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ALBANY REGISTER. V. 8. Official Paper for Oregon. FRIDAY. APRIL 11, 1873. Vnutiual Candor. The Missouri Republican, published at St. Louis, and the leading Democrat ic; organ of that section, has uttered tlie following words of honest criti cism, relative to the character for in capacity of the Democrats in the late Congress. Its truthfulness all will recognize. It says: "The Democrats in the late Congress demonstrated a sin gular incapacity to Improve their op portunities. They did nothing for the country, nothing for the cause of good government, and nothing even for their party." It is of the opinion that they were entirely worthless, for good, and Congress would have been as well off without them as with them. We heartily concur in the opinion that n tliemselves they were useless to the country for good. If they pos sessed ability, they lacked the inclina tion. There is but one conceivable di rection in which they might serve a good purpose. As living examples of unscrupulous demagoguery and grasj) ing depravity, a few might be of ser vice, as a warning to other Congress men. "" Apache News. The Arizona Miner, of March 29th. says we have cheering news from Gen. Crook's troops. The command of Major W. II. Brown came upon ths enemy in Tonto basin, and killed thirty-eight warriors and captured sev enteen women. Lieut. W in. Rice and command were in hot pursuit of an other band. Lt. Woodson's command had killed fifteen warriors and captur ed two women. LL Michler's com mand had killed five warriors and cap tured five women. Capt. Taylor's command killed three warriors ami captured two women. The Indians were frightened and scared. Gracious ! we should think they would be ; but why in the world don't an Arizona Applegate get up a Peace Commis sion ? The Apaches could then kill white folks ad libitum. At the last municipal election at Boston there was some well-founded suspicion of ballot-box stuffing. The Hub " never allows an evil to goun corrected, if possible. In this case a patent has been devised. It is an anti swindling ballot-box, superior in con trivance to any yet attempted. Some sort of mechanical contrivance marks thenumber of times the box is open ed, and the register shows at all times the whole number of votes deposited. As the latter records but one every time the box Is opened, it is impossi ble to stuff without detection. An encliange says : " If Christiani ty means any thing, It means sixteen ounces to the pound, tiree feet to the yard, a just weight and a just measure. It means honesty in all dealings purity in all conversation, charity as broad as the race, unflinching Integr ty, humanity to men." Christianity means nothing less than all of that. It is now understood that the Ad ministration has determined to sus pend, for the present, all proceedings against persons indicted in the South ern States for violating the Enforce ment act and enrolling themselves as members of the Ku Klux. Over a thousand of these cases are now pend ing in the U. S. Courts. A maiden of sixty summers, named Maria Kindler, of San Francisco, has commenced suit against a youth of about the same number of years, named Edward Nelson, of the same city, for breach of promise, fixing the compensation for her lascerated "feel inks" at only $299,999 99. Figaro says there are flfteeu thous and persons in Washington, D. C, with no visible means of support." My gracious ! how did so many lose their legsf Henry Ward Beecher returned home from his Western tour of seventeen lectures with $21,000 at his net profits. Frightful NtaiMlm. The Directors tf the Bureau Veri tas, of Brussels. Belgium, report the enormous number of five hundred and eighty-six sailing vessels and steamers lost and mi-ising during January and February, being over eight daily in January, and nearly twelve dally In February. Of these there were twenty-six sailers and twenty-one steamers, totally lo which were American, against two hundred and eighty-four sailers and twenty-three steamers lost, which were English. EANTKH MKWN. The public debt was decreased $1, (144.058 last month. The outstanding legal tenders amount to $458,509,047. The State Department positively de nies the reiterated assertions of the resignation of Minister Low and the remove! of De Long. Stokes is confident that the efforts now leing made to save him from the gallows will be successful. A new phase of the Goodrich mys tery is that Jas. Knox, trow a prisoner In jail at Brooklyn for forgery, who was four years on the New York po lice, claims to have information that would lead to the detection of the murderer of Goodrich, but refuses to reveal it unless the charge against him is dismissed. The Pennsylvania Railroad Compa ny Will expend $19,000,000 In that State during the present year, the most of it going to the building of two additional tracks to Philadelphia. A plan is being agitated at St. Louis to connect the new post office with the railroads centering at the new Union depot. In the late