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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1869)
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 18G0. A young mother in Ohio recently bit oS her chiltFs nose iu a Hreani. Velocipedes are selling at sixty-livo dollars in San Francisco. A submarine cable is talked of from San Francisco to Iloni'koo.'. Alaska is said to have cost us less than two ceuta an aero. A vein of silver ore lias been struck in the artesian well now being sunk at the Illinois State Penitentiary. A preliminary railroad survey from Utah to Puget Sound has lately been made, aud a favorable report... made. . - The great Loudon banker, George Peabody, in twelve donations gave away ' 87,750,000. Graut don't propose to announce iHs Cabinet until after fln frirnt r.rv-lnm tioo of his election has been made tbeV present month. . i Three hundred and three indictments for naturalization frauds were found in " January last, by the grand jury ct San Francisco. An Indiana dairy woman stamps l;cr rolls of butter with a set of falio teeth. This is unique, but the butter doesn't smell well. A woman at Providence has borne five children within the last eleven months triplets, at tbe first instance, and then twin?. Mrs. Grant has her troublc3 as well as the General. She is haunted by people who want donations, aud by servants who want situations in the White House. Col. Hamilton, regular Republican candidate, has been elected a member of Congress from Florida, by a majority of 2,000. A California paper says : Who will undertake to say that the individual is not yet born who will see a lovely woman in the place now filled by Andrew John son In Nicholas county (Ky.), on the 19th of November, 3Ir. William Gray, aged 22 years, was married to Mrs. Martha . Hopkins, aged 50 years. She has nine children, five of whom are married. The Fenian Brotherhood of San Fran cisco have resolved to purchase no more goods of British manufacture, and advise their countrymen throughout the State to adopt a similar resolution. The G rass Valley (Cal.) Union soys : A cat .supper was served up in Grass Valley, a few evenings since, the guests supposing they were eating rabbit. The rabbit was very fine until it. was known to be cat, when up -came the supper. A commentary on the morality of Parisians may be gathered from the statement that, last year, while but 33, 775 legitimate children were born, 15,510 natural children were added to the city's population. It is announced that the smull pox is becoming very prevalent in New York. It is of a very virulent type, physicians unanimously agreeing that unless the most stringent preventive health measures are adopted, the epidemic will soon be come a plague. Recently, J. B. Fitch, former editor of the Healdsburg Standard, shot J. P. W. Davis, another editor, through the bead, and the wound "was supposed to be mor tal. Davis, however, recovered. Fitch was indicted for assault to kill, but was allowed to plead guilty to assault, and was fined five dollars ! Democratic bloviators at present are free in expressing tbe opinion that green backs are unconstitutional, this, too, in the face of the fact that but a short time ago they proposed to pay the whole pub lie debt with greenbacks. Did they mean then to pay off the Government creditors with unconstitutional paper? Did they mean to repudiate the debt in that way ? Horace Greeley says that the first American society that adopted the principle of total abstinence at least from distilled spiritshad been organ ised in a rnril township of Saratoga county, New York, in 1817 j but the American Temperance Society was yet unknown, and did not adopt the prin ciple of total abstinenco from alcoholic beverages until 1833.' Telegraphic Summary. New Yobk, Feb. 8. It Is stated that the Southern Republican Senators lately held several caucuses in order to make a joint movement to secure full pay from the beginuing of the fortieth Congress. A Washington spcc'al says the onr.n bus Pacific Railroad bi:i will be kiilet by aid of iho friends ol the thirty-second parallel road. Cuic.voo, Feb. 8. A Times special says of tho caucus above referred to, that it was not for the purpose stated, but to secure unanimity of action among Southern delegates with regard to the Pacific ll;.iIroad omnibus bill. TiuiubuH's bi!I reorganizing the ju dicial system is likely to pass. It will restore Hoffman's right to appoint a clerk to the Court. Congress hasagrccd to pay Charles Westmoreland's son his father's mileage as an electoral messenger. 