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CLATSOP COt'XTV
Tins county is located in the
northwest part of this State, its en
tire western border being -washed
by ilie Pacific Ocean, while its
northern boundary is the Columbia
river, making it easy of access by
water, and well adapted to trade
and commerce.
Astoria, the shiretown of this
county, i.s located on the Columbia
river, about twelve miles from its
mouth; and is the great business
point in this county, and a place
where the immigrant or settler can
obtain all kinds of supplies neces
sary for an outfit with -which to
commence life in a new country.
Astoria has a fine harbor, capable
of accommodating ocean steamers
of the largest size, and sailing ves
sels of the heaviest tonnage from
any part of the Avorld.
The improvements made by
Government at Point Adams and
Cape Disappointment, near the
mouth of the Columbia river, for
lighthouse, forts, etc., have already
amounted to several hundred thou
sand dollars, and the demand for
supplies on Government works in
this vicinity, together with the nec
essary outfit of fresh provisions for
sailing vessels, ocean steamers, etc.,
make a ready market for all kinds
of farm productions at remunera
tive juices.
There are also valuable and ex
tensive salmon fisheries in this vi
cinity, emjdoying a cajital of two
or three hundred thousand dollars,
and increasing in imj)ortancc every
year; fact, this branch of indus
try, when fully developed, bids fair
to richly reward any one who may
invest capital in the business, and
will doubtless be a resource of
great wealth to this State.
As you approach this part of the
State by water, the face of the
countrv has a rouidi and forbid
ding apearanec. A range of high
hills and bluffs along the . river
come almost down to the water's
edge in many laees, while lofty
peaks of the Coast Pange 3foun
tains greet the eye of the weary
immigrant from an ocean view.
Pursuing the most frequent route
of travel, the immigrant too often
jasses lovely and fertile valleys,
capable of making homes for thou
sands of the weary and landless
operatives in the over-crowded
cities and manufacturing towns of
the older States, anfl alter a hasty
search of a few we eks, or at long
est of a few months, returns home
discouraged and disheartened,
abandons all his former hopes of
independence and a happy home
of his own which, in fact, were
almost within his
rasp
and
re
quired only a few hours' walk and
a lew years werK, in some ot me
unoccupied valle"S of Oregon, to
be realized and contents himself
to labor the remainder of his days
for a bare subsistence, to add to
the already overflowing coffers of
land monopoly and moneyed aris
tocracy of the old world.
The soil of this county along the
creek and river bottoms, and
through the swales and valleys, is
a rich alluvial deposit, and well
adapted to the growth of grass,
grain and Aegetables of all kinds.
Ajples, j ears, quinces, lums,
cherries, grapes, and the different
varieties of small fruits, do extra
ordinarily well where cultivated,
and also the jicach, when, planted
in localities sheltered from the sea
breeze.
The climate is mild and healthy,
me inermomcter very seiuom ris
ing above seventy-five degrees, in
summer, or Lining below lilteen
degrees r ahreuheit in winter. A
uciignuiu sea breeze m summer
makes this county the resort of the
invalid in search of health from
many jarts of the State, fever and
ague being unknown in this local
ity. The water is jmrc and soft, be
ing supplied in abundance from
creeks, springs and brooks, from
the adjoining lulls and mountains.
A recent survey of the interior of
tins count, made by Gen. Joel
Palmer, shows that there are thou
sands of acres of excellent land in
the valley of (lie Xehalem river
and along its tributaries; also along
the branches of Young's river anil
other smaller streams emptying
into Young's Pay. Extensive
tracts of this laud arc still nnoccu-
pieu, not Having yet been claimed
or even surveyed, and only waits
the magic touch of industry to
convert its rich soil into fruitful
fields and happy homes.
The timber in this county is a
mine of wealth to the enterprising
lumberman, being composed of the
different varieties of fir? cedar,
spruccj hemlock, ash, maple, and
alder; and, when converted into
the different kinds of lumber, and
hauled or floated to title water, on
Young's river or bay, can be shij
ed in sailing vessels to any part
of the world.
