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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1873)
4 JUtrctig $e jistrr. Th Past Year. The year 1872 with its experien ces of light and shallow, lias drifted into the by-gone. It has added a ge to a leaf of the volume of his tory, which, for startliageventsand growth, will be read by the future historian with unusual interest. While wars have threatened, and -civil feuds have prevailed in some nations as in France, Spain and Mexico still peace has been more general throughout the world than tor many cycles. Christianizing thought has been working with wonderful power among the coun cils ot the nations, energizing, civil izing, unifying the hearts of the people. .As the world has moved progress towards increased light and harmony lias been made. This has been seen in the settlement of great national differences, in which the arbitrament ot argument lias been substituted for the sword, and mankind have thus been trained to practice the teachings of Godlike wisdom and humanity. England and this country clasped hands over the Alabama and San Juan verdicts, and the two peoples, forgetting the firing past, now feel for each other an increasing friendship. The exper ience of the United States has been unusual in several marked particu lars. While she has enjoyed great favor in the settlement of her mat ters ot dispute with foreign nations, and in the growth of her crops and business pursuits generally, and es jiecially in the peaceful aoquiescence and cheerfulness with which the result at the ballot-box of the Pres idential contest was received, still calamities bj Hood, fire and death, especially the two last, have render ed the past year one ever to be marked. A contagion ot mam moth fires, reaching every section, has swept millions of dollars worth of property into destruction, and many lives into eternity. But the nation has been the greatest loser in the number of its good and emi nent men whom death has taken away. Many of her greatest states men, warriors, scholars, poets, di vines, editors, etc., have been reach ed by the shafts of the king of ter rors. The magnetism of their living presence and influence is no longer let and seen, but their noble words and deeds are the nation's legacy : though dead they will continue to speak. Our space forbids us to sjieak of the contagions which have been more or less seriously felt in the East and South, by man and lieast, especially the latter. We close with the redaction, that while fires have been unusual 'y numerous, and great men have been summon ed hence, and contagious have se riously embarrassed business inter ests, still peace and plenty and prosperity have gladdened the hearts ot the great mass of the jieople. Vast enterprises of public utility have been completed and others begun. Religions and edu cational interests have kept their places in the lead of the march of the nation's progress, and the future is not without indications of still brighter years. Trusting in God, let us strive as a people, to goon and up. "Rising Phoenix like from its ashes," is a phrase which is worn through skin and flesh to the bone, and ought to be permitted to rest. Jt it have peace. Judge Fullerton, ot New York, is represented as using some very plain, straightforward talk last week in the Stoke's case. Heallndcd to the lawlessness of the times, and said the question now imminent in the community was whether crimi nals should be arrested, and wheth er tliey should le puuislied ai:d bloodshed be put a stop to. He asserted that bad men regarded the law punishing murder with death as played out, and if this state of things is permitted, a state of an archy would soon follow. This is common sense logic which not only the people of Xew York, but of the who!e country, would do well to cousidor. Through the delays of courts, the technicalities of legal processes, the potency of bribes and a false sentimentality entertained by American juries on the subject of capital puuishment, but few notor ious murderers, comparatively, snif fer the penalty of death so justly their due. A few years in the pen itentiary may be allotted to some, but many are turned loose entirely. This weakness of the law, or its impotency of administration, render ing it no longer a terror to evil doers, has made its violation a mat ter of increasing frequency. Mur ders of the most harrowing cliarao ter, cold blooded and premeditated, shock the sensitive reader in almost every issue of our daily secular press. As mankind is constituted, the peace and welfare of society cannot be maintained without law. Its pro visions are professedly founded in necessity, and consistency demands their rigid and impartial enforce ment. A failure to do the latter is a virtual confession that the law is unjust as well as weak. Vice and crime appropriate every encouiage ment and improvevery opportuni ty. A practical confession of the law's weakness, is au encourage ment to, them, which they tail not to thoroughly improve, and an in crease of crime is the result Ten derness to criminals, beyond the strict enforcement of the letter of the law, is wrong for this very rea son. The fact that the law is not enforced robs it of its majesty and brings it into contempt. The evilly disposed become bolder and more reckless in tlie commission of unlaw ful deals, in proportion as the fear of the penalty of righteous law is removed. Th most effectual way to secure protection