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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1872)
5 s fo J IT, S. OiNrlnl Pn?r fop Ori'cmi. FRIDAY, -M K il, 1- lii's s lu Hill' rci!( i'ttiiiitrlin. It is interesting to rcnl tl o statis tics of tip wages received n i il the number of hours of labor consumed by laborers hi different countries. Such statistics have, recently been collected in England through the British Consuls (if various coun tries, and they may lc regarded as correct indications of tho condition of the laltoriiis classes in the coun tries from which these reports were taken. Beginning with Austria we find the agricultural laborer re ceives from twenty to thirty dollars a year. Mechanics receive from 40c to 81 50 per day. A good shoemaker gets 80c a day ; weavers 70c. Builders, though in great de maud, receive but 70e a day. The average wages of type-setters is SI 25 a day often hours. Tu most of the other trades the horns of labor are twelve a day. The wages in Belgium are lower than the average in Continental Europe. Workmen in the country receive from 30 cents to -10 cents per day. The average in manufac turing districts is GO cents. The hours per day are twelve. In France blacksmiths receive from GO cents to 1 GO a day: bakers from 15 cents to $1 ; shoe makers from SI to $1 20; carpen ters $1 20 working twelve hours. Skilled dressmakers receieve $1 10, while unskilled get from 30 to GO cents. Printers are paid from 10 to 12 cents the 1,000 letters for piece-work, or from 81 to SI 20 per day. House-painters obtain $1 20 a day. Farm laborers receive from 50 to G2 cents. In Denmark from GO to 75 cents arc paid to carpenters, brick layers, &c. Janufacturing hands and painters get about 75 cents, while shoemakers receive 55 cents a day. The Kingdom of Italy pays skill ed mechanics from 30 to GO cents per day of e'evenhours. Ordinary workmen get from 20 to 40 cents. Printers, poor fellows, receive only from 20 to CO cents a day. Sicily requires hei laborers to work from sunrise to sunset, and pays them from 20 to 35 cents per day. In Rome 33 cents is the wages per day of a common lalwrer. In Norway from $1 25 to 1 75 x?r week is paid to the agricultural workman, or about 25 cents a day. In woolen and cotton mills wages reach from 25 to GO cents per day. Printers receive from 50 to 80 cents a day. Portugal pays her field laborers from 15 to 22 cents a day. -Mechanical labor, skilled, is paid from 25 to 50 cents. In Prussia common manual labor is from 18 to 25 cents per day. The hours are 12 to 13 In summer, and 8 in winter. 7'hc price of skilled labor varies from 30 to 55 cents per day. Russia has only 202 working days in a year, there being in Sundays and holidays 1G3 days. Agricul tural laborers average G5 cents per day here which must keep them in holidays. Skilled workmen get from 50 to 90 cents. Tho holi day limitation works oppressively. In Sweden the average wages of an artisan in the largo cities is about fifty cents. The pay of a foreman sometimes reaches one dol lar a day. Operatives in cotton, flax and woolen factories in Switzerland get irom thirty to eighty cents per day. Printers receive from forty.five to eighty cents, and lithographers from fifty to eighty cents. In view of theso statisticaPfects, is it to bo wondered that lalmr strikes are now transpiring in cfifc ferent countries of Europe? Tho poor in England, on accountof tho cheapness of tho wages and want of labor, are kept in ignorance, pov erty and crime. In Belgium one fifth of the population are paupers; I one-third of the children are b m I illegitimate. Many of the poor of Belgium toil from year to year, liv j ing upon the cheapest of (bod, en I during the severest hardships, never having time for recreation. 71iis is true also of the poor in other countries of Europe. They toil from generation to generation, from twelve to fourteen hours per day, live m I'Miorancc and destitution, and dying leave a like inheritance of poverity to their children. While this is true of the poor, however, the paraphernalia and extravagance of the titled, the luxuries and shows of the h rdly and crowned, are fully maintained. What a commentary is this on the-selfishness and hcart lessness of monarchy? It is to be hoped that the strikes and labor agitations now occurring in Eu rope, as well as in our own country, may result in greatly improving the condition of ti e laborer every where. Ilia