Buchanan County bulletin and guardian., 1867-08-09
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orr NEW TEi.,gfTORY.

4 correspondent Of tha Philadelphia IL
quirer has gained some interesting INF rna
tion IN regard to OUT neNly acquired terrific
~. He obtained il from Co. de R9s,of. q
distinguished Russian officer, who has re-
ceivsd adyices from Sltka. dated March %
His informant represents that On the receipt
OF the news Of the probable annexation 70
the United States the towns OF St. Paul and
New Archangel (Sitkal were for a dav ol
two, merely mute with astonishment; that
on the third day, a Kamaschatkan sailing
vessel brough: more confrmatory ntelli
gence, and that the Deputy Administrator
General gave credence to these bv harangu,
ing the few inhabitants left in Sitka upon
the beneficence of the United States govern
ment, its riches and valor. and concluded by
assuring them that the United States wa.
only dependency Of Russia.
Conclusive evidence having failed to ar
rive, The government dispatches being mere
ly advisory of a probable sale Of the terrific,
~, the temporary overseer' of the capital
province threatened delegation Of Creoles
Liberians and A,lentan fishermen that wait
ed upon him with the usual punishment II
they showed any feeling of premature salts
faction at their deliverance from The despo.
tism Of the Fur Company.
The new people resident at Sitka at that
season OF the year-when the Far Compa-
ny's vessels had nearly all departed to trade
and purchase skins and walrus tee,h-show
ed n timid enthusiasm that the corporation
which has SO long ruled them with an iron
hand is about to leave ths country. Since
1852 il has been known that Russia and the
United States were chafering for the ex>
change of this territory, but the American
whalers on the Russian coast had seemed
to diseredit the idea as well as the San Fran
cisco fishers and ice ecutters.
There we're no more than two hundred
people living in New Archange at that time.
Fears were entertained that II the news were
made known TO the koloschan tribes who
dive upon the southern shelf of land rear.
est to the United States. their hereditary All.
tipat.r TO the Russians would result Il az
outbreak aud similar atrocitiea 70 the5e 4 O..
marked the storming Of Sitka sixty yesrs age
By these same sayagcs.
The correspondent continues
g Sitka is built upon a ledge OF rocks up-
Oh a bay as smooth as the Delaware. tha, is
never frozen over, and gives good harbora ge
to large vessels, though up to this time f.w
have anchored there Of greater tonnage than
four hundred. The Administrator res;>
dence is built Of seasoned logs, cariously in
laid, and gabled after the Russian manner
L, is hundred feet square, surmounted with
a lighthouse, and tianked with s,ocbade
and block houses. mounting ship guns. The
population, when the fur season is over. is
close to twelve hundred souls.
There is fog around the place three nuns
dred days in the year: but the streams sci,
dom freeze more than three weeks in all in
the winter. One Greek temple. elaboratel7
built, the adornments Of which were sent
from European Russia one Protestant miss
ion church and one school, with library
attached, were the features Of the capital.
and there were strong storehouses and bar.
rack there. Three-fourths Of the people
were Creoles, or hal. breeds between Rus
sian and Indian, and though the official so.
ciety was very good there was no law, strict
ly speaking, but the arbitrary DEGREES Of the
Fur Company. The markets we're scanty
in other meat than roebuck and the must
mon or wild mutton. Peas, eauiitlower, po-
iatoes. beets, cabbage, celery. onions, straw
berries, blackherries, whortleberries and
cranberrics were common.
Salmon could be bought at three silver
roublcs the hundred pounds (about So.25, J
and cod herring and halibat were plentiful.
There we're many Siberiaus in ST. Paul,
which is on the island of Aoiiah, descend>
ants Of exiles ,ha; shipped before the mast
and took refuge there. Gambling was the
general vice, but the Indians were in cons
,inual fear Of the Russians the former are
attached to the country, il giving them SUBJ
sisience for very little labor and they have
developed only the superficial energies ot
the province. whose real claims are worthg
the consideration Of the enterprise. The
wood is dense bat soggy there and will not
burn except after two seasons HOUSING.