The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-30

On the 18th the breaks ON The UnibnEt
Pacific were closed, and trains now run /
through without tEankferring passengers.
Judge Williams has resigned aud Judge
Edwards Pierrepont has accepted the |
Office of Attorney General.
All experiment Is to be made In the ct,l-
tivation of cotton, III Arizona, the coming
season, on a pretty large scale.
The fire at Oshkosh destroyed all the
printing offices, banks, postoffice. all hotels
but one, telegraph Office, etc. Two lives
We're lost.
The ship Hagcrstoaen, having on board
600 bales of cotton. was struck by light
ming at her wharf during a storm, In New
Orleans, April 21st, set on fire aud burned.
Secretary Delano announces that, as the
recent newspaper attacks affecting his Of
ficial integrity are the result of conspiracy
to COMPEL his retirement from the Cabinet,
he has postponed his resignation indefi-
nitely.
why is it that the .Ne,e NothteeSt and
the lStGtes Rights Dengocrm have become so
suddenly passive? We can but imagine
am agreement of cessation of hostilities.
s-'Iis none of our business, to be certainly
but then you know the natural inquisi-
tiveness of man induces thu inquiry, why
Is this thus?
q We believe it is conct,tled that the wheat
crop of California tor tile coming season
will be pretty general failure, through
the lack of rain. In some places rhe wheat
is already being cut for hay. all hope of its
maturing having been abandoned. This
fact may induce many persons who have
.emigrated to that State this season with the
expectation of settling there, to change
their minds. and come on to Oregon.
Tho Union Pacific Railroad is compelled
to employ the passenger coaches of con-
Meeting roads east to move the people
westward as fast as they arrive at Omaha
During the first ten days of April nearly
5000 emigrants reached that place ell
route to tile Territories and the Pacific
coast. Freight is also accumulating there
very fast. and first class travel is very
| large. East bound travel is light The
earnings of the road are nearly double
those of this time last season.
On the evening of April Goth, the body
of Capt. r. B. Randall arrived at TTma.
| tilla, was taken III charge by the Odd Eel
lows, and on the next DAY was buried by
the order, assisted by the Masonic frater
| nifty. the Captain having beena member O
both orders. It viii be remembered tha
1 Capt. Randall was drowned in the Column
bia river, near Cmatilla. some weeks since
His body was found below the falls a
Cello, day or two before it was forwarded
to Cmatilla for burial.
Gen. Spinner III addition to the eleganc
of his autograph has some other peculiari
ties. lie is incorruptibly honest, which
1 the exception rather than the rule nova
| days among public men. In the treasur.
he is like a watch dog. always sleeping Il
the building. Although well advanced il
years he has fondness for female beauty
but not to All extent to excite suspicion G
wrong doing. He believed in the honest
of women and employed great many Z
them. taking the ground that woman ha
not the nerve to steal.
Jay Gould, the great specr,lator an
business man. was interviewed recently b
reporter. who says: One remark h
made strnck me with much force. Whe
+, talking of the tlepiorable condition of on
| financial affairs. he said they were not S
bad as many supposed. The Pacific Slope
| he said, had not been touched by tile panic
| and it. with its vast mineral and other rt
sources. had come to he the country wlla
:, the SoHtll had been. But for that our rtli
would have been complete. With it on
restoration is not distant:
The fifty-sixth anniversary of Odd Fe
lowship i'm the T.. was celebrated ger
orally by the lodges in San Francisco. A
excursion to Badgers Park, Brooklyn
was projected, the public generally .ioinirr
in the picnic, many thousands being pres
ent. The Oakland steamers, as late as
p. NJ, were crowded with excursioneIs
A band of music was in attendance. Th
girls and men and women, married an
] single, sack races, blindfold races oil
mems races, and a fat mems race, free {
all over 400 pounds. iThe customary polio
. precautions We're taken and eTerytllil
I passed off pleasantly. - agdsslx at
: The unusual warm weatIiero of the pas
!. two weeks has melted the SHOWS in til
g mountains along the line of the overlan
It railroad, causing all the streams to oye
flow their banks, flooding the Country i
= every direction. More SNOW fell in II
: mountains during tlSe winter than eyc
known before, and the early and contiu,
8 ed warm weather has kept the stresJms /,
n for an unusual length of, time. Miles i
ls railroad and:a large numbersof bridge
= have been washed away, and travel aero
Y the continent has almost ceased. Lar.
= numbers OF passengers. at last accotnf
with malls and freight. were at Gret
? river and other points, awaiting the stI
sidence of the waters. Until the wate
are assanaged the bridges and roadbed q
e not bereplaeei. The latest tdegrams a
K to the effect that tTains,wiil soon be ma
ing regular trips, as the waters are "a