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ALBANY REGISTER. lSaag Register. IT. S. OMeUI Tnptr tor OrgB. SATl-KDAY, NOV. 15. 1873. Latest New. Bismarck lias been appointed Presi dent of the Prussian Ministry. The failure of Burrs 4 Co., metal merchants London, Is reported. Lia bilities. $4,000. Six hundred Mormons, mostly En glish, Welch and Scotch, passed Oma ha going west, on the 10th. Since Hie ' let up" In the yellow fever business at Memphis, business has rapidly revived. Two banking estallshmente failed in Boston on the 12th. Gen. Crook Is on an Inspecting tour to Camp Appclie Reservation. In dians geneinlly quiet. Lamson. a stock broker, interested In Erie, failed In London on tlie 11th. Leverrler. of the Paris Observatory, announces the discovery of a new com ft, at Marseilles, by Capnra. The California Silk Company em ploys sixty jiersons, most of whom are girls. Howard McGcorge, editor of the Callstoga (Cal.) Tribune, died on the 12th, of softening of the brain. In the recent election in Illinois, of the twenty-nine female candidates for the office ot School Superintendents in as many counties, eleven were elected. On the 29th ol October Maj. Brown and troop killed 21 and captured 9 Apaclw Toutos. Ami still the good work goes on. The other day at Salem, Kev. J. L. Parrish was pitched from a wagon by the whiffletree breaking, suffering a severe sprain ot an ankle. A. Bush, of Salem, presented the Are company of that city with $200, for their efforts in saving the Cheme iGBta Hotel from the recent Are. A great battle In Spain between the Carlists and Republicans, resulting ir. a victory for the former, is reported. Republican loss, 1,300. "After dragging their butter down to Corlnne by the hair, the Cache Val ley farmers get 40 cents a pound for It," says the Salt Lake Tribune. A boiler explosion in New York on the Uth, caused the death of seven persons and severely wounded several others. Near Belalr, Mo., on the night of the 11th, Henry Roe shot and killed his affianced, Mollie Wallin. and then blew his own brains out, all because the girls' parents refused to sanction their marriage. Capt. Brown, Fifth Cf.valry. sta tioned at Camp McDowell, Arizona, recently returned from a scout in the Canto basin country after Indians who are still on the war path. He killed 48 on this scout A four hundred and fifty dollar ca nine passed in his chocks at Tacoma. last Monday, to satisfy the vengeance nft nervous individual whom he had kept awake for thirteen night. Cattle men report that in no previ ous season has the grass on the plains "cured dowu" so finely as the present Ml. As a consequence, there will be no lack of good winter feed. Southern Utah flour is selling at (5 per hundred, at Piochc, while Califor nia flour brings (7 and $10. This is en-lug to the poor milling facilities of the southern portion ot the Territory. The Montanian of October 23d learns that the snow is as deep on the Bould er and Big Hole Mountains as any time last winter six feet at new Wil low Creek mines, and 10 feet at the head of South Boulder. Dr. M. D. Swiggett, one of the old eat practicing physicians and earliest settlers of Salem, was fouud dead at his residence In that city on Tuesday. A coroner's jury decided that lie came to his death from rheumatism and goat, and excessive use of ardent spirits. On the Uth Inst., at Richmond, Va., Judge J. C. Underwood, of the U. S. District Court, was assaulted by Win. Licking, former o wner of property In Alexandria, Va., which was purchased by the Judge wider tint Confiscation At. Practical Pkliaaskrepir. Joseph Arch, the English Philan thropist, recently retnroed to New York, after a tour through the Cana das where he made a systematic and thorough effort to get at the precise condition ot the laboring classes there. He made the tour generally on foot, often incMinito, sharing the food and lodging of the farmers, lumbermen and mechanics, and learning from them, In free conversation at their tire-sides, their wants and necessities, their hopes and apprehensions. In pursuing this course, Mr. Arch took a very practical and highly effective method of getting at facts that could scarcely be learned In any other way. He reports finding the condition of the Canadian peasant, as bearing no com parison to those of the United States. He found that where one English emi grant settles in the Dominion north of tlie St. Lawrence, at least twenty find homes iu the United States. Tlie poorer classes in Great Britain had come to regard the United States as the only part of America worth emi grating to. He secured a proposition from a railway company to employ and transport a thousand men whom he shall send over. He will, therefore, go home, and return in the Spring, bringing 500 or 1,000 men with their families, who will settle In Canada. He will then look carefully over the United States, particularly the West, to find where 100.000 English farm la borers and railroad workmen can be placed to the best advantage. All this is very practical and entirely different from tlie usual custom of men who go about tlie country iu the character of reformers, and is likely to produce the best of results. "Mr. Arch is del uged with letters from all parts of the country, notably the South, asking upon what terms farm laborers can be supplied ;" and it is possible that iu this movement to be inaugurated by Mr. Arch, may be found he solution to the labor problem in the South, where vast acres ot rich land, which might be turning out untold wealth, now Hcs unproductive for the want of intelligent and well ordered labor. Silver Payments. The director of the Mint makes the following statement of