0) v Vol. xiv. Astoria, Oregon, Friday Morning, April 8,. 1881. 2Jo. 83. GENERAL EASTERN NEWS. KY MAIL AND TKMWSKAril. cn. S. Itull'.s Itesiniciil. St. Paul, April G. Advices have been received at lieadquar tors of the department of Dakota that twenty-six lodges of Indians from Sitting Bull's camp are with in fifty miles of Poplar river en route to Buford to surrender. iNine or ten bucks have already arrived, bringing this announce ment. Sitting Bull, they say, will follow wIkmi the snow goes. Tlir Jlorition Hcrlslnio. New Vokk, April Gth. The Times, commenting on the decision in the Miles case, says: The Mor mons have gained a point. Until congress amends the law of evi dence in Utah, so that all and several wives are competent wit nesses on indictments for bigamy, convictions for this offense will be difficult if not impossible. PacMc Railroad Sinking Fund. New York, April G. To-day the United States assistant treas urer here received orders to sell bonds to the government for the Pacific railroad sinking fund. This is the first time public offers of bonds have been solicited for this fund, and it is worthy of mention, that Windom's first departure is a creditable one. The idea being to accept those which will pa' this sinking fund the best returns. The offers amounted to $1,000,000. The government at Berlin is preparing a bill to regulate and check emigration. Since the death of Carlylc some of his worshippers are making it unpleasant for Minister Lowell by quoting his remarks of some years since about the Scotch writer. Referring to Carlyle's history Mr. Lowell said: iCHe goes about with his Diogenes dark lantern, profess ing to seek a man, but invariably resolved to find a monke'." A few weeks ago, the great val ley of the Sacramento, from the coast hills on the west to the Sierras on the east, was covered with water, and presented the ap pearance of a vast inland sea. No system of embankments or levees would have .been of any use to the millions of acres of land that were submerged; the mighty volume of water was rolling down from the mountain sides, and if the level lands had been measurably guard ed, the height of the flood wotrhl have been the greater. Tlierc can be no protection against overflow, unless the straits at Benicia are enlarged, or a new outlet found to the ocean. It will be necessary for those who are figuring upon the reclamation of the swamps to follow the same policy that for thousands of 3'ears has been fol lowed by the dwellers in the valley of the Nile. The floods must be expected, and efforts made only to create a few dry and elevated places for the towns and the dwell ings. Yhen the wateis subside, the most must be made of the lands that have been made acces sable, and if they will not produce wheat and vegetables, those who own them must introduce the cultivation of crops that are bene fitted instead of destroyed by the freshets. Mothers ! Mothers ! I Mot hern ! ! ! Are jou disturbed at night and broken of vour rest by a sick child suffering and crying with the excruciating pain of cutting teeth ? If so, go at once and get a bottle of Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, it will relieve the poor little suf ferer immediately depend upon it; there is no mistake about it There is not a mother on earth who has ever used it, who will not fcH you at once that it will regulate the bowels, and give rest to the mother, and relief and health to the child, operating like magic. It is perfectly safe to use in all cases, and pleasant to the taste, and Is the pre scription of one ot the oldest and best female physicians and nurses in the United States. Sold everywhere. 25 cents a bottle. SITTING BULL. His Speech Before the Sioux Com mon Council. Iteprt4 It the Boownstlt; Bi'I Xy. The following speech of Sitting Bull has been specially translated and reported by our Indian editor, who is also wholesale and retail dealer in deceased languages, and sen oral ajrent for home-made Sioux rhetoric and smoke-tanned Indian eloquence. New laid Indian la ments with bead trimmings. Com piler of novel and desirable styles of war dances. Indian eloquence furnished to debating ciubs and publishers of school readers: Warriors, and war-scarred vet erans of the frontier. Once more our war path is overgrown with bunch grass, and the tomahawk slumbers in tle wigwam of the red man. Grim-visaged war has