'J -ucuarraiinan s Lut was oeiore the Senate Land Committee to-day on brief. The result U doubtful, but both parties arc canvassing the Senate. They ore equally confident. McGarraghan's ap plication for a mandamus compelling Secretary Browning to issuo a patent for the Panoeho Grande Raneha uuder the Act of July 23, 18G0, war, argued cn Saturday and submitted to the District Supreme Court. ronuic.x news. Havana, Fob. 8. A band of insur gents, number unknown, made their ap pcaran.ee on the line of the railroad be tween t ienfugos and V ilia Clara. A detachment of troops marched against them. , A panic prevails in Cienfugos. Many families have fled from the town, foann the insurrection will spread to that dis trict. They have arrived in this city. Fort Cabanas, which guards the place, is garriscned only by a battalion of vol unteers. A fovea of regulars has been dispatched to reinforce them. The Diario, in its accounts of th outbreak at Carnierous, says tho first act of the rebels was to destroy the section of railroad between Cienfugos and Villa Clara. That paper acknowledges the situation in this district as grave. Much excitement id created in Ha vana, by versions more or . less exagge rated as to the events of the central de partment. The approaches of tho rebels to the vicinity of Cienfugos, which is the centre of a large planting district, is expected to cause a rise in the sugar market. Several attempts at revolution had been made in the Vuclta Arajo region, aud tho First and Fifth battalions of volunteers are under orders to proceed to that point and prevent a renewal of disorders. Stragglers continue to arrive at various points on the coast, it is supposed with tho intention of joining the revolutionists. Many are arrested on suspicion. .; The government has chartered several steamers and are preparing some men-of-war and light draft steam launches to range about the Keys and prevent the disembark men t of an expedition from Nassau. When that is accomplished the flotilla will proceed to attack the earth works which the insurgents threw up lately. ! The LaguaDja rebels recently assem bled at Mansane to tho number of 300. They were attacked by the troops and, according to official reports, were defeat ed, losing all their arms, ammunition and eleven prisoners. London, Feb. 8. Advices from Ath ens aro contradictory. It is now said the new cabinet, under Seams, is firmly for peace, which is thereby secured. The reported battle between tbe Turks and Montenegrams is denied. The Standard predicts that the Ala bama treaty will be rejected by the United States, and is sure the next ad ministration will not get such favorable terms of the settlement of the question. Pabis, Feb. 8. A dispatch from Athens says King George declares that Greece must either accept the protocol or receive his resignation of the Crown. Madrid, Feb. 8. Exciting rumors were in circulation all day in regard to the movements of the Carlists. One, that the Carlists attacked San Antonio, in the Provinces of Santando, and were repuls ed after a sharp fight. The Des Moines (Iowa) Register says the grasshoppers last season cat up half an acre of tobacco for a "man near that placoj and when the owner went out to look at it, they sat on the fence and squirted tobacco juice m his face. Th was adding insult to injury. is Idaho Items. Tho following paragraphs are ftoin the A.valintefte : Work is progressing rapidly on the Golden Chariot, and huge piles of flitfer ing ore are the results. The Owvhce mill will be employed on it next week. The Poonnaii ledge is increasing daily in quantity au.1 quality. The yield now averages about foVty tons per day of ex cellent roc-k. On the Minnesota lode work has been resumed. Hands are employed sinking a shaft, and it looks exceedingly well. Some as rich ore as was ever extracted in the camp came from this camp. A shaft is being sunk on the Baxter lode, and occasionally extremely rich ore is disclosed. The indications are that it will in time develop itself well. Ticrny & Co.,. on the 'south extension of the Oro Fiuo, are busy sinking their shaft, and the lode looks well. The rock obtained i3 of a similar character to that of the Ida Elmore. We have been informed of another rich strike not far Aoiu town, buf owing to some complications we are ue-t at lib erty to give particulars at present. From th Statesman : Lieut. Thomas Baker, formerly A. Q. M.; at Fort Boise, died on the 17th u!t. in San Francisco. Messrs. Semplu and Nestor were in Boise on the 2Gth uk. The indebtedness of Boise City is ql -720. ' Mr. II. Martin wes five days in mak ing the opening argument ia a case in the Supreme Court of Idaho. The Central Pacific Railroad is now completed to within one hundred and fifty one miles from Salt Lake. Only two hundred and forty miles more, and the great work is done. An employee in the Superintendency Department of tho Union Pacific, writing to a friend in this State, says tl e editors on this Coast will then have a long dead-head ride. IJcilaU Brown on the Herald. The New Yui k Times, speaking of the public debt