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V) Z imma fi Vol. xv. Astoria, Oregon, Saturday Morning. June 25, 1881 No. 48. w"s $ I 2t&f0ffati wli .NATURE'S LOVER. DWELLIXO IX THE GLORY OF A GRAXD MOUXTAIX RAXGE. THE CASCADES OK THE COLUMBIA. ORIGIN OF ARCHITECTURAL IDEA-SNOW-CLAD PEAKS-GLOWING SUNSET TINTS AND SHIN ING STARS. Corr. San Franchoo Chronicle. Cascades, June S. The scenery of the Columbia, or to be perfectly accurate, of that part of it which is connected with the Cascade mountains, is infinitely grander, more beautiful, more varied and more peculiar than the tourist is apt to anticipate. It is true that all ones friends who have made the trip speak of it in the most enthusiastic fashion, but this is to be expected. The civilized world is now distinctively artistic, and the people of good common sense and the consummate and utter, though they detest each other coidially, meet upon the common ground of appreciation of natural scenery. There are few men of the world, and probably no femi nine worldlings at all, who would care to assert a disregard for The Ite-mlies if Srriirry. Mrs. Chandor will be satisfied to enjoy it, and to remain sane, whilst the Cimabue Browns, who are esthetics, think themselves bound to rave and madden, and die away in ecstacies. The differ ence, one sees, is only in quantity, for both are admirers, only one confesses admiration, and the other professes it. Between these two sets, the madir and the zenith of estheticism, come the vast horde who belong to neither party by convictions, for they have none, but who train with cither, and occasionally with both. These are the good folk who make up that majority which some audacious cynic, in his bitterest moments, styled the voice of God. These are they who form the great army of tourists, the thrice happy people for whom guide books are written. rictnrcsquc America I"ubli.lcd. And personally conducted travel ing parties devised. So far, I believe, they have not yet accept ed the Columbia river, having advanced no further than the Yosemite, so that the tourists to this region have only been the single spies, the battalions being a little in the rear. That they will soon come up and make this fair land their own I cannot doubt. That they will ever comprehend it, is, I think, not in the least doubt ful. The eightj'-six miles between Portland and The Dalles comprises a region which appeals most forcibly to those who have a smat tering of gcolog'. Throughout seven-eighths of the journey the river Columbia makes its way through the Cascade range of mountains, many of whose peaks are snow clad, and some of them attain an altitude exceeding 3-1,-000 feet. Looking at this range from any other point than this river, it seems as if it were a vast wall or plateau, some 5,000 feet high, and that the Show Teaks Itise out of TMs Like kings seated upon raised platforms. But from the river it is plain that these great peaks, Hood, Jefferson, Adams, St. Helen, Baker, Ranter, the Three Sisters and others, are standing almost to their waists in their own lava, in the eooled floods which they have in past times belched out. There was a time when people believed that rivers cut their channels by their own unaided force in their way to the sea, but no one can look upon this scene and so agree. It is more probable that the lava contracted greatly in cooling, and that in the fissures made by such contraction the river found its out let. It is true that a fissure so enormous as the channel of the Columbia, a mile broad, is opposed to the conceptions of all but theo rists. But it is difficult to con ceive that The River nml the Lava Iteri Were coeval. Probably there were tens of thousands of years between the earliest deposits from this great section of the .volcanic range that reaches so far south and the Columbia. The upper part of the basalt "'gorge through which the ColuinbiR pours its waters must have bet-n reduced by dis integration to a broad glacis or slope before over there was a river at all. One lias otilv to look at the little lava beds