the purpose ot government in paying out silver coin : In this, as iu other countries where gold is the sole standard or measure of value, silver coins are over-valued for the purpose ot rendering them in- I exportable. They are manufactured and issued on government account, tlie law, however, placing directly or indirectly a limit on the issue to pre vent redundancy, if issued in times of specie payment beyond the require ment of the people tor change, such coins will not maintain their purchas ing power with standard coins, owing to the various causes, In this and other countries silver has declined iu value to a point at whieii tlie govern ment can purchase it with gold, man ufacture it into small coin, and pay it out at a fair profit. The government, has recently purchased a quantity of Silyr bullion sufficient for its purposes an 112 1-2 tvnts per sttudard ounce. and will uianutacturc it into coin at a fixed legal rate of 121 4-10 cents per ounce, the differences between the pnrehasiiig and issuing rate' being within a fraction of twelve cents per ounce, or about ten and a half percent on tlie gold coin paid in purchase. This oncration is believed to be a more profitable one for the Treasury, and also more advantageous to the public iu the present condition of the money market than the sale of gold for legal tender notes, and is not a scheme for the resumption ot specie payments but simply a compliance with the mint laws. A dollar in United States currency will purchase a little more gold iu the market than a dollar of small silver coins. The dollar will, therefore, soon find its level, and un less there l a rise in both the prices of gold and silver, small coins must circulate concurrently with taper money. The government lias in pos session of the assistant treasurers about $500,000 iu silver coin, and at the mint aud assay offices In silver bullion and coin about two millions. This stock is ample for the present. This mode of paying out silver coin will lie continued until circumstances shall dictate a contrary course. As proper, the government will exact the full seigniorage required by law, but will not undertake to control tlie disposition of coin after it is paid out. The coin will then become the property of hold en, who may do what they please with It. This course was not decided upon until it had been fully considered by the Secretary of the Treasury. The pool selling for the $20,000 race at the Lick House on the Uth, aggre gated over $20,000. Thad Stevens sold for $200, Daniels, $110, True Blue, who lias entirely recovered from recent lameness, selling for $135, field for $30. As the great crowd could not all be accommodated, pool selling will continue probably until the day of the race. At the great billiard tournament at Chicago on the 11th, CyrllTc Dion, of New York, beat Slosen, of Chicago, the score standing 400 to 397 a close race. Daly, of New York, beat Sny der, of Chicago, 400 to 109. Gamier, of New York, bent Bcssinger ot Chicago. 400 to 340. Daly beat Slosscn 400 to 207. The game was French carom. The attempt to throw the Farmers' Grange movement Into political chan nels Is not meeting with success. The executive committees in some ot the Western States have passed resolutions prohibiting all HHtieal action in and through the order, and admonishes members of the order, that they are expected to act politically the same as they always did as private citizens, ami iu no other capacity. This will be something of a damper upon the spirits of a lot of political demagogues, who have been sleeping iu tlie liay mows all season, in order to more ef fectually identify themselves with the tanners and thereby ride into power on the farmers hobby. Experiments In the propulsion of street cars by steam power continue to be made with reasonable prospects of success. The car designee to be so propelled carries no tire, but receives its steam from a stationary boiler, suf ficient in quantity tor a round trip, aud it is said to run without any un pleasant noise and to be handled with ease. Should this change be found feasible it will make a revolution in tlie whole street car system, and great ly reduce its cost ot operation. The Illinois Railroad Commissioners have completed their schedule for freight and passenger rules according to the provisions of the new law. The law does not go into effect until the middle of January. The schedule provides that where one dollar pays lor freighting any commodity one mile; twenty cents will carry It ten miles further, a;id after the first hundred miles is traveled the rate Is only four fifths of one cent per mile, for tlie re maining distance. Passenger rates are three cents per nille, with 100 pounds of baggage, which Is nearly one quarter reduction. Missourtaiow claims to rank second in the farmers' movement, as regards the number of granges and their influ ence. Fifty agents of the State Grange are busy organizing new granges at the rate of fifty a week, and it is be lieved that when tlie movements is two years old it will number no less than 2,000 granges. Sleeting? are held almost dally iti the State, with an average attendance ranging from 5,000 to 10.000. The stea mer from Boston to Liver pool on the Uth. took ItiO steerage passengers, mill operatives and arti slans, who return to the old country because they can not get work here. How Long Shall We Sleep. The tact is, that As life becomes con centrated, and its pursuits more eager, short sleep and early rising becomes impossible. We take more sleep than our ancestors, and we take more be cause we want more. Six hours' sleep will do very well for a ploughman or a brick layer, or any other man