disaster of the steamer Atlantic one woman passenger was confined only six hours before lt oc curred. Nixon, sentenced to be hanged at New York on the Kith of May, be came utterly unconscious with flight after sentence. A disgraceful fight took place in the lobby ol the House at Trenton, N. J., on the 4th . It grew out of a debate the day before In which Mr. Carse call ed James M. Scoville a perjured man anil a scoundrel. At the time of the tight, Mr. Cole and John Hood were quarreling, when Scoville came up and mixed in. Cole called him a liar, and was immediately knocked down by Scoville. The Speaker ordered the doors closed. Before it was done, Guise rushed into the fight. Scoville knocked him down, and gave him a tremendous whaling while down. The Mayor of Trenton then interposed, and prevailed upon Scoville to leave the State House. A centrifugal machine, in a sugar refinery of Baltimore buret on the 2d, killing one person and wounding two others. Only $200,000 has been awarded against the United States by the Brit Hi and American Claims Commission, and the remaining cases cannot give more than an equal sum. Representative Brooks Is very low with sickness in Washington, and his friends are anxious about his recovery. At the funeral services of Bev. Ba ther Maelain, in Trenton, Del., on the 31st utt., at St. John'sCatholIcchUrob, a cracking noise produced a fearful panic among the congregation. In the rush for exit, women and children were trampled beneath the crowd, which becune wedged about the doors for about ten minutes. Many present ed a shocking sight as tliey were pull ed out by stalwart men. Ladders were elevated to the windows and peo ple taken out. The total number In jured was twenty persons, nine of whom had died and others were In a dangerous condition. The cracking noise emanated from kneeling boards. A widow named Elizabeth Hedge was murdered at Eureka, 111., last Sunday. She had $150 In her posses sion. The body was partially eaten by hogs. The death of Mrs. James Gordon Bennett is announced by cable. It oc curred at Koeuigsteiu, Saxony. The Newark Co-operative Colony of New Jersey, propose to settle In Sail Joaquin Valley. The society Is composed principally of men with cap ital of from two to fifteen thousand dollars each. A meeting waj held re cently to organize, and elected the fol lowing officers : Henry Wilson. New ark, President ; Warren, Vice Presi dent; Francis Duffy, Treasurer. These officers, with a Board of Trus teess will have charge of the govern ment of the settlement. Rules for the government of the future town were adopted; They contain a clause among others that no license for the sale of liquors shall bo granted. Ten persons hare paid the full amount required; and ten others have signified their in tentions. None are accepted unless they are known to be steady, industri ous persons, who will enter earnestly into the designs of the company. The plan of operation is tliat 10 or 14 members shall leave in August and proceed to the valley, where they will secure a tract of about 10,000 acres upon the contemplated line of the Southern Pacific railway. In Decem ber, when all arrangements for pur chasing land, and for acquiring title to adjacent Government lands, have been consummated, the remainder of the colony will go on in time to put in the first crop. A portion of the laud will be laid out as a town, the rest be ing laid out into farms. A common fund will provide all necessary expen ses for surveying and irrigation after the land has 'been bought. Two murders occurred in Memphis, Tenn., lately. John Newell, a dissi pated man. wrote a letter to his father-in-law threatening that unless lie gave him a tho usand dollars he would kill him, was afterwards met by him and his two sons, one of which, Coleman, shot Newell a number of times with a pistol, resulting in his death, The other case resulted from an alterca tion, in which James Patterson was shot by Morris J. Bowers, causing his death. Judge John W. Wright, of Wash ington City, was arrested in St. Louis on the 4th, on endictments found by the grand jury lor forging endorse ments on drafts. He gave bail in the sum of $12,000. He says it is a mali cious prosecution. Ex. Senator Cattell, of New Jersey, has been appointed Financial Agent of the Treasury Department, to visit Europe in connection with the new loan. General Whittesey, formerly an of ficer of the Freedmen's Bureau, has been put In the Insane Asylum at Washington. A hurricane swept over Burlington, Iowa, last Saturday ami caused the death of Mrs. Stelger and children by the fall of the house. The strike at New York of the em ployees of the Metropolitan Gas Com pany, has worked some inconvenience to parts of the c!ty. It has compelled the use of caudles and camphene in some instances. The East Conference, of New York, has appointed a committee to make arrangements in concurrence with committees in other sections of the country, for a proper celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the first Methodist Conference