statement, says : 'lt will be noticed that but for tho recent subsides to the Pacific roads which now amount altogether to over fifty million of dollars, the reduction of the public debt since the close of the war would have appeared reasonably satisfactory; especially when tho tax in connection with the relief of the tax-piyers of the country form nearly one-half the original burdens of the Internal Revenua system. As it is, the net cuftailment of the public delt since 18i5 is over two hundred airilions of dollars, and it is also a subject of con gratulation that over five-sixths of all the, subsidies heretofore voted to the Pacific road!, have already been issued and added to thr debt." We have seen a letter from Washing ton, received in this city in which Senator Williams' argument on the famous Sue Murphy claim is incidentally alluded to and spoken of very highly. The writer adds: "Senator Williams consumes but little time in making speeches, but when he docs engage in discussion, he not only commands the undivided attention of the Senate, but his arguments usually fiud place in the leading papers of the country, and have a wide influence in molding public g sentiment among the masses from the Atlantic to the shores of the Pacific," says the Oregonian. Terrible A man named Ileafer, living in Hannibal, Missouri, od the Gth inst. killed his daughter, only ten years of age. He tore out her heart, cut it in two and drank the blood. When arrest ed he said Christ was killed and it was no worse for . his child to die. lie had offered her as a sacrifice to Christ. The man was insane. ; Ancient Dates. Astronomers have been enabled to fix the dates of many events in ancient history, by raeans of the natural phenomena recorded in con nection with them by historians. Thus a battle between the Modes and the Lyd ians is proved to have been fought May 28, B. c. 585; for there was a total ec!ip.-e of the sun during its progress, and unerring calculations prove that the only eclipse total in Asia Minor at that era, was on the day above named. In a similar manner Hally ascertained the precise day of the landing of Julius Caesar in Britain, Aug. 26, B. c. 55, -guided by tbe notices in Caesar's Commentaries re specting the full moon and the tides. Some of the dates thus determined by modern science are of importance as they help fix the dates of other memorable events. ! The Massachusetts Reform School lets its inmates go out on skating parties. Wo give a few points, iu an article in Buriali Brown's new paper, the Dem ocratic Press, entitled, "My Connection with the Herald." To give the entire article would trespass too much on our space. Brown says : "The paper was started in March. 1SGG, by Mr. Abbott, on money furnished bv J. V. Butler, Esq., of Polk county.- Mr. Abbott was an old aud successful pub lisher of a country weekly paper iu Illi nois, but hud uo t x) i-i u i:co or knowledge of the magnitude or expense f conduct ing a citv daily, which he, as well as the supporters of the paper were but a very short time- in hndiug out. Within a month after tho paper- was started, I was urgently solicited to come to its rescue from impcudiug failure. After urgent appeals to my sense of duty to the cause of Democracy, and against my personal inclination, I accepted tho situation on trial. Three weeks before the general election, and in the midst of the canvass, I took the principal editorial charge of the paper. W 'Immediately -after the election, and without any previous intimation of his intention, Mr. Abbott showed me a writ ten valedictory, announcing the suspen sion of the paper, which was to appear in the next issue of the pa;cr on the fol lowing day. I tried in vain to dissuade Mr. Abbott from his purpose he wasj immovable. I proposed to Mr. Abbott to assume the entire res ponsibility of keeping up tbe publication of the paper until other arrangements could be made. He accepted the propo sition, and thus I cut off all other re sources and staked everything upon the uncertain hazard. Before relief came it was the most desperate financial struggle which it had ever been my lortune to engage in, the results of each day leav ing the publication of the next issue of tho paper of doubtful calculation." Brown then states that a stock compa ny was formed capital stock, $25,000. The whole amount of stock was taken, but less than 81,000, in addition to what had already been expended, was paid in. This amount being insufficient to place the concern on a paying basis, the Di rectors, instead of enforcing the payment of stock,; made a loan of 86,000 to meet current expenses, each Director becoming responsible for 1,000 of the loan. After the paper began to show signs ofc ulti mately becoming a paying concern, Dr. Weathcrford, one of tho Directors, com menced j buying up the stock, some of