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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1871)
Tl:e Turkish cholera panic is sub siding. j Crantrrived at Washington on the Cth. Xapoleon is going to Switzer land, to Ik? accessible to his friends in case they want him. Mining transactions amounting to 2,000,000, lectured in Utah last weok. I-."uroieau newspaiorsare roughly handling American publishers for literary piracy. i:epubl:can jour, als are urging Thiers to suppress IVi.apartit.t cvn-t-piracies in L- ranee. The English Kpiseopal clergy men paid their respects to the Pres ident on the 7 th. Alexander II. Stephens, in one of 1 : is long-wii died e J it irinl l para graplnv .-iys. that the "key-note" which was sounded in Ohio by Val landigl.nm, has lost California to the Democracy, and is losing the other States as lust as possible. We think the Democracy may trace the true origin of their many disasters in the last ten years, or more, back to the time, when Jeff. Davis, Ste phens i& Co. inaugurated a "de parture" out of the Union. That 'key- :ote" bat! ed the nation in fra ternal blood, t addled the (iovern ment with an enormous debt, and sowed the weds of disorganization in the Democratic party. She now lloats like a dismantled ship, chart- less, rudderless, the sport of every corroding wave and reckless wind, becoming more rotten and more lia- 1'Uttt Titlnl Wxve. r! he City t-as Company of San I'rai.cis'o has concluded not to build that br.dge of Mission creek. Prince Alexis will visit i:"an Francisco about the middle of next month. San Francisco lnsui-ai.ee Com panies will lose heavily by the Chi cago tire. The Conferei.ce at Utah again elected Brigham Young Firt r res ident, la t .Monday. V. A. Shooedv-r sued J. C. Clos- 6 '!i for 610,000 damages for calling him a burglar, thief, and other pet names all in San Francisco. Theodore Tyler, in jail tor lar ceny at San Lrai.eifCo, hung him self last Saturday, but was cut down in time to save his miserable lie. A correspondent of the San Fran cisco liulhJ.in. nominates Henry Ward Ilcecher for President. Fa cetious quill driver, that. The Japanese Government apol ogized to the American Minister tor the Japanese Time1 libel on the Hawaiian Government. The human .bipeds that live at New Orleans and along the Gulf coastrmusl have ielt ftgreenbly in dignant, and dirgustingly joyful, and smilingly rantankeroiisly dia bolically complaisant, afu r the fif-h of October l ad c me and gone without pitching that tidal wave that was to ka-swash over the whole coast-country, and so completely and utterly-terly it. Thct f.dks.in general, no doubt, had made elab orate preparations for a first-class swim, or drowning ; and after hav ing exhausted the biggest xvt of So many days and nights of anxious preparation in building their break-, waters, a:.d getting lie preservers ieady l r,h :t; nt use, ttc, and gone to lots-of ex'ense, too, to le thitsly disapjKii led, was too agreeably . heart rendi..g to be "borne without ble to entire disintegmtion eontinu- j shedding a lew salt drops of happy ally. If Democracy throughout the country had forsaken the old, rotten, blood-stained, negro-hating, debt-repudiating, states-rights doc trines of Stephens !fc Co., and placed themselves squarely on the "new departure" of Yallandigham, we Republicans woidd have "shuck" a little in our toots, in prospect of election results. As it is, we smoke our pipes in complacency. : 't roubles in J-"mi Frniu'lsM). disgut. But we Cv.nni assionale mo-t the local piill drivers of the SontI crn press. How they mint have have felt with their usual 'ee lings! We wipe away the moisture from our us, as we think of the melancholy cussing and pro iine pei.siveness that must have eventuated them after the 5th had close to a wound. After all the extra paper provided a. d jencils si arje. cd in anticipation of this event, to be compelled by sheer 'bree '' circumstances- over which they had not the hast control, to back to tiie ordinary local occur lVi.ces oi' hum drum city life, was truly a nv.st amusing melai.choliky ciivumstance. We extend . our sor row to them in their svmpathv. The great calamity that has fallen upon ' Chicago, the most splendidly built city in the world, is a national one, and one that will le felt in every portion of the Un ion. The utter destitution of so many thousands of people calls loudly for sympathy all over the land. Will not the people of Ore gon respond quickly, sending cheer fully of their abundance to their Fasten i brothers so suddenly de prived of ail their earthly posses sions ? Let some whole-souled cit izen of Albany take the matter in hand at once, and let us send to these suii'erers, not only our sympa thy, but something more substantial in tills their hour of sore