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SATU.HUAY, AP1UL 10, 18(39. Elections. The election in Cod tiecticut on Monday last resulted favor ably, the Republicans electing the Legis lature, and two, perhaps three, members of Congress. Two years ago the Re publicans elected but one Congressman. Last year tho Democratic majority in the State was 2,000. The renegade Repub lican Senator, Dixon, has been defeated. At the municipal election in Toledo (Ohio), on the same day, the entire Re publican ticket was elected, tho majority for Mayor being 400. The growth and popularity of the principles of the Dem ocratic party i3 rather slow and very unfunny ! Tenure of Office Act. The dis cussion concerning the repeal of the Tenure of Office Act, which has been before Congress so long, has ended in such modification of the bill as will about equally balance, between the President and the Senate, the control of the im mense Government patronage. "We see by late Washington telegrams that the bill as modified has received the signa ture of President Grant, and has there fore become a law. Catastrophe at Gold Hill. Further particulars by telegraph have reached us in relation to the fire in the Yellow Jacket, Crown Point and Ken tuck mines, at Gold Hill. It is supposed that the fire caught from a miner's lamp left sticking in the timbers in the SOO foot level between the Yellow Jacket and Kentuck mines. The total loss of life ascertained up to the Sth was 3i persons. The fire was still raging, but hopes were entertained of their ultimate extinction. It is the most heart-rcndim; affair that ever occurred in that com munity. Peesoxal. Our handsome friend, Wm. Hand, of the Dalles Mountaineer, is going East on a visit, starting about the 15th inst. The Farmer man insinuates that he is going after more Hands. Sue cess to you, Bill. J. H. Upton, editor Polk County Signal, has made up his mind to go to White Pine, and if no other arrangements are effected, his paper-. will be discontinued. Michigan State Prison. The tel egraph informs us that the Legislature of Michigan adjourned sine die on the 5th inst. All the keepers having charge of convicts in the shops of the State Prison resigned, on the same day, be cause the Legislature made no provision for increasing their salaries. Work in the Prison has closed entirely, and the prisoners are locked in their cells. The contractors hold the StateresponsibIc for the damage, which will amount to over one thousand dollars per day. 1 . - Frost. A severe irost occurred in Augusta, Georgia, on the night of the 4th inst., and it is feared that all 'the fruit and early vegetables are killed. In South Carolina the frost has been disas trous in it3 effects on sea island cotton. Nearly the whole crop will have to be replanted. A Kino Wanted. The Spaniards want a king, and the Cortes and Council of Ministers have decided upon Ferdi nand to act in that high capacity, and according to late telegrams, a committee, including Olasgo, had gone to Lisbon to ask his acceptance of the position. Out. E. G. Randall, convicted of robbing the mail in Portland recently, and sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary, has been released from jail, tho pardon; issuod by President Johnson just before his retiracy to private life, having reached Portland. Confirmed. A lato telegram an nounces the appointment of A. B. Meachara as Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon, vice J. W. P. Hunt ington, removed. Velocipedal. It is reported that the Infantry Company stationed at Fort Klamath are to be furnished with veloci pedes. As they don't eat anything (the velocipedes, we mean), they would be rather more economical than horses. Tin Ore. Tin ore, Discovered recent ly about five miles west of Canyonville, on Pine mountain, has been assayed $n Saa Francisco and found to be very rich. The Republican majority in the Con necticut Legislature on joint ballot,' is forty-oae. Jewett's (Rep.) majority for Governor U 811. Three of the four Congressmen elected are Republicans. Useless Advice! Says the San Francisco Chronicle: "For men cf small means, occupying comfortable positions here, or engaged in a moderately remun erative business, it is little short of sheer lunacy to rush off to White Pine, and by so doing sacrifice a certainty for an uncer tainty." Let 'em rush. Not a particle of use to talk to them. A mining fever is no more to bo cured by advice than is immoderate whisky drinking. People that arc on it will go; it's their destiny. . The Carutiiers' Estate. The Washington