on the surface of the ground to see in what order the fissures are formed by the con traction of the cooling process. They arc both longitudinal and transverse, so that the blocks are eminently rectangular. And what is true of the small masses five feet high is equally true of the masses of the plateau .",000 feet high. They are pierced by gorges which run east and west like the river. and north and south like the mountains. At first the moun tains were rectangular masses, but IHsiiitrxraliiMi Has Worn Tlirxu A.:ij. And as the basalt is most unequal in its hardness, and as some parts are more exposed than others to the action of the frost laden winds, and the steady attrition of falling waters, it results that the appear ance of these time worn rocks is most varied and most peculiar. One fact only is censtant: the rec tangular diameter of the rock it self. When this assumes, as it often docs, the columnor form, the aspect of the basalt lnjcomes cn chantingly interesting. There is hardly a shape under heavens dome which it does not mimic, not, of course, with any intense resemblance, but then is a some thing in the outline and the mass which is very suggestive. Of course what is termed costellation is the most frequent, and tltosc who have sen the upper Missis sippi must admit that the towers and ramparts of its sandstone cliffs cannot enter into comparison with The Terrible 'IctsH't Forma (I on Of theColumbia. There arc spots where the rock rises perpendicu larly from tin water and goes sheer up to a height of throe hundred feet in one solid mass without a crack or cre ice. This great wall of some Titanic fortifi cation stretches for hundreds of yards in a straight line and then turns abruptly, leaving an acute anjrlc. Lichens, ferns and mosses cover its sides and give it tin ap pearance of a forgotten strong hold that has passed out of the history of the world. Above this great stretch of rampart there is a grassy slope, covered with trees, yellow firs and pines. Above that again comes another huge rampart, and more bastions; above that another slope of grass and waver ing green trees; then another ram part, then another slope, and so in regular gradation until the neck of the enchanted gazer is craned to the utmost, and the eye reaches the crest of the plateau. In the CclclZnlrtl Form The basalt is regularity itscli. In others nothing can be more irregu lar. There is a place along the river where originally there were for the whole sheer descent only two terraces, or, in other words, the lava, instead of spreading itself out in beds, had occupied itself in filling up a great hollow. The lower of these, being the softer, is very much worn, and disintegra tion has boon exceedingly bus. But in the center of the range there is a mass which suggests strongly a Gothic cathedral. The lad' chapel, greatly foreshortened, is in front, then above it comes a perfectly shaped apse, with its singular roof, then to right and left are the projections of the tran septs, and above all towers the mighty roof of the nave, with the subordinate aisles. There is noth ing to cheat the view as in the basaltic country of llindostan, so Avell described by Bishop Hebcr. No vegetation to help the imagi nation, no clustering vines to hint the tracery of Gothic decoration. All is the bare basalt, but the masses are So Wonderfully Jsiisgolltc That I doubt if anyone can see it without receiving a similar im pression. But the most ordinary form after all is the pyramidal. All will comprehend how readily a solid rectangular mass would by disintegration assume this aspect. The Greeks imagined that the an cient Egyptians endeavored to imitate by their pyramids the as cending ilame of sacrificial fire. The Greeks had ever a childish imagination, and this is one of the especially weak examples. Tliey were eager to explain everything, and they were satisfied with the most ridiculous explanations. Europe was so called after Europa, one of the many loves of Zeus, the lomans were descended from Jo, another love, and so on. With re gard to the Egyptian