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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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