correspondent of the State Journal writes : Some years ago certain partiesjumped" tho Caruthcrs' dona tion"Tand claim at Portland and succeed ed in gelling a patent for it. The case was decided iu favor of those who "jumped" the claim by Judg-c Shattuck, and that judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Oregon. The case was appealed to the Supreirc Court of the U. S. Mr. J. II. Mitchell, the attorney for the Caruthers' estate, has succeeded in get ting a unanimous decision from the Court reversing the judgment of the Courts be low, and declaring in favor of the estate. There being no heirs of the estate, the land, which i said to bo worth not less than 100,000, will go to the State of Oregon. The Washington correspondent of the Portland Orcgonian writes: "Oregon is virtually unrepresented in the House Committees. Smith is at the fool of of the Committee on Revolutionary Pen sions, and next to the last man on the Postoffice Committee. The former Com mittee is obsolete, and the latter is of little or no importance to our people. As everything is done in the Committees, Uregon is practically unrepresented. Ti is is another of the fruits of the iu su'ting resolutions of the Copperhead Legislature and their disgraceful conduct generally. Their folly is now coming home. They not only disgraced the State, but injured themselves and their own party friends. Model Deadhead. The Sacramento Reporter has the following singular item: On Saturday last, on the arrival of the Central Pacific train at Truckee. the em ployee of the company whose duty it is to sound the wheels or the cars, in the discharge of his duty discovered a man lying on a board sticking across the track ot one of the cars. While called to give an account of himself he said that he had traveled from New York to Sacramento, and from bacramcnto to that poiut with out paying anything for transportation, was a lansce, and intended to get to White Pine without paying a cent for carriage hire. lie also added that he would whip his interlocutor if he blowed on him. lie did not travel on that train beyond Truekee. That fellow has cheek euough to travel as a special correspon dent lor a nrst class newspaper. The Chico (,'aucaiian says: Hell yawns and gapes to swallow up the mis erable wretch who stole Bro. J. G. Shel ton's horse at Red Bluff. Steal a preach er's horse ! The blackest and most un pardonable of crimes. O, thief, return Bro. Shelton his horse, or into hell you tumble, 'kerchunk.'" This is rouirh. cut legitimate Democratic literature. NEWS PARAGRAPHS Woman Shot. The Calaveras Chron tele says that on Thursday evening last, Frank Laveua, a resident of Murphy's, shot the weman with whom he was living, killing her instantly. The female was intoxicated at the time, and in conse quence of some, "domestic" difficulty, she attacked her paramour with a knife, when ho shot her through the head. Says tho Montana News Letter of tho 21st of March: One day last week a band of Blood Indians made an attack on a saw mill, on Benton creek, eighteen or twenty miles northeast of Diamond City their object undoubtedly being to burn the mill, massacre the whites in the vicinity, and get away with all the stock. They were repulsed by the employees. but succeeded in driving off some cattle. O ! Julian, thou roan of Peace and Quaker Indian Commissioners, come hither. A correspondent of the Walla Walla paper, writing from Florence, says : The mill of the Florence Company has been in full blast ever since last December, and has been running since then without a single interruption, day and night. iney have hne looking rock, which aver ages S100 per ton. and a- well defined ledge. Their shaft is seventy-two feet deep, and the vein widens as they pro ceed in aepin. lhey employ sixteen men. Savs the Ol is hardly a day passes but we see men vouj.ug into town on loot, carrying their blankets, in search' of wm-t homes. So far as wa &r K1 tn the logging camps and mills arc almost all short of hauds : vet we fnr danger of, too great a rush, which will nave a tendency to discourage settle ments." . The Montana Post, of March 19th, reports a severe fight between a com! pany of soldiers and a party of Sioux Indians, in Gallatin valley. Four In. dians were killed. About three weaksago four men herd ing cattle on the Yellowstone were killed by the Indians. The principal stockholder in tho very profitable Independence Beige is a mar riageable maiden of seventeen, who also owns an estate worj; 1,000,000 francs. The placers at Florence City are not yet worked out. Thero is