in Ameri ca. Robert Malller. while drunk on the 6th, broke into his father's house In Brooklyn, and assaulted him with a knife. The latter seized a stick and clubbed his son almost to death. .Senator Jones, of Nevada, proposes to build a palatial residence in Wash ington to cost $100, OIK). Three years ago Arkansas had 50 miles of railroad. Now she has 500 completed. The Wisconsin Legislature refuses to pass the compulsory educational law. In Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, the peacli crop is ruined. Congressman Roosevelt, of New York, has given his back pay to the Board of Education of the city, to be used in furnishing prizes for deserving pupils. Laura Keene, the actress, has sued C. M. Bradsford, of the American Lit erary Bureau, to recover $15,000 for alleged libel. At Galveston, Texas, April 6th, a desperado named James Helm, drew a knife and cut a boy. He then in his attempt to escape, attacked and cut three unoHending persons who hap pened to be in his way. Officer Fer guson, who was attempting to arrest him, wits the next to receive the knife, and he died In a few minutes. Mr. Beuisou, an old and respected citizen, was one of those cut, and has died. The firemen swear vengeance against Helm, one of their number being in cluded among the victims. It was thought be would never be brought to trial. He was supposed to be a cousin of the notorious Jack Helm, of Texas. Louis Carzile, born In North Caroli na In 1755, died at Stevenson, Alaba ma, on the 6th, aged 118 years. He lived there 60 years. Up to April 7th, 226 bodies had been recovered from the Atlantic, at Hall fox. The Hall ot the House of Repre sentatlves, at Washington, is to be newly decorated. At Smithton. Pa., April 9th, a Mrs. Grouse was murdered by tier husband) He had been drinking hard and went home and beat her tooeath. Grouse's father interfered, and Was himself cut and beaten. Petroleum is reported to have been discovered at Saylerville, near Des Moines, Iowa. The youngest of the Leon Brothers,, gymnasts, fell from a trapeze at Chi cago, April 7th breaking his right thigh, and probably disabling him lor life. Illinois has been visited during the past week with very heavy rains. The prairies are covered with water, and the streams overflowing. Central Alabama expects a colony from Russia. A newspaper correspondent who went down to the wreck of the Atlan tic on the 7th inst.. says the hull Of the vessel has broken in several places and tlie cargo has broken bulk. The bodies of men and women are jammed among boxes and crates. Limbs are strewn around, broken from liodles by the continual action of the water. At the companion-way of the steerage were a hundred or more bodies lying in confused heaps, some dressed but many half nude. Children were clinging to mothers, and husbands clasping wives. At this companion way male passengers, bodies of men, old and young, were together on the stairs, with distended nostrils, gaping mouths, and staring, glassy eyes, giv ing some idea of their horrible death in struggling to gain the deck. In the sleeping apartments were numbers of bodies of men with bed clothing strewn among them. Broken stanchions and jagged and splintered wood-work had torn the flesh from the faces of many. Some were more bruised and battered about their heads, which were red and bloody, contrasting horribly with the features of others. FOREIUN MEWS. The Parliament of New South Wales, voted $200,000 to aid immigra tion lately. The Carlists were reported on the 3d to have shot 60 prisoners at Berga. The Republicans have carried the municipal elections in Nantes and Marseilles, France. The Pope, owing to his feeble con dition, is forbidden to leave his apart ments. Geo. Bidwell, alleged to have been implicated in the Bank of England frauds, has been arrested in J5dln burgh. The steamship Atlantic was insured by London companies for $150,000. Five miners were killed by the ex plosion of Are damp in a coal mine near Abertillery, Monmouthshire, Eng., on the 4th, and many others wounded. An American detective has identi fied Bidwell, the alleged Bank cf Eng land forger, as a man well known to the American police. It is announced in Madrid that Don Carlos has abdicated his claims to the Spanish throne in favor of his son, un der tlie regency of Don Alphonso. General. Cabrina has been appointed to the supreme command of tlie Car list forces in Spain. Most of the churches in Catalonia, Spain, have been closed or turned into barracks. The annual pilgrimage to Mecca this year has been made without anv cases of cholera among the 150.000 pilgrims, consequent upon the intelligent efforts of the French, English, and Ottoman Sanitary Mission. Latest Ncwn. The California thief who was wel comed with three charges ot bird-shot, was converted and now sings : "A charge to keep I have." The Bulletin has this : Mrs. May, of East Portland, living near the school house In Holladay's Addition, is said to be in destitute circumstances. She is in delicate health herself, and six little children