need. Elertfon Sews. San Francisco has been troubled with her gas-makers lately not the new:-papers, but the bona Jide gam ers. There are two companies, the City and the Metropolitan, who are building line gas works in the city. The former las laid its pipes around Mission bay to Nebraska street, and from this point it pro posed to pass under the channel of j , , , ... , t 1 flit .?;io timitil J. A. Shreve, of Philadelphia, tell down and died in a lit of apo plexy, in an outhouse at that place, last Monday. ' " The late Pacific Presbyterian Synod at Oakland determined to establish a Theological Seminary at San Francisco. Jacob Drake lor shooting Thomas Kingsbury, was found guilty at Boise City, Idaho, and sentenced to four years in the Penitentiary. Xew Zealand continues to yield immensely in gold. The Caledonia company I ad paid 2,000,000 in dividends in six months. I'd ward Flack and James DutFy were jugged in the Salem jail last Monday, or drugging an individual and relieving him of his valuables. A baggage master at Pough keepsie smelt a. very bad odor com ing from a box on the train. A detective opened the box and was horrified to find about live pounds of Limburger cheese. Juarez was installed President of Mexico last Monday evening. 1 he State of Xueva Leon is in open revolution. Gen. Pedro Mar tinez is against the Juarez Govern ment. Great preparations were making at Matamoras fbr a fight. The Commercial editor of the Portland Bulletin has lately been up the Valley to find out the amount of wheat stored in 1 the warehouses and in the hands of the farmers ; but failed to get all the information he desired, as thev seemed to fear that he had. much to do with the "rat in the meal tub." A Faro Bank with a cash capital of $40,000, is one of the institu tions of Salem during, the Fair, The Statesman says gambling goes on, on Commercial, street, in plain gas-light, to the music of the banjo and other instrumentSj by which victims are lured in. ' : 1 Jr Mission creek to Frannon street. The other company 1 as fine works fbr retorting petroleum near Fran non street bridge. Not long since this company had a vessel moored at the bridge with a cargo of petro leum. While there it came to the ears of the company that their ves sel would le carried by force down the stream below Nebraska street, and the City Company would then erect a bridge across the stream, in stead of laying their pipe under it, and thus close the navigation. The Metropolitan armed their vessel to squelch that intention, and then telegraph h.'lrmed us of the fact that a fearful fire had occurred in Chicago. From day to day came the i.rWs, Hashed across the conti nent, that the fire was still raging, ami ft.Q entire city was doomed. The news up to Wednesday was to the effect that three-fourths of the city was in ashes, the portion burned comprising all the principal business houses, banks, hotels, churches, etc. And still the dis patches reiterated the tact that the fire was raging, with.no possible hope o" its being got under subjee- ! t.ioji. Steam tire eii'rines had leen stood by and looked on while the , 1 i , w forwarded from Cincinnati, St. oTKige was oeuig put up. interest- i , , .i . -i oil I i tuif , and other cities, to aid m eu properiy owners men tooK tne matter in hand, notified the Super intendent of Streets, and . he com manded the engineer, Mr. Bruncr, of the olfending company, to come to a quit, which he refused to do. Flight of the offenders were then arrested, and liberated on $100 bails ; but they vowed they would build that bridge in spite of crea tion, or the law. the Chief of Po lice, at this juncture, backed by the Mayor, resolved to arrest every person, biped or otherwise, who dared to hit a lick on that bridge. A combination of citizens rushed up to Sacramento, or sent a rush up, who saw Jo. Hamilton and re turned with full authority to stop that iniquitoxis bridge. On the strength of this, we suppose, J udge Dwindle granted an injunction which was immediately served on the -City Gas Company, and they had to quit the bridge story incom pleted, never again probably to be resumed. (iobiK to tirass. New Orleans is not only reported as sinking, but also as "going to grass ;" as that species of vegeta tion is said to be growing on the streets. .It will be remembered that those fellows down there, be fore the Rebellion, prophesied that that would be the condition of our northern cities. The "chickens are coming home to roost," it seems. V The editor of the JUethodist de clares that the Bishops are largely to blame for. the growing dissatis faction in that church with the Pre siding Eldership, by making it a retreat fbr preachers who can be placed nowhere else. t The Russians have annexed the Saghalian Islands, and will hold thcin. ' LiATisir.