our
ithanks for a supply of choice whiter fruit
from his orchard in this city planted twenty-one
years ago, every tree of wlreh is
vigorious and ln-althy now, bearing ii uit
enougn to supply many iamuies.
SSTlf you are looking for lots in Astoria in
quire through tho Astorian.
"We are sorry to learn that on reach
ing San Francisco Mr. Booth met with
.-advices from Chicago which will check
the plan of operations for a large cannery
at Tongue-point for tliK season. The
work will not be begun this year.
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It is said that when Capt. B. B.
Thompson's line, large steam plow is dis
charged from the Vesta, and set up in
working order sho will be " borrowed"
ior the purpose of plowinjropen a channel
aerot the hog's-back off Tongue-point.
- All the machinery, boiler, etc., have
Iboen placed in the hull of the tug Sedalia,
'her upper works are finished, and the
moke stack was raised a few day.-, since.
She i rapidly approaching completion,
:and will be ready for the trial trip very
soon.
-Mr. Sinister finds that he cannot get
away for Salem this week, in consequence
of the rush for picture. People who
want potographs taken should call now
i -: , ,..;n i. ii ti k..i t ,.f .in .irt; t -
Antona will be auie to uoaet oi an artist
t ,!.; V; i.o
to take his place.
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Have
you ttoieu away jour winter
stoied
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fuel, your apples, your canned fruit and ..." ;, -r . ,
a good supply or potato? If not you ' mon e.Plc are now
ought to' do so. But above everything1 grinding their Ml capacity. qhiefly
else, have you been to Henry Be.oide' for the fulfilment of orders vmadp
hop and made the necessary arrange-- wcfe ago for the "export o'f thcWiit
xneuts for keeping your feet dry and , . , fnl -." . ,.,,,
warm. It this mo essential !arfc of Your f PlP' JKe 3 W .W
luty has bsen neglected, take our advice -Heirtftn d for hrfperhn "either for
a.id ctif. upon him at once. 1 Ilongksng or elsewhere. - :
Diss street is "being replanked by
Capt, Plavel.
, Dr. Kinscy is in receipt of so many
delicate and superfine articles for the toilet
that it would puzzle us to tell where to be
gin to enumerate them. Ladies, call and
e.fttnine this stock.
Charles B Talbot, one of the beat
draughtsmen on the .Pacific coast is at
work on the harbor chart of Aston. He
hasjut completed designs of labels for
some of the Columbia river fisheries.
The Bulletin and Oregonian may be
good at stealing, but thc can't hide worth
a cent. Lat "Wednesday half the com
mercial reports of the former, a part of
the commercial report of the latter, arid
half of it State items were taken bodily
without credit from this paper.
David Iifgalls of this city has placed
upon our table a vcluster of Gloria Mundi
apples that beats anything yet seen in
that line try us. The stem, a half inch in
thickness, contained 11 apples, within the
space of 14 inches, which weighed nine
pounds. TJaey grew in Astoria. If this
can be beaten show your hand.
Judge Elliott met with a very pain
ful accident Thursday evening, by step
ping on a cobble stone in the street, which
gave way under him badly spraining his
ancle. He was taken into the Globe Ho
tel, beiii unable to walk for a time. But
bj the aid of "Welch.'s Samaritan Con
pound the Judge "was able to be out 01
his bed yesterday.
One of Montana's experienced trap
pers has lately arrived here, purchased the
scow, Joe Meek, her tackle, apparel,
cooking stove and traps, and will soon set
out lor an expedition after -peltries. The
hide of any thins: from a wolf to a mos
qnito will sell here this fall
Lienenweb-
er & Co. are pa3ing from two to ten dol
lars each lor Elk horns, and will take all
the Elk hides they can get.
Frank J. Taylor has fitted up a neat
office for the practice of law, in Brown's
building. He will pay special attention
to the examination of titles, and to collec
tions. "We can "vouch" for Frank, and
wish him abundant success in his new
field. He recently graduated at Albany,
New York, with credit to himself, and
stood a very excellent examination when
he was admitted to the bar.
A lively chase was instituted Thurs
day by the Custom House officers of this
port after the British ship Eskdale for en
deavoring to pass this place on the way to
Portland without reporting "at "the Cus
tom House here as required by law. The
ship was overhauled after a rape of several
hours at Oak: Point. The Taw provides
with heavy fines every, vessel entering the
Columbia river, and bound for Portland,
shall report at the Astoria Custom House,
and-get a permit before proceeding up the
river.
fiCBIf you have city proporty to sell say so
by advertising in tho Astorun.
