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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1871)
ous efforts of the opposition, has U. J. Official r.ipfr Rr Orrjfon. SATURDAY, DEC. 33, 1S71. 1ST I. maintained her principles and iutcg- j rity intact, and has gone on fivm a 1 fair and open contest to a most glo ! rious victory, the Democratic arty j has drifted at the mercy of counter currents of opinion, and without any rfn , . , , i ,! centralization, or head, or settled I he vcar. eighteen hundred and; . . ' , . 4 , - , , , T. opinions, has degenerated into a r-eventv-one h? now nearly ended. It 1 ' . ,as Uvn an eventful year to the j . . ... ' , . imbecility. J lie dawning ot the year eighteen hundred and seventy- i ..t. i ...1 . i I "k If 1 o lTlvli' ,irifl nwiiim . t , , : wuiiv; iu t' luii WinCim ot J .on is Napoleon and subjugation I ' . must appear very dark and gloomy to the Democratic. world. The unification of the Ger man States, and the dethronement of 'the French rim pi re by German arms, and the subsequent establisli ir.ent of the French Kepublic ; the asing away of the temporal power of the Pope as a conequencd of the It i probable that the recently im ported Van Cleve, editor of the Albany U-.'nixtar. is a goou preacher. II o. a Meetiuir of the Republican fctnie Central 3ttmltt- v There will be a meeting of the Re publican Sfcite Central Committee of Oregon, at Salem, on the let day of February, 1372, for the purpose of fix ing tlie time and place of holding trie next State Convention, and transacting other business. Tlie personal attend ance of each member of the Committee is rc;iueted. I T. B. ODENEAL, Ch. 31 EM HERS OK THE COMMITTEE. destruction ot tlie iSapoieomc dy- COol preaelicrhasbwn spoils! to mate nasty ;. the transfer of the seat of j 'miserable editor. EmjvAcCit'i Ginml. the Italian (Government to Homo, j TllC Bedrock Democrat not long since tried to be facetious at our ex. pense, reading us a homily on what constitutes a true call to the minis- bvthe K ii g of Italy, and the open ing of the Imperial City to the mis sionary ci.UrrTlses of the world as a oii.-cq.-.ci.s. the general spread of j try, and advising us to go back into He-publican ideas among the masses ! it and "not preach politics," The TanKqwpivTelevating them to Democrat thought that our article hgl.cr planes of intelligence" and po- I the Swamp Lahd Swindle, etc., litTcal action, are among the most j was a strong indication that we were noteworthy political events which cut out for the editorial -tripod. have transpired in Europe."- Tn Asia, srr.s of increased activity have been KiiuWii in tlie direction of attaining to a higher degree of civilization. The Japanese and Chinese are awakening from their sleep of thous ands of years, and calling for Amer ican railroads, and telegraphs, and machinery and national banking f-yj-tem:?, for tlr purpose of facilitat ing their growth, ii.tellfger.ee and prosperity. Ftates of South Amer ica have boon disturbed by wars, and Cuba aud Mexico now groan beneath the. scourgings of belligerei t hosts. AVhile Europe has trembled beneath the shock of bloody battles, and mart! sailing' armies; and Asia has sickened in the atmosphere of a most terrible pestilence aud famine; and South America, aud Mexico, and Cuba, have run riot with an archy and blood, and the oceans have engulphed whole fleets be neath their tempest-tossed waves, our own beloved country has pass ed through a most varied experience of lights and shadows. While she l as been exempt from the ravages of war, and general prosperity has crowned the labors of the husband man and the artifah, and average good health has been enjoyed by the masses of the people, the East and the South have been washed by floods', and withered by pestilence, and tlie West has experienced hor rors from the ravages of fire, the most terrible on record among the world's chronicles of disasters. Po litically, our country has prospered in ft remarkable degree. The ex penses of administering the Govern ment have been largely diminish ed ; the public debt, has been great ly decreased ; the legislation has leen wise, and the enforcement of the laws, in the main? fair and judi cious ; the Alabama claims have lK?en equitably adjusted," and peace and good vill now