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TBS UNITED
STATES.
PASSED AT THI FIRST SESSION OP THE FOKTT-
:.- FIRST CONGRESS.
POSTAL CONVENTION WITn CANADA.
Articles of agreement between the Post-Offiee
Department of the United States and the Post
Office Department of Canada.
For the purpose of establishing and regulating
the interchange of mails between the United
States and Canada, it is agreed between the Post
Office Department of the United States and the
Post-Office Department of Canada : ,
Article I. That there shall bo an exchange of
mails between the United States and Canada, at
the following points Til :
On the side of the Unit
On
the side of Canada
at -
ed States, at
Port Huron, Michigan,
Detroit "
Black Rock, New York,
Lewistown "
Yonngstown, "
Rochester,
Cape Vincent, "
Morristown, "
Ogdensburg, "
Whitehill,
Plattsburg. "
Rouse's Point. " f
Burlington, Vermont, J
Derby Line
Buffalo, New York, "I
Albany, 1
Kew York, " f
Boston , Massachus'ts, J
Fort Covingto, N. Y. Dundee,
Since added.
On the side of the Unit- Ou the side of Canada,
Port Saroia.
Windsor.
Waterloo.
Queenstown.
Niagara.
Coburg.
Kingston.
Brockvillo.
1'rcseott.
8. Johns.
Etansead.
Montreal.
Toronton.
ed States at.
Sault St. Marie, Mich.
Algonac, "
Detroit, "
Buffalo, New York.
Buffalo, New York.
at, .
Sault St. Marie,
Baby's Point.
Chatham.
' Toronto. 1
Hamilton, by
Queenstown 1 through
i London. j bag.
rort trie.
Port Dover,
Port Sitncoe,
Port Rowan,
Port Burwel',
Port Vienna,
Port Stanley.
Suspension fridge.
Montreal,
Hencingford. Va
Montreal by through
Kingston by steamer
in Summer,
f Toronto. 1 by
. ;
3 Kingston, through
Montreal, j bag.
Hamilton. J
( Montreal 1 by thro
Shcritrooke. J bag
Canada Route Agents
and Moutreal.
f St. John. ) by throu
Montreal. J gh bn.zh
Montreal. Sherbrooke,
and Route Agents.
Abercnrn.
Frclihsbi:rg.
South Patton.
Hereford,
l'hilipsburg.
Sherbrooke.
Port Stanlev.
Suspension Bridge.N.Y.
Plattsburg, "
Mooers, "
Troy, "
Sackett'a Harbor, "
Osweeo. I
New York, "1 New York.
Albany,
Boston,
Portland, Maine.
Route Agents Portland
to Canada Line.
Rutland, Vermont,
Island Pont, "
Richford "
franklin "
North Troy . "
Canaan
Swanten "
Boston,Massacbusetts.
Cleveland, Ohio. '
Article II. The mails exchanged between the
offices of New York, Albany, Buffalo and BosioD,
on the one side, and Toronto, Kingston, and
Montreal, on the other, are to pass each war as (
through mail, not to be opened at any interme
diate frontier office.
Article III. The postage to be charged in the
United States, on a letter not exceeding half an
ounce in weigdt, to or from Canada, shall be five
cents foa any distance in tho United States, not
exceeding three thousand mi'es ; and exceeding
throe thousand miles, within tho United States,
ten cents the single rate. Each additional half an
ounce, or additional weight of less than half an
ounce, to be charged as one additional rate: the
rates in this section mentioned, having been ad
opted and agreed upon by tue Postmaster-General
of the United States, by and with the advice
and consent of the President.
Article IV. The postage to be charged in Can
ada on a letter not exceeding hajf an ounce in
weight, to or from the United States, shall be five
cents for any distance in jCanada. Every addi
tional weight cf half an ounce, or additional
weight ofsSess than half an ounce, to be charged
a? an additional rate.
Artiele V. Upon all letters posted in the
United States to be delivered in Canada, or post
ed in Canada to be delivered in the United States,
these rates shall be combined in one rate, of
which payment in advance shall be optional in
-either country. Less than the whole combined
rate cannot be prepaid.
Artiele VI. The Post-Office Department of
the United States will collect and keep all the
postages on unpaid letters from Canada, as well
as the postages on letters to Canada, prepaid in
the U. S.,and the Post-Office Departmentof Canada
will collect and keep all the postages on the un
paid letters from the United States, as well as the
postages on letters prepaid in Canada to the
United States.
Article VII. Each mail despatched from one
country to the other shall be accompanied by a
letter or post bill, showing the number of letters
so posted, and distinguishing the paid from the
unpaid, with their postage in separate columns.
Article VIII. The postage on newspapers,
pamphlets, magazines, and all other printed mat
ter, must be prepaid, or sent free to the line in
the country where posted : and any postage af
terwards accruing thereon, beyond the line, is to
be collected and retained by the Pust-Offie De
partment of the country in which it accrues.