Ifcnsou. Drown of the Democrat says the reason why the last election was carried by the Republicans, was be cause "falsehood, misrepresentation, bribery, intimidation, false promises, trickery," etc., were usedj in every county. He says saloons were pur chased, hotel keepers, manufactur ing effablishments, etc., were bought up, and so on and so forth. Accord ing to this, Democracy were on a regular "sell out." A few weeks ago, from Brown's own pajwr, one would l ave supposed that the "Democratic Klaus" were too puri tanic in their virtue to be bought and sold like oxen ill the shambles; but, alas! it would seem that the influence of the almighty dollar has been too much for their integrity. They have gone down before it like corn-stalks before the hurricane. Xo wonder our susceptible neighbor grunibles and weeps. To think his brether'nig in the fiiith should be so inconsiderato of his feelings. Of course no Democrat by progressive enlightenment can change his polit ical principles I No matter how strong his convictions iray become that the positions occupied by the Democracy are wrong and those oc- c npied by the Republicans are right, he must not yield to those convic tions. If he does, according to Brown, he has been "subsidized, purchased." Brown is well quali fied to tell how this changing from one party to another is brought about. 1 le knows how it is himself. There was a time, we are informed, when he blew the editorial bellows for ft Republican organ in Iowa; but now his wind inflates a Demo cratic. Of course tho motives which induced him to change were satisfactory to his sense of honor. If he were honest, what right has he to impugn the motives of Democrats in this State for changing ? Should he not give them as much credit for honesty as he claims for him self? And then there is this about it: Ifbrilies were given in this State, the man who takes a bribe is just as much deserving of condemna tion and execration as the man who gives one, if not more so ; and in the wholesale charge which our neigh bor makes, he reflects equally as hard upon his own party as he does upon the Republican party. An exchange says : Speaking of the Republican party, Aenato,' Sum ner said : "I stood by its cradle; let me me not follow its hearse." Con sent. The vigorous infant has no notion of dying at present. If Mr. Sumner desires to wrap the drapery of his couch about him and make a cold body of himself, tho infant aforesaid will give him a first-class funeral on short notice. The Richmond (Va.) Whiff is: very jubilant in its support of Gree ley. It says: "In our deliberate judgment, tho election of Mr. Gree ley, under existing circumstances, would be a thousand fold better, both for the South and the North, than that of Jefferson Davis him self." A little son of Mr. Herrin, near Salem, fell from a gate post on ! rj.l '....1 1 1 I I in rtiuay anu uroKC Ills leg. J Prrplrxtng. Some things are always uncertain and eo.tsoquent'v perplexing. Not among the least of these may be properly ranked the status and in- tentions of the Democracy. 7'licir exact position is as difficult to de - tcrminc at any one period as it is to keep track of the olitical situa- tion of poor -Mexico. All we know f Ar . . , . . m . . , anarchy ; and that is about as much as we know aliont Democracy. Im mediately after the results of the Cincinnati Convention were known, the Fast and South, especially the latter, seemed to lie highly pleased wUh the ticket and platform, and although many Western and Slope Democrats were quite cautious, they were not very outspoken, and the general drift was towards an in dorsement after a-while. A little later, however, and some journals which were at first rather inclined to adopt, came out emphatically against " White Bat," and it began to look again as if the Democracy were intending to go it a'oue. 7'hc speech of Dan Voorhees in Con gress and the growing lukewarm ttess of some of the prime movers in the possum movement, seemed to have produced this subsidence. Now, the indications are in favor of an indorsement again Within a few days a number of State Demo cratic Conventions have instructed for the ffrooley ticket 7'he tide has set in again briskly, and it does look as if Democracy will surety take quarters aboard the Cincinnati craft- We believe they will, though there may lie several ebbs and flows before the Baltimore Conven tion meets. 