exist between the United States and all the im portant foreign powers. While the general affairs of our Government have thus prospered; we have not bean without internal 5 evils. Ex posures of corruption, and fraud, and' crime, have leen moM; gi gantic in the aggregate. Whih a carnival of petit larcenies, tbeftfej murders4 , defalcations, j .forgeries; abortions, divorces and other evils have run'riot throughout our land, the year has witnessed the exposure of a King at-.New York,"whose re lation to the Democratic party, and the enormous amounts which it stole from the city, render it one ot the fmost astounding instances of, base ness and corruption the (j world has ever 6een. The exposure of these frauds, however, and a general de fuand for the punishment of 1, the criminals, is a healthy indication of the year. In the contest of pailies, the Republican party has gained most signal triumphs. Of elections held in twenty-two States, all but Bvenof them " have gone largely Republican, While the Republi can party, in spite of the 'machina tions of tfsore-headV and traitors Now tlie Guard, published at Eu gene, gets off the above extremely ersorial criticism on our editorial ability. How mortifying to our ambition to be thus invidiously held in the balances of criticism by the j ed Iters of these journals ! It is tine they publish little third or fourth rate country newspapers, and their professional reputations have never extended a reat ways beyond their small circLi of readers not quite to C. M.r Foster...,. . F. O. McCown.. . lame Welch.... Dean I'anchard . . . S. S.. Jlann ... T. YV. Crooks.:.. lfcvvid Bus! icv XV. M. Wilson.... XV. M . Turner YV. M. Gibbons... John Harrows 'XV. H. Haley..:. T. W. Davenport. C. 1. Crandall... 1?. F. Nichols.... .1. C. Franklin.... W. J. S;iodgra3.. T. 11. Cornelius... Z. F. Moody.... J. XV. Watts.... . T. li. Odeiienl..L. DcecasedJ i Bilker. Clackamas. Clatsopi Columbia. Coos. Curry. Douglas Grait. Fackson. . . ...Ios'p!iiiio. Linn. Lain. ..Marion. . . .Multnomah. Polk. Umatilla. Union. . . Washington. Wa-eo. .......Yamhill. Benton. Popiif.Y .Piiovtii:r Foil. It is announe'ed that the Prince of Wales lias only thirty -t wo doc-tors to look after "him during 1 is ilincsK ! No wonder . his recovery is deemed miraculous. familiar with no less than six lan guages. " ' "J he Sultan i in soTe trouble on account of the nndntifuf conduct of his only foil The lad recently ran away to Tunis, and refused to return to Constantinople until his father had promised to pay his debts. The Sultan, on the occasion of his birthday, has granted an arnnes tyto all Turkish subjects who have been banished for political offenses. Another link has been added to the telegraphic girdle that one day; will completely surround the globe. A cable has been successfully laid from Patavia, Java, to Port Dai win, Australia, and in a few ' days the tariff of messages from New York to Australia will be announc ed. Gambling has been prohibited by law in the German Empire. T. Perthiaume, of the Montreal Minerce, ret 2,794 "cms" in two hours, and won the f-ilver compos ing stick offered'-. to the champion . i ' typesetter of the Dominion. k ASTi:nsf si:ws. A barkeeper in a Philadelphia falcon, not long since a boot-black of New York, has fallen heir to j23,92 by the death of his Grand mother, in Ireland, FOISEKiX Mill-?. IIITIOAI tlic moon vet, we guess and thev arc both Demccrats, which is cer tainly no great evidence of wisdom or stability, only a strong indication of "possum" ability, which means anything or nothing, this or thus, lean meat or all grease, just as they choose to interpret it, or as the Mis siouri Republican docs it for tlicm ; but although these editors, of so little, renown, do appear at a disad vantage m the garb ot critics, pre senting more the appearance of in flated windsSbags than anything else, and are not worth a moment's un easiness in that role, yet one likes to be thought well of eveji by egotistical third r fourth rate Dem ocratic country editors. Everybody knows that even the kick of a goat hurts, and the braying of long- eared animals will keep any kind of a man awake. Pray on, little fel lows." .