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en fwii'Ki:m nw.. nmwry ysifvjkrt!i,,,m...n ,.,.,.tT-,.rn..,". llV'';y;r3ra;rTX SS 11 A. Vol. '2. Astoeia, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, Nov. 4, 1873, No. '2. lw.".i.) i'.u r'!.!,.i L-wjtf;,Mrr-T TJCWlMfiJSBirEJXIJ '.'' ii'Tr1".'.!'!'!.'!.! - TEE ASTORIAH. PUBLISHED EVERY, TUESDAY, THUKSDAT AND SATURDAY, Monitor Building, Astoria, Oregon. I. C. IIiEX.AXZ .1'ro&rieUv Snh&CTlntion Kates: Ono Copy ono year. Ono Copy six months - .. Ono Cnv three months ..S5 00 ... .1 00 ... 150 3" single- I umber, Teu Cents. '& Atlvorlisisig' Kates : Ono Insertion per square, 10 linos or less...2 50 Each additional Insertion, per square 2 00 Yearly adv'ts per month, per square 1 ou Agciits T, P. "Fisher. 20 and 21 Ner Merchants Ex change, is authorized to act as Agent for the i iiSTOHiv moan jiiiutisw. Any friend who feels an interest in the pros perity of this region, is authorized to act as Agent for this paper, in procuring subscribers. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Terinan's dancing school -will open to-night at Masonic hail, on Main street. The schooner Elnorah brought sixty sacks of oysters from Unity for -Saturdays Portland boat. The steamship Idaho left San Prancisco for this port with freight last Thursday. The Perpetua and Melancthon arrived there on that day from this port. Sunday the street in front of our office looked like the breaking up of several hard winters. The old bridge was wholly demolished, but before noon yesterday people could come into the office by the front door. Sargent Davis,, of the United States signal service, who quietly dropped in upon the top-most peak tit Cape Disappointment last month for the purpose of taking observations, as quietly removed his " mansion in the skies" last Friday, and like the Arabs of old vent his way. Pie sail ed with his complete outfit by the John L. Stephens, leaving everybody in blisful ignorance of the purport of his business. That is business. A man who has been kept awake nights by rats a few weeks becomes so innured that the midnight mew iugs of a feline might easily "be mis taken for a band of .-serenaders. Such welcome sounds xsould be wafted though his window., -and as they as cend to the ceiling and reverberate and rebound with double intensitiy, instead of wishing for a boot-jack you would inwardly bless that cat, and wish she could capture every confounded rat in Christendom but, should she stand footing around the orchard too long we are not certain but the " boot-jaek goes," and using descretion in the matter you would rather wish that cat and rat both good health m Halifax, or some oth er part of Nova Scotia. Such ie our experience. Dam a lazy cat above all things; She shan't live on the crumbs from our table any longer. The assessment roils of only eleven counties in the State escaped a preliminary overhauling by the State board of equalization and Clat sop was one of them. The apparent increase in property, shown by the rolls returned this year, over' last, Js $14,600,000. he process of equal ization by the State Board raises these :Sgures. Great discrepancies in the estimated value of lands and stock by the various Assessors is apparent: This is one of the duties of the State Board to equalize, by the addition or deduction of a percentage sufficient to make the result uniform, a work now, we are informed, nearly com- Eleted, and which we hope' to lay efore our readers in our .next issue. The property of corporations has also been equalized. Owing to the im proved form of assessment roll adopt ed by the State Board, the various kinds of personal property and real estate, for the first time, appear separately, o that the forthcoming tables will contain a detailed show ing of the property of the State. - J w-- ,f THE SEW BAHKENTINB. The- new barkentine Portland, "built at Coos bay the past reason for .Simpson & Co., came into Astoria harber: last Sat urday morning on her first trtp in com mand of Capt Gage, late of the barken tine Webfoot. and remsiin&l rvntil Monday morning, when she left for PortlandMn tow of the steamer Oneona. "Like the Mclanc ihoii, Webfoot, and other Teasels bnilt by that firm the Portland is calculated for speed, hght draft, and freight, having ca pacity for carrying 1,000 tons while only drawing about 153' feet depth of water. In other respects the Portland is superior to any Pacific coast built vest el we have ever seen in. Oregon. Her cabin is finish ed in excellent tyle, of teak wood, with birds-eye maple panels, the outside work being done off u i China-gloss. She is not intended for passenger traffic, but in case it oecomes necessary a lew passengers can be made to feel quite at home on board the Portland. Capt. Gage certainly should feel comfortable in his new quarters, but