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PUBLISHED EVERT tlTl'RDAT BY COLLINS VANCLEVE. OPFICB OV CORSES OP PERRY AN'D FIRST-STS., OPPOSITE W. W. PARUISH CO.'s STOKE. . TERMS IN ADVANCE. One Year Three Dollar3 Six Months Two Dollars Single Copies Ten Cents ADVERTISING RATES. One Column, per Year. $100 ; Half Column, $60 ; Quarter Column, $35. Transient advertisements per Square of ton lines or less, first insertion, $ii ; each subsequent insertion, $1. i BUSINESS CARDS. - ALBANY BATH THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECT fully inform tho citizens of Albany anil vi cinity that he has taken ehargo of this establish ment, and, by keeping clean rooms nud juiyiiii strict att-ntk i to business, expects to suit ali those who may favor him with their patronage. Having heretofore carried on nothing but First-Class Hair Dressing' Saloons, he expec's to give entire satisfaction to all. Children and Ladies' hair neatly cut and hampooed. JOSEPH WEBBER. sev 19y2 CEO. W. GRAY, D. D. S., GRADUATE OF THE CINCINNATI DEN tal College, would invite all persons desiring artificial teeth, and first-class dental operations, to give him a call. Specimens of Vulcanite Base with gold-plate linings, and other new styles of work, tuny be seen at his office, in Parrish 4 Co.'s brick, (up tairs) Albany, Oregon. Residence Corner Second and Baker sta. 2 J. C. POWELL. Powell & Flinsi, ATTORNEYS 4 COUNSELLORS AT LAW and Solicitors in Chancery, (X. Flinn, Notary Public,) Albany, Oregon. Collections and conveyances promply attended to. I W. J. HIT ABIDE L- F. M. KEPFIELD. Hiltabidel & Co., DEALERS IN GROCERIES AND PRC visions, Wood and Willow Ware, Confec tionery, Tobacco, Cigars. Pipes, Notions, etc. Main street, adjoining the Express office, Albany, Oregon. 1 E. A. Freeland, DEALER IN EVERY DESCRIPTION OF School, Miscellaneous and Blank Books, Stationery, Gold and Steel Pens, Ink, etc.. Post office Building, Albany, Oregon. Books ordered from New York and San Francisco. 1 S. II. Clanghton, NOTARY PUBLIC AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. Office in the Post Office building, , Lebanon, Oregon. Will attend to making Deeds and other convey ances, also to the prompt collection of debts en trusted to my care. I C. TYIealey & Co., MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS in all kinds of Furniture and Cabinet Ware, First street, Mbany. J. H. MITCHELL. J. X. DOLPH. A. SMITH. Mitchell, Uolph & Smith, ATTORNEYS axd COUNSELLORS at LAW, Solicitors in Chancery and Proctors in Ad miralty. Office over the old Post Office, Front street, Portland, Oregon. I ALL those knowing themselves indebted to us are respectfully requested to call and settle immediately. Old account must be settled. BEACH & MONTEITH. Albany, October 10th, '68. HOM33STEAI3 FOR SALE ! THE UNDERSIGNED, wishing to "change his base," offers for sale his fine new two story . Xvelling' House, on the corner of Washington and Second streets, together with the old hotel building adjoining, several fine lots, etc. The house is large, new and well finished throughout. The premises are well supplied with water ; outbuildings all complete ; good fences, and a number of fine fruit bearing trees on the premises. Address, J. B. SPRENGER, March 20-28m3 Albany, Ogn. Albany Weekly Register JOB PRINTING Tirtt street, (opposite Parrish Co.'s store,) Albany s : : Oregon. HAVING a very fair assortment of material we are prepared to execute, with neatness and dispatch, all kinds of 3?I,AI3T A3TD OPAaxreTT such as Iland-biUs, Programme., -' Bill-heads, Cards, Ball Tickets, Pamphlets, Labels, Blanks of sill kinds, at as low figures as a due regard to taste and rood work will allow. When you want anything in the printing line, call at the Register offiee. OF ALL KINDS, printed at the very lowest rates, as ordered, at this office. JOB WORK ALBANY ADVERTISEMENTS GEO. F. SETTLEMIER, BRUCxGIST. (Successor to D. W. Wakefield,) Parrlsh's New Building', First Street, ALBANY, OREGON, DEALER IN Drugs and Medicines, CHBKICALS, FAINTS, OILS, GLASS, ETC. A!l articles warranted pure and of the best quality. Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounded. Albany, Oct. 17, lS6S-Ctf PICTURES - O V ALL DESCRIPTIONS, at fair prices, neatly executed at the Register office. TB A. WIXTER, HAVING PURCHASED the well-furnished PICTURE CALIERY formerly belonging to A. B. Faxton, is prepared to make P'laotosraplis I from "Carles de Tisilz" up to life size. Also. V A&1BR0TYPES & "SUN PEARLS!" Any person who has had card pictures made here siuce the Gallery burned down (1SS3) can get pictures from the negatives at the rate of three dolltrs per dozen. Having had eiht years' experience in the bus iness, I believe that I tan insure to give satisfac tion. J. A. WINTER. Albany, Sept. 19, lSCS-2tf GJ-oocl JPictxires I MADE IX CIOUDV WEATHER I J. A. WINTER. Oct 31, lS6S-Stf TVs iv Columbian Hold, N"s. 11?, 120 and 122 Front street, PCmTXAFII?, : : : OREGON. ED. CARNEY, PROPRIETOR. The Largest, Best and most Convenient Hotel in Portland! Located in the center of business and near all the ctcamboat landings. Board and Lodging From one to two dollars per day according to the room occupied. 7pS$" . Rooms newly furnished and well ventil ated. Superior accommodations for families. jZ5s? The New Columbian Hotel Coaeh will be in attendance at all the landings to convey pas sengers and baggage to and from this Hotel 17 - J- Free ot Charge ! -S 69 Attention! FARMERS ! 311 ME" ! AND ALL HAYING MACHINERY ! THE ALBANY LARD OIL FACTORY has resumed operations, and is prepared to furnish OIL by the quantity. Different grades are kept on hand for sale, at different prices. The No. 1 Grade is Warranted to be strictly Pnre ! T Orders from abroad respectfully solicited. J33" All o.ders should be accompanied by the cash. NOTICE ! Cash or Soap will be paid for Pure Lard and rancid or scorched Grease, delivered at the Factory. MeCORD & GEORGE. Albany, Jan. 2, 1S69-17 FIRE MD MARINE INSURANCE. crnNTionar Insurance Company Nos. 416 and 418 California Street, San Francisco, Cal. Stockholders Individually Liable. Cash Capital, in Gold Coin, $750,000. Deposit in Oregon, $50,000. Losses Promptly and Equitably Adjusted. THIS COMPANY having complied with the laws of Oregon, by making a deposit of fifty thousand dollars, is now prepared to effect insur ance against Loss or Damage by Fire, and also against Marine and Inland Navigation risks, on liberal terms. GUST AVE TOUCHARD, Pres. CHAS. D. HAVEN, Sec'y. TV. W. Parrish & Co., Agents for Albany. Albany, January 9, 18C9-1S fl. GOTTGETREU, Importer and Dealer in the choicest brands of HAVANA & DOMESTIC CIGARS, Chewing & Smoking Tobacco, Pipes, Stems, Snuff, Playing Cards, Stationery, Cutlery and Notions, Ko. 11T Front Street, Cor. Morrison, opposite Western Hotel, PORTLAND, OREGON. PORTLAND ADVERTISEMENTS. W. R. SEWALL. GEO. B. COOK. COS3IOPOI.ITAJY IIOTEi.. (FORMERLY ARRlGONl's,) Front street : i : Portland, Oregon. THE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING PUR chased this well known Hotel, are now pre pared to offer the traveling public better accom modations than can be found elsewhere in the city. Hoard and Lodging $2 OO per day. The note! Coach will be in attendance to con vey Passengers and baggage to and t'nim the Hotel free of ehartte. SEVVALL & SPRENGER. Office Oregon & California Stage Company, E. G. Whitehouse, Agent. 2tf PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY. IS THK ONLY ESTABLISHMENT IN Oregon that is thoroughly prepared to io all the different styles of work in the art. Photo graphs from card to life size. The new cabinet cards, Ac, Ae. Pictures enlarged, retouched in India ink, painted in water-colors, by Mrs. S. J. Rumsey. Pictures that nre fading can be repro duced in this way. Negatives carefully preserved so that additional copies mav be bad at onv time. JOSEPH BUCH'i'EL. Portland, Oregon. OISEUO SEED .STOKE. PRODUCE AND COMMISSION Consignments of Produce solicited. K. E. CESATFIEIjU, (Opposite the Western Hotel.) nl PORTLAND, OREGON. 