1 he drift is in that di rection sure, just at this writing Our neighbor will certainly blow that Creelcy-l'rown toot horn Certflhily he will. Co-rect. MUoi'llancoiis. Michigan men are fast getting to bo the be.4 horse-raisers in the nion. J Greeley is very sanguine of elec ! tion. j Ex-rebel Postmaster General, I Reagan is a Creeley man. iluain li. sewaru has pro nounced in favor of Gen. Grant The personal expenses of the Grand Duke to the United States were about $200,000. Thirty-seven Republican papers of California are for Grant. Professor Agasscz and party at last accounts were in Patagonia. They had discovered oysters a foot in diameter. Serious trouble from tho labor movement was threatened at Ber lin on the lGth. Gen. Sickles has gone to Madrid to present his letters of recall. No successor will be appointed until several matters in controversy, in cluding the liberation of Dr. How ard, have been adjusted. The IleraliPg London special says a Bombay telegram contains information from Arab sources that Livingston is well, and that Stanley is at Ijijiji and is coming to the coast with Livingstone. From let ters it appears that Livingstone had traversed to north end of Lake Zaragameryaka on his way from Moniyurna to Fjijiji, where obtain ing stores, he returned to Unydun demendc. He refuses to leave the country, intending to explore an underground path between lakes Unyamende and Xyassa. The ISoston Jubilee opened on 17th in the afternoon with a prayer, after which Mayor Gaston made a speech of welcome. Gen. 7anks delivered the inauguration address, and was frequently applauded. The first performance was Old Hun dred, by a full chorus of sixteen thousand voices, an orchestra of fif teen hundred pieces and the grand organ. Rev. J. J. Thompson, formerly pastor of tho JVethodist Chapel at Cincinnati, now of Leavenworth, was fearfully gashed with a hatchet by a young man named Bauer, in tho former place, whose sweet heart Thompson is said to have kissed on leaving her father's house. I In Vine I o a nriti.Mll ul i1 im , I xu livo winvu. EAVTKRX 5SEW8. , complaint against Jay Gould, i 01 ftew 1 ork uawu " c"ft,--os I mn, ns I'1Jof Erie road, ' bpl'" IW' ,twas rt,morrf 0,1 tle 141,1 1,0 hftd K the ! trm' Five thousand machinists, iron j moulders and boiler makers, of 1 '.rooklyn, were among tho strikers , ,j . jlours 0f labor or ton hours pay, on the 14th. 7'he employers would not accede to their demands. (Strikers in Xew York city were driven from the vicinity of Stein way and other large piano maim factories by the police on the 15th, before an outbpak occurred. Strikers took possession of a piano factory on bity-second street, and had to be driven off by the police, who used their clubs freely. The German Imperial Hand and Cornet Quartette of Emperor Wil liam, of 6'ermany, with Heir Struss, Madame Pischas and I.eut ner, arrived at Xew York on the 14th. The wife and daughter of Horace Greeley a'so arrived in the same vessel 7'he Iowa Press Association, comprising 100 persons, were on their way to Salt Lake on the 14th. The Terre Haute Journal of the Kith, contains ,t direct and emphat ic contradiction to the report tele graphed from here that Dan Yoor hees was defeated ill his own dis trict for the position of delegate to the Baltimore Convention It says he peremptorily declined to accept the nomination, which was urged upon him by members ; and also says, Yoorhees has been approached by strong Crceleyites in the district, and urged to accept a nomination for Congress as the only means of saving the district from the Repub licans. A heavy sulphur shower fell at Sarratoga, X. Y., on the 13th. The ground in many places was covered The State Temperance Conven tion of Pennsylvania has nominated a State ticket. 8. P. Chase, of Susquohannah, is for Governor. 7'he ceremony of awarding dip'o mas took place at West Point on the 14th. Secretary Belknap de livered an eloquent address. 7'he Internal Revenue receipts tor the fiscal year ending June 15th, are over twenty-five millions, and exceed the estimate for the entire year. The probable receipts to the 30th inst. will be full five millions. It is believed that tho murderer of ex-Secretary of State Tindalo, at Springfield, 111., has been discovered in the person of James Canedy, a convict serving his term in the penitentiary for swindling. The evidence against him is so strong that Governor Palmer pardoned him on the 15th, when he was im mediately arrested by the Sheriff of Sangamon county and taken to Springfield for trial. 