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(i) & a- YoL 3. Astoria, Oregon, Saturday Morning, November 10, 1877. No. 135, -MnM'-J - J - H1JJ 3Jx jSiralu gystaefcra. ISSUED EVERY MORNING. (Monday Excepted), E. C. l$tr.LATS2 : PUISUSIIEB. Astorian Building, Cass SirceL Terms of Subscription-: ftcncd by Carrier, per week .2o Cents Sunt ly mail. -lour months .$.'$ 00 beat by mail, cue year. i) 00 Tree of 1'obtage to .Subscribers-. nS".Adrcrt,.ccmcnts inserted by taioyear at the rate of 51 -') per square per month. Transient adrertiinpr, by the day or week, fifty cents per square for each uiHution. To City Subscribers. There are -such frequent changes in the resi dencoof our city patrons that ire shall feel obliged to any who niaKc such changes if they u ill report the same to this onice. Olhei tvise vq shall not bo responsible for failures of the ciirier to deliver the paper piomptly and ccgularly to them. .Read J. Strauss' new ad.' SSuRemember tlie meeting of the greenback club, at the Court house, this evening. Everybody is rushing to J.Stra rss new grocery store. sgg..Thc greenback club will be ad dressed this evening by Mr. A. G. Ed jmunds. .1. Strauss sells the nicest, .and cheapest goods in town. best u-Its reported among the young people that .a, rising young limb of the bar will soon be spliced to one of our icity bells. Fully 25 er cent saved by buying at J. Strauss new grocery store. S-The grand dress hall for the 20th, at Liberty hall, to be riven by Iiescue engine company No. 2, is the j -leading topic of the day at Astoria. J. Strauss will pay he highest cash prices for fresh eggs and butter. JTixe Sunday Astorian, to-morrow will contain 40 columns of choice reading matter, miscellany, otry, etc. Single copies in news, po-, wrappers, postage paid 10 cents, at the Astorian business office. ... . . $2 JO. You can buy the best coal oiJ in patent faucet cans, at .1. Strauss. Jf38Tie third assessment of 25 Per ' .cent, on the capital stock of the Ore gon and Washington fish propagating .company has been levied, payable on -or before Is ovember 17th, to the treas urer at the First National Bank, Port land. - Something for laundrys to look at Chemical Olive soap, 80 cents a box, at J. Strauss'. "SuThe Weekly Astorian in sin gle wrappers, for sale at the Astorian, j business office to-day. Contains all the proceedings .of the fishermen's' meeting notes upon Oregon, etc., I .etc. Price 10 cents in wrappers. Just received -cousin, cultivated Strauss'. fresh Berlin. Wis cranberries, at J. SThe young ladies of Astoria will give a splendid entertainment at Lib eityhallon next Thursday evening, for the benefit of the Congregational church. A fine programme of select vocal and instrumental music will be given. Sugar cured bacon at piices that defy competitien: also, Chicago sugar! cured hams and breakfast bacon, best in the world, at J. Strauss. the - -.r -r, ' 3 JVIessrs. Bergman fc Berry have , centlv made some improvements at , . 1 ii i j men suiugnter House aim are now . :. i j. -j. it i -1 r f ?-. 1 , - , n , tenor, that it would be impossible for averaging lifty head or cattle per day. them 'to catch their saw-dust on ac They supply the canneries and the ma-1 cmmfc of . from lorirv 01 snips 111 ion, ;mu a iariu share of the city trade. Energy, en terprise and polite attention is the secret of their success. ,..sn i,..if ., -Mmi Strauss ,ill &I.K. .Kill. !....., . more sugar for one dollar than any other store1 iii the citv. All the same in coffee, beans, peas, aud rice as with sugar, at J. m. Strauss'. Any friend who icels an interest in the pros- perity of this region, is authorized to act as Aeont for this paper, in precuring: subscribers, .."..Salem patent baker's flour, Impe rial, Magnolia and Albany flour, very cheap 4f P11? at STRAuss'f LOCAL JOTTINGS. The mail the past few days reach ing Astoria from eastern over and routes resembles a superanuated dish-rag. If 3011 want a little concentrated nastiness you will find plenty of it on the Astor street -crossing, in front of the Congregational church. Mr. John Hobson, whose absence from tim city for some time has been noted in business and social circles, returned on Tuesday evening. The subject of Rev. Mr. Bnrchett's discourse to-morrow A. M.. at the Baptish ahureh will be: 'God has spok en to us. And in the evening: Reason and Revelation.' The Bishop Scott grammcr School building was burned to the ground night before last The fire originated in the wood stored away in the base ment Loss 520,000. The books, furni ture, etc., etc. was nearly all saved. Want of water prevented rendering the ike engines useful The Fish Subject. Astoria, Nov. 5th, 1S77 En. Asterian: Dear Sir: I have been a citizen of Oregon for more than twenty-nine years, have read many articles on the interests (public and private) of Ore gon and of tliis ooast, but of all the questions that have handled by law yers, doctors, farmers, tradesmen and others, including woman's rights, I don't tliink any one has ever heard of so much ignorant, willful bungling as the Columbia river fish question has had. In the first place the people c n the lower Columbia began the salmon fishing business ignorant of what the future of the business