&NOTHBR Enoch Akdes in Polk County. The Salem States man has found in Polk county an Enoch Arden case. A couple mar ried, quarreled, parted tlie hus band going East. A year elapsed, and a letter came to the wife. It said her husband was dead. -.She met another male destiny and mar ried him. Soon after her first hus band came along, some person hav-j ing told a lie about his leing dead. Agitation, trouble. The second husband returned the lady to her father. She immediately applied for a divorce from husband number one was granted at the next ses sion of -court. She . then prepared another marriage, with number two, and with "hearts full of glee," no doubt, they were re-"jiued," and like therf Democratic party, are now in favor of being. "passive." F AVarm TiXfEs Coming. The Republican State Central Commit tee, is called upon to meet at Salem oii Thursday, February 1st, 1872. Tlie TJcmocratic State Central Com mittee is called to meet in Portland on the 8th. day of January, 1872. This indicates that the political cauldron will soon be boiling. Goon for Brown. Periah Brown," of the Seattle T , - , says' of the newly appointed Attor ney General : We are very glad of the appointment of Geo. II. Wil liams, of Oregon, as Attorney Gen eral of the United ' States. Pi-esi-dent , ' Grant - has "strengthened his Cabinet by the appointment, and it 18rtlcuIarl.y STi'ateful to the people w bins coast. - j - . The Salem Mercury will don its new dress next week. - The Commissioners ot Arbitra tion on the Alabama Claims met at Geneva, on the 18th inst., chose Count Sclopis, Italian, President, and then adjourned until January loth. Republicans' of the Left, and Union Republicans, held meetings in Tails on the 17th inst., in oppo sition to the entry of the Orleans Princes into tlie Assembly. Gam betta was the chief speaker of the meeting of the 'latter. The Loudon Times denies that Pr;nce Dcruss .was assaulted by the Prussian representative at . St. Pe tersburg. It also approves of Pres ident Grant's proposition tor incor porating the telegraph with the Postal' Department, the establish ment of postal saving banks, and for the modification of the civil eervice for reform. Bleggs, the groom of the Prince of Wales, died on the 18th inst., of typhoid fever, contracted about the same time with the Prince. In Japan the Budhist temples have been closed, and the priests have received orders either to join the army or become farm laborers in fact, to work for an honest live lihood. Nor is the sweeping hand of reform, stayed here. All officials are forbidden to squat on mats in pubiic, but hereafter are required to furnish at least two rooms in Euro pean " style, and adopt the foreign dress at an early date. Their ef forts are certainly worthy of our warmest sympathy. The Japanese mint is now issuing coins identical iu shape, size and value with those of the United States. ! . Letters mailed in the U. S. for France, if prepaid ten cents and marked on envelop "via London" reach their destination without extra charge ; the single rate to France is nethird of an-ounce. Tlie British flag was lowered from the citadel of Kuebee on the 8th of Nov., and the "Gibraltar of America" '.is', handed over: to the care of the Dominion, of Canada. A Cape newspaper states that the discoveries ; at the diamond fields are on the increase, and estimates their value at not less than 5,000 a day, or 1,500,000 a year. Coal has been discovered in the island of Andoe, off the coast of Norway, province of Nordland. The Princess Thyra of Denmark, to whom the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia is engaged to be married, is a blond with very light hair, ex ceedingly regular features, and high forehead indicating considerable intellectual capacity. The young Princess is an even better linguist than her. future' husband, she being The Fourth National Bank of 'Philadelphia has suj-pended and its affairs are being wound up. lhjtlcr of Massachusetts has in troduced a resolution in Congress declaring the right of women to vote under the Fourteenth Amend ment.; i Tlii last Tammany thief exposed is Starkweather, Collector ot ys sesfBients, who has pocketed 500, OOCr in flair years, i He was appoint ed by Tweed in 18G7. Stevenson of Ohio has introduced in Congress a bill to prevent the ap pointment of dishonest and incom petent Government officials, making the officers appointing