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iS) j!& gaals &$l$xxm. ASTORIA. OREGON: D. C. IBELAXD Editor. "WEDNESDAY Oct. 10, 1877 Bails for "Workingmen. To judge hy the number and eager ness of the bids -which are put in for the workingman's vote, it must be the most valuable asset that a political!0110 parky can possess, and if the promises that are made shall be kept, every workingman in the country will be a capitalist within about a month after Congress meets. It is pretty -well set tled that he is to have a share in the dividends and profits of the corpora tions -which employ him; he is to be relieved from any competition which he does not like; he is going to fix his own hours of labor; he will soon be able to borrow money at a merely nominal rate of interest, if, indeed, he is not raised above the need of paying interest by having an unlimited supply of greenbacks, and it all of these ad vantages do not succeed in electing the highest bidder to ollice, why Uncle Sam will turn in and give everybody easy work at high wages, with short hours, and for an indefinite period of time. "With all this bright future only waiting for an act of Congress to bring it about; it would be criminal cruelty in the President to postpone the ses sion, and if Congress meets on the loth of October, we may expect the mil lennium to begin about the 1st of De cember if it begins at all. But before counting on it, it would be well to count the chances of its coining, as politicians have before this been known to make promises which were not ful filled afterwards. We would not doubt the good will of Congress, nor its firm intention to do everything for the workingman that could be done at the expense of somebody else, but it may happen that some of its good inten tions may be beyond the reach of an act of Congress. Capital, for instance, is very mulish, and if, as a conse quence of Congressional interference with its profits, it should withdraw from employing labor altogether, it is hard to see how Congress could com 2el it to stark to work again. The chief caust why labor needs so much Congressional dry-nursing is the with drawal of capital, and Congress has not found any means of compelling a resumption of business on the part of those who have abandoned it; it is not likely to better the situation by com pelling a further abandonment by those who still remain. As for the eight-hour law, the trouble is that there are too many men who can not get even eight hours' work in a day; that men who would be glad to work ten hours a day can not get work for six hours. An eight hour law would be a poor consolation for a man who could not obtain work for any hours at all, and would do him :is much good as reducing the rate of interest when there is no one who pro pose to lend him money at any rate of interest. There must be something wondei fully fascinating in the pros pect of borrowing money at the rate of exactly 3 G5-100 per cent., or it would not be held up so temptinslv before the Workingmaii's party; but we do not believe that tho working- men aro generally borrowers of money; when a bank breaks there are precious few workingmen's notes among the doubtful assets, although there may be lmndreds of workingmen whose sav ings go in a single failure. As far as the workingman is concerned, it makes little dili'erence whether the current rate of interest is 3 per cent, or 30. His experience has been that wages have been highest when interest has been highest, but his reason teaches him that a low rate of interest may tempt those investments on which he depends for steady and remunerative employment. But if the workingman can not be made a sharer in the profits of capital, and can hot be helped by an eight hour law nor by an interest law, if he may not hope to get even hi3 share of an issfue of greenbacks, there is one thing which.Congress can-do for him; it caii build railroads, straigliten rivers, dig canals, and thus give him employ ment. Does anybody really suppose that Congress ought to do it, or would do it? The Philadelphia Times, which puts this forward as a panacea, esti mates that there are 10,000 men idle in Philadelphia, and 30,000 in tire rest of Pennsylvania. At the low rate of $30 a month for each man, it would take $2-4,000,000 to satisfy Pennsylva nia for one year. Now, it is very cer tain that the State of Pennsylvania never would vote to add $24,000,000 to its debt to pay for works which no else would pay for, and it is equally certain that no Pennsylvanian in the United States Congress would l vote for work to be done at the ex pense of Pennsylvania, the cost of which was not disbursed in Pennsyl vania, and it is foolish to suppose that Penns3lvania, or any other State, is going to be relieved at the expense of the rest of the community. If we spend $24,000,000 for Pennsylvania, we must spend $300,000,000 for the rest of the country, and at the end of the year be just where we were when we started. Any honest attempt to follow out any of these schemes of relieving labor at the public expense ends in an ab surdity. If it is the park of sound wisdom for the Federal government to come directly to the relief of labor, it must be sounder wisdom for local au thority to do it, but from what source can tho means be obtained excex)t from the resources of private citizens? A state or city has no money except what it takes from the people, and in a free country and under a free government it can not take their money from the people to employ it in a way in which they would not employ it. What government can do is to keep its hands oft", to cease interfering with the nat ural laws of industry, of trade and of finance, to lop off its excrescences, di minish its exj)enses, withdraw into its sphere, and cease to meddle where it can only mar. If all the evils which trouble the country were resolved into their constituent elements, they would be found to spring one half from bad laws and the other half from high taxes, and the man who proposes to lessen the evils by making more bad laws and adding on more taxes, ought to be shut up, like Polonius, that he may play the fool no where save in his own house, and the less of such bait that is taken by the workingmen the better for them and all others. A Balky Horse. It is a very pro voking thing to have a horse balk. No man realizes how helpless he is until he has used up a firstclass whip and broken all the clubs in the neigh borhood on the stubborn back of a balky horse. There is nothing to fall back upon but the driver's own store of invective, and, as a general thing, the animal is utterly indifferent to all the scathing epithets which arc heaped on his head, Any man who brings forward a plan to circumvent a balky horse may be regarded as a benefactor to humanity in general. Such a man resides in Broomfield, Mass. His horse balked, and in a few minutes there was the usual dearth of missiles in the vicinity. The wagon was loaded with hay, and so a happy thought struck the Broomfield man. He placed a bundle of hay under the animal and set the dry material on fire. The ex cessive stability of the horse instantly JiM,,,i o, o,i,ii.r a,, a locomotive force displayed itself with the most remarkable rapidity. Even the neighbors who were opposed to this Pittsburg method of promoting a horse's ambition, admit that the cure was complete, but unfortunately the hay load took fire and the horse ran into the barn and the experiment cost the owner $10,000. The atmosphere of Oregon is pure and cheerful, warm and balmy; life i longer, health is better and more enjoyable, when the ordinary law of such are attended to, than in any state in the Union, or in anjT country in Europe. There is a good market in Oregon for agricultural products, owing to tshort tranhportation to the Pacific Ocean, and direct exportation to nil parts of the world, Railroad facilities. Navigable rivers, including the great Columbia. Newspaper advertising compels inquiry, and when the article offered is of good quality ana at a fair price, the naut. ral result is increased sales. The N. P. R. Co. in Olympia. On the 5th inst, in the Olympia As sembly, afier reading of the journal, Mr. Ringer presented House Memorial No. 1 relative to extending the time for build ing the Northern Pacific ralroad. The memorial recommends an extension of time on ihe following conditions enly: 1. The X. P. R. Co. shall not charge more than $2 ,"0 per acre for their lands. 2. All sales or transfers of lands shall Like place through the land office, such sales to be made only to acmal settlers. 3. Time of said building shall be limi ted by law. 4. In case of failure to build, all lands shall revert to tlie territory. o. The railroad shall pay taxes on all earned lauds. The memorial was referred to the com iniitce on memorials, with insirueiions to report at 10 o'clock, a. m., on Satur day. A memorial was also introduced by Mr. Hanford asking Coogress to restore all unearned lands withdrawn by the main line of the Northern Pacific rail road north of Tacoma, and to transfer the grant of the Northern Pacific rail road branch line acroes the mountains to the Seattle and A Valla AValla railroad company. They were made the special order for 2 p. m., next day, and no doubt an interesting debate would be had at that time. The Oregonian says: "Referring to the memorial introduced in the legi:la tive assembly of AArashington territory asking the transfer of the land grant of the northern branch of the Pacific rail road to the Seattle and AValla AValla railroad company, the Tacoma Herald says: The question is simply a local one and the memorial is offered simply to gratify individual and selfish interests. Any bill designed to defeat the early completion of the Northern Pacific rail road bears with itself positive opposi tion to progress in the Northwest.' The memorial and this statement regarding it are outcroppings of the rivalry exist ing between Seattle and Tacoma.'' Now, Bro. don't you suppose that Portland's board of trade had a hand in this mat ter? The Prick of Wheat. Wheat ought to be one dollar and fifty cents per bushel all over the Wallamet valley. San Francisco pays from $2 to S2 25 per cental. A cental of wheat is a bushel and two-thirds of a bushel. Wheat afloat at Astoria is always worth as much as wheat atloat at San Francisco. Ordinance No. 223. J An Ordin authorizing the Chief of To- lice to ; hie; for Wll it thed delimit speeial deputy and nruvid- ensation. le Charter of the city make &t!ft? Chief of Police to collect the - ot the city, adding thereto the perccnKgctsiixed by the general law, all of which Anso l)$ paid into the Treasury, and wncruns.fuc pamormanee ot tuc duty in per son by tlif Chief of Police is calculated to in terfere with his other duties : Therefore, The city of Astoria does ordain as follews: Skc. 1. That the Chief of Police be. and he is hereby authorized and empowered to ap point a special deputy for the purpose of col lecting the delinquent taxes due on the tax roll of 1S77. Skc, 2. That said deputv shall be entitled to receive out of the Treasury on a claim au dited in the usual manner as, and by wav of compensation for the services a sum equal to live per cent, on the amount of all delinquent taxes collected by him. Passed the Council, Oct. 1, 1877. PPtANK J. TAYLOR, Auditor and Clerk. Approved, Oct. 3, 1877. 1). C. IRELAND, Mayor. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. is nionev in the treasury of Clat- to pay ail orders presented prior mn. anvil orders win cease to t from and after this loth day of J. W. OEAHHAItT. re:isurcr of Clatsop countv. 10, 1S77. dst-wlt For Tillamook. THE STEAMER GEX. CA3H3Y, xxsm jiTBg "Will be dispatched from Astoria to Tilla mook on THURSDAY, OCT. 11, 1S77. For freight or passage apply at Astoria to W. S. KINNEY. Great Bedtjctioint IN PRICES!! THE PIONEER Boot & sioE v :iijcy QMlKl is eouu tJht i Mr ih mrf- TiLere sop CjiuHjiy hi jm aw, dray irate: ucjruepyb.x. i X.r Astoria, uct STORE Corner of Cass and Squemocqha streets. ASTORIA, OREGON. FOR THE IJEXT THIRTY DAYS I WILL SELL ALL MY LARGE STOCK OF Mens', Boys', Ladies', Miss es and Children's BOOTS AND SHOES At a considerable reduction from previous prices, many kinds AT COST! C. J- SMITH, Prop. MISCELLANEOUS. PACIFIC MUTUAL Life Insurance Company OF CALIFORNIA. J. C. CA1SROIL Geo. A. 3IOttJ:E.... President ..Vice President ASSETS GOLD COM BASIS - $1,800,000 Tola! Death claims paid, over - - 700 000 HOME OrFICE, 41 SECOND STREET. SACRA3I ESTO. CALIFORNIA. BRANCH OFFICE ASTORIA, OREGON, OFFICERS: I. W. CASE President C.S. WRIGHT Vice President C. BROWN Secretary .1. Q. A. 1JO WL15Y Attoruev M. D. JENNINGS... Medical Examiner EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE : R. SPEDDEX, C. J. TRENCIIARD. K. WARREN. J.W. OEARIIART, 11. ALEXANDER. DIRECTORS: I. W. CASE, C S. WRIGII T, C. BROWN. J. W.GEARKART, It. ALEXANDER, It. It. SPEDDEN, C.J. TRENCH ARD M. D. JENNINGS. C. P. LT PSI I lR, W. 1 1. T WIL iGI IT, D. K. WAR REN, J. Q. A. RO WLDY. F. D. WINTON. II. L'.GEARilART, C.A. McGUIRE, Applications for Insurance may be made to auy member of tbe Board. All receipts of this oflice loaned in Astoria. No provision for our bcirs is adequate that is not immediate, for death may be imme diate. Life Insurance tends to reduce taxation by its reduction of paunerism and possibility of crime. It is a national blessing and will at no distant day be universally adopted. The Life Insurance companies of the coun try disbursed over .$7G,OOO.ooo to their patrons in 187(. Death Claims, Dividends and Ma tured Endowments. Policies issued by the Pacific Mutual. are fiee from the usual rertrictions on travel. C. BROWX, Resident Agent. G. MY. CAREY, General Agent, Salem, Ogn. A. 15. C'OYALT, Portland. Oregon, General Manager Northwestern Department. Astoria, October 2, 1877. 3m NEW GOODS! NEW PRICES! GEORGE W. C0RNART, Is constantly receiving the finest assortment OF BLANK HOOKS. STATIONERY. OFFICE FIXTURES AND NOTIONS. ALL TJ IE LATEST PUBLICATIONS OF SHEET MUSIC AND MUSICAL IXSTItUaiKSTS. Agent for Sherman it Hyde's Pianos and Organs sold on Installments. ALSO FIXE IMrOUTED AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AND TOBACCO, CONSTANTLY ON HAND. North side of Chenamus street, between Cass and Mam - - - Astoria, Oregon. J. H. D. GRAY, "Wholesale and retail dealerrin. FLOUR, FEED, OATS, HAY, STRAW, WOOI, etc., Also wholesale dealer in Shoalwater Bay OYSTERS, lteceivcd fresh from the bed four times a week. On the wharf foot of Uenton street, Astoria, Oregon. BUILDING MATERIALS. JUST AltltlVED: 40,000 BRICK ; 100 WINDOWS; AND- 200 DOORS; WHICH WILL TJE SOLD AS LOW AS ANY HOUSE IN OREGON. LAIN & FERGUSON, Astoria. Oreson ARNDT & FERCHEN, BLACKSMITHS AXD MACHINISTS jtc3- Foot of Washington Streot, jr wJ&t. near Kinne s' 1 ihery. k?$$ "2 ASrUKlA.UUEGON.-saSie HAVING SECURED AN ENGINE AND Latho. and tho best of workmanship, we aro now prepared to do ALL KIN US OF CASNEEY WORK. ENGINE AND STEAMBOAT WORK OF ANY DES CRIPTION. 13 Horse-shoeing, repairing, and all kinds of blacksmithing promptly attended to at rea sonable rates. E. S. AIELIR1LL & CO., Blacksmiths and Machinists. All work in our line, heavy or lijrht, done with neatness nnd dispatch. HORSESHOEING, AVAGON, AND Farm "Work a Special!-. HAVING SECURED TI1E SERVICES OF Mr. S. A. Gaines of Ky., an experienced Farrier of 25 years in tho business, and woll known to Astoria horsemen, we aro prepared to do shoeing in a manner to euro lameness or pre vent it in Ijorscs entrusted to our care. R55-A11 woV wan-anted and. at reasonable rncs. A Capt-IIOGEKS' OLD STAND & Near Express Office. V&A W ASTOlilA. - OREGON. C AUCTION SALES. E. C. HOLDEN, AUCTIONEER and COMMISSION AGENT CHEXAMUS ST. ASTORIA. OREGON. Corsipnments respectfully solicited, bills col lected and return- promptly made. Kejrnlnr Sales Day. Saturday, Refer by permission to CS. WRIGHT, WAliltEX & MrGUfRE J Ion-. J. Q. A. DOW LB Y A. VAN 1USEN. J.W.tJEAUHART. T.. C. 2IOIj12-:3. Auctioneer. B. S. "WOKSLEY. AUCTION & COMMISSION MERCHANT, Office, on Main street opposite Washingto Market. SA"L5S IAIJ.Y From 7 to 9 o'clock P. M. Regular Sales Bay, Sat izrdny. at 10 OX'Iock A. HI. Will purchase anl sell real e.tatc, merchan dise, furniture, etc. Consignment- respectfully "olicitcd. Diasrams and terms to be had on application to the Auctioneer. L S. WOKSLEY HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. R. II. CAKDWKLL. C. II. PERKINS Parker House Hotel, Corner Main and Coneomly streets, ASI'ORIA, OREGON. Cardwcll & Perkins, Proprietors. rpiIIS IS THE LARGEST HOTEL IN AS A toria. new ami now furniture, furnished in first cla8 style. The table will be supplied with the best tho market afford-. Accomodations to suit tho times, from 1 2" to S2.".U per day. Steamer? and sail boat? leave the wharves and slips near tho Hotel, daily for Fort Ste vens, Fort Canby, Skipanon, Fort CIntson Sen Side, Ocean Ucach, Knappton, Chinook, Unity, Oystervil'o and other p!aces of resort in this vicinity. itij'Thcro aro now five largo salmon can neries in Astoria, which employ over 12U0 per sons in the various branches of tho business, making Astoria a it now is, pointof interest to visitors, independent of its cool invigorating summer climate. UNION HOUSE. Cor. Squemoeqlui and Lni'iu ette Streets, ASTORIA, OREUON. rjlHIS HOUSE HAYING BEEN" JL newly re-painted and furnished throughout is now open to the accommoda tion of the public. fcBfThe house being in new hands now can guarantee satisfaction. Io:ird and Lodging per "Week $." OO Hoard per Weelc 4 Ol MItS. M. E. TUltNEK, Proprietress. QCCIDENT HOTEL, A. J. MEGLER, C. S. "WRIGHT, Proprietors. Astoria , Oregon. Tho Proprietors are happy to announce tha tho above Hotel has been Repainted and Refurnished, Adding greatly to tho comfort of its guest3 AND IS NOW THE BEST HOTEL NORTH OF SAN FRANCISCO. OYSTERS I OYSTERS ! SERVED IN EVERY STYLE AT SCHJIEERS CONFECTIONERY AND Refreshment Saloon. All kinds of French, German and American Candies constantly on hand, wholesale and retail at the lowest cash price. ALSO "Wedding cakes made to order on short notice. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT. "WATER STREET ROADWAY. Opposite Oregon Steam Navigation Company's Wharf ASTORIA OREGON. Tho above now Restaurant will bo open from and after to-morrow, Sunday. January 7th, lS7o, D. UUSAN1C1I & CO. Proprietors. ) EQT'ALTOTIIEBEST,ANI -Chcap as tho Cheapest, at J Tiik AsrouiAN Ofkire. E. C. HOLDEN. L. LAUGHERY.. HOLDEN & LAUGHERY, UPItOIiSTEKERS AXI) FITRXI TVIU3 1EATjEKS, At tho old stnnd-IIOLDEN'S AUCTION: ROOMS on Chenaraua street. All kinds, of upholbteiy and cabinet work done to ordej. .Manufacturers of Lounges, Spring Beds, AND Ofanysizo and quality. Picture Frames and Furniture Manufac tured, or Repaired by Experienced Workmen. ESrSecond band Kurnituro bought and sold; OREGOI BAKERY, Holladay's Whaif. Main Streot, -storia, Ogn. , BREAD, CAKES, PLEfcv ' PASTRY! CRACKERS,E1C, TO1LL RESERVED TO PATRONS V Y of the Oregon Bakery of which C. Binder deceased, was proprietor, tho same as. usual, by Mrs. CHARLES 1UNDLU. First Chus Laker employed, and perfect; satisfaction guaranteed. AU orders, largo 00 small, promptly filled on short notice. i'at- ronage of tho public is respectfully solicited. MRS C1IAS. BIN JJER.. "D ATHS, BATHS, Hot, Cold. Shower, g Steam and s SULPHUR Baths- Occident Hotel Shaving Saloon. NlEDERAUKi: tfc UlILEXHART, Proprietors. CB" Special attention paid to LADIES' and CHILDREN'S HAIR CUTTING - 0" Private Entranccfor LadiesJfc g(y 'T