7'hc floor of the Christian Church at La 6'raud, Ivy., gave way under a congregation at a fune ral service on the lGth. Several persons were injured, but none killed. .las A. Garfield, of Ohio, has been appointed Commissioner to re move tho Flathead Indians from Hitter Root valley, Montana, to a general reservation in the same Ter ritory. All tho piano makers of Xew Haven, Conn., struck on the 14th. A number of clockmakersand brew ers also struck the next day. A tornado in the vicinity of Mil ford, Pa , on the 13th, uprooted houses, uprooted trees, and killed a quantity of stock. A terrific storm of wind and rain . , , . , , -, visited Ringhanipton, V i ., on the 13th inst. 7'he tents of Robinson's menagerie and circus were blown down while tho show was in pro gress and full of people. The cages of anima's were overturned and the people greatly frightened. Six buildings were struck by lightning. At Rawlinsvillo the ligntning struck the school-house, killing a little girl named Merritt, and stun ning several others. In New York, on the 14th, thirty j persons were dangerously, if not fatally, poisoned at a boarding- house bv eating custards. On the 18th, in Xew York city, fertile Adela, a Frenchman, whose wife left him on account of his dis figuration by small pox, and was living with another man, went to her residence with pa pen of separa tion "for her signature." She re fused and fled. Be caught her, grabbed her by the ba r, put a pis tol to her head and shot her dead. He waited until the police arrested him. Tennie C. Clatlni was elected, ! June 13th, ( olonel of the eighty- seventh regiment, Xew York. By the falling of a stack at the West Cowshokeu furnace, Phila delphia, tin the 13th, fifteen per sons are reported to have been kill ed and wounded. Florida clergymen speak against the habit of church members carry ing revolvers. There is a wine cask in the col lars of the Kellev's Island (Ohio) Wine Company that contains 4,000 gallons of wine. It was carried to th Island in sections. The funeral of James G. Bennett took place on the 18th. The flags throughout Xew York city were half mast. A train on the Erie road, X. Y., ran into a group of telegraph re pairers on the night of the 12th, killing one and wounding others. 7'he Democratic State Conven tions of Alabama and South Caro lina have instructed forGree'ey and Brown. It is stated that the British Gov ernment has satisfied itself through secret agents, that the Geneva tri bunal is inclined to give damages to the United States. John ilorrissey supports Greeley, and thinks the Democracy ought. The War Department is strength ening the forts on the Southern and Gulf coast. The Xavy Depart ment is accumulating largo supplies of stores All the naval stations on these coasts in accordance with the desire of the Government will be prepared for any emergencies. The Secretary of the Interior has appointed Gen. !!. 15. Cowen, John L. Delano and J. W. Wyam, a commission to visit hostile Indians threatening the Northern Pacific Railroad. A Washington special says that tho supplemental treaty article adopted by the Senate, concludes as follows : "After consideration the President has, with the advice and consent of the Senate, consented to the establishment of a new feature in International Law for the guid ance of both nations, to the effect that neither of the contracting pow ers shall lie held responsible for acts of its citizens as against either Gov ernment in favor of any belligerent Power with which either (r'ovem nicnt may lx) at war, and consents that he will make no claim on part of the United States in resect to indirect damages as aforesaid ljefore the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva." At the Democratic'Convciition of Indiana, on the 13th, M. C. Kerr and John S. Williams, were nomi nated to Congress for the State at large. The Convention adopted resolutions endorsing the Cincinnati platform. In Xew York on the 10th inst., Mntheson it Weycher's sugar re finery workmen struck for an ad vance of seventy-five cents per day. Being refused, the men threatened to destroy the officers. The police had to be called, who drove the mob some distance with clubs, when the rioters made a stand and the police were obliged to draw pistol i 1 and disperse them. Several rioters were severyly injured by clubs, and one policeman badly hurt. 71 ic crop reports from over one hundred points