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ALBANY REGISTER. 17. H. OIUclul lmvr for 'Oregon. FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1873. FrenMemt rnnt. Last Tuesday fieneral Grant was inaugurated President of the U nited States for a second term. He en ters upon the discharge of the du ties of that high office, possessing in an eminent degree the trust and confidence of the American people. No stain, or even well-founded sus picion of intentional wrong, mars the purity of his official life. True in his official acts to the principles of the party which elevated him to power, lie has most successfully and powerfully guided them to a suc cessful issue, until now organized opposition lias ceased. The past four years of his executive lite have tieeu a grand success. lie promises to be the same honest, intelligent careful, modest, firm, conscientous President in the future. We have no doubts as to the capability and goodness of the President, and look forward to another four years of suc cessful administration. The qnlrkraf Wi jr. A telegram frotnjNf w York last week announced that about five hundred soldiers from Forts (Schuy ler, Columbus and Hamilton had started by railroad for the Modoc region. This would seem to nidi cate that the President has no con fidence in a substantial peace being negotiated by the Commission. The Statesman suggests that "if the President will recall the Peace Commission, and let the soldiere talk with Capt Jack, we will soon have a treaty of peace which the Indians will hereafter respect." Yes, a heavy talk in the shape of leaden bullets, roared ont in the language of U. S. breech-loaders, weH-aimed, will modify their war- ache the quickest. . . The Union Pacific Railroad is in debted to the amount of 880,000, 000. Of this $27,000,000 represent first murtgage bonds; $27,000,000 a second mortgage, or Government aid bonds; then 810,000,000 are for land grant bonds, and $10,000, 000 ans income bonds, and the rest is a floating indebtedness. The road is represented as having fallen into a dilapidated condition, some struc tures having been only imperfectly put up in the first place, and shops and engines having been left to get out of repair. At Deer Creek, some eight miles from Tehama, Cal., a new and fatal disorder has broken oat among the people. The disease commences with a chill, which, succeeded by a fever, and then spasms or convul sions ; the bead is drawn back and the sufferer fall into a stupor, whk-h continues until death ensues. The physicians were unable to give any relief. Seven deaths had oc curred since Friday preceding the 27th ult, and twelve new oases were reported. ' An editor of the Freeport, 111., Bulletin, a Democratic journal, ex presses an intention to "give the radicals h 1." To this an exchange remarks: "It the Democrats do dispose of that populous place to the Republicans we shall then have control of a very large Democratic vote not heretofore counted on our side." Democrats should not be too hasty in giving up their strongholds. Too Flint. I The propensity to rush to couchi : sions without proper investigation, and to inflate everything, is a fault peculiar to the American people. If we "go" for a thing at all, it isat'a breakneck speed with all the wind aud noise of a hurricane. If a charge of fraud, or conspiracy, or evil of any kind is noticed, it isseized hold of with red-hot ardor, aud twisted and twirled by our voluble, "flip flap," untiring tongues into an im mense enormity, a mammoth mon strosity. Investigation scarcely ever reveals half the criminality which is charged. One or more dishonest Representatives are charged with a fraud, and on the bare assertion, we treat it as an established fact. Not only this, we increase the enormity of the offense by tacking on others aud charging a whole Legislature or Congress with being guilty of them. Verily, it would appearfrom the, talk of some men, that every man in public life, from a President to a Councilman, is a thief aud a scoundrel, when probably not one in five hundred is one-halt as mean and dishonest as these same croak ers. No sooner were the charges made in the Credit Mobilier, than many hastened to believe them. They didn't wait tor testimony, but took the whole thing down at a gulp, upon the naked assertion, or expression of suspicion. Why this lightning credibility to stamp "guilty" upon the brow of every public man, charged with crime? The law presumes every man charged with a crime innocent, un til proof of guilt has been adduced. The Mobilier Investigating Com mittees failed to find testimony suf ficient to convict many distinguish ed men, whom a credulous public, on mere rumor, or individual asser tion, pronounced guilty. Colfax is now regarded as guilty by some, the testimony of Oakes Ames, the champion sooulndrel in the fraud, confessedly guilty, being all there is to prove it Colfax swore the statements iff Ames were false. His official integrity, previous to this, had never been doubted ; and now, in a question of veracity between him and Ames, the "worker up" of this fraud, should