Article IX. The offices designated for the des
patch and receipt of Canada mails, on the side of
the United States, will stamp " U. States " upon
all letters sent into Canada for delivery ; and the
offices designated for the despatch and receipt of
United State mails, on the side of Canada, will
stamp "Canada" upon all letters sent into the
United States for delivery.
Article X- The Post-Office departments of the
' United States and Canada shall each return to the
other all dead letters, unopened and without
charge, every three months, or oftener, as may
best suit the general regulations of each depart
ment. -
Artiele XI. The expenses of transporting the
mails between the frontier offices, where the con
veyance is by water, shall be borne equally by
the two departments ; but when the transporta
tion is by land, the expenses shall be borne by
each in proportion to the distance traveled over
; the territory of each country. All contracts for
such transportation shall, before they go into op
eration, ne approves by tne irost-onice JUepart
jnent of each eonntry.
Article XII. This arrangement shall go into
operation on the sixth of april next, and it may
be modified from time to time, as may be agreed
upon by the parties thereto ; and it may be an
nulled at the desire f either part;, upon three
montbi notice
In witness whereof, the Postmaster-General of
the United States, and the Postmaster-General of
Canada have hereunto set their hands and affixed
their seals, respectively, this twenty-fifth day of
March, in tne year or our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and nuy-one.
N. K. HALL.
at such mailing office : And provUled, also, That
such registration shall not be compulsory, snd
shall net render the respective Post-Office De
partments -of the United States or Canada, or
their revenues, liable lor the loss of such letters
or packets, or the contents thereof.
Articlo II. All such letters or packets mailed
in the interior of the United States or Canana.
respectively, shall be received, registered, and re
ceipted for, as directed in the general regulations
issued in each country in regard to the registra
tion of valuable letters, and shall bo sent to the
respective exchange offices for the purpose of be
ing forwarded thence by the first mail.
Artielo III. The' respective exchange offices
shall make a separate leiter bill for each register
ed letter, origiually mailed at said exchange of
fices, or sent to them to bo forwarded, as pres
cribed by be regulations referred to in Articlo
II., and shall enter therein the name of the per
son addressed aud the post-office to which it is
to be mailed for delivery. The postmaster of
said exchange office will then mail each such let
ter, or parcel of loiters, in the usual manner in a
separate package friuo the uuregistend letters.
Tho lett. r bills of such registered letters shall not
be enclosed in the packages containing them, but
shall be enclosed in a separate wrapper or en
velope, sealed, and addressed to the postmaster
of tho corresponding exchange office.
Article IV. On the receipt of registered letters
for delivery or distribution at cither of the res
pective exchange offices, the postmaster of sura
receiving office will compare tho letters with the
bill, and endorse it " correct," if it is found so,
or will note the error, if there be one, in the man
ner prescribed with regard to registered" letters
received from an inland post-office. Ho will then
fill up the corresponding return bill, noting upon
it whether correct or otherwise, and will see that
it is returned by the first mail thereafter to tho
office of mailing.
Artiele V. Registered letters received at either
of the exebango offices, and destined for an in
land post-office, shall be forwaided in the same
manner as other registered letters originally mail
ed at such office.
Article VI. The registration fee of five cents
shall accruo to the United States Post-Office De
partment upon all registered letters sent from the
United States to Canada, and to tho Canadian
Post-Office Department upon all registered letters
sent from Canada to the United States.
Article VII. The present articles shall be
considered additional to those agreed upon be
tween tne two ottices on the Zoth day of March,
A. D. 1S31, and shall come into operation on the
first aty oi uetooer, A. it. isoo.
In witness whereof, the Postmaster-General of
the United States, and the Postmaster-General of
Canada, have hereto set their bands and affixed
their seals, at the date set opposite to each, res
pcctively.
l. s. JAMES CAMPBELL,
August 25, 1856. Postmaster-General,
t. s. ROBERT SPENCE,
August 25, 1S56. Postmaster-General.
J. MORRIS.
By subsequent arrangement, letters originat
ing at either of the following line offices and des
tined for the corresponding line office, as hereafter
named, the distanee being short, are allowed to go
at a postage of two cents each, without regard to
weight, via : , ,
" Between,"' '
Sault St-Marie,Miohigan,4SaultSt.Marie,CaDada.
Port Huron, " " Port Sarins, "
Detroit, " "Windsor,
Black Rock, New York, " Fort Erie, "
Lew is ton, . " " Queenstown,
Yonngstown, " ' ' , ' Niagara, f
Car Vincent, ' 'Kingston,
Morristown,;. ' V " Brockvillo,
t r
Fort Covington, -Derby
Line, Vermont,
Prescott,
" Dundee,
Stanstead,
" ADDITIONAL ARTICLES
Of agreement between the Post-Offiee Department
Of the United States and the Post-Office De
partment of Canada, providing for the ex
change of Registered Letters between the two
Countries. -.
