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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

PREPARE TO PUCKER.-The Demo
Gratis who have walled and wept and cursed
and damned over the 'senormities" of the
Fifteenth Amendment, may as we'll pre-
pare to act under it. We know it is
Oppressive" to ssrebels s"-obnoxious to
men who hate colored people from instinct
calling to the sssecesh," who look upon
it as the crowning triumph of the Union
cause-and IRRITATING" to the peculiar
friends of the ex-President of the ex-
Shareholders Coniederacy. But "what
cant be cured must be endured" and
the defeated party in the field, at the
ballot box, in Congress, and in the Su-
preme Court will now show evidences of
great philosophy by cheerfully submitting
to the s.powers that be" and greater
sense and sagacity by letting the dead
bury the dead and starting out anew in
the political field.
The Fifteenth Amendment will un-
questionably be declared as ratified in a
few days, and henceforward white and
colored citizens, in every State of our
Republic, are politically equal Every
citizen will have the right Of franchise
and be competent to vote and be voted
for. Under this state of facts, we advise
our Democratic friends to cheerfully ac-
cept the situation, and begin to look
pretty toward the colored voters of this
State, who, in closely contested election,
may hold the balance of power. Fellow
Democrats take your colored brethren by
the hand and confess your "subjugation.0 .
Do it quick, because the colored voters
of this Stafe arr INTELLIGENT and their
prejudices are to be overcome by kind
acts and good treatment. We do not
mean to advise you to court their wives
or daughters -athat's played out--but
walk up and acknowledge the principle
upon which our Government is based =
that the majority shall rule.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

ADvERTIsING.-Kee good article,
be honest, and let the people know what
you have. Advertisc.-P. T. Barnum.
Without advertisements, should be
poor man to-day.-H. T. Helmbold.
My success is, owing to my liberality
in advertising.-Bonner.
Advertising has furnished me with a
competence.-Amos Lawrence.
1 advertise my products, and make
money.-N. Longworth.
Constant and persistent advertising is
sure prelude to wealth.--Stephen
Girard.
He who invests one dollar in business
should invest one dollar in advertising
that business.-A. T. Stewart.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12
NEWS ITEMS.

At woman's Suffrage meeting in st.
Louis on the 9Th, one of the speakers
contended that women, as citizens, had
the right, under the constitution, to vote,
and declared that test case would be
made at the next general election In
Missouri, and carried through the Courts
to final decision.
At fire in Poughkcepsie On. y,
on the 9th inst, cabinet factory was
destroyed, an old man aged eighty-five
years sufocated, and three horses burned
to death.
A resolution for the impeachment of
Judge Harrison, of the 7th Judicial Dis
trict, has passed both branches of the
West Virginia Legislature.
The impeachment of Geo. Reed, of
Florida, was killed in the lower branch of
the Legislature, by the adoption of the
minority report, on the 4th, the vote
standing 80 to 81.
The remaining million and a half of
the Denver Pacific bonds have been sold
in London, and the Company now prom
ise to complete the road to Denver in
four months.
The rumor that an attempt to assas-
sinate Prince Arthur of England during
his stay in New York city, created quite
sensation. 1t proves, however, to be
only a 6 rumor."
A Government detective has succeed
ed in capturing, recently, eighteen illicit
stills in the 4th District of Georgia.
In January the Post-ofice sent over
237 900 franked letters, and 100 tons of
printed matter, at total cost of S53 900
to the Government.
Santa Anna is looming up again in
| Mexican affairs. Lately an attempt has
been discovered at the City of Mexico to
assassinate Lordo de Tejardo, and pro-
claim Santa Anna. The leaders were
arrested and order restored 1t is be-
lieved that Gen. Negrete4 is concealed in
/ the city, working in favor of Santa Anna
A remarkable religious revolution has
transpired in Madagascar. 1t is stated
that the Queen has had the royal idols
publicly burned, that she and her house
hold have embraced Christianity and that
the whole province of Imerma, in which
the capital is situated, has followed the
example of the Government. The move
ment is purely of national origin.
The Fifteenth Amendment has been
ratified by the Legislatures of twenty
eight States: counting Ohio and New
York. Texas and Nebraska will ratify
in due time, so that long before our elec,
tion in June, the question of the adoption
of the Fifteenth Amendment as part and
parcel of the Constitution, will be re-
moved from the political field altogether
An old bedrock Democrat of Califor.
ia, Mr.. Abell, of Shasta, after looking
in on the present California Legislature
sadly says: az have looked in on !;
good many Legislative bodies in my life
but I'll be id if I ever saw SO many
No Is boots and six-inch hats as are
congregated in Sacramento at this ses
sion"
Jessie Applegate, who has been for some
time engaged in surveying various rail
road routes beyond Eugene, reports tha
the people along the Rock Greek route
have made up sum sufficient to pay fo
the completion of the survey of tina
route, commenced last December. Ther,
is but one other route to exmine between
the willamette and the Umpqua valley
that is known as the Coast Fork route
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

The subjoined correspondence sufficiently ex-
plains itself:
PORTLAND, Oregon, Nov. Is. 1869.
MEssRs. EvERsoN 4 HAINEs, General Agents
New England Mutual Life Insurance Compa-
ny, Boston
Gentlemen-On my own behalf and in the name
of my orphan children, beg to thank You, and
through you the New England Mutual Life In
surance Company of Bos .on, for its munifcence
in paying me my terminated policy on the life of
my husband. On the 2.st of January, 1869,
misfortune compelled me to forego the payment
of the last prfmium-which non-payment in any
other company would have lost me my policy
but am now overjoyed with the receipt of the
amount of the policy Qess the amount of the un-
paid premium only, thanks to the equity of the
Massachusetts Lapse Laws, that must bless many
widows and their children. I recommend the
New England Mutual to all who would provide
against possible misfortune. / sincerely thank
you again, gentlemen. for the payment, and also
for your generous and gentlemanly assistance in
the matter. Respectfully,
BETSEY MILLER.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

SMALL Pox AMONG THE INDIANS
1t is reported that the Indians in the vi
cinity of Fort Benton are dying at the
rate of twenty five per day, of smallpox.
The report that Mountain Chiefs band,
and Others, had declared war, is pro-
nounecd unfounded.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

SINGULAR CAsE.-The Portland pa
pers give an account of man who en-
tered the Poor House there, last year,
and stayed long enough to cost the county
s23 rs, and then left. Soon after he OBJ
tanned work, earned the amount, went to
the County Clerk and forked over the
full sum, which is duly acknowledged in
the journal kept in the Office.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

DEMOCRATIC EcoNoMY-One of the
special charges of the outs-Democrat
against the iDs = Republicans - that
has been rang in our ears with all the
various changes, has been that of the
wanton waste of the peoples money.
Democrats have been unsparing in their
denunciation of Republican officials and
legislators, in this respect, and have
went before the people asking to be
placed in power, pledging themselves to
practice the closest economy in all trans
actions with the peoples money. In
the few cases where these pledges have
succeeded in putting Democrats into
power, have they kept their promises?
In New York the first act of the Legis-
lature was to clear all offices of Republi-
can occupants, increase the salaries of
all the officers and employees under the
State Government, and create an addi-
tional number of officials to feed at the
public crib. Was this fulfilling their
piedges of retrenchment? An exact
parallel is found in the California Leg
islature, "where the extravaganza of ap-
propriations and the filing of partisan
pockets with the peoples money, by the
present Democratic Legislature, never
had q precedent" In Montana the
Democratic Legislature protected the
Territorial Treasurer from an investiga.
ton when distinct charges of pocularion
were made against him, took away the
perquisites of Republican officials, ad-
dsa to the facilities. for stealing by Dem
ocratic officers, and increased the annual
expenses $4,000 And this is Demo-
cratic economy In Colorado the Dem
ocratie Legislature found s27 900, which
an economical Republican Legislature
had left in the treasury, which they not
only gobbled up, but contracted con-
siderable debt beside, and increased the
nav of Democratic officials, to show what
they meant when preaching economy on
the stump. democracy is the same
eyerv where,'' say its leaders and expon-
ents. and in the matter of clean stealing
and pocketing the peoples money, the
assertion Is undoubtedly correct. This
pecn1;ay talent for economy has been dis
pIayed by the Democracy whenever the
power has been given; and should the
people of Oregon give them control Of
our next Legislature, we have every rea-
son to believe that the same desire for
economg would prompt them to emulate
the examples above given.
DnrAD7UL DEAra. "A small child Of
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12
PORTLAND, onEcoS, Nov. Is, 1859.

