The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-02

adelphia Ledger, or an average of more
than 10000 a day, and yet you will see
people who don't think the Ledge''
much of a paper after all. The secret of
its success consists in the wonderful
completeness of its local news, of which
it misses nothing. The appearances of
/ the paper is not attractive its editorials
are for the most part prosy and dull, but
In the condensation of city news, and the
marked conservatism of its commercial
reports, it has no superior anywhere.
An extreme penalty has been fixed, as
the result of the Ross abduction case, III
i Pennsylvania, against the crime of alb
ductlon or concealment of stolen chill
dren. Fifteen years Imprisonment and
$40, 900 fine is the punishment to be i'm
posed upon each and every person who
assists in the concealment of kidnapped
child. There is a special clause in the
bill which is meant directly to effect the
restoration of Charley Ross, if possible,
providing for the freedom from penalty
of any party who may give information
OF. or restore the stolen boy, within
tfl11 ty days.
THAT the farmers of the Great West
are deeply interested IN the subject of
transportation was clearly shown in the
United States Senate, just before the
close of the session, when Mr.. Window,
of Minnesota, presented monster peti-
ton containing the autograph signatures
of rs, S53 horny-handed tillers of the soil,
praying for better and cheaper means of
transporting their products to market
OF this number, 13, 1S2 reside in Mime
sofa, II, 154 in Wisconsin, i7,154 in
Iowa, 5,838 in Nebraska, and LOIS in
Dakota-with Illinois and Kansas to be
heard from. In presenting it, Mr.. Win
dom very pertinently said that it was
but faint expression of the sentiments
and demands of the people of the North
west. This petition, says the Inter
ocean, Is probably the largest ever pre-
sented in Congress. Many years ago
Edward Everett, of Massachusetts,, pre-
sented the petition of 5000 New England
clergymen. praying tor the repeal of the
Fugitive Slave law, and that, from its
great size, attracted much attention.
But this monster appeal for some better
means of transportation outweighs any
thing of the kind ever presented to Con-
gress, and happily illustrates the mag
nifcent manner in which they do things |
&c out Vest
The reports that have recently come |
from the Black Hills will undoubtedly |
have an important influence upon the col |
onization of that country III the spring. |
The Chicago Tribune expresses the be-
lief that as soon as the weather becomes
fit for travel there will be such rush to |
the new Eldorado as took place years
ago to Pixies Peak-that the swarm of
settlers, adventurers, and goId-hunters
will spread themselves over that region |
like ants, and viii go there in such clouds |
that the whole army of the United States
will not be able to stop them, nor all the |
Indians west of the Mississippi. If the |
Black Hills country is half that it is de
scrlbed-a region abounding in gold, sill
Yer and other minerals, having magnifi- |
cent and welLwatered valleys, fertile |
soil, imitless forests of pine, filled with
every description of game, etc., there is
no good reason why it should not be pop
ulated and improved as soon as possible. |
The Indians are doing nothing for it,
and never viii. The Tribune, however,
adds a timely word of caution to those
who may be attacked with the Black
Hills fever, and recalls the fate of the
Pixies Peak victims as warming against
a repetition of such infatuation and |
headlong haste to get rich.