Article I. Letters, alleged to be valuable.posted
. at any post-office in the United States or its Ter
ritories, and addressed to Canada, or posted in
' Canada and addressed to the United States, and
. deliverable at any of the respective offices of ex
change to be thence conveyed to their destina
ghall be registered at the office of mailing, on the
application of the person posting the same: Pro
" vidtd. That the full postage chargeable thereon to
destination to destination, together with a regis
tration fee of five cents on each letter, be prepaid
POSTAL CONVENTION WITH VENEZUELA.
Postal Convention between the United States of
America and enezuela.
Article I. An exchange of mails shall hereaf
ter take place between the United States of Amer
ica and Venezuela by the ordinary routes of sea
transportation, as well by private ships as by
American or enezuelan steam or other mail
packets plying between the seaports of tho two
countries.
Article II. Borton, New York, Philadelphia,
and New Orleans shall be the exchange offices on
tho side of tha United States, and Cdad Bolivar,
Laguaira, Porto Cabello, and Maracaibo shall be
the offices of exchange on the side of Venezuela
for ail mails transmit.ed between the two coun
tries under this arrangement ; and all mail matter
transmitted in either direction between the re
spective offices of exchange shall be forwarded in
closed bags or pouches, uadcr seal, addressed to
the corresponding exchange office.
Article IIL Noaccounts shall be kept between
the Post-Office Departments of the two countries
upon the correspondence, written or printed, ex
changed between tbem ; but the country which
despatches mails to the other shall levy, oollect,
and retain, exclusively to its own use, such rates
of inland postage as are now or may hereafter bo
established by its laws for domestic correspondence,
together with tho sea rates of postage hereinafter
prescribed ; which iuland and sea postage shall bo
combined into one rate and collected by the de
spatching country in advance the nopavmcnt
thereof to bo certified by the appropriate official
stamp of the despatching office.
There shall be charged for sea postage upon
letters, newspapers, and prints of all kinds, in
sheets, in pamphlets, and in books, sheets of mu
sic, engravings, lithographs, photographs, draw- !
ings, maps and plans, conveyed by vessels of the j
United States or of Venezuela between the ports !
of the two countries, the following rates, that is
to say :
Upon letters or other communications in manu-
script which are subject by the laws of either
country to letter Tate of postage, the rato of tcren
cents United Siates currency, or its equivalent in
tho currency of Venezuela, for each weight of
half an ounce American or fraction of half an
ounce.
2d. Upon every newspaper, daily or other, the
rate of one cent United States currency, or its
equivalent in United States currency, or its equiv
alent in the currency of Venezuela.
d. Upon priuU of all kinds, in sheets, in pam
phlets, or in books, sheets of music, engravings,
lithographs, photographs, drawings, maps and
plans, the rate of one cent United States currency,
or its equivalent in the currency of Venezuela,
for each ounce or fraction of an ounce in weight.
The said newspapers and other printed matter
shall be enclosed in narrow bands or covers open
at the sides or ends, so that they may be easily ex
amined, subject to the laws and regulations of
each country respectively.
Article IV .- Leon all letters and articles oi
printed matterenumerated in Article III. received
in the United States of America from Venezuela
by sea, there will be charged by the United States
such rates of iuland postage es are now or may
hereafter be established by the laws ot the United
States, wbieh shall be collected at tho place of
destination, and shall belong exclusively to the
United States of America ; and rice rerta upon
all letters and like articles of printed matter re
ceived in Venezuela from the United States of
America by sea, there will be charged by Venezu
ela such rates of inland postage as are now or
mav hereafter be established by the laws or Ven
ezuela, which shall be collected at the place of
destination, and shall belong exclusively to desti
Eaz-h countrr shall defray the entire exporse of
sea transportation of the mails which it shall de
spatch to the other country.
Article V. It is distinctly agreea tuai aii man
able articles despatched from one country. to the
other shall be exempt in the country of destina
tion from any rate or fee whatever oeyona me
charges prescribed by this convention, and shall
be free from any detention or inspection, and
promptly delivered to the persons addressed, being
subject in their transmission to the laws and reg
ulations of each country respectively.
Article VI. Letters and other communications
iu manuscript, which, from any cause, shall not
be delivered to their address, after the expiration
of a proper period to effect their delivery, shall be
reciprocally returned without charge to the Post
Office Department of the despatching eonntry ;
but newspapers and all other articles of printed
matter which cannot be delivered shall not be re
turned, butremain at the disposal of the receiving
country.
Article VII. The Post Departments of the
United States and of Venezuela reciprocally en
gage to errant each to the other the gratuitous
conveyance across their respective territories of
all correspondence wbicn snail be exchanged in
closed mails with any countries to which they
may respectively serve as intermediaries, provided
always that such conveyance shall be effected by
the ordinary means of mail, conveyance in use,
and that the countries taking the benefit of such
gratuitous service shall reciprocally accord the
like privilege of free transit across their respect
ive territories. The privilege is also accorded to
each administration of sending an agent, at its
own expense, in charge of the mails in transit.