plenty of ground yet that will pay from six to eight dollars per day to the baud. Two Indians, one a Flathead and the other a Spokane, fought a duel near Helena a short time ago. Cause, wcniau. Both combattants killed. The Idaho Statesmen says that labor is wanted at Alturas and other points in that Territory. Some of the quartz mills cannot run for want of hands. At the plympia Land Office the total amounts entered under the different acts of Congress make 25,214 77-100 acres. The Republicans in Washington Ter ritory are in a general tow about a dele gate to Congress, and are evidently pre paring to; let a Democrat carry . olf the prize. I Three-fourths of an acre of land in Georgia (planted with cotton) has yielded, iu a year nearly S600 profit, or at the rate of SS00 per acre. The ground was, of course, carefully cultivated and tended. What a future looms up for the Southern people, if they will only be wise and in dustrious in the use of the splendid ad vantages which nature has given them. An officer of the English navy, Ingle field, has invented a mode of steering ships by the pressure of tho water in which the vessel floats. The apparatus is of course, below the water line, and it can be controlled from any part of tho vessel. The Captain, while sitting in tho cabin of the largest iron-clad, with a compass beside him can steer her with his thumb and finger. A London (England) telegram dated April 4th, is to the effect that an Alex andria dispatch says another attempt to assassinate tho Viceroy of Egypt has been discovered and frustrated. A load ed bomb was found under his chair in the theatre and removed before it ex ploded. A large number of suspected persons have been placed under arrest. A Philadelphia telegram of the 4th inst. snys : A heavy robbery was com mitted at the St. John's Safety Fund building to-day. , The watchman left the building at six o'clock this morning and returned at six o'clock to-night. He found the safe broken open and its entire contents, amounting to 80,000 or 8100, 0J0 in value gone. Over SGO.COO was available funds in greenbacks, etc. In Andy's "farewell address" tho word "Constitution" occurs thirty-one times, "constitutional" eleven times, and "un constitutional'' seventeen times. He was bound to leave the Constitution and the flag in the hands of the people. Major Bradley, formerly of Stockton, Cal., has 15,000 head of cnttlc in the region of Elko, scattered about in droves of from 1,000 to 1,500 head. The hills for miles around are said to be alive with cattle; they are literally "cattle upon a thousand hills." The White Pine folks need fear no scarcity of beef. The Lieutenant-Governor of Louisiana, Dunn, was born in New Orleans, of free parents. He has been in busiucss in that city many years, is well educated, speaks the English language perfectly, including every " th," has considerable property, is full black, over six feet high, and broad and stout in proportion. The Kansas City Bulletin, favors its readers with a "'romance in real life." A young lady, the daaghter of a widow residing in Hannibal, recently eloped with a fascinating young gentleman from Kansas City tho lover robbed one of. his male associates of $600 to defray the expenses of tho bridal tour. A miniature locomotive, perfect in all its parts, carved out of wood, with no other tools than an ax and a jack-knife, was exhibited at Columbus, Ohio. The work was executed by a colored boy, hardly fifteen years of age, a late slave. A patron of the Portsmuoth, N II., Journal has appeared in that office every rriday atternoon, lor tho past thirty- eight years, with his pennies to pay for that paper. Madame Olympe Audouard, who has been traveling in this country, says she likes the women of America much better than the men. Whodoesu't? A. F- Tipton, postmaster at Elkader, Iowa, inherits $56,000 from a bachelor uncle,' who lost his life on the ill-fated steamer United States. A Californian, writing from White Pine, says he has not struck a claim yet, because " he has as much as ho can do to cutjwooi enough to keep warm." " My notion of a wife at forty," said Jerrold, " is that a a man should be able co cnange ner, use a panic note, jor two twenties." An Austrian hair-dresser cut his throat, but it htalcd up, and the operation gave him a tenor voico which eclipses all rivals. " ' ': :' The Babylonians used to sleep on skins filled with water. In - these latter times some men sleep on skins failed with whisky.l . 