3m WESTERN HOTEL, PORTLAND, OREGON, DORCY & HOLIES, PROPRIETORS. THIS HOTEL IS LOCATED NEAR TUB Steamship Landing. The Hotel Coach will be in attendance at all the Landings to eonrey pnsseiisers and baggage to and from the Houie FREE OF C11A1KJE. jatt-lS AJIER1CAX ISXCIlAXttl CORNER OP Front and Washington Streeti, PORTLAND, OREGON. It. P. W. Quimby, - - - - Proprietor. (Late of the Western Hotel.) rglHIS HOUSE is the most commodious in the State, newly furnished, anti it will be ths endeavor of the Proprietor to make his gueste comfortable. Nearest Hotel to the steamboat landing. T.'y The Concord Coach will always t fonn at the landing, on the arrival of steamships and river boats, carrying passengers and theit bag gage to and from the boats free if chnne. Iloune supplied irilh Patent Fire Ejrtingnirhen. ALBANY ADVERTISEMENTS. E. V. RUSSELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW. JAMES ELKINS, SOTARY I-CBUC. Goods at Wholesale or Retail. -Sffi; 8- Country orders carefully put up, at Iewest rates. ja96918 RUSSELL & ELKINS, (OSce in Parrish fc Co.'s block, First street, Albany, Oregon. ; HA VINO TAKEN INTO CO-PARTNERSHIP James Elkins, Esq., cx-Clerkjof Linn county, we are enabled to add to our prac tice of Law and Collections, superior facilities fur Conveyancing-, Examining Records,1 and attending to Probate business. I Deeds, Bonds, Contracts and Mortgages cafe fully drawn. Homestead and Pre-emption Papers! mads, and claims secured. j Sales of Real Estate negotiated, and loaiis effected on collateral securities on reasonable rates. , All business entrusted to them faithfully and promptly executed. RUSSELL fc ELKINS. Albany, Oct. 10, '08-5y NO MORE HIGH PRICES FOR ALBANT Come and buy Goods at prices of I860.' J. E. BENTLEY, SEN., HAVING RECEIVED FROM SAN FRAN cisco, by latest shipments, the largest stock of Boots and Shoes ! Consisting of tho following lines of Goods : Gents' Fine Sewed Boots, Gents' Fine Pegged Boots, Boys and Children's Boots, Ladies and Misses Boots, Kid Congress Gaiters, And Children's Gaiters, Rubber Over-Shoes, and Shoes of all Descriptions. Gentlemen's Boots Made to Order! On short notice ; and with neatness and dispatch, ALL KINDS OP REPAIRING DONE I Sole and Upper Leather for Sale At the lowest figures for Cash. Give me a call and see for yourselve 2tf Real Estate for Sale ! THOSE WHO DESIRE TO PURCHASE A good Lathed and Plastered New Frame Dwelling House, two stories in bight, kitchen and wood-shed at tached, with private barn, well situated in the city of Albany, will do well to call, without delay, on RUSSELL fc ELKINS, Albany, Oct 17, '68-6 Real Estate Agts. Administrator's Notice. Estate of D. M. Bond, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given by the undersigned administrator of the above named estate, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against, said deceased, to present the same, with necessary vouchfers, within six months from this notice, to the undersigned at his residence, six miles south of Peoria, Linn county, Oregon. JAMES SHERRILL, Feb. 11, 186923 Adm. Russell k EiXixs, Attys. SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1SG0. The Gulf Stream. Nature presents us with no phenome non more singular, or hitherto unaccount able, than the ocean current known as the "Gulf Stream." This puzzle of the centuries has at last been solved, and the weird visage of mystery is lost iu the glare of knowledge. George Catlin, one of the first Ethnographists of this country, has won new laurels and gained new farce, by turning his attention from the aborigines to the hieroglyphics on the rocks. For some years past he has been pursuing this latter study, and the results are shortly to appear in a book. II is book will be one of tho most intensely interesting that probably has ever been issued by the American press. Iu a recent communication to the press, Mr. Catlin epitomizes the chief point of inter est that indicated by the head of this article. His work will be entitled, "The Lifted and Subsided Rocks of America, with their influence on the Oceanic, At mospheric and Land Currents." And one of the most striking features of this work seems to be, to quote his