who has no exhaustion but that produced by manual labor, and the soonner he takes it after his labor is over, the bet ter. But for a man whose labor is mental, the stress of work , Is on his brain and nervous system, and for him who is tired in ti.e evenhig with a day of mental application, neither early to bed nor early to rise Is wholesome. He needs letting down to the level of repose. The longer the Interval be tween the active use ot the brain and Ills retirement to bed, the better his chance for sleep and refreshment. To him an hour after midnight is probably as good as two hours before it, and even then his sleep will not so com pletely and quickly restore him as it will Ids neighbor who Is physically tired. He must not only go to bed later, but lie longer. His best sleep probably lies In the early morning hours, when all tlie nervous excite ment has passed away, and he is in absolute rest. A man who was discovered among a lot of tombstones in a asleep stone cutters yard said on being awakened, that tie had come in to buy a monu ment for himself, and having picked out one, made up his mind he would try it one night before purchasing. MNBGMI. CABLE DISPATCH. From the World's Fair. Vienna, Austria. Aug. 20, '73. W. G. Wilson, Esq., President Wilson Satiny Macli ine Company, Cleve land, Ohio: The Wilson Sewing Ma chine received the Grand Prize Med al for being the Best Sewing Machine, aud a Grand Prize (medal of honor) was awarded to the Wilson Sewing Machine Co. for manufacturing sewing machines in (he best manner, from the best material, and'by the best known mechanical principles. These cele brated machines ar now on exhibition and for sale at the store of lltf. BLAIN, YOUNG CO. ALBAXY ASD NAOTIAM CANAL. The Albany and Sautiam Canal Company would respectfully call the attention of the public and especially the Capitalist and those desiring to engage in manufacturing, to their gigantic water power and water priv ilege. Sixteen thousand cubic feet constantly flowing every minute, equal to 800 horse power, with from S to 30 feet fall, sufficient for the most ex'en sive machinery, with ground on which to erect the necessary buildings, etc. The Company deem it but projierthat the nubile should know more fully the locality of this great water power,' its facilities and surroundings, iu order that those unacquainted may form some estimate of its value. The city of Albany is tlie county-seat of Linn county, located on the south east bank of' the Willamette river, about liXftniles south of Portland, by river, and 80 miles by railroad; south of Salem 45 miles by river and 30 miles by railroad, and north of Eugene City 45 miles. Albany is located in a prairie of the same name, which is the great agricul- I .1... 1 1 r 1 1 1 ... .T..I, uiiai eeniei 01 ine n luameiie v aney, and it is believed that upward of 500,-. 000 bushels of surplus wheat will be re ceived at that point, the present season. The most of It will find its way to for eign markets, either by boats or rail road to Portland, and from thence up on the ocean. The Willamette river is navigated by beautiful steamers, carrying from 80 to 300 tons, running as tar as Albany some ten months iu the year. Also, the O. & C. R. R , with its beautiful locomotives. Is pass ing through the citv daily. The city ot Albany is located upon a high, roll ing prairie, with the (Jalapooia, a beau tiful creek, flowing into the Willamette river on the west, the water of which is used in driving two Large llourin mills, situated on the bank of the Wii lamette river. The city is about one mile in length, running east and west, and from one-half to three-fourths of a mile in width, and Is laid off with streets of good width. The Canal, which is the subject and object of this communication, receives its waters from the South Santiam river, which heads In the great Cascade mountains, some 75 miles east of Albany ; thence running westerly through a valley of the same name, to Lebanon, a village! located near the west bank of said river, 13 miles east of Albany. The Canal receives the waters from the Santiam river at that point, thence running west to its ter minus at Albany. The main Santiam flows northward, and empties its mountain waters into the Willamette river 10 miles northeast of Albany. The Canal is brought from Lebanon through n bcautifnipralrie for a dis tance of 12 miles, and empties into the Willamette river, forming on Its way and in the city some of the finest water powers for manufacturing purposes found on the Pacific eoatt. There are but tew, if any, points hi the State which surpasses Albany now, for man ufacturing facilities. Cheap water power and easy of access, and conven ient transportation, either by water or railroad, and the location beautiful aud healthy. The Canal Company offers liberal inducements to persons desiring to en gage in the business ot manufacturing, and will furnish water power upon the most reasonable terms. Manufactur ing of all kinds Is heeded iu Oregon, and could be made profitable. The Canal Company will agree to furnish, within sixty days, any water power needed, from a button factory to that of a locomotive. Immigrants aiW others are earnestly Invited and requested to visit Albany and examine for themselves. Real property can yet be procured on very reasonable terms, both iu and out of the city. Our eople compare favor ably with the rest ot mankind, morally socially, politically and financially. Published by ower of the Board of Directors, Sept. 8th, 1873. L. ELKINS, D. Mansfield, President. Secretary. REMEMBER! C. MEALEY, ' orm.ua a oood Paying Business! For Sale'Low. 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