A good system of common
school education is established in
this county, together with churches
for religious worship, Avherever set
tlements of any imjortancc have
been made. In fact, this county
holds out good inducements to the
industrious, intelligent, jersever
ing, laboring man in whatever
branch of industry he may wish to
engage, combining a mild and
healthful climate, with fertile val
leys, jmre water, broad and exten
sive tracts of timber of the most
useful kinds for lumbering purposes,
numerous excellent water-powers,
with advantages for commercial
intercourse with the whole world.
There are three or four lumber
mills, with a combined capital of
two or three hundred thousand
dollars, doing a jrofitable and
flourishing business, manufacturing
and exporting lumber to sujqdy
the increasing demand ot ioreign
markets.
Coal and iron ore arc known to
exist in this region, but the mines
have not yet been developed. The
average price of farm land, parti v
improved, is from t wo to live dol
lars per acre, while government
land of good quality, and in sufii
cient quantities for flourishing set
tlements, can still be obtained.
This county has an area of 1,-
280,000 acres, with a population of
about 1-300, and an assessed jrop
erty valuation of $280,000, and
about 1000 acres of land under
cultivation.
Lazy Farmkhs. Laziness pre
vents a man from getting off his
horse to jut up the first rail that
gets knocked off the fence, and
through this lazv neglect a whole
field of corn is seriouslv damaged.
Laziness keeps a man from dri
ving one nail when one is all that
is necessary, and finally costs a
carpenter's bill for expensive re
jairs. Laziness allows a gate off the
hinges and lie in the mud, or stand
propped by rails; or a stable or a
barn to leak and damage hundreds
of dollars worth of produce.
Laziness, in short, is the right
and proper name for nine-tenths of
the excuses given for bad farming.
Put by far the most rolilic of the
many wastes that arc due to lazi
ness is the waste of ignorance.
Iut this waste is in itself so great,
and has so many ramifications
that we shall have to defer its dis
cussion for another time.
In a district far into the interior
of Abyssinia, which has hitherto
remained a terra ineoenita, and a
blank space on the maps, has been
discovered one of the "lost tribes"
a strange race of people called
"Fnlashes." Ah'. Ilalevy, a- re
nowned French traveler, visited
these people and communicated an
account of his journey to the Geo
graphical Society of France. The
substance of the information that
he furnished, in regard to them, is
as follows: There arc about a quar
ter of a million of the Falashes.
They speak an Agan dialect call
ed Falashina, or Kalina, and into
this language the- have translated
a Ghecz version of the Old Testa
ment. They do not practice po
lygamy. They circumcise their
male children on the seventh day.
Their ropcr names arc derived
from Hebrew, Ghecz and Amhar
ic. The institution of purification
is practiced; the children a ret aught
the Bible, psalms, jrraycrs and sa
cred history. In their synagogues
the sexes sit apart. Incense burns
fluring their services. Their relig
ious hopes are turned to Jerusa
lem, but their ideas of the Messiah
are very indistinct. They arc en
tirely unacquainted with Hebrew,
and know nothing of the ceremo
nies instituted after the time of E
ra. They have religious literature
written in the style of the Midrath.
They keep the Sabbath rigidly;
fast on Mondays and Thursdays;
keep the ninth of Ab to commemo
rate the destruction of Jerusalem ;
they w.tsh before and say grace af
ter eating; they have a tradition
al mode cf slaughtering animals
for food ; they practice commemo
rative sacrifices on the holy days,
and also for the repose of the souls
of the dead. Their women enjoy
equality with men, and they hold
slaves, but liberate them after a ser
vitude of six years.
ZZ5lUa GrantshTpTunlike other poten-
tales, 'receives,"-' at all times.
TIIK GIRL FOR 11 E.
