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f L ALBANY REGISTER. Republican Ticket fur 1872. U. S. GRANT. FOR VK'E P5UJE5T, HENRY WILSON, Iri-Nllrnifn Elftor, A. B. MKACHAM,oi t'liwtilta county. v. v. HAKE, hi' washlnsrion county. .1. F. UA.l.K Y, of Dou.f las county. V. S. OIHfinl PniT for Oregon. FBI PAT, OCTOBER L 172. Tlw Bolntlon of Vnrty Leader to The theory of our government lodges (jie supreme power in representatives elected by Hie people. These roprc Fitartves so selected become the agents of the people to carry into effect their wishes, as expressed in their platforms. Hence they are not mas ters, lint servants ; and if they adopt, or endeavor to cany out any lino of policy not recognized in the platform, (he principles of which they are pledged to support, they in effect re verse the order of relation, taking up on themselves the authority and digni ty which is wholly the province of the people. There mayhave been times in the history of the Republic when this could have been done by some em inent leaders with success especially might this have lieen the case in the early history of the country, while the influence- of Royalty were ye! Mtineu tralbsed by years ot progressive en lightenment and experience j but to the glory of the great masses of the American people may it be said, that that day no longer exists. The great party In power, constituting so large a numerical majority of the citizen ele ment of the country, will tolerate no public servant lor a moment, who pre sumes to depart from its clearly defin ed line of principle and policy, as em bodied In its platform. The people have grown in intelligence and virtue, and can no longer he influenced in their political aet'on by the mere in fluence of a i lame. They have become capable of discriminating between the man and the principles which he ad vocates; and hence a public servant is now held in favorable regard in pro portion to the ability and consistency mid earnestness with which he advo cates and defends the principles of the party. Charles Sumner, and Trum bull, and Schurz, failed to comprehend the true character of the people be longing to the Republican party, their intelligence and relation to them, when they endeavored to estrange them from their principles, by turning them Into a new channel of political policy. To-day they, and the rest of the renegades from the party, the WOiiM.be leaders of the Republican hosts into Chappaqnack pastures, stand out before the American .people, for saken by their old-time friends, exam ples of vanity aud egotism, sacrificed upon the altar of their own perfidy. They thought to flourish In their scheme of selfl'h glorification, but the people, whom they expected to use for this purpose) have left them to the remorse and chagrin of political sui cides. Let the people continue to rally around principle rather than men, and all will be well. Among the most important acts of the Legislature on the 2d inst., was the adoption, by the Senate, of the House joint memorial in relation to the Northern boundary of the State, mid the passing, by the House, of the House bill to repeal the Litigant bill. It will be gratifying to the Republi cans of the State to know, that this last measure has thus been so prompt ly condemned by their Representatives in the House. Investigation Into the Harlem Court House job at New York city reveals the fact that one Lynch, a pet of the Tammany rinjr, held a sinecure office, and that four hundred per cent, profit ww waue on stone. Our Nenaior Elt. It will be gratifying to our readers to know that the long and strenuously contested election for United States Senator at Salem, has at last terminat ed in the election f Hon. J. n. Mitch ell, of Portland. This occurred last Saturday, the Republicans all voting for him except the Senator and Mem ber from Polk county. Mr. Mitchell is, well known throughout the State as a gentleman of superior cull ure, splen did legal and legislative ability, which, In addition to a high sense of honor and great energy, well qualify him to fill the high position to which lie has been elevated, with credit to himself and benefit and honor to his constitu ents and country. He was the choice of a large majority of the Republican members of the Legislature from the lirt, is thoroughly Republican in his principles, was fairly and honorably elected by Republican votes, and should go to Washington enjoying the confi dence and good wishes of every Re publican in the State. Peter CnrCnrlirlit. It is announced in the dispatches of the 27th nit., that Peter Cart right, tbe famous Methodist pioneer preacher Is no more. He died at his residence in Pleasant Plains, 111., September 25th, aged N7 years. His long service in the itinerancy, extensive travels and many peculiar adventures growing out of his eccentric character, have rendered his name a household word in multitudes of families, East and South, as well as West. He was en dowed with unconquerable determina tion, tremendous energy and sterling