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4 &as4 hUjTz !& Vol. xv. Astoria, Oregon. Tlrarsdav Morning, May 5, 1881. No. 4 f'l PEiig zl'SI Jl' JIP Jv JUlt Jl lr OUR FLAG. THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE STARS AXJJ STRIPES. WHAT THE RICCORDS SAY AliOlT THE NATIONAL EMIiLEM-SCRAPS OF IN TERESTING INFORMATION. National IJepublieui). April lOth. Colonel I. S. Tichenor, of this city, calls attention to a slight error in the article on the flag in The Republican tf the 13th inst. He says: uTn referring to the first time the flag was hoisted on the flagstaff of the Iioumj of leprescnt atives, April K3, S1K, you say: Previous to this time there was no settled form of the flag, which then consisted of eighteen stripes, with no fixed number of stars, and by adding a stripe for every new state admitted into the Union, the flag was becoming disproportionate and unwieldy. The facts, as they appear from the record, seem to bf as follews: The flag was first established by a resolution of congress "June 14, 1777, and provided for thirteen stripes, alternate red and white", and thirteen stars, white, in :i blue field. The resolution was not pub lished officially until the following September, but was made public through the pi ess. This was the legally authorized flag until the passage of the act of congress ap proved January 13, 17D4, entitled "An act making an alteration' in the flag of the United States, and is in the following werd: That from and after the first day of May, Anno Domini 1705, the flag of the United States be fifteen stripes, alternate red and white, that the Union be fifteen stars, white, in a blue field. This act made no provision for subsequent alterations, and none were made until the year ISIS, although several states iiad been added to the Union, and this was the flag under which the war of 1812 -1-i was carried on, represent ing by the number of strijrts, as well as stars, the number of states of the union at that time. This, then was the legal form of the flajr until the passage of the act of con gress approved April 4., 1S18, which provided That from and after the 4th day of July next the flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes alternate red and white; that the union be twenty stars, white, in a blue field. Section ;2 of the same act pro vides That on the admission of every new state into the union one star be added to the union of the flag; and that such addition shall take effect on the 4th day of July then next succeeding such admission. This act is still in force, and is the authority for our present em blem of nationality, now recog nized by the civilized world as the Stars and Stripes, the flag of our glorious Union. Thus it will be observed there has been an established flag, duly authorized by acts of congress from June 14, 1777 (less than a year after the declaration of inde pendence) down to the present time, and a legally-authorized United States flag never consisted of eighteen stripes. The history of the first attempts to establish a flag which should represent the young Republic is a curious and exceedingly interest ing one. On the first outbreak which began the memorable struir gle for independence, and in the absence of airy authorized emblem, a great variety of flags and devices were displayed in the Colonies, generally having some patriotic word or sentiment inscribed upon them, the most usual being the word " Liberty." A representation of a coiled rattle-snake, with the motto, u Don't tread on me," was one of the most jjnificant, and a flag of this des cription may now be seen at Inde pendence hall, in Philadelphia, in a good state of preservation. The first armed vessel carried the " pine-tree flag," and it is re corded that the flag called the " Great Union," raised by "Wash ington at Cambridge, January 2, 1770, consisted of thirteen alter nate red and white stripes of the present flag of the United States, with the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew emblazoned on the blue canton in place of the stars. As an incident worthy of note in connection with the unfurling of the flag over the house of i ep- reseut stives April 13, ISIS, it ma be stated that the flag then hoisted consisted of thirteen stripes and twenty stars, and was not the legal flag of the United States, and did not become so until the 4th of July following, that being the time provided in the act when it should go into effect, and the act of January 13, 1794, which provides for fifteen stripes and fifteen stars, remained in force until that date, a period of nearly three months after the new flag was hoisted. A very interesting work, en titled "The flags of the United States of America, etc.,' by Rear Admiral George Henry Preble, United States Xavy, published by A. Williams & Co., 15oton, 1SS0, gives much valuable information upon this subject, and from this it appears that Hon. Peter Wen do ver, M. C, of New York, offered a resolution that a committee be appointed to inquire into the ex pediency of altering the flag of the United Stales. This resolution wa probably offered in December, ISKI, as the committee reported a bill on the 2d of January, 1817, which, how ever, was not acted upon. The admission of the states of Tennessee, Ohio, Louisaua and Indiana, made a change in the flag desirable. The next December, when con gress assembled, Mr. Wendover renewed his resolution, and on the Gth of January, 1818 the commit tee having the bill in charge re ported substantially the bill as introduced by Mr. "Wendover, who was chairman of the committee. Captain S. C. Rcid, the gallant commander of lh brig General Armstrong, and a personal friend of Mr. Wendover, at the request of the latter, and while the com mittee had the matter in consider ation, made a design of the flag which was adopted and is now the flag of the country. March 24, 1S18, the first call on the docket was the "Star Spangled Banner," which, after an animated debate in committee of the whole, was reported without amendment, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading the next dav (March 25). It appears that on the previous Saturday the wind blew almost a hurricane in Washington, and the old flag of fifteen stripes and fif teen stars was, as Mr. Wendover wrote Captain Reid, " completely ragged bunting," and he feared congress would have to sit a part of the session without the star spangled bnnner over their heads. March 2o the bill had its third reading a little before 12 o'clock, and passed with perhaps only two or three noes. A motion was made to amend the title of the bill, and the word alter which appeared in the origin al title was stricken out, am the word establish substituted, so'that, as before stated, the title was "An act to establish the flag of the United Stales." Immediately after the passage of the bill bj' the house of repre sentatives (March 23, ISIS), Mr. Wendover had the old flag meas ured up and down the staff, and found it fourteen feet four inches, but thought the new flag should be eighteen feet hoist. "Now, Jack," writes Mr. Wen dover to Captain Reid, who was in New York city, "1 ask as a favor that 3011 will be pleased to inform me what a flag of that size will cost in New York, made for the purpose, with thirteen stripes and twenty stars forming one great luminary, as per pasteboard plan you handed me, and if the bill passes the senate soon it is prob able I shall request the captain of the late General Armstrong to have a flag made for Congress hall under his direction. Please inquire as to the cost of materials, etc., and write me soon, that congress, for their firm support of the bill, may, before they adjourn, see the banner raised." Under date of April S, ISIS, 2 p. sr., Mr. Wendover wrote Cap tain Reid as follews: "This morn ing a message was received from the president that on the 4th inst., among other bills, he approved and signed the biil 'to establish the flag of the United States.' " On the 13th of April, 1S13, Mr. Wendover wrote Captain Reid as follews: "I have just time to inform you that the new flag for congress arrived here per mail this day and vas hoisted to replace the old one at two o'clock, and has given much satisfaction to all who have seen it as far as I have heard." A bill was forwarded to Mr. Wendover, from New York, and was probably for the material of which it was constructed, as tht flag was unquestionably made by Mrs. Reid, with possibly the assis tance of other patriotic ladies whom she enlisted in the good cause. Jt will be