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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1869)
SATURDAY, 31 AY "22, Tiik Kberii ardt Mine. Thiamine from October to February inclusive, has turned out 8382,098 31 iu silver bullion. The people of Northern Mexico talk of seceding from the Juarez Govern ment. Too .! Admiral Semmes com plains that the country sympathizes with the Cretans, adJiug: "Hut the devil of it is we take care of and admire everybody's rebels but our owu." About 2,000 have been subscribed in Ilumbolt county, as an Indian hunting fund. A party under S. Fleming is about to start out to blauirhtcr the sav ages. No Trust. A Napa firm closes its advertisement with the following appeal to the public : "If you buy on time, and pay in eternity don't come to see us." The Richmond Why, one of the lead ing Democratic journals in the South, says that the Northern Democracy of the Copperhead stripe are bad advisers for the South. A Paris paper of March 28th has an obituary notice of Andrew Johnson, late President. It says that he will be justly esteemed by posterity in the list that begins with the name of Washington, and that the "old tailor" was not "a mem ber of any temperance society." Small Pox is making fearful ravages at Panama, though it is thought to be diminishing. It attacks the negroes and whites inside and outside the walls of Panama. The Sanitary Commission is actively ensealed in . checking the scounre. A Confession. Henry A. Wise, who hung John Brown the insane man, and who was a bitter secessionist, in a secret letter admits that "the war was a nation al necessity, permitted by Divine Provi dence to prevent Greater evils than war itself. Look out now for Democratic abuse. Lonsrstreet was abused shameful ly, and it is now Wise's turn A HORNED ltOOSTER. mere IS in the possession of John Madegan, df San Francisco, an ornithological curioity, in the form of a horned rooster, which was lately brought from Mexico. Its right is about two inches in length, and is shaped much, like the horn of an ox while ita left one crooks spirally like that of a sheep. It is to be presented to the Academy of Sciences, in order that they may classify it, or determine what strange process of nature gave it horns. Railroad Rumors. Railroads as CivIIizers. It is a demonstrable f;ct that the highest forms of civilization follow iu the wake of commerce. Ancient and modern history furnish the most ample proofs of the truth of this assertion. T,im tr written history, iu any age of the world, and wherever you find a city or nation that has, for a length of time, command ed a large share of the world's commerce, either by the strength of arms, or by the energy and enterprise of its citizens, there you will find that the arts and sciences have grown and flourished, and left their most t-plendid and enduring monuments. Cast your eye over the history of the past, and read of the "mistress of the world Imperial Home." She held in her grasp the commerce of the world, and all nations paid tribute to her. Greece and liima have long since lost their power ; commerce and consequent wealth is lost to them, but the ruins of her past graudeur to-day furnish the best schools for our poets, oiators, sculptors and paint ers. But to come down to our own times look at the great cities of Louden and Paris, and mark what commerce has doijc for them. What has been accom plished for these vast human hives through the agency of commerce, is being daily reinacted for cities, towns and vil lages in our own glorieiis country, on a grander or lesser scale. This is an age of progress. The age when the highest ambition of the artisan, the mechanic, the farmer, to do as their fathers did be fore them, to use the same tools, to plow with the same old wooden mold-boards, aud harrow their land with a tree-top or a bundle of brush, has passed away for ever; and he who would not be counted a drone in life's busy hive must keep up with the new "innovations, the new helps to labor that science, skill and in genuity are daily offering to the world ; must discard old and exploded theories, and adopt the latest developments of science and skill, or be left far in the rear in the race for wealth and ease The chiet instrument oi commerce in a State is her means of transportation. If these are ample and swift, her conimer cial