1 A Red River correspondent describes an Indian as being as " grave, yet re signed, as a man over the corpse of his step-mother." Telegraphic Summary. KnoXVILLE, April 3. The city is thronged with people to-day on the occasion of Andrew Johnson making a public address, to which about five thous and people listened. Johnson asked for a fair examination of his record. He said he intended to devote the remainder of his life as a private citizen to the vin dication i of his official life and of his native State from the obliquy cast upon them. He alluded to the obituaries of himself published in the papers and said he might be regarded as one risen from the! dead. lie thought one coming from the grave should be believed, and said there was great danger that the legis lative will wipe out the executive and ju diciary departmen's of the Govern ment, lie compared the acts of Congress to the acts of Great Britain in relation to the colonies before the Revolution, and said a wise and good Prince was infinitely better than an arbitrary, despotic Con gress. Jotieing the accusation about his being the "Moses" of tho blacks,, he asked if it was not he who had freed the negroes of Tennessee? Freedom is only liberty to work, not to build up a miser able Lazaroui, to be supported by the Government. He never deceived white or blackjman. He told his auditors that they wefe all slaves of the bondholders, who never shed a drop of blood. "Would to God tjhe Government had cot credit to borrow a dollar to carry on war ! Thank God my honors have not been gained through Blood ! Wounded soldiers cannot ittribute their wounds to me." lie spoke about two hours, dieting close attention! and wis heartily applauded. In conversation he spoke freely of Grant as a bundle of prejudices, and called his Cabinet a gift enterprise. The people were heartily glad to see Johnson, and expect much from him. New York, April 6. The Herald says Sumner has stated that the Presi dent has agreed to nominate Motley to the English mission. Other parties mentionjBanks' name in this connection. Chicago, April 6. Resolutions were presented in the Common Council last night toiprovide for a celebration in this city on the opening of the Pacific Railway. Alt the Governors, and officers and mem bers of jthe Legislatures of the Pacific States and Territories will be invited; also the Mayors, Common Council and distinguished citizens of San Francisco, Sacramento aud other leading citizens. The Prsident, Vice President, Cabinet, members of Congress, leading Generals, Governors of States, Supreme Judges, etc., wil be invited to meet the guests from the) Pacific and unite in celebrating the event in a manner befitting so grand an occasion. Three- fire3 occurred in quick succes sion last night and destroyed an aggre gate of 75,000 worth of property. Washington, April 6. The bill to aid the construction of a Central Pacific Railroad to Portland, Oregon, was dis cussed. I Sherman's amendment was modified so as to leave the President to fix the point of junction according to the rights of the respective roads, and so adopted 53 to 6. Davis offered an amendmeut, which was adopted, direct ing tho Attorney General to 1st. Inves tigate whether the charter and fran chises of tho Union Pacific Road aud brauches have not been forfeited, and if so, to institute khc necessary legal pro ceedings j 2d. To investigate whether the said Company have made illegal dividends, r-nd if so, to institute the nec essary legal proceedings; iid. To inves tigate whether any of the directors, agents or emrioyces of said Company have violated any penal law, and if so, to institute! the necessary legal proceedings. Hartford, April 6. The Senate will be J composed of fourteen Repub licans and seven Democrats. The Re publicans have about twenty majority in the House. N ew Haven, April C. Complete re turns give Jcwett 811 majority tor Gov ernor. I The Republican majority on joint ballot is forty-one. Havana, April G. The Diarieo con siders the rebellion in the central de partment entirely suppressed. The flag ship Caiitrarell has gone to the mouth of the Mississippi to intercept the expedi tion reported as having sailed for Cuba from New Orleans. Virginia Citv, April 7. Firo was discovered in the Yellow Jacket, Crown Point and Kentucky mines, Gold IJil', early this morning and is now raging. Seventeen men are thought to be in the mines. jFivo dead bodies have been got to the surface. There is great dan ger that thoso below will perish, the einoke and gas being so dense and suffo cating as to render it impossible to get them aid or operate - to extinguish the fire. Virginia, April 7. Tho