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en L m. HI liML.HHii null W MUtSJJgjDW1. WWI'UMI Hi , STORM. ; -: x iKf m YOL. 1. Astoria, Oregon, Thursday Morning,' Oct.' 23, 1873. No. 50; jijiMnyi mi nil Biiiii'iiHWffirTrTtrirriTnwriwiwiiww m iwiiwumm - WEEKLY A THE AST0EIA2J. I The Flerchoro has on board one hun- i AfaA nnl f1Mr fnnc rtf nrr-rtnr -w r. "kolln. 4- UlCU llt.u. iliVJ lvrw.3 v vvj.jjji jlm ia UtllliliL taken fi ora San Francisco. PUBLISHED LVhKY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY, Monitor Building, A.ctoria, Oregon. I. C.IREIiAXD Pro2rictor Subscription Kates: Ono Copy one year. $ 00 One Copy six months 3 00 Ono Copy throo months .... 1 50 &3 Single Number, Ten Cents, 'vsm Advertising: Kates: One Insertion pcrsquarc, 10 lines or less...S2 ."0 lnch additional Insertion, per s iuaro 2 00 Yearly adv'ts per month, per square 1 o0 Agents. L. P. Fisher, 20 and 21 Xow Merchants Ex change, is authorized to act as Agent for the AsToiti vx in San Francisco. Any friend who feels an interest in tho pros Ierity of this region, 'is authoirzcd to act :is Agent for this paper, in procuring subscribers. IM wwmm CITY INTELLIGENCE. But few passengers arrived on Tues- The United States steamer Shubrick returned from St. Helen bar last evening, where she lias been planting buoys. -Tame doves introduced into this city by the Chinese, are a perfect nuisance to people who wish to save rain water from the roofb of their houses for domestic uses. Capt. Flavel's family, wife and two children, will take their departure for San 1 rancisco bv the Aiax. Cant. F.. who i now in Portland, also proposes going be low soon. slay's steamer. The barkentine "Webibot and brig Orient arrived at San Francisco on the 19th The United States steamer Shubrick returned from Shoalwater bay Alonda' evening. Thomas Bramell is preparing to open in oyster saloon in Brown's block, Che iiamus street, to-morrow. "When you arrive in Portland, if you want a good cup of coffee call at Frank Faber's stand Central Market. The hose carriage for the new Amos keag steam fire Engine, for Columbia Engine 'Company No. 3, of Portland, ar rived Tuesdaj'. Otto Dufner, of this city, has proven himself a very competent workman by what he did for Mr. Louis "Wilson this week, on a chronometer. Mr. "Wilson hav probably one of the best chronometers Diem will l, pnmwfl fw tp- i"X:iwVrVu"u,,'ww' recently o ""'-f-' w-uuj . xi il ' UiUKUIl. line can be constiuctcd there whnt in tn The telegraph from Precott to San -The new wharf of Capt. George Fla vel is now ready for a steamship or a ves sel to lie along side. "Work of completion is progressing rapidly. The farmer's excursion from Albany was received here last evening with a hearty welcome and booming of cannon. The excursionists, will remain m find nhnnt Astoria until the last of this week. The bark Vesta comes in pretty well covered with barnacles from the 'region of Cape Horn . They are of the thickest and largest kind, but the fresh water of the Columbia will soon let them out. I he whole number of Fisheries on the river the past year were seven, which gave employment to about two thousand hands. Next year there will probably be four more fisheries in addition to those al leady established, which will increase the number of employes to not less than four or five thousand during the Salmon season. pi event one being built here. Mr. L. S. "Wass of this city, has been apiointed ire understand, to fill the va cancy of assistant light house keeper at Cape Disappointment occasioned by the transfer of Mr. Anderson to Shoalwater baj'. Sea-lion are plentiful Messrs. J. P. Miller and H. H. Jackson, coming over from Grays river a few days ago met a very lare one in the Columbia river, above this city. Mr. Tuqnn of Cornelius arrived Mon day evening, and left Tuesday morning, for the purpose of completing the prelim inary survey of the "Washington county and Nehalcm wagon road. "With a tri-weekly mail to bring us telegraphic and other news from the At lantic States, it frequently occurs that As toriane get their latest dates from San Franckao papers, by the North Pacific Transportation Company's steamers. "We understand that the visit of our friend H. 5. Sinister to the State Fair caused -sufficient attraction to draw him away from Astoria ibrthe winter, and that he will take his departure next week. He is an excellent artist and will do well wherever he may go. Mr. Noltner,of the -Oregon City En terprise returned lust Tuesd&y from at tendance on the National Grand Lodge, of Odd Fellows at Baltimore. He has done good work for this jurisdiction, and will receive the verdict of well done -ood and faithful servant. - We learn that about fifty sea otter pelt 3aayve ean. obtained this season on the oceap. beach north of -Grays harbor. The4nialers have received from $10 to $50 Apiece for the pelts. H..B!odget, so Jar in a jhead in the number taken. At last accounts Jip had taken fifteen- Until Mr. Dufner came here, it was necessary to send abroad to have such work repaired, but our city jeweler ha done the work, Mr. "Wilson says, equal to any m San Francisco, and at much les charges. The long promised to be published " in the Farmer" communication of Mr. A. S. Mercer of this city, in reply to an article from the pen of B, (in that same paper), some weeks since criticising the report of the Astoria Chamber of Com merce, has at last appeared in the Albany Democrat, with the explanation that the Jjarmer depends too much- upon Portland lor ik bread and butter to propose "lvin her battle. MISCEIXANEOIJS ITEMS. "Talk about the jaws of death," ex claimed a hen-pecked husband; " they are no circumstance compared to the jaws of me." A boarding house fiend tells the story that in a recent thunderstorm the warring of the. elements was so awe-inspiring that hair, in a dish of butter in the pantry turn ed completely white during the night. Cannot something be done to prevent young ladies being insulted on our streets at night? asks a Cincinnati paper. There can. Just have the little girl's mother tuck her into her little bed, about eight o'clock in the evening, and lock the door on her." A gentleman, in search of a man to do some work, met on his way a lady, not so young as she once was, and asked her "Can you tell me where I can find a man?" "No;, I cannot," the replied, "for I have been looking these twenty years for one myself." Decidedly the newest device for pro moting salvation was practiced during a religious revival at Chittenango, New York, where it was announced that "re freshments would be served to converts gratis. ' ' This suggests the querv whether churches could find it to their advantage to borrow any thing else from the saloons. Kate Field " looks arch and mischiev ous." She is "versatile, accomplshed, growing hansomer every day, proud of the touch of mercury in her Irish blood, born an actress, ought to be herself on the stage, and would make a 'schoolmarm' that no prudent and skin-valuing urchin would ever think of playing truant from." An inventor has attached to a pair of barber's shears an elastic, hollow ball, which is compressed by the operation of cutting , and a current of air, forced out from the ball, is directed along the blades, and blows away the fragments of ljir as fast as they are cut. Ex. "Why couldn't this thing be made to work on a saloon pieknife? TELE&EAPH dispatches. Tlie lrice of Gold. Portland, Oct. 23. Gold in New lork to-day, 108J; Portland Legal Tender rates, 90A buving, and 91 selling. Miscellaneous News. rr.u -n E' 0RK' Octpber 18.' Ihe Evening Express, in an article on the financial situation, declares that the present condition of the banks of this city is a disgrace, and insists upon the necessity of an immediate resumption of currency payment as the only means of restoring confidence, and bringing out greenbacks, now hoarded in safety in the deposit com pany's vaults, and elsewhere. Inquiry at-the offices of the principal steamship lines shows that the foreign ex port trade, at one time seriouslv brokpn by the financial panic, is in a healthy con dition; that large shipments aie made by every outgoing steamer, without any ma terial alteration in trade. Ihey are having a " Revolution among the .Natives" at Panama. Hostilities be gan on the 24th between Ueira, the pres ent President, and Gen. Carnozo, recently deposed from that office. "When.the firing was going on Admiral Almy, of the U. & ssavy, arrived and landed 150 men at the railroad station, and atthe-request of the Government placed sixty men in the city square. The government ordered all the trains approaching the citv to stop, and passengers to be searched. Admiral Almy placed a guard of United States Marines on the trains, with orders to shnnfc rlnwn all armed men who should attempt any interference, thus relieving passengers of annoyance and interruption. The troops assigned 'by the government of Colombia 9o protect transit across the Inthmus have joined the rebels. The Constituent Assem bly is now in session, endeavoring to re store peace, but the insurgents outside the city do not recognize its authority, and or dered a forced loan, (theft), of 20,000 on the city, and 40,000 on the provinces. It washoped Admiral Almy would continue to give protection to non-combatants, and that the United States and Colombian authorities would come to some under standing, whereby a repetition of the out rages may be prevented. The subject of the hog's-hack buoys still continues to agitate the pilots. "We are satisfied that Capt. Jasson has only- obe3ed instructions so far as he is concern ed in it, but we hope the manipulators of red tape will not be so grasping as to in bint upon managing this business in future without at leat consulting tho r;w. about it. If the Oregon pilots are not capable of having any voice in the matter we should l'ke to know the reason why? Last Tuesday afternoon a man named McLane at work on the loadway to the fanner's wharf in this city very narrowly escaped sudden death. Hp. t oni with other men in hoisting one of the heavy posts, a stick of timber about eighteen inches in diameter, fifteen feet long, when the block strap gave way let ting the stick fall back upon him. Fortu nately for him he fell between two logs and his life may be said to be slaved fiom mis circumstance, as the post fell exactly over him across the logs. HU face was badly cut from coming in contact with a stick beneath him, just as the falling tim ber struck his shoulder. It will be seen by referring to our list ofvesselsonthe way to this, port that a large number are en route, and really more are coming than our informants arc willing to report to us. It has always been said that when Oregon began to pro duce earnestly for export there would be plenty of vessels here to carry it away. Ihe class of vessels coming on. nil onllr. than it is profitable to employ in the bu-i- Preserved fruits and vcgetabieshonld be stored in glass, and no metal of any kind should be brought in contact with them. Fruits contain more or less of vegetable acids, and others that are high l3T corrosive are often formed by fermen tation, and metallic vessels are consider ably acted upon. Tin cans are held to gether by solder, an alloy into which lead enters largely. This metal is easily cor roded by vegetable acids, and poisonous salts are formed. Undoubtedly many persons arc greatly injured by eating to matoes, peaches, etc.. which have hinn placed in tin cans, and we advise all our friends who put up fruit to use only glass. Eight inches of snow have fallen in "Wyoming and Utah. Trains are delayed by the storms. We are now able to understand the chief industry of the American Indians. They are chiefly engaged in raising hair. Pacific Coast Jfews. A The British bark Yev,fei. 1' T.iirm, Spool, to Mebsr. Janion & Rhodes, -vitli xiess3-Pt tfeT are P1 to Jiroont ewioj-- :nI Capt. K. R. Thompson's mammoth j tliere be plenty pf the larger class of ves tpam plow, arrived direct from Liverpool I &e coram 01' itas do these small ones.. yesterday, bhe had been i93 davs out and fears were beginning to be enteitaiued for her safety. now. At the great Convention of the Grangers in San Jose, California, October loth, Daniel Clark, of Salem,, master of he Oregon Grange and. Fraternal delegate to the Convention,., was introduced with a grand "welcome ' and an-address