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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1871)
dooU Euitleni. IT. ti. Oflicinl Pnper for Onon. SATUKDAY, 1EC. 30, 1871. One Object. Kiet Jn Alone. A quadroon mule with no mane, a tail similar to that ot a cow, an ! of the twenty-one indictments found fur as St. Louis, and tha Legation Tweed is to be arrested on each ! "Pccd in charge of Baron Dan- Democracy is now agreed in but one measure, the desire to pee Gen eral Grant defeated for the next Presidential term. Democrats know that he will assuredly be the nomi nee of the Republican party, and their plans are all pointing in the one direction of trying to beat him. They have no other object set forth. They are not agreed among them selves as to principles of public pol icy. They have no national plat form. They differ as widely among themselves on live issues, as they do from 1 republicans. Inuarmony and discord, and widely divergent views and distrust, arc the charac teristics presented to the world by the Democracy of to-day. They are a unit, however, almost, in their de sire to defeat General Grant. If they could only succeed in slaugh tering him, they would feel good. They remember the way -he took the rebellion by the throat ani ehoked the life out of it, and they grind their molars. They saw four millions of slaves arise from Demo cratic shackles and become free men, as the result of the giant blows ass' head, the ears of a horse, and the hair on its body kinky like an African's wool, was on exhibition in Jacksonville on the 11th inst. It was the foal of a mule by a horse, and sired in Southwestern Oregon in 1SGS. It is to be taken to New York and sold to Barnum. That poor animal is a good deal like the against him by the Grand Jury. .Tas. II. Ingersoll is reported to have taken a "departure" for Europe on the 10th in the steamer "Rhein ; " and Jas. M. Sweeney, Hugh Smith, and several other Ring men are at Toronto, Canada, and are in favor of the "passive" policy, no doubt. At least they would like to be Democratic party. It is neither one j passed over by the New York au- thing nor the other, but a tremen dous monstrosity made up ot the most ridiculous inconsistencies join ed together in the most ludicrous relations. Democracy, look at your emblem in this horse-cow-ass-mule. "The five indictments against Sam May were found by a' Jury composed of fi ve Radicals and two Democrats. The evider.ee was too plain for them to get around the thing." Oregon City Jfntcr prise. If those live Republican jurors had been the corrupt men which is int 'mated in the above sneer, they coidd have found some pretext upon which to base an acquittal of Sam May. If they had been as much disposed to estimate everything by the standard of party, and not of justice, as seems to be the case with the Democratic manipulators in this instance, they might have found it convenient to pass over his case, which General Grant struck in de- I possibly. The Democratic manipu fense of the integrity of the Union and Constitutional freedom, and they snap their eyes. They remem ber that in doing this, lie knocked the bottom out of the Democratic jug, and the contents "departed" in many directions, no more to be gathered up; and a they think of it, they can't continue "passive." O how they hate General Grant ! They have seeu the country grow strong and vigorous and prosperous under his administration, and it has only served to intensify their tigly feelings toward himTTheir only platform plank now is to devise some plan, get such a candidate to run, as will beat General Grant ; but they may as well cool down, for he cannot be beaten this time. trec'dcd. "We read from the New York dispatches that the society of Inter nationals was permitted by the au thorities of the city to hold their parade on Sunday the 17th, unmo lested. The procession formed ftlxut 2.20 P. M. Hawkins' Rand led the column, followed by a pla toon of theSkidmore Guard (color ed), next came Messrs. Ranks and Fleureaux, and then came a num ber of women on foot, among them Tennie C. Clafiin and Mrs. Wood liull, the former carrying a red flag inscribed: "I. A. M.," "Political Equality for both Sexes ;" then came the Cuban League and anoth er crowd of females and some males; then a catafalque carrying three cofrins and drawn by six horses ; Messrs. Devenue and Megy the