Just fair enough to be pretty,
Just gentle enough to be sweet,
Just saucy enough to bo witty,
Just dainty cnogh to be neat.
Just tall enough to be graceful,
Just slight enough for a fay,
Just dressy enough to be tasteful,
Just merry enough to be gay.
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Just tears enough to be tender,
Just sighs enough to be sad.
Tones soft enough to remember, glad
Your heart through their cadence made
Just meek enough for submission,
Just bold enough to be brave,
Just pride enough for ambition,
Just thoughtful enough to be grave.
A tongue that can talk without harming,
Just mischief enough to tease,
Manners pleasant enough to be charming,
'That put you at once a! your ease.
Disdain to put down presumption,
Sarcasm to answer a fool,
Contempt enough shown to assumption,
Proper dignity always the rule. .
Flights of fair fancy ethereal,
Devotion to science full paid,
Stuff of the sort of material
That really good housewives are made.
Generous enough to be kind-hearted,
Pure as the angels above
O ! from her may 1 never be parted,
For such is the maiden I love.
Xew Dksion" for Poktagk
Stamps. A few weeks ago it was
stated that another attemjt was to
be made to give us a respectable
and intelligible postage stamp.
The present miserable experiments
in blue, with a meaningless legend,
were to be re-called. It was sug
gested that if there was not genius
enougll in the Post Office Depart
ment to invent a good design, to
let the authorities advertise for
one. This suggestion called out
some of the genius of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing,, and
they at once got up a design. It
would be a credit to the country
to have such stamps, and in addi:
tion to the great imjn-ovements it
is stated that .$00,000 would be
saved to the Government by hav
ing them )ro(luced here. In the
center of the stamp is the head of
President Grant, with a beautiful
border; beautiful weaved lines of
different colors are jnit upon some
portions of the stamps, which add
much to the ajjearance of the
stamp, and is a perfect protection
against photographing and being
used the second time. With the
great saving in the cost and the
very great improvement in the
stamps from those now in use, it
would seem as if the change would
be made at once. It may not be
generally understood that the pho
tographers can take exact cojiies of
any stamps containing but one
color, but when there are several
colors to be coj;ied their art fails.
Hence the great value of the jro
posed new stamp, with its vari
colored borders. Several sjcci
inens of photographed postage
stamps at present in use are so
erfect as to defy detection. Ex
change. AX GUI It AGE.
Cm Friday last, as we arc infor
med on the very best authority, a
a teacher named Perkins we re
gret that we haven't his full name
at this moment in the first ward
public school, invited a stout, stal
wart, dirty negro into his recita
tion room, and installed him in the
scat of honor. He then called up
classes of children of white chil
dren to be examined before this
filthy specimen of blackness ; and
not content with that, invited the
negro to examine the classes hint
self The gentleman who spoke to
us of the outrage has a daughter
attending this school, and a niece
teaching in the same building It
would 'be fair to say. that our in
formant was something more than
angry, as he had good cause to be.
ft would be well for-this man
Perkins, and all others of his class,
to understand at once that the
people of this community do not
intend to stand such outrages from
miscreants like himself, imported
ml nut info Dosition by our delec-
t.-ibln sebool Board. The backs of
vi'---- I
such men, M erc made especially lor
the use of the cow-hide, and they
will find men in abundance, right
hero in Kansas Citv. to lay it well
on, if they attempt the practice of
their foul "philosophy in our pub
lic schools arid among their child
ren and relatives. "Let them be
warned before their backs have
suffered. Kansas City Times.
Tile Origin of Woiiinn-Aii Indian
Lit" end i
tn the priper, "What are women
hmde of ? the origin of the dear
creatures is treated of in extensor
and as a specimen of the author's
style we may quote an Indian ver
sion of the introduction of man's
help-mate:
There was a time throughout the
great world, say the Kickajioos,
when neither on the land nor in the
water was there a woman to be
found." Vain things there were
jdonty there was the turkey and
the blue-jay, and the wood duck
and the wakon bird; and noisy,
chattering creatures there were
jdenty there was the squirrel, and
the starling, and the mouse; but of
woman, vain, noisy, chattering,
gad-about woman there was none.