The German hark Theresa Behn, for
Liverpool carries 18,85S centals of wheat
valued at $27,715, loaded as follews: at
Portland 11,14S centals, $22,295; at As
toria 2,710 centals, 5,420. The British
bark Spirit of the Dawn took away 11,(592
barrels Hour for Liverpool, valued at
l:,400, loaded as follews: at Portland
7,740 barrels, $40,700; at Astoria 3,952
bar;ls, $22,700. "When the barkentine
Jane A. Falkinburg sails for Honolulu
to-day, we shall be able to give a state
ment" of the exports for the month.
A beautiful pair of canines, evidently
strangers to each other, met in front of
the Astoriax office yesterda- and indulg
el themselves in that .favorite pastime of
their species, a game of growl. One was a
big black Jellow that runs with the tug
A-toria, and the other was a brindle that
'boards with Henry Jacobs. Brindle. has
a set of teeth in appearance far superior to
any ever put up lor the human family by
a. dentist, and black has bristles which
.would make magnificent brushes we judsro
I Irom the' way they stood out. The dogs
1 would make a very good team together on
J an arctic exploration, if they were better
duce them but they woundn't stand it"
i and piling hinisejf up so that his backdis-
i aequanueu. v. smau uoy tried to intro-
cribed a half a circle, brindle struck out
fora hole m the tence with wonderful ve-
as fe-
1 rocious as a wolf, and would have i
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L a panel out of the fence to bite his
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. N FRENCH WITH A MASTER.
" Aimer aimer, e'est a vivro."
To lovo, to love, this, it is to love.
Teaoh you French! I will my dear!
Sit ancf con your lesson here,
"What did Adam say to Eve?
Aimer, aimer, e'est a vivro.
Don't pronounce the last word long!
Sleeve, I said, but what's the harm
If I reallv meant your arm?
Mine shall twine it, (by your leave);
Aimer, aimer, e'est a vivre.
Learning French is full of slips;
Do as I do with the lips; .
Here 's the right way, you perceive!
Aimer, aimer, e'est a vivre.
French is alwa'.- spoken best
Breathing deeply.from ttie chest;
Darlingdoes your bo6m heave?
Aimer, aimer, e'est a vivre.
Now, my dainty little sprite,
Have I taught your lesson right?
Then what pay shall I receive?
Aimer, aimer, e'est a vivre.
"Will you think me over bold
If 1 linger to be told
"Whether you j'ourself believe
Aimer, aimer, e'est a vivre?
Pretty pupil, when you say
All this French to me to-day,
Do you mean it or deceive?
Aimer, aimer, e'est a vivre.
Tell me may I understand,
"When I press your little hand,
That our hearts together cleave?
Aimer, aimer, e'est a vivre.
Have you, in your tresses, room
For some oranac buds to bloom?
May I such a garland weave?
Aimer, aimer, e'est a vivre.
Or, if I presume, too much,
Teaching French by sense of touch,
Grant me pardon and reprieve!
Aimer, aimer, e'est a vivre.
.Sweetheart, no; you cannot go!
Let me sit and hold you so!
Adam did the same to Eve!
Aimer, aimer, e'est a vivro,
Theodore Tilton.
Correspondence Answered.
J. A. Packard, Clatsop Plains. Thoro are
100 acres ready for tho plow.on that placo, It
is known as tho Martn Donation claim. It
isonlho samo "raottonfas tho Xlaskanine
farm; tdiorahle iouec; .'500 fruit trees; was
taken up in 1852. Pfieo $1,200 half cash.
W. Y. It., Canyon City, Orogon. This is tho
placo for you. Xow i? the.time to como aaid
take a look. Will inform y.ou fully by lettor.
