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Large quantities of kvmbcr ?s being
turned out ret Perrill's ralljm this city ikw
-day by day. r
Mayor Kippen i still unable to be
.- about the city, though gradually imprev
i ing in health, and can novtait up ar portion
of the time.
Thc beautiful snow h&s till disappeai-
-ed from the region about Astoria and we
3iave our usual amount cf rsiii, and muddy
streets arc the oider, M
Messrs. Patterson ?md Mudge have
contracted for ilie first boat to be construct
ed at their new Astoria ship yard. It wity
be for use at one of the Columbia river
fisheries.
February 3, at 1 oTdocb C. S. Wright
will sell at auction, at Masonic Hall, a lot
of Household furniture, and a fine cow,
belonging to the estate of CapU Alfred
Crosby, deceased.
Mr. C. H. Bain is at work on the new
seats for Grace (Episcopal) Church. The
design it a very pretty one, and the seats
will add materially to the neat interior of
that sacred edifice.
Ilemember tjie enleitainment by the
boys in blue fromForfe Cape Disappoint
ment, at Spiritual Hall to-raorr6w even
ing. They are said to he worthy of your
patronage so; give them a bumper.
The day of the disasters on Puget
Sound, resulting in such fearful destruction
of life and property, the wind here blow
from the west. Capt. Smith came into
the harbor with a steamer loaded to her
. guards with grain, however, notwithstand
ing the gale, and went alongside the vessel
to receive it, but in the exercise of that
," judgment which should govern in all cases
of like character, removed his steamer to
: a place of safety near shore.
C. H. Dexter, of the Sea Side, has on
exhibition at Arrigoni's a life-boat mqdel
constructed by his own" handv after His
own ideas, which, it appears to our unso
. phisticated eye in marine architecture, is
: about the thing. It is a neat .specimen of
' work, anpL is so shaped that it may be
i launched in any manner thrown over
..board; endwise,sidewise or otherwise and
T'will come out right side up, Teady, baled
dry, and fit for service. Dexter says he
-shall not apply for a patent on it, but will
leaveit-free to all to use, and if it should
be the means of saving only one life in
ten years he should fell compensated for
his trouble and expense. This modelwill
be handed over to Capt. Connor, of the
Oritlamrae, to-day, or inspection, im
provement, or adoption, as the cae may
be. Capt. C.'s judgment will be good,
and if he should be favorably impressed
with the novelty, no doubt we shall soon
see and hear more of Dexter'b Life-boat.
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-A. inena contriDutes tne loiiowmir
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'the'
folk
item of informatien: " Hear the middle
of November, last twenty-rfour packages
-of goods were shipped from San Francisco
-on the schooner W. H. Meyer for Astoria.
About the first of January the good ar
rived hereorfthci steam erf Dbae, P?pmp
sonIiavingbeeridiscKargedironi'trie' ves
sel at Portland, after the removal of the
ice blockade. When the owners of the.
Myer 'learned that Portland was n6t?a sea
port between San Francisco and Astoria,
they paid the ictuni freight orn fHe Dixie,
and had just 75 cents lelt clear on the lot.
When a coaster forgets that Astoria is not
locatedDn' -the rives above "Portland, itris
expensive business shipping to this port'
Among this freight, winch was senTarouno.
the Portland "horn," was the materials
for "the cushions to thef Congregational
Churclirje'ws; which vas in dur harbor
(but not landed), in anjple season to. fleck
tfie sweats for Christmas, a was contempla
ted. The Star Line wpuld both,accommo
date shippers and savemoiiey, if masters
would recollectthat Astoria can be reached
without attempting to sail 110 miles" inland!
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U?TELlilGENCS. i .U.
where navigation is sometimes suspended
by ice, and frequently impeded byshoals.
The steamship California, for Sitka,
with about twenty passengers for the new
mines in British Columbia, lr.y at the docl
Here several hours en the outward passage J
iastweek. 'lnc subject oi the mines m
that locality is veiy generally discussed,
but we hear of no persons afflicted with
the mania to pull up stakes and be off, who
hold peimanent situations heie now.
"With the information at hand our convic
tion is that it will not justify people to
lush intojLhat region unprepared for ha-ty
return. The Evening Kev& says: "Al
though no reliable news has been received
fioin the iStickeen mines since the close oT
the season last fall, still many of our
citizen, aie prepai ingto abandon profitable
employment forlhe nope of amazing ud
den wealth in tk6 icy regions of the noith.