aud the mem bers of Congress recommending them responsible fbr their miscon duct. The Brooklynitcs fear that-the small pox has become as prevalent there as it has in Philadelphia. The disease is spreading in Jersey City, Iloboken, Newark and Trenton, and special hospitals fbr patients arc being assigned in these places. Thos. McCreery, late United States Sei'-ator from Kentucky, has been re-elected to that position to succeed garrulous Garrett Davis, whose term will soon expire. Blair of Michigan has introduced in Congress, a bill to legalize polyg amous marriages in Utah, and dis miss all the criminal proceedings in stituted against the polygamists. Tlie house adopted a resolution di recting a committee to inquire into tlic whole subject connected with Utah, and fix a day for a general debate. A bill lias been introduced in Con gross which incorporates John F. Miller, William G. ' Fargo, Paul Shafford, Percy McDowell and others, as Commissioners of two ocean telegraphs, one from the western coast of the United States to China and Japan, and the other from the Atlantic coast to Europe by way of the Bermudas and tlic Azores, or by any other way that may be approved by the President. Tlie, ptock of th Atlantic company is fixed at $12,000,000, and the Pacific at $8,000,000. The Salt Lake Review (Gentile) has this paragraph : The Mormon lea'lci-s want Utah admitted as a St a to. We have no desire, under the present unsettled state of affairs. Utah needs considerable reconstruc tion before it should take its place as a State. The Kn Klux of the South are good cifTzens compared withthe lawless leaders of the Priesthood in this country. Their antagonism to our laws and free in stitutions is too' apparent, both by words and deeds, to be miscon strued. First let them learn the duty of loj-al citizens, and then it will be time enough to admit them as a-State. ' Cameron is the oldest Senator, and r Spencer, of Alabama, the youngest. ! In Taunton, Mass., a man was fined ;six dollars for spitting on a church carpet. The Cincinnati J&tiquirer is in dignant because the Republicans do not appear to be willing to meet the Democracy halfway in the or ganization of a new party. "Sunset" Cox, in reply to a ques tion touching the future policy of the Democratic party, fays that he is still for the "new departure," the result of the late elections not hav ing shaken his faith in it, as he is sorry to see they have that of some ot the leading men of the party. It was iio easy matter fi.rthe Demo crats to break away from the tra ditions of years, but they will have to come to it in the end, and he is in favor of anything that will take them out of" the ruts and put them en rapport with the spirit of th times. Gov. G rover is known to have remarked a full year ago that lie had ascertained that Sara May was a defaulter. When askpd why he didn't press the matter and try to recover the money for tlie State, he answered that his policy wras to postpone action so as to have some capital fbr the next political cam paign, then nearly two years db tat it. If he should take action at once, May would be caught, the money would le recovered from the sure ties and the whole affair would be wound up long before the election would come on. And then his party, which is very scarce of prin ciples, would have nothing to work upon. Orcioriiati. What U. S. Grant has Set Tr.i:i : ; First of all, the rebellion. Second, the fate of the Democrat ic party fbr some years to come. Third, the Alabama claims. Fourth, General Butler's fishery war. Fifth, that we can pay the na tional debt. Sixth, that we can and must have an honest government. Seventh, that Ku-Kluxism must be put down. Eighth, that Polygamy must dis appear. Ninth, that law and order muf-t be maintained. Tenth, tlie Indian question. Eleventh, the reform of the civil service. Twelfth, that the Republican party cannot be broken up by Mr. Schurz. Thirteenth, the next Presidency. The New York TribuneJkfux Mortality! Among Mormon .Children. The mortality among Mormon children is said to be very great... Of sixty deaths in Salt Lake City in one month, fburty-four were children. !. Ileber Kimball is report ed to have buried forty-eight chil dren out of sixty-three in his family. One Bishop had lost twenty chil