The Portland Teekly News of
the 17th, on the first page, fifth col
umn, second paragraph from the bot
tom, ( wie are particular for the pur
pose of .calling Brother riilinger'g
attention to it), says' that tlve North
ern Pacific Kailroad U our " only
avenue of escape from the clutches'
of California impositions, and every
man who has the interests of our
State at heart will rejoice" to see it
completed to Tacoma. Just please to
tell us how you put this thing up
Mistopher. AVhat sort.of an "avenue
of escape" is it, that would transfer
the whole commerce of this State to
a Territory? "We have not theidigiit
est idea that such a thing can he
done; but, suppose it &ve to hedone,
what could any man, having " the
interests of our State at heart,," hope
to make by the operation? "We ask
for information. We want to see
the railroad finished to Tacoma as
bad as any man of our weight, (JS2
avoirdupois), but we don't projposie
to just surrender everything it that
point. A railroad is wanted .to the
seaboard in our own State, Justus well
and this is the measure that -every
man having the interests of the State
at heart ought to rejoice to see carried
forward. It is less than 100 miles to
the sea by the Oregon Central Bail
road from Portland, and no bridges
or ferries to bother about. To Taco
ma the distance from Portland fa 42
miles by water (ferry route), and
nearly 150-bv railroad.
IHs hoped some of the ballona
ticjj who are Looking fgr the "East
ern air currents" will, soon be able
to find.,it. . .IJ.ifless.. they do. after a
few more.transrAtlantic failures they
will be" few and far between. Vl"
Make it short to suit the bong;
"Rhyme it to your flowing sleeve,
Aimer, aimer, e'est a vivre.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES,
One of the great defects of the
present day, especially in our own
land, ts u want of thorough knowl
edge, and of .a disposition to attain it.
There is no lack of pretenders, but
when culture or finished men are
sought for, it is .almost impossible to
obtain them. "We do nearly every
thing in too much of a rush. We
generally live to fast. "We imagine
that we are old, while we are still
youthful, that we shall be behind
the times and remain unknown if,
seven or ten years, or more, are spent
in solid preparation for lifers duties.
A complete course of study is already
abridged, from the mistaken view
that time is too valuable to be em
ployed in developing and strengthen
ing the powers of the mind. "We
are in too great a hurry to enter upon
the duties of an active life, "to
make our pile," or to engage in any I
other pursuit than that of learning,
if it promises even a possible realiz
ation of our hopes. There is a
strength derived from a liberal cul
ture ofJthe mind that can be obtain
ed from' no other source. It makes
men and women stronger, no matter
what positions they may afterwards
fill. It is not by the physical, but by
the mental powers of man, that the
world is being subdued. It is through
the intellect that the subtle forces of
nature are made to do our bidding.
But however priceless strength of
mind may be, we have not attained
the full zenith of our power until
this be .supplemented by .sound moral
principles and .the courage to main
tain them. It is just here that mul
titudes fail fo achieve noble ends.
There are too few possessed of'thisH
moral energy, needed to meet the
sneering laugh or the steadied cold
ness of their associates,: too few who,
knowing that they are in the right,
maintain it, and leave the issue with
Him who smiles only upon .the brave
anda true-hearted.
The blunders of .the English in
regard to American geography are
notorious. An antiquarian finds
several curious illustrations in Thack
eray's " Virginians." Thus the great
novelist makes Madam Esmond, of
Castlewood, in "Westisorelandcoiin-.
ty," a neighbor of Washington, at
Mount Vernon, on the Potomac, fifty
miles distant, andaregular.attendant'
on public worship at Williamsburg,
half-.way between the York and the
James river, full one liundred and
twenty-iive miles frxam Mount Vei
non; and se " immensely affected"
are the colored iiearers of a young
preacher at "Williamsburg that
" thene was-such a negro chorus about
! the house as might be heard across
the'Fortomac," (the nearest bank of
which is fifty miles away). Thack
eray makes General Braddock ride
out from Williamsburg (foe never
was there) in u his own ooach, a pon- J
derous, emblazoned vehicle," with
Dr. Franklin, " tike little postmaster
of Philadelphia?' (Franklin's average
weight was one hundred and sixty
pounds)' over a muddy joad in March,
through a half-wilderness country of
more than a hundred miles, to dine
with Madam E-Huaond, in Westmore
county4 " near Metunt Vernon."
The School Board Chronicle, of
London, in its issue- for tho 1st of
Mar.oh,, says that'iipwarde of 12,000
has been subscribed io wards a fund
for establishing, in Glasgow, a tech-
nical college, in winch spinning,
weaving, and various othariinduatraal
., . , A ti .
pursuit are to be taught on scientific
princplea. . -
It may "he .-Hiifely .asserted, as .a
I general rule, that a child who is sent
to school heforeMie has reached the
age of 7 jiears is almo8t,.8ure tp suffer
i physical, untelloeiuaL Mid jm&i.
