The Albany register., January 06, 1872, Image 7

V. . OIBclal Vnprr Tor Oregon.
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It is generally expected by tlie
lfepublkan party throughout the
country, we believe, that President
1'. S. 'rant will be placed in nom
ination by Uie Pepiibhcau Na
tional Convention as a candidate
for the office of President of the
United States lor the next term.
No one in j articular, however, has
as vet bem designated for the
p i-i!ion of Vice President. Since
Vice President Col'ax has positive
ly declined permitting his lame to
)n used in that connection, various
journals throughout the eoniitry,at
different times, have indicated their
preference. The East has suggested
the name of Hamlin the We-t of
I'aii.K i ; ajnd latterly, the Pacific
slope has suggested the name of
Newton Booth. If locality cuts
.any figure in this&oloction, we think
the honor naturally belongs to the
Pacific slojie, though Newton
Pooth is rot our first choice, fn
1800, iiai.ihal Hamlin was ejected
to that position from Ma:no. In
18G4 Andrew Johnson was elected
irora Tennessee. In 1868 Schuyler
Colfax was taken from Indiana.
So that every section the hast,
South and West has been repre
sented in the Vice Presidency, and
it only remains to nominate a can
didate from the Pacific sIojk . to com
plete the circuit. Newton Pooth,
We said, was not our first choice, lie
is comparatively unknown outside
of his, own Mate. lie is not the
most available man on the coast.
We have a man whose reputation
for wisdom, sterling integrity and
superior statesmanship, has reached
every portion of our broad common
wealth. I lis name is linked with
some of the most important meas
ures of reconstruction. His cool
ness of judgment, eminent legal
ability ami patriotism secured to him
the high distinction of being select
ed to guard the interest and honor
of his country in arbitrating the
Almamci disputes to a successful
issue. His abilities have lieen far
ther recognized by securing to him
a position in the President's cabinet.
The Hon. George II. Williams,
Attorney General of the United
States, is the most available man
on the Pacific slope for the position
of Vice President on the Republi
can ticket. In (act, we do not be
lieve there is any man in the coun
try that would command a more
hearty Support from the party at
large for the position, than he. - We
have never heard it intimated from
mm or his friends whether a use of
his name in this connection -would
be agreeable ; we only indicate our
preference, and would bj pleased to
hear from other Republican journ
als. A young man in C alifornia,
named Loren Powell, son of Mr.
Ransom Powell, of Pussjan River,
recently hired Jimmy Dunn, an em
ployee of his father, to take the old
gentleman's life. Dunn was furn
ished with a pistol and was to re
ceive 300 for the assassination.
When the time arrived for the per
formance of the dead, Dunn TClent
od and exfr'fK the plan.- The
young villain- was furnished with
6500 in coin by his father, and ship
ped by way of Sacramento to the
Kast. 1 1 is object was to obtain his
portion of his father's property.
ihe JN. P. 1. R. Co. publish in
Olympia pajiers their acceptance of
Olympia's offer of land for railroad
purposes, and agree to locate the
road connecting the Columbia river
with the navigable headwaters ol
Budd's Inlet (on which Olympia is
situated) before the 1st of May next.
They require the people iff Olympia
to obtain a free right of way for the
road from Bush Prairie to the ter
minus. The Eugene Guard says the re
cent cold snap froze up the pumps
ana raised the price of milk.
Population or Ural.
The Slavonic race of Russia, in
cluding the Poles, utimbers 58,400,
000; the other races uumlter 18,0:20,
000, and are composed of Pinna,
Tartars, Lithuanians, Jews, Ger
mans, Georgians, .Mongols, Ron
maniai.s and ("rimeans. The Sla
vonic population forms the nation
pro)ior, and is classified as follows; to weigh from 10 to 25 per cent
Nobles (both sexes), 074,000 ; cler- more than originally, according to
gy, 011,000 (including 3 10,000 wo- J the color, and without injury to tlie
men); merchants and artisans j fiber, or affecting tlie physical char
(bourgeoise), 726,000; peasants, , actcr of the article in the slightest
40,500,000 ; military, 1,200,000, of ! degree. Another German in Hara
which 830,000 are active soldiers, burg offers to fell several tonsof
and 1,500,000 the families of retir- sand suitable for mixture with clo
ed soldiers. ver seed, the grains of which resem-
""" ble the seed so closely that it is
i'rrabaul Xnlurp.