own words in the communication above referred to, and the process by which the final result was reached : 'The discovery of a river under the Rocky Mountains, many times larger than the Mississippi, its course nearly twice the length of the Mississippi, and gliding through the clean and vast rocky cellars of the upheaved mountains with out loss by alluvial absorptions and solar evaporations which diminish valley rivers, it takes along in its course the sinking streams and lakes of the mountains of Mexico, and with them, perhaps by a hundred mouths in its deep bed, debouches unseen into the Caribcan Sea and Gulf of Mexico. "The frequent 'Montognez qui fument 'Roches qui tremblent,' and 'Blowing Caves,' which occur in the Rocky moun tain range, indicate sub-montagne cas cades, caused by the waters of melting snows, of rains, of glaciers, and a thous and sinking rivers and lakes, which, among broken up and angular rocks, are on their way to the ocean level. "Through the vast and heated vaults underneath the Andes, I contemplate a sin!ilar river, running from the 30th de gree of south latitude, to the north, and carrying their overflowing waters also to the Caribcan Sea. The Antilles, now partly sunk in the ocean, are but a chain of mountain tops which, six thousand years ago, stood up in their grandeur, a part (and probably, the glory) of the Andes ; and at that date the two mighty sub-montagne rivers meeting and debouching together into the oeeau, east or north of the Antilles, combined with extraordinary volcanic in fluences, undermined tho Antilles chain, which went down in the Cataclysm well established in the Indian traditions.which I have gathered both in Ncrth and South America, and also by unimpeachable re cords on the rocks themselves by shades and grooves left in the giant walls at Car accas and Santa Martha, on the coast of Venezuela where this mighty chain was broken records which I have twice seen, which may be read by all the ages to come, and which are not myths or fables. "In this tremendous catastrophe, prob ably tho most stupendous that ever took place on the surface of the globe, the Peninsula of Yucatan, with its splendid Aztec cities, sank, and since has partially risen, leaving the two grand sunken es tuaries, the Gulf of Mexico and the Ca ribean Sea, into which the two subterra nean rivers, from the constant overflow of their vast cisterns under the moun tains, now spread their clear and blue waters, heated by the volcanic furnaces they have passed. By the joint influx of these rivers into the Caribean Sea, its western surface 13 elevated several feet above the level of the ocean j and pour ing into the Gulf of Mexico, sweeping its western coast, and taking in its way the waters of the Rio del Norte and the Mississippi, this vast flood . debouches with them into the Atlantic, at the Flor ida Cape, and there becomes the Gulf Stream, until now one ot the mooted puzzles of the world." The colony of British Columbia is kept iu poverty by the extravagance of its government. The Governor's salary is $25,000 four and a quarter times as large as the Governor ot California. "ShiDgle weddings" are the style in Iowa. They occur when the first child is old enough to spank. MCWS PAKACKAPI2S A negro woman, livipg near Atheus, Ala., ou the 12th inst., brought forth twius, one of which was clearly white and the other coal black. Give the mouth a wearied, scornful expression, and the lips a bloodless hue, and you will have the latest Paris female distortions. The long-eared Hanoverian nobles ex press their intense disgust of Bismark and King William by applying those names to their dogs and donkevs. Paris ladies now tint their ears with pink or wite, and also force them back ward or forward according to taste. Pat Murphy, aged 110, and wife aged 80, of Westmoreland county, are the oldest couple in the State of Pennsylva nia. A man named Smith of course in Ilazletou, Md., the other day, carried a seven bushel barrel of salt, weighing 380 lbs., a distance of 200 yards, for a bet of S50. ' j Euclid E. Thayer has sued a fascinat