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Astoria, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, Oct. 28, 1873.
No. .52.
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CITY ZNTEIiIiIGENCS.
Jack frost lias been on the nip in this
locality recently.
The schooner Hera, Capt. Miller, ar
rived on the 23d at San Francisco.
We are informed that about two tons
of LaDus' strawberries and blackberries
were told at Kahuna la2t se'ason.
S. M. Coffenberry lias chartered the
'.loop Hector for the season. Slie is bound
for Westport next trip, for Salmon.
Seventy-live tons of flour placed on
loard the Spirit of the Dawn Sunday,
completed her cargo for Liverpool.
Capt. Craigie, of the British ship Lord
of the Isles, attended the Congregational
Church in this cit3r Sunday forenoon be
ing a member of the Presbyterian faith.
For trouting extraordinary refer us to
Big creek, Knappa. Dan Barney caught
over 175 in less than three hours, a few
days ago, and sold them, all in this citj'
and Portland.
A Chinese firm of tills city have pur
chased and equipped a sloop, "Hung
Mung," with which they scoot about the
harbor, and in and out here and there 3.113
where a chinaman wants to go.
In the matter of the guardianship of
the minor heirs of Alfred Crosby de-
eeased, Judge Mofiit has revoked a former
order, and appointed I. Wr. Case and
Capt. J. G. Hustler guardians.
- The barkcn&inc Jane A. Falkinburg
" is now at FerrelPs wharf in this eitj- com
pleting cargo for Honolulu. Capt. Brown
has her in splendid order nowf and may
possibly extend the trip to Australia.
On Friday last the steamer Annie
. Stewart discharged 1,500 cases of Salmon
. on board a foreign bound vessel in this
. port for Liverpool. This is the tSsird direct
' shipment of .Salmon from Capt West-a
. fishery.
The British bark Borneo, Captain
' Thomas, cleared for Liverpool with the
following cargo yesterday: Tsiccn on at
' Portland 23,750 bushels wheat, valued at
$2S,500; taken on at Astoria U,3l bush
els wheat valued at 11,300, ar 1,500 cs
almon, valued at $11,000.
-West and Company of Westport, re
roeiveda gold prize at the "Salem Fair for
Salmen: S. G. Reed for Cattle, Geo. L.
DePrans for Burdett Organs, and C. P.
Bacon for the best Stallion and family of
Coltv. Hon John Minto took a Silver
3edal on Sheep, and Mr. DePrans one
- also for the Burdett Organs.
- Recently tho owner of a river packet
""here had her rails painted while lying an
the Flip at Flavel's dock. The following
day he gave an excursion to Youugs river
falls, and now we understand hceoni plains
hocaue the passengers packed off hfs new
paint The fellow ought to be compelled
to ride that rail "clean to Portland."
A party of ballonatics stood out in
front of Van Dusen's yesterday morning,
oagerly scanning the heavens, apparently
searching for the Eastern JSrial Current,
which was shut off from their vision by
theawniug over the sidewalk, and after
irazing a few moment at a cprtain nail
hole, quietly walked away. Tiiere isn't
much prospect of a transcontinental
"balloon ascension from Astoria, shortly.
The Bulletin says of the Yesta that
" A vexatious delay of three days was
-occasioned by the non-attendance of the
tug on their arrival at the Columbia river
Bar." "This will be new to tho Colum
bia bar pilots, And from what v know of
ih matter guew it i.Boi true. The Vesta
happened in -when tWe -wa-no tug hare
to take -her up! thrflc,- aid perhaps
that! whaVs the waiter witK 'Hinaah. ' "
IMSSEXGERi FOJt OREGON.