which he obtained at twenty-five cents on the dollar. He then bought up the notes of the Directors given for the 30,000 loan, and took a mortgage ou tbe office to secure it. Being then the sole credi tor aud principal stockholder in the paper, he undertook to turn Brown out of the editorial control of the paper, giving as his reason that he wanted a paper like the La Crosse Democrat. Failing to get the cons2ut of the other Directois to this change, he threatened to foreclose his mortgage. And to sum up, he did fore close, buying the office in under the mortgage for $3,000, and immediately thereafter turned poor old Brown adrift, as he expresses it, "without a dollar for the support of my family, my vocation suspended, and my professional character impeached." Referring to the fact that he (Brown) has been "successfully" kicked out of every office he has had anything to do with on; this coast, he feelingly says: "Twice since I have been upou this coast I have been made tho victim of mob vio lence ou account of my advocacy of Dem ocratic principles, but the insensate mobs actuated by partisan hatred instigated by the spirit of hell, did not fiud it in their power to inflict upon me so cruel a wrong as that perpetrated by Weather ford and his willing tool Pennoyer, under professions of Democracy, from no mo tive but greed in one and personal vanity in the other." That brilliant wart, Pennoyer, who as sumed editorial control of the Herald after the sudden "taking off" of B. B., is truthfully described, and all the "vir tues" necessary to fit him for a first class Democratic ink-slinger ascribed to him, in the following paragraph the most brilliant composition that ever emanated from U. B., because of its truthfulness : "Weatherford found in the sneakinsr Pennoyer an instrument worthy of him self a country pedagogue who had at' a ripe age arrived at the highest distinction as a clerk in a saw mill and the oracle of a lumber-yard ; from writing doggerel rhymes and newspaper squibs which di vided the laugh between the author and his productions, his overweening vanity caused him to imagine himself a second "Brick Pomroy" and to. aspire to the position of a leading editor, his egotism overshadowing all sense of honor or de cency in the pursuit of the object of his vain ambition. A week's experience as an editor of a daily paper sent him back to his regular vocation of measuring boards and collecting bills with a better appreciation of his intellectual resources than he had ever before entertained. He had gratified his ambition for elevated position wiih the same result that attend ed the climbing monkey. The place which he had made doubly vacant by his acceptance and by his resignation is again represented by his name, the place under it being left open to adoles cent scribblers to practice the art of composition upon." Dates to the 8th from San Francisco state that rapid progress is making in the construction of the' Western Pacific Railroad. Its completion by July next may reasonably be expected. The tunnel at Livcrmore Pass will be done by the time named. It is now 1,180 feet in and 117 feet under ground at tho highest point. It is designed for ouo track and is being built in the most substantial manner. The Jacksonville Sentinel says of Mr. Abrams : Tho case of this gentleman still seems to baffle the skill of the phy sicians. He is said to have improved a little but still experiences much pain in the amputated stump. He intends seek ing medical advice in San Frrncisco as soon as practicable. He is reputed wealthy and will be a splendid victim for the San Francisco doclo'S. The same paper speaks of the ghastly looks of Jacksonville : Since the last new cases of small pox appeared, there have been immense quantities of pitch-pine burned in tho streets. By day the town is enveloped in smoke and by night the deserted streets are lit up by lines of fires that blaze and flicker among the shadows, and throw a ghastly and sepulchral light over everything it upon. m m ' The Unionist says y ' Secretary May has takeu the very proper precaution to procure a night watch, and" is determined that tho Treasury shall be surrounded with every protection for its present se curity. Secretary May's precaution is a very wise oue aud we commend him for it. The eyes of the "riotous ring of irrespon sible ruffians," and those of a few mer cenary Republicans are ou the strong box of the State, and it is well to watch it, says the Jacksonville Sentinel. The Shanghae A firs Letter says that Ross Browne, our Minister to China, has been obliged to grope his way into China without any assistance from his Government, and to introduce himself into I'ekin without a word of welcome, and remain there as hostage for the safety of the foreign Embassadors so generouslv feted in the United States. Ho is for bidden to leave the city. j ALBANY RETAIL MARKET, j Ai.baxv, February 13, 1SG9. Wheat, white, bushel '50 Oats, if bushel 35 Potatoes, bushel 00 Ouions, 1 bushel 1 25 Flour, "j barrel $1 50a 00 Hutter, lb 40 Kefirs, "fi dozen 16 Chickens, d n $2 503 00 Peaches, dried, lb 15(3,20 Simp, ) lb 5 ($51 Salt, Lo3 Anjrelos, tb ' i 2i Syrup, 3 gallon $1 121 25 Tea, Young Hyson lb , 1 00 " Japan, " 1 00 " Black, " 751 00 Sugar, crushed, i lb 18 2" Sea' 1618 " Island, " 14(g15 Coffee, lb 22(025 Candles, 1 lb 29(33 Rice, China. 1 lb 121B Saleratug, th ICg Dried plums, lb. 15 (a. 20 Dried apples, lb (3;5 DHed currants lb fC8 Bnoou, hams, '0 tb "..14(3715 " sides, " 121 " shoulders, tb j 6 Lard, in,cans, i lb 10 Beans, ip lb... ' 4 Devoes' Kerosoue oil, gallon (3)1 00 Turpentine, i gallon ,. $1 25(g) 1 50 Linseed oil, boiled, gallon $1 621 75 White lead, $4 kes.... $4 00($4 25 Powder, rifle, lb 751 CO Tobacco, lb $1 00 (o)l 50 Nails, cut, J tb 78 Domestic, brown. jft yard , 1H Hickory, striped, yard.. 1630 Bed ticking, per yard - 25($50 Blue drilling, yard 2030 Flannels, yard M. 6075 Prints, fa t colors, tp yard (3,121 Pork, lb 5s Mutton, lb 10l2i Boof, on loot, i lb 4i5 Wheat in New York quiet but firm, at 2 052' 10. Flour dull at S6ll 50 Liverpool quotations for wheat are, for California, lis 4d. San Francisco market quotations aro as follows : Flour Quiet, no change quotable. Wheat Market quiet at SI 50ll 70 for ordinary to fair; 81 701 80 for fair to good. Barley Quotable at 02 102 20 for feed; brewing, S2 202 30. Oats Range from S22 20; Oregon quoted at $2 152 25. Tub "Idaho Statesman. !J as. S. Reynolds has sold this pnper; to II." C. Street, C. L. Goodrich and A. J. lioyakin, who will hereafter conduct, it as a Demo cratic journ;l. - : The Directors of the Ceutral Pac'fio. liailroad announce, as their road is nearly completed to the junction with the Union Pac'fij, a reduction in freights will shcrt ly bo made. The firm of Jacob Conser & Son of Jefferson, Marlon county, have sold half their flouring mill to John Burnett, late of Illinois, for 610,000. ' J. A. Conser retires from the business. Subscribe for the K roister. NEW TO-DAY. 1.J3T OF LETTEI'S Remaining uncall ed f ;r, February 1, 1SG9. nt lbo Post Ofticj in Lebanon, Linn county, Urc.cron s Amos, C II Uareer, S P Burkley, J(i B viand. M I Davidsou. F Denney, Afi3 JI Courtney. Levi Cooper, 1) M Emerson, Thomas Fit. water, James Oibeon, J D Goodman, W R Hamilton, .1 D Hardwic, Carrol Jackson, E C Keen, Jacob Knox, A S Lealy, Margaret iJorse, Joseph Miller, W A Marks, Samuel Prior, John , Parker, Wm ParKciyarah Rt.binott, W C Bbinctt, John Reynolds, Elvira Settle, John SililftC"; Wm . . Simons, E Smith. David Shorts, James S mtb, J R Scott, ST Vail, Joel Vnil. Mary Wisliard, Joss Wood, J D S. II. CLACGHTON, J. P. Administrator's Notice. Entate of J). If. Dor.tl, defeated. NOTICE ii hereby piren by the undersigned administrator of the above named estate, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against, said deceased, to present tho same, with necessary vouchers, within fix months from thin notice, to the undersigned at 'his residence, six miles south of Peoria, Linn eounlv. Orrcrnn. JAMES SHERR1LL, Feb. 11, 186923 Adm. I'.resFi.t. k. ElLins, Attys. AUCTION. W. W. Parrish & Co., AT TIIE BRICK STORE, Corner Ferry and First Streets, ALBANY, OREGON, niil sjil tL ir entire stock of DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, ocd . HA RD W ARE, r.t " PVIIIiIG AUCTION, commencing on Monday, February 29, 18G9. JAMUS SHIELDS, Auctioneer. Sale will commence on Monday morning, Feb ruary 22d, at 10 o'clock, and everyday tbreafUr at the same hour until all th Roods are disposed of- W. W. PAKKISH CO. February 6, 1869-22 FIRST ANNIVERSARY BALL I ALBAS Y FIRE COMPACT K0. 1, TO BE CIVEJT AT PAKKISH' HAUL, ALB ANT, ox WASHINGTON'S BIRTH DAY, (February 22d, I860.) COMMITTEE 0? ARRASCEMKXTS. I. M. Thompson, M. V. Brown, John Parker, Cbas. Mealcy, K. Kohn, J. X. Nixon, Jas. L. If. B. Humphrey, N. Baiim, A. II. Marshall, Ira A. Miller, . A. R. Backus, C. Van Cleve, Cowan. 11ECEPTIOJJ COMMITTER. ; OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY. R. C. Clark, W. II. Wood, FLOOR MAXAOERS. Leo. Fox, P. C. Harper, A general invitation is hereby extended. Tickets can be procured of any member of tb Committees. Firemen are requested to appear in uniform. Albany, Jan. 2d, 18C. $50.00 ! I - Y NOT BUYING BOOTS AND SHOES KAST & CAHALIN'S Philadelphia Boot Store, No. 112 Front Street, Opposite McCormiek'a Book Store, Jan 9-69-13 Portland, Oregoa. WESTERI HOTEL, PORTLAND, OREGON, ' DORCY & HOLMES. PROPRIETORS. j - - THIS HOTEL IS LOCATED NEAR THE Steamship Landing. The Hotel Coaeh will' 1m attendance at all the Landing! to convey passengers and baggage to and from Ike Boom FREE OF CHABUE. i . v , J.Q-II