given place to the piping times of peace. The cold and cruel winter is upon us. It has been upon us for some time. The wail of de parted spirits is on the night wind, and the wail of the man with the chilblain answers back from the warrior's wigwam. Children of the forest, we are few. "Where once the shrill war whoop of the chief tain collected our tribe like the leaves of the forest, I might now yell till the cows come home with out brinfnnr out a quorum. We arc fading away before the march of the paleface, and sinking into oblivion like the snowflake on the bosom of the Stinking Water. Warriors, I am the last of a might race. We were a race of chief tains. Alas! we will soon be gone. The Bull family will soon pass from the face of the earth. Ole is gone, and .John is tailing, and 1 don't feel very well myself. We arc the victims of the paleface, and our lands are taken away. But a few more suns and the civiliza tion, and valley tan, and hand made sour mash, and horse liniinent of the paleface will have done their deadly work. Our squaws and pappooses are scattered to the four winds of heaven and we arc left desolate. Where is The-Daughter-of-thc-Tcmpest? Where is The-Wall-Eyed-Maiden-With-The-Peeled-Nose? Where is Tmtoria-Regina-Dci-Gracia-Sit-ting-Bull? Where is Knock- Kneed-Chcmiloon ? Sway-Back-Sue and G o vern m en t-Socks ? Where are Meek-Eyed- Thcy have sunk beneath the fire-waters of the goggle-eyed Caucasian.. They have succumbed to tlie delirium triangle, ami when I call them they come nut. They do not hear my voice. Their moans are heard upon the still night air, and the- cry for revenge. Look at the sand remnant of the family of Sit ting Bull, your chief. One sore eyed squaw is loft alone. Her face is furrowed o'er with the famine of man' winters, and her nose is only the ruin of its former greatness. Her moccasins are worn out, and the soldier pants she wears arc too lono- for her. erne, also is drunk, blie is not as drunk as she can get, but she is hopeful and persevering. She has also learned to lie like the white man. She is now an easy, extem poraneous liar. When we gather about the camp fire and enact our untutored lies in the gloaming, Lucretia-Bor-gia-Skcwhcgan-Sitting-Bull, with the inspiration of six fingers of agency coffin varnish, proceeds to tell the prize prevarication, and then the house adjourns, and noth ing can be heard but the muffled tread of the agency corn beef, o ing out to get some fresh air. Lucretia is also becoming solvenly. It is evening, and yet she has not donned her evening dress. Her back hair is unkept, and her front hair is unbung. Pretty -soon 1 will take a tomaltawk and bang it for Iter. She seems despondent and ltopeless. As sIhj leans against the trunk of a mighty onk and scratches Jer back, you can see that lcr thoughts are far away. Her other suspender is gone, but she don't care a cold smooth clam. She is thinking of Iter childhood days by the banks of Minnehaha. Warriors, we stand in the mocca sins of a mighty nation. We rep resent the starving remnant of the once powerful Sioux. Our pi rogue stands idly on the shore. I don't know what k pirogue is, but it stands idly on the shore. When the spring flowers bloom again, and the grass is green upon the plains, we will once more go upon the warpath. We will avenge the wrongs of our nation. I have not fully glutted my ven geance. 1 have seven or eight more gluts on hand, and we will shout our war-cry once more, and mutilate some more Anjjlo-Saxons. We will silence the avenging cries of our people. We will spat ter the green grass and grey grease wood with the gore of the paleface, and feed the white-livered emi grant to the coyote. We will spread death and desolation every where, and fill the air with jnim overshoes and remains. Let us yield up our lives dearly while we mash the paleface beyond recog nition, and shoot his hired man so full of holes that he will look like a suspension bridge. Warriors, there is our hunting ground. The buffalo, the antelope, the sage hen and the jaokass rabbit are ours. Ours to enjoy, ours to perpetuate, ours to transmit. The Great Spirit created these animals for the red man, and not for the billious tourist, between whose legs the chestnut sunlight penetrates clear up to his collar bone. Then we will ride down on the regular army, when he is thinking of something else, and we will scare