Thelsorth Pacil: ; Transportation Com
pajiys steamship Jo hn L. Stephens, is clue
here to-day with i .he following named
passengers from Sai 1 Francisce:
J. G. Megler fc wife- C. Summers,
Lr?. A. A. Lancaster,
31. Patterson,
Charles Jordan,
V. if. Pumphrey,
Miss M. Butler,
J. Frohman,
D. D. Bunnell & wifo
J. C Sutton,
F. Storey,
C. lracg,
C. C Jicmis,
M. H. Scott,
J. J)aly,
A- Ei'inangcr,
Ms. P. Conner & ch
Mf. J. II. Lyon,
T. Kane and familv.
"W. II. Fanehon Arfam,
"Warren Lcland,
H. Perry & wife,
James Bruce,
W. Y. Silencer,
Sir?. 31. M. Miller,
MRs Colin,
B. Wolverton,
(i. Newberger,
D. Clark.
A. .Maupin,
11. W. Scott,
E. Wolf.
S. B. Fogg and family
llor.Jce brown.
Mrs. M. Kelly,
F. Shoddy & wfe
Mrs. C. Cook it eh.
C. Douglass and wife,
.7. Hughes and family, j'. Kitzkiniker &fam,
F. Mcintosh A: fain , .) . P. Kihvards.
Clatsop Viewed fx o in the Ict-ropoTli-tnn
.Sin 11 .3j)inl.
There is perhaps n ot a class of more en
terprising, plain defiling and law-abiding
people to be found ii t any community than
those on Clatsop .Plains in this county,
and there is ceitain y 110 more productive
2-cgion in the State, a the numerous high
ly cultivated farms a id tasty and elegant
homes, and sleek, 3ind blooded stock fully
and positively attes t. 33ut when a leading
public journal com es out openly in a paid
correspondence, as we understand was the
case, and rates the. people as a lot of half
breeds, living, on clams and crabs like a
set of digger -Indians, or cause remarks
that lead to such an inference, it not only
detracts from thes 'botanical' researches of
such correspondent, and whatever else of
the beautiful he had treated in those let
ters, but leaves :a false impression on the
minds of the people, which is illustrated
by the following incident, related to us by
one of the 'half-breeds' referred to in the
conversatien:
Editor Astekivx:
A large portion of .your readers arc ac
quainted with our fellow-townsman and
former host of th e Astoria Hotel, A. J.
3Iegler, esq., and know him for a modest,
unnssnminsjgentlei aan, of strict integrity,
;nd very few avc presume would cliarge
him with anything in his character ap
proaching waggishness. The following
little incident," recently witnessed by the
writer, will add the unacknowledged trait
to his otherwise unblemished reputation,
and at the same time illustrate the views
and estimation residents at the Emporium
place upon us "half-bred" children of the
cls-sical Clatsop plains.
"While on a recent viit to Portland he
sauntered into the grand Ccntial Market,
where is disp layed at the numerous stands
is.h, flesh, Jowl, fruit and vegetables, in
greatest variety and profusion. Quick to
descry tiamgs irom home, ins eye rested
upon a large tray of our native clams, fresh
from. Clatsop sand-.
Approaching, and peintins: at the con-
i tents of the tray, 111 a manner showing
some trepidation, as it tearful thejr might
fasten on hif, lingers if he got too near, he
inquired of the urbane attendant:
44 "What a. e those?"
" Clams,' J politely answers the gentle
man behind the stand.
4Are they good to eat?" i next asked
by our appai ent friend from the interior.
" Oh, certainly; the finest eating in the
world."
Where do they grow?"
"These csme from 'down the coast
Clatsop beach."
" Ah, 3'e; I believe I have heard of the
place a kind!, of Summer resort for the
people of this section, is it not?"
" Yes; people go down there during tho
warm wefcthc:r.n
" What sort of a place is it? a farming
country?"
44 No! jnot much. The inhabitants are
mostly half-breeds, who live principally
on these cli?ms, and crabs which you see
here (pointing to a number lying on the
counter), ana Salmon, those fish you will
notice across the way."
At this point our grip on our risibilities
slipped, when hastily glancing around and
discovering whence came the sound, our
inquisitive- friend, who for so maivy years
has, catered to the public appetite with
these stap les of Clatsop, soberly thanked
hi? inform ant and hastily walked away.
