The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-03-31
OUR sANFRANC1sCO LETTER.

season is about over. The hotels are rap
idly filling with merchants and Others
from the interior. The sidewalks are
thronged with people !; the streets are
blockaded with trans the entrances to
the Wholesale houses Oh Frossf. Battery.
Sansome, and Market Streets are piled up
with goods and boxes, and trucks are be-
ginning to walt tleirtu turn in loading and
unloading. The mercantile face again
wears a smile. The show wlnaose on
Montgomery, Kearly. Market, and other
retail streets. are being trimmed with the
new and beautiful styles of spring goods;
the miIliners are getting ready FOR their
formal openings. The great dry goods
palaces are receiving heavy invoices, and
preparing for the rush that is sure to come.
The outlook was never better.
Outside of trade the evidences of pros
peIity are equally apparent, exhibited in
the erection of family hotels, dramatic
temples, mammoth storehouses, marble
and brick blocks, and long rows of elegant
dwelling houses. The stores and offices
in the Palace Hotel, Safe Deposit Block,
and Nevada Block are all leased, and rents
still have an upward tendency. Baldwin's
New Hotel, the Nucleus Hotel, and La
tham's elegant block are nearly completed,
and hundred other business houses are
more or less advanced. Oflstile walls and
tables of the architects are the drawings
like character to those now i'm progress.
Four, five, six, and even seven-story bull
dings are taking the place of the -two-story
structures of former times, the earthquake
bugbear having lost its terrors.
What of the interior? From all parts
come words of cheer and hopefulness. The
great valleys have been blessed with copi-
Gus showers of rain, TINS insurlng a boun-
teous yield. From semi-tropical California
far away to Washington territory the fields
are spreading their covering of green, ere
long to Fipen into the elotIt of gold. The
cattle and sheep are feeding and lnXuriat-
ing on a thousand hills. The miners are
uncovering the treasures of earth-riclIer
by far than history records, or Imagination
ere conceived of tufnbliug mountains. and
sinking far down into the bowels of the
earth; and by wonderful and powerful
mechanical appliances raising to the sur
face the reward of enterprise and perse-
vcrence. Such is the outlook on the Pacific
Coast III the third month of the Centennial
year.
There is but little local news of interest
to communicate. The produce market is
without material change. The silverqnes-
ton continues one of serious annoyance !;
counterfeit trade dollars are in circulation.
Less than 10 per cent. is required to effect
the exchanges at the clearing house. The
Bank of California has levied another as
sessment of $40 per share. The demands
for duties the past week aggregated $751;
900. 1t is proposed to close the public
schools next month, the school fund being
exhausted. Sunday boating on the bay
costs on an average one life per week.
Thirty country newspapers are included
in the recently organized Associated Coun-
try Press of the Pacific Coast, and L. Clan
cy has been appointed agent in this city.
| For stealing Il coat worth about dollar
Cins. Kavatlaugh gets three years in San
| Quentin.
| The city is remarkably healthy. the rec
orelS showing but IS deaths for the past
| week. the smallest mortality for more than
males and IS females GO were white, l
| black, II copper colored.
Libel suits seem to be the order of the
day. Messis. Dewes. Ball, and Stamford
of the Oakland Tribune were arrested Mon
day OH compla mt of Capt. Lees, aud gave
bail in the sum of $1,000 each to answer
before Judge Loude-back. Albert Sutlifie,
600 to answer the complaint of Rev T. NJ
| Dawson.
| Judge Dwindle has decided that a
''mixetl jury" part aliens and part citi-
zers, is illegal, the statute of the state re-
| quiring that ''cvery juror must be a citizen
of the United Stltes.'' In view of our
mongoliat1 population. one wotsld suppose
both the law and decision would meet
with general appreciation. What is '.s;,uee
for the goose is not always sssaulce for
the gander,'' however. On Tuesday even
/ Jag Irish American Hall was crowded to
its utmost capacity, by adopted citizens,
/ TO protest against the imprisonment Of Ed
ward O'Meagher Condor, at present con-
fined by English authorities for an offense
alleged to have been committed by him in
connection with tie Manchester Fcnian
Outbreak. The following acheceos was
unanimously adopted:
ellis conviction was obtained by the yer.
dict of jury composed entirely Of English
men, contrary to law and precedent
which entitle him to representation o
American citizens on his jury.'' Ths
meeting was pssbablyeaoC akvares that th'
English law had long since been repeaded
and nit the .'nlfxed jdry''ssystert is akso
lete ,eYeeryThere Il 8E !
The theaGPical news4s of4noFe ltllau or
diBary Importance Mrs. Scott-Siddons
engagement at the t4California'' has clos
ed; John Nc Cullough is announced 70
Monday, March 9th, in his Gavorite char
acter of ssVfrginius.'' Barry Sullivan i
still at "Baldwins,'' playing TO crowde'
houses. Waclltel made his last appearance