'injury.
MAltJXE NEWS.
The ship Matterhorn arrived at
Havre on the 2d ult.; the bark Skid
daw off Queenstown on the 5th.
The schooner Energy, Capt. -
Jones, sailed from San Francisco for v
Shoalwater bay on the 20th.
The schooners Three Sisters and
Carolita, from .Shoalwater bay, arriv
ed at San Francisco on the l-9tL
The British ship 3&kdaie is of
1,220 tons register Wlea loaded
she will draw 2H feet, and -carry 0?
500 or more tons. She has no busi
ness above Astoria.
The barkentine Webfoot and brig '
Orient made their last runs from As
toria to San Francisco in five days:;
the Free Trade in seven days, and
the Superior in six days.
Fred O ao. Ion is building a new
tug in which to place the engines of
the Mary Bell. The new steamer as
to be completed in season qx ihe
summer trade of Cbitsop.
The Commercial Herald is au
thority for saying the telegraph was
incorrect in reporting the .schooner
Lovett Peacock Capt Mattson, for
Astoria. According to the Herald
she cleared for Port Townsend1 but
we guess she will come to Astoria,
She sailed with the new barkentine
Portland Capt. Gage, on tlue 19th.
Thirty whalers off Point Belcher
on the 29th are reported as having "
on board at that date 267 barrels
sperm oil; 4,970 barrels whale oil; 5,
384 barrels walrus oil, and 03,600 lbs.
whale bone. We judge that the sea
son has been a very successful one,
and renew our hopes that enterpris-,
ing Orcgonians will yet want a hand
in this business.
Assistant Bradford, of the United
States coast survey, reports that the
buoy placed on tlte wreck of the Pa
trician (on the four fathom bank), had
drifted away on the lSths and was ta
ken into port. The stumps of the
masts of 'the wreck were seen by the
surveying party, and masters of ves
sels axe cautioned not to approach
too near the jositiQu occupied by the
buoy.
i&iscollaneoxis News
It is reported that the insurgents at
Carthagena are completely demoralized.'
Arrangements have been made for the
accommodation of 25,000 people at the
20,000 dollar horse race at Alameda pink,
California,on the loth.
China is about to demand justice fiom
Corea and Japan, and it' not granted whl
declare war. All coolie ships have been
ordered out of .Chinese waters.
An incendiary tire, the third disastrous
one in Canastoga, (near Syracuse, N. Y.,)
occurred last Sunda3'. Twenty acres was
burned over, at fearful loss.
Nothing has been heard of the New
York steamer Ismalia. due at Liverpool a
month ago. The conviction is becoming
general that she has gone down.
It is said the Jesuits will quit their es
tablishment in Borne to-morrow, Novem
ber 2d, and go into private houses. Tiic
General of the Society goes to Belgium. .
Yellow fever in Memphis U abating
homewhftt. The weather is growing coid
which tendn to eoniirnrthe opinion that .it
will now rapidly decrease. In other places
there are fewer cases reported.
Calico printers to the number jf oyer
10,000, have been thrown uut vt( employ
ment by the partial siispensiwn of work ar,
Bochester, Cohoes, Little Full-., Plea-nnt
valley, Newburg, and Ha.venitraw, York
State.
An "almost conscience-smitten" thief,
who had stolen a bwx .containing h quanti
ty of bonds frtiiu a. jSfew Yorker, on Tue
jday, wrote, to-.the vner .John H. Sebsch,
I asking if he would pay $16,U00 to have u,o
bond returned!
By direction of.Secretar3T llichaidson,
public creditor xvill be paid silver j:i um-
not exceeding live dollars, on aceount or
currency obligations, until lutther uotici:,
in several leading iities of the ea-t wheie
there are A.itant Treasurers. Won't it
do their eyes god, though, to see tlM
himnz halve once wori JLhe bcerctar
hopes to bo able to keep up such payniei s
ir'ull!1s a "m &- for the purpose o.
I hoarding the money.
At a Cooper Institute mo-'ting of tru.
opponent of any chance in the common
school syetiim of New York, involving a
division of the public funds to seetarun
cboois, a resolution wau adopted favonng
Jae incorporation ot&j?eneralprincii)le.s
of the. school ytem fn Jhe.couaVtuuon of
sue unueu cnHven, inswit may UvJcoujo na-
tional, and be placed byoud th reach t
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