- Telegrams inform us that the threat lire in Chicago was providentially extinguished by a heavy rain-tall on the night of the 10th. The tire extended to 1 wen-ty-second street on South street, and the whole of South, between Wa bash and State btreets, is in ashes. More than twenty-live thousand dwellings were destroyed. An agonizing appeal has gone out from the city authorities fbr the sufferers, and the whole country is respond ing bravely with substantial aid. The news of. the dread-"ul disaster haying reached London, telegraph orders for money to relieve the dis tressed are being received, one firm sending 5,000. One hundred c'tl zens of Xew York have been ap pointed as a committee to solicit aid, and single subscriptions ot 61,000 are numerous, while $10,000 subscriptions are not in'Yequei.t. .Meetings have been held in St. Lou:s, and 100,000 secured ; Cin cinnati has or will forward as much, or more ; San Francisco has taken the matter in hand, and money is pouring in ; the Mayor of Portland has issued a call for a meeting of the citizens, a: id no doubt but that her citizens, with their usual liber ality, will respond heartily. In fact, the whole country is coming nobly forward with material aid, and, so far as money can ac complish it, the people of Chicago will be made comfortable. ( - ! IIaud Times in Great Brit ain. To add to the distress caused by a deficient harvest in Great Brit ain, the cattle plague is breaking out all over the country. Already the cattle in seventy-three counties in Britain have been attacked by the plague, and it is rapidly spread ing in Ireland. The number of eat tie already attacked is put down at many thousands, but the plague also involves sheep and swine. Besides the cattle plague, pleuro-pneumonia has also occurred, and is ravaging herds in thirty-one counties of Eng land and thirteen of Scotland, and doing a certain degree of damage in Ireland. Partial returns La ve been received" from the elections in Ohio find Penns ylvania, and there is no comfort in ttieni for our Democratic friend. In both States gains are reported for the lle puhHctUH." In Ohio the Republican ticket gains largely over the vote of two years ago. Xoye--, the Republican candidate tor Governor, u elected by 25,000 majority, and the Legislature is claimed to be largely Republican. Returns 1'roiu Pennsylvania shows uni form Republican gains all over the State. In the 15th ward, Ph 1 icelphia, a lady tendered her vote, which was rejected by the judges. Ait applica tion for mandamus to compel the re ception of the vote, ' was rejected by Judge Allison, of the Court of Com mon Picas, and his action was sus tained by his brother judges. In the .-outhern portion of the cityofPhla deiphia a serious riot had broken out, in which four or live men were killed and twenty-live wounded. Three brigades of militia had been ordered to the scene of troubles. SHhce Austrla and Germany' have formed- an alliance, Prussia, France and- Turkeaire becoming more friend ly. The next war, fC is thought not mpossiWiv ill find them on the same ;?ife. ' William II. Pritehard, a colored mail,- was hangr-d- recentlj at T owsen- town, near Baltimore, Maryland,-for' committing a raie on a rvhite woman in 1370. lie met his fate without visable tremor. The yellow fever is spreading in' Florida as in an epidemic form. In Tampa there were forty eases mid tea. deaths. extinguishing the flames, but all to no purpose -the tire still kept on its devastating course. What ag gravates and makes' the news more terrible, is the fact that on the 10th inst., incarnate fiends in human shape were caught i:i the act of fir ing buildings that had been saved, up to that time, d-om the devouring element ; and, although two of these devils were shot down, and others led off with ropes around their necks, the discovery was made f.xr, Utn, t. c.A oil.o .ulvt;n.w.fll. KlTMOKED Alil'IOATloN. A Ca- city fired by them. It is believed b!e dispatch from Vienna of Sept, In a late speech of the Hon. Lyman Trumbull, United States Senator from Illhio-, at Springfield in that State, he indicated an intention of preparing a bill to be. introduced into the Senate for the purpo'ie of reforming some of the abuses that grow out of the ap pointing power those, especially, re suiting from the manner in which our postmasters are appointed. It is well known that Representatives in Con gress, if Ixj'oMging to the party which may be in power, have perfect control over this matter. Whatever changes iii postm i-ter.s in their Districts are suggested by them to the President and Senate, as a matter of courtesy, are at once granted. Abuses have grown out of this. Their personal friends are ap pointed, often in entire disregard of the wishes of thu people whom . they are to serv, sometime1" without