The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-05-24
RAxTERN NEWS.

cd Of three hundred delegates, who
were unanimous and harmonious
for Grant.
Smallpox is disappearing from
Washington, d. G.
In the course OF a year the Treas
nry Department and its branches
consume nearly fifty tons Of writing
paper, six thousand gross Of pens
and one thousand gross Of pencils.
Bishop NcQuade, Of Rochester,
New York, forbi'ls the presence of
more than II carriages at fune-
raj.
The Webster place in Marshfeld,
Massachusetts, is advertised to be
sold at auction for non-paymcnt Of
taxes.
Ofthe sixty beeves slaughtered
daily in Matamoas, three-fpurths
are stolen from Texas. 1t costs the
Texas cattle raisers S339,5OO per
s,num TO feed that one Mexican
town.
Greeley has spositivcly determined
not to accept of any invitation to
speak on political questions while a
candidate.
In Washington county, Ky, not
long since, ole Lowell gave his son,
seven years old, a pistol and or
dered him to shoot an idiot sister.
The boy missed the idiot and
wounded another sister.
A paper mill, five dwellings and
a railroad bridge at Chatham, n.
Y, burned on the morning of the
10th.
The Republican State Conven-
ton of Michigan met on the 10th
and amesrg other proceedings, pass
ed a resolution in favor of the re-
election Of Grant.
The right Of way to the Utah and
Northern Railway passed the House,
at Washington, on the 10th.
Col. George w. Dougal, of Cal
ifornia, died at Washington, D. C.,
on the night Of the 10th, from pois-
on which he had taken. Suicided.
A special message from President
Grant, accompanying the correspon-
deEce Of the United States Senate,
is as follows: ] transmit herewith
the correspondence which has re-
Gently taken place respecting the
difference Of opinion which has
arisen between this Government and
that of Great Britain, with regard
to the powers of the Tribunal Of Ar
bitration created under the treaty
signed at Washington in May, 1871.
| respectfully invite the attention Of
the Senate to the proposed article
submitted by the British Govern
ment, with the object Of removing
the difference which seems to threat
en- tie prosecution ofthe arbitration,
and request an expression by the
Senate of their disposition in regard
to advising and concerting TO a
formal adoption of the articles such
as proposed by the British Govern
ment. The Senate is aware that
consultation with that body in ad-
vance of entering into agreements
with foreign States, had many pre-
cedents in the early days of the Re
public. General Washington asked
their advice upon a pending ques-
ton. The most important recent
precedent is that Of the Oregon
boundary treaty Of 1916. The inn
portance OF the results hanging upon
the present state of the treaty with
Great Britain, leads me to follow
these former prccedents, and to de-
sire the counsel of the Senate in all
vance Of agreeing to the proposals
OF Great britain. Signed,
u. S. GRANT.
Senator Sumner is reported as
thinking the Cincinnati platform a
fair, admirable, statesmanlike series
OF resolutions. lie is especially
charmed with the tariff plank. If
the contest is personal one be-
tween Grant and Greeley, he will
support Greeley.
Gov. Walker, of J7irginia, has a
kindling ambition to become the
Democratic nominee at Baltimore.
The Nebraska State Republican
Convention on the 10th, passed res
olutions endorsing the Administn-
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