prosperity will be rapid and sure. As an instance of the rapid development of a State in material wealth and prosper ity through her transportation facilities, glance at the great State of Illinois. A few years ago she had but one railway that leading from Naples to Springfield, some sixty miles in length was deeply in debt, with a population of less than a million. "The era of railroads dawned." Her citizens, seeing the immense benefits SonietUliiir About Kailroads. The principal topic of conversation on our streets of late has been railroads. All kinds of rumors have been set afloat, some of them reasonable and others quite the reverse. One rumor, given currency hy California papers, is to the effect that the Central Pacific Railroad Company have bought the California end of the Oregon Central Railroad, and intended to commence work at Centreville imme diately, promising to have the road in running order as far as Luge City by the IQth of November next. It was asserted ' that the iron rail had already been pur ' chased, and was now in transit to this coast. Another rumor was that the same Company had sent their chief en gineer to Portland, and would commence work there soon, completing the road from Portland to Eugene City by No vember. The latest report is that Ben. Holliday intends completing twenty miles of the East side road, certain, by fall, and, possibly, fifty miles of road may be completed in that time. In connection with the announcement that Mr. R. R. Thompson, of the O. S. N. Co., of Port land, left on the last steamer for San , Francisco, thence to Europe, report has it that his main business in Europe is to negotiate bonds of the West side road for iron sufficient to complete one hundred and fifty miles of the road. Not being a member of the "Railroad Ring," we are - not prepared to vouch for the correctness or incorrectness of any of the various statements, but are in hopes that the Central Pacific Company has taken the matter in hand, knowing that it they undertake the job it will be done, thor oughly and right speedily. But we are not caring a continental copper who builds tne roads, so that they are built What Oregon wants more than anything else now, is transportation facilities such as can only be afforded by railroads. We, on the outside, hear a great dilal about ballast for railroads. Now what ,1s ballast, and why do they call it s. Well, those tons of iron, men, womwi, cattle and merchandise, which daily ?o rushing over the rails must rest on so:e firmer foundation than the natural soil. So, often after the track is laid aud the road seems finished to the uninitiated cnb. the ties, track and all must be rai.-u ag;iin and gravel or broken stone deposit ed underneath to the depth of from cue to two feet. This makes a hard, secure foundation, not given to settle, and allow ing the rain to drain throgh those exca vations alongside the track. Badasttug on a first-class road is always going on. The essence of a railroad safety is a htrd and ierfeetly level track. What it it le of inches I here conies bent rail, aim when twenty-five tons of engine aid many more tons of cars rusa over it, there is an unertual strain somewhere. mio train passes, and maybe it cracks; tie next, it cracks' a little more; by-and-ly there is a broken rail, a train oit the track, a smash-up, a coroners jury inves tigation over your insured remain?, and all the other concomitants of railroad life and death. Such is ballast. The Lon dou colliers threw their gravel ballast into the Thames. The railroad men found it to be just what they wanted to make road foundations. So they called it ballast, the name answering for one pur pose as well as for the other. last running wears out track in last time. On a certain road there was a double up-aud-down track ou a grada of forty feet to the mile. I he up trains ran slow; the down trains ran fast,; the down tracks wore out one-fourth faster than the up. The outer rail on a curve also wears much faster than the inner one. . Passen ger locomotives running from twenty five to forty miles per hour do not wear out as fast as those used in hauling freight trains. Not drawing such heavy leud3, the strain upon the boilers and internal machinery of the passenger cuginc is not so great. Small freight cars are now being pre ferred to large ones. They are more eas ily and cheaply loaded, more conveniently handled at stations, carry more freight in proportion and in case of accident stand smashing better than large ones. The slower ircisrut trains arc run, the less wear on the rails. Rails wear out at the joints first. American iron for rails is now preferred to Jijjrush. Col. liuiot of the Royal Engineers, in testing the English iron, found none which would bear a strain of 29,000 pounds to the square inch. Maj. Wade, of the United States, got -tests averaging from 40,000 to 45,000 lbs., to the square iuch. Both were testing metal for ordnance purposes. The American cast iron wheel drove the English wrought iron wheels from the railway of Canada. The English make better roads t'aan we ; but our rolling stock, especially the locomotives, is super ior. A rail lasts about five years. The po tent causes of its destruction are laniina- STATE ITEMS. Mr. Dowell, of Jacksonville, has arriv ed at home from Washington city, where he has been for several months, enjrasred in public and private business. f The Salem paper says : The injuries received by Hon. Wm. Greenwood, by being struck by a falling beam, are of a more serious nature than was at first imagined. He is still lying quite low, it is feared that his injuries are-internal and may permanently disable him, if not prove fatal. The Farmer says : In this county (Marion) the price of milch cows ranges from 25 to 350; two year old cattle, $14 to 18; yearlings, S3 to 12 per head. Horses, 50 to 8200. A good work horse can be had for $100.- Sheep are seding at SI 25 to 82 per head. Hogs sell at from 2c to 3ic per pond. The Eugene Journal of last Saturdav sfiys George Crumney has purchased ot of land of A. J. Koeney, on the Coast Fork, for the purpose of going into the !iop business. George Leasure has put a considerable amount of jrround in hops near this place this year. The Guard says the McKenzie trail is now open and in a lair condition tor stock, ihe snow has nearly gone and grass is excellent. J. G. Mitchell, of Pleasant Hill, has sold his valuable farm of 514 acres to Jos. D Matlock for $3,000. The Roseburs Ensim of the 15th says : Nine or. ten families have left this county, withiu the past two weeks, for the Pitt River country in California We expect to see them back again short The "Spring fights" opened near the close of last week with unusual anima tion. Four actions for assault were dis posed of before our Justice of the Peace last Saturday. The Jacksonville Sentinel has the fol lowing paragraphs : Wc hear it is the intention of Mr Kubli to build a flouring mill near his placo on Applegate Creek. A luilitrv Court was held here on Weduesdav to try the case of 1st Lieut v . I. Henderson charged, we believe with carelessness and irresularity. The court was composed of General Blake General Robinson, Major Darling, Major Calif, Lieut's Manning and Thorburn and Captain Whittier, Judure Advocate. The finding of the court will not be known till acted upon by the War Department at u ashington. Meanwhile, Henderson was ordered to report at headquarters under arrest. It is reported that Mrs. Lincoln will shortly be married to the Chamberlain tf the Duke of Baden. A Salt Lake paper finds fault with rigam Young for selecting the eagle for his emblem, because "that royal bird is iionogamist." He should adopt a roos ter. accruing from a well regulated system of tion and splitting. Locomotives hung on railroads, gave aid and encouragement to all such enterprises. As a consequence she is to-day chequered all over with railroads, with a million or two of dollars lying idle in her treasury vaults, her broad prairies and lovely valleys dotted with cities and villages, and boasts of a population verging on to three millions of happy and prosperous people. This grand achievement is the result of her enlarged commercial relations, brought about by a great system of internal im provements, chief among which are her railways. The great Central Railroad traverses the entire length of the State imperfect and rigid springs, hammer it to pieces. Steel rails are in England coming into general use. The director of one of the principal Pennsylvania roads remarks that the first railway tal ent we possess, openly avows that the only salvation of our railway system will bo found in the use of steel metal for our rails. , There sould be on every mile of rail road 2,400 cross ties. Broken axles and wheels as well as most other accidents to the running machinery occur from the shock occasioned by passing from a full bearing on a cross tie over the vacant space between them. Some railroad men advocate a coutinuous bearing of timber underneath the rail, doing away with rrnai tins I Inp hnnnrfii rinilfirs worth from north to south, paying a tribute of of car? raii or locomotive will wear out to seven per cent, to the btate, which sum the amount of fifteen dollars yearly. goes far towards liquidating the yearly expenses of the State government. What railroads have accomplished for Illinois they will accomplish for Oregon. Build a railway through the Willamette valley, and in twelve months after its completion land lying on either side of it will have doubled and thribbled in value ; products of every kind will have increased in a corresponding ratio, because every man will have"a market at hi3 own door for the various products he may have for sale. The great want of Oregon to-day Welii Expressed. Generation after generation have felt as we now feel, and their lives were as active as our own They passed like vapor, while nature wore the same aspect as when her Crea tor commanded her to be. The heavens shall be as bright over our graves as they now are around our paths. The world will have the same attractions tor our offspring yet unborn as she had once for our children. Yet a little while and al will have happened. The throbbing heart will be stifled, and all will be at rest, The great tumble bug of Polk county, 3en Hay den, has gone carpet-barring over in Washington territory for the carpet-bagger Moore. Ben goes over, as we learn, to show the people by an awful example, what the nigger and Chinamen are to be brought to by becoming his equals. Urrgontan. Thirty thousand acres of public lands were disposed of to actual settlers during January, in Nebraska, Minnesota, Mis souri and Wisconsin. Great distress, it is reported, prevails among the handloom weavers ot ulasgow, and, as trade iu Scotland is dull general ly, large numbers of work-people are idle, and philanthropic persons are moving for affording them relief. Old maids are described as "embers from which the sparks have fled." A seven leet long cigar, one loot in circumference and weighing thirty pounds, has been twisted out of leaf to bacco in a New Haven (,Ct.) factory. The Eberhardt Company at White Pine has sold to New York capitalists one-half of what is known as the Eber hardt north mine for $500,000 in gold coin. The company refused to dispose of more than one-half, because they believe it will develop as rich as the Eberhardt south. Pub. Docs. We have beeu favored with numerous pub. docs. Thanks. . . San l''rancisco Markets. Wheat Quiet, at $1 221 55, as a range, the latter figure for choice article, which is scarce and firm. Barley We quote feed at $1 25(g 1 35, aud brewing at 1 40,l 50. Oats California, 1 401 70; Ore iron. 81 G5()1 70. Wool Receipts Continue large, and sales range at 1921c for clear grades spring cup. Beef American, first quality, at 9 10c per pound. Veal Steady, at 10llc for first iualitT. , Mutton G7c for first and second quality. Pork undressed, 5(cv,i', dressed 910. NEW TO-DAY. Uur luneral will wind its way, and prayers will be said; and then we shall be is increased facilities for quickly trans- I left alone in silence and darkness for the porting the vast amounts of produce that worms. And, it may he, for a short - w I iZ rtU 1 1 ' 1.,-. V. a 1 :1 :1 Aa o F oftnln. I ""JO ! siwu uc oyun.cu vi, uuu mo net iivu ouii icuuua ov kiwi , . t .,, , - - . - tinners of life will creep in. and our ment. By all means let us give aid and - w:n nnn v forottfin. Tiva will comfort to all enterprises having for their continue to move on, and laughter and obiect the ooenine up of commercial re- song will he heard in the room in which i,n-;tl, nnr neighbors. Thev will I died; and the" eye that mourned for us IU V A V liU vu -w O W hasten the growth of our State in popu lation, and open new channels of wealth and prosperity to her citizens. Savage. A lied Republican journal of Tarragona, Spain, makes the following humane suzsestion : . "We have often said that Spain will never enjoy true lib erty until she has achieved it in the midst of an immense sea ofblood. Spain cannot consider herself as a federal re public, nor elevate herself to her proper rant among civuizea nauuus, uuui ou has caused a million nead3 to fail on tne scaffold." '- ' I ' ' Naughty boys in Manchester, New Hampshire, arc fined $1 for playing marbles on Sunday. will bo dried, and glisten again with joy; and even our children will cease to think of us, and will not remember to lisp our names. A Marriage has been arranged be tween the Prince of Austria and a daugh ter! of the "Duke de Madrid.". The j Prince is very young and the bride elect is not yet born. It i sad to imagine the blight of young affection in case she should happen to be a boy. The ship Great Pacific has gone to sea from Puget Sound with : 1,700,000 feet of lumber and 300 cords of wood, - the largest cargo ever taken by a vessel from those waters. Her destination is Callao, Peru. NEWS PARAGRAPHS Single "bricks" iu Montana are wort 812,500. They are tolerably plenty. The crop of all kinds of fruit will b very large in Walla Walla valley this year. There are twenty-six lawyers at White Pine whoso cards appear iu the Inland Empire. The Man Francisco Herald says about eight hundred people die of consumption annually, in San Francisco. Sacramento made 800,000 by the rail road celebration, that being the amount expended by visitors at the city. Cherries are among the luxuries of the San Francisco fruit markets just now selling at one dollar per pound. The Government pays SG0 a ton for hay, ! and 812 a cord for wood in Montana. A Northern Pacific Railroad would reform that. The Helena Herald gives an account of a great fire which occurred at that place on ! the 28th ult., by which ninety business houses and over forty dwellings were burned. Loss, $500,000. Harvesting has begun in California. The telegraph reports that fields of barley are now heing cut. The Marysville Appeal says that the crops will not be as large as it had previ ously announced. The best quality of lumber turned out in White Pine, is now selling, both in Shermantown and Hamilton, at 8200 per thousand feet. It; is said to be only 200 miles from Corinne on the Union Pacific Railroad to Boise City. Corinne has a populatian of about 1,500. Bear luver valley is claimed for ranches at a distance of twenty miles on each side of the town. Farming in the Payette valley, Idaho, seems to De more prosperous than on former years, and the prospect for an abundant yield is excellent. It is estima ted that m the valley alone 1,750,000 pounds of grass will be produced this season. . Says a "Victoria paper : "An invoice of goods, shipped from Edinburgh to a firm in this citv. came to them vesterdav vised by the . American Consul at that port, the Consul and the shippers believ ing this to be American. Territory Fact 1" Smart people ! The second German expedition to the North Pole is to leave Bremerhaven dur- , ing the first week in June. I. S. I&oscubaitii. & Co., Have removed to No. 67 FRO AT STREET, Xurtliwest comer of STARK street, Crees' liuiMing, store formerly occupied by Jlltimauer & K'isenl"l:t! t. Portland, Oregon, May 15-1 in NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. S. DENNY, and Manafactarer and . Dealer in all kinds of " FURNITURE & CABINET WARE, MATTRASSES, ETC., Under the "States Rights Democrat', office, Fill ST STREET, ALIiAXY. W. SPINK. A. CABOTHKBS. P. W. SPINK & CO., (sLTCtSSOBS TO V. W. MACK,) Coaler in Tin, Sheet-Iron, Copperware, Ag-cnts Wanted $10 a Say. Two 10 Maps for S LOYD'S Patent Revolving Double Maps- Two continents, America and Europe, and America with the United States portion on an uumenso scale. COLORED IS 4,000 COU.NTIES. rffHESE grcnt Maps, now just completed, Ctx JL C2 inches large, show eve ny placo of import ance, all Kailroads to date, and the latest altera tions in the various European Stntos. These Maps are needed in every school aud family in tho laud they occupy the Fpace of one Map, and !y means of the Keverses, either side can lie thrown front, and any part brought level to tho eye. County rights and largo discount given to good Agents. Apply for Circulars, Terras, and send money for ami soo saniplo Maps hrsf, if not sold taken back on demand. J. T. LLOYD, May 22-1 m 23 Cortland street, N". Y. "3 . first, between Washington & Ferry-sts. 0 THE undersigned having purchased the stock formerly owned ny xti.i ' . jmuck, " o""s inado largo additions thereto, now offer to tb liublic tho fullest and completes! assortment of nrst-ciasa goons 111 our nu, jrt ti market, consisting of i PARLOR, BOX, HALL, ... and ... COOKING i STOVES, of the following patterns : Buck, -Black Knight. Cioldeii Gate. Henry Clay, New Nation, Uuckeye State., Stc., &c, Ac from the best manufactories, which they arc offer ing at lowest rates. Also, a largo stock of French Snucrpans. Ladles Skimmers, !j Iron, Enameled and Brass Kettles, Iron Tea-kettles and Ovens, Iron and Lead Pipe, Force fc Lift Pumps, and a full assortment of ! COWAN'S PITCHER PUMPS! AVe will continue to keep on hand a largo stock f NO. 1 TIN WARE ! which wo will dispose of to dealers at the lowest market rates. We are better prepared than ever to do all - kinds of H E P A 1 R I N G I in a neat and workmanlike manncr.at short notice. l'crsous from the country will find it to their advantage to give us a call, as our facilities for luanul'actui ing enable us to give a liberal discount. Terms Ciwli, or murkrtnlilt Produce. P. AV. SPIXK & CO. Nov. 23. '6S-12 C. MEALEY & CO., DEALERS. IX Sc. MANUFACTURERS OF and CABINET WARE! XJeclcling, Etc., Corner First and Broad Alb in streets ALJSAXY, OJIEGOX. OY" NEWS. Farmers Can Ride and Plow, BV SECURING ONE OP THE GAY" PLOWS, Manufactured and sold for tho very low price of t$C35 and rTS. a THE simplicity and practicability of this new Plow commends it favorably to tho special nolico of every fafincr. It possesses a decided superiority over all other plows now in use. The wheels are four feet in diameter, and run on tho nnplowed land. Its entire construction is in no way complicated. Tho plow is managed in every manner with ease, and requires only two lovers to bo used in making any alteration. Tho supe riority ot tno "liay" i'low will be clearly shown ty tno iouowing ccrtincate : AVe, tho undersigned, citizens of Linn county. Oregon, having purchased and used upon our farms tho "Gay" Plow, hereby certify that tho same has given us entire satisfaction. Its facility for adjusting to suit the depth of furrow without moving from the seat, is simple and easy. AVe like the plow for its drausht. because the same is brought to bear directly upon the plow-beam in stead of tho carriage : also, because it is stronsr and durablo, all except the wood-work being con- struciea 01 wrougnt iron no castings aro used. The wheels running upon the solid land is an ad vantage over other gang-plows, in strikins off iauu ana in plowing, not navmg to make the nec essary changes in the machinery, and th sent i always level, not throwing tho driver forward or sideways as in other plows. Better work and more 01 can do accomplished by the use of this icw iuuu oj oaaa. We take pleasure in ronommpn.llm ftiA at Plow to our brothor farmers, aa one having no J. O. B.EBD, AV. P. ESHOM, A. S. LOONEY, E. AV. PIKE, AV. H. GOLTTREE. -May 20th, 1869. , v? ino GAT Pmw is manufactured by II Goulding, Portland Machine Shon. All orders will be promptly attended to by ad ; C. V. GAY, ' , Portland, Oregon May 22, '69-37 . gJT" PATlTirULAK ATTESTIOH PAID TO "tS. ORDERS Or ALL KINDS in our line. October 31, 1868-8 BLACKSMITHING! PLOWS ! PLOWS ! PLOWS THE undersigned gives notice to tho general public, that he is now manufacturing tho Calcsbtirg Patent Plow ! and any other style of plow that may be ordered. Also, particular attention paid to Horse Shoeing, Wagon and Carriage Making, , , and Goncrnl Jobbing. . , ! : All work entrusted to me will receive prompt attention, and be executed in the best -possible manner with good material. . A share of public patronage is solicited. Shop on corner Ellsworth and Second streets,, opposite Pie'ce Ferry. F. . AVOOD. Albany, November ZI, ISoS-lI NOTICE. All persons receiving their mail at the Post office at . Lebanon, are hereby notified tnat tne otace will be kept open an boar after the arrival or the mail on Sundays, after which it will be closed for the day. , The effice will not be open until the mail arrives. . . 11. UliAUGHXU, P. Jtt. January 9, 1869-18ml . .1 TURNING. f"'i: ... w o P3 CO I AM PSSPAItBO TO 0 ALL KINDS OF TURNING I ry I keep on hand and make to order . ' ' RAWBXDS-BOTTOBSES CHAIRS, AMD " " " ' ' if Spinning v. Wheals.,1 Z3J- Shop soar tha "Magnolia Mill." - ' v. JOHN M. MKTZLK Albany, Not. 28, 1868-12 - - -