any regard for jualiticatioii. The distin guished Senator thinks that the wishes of the whole people in each communi ty where one is to be appointed should le consulted in this matter. That it should be made as much a matter of choice as the election of a constable, or an j other elective, local officer; and hence, he proposes to introduce a bill to provide for the electing of postmas ters by the parties concerned, securing of course, to the General Government, the removal of such elected postmas ters for just causes. It is seriously reported tliat Xew" Orleans is gradually sinking. In one locality it is sereu feet below the ordinary level. A Missonrinn mid his wife and seven children walked twenty-live miles to Kansas City to see a circus. ' At the burial of Walter Montgomery his wife knelt over his grave and dropped tlereu the wange flower worn at her wedding two days before . Tiie vait of tlie five largest hotels itt San Franel-ieo Is said to be $4,800,000. The annual receipts are reported at 3,000,000. !?maij. Iox Is reported as de creasing in Walla Walla, W. T, A lady who resides on B street, while visiting a house for a few mo ments, left a babe about fix- months o!d in its carriage outside the door while she entered. As soon as she came out she saw several young brat running away troui the carnage, and on looking at her child she found its mouth so full of dirt that it could hard ly breathe. The mother, after a great ileal of exertion, extracted the inud, and by making the child discharge its stomach managed to cleanse it of its nearly fatal food. Had the mother not seen the child as promptly as she did, it would have died of suffocation. Portland Herald. that the fire was started by incen diaries, and if such be the case, there is lso ate too dreadful fbr them to suffer for the commission of so terrible a erlme. Among the terrible scenes re lated of the conflagration, it is re lated that the city prison, in which were confined a number of pris oners, committed for petty offences, caught fire, and before aid could reach them, prisoners and jail fell a victim to the tire-fiend. During the prevalence of the fire the wind has been blowing a perfect hurricane, and whole blocks of buildings were enveloped in flames and destroyed in almost a breath. The loss of life must be great, how great there is no means of telling at present. Thousands have been left destitute who but a few hours since were in affluence. It is the most terrible conflagration the world ever saw. It is computed that more than fifty millions -worth of property has al ready been destroyed, and the end is not yet. Buildings of iron and stone, supposed to be fire-proof, melted down under the fervent heat, dissipating tlie idea that buildings can be so constructed as to be proof against fire. 27th, says that the city is agitated by the prevalence of a rumor that it is the serious intention of the Emperor, Francis Joseph, to abdi cate. The reason alleged is, his conviction of h s personal unfitness to grapple with the constitutional crisis which has matured under his rule, and which threatens a sudden and complete dissolution of theKm pire. The very rumor of his inten tion to abdicate, is accepted as evi dence of the progress of democratic sentiment in iiurov;. A sum amounting to -50, j was contributed by the Samaritan Lodge Xo. 2, 1. O. O. F., at Portland, last Wednesday evening, for the benefit of Chicago brethren. Another stage robbery has been perpetrated between Boise City and Umatilla. All they took was Wells, Fargo fc Co. s express box. Sheriff Bryon is in pursuit. Workmen digging a cellar in East Portland, last Tuesday, dis covered" a wooden box containing the skeleton of an infant. Over 1,000 converts have been made at the camp meeting at Los Mietos, California. nt. twenty-two years of age, lumd e, well formed, and muscular. General Sheridan telegraphed to Belknap on the 9th, that "the tire in Chicago last night and to-day has de-tnwed almost all that was very valuable in that city. There is not a business house,, bank or hotel left. Most of the lest part of the city is gone, and without exaggeration all the rich portion of the eitv"is in ruins. 1 think that not less than 1 00,000 peo ple are homeless, and those who have been mo-t rich are now poor. It seems to be such a terrible misfortune that it may, with propriety, be con sidered a national calamity." A Yankton (Dakota) paper gives this account of a famous Indian hunter: Louis Kelley i", perhaps, the most daring and successful Indian hunter in the great West. He travels alone, wears a complete suit of buckskin, and when out on the prairie, a turban around his bead. He is said to be a graduate of a college, and bails from iririnia or South Carolina. Jt is thought he was a rebel officer. He is about. some The Indians dread him as much as they ever did Daniel lloone or Kit Carson, lie never misses his mark; an Iudian is as good as dead the mo ment he draws sight on him. He will travel weeks at a time through hostile Indians, and never express a thought of danger. Kelley is now on a trip to the head waters of the Yellowstone a country never yet visited by any wiiite man. He is alone, lie has been known to dare a dozen Indians, on the open prairie, to light him in a body. Xo Indian will ever get within reach of his deadly rifle. Experts, on Thursday of last week, in Xew York, visited tlie new Court I louse, accompanied by a special com mittee, a! id made an examination of all furniture in the building. After adding 25 per cent to the estimate, they valued it at $92,730. Other ex perts estimated the carpenter work at $132,000, including an addition of 25 jer cent. IngersoU received, for fur nishing the above, $1,400,000. . Alll davits from experts were sworn to, and handed into District Attorney Garvin. Several vouchers for Inger soll's, Garvey's and Keyser's work, were unearthed yesterday by the com mittee of seventy. The 'vouchers are for numerous amounts. Not one of them is sworn to, but all signed by A. Oakey Hall. - : The great prairie fire in Minnesota .was still raging with great fury Oeto ler Gth. Its course was southeast. At last accounts it had reached as far south a3 tlie Iowa border, and east to the Minnesota river, which is hoped, will stop it in that direction. Much property has been distroyed, and two lives. Winnemueca, California, has been visited by an immense bird, supposed to be a member of the condor family. The attention of the editor of the Win nemueca llegtuter was called to the vis itor by his hearing some one exclaim: " Howly ' mother, see that cow with wings!" ' ' Tea is tending downward. A great many ridiculously funnv thing' are published concr rning Mr. Greeiey's views on agricultural affairs, of which the following is a sample i . Mr. tjireeiey says tne reason there Is a scarcity of maple sugar this spring is, that the farmers didn't more than half manure their sugar seeds when they planted them last fall. He say for every seed yon plant you want a whole pile of manure, when the vines will be loaded down with little scol loped cakes. Farmers never will learn anything if they keep on fooling away their time as they liave the past year. The jwople of Minnesota are to vote upon two amendments to their Stale Constitution at their next election. One prohibits their Legislature from relieving any railroad from the tax ii ion its gross earnings, and the other authorizes an increase of the State in debtedness, for the purpose of erecting buildings for the deaf, dumb and blinjn. and to tlie State Prison, to the amount of $250,000 in excess of the quarter of a million dollars now authorized by the Constitution. The present has been a season of marked commercial prosperity in Itos ton. The arrivals of vessels are more numerous than for many years, and the provincial and coastwise trade was never so large before. In all, one hundred large vessels, loaded with val uable cargoes, are now on their way to Boston, from every quarter of the globe. A farmer of Grundy county, Iowa, .as short of help the other day, and. his wife came forward, took a fork, mounted a stack of barley, and-, pitched the whole stack over to the machine a dlsta nee 'of fifteen feet in forty-seven minutes. The stack j iclded 132 bushels of barley. Gold placer digging- have been found near tlie Kmma' mines, in Utah, and one man in two days washed out $500 worth of du-t. Two hundred thou sand dollars lave been offered for a mine in Cottonwood, that was discov ered only two weeks ago. John II. Keyser denied before the committee of seventy of ever liaving received the sums of money alleged to have been paid him for work on the new New York Court House. From Los Angeles' we learn that the cattle disease lias broken out in the vicinity of Owen's Lake, and ranches on Owei.'s river. Num bers have died. . Stkuck Water. They have struck clear, flowing spring water at Kelton, in an artesian well, by boring only sixty-seven feet. It is reported that Mellila, in Mo rocco, is besieged by a force of 12,000 Cabyls. Tlie Springfield Republican says tliat Mr. Groesbeck is the real father of the New Departure. " " Why is intoxication like a wash bowl?" asked Sambo. "Case it am de basin." A prickly pair A hedgehog and a porcupine. Judy. ; , . Smallpox is reported bad at Brook lyn, New York. , Fresh reinforcements for Cuba are leaving Spain. - , : Colorado onions weigh a pound, and taste like peaches. An ice factory in Jackson, Mis., is turning out 8,600 pounds a day. A daily mall will run from Salem to Dallas, .commencing on the ltitb.