would be. All was peace and quiet; pretty soon Humes and Hdpgood opened the busi ness of canning and put the fish on the market and soon made an immense fortune. It was soon noised abroad; everybody rushed in, some made mon ey while others lost, but the pell mell scramble for the fish on the Columbia Iris been ("unparalleled in the world's history except in the rush for gold in California. Now as the fish arc badly depopulated Jin the Columbia river, with the prospect of wholesale slaugh ter to be continued, and those who have nut up tons by the hundred of fish through ignorance of the business that has rotted on their hands that was lost to the market, and also three and four years ago the thousands of fish caught that the canneries could not put up, that lay and rotted on their hands, makes a sad histor3r to contem plate, especially by the manufacturers of lumber, leather, woolen goods, cot ton, mining, gas making, and 111 fact all the true interests of all our com mon country, who are called upon now to stop all their business transactions and wait for the fish in the Columbia river to recuperate without one restric tive law on theirside to stop the whole sale destruction of the fish. Such a law as these wiseacres of the Columbia river fish association could not pass Con gress; i'rst, because it would be an un constitutional law; second, because it would be unjust and restrictive to public as well as private enterprises which could not be borne by the com mon public. I am now speaking of section fifth of the bill as proposed by the fisher man's association for the Congress of the United States to pass and become a law. Now if it were possible to pass such a 1.1 w, what would become of woolen factories, tanneries, and two thirds of the saw mills of this coast? First, woolen factories would be com pelled to stop at once on account that their wastage cannot be picked up but is obliged, on account of its im mense volume, to be discharged into a stream large enough to cany ever thing on, and tanneries are just I in the same nx, and are not all the mines that " use quicksilver iust the j same' When it conies to saw mills, think of fl humlreds on thi3 coas .1 ,. , mat arc anven oy water 111 tne 111- to the lower part of the sash that holt's the saw. But it isi useless to discuss this nutter. If the fishermen on the ! Columbia river want the fish protected, w"y not ask congress to go right to the cause of all the treuble: ask con- crmca frv toco ci Iot rrt- oll.-ir- nn. ' ?r:: li . V"",":: IV:""" '" 1 nii':iii' iii wiiii'ii u'liiiifiii r.ii'ir ic LTiniri 1 W 7 -. . iD be a productive salmon, caught in the Columbia river or tributaries, in j the months of April and May, and irom tne mmuie or July to tlie hrst day or uctoper or eacii year, and in less than nve years you would not hear all tins ignorant clamor about this Portland board of trade, mills, woolen, factories, and tanneries, whch institu- tions never killed a salmon in Oregon. I The disposition of the people seems to I be to put burdens on other peoples shoulders in order to directly benefit themselves. Now what I do say is this. By all the parties is this, there has been a disposition Upon the part of both parties to over-reach and to wrong the public, to private interest, which I hope, if congress does take ac tion at all in this matter, that it will meet with due consideration and pass such restrictive laws on the canneries, salting establishment, and on the fish ermen as will compel them to allow the fish in the Columbia river to recu perate and not put unjust burdens on other enterprises of the fcountry, that is worth more to the present and fu ture interests of our common country than the fish interest. 4. Yours Respectfully j. c. t. TOWING THE OBELISK. ; f Kot7 Cleopatra's Neej&lo "was Con voyed through, tlioj Mediterranean- Dispatch to the London News. Scur.w Stxamkr Olga, Xe:irng Algiers, Oct. 2, 1877. Our voyage hitherto has been suc cessful, though slow, and the Cleojja tra behaves splendidly seems light as a cork, rising to every wave, but pitch ing tremendously. 1 have counted as many as seventeen times a minute that her nose has been under water, and then ten or twelve feet above it; but in the worst weather she doesn't show a sign of rolling. The drum on the bow acts as a splendid breakwater, and takes all the force of a head sea from the front of the cabin. We are towing her now with nearly the full length of the wire iope out, and she steers first rate. We had some trouble at first in calm weather with the shorter cable, when she "yawed" about terribly, but they tightened up the steering cnams, ana witn more- rope she now follows straight in our wake. She offers much more resist ance to the sea than I anticipated, and I think would have been better with sharper bows and stern. She drives the water off her bows even in fine weather in a mass of foam, and her starn is all in broken w.ter. With fa vorable wind she carries sail, but it does not appear to help her much. The maximum speed that we have made is a little over six knots with fa vorable wind, which is two knots or two and one-half less than the Olga's usual speed, when heavily loaded, but a head wind brings us down below five at once. We have had but one casualty. On the 31st ult. Carter signalled, "Stop; want assistance," and it was soon evi dent that the tow line had parted from the Uleopatra and liung down over our stern. It took some time to haul in the wire rope by purchase tackle and steam winch at first and then by hand. When the end came up we found the thimble on the end of the tow line was gone and the eye broken through. "We turned the rope end for end, so as to give the other end to Carter. This w;is not done much be fore midnight, when we made up to the Cleopatra and, as tlie nicnt was very dark and somewhat stormy, told Carter we must wait for daylight; so lay to and dodged about until 5 a. m., when we passed him the other end of the wire rope and fastened it on with an anchor shackle to the bridle chain, made fast at one end to the clamp on the stern post, and the other passed round the drum. This gave us the first opportunity of speaking to Carter since we started. He reported the ship U right and wa ter tight, fixings all right; the upper bolts of chain sheaves, crab winch, &c, had leaked a little at first, and given some trouble, but they had stop ped all with cement. I thought Carter looked careworn; he must have had a terribly anxious time, and is constant ly on deck, as his boatswain is laid up with congestion of the liver. He can get no rest day or night, and I wonder how any one can sleep in such a "rock ing horse," pitching almost constantly fifteen times a minute. We should reach Gibralter on the Gth inst., and even if we have tine weather can't cal aulnte on reaching Falmouth in less 1 than nine or ten days, so we may hope to drop anchor there, "Inshallah," any tune uetwecii me jloui ami -uui . -l 1 ii- isii. .! on! inr,' ms The love of life, tl.R desire for health and paion for wealih, are throe of the strongest laws th:it operate in the broasst ol the human fumily. "Wherever life can be mot prolonged, health b-t secured, and wealth mos-tea&ily acquired, there the tide of emigration and population is as sure to flow as the needle points to the north pole. It is the growing knowledge thnt all this is "true ot Oregon that is caus ing it to attract ?q much puhlip attention and draw so many farmers, emigrants, touribts and capitalists to copae fladenjoy and profit by tfiem, Discrepancies in Standard Works. Gazetteers, encyclopedias, and hand books for statistical reference, are be coming so very unreliable that it is really a matter of doubt whether there are at tills time any books of this class that can be thoroughly indorsed by the press of the country. The best gauge to apply as a test is to take the words of the work as prepared for your own immediate locality. For instance: Recently we had occasion to refer to the statistics contained in a small hand-book to ascertain the rates of interest in the various states of America. Glancing down the column to Oregon we were told that here the legal rate of interest is six per cent, per annum. Knowing that the fig ures were incorrect, that fact threw discredit upon the entire tables, so far as we were concerned, and it could not, consequently, be taken as a certain basis for the calculation for other states. So with Appleton's latest work. We at one time believed Ap pleton's cyclopedia to be par excel lence. But let any Astorian refer to the notes about Astoria, and it is enough to throw discredit upon the entire publication; because, if the com piler of the interest tables in one book, and the editor of another (like Appleton's), is not better informed than to make such glaring blunders as we refer to, there is no telling whether what is prepared upon other subjects is reliable data or not. So with another work of tliis nature, re csntly published, wherein, speaking with respect to the productions of tho xarious states, Oregon is rated as an immense wheat growing region, dis credit is thrown upon the contents of the entire book by the single remark that while Oregon produces such im mense crops, "it will not stand long "voyages, and the main dependence "of the people is upon lumber." It is an established fact that Oregon wheat and Oregon flour turns out as well in European markets after long voyages as wheat or flour from anr other quarter of the globe, near or re mote; and that instead of lumber be ing our main dependence, but very few cargoes are annually exported, and there is almost always a scarcity in the home markets for building op erations. It is unfortunate for the country, and discreditable to publish ers, that facts are not more closely ad hered to in publications of this nature. LATE 0LD WORLD NEWS- "Tho Labor Trouhles in England The Now York Masons- From Associated Tress Dispatches. The strike in the Bolton cotton mills has not terminated. The men decline to resume work unless the em ployers guarantee to revise the stand ard lists and exchange the bases of re adjustment before Feb. I, next. The Staffordshire colliers are voting whether they will accept the reduction insisted on by the proprietors. Five thousand colliers are idle, and 2,000 more go out on Saturday. The forty-eight masons who arrived from New York in the Elysia on the 23d inst., to work on the1 new law courts, were met by the English stnk: er3. The strikers were dispersed by the police, and the Americans remain ed under the care of their employers, who assured them of protection and plenty of work at good wages. At a meeting of London masons held on the 25th. Mr. Broadhurst a trades union leader, said the American me sons who recently landed had Tieen in duced to come to England upon false representations that the strike had terminated. They had now discovered the real state of affairs, and forty-two out of the forty-eight imported Amer icans had voluntarily joined the strike. Two of the Americans addressed the meeting, promising to support the strike. The Bolton masters have empower ed their committee to consider the standard lists, with a view to more equitable adjustment, but declined to give and guarantee. They have re solved not to reopen their mills until the operatives agree to, this arrange ment, JY ITEMS. ick, dealer in fruits Lewis river, has a from t choice to-day. Corner of main Chenamis streets. ating appi&s 7.i cents: cooking 50 cen pears 75cents : eggs 50 cents, and e in proportion at io satisfy yourself. zerth: ....S lamps, and the best of oil at 11. Alexander & Co.'s. Crockery sold at B. Alexander & Co.s for the next 30 days at San Fran cisco cost. Kinney's compressed corned beef and Tillamook clams at retail at E. S. Larsen's and Ilickmott & Bailey's. Mrs. Arrigoni is furnishing good rooms with board at from $( to $7 and upwards per week, according to location. Choice new sets of crockery, very unique and novel ; also the self-righting "spittoon." that always keeps upright, just received and selling at prices to suit the times, at I. "W. Case's. You can always get fresh oysters in every style and at all hours, day or night, at the Central Coffee Saloon, Con conily street, between Benton and La fayette. Thos. McFarland, proprietor. Dry goods, millinery and notions cheap for thirty days at the Bee Hive. The Dance of Life, an answer to the Dance of Death, at the Circulating Library. Dr. F. P. nicks, dentist, rooms in Dr. "Welch's building, on Squemoqha street, offers his services to the public of Astoria. reter Runey is still in the market with all kinds of building materials in his line. Has iust received 100,000 lath, 1 000 bushels of sand, ami a large stock o first quality of brick at his warehouse foot of Benton street. Stoves and fall goods for house keepers in great variety at L. P. Rich man & Co's. ....The "Dance of Life," an answer to the Dance of Death, by Mrs. J. M. Bowers. For sale at the City Book Store. Single men feel like marrying when they see the Medallion range at Uagnus C. Crosby's. or Main pro prietor. ...Fresh oysters in every style at Sclnneer's. White wire goods in every style, at Magnus C. Crosby's. Dr. B. R.Freeland has located per manently in Astoria for the practice of dentistry. Office in Shuster's building, on Cass street, next door to The Asto kiax office. j22fPhotographs! The latest styles taken nt Shuster's new gallery, Cas st., next to the Astorian office. JZi For clean towels, sharp razors, and an easy shave, go to Gillespie at Par kkr House Baths. Hair cutting, sbam poonmg, and dyeing. AKOTJIER VICTORY GAINED IN FA VOR OF SPECIE PAYMENTS. After this date, com will he used for change, and tickets dispensed with; all drinks and cigars five and ten cents, at the Chicago House, Main street, Astoria. 2ST. WELMAN. Astoria, Oct. 3, 1877. J. Straltss is fully prepared to sell you the best of teas cheaper than you have ever bought on this coast. SOMETHING NEW For Glassware, Crockery, Powder ami Shot, Gun Wads. Percussion Caps. in fact everything that is useful as well as ornamental, go to .1. W. (learhart, who sells cheap for cash. Goods delivered free of charge. Canary Birds. for sale at Gilles pie's, Parker hou-e baths. Ship-master's Reaping Room. Mr. Peter Wilhelm has permanently fitted up a ship-master's reading room in con nection with the Gem saloon in Astoria, The latest shipping papers and home ward and outward bound shipping lists are kept on file. Telegraph office next door. Avery large stock of can goods, such as table and pie fruit, jelly, jam, honey, tomatoes, corn, beans, sugar peas,, oysters, corn beef, condensed milk, etc! at prices to suit the times at J. Strauss' Remember Cornart's soiriee at Liberty hall this evening. Admission. 7A) cents. Ladies free. 1. Strauss has just received a large lot of Alden dried apples, pears, plums, blackberries, raspberries and pitless cherries, which he will sell very low, to make roqm for more which will arrive on the steamer Chester. Isen will receive for the hol. fmest lot of iewelrv ever nt- rYstoria, ar-d at San Francisco Don't, forirct the place. Can field tore, Chenamus street. r T c . . .For 20 days only, I will sell crock-' cry, lamps, glassware, table and pocket cutlery at San Franpisco wholesale prices, in order to make room for one 0 tlie largest and. best selected stocks of the same ynd, of goods now on the rwy from New York, for J. Stbauss South J side of Cten,aiau3 street' AstqriaQrepon; W5rt. McCortu k) farms of c 01 annias aM wiry thing 3 Callafd ramdic lioardand lodging by the day week at the Astoria Beer nail. street, Astoria. Peter Daviscourt, f 1'4K I HAT ferJdaL iflwS