Integrity ; and though like many of the early itinerants, he received but little intellectual culture from the schools of his day. yet by the untiring application of bis own unassisted ener gy, he succeeded in becoming a most eloquent and powerful advocate ofthe truth, and thousands in his day were influenced to choose a life of piety by his ministerial labors. Though his mission was one of peace, yet he did not hesitate, in extreme cases, whete moral influences seemed to fail, to re sort to personal physical force, with which nature had amply endowed him, and some instances are narrated in his history of where rowdylsh men at campmeetings were brought to their knees and prayer, by the vigor of his blows. He has been the only minis ter, we believe, in the United States, connected with the M. E. Church, who occupied consecutively the office of Presiding Elder for fifty years. We join with multitudes of others through out the country, whom the announce ment of bis death will reach, In drop ping a tear to his memory. At a conference held In New York city on the 25th tilt., by a number of Democrats dissatisfied with the Louis ville movement, James Worrall. of Pt'iui., presided) and made a speech favoring Grant and Wilson. A reso lution was subsequently adopted urg ing Democrats to vote for Grant, and calling on members ofthe National Committee to organize in the several States, and unite in behalf of candi dates approved by their conference. Tbe nomination of Gen. Dix for Gov ernor ot New York was highly com mended by them, and also others on the Republican ticket. In view of these things, aud others of a similar nature, which are almost constantly transpiring, we are forced to the con viction thattli.it "ground swell" which was to heave up for Uncle Horace, has began to "move itself" in favor of Ulysses. Heave on, say we. Put lUin to Bed. Why hasn't Gen. Banks made that speech In New York city on the sub ject of the national finances? It was announced that he was going to, and no speech on that theme has as yet emluated from this hero of Red river. We guess the reason why he lias not done so, Is because he has discovered that tho financial minds of New Yoik have no more confidence in his finan cial ability, than army men have in his military ability, or honest men have In his Integrity. He is a politi cian that needs to go to soak. Weatheh Cool and cloudy, a slight rainfall on Wednesday night. tiood TcftttaMMiy. In a recent speech of Senator Buck ingham, the following was said In reference to President Grant's iwrson al habits, which should be satisfactory on that subject, he being President of the State Temperance Union, and an officer in the Congressional Temper ance Society, and not likely to be a superficial observer oh that point : A deal has been said about the habits of President Grant. It will not lie possible for me to prove a negative, therefore I can't say ; I can't prove that the President has been under the influence of intoxicating drinks, but will say this, that 1 liave seen him and been with him on various occasions, public and private, at his house and mine, and I have known something of his habits of life. I was with him on the Fourth of July two yean ago. I entertained him at my table. I went with him to the city ot New Loudon, and there we sat at the public table, whore there was wine. I don't know that he drank a drop; if he had drank anything of consequence I should have known It. After dinner he was suf fering very severely with headache, and it was difficult for him to meet his friends ; and yet he stood for over an hour to receive their congratula tions. I went with him to the steam boat, and afterward to the hotel, where, when he retired, he was still Suffering. Xow, I say this, that he had nne of those periodica) headaches which be has at times, when he can not entertain men, and that it is in consequence of this that the people have gone away and reported that be cause of bis habit- lie was unable to do business. 1 will say tun tier, tnat i have never seen him when he has been any more under the influence of anient spirits than our chairman is now. Applause. I will say of the men who are neqttaintedwlth him, that I never saw one or heard one say that he had ever seen him under the influ ence of intoxicating drinks. I say that these reports In regard to his hab its are, In my judgement, the reports ot enemies. Lontl applause. J iney are base slanders. Renewal applause. mere is notnuig 111 ms nanus or eimr actcr which robs me of my confidence in him. 1 know that he is a man of great integrity, and I don't lielieve that there is any reward you or any one can bestow that will make him swerve from the course which is for the best interests of this Republic. I will say further, that I havu never known a public man who appeared to be governed less by personal ambition than Ulyseel S. Grant. Applause. I say still further, that you may be with him in private and In public, and you will have to be with Inm more than I have been before yon hear