any candid man hesitate as to which to believe? Down in California, a greedy pub lic after the sensational, seize the morbid sentimentality of oue or two editors, based upon the erroneous and highly imaginative reports of reckless and irresponsible corres pondents, principally, and elevate a few degraded, blood-thirsty, mur dering fModocs into martyrs aud heroes, and degrade a whole South- em Oregon, of white citizens, into avaricious thieves and inhuman barbarians. . Based on a mere hint, or thread of suspicion, some of Ore gon's most virtuous and distinguish ed citizens have been charged by California journals with offenses of the gravest cliaracter, purporting to have been committed by them in the past against the Indians. No proof is asked, the hint of a paid compiler of sensational news, or the suspicious of a "sore-head" politi cian, is sufficient Editors comment upon it as a fact, and the public swallow it down as a sweet morsel at one gulp. In this unseemly haste displayed in arriving at Conclusions, great injustice and discourtesy are committed, if not irreparable iirjuiy. Families were flying from Spain on the 28th ult in large numbers. A DUferenrr. A religious sect ts "living in Ver mont, who wash each others feet. ' have had an interview with Cap They place themselves in rows, tain Jack, and propositions for the back to Irack, in a sitting posture, ! settlement of the Modi troubles de when they do the washing. Injcided upon. The following dis their diet, they discard pork, and I patch, sent to C. Delano, Secretary liye principally on beans, brown bread and salt-water trout. Satur day is their sacred day. The wo men wear trowsers, something like the Bloomers, eastern paper " F in speaking of the feet-washing pe culiarity of this seot, says "there is also a sect at Washington who whitewash each others' reputations, but it isn't a very religions sect." They use lie, probably, in their whitewash. The public debt statement shows a decrease during February of $5, 266,800. Treasury balance coin, 855,930,781 ; cnrreitcy, 84,600,902. Bonds issued Pacific Railroad com panies interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding, $64, 623,672; interest accrued and not yet paid, 8646,235 ; interest paid by the United States, 818,509,280; interest paid by transportation of mails, etc., $4,185,353 ; balance of interest pa d by the United States, $14,343,927. The Senate last Saturday passed the Portland, Dallesand Salt Lake Railroad bill, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, simply authorizing the said Company to take from the public lands timber, stone and other material necessary for constructing the road. It in again announced that Laura D. Fair intends visiting this State on a lecture tour. If money be her object, we think she misconceives the temper of the Oregon people. Their curiosity even will not lead them to pntimonejjntp the hands of a woman, whose notoriety was procured by licentiousness and mur der. News has been received at Port land announcing he loss of the George S. Wright, the steam pro peller which sailed from Portland for Sit Ka on the 2d of last January. She is supposed to have been wreck ed on her return trip, and all on board are thought to have perished. The wreck is reported to be lying about thirty miles northeast of the head of Vancouver Island. Some hope is indulged that at least some of the passengers and crew may have fallen into the hands of the Indians who inhabit the north ern coast, who may be holding them tor ransom. The number of passen gers on board is not known. It is very certain that Major Walker and wife were on board. Several of the officers and crew were citizens of Portland. It is related of the late Mr. But ler, ot lrovideuce, Rhode Island, that he was so obliging as to re open his store one night solely to supply a little girl with a spool of thread which she wanted. I he ac cident took wind, brought him in a large run of custom, and he died a millionaire, after subscribing $40, 000 toward founding a hospital for the insane. The Russian Embassador at Paris has only twenty-live servants to wait upou him. When he gives dinners,, these twenty -five men stand round in scarlet coats and powder ed wigs and present a gorgeous ap pearance. "Pub. Docs." cost os Oregomans something now-a-days, and so do the Mo-Docs. Modoc I'eurr Proposition. The Modoc Peace Commissioners of the Interior at Washington, con tains the terms : "We have sent a messenger with these terms to the Modocs : 1st. 'I ii tlil'vmuli.i ob nM.'niiAW . .i' nrA. i-wn iu-vi,ir v ,.i. 1 2d. To lie removed to a southern aud warmer climate, and be there provided tor They accept the i terms have sent a delegation to talk over details, but not to con clude them. Captain Jack is sick. Everything looks favorable for peace. 