to life and property, then, is to demand of our legislators equitable laws, and of our magistrates, rigid enforcement. In the case of Susan 1. Anthony and fourteen other women, under examination in Xew York for ille gal voting, U. S. Commissioner Stores has rendered a decision hold ing each to bail in the sum of 85, 000 to appear at the U. S. District Court at its next session in Albauy. The Insjiectors who received the votes were also held to bail. The late Presidential election gave Grant from all the States an aggregate ot 3,597,77 1 votes ; Gree ley,!,8G7,833 votes, making Grant's popular majority, 740,938. The total vote cast was 6,444,604, being 726,816 more votes than was cast in 1868, tlie numberthatyear being 5,716,788. Tlie Eastern States generally were visited by Intensely cold weather last week, and much inconvenience and suffering, among the poor especially, was tlie result. JOHN VISITS BICHKOXD. Richmond, Nov. 20. Virginia I a she. It's the mother of States and it is sacred soil. Ik-re Is wliere tlie cele brated po;'m grew Too cross you are. too crow you be; I see you are too ciws tor me. Wlien tlie polite 'Virginia female eats rich mince pie, slic doesn't say. it is too rich ; not she. She says, it is too Rothschild. It wouldn't be judi cious to call the capital ot Virginia Rothschildmnud. so it is culled Rich mond. Richmond is tlie cap of Hen rico county, and I suppose it is called the cap because it is at the head of tide water. Tide water Isn't so good to drink as untitle water. Who Hen. Rico was is more than I know. I'roli ably he sprang from the same family as Costa Rica. lHSTOKV OF HIOHMOMI. Richmond is 344 miles from JftW York, and 1 knew a party once quite a large crowd there was. too who all carried guns, tliat were four yeaw go lug there. The soil of Richmond is red clay, and Shoekoe creek runs through the town. The James river has a bed, and it's a hard lied one ot your healthy kind. It's made of gran ite. The Richmond Theater was in Rich mond once. It burned up the day after Christmas, Dee. 20, 1811, anil sixty-six whites and six colored per sons, including the Governor of the State, lost their lives. The Monument al Episcopal Church was erected on the site of the theater. The site of Richmond was first visited bv white fellows 111 1600. The site of Richmond is called a site, be cause folks go to sea from there. 1 never forgot What I remember, and the town was founded in 1742, and it came blessed near being found dead in 1805. It was made the capital of the State in 1780. In 1787 it had 300 houses, and in 1 704 the canal was com pleted around the talis. This canal added immensely to its commercial advantages. TOBACCO AND THK LATE WAR. Richmond is celebrated for its luxu rious tobacco, that brown pain mate rial that has ruined so many carpets and tempers. People who resided in San Francisco twenty years ago, can remember when tobacco became such a drug in the market it couldn't be sold, and tlie solid cases ot plug tobac co were used as foundations for frame houses. This was in either 1850 or 1851, I forget which, and this stulf all came from Richmond, wliere the jieo ple even wear plug bats. There was a war iiere once, and they fought with real suns, with real bullets in 'em. For some years the trip from Washington to Richmond wasn't a very pleasant one, especially to a nervous man. Although that whole country was full of pickets, and every man had his,.post, there was not a fence anywhere. hex m'cclloch am rogek a. moit. The last time I saw Ben MtCulloch, the great Texas Ranger, was in Vir ginia. We were on the railroad that runs from Aquia Creek to Richmond. It was in March, 1801. lie was in company with Doctor Carter, who was to deliver a secession sjieech tliat night in the African Church at Rich mond. Doctor Carter had a lady with him, and I heard Ben tell her, that lie had many a time killed a deer in the morning, and worn its hide for a dress that same day. Ben was shot at the battle ot Pea Ridge. The first time I ever saw Roger A. Pryor was One Saturday in March, 1801, wlien he addressed a secession meeting at Danville, Va. All 1 heard him say was PI am for secession, im mediate, and eternal." Just then, tliere was a row and I left. I went down to the tavern, and had sat there but a few moments, when a friend who represented a big scale house ou Broadway, Nfcw York, came rushing up to me, am W went under the rail road bridge thatcro-ises the Dan River, and that fellow laughed so long aud loud, tliat 1 was afraid we'd get mob bed. Says I, " What In thunder ails you ?" Then he told me. They had a col ored band up at the meeting of about four Instruments, and just as Pryor got agoing, tliat cuss went up and gave the leader of the baud a dollar to play "Yankee Doodle." They com menced to play it, hence the row. Only think of " Yankee Doodle," at a Secesh meeting. If those darkeys had ever gone buck on us, the mildest treatment we could have expected would have been a present of two water-proof tar overcoats. A STRANGE PEOPLE. There are more people here who caii't lie boiled white than In Xew York. They are called negroes, aud some people like ti.e dark meat in cooked chickens; some prefer tlie white. It may be interesting to those who prefer the dark meat to hear that a gentleman in Richmond has raised a Utter of pure black chickens. They are Mack all through. Re set a pure white hen, and hatched them from egg coal. Never crack nut coal with your teeth ; it injures