it is not more so for him than the men under his care, who are also well provided with clean and comfortable apartments in the forecastle. The vessel throughout is a model for neatness, and being the first craft, ot any considerable dimensions built in Oregon, arriving here under her popular commander, she was hoard cd by a num ber of our prominent citizens, among whom was Mayor IGppen, himself an old mariner with an eye to the beautiful in marine architecture, and this visit carried him back to those dirs when a young mnn,like Capt. Gage, ho stood in the cabin of his new vessel entertaining a paity of friends prior to lea vine: Newburvnort, Massachusetts, -on her first vojage. It was a proud day for him but he was pleased to sa3 that the prerkmt was also a gratify ing occasion for him. He ielt a pride in his old age, to thus stand upon such a fine vessel"- -the guest of her commander, the representative man also, the Mayor of the fast siting city, the oldest dry of the Pa cific eoai Astoria. He referred to the fact, an the course 6C conversation that Astoria had become a city about the time the plans were made for the Portland both are now able" to go alone, and with mutual good wishes the party returned on shore. Sunday the Portland was most admired of all vessels in the harbor, aud numerous were the visitors that promenaded her decks. "Wm. L. McEwan, esq., has been ap pointed attorney, and C. S. "Wright Ad ministrator of the estate cf Geo. Summers deceased. Capt. G. W. Woods informs us that the new schooner Ettie May, built at Weslport, will sail to-day fo'r Shoalwater bay under charter to ioad with oysters for San Prancisco. She its said to be a very handsome little craft. Mr. John Hobson is building a new house on Squemocqua street, near the resi dence of J. G. Coe, which will be occu pied by his parent's family Mr. William liobson, who has been a resident of Clat sop plains since 18-13. The Norwegian )ark Electra, now in this port from Montivedo, was one of the Oregon wheat fleet last year. The Captain wishing to communicate with his consign ees is losing three or fourdaj's for the want of a telegraph. The Astoria, "Nehalem valley and Washington county wagon road, is now located, and as soon as the plats are filed with the State Department, and clerks of Clatsop, Columbia and Washington coun ties, the route becomes a " county road," and is liable to be woiked as other county roads. Oi the route we know but very little, never having passed over it, but there are numerous complaints reaching us from parties who are dissatisfied with the route as located. Wo shall take no part in the controversy. The contract for the construction of a warehouse on the farmers' wharf that will hold 90.000 bushels of arraia, was let to Capt. Mudge Thuivuay evening. The' building will be 13 ieet front, 45 feet deep, with 16 foot walls. The contract calls for the completion of the work with in thirty days. ' 90,000 bushels will be equivalent to about four ship loads, such as are taken above the hog's-back. The Farmers? Company's pile driver having given" out, yesterday Capt. Plavel's new driver was- taken up to. continue the work on the -new duuk... . ( -.: '! .A AV n Prissting Presses. Never was there so mighty a com petition as that now waging between the giant printing-machine builders of 1S73. Hoe, Bullock, Walter, Camp bell, and several English builders, ;havo mammoth "web" and "per fecting" machines, and most of them will do book-work and cut-work as well as ordinary newspaper and fast printing. Last year it was thought quick work to make 8,000 perfect newspapers within the hour, and when the maximum was announced to be 11,000, the figures claimed for the Walter or Times printing mach ine, most printers thought the limita tions of machine printing had been reached. Not so. Tlfe year 1S73 finds the gentlemen w lip, last year, discussed the possibilities of a mach ine capable of printing lB,000, telling us of more than one machine ready to print 26,000 within thf hour. The Hoe, for instance, now printing Lloyd's Messenger, claims that capa city, as does also the lallock, now building for a New Yorktdaily, while none know how much printed paper the new Campbell Perfecfcr, in Prank Leslie's press rooms, wll turn out. With all these grand results, pub lishers are none too wjdl satisfied, nor is the market over supplied with newspapers. Americanslswallow all the printed matter they qan get, and, like Oliver Twist, "asklfor more." What is to be the capacity of the next mammoth press, and who isto build it? I The Northern Pacific Railroad Company having filed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior a map of the general route of their branch line from Tacoma across the Cascade Mountains to a connedUpjj,with their main line near Lake Pen