latter was the commander at Fort Issy the French Legion, Printers' Union, Bricklayers' Union, and the Cabinet makers' Union brought up the rear. Among the notables in the procession were Gen. Ryan, the Cuban patriot, Van Rosea and Mrs. Frances Rose Mclvinley. There was a profusion of red flags and banners and rosettes and scarfs. The banner captured by the police last Sunday was one of the most noticeable ; it bore this incription : 'The Commune expands as the ax of the executioner falls upon ti e necks of its martyrs". The best order prevailed. " " ' " 1 ' A Democratic journal says that "the Grand Duke's visit to this country is to induce General Grant to go to Russia-' at the expiration of his term ot 1 office and establish a grand consolidated livery-stable and tan yard at St. Petersburg." As Gen. Grant will continue in the Presidential i tan-yard fori tbeti iiext four years, the Duke of Russia, and members of the "Possum," and other "first families'' of Democracy in this country, will bo disappoint ed. lators set them the example, at least, of playing the game of "lay low and keep dark," so far as indicting May was concerned, until some fit teen months had transpired, and four sessions of the Court had pass ed over, and a Presidential cam paign was about to begin. They knew all of this time that May was guilty, it seems, but as their elec tioneering material was somewhat limited to be used in a political campa'gn, they appear to have con cluded to remain "passive" and play "possum," until the right and ripe time should come. The Democrat ic journals of Oregon, almost unan imously, we believe, have pretended to hold the "passive" policy of the Missouri 'Republican in scorn; but this May matter seems to indicate that they adopted that principle long before the Republican thought of it. If May was known to be guilty of embezzlements at the ses sion of the last Legislature, and more certainly a few months later, those who wield the processes of the law in such cases, by refusing to execute them, became in a moral and legal sense accessories, by shielding the criminal from justice. If these Democratic manipulators had been half as much inclined to promote the ends of justice as they have been to advance the interests of the Democratic party, or had they shown the same conscientious devotion to duty and obligation which was exhibited in the conduct of these five Republican j uxors, May would now be suffering a pen alty commensurate with the grave nature of the crimes proven against him. Cupidity. When the illness of the Prince of Wales was the most alarming, dispatches from England say that English merchants bought the entire stock of black gloves, black artificial flowers, dry goods and jet ornaments of Paris. As the Prince is still alive, and in a fair way to recover, the cupidity which prompt ed this investment is likely to meet with its merited reward. Geo. V. James, son-in-law of the late Sheriff Bills, has been appoint ed to the Sheriffalty of Multnomah county. The late Sheriff Bills of Portland had his life insured for $10,000. The high respect with which the Irish regard their Jewish fellow citizens was evinced by an incident which recently occurred in Dublin. On the dangerous illness ofa daugh ter of Mr. S. Samuel of that citv. Well as in the ' svnairobrues. This compares with the Chief Rabbi's statement,: that Ireland is? the Xmlyj country in which Jews? have' not oeen persecuted; ; thorities, and the song which has fur its chorus, "All we axes is, let us alone," would employ their loft iest and most pathetic musical notes, maybe, if it was only suggested. Some ffthe Democratic jour juIs of the State are agitating the qibs tion of holding a convention of Democratic editors in Portfand,)n the Sth of January next. By all means, Democratic editors, hold a convcntion,and decide whether you will play "possum" during the next campaign, or "die in the -last ditch." A Democratic pnper says that: Alexis found much Republican simplicity prevailing at Washing ton, lie met no Grand Dukes there. He must have been intro duced, however, to any amount of Grand. Rascals. Is that so ! Wonder if he teas introduced to so many Democrats! cas, until the arrival of a Charge d' Affairs, who will leave at once. The wool crop of the United States for the year ending June, 1M70, according, to the census re turns, amounts to 101,284,078 