in his honor In tlie Pensylvania Constitution al v-unvoiiwon, a iew ua'?? ago, ex United States Senator Bwekalew, re ferring to the course of Senator Mor ton, of Indiana, upon the proposed amendments as to the man nor of se lecting Presidential electors-, said Senator Morton deserved the thanks of the Nation, for his course in that regard. . Tlie Central. Grange Association perfected a permanent organization on the 14th, Albany, by electing-Ir. "W. F. Alexander, President; A. "W. Stanard, Secretary; C. P. Burkhart, Treasurer; F. Shedd and F. Powell Trustees; Elias Fanning, Gate Keep er; J..B. Stump, Agent. The associa tion adjourned to meet on the second Tuesday in November. Sax Francisco, Oct. 18. Duret's bal loon went up this afternoon, but Duret did not go with it. Austin, bf the Chronicle, and Clough, of the Call, were the ones who undertook to find the celebrated east ern air current. Austin controlled the balloon. They found an air current but it took them rapidly to the northwest. Aus tin saw the tug Neptune in the bay and pulled the valve rope, and the balloon 4 scended low enough to allow him.to.leap into the water, when the boat's crew res cued him, but poor Clough went up again like a rocket. He climbed into the netting, got hold of the broken rope, opened tlie valve, and down she came, close to, the water, and the crew of the tug got him saujiy oiu. ne oauoon tnen-reascended. VVhen last seen it was going toward-the north pole, over San Rafael. Visalia, October 1&. Last night the stage between here and the railroad station was stopped.by three masked highwaymen one, with a shot-gun, headed the team, while others with revolvers,, attended to the coach on each side. Five passengers were aboard, and all being unarmed were uusij jjurnimueu 10 aisourse tneir valua bles. 'W.ulh, Fargo. & Co.'s box, con taining but 315, was robbed.and probably 3150 was obtained from passengers. The Sheriff and deputies are in pursuit, with a good Prospect of SUCCess. Rv, thn hhr nn said to be well known. One having dropped his mask exposed his face. The mail arid express letters were noir molested Sax Francisco, October, 19. A very great excitement exists in the western part of the city by the appearance of ghoat pic tures on that quarter. A large-crowd of people are there to-day. The- pictures are very distinct, and arp changed'eveiy little while. The family occupying the house are much alarmed, and. propone to move awa3T. Orovill-e, October J8. The sreat bar of gold bullion,valued.at over seventy-on i nousana dollars, taken from the mine of erty of the press and the Tri-color to be maintained as the flag of Franco. The last point, however, is open to' mutual concession. The Assembly is called to meet not later than the 27th instant. The Deputies from the Department of the Seine have signed a .manifesto protesting against the attempted restoration of royalty, and declaring that they will energetically resist all. such schemes- Ninety-six thousand pounds- Sterling of bullion were shipped for New York from London and Southampton on the 18th. The Bank of England has fixed the rate of discount at 7 per cent.. New York, Oct. 16. A London telegram of "the 3d says, we under stand the new monthly mail line wilf be opened' between England, New South "Wales and New Zeland via San Francisco, commencing about the 16th ol January next.. Hon. SanL Samuel, Postmaster General of Sid ney, and Mr.. Thomas Russell acting' of New Zelandr are now in London making arrangements for that pur- . pose. Itis understood the mail steam ers, which will be very powerful and of great speed; are-to call at Honolulu and the Fiji Islands. .Madrid, Oct.. 19. A British Dis patch boat from Cartagena, arrived, at Alcante last evening with the' news that the insurgent frigate Nu- mancia fired into and sunk the Fer-; nando el Catilrco because she parted company .with and refused to obev the signals to rejoin the former.' Minister Marins has resumed command-in person of the squadron at Gibraltar,, which sailed yesterdav for Cartagena. Paris,. Oct.. 19. The Republicans are working with great activity and: energy to counteract the designs- o' the Monarchists. Ex President Thiers in conversation with friends yester da3', spoke confidently of the result. The Deputies of the extreme Left will hold a meeting Monday, and the moderate Republicans on Tuesdav. They will probably unite in propos ing to the Assembly that the question of the restoration of royalty be re ferred to a commission. An article- in the Journal des Debats to-day re gards the restoration of royalt- as certain. Romk, Oct.,20. The Genoral.of the Society of. Jesuits, was to-day offi cially notified by Government that the Order must immediately vacate tlie premises occupied by-them in. this-cit-... ViENNvOct. 19. Prince-Bismarck: arrived to-day. He has been in close conference with Emperor "William. A change in the- Prussian Cabinet te rumored. It is. not improbable that the Prince will resume his-posi-tion as President of the Ministry. o-fT State in place of Yon Koon. The daily demand for- postal! cards is now about 400,000;. There are 7,000,p00 cards now on hand.. Philadelphia officials who recent ly visited San Francisco,, tendered a banquet to Donald McLellan of that city. The latter declined Ben Ilolladay,, J. Jfc Comstock and A.. G..Cunninghamt have organ ized company fjr coal mining in Douglas, county.. Tlie- coal is said to, be first class. at the banians hoiise of Hideout, Smith & Co. It Is the largest bar ever made in America. By Atlantic Cable. The latest fires-were at Osurego.. N. Y. loss $40,000, Oct. 20th;; Mladi Bon Wisconsin, Oct. 20th, los&SM, 00 and at Topeka Kansas, Ocfe.20t!i loss $100,000,, Victoria, O 20tlr S50P0. ' Senator Carpenter is inTViishingr- the Spring Yalley Canal and MinLK - --" " J Company, has to xJay been on exhibition fton' " frends: are predicting al- New School Books. I have just re- -The new Catholic church in thi city, I T'f aU thef of New School extracted through the energy and i Z ll T7 ? State, that i mum . o "e una per- now be oundln gftn pmncitco A severance of Mrs. S. N. Arngoni and ci04.n -i -m -, , ' 4v , v . ,i it- . k,ate pencils, Blotting pads, a cood as- Other Ub, now all enclo, and has ' ?ortment of Wionery.Vwinf paper, rvrfonecoatof punt It real y a CAED B0AEDi p, ,$? (,reaittothcitj, an4 sitting upon a lull hww D,mw ri..h t, '7 " .' i : t. r.i im. ii.. r.i ,.... - i" " ""'v-ivj. juuvuwise it . 1, c 4- : . ru ni.i. - wuerc ip unuiiut ue uiu, iM uie oiar or uie ' new u of f.mol nii nnA , I "" " pirmiuiii ui uie oiate jjwmiik), ucesnitsneas a nalo of peace over all. t T t XI. wr Wue ribbons for work. It also SEra- Tvi5 W ? & ! 'T T..Ta aU , Hue ribbon at h of to county work, they have-putjupon.it. rn. . t ' l t t ,-. M -,t WW n qt? ',fi? "I . . . .,,! c. v "to n n . SB ,H .y. xn-tsh M&i .zrivh inwjn Atiir imm Paris.. Oet, 18.r From extract in formation it appears that the Mon-- arcniai portion ol fciie Assembly have come to an absolute agreement. Count De Chiimbord has made con cessions, which are satisfactory to the Liberal Monarchists, and there will be submitted, at the opening of the Assembly,, a. proclamation of heredi tary constitutional monarchy,, the prospective king promising liHertv of wing Machine took i conscience and equality before ,'t.ie iaw as uie ngnt 01 an. JLifte lYlonair- l I nhicfkl hvq nnnfiilnnf --P o v.-.nJ-:i i took l, Aoovi,, i4-ir. :,i mo.i-s. . u4 iojnuij . iu 10 ftiuu -ao uepfje. iairs. are DLedired to simnnrf. n. rrairnin.i qtT n iV TO Ai'j: ,9!atKP county.-' of royalty.' '" ed-iri making everyouo'fe11 nerf ctlV ready that he will make-a successful defense of the I.o-ng Branch scandal,. in whieh liis name was-so -prominent. .This is promised, it is claimeel, to save the Senat r from being, deposed, hs presiding officer of the Senate... The Progress. Club receptiqn;gi; en .at their-hull Poi Hand last i'hurs xiay evenings was .grand afiuiir. The reception, committee, consisted of Mesrs.Gb. L. DePrans, 1. T. ("uning hm, Isam 'W.htte, .J. I). DuBois, E. C. Lord, IBhnn, Alex Mayer, raj. Egglestou,, Charles Lancaster, Emil Iank?i Joseph Bachman and F. A Thompson, who, by .their attention to the comfort of the guestF, succeed- .,. V ?i - u Viui fift W VUM., .: