The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-02-17
pArEs TO FEBRUARY 49,

We ~collate from the dispatches to Feb.
18th tbs following:
An effarti is making in Washington to have
q Branch Mint in Idaho instead OF in Oregon.
Geo. Bancroft, the historian. delivered the
eulogy on Abraham Lincoln in the House Of
Representatives, Feb. 18th.
1t is reported that President johnson pro.
p ,ses to soon issue a proclamation declaring
peace aud restoring habeas corpus in all the
S ates.
The Government is collecting evidence and
drumming up witnesses for the trial Of
Semmes.
Nebraska has framed a State Constitution
and asks 10 be admitted into the Union.
The Canadian Reciprocity Treaty has
failed, and the Canadian delegation LEFT
Washington disguised.
Military Districts are discontinued in the
New England States, New Jersey, and
Northern and Western New York.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company
report readiness to progress with the WORK
at once.
A SON of Senator Trumbull, aged 14years,
was accidentally killed ut Chicago.
The war between Brazil and Paraguay
continues with increased vigor.
Twenty-scven school children were drown
cd in Dayton, Ohio, by breaking through tht
e ola reservoir on which they were playing
In a late address freai the throne, Maxi
milan declared his determination to continue
his reign over Mexico at all hazards.
Great Indignation is felt in Washington
by the Parishinners of DR.. Sundeflan L,
church, because the Trustees allowed the us,
of the cdiiee for an address by Fred. Doug
lass.
Drz..t. d Q.~k Sl.oA NJ. Az NJ.
lister to England. is about to resign, aud Dir
Motley, now Minister at Vienna, and Mr.
Marsh at Florence, will be named for tn
succession.
Thecattle plague is alarmingly increasin,
in Englaad, aud if not soon checked vii
destroy all in the kingdom. Nearly T0,00'
have died.
Gen. Grant has refused to, send ont q mill
tary expedition to Montana.
VIM. Ii. Aspinwall and others are abou
to Start another line of steamers hetweel
New York n SIM Francisco, via Panama
A Virginia delegation waited upon til
President, Feb. 10th, and expressed tlei
satisfaction ut his policy. He replied
making some vcry important revelations &
bis views. He was opposed to extreme me
IL North or South, and to s1hammering at tn
II Government until it is Destroyed II
wants oil the States restored to the Unto
and the Government preserved.
Petitions have been received at Washing
ton for presentation to the President, askin
for the pardon of John G. Breckinridgt
signed by upwards of 20 members of th
} Kentucky Legislature.
The correspondent of the Boston Adyel
siecr gives a reported conversation bctwec
the President and a distinguished represer
I~tative, wherein Dir. johnson expressed him
self DESTROYS to see secured to the colore
| people a fair chance, but nothing he coul
) say or do now, if his former language an
lantecedents are not sufficient, would Civ
any such guarantee. It wae best to spea
plainly, and he thought the effort now mai
ing for universal suffrage was not wise {
t lust. In regard TO dif6cnlty with the part
that elected him, he says he might diff
with individuals Of what was called til
Union party, but In the main, he considere
himself in general accord with that part,
He was not a party man, bat meant to sin
party in the patriot, and shenld be wholly
liberty to differ, and to state the ground
! difference.