The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-05-15
Telegraphic Summary.

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close OF the present fiscal year.
Forney and party having returned
from their trip through the South, repre-
sent the industrial prospects much i'm
proved, negroes working better than be-
fore, and the whites seemingly more in
dustrious. The crops look well and the
people arc anxious for immigration. Mil
hons of acres of land are for sale, and
| great inducements arc offered to capital
| lists
The sensation article in the New York
World OF last week, regarding the de-
parture OF the steamer 4rogo with men
and munitions of war for the insurrec.
tionary army in Cuba, is pronounced
unfounded. As for the statement that
the Administration was aware of the fit
ting out and departure of the steamer,
the President and Secretary of State
both pronounce it wholly untrue. Sec
retary Fish thinks it possible a small
force may have gotten off with clearance
papers for peaeeable ports, but he receiv-
ed no Information on the subject The
! World, on the other hand, insists on the
correctness of Its statement, and says
that "wishin the last 33 days We have
positive information that 5000 men left
the cities Of Charleston, Baltimore and
New Orleans for point adjacent to the
Cuban coast and for the island itself !;
$500 left New York city, and 500 more
are now waiting to get eff.'
Tom Allen and McCoole, pugilists, are
to have "mill." McCoole new weighs
223 pounds, having reduced himself 20
pounds in the last two weeks Bets are
S100 to So on McCoole.
The Secretary of the Treasury will
purchase fve-twenty bonds to the amount
of million each week He has directed
| the assistant treasurer at New York to
receive proposals therefor.
The following telegram, dated New
York, May oth, was sent to this coast:
| The New Y York Press Club at its month
ly meeting, seventy members present,
send greeting to the members on the
Pacific coast, and hearty congratulations
on the completion Of the continental rail
| way which leaves US no longer antipodes,
but makes US next door neighbors 1t
begins new era in American history
May American journalism grow like the
country in dignity and ripeness and in
influence. Signed: David G. CRAZY,
Thos. W. Knox, Augustus Mayrick,
Albert d. Richardson, Amos j. Cum
mlngs, j. w. Simonton, Committee.
The Fifteenth Amendment has been
ratified by the Connecticut Senate, FIVE
Democrats voting against and twelve Re-
publicans for it.
A telegram of May 9th from Omaha
says that band of Sioux Indians muir
dered woman and captured lot of
stock near Shell Greek. A party of citi-
zens were in pursuit.
Governor Campbell, Secretary Lee and
Chief Justice Howe, left for Wyoming
on the 5th. They intend to organize a
Territorial Government as soon as prac-
ticable.
The fare in Grst-class cars from Sacra-
mento to the eastern terminus of the
Central Pacific Railroad, is $50 in coin,
or SCI in currency; from Ogden to
Omaha, ST 40, currency; Omaha to
Chicago, s22, currency; Chicago to New
York, $50, currency; children under II
years of age, half price-100 pounds of
baggage free.
The Ohio Legislature has passed, by a
strict party vote, the visible admixture
bill, which Furnishes with from one to
five years imprisonment any one not a
white male citizen voting at any election.
The New York TriJune's special says
the President has advised Gen. Candy
to order the Virginia election For the last
Tuesday in June or the first Tuesday in
July. The President will take the ad-
vice of his Cabinet as to what portions
will be voted on separately. Most of the
prescription features will probably be
defeated.
It is said that the President intends to
re-appoint Russell Jones as Minister to
Belgium.
A sudden pressure is being made for
the appointment of General Butterfeld,
who was originally intended for the place,
to the Spanish mission.
The Mount Vernon estate of General
Washington is advertised to be sold on
the 10th of June.
Gov. Mitchell has entered his resigna-
ton as Secretary of New Mexico. He
will act as Governor Of the Territory till
Congress removes Gen. Cranes political