dren; another! twenty-eight; anoth er seventeen. It seems they do not properly care for their progeny. ', Five persons in each house Is the average in great Britain. In New York .City the average is twenty-one. reviewing all the Cntacazy corres pondence, believes that the char ges made against min are sus tained. Tiiimce Nkw Statics. Colora do, New Mexico and Utah 'will, says the Bulletin, during the pres ent session of Congress, apply for admission as States into the Feder al Union. Faeh of them has now the requisite population. Colorado failed three years ago to be admit ted on account of the small number of actual inhabitants. No formi dable obieetions are now anticipat ed to the admission of Colorado and New Mexico. But before Utah is admitted, the question of polygamy must be settled. A polygamous State will never be recognized. If Utah were to incorporate a pro vision into its constitution forbid ding forever afterwards polygamic marriages, and disposing equitably of such cases as have already oc curred, the way would be reasona bly clear for admission. Hie "Gc-vtile" element will very soon outuumber the Mormons, and would control the Legislature of the State. There is also a project to establish another Territory, to be call Rem bina, and ty include the rich agri cultural valleys of Northern Dako ta. Judgk Williams. The New York Tribune,of the 7th inst., said of ex-Senat6r Williams. v . x IIisappoUitment to the position of Attorney-General would be high ly creditable to: the Administration Mr.-Williams, as Senator and jurist, has achieved a .wide and en viable' reputation. His. judgment is, sin gularly cool and dispassionate, and his mental powers are vigorous aiid admirably trained. Few men in the country possess in so eminent d degree all the qualifications for the office in connection with which the name of Judge Williams has been mentioned. v. were,' or Stewart named. Thm it i that the Enquirer takes ihe shine out of the N ineteenth century : WUy, what is Tweed,- or Stewart, or Mr. I-iOtTex, or Belmont, or the ltotlt child, or the Marquis of V'cstminist r to Ptolemy -Philadelphu, of. Egypr. who amassed a little property of $800. 000,000. And which of our extrava gant yonng ladies in thet-e, boasted times ever gave her lover, us CJleojwv tradidra pearl, dissolved in vinegar (or undissolved,) worth $400,000 That's half the expense of Mis? Tweed' wedding at a da.di, and would dress one of our Vaghington or. Baltimore belles for. forty yeflra. -Then there w Paulina, one of the ton in Rome; -who ued to wear jewels when she returned her visits, worth $S00,0G0. Wellthcv boast of Mr. Stewart's "marble palace' upon 34th street and Fifth avenue.- Vr do not suppo.se this house, which is about the best they have iu New York, cost more than half-a-million dollar. Well, Cicero, who was a poor man, gave $150,000 for his houre, and 'Clo diiw paid $y50,000 for his establish ment on the Palatine. ; while Mes-a!a gave $2,000,000 for the hou:-e of An tony. Seneca who was just it' plain plilosopher like Mr. Greelev was r worth 12.000,000 or 1.1,000,000. j Tiberius leJt a property of nearly ' $120,000,000. Why, they talk about a i man's failing in Xew York for a mill- ion as if it was a big.lhins:. , Caesar, bo fore he entered on anyofilee when he was a young gentleman in private lite owned $1"3,000,000, and he purchas ed the friendship of Qnaasor for $2. 500,000. Mark Antony owed aC mill , ion and-a-balf on the hies of March . and he paid it before the ICaTeniU of April. This was nothin-r- he-'suuan- dercd 720,000,000 ohe public mont-y Major Hodge's defalcation being for the contemptible sum of $430,000. And these fellows lived well. lsopu. who was a play-actor, iwiJ, $400,000 for a single dish. Caligula spent $100 000 on a supper. Their wines were often kept for two age?, and some of them sold for $20 an ounce'.' They rpastcd hogs at their banquets. They were fond of ram's-bead pie. au.d rai ry stuffed with nuts and raisins. Dish es were made with gold and silver, set with precious stones. The beds of Ife liogababus were of so! id silver, his ta ble and plates of pure gold, and hi mattrasse?, covered with carpets ot ' cloth of gold, were stuGod with down from under the wing of the partridge. It took $80. COO a year to keep r the dignity of a Roman