The history of all mining excitements on
thi coast has developed the lact that but
very few of all the thouards who have
followed them have ever i ealized tiidiran
tieiatiohs, and iully one 'halt Vetiumdd
home dejected and hopeloaiy disappointed.
3Ien holdinc situations should think twiCi
before they Should make up .Uieir minds o
abandon them, and in, all snucerity we so y,
let only thoMi go who aie unable to' find
profitable employment nt home The
steamship Ori flam me brought up a large
number of passengerst several of w horn
will embark upon the California for Fori
Wrangle, prepared to make their way to
the mines, and there-is every probability
that l)ythp open'mg.of Spring another
yessetwiUliave to bej)lacearonieflinein
oider fo accc.mmodote the people desirous
of' 'going tb'ithev. '
Antiqiiity of Moses
MAN'S EARLY , APPEAR AXCB ON fHIS
EARTH VIRGIN AND C1ULD AMER
ICA INHABITED ITFTY THOUSAND
YEAP.S AGO.
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BY
Some few years ago in China, wiien
some men were penetrating deep into the
earth, "they came upon ancient ruins, and
the works of man, and among many
stiange things were the emblems of Chris
tianity me uross, tne virgin ana ner
nay born child, with strong rays cf light
emanating from his head. v
In the valley of the Ohio, among an
cient ruins, were found the Virgin ana"
child carved in ivory, and a Crosb with a
man nailed to it, composed of a metal that
no one was able to define 'its properties or
composition; also a triune cup, three Gods
in one, and numerous articles of oriental
origin.
Sir William Jones, while sojourning in
Hindoostan, discovered in the sacred books
of the Hindoo priests, a geographical.des
erintion of North and South America,
giving latitude and longitude of a copper
mine, aid a city called Tramba, about 70
northern British North America, and since
that time the ruins of a city and copper
mine have been discovered, a the Hindoo
writings located them. Sir William sa3Ts
the books containing these accounts were
very ancient. . .
It is positive that North America was
densely populated by civilized man, more
than fifty thousand years ago, long before
lakes Superior, Michigan, lhiion, Erie,
and Ontario, and the MJssisbippi and Ohio
rivers existed. Fifty feei below the pres
ent surface of the earth, near. the shore of
lake Erie, the works" of man were found on
an old surface of ttho earth. A few miles
south of TJtica, New Yorl, on a pinc"plain
eighty-sex en feet below thepresent surface
the works of men were found, consisting
of crucibles, blacksmith cinders, and cop
per coin. Twenty J-ears ago, in one of the
Eastern States, while some men were
blasting rocks for a railroad, a cup was
blown out of a solid rock fifteen leet in
depth. TheTocfc was formed solid inside
the cup, and around the top andbottom
were bauds of silver One band was. beau
tifully engraved, the 6ther was chase
work; the composition of the cupj no one
at the time could tell.-In California there
isa mountain thiiteen thousand .feet in
bight Which has upon its top'an old river
bed, where human bones of enormous feize
are found, which are claimed for the bigli
est antiquity of man.' But in England
there is another claim of high antiquity.
Sampson Arnold McKay, of Norwich,
England, in his Mythological Astronomy,
gives a minute description of a .marble
quarry which has bdeii worked through
eleven strata, or deposits of marble, to the
twelfth deposit, where the works of man
were plain and positive seventy feet tolow
the surface. There were their tools, and
there in the twelfth deposit was a block of
naarhlejvhich had been cut and shaped,
and spme wooden tools were petrified.-'
-xiow is tms xor a o,uuu year old world. .
4orty years ago a petrified human being
was blasted oqt of a solid rock in Spain,
eighteen, feet tall.'
PUny, a reliable , historian, about 1,S00
years, ago, says that a mountain in the
Island of Crete was split open py an earth
quake, which formed a -chasm, and "in it
was found a human skeleton twenty-five
cubits tall, which was standing upright ill
the chasm. s
In the Florida reef rocks, a human foot'
ftuujaw veiu luiuiu. peinueu. ideologists
date the life time of this human being as
for "back as 35,000 years. Ariother 'Jiu,
maii skeleton was'fou'd at New Orleans,
uader four cypress forests, with marine de
t1 't . ' . Jit. . ,.. v' urh.-M.
posits between, andgeo xogists say this per
son mubt have lived r 00 years ao-o.
In a house on Er & Broadway, New
York, is a black vav legated 'marble fire
place in. which is em. oedded a human jaw
of extremely large size, showing all the
uuuuuw i.,i,. . ,nci niso unKiiown rep-
tiles. The lower 0f Babel, which stood
on flic plain of SI Jnar was ftn astionomi-
cal emblem sue wing the motion of the
poles of the ear Lx among the stars, and
not to climb w to and scale the walls of
heaven. Ihe Babvlonians, being astron
omers, were n 0t foolish enough to build a
town- to go u p to heaven.
ThB Bev. 0. C. Clark, of England, in
his book en .fried the " Wonders of Hea
ven," says the sun has bv the inclination
of the axj 3 0f the earth, been as far north
as 4o de? CGC 0f latitude, and that the axis
muth?. e changed very suddenly to pio
cluce Vv 3 effects which are still visible over
the er.t jre noithein r.cgions, showing that
the vl J0ie coimtry both sides, of the TJial
Mom jtain,'along the river Obi and Oussa,
.all tlae way down to Lobfcka, and even
a'loi ig the shores of the Arctic Ocean, trop
'ica'i animals arc found in abundance.
Sonne of these animals are -still entire,
aaa not in tne least decayed, but are fio-
ZiUiisonam me lccuergs, sucn,as tne ele
phant and ihinoceros. This plainly piovcs
that'the equator once passed? around the
earth near the present poles, and suddenly
changed to nearly ,noith and south, and
tin owing 'the old ice'poles wlfere the pies
ent equator i.
L 4 Sampson Arnold McKay v was the first
and only man that unraveled the myste
ries of the Hindoo sacred numbers. Sev
eral learned men attempted it, viz : Vol-
tairej Volney, ALirabeau, and frir William
Jones, but could not succeed. These sa
cred numbers are put upon imperishable
monuments, and have remained there for
30,000 years. These numbers. denote axial
'changes of more than one million years.
j-iieyperiecuy agree wun tne time and
motion of the tuopics, and where fraction
al time has been omitted for a number of
years, it has been added up and put in by
itself between those numbers' embracing
full time of the tropics, passing from the
equator to the north and back.
Some twenty 'years ago, in Hindoostan,
not far from the city of Benares, ancient
ruins were found far under the surface of
the earth, and among many strange things
were found printing presses and type, evi
dently used for printing the Sanscrit lan
guage. Type wera found set in a form or
in blocks for printing' Sanscrit, giving date
something over- 20,000 year. The San
scrit is considered to be tlie "most perfect
language ever known. The antiquity of
the liuman race must be far back in the
past to compile so perfect a language. It
is not saying too much when wo say the
human race in nearly their present form,
have occupied this planet one million of
yeais. But here comes the climax of the
antiquity of man the late discoveries
near the Dardanelles, Turkey : Profes
sor Calvert, of the Dardanelles, an emi
nent aichaeologistand geologist, has made
the most astonishing discoveries of the an
tiquity of man that has ever come within
the full scope of science. At S00 feet qf
geological depth in a cliff of the Miocene
period of the Tertiary age, he extracted a
giant bone of a-dinothermm,or masjtodon,
on the convex side of which is deeply cut,
or engraved, the figurp of a horned quad
ruped with arched neck and lozen-shaped
chest, long body, stiaight fore legs, broad
feetalso, traces of several other figuios,
and in the same cliff he found bones of ani
mals fractured longitudinally, evidently
by the hand of man, for the purpose of ex
tracting marrow a practice of all primi
tive tribes.
The well known writer on the geology
of Asia Minor, M. de Tchelhatcheff, ex
amined the cliff where these bones and
other relics were extracted, and declared
it to beths Miocene period. Prof. -Calvert
sent the fossils to Sir John Lubbook, who
presented them to Bush and Jeffrys. Those
eminent authorities have identified among
them the-reruains of dinotherium, and the
shell of d species of melania, "both of
which strictly belong to the Miocene pe
riod. The Professor says: " The remark
able fact is thus established beyond, doubt,
that the antiquiry of man is no longer to
be reckoned by thousands, but by millions
of years."
Messss. Farloman and Chappell are
in receipt of the choicest Baltimore Oyster
improved by planting in Shoalwater bay.
Having a lot on hand, now is your time to
give the delicate bfvalve.a trial in Astoria,
at the Parker House Keataurant, near the
steamship dock.
School Books. 1 have lately re
ceived all the different kinds of New School
Books required to be used in this-State, that
can now be found in San Francisco. Also,
(Carmine, Purple and Black). Likewise a
new stock of Crockery, Clocks and a large
assortment of Lamp Chimneys, all of
which will be sold cheap for cash.
I. W. CASE,
oltf " Chenamus sL, Astoria.
"Teaiig to Order. The undersigned
wishes to inform tho Public of Astoria, and
surrounding country that he is now prepared
with a good team, to attend to all kinds of
hauling in Astoria. Orders left at II. B. Par
ker's Stpre,' or at tliQiStaJjleon Ckemoquo
Street, jtromptljvattended to," ..,....
jOtf ' m -.'-., t.TERMAi"
blate pencils, Jilottmg pads, a good as
sortment of Stationery, Drawing paper,
CABD BOAPvD, Perforated board, Ink,
HOME NEWS.
Our Oysterville correspondent re
ports that on the 5th inst. a portion
of a schooner came ashore at Quina-
ult. She was. a vessel of about two
hundred tons.
-Wells, Fargo ct Co.'s treasure box
was robbed of $S,000 in currency, on
Wednesday last, it is supposed at
Kalama, while the train was being
made up for Tacoma. The money
belonged to the government, and was
being remitted to Major Rucker, for
the payment of troops in Alaska.
We are pleased to learn that the
days of ruinous competition in the
Oyster trade of Shoalwater bay have
terminated. A consolidation' of the
leading companies has been effected,
the Crellens, Espy & Co., and Wash
ington Company .combining, under
the name of ,the Star Oysfcr Company
all ,outsidc Oystermen who choose
to come into the scopa of the new
organization are privileged to do so.
This movement will undoubtedly be
of great benefit 'to that section of thp
country.
The matter of a more proper and
systematic improvement of the upper
Wallamet river, is just now thought
fully discusssd by Benton, Polk, Linn,
and other interested counties. The
only way to remedy the troubles
existing is to improve the river, and
in case that the counties' damaged
for want of such improvemenfs can
not effect a change by argument let
the people of the grain region not
forget that other argument on the
day of election. Half the population
of the State is centered there, and
this facfc ought to be equivalent to
more than the $15,000 recommended
by Major Robert for river improve
ments on the upper Wallamet. .
Our iBf ucepbYt letter repoVf s great
activity in that quarter, incident to
the resumption of business at the
Piddell mill. Consolidation in the
Oyster trade is about all that was be
ing talked of, our correspondent says
it is certainly the only thing that wTill
benefit the Oystermen, at the present
state of affairs, who, after, years of
hard labor, have nothing to show for
their toil and privations, having 'had
to pay exorbitant prices' for goos,
at the same time realizing only nomi
nal rates for their oysters. Consoli
dation will remedy this, and wjshes
for its-success are common and gener
al among all classes. Nothing has
been discovered concerning the mis
sing man 'Mr. 'Green, and there is
nothing among his papers to shew
"Vhere his people reside'.
The Olympia Railro'ad has J been
duly" incorporated. Object?, the con
struction of a railroad from that place
to intersect with tne NortHern Pacific
atTenino. ' " ,r
The Granger figures the profit on
raisingwheat in this State at thirty
two -cents a bushel. This is basqd on
an average 'selling ;price of .eighty
cents a bushel, wThich the Granger
figures is the average 'during" eleven
years past. It computes the cost of
raising wheat at forty-eight cents a
bushel. '
Geo. W; Simpson, Superintendent
of the Farmers' Warehouse in Albany,
on Wednesday 'clfew ' from the' "bins
into the sa!cks and 'loa'ded dn ,to the
Grover and Beaver, thirty-two hun
dred and forty sacks Jof wheat r
6,600 bushels. After filling, ' the
mouth of each sack had to be sewed,
and then weighed. L
A Warm Springs letter says : ll We
have had a very niild winter" so far?
and from present' indications'' it 'is
likely to continue"so for some time.
We have'oiily'had about fiye inches
of snow liere, while lat 'the' J5alles
they have had 'eighteen inches, a
subject for weatherites to discuss, the
distance being only but one degree,
north
L.ii. 'Tr 3 L.,l,'.U.rM
.ii, xi every uegcee nprtu maKes.
rresnondimr difference I don't
n nnrrWcrknnrlin
iitj'V Uiitit
-u fi-sr mTu ttHriuntf t
want to go to Alaska Tery soon- Our
cattle here are fat enough for beef,
having remained in the same good
condition that they were in last fall.
We expect to send your people beef
fattened on our winter pasture, just'
to show you that we mean business
by being out on the bunch grass.
Young Crouch, of Roseburg, who
succeeded in producing an engine
working super heated steam; fancl
which has been the ultima thula of
all inventors since steam was first
used as ai motive power, hasobtaiiied
his patent. .
The Republican State Central tCom
mittec will meet at Portland, on Thursday,
the 19th day of Febuary, 1874, at 7:30'
o'clock p. m;, to arrange for the approach
ing State election, and for such other busi
ness as may be deemcdfproper. Col.. R.
R. Speddeu is the committeeman, from
Clatsop county. ' 'l rt : '
On the last trip of the schooner Alas-
ks from Ellensburg, the Captain, George
Kimball, jumped overboard in a' gale of
wind off Cape Mendocino, on the 15th
inst., 'and perished. No cause is known
for the 'deed. He' has relatives, we be
lieve,, residing,in San Francisco.
Mr. Gideon Tibbitts has exhibited to
the newspaper people of Portland a small
nugget qf gojd, picked up by one of his
neighbors on the track of the Orpgon and
California Railroad. Unless the specimen
was dropped by a mjner having a plethor
ic sack, there must indeed be gold in East
Portland,, since the.'ballast in which it was
found was excavated from the bankin"th'e
rear of Mr. J. B. Stephens' residence. -
Mr. D. F. Harrington, the manufac
turer of Oregon Sparkling Cid6r, a truly
excellent article, recently received -an ac
count "of the sale of ten. barrels sold in tho
San Francisco market. The price paid
was eighty-five cents per gallon, which wp
are informed is a round iigure for so lar,ge
a quantity. In, the San Francisco market
(it is muclji sought after by dealers, who
bottle arid place it upon tho market as
champagne. . .
The discovery of Mount Jefferson pass,
it is said, will prove of double value if it
spurs up the sluggish enterprise of Port
land to construct a good wagdli road 'up
tho Columbia river. We have no jealousy
of such a rbad, and welcome each and
every movement toward additional de!
velopment of resources, and creation -of
new facilities for travel, as a gain- to the
people of the State.
Judge Waite, of Toledo, was unan
imously confirmed as Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United
States:' j c ;
President Grant stated recently
that hd would not, under any circum-
stance, consent to be a candidate for
a third term. He asserted that ho
onlyxCgnsened tobecome acandidate
for the present term at the earnest
solicita'tidir"df his' friends and because
it was attempted to drive Tiim out'o'f
the contest... ,ri - .
It has leaked out that Cabinet ,of
fleers, and other smaller, potentate,
in Washington, have been, dashing
along of evenings on the beautiful
avenues in elegant carriages behind
fastlhorses, not at their own expense,
but at the expense 6f the Contingent
Funds, of the several, departments.
They, have, it appears, in some out-of
the-wjay quarter of the city,. ar Gov
ernment livery stabler which is supr
ported in all its parts at Government
expense. Even the hostlers' salaries
are said to come out of the,Contin
gent Funr . Washington correspoiir
dents are busily engaged. in making
reyelations of some suchpracticos-'as
these, and there is scarcely anylofngt
er room to cloub'tthat they are , tel'l
ing in the main the actual state of
things. Evidences that Govern,
merit official are freely indulging1 in
private luxuries, at public expense;
in various other forms not. heretofore
known to 'the patient 'public, have
be'en produce'd, arid the whole is'Very
naturally exciting surprise and indignation-
among 'honest people. . A
searching investigation into theseal
redge'd .pri vate-pUferings.is, promised
.. . : j fmwb &h $ bit- -'