I almost impossible to distinguish
The Olympia Tnhune says that ! them by the eye. Two colore are
Mr. Joe I amnion of that place has
recently seen in Oregon (don't say
where,) a handsome healthy c-ilf,
two weeks old, with a pair of
wings, one on each shoulder, as
large ns kltwe of n grow natural
in shape, but uufeftthercd. Oregon
is some on freaks of nature. Last
week we mentioned the horse-cow-ass-mule,
now we have a winged
calf. What next?
I-rui;:!,!! J'ridlrtlou.
A telegram to Washington from
Sacramento, Dee, 14th, conveying
ing the news of the inauguration of
Gov, 1 looth, was answered by a
dispatch back, ftating that a rain
storm would begin throughout the
pacific coast within three days.
! his was good news ! hut the Dem
ocrats said it was a Republican lie,
and the rain would not come off.
But it did come off. and a most
plentiful rain was the result.
... a jaw it ii -
A dispatch from Walla Walla,
dated Dec. 80th, says: "During
the past week we have experienced
the coldest weather we have known
for years. Prom all irts of the
valley we hear of the loss of stock.
On the Lower Walla Walla a num
ber of head have died, not so much
from starvation as from exposure."
I'p to that date the loss of cat
tle was computed at 500 ; of sheep,
1,400. Many farmers have teed,
but the animals are frozen to death.
Wm. I!. Pish, aged 00 veal's, was
kicked by a horse while getting out
,of a wagon at his farm near Walla
Walla on the '23d. It was late at
night, anil he was so injured by the
kick that he could not get to the
house nor make himself heard. He
lay all night in the bitter cold, and
when found in the morning was in
sensible, and died in a few moments
after being discovered.
John Wesley Harper, eldest son
of John Harper, of the firm ofllar
per Brothers, has built and furnish
ed entirely, at his own expense, a
Methodist Church at Port Wash
ington, Long Island. The edifice
was dedicated on the 10th ult.
The editor of the Oregon City
Miterprhe says soni?lxly is entire
ly too familiar with his wood shed,
and adds : If you hear of some
body's stove lieing blown up with a
chprge of powder, you may con
sider it is our wood in somebody
else's stove.
The steamer Eauny Patton, on
her way from Oregon City to SaJin
last week, burst a steam pipe at
Rock Island and had to return.
n-Ohio man offered the Gov
ernment $50,000 for the privilege
of advertising on the backs of pos
tage stamps one year.
"Hello! , how's your scab?"
is now the daily salutation about
Oakland. Vacchations are fash
ionable. . r
Plans have been devised for pay
ing off the indebtedness of the M.
E. Church at McMinnville.
The Nevada Enterprm thinks
Gov. Newton Pooth, of California,
a suitable candidate for the Vice
Presidency on the Republican
ticket.
$275 were raised, expended in
giftsand distributed among the poor
from a Christmas tree at Jackson-
Adnllpjratiouat
Liquors are not the only article
which are extensively adulterated.
There exists a tendency to adulter
ate everything from a plate of soup
to a JehYtsoiiian Democrat. A
German journal offers to sell the
secret of a process by which wool
w the yarn or fabric, can be made
offered, one tor red clover and one
for white. The so-called Jeffor
soniau Democracy is now adulter
atiu' extensively .with anything
which promises
'killer."
to be a Grant
Oil f.om Illrtts.
The oil from various kinds of
birds is recognized as an article of
trade in various parts of the world,
'ihe oil obtained from penguins,
petrels, mutton-birds, frigate-birds,
j .Mother Gary's chickens and others,
is used in London almost exclusive
ly in currying b ather. Ostrich fat
is used i;i Africa as a remedy for
the rheumatism. The Emu, or
Australian ostrich, is used for alike
purpose, and a single bird will pro
duce six or seven quarts of a beau
tiful, bright yellow oil. Goose-
grease is considered a good emol
lient in this country, though it can
never hope to rival possum fat,
since the Democracy have bugUnto
"possum."
The Salt Lake Reeicto, alluding
to the arrest of the murderers of
Dr. Robinson, says : The dark and
bloody days of ( tab's history have
passed, never to return, save as in
cidents of that period are brought
to mind by the arrest and convic
tion of members of that bloody land
of miscreants who, acting under
orders of spurious prophets of God,
committed the most abominable
crimes in the name of religion.
A man was discovered in a pool
of water recently by a Baltimore
citizen and fished out with a long
pole. Without stopping to thank
his savior, he rushed to a barber
shop, and seizing a razor, cut his
throat from ear to ear. Ho was
knocked down and the weapon
taken from him, and he still lives
to relate the little incident to his
grandchildren.
There are abotit two hundred
thousand impecunious young gen
tlemen in the East who cannot pay
their board bills because their moth
ers were "burned out in Chicago.'
Last Tuesday night an earth
slide occurred upon the railroad two
or three miles this side of Portland,
sufficient to detain the trains until
Thursday.
Gen. Grant's income, outside of
his salary, is less than $0,000 a
year. This is shown by the New
York Times, in an article in which
the accusations of a number of his
defamers are replied.
Prof. I nlander, Superintendent
of Public Instruction in California,
is opposed to the project of having
the State supply the pupils in the
common schools with text books.
Much anxiety is felt for the safe
ty of live stock on Vancouver's
Island. The snow has been deep,
the weather cold and feed scarce.
There arc one hundred and fif
teen males and forty-four females
in the Insane Asylum at Last Port
land. The cranberry crop of the United
States is estimated at one million
bushels. One-third is produced in
New Jersey.
Senator Wilson says that Grant
cannot be beaten for President.
Portlaudcrs employ Chinese as
chambermaid
The Mora - la I'nUCwato.
Tlie rain storm tieguming h Cal
ifornia on the 18th iust., is pro
nouuoed by journals of that State as
most remarkable. Mountain streams
ruslied with mad impetuosity down
iuto tlie rivers npon the plains,
overflowing the banks of the river,
causing them to sweep away bridges,
rendering tlie reads impassable,
stopping tlie ferries, damaging the
railroads, and even crushing down
telegraph poles. High winds pre
vailed, which blew flown houses,
fences, carried away the roofs of
buildings, overtopplod chimneys,
and did much other damage, es
pecially anions the live stock. In
Marin county, the drouth had
caused cattle to k'ooine exceedingly
lean in flesh, and many of them
were destroyed. The lienelits of
the plenteous rain, however, far
overbalance the damage done, and
universal rejoicing exists ainongthe
farmers.
BmtU of IMxiiop Baker.
'1 he death ofilishop (). C. Baker,
of the M. E. Church, at Concord,
N. II. on the 21st of December,
will elicit a feeling of universal sor
row and regret from the members
of that denomination throughout
the country. He was an eminent
scholar, an able divine and a most
estimable Bishop and devoted
christian.
KastMilVRN OH.
There is a firm of colored men in
Richmond, " irginia, which has
been engaged ill manufacturing sas
safras oil on a large scale for over
two years. They pay at the rate
of 30 cents per hundred pounds (bi
lbo root, and 40,000 pounds are
used per week, producing 800
pounds of unreetified oil per week.
The oil is used for scenting toilet
soaps, flavoring tobacco, etc
The English journals, while ex
pressing no opinion on the merits of
the case, regret the difficulty into
which Minister Schenck has fallen,
and cite as precedents the case of
other Ambassadors, notably that of
the 1 hike of Saidanha, who, while
.Minister of Portugal to a foreign
power, was jieimitted to engage in
private speculations.
A dispatch from Madrid, 10th
ult., says: The Malacampo Minis
try has resigned. Sagosta is entrust
ed with the formation of a new
Ministry, but was not successful up
to lioim. He offered four ortfolios
to Zorilla and his supporters, but
they were refused. The crisis con
tinues. The President made the follow
ing nominations to the Senate on
the 20th ultimo : T. B. Odeneal.
Superintendent of Indian Affairs
for Oregon ; Sinol, Indian Agent
for Grande Ronde, Oregon; Post
master, J. 1). Great, Elko, Nevada.
