The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-04-26

The Republican State CdnyeI

election. The resolutions favor
general amnesty aud indorse Ger
eral Grant.
The Conference Committee ot'the
Senate and Assembly on tile New
York charter have agreed to report
the bill substantially as passed by
the Assembly, throwing out Comp
troller Green, Commissioner Van
Vert and the board of assistants,
and conterring the appointment Of
Police Commissioners on the Judges.
A grand soldiers meeting is 10
he held at tie Cooper Institute,
New York, on the 2Gth inst, to aid
the fund for erecting a monument
to Major Gen. George II. Thomas.
General Burnside is chairman o;
the Committee havingcharge OF the
movement.
Two Democrats Of Peterhoro
agreed if Straw was elected Gov
ernor Of New Hampshire, to pur.
chase 200 pounds of fresh fish and
peddle them in the street, one trun-
ding them alone in a go-cart, while
the other blew q horn and took the
money.
The Republican State Conven.
tion of Pennsylvania indorsel Grant
and instructed its delegates to the
National Convention to vote for
his rc.no,nination, declared for the
protective policy, and denounced
land grants. General IIartrautt
was nominated for Governor, ClyS-
ses Mercer for Supreme Judge, Ilar-
rison Allen for Auditor, and Lem
uel Tod,! and Harry White for
CoDgcssInen at large.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is h-
ing very generally named as the
proper Icality for the assemblingot
the National Democratic Con-
vcntion.
The Republican State Conven.
ton of Massachusetts declared for
the denomination of Grant and re-
commended Senator lIeurY Wilson
for Vice President.
The Richmond (Na.) Wing as
serts that General Grant may pos
sibly be sustained for reelection by
the Democrats. It says: "Itis rot
so certain that he cares about tie
nomination at Philadelphia, and
that he will not throw himself into
the arms of the great liquor-loving
and tice-and-easy Democratic l,ar.
ty.'"
At the Keokuk (Iowa) city elee-
ton, April lst, the regular Repub-
lican nominees were elected through.
out, defeating the Citizens ticket.
II. w. Rathbert was reelected
Mayor by 375 majority, a gain
over last springs election of over
100.
On the trial of Fanny Hyde in
New York on the 18th, for shooting
her employer, George Watson, two
physicians testified to the belieftlat
the prisoner was laboring under ill-
cipient homridal mania at the time
Of killing.
Authentic information from 81.
Petersburg, Russia, states that Cat
acaTy has been disgraced on account
of his conduct here, and that he
has gone to Paris on all annual
pension OF 5000 roubles.
The Salt Lake and Colorado rail-
road bill has passed tie House at
Washington.
The Chief of the Cherokee ia
ton, is Presbyterian preacher; the
chiefs of the Choctaws and Senln-
oles, are Baptist preachers, and the
Chief of the Greeks, is a Methodist
preacher.
y Chicago cotemponry thus de-
scribcs the deliberate manner IN
which that city is being rebuilt:
"Let me see," said a Chicago boss
mason retiectivcly, to a burnt.ou:
merchant, shave got to put up a
block for Brown this morning, aid
a dwelling this afternoon for Smith.
Yes, | guess we can jerk mp your
store this noon by takin' only half
an hours noonili',"
Peters has introduced a resolu-
ton in the House ofRep,esentatiyes
advising the withdrawal OF tie
claim for indirect damages.
Revedy johnson approves the
Peters resolution
A tornado struck Coffayyillo.