Senator and some of them spent $5,000,000 a year. Cicero and Pompey "dropped in" one day at Laieullus nobody at home but the family and that family dinner cost over $4,000. But we talk about population. ' We boast of London aud N"ew Vork. "Rome had a population! of between 'three and four millions. Tlie wooden theatre of Seaurus contained eighty thousand seats; the coliseum, built of stone, would seat 87.000, and afford standing pace for 22,000; more. The Circus Maximus (think of it. Old. John Robin son !) would hold 335,000 spectators. There was in the city 9,000. public baths those of Diocletian alone accom modating 3,200 bathers. . Even in the sixth century, a fter Rome' had been sacked and plundered by the Goths and Vandals, Zaehatfah, a traveler, asserts that there .were three hundred and eighty-lour spacion s streets ; eight' golden statues of tlic gods-r forty-six thousand and three hundred houses ; seventeen thousand and'--ninety-seven palaces; thirteen thousami. and iifty two fountains ; three thousand seven hundred and eighty-five bronze statues of the emperors and generals; twenty mo great nor?es in bronze ; two colos si ; two spiral columns ; thirty-one theatres ; eleven amphitheatres : nine thousand and twenty-six baths ; two thousand three hundred Fhops of rer fumers ; two thousand and 'ninety-one prisons. j As a set-off to Mr. Sprague's "mon umental tombstone' we may merely mention the Mausoleum 6f Augustus in the northern part of the CamptH Martius consistinix of a larjre tumulu I of earth, raised on a lofty.basement of white marble, and covered on the sum mit with evergreens in the manner of a hanging-garden the whole sur mounted by a bronze statue of August tus. At the cntnincc!were two Egyp tian obelisk?,' fifty feet high, and all around was an extensive grove divided into Walks and terraced." 1 We have not space to speak of the Forum liomanurn, the Korum JuHuifl. the Theatre of Pompey, the Temple of Apollo, the Theatre ef Marelliv?, the Pantheon, th Palace of ero, (entire ly overlaid with gold and adorned with jewels and mother-of-pearl), the Claud ian Aqueduct, the Flavian Amphithea ter, the Colisferfln, the Afch of Titus, the Villa of (Hadrian, 'the Baths of Caracalla n6r the great Roman road?, straight as art arrow naved like the I streets of a city divided by milef-stones. i i . : ,. j . . . .. . iuiu iraviiiguvwes ior iraveiers every fire or six miles affording uninter rupted comniuriicationjm the Wall ot Antoninus; through. York, London, Sandwich. Boulogne. Rliehns. Lyons, ltrngrs1"? oz the 01d?u Time. Some one having been telling of "Mr. Lodex,"iri London,' -who dieti-lateljr, leaving a fortune of $75, 000, 000, and of the marble monument of the Rhode Is land Spragucs, which is to cost $100, 000, and of the wonderous wealth and profusion of Tweed and Stewart, and other shoddy magnates and million aires, tha Richmond Enquirer tells ns how people had big fortunes, and built fine houses, and gave fine dinners, and drank fine wines, and spent money ' hi fine ways, in the oklen times ere Lode x Miian, i;om( ln-unajjjiuni, JDyrrach ium, Byzantium, Ancy ltij Tarsin, An titM.li, Tyre, Jetwaleul a distance of 3,740 mlfe?. H: -. ...; Xor havoi wo. ,fMt: to refer fo Thebes in Egypt (which had a popula tion of 2,y00,000,) AniV that noble pal ace with its grand coKrfhhs, whose cor nice Sveri fiilald with ivory mouldings. or fciieaieea w in i ueQn. gold nor Al exandria, whosq annua.!. port dues were $'J,000,000 and who ?e" library, in an ago when book were rSre, contained 700,000 volumes not, to Capua, ihe second city of Italy-rnor to Rliodes and its 3.000 statues and 103 colossi. (one of them, one of trib seven wonder of the world,,' costing, $3. 000,000V nor to Antloch, with a street four miles long, perfectly level,. and. double col onnades through its whole length nor to Athens; and tli Parthenon, and the I heatre of Bacchus, the most beau tiful, in the world, seated 30,000 per sonsnor to Corinth Send its pictures nor to Syracuse. aitd,.its fortress, one mile long by half a vailp in breadth nor to Tyre, and Cartf&ge, and Uabv h)n, and Bagdad, arid ' Memphis, and Phesus, and Byamtiu'ni, and a hun- ureu more. . The Ciiief Engineer's estimates are $0,930,200 river and harbor improve ment for tiie next fiscal year.