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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1877)
Rvr.nr nunAY, ' by X THE REGISTER BUILDIWG, i-'J&.a "si' "1' w'-'T "- - "' TERMS IN ADVANCE. ..B copy. one year ....... in " i-Wpy,iMjmmmiH i -l0 TocUtlMior twsnty,cUeopy..'k".'.".'.'.'":i no i 2ito."We."-.... .Tcii cents ll?uI J onnt "f twnr annum billed by n feu?'"cd i ... .t!t ,V? Agents for (be RcKitr. t.?J',,.rol2lw "M"1 wtlracn urt-antlior-ta tKiIS?nLnTci,t lor subscriptions fi2lf?IfTtR.,n fhe localities mentlor.c.1 : iv5E2v. rk Hume....... Brownsville. W Crawfor.lsville. i-rr- Tompkins.". Ilnrrlahurg "Clanjfl. t on Lei mnon . a A- Wheeler Co , Sjlieild V- mUh Brasrteia Junct Ion City. H. Irvlno.......,,J.M . , . Sx-io , Tho. II. Key no Ws. . . .". , J ! StVlem '. "nub at; . .FEBRUARY 0, , IS77. TlIE EATEg VOICE. I very bold ami fearless child. ' mini ray rot sers and sisters often dared - na to go into lonely places in the dark, -medi perilous feats of various kinds, which challenges I never refused. Of- Son they set out .. to ,play tricks on nic, tut it usually happened that they loll Jata.their own traps, while I performed ny part in safely. .Veny jKK8ili!y the consciousness that X"hey were about to dupe me gave me more courages than I would otherw ise liave had, for any unusual noise or ap- f Jiearance would be attributed to one or Another coming to frighten me. 'i But, night or day, I used to go j -(Straight op ' to and touch whatever weeraedl fearful, and rinding the object . -of doubt resolved itself into very sim c pte element, I acquired aa ease which lood me instead in times of real dan- - iswjWe lived in a larac old house built . d KugHsh oak and bearing its nearly two centuries very lightly. It oiened to tlie south and the two Inrge parlors looked to.the east and west. The diuins-hall anl spacious kitchen Torrned tlie square of the house, while At the west and back was an other large mom aometimes called the great porch, nd at the east and back was the dairy and another porch. There were three stairways leading "to the upper rooms, aud a garret, whose ample space was broken only by the groat chimney in the center. ; We had a gay and lively house, and were used to a great deal of company j and .visitors, for my parents were great- j ly given to the f M-fUsl.ioned virtue of ; hospitality. '.' The humblest wayfarer coming in at "the porch was entertained kiudiy and bade Gods)cetl, as well a the truest whoso elegant carriage and span drove Tonnd to the front door on the Southern nidc. : ' I am not going now t tell you of my handsome "gentle" parents, or my brothers and sisters ronly about myself". ( ;$ There were a great many of us when wo were all at home, especially in the - -Winter holidays, but at times we were K-nearly all away. Hoarding schools, academic?:, travel- ! ig all claimed us at various times. ! TTet it was rare indeed that one was ever at' home alone. ; It so happercd, however, and to trie. It was a Summer' day, and warm, bright, and beaniiful. The morning promised a lovely day. Just after our 4strly breakfast, a merry party came riding down the lane, in carriages and on horseback, and calling joyously for - ray father and mother to accompany -them on a pleasure trip. They were accustomed to this mode of improptu t.iartivity, and gaily answered that they ..-would soon be ready. . ; It was only the day before that my father had returned from the Australian gold fields and had brought with him ft bag of gold. I knew be had this, for I had seen him the night before count ing aome ot it, and putting it into an other bag, and I badly wanted to ask ' him to give me one of the pretty coins, but was too well taught to interrupt or 'tease htm. " Thomas brought the chaise to the door. Father's favorite black horse, .-"whose coat looked like lustrous velvet, mnd who stepped so proudly, was paw ling the ground impatiently as he ap peared: He handed in - my beautiful mother, and I stood Jpoking on with chUdish pleasure at her beauty and rich j. dress that o became her. My father Kiddculj turned to me and sail, taking fiis kexto his iron-boarjd,box: .. ,Rtni, Ann, and get me the little bag " " voti saw me put away last nisht." ' I was proud to be so trusted but when I quickly returned with it, be was Already in the chaise, and part way to ' the gate. -i no looked out and said : ? ' "No matter, now, Ann, yoa may put it back again, tor we are coine another road, and I will pay Harris to-morrow. Take care- ot the key, my dear, aud .fiood-bye'-: : 5i Good-byc, and a good time to yon," I laughingly replied and ran back to pat the treasure in safety. s :' I hastened indoors a train to sec them .'wind down; the; private way that ran throngn our extensive grounds, and .