7 hey ask for small homes, aud to be located collectively. We think well of their request tor am nesty to all. ( aptain Jack desires to visit Washington with one or two of his young men." In the conversation with Jack, he said that he did not want any more war ; wanted to live in peace forever. The people might pursue their vocations without fear; did not think Meacham was responsi ble for the wrongs he had suffered on the reservation ; says Applegate is the principal cause of this trouble: denied ever haviug murdered or stolen until his people were attack ed ; thought Oregon people his en emies, but he liked Californiaus. Intent from the Dfodom. The latest from the Peace Com mission to the press states that the Modocs have emphatically rejected all offers and propositions. They proposed to meet Meacham and Ap plegate with six men unarmed in the lava bed, but this was regarded as treachery. The Commission were willing to meet them, but not on their terms. They had bad an ac cession of twenty-four warriors. A California paper says : "Some Oregon religious fanatics are griev ing because the existence of hell is denied. It really seems a pity that persons so anxious for hell shouldn't find it " 7'he reason they feel no anxiety about the existence of that place in California, is because they are so full of it they havn't room. FOBEIUN BIEWB. It is reported that the Grand Powers of Europe have agreed to postpone their recognition of the jpanish Republic for one fortnight. The Government of Spain is or ganizing an army of twenty battal ions to fight the Carlists. 7'he. Spanish Minister for the Colonies telegraphed to authorities at Cuba aud Porto Rico, Feb. 26, of the formation ot the new Minis try, and said the Republic would defend, at any price, the integrity of the Antilles. The Swiss Government lias formally recognized the Republic ot Spain. Austria is disposed to act with Prussia and Russia in regard to the new Government in Spain. At Quebec, Canada, on the 3d, 1,000 soldiers were stationed at the polling places. Roughs demolished three booths, but were charged by soldiers and dispersed. The city was under martial law all day. It was believed in London on the 3d that the frauds on the Bank of England would reach a million dol lars. The ex-King and Queen of Spain sailed from Lisbon on the 3d, in the frigate Roma. The bark Batfne was wrecked on the southeast coast of England recently. Fifteen of the crew were lost. KASTKBS STKWH. It is estimated that there are be tween ten and twelve million-bushels ot surplus wheat in Minnesota to be shipped. The chair m which Washington sat at the time ot his first inaugura tion, was to be used in the inaugu ration of Grant last Tuesday. The salaries are fixed as follows : President, $50,000; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 810,500 ; Justices of the Supreme Court, Vice I'resident, Speaker of the House, members of the Cabinet, 810,000 ; Senators, 3erabers and Delegates to Congress, $6,500. The increas ed pay applies to the present Con gress. That of the President and other officers to commence after the 4th of March. John Parker died at Patterson, N. ,L, last Friday, from the effects of slow poison administered by his wife, it was supposed. The widow of the late James Fisk, jr., has obtained a temporary injunction restraining the Credit Mobilier from dissolving until a ju dicial determination can be had of her claim of 20,000 shares of its stock. A good story has been missed by telegraphers. Butler when defend ing saintly Ames declared himself not a press-made, but a God-made man. Sam Cox exclaimed : "You neither look nor act like your fath er." In the Senate, on the 28th ult., Morrill, of Vermont, reported ad versely on the bill to donate certain public buildings iu Oregon. An investigation ot the affairs of theLechmere National Bank, at East Cambridge, Mass., showed a deficit ot $12,500, which the Cash ier, Savage, confesses " to have ab stracted. This is exclusive of missing securities belonging to pri vate parties. Mrs. Putnam, wife of A. D. Put nam, who was killed by Foster, now under sentence ot death at New York, has written a letter to Gov. Dix asking a commutation of Foster's sentence. Attorney General Williams hart directed U. S. District Attorney Bliss to enter a nolle prosequi in the case of P&lhams & Jackson, brokers, indicted for alleged com plicity with defaulting Paymaster Hodge, on the ground that the statutes relative to embezzlement do not cover the offenses of persons not United States officers. At Frindlay, Ohio, on Thursday of last week, Nicholas Biusinger,, an old man jealous of his young wife and II. J. G artier, a young man working and boarding with his lamily, entered Gartier's house and shot and killed him. The old man was lodged in jail. So much pressure has been brought to bear on Gov. Dix that it is believed that Foster's sentence will be commuted to imprisonment tor life. Hon. Hamilton tush, Thurlow Weed, Mrs. Gov. Dix and her son, Rev. Morgan Dix, and the surviving jurymen who tried him, are among the petitioners. President Tejada of Mexico in answer to the congratulations of 'resident Grant, through Minister Nelson, on his Tejada's election to the Mexican Presidency, said he hoped the friendly relations now ex- sting between the two countries would remain forever uudistured. The late census ot Brazil gives a population of 10,000,000,