in Missouri, Kan sas, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska say that the winter wheat is very poor. Tho House delegates at Wash ington have unanimously passed a bill making eight hours a day's work and two dollars a day pay of laborers for the district. TOKENS SEWS. The tribunal for the arbitration of the Alabama claims met at noon on the 16th, at the Hotel de Villa, Geneva. All the members were present as follows : Count Schlops, representing the King of Italv Pres ident of the Court; Charles Fran cis Adams, arbitrator on part of the United Stales; Alexander Cock burn, representing Great Britain ; Jacob Stemptlin, the Swiss Gov ernment ; and Barou Ditiguba, of Brazil. Summaries of proof and arguments in support of the case of hingland and the United States, were furnished to the arbitrators by the respective agents of the two countries, Lord 7enterdenand J.C. Davis. Court of Arbitration soon after adjourned to Monday next at 2 P. M. Further than as above stated, the proceedings of the Tri bunal are secret. The Government of France has completed a draft of a Postal Con vention with the United States, and Minister Washburn has invited France to join the emigrating Con gress, to be held at Washington. A Protestant Synod in session at Paris passed through a discussion which resulted in a schism in the Church, fuizot, leader of the or thodox party, maintained the au thority of the Scriptures, while Rev. M. Coquerell, leader of the liberal party, justifies certain resolutioi s in relation to the divinity of resurrec tion of Christ. The liberals de murred, at which the orthodox ma jority withdrew from the Synod. A bill was being prepared in the Federal Council at Berlin on the 11th, providing for the expulsion of all Jesuits from Germany, even though natives. Unexpectedly on the 10th inst., the British Embassy presented to Emperor William, as arbitrator un der tho Treaty of Washington, their answer to the American case on the San Juan boundary question. Min ister Bancroft submitted a replica tion on the 12th. Roth parties Lave requested a speedy answer. A treaty giving Germany the working control of Luxembourg railways has lieen signed by France and Germany. The Germans are never to use the roads for transport ing munitions of war. Cen. Sherman was in Vienna, Austria, on the 13th, and was pre sented to the Emperor. Xewspapcrs of Spain state a coa lition of Carlists and Internationals are forming. The Waldo's Fair was opened at Copenhagen by King Christian on the 13th ins. The famine in Persia is represent ed as worse than ever. Gariba'di is growing old very fast. He now can walk only with the help of crutches ; his fingersarc distorted by rheumatism, and he looks as it he never again would be able to leave his residence, except in a litter. Be is still cheerful in spite of his crippled state, and his face has 'reserved its fresh color and genial expression. IJOIUCE CtUI.KKXGKS TIIK PTO TUBS. While Alfred Livingston was foreman ot tho Trtbmt composing room they took down the stove in Mr. Greeley's old-t'a-liioucif. dingy sanc tum, where ho was wont to it on a very low chair, with his chin resting on ft very high desk. The store-pipe had gone straight through the celnig, and after its removal no provision ba d been made for closing tho hole. Above, in the composing-room, were three printer's stands equt-distant from the hole. Printers are proverbially tobaeco-chewer.'i these three were to-naeco-ehewerscxtniordinnrv. Jlavlnir covered the Boor with tobftCCO-jllldC, liny alternately endeavored to spit down through Hie stove-pipe hole, using It as a target. It was a warm May day, Mr. ( i neetey sat underneath and, worn out with his labors, had fall en into a gentle anil Innocent slumber,, lie had on a white waistcoat and a clean shirt. His dreams were sudden ly disturbed by a pattering on his foro heftd. lie awoke, half blinded with the nicotine visitation, and seeing hh waistcoat and shirt soild therewith, and suspecting the source from which it came, he started up-stairs at a gait that would have startled Startle. The printers, bearing him approaching, and fearing trouble, scampered to other parts of the composing-room. Mr. Greeley appeared on the scene in the character of the 'Gladiator,'" shouted, with an outburst of profanity that gave a sulphurous odcr to tlw apartment: "By ! where Is the man tliat spit down" that hole? I can lick the man that did it! Where is lie?"