pyramids wc are in a position superior to the Greeks, for we know perfectly well that there were pyramids in Mexico which may be anterior to tlose of Egypt. We know, more over, that man of the decorations believed to be original with the Egyptians belong really lo Mexico and Central America. All archi tects arc. agreed that the thought of Egyptian architecture, the gov erning motive, seems to have been derived from a style cognate with that of Palenque and Exmal. Putting these things together, and remembering that Mexico and Central America are distinctly volcanic, may we not believe that both the pyramids of the west and the distant cast, nay, even the ter races of the aboriginal Americans, were copies of the natural forms of basalt. To copy nature in an early race is, indeed, a difficult thing, but To Crylili r an Absfrart Thought. The greatest beauty of these mountain forms, in my judgment, is the torrace when it is upheav ed. Let ttie reader fancy a broad terrace several hundred yards in width, that comes down to the waters edge, and rises by slight gradations to a height between t5000 and 3,000 feet. These ter races are popularly called devils dykes, for in everything that is sublime the vulgar mind sees the hand of the evil one rather than the finger of God. Ingersoll is undoubt edly an extremist, but there is some exousc for him in the reflec tion that churchmen have so vigor ously miscducatcd humanity that such a blunder is possible. Had the church fulfilled its duty, or done even a tithe of what it might have done, The Terrible Mantle or Iloiriir Which has darkened mens minds jed upon the snow masses of these and kept them from the sunlight j mountains with a glory that brings of G oris providence would neverj tears into the eyes. It is the have crazed human beings. This,! apotheosis of color. It is so bright, a natural outburst it must be al-so splendid and yet so etheral, that lowed, for these upheaved terraces the glowing hues of the ruby and are verv dear to me. For here the Lninr-ililhprnmn dirt v-mdtiivdrviii grasses grow softest and greenest, and cover the red volcanic soil with a tender, velvety carpet. And here the firs grow tallest and straightest. Here, too, arc bushes of wild roses of an immense size. Sometimes in the center of such a dyke there is a slightly elevated ridge, mostly of bowlder- like mass es of basalt. Among these the wild syringa blooms with admir able luxuriousness, so that at a distance the bushes seem like patches of late snow. The odors of this bush resemble faintly The i:qulsite rerrnme of the Orange And when ttase combine with the fragrance of the wild roses, and balsamic smell of the lirs, the air is heavy with sweets, that delight without cloying, and stimulate without reaction. From the ridge in the center burst tiny springs that trickle slowly across the ter race with many devious windings, wandering downward, but still moving towards, the edge, where they pour their crystal drops in a faint shower of spray into the abyss below. It is delightful to mount steadily upward to the very end of the dyke, and stand against the sky and look downward upon the trees in the gorge and outward against the slopes and terraces of the central plateau. Up in this region the rain docs not fall so eternally as in Portland, where a Parsi would be as unhappy and as unable to see the sun as in London itself. Here the Sun Shines Brightly And warmly, but the air is not enervating and the heat is not op pressive. The golden rays gild everything with a superb glory, and one Watches the white fleecy clouds sailing over everything, making shadows upon the glitter ing river and casting a momentary gloom upon the little footpath through the gorge. The blood bounds in ones veins and one feels an intense delight in living, an ineffable thankfulness to the Great Father of us all. But the crown ing splendor of all is when one turns ones eyes either to the north towards mount Adams, or to the south towards mount Hood; for these are the only snow peaks visible from the immediate neigh borhood of the