-Ji wisnea j. were ota cnougn to go :wtn mem. Hearing a slight noise 1 - turned nd saw a stranger, a figure not irwasaaha man with a bundle hung on .a, He was leaning on the stone wall, apparently looking after . the carriages. IIe carao ibrward in. a 'moment, and aeked if he might mt down arid rest, and it I wonkt fcrnai; give him a drink tof eeiyf3Bee was ;-&a free' as water t ,Ot oourse-I said yea and vwith light steps soon had him a substantial fa neb of bread, cheese, and beer, which ho .came into the' kithen - te eat. JI3etsey .aud Jlamiah - were busy, , hurrying, to '.fiuUi lliciworkj for thoy were- going evcm ns. They talked gaily about the'r visit, paying little attention to the stroller, who was quiet'y eating. Tie had laid his straw hat on the floor, and I saw that his head was bald on the top, and the thinnish hair brushed up froni be hind over it. " " ' "' ' He had prominent ears, low ftirehead and large mouth with a retreating chin, where grew a stubby warn, of grizzly black, like Ins hair. I did not -know why I -observed all this or his eyes, small and hid tinder grayish -brow, that seemed to glance furtively about him when no one appeared to be looking- His voice was, harsh and creaking, and had slai tied me w lien ho lhbt ad dressed me. - ' We were used to strollers of all kinds, as I have said. Perhaps I was mental ly contrasting his repulsivenessv .with my father's noble and dignified features, lie seemed to ne very ugly. Iwas . glad when he had finished his meal, i and risen to 20. " - v .v i " He asked permission to light his pipe, which was readily granted. He went out directly, passing accidental'y Uuough the dining-room and out of the great hall, where he lingered for a mo- ment or two. Ho had thanked me civilly enough tor his breakfast, but the girls laughed and nodded as he went out, and said they should think I had picked up a raven. - All that long, bright day I was busy and happy in the flower garden, or sewing, or reading ; and when the girls left, looking very cheerful at their half holiday, I wished them a merry .time, and told them not to hasten home, for Thomas slum M ci me for them. I exacted my father and soon after eight o'clock, and mother I told Thomas he might go about that time, as they would soon be home, and it looked a little like rain. Heavy clouds were gathering in the west and the thunder rumbled sullenly He took iho covered wagon ai.d old gray, and before he stepped in, said re spectfully : "Miss Ann, I tbh:k yon had better fast?n the doors, as you may be all alone for a short time if I go so soon Would not you rather that I should shouiit .. wait till your father comes?" "Oh, no, Thomas; I don't mind being alone in the least, and von nno-ht In I , j e j go, lest it should rain hard, for it is I more than two mPes to ride, and they may not wish to leave in a minute. 1 ! expect father and mother every moment. ! Don't wait." j Fo Thomas left, and the wagon rat tled merrily up the lane, j I bolted the doors because he had ( told me to, for otherwise I shoutd not ! lift vr th mi or! it. rif it. It grew dark rapidly, and the thuueer began to eai heavily, while the wind rose, aixl the ilashes of lightning grew more vivid and frequent. I went into the east parlor, and look ed out to the south, .but t!ie sudden lighting up ot the sky and the follow ing darkness did not interest me long. I could not see out very well, either, as t lie honeysuckles covered the win- ! doWP. The large mirror rcilected me as I turned away to cross the room, and 1 i i;"- . ity, for I was 3oung aud lair enough to look upon. I let all my hair fall kose, and wound it in long, shining brown curls k.f .iln.-H 1 itiiitnf it fa natural imi ' over my ringer?. It certainly did lxk handsome", tor it was ery thick, and fell bfclow my waist, and curled almost of itself as it fell. There came a great flash of light, and I saw distinctly reflected in the glass a face looking in the window. It was an instant ot terror, but I neither screamed nor moved. The face could rot see my face, and I kept my body still, and rolled the long shining rings off my cold, white fingers. It was an ugly face, and I recognized it. I had seen it that morning, and I knew what lay before mo. I prayed inwardly a brief prayer for help. 1 timing from the glass-, I went steaa ily toward a table that stood near that window, and on which I had left my candle. I moved steadily as usual, and took up (lie water pitcher and looked in it, then took my caudle and went to ward tlie kitchen. Tlie lightning kept flashing, but the face did not come again. I dropped my 4-aud!e on tlie kitchen hearth and put my toot on the wick. I set down tho pitcher on the dresser, aiid with soft, light footfall hastened through