PORTLAND, OREGON, Nov. Is, 1859.
MEssRs. EvERsoS HAINEs, General Agents of
the New England Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, of Boston
Geniemen-Having taken a lively interest in
the affairs of a large and destitute family, left
by old resident of this city. who died Aug. 2,
1869, and who insured in the New England
Mutual Life Insurance Company, take pleas
ure in making the following statement for the in
ormation of the public:
A. f. c. Miller insured by ordinary Life
Policy No. 13,054, bearing date January 81 1868.
He paid annual payments to January 81, 1868,
inclusive. Since then nothing has been paid.
He died August 2, 1869, over eighteen months
after the last payment of premium, yet your
company working under the Equitable Lapse
Laws of Massachusetts, pays the widow and
orphans the whole policy, deductng only the pre-
MUM due; while in all other companies doing
business here. about which we know am thing, the
policy would long since have been forfeited,
BY the New England Mutual, the widow has
been paid "A $50 so. This we consider munif-
cent, more especially when take iuto consid-
GRAFTON that the family would not have received a
cent from any other company doing business on
this coast. This, in estimation, is enough to
recommend this company above all others, This
is Equity, this is Mutuality. We, therefore, rec
ommend this company to the public, the only
company that has no. forfeitures.
We herewith inclose you the acknowledgements
of the widow. Respectfully. ETC.,
CINCINNATI BILLS,
JACOB MAYER,
GEORGE EH.FLANDERS,
N. SELLER.
OFFICE NEW ENGLAND Mutual LIFE Tvs Co
No. II, CARTER's BUILDING,
PORTLAND, OREGoN, Nov. Is, 1869. J
To Messrs. c. Bills, J. Myer, Geo. II. Flanders
and M. Sellers:
Genhemen-Your favor of yesterday, inclosing
Acknowledgements of Mrs. Miller is at hand
Please accept thanks for the voluntary
justice you have done to the company we repre-
sent. Yours very truly,
EVERSON & HAINES.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

The fare between Omaha and San
Francisco, including double births in
sleeping car by the Pullman hotel ex-
press train, leaving Omaha and San
Francisco Thursday of each week, has
been reduced from SITS to s154, cur
rency.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

The Montana Pick and Plo,o of Janu-
ary 9Th, says that rich placers exist east
OF Bozeman, and facts enough have come
to Its knowledge to enable it to get up
another Cedar Greek excitement, but it
prefers to wait for precise and accurate in
formation. This it expects soon in an
authentic shape.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

A recent dispatch from Virginia City
says: It appears in getting rid of the
small pox, the inhabitants here are af-
ficted with the chicken-pox." Of these
two evils, the suffering people seem to
have chosen the least.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

Hon. Moses HI. Grinnell, of New York,
has made up the deficiency in the $50, 900
fund to be presented to the widow of the
late Secretary Rawlins.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

The Yrcka Journal says that the work
on the California and Oregon Railroad is
likely to be suspended for some time yet,
as the country below Chico is overfowed
to,a great extent, making the ground so
soft that men sink to their knees at every
step. In consequence of this "softness, !"
it is thought probable that work will not
be resumed until May.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

The condition of the farm labore- and
peasant in some of the large countries on
the European Continent does not come
very favorably out of inspection. An
able agriculturist, who has recently Wis
tied the principal districts, gives an un-
fattering report. In France he found
the average wages about franc day.
The team men sleep with the cattle, two
in a bed, or rather two in box on
sack of straw, rude floor being put up
at one end of the sheds The hours in
summer were from 4 A. NJ. to s z. NJ,
and till noon on Sundays. This was in
Touraine, one of the most favored regions
of France. La Prussia, the men also
sleep in the stable with their bullocks
and horses, and the wages are lesss than
in France. The weight of superincum-
bent mortgages is the load which de-
presses French agriculture, which exacts
from it cries of distress and extorts from
the French government successive COM
missions of inquiry. The one ambition
of the French peasant is to buy more
land. He will live for years on the bar
est and hardest fare which will support
life, and then draw from the ground
boards of coin for acquisition of more
acres. So keen is this passion that he
will mortgage deeply what he has, to OBJ
tain more; aud at this moment very
large portion of French land belongs to
mortgagies who dwell In towns.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

Columbus, Ohio, is horrifed by re-
port that dog was seen running through
the streets on Friday with human head
IN its mouth, apparently torn from the
body.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

The practice Of .orturing prisoners in
order to make them confess, which has
been abolished by most civilized nations,
still exists Ia Switzerland.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12
ANOTHER EDITOR GoNE.-The tele

ANOTHER EDITOR GoNE-The tele-
graph informs us that Hon. John Went
worth, of Chicago, died on the 9th in
slant. Mr.. Wentworth, familiarly known
as ''Long John,' has figured conspicu-
ously in Illinois politics for many years.
We believe he was the founder and for
years editor-in-chief of the Chicago DEM
ocrat-one of the oldest paoers in the
State. He has filled various Offices of
honor and trust, among them Mayor of
Chicago and Member of Congress.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

DEEP SNow.-Advices to the 5th from
Helena, state that prospecting had stopped
in the Missouri river mining district on
account of the deep snow.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

GOVERNOR OF VERMONT DEAD
The telegraph informs rs of the death Of
Peter j. Washburn, Governor Of Yer
mont, at Woodstock, on the 9Th instant.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12
IFS . -
CLIMAX KNITTERy


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3. Convenience of shape, size and weight Of
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4. Durability of machine.
S. Rapidly of work.
6. Cheapness.
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Persons who wish to see the machine in opera
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s. S. MARKHAM & SON,
Agents.for Oregon.
A1b.,v o. I'll 1o7n
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

REJEcrED.-The New Jersey State
Senate, on the 9th inst, rejected the Fif.
teenth Amendment-lS to s.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12
REPUBLICAN, COUNTY COMMIT
TEE.

The members of the Republican Cen
trail Committee of Linn County are re-
quested to meet in Albany, on
sats Friday, February Hsth, Is1O,
at o'clock 2. NJ, for the purpose of
fixing the time aud manner of holding
the County Convention, and for the trans
action of such other business as may
properly come before it. A full attend
ance is requested
M JAS. H. FOSTER, Chm.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

John Pierson, of Nevada City, has
rugged up water wheel to run his sew
ing machine,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

I The Legislatures of Nebraska and
Texas will soon ratify, so that the Fif-
teenth Amendment may as well be con-
sidered adopted, by the Constitutional
majority, even should New York and
Ohio not be courted, of which there
seems to be no reasonable probability.
The States which are counted on to re-
ject The amendment are: Kentucky,
California, Oregon, Tennessee, Mary
land, New Jersey and Delaware
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12
WILLIAM DAVIDSON,

WILLIAM DAVIDSON,
Office, No. 81 Front Street,
Adjoining the Telegraph Office, Portland, Oregon.
Special Collector of Claims,
Accounts, Notes, Bonds, Drafts, and Mercan-
tile Claims of every description throughout Ore
gon and the Territories, WILL BE MADE A
SPECIALITY AND PROMPTLY COLLECT
ED, as well as with due regard to economy in
all business matters intrusted to his care and the
proceeds paid over punctually.
Real Estate Dealer.
Sept. lift.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

THE 18TH AMENDMENT.-Foll following
are the States that have ratified the Fif-
teenth Amendment
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

DECAY OF PARTY OKGANs.-The New
York World, commenting on the neces-
sity of party organs, says that " the jour
nal which is blind to the faults of its own
party, as well as to the merits of the op-
posing party, is not the one which COM
mends itself to the average American.
This fact the leading papers in the coun-
try perceive SO that now, in place of tire
old slang whanging partisan organs that
used to flourish SO extensively, there is
large and growing class of journals
which exercise the right to judge impair
TALLY of the acts of either party, though
in the main advocating the claims of one
of them. So long as public measures can
be adopted only by means of organized
political parties, and so long as voters
will side with one or other of these par
ties, just SO long will party organs be q
necessity; but these journals will obtain
influence in inverse ratio to their blind
adherence to party. They must be inde-
pendent, but not neutral"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12
Special Collector of Claims,
Correspondence.

Sept. lift.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

A discarded lover in Louisville wreak-
ed his vengeance by stealing the trous-
seau of the young lady the day before she
was married to his rival.
The Voltaire statue, for which GEN.
times contributions were collected sever
al years ago, will definitely be erected on
one of the squares of the new street in
Paris, which is going to be called the
Rue de Reimes.
The Louisville, KY, Commercial saws
it is getting to be custom in that city
for doctors 20 write on their slates when
leaving their Offices, "Gone to fight a duel
will be back this evening, God and the
seconds willing" $,
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INSCRIPTIONS COMPOUNDED

STORE OPEN DAP AND N1GHr.
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Front Street. three doors beIow Connor's,
Albany, [feb l2'7o-2S] Oregon.
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The subjoined correspondence sufficiently ex
plains itself:
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-06-17
Production Of Artificial Jewels.

At a recent meeting of the Academy of
Sciences a highly interesting paper on this
was received from III. NJ. A. Gaud-
in. well known to the scientific world for
his researches on the molecular theory
The author is not the first in the field in
the art of producing artificial stones.
Some twenty years ago the late NJ. Ebel-
manufactured sayphIres and emeralds
in his laboratory. III. Gaudin's are inter-
mediate in hardness. They have the same
brillancv. and q certain fneness. The base
he EMPLOYS is alumina, but mixed with
other substances, SO that they have notthe
spare of oriental jewels, which can
only be obtained by alumina alone. But
this earth is extremely subject to devltrlt-
ication; if only melts at a very high tenn
perature, and instead of passing through a
pasty state, like glass, il suddenly becomes
fluid, like water, begins to boil, throwing
off sparks all the while, and then evapor-
ates, disappearing rapidly like camphor.--
Hence, in order to give ductility to this
strange material, it is absolutely necessary
to add a strong proportion of silica to it,
which prevents it from crystalizing, but
then the hardness of the compound iSvery
much reduced, though it still is compar'
able to hyaline quartz. By employing the
oxy-hydrogen blow-pipe on q support o
charcoal, the inconvenience alluded TO MAJ
be avoided; but then the operator incurI
another, which is that of the bubbles tina
often remain imprisoned inthe viscous sub
stance. Giving color to these artificial
stones is another difficulty; compounds o
gold, silver and palladium cannot be used
| because, under the influence of this grea
heat. these metals are Immediately revi
we'd. Copper is the most manageable o
all, and will give many tints. Manganese
and nickel always yield an orange yellow
chromium yields blue and green. Th
stones produced by III. Gaudin are sap
phires. rubies, emeralds, topazes, derid
otes. colorless diamonds and aqua marine
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-06-17

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