ing matron of 40, in Providence, R. I., for seducing his son Owen, aged 17 into marriage with her. The father, but not the son, wants a divorce granted. A merchant, of Bangor, Me., has had to pay $150 damage to a couple of ladies who were knocked down and their, fine clothes spoiled by a snow slide off his store roof. Spurgeon's flock last year contributed' G,400"for, the support ot "theologs," while their total benevolent contributions amounted to nearly 100,000 exclusive ot pew rent. A negro girl of thirteen, the other day gave birth to a child, in Lafayette, Ala., and died soon afterward. The babe sur vives. Much of the butter sent to Constanti nople is made from the 'milk of sheep. Now our sheep men might go into the butter business and make sheep raising doubly profitable. The other evening, while the Chicago express was nearing Pittsburg at the rate of thirty miles an hour, a passenger came aboard. He - is doing well, considering the circumstances. And so is his ma. An Alabama paper announcestbat it will not hereafter take payment in dogs. "Court"ing after marriage getting a divorce. VARIOUS ITEMS. Gross behavior Getting fat. ; A loan man The pawnbroker. A bad sign To sign another man's name to a note. The great secrets of navigation are contained in a small compass. IIow to prevent n conspiracy from leak ing out Let the plot thicken. Why is natural politeness like flour ? Because it is in bred (inbred). ; A respectful negative A photograph that flatters. '; A tree that yields no leaves An axletree. Why are your nose and chin always at variance? Because words are continual ly passing between them. If brooks are, as poets call them, the most joyous things in nature, wnat are they always "murmuring" about? When may young ladies be said to be economical? When they resort to tight- lacing to prevent vmst -fulness. The object some women have in view in blowing up their husbands is to have them come down with the stamps. An illiterate correspondent, who is given to sporting, wants to know when the "Anglo-Saxon race, so much talked about it, is to come off. "I go through my work," as the needle said to the idle boy. "But not till you are pushed," as the idle boy said to the needle. Dumas was conversing with a young and almost unknown story-writer, who said : "We are certainly the two great romancists of the age." "11-m !" was the reply, "what you say is half true at least." A sharp old gentleman traveling out West got a seat beside his wife in a crowded car, by requesting the young man who sat by her to "please watch that woman while he went into another car, as she had fits." Sissy (in great trouble) "O, Mary ! Tiny (a little dog) has swallowed one of my dominoes. Do you think it will hurt her?" Mary (who takes in the "Popu lar Instructor" "No, dear, I should think the gastly juice 'ud soon resolve it to powder." A moralist took hi.s daughter to see the Siamese twins. "Observe, Prudence, my dear," he remarked to her, "observe the care exercised by Providence which united these two citizens, and think what a heavy and wearisome fetter might that membrane which attaches them together have been, if, instead of being brothers, they had been strangers to each other." If a young woman wishes to 1 ave her self published as "fascinating, beautiful and accomplished," let her pack up her best clothes in a dirty towel, crawl out of the back up-stairs window some dark, rainy night, and elope with the man that feeds and curries her father's horses. It'a a big price to pay. for compliments ; but it will bring them just as certain as a dirty barrel will beget mosquitoes. In fact, we never knew a woman to make a very decided fool of herself, in any way. without enhancing her charms two or three hundred per cent, by the time it got into the papers. AGKICULTUUAL. THE HORSE. The front of the horse's chest contains his lungs, by which he breathes. Behind them, separated by only a thin kind of skin, is the stomach, destined to receive and digest the food. Each of these or gans become larger when iu use; the lungs occupying more room when the