the west room up the front stairs, into my father's chamber, and softly closed and bolted the door at the head of the stairs. I unlocked bis box, took out both the bags of gold, relocked it, and made my way into the great chamber. I heard voices ; I heard the doors tried below. I knew it was not' ray father. I dared not tremble or grow faint. I went through that room and . ..1 . .1 . . - a i -i " vwo outers to in garret stairs. Jt nara ly breathed. I heard a window pushed up ; more than one person came in at it. I felt about me in the dark. There was a sliding panel in the inside of the stair way. I pushed it and it rolled back. I entered into a long closet under the 6tairs, and slid the paoel carefully into its place; I pulled my dress close about me lest it might be caught, and the door not closed tight. Then I ! waited. I beard steps coming up the stairs. I heard a search through all the rooms below.' fc 3tfy heart beat until I thought each bound must be audible. I heard voices one voice, the .r Haven's. I knew that harsh croak It told me nothing." The man had seen the bag of gold as he leaned, over the wall in the morning, unnoticed by the gay throng. It was all plain to me he had gathered from he girls' talk that I might s be alone, lie had -returned aud watched. Ho had brought accomplices. Very soon the steps and voices came my way. i I could distinguish the words that were .spoken.. t m rr;- i'hv- "Drat her! she must have seen you." "Xo matter; we!! split the box open with this axe.' out to tea and to spend the 1 knew the axe was in the little I porch. , rl homas had set it in, when he I nau tione cnopping the brush, as it looked like rain. I heard the steps and voices move away, a "-dull, crashing sound, awl then stifled angry tones. I knew they .had opened the box, and fouitd nothing. b;it papers. 1 knew tliev would now search tor uie, 1 heard Ihem as they lxked into every voom and e'uset, and cauie. up iho stairs separate "fliey.all; .met.. at the foot of the 'garret stairs. . A thick board was between us. ' I thanked 1 God that the panel was close shut. I' knew it, for no ray ot light came throush. ' """She must be up here," said the T?a veii "ami Well soon have her." 4 ' ? Hut the thorough feareb was ended, and the. voices grew very angry and full of frightful oaths and threateninas. 1 hey sat; down on the garret stairs to thold a parley. A spider ran across my face. A spider puts mo in mortal., fear. al .. fear. I kept It was wiUv a great effort that irom ecreamius.: ' " "Come," croaked the ravn, 'let us 'go and get the silver- that jvill be something." "Curse the silver. It's the gold I've come tor, and I'll bnrn the house if I 'don't find the giil! So let her look out !' 1 A cold perf piration came on mv fore- bead. W ould they perform their ; threat? I "Good! Then the rats wi'l squeak, j 'Down drop the money bags," and we'll choke the girl to make her dumb." j "Hold your noise. The old man will j ho coming home. We'd be caught here. He quick." ! "Who cares for him? He's only 'one. A bludgeon will give him a handy little headache as he comes in." "And his wife?" They spoke low, hideous words that ! made my flesh creep. 1 was almost ! ready to call aloud, to open the Panel, i to give them the gold and bid them go. They got up, and the steps- and ' voices went down. It was horrible I etiniug. j I moved the panel slightly ; no light I entered. I slid it back softly. . My rcs i olulion was taken. . i I would cet out ot the house, run luuwn mi; ioau aim meet my, lamer, l .T ! ... 3 1 . j . r i wou'l save him. I left the gold in the closet, shutting ! it in close. T stole down two steps into thecham i ber below. I knew there was a window ! there. I crept across the room, listen. I ing keen'y. I lifted myself cautiously on the window-ledge, and caught a branch of j the cheiry tree which grew close to the j house. Swinging myself out I hastily de J scended the trunk of the t ree, and found myself on the ground in safety. ; Xo! Tnc lightning flash betrayed : u'.o. r The Haven's voice shrieked hoarsely, j "There she goes ! Catch her ! Quick ! ! This way I" j Out at the front door came ' suer, hardly more than ten the pur tops be- I nnui me. ' I dashed toward the thick shrubbery t to put them oil' the track, i Fortunately I knew the way every j step of it. fl.cy wore cuided solely by the sound and flashing light. "Shoot her by the next flash !" cried the Havon. My flying ieet struck some loose beards. I was passing directly over an old, unused well, very deep and gave back a hollow, resonant sound. Almost the next moment I heard a crash, the report of a pistol, a heavy fall, oaths and a deep groan. Shuddering, I sped on through the garden, up toward the cider pres, over the stono wall, down tho hollow, op the bill-side, over the field. No steps followed ; no voices shouted after me. I ran down to the bars, and let them down. It began to rain a few great drops, then fast, then it poured. I was wet to the skin. I ran on, for I heard advancing wheels coming rapidly. I stood in the road and cried "Father ! father !" : , Tlie chaise stopped. Another chaise behind stopped also. It was our next neighbor's, who lived a qnarter of a mile further .on.