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ALBANY, REGISTER. r. . Offlrinl rpr for Orron. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1872. Wrent Victory. The most brilliant victory that has liver been awarded to a political party in a Presidential campaign, has jnst leen given to the Republican party. The most crushing defeat that has ever been visited by the suffrages of the jeople npo,i any party In the nation, was administered at. the polls last Tuesday upon the so-called Liberal party. The eamMiign of the latter was made up of unfounded charges Rnd abuse against the character of General Grant, but the ieople by a unanimity unannelled in the history of Presidential eleitlons.1 ave pronounced their disbelief In the charges which were made. They have done it by nuniliers so (treat that the opposition h left entirely without room for retort. Think of over thirty States in the Un ion giving large majorities for Grant and Wilson electors. See Pennsyl vania heading the list with 125.000 majority over 25.000 more than the population of Oregon. See Massa chusetts with over 73.000; Illinois, so hotly contested, rolling up 50,000, and soon. Look at the grand aggregate of nearly rO.OOOin twenty-nine States now (Thursday) reported for Grant. The result is absolutely gigantic in its tremendousness. It is too greatly big to celebrate over. The opposition Is so entirely nowhere that one teels ashamed to throw up his hat and yell, a sort of pity for them coming over one ; and yet it Is grand, glorious. It teaches a lesson that the opposition and the whole people will not soon forget. That principles guide the choice of the American people and not men. Greeley. Rrown, Trumbull, Sumner. Sehurz, and the rest, and leading Democrats, will long remem ber this, clearly taught lesson. Three Month Free ebol. The recent legislature enacted a school law which is a step in the di rection of progress. By It provisions three month's free school are provided in each year to the children of tlie State. As first enacted by the Repub lican House, it provided for i months free school in each year ; but the Demo crats, in the Senate, true to their party record in this direction, amended the bill so as to cut the time down to three months, and possibly defeated the practical operation of the hill entirely by refining to go into a joint conven tion to elect a Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction. It is to be hoped this latter is not the case, and the three months free schooling in eaeii year may le enjoyed by the children. But why this opposition to the hill r It has been a matter of conjecture to us to determine the real reason of this opposition to the free school system. These same men voted for bills grant ing large sums of money to build roads; were anxious to pay nearly a million of dolhrs in rent, etc.. for the Locks, and to do much work ot this diameter, but when it came to providing for the intellectual culture of the children, thevwere opposed to It. Are roads and locks, etc., of more importance to this State than intelligence, than vir tue ? It would seem so by the votes of these men. It la strange, bat never theV true, that men who object most to " "lug a free school tax to provide eoi!;f -table and decent school houses am' vi1 'ml teachers for the education of the1' children, will lavishly expend th' ir money in training a flue horse. fattening' fine hogs, or something of this kind. They thus estimate tnese ttHff of greater moment than the welfare of their children. This ought not so to be. The Intellectual and moral culture of humanity should be first in importance, and everything should be made to contribute in tltose directions. The Jews of New York are seriously thinking of transferring tlielr religious .services -from Saturday to Sunday. Several of tlielr synagogues through out the country are now open on both days. The Litigant Repeal, Vetoed. The Governor of the State ot Oregon has shown a zeal to prevent the cor rection of past acts of injustice, truly energetic. Two years ago a Demo cratic legislature, disregarding the claims of justice, and gnlded by a burning desire to footer the Interests of the Democratic newspaper?, passed an "Act to protect litigants." It was copied from an Act of a like charac ter which had been enacted by ft Dem ocratic Legislature In California, and has-been commonly designated as the 'Litigant Law." By the operations of this law, a few Democratic journals have beetl granted the exclusive privi lege of publishing all legal advertise ments required by the laws of the State, We say i-selvitirertiiht. tor u printed in any other journal, tlie pub lication would not amount to a legal one. For this, tnese "seiecr journals have often charged the advertiser from two to three times more for his legal advertisement than other papers would have done. In the first place it took away from the legal advertiser tlie right of choosing his own medium, or niiier, in which to advertise, and in tlie second place it auuilM him to pay more than efrtuMs as much as the work was worth. So obnoxious and unjust was this law regarded in Cali fornia, that, In a large degree, It in fluenced the election of a Republican Governor and Legislature there at the last election for State officers. Among tlie first acts of the latter, on assem bling, was the repeal of this law. and the repeal was swiftly signed by the newly elected Governor. This act met with the approbation of every honest, fair-dealing man In California, and was heartily applauded by such in Oregon, who were familiar with its injustice as seen by them in tlie practi cal workings of tlielr own law. Influ enced by this general feeling, onr late legislature repealed tlie obnoxious measure of this State, some Democrats voting with the Republicans for the repeal. But. unfortunately for us, we have a Democratic Governor. He; in fluenced bv one of his marvelous swells of Democratic wisdom, vetoed It. In this be has affected to discover tliat the holding of the office ot a litigant printer amounts to a franchise vested for the time named. He does not say this Is his positive lielief. for lie cau tiously nes an "if" In Introducing the proposition ; but Hie Intention of His Excellency is evidently designed to convey sucli impression. To show that this proposition is not good Dem ocratic logic, we simply refer our readers toan Act passed no farther back than two years ago by our then Demo cratic Legislature, by which certain officers in Portland. Police Judge, etc.. were turned out of their offices long before tlie time tor which the people had elected them, had expired. If it was not a violation of the State Con stitution to do that thing then, why Is it so now ? Tlie difference is here : Then, a Democratic Legislature did the business. Now, the repeal comes from a Republican legislature. This is the difference, and to Governor Grover, and small demagogues ot his complexion, tlie difference amounts to a Justification, howniuclisoever the contrary may appear to upright and fair-dealing men. Our TruuetHloiiN Uovemor- A jwrteiitions rumor is floating in the air to tlie effect that should Grant and Wilson lie elected. Governor Gro ver has a veto prepared to squelch it. Of course tlie veto Is predicated upon constitutional grounds. It is thought, too, that the terms of agreement late ly arrived at by tlie Geneva Tribunal, are not altogether satisfactory to His Excellency, the Governor of Oregon, and a veto to that may not lie consid ered improbable. The constitution will be the guide in this