him utter one word in commendation of his ser vices while he was General in the army." Lnnrn D. Fair. The trial of Laura 1). Fair, of San Francisco, for the murder of Critten den, has at last terminated in her ac quittal. She was previously tried for this crime, found guilty and sentenced to be hung : but through the skillful management of her eminent counsel, she was granted a new trial. It took some eight days to secure a jury who had not formed any opinion ot her case ; but this, having been done, and the testimony having been psosented to them, and the comments of the coun sel upon it, they reverse the decision of the former jury, and restore her to freedom. From this may be seen the imperfection and unreliability of hu man arbitration, as administered through juries. We loam from the Oranuinn that the Pacific delegation to the Philadel phia Convention, having their head quarters together, resolved that the flag that floated over them at Phila delphia should be presented to the Re publican party of Oregon in ca.se the State should be redeemed at tho June election. Tbe flag has been received by Hon. Chas. W. Parrish, and now floats ovoi the office of the Republican State Central Committee, at Senator Corbett's building on First street, Port land. Money Market. The money market is unpreeedentcdly tight, amomting almost to a famine. It is next to im possible to collect money at all. We feel it more, probably, than any one else, as. usually, printer's bills are the very last to be paid. If somebody don't "see us" before long we shall be compelled to foreclose our mortg age. Distress, financially, ain't no name lor it. The county In which New York city is situated has saved $2,000,000 in one year, by turning the Tammany Democrats out of office. EASTER?) XKWH. A lengthy address to the Democracy ofthe United States Is Issued by a committee of the Louisville Conven tion. It explains the object of the as semblage, opposes the Baltimore plat form as not Democratic contends that the Democracy did not demand the nomination ofGreeley and the adoption of his platform ; says the watchword is not "anything to beat Grant." but anything to prevent Greeley from beat ing and destroying the Democratic party, and that Grant's election will be a much less calamity than that of Greeley. If the former is chosen the responsibility rests on Baltimore, which refused the people either a Dem ocratic nominee or a platform. The address concludes by Invoking Demo crats to vote for O'Conor and Adams. The Iowa O'Conor Democrats have nominated a State ticket. Silks, valued at from $100,000 to $150,000, were stolen from a public store in New York city, in one week. The National Steamboat Convention at Cleveland, has organized a perma nent National Board. Attorney General Barlow has In formed Tweed, Mayor Hall, Sweeney & Co., that their trials will begin next October. Second Lieut. Chas. Jordan of the 10th U. S. Infantry. recently sentenced to a dismissal from the service and one years imprisonment for embezzle ment ot money, while acting as Quar termaster at Jackson, Miss., has been sent to Dry Tortugas. The United Order of American Me chanics held a brilliant celebration at Newark, N. J., on the 26th nit., 50,- 000 members participating. There was a light fall of snow in Maine week before last. Mobile, Ala., has been without rain for forty days. William Irvin, living near Terre Haute, Ind., was killed on the 20th ult. by means of an ax in the hands ot his son-in-law, J. Miller, whom he had reproved for Spilling a howl of eider. The Strnighout Democracy of Wis consin have concluded to nominate a State ticket. M. Gering, of Jersey City. N. J., murdered his wife on the 20th ult., and cut his own throat, dying instantly- ' Greeley arrived in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 24th. He made several elec tioneering speeches on the route. The national steamboat convention met in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 24th. President Grant arrived in New York city from Long Branch on the 24th. lie started for Washington In the afternoon. The soldiers' monument, at Pitts field. Mass, was dedicated on the 24th, George W. Curtess delivering the ad dress. Twenty thousand persons were present. The Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, at Newburg, Ohio, was burning on tbe 25th. A bloodv fight occurred at Hunter don, N. Jf., last Saturday night be tween 150 blacks and over 00 whites at work on a tunnel, resulting in the death of one white and throe blacks. The whites were the assailants. General Win. Harrow died at Evans vllle, Ind.. on the 27th ult., from the effect of a railroad accident. A railroad accident near Washvllle, Teiui., tiie other day, killed one man aud wounded others. A telegram says the weather through out the west tor the past wee nas oeen very cool, with frost in various places. At a house of ill-tiune near Fulton, III., J. O'Neal stabbed Hiram Rexford repeatedly with a dirk, and finally chopped his head off with an ax. The Qrewmian tells