pounds, including 4,402,004 pounds from the Northwest? rn States. A private letter from San Do mingo says the two years' lease of the Bay of Somana having expired, the flag of United States has been hauled down. Greeley publishes a mild request that he bo allowed to have his opin ions on the.' question of the next Presidential nomination, ai.d to ut ter them from time to time without being accused ofj treason, arson or bigamy. j The contributions in money re ceived by the Chicago Relief So ciety up to the 18th ult., flora forty States and Territories, amounted to 62,508,810. The seven loading States were as follows: New York . . . Vermont Pennsylvania Maryland New Jersey . . California The old was sold a few d dollars an acre. Affairs in Mexico are still unim proved. The revolution continues to spread. , The States of Oaxaca, Nucvo Leon, Sonoro, Durango and Zacatecas are in the power of the revolutionists. President Juarez opened the ses sion of Congress on the 1st inst. with a remarkable speech on the situation. lie said that the coun try appeared to be injuring itself in unfruitful struggles, and that niili taryism again opposes the standard of legality and brings back the time when a revolution signilied a change of individual power. He counts upon the aid of Congress to sup press the seditious movement. The Speaker of Congress replied that Congress trusts I that peace will oo:i bo Q talliJLul, .id tbaixlhef Republic is satisfied with the re election of 'Juarez, excepting the States of Nucvo Leon and Oaxaca, where the bandits, who are robbing all classes, conduct the disturbance. J uarez appears tearless aud speaks confidently of crushing the rebellion. He has closed the ports of San Angel and Salinas. It is stated that Juarez, will resign after the i - suppression of the rebellion. It is rumored that an attempt has been made to poison Decas, which Mexi ican and American authorities arc closely investigating. William II. Seward is very low of paralysis at his residence in Au burn, N. Y. On the afternoon of the 17th, in Chicago, a boiler at Wahls' glue factory ,on Archer Avenue, exploded , killing two employes and shattering a portion of the building. The boiler is new, and, the cause of the explo sion is unknown. Chas. Mariat, of Chicago, who was burned out by the great fire, suicided on the 17th, by shooting himself in the head with his pistol. His wife, who was sick in an " ad joining room, hearing the report rushed from her bed and finding her husband dead became a raving maniac. Despondency caused by 1 o ss and inabil ity f to procure em ployment, was' the cause of the act. John Edsoll, of Ridgetield, N. J., was ' robbbed recently of bonds, money and notes valued at $100, 000. The burglars chloroformed him, who, thought eighty years of age, is a resolute man and always slept with a pistol under his pillow. At the St. Stephens Roman Cath olic Church, in New York, Dec. 10th, Rev. D. D. McFlynn de nounced the reading of the Bible in prayers were offered up for her re covery in the Catholic , chapels as. I the public schools, and declared it contradictory to. the Constitution. j Catacazy is ordered by Prince Gortchakoffto leave America after ,' v accompanying the Grand Duke as 1 . 5.) !-, 7.,0 12 1PJ.0S7 00 :i:.). -2o oo 221. 15-! 00 iTx:2r .', l .-.;. 7 l-t :i lis, 7oo 7o Maiiassas battle-field ;iys since for, eight I When the war commenced it was under a high state of cultivate Jn, and the dwell ing house upon it was one of the finest in that section of the State ; I ut that scourge devastated it, and the open fields, and young pines, and shattered inausion all now bear evidence to the bloody conflicts of which it was the scene. The Ontario, cjanada, Ministry is organized as fo I 'resident of the lows : Blake is Council, and is without a portfolio. Mclvinzie is Treasurer; Crooks, Attorney Gen eral; McKeiler, Minister of Public Works ; Scott, j Commissioner ot Crown lands ; Girard, Provisional Secretary. The London branch of the United States Loan Symticate appears to have closed up .its arrangements very satisfactorily.) The subscribers to the new Fives have honored their subscriptions ; and the amount of "called" Five Twenties coming from European holders! is found to jnst about balance the j subscriptions to the new loan, so that not a dollar of cash passes between here and Europe in adjusting this