river. The time will soon come, 1 trust,' when there will be stage routes through -the Cascade mountains, and when it will be possible to sever ones con nection with the river, and pass the whole season in the company of These tiinnU or the 'n-ciit Hanze. I have seen the mountains of the French Alps and of the Apen nines, but these of -the Cascade have a peculiarity very singular and very beautiful. The snow line begins almost at the level of the plateau, and this varies from 4,")00 to 3,000 feet; so that these giants are really snow clad not merely topped with snow. They have the appearance of huge pyra mids of snow, through which one discerns, here and there, the ba salt bones, in ridges and occasional precipitous cliffs. At the point I am des cribing, one is nearer to mount Adams than to mount Hood, but sufiiciently close to the latter to be impressed thoroughly by its grandeur and its beauty. To those who have the color sense the sight of these immense white pyramids against the blue sky will ever be One of" the : rami Sensation Of their existence. It is useless to attempt to describe what is indescribable. How can color be described, or in what words can man explain what is a sense, a feeling? The purity of it, the depth of it, the immensity of it are what out feels most when gazing at such a spectacle. But when the sun is sinking in the westward, and the sun-god flames with all his brightest colors before he disappears below the horizon, all the glowing tints, all thesuper- ! nal tones of the sunset are refieet- comparison. The aurora borealis is the only thing with which it can be compared. That, however, is flickering and comparatively eranescent. This fades slowly into darkness through a long, long twilight, and at hist becomes a faint cloud as the darkness falls upon the mountains, and the stars shed their light like dew. Charles Stevens & Son are in re ceipt of a fine stock of mouldings, and arc now prepared to make picture frames to order. Call and inspect their stock. Look out for a big lot of San Fran cisco National brewery beer to arrive by .Meamcr Oregon, at Max Wagner- agency. For the genuine .1. II. Cutler old Uourbon. and the best of wines, liquors and San Franeiseo beer, call at the Gem, opposite the bell tower, and sec Camp bell. Capl. J. II. 1). Gray is now prepared to supply the best qualities of fir. hem lock, vine maple, spruce limbs, etc. Leave orders at the wood yard, foot of Kenton street. For a first-class oy.Mer stew, fry, pan-roast or fancy roast, go to Koscoe's on Main street. opjOMtc X. Locbs. Familiessupplicd by the hundred or the sack, open or in the shell. Max. Wagner's San Francisco Na tional brewery beer caiftbebeat. For Port Townsend, Victoria, Nanairao, Fort Wrangle and Sitka. Carrying U. S. Illail.s. THE STEAMSHIP "ATTTVkO-VT JAMES CARROLL Commnndei "WIII leave Portland for the alwne ports from Flnnder'.s Dock x No freight for Alaska taken after 12 oVIock the day previous to departure. For Freight or Passage apply to Kd. C. HUGHES. Puner. GLEANING and REPAIRING NEAT, CHEAP AND QUICK. BY GEORGE LOYETT, lGlienamus St., next Nicholas' Barber Shop. AML'SKUKXTS Hill's Varieties. Geo. Hill, proprietor ami manager, Fred Gere. Mage manager, A. Ostrauder, leader of orchestra, Geo. Lambert, lender of brass band. Nickeroii (nice more to the frolit.and will manipulate the lwnes. Mr. .Iiio. Cook will officiate with the tainboriiu' ami Gere will interrogate. Miss Lou Cook in new songs and dances. James Morice in vocal gems, seven people on the first part, a splendid orchestra, and the le-.t brass band in Oregon, and don't you forcget it. Come one come all and be convinced that As toria can and doc suport the best variety company outside of Frisco. Xcw orchestral selections by ourefficient orchestra, and new music bj our excel lent brass baud on the grand stand at precisely 7 i: m. Curtain rises at ex actly 8 p.m. Entrance on Benton street; entrance to private boxes, on Chenamus street. Mother) ! Mother ! ! Mother ! ! ! Are you disturbed at night and broken of jour rest by a sick child suffering and crying witti the excruciating pain of cutting teeth ? 1 f so, go at once and get a bottle of Mrs. Yinslows Soothing .syrup, it will relieve the poor little sut ferer immediately depend upon it: there is no mistake about it. There is not a mother on earth who has ever ucd it. who will not tll ou at once that it will regulate the bow-els, and give rest to the mother, and relief and health to the child.opcnitiuglike magic It ib iwrfectlj 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. An Unrivalled llali Dressins. Producing xs rich and cleanly appear ance as if nature alone had imparted t. IJiirnetfs Coconine is the best and cheapest hair dressing kills dandruff, allays irritation, and promotes a vigor ous and healthy growth of the hair. Xo other compound produces these re sults. The superiority of Ilnrnett's flavoring extracts consists in their perfect purity and great strength. They arc warrant ed free from the oisonous oils and acids which enter into the composition ofinaii.of the factitious fruit flavors how in the market. - Have Wistars balsam of wild cherry always at hand. It cures coughs, colds, bronchitis, whooping cough, croup, in fluenza, consumption, and all throat and lung complaints, .to cents and ?1 a bot tle. S. Gla.-cr & Co.. successors to F. Sherman & Co., having bought the meat and vegetable market of F. Sher man fc Co.. would respectfully ask n continuance of the patronage bestowed on the former proprietors. Mr. John Uogers of the Central Mar ket, has made arrangements to keep all the finest fresh fish, etc in their season. Get your legal blanks at The Astoiuax otlice. A full line of over two hundred styles. MISCELLANEOUS. Wholesale and Retail Dealer IX- CVROOEBJES, PROVISIOKS, LUMBER. ETC.. ETC., :ETCm TIN PLATE BLOCK TIN, TIG LEAD, SEAMING COPPER?, SOLDERING COPPERS SALMON TWINE, COTTON TWINE, NET LINES, MANILLA ROPE, SAIL CLOTH, ANCHORS, FLOATS, MA II LS, HANDLES, MURIATIC ACID, LACQUER, VARNISH, TURPENTINE. BENZINE, COAL OIL GUM BOOTS, RICE. ETC., ETC., IN QUANTITIES TO SUIT. ASTORIA, - - OREGON. MRS. II. A. DERBY, MASONIC HALL. - ASTORIA. OREGON. Will open her new stm-k On Ttesflay, May 5th, 1881. ColisNtnijj of A PINK ASSORTMENT OF The Josephine Seamless Kid Gloves Warranted to be the be-t in the market. Alo. a large assortment of Infants Wear and Ladies Dres sing Saques. A large variety of HEW MILLINERY GOODS Pnrchaed by herself Hats5 Bonnets. Velvets, Satins, Ribbons, Ruchings, Collars, Etc., Etc., MAIN STREET, - ASTORIA. OREGON. MISCELLANEOUS. A. T. ALLEN. C. H. PAGE. Page & Allen (successors to e. s. larskx.) Wholesale and retail dealers In Provisions? Glass and Plated Ware, TROT1CAI. AND DOMESTIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Together with liDes.Lipors.ToliaccolCiprs The largest and most complete, stock of goods In their line to be found hi the city. Corner of Cass and Squemocqhe Streets, ASTORIA. OREGON. Barbour's IRISH FLiX THREADS Salmon Net Twine. Cotton Seine Twine, Gork and Lead Lines, Cotton Netting, ai! sizes. Seines Made to Order, Flax and Gotton Twine, Fishing Tackle, etc. BARBOUR BROTHERS, SI 1 Market Street. San Francisco HENRY DOYLE & Co.. Managers. PERUVIAN BITTERS. CHINCHONA RUBRA, AND CALIFORNIA GRAPE BRANDY, THE GltEATEST MEDICAL DISCOVERY OF THE AGE. See onr loeal columns lor particulars, and as you VALUE HEALTH, EEAD! Chas. Stevens & Son CITY BOOK STORE. BROWN'S BUILDING opposite the BELL TOWER, In room lately occupied by Schmeer's Confectionery, Largest anil Best Assortment Of novelties in the stationary line usually found in a first-class book store, consisting of BOOKS, FINK STATIONERY, GOLD PEN GOODS, ALBUMS. CHROMOS. FRAMES. STEREOSCOPES. DIARIES. All of 'vhich will be sold at prices w hlch DEFY COMPETITION. P. S. The latest Eastern and California periodicals constantly on hand. CHAS. STEVENS & SON. ASTORIA, OREGON, IB DRUGS AND CHEMICALS, Toilet and Fancy Articles, PATENT MEDIOIWES, ETC. GS-Prescriptions carefully compounded at all hours. J2r"HonieopathIc Tinctures and Pellet3, aud Humphrey's Specifics also kept SHIPPING TAGS THE BEST qUALTTY, WILL BE SOLD by the hundred, or by the box, printed or plain, to suit customer?, at Thk Astorux office. BLANK JOOKS PRINTED AND BOUND TO AN i SfiitJ. and ruled to any order, at -Thk Abtoeixx office. LETTER HEAD PAPER, PRINTED OR PLAIN, 0' THE BEST quality at The Astorux office.. BUSINESS CARDS. TAX TTJTTJLE, M. . PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office Over the White. House Store. ItKsiDKxcK Next door to Mrs. Munsona boarding house, Chenamus street, Astoria Oregon. TVR. M. D. JEXSISGS. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Grarillftto TTnltror-dlt-c- rf 1'lnHnlo was Physician to Bay view hoapltoC Bid'ttmore City. lS63-70. OFFicK-In rage & Allen's building, up stairs, Astoria. "P CBAX, 3C. .. "PHYSICIAN" AND SURGEON, Kooih Xo. 3. ABtorian ShI1(Uhk. IJPSITIEVPF .enmop nf Pantnn n1 rnttr streets, Astoria, Oregon. Tj P. HICKS. ' PENTIST, ASTOHIA, --- - OBEGON. Rooms In Allen's hlllldlnprnnBtnli-a ftm of Cass and Sqemocqhe streets. Q. A. BOWLBY. ATTORNEY AT LA"W. Chenamus Street. - ASTORIA. OREGOft rj w. FuiiToar, ATTORNEY AT LAV, ASTORIA - - - OREGON Ofllcc over Page & Allen's store, Cass street "g V. HOLDfiX, NOTARY' PUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AND IN- SURANCE AGENT. T A. airlKTOSH. MERCHANT TAILOR, Occident Hotel Bulldlnc, ASTORIA --- OREGON Q II. BAIN Sr CO., DKALER IS Doors, Windows, Blinds, Traa Heals, Lumber, Etc. All kinds of Oak Lumber, Glass, Boat Ma terlal, etc. Steam Mill near Weston hotel. Cor. Geu evlve and Astor streets. UHIiEXIIART fc SCHOEXE. Occident Hotel Hair Dressing Saloon ASTORIA - OREGON. Hot, Cold, Shower, Sterna and Salphur BATHS. 555Special attention given to ladles' and children's hair cutting. Private Entrance for Ladies. TimiLUl FRY, PRACTICAL. BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Ciiexamtjs Stkekt. opposite Adlert Book store, - Astoria, Oreo ox. -Terfect fits guaranteed. All work warranted. Give me a trlaL All orders promptly filled. J. A. BROWN Portland. Astoria. BBOWX &. XcCAJBK, STEVEDORES AND RIGGERS. Astoria office At E. C. Holden's Auction store. Portland office--2t B street. 13-ti To-Xight. To-Night. GRAND BALL. AT MUSIC HALL, THIS EVENING. IE3. J&.. QTJIDKnXT. dealer in TA3I1TX' GROCERIES, NAILS, MIIL FEEB AWB HAY Cash paid for country produce. Small profits on cash sales. Astoria, Oregon, cor uer of Main and Squemocqhe streets. I. W. CASE, IMPORTER AND WHOLESALE AND RE TAIL DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE Corner Chenamus and Cass streets. ASTORIA - - - OREGON. I. T. liAKCIAY. T. H. HATCH. HATCH & BARCLAY, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 20 California St., San Francisco, Cat. Hone of the Albany Beer! Respectfully Dedicated to and Sold by CHAS. GRATTKE, - - - - ASTORIA. Good evenlns kind friends. Just listen to me. And when you have heard me, I'm sure you'll agree, I will give you a story, and sing it out clear And the name of my song is the ALBANY BEER. You can find it all round in this city of gold. And the way that they make it has never been told. That's a secret they keep and hold very dear. For the whole couutry is drinking that ALBANY BEER. The brewery Is large and the machinery Is fine. And every order is sent to you right up to time. They get all kinds of orders from far and from near. And every one's healthy that drinks AL BANY BEER. For every thing there looks so clean and so neat. And their beer Is so sparkling, it cannot be beat. If vou are feeling bad or the blues do appear. You can drive them away by drinking AL BANY BEER. I have an old father, who's now eighty-three. And this is the advice he gave unto me. He spoke to me kindly with a voice bright and clear : "If you want to be healthy, drink ALBANY BEER." Since then I have done so. and I'm hearty and sound. At the round age of fifty I can always be found At my dally labor before the sun does appear And each day and night I drink ALBANY BEER. Also, on draught, THE CELEBRATED BOCK BEER. C. GRATTKE, - - -WELCOME SALOON, Roadway, opposite O. R. & N. Co'a Dock. L. vv j y y - j "