of Mr. S. F. Kerns, of East Portland, being some fifteen miles from Portland the other day, and seeing what he supposed to be a deer, fired at it. and was astound ed to discover bv the roaring that he had wounded a California lion. Load ing his gun and approaching, his sur prise was changed into horror on be holding six others of the same sjiecics running towards the place. He made good time In getting away from there. D. P. Wallace, master of the Che halis. says that salmon are remarkably numerous between Arcada and Oak land. Thev were jumping up and showing their finny backs all around the boat on her way. Only one soli tary individual was employed in catch ing them. He had a wheel that turned by a crank by which he drew the fish Into the boat. The Gazette announces that Lord Hatherly has resigned the Chancellor ship of England. FOBEIWN SEW). The English Court has gone Into mourning ou the death of the King of Sweden. Princess Hohenlohe, sister of Queen Victoria, is dead. It is said that the German Govern ment, at the next session ot the Prus slan Reichstag, intends to provide means for meeting the scruples, res ervations and encroadments of the Church. Danish authorities have prohibited the importation of English cattle on account of rinderpest. M. Thiers is writing a work on the history of philosophy, and has already made considerable progress. So extensively is the adulteration of tea new carried on in China that Mr. Medhurst, the British Consul at Shang hai, wrote that 53,0tX) pounds of wil low leaves were iu course of manipul ation at one port alone, to be mixed with tea for shipment, at the rate' of from 10 to 20 per cent, Mr. Lowe. Chancellor of the Ex chequer, in a speech at Glasgow, Eng.. on the 26th ult., severely condemned Sir Alexander Cockbum for not sign ing the award of damages in the Ala bama claims, and for publishing an argument which opens up the question and reviews the ill-feeling. The rinderpest has appeared among the cattle in Lliicolnshiae, Eng. The Brazilian Minister of Agricul ture Is dead. Seuor Barrett! is his successor. The Government candidates have lioen elected to Congress throughout Braail. The Chambers of Commerce in sev eral of the leading cities of England have adopted resolutions congratulat ing the Government on the happy termination of the arbitration, and copies of the resolutions have been forwarded.to the United States. The Republicans of Alsace have nominated Victor Hugo for the French Assembly. Lord Chancellor Atberly, of Eng.. has resigned. A meeting of railway servants was hold at Ilyile Park. London, on tho 29th ult., to adopt measures tor furth ering the movement for the emigration of large numbers of this class to Can ada and the United States. The French Government paid to Germany on the 23rd inst. 57.00O.0OO francs, completing the fifth half mill iard ofthe war indemnity. The Russian Minister to France has told Thiers that the Czar would not have gone to any meeting, the object of which was hostility to France. The Paris Ftgafa says Dejimel Pa sha. Turkish Ambassador to the French Government, died on the railway train while going from Paris to Little burg, Austria. Charles Sunnier arrived In Paris on the 24th inst. Gen. Manteuffel, Commander ofthe German troops now in France, anil the French authorities, have agreed on the evacuation of the departments ot Marne and Haute Manic, to commence October 15th. Rev. Dr. Smith, editor of the Ww crrf, the Baptist organ published at Chicago, gets a veariy salary of $8, 000 ; Rev. Dr. Patten, editor of the Advance, Chicago, the organ ofthe Cougregationalists, gets fci.000, and Rev. Arthur Swasey, editor of tbe -Mor, Chicago, the organ ofthe Pres byterians, gets 5,000. The secular press is not so generous toward its workers. A reactionary movement has occur red in Japan, which Mori, the Japan ese Minister, says is an effort of older men in public life to counteract the progressive movement ot the young men. who have obtained control of affairs. The French were leaving in crowds from Alsace and Lorraine to France, during the four days terminating on the 1st inst. The time to choose be tween German and French citizenship had then expired. "What can be more harrowing to your soul than the thought of wasted opportunities ?" asked a teacher of a bright boy. "A peg In my boot har rows my sole more'n anything else," replied the bright boy. Lincoln was once talking to Mont gomery Blair during the vvar, when he burst out, "I say, Blair, what can we do with that fault-finding, miserable Greeley and his paper? Why, he does more damage than twenty good gener als can undo." Andy Johnson is again wrestling with the Constitution. In a recent speech he requested his bearers : "In the event I should perish aud fall, all I ask is that you will lay my bones among yon, wrapped in my country's flag, with her Constitution." The Straight Democrats of New York city elected delegates to the State Convention on the 1st Inst. Music is the food of love beef aud mutton that of matrimony. I 1 ;..