excitement is so great that it is difficult to get full and exact particulars of the Gold Hill fire. It originated from a miner's can dle. But little can be done, the dense smoke filling all the gal.'eries aud pas sages on the level where tho fire orig inated and thoso aoove, prevented any direct efforts being made to extinguish the fire. j Four more bodies were found dead on the nine hundred foot level, in tho Yellow Jacket. Thero are still twenty-five men in the Crown Point, below the fire, supposed to be dead, and from ton to twelvo in tho Kentucky, also supposed to be dead. Efforts are being mad a by bcth tunnel and shaft to get them out, but the smoke is so dense that men cannot live to go down. The iowa Mutual, recently suspended had $9,000,000 risks and $1,000 cash 8g3et3. The Berliners ate up 4,044 horses last year. There is a mine in Calaveras county, Cal., called the Petticoat, which has lately sold for $80,000. A railway theater, to amuse the pas sengers, has been established on the line between Manchester and Liverpool. Prussia is gettiug S3,000,000 worth of guns manufactured in the United States, and is anxious for peace. Dr. Cumming states that the Scotch Church in Rome is now held in a gran ary over a pig-sty. A bachelor, according to the latest definition, is a man who has lost the opportunity of making a woman miser able. Gen. Imboden, the ex-Confederate, has written a letter, -urging emigration to Virginia, aud denying hostilities to Northerners. Wants carpet-baggers. The New York Tribune cleared $225, 000 last year, the most profitable year of its existence. The previous year it clear ed $125,000. It is officially reported from the office Union Pacific Railroad Company that there are only eighty-two miles of gap between the ends of the Union and Cen tral Pacific railroads. The Methodists are intending to erect immediately, a first-class Seminary at Olympia. j Gen. John A. Logfn has become a member of tho Methodist church. Garribaldi's novel was written by a lady friend. i D NEW TO-DAY. NOTICE : I. E. BLAIX. S. K. TOCSO. BLA'SNJ & YOUNG, P.AVIXO BOUGHT ALL THE MERCHANDISE OT 3. Barrows &, Co., will continue tho business, and they invito all to give them a call. Thoy will ba constantly re ceiving goods from San Francisco, and will keep a general assortment of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Crockery 4&C, &c. And offer inducements to iseadt pat customers BLAIX & VOUSG. All persons owing tho firm of J. TJ.tnnows k Co., will please call and settle. 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I Albany, September 19, 1868-2y j RATES OF TOLL H OVER 'THE .': ...i j Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Roads To Descuuttes River : Four Hrso or Mule team Two " " One " " ................. .$4 60 3 00 2 00 Ox teams, three yoke.. r 4 $0 For every additional yoke 69 Loose horses, per head .......................... 25 cattle, per head JS " sheep or hogs S Teams returning empty, half price. ; Pack animals, loaled. 69 " " unloaded 25 Horse and rider- 1 64 To I'isli Lake: Four horse or mulo team, each wayiv....... 2 00 Two " " I so One " ' ......... 1 00 Pack animals, loaded 5 " " unloaded . 25 Horso and rider ' 74 Ox team, three yoke.. 3 00 To t'pner Soda Spring: Four horse or mule team, out and back...... 2 50 Two ' " ; j 00 One ' " ..."'. i j 0u Horse' and rider, " j 50 L008B animals, " j...... 25 Ox teams tho same as horse teams. ' -A. IIACKLEMAN. W. VT. Fabrisr, , v ' i- Pros. Sec. March 20, 1S69-28 Albany Weekly Register JOB PRINTING Firtt ttreet, (opposite Parrith A Cb.'f ator,) Albany t s s Oregon. HAVING a very fair assortment of material wo are prepared to execute, with neatness and dispatch, all kinds of ''; . such as Band-hills, Programmes, Billhead, Cards, Ball Tickets, Pamphlet, Labels, Blanks of all lstixicls, at as low figures as a due regard to taste and goods work will allow.- When you want anything ta the printing line, call at the Registbr office. . 9,000,000 lbs. of Wool, OR WHICH THE HIGHEST MARKET price will be paid hy ; Albany, March 27, 18Sa-29m3 F Blacksmiths ! , j j NB. JUST ARRIVED, by the steamship a Continental, direct from San Francisoo, a largo lot of , j j . j Iron and Steel ! 4 : Which can be obtained by yon on better ' tome than erer has been offered here before, for s Cash In Band. ; Call and see for yourselves. . ; -',"' - ALSO, 5 ' L -a fx KEGS of the Heavy Extra Golden Syrup; 4U la6 Io of Sugar; and Dry Goods to suit the trade all to be sold for cash or trade, at Living Rates. , R. CHEADLE. - March 20, '69-28-lm "' '