- ? "Ann, my child. Good heavens ! What is the matter ? WThat has hap pened?" - . . . , I told the whole in a few words, amid eager exclamations of joy at my safety, of tiurprise, even of anger because Thomas had left me alone. 'Dou't blame him, father ; I insisted on his going." - A hurried consultation took place. My lather was very brave. Our neighbor was very timid. He proposed going on to his house and returning with weapons. , - In the meantime I had got into the chaise and crouched down at my moth er's feet, who was half crying, aud wholly glad to have me there. We rode . on; and came to our gate under the willows. Theie were lights in" the house, but all seemed still. Nothing moved. My father put the reins in my mother's hands and opened the other gate that led up the lane., "Will you go home with Nathan ?" said he. "And leave you here? No." - ."Take your wife home, Nathan, if yoa will, and come back." "We will stay by you." : "Let us reconnoUre, then, a little." They got out,- leaving us sitting still. The rain fell less beavily. They got something that would do for weapons from the tool-house. They went all around the house all was quiet. . They weut lu. . .--'.',; m'i'.'-ius j. t-, tj We sat still, speaking few words, my hand clasped iu my mother's. "Thomas is coming I" I, exclaimed, eagerly. "I hear yheels." We called :.hinr"as he came to the gate, for he could not see us. ' . He drove through and called Out: - " What is the matter." - r Wc told him. 'iMifncicut, ami he left Beteoy and Hannah, and went in at once, with only the heavy whin. We did not sit lonrj. Is athan CSUlfr out directly. "What have you found ? Who is there?" ' , "Nothing Nobody.'! : " " "Are they all gone V" " . "Ves. with some pt the silver, and a few things. We caiVtknow what yet." The horses were put under the shed, and we all went in. My father said camly : "We will take a lantern, Thomas, and look round out of doors a little." IT knew! they would go to the old well. l"stobd and looked out of the window and aw,the gleam of the lan tern as it moved. In a very lew moments they came back. "One of them is dead," said my father, "and the other lies at the bot tom ot the well and groans. The third has escaped." They laid boards across some barrels in the shed, and brought up the dead man and laid him on them. His com rade, who fell in the well, had shot him in the head as he plunged through the boards. His ugly face was still uglier. It was the Haven. ' That night my father's prayers were very solemn, and hw embrace was close as he gave me my good-night kws. The robber in the well was bruised, but not seriously hurt. The law took him to punishment. e The third escaped to America, and afterward reformed. I was never left at home again alone. ItoltoiulelH mifl M erioiw tlie UrtMinU. Hole Nearly fourteen miles on almost a direct line southeast of this place there is a singu'ar and mysterious abysmal pit in the ground that possesses features strange and marvel.ius. We have stood often upon its brink and wondered where it could end or what secrets its bottom, if bottom it has, conceals in the darkness forever from human view. It is situated on a high .bluff in a wild, flinty locality, tangled with vine, brier, bramble, bushes, trees and shrubbery. on tr.e waters ot Drake s creek, below the mouth of Trammel. The aperture in a dark gaping hole, cleft through the stony crags as though the bluff had at some time cracked and split and groaned in agony, as though convulsion was go ing on far below. The opening is some ten feet long and four feet wide at the widest part, its rocky, yawning lips be ing something in the shape or a horse collar, the ax;x, so to st)cnk, pointing westward., iv some people in that re gion it is known as "Hell Hole,'" while others call it "Indian Fit One re markable feature of the abvss is that there issues from its deep depths, cease less as the rounds ol the seasons, a vol ume of misty vapor, which, especially on crisp, .lrosty mornings, c-iu be seen ascending above the tree tops and iloat- n;g oil on tfce air, whitened with rays ot the rising sun. Flint boulder-shaped stones, and others, worn by tlie friction of time to perfect ro mdncss, are scatter ed profusely about tlie place, as though thrown high by some unknown upheav al and showered back like rattling hail stones of all sizes and dimensions. In the fall and winter this fog volume is warmer than the cutting blasts that sweep along the deep gorge through which for ages the stream far below has rolled onward to b'end with deeper cur rents in their flow to the ocean. In summer the mist is cooler and nothing like so dense.; The pit widens from the top in its downward course, and woe bo to any living thing once swallowed through its dark mouth. Throw a boulder or Ftone into it and not the faintest echo ever reaches the ear ns to whither it went. Some seasons since a party of persons assembled at the pit, determined to fathom its hidden bottom. They were provided with asstrong cord over COO feet long, to whicb was attach ed a stilliard weight. They dropped tlie weight into the hole and payed out the line. Down, down and down went the weight till not a foot of cord was left, while not a sound came to tell the tale of its subterranean passage. No bottom was reached and the weight was withdrawn damp and unsoiled as though it touched nothing but mist and darkness - on its soundings. ?WIien the bluff first gaped and opened wide that speechless, toothless, but dark and mon strous mouth, no man knows or can know.. It , is an unwritten mystery which no human eye can ever pene trate. . Whether its final bottom be the abode of Cyclopean fiends, whether it leads to rushing ri vers away down be low us, or whether it branches off to fiery veins of molton matter, coursing earth's hot recesses we know not. Whatever it may be, and whatever its causes' dark, deep, mysterious aud pro found," it has been there for aes breath ing upward to the sun its misty volume ot incense, and is, as it will forever re main to man, a "marvel and a secret." Hoveling Green (iiy.) Pantograph. Senator Logan "lately ; said to some body, who told a Troy, Times corres pondent: "What could I do without ray wife ?" I should be nothing without that woman." 1 rs. Logan attends to her husband's" private correspondence, and ber ehirography is so like bis that many a letter signed by her hand "John A. Logan," is carefully preserved by the recipient as an autograph of the Senator. Dr. Durand,' pharmacist of Blois, has discovered a very efficient means for the preservation ot eggs, viz., a solution of silicate of soda. This solution, being very ,viscou8, is kept in a liquid state by. the ' addition s ol tepid water. The eggs are dipped into the solution and then dried ; when they have been thus treated, and are well dried, and com pletely covered with the silicate solu tion, they can be placed in any recepta cle; and may be kept tor a year or more without undergoing decomposition. ; -If a loaf or cake has becomo father too stale for tho table moisten it a little and tlicn heat it through the oven- THE TKKftrroIilKK. ' We have been asked to describe the exact place he TTnited States' Territo ries hold in vd Government and their relation; to itIVi-haps it is not gener-alIy-1c;iowi that tlrlg bot a word in the Constitution that refers to Territo ries. This is a Government' of United States. The wliole '-system? "a 'territo rial government has grown up since the Union was formed. . It rests upon the right every country must have, of erov- - J .... ; ,; o erning such possessions as it has outside of its organized limits. The poA-er of Congress to form terri torial governments has often been ques tioned, and the right of citizens of Ter ritories to govern themselves has been warmly maintained ; bat this policy will probably never be changed, so long as we have posses-ions not included in the States themselves. " Tlie basis of all the laws controlling the Territories, is the so-called ordinance of 1787, which organized the Territory north-west of the Ohio, now included in the States pt Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,' Wisconsin, and that part- of Minnesota east of the Mississippi river. The system then adopted, with a few alterations, still exists. a Tl by The people choose a legislature which passes laws on certain subjects, but Con gress can declare null and void any law of a Territor y. The salaries ot the offi cers who are appointed by the President, and some other expenses, are paid from the Treasury of the United States. 1 he rest are borne by the Territories them selves. Each Territory sends a delegate to the lower House of Congress. 'J he del egate has every right of a member of Congress excepting that he has no vote. When the seats are drawn, his chance is as good as that of any member, and he draws a. much pay. He can intro duce bills, and make motions aud speeches. But he cannot vote on any question. It was once the custom to appoint territorial delegates and committees to consider questions affecting their con stituents, but this is no longer done. We believe the first delegate, trom a Territory was William Henry Harrison, afterwards 1 'resident, who was delegate from the North-west Territory from 1799 to 1801; though there may have beeiran earlier one. ' It will be seen that the people of the Territories have but partially tho right of self-government, and that they do not share at all in the privilges of the national government. They have no St-nator, and they do not vote for e'ec tors of President and Vice President. They only get these priv'Ige when the Territory is admitted as a State, as Col orado lias just been admitted. The District ot Columbia is really a Territory, though it is governed on a very different system. A few years ago the experiment was tried of giving it the rights of a Territory, with governor, legis ature and dt-legate. Hut it turned out badly, and was abandoned. '1 he District is now governed by commis sioners, and has no delegate. s Hie usefulness of the territorial sy. tem has often been proved. This is specially evident at this time. Utah has twice as many inhabitants as Colo rado, and New Mexico has a larger number still. But Utah will never be come .a State while polygamy exists there; and - the.5 population of New Mexico is largely composed ot semi-bar. barons Mexican-Spaniards, Indians and half-breeds. . In .time, ik doubt, the vast region now included in the Terri tories will be settled by intelligent and enlightened men, and then the whole of our ample domain will be divided into self-governing States. OUR SEW YORK LETTER. New York, Jan. 20th, 187G. The season is a dreary one. War times were hardly worse, Houses every. where empty ; shops full of cheap and attractive goods but I have seeo a country store livelier; improvements looking more like ruins, as they stand unfinished ; and. ..underlaying all, the knowledge of the deep suffering of thousands of poor out of work. Pco pie are not ashamed to stay at . horn and economize. There is no vitality, ho life, in any. thing. The meichaiils stand listlessly in their Stores,' feeling that rent and clerk hire are eating them up. ,'lhe clerks stand idle, living on half wages, and dreading every night to hear the word:, that will cut even that ofl." The landlord is worried, for he ees in the empty store a sure premonition that it will very shortly be v'aoauU The trucK man has nothing to haul, and the me chanics are idle. There never was an. approach to the distress that New -York is experiencing now, and I hope, there never will be. And, to add to the trouble, the political situation- keeps those who have money and disposition to do something waiting, and before it is settled the season will be over. It is bad here thauk Heaven that the West is prosperous. FASHIONS. Women return to the appropriate custom of . wearing light- and delicate colors. 'ft ' occasions of high dress. White hats', pale gloves and light mani ties are donned Jor theatre and dress promenadea rule which lion'l remain in force immutably.' White felt hats of modest shaje are the j choice, for the white plush that displaces velvet looks unmistakably coarse, aud can ooly be a whim ot the moment. Wide, rich folds of silk anil full plumes aro' the usual ornament), though a freak f a French milliner. is to cover the flaring 1 he governor, secretary and judges of tho Territories are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. brim entirely with rows of gilt galoon, set 8oloseIy as to recall the halo of dead gold, which in old pictures jor rounds the head of saints ; but th ex ample is only quoted for its' harj, bad taste, Next to whitejthe fiosf bobnets are of palest grayl telyeti ilie briipf con cealed with deep crimson trimmings and flowers in e'ogant contrast. In dross. basqnesaiid'c-verskirts are popularly' seen, bt otijng looksTeslly elegant sav 1 1 io princess uresd, which J adopted as the "standard "costume also ty the dress reformers, f n!NMKS 3 v , . WFIi NSritANCE. Tlie investigation into the affairs of the defunct ".Security" Life Iinmranee Company "Security!'.' think ot it! disclose a mass of rottenness that is awful. This company had not the ex cuse of several that have fai'ed honest ly by depreciation in securities ; it was tliievirgly ma-iaged from the.begimiig, or at least for many years, a.id was rotten. The annoal reports were dfctor ed to show prosperity when the com pany was insolvent, and to these false reports the officers put their names, and swore to their correctness, without a blush. It might have gone on for some time, and made even a worse smash, but the close times stopped off rece pis, and as there, was no more money to wring out of the people, or rather as the volume coming in was too small to make the swind le profitable, it'col lapsed.. The thieves swore to balances they never had, to real estate which they never owned, and to jmlicies which they never issued ; and by fraud and perjnry they kept up an appearance of solidity which deceived even the experts. There are others in the same way, that will come to grief within a month. i; -ki' ' EEXXETT-MAT. The town has been on a broad grin for days over the ludicrous ending of the Bennett-May affair. , The two idiots did go to a place in Delaware, and stand up letore each other at the blood thirsty distance ot twelve paces and fire pistols into the air, and retire. Then it was indnstrionsiy given out that May was mortally wounded, and that Ben nett was in hiding, and the papers were filled with incidents ot the "meeting." The truth is, neither'' was tonclied. May sneaked off to Washington and Bennett sneaked off to Europe with his sister, where he will probably stay. He is the laughing stock of the city, and as he hasn't the tact of his father to turn such things to account, it is better for him to be away. The resu't of the "duel" is so ridiculous that it has done more to put an end to such nonsense than all l lie laws. The only real suf ferer in the case i Miss May,- who is really a nice girl, even if she wa wil ling to marry such a man as Bennett. The two principals have hardly sense enough t feel the absurd position they have placed themselves in. VAXDEIiTHI.T. Vanderbilt is not to le allowed to s'eep peacefully in his ctfiu. His daughters, inspired doubtless, by ttieir husbands, are not satisfied with the dis position of his estate, arid thev will con test th will. They claim that tlev can show that the old man was under undue influence when he madt the will, and that his oequests were consequently unjust. The fact is, Vanderbilt was i.ever clearer in . his lite, and he did with his property exactly what he had always intended to. He desired that the fabric he had built shoui 1 remain tor all time, as does that of the Koth childs, and he selected the son who has business ability, trained him carefully in the management of his railroads, ai.d then left the control f them in is hands. He was , ambitious that tho name should endure in connection with his enterprises, and that he system he established should be perpetuated. . Tlie daughters will not succeed, for the witl was made years ago, and his intentions were as well known five years ago ', as when the document was presented for prabate. Still the fight will be a lively one, and the lawyers will get tat pick ings from it. William II. Vanderbilt is a very strong business -manK and is a worthy successor to his father, j 'He is just as grasping aud just as selfish, and in his hands the estate will grow rather than waste. Pietko. AX IIVCIDENT. A Pennsylvania paper relates the fol lowing : "i A week or two since, a gentleman who resides .in this vicinity went to Philadelphia and put up at a hotel, and while resting after tea in the reception room, overheard two gentlemen con versing in regard to a trial then in progress before one of the Courts in that city. Our neighbor '.cornet irom this conversation that a man had obtained money on his wife's property, the wife giving a mortgage, the-money was spent in dissipation, the wite became a raving maniac and was ooufined in the asylum, where she now is; the hnsltand died,', and the children ot this untortu l.ate coup e were furnished with a guar dian by the onrt, who was maintain. ing the suit; "the n being" tried, against the ho der of thf moriirsgp, on the ground that the wife was ntit of ltgl Rgewhen the jnstruirteii" wa executed, The gentleman knew that a neice ol his, who left thi vicinity when a child, had married a man of the same i ame as the one mentioned "as having sqnaiu dered his wife s patrimony, and conclud ed to investigate." He made This way to the court house the following morn ing, and to his intense surprise ami gratification was the very person need. ed tu establish to a certainty the age of the unfortunate woman, and to save. to her worse than omhaned children's property va'ued at $2,500. W. 0.'Primyof the New Vork Ob server, owns a coin dating lack to Al exander the Great, said to be the only one of the kind in the world, tor which be. has refused 530,000. t .. . . :4Kt .-; ' r , i l. r i, , ' .' The Washington Star says' it can be proven by statistics that more chart table work is done in Washington than any other city of, its size. , r-. v M Posters- Visiting-, Card's Business Cards BUI Header Letter KeiuSs Envelopes Ball Tickets, Programmes Labels Horse Bills, Circular, Pamphlets. or in fact anything In Gm . i 9 call at the ALBANY PRINTING HOUSE COENETt FERRY & FIJtST-STsk, REGISTER