The further privilege is accorded of a free transfer
of closed mails in the ports and harbors of the
respective countries from one vessel to another,
in continuance of their conveyance to final desti
nation. - v - ' -' -
Article VIII. Correspondence of all kinds
which either department shall despatch to the
other for the purpose of being thence forwarded
iu its mails to another country of destination to
which prepayment is optional, shall be subject to
the rates established by Artiele III. of this con
vention, added to the interior rate in force beyond
the frontier of the forwarding (Country, so that
only one interior rate shall be received by the for
warding department. '
Article IX. The correspondence between each
government and its legation near tho other, and
that of the latter with the other, shall be con
veyed to its destination free of postage, and. with
all the precautions which both governments may
find necessary for its involability and security. , .
Article X. In case any change or amendment
in the provisions of this convention shall be de
sired by either party, the same may be proposed
by such party ; and when the details thereof shall
be agreed to and approved by both parties, this
convention shall be considered as changed or
amended accordingly. ...
Article XI. This convention shall take effect
from a day to be fixed by the two Post Depart
ments, and shall eentinue in force until annulled
by mutual consent, or until one of the two Post
Departments shall have given to the other a pre
vious notice of one year of its intention to abro
gate the same.
Xlone in duplicate and signed at Washington on
the I9th day of July, A. D. 1865, and at Caracas
on the 2Cth day of June, A. D. 1S66.
I.L.. S.J W. DENNISON,
Postmaster-General. "
l. s. J. M. ALVAREZ LUGO,
Minister of Internal Improvements.
POSTAL CONVENTION WITH HONG KONG.
Postal Convention between the United States of
America and the Colonial Government of Hong
rvong, umna.
Articles of agreement between the Post Office De
partment of the United States and the General
Post-Offico at Hong Kong.
For tho purpose of establishing and rcsrnlatintr
the interchange of mails between the United
States and Hong Kong and dependent Chinese
ports, bv means of the direct line of United States
mail packets plying between San Francisco and"
Hong Kong, t-ta Yokohama in Japan, it is agreed
between the Post-Offiee Department of the United
mates and tne Post-Uihce Department of Hong
Kong:
Article I. The post-offices of New York and
San Francisco shall be the United States offices of
exchange, and the General Post-Office at Hong
xvoug tun uuice oi excuangc oi rue colony oi
Hong Kong for all mails transmitted under this
arrangement.
Article II. There shall be an exchange of cor
respondence between the United States of Ameri
ca and Hong Kong, by means of United States
mail packets plying between San Francisco and
Hong Kong, comprising letters, newspapers, and
prices current originating and posted in the United
States, and addressed to and deliverable in Hong
Kong and those Chinese ports with which the
Hong Kong post-office has postal relations, in
cluding the ports of Canton, Amoy, Swatow, and
Foochow, nud, vice versa, of correspondence
originatine and posted in Hong Kong and the
Chinese ports above designated and addressed to
and deliverable in the United States.
Article III. The postage to bo levied and col
lected at the office of mailing in the United States,
upon letters, newspapers, and prices current, des
tined for Hong Kong and the above designated
Chinese ports, with which Hong Kong has postal
connections, shall be ten cents per single rate of
half an ounce or under on letters, and two cents
each on newspapers and prices currer t ; and the
postage to be levied and collected at Hong Kong
and dependent Chinese ports, on correspondence
originating in those ports and destined to the
United States, shall be eight cents per single rate
of half an ounce or under on letters, and two
cents on each newspaper or price current. No
postal accounts shall be kept between the respect
ive postal departments upon the correspondence
exchanged bo; ween tbem untlerthis arrangement,
but each department shall deliver the correspond
ence which it receives from the other free of all
postage charge, that is to say, the Kong Kong
post department agrees to deliver without charge
all letters, newspapers, andprices current, brought
by the United States mail packets, addressed to
Hong Kong, and, also, to forward without charge
all such letters, newspapers, Ac, as are addressed
to the Chinese ports above named, south of
Shanghae ; and the United States postal depart
ment, on its side, agrees to deliver without charge
nil letters, newspaper, Jec, originating in Hong
Kong, or tho ports mentioned, and forwarded by
said packets addressed to and deliverable in the
United States. All letters, newspapers, Ac, de
spatched by eithtr offiep to the other, under this
arrangement, shall be plainly stamped with the
words paid all,' in red ink, on the right-hand
under corner of the face of the address, and shall
also bear the stamp of the mailing exchange office
on their face, and that of the receiving office on
their back.
Article IV. The postal departments of the
United States and of Hong Kong shall each re
turn to the other, monthly, or as frequently as
their regulations will allow, all letters, newspa
pers, Ac., without claim, which cannot for any
cause bo delivered.