Caught that time, Aleck! thought we.
The surveyors on the State road from
j Cornelius to Astoria will reach here to-da.
Capt. Flavel has contracted for 15,
000 feet of piles to extend.his wharf and
warehouse.
The Kival, "Windward and 3Iargaret
Crockard .-all arrived at San Francisco on
Saturday from thi port.
i
Capt. Thomas, of the good ship Bo-
i moo, left a Jile of English papers -with us
oiuiaay, wiucn were very acceptable.
Among the .passengers expected here
to-day are 3Ir. and Mrs. Joseph G. 3Ieg-
j Ipp, and 3tr. C. Summery relative- pf ''Mr.
Ueorge bunYner, lateiy'docea-ed.
X.OCAZ1 yOTJES.
The Klaskanine farm will pro
duce over one hundred bushels of
assorted apples for market this year,
from fifty young trees.
Ilaydcn Gearhart, Gounty sur
veyor, has been engaged in marking
boundaries, and defining lines, for
the location of the new and exten
sive cannery being established at
Tongue Point by Messrs. Booth c0 Co.
These works Avill be the '. largest on
the river.
The Knappton works will be
sold at sheriff sale by jl H. Whit
comb, sheriff of -Pacific county, on
the 3d day of December! The sale
will not interere with tlie business,
which will go on "the same as now,
but will close up the embarrassments
which have been an obstacle to pros
perity over there.
IIr. Turpin's party of surveyors
engaged iit running the lines, of the
Cornelius t and Astoria wagon road,
have reached Mofiit's bridge, about
four miles from this city. The SGth
mile post was located within one
hundred yards of the residence of
W. II. Gray, on the Klaskanine farm.
From there to Astoria, by the new
road will be about seven'miles.
On the evening of tn"e 20th inst.
Thad. S. Barr, of Gravs fever, had a
fearful encounter with a, large bear
of the black species, inline vicinity
of his house. After discharging the
only load in his gun bruin met him
" hand to hand'Mn the conflict, but
with the help of his noble dog and a
sheath knife he managed to make a
corpus of the ugly customer, and es
cape with only a few slight scars and
some torn clothes.
A Fine full grown deer was seen
yesterday within a few r,ods of the
lower landing 0:1 the Klaskanine.
We feet like as if our friend L. P. W.
Quimby of the Portland American
Exchange, ought to come down here
now with his pack of hounds, the
best probably on the Pacific coast,
and spend a week or so on the chase
where so much game is roaming at
pleasure.
Our special reporter from Mc
Goughlin Slough says: "There was
a young man seen going home over
the big hills late last Saturday night,
who appeared to be locating a rail
fence, and judging by the corners he
made, his rails must have been of
unequal lengths. When last seen he
was lying by the side of the road
singing:
" Leaves have their tim to fall,
And so likewise have I;
The reaaon of it i
It comes of getting dr'."
TELITOH DISPATCHES
The Price of Gold.
Portland, Oct. 26. Gold in ISew
York to-day, 108 V; Portland Legal
Tender rates, 90.V buying, and 91
selling.
Miscellaneous News.
A pamphlet has appeared in St.
Louis purporting to have emenated
from John W. Wright, of Washing
ton, formerly Indian Agent, and
against whom indictments in the
Criminal Court were found last March
for forging vouchers upon which a(
number of Indian claims wore paid'
byv the Interior Department. The
pamphlet charges the LTnited States
Government with prosecuting him
1 unjustly, and implicates Attorney
uenqral Williams and the Secretary
of the Interior. in a scheme to rob
him of his property to satisfy ground
less claims.
A Washington dispatch says the
amont of silver to be put out next
week will be between 2,000,000 and
$3,000,000 and should the demand
exceed this the Secretary will issue
more.
The King's County- Grand Jury
have indicted WhitlawBeid, Charles
A. Dana and Wylie for an alleged
libel on Judge McCne. The case of
Shanks, city editor of the Tribune,
was adjourned until Tuesday.
Thomas Flinn, whox ' has been
locked up in Jersey City since July
last, fpr killing Eugene Aters, died
of starvation last Saturday.
Count De Chambord has assured
foreign powers thai his policy will
not be aggressive, and that he will
not attempt to reinstate the Pope in
his temporal possessions.
m People all over the East are get
ting ready for silver payments next
week; ?G5,000 in coin was received
from the Philadelphia mint at Chica
go last Saturday.
Shaw, convicted at Sandy Hill
for the murder of his wife ami chil
dren by poison, has been sentenced
to be hanged on Friday, November
1 28th.
I The Apollo Hall Democrats and
1 the Republicans have nominated
Julius Wadsworth for Congress in
James .Brooks7 district iNew York.
John C. Heenan died on Satur
day morning on board of the Union
Pacific train, near Green River Sta
tion. He was en route from Colora
do to California for his health.
Reports from various points in
Minnesota say that snow fell about
noon last Saturday to the depth of
four inches.
A fleet of vessels, aggregating 34,000
tons, i now under charter to Carry wheat
from the Columbia river to Jbreign ports.
Contracts for 130 feet of the warehouse
portion of the farmers' improvements in
this city, will be let to the lowest bidder,
to-morrow evening.
It is said by prominent business men
that the telegraph will be extended to this
place within a year. We hope the re
port is true, and believe it is.
Tho administrator's sale of the prop
el ty known as the Thompson Farm, .con
taining 320 acres, the estate of Mills &.
Callender, deceased, w.ill take place at
the Court House in this city at 2 P.. jM.
to da
Job Ross, the man who keeps a wheel
barrow on the corner for people to stuea
ble oyer, has left some beautiful nuincos
at this office. They are the linest we have
ever seen, and were produced in Ids gar
den in this citv.
The ladies of Grace (Episcopal) church
of this city, tried .of tatting on benches,
have sot out to raise funds for the purpose
of putting in pews, and about one half
the sum required to do .the work was sub
ecribed on Saturday.
It is a great satisfaction to our business
public during these panic tidies to (know
that the banks of this city are not only per
fectly sound but Teady to meet any de
mands against them. The bank in the
rear of Mike Meyer's Brewery has .betn
one of our most successful institution this
season, and will continue to pay interest
on drposits until the break-water is built
and the ships of all nations lie in our har
bor receiving cargoes for the hnnrry of
Europe, China, Japan, and the lute of
the sea. There is no better place to de
posit saying than in Astoria' tanks.
The Corvallis Gazette has diBcoy
ered that an imposition has been
practiced urjon the public in this
new school books business. It Bays:
A few pagesof one. or two of the
readers and a speller were printed,
and together with a sufficient amount
of blank paper to form respectable
sized books, were bound, and adopt
ed. Nowjf the County Superinten
dents adopted blank books, what
right have Democratic State officials
to substitute printed ones? There is
a very large sized "cat under this
meal tub," and it is well for the in
terest of our public schools that the
matter be properly investigated.
Referring to Mr. A. S. Mercer's
letter which the Farmer didn't print
(after weeks of delay), in answer
to B., tle Albany Democrat saya:
u The vCQinummi cation has been sub
mitted ito the Pilots of the Columbia
j bar, and to many of the most expe
rienced mariners janu ship masters of
the Pacific, and all fullv concur in
the statements ithjerein contained, j
it is an aute Kioeument ana cannot
fail to be of bened&i ts our State We
ask for it a careful perusaVf It was
.printed in the Democrat, .aud as Gen.
Brown proposes to he the jfrieiid of
tibe producing classes und&r alllegiti-j
mate circumstances, his columns are t
always open to uxq admission of ar
ticles calculated to adtoince their
interests.
The schooner Co&eerdia, which
left San Francisoo for Slaoalwater bay
sometime ago, an-d .about which con
siderable anxiety was lelt, met with
4?ueh severe weather n the passage
that Five became diaMed in her rig
jing ftUd put ino Humboldt where
temporary repairs ere made.- he
then returned to -Sari Francisco with
a cargo of ivimtter,, wliere new.Mil
will, be obtained before- completing,
the original voyage. ' '"
MISCEJLIiAXEOUS ITEMS.