him into convulsions, and our medicine men will attend to the convulsions while we sample the supplies. Then we will take some cold sliced Indian a;ent, and some bay rum, and go on a picnic. Warriors, farewell. Be virtuous and you will be happy: but you will be lonesome, sometimes. Think of what I have said to you about the council fire, and govern yourselves accordingly. We will not murmur at the celluloid crack er and cast iron codfish ball, but in tin spring we will have veal cutlets for breakfast, and ponce commissioner on toast for dinner. The squaw of Sitting Bull shall have a new plug hat, and if the wcatlier is severe, shall have two of them. Warriors, farewell. 1 am done. I have spoken. I have nothing more to say. Sic semper domino. Plumbago erysipelas, in hock eureka, sciataca, usufruct, limburger, gobraugh. There? seems to be much popular feeling in Mexico against the pro posed railways. A writer in. the New York Herald, who claims an intimacy extending over several years with the late General Upton, advances the theory that the suicidal act must have been committed during sleep. lie bases this theory on "the double ground that General Upton was opposed to suicide as a method of escape from trouble, and that he had no trouble that could overcome his naturally strong Avtll and convictions. The writer says that he formed the habityeara ago of sleeping with a loaded pistol under his pillow, and argues 1 plausibly that the act was the . re sult of the involuntary action of the brain while in an unconscious 1 state. 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ASTORIA. milE rXDEKSIGNED IS PLEASED TO JL announce to the Ladies' and Gentlemen of this City That lie is now pretared to fumlsh for them, m Mrii ela style, and every style, OYSTERS. HT COFFEE. TEA, ETC. AT THK Ladies and Gent's Oyster Saloon, MAIN STKEI-rr. Please give me a call. RO.SCOE DIXON, Proprietor C. H. STOCKTON. acatxjr&E;, sxgcOT -CARRIAGE PAINTER,- PAPER HANGING AND WALL COLORING A SrEUIALTV. GLAZING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. eshon'next door to Astorian, Ofllcc, in Shuster's building. TIN PLATE. BLOCK TIN Korsale ex Warehouse at Astoria orPortland by II ALFO UK, G CTHRIE A- Co. 5C-tf Portland, Oregon. BUSINESS CARDS. Q. A. BOWLBY. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Chenamus Street. - ASTORIA. OREGON) " ATTORNEY AT LAW, ASTORIA - - - OREGON Office over I'age & Allen's store, Cass street y "iv. itoitn. ATTORNEY AT LAW, ASTORIA ' - - - OREGON Office over Warren & Eaton's Astoria Mar ket, opposite the Occident Hotel. P C. IIOIiIKX.l NOTARY PUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION ANI IN SURANCE AGENT. 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FAIRFOWL & SON, STEVEDORES AND RIGGERS Portland and Astoria, Orejron. Refer fay permission to Rogers.MeyereJbCc Allen & Lewis, Corbitt & Macleay, Portland. Oregon. yyr. niidBxiiAJiT. Occident Hotel Hair Dressing Saloon ASTORLV - OREGON. Hot, Cold, Shower, p Steam and Snlpliur 1jg liiVXIlb. "Special attention given to ladies'and children's hair cutting. Private Entrance for Ladies. yiTJLi.i:i2 rY, PRACTICAL BOtlT A1 SHOE MAKER. Ciikxamus Stkei-t. opjiosite Adler's Book store, - Astokia. Okkgox. 23?" IVrfi et fits guaranteed. All worfe warniHted. Give me a trial. All ordera promptly lilled. Music Lessons. T. F. CULLEU and C. E. BARNES1 TEACHERS OF VIOLIN, PIANO, GUITAR, COR NET AND BANJO, Would like a few pupils on either of. tins above instruments. Terms Eight lessons for five dollars. 13-Orders left at Stevens & Sons boek: store will be promptly attended to- J. T. BOUCHERS, CONC03LLY STREET. ASTORIA Manufacturer and Packer of CAVIAR, SMOKED SALMQK. Cash paid for fresh BLACK STURGEON SPAWN. Smoked Sturgeon, and smoked Salmon put up hi tins to ship to any part of the world. Also, trout bait (salmon eggs) put up in cans and warranted to keep any length of time. Depot at Rogers Central Market, comer Cass and Chenamus. streets. Astoria. To-XIght. To-Xight. GRAND BALL, AT MUSIC HALL, THIS EVEXIXG. dealer in FAIIIII.ir GROCERIES, XAIES, IlIICX. FD ANI HAY Cash paid for country produce. SwaJL profits on cash sales. Astona, Oregon, o3 ucrof Main and Squemocahe. streets. s PILES. The undersigned is prepared to furHtak a large number of Spiles and Spars at Um place on short notice, at reasonable rates. Apply to O. G. CAPLES, Columbia CHp