The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
TOPICS OF THE DAY.


FRANK MoUnToN, in his testimony in
the Tilton-Beecher trial, the other day,
admitted that Ben. Butler wrote his ia
nous Sc statements of last summer.
ANNA DICKINSON, following the exam
pie of Kate Field, has bid farewell to the
lecture platform, only, however, to pre-
pare herself for q speedy debut on the
stage.
MIR. HORACE WHITE, late editor of the
Chicago Tribune, finds his health much
impaired by his editorial labors, and will
visit the West Indies next month, in
company with David A. Wells.
HoN. HENRY L. DAWES, the new
United States Senator from Massachu-
sets, like thousands of others who have
gained wealth and fame, once edited an
unpretentious country newspaper.
SENATOR WRIGHT, of Iowa, has intro
duced bill In the Senate ordering a re-
duction in the salaries of all government
employees who receive more than 81, 300
n year, the President and Supreme Court
Judges alone excepted.
HENRY NJ. SMITH, a well known
Chicago journalist, once editor of the
Republican, and for some time manag-
ing editor of the Tribune, has taken
charge of the Brooklyn Union. Smith
is better known throughout the North
west in connection with the famous
Jubilee" n the Rock Island depot,
Chicago.
A BILL has been introduced in the
United States Senate by Mr.. Edmunds,
of Vermont, to create a court having
jurisdiction over all cases of contested
elections, including President and Vice
President. The court is to consist for
the time being of the Chief Justice and
and Associate Justices of the United
States Supreme Court.
A young man who has recently returned
to Sioux City from the Black Hills re-
ports that the party to which he was
attached found gold everywhere they
prospected. He brought home several
rich specimens of quartz, which good
judges say VIII assay 81, 900 to the ton.
There are now about 800 white miners in
the hills digging for the precious metal.
JUDGE NELSON decided very impor-
tant point In the Tilton-Beecher case the
other day. The defense wanted to in
troduce the Moulton- Proctor nastiness,
on the plea of showing the animus of
Moulton as a witness The court ruled
it all out, for which he deserves public
thanks. The case in hand Is sadly de-
moralixing but repetition of the dis
gusting side issue " mentioned would
fill the air with most noisome stencil.
KING ALFONSO was scarcely seated on
his glittering throne long enough to sur
vey the field and take glance at the sit
uation before he started off to assume
command of the Spanish Army of the
North. OF course the royal boy has very
little practical knowledge of military
affairs, and no experience whatever. He
is not fit to maneuver squadron, much
less corps, and if left to himself would
probably 1ese his crown in the first
pitched battle.
IIEP1NE, the accompice of Riel In the
murder of Scott, at Fort Garry, has been
saved from the gallows, a general am
nesty having been issued to all parties
concerned In the affair. He was to have
been hanged on the 29th of January.
Political influences, however, have served
to save him, and at the same time remove
the ban of outlawry from Riel, the
principal in the affair. The amnesty viii
probably enable Riel to take his seat in
the Dominion Parliament, to which he is
elected
MR. BoUrwE191. has introduced in the
United States Senate bill designed to
put stop to the employment of lobby
agents under the g1ise Of attorneys. II
proposes to create bar of both houses
of Congress, and provides that q
COMMITTEES of three members of each be
appointed, whose duty it shall be to
determine what attorneys shall be allowed
to argue cases before the committees. All
persons besides these are to be rigidly
excluded, and it is to be made felony
for others to appear in behalf OF inter
ested parties.
THERE are several men around these
1,arts who would have cut sorry figures
as Romans. History tells us that in the
old Roman days the debtor could be
taken home by the creditor and kept
sixty days, fettered with irons not ex-
ceeding fifteen pounds in weight; at the
end Of which time, If the debt remained
unpaid, he could be brought before the
people on three market days, on the last
of which his body could be cut into
pieces according to the number OF credl-
tors; or, If they preferred, he could De
sold into foreign slavery.