are dependent upon her. The case is deserving immediate at tention. Eight woolen mills are now in ope ration in California, all doing a fine business. J. C. Faiivhild has assumed charge of the Siletz Agency. At the school election at Portland, Monday, J, C. Ainsworth was elected Director, and R. J. Ladd, Clerk. The Oregonian says : The report Is pretty well confirmed that Joe Teal) who is now East, has made arrange ments to put on two large steamers between San Francisco and Portland. A Pennsylvania paper tells this yam: "A pumpkin pie ten feet In diameter and four feet deep was the chief feature of a California dinner, recently. The amusement of the com pany was somewhat marred by a child falling into the pie and a man jump ing in to save It." The stages t6 Walla Walla are full every trip. The upper Missouri Is free from ice. and all the ferries are running. May was admitted Into Hotel de Watklnds last Sunday. He was well furnlslied with newspapers. The Salt Lake Tribune dellends Gov, Woods from the charge of Improper affiliation With the Mormons. andsk the President to retain him instead of appointing a new one. Frank Hughes "April fooled" the officers of Cowlitz county, on the 1st inst.. by failing to come to his slipper when it was takeu to him In the jail at Kalama. They supposed him in his cell, hut he had opened the back door and left. He was Indicted for grand larceny. Seven hundred head of cattle were wintered on Bennett Creek, Idaho, 7 miles southeast of Boise City, with no other food than grass. Only thWc or four died. We read In the Statesman that Rev. O. Dickinson and wife Were On last Mouday made recipients of a sliver table service, by their friends and ad mirers. The presentation was made by Rev. P. S. Knight. Mr. Dickinson has lived In Salem for twenty years. The residence of Mr. P. L. Willis, of Salem, we learn from the Statemair, was destroyed by fire last Monday evening. A defective flue was thought to be the cause of the fire. The house was insured for $4,000 and the furniture for $2,000. The loss over that Is esti mated from $2,500 to 3,000. Empire City lias no resident min ister. Miss Julia Lewi, of Multnomah county, was sent to the InsAne Asylum, last Saturday. Eugene City ships about one thous and dozen eggs to Portland each week. A small boy of S. Wolf, at the Dalles, was run over by a hotel coach and killed, last Friday evening. They talk at Corvallis of organizing a joint stock company for the purpose of building a hotel On the site of the one burned. On the 1st day of April a boy at Olympla 'sold" everybody who passed by crying out, "Who pinned that paper onto your tall ?" At which the person would look round In the vain attempt to discover the paper streamer. And then "cussin'." The Los Angeles cattle are having the horse disease. Every time the "Are fiend" gives Salem a flretaste, somebody gets hurt. The late fire caused several hurts. R. H. Price got his toot crushed ; John Howell cut his with an axe; Sol Dur bin was slightly injured by the pole of the engine poking him in the hack', Chris nuusaker had his back hurt by being knocked down by the tongue of the hose cart ; a falling timber disfig ured tlie face of Mr. E. Olinger. Evi dently an awkward set down there. The Statesman says that at the late fire the two engines pumped eleven wells dry. ' From the Oregonian We read that one day last week, an attempt Was made by some villain to throw the special train which contained Mr. Ilbi laday, from the track, by placing ob structions on the rail near Gaston. The regular train was but a lew miles in advance at. the time. Fortunately the obstructions were discovered in time. A person who would do such a thing as that could not be too severely dealt with. Hon. A. J. Dutur, Centennial Com missioner from Oregon, will go East on the Ajax, to attend the annual meeting of the Board at Philadelphia which meets May next. The steamer Oneatta, which tor several years has been plying between Elk City and Newport, is to be brought around the Columbia, to be run on the upper Willamette. She is a stanch little steamer of 90 tons burthen. News from the Modocs to the 8th represents that at headquarters they were momentarily expecting trouble. A message from Jack on the 6th, In vited the three commissioners with Generals Canby and GUlem to meet him and seven others at the second cave, uo others to come. This was re fused, as It was thought to be treach ery . Afterwards it was seen that 25 warriors were at the place oi meeting. On the 7th, Boston came in and said Capt Jack would meet, at cne o'clock next day, five men on each side. The Commissioners were to meet them in one fnore effort for peace. They will give the final proposition and a reason able time for the Modocs to decide on accepting the terms. It will be Insist ed by the commissioners that they surrender and leave the Lata Bed, and no other terms will be accepted. If they refuse these terms, Qtm. GUlem will then do his duty. So goes the dispatch. We will see. , Base ball is the rage now in Salem-