The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-08-08

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Interesting Intelligere from our
New Territry.
have had intelligenc from Russian
America through Coloel Rostoff, Of
the infantry of the Russian Empire, d
distinguished officer wo has letters
from Siberis; by the way of the Amor
country and the new teamship line
from Japan to San Franisco and New
York. His advices a from sSitka,
March %, and are from a>iiltary COM
radc Of former times, VINO mas served
out an appointment with the Russian
American Fur Company.
They represent that on the receipt of
the news of probable annexation to the
United States, the towns OF ST. Paul
and New Archangel (Sitka) were for a
day or two merely mute with astonish
ment; that on the third day KAN
schatkan sailing vessel brought more
contirmatory intelligence, and that the
Deputy Administrator Gehenl gave
credence to these by harangling the few
inhabitants left in Sitka up0l the benif-
icencc of the United States government,
its riches and valor, and ctncluded by
assuring them that the United States
was only dependency of Russia.
Conclusive evidence having failed to
III. E,ynrr,,a,,t hn. ha-
ing merely advisory of a probable sale of
the territory, the temporary 'overseer'
of the capital-province threatened del
egation of Creolcs, Libcriars and Ale
tian fishermen that waited upon him
with the usual punishment if they
showed any feeling of premature salts
faction at their deliverance from the des-
potism of the Fur Company.
This is the extent "f the news that
my authorities pos+ess, but they give
more positiveinloruation upon the pres
ent condition Of cur new Arctic pur-
shase than l have yet seen.
Sitka is built upon ledge of rocks
upon bay as smooth as the Delaware,
that is never frozen over and gives good
eharborago for large vessels, though up
to this time few have anchored there
with greater tonnage than 400. The
Administrator residence is built of
seasoned logs curiously iulaid, and ga
bled after the Russian manner. In it q
hundred feet square, suruluunted with
n light house and tlanked with a stock
ade and block houses, mounting ship
guns. The population, when the fur
season is over is close to twelve hundred
souls
The few people resident at E5itka ct
that season Of the year-whcn the Fur
Company's vessels have nearly all de-
parted to trade and purchase skins and
walrus teeth-showed timid enthusi-
asm that the corporation which had so
long ruled with an iron hand is about
to quit the country Since 1862 it had
States were chafiering for the exchange
of this territory, but the American
whalers OH the Russian coast had seem
ed to discredit the idea. AS well AS the
San Francisco fishers and ice-cutters.
There were no more than two hun
drcd people living in New Archangel at
that time. Fears were entertained that
if the news were made known to the KO-
loschian tribes, that. dwell upon the
southern shelf of land nearest to the
United States, their hereditary autipa-
thy to the Russians would result i'm an
outbreak and similar atrocities to those
that marked the storming of Sitka sixty
years ago by the same savages.
There is fog around the place three
hundred days in the year; but the
streams seldom freeze more than three
weeks in all the winter. One Greek
temple elaborately built, the adornments
of which were sent from European Rus
sia; one Protestant mission church and
one school, with public library attach
ed, were the features of the Capital, and
there were strong storchouses and q
barrack there. Three-fourtbs of the
people we've Creoles or half breeds be-
tween Russian and Indian and though
the official society was very good, there
was no law, strictly speaking, but the
arbitrary DEGREES of the Fur Company
The markets were scanty in other meat
than roebuck and the a.usinaon or wild
mutton. Peas, caulitlower, potatoes,
beets. cabbage, celery, parsnips, onions,
strawberries, biackberries, whortleber,
ries and cranberrios were common.
Salmon could be bought at three sill
yer roubles the hundred pounds (about
s2.25), and cod, herring, and halibut
were plentiful. There were many Sibe-
rians IN st. Paul, which is on the, t.
l@ndS Of Kodah, descendants of exiles
that shipped before the mast and took
refuge there. Gambling was the general
vice, but the Indians were in continual
fear Of she Russians; the former are at
tached to the country, it giving them
subsistence for very little labor, and
they have developed only the superficial
energies of the province, whose real
claims are worthy the considerations of
enterprise. The wood is dense and sog