large oper ation, j llinois gains fjve members of Congress in the new apportionment, and three arc gained by Missouri, Michigan and Iowa. The New York Jfcrald tells - us that: The New Departure Demo crats are now variously termed the "passivists," the 'r'thunib-suckers," the "faint-hearted," the "possum Democrats," the "jpoIlywogs" and "tadpoles." At "old ' hunker," 'PAtlt'K! 4'OA.Vr XKWH, the same time "barn-burner,", "hard-shell," "soft-shell," "copper- other political passing heads" and the phrases of olden time are away. Through the influence of protec tion, the United ' jstates produces annually one 1 million tons of pig iron more than they produced six years ago. The Governor of Wyoming Ter ritory has vetoed t ie bill repealing the Woman Suffrage Act. Missouri is to establish an insti tution to be known! as the "Western State School of Mines. The build ing is to cost seventy-five thousand dollars, and will Roll. be located in The Statesman has the follow ing paragraph, whjch is understood to refer to a "retired artist in Indian vouchers :" What man is there in Oregon who will. hesitate to believe that if May had head office. and got rich twelve or fifteen years ago and hot been found out, but had saved up and bought houses, and lands, and sheep, and cattle, and factory stock, and have contrived to be a Democrat, he could to-day have been a member in lull standing of the Salem Ring?, . - ' r m . The Harrisburg mills have 100,- 000 bushels of wheat in store. A game of chuck luck caused . James Weaver to stab Julius Card well, known as "chalklinc," in Oak land, oil 1 hursday of last week, in flicting a severe wound near the heart which will probably prove , fatal. He was also wounded in other places. Weaver is yet at large. A wife-ben ter was lined 25 and costs in Portland, las-.t week. A bachelor's club is to be organ ized in Portland. Two thousand dollars were spent in toys last week in Portland. Stagejtimc from Oakland to Eu gene is now about two miles an hour. Hie poet Whit tier has compli mented, jby letter, Mrs. Belle Couk, of Saleni, on her poems Simeon Lowell, living at Buena Vista, not long since borrowed all the money lie could and then left his wife; and children and went to Salt Lake. An Episcopal Church is to be built at Walla Walla. Two hundred and forty-five chil dren in Walla Walla are of school able agej The Roseburg JZnsign will re sume publication on the Gth of Jan uary. At Brownsville and Eugene the snow was about ten inches. London House, Yictoria, was re recently robbed of from 01,000 to ei3ooo. j From the Portland Oregonian we learn that a Chinese wash house caught fire on the 24th, but the fire engine drowned it out and "done up" and ."played out" the shirts therein. Three boars and one deer were killed during one day of last week by two nimrodsoh Yaquina Kay. A donation of articles worth two hundred and fifty dollars was left at the residence of Rev. Thos. Con don, last week, at the Dalles, i The Baker county Democrat says, W. II. Thompson, Esq., of Eagle Creek, recently sold twenty acres of moping ground to the Ah Tye Co. for 5,000. About sixteen of the Celestials are now engaged in rock ing, and they make fair wages even in cold weather. The Rosebnrg Rlaindealer has this : Jas;' Sterling writes us from Oakland, that a serious accident occurred to on eof the stage passen gers Jbeyond that place, a few days ago. In going down the steep hill north of Mr. Snowden's, the brake gave way and precipitated the wag on upon the horses, who became frightened and started to run down the hill. ' The -passenger aimed to jump out but struck the bank and fell back, the wheel passing over his neck, completely burying him in the mud, and seriously if not fatally injuring him. He was taken to Mr. Dain's and kindly cared for. Mr. Enus Connutt died of small pox at Oakland on the 18th inst. A Chinaman dropped dead while at work on the railroad beyond Oakland, j His body was not re moved until next day, his brother knowing it to be there, and - then some whites 'disposed of the frozen corpse. i The Dallas Republican contains the following: Mr. Henry Hay-, good, while attempting to cross the creek a short distance below town a few days, ago with his horses and wagon, drove into swimming water; The box floated off taking the for ward bolster with it, thus leaving the -horses with only the forward wheels. The