Article V. An exchange of mails shall also
take place between the United States postal agency
at Yokohama, Japan, and the Hong Kong Post
Office. by means of United States mail packets,
comprising correspondence originating in Japan
and addressed to Hong Kong and the Chinese
ports above designated, and vice versa, corres
pondence originating in Hong Kong and the de
pendent Chinese ports and addressed to Japan,
subject to the same terms and conditions as those
established bv Article III. of this convention.
with respect to the correspondence exchanged be
tween the United Slates and Hong Kong and de
pendent Chinese ports.
Article VI. All tetters, newspapers, and prices
current intended to be forwarded from Hong Kong
to the United States by the direct line of United
States mail packets running between San Fran-ci-co
and Hong Kong must be specially addressed
to be forwarded by that route.
Article VII. The two postal departments may
by mutual eonsentmake such detailed regulations
as mav be found necessary to carry out the ob
jects of this arrangement, such regulations to be
terminable at any time on a reasonable notice by
either office
Article VIII. This convention shall come
into operation the first day of November, 1S67,
aud shall be terminable at any time on a notice by
either office of six months.
In witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand
l. 8. the Post-Office Department this twelfth
day of November. 15(57.
ALEX. W. RANDALL,
PoStm;rstcr-GencraI.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and the seal of the colony of Hong Kong,
at Victoria h -rein, this tenth dav of August, I 807.
O s. RICHARD GRAVES MAC DONJSELL,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
T hereby approve the aforegoing convention.
l. s.j and in testimony thereof X have caused
the seal of the United States to be affixed.
By the President: ANDREW JOHNSON.
William II. Seward, Secretary of State.
Washisgtox, November 12, 1867.
Railroad vs. Bull Team. A
White Pine miner who has started to
" do " the East, stopped a day in Omaha
and wrote back to a Iriiend, thus report
ing his observations : " I enjoyed some
Eastern oysters on the half shell, last
Dight called for a dozen, swallowed
them, and called for my bill twenty
five cents in greenbacks- paid it, and
called for another dozen, which, also,
very soon disappeared. Went to bed,
but slept and woke very hard. I travel
ed in a Pullman palace car all the way.
It is a great institution ; cot up in a
gorgeous style, and rides much smoother
than Dan Wine a stages. It is all
painted red and yellow and black and
green, with scratched glass for windows;
but the beds, they are gay, soft as the
down on a maiden's lips, with great big
yellow and green curtains, all striped,
and sheets as white and pure as the
beautiful snow ; but I think I could
have slept much better if there had been
no sheets on the bed ; I said nothing
though, but just turned in with my boots
on, as if I had been used to sleeping
in sheets all my life Ten years ago I
crossed the plains in an ox team, and
now I go back in a Pullman car ye
Gods ! what a difference ; language fails
to describe it ; the mind soars aloft to
the time when this great American na
tion will have a pony- express, then' a
telegraph, then a Pullman train running
to the moon."
A Singular Adventure.
The Muskegan (Michigan) Enterprise
relates the following singular adventure :
When "we were publishing a paper in
Ltwisburg, West Virginia, several years
ago. a very singular acciden t befel a young
man there,: which we narrated briefly at
the time. A few days ago we chanced
to meet him here iu Muskegan, and he
narrated his adventure at our request. It
occurred on the farm of Gen. A. W. G.
Davis, in Greenbriar county, in 1856.
e give his story in his own words, as
near as we can recollect tbem : "I was
plowing on Gen. Davis' farm in 1856,"
said he, ''unsuspicious of being on inse
cure ground, when suddenly the earth
seemed to fall beneath me. I saw the
horses descending, but was too frightened
to let go the plow handles. .The pitch
of the hbrses with the earth gave my
fall an impetus, and somehow I caught
the mane of one of them in my fall, and
so held on instinctively. What I thought
when falling I can hardly tell. - At any
rate I did borne rapid thinking. When
I lauded I fell on the horse whose mane I
had hold of, and although the horse was
instantly killed, I was merely stunned
and confused. On recovering myself I
looked up, and the hole through which I
had fallen looked so small I concluded I
must, have fallen 150 feet.
My first thought was to call for aid.
but 1 instantly recalled the fact that I
was at least a mile from Gen. Davis
house, and that there. was not the remot
est probability that any one had seen my
descent into the earth. It was ti-ea
early morning, and as I had brought out
n.y dinner with me, no one would miss
uie before nightfall. While going over
these iacts in my own mind, 1 heard the
rush of water near at hand, and it oc
curred to me that I must have fallen
upon the bed of Sinking creek, which,
as you know, falls into the earth above
Frankfort, and does not come out but
once till it reaches the Greenbrier river.
To stay where I was, or to attempt to
lollow the subterranean passage, was the
next question. I foruetimes took the
team to my own tenant stable, and might
not be missed for days : so I determined
to follow the stream. I waded in it, and,
judging from its depth of from one to
three feet, I concluded it must be the
identical creek spoken of. Leaving my
dead companion behind me, I followed-
the stream. For tho most part 1 had
pretty easy work of it, but sometimes I
came to a deep place where I was forced
to swim a considerable distance ; again.
I was often precipitated headlong into
deep water by the precipitous nature of
the rocky bed oi the stream. U.alk about
the darkness ot the gravel A grave
itself could not have been more palpably
dark than the passage 1 was following.
The occasional rippling of the waters
was an inexpressibly dear sound to my
cars. Day and nint were the same to
me. At last, wearied with my efforts, I
laid down on a comparatively dry rock to
rest, and must have slept for hours.
When I awoke again I took to the
water, carefully ascertaining which way
it ran, so as not to lose my labor by re
tracing my steps. It seemed to me that
the farther I went the more difficult pro
gress became. When I had gone perhaps
a mile, I came to a place where I had to
crawl on my hands and kuees in the
water. Here was a dilemma I had not
looked for. I tried either bank of the
river, but found no passage. I could
switoi under the water for a considerable
distance, but the distance before me was
unknown, and I halted long before mak
ing the dangerous venture. At last I
concluded that my fato was as doubtful
in returning as in proceeding, and plunged
boldly into the current, aud soon found
that it was so swift in its confined pas
sage that I only needed to hold my breath
and go through. In the course of twenty
or thirty feet I got my head above the
water aud took a long breathing spell.
Again the archway above seemed to en
large and the Led of the stream become
more even. I sped along comparatively
rapidly, keeping my hands stretched to
prevent my running against the jagged
rocks. Wearied out, I again laid down
and slept soundly in my wet clothes.
On awakening, I pursued my course
down the subterranean stream, and at
last, in the long distance ahead, saw a
glimmer that looked very bright in the
darkness I was then put in. Nearing
this, I found that it did not increase in
brightness ; and when I had gone per
haps a mile, I came to another place
where my path narrowed to the very tun
nel filled by the water. My case was
now become more desperate. I could
not possibly retrace my steps, so I sub
mitted myself to the current, and was
immeasurably overjoyed to find myself
rapidly swept into daylight. Exhausted
and half drowned, I crept out upon the
land and was not long in recognizing the
objects above me." I had come out into
the Greenbrier river, as I knew by the
familiar look of General Davis' mill on
the bank. - On reaching home I found I
had been over 'forty-eight hours in mak
ing my perilous journey of six miles un
derground." The hole where this man
went through is now fenced round. On
listening one can plainly hear the rush of
water below, and a stone thrown down
will sometimes be heard to splash in the
stream. -,'.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
A Weekly Newspaper,
Containing' 28 colnma of matter,
IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY,
In the City of Albany,
$3 3?or Ann-uxu.,
IX ADVANCE,
Six months..
, $2
"LOCAL ITEMS" made a SPECIALTY.
THE REGISTER
JOB PRINTING
OFFICE,
Tint Hreet, (opposite Parrith & Co.'a store,)
Albany s s s Oregon.
An old gentleman in New Orleans,
very jealous of a pretty wife, a few days
since came home lato at night and had
all his worst fears confirmed by hearing
suspicious whisperings in his lady's cham
ber. ' Blinded by the green-eyed monster,
he rushed furiously into the room,' and
grasped, as he supposed an exquisitely
apparreled youth by the arm, and com
menced administering to him a fearful
castigstion. After exhausting himself,
and fearfully lascerating his opponent, he
found that the fell destroyer of his, do
mestic peace was no. other than his wife
dressed for a masquerade.
A Canada paper speaks of the "great
and lasting good that has flown" from a
clergyman's labors.
The "Labor Union", Dished 1- The
Gubernatorial candidate of the "Horny
Hands" has been flabbergasted ! The
Colonel has been routed from centre to
circumference, and the "three laboring
lawyers" have succumbed to the 15th
amendment and the Chinese treaty ! Hut
this does not imply a victory for the Her
ald's State Printership for there is a
Democratic practical disciple of the craft
who has been silently pulling at the wires,
and it is said has the inside track of the
Herald man, who is no printer. The
Albany Democrat has a candidate for
the position who is a practical- printer,
but there is one .fatal objection to him
among the Democracy, if they find it
out he was awhile a "Lincoln hireling"
from Iowa, whereas, both our Portland
candidates were rebel sympathizers all
the way through. We bespeak a strong
word for them among the Soap Creek
ana jong j.om aeiegates. Evening VaU.
There are about a thousand men and
179 stamps employed in milling in the
White Pine district. The annual yield
is about 82,000,000, or nearly $2,000 to
iue man.
IF
AVIXQ a very fair assortment of material
we are prepared to execute, with neatness
and dispatch, all kinds of
such as
Iland-bills,
Programmes,
Jiill-heaJs,
Cards,
Ball Tickets,
Pamplilcfs,
Labels,
Blanks
of sa.ll kinds,
at as low figures as ft due regard to taste and good
work will allow. IV hen you want anything in
the printing line, call at the Register office.
MASTER J. II. BRElViHER
WILL GIVE LESSOXS ON THE
PIAX0, YIOLIX and ORGAN,
AT
His own or Pupil's Residence.
Lessons given in the French
For particulars, enquire at the corn
albin and Second streets.
"X54 Refers to Prof. Job Briggs.
mguage.
Broad-
BLACKSRfllTHING !
PLOWS! PLOWS! PLOWS
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE undersigned gives notice to the general
public, that he is now manufacturing the
Galesljiirg Patent Plow !
and any other style of plow that may be ordered.
Also, particular attention paid to
Horse Shoeing". Waeron
Making',
and Darriage
and General 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.
chop on corner r.llswortn and Second streets.
opposite Pie'ce" Ferry. F. WOOD, t
Albany, November Zl, 1808-11
CRAFTSMEN'S
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW YORK.
Ill ciiArvAr & 1ICARS,
, ' GESERAI. AGEXTS FOR
Oregon, and Washington, Idano and
Montana' Territories,
PORTLAND ..OREGON.
Cash Plan, Low Rates, Strictly MlntuaL
NATIONAL LIFE
Insurance Company
OF THE
UNITED STATES pf AMERICA,
WASHINGTON, . C.
Chartered by special Act of CoDgresa,
Approved .....July 25, 1868.
1,000,000.00
DIRECTORS :
CLARENCE H. CLARK,
JAY COOKE,
W. G. MOORIIEAD.
GEORGE F. TYLER,
J. HINCKLEY CLARK,
E. A. ROLLINS,
HENRY D. COOKE,
W. F. CHANDLER,
JOHN D. DEFREES,
EDWARD DODE,
H. C. FAHNESTOCK.
OFFICERS:
CLARENCE E. CLARK, Philadelphia, President.
JAY COOKE, Chairman Finance A Executive
Committee.
HENRY D. COOKE, Washington, Vice Presi
dent. -
EMERLON W. PEET, Philadelphia, Secretary
x Actuary.'
E. S. TURNER, Washington, Assistant Sec-.
retary.
FRANCIS O. SMITH, M. D., Medical Director.
J. EWING MEARS, 11. D., Assistant Medical
Director.
THE attention of persona contemplating in
suring their lives, or increasing the amount
of insurance they already have, is called to the
special advantages offered by the NATIONAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
THE ADVANTAGES OFFERED
ARE:
The National charter, the large capital, the
Low Rates, the common-sense plan, the definite
contracts, the honorable end fair dealings, the
Non-Forfeiting Policies, the perfect security,
the liberal Terms of the policies, etc., etc., rend
ers the NATIONAL LIFK IJJSUUANCIS COM
PANY of the Unitod States of America worthy of
tho patronage of every busines man.
This company, during the sixteen months of
its existence, has issued
8,825 POLICIES,
covering
$26,800,000 INSURANCE.
The extraordinary rapid progress of the com
pany attests the estimation in which it is held by
the public, and the large amount of new business
transacted it is the best evidence of the popular
ity of its principles, nnd its adaptability to meet
the requirements of its Assurers.
All
Policies
Terms.
Non-Forfeiting by their
-; NEW ENGLAND r.
MUTUAL LIFE IXSURAM CO.
OF BOSTON.
rLftft AM 4ftf 11 - ....... . -I'i'l
Cash Dividend, 1867
Cash Dividend, ISC3. .......
Total surplus dividend-...
Losses paid in 18(58..........
Tntn.1 losses imid ...
Income tor ISO-..
Ibwwav w ww ,..........-.-".-- . ' ' '
Ho extra coarge ior traveling w ,u
Atlantic States, Europe, Oregon, or the SandwicH
xsianas. ...
All Policies non-forfeiting.; aid governed by tb.
non-forfeiting law of Massachusetts, . y
Policy holders the only persons who received It
aerds in tms company wiii
and paid annually ; first dividend srail- '
able at the payment oi tne imona . , t
annual premiums. 'Alt Policies i
.. - remain in force as long m-;ut. td: i
, there is any surrender . y ,.. s
'.. TaJ"e: '..;.:;v -h V :,r.
This old and popular Company, (the oldest Mav.
. . A V i ,k(. . I,-..
tuai luo lllfluraiicD vuuiwi ui u -
country ) insures at the low- t , nth
est possible rates. -,.,- ;,
The stabilitT of this Company, witi its past nis
tory, increasing capital and business, and the) sat'
iafaetory manner in which it baa diaeharg4 its) '
obligations in tne past, are guarao ees I or in
future such as far-seeing and careful men repair
in their investments. , '
Persons generally, who thoroughly vnderstanil
the workings of Life Insurance, are anxious to
avail themselves of its equitable provisions.
Full information will be given to those who
desire, at the Agency.
Horn Office, 39 State Street, BrtMU
Pacific Branch Offices, ,; -
302 Montgomery Street, Sals Francisco.
Room 3, Carter's Building, Portland, Oregon,
ETERSON & HAINES, General Asjta.
RISSELL tfeELKIKS, Agts,
ALBANY, OREGON ! -v.,-i
Albany, September 19, I868-2T ...... Z "'
ITS POLICIES ARE NEGOTIABLE.
By the Charter of the Company, certificates of
obligations will be issued, agreeing to purchase
its policies at their value which, when accompa
nied by the policy duly assigned or transferred
are negotiable, and may be used as collateral se-
cur ty, in making loans from the Company or
lrom outer parties.
The Hon. Jno. E. Sanford, Insurance Commis
sioncr of Massachusetts, in his Report for 1868,
speaking of Dividends in Life Insurance Coinp:
nies, says , The sooner such guarantees cease
to be made, and such expectations created, the
sooner Life Insurance will come to rest on its true
motive, and men insure their lives for security,
and not for dividends.' The best and the most
popular companies will then be those that prom
ise only equity, and render all that they promise,
and turnisn tne best security, with the most up
rignt and judicious management. '
, NEW ADVERTISEMENT!?, f T?
W- x INCORPORATED. lS5C-. OV. if
4t tittnutmtr
628,579. 65
.. 78,m 8
.. 3,512,m
ii. 7,500 09
.. 8,342,100 0'
2,8.2,031 41
Farmers Can Ride . and Plow,
bt SEccnrao osb or thc r":l:' ' '
Manufactured and sold for the very low price of
8$G and S&T'S. .-.'
TITE simplicity and practicability of this new
Plow commends it favorably to the special
notice of every farmer. It possesses a decided
superiority over all other plows now in use. . Tha
wheels are four feet in diameter, and run on tb
nnplowed land. Its entire construction is in no
way complicated. The plow is managed in evenr
manner with ease, and requires only two levers
to be used in making any alteration. The supe
riority of the "Gay" Plow will be clearly shown
oy me loiiowing certincate : . .. . . ( ,
AVe, the undersigned, citizens of Linn eountv.
Oregon, having purchased and used upon ear
farms tho "Gay" Plow, hereby certify that the
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. -We
like the plow for its draught, because the same is
brought to bear directly upon the plow-beam In
stead of the carriage ; also, because it is strong
and durable, all except the wood-work being een-
siruciea oi wrougnt iron no castings are used.
The wheels running upon the solid land is an ad
vantage over other gang-plows, in strikinsr en
land and in plowing, not baring to make the nes
essary changes in the machinery, and the seat Is
always level, not thr wing the driver forward or
sideways as in other plows. Better work and
more of it ran be accomplished by the use of, this
Plow than by hand. '
We take pleasure in recommending the "Oat'
Plow to our brother farmers, as one having ne
superior in Oregon. " ,
J. O. REED, W. P. ESHOM,
A. S. LOONEY, E. W. PIKE,
W. II. GOLTTREE. . II. DAVIDSOJT. ,
May 20th, 1869. , , ,
The "Gat" Plow is manufactured by H.
Goulding, Portland Machine Shop. .
All orders will be promptlv attended to bv ad
dressing, . ..
U. V. GAT,
I . . Portland, Oregon.
Albany Agents. '
J. BARROWS CO., Agents :
for Linn A Benton eoanties.'
JOHN BRIGGS, Agent
for Linn A Benton conntles.
May 22, '69-37
THE OLD
STOVE DEPOT!
DEALS. '
" By the Stock plan the full cash effect of the
premium is immediately secured to the insured,
the Company taking all the risk. By the Mu
tual plan, the full value in . insurance of the pre
mium paid, is not secured to the policy-holder,
who takes a portion of the risk himself."
No Restriction on Travel, Residence or
Occupation.
Policies issued in Gold or TJ. 8. Curren
cy, as desired.
No extra charge upon women.
All varieties of Policies issued.
Value upon Surrendered
Large Gash
Policies.
E. S.
Mt-
MERRIIX, Agent,
Albany, Oregon.
Policies Issued In
Grold or Currency,
WM. E. HALE, MANAGER.
WELLS, FABGO & CO.,
GENERAL AGENTS
FOR THE PACIFIC COAST.
. 3. c. MEiiEJ!TnAi.i,
. TRAVEMSO ACEST t
For Oregon and Wasklng-toa Territary.
Albany, September II, 1869 ,
STOVES, COOK, PARLOR & BOX.
f the best pattens f . l-,jH
ALSO v r
Tin, Sheet Iron and ,
Copper Ware 1
and the usual assortment of Furnishing Goods t
be obtained in a
Repairs ncnty.and promptly executed, "
jfcV on reasonubl terms.
"Short reckonings, make long friends."
Front atreot..-..-...........Als)aay.
Next doer to Mansfield A Co. . , ,
doc5'ft8-I2
making the z
1 1 i
EVERY VARIETY CF-'
6m
GILBERT CS0., ACIfJTC, '
SALEM, OREGON, i :a
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