It was quite a still world to what
it is now, and it was a jwaccabic
world, too. Men were in plenty,
made of clay, and sun-dried, and
they were so hajpy, oh ! so haj)py.
Wars were none then, quarrels
were none. The Kicknpoos ate
their deer's flesh with the Potta
watomies, hunted their otter with
Osagcs, and the beaver with the
Huron. Then the great fathers of
the Kickapoos scratched the backs
of the savage Iroquois, and the
truculent Iroquois returned the
conqdiment. Tribes which now
seek one another' scalps then sat
smiling benevolently in one anoth
er's faces, smoking the never ncv-er-laid-aside
calumet of peace.
"These men were not quite like
the men now, for they had tails.
Very handsome t:iils they Avere,
covered with long hair yery con
venient were these appendages in
a country ' where flies are numer
ous and troublesome, tails being
more sudden in their movements
than hands, and more convenient
ly situated for whisking off flies
which alight on the back. It
was a plcasent sight to sec the an
cestral men leisurely smoking and
waving their tails at the door of
their wigwams in the golden au
tumn evening, and within were no
squalling children, no wrangling
wives. The men doted on their
tails, and they jainted and adorn
ed them; they plaited the hair into
beautiful tresses, and movc bright
beads and shells, and wampum
with the hair. They attached
bows and streamers of colored rib
bons to the extremities of their
tails, and wV-n men ran and jmr
sued the elk or the moose there
was a flutter of color behind them,
and a tinkle of precious orna
ments. But the red men felt proud;
they were so hnppy, all wenX so
well with them that they forgot
the Great Spirit. They no more
offered the fattest and choicest of
their game upon the mcmahoppa,
or alterstone, nor danced in his j
prairie who disjiensed the rains to :
cleanse the earth, and his lighten
ings to cool and juirify, the air.
Wherefore he sent his chief Mani
tou to humble men by robbing
them of what they most valued,
and bestowing upon them a scourge
and aflliction adequate to their of
fense. The spirit obeyed its mas
ter, and coming on earth reached
the ground in tire land the Kicka
jioos. lie looked about him, and
soon learned that the red men val
iied their tails above every other
josscssioif. Summoning together
all the Indians, he acquainted them
with the will of the Wahconda,
and demanded the instant sacrifice
of the,. -cherished member. It is
imj)ossiblo. to describe the sorrow
that filled their bosoms when they
found that the forfeit for their ob
livion of the Great Spirit was to
be bereaved of that beautiful and
beloved ajtpcndage. Tail after tail
was lain upon the block, and was
amputated.
The mission of the spirit was in
part performed. He took the sev
eral tails and converted them into
vain, noisy, chattering and frisk
ing woman. Upon these objects
the Kickajioos now -'lavished their
admiration;, they .loaded them lis
before, with beads and wampum,
and paint, and decorated them
with tinkling ornaments and color
ed ribbons. Y"et the women had
lost one essential quality which as
tails they had possessed. The.
caudle ajpondagc had brushed off
man their -worrying insects which
sought to sting or suck his blood,
whereby the new article was itself
proyidetl with a sharp sting, call
ed by us a tongue, and, from brush
ing annoyances off men, it became
an instrument for accumulating
them upon his back and shoulders.
PleiiSifnt.ftrid soothing" to the pri
meval Kickapoo wa the' wagging
to and fro of the member, stroking
and fanning his back, but the new
one became-a scourge to lacerate.
''However, woman retains indica
tions of her origin. She is still be
loved as of yore; she is still beauti
ful, with flowing hair; still adapted
to trinketry. Still she is frisky,
vivacious and slapjy; and still, as
of old, decs she ever follow man,
dangling after him, hanging on his
heels, and never, of her own accord
separated from him.
"The Kickajioos, divested of
their tails, the legend goes on to
relate, were tormented by the mos
quitoes, . till the Great "Spirit, in
compassion for their woes, merci
fully withdrew the greater part of
their insect tormenters. Overjoy
ed at their deliverance, the red
men sujdieated the Wahconda also
to remove the other nuisances, the
women; but lie replied that the
women were a necessary evil and
must remain.
DISCOVERY OF ICELAXDi
In 1801 the Xorwcgian pirate,
Xaddod, returning from the Ferve
Islands, advanced to the northwest
as far as the unknown land, "which
he named Snowland. The Swede,
Gardar Snafarson, ascertained it to
be an island, and named it Gardars
holm. In 1805, another Xorwcgi
an, Floki Pafu, sailing in the same
latitudes, sent forthsuccessively,
says the Sagas, three Crows conse
crated to the gods. The first re
turned to the Ferve Islands, from
which the vessel was not yet far
distant; the second, finding no
jdace on which to alight, returned
and settled on the mast of the shiji;
finally, the third directed the mar
iner towards the eastern coast of
the recently-discovered island.
Floki named it Iceland. This
name exactly corresponds with the
aspect of sadness and sombreness
which this unknown land always
presents.
Avast forest which has now dis
ajmeared, covered it with a thick
shade, prccijitous mountains Avith
their snowy summits, touched a
lowering sky, and the streams of
lava, which furrowed these frozen
chains rendered their asjiect gloo
my and menacing. Discouraged,
Floki Pafu quitted in the spring a
land which he believed to be ac
cursed, and renounced all hojie of
colonization. His comjiamous,
however, gave a far different ac
count ; The climate, according to
them, was remarkably mild and the
soil very fertile; domestic animals
could subsist there in the dejith of
winter without shelter; wood suit
able for building abounded; the
rivers were full of salmon, and the
neighboring seas full of whales.
Thirteen years after the discover-,
in 874, Tngolf, the son of a
Jarl, in Xorway, obliged, after one
of those duels so frequent at that
time, to lice from vengeance, found
a refuge in Iceland with his brother-in-law
Hjorlief. Before setting
sail, he consulted an oracle, took
with him the door-posts of his
house, consecrated by a pagan cer
emony, and throwing them into
the sea not far from the shores of
Iceland, made a vow to establish
himself on .whatever land the winds
and waves might cast them. They
disappeared ; he, however, landed
near a jiromontory rising on the
south-east coast of the island, that
is to this day called Ingolfshodi;
Three days afterward, Lis slave
having found the sacred doorposts
in a bav on the south-cast coast,
Ingolf went to settle there; it is
the place now called Faxe Fivrel,
and the seat of Peykiavik. As for
1 Ijorlief, he established himself at
a jdace on the southern coast, now
called Hjorlicfshodi ; induced by
his icelaudish slaves to pursue a
bear in a thick forest, he was assas
sinated, along with his princijial
com jian ions, and avenged by In
golf. The true colonization of Ice
land by the Scandinavians from
that moment began. The abund
ance of fish all around the island,
and facility with which ay could
be caught, offered there, before the
discovery of Newfoundland, and
ftt a time when the .days of absti
nence ordained by the church were
universally observed, a .precious
source of riches, which tile primi
tive population, established only in
a part of the island, had not been
able to turn to much account..
Waverly Magazine.
" Good morning, Mr. Hen
peck," said a ju-inter in search of
female comjiositors.- "Have you
any daughters that" would make
good type setters?"
"JSo, but I've got a wife that
would make a first rate devil."
J-When does a member of Congress
display most physical strength ? Answer.
When he moves the House';
THE REDWOODS OP MEXDOCIXOi
Th3 : Humboldt Times, speaking
of these woods, remarks as follows:
The astonishing tales in regard,
to the bight and circumference of
redwood trees as they actually ex
ist in Humboldt county, have, to
our certain knowledge," been con
sidered entirely incredible . by
many who have not seen for them:
selves; To give readers abroad
some idea of the size of thce f ed
monarchs of the forest attain, and
to give the actual truth and addi
tional coloring, we have concluded
to reprint -.the following extract
from a letter of a-correspondent of
the Healdsburg .Flag, who hrr?
been taking a stroll" among the"
redwood forests ff jMendicino'; -where
the trees" don't grow any lar
ger than they do here. He sriysf
Three and a half miles from
Ileald & Guern's mill, we fouhd
"Dutch John" making shingles.
This stalwart sjiccimen of Teutenic
muscle eats, sleejis, cooks, lives,'
and battles with the giants of the
forests alone. Sometimes he does
not see a human form or hear ft
human voice, but his own, for
weeks at a time. He has felled
three trees. Two of them are.
nearly worked up, and he had no'w
on hand, made from thenf, over
200,000 shingles. He informed
us that on his jdace trees that
would make 180,000 shingle'
arc common. Some will go t
200,000. I applied the tajc hue
to o:re tree that measured 07 lect
in circumference, two feet above'
the ground; This monster of tho
forest measured nearly 200 feet ill
hight to (he first limb, at which
point it was about ten or twelve
feet through. Mr. Bagleymadca
calculation uj)on this huge trunk'
from which he says it would cut.
one hundred and eighty thousand
feet of lumber, make pickets to
a ten acre lot, and fifty cords of
wood. The Plaza Chcurch in
Healdsburg is thirty by forty feet;
and has a steeple twenty feet high;
it contains about thirty thousand'
feet of lumber. This tree, tlVeu
would cut enough lumber to' make
six such buildings.
Near ITeald's mill is a very large"
tree known as "The Stable"" which
i.s hollow at the ground, inside of
which a man can stand ujiright
and walk fifteen feet. It measures
inside twenty-seven feet acre ss,
and is cajiable of stal ling twelve
horses, with a hay mow to supply
them for one winter.
Xot far from this is the "bean
jiole". This is not a very large
tree, but it is somewhat tall. A
measurement taken by a profssion
al mechanic gives this sjirout r
hight of three hundred and forty
four feet! This is one of the finest
bodies of timber oil the coast, and
is of superior quality;
A r.Jan Killed ly liis owii Onrf
vliile crossing tire Columbia. Hi v.'
Sunday, Xov. 7th, Thos. John
son (commonly known as Thos;
Griffin,) while alone in a skiff, and
crossing the Columbia Piver from
the Oregon side to Oak Point, W.
T., accidently shot himself It is
sujijiosed that the accident was
caused by the hammer striking
some part of the boat, exjlodin
the eaj), as he was jiulling the gnu
towards himself- The charge, en
tered his neck just above the col
lar" bone. The shot was heard from
the shore, and two exclamations
frohi Johnson. Parties immediate--ly
started for the boat and found
Johnson uudoTrseious.- He breath
ed his last within: ten minutes af
ter he was reached from the shore,
Johnson was an Englishman and
about 22 years of age, He had
served aboard an English man-of-war.
An. inquest was . held by
Geo. Abernethy, J. P., and verdict
rendered in accordance with the
above facts; Oregon Herald.
2d
" My dear " said Mr. In
to his wife,- While his smiling coun
tenance indicated the conscious
ness of having done a good action
" I have just had my life' insured
for your benefit." " Well, I de
clare," said Mrs. B., looking round
upon her family and friends with
an expression of injured innocence,
"just to think of the selfishness of
men, and particularly of husbands.
There, you have been and had
your life insuied, while your poor
wife may go without any insur
ance on hers. It's just what I
would expect of you."
Ait irishman being asked
whv- lin vpfiised to pay a -doctor's
bill", said: " Sure an' he didn t give
me anything but some emetics, and
divil a one would lay in rny stum-mick"
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