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At Amity, a drunken mail
named Baker called upon a shoe
maker named . cnton to borrow a
-pistol. Mic latter refused. The
former then wont for the lattcf with
a shoe-knife, and received a pistol
ball through his neck for his pains.
Didn't kill him, as he went off next
morning with tlie ball in his neck,
says the Statesman,
The Salem Statesman says that
the story about Gen. Palmer com
ing so near drowning, and the
drowning of the seven Indians, was
incorrect. No accident hapjiened
as was reported.
The Commercial Hotel at Salem
has changed hands, and is now un
der the management of Messrs. Wil
liams fc Son, late of Portland.
Potatoes are $1 80 per bushel in
Corvallis, and hay $30 per ton, and
little to be had.
L. II. Eoote las lieen appointed
Major General of the California
militia.
Jesse Ward, aged 7G, died at his
home near Salem on Wednesday of
last week. I Ie was a soldier in the
war of 1812.
$5 is the price for t hrowing class
into the street at Portland.
Efforts are now being made by
the Indian Department to remove
the Flathead and Pen d'Oreilles
V. .1 1 2.1 . i;.. ti
limn muir iochuoii iu iiuier nooi i
Valley, Montana, to the general
reservation at Jocko l ake.
William If. Whitney, of Colora
do, lost his way in a terrible snow
storm, and his feet becoming frozen,
he put an end to his snnerings by
shooting himself in the head. His
body wa found about eighty rods
from a place of safety.
The Jacksonville Sentitiel nays
that Jehu Roberston, living iu the
northern part of tliat comity, is
taking out ore at the rate of one
dollar to the pan, from anoKl chan
nel on ( 'avota creek.
We think the experience of this
winter should teach the fanners of
Oregon to 1 more frugal, and to
exercise more foreUioogfl-ta the
future, in raising and stowing away
j l ovender to keep their cattle from
starvii;".
Prof. Agas.siz, who is now on his
way around the continent south
ward, succeeded in raising twelve
thousand dollars for his scientific
expenses, and has the promise of
enough more to in: aire the success of
his plan.
' ..
John I). Ash more, one of the
South Carolina i ongrestmen who,
in 18G0, withdrew with the Seces.
sionists, shot himself dead recently
at Snrdis, Misi .
Ex-Senator P.oss, of Kansas, is
about starting a weekly paper at
Cotfeysville, in that State, to be
called Rotf Paper.
The Boston Advertiser says
1 forace Greeley delivers tho dry,
matter-of-fact comjiosition of his lec
ture, iu a monotonous, sing-song
tone.
JM. Ijeai-.li, member of Congress
from North Carolina, is to be ar
rested on a charge of being a Ku
Klux. George Allen, a jail bird, ap
propriated an overcoat at the Cos
mopolitan Hotel, Portland, and
went to jndl for four months.
... ..
The "handsomest" reporter of the
Portland JJiiiit-ti,. is in jail forget
ting drunk on "ew Years.
The Territory of Montana has an
Indian War claim of $513,000
which is lieing passed at Washing
ton. In the Belknap settlement in Lane
county, five persons iu one family
have died of the typhoid fever.
They have formed a league in
England for reforming funerals to
render them less expensive.
A cattle drover named Uenry,
perished a short time ago in a snow
storm near Cheyenne.
A daily mail has been established
between Corinr.e, Utah, and Deer
Lodge, Montana.
Expensive fmurals are the griev
ance now. People don't want to
die until thev can afford it.
Pugct Sound is said to have more
snow now than for the last ten
years.
The Bellingham Bay coal mine
is again on fire and will have to be
flooded.
A man in Portland wears a lioot
16J inches long three such feet
would make an awful long yard.
Eugene owes over 845 1 22 cents.
Awful!
A comb factory has been started
iu Portland.
Coi vallis lifts turned out nine
graduates in all.
A locomotive headlight started i
the ciy of lire in Salem recently.
The telegraph line has been ;
erected to llillsboro.
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The Jacksonville Times wauts a
new court house built.
Prom Peoria to Chicago, a dis
tance of 180 miles, is now made by
skaters.
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