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

Barlow to use every precaution to pre-
vent the departure Of any expedition for
Cuba.
A Tribune special says Radford c.
Rhodes, prominent Republican of War
ren county, was killed at his residence,
near Warrenton, Ca, on the night of the
5th. Letters from that vicinity report
continued Ku Klux outrages.
A dispatch from Omaha on the Sth,
says that 2GO Sioux attacked 40 Bannak
and Snake Indians near the South Pass,
sixty days ago, and killed twenty-ninc of
them.
The reported resignation of Governor
Mitchell, of New Mexico is contradictcd
Richard Marley, of Baltimore, one of
the oldest Odd Fellows, died on the .th
inst, aged rs.
The Chicago Tribuac's New York
special has an account of Il gold discovery
in Hoboken, where a ledge is being
opened for the foundation of Stevens
Free College. Some rock taken yields
$50 to the ton.
A Chicago telegram Of the 9;h says
that sub-treasurer Van Dyke advertises
that he will receive, on next Wednesday,
proposals for the sale to the Government
of one million dollars Of bonds, new issue,
in sums of not less than five thousand
dollars. Coupon or registered bonds will
be received. Van Dyke reserves the
right to reject any proposals not for the
interest of the Government
A telegram from Richmond dated the
Sth, announces that Gen. Canby has fixed
on the first Tuesday in July for the cleo
ton in Virginia.
The Emigration Society of English
Workingmen have sent sixteen agents to
select lands Their location is to be
made in Nebraska.
4 party of Americans making boat
journey up tho Nile, recently, were at
tackled by Arabs, and two Americans
were killed
The last rail has been laid ON the
Chicago and Rock Island Pacific Rail
road, between Des Moines and Council
Bluffs, giving Chicago two direct and
distinct connections with the Union Pa
cifc Railroad at Omaha.
On the night of the 9Th heavy hail
storm occurred in Southern Illinois doing
great injury to vegetables, strawberries,
&c. The ground was covered in many
places to the depth Of two feet with hail
stones, which were uncommonly large
and crushed all the vegetables before
them. The storm extended South to
Memphis.
A special to the Chicago Tribune says
Government has received late report
from General Davis, commanding Alaska.
He gives further reports of the burning
of an Indian village, but the main facais
denied, and he makes no allusion to any
Irregularities among the officers.
Jas. H. McCully, American Consul at
Callao, died of yellow fever at Lima on
the 17ts of April.
Two heavy shocks of earthquake occur
red at Quito on the 10th. No damage
done.
A Madrid dispatch says that certain
proposals have been made in the Cortcs
to name Marshal Scrrano, Regent, and
Gen. Prim, Post Consul and Minister of
War, until a King is elected.
The President and Cabinet have finally
decided against the proposed real estate
negotiations with Mexico. 1t appears
that during the last Administration some
such scheme was proposed by Romero
and Seward, who gave it favorable con-
sideration.
It has been decided that dealers in
liquors, who sell quantities Of five gal
Ions and upward, must pay the wholesale
and retail tax
It is expected that the piers and abut-
ments fo- the great railroad bridge across
the Mississippi at st. Louis, will be fin
ished within year.
FOREIGN NEWS.
It is stated that, at the close of the
present session, Mr. Disraeli will be rails
ed to the Peerage, MIR. Hardy taking his
place as the leader of the Conservative
party in the House of Commons.
It is announced in London that Sir
George Ettienne Cartier, Sir John A.
Mcdonald, Hon. Joseph How, Samuel L.
Tclly, now members of the Canadian
Government, are to be made peers of the
realm, under the new Peerage bill, re-
Gently passed in the English Parliament,