Don't loaf- about the streets and
depend on the Lord for your daily
bread. He isn't running a bakery. "
In Kalamothe price of Mallard
ducks is only 12. cents apiece, and
taken in trade, at that! The town is
glutted with them.
A French physician has. publish
ed a cirgula.r .warning women against
the use of rouge. He states, and
cites- cases innumerable, that it pror
duces premature failing of the eve
sight. Kissing croquet is the latest.
According to its rules a lady is allow-.
ed to move her ball six inches every
time she favors her gentleman oppo
nent with a caress: It is popular all
around.
Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, the editor of
Godey's Lady's Book, is 'eighty-five
years old, still vigorous in. body and
in mind. Her maiden name was
Sarah Josepha Buell. She has been
a widow ever since 1S22.
A poor family in lond du Lae,
Wis., consisting of a man, his wife,
and eleven children, recently had
$100 left them, and' the poor, over
worked woman has bought a $70 silk
dress and gone to taking music
lessons.
"Wheat is worth 00 centsa 'bushel in
Iowa, and rye 15 cents a glass- .
Collars among tho ladie are being
discarded for "ruines and frills."
"Why does a freight train need no lo
comotive? Because the freight makes the
cargo. '
Harriet Beecher Stowe is described a
41 bright and cherry," What agitato
the public ia to know the length of it
nail. f
A San Francisco milliner has invent
ed a hat which will probably sell well in
cases where blushing i not so spontaneous
as it might be, or used to be. When the
wearer bows or lowers the head abruptly a
pair of steel clamps compress the arteries
on each side of the temples, sending thr
blood to the cheeks.
. It is iaid that if Maud Muller had her
life to liyeover again, and should meet
the judge in this year of grace 1S73, she
would suh him for breach of promise and
obtain uffieicnt damages to make her
family happy, or else snoot him, become
lectures.., and die rich aijd respected by all.
Recently in a street car in Philadel
phia, an old gentleman wa- seated in one
corner, and the car was full. A bevy of
fair ones, of all agea and weights swarmed
in, and there were no seats, whereupon
the gallant old gentleman said aleud:
Ladies, I shall bo most happy to give
my seat to any one of you who i over
thirty-two yewa of age." All remained
standing.
Glaw bonnets are among the novel
tie of tho Yiftnna Exposition. Thee ar
ticles come from Bohemia, and specimen
have been sent to Paris and London, and
some also to this country, in the hop?
that th?y will become popular, and be
14 all the fashion." The bonnet is do.
cribed a made of loose pieces of glass,
fastened clofc together by a gutta-percha
band, which allows it to coniorm to the
head. Inside there is a lining of silk, and
the trimmings are various. Birds and
flower are chiefly u-ed for ornamentation,
colored so naturally that in appearance
they nro far superior to tho ordinary arti
ficial goods. A bonnet of gla weighs but
a few ounces; they are vory durable; rain
will not hjot thorn, and the cost is said to
be small.
Some of the Eastern Railroads,
forced by farmers' Granges, are tak
ing a new departure. Several have
thought it worth while to enjoin their
employe to treat the traveling pub
lic with consideration and respect.
The Central. Pacific has swung into
line" with the following manifesto of
instructions : " Treat all persons do-,
ing business with you as any good v
business man would treat his custom-:
ers, and not as if you were conferring
a favor. Endeavor to make the roaij
popular, as its business depends upon
the good will of its patrons." This,
and more of the same sort, closing by
notifying the employes that unless
these directions are carried out they
will be discharged.
The famous Wraslinr Jre has
sauntered into Oregon city, and the ,
EnterpriM.siiBpe'ctsHhathd Wants to
.Bwetfr ihuVt'hVlbekg ar a dam swiiir
airand'lUngkoJiebody'ttlge1 , ,