d" Oreille," instructions wTere issued on the 6th ult., to the district land officers at Olympia, W. T., to withdraw the lands for forty miles on each side of said branch line, and to restore to pre-emption and homestead entry all other lands north of Tacoma now withdrawn on account of the main line of said road. . The American bark Mariano, Capt Ryder, 549 f;ons, arrived in bal last Sunday, from San Prancisco to load wheat for San Prancisao, not direct foreign as reported. This ves sel is owned in Boston. The steamer Mary Bell left here yesterday for Deep river to take a raft of logs from Lamley's to West rjort. The total exports directly for eign from Astoria for the month of October past amount to $233,443. Eight vessels cleared for Cork, Queenstown, Callao Victoria, Liver pool and Honolulu in this trade. The Mongolian races would have no reason to complain if our treaty regula tions limited their importation and cur tailed their social and political privileges for the latter they are now claiming, and threaten to make a test before the courts for their enjoyment. No lights are ac quired by Americans in China beyond those exercised in speeialy astened pork; while Japan, the most lihdraT and pro gressive of ail the Asiatic races, forbids any native from " mortgaging land, or entering into partnerships in any way that will give the foreigner permanent right to any artof thesou." Reciprocity in all things is essential to fraternity between nations, as well as individuals. . If we cannot be permitted the exeicise of unre stricted civil rishts in China, and Japan, why should then people demand or expect what they refuse to grant. A 15. or 20,000 dollar fire come off at Reno on the 30th Property has changed hands in the lurnt district for more moner than whs asked for it with the buildings before the fire. 1 Advices from the I province of Bengal showr that crops ' are failing, and that impending faiaine cannot be avoided. ' The last span of thegreat inter national railroad bridgejwas success fully .placed.at Port ErU on the 31st. TELEGRAPH DISPATCHES. Tiie Price of Gold. Portland, Nov. ,36. Gold in "New York to-day, 10Sj Portland Legal Tender rates, 90 buying, and 91 selling. Siiscellaneons JTevrs. Recent chancres in the situation of European finances are said to be quite marked, and many are inclined to the opinion that the Bank of England rate will be advanced in consequence of a con tinued heavy drawing on London. At Amsterdam the decline in some of the new American railroad bonds is stated by private dispatches to be heavy. When the Government first agitated the silver policy the premium was almost nomial on small pieces, while trade dollars were 8 ' to 9 per cent, premium. Now small silver is worth 3 and trade dollars 13 per cent. Thirty-seven mills at Pall River, Massachusetts, after to-day, (November 2d), will run about four days each week, eight hours a day; the remaining two mills have November contracts. These mills employ 14,000 operatives. The monthly pay rolls, when in full operation, about 45,000. The failure of Hoyt, Sprage & Co., of Providence, R. I., is announced. The failure causes great talk in financial circles and the immediate effect was a heavy de cline of stock exchange and depression outside. Considerable paper of thefirm is held in this chy. It is estimated that three million of their notes has been dis counted by banks, bankers and individual capitalists here. Some foreign banking firms are mentioned as sufferers, probably in the way of cotton for mills. President Or ton, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, gives notice that owing to rumors of contorfeit bonds being in circulation, holders are required to present their bonds with coupons for November interest. George Williams, one of a gang of J bond forgers, was sentenced to the New Jersey State Prison for ten years, for forg ing a check on the Iron Bank, of Morris town. General Phillip St. George Cooke, commading the department of the Lakes, has been placed on the retired list. Lieu tenant Colonel Geo. Crook, cammanding the Department of Arizona, has been ap pointed Brigadier General. The Depart ments of the Lakes and of the East have been abolished and the command is now the military division of the Atlantic, com manded by General Hancock. Josiah Quincy, President of the Amer" ican Cheap Transportation Society, has issued a lengtl address, setting forth the suggestions which will be mede to Con gress for legislation relating to transporta tion, and calling a meeting of the above association at Washington on the 14th of January. Delegations from all kindred State organizations are invited.. "Prom three to seven inches of snow is reported in various parts of Canada and still falling. A heavy gale in reported on the north Atlantic coast. Already a num ber of vessels have been wrecked. Patsey Marley, who was to have fought Martin Broderick in the same rin? with Allen and Hogan, was found dead, shot in the left breast, infrontofMcCoole's saloon St. Louis, "Friday night. He had been drinking at McCoole's during the night, and Edward Pitzgerald swore that McCoole shot him. McCoole, his bar keeper and two other roughs have been ar rested on suspicion. There will be no sale of gold or pur chase of bonds by the Treasury Depart ment this month. Dispatches have Iogqti received con firming the report of the existence of a second letter from the Vopo to the Em peror of Germany. The total, amount invested by the German Government in the United Statea funding loan is $JS ,000,000, of which S,000,000 have been negotiated during the past month. Albert, Duke of Saxony, eldest son of the late King John, assumed the siieee sion to the throne on the 29th, and issued a proclamation promising to uphold the constKuuon, ana announcing mat the pro sent Ministry will remain in office. . Stockes was convicted of manslangh ter for the killing Jim Pisk, and has been sentenced to four years in" Sing Sing. Judge Davis, in his charge to the grand jury said complaint could be made against the petit jurors for violation of their oath ; and the Court officers for neglect and cor ruption. This is supposed to have refer ence to acts in connection with the Stockes trial. The new line of British steamers be tween San Prancisco and Sydney will b-j inaugurated about the middle of Decem ber. "le principal mover in the enter prize is Capt. Hall, American Consul at Sydney, backed by Burrows and others. A steamer is already chartered to leave Sydney for San Prancisco about the 19th of December, Two other steamers are secured to follow. J. C. Merrill & Co. will probably be agents at this end of the lino. Steamers will call atPiji and Hono lulu. Dr. Dawne informs the Statesmanof the flourishing condition of the Agricul tural College at Corvallis. There are be tween 275 and 300 students there at the present time. The prospects of the Col lege were never better. Several Agrarian outrages have been committed in Ireland during the pa-t week. Dispatches announce that the cable between Amoy and Shanghai has been repaired and communication restored. Jacob Misshelson, convicted of the murder of Deputy U. S. Marshal Stevens in Jersey City, is sentenced to be hanged December 5th. The Modoc prisoners are to be taken to Port MacPherson, Wyoming territory instead of Port Russell. Barnicho and Slolux are at Port Alcatras. " The bill deeding the tide flats of El liott bay to the Seattle and Walla Walla fc Railroad Company has passed both Houses of the Territorial Legislature. ' John T. Irving, who admitted iu San Prancisco that he was criminally concern ed in the murder of Benjamin Nathan, in New York city, two years ago, is to-teg tried for burglary. The great 20,000 race will come off at the Ocean House race track on the 15th of November, and not at the Alameda track as was at first intended. Prince Bismarck ha's been reappoint ed President of the Prussian Ministry in the place of Gen. Yon Roon. It is under stood that the restoration carries with it effectual control of the whole cabinet, which he demanded previous to his resig nation some time ago. The Treasury Department Iips m ceived a dispatch from special agent Cat tel at London, announcing that the Ger man Government had subscribed 3,000, 000 to the purchase of the new five per cent, bonds. . This makes 10,000,000 which has been subscribed from tjiat source alone, and is one-third of the tofal subscription. Col. Tom Scott has just returned from (Europe. Ho states that while the dis turbed monetary condition here defeated his efforts to negotiate the sale of the Texas and 'Pacific Tailroad bonde, he obtained such financial aid as will enable his com pany to continue to work on the road ami to build it within the requirements of Con gress and the State of Texas. He think that well-secured American railroad bond will bo readily saleable in Europe in a few months. The Commercial Herald says the ialmon fisheries of this coast have1 been very successful this year, with a large and steady export demand tu the East and Liverpool all the sea son. The present demand for cua salmon largely exceeds the supply, The British Iving, for Liverpool, took 1,650 cases. Arrangements have been already-perfected for an increase ed catch next season. !' . Mr. L. C. Henrichsen, the fa mous jeweler of Portland, was a pas senger, by the John L. Stephens for San Prancisco last Saturday. lie goes for the purpose o'f purchasing a heavy stock for the holiday trade. To make room for this stock, it will be seen by referring to our advdrtis ing column that the firm will dispose of their present stock at reduced if . f A H - .! iC4 Tr . ir I J r y J r , i