tlie enamel. Query Are the Micbigauders anv relation to the Portuguese, and if so, bow ratten aud when ? TWO EflSOOES. I got Into another episode last week. I was sitting snlalued ami quiet in a horse car. J wasn't aware that I was occupying more spare than was desir able, ' The conductor came along, lie had a tin plate, stolen off some dog collar, hitched to his lint, ami says he. " Make a little room, sir." Say I, "Yon want me to make a little room, do yon?" Says he, " Yes. 1 do." Says I, What kind of a room do yon want, a bath room or a billiard roouii" Says he. "Sir. there is room for eleven on this seat." Says , "Sir. there isn't." Says he, "There is eleven on the other side." Says I. " I see it, and there Is ten on this side now. and you tell me there is room for eleven more." Says he. " I mean there is room for one more." Say I. " Well, why in thunderdidu't yon say sr ? one isn't eleven." He smiled with such an expression of entire woe, that the driver shouted whoa to his horses. Iliad just one more controversy in that car. It was with a man Mho looked as if he had swallowed an en t're Sunday school class, and the straw hat of the last scholar had struck St) his mouth. His cheeks puffed out so that if a pin had been stuck through them the hole would have whistled. This man insisted that there was al ways three feet to a yard. 1 told him I 'bad seen a yard with over a hun dred feet to it." Says he. " What kind of a yard?" Says I, "A cattle yard." Says he, "Oh!" Says I, " What?" Says he, " I owe vou one." Says I, "Oh!" " This is the time of the year to ills umbrellas, plant parasols, and milk eoeoauutt. THE ROY WHO WEST SWIMMING. The verv bov. von have heard about. who disobeyed his father and Weut a swimming, lives in Richmond. His father said to the wicked boy, said. "You've been a-swiinming." The wicked hoy said, "I hain't." The pa said. "You have, sir. and you've got your shirt on t'other side out." Pshaw !" said the wicked boy "that shirt got turned wrong side out getting over the fence." 1 had the horse disease. 1 was aw ful hoarse, I adopted mild treatment. I bathed the inside of my thorax with hot Jamaica rum, with plenty ot sugar, and between drinks I took h'randv and water not too much water. I gave my liny horse bay rum, and my chest nut horse I fed on warm chestnuts, hoi-ting their lund feet from the ground witn pulleys attaciitti to tneir tails. I found this was not a comfort able position for them to sleep in. but it made the medifiue go to the head, the seat of the disease. The treatment was a success. They both died. There are trotters here called bog trotters. Whiskey is tlie best medicine for them. A TALK WITH A SAVAN. I conversed in Richmond with a siivan, a real savan, one of the kind Savannah was named after. He saw things with a prophetic eye. He could see clear ahead, and he told me what this country was coming to. Says he: "A hundred years from now the Anglo-Saxon and the Celt will be all swallowed up by tlie influx, and tills vast continent north of tlie Rocky Mountains will be Teutonic, and It will be against the law to go to church Sun day and to drink water. All tliat vast section of country, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, will be Asiatic and fire-cracker factories and chop sticks will be more numerous than the blades of grass upon the sea shore. The tidal wave has already commenced tliat is sweeping the sur plus of 400.000,000 of John Chinamen to our shores, and it can't be stopped." Says I, "When will this be?" Says he, " In a hundred years." "Well," says I, "let 'em come; I'll be over age then, too old to vote. Theu I wrote home toiny wife to have our grand daughter set her cap for a Dutchman, or a Chinaman, so ns to be somebody. To-day a man drove a cow with a fringed tail through the streets of Rich mond. He spent a fortune making a machine to do up the ruffles on the bosom of the ocean. It was a success, but It took so much starch it burst him. SAD EFFECTS OF ONE GOAT'S MILK. The most singular thing to he seen in Richmond is a nicely-dressed man who every iiost lie sees he butts with Ids head. I called him " one hundred and fifty pounds of butter," but he didn't like it. Every few rods It makes no difference whether lie is on top of a hay wagon or on a canal boat he stops and turns a somersault. It was so queer tliat I took some pains to Inquire into the antecedents of that man, and it appears that when a child lie was reared on one goat's milk, and one day that goat got astray and ate up two circus hills. Tlie circus bills made a different quality of milk from grass, aud the little boy drank it and turned into a circus. Says I, "Well, but circuses don't butt." Says lie, " But goats butt." All the champagne in this section is very old; at least all I have seen has silvery head. Never tell a lie, except to get it big ger salary. My night mare lias got over the epl .ooty. To make sure what kind of weather we will have in November, wait till the 1st of lieceinlier. JOHN. JOB PRINTING. ALBANY REGISTER PRINTING HOUSE WITH NEW AND FAST POWER AXtt 12 AM) V 11 E S S E S, Latest and most Desirable tj les or Printing Material, Is undoubtedly THE SHEBANG TO GO FOR When you wish Posters, or Visiting Cards, Business Cards, Bill Heads, Letter Heads, Envelopes, Ball Tickets, Programmes, Labels But why jtarticnlariw. when it is gen erally acknowledged that we are ON IT When It comes under tlie he 'd of earcmue m t, coot - sSgSfer-Si"---- Printing