animal is moving about and breathing more quickly. The space they occupy is then so filled that only one of them, can be distended at a time. The horse can swell out his lungs, and breathe hard, trot or gallop fast, provided his stomach be empty; he can fill it with safety when at rest, or nearly bo, till the food is digested. But if they are hoth full, the greatess danger is to be appre hended ; the horse is sure to be "blown" almost immediately, because he has no room to breathe, and apoplexy may cause the animal to drop dead in a minute. No horse should be allowed to get an. unlimited amount of food. A proper quantity should be given, and no more enough to satisfy his requirements, and then to allow proper time for him to di gest. Many a horse has been killed from a fit brought on by the corn bio having been left open at uight, thus giv ing him an opportunity to gorge himself to death with the tempting food. THE DRYING HOUSE. Amoug the conveniences of a largo farm is a. good drying house. Beansr which are sometimes very difficult to cure, may be dried in a few hours in a splendid manner. So a farmer tells us who has tried it. Farmers in the East dry taeir apples on a large scale in this way. Corn never need to mold when a dry house is at hand, and the good house wife can have the nicest of dried pump kin and dried herbs. Those . who have built hop houses need : not tear them down, though hops have no sale, for they will answer all the purposes required. For the rapid seasoning of short lumber it is excellent, so that on a large farm it would seem to be a most convenient building. Such a building may be made to answer a double use, as a receptacle for the small farming tools during that season of the year when the house is not wanted for any other purpose. ' LIME AS A PRESERVER. Air slaked lime has been frequently recommended as a preserver for vegetables when stored in cellars or pits. Recently wc heard a gentleman state that he was in the habit of sprinkling it among his apples iu barrels and bins, and he thought, delicate fall varieties could thus be kept much beyond their season. The lime dust could be easily removed from the apples by using a cloth or brush, and it imparts no flavor to the fruit. The use of lime in the cellar, as a preservative agent, is a good idea. It acts by absorb ing moisture, and if one individual in the mass decays, the lime arrests the spread of the disease to others. It is well to hint to our readers that cellars should be overhauled at this season, and all decay ing matter removed; the ''sweating" stage with stored vegetables is over, and specimens most" prone to rot have devel oped disease. Sort them out, sprinkle some lime on the remainder, and: purify your cellar from dangerous auxiliaries of disease. j ; MAKING POULTRY PROFITABLE- The place to which your chickens retire ought to have a dry floor, and bo kept scrupulously clean ; and as the floor is the coolest part of the room, their roosting ought not to be more than twelve inches high, and to be slanting, which will keep the warm air in the roost. Sit ting hens can be cured by putting water in a vessel, to the depth of one inch, put ting the hen into and covering tho top of the vessel for about twenty.four hours. The vessel should be deep enough to al low the fowl to stand up.' This ia said7 to be a never . failing remedy. Earth worms are greatly relished by confined fowlaP Take a spade once a day and turn over jthe ground for your hensl . .They will ; soon run after you when they see you with the spade, and will amply re ward, you for the extra trouble to accom modate them, by an increased supply ot An old lady was , asked what sh thought of one of her neighbors of the name of Jones, and with a knowing wink replied, 'Why, I don't -like to say any thing about my neighbors; but as to Mr. Jones, sometimes I think, and then again I don't know; after all, I . rather guess he'll turn out to be a good deal such a sort of man as I tako him to be." A Yankee is trying to obtain permis sion to have pock fights in , the Champs Elyeecs. -' ; , - .- , .: