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ALBAXY REGISTER. Sfoiltrt. v. v. o r-"iT r Oregon, PR1DAY. FEBRUARY 7. 187& nah. The Fanner? Club now be ing organised i" 0,,r county and State, will result in incalculable ben--etit. A lethargy lias heretofore rested upon this invaluable class of our people, leaving tliem at the mercy ot ancient mannerisms and habits, and ring speculators. These Clubs cannot fail to result in cr manent lienefit in both of these di rections. The interchange of opin ions, narration of experiences, prac tical discussions, lectures, etc., will compass the union, enlightenment and promotion of every good and profitable interest of the farming community. Oregon Clubs will never lack for interesting and val uable questions to consider. Drain age, fertilizers, improvement of swamp lands, lands best adapted for cereals, the best variety ot cereals to plant, rotation of crops, gardening, the culture of fruits, improvement in stock best food and method of feeding them ; insects how to get rid ot ; improvement in farm houses; agricultural implements which best adapted; shade trees; floral industry; roads.etc., etc., and a thous and and one subjects will suggest themselves tor the consideration of these Clubs, whose investigation will result in more uniform, system atic and profitable farming. Farm ing will also become more scientific and intelligent as these investiga tions continue. They will result in great goal, too, in the direction of securing the best prices for products. I y the building ot storage houses and employment of suitable agents, they will be enabled to secure the highest market prices, and thus break up the speculative rings that have so long fattened on their hard earnings. More money and pros- perity will thus be experienced, and a greater degree of thrift will be infused into every enterprise. f. Beware, Sew York. Tweed's sublime soul is getting impatient He has lately said that his trial was for political effect, merely, and tliat he was tired of the whole thing. The legal au thorities of New York are becom ing toojostlingly familiar to suit the aristocratic soul of thisexalted thief, lie can bear to have his serene equanimity interrupted to some slight extent, but further than that Itecomes monotonous, tiresome. Let New York take heed. He will put up with no more nonsense. He has already grown impatient and he may get "riled." The majesty of the law, it's attempted vindication, must behave itself ; be modest and less inquisitive, or he will frown it dowii : squelch it ; steal its thunder and run it through with itsown bolts, llis Miblimethiefship highness must not lie too severely interrupted. . - - The epizootic is not restrained by distai.ee nor place. From Manito ba, in tlie frozen zone, to Cuba, in the heated belt, it is no respecter of horses or mules. It attacks them on the earth and goes for them in the earth, likewise. At Leaven worth it went down into a mine seven hundred feet deep aud set the noses of some mules to running that had never seen the light of day. ill) 1,nur D. E'lilc ! This notorious woman lectured in Sacramento on the night of JaV. )-,t! ;th. tiling to obtain a hall, she ' chartered a licer saloon on tl at day, and wnt out notices by means of small Hoodlums thai she would lecture that evening, charging $1 admission. At the lime designated for the lecture to begin, a large and promiscuous crowd had assembled j outside the faloon, but only about -three persons were found willing j to pay the entrance tee. Laura, who had arrived promptly on time, finding the crowd were not disjiosed to pay their way in, ordered the doors thrown open and invited all to enter as a free audience. This crowded the hall to repletion. Her lecture is pronounced but a poor af fair, benig tilled with Billingsgate and abuse, the press and pulpit ot San Francisco receiving much ofthe latter. While the name of this wicked woman is a synonym for li centousncss, crime and murder, it must be confessed that it also sug gests much pluck. As a good old lady said ofthe devil : "J lis activity is wonderful." Laura D. Fair has wonderful pluck, aud is as dialiolical as the devil can reasonably ask. The Kansas Senatorial election on the 29th ult , resulted in the elec tion of John J. Ingalls by a vote of 115 to 16 scattering, Pomeroy re ceiving no votes. A great sensation was created by Senator York stat ing, by way of personal explana tion, that in order to unmask Pome roy, he had attended wveral meet ings with him and had agreed to sell him his vote for $8,000. York then produced seven one thousand dollar packages and handed them to the Secretary of the Joint Con vention. A motion for a recess to allow Pomeroy to defend himself was defeated by a large majority. Pomeroy was arrested for bribery and gave bail. It is thought the Administration will not recede from the civil serv ice rules as applied to the New York Custom House, where the pressure has been the greatest All the members of the Cabinet are rep resented in accord with the Presi dent's views, and Congress has changed its attitude very materially since the beginning of the session upon this subject. The prospect indicates an extension of their oper ation. ' : A steamboat ot steel, ninety feet long and drawing only twelve inch es of water, has been built in Eng land to be used on one of the rivers of Brazil. Some such craft as that would suit some ot our streams to a dot The boats we have run only while our rivers are "on a herder ; " but a boat like that would run right along, no matter how low and Ale graded our streams might be. The superiority of the lands of tlie Hawaiian Islands over lands of the Southern States for the produc tion of sugar, is seen in the fact, that while a fair yield of the latter per acre is from 1,700 to 1,800 pounds, the former will yield some 5,000 pounds per acre, and isolated acres have produced as high as 12,- 000 pounds per acre. An exchange says : "Farmers in Coffey county, Ky., are urged to set aside a portion ot their rich bottoms for cotton-planting next spring." Those bottoms do not appear to be well watered. rOVEIOS WEtvf. It i- repprtoj tjha American bankers iri London leaned NTapo 'eon 200.000 to 'acetate a medi tated ,, and since" his death the money lias hot been returned. The Swiss Government has ap pointed secretary Cass to the Lega tion at Washington. The Queen of Spain gave birth to ahoy on the 29th ult. ( 'arlot ta was not dead assort ed, through very low on the 30th ult. Loniton exprienced her first snow storm on the 1st inst. A llerlin sjiecia says the Library ofthe Royal Military Academy was burned on the 31st nil A spinning mill at Glasgow, em ploying 400 hands, burned on the 30th ult. An insurrection in Hayti for the purpose of preventing the election ot a President, was nipped. Sixty of the ring-leaders were arrested and five executed. On the night of Feb. 1st the British Isles were visited by one of the most violent storms ever ex perienced there. The snow fell six inches deep on the streets of Lon don. 7'he crale rased with great fury wrecking many vessels and de stroying numerous lives. A German paper declares that the Russian forces in Central Asia are strong enough to defy any at tempt of Great Hritaiu to check their progress. The proprietors of several col liers in South Wales, who announc ed their intention of importing Chinese from California to take the place of the strikers, have receival anonymous letters threatening as sassination. During three days of the late cold spell in England, 100 persons froze to death. A Calcutta dispatch says the city of Sohuree, in the territory of Scinde, was nearly destroyed by an earthquake lately. 500 persons are thought to have perished. - . y - y EASTER NEW. On the 30th ult. a passenger train for Northampton on the New I 'a ven Railroad, was thrown from the track aud sixteen persons seriously injured. J. 1$. Stewart, one ot the wit nesses before the Credit Mobilier Committee, by resolution of the House of Representatives, was com mitted tor contempt, oh the 29th ult, for refusing to auswer ques tions. lie is to remain iu custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms until he is willing to answer questions. The City Committee, of Boston, on Claims, has decided that the city is liable for damages caused by the blowing up of buildings during the great tire. The President has vetoed the bill for the relief of the University of East Tennessee. The 1 resident has approved the act abolishing the franking privi lege. Harlan has introduced a joint resolution in Congress for a Consti tutional amendment electing . Sena tors by a popular vote. The jury in the Tweed case fail ed to agree and were discharged It was generally understood on the 31st ult, that nine were for acquit al and three for conviction. U. S. (Senators from Pennsylva nia have been instructed by a vote of 25 to 7 of the State Senate, to vote against the purchase and con trol of telegraphs by the Govern, nient. The Spanish Court has informed .Minister Sickles that no steps will be taken for the abolition ot slave ry in Cuba until the insurrection on the island is suppressed. An incendiary fire at Jackson, Tenn., on Wednesday of last week, destroyed property valued at $100,-000. The burning o'' a woolen mill at Northfieldj Vt an. 31st, occasion ed a l.ss o $100 090) Kx-Coven or . A. Matteson, o Illinois, died suddenly. Jan. 31-t, aged sixty-five years. Here are the expenses of mouth Hnu'eh for last year: ly- Mr. tocher's salary f 20.000: Mr. Mai- liday's salary, 3.000 : Mr. Weld (first sexton), $3,500 ; Mr. Rayner (second sexton), 81.200; music. $8.000 ; insurance, $500 : current expenses, $7.000 ; Plymouth Libra ry, $700. 7otal, $43,900. The number of pupils on the i oils of the public schools of New York City is 536,107, and the average daily attendance is 100,820. Henry Ward Beecher thinks Stokes will not hang. Too many legal quirks and quibbles. Lucy Stone will not lecture this winter. She is nursing a boy only a few weeks old. 7'he public debt was increased $403,000 during the past mouth. Great frauds are reported in con nection with the building ot the Harlem, N. Y., Court house. The completion of the (Tiesepeake t Ohio railroad was celebrated at Norfolk, Jan. 31st It is stated that the iury in the 7' weed case stood 11 for acquittal and 1 for conviction. The case will be brought to trial again right away. Senator Pomeroy has given bonds in the sum of $20,000 to ap iiear at the June term. Mrs. McCarty, of Memphis, was burned to death on the 1st inst. by her clothes taking fire from the explo sion of a coal oil lamp. Senator Patterson and Yice Pres ident Colfax have expressed them selves confident that they will clear up the cloud that surrounds them relating to the Credit Mobilier af fair. They insist that Ames has manufactured the case against them It is said the House Judiciary Committee will report a bill to abol ish mileage of Congressmen, and pay them instead the actual expen ses trom their homes to Washington. The highest amount paid is to Gar field, W. T., being $1,758, and the lowest to Merrick, of Maryland, $16. Colfax delivered a temperance address in Baltimore on the night of the 2d to the largest and most enthusiastic audience ever gathered in that city. Judge Davis in in troducing him alluded to his purity of character and the failure of the Credit Mobilier investigation to im plicate him. Colfax in alluding to this said he sought to stand right in the sight of God, whether the world judged wrong or not; that the world is full of false aspersions that are sometimes hard to bear, unless the soul is conscious of rectitude. At Lexington, Ky., on the 2d inst, in an altercation Thomas I,eo man drew a pistol and shot .1. A. Gillett in the throat, producing probably a fatal wound. Leoman was a'Tcsted. At Boston on the 2d inst, A. O. Love shot his daughter Grace, four years ot age, and then shot himself dead. In New York, on the 2d, four youths formed a plan to rob a sa loon till, but a quarrel ensuing, one of them named Halpin stabbed an other named Comisky in the head, inflicting a fatal wound. 7'he Republicans ot Connecticut were to hold a State Convention on the 5th inst Gen. Joe Shelby, of Missouri, is disgusted with the defeat of Blair, and says he intends to "go on the other side with the progressive, lib eral Republican party. It is said that full forty per cent, of the suicides in New York City last year were Germans, though suicides are rare among their peo ple at home. "Hoax Aims" is the name Oakes Ames goes by now. '- Vmmis-iioncr Pavenport has do cided to hold VYdhull. Clatlin and Hood to await the action of gran' jury. District Attorney, ''helps, snys he has on affidavit alleging tliat five jurors in the Tweed cae allowed 'themselves to Is; approached by friends and agents of Tweed durii tr his trial. 7'he new Missouri Senator pro iiouuces his name Ifajw. .ff-whil-aker! A Washington dispatch of the 28th ult, says the House Judiciary Committee decided to-day to report a bill placing the salary ofthe Pre' ident at $50,000 ; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, $15,000; Vice President, Speaker ot the House anil Associate Justices, $10,000, and members of Congress, $8,000. Secretary James, of Nebraska, lately called on to act temporarily as Governor, avails himself of the brief opKrtiuiity to pardon twenty sevtn convicts. A bill has been introduced in Congress to abolish the tax ou liq uors distilled from fruit. The Secretary of the Treasury has sent a letter to the Senate stat ing that the Union Pacific and Cen tral Pacific Railroad Companies have not complied with the law for the payment of the interest. President Grant has assured a delegation from Georgia that be fore the close of the session, h should accompany members of the Cabinet and make an extended torn though the fouthern States. By the explosion of four boilers of the American Iron Works at Pittsburg, on the 3d, three sections of the building were destroyed. Some 3,000 hands were employed in the mill at the time, and six dead bodies had been found. Thirty per sons were injured. In the Greeley will case, the Misses Greeley have withdrawn from the contest. 7'he will made in 1872 has been proved. Uranhle Description of the Imvn Bed In Southern Oregon. The following extract from a let ter written by Jesse Applegate and published in the Bulletin, will give an idea of the difficulties to be encountered in fighting the Modocs : If yon can, imagine a smooth, olid sheet of granite, ten miles square, and 500 feet thick, covering resistless mines of gunpowder, scat tered at irregular interva's under it; that these mines are exploded simul taneously, rending the whole field into rectangular masses, from the size of a match-box to that of a church, heaping these masses high in some places, and leaving deep chasms in others. Following the explosion, the whole thing is placed in one of Vulcan's crucibles, and heated up to a point, when the whole begins to fuse and run to gether, and suffered to cool. The roughness of the upper sur face remains as the explosion left it, while all below is honey-combed by the ciacks and crevices caused by the cooling of the melted rock. All Indian can, from the top of one of these stone pyramids, shoot a man without exposing even so much as an iuch square ot himself. He can, without undue haste, load and shoot a common muzzle-loading rifle teu times before a man can scramble over the rocks and chasms between the slain and the slayer. If, at this terrible expense ot lite, a force dis lodges him him from his cover, he has only to drop into and follow some subterranean passage with which he is familiar, to gain anoth er ambush from whence it will cost ten more lives to dislodge him ; and so on ad infinitum. Mr. Jones, a Nevada farmer, owns twenty-six camels. The way he "humps" himself this winter to get fodder for them is a caution. A stone as large as a walnut was recently found in the heart of an Indian ox. The affections of that ox must have been hard.