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to Yol. 2. Astoeia, Oregon, Tuesday Evening, Dee. 16, 1873. No. 19. m W.WLgJTVgUaKJKLg33B ) t';.'m.ng!a: ,,wl , ,,..v-i:w.m.iijj.itmLir.mraOK iaatnvrs'jaxa.T v m. w ; i ' .'.'mean ""'' " ' i-!".. ' i'wi;u.H".L'i!..i.l' jJAAlJi.llt'J.UJJ.'LJfjaJLL!L...l..'W.A'wt-iwr- THE ASTORIAN. l'UHLISHE!) EVERY TUESDAY, THUKSD AY AND SATURDAY, Monitor Duilding, Astoria, Oregon. 2. C. IICESjAXD Proprietor Subscription Kales: One Copy one year. $ 00 (Jne Copy s?x month5 9! One CVpy three month' lu hS Single Number, Ten Cents. ""5 AS-rtIs3Eyr Kales: One TnerJon per square, 10 lines or lcss...$2 o0 Kach additional Insertion, per square 2 00 Yearly udv'ts per month, per square 1 50 Agents- L. P. Fivifr, 20 nnd 21 New Merchants Ex change, i" authorized to act as Agent for tho AriTourvN in San Francisco. Any friend who fuel' an interest in tho pros perity of this region, Js authorized to act -as Agent fur this paper, in procuring subscribers. CITY INTELLIGENCE. The "ball at Fort Stevens to-night will be a grand affair, and all Astorians who can go ought to be present. The Cutwater will not rema:n here any longer than necessary, but will probably ail frith her present amount of cargo for Liverpool to-morrow. It was Capt. N. F. kludge, instead of "Wm. Ileadington, who fell over-a-board at the Farmer's wharf last week. The board was twenty feet long, and Mudge, it Is said, was perfectly sober. Our public is patiently waiting for the appearance of something better to talk about than the failure of the Northern Pacific I' ail road Company and the Co lumbia river to do as they please. A cold under current, and warm south ern current of wind, have been warring with each other for undisputed sway for the past forty-eight -hours, in this region. From present appearances it is hard to tell which will win. This is the season for young ladies to prepare slippers for their " ospecial " friends. "We understand that our young Iriend Frank J. Taylor will get a nice pair, as a young lady lias just bought ten yards of brusscls carpcrting for this purpose. rtST Oysters in every style, at all hours of day or night, at the I'arker House Kkstau kant, Main street, Astoria. Yesterday the steamer Annie Stewart started from here with the French ship Nauvean St, Michael in tow, hoping to set through to Portland. This morning the steam lur Sedalia started with the schooner "Wm. II. Meyer in tow, with the iamc hope. There would be no fear for the future if every one had the confidence in themselves that the average Portlandcr has, who says to himself that this freeze up will give us si chance to get a few cargoes ol' grain ahead for the next ships. I? we had the docks, and the same access to the grain, they might think differently, perhaps. It is questionable whether the econo- iny of heaven makes provision for the man who wilfully lies to a local reporter, or even the man who gets into the city jail, is released on 'a promise to pay, and tnen repudiates the aebt. Thse two classes of men know but a trifle of the book of revel ations. Their third woe cometh quickly. It is rumored that the Grangers of Oregon are going to start a massive co operative store in this city, where they can purchase anything from a king-holt ty a horse-power, thresher, or a steam-plow. Anything from a cotton umbrella to an -entire house-keeping out-lit. They pro pose to make the matter of the meeting of imports and exports at this point practical ly a fact. On account of the panic, and the ice-o-latiou, eggs a:e worth G5 to 70 cents a -dozen ; " cabbage heads retailed at 5 cents a pound," ornaments a doorway on Main street. And potatoes are woith 1 50 per bushel, and Hour 10 a barrel. If this general depression and consequent increase of supplies continues long some of us will "he obliged to run our appetites and stom achs on half time. The friends of Capt. N. F. Mudge of this city will be pleased to hear ofhis suc cess in advancing an improvement in "boring machines. It will be the means of making an eternal fortune for the Captain, and we know of nobody more deserving of it than him. The invention makes it possible by a neat but simple arrangement of cog wheels to drive any desired number of bits or augers in a gang, by power fur nished with one single revolving shaft. It possesses other advantages, which, taken with the important. one adverted to, will very likety give it rapid sale. The schooner Hera put back to San Francisco on account of bad weather, on the 6th, The mail-boat from Portland may be expected in Astoria soon after she rounds Tongue point. Street Commissioner E. A. Tay lor has barricaded the defective part of Cass street, South of this oliice. The Sedalia left the "W. IT. Mey er abreast the Farmers" warehouse this morning, where the Merrimac will bitch on for Portland. Gray and Donaldson are fatten ing a lot of splendid geese chickens and turkeys for a week from next Thursday. Call and take your pick now. No formal declaration of opinion or intention has been made on the part of the weather clerk but it is understood that the temperature has softened muchly since the Oriihvmmc arrived last Fridav morning. From that day until now we have patient ly waited for her to return from up the river, knowing that the Columbia had been frozen " stiff as a mackerel" above Asto ria. "What has become of her no "As tokiax"" knows. Capfc. P. Johnson informs us that the Annie Stewart succeeded in get ting as far as "Westport with the French bark Nauvcan St. Michael. She returned here this morning, and left again with the Tongoy. The Oriflamme, bound up, is supposed to be at Oak Point to-dav. We are informed of a case call ing for charity in this vicinity. Mrs. Francis Marks, a widow with live children, it is at the house of Mr. A. J. Munson, below Smith's point, in a destitute condition, and she makes an appeal to generous hearted peo ple for such things as they may be willing to contribute for her comfort, for which she Avill be very thankful. rtA neat, clean, cosoy placo, for gentle men and ladies to enjoy a dish of fresh Oysters is at the Parker- House Restaurant. Charley Dexter, of the Sea Side House has found out that the skin of an animal, whether cow, calf, colt, or horse, that dies on the farm, is worth more at home than at the tan ner's. Cut it into narrow strips, and shave off the hair with a sharp knife before the kitchen fire, or in your workshop, on stormv days and eve- mugs, lou may make tnem soit by rubbing. A raw hide halter-strap an inch wide will hold a horse bet- ter, and last longer than an inch rope. Ttis stroneer than hoop iron and more durable, and may be used - - to hoop dry casks and boxes, and for hi.iges. Iryitona broken tile, or any wood-work that has been split. Put it on wet, and nail fast. Thin skins make the best bag strings in the world. rt- For fresh Oysters, in every style, call at the Parker House Restaur nt. Up to this time, including ship ments to San Francisco and other do mestic ports, there has left the Col umbia river an equivalent of over 700,000 centals of "Wheat this year. This is less than half the surplus crop of the Wallamet valley alone. "When Walla "Walla valley is included the surplus amounts to" probably not less than 2,000f000 centals, leaving at this tune perhaps 1,300,000 centals yet to be shipped, lhe vessels here now, and those known to be on the way from Central and South Ameri can ports, and Brazil, will not be able to carry away more than 500.000 centals, leaving still a balance of S00,000 centals to be yet provided for a quantity more than equal to the whole amount that has yet left Asto ria. In the face of these facts who can doubt any longer that Astoria deserves to be rated as a shipping port of considerable importance. Reports from different points throughout Canada show the storm of December 2d and 3d to have been one of the fiercest that ever visited the country. Trees were uprooted, barns and houses blown to the ground and a great many small villages on the margin of the lakes were inun dated and telegraph lines prostrated in all directions. The injuries to the Central Prison, Gas "Works and Government buildings in Toronto, amount to about fifty thousand dollars. TISISXSG FOR T03I COBS. According to the Astoriax, the princi. pal employment and amusement, withal, of the average Astorian now, is fishing from the dock for torn cods. There is something whimsical, with a touch of the morn ful, in the spectacle of a robustious American citizen, fishing for torn cod for amusement. There sits the man on the dock with his two muscular legs wound about a pile as a precaution against sur prise or accident. If he can find another one near enough to lean his back against, the situation is vastlj improved, and tho ' sport" becomes absolutely overpowering. Thus fixed, the man baits hfchook, throws rtoverboaid, and goes to sleep ; "to sleep, perchance to dream." Time which waits for no man, wears on. After awhile, an unhappy torn cod, tired of the vanities and vexations of life, floating sleepily and aimlessly along with the tide, espies the bait The torn cod is a fish whose heart is easily touched with a spectacle of woe-be-goneness, lie sees that the bait is attached to a hook ; the hook to a string, and the string in turn to a man. Contem plating the scene for an hour or more, he finally takes in the situation he is wanted above. Then, reflecting how little life is worth to him ; how he might go wiggling alone for a few more days and then be swallowed ingloriouly by a fillibustering shark ; how he might by one little act of self-sacrifice relieve the woes of a man with an immortal soul and nine small children, lie deliberately fixes his snoot on that hook, with considerate care to save the the bait. Having made sure that he is fast and tight, lib backs up till the string is taunt, and then gives a gentle jerk a gentle one, just enough to waken the sleep er above, but not enough to startle him to the extent of a nlunse overboaid. The vibration of the string creeps slowly up from the torn cod in the sea to the man on the dock ; the latter lazily ooens his eyes, leisurely rubs them, and finally waking up, proceeds deliberately and with solemn gravity to draw in the slack of the string. The torn cod comes up straight and limp a d lays down quietly alongside the unhap p' man; the latter drops his hook once more into the water, re-adjusts himself around and against his piles, and both go to sleep again. And this, reader, is a taint description, in brief, of the exciting sport of fishing for torn cods. The writer ot the above, his name is Clark Crandall and Salem is his home, isn't a very "robustious American," but like the Mississippi candidate for Justice of tli3 Peace he is " experienced," as we happened to find out on a sea voyage and fishing excursion up the North Pacific coast, in the fall of 1S71. The steamer Gessie Telfair had been chartered for the occasion, and we met her at Seattle along in the month of mild September, having gone overland from the Columbia with the intention of taking all the trout from the brooks and lakes in the vicinity of Olym pia and Steilacoom. before the grand on- slaught for sea fish at Chuckernut bay, Nanaimo,Victoria,and on to Sitka if found 11Ccessary. Purser Goodhue, Capt. Hays, r. . r. -, ,-, 11t. M,Qf.0,.,i i.;iiu.- iim 11 ii' . ;i 1 i 'i iiii v 1 i:v iLi:ViLit "William, will testify to Crandall's "exper ience" on that vo3rage. The people of Sreilacoom, of Olympia, and of Seattle, would dread to hear of his intentions to ever again return to those places with his hooks and lines. He is emphatically an expert on the trail of trout, frogs, suckers, and sich like game, but wc never heard of his catching a torn cod, and we should like to inquire, for information, where he gets his ileas from, for such a huid explanation of the process. School JSooJcs. I 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, Slate pencils, Blotting pads, a good as sortment of Stationery, Drawing paper, CA11D BO.UID, Perforated board, Ink, (Carmine, Purple and Black). Likewise a new slock of Crockery, Clocks and a large assortment of Lamp Chimneys, all of which will be sold cheap for cash. I. AW CASE, oltf Ckonanms st., Astoria, Just Received. A new stock of "Waterproof, Flannels, Prints, all varieties of Hoseing, and all kinds of Gloves; also a new stock of Oil Suits, suitable for "Win ter wear, and Uubber Boots, fitted for wear and tare, and the celebrated Mack intosh Hubber coats. All of which shall be sold as cheap as the cheanest. A. VAN HUSEN. Corner Main and Chenamus streets. Teacher Wanted. A Teacher, Male or Female, to teach in the District School, in District jNo. 3, Clatsop plains, Clatsop county, Oregon. Communicate to the undersigned. J. A. PACKARD, dS 2w Skipanon, Oregon. Excellent Those- Sugar Cured Hams, and that Fresh Roll Butter, Fresh Buckwheat, (this year's crop), Corn Meal, Cracked Wheat, llominy, etc, at Case's. ltf 1IEI AI4OXE. An Esteemed Citizen of Pacific Co. Found Bead Iy tlie Roadside. It is very seldom that a public journal ist is called upon to detail a more sorrow ful circumstance than the following, which occurred in Pacific county last week. The death of an aged and esteemed citizen, in a manner unaccountable, alone by the roadside, exposed to the elements of chill "Winter, with no kind hand to minister to his dying wants. Our Shoal water bay correspondent, under date of Oysterville, December 11th, furnishes the following particulars: Editor Asterian: Quite a gloom was cast over our quiet village last evening, by the announcement of the death of one of our much esteemed citizens, Samuel Augustus "Woodward. He was found dead about one mile from Mr. Stout's house, on the Peninsula. lie had been at Mr. Stout's for the purpose of hunting and trapping, on the 7th inst., and left the house and went out and killed some geese, and took them to the house, where he stayed a while, and again started with his gun to kill some more geese. That was the last that was seen or heard of him until yesterday, the 10th, when he was found dead, about one mile from the house lying on his back, as though he had laid down to rest, with his gun beside him. There were no marks or bruises upon his person, to indicate how he met his death. coroners' JURY REPORT. Coroner Lane summoned a jury, and proceeded at once to the place, and took charge of the body and conveved it to town where it received a christian burial. The verdict of the jury was as follews: Territory of "Washington, County ot Pacific ,. nmoned bj We, tno undersigned, jurors, summoned uy I.N.Lane, Coroner of Pacific county, Wash ington Territory, to inquire into tho cause of tho death of a person, (found dead on tho Weather-beach Prairie), after being duly sworn, do find that tho name of deceased was S. A. Woodward, born in tho State of Now York, and aged -13 years, From tho ovidenco, and all tho surrounding circumstances under which the body was discovered, do find that deceased came to his death from natural, or other unknown providential causes. (Signed), John Briscoe, Foronian, 11. Patterson, Frank J ewett, A. T. Harris, Joseph K. Briscoe, A. C. Hkkd. RELATIVES OF DECEASED. Mr. "Woodward leaves a brother on the isjand of Mauretas, in the Indian Ocean, and a sister in the State of Maine. Some other brothers are living in Iowa and Illi nois. He has lived here several years, and had many friends about Shoalwater bay, and was generally esteemed by all who knew him. X. Congressional Xews, From our San Francisco exchanges received by the Oriflamme, dates to the 9th, wc collate the following sum mary of Congressional actien: In the Senate on the 3d, Senator Mitchell introduced a bill granting the right of way to the Canyonville and Galesville Railroad, Southern Oregon, and one for another Custom house at Portland. Also, a resolution providing for ascertaining and paying losses sustained by citizens of Oregon by reason of Indian depredations,and a resolution instructing committee on commerce to inquire into the expedi ency oi constructing a harbor 01 ref uge for vessels at Port Orford. Bills were also introduced providing for the better protection of the northern and northwestern frontiers, to organ ize the territory of Pembina, and to aid in the execution of laws in Utah. Notice was also given of a bill to re peal so much of the Postal act as pro hibits weekly-papers from passing free of postage through the mails in the counties where printed. Merrill, of Maine, spoke upon his resolution instructing the committee on finance to consider the expediency of reporting a bill to provide for the resumption of specie payments Janu ary 1, 1875. His argument favored the plan providing that the Secretary of the Treasury shall issue, of 4-year certificates bearing 3.G5-100 interest, redeemable at par in United States notes or gold, at the option of the holders requiring banks to keep a moiety of their reserves in those cer tificates, and for the government to give notice January 1, 1875, that it will pay its notes in cash in New York; authorizing the government to negotiate a loan of $200,000,000 in, coin, at six per cent, per annum. The certificates, as fast as redeemed, may be paid out by the Secretary of the Treasury to satisfy claims against the government. Dawes introduced a bill to provide for the redemption of the loan of 1S5S. It authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue in exchange for $20,000,000 of these bonds an equal amount of bonds of funded loans; de clares it to be the pleasure of the United States to pay all coupon bonds Nof the loan of IS06 on the 1st of Jan uary, lb4, but allowing holders ot these bonds to exchange for 0 per cent, bonds within six months from that date. The bill was referred to the Committee of "Ways and Means. Piatt offered a resolution instruct ing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire whether Congress has con stitutional authority to create corpo rations for constructing railroads or canals penetrating two or more States and whether it has authority to reg ulate the rates of railroad transpor tation of existing roads, chartered by States, which by consolidation have continuous lines running through two or more States. . Committee of the house have agreed to a bill repealing the salary law. The bill provides for a reduc tion of Congressional pay, from $2, 500 to $5,000, beginning with the present Congress, and dating back to March 4th last, which will require the refunding of about $1,800 by each member from the amount received since that date. No mileage, station ery or other perquisites are allowed.. The provisions of the bill extend to all who are benefited by the Act re pealed, except when prohibited by the Constitution, and includes Cab inet and Bureau officers. The only exceptions to its operation are the President and the Judges of the Su preme Court, and in these cases a re duction of $5,000 is provided for in the President's salary after Grant's; term expires and, also, for a reduc tion in the salary of every new Jus tice of the Supreme Court. The Committee are not unanimous upon the bill, but agree to support it. I Many "Western and Southern mpm- bers will not support rL In the Senate on the Stli Windom introduced a bill to incorporate tho Southern Transcontinental Railroad. Company, and to grant the right of way through public lands to the same. Sherman introduced a bill to authorize the organization of Nation al Banks without circulation.. Sar gent introduced a bill, for reorganiz ing the clerical force of. the General Land Office. Logan introduced a bill to provide for'cheap and perma nent transportation for persons and freight between New York and Chi cago. In the House, on the Sth, under the call of States, a large number of bills were introduced and referred,, among them the follewing: To amend the internal revenue laws.. For the sale of timber land3 in Cali fornia and Oregon. For the im provement of Sacramento and Feath er rivers, California.. For public buildings in Olvmpiaand Port Town- 'send. For a wagon road 111 v ashing ton Territory. The Speaker present ed a communication from the Secre tary of the Navy, asking for an cxtra appropriation for his Department. The Secretary reviews the work that has been done and now in progress, a detailed account of which has been published, and estimates the amount necessary to fit our monitors and other vessels for active service and to keep the Construction Bureau at work, at $4,000,.000. If the force is to be increased and the double-tur-reted monitors Miantomah, Monad nock, and Puritan put in order, at least $10,000,000 more-will be need ed. The letter was referred to tho Committee on Appropriations. There are various places of amusement open in Astoria, now that the Winter of another year is upon us, and games for long evenings are popular. Frequently families gather together beneath the rays of a bright Kerosene light, the oil of which cost ten cents a gallon at Titus1 ville, and has passed across the con tinent, or around the Horn to this remote mid ice-o-lated locality with out netting a very considerable horn of water in it. The subdued enjoy ment of such parties is a bless ed thing to see. Naught is heard but the grating of the checker, tho click of the domino or the muflled rasp of the card, with an occasional observation such as, " "Whose turn is it?" ' My sell.?' '-How many you want' "Give me three," and the like. In hearty hand, and pocket, our worthy city marshal is a friend to the sailor, but when masters, mate and crew leave their vessel as if searching for snakes, and present an overdrawn; picture of the " jolly Tars on shore," Billy is in duty bound to make examples of them and intro duce them to the chokey, on Benton street,