box floated to - the shore, or near enough to allow Mr. II. to get out safe. '1 ho horses float ed down against a steep bluff where it ijwas impossible for them to climb out,' but by getting assist-, ancc, Mr. II. succeeded in getting them to another point and rescuing them. Fortunately, .nothing '" was lost, and nobody hurt.i ! . ),?,. The editor of the , Dallas Repub lican camej very near - stopping a bullet with his head on Thursday of last week, pud ;thus becoming .the. priiiciple'object 'of a ; first-class c fu neral. . A stray bullet from! the gun of a townsman who was shooting at a mark, was the cause j Dallas will iw have lots of tooting, as the instruments ot tho Brass Band have Lce;i received, i An average of oi.o hundred pu pils attend the Portland Academy, The Good Templars' Hall Asso- ;' elation of Portland has increased its t-tock to thirty thousand dollar. : Mrs. Dr I Hdd !?; of Corval Us, can show an oranjro trej with thrco , c ranges on it one of them is ripe The Corvnllis Gazette fays that Goo Ilouck of -that place contem. plates 2nitt!i! 011 an opposition stage between that place and Albany, as the one now runi.ing is very irregular. j The cattle on the Yaquina are re ported fat." j A citizen of Corvallis in h until g ducks with a musket, at the first shot, killed one duck, knocked two of his teeth out and split his lip i. the gun shot at both ends. The snow on Scott Mountain is four feet deep. j William Savage has returned to Polk 'county with the property car ried away by his wife. He left his wife at J unction City, and young Connor hi the Jacksonville jail. j A woman was arrested .recently at the Dalles ILr cabbaging 175 pounds of cabbage. On Tuesday evening of last week, Mrs. Miller was so badly interrupt ed by a lot of roughs at Oregon City, as to be compelled to quit her loot ir e. j 1(3,871 men in thU State are sub ject to military duty. ! Marshal L. D. Richardson, of Oregon City, followed and arrested a hab-breed Indian, in Salem on last csiiui-u.-sy, on a cnr.rge oi Having stolen a revolver. 1 A number of persons arc in Cor vallis inquiring forf mall, improved farms, desiring to buy, says tlio Gazette. The London agents of tho Inter national Society reptrt that tho French army is composed of Re- publicans and Imperialists. Thai latter are much th-j strongest in j' numliers. The London Observer says Par- j liaineut will meet the second week I iu February. j A majority of the French Assem- j bly is still opposed to the return ofj the Legislature to I'aris. Arrange- j merits are likely to be effected un der which tho Executive- Depart ments will take up their quarters in Paris, while the Assembly remains at Versailles. The Empress Eugene arrived at Southampton, Eng., from Spain on the 2 1st, The steamer Delaware, from Boston, which failed from Liver pool for Calcutta, was totally lost on the 20th, and all on board aro thought to have perished. President Thiers, of France, ha dissolved Hhe Cabinet of Algiers. The Amiskicax Wit Aijroai. An English paper says : "A story is told which may be. commended to Parisian gentlemen as containing a valuable hint. Two Americana were dining with two ladies at a hotel in Baden. A Russian prince, who wished to pick a quarrel with them, purchased two bouquets and sent them to the American ladie with his compliments. The Ameri cans clancod pleasantly at the Rus-. sian, and sent him by the waiter , who brought the flowers, two na- poleons. Tue offender was, it ia added, eo chagrined that lie left i the room. It is th up shown that j people who have abandoned dueling i may ba by no means so defenceless j against personal affronts as might , be supposed." ' ' j Fi-OWEr.s akk von Aia It is a j mistake to suppose tliat flowers aro i the peculiar property ot tne nmuenc God has -made them as common as air or water, and the poor can, and do enjoy them equally with the rich." Wo have known a ruii- lady discard all Aiwi,vilay v uuii imw iivuv v. i'" ron her premises, beenu:Je they requir- ' cd too roueli care, and she did not sew much beauty i them ; and we have ' ' seen "a shanty -with -'morning glorie creeping over the door and ; window, with here a patch of verbenas, and there a bed of pansies, ,and we havo i - . .1 1 i. l. . . l . Unntii1 1 1U tlOllUl. IIH i illl!Uii')S Ol HIV- BIWl'V ; was': mare; of a woman, and enjoyed '- Jifo more, than tho lady of the mati-"