seen that the law does not prescribe the form in which the stars shall be placed in the blue field. Capt. Reid suggested that for the halls of congress, and for pub lic buildings, and on land, the stars should be arranged to form one large star, and they were so arranged on the flag made by Mrs. Reid. 1 u 1S59 congress voted its thanks to Captain Reid, the design er of the flag. One sad incident connected with the history of the flag is re corded in the work of Admiral Preble: That the son of Captain Reid proved recreant to the flag which his gallant father designed and defended and his patriotic mother made with her own hands. Captain Reid died in 1SC1, a mas ter in the United states navy, aged seventy-seven years. How a Mine is Worked. iioomcrang, April -1th. 1 wish you would tell me all about the way men get gold and silrer out of a mine, my dear, said a lady in cast Laramie the other evening to her husband, as he peel ed off his coat and sat down in three chairs for the evening. I hear you talk with your friends so much about mining, and I am not able to understand it, or converse with people intelligibly about it. "Well what kind of mining do you want to hear about; gold or silver, quartz or placer, deposit on Nowadays mav be entirely prevented rln.ifl loifl? jby tlie use of Burnett's Cocoainc. It ucnueu iwu. jias heea use,j j thousands of cases Well all of them briefly. I want to know whether they scrape off the gold from the undprside of the ground, and wash the dirt off in the creek, or how is it? Well, they don't scrape it ofT the under side of the ground ex actly. There you are in error. In placer mining they have to collect the dust and pan it out with a gold pan. O! the' have to use a gold pan do the'? That must he what makes mining so expensive. Does the pan have to be solid gold? Xo. It isn't made of gold. It is simply to pan gold ; hence the name. In quartz mining the pros pector first finds the float, and tracing it to the lead he begins to dig for the purpose of ascertaining how extensive it is, and what it will assay. 0! that is it. I thought they first bored into the ground with a pay streak until they found the shaft, and then the drifted for the assessment, and when they found that, they just put a blast in the indications and salted the dump. Now it seems that you don't do that way. You follow up the mi cacious slato till you strike the bias fold. Then you see if you can find a color that matches with the cop per-stained trilobites, that you prospect and you No, I must stop you there. Yeu are getting a little off the vein. You probably have the right idea but you are using terms that are not correct. After they get the wall rock on the dump and pinch out the night shift, they salt the contact and blast the vertical chil blain. Then they drift for the blossom rock, baled hay and pov erty mi tney strike the vencose vein. After that it is a short job to put on the bias folds and sample the stockholders. Where the bi tuminous duplex bisects the bro caded porphyry and scallops the gouge with cross-eyed shirr ings and bi-carbonatt of bilious colic interlaced with moire antique wads of gray copper and free milling erysipelas. This is not always the case, however, for indirectly or in versely, perhaps more, or some times less, as the case may be, and still we might or might not, ac cording to whether we did or not but also besides, if not always, as already described, perhaps, yet I wouldn't be positive of anything which might he uouhtful. Then he laughed a cold, hard laugh, and went to bed. If hus bands would always explain these things tn their wives, how much pleasanter our homes would be. .Votlre to FMlierxnrii. The following law of Oregon will be strictly enferced: He it enact fd hy the JjcoishUtcc A.euihy the State of Orcqnn: .Section 1. That it shall not be lawful to take or fish for .salmon in the Colum bia river or its tributaries, by any mentis whatever, in any year hereafter, during 1 he months of March. August and Sep tember, nor at the weekly close times in the months of April. May. June and July; that is to say. between the hours of six o'clock in the afternoon of each and ever' Saturday, until six o'clock of the afternoon of Sunday following, and any person or persons catching salmon in 'notation of Hit nrovisions of this J section, or purchasing salmon so unlaw ! fully caught, hhall. upon conviction thereof, be linctl in a sum or not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, for the. first of fenscand for each and every subsequent ofTense. upon conviction thereof, shall be lined not less than one thousand dol lars, to which may be added, at the dis cretion of the court, imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding one year. Xotlce to the Public. The poor, unfortunate young man that lost his leg last summer in the Fishermens cannery has now, with the help of friends, started a small store, where he keeps tobacco, cigars, pipes, cutlery, etc lie is unable to do haul wo-k, and must make out the best he can. Give him a call, boys, ho keeps the best brands of tobacco and cigars. Water street, opposite O. R. A X, Co.'s Dock. Mother ! Mother ! ! Mothers ! ! ! Are you disturbed at night and broken of your rest by a sick child suffering and crying with the excruciating pain of cutting teeth .' 1 f so, go at once and get a bottle of 3Irs. Winslow's Soothing Sj'rup, it will relieve the poor littlv 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 tII von 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. ' cents a bottle. I'rciuatnre Ion of Ilnir where the hair was coming out in hand fuls. and has never failed to arrest its decay; it promotes a healthy and vigor ous growth, audit is at the same time unrivalled as a soft ami glossy dressing tor the hair. Burnett's flavoring extracts are the best, strongest and most healthful. Sold everywhere. Have Wistar's balsam of wild cherry always at hand. It eures coughs, colds, bronchitis, whooping cough, croup, in fluenza, consumption, and all throat and luug complaints. .i0 cents ami SI a bot tle. MISCELLANEOUS. CATARRH ! THOSE SUFFERING FKOJI 'I HIS MS KASE AM) WISHING TO 15E CURE D, Can obtain immediate relief and be per manently cured by railing on At the Occident Hotel, where he will be from 1 to 8 V. M. All .suffering from Catarrh arc respectfully invited to call and see his testimonials of positive cures, and his mode of treatment. Unless patients are treated there will be no charne. Any one wishing to have him call at private residence will pleas leave address at the Hotel. HANSEN BROS Contractors and Builders, CORNER ASTOIt AXI) CASS 8TKEETS. Near Congregational Church. And are now ready to receive orders for all kinds nf woor wckeux. Contracts taken to build and repair SniPS, HOUSES, BOATS, ETC., AT LOWEST KATES. CST-Doors and Window Frames made t o order. GERMANIA BEER HALL AKD BOTTLE BEER DEPOT. CHEmU3 Steket. Abtobu. The Best of Lager 5 Cts. a Glass Orders for the Celebrates CotaMa Brewery Left at this place 'will be promptly attend ed to. E7Nochean San Francisco Rpersnlrt nt this place n.. jrvwft! rrgpneior. SAX FRANCISCO as:itsirs:3siiiiiasiii2n2iiii3i3iiiiiiiiiiiitMiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiuiHiuiiiHiuAiiit I THE NEWS! I imTzaiuctmiiMmtiiiiiiiEuitHiKMiiiMiuMmimuimiiitimsMUHiiHii&ii! 2 S a M WELCOME TO ALL ! THE FISHING SEASON HAS OPENED AND SO HAS THE POPULAR SAN FRANCISCO ! CLOTHING- STORE j ' j Opened the largest and best : selected stock of I C L, O T -AKD- Genis Furnishing Cloods, BOOTS AND SHOES, TRUNKS AND VALISES, HATS AND CAPS, -AND TnE BEST- CARTER'S wuwr RUBBER BOOTS, ETC., WHICn WILL BE SOLD AT SAN FRANCISCO "WHOLESALE PRICES. REMEMBER THIS IS NO HUMBUG. HAVING MADE ARRANGEMENTS IN NEW YORK AND SAN FRAN CISCO FOR THE PURCHASE OF ALL M.Y GOODS, MY FACILITIES FOR BUYING ARE SUCn AS TO ENABLE ME TO Undersell all Others. I Defy Competition. Faots and j GREAT SURPRISE AT THE : I San Francisco Store ! ! HERE ARE PRICES OF GOODS THAT WILL SURPRISE ALL. CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. MENS AND BOYS CASIMERE SUITS FROM- s 8 00 TO 15 00 EXTRA BEST SUITS 12 00 0 00 FINE BLACK SUITS is 00 " 1!5 00 DIAGONALSUITS 15 00 " 22 00 CASIMERE PANTS ' " " . 2 50 4 00 EXTRA BEST PANTS I 4 00 "5 50 BOYS SUITS. ALL SORTS, FROM G00 "12 00 FUKNISKtNG GOODS. OVERALLS FROM GO CTS. TO Si 00 JUMPERS " GO " "1 IK) ALL WOOL SOCKS ...........1.20 25 CHECKER SOCKS. SIX PAIR FOR ""1 1 00 COTTON SOCKS, THREE PAIR FOR 25 WHITE SHIRTS FROM 90 " 175 COLORED ' " 73 1 50 CASLMERE" - .'.."". "ZlsTsO " "3 00 FLANNEL - 1 00 u u 1 75 BLUE NAVY 2 00 " 2 50 FLANNEL UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAWT2RS FROM 1 25 " - 2 25 COTTON FL ANNE L SHIRTS AND DRAWERS GO ' MARINO SHIRTS AND DRAWERS 50 " OIL clothing! LONG OIL COATS FROM S3 50 TO 4 50 OIL JUMPERS 2 75 u 3 00 BOOTS AND SHOES. MENS CALF BOOTS FROM- S3 CO TO 4 50 MENS KIP BOOTS - 2 75 "'4 00 ELASTIC GAITERS u -175 u 2 50 BUCKLE SHOES - 2 25 " 35 MENS SLIPPERS .1 50 " 1 00 BOYS BOOTS ' - 125 u 175 4jHAVE THIS SPRING STRAINED EVERY NERVE AND USED MY ENTIRE ENERGY AND BEST JUDGMENT IN PLACING IN OUR AS TORIA HOUSE THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF THE ABOVE LINE OE GOODS. CALL AND INSPECT FOB YOURSELF. YOU ARE WELCOME. I WILL GLADLY SHOW MY GOODS, NO MATTER WHETHER YOU BUY OR NOT. NEW GOODS BY EVERY STEAMER. S.DANZIGER. San Francisco Store. Sqnemocqhe street, next door to-Pagei Allen's stere, north of WaftK-TvaUa Restaurant, Astoria Orejon. CLOTHING STORE. .'J..JJJU Sill H I Ni & CAPE AJSTNT Figures ! j .....................I.. BUSINESS CARDS. I Q. A. BOWLBY. ATTORNEYAT LAW. Chenamus Street. - ASTORIA. OREG02 t w. Fujuroar. ATTORNEY AT LAW, ASTORIA - OREGON Office over Page & Allen's store, Cass street T? C. IIOLDEN.l NOTARY PUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AND IN SURANCE AGENT. A VAN DUSEN. NOTARY PUBLIC. Chenamus Street, near Occident Hotel. ASTORIA, OREGON. Agent Wells, Fargo & Co. Xjl F. HICKS, PENTIST, ASTORIA. --- ORSGOS. Itooms In Allen's building up stairs, comr ot Cass and Sqemocqhe streets. TTR. M. D. JEXXIX(;s, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Graduate Unlreralty of Virginia, isea Phvslcian tn Ifciv Vlow iuicnn?ir TtuitfmnM City,l863-70. ' Office In Page & Allen's building, up Jl.lU.1, V31U1U. JAY TBTTIiE, M. I. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, OFFicF.-Over the White House Store. RESIDRVri? XYt Hnnr tn Xfra Unncnitl. board in r house, riipnnniuq jtreV itnri. Oregon. ' T C. ORCHARD, DENTIST, Dental Rooms, SHUSTElt'3 Photograph Building. - A. 3rcIXTOSH. MERCHANT TAIEOR, Occident Hotel Building. ASTORIA - - OREGON C. H. BAKS & CO.. DKALF.K IN Doom, YVIndotvH, iillads, Tras Homx, IiUBf)r. Etc AH kinds of Oak Lumber, Glass, Boat Ma terial, etc. Steam Mill near Weston hotel. Cor. Gee evive and Astor streets. 1 G. FAlflFOWL & SON, STEVEDORES AND RIGGERS Portland and Astoria. Oreson. Refer by penniwion to Rogers. Meyers k Cc, Allen & Lewis. Corbitt&Maoleay, ' Portland. Oregon. UHLF.XRART A 8CHOEE. Occident Hotel Hair Dressing Saloon ASTORIA - OREGON. Hot, Cold, Shower, Steam and Salphur BATHS. "Special attention given toladies'ana children's hair cutting. Private Eutrance for Ladles. wnxun FRY, PRACTICAL BOOT AITD SHOE SLVKER. Ciirxaxus Stukkt, opposite Adlert Book Siore, - ASTOUIA, OREOOX. t3T Perfect fits guaranteed. All "work warranted. Give me a trial. All orders promptly JUIed. W. L.M'CABK, J. A. BROWN Portland. Astoria. S-rtaCS BBOWST & SIcCABE, STEVEDORES AND RIGGERS. Astoria ofliceAt E. C. Holden's Auction store. Portland oHlce--24 B street. 13-tX Music Lessons. T. F. CULLEH and C E. BARNES TEACHERS OF VIOLIN, PIANO, GUITAR, COR NET AND BANJO, Would like a few pupils on either of the above Instruments. Terms Eight lessons for Ave dollars. SS-Orders left at Stevens & Sons book store will be promptly attended to. To-XigJtt. To-Night. GRAND BALL, AT MUSIC HALL, THIS EVENING. jE3. uSL. CTTXIKnKr. dealer In FA9XIEY CSROCEKIES, IVAILS, MIM. FEED AW HAY Cash paid for country produce. Small profits on cash sales. Astoria, Oregon, cor ner of Main and SquemocoliH streets. I. W. CASE, IMPORTER AND WHOLESALE AND RE TAIL DEALER- IN GENERAL MEBCHAMS Corner Cheuamus and Cass streets. ASTORIA --- OREGON. Wm. Houseman of Portland B EGS LEAVE TO NOTIFY HIS friends and customers that he lias opened A FISHERMAN'S CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GOODS STORE Next to G. TV. Hume's grocery store. F. HOUSEMAN, Agent L? Ar 3se5C3P" THE DEW POP INK ! Ob, fishermen, all hear the good news ! A fine saloon Is started with best of Liquors, Wines and Beer, AND FINE FREE LUNCH UNGUARDED. The Grandest Caviar aad. Ckeest, IN SANDWICH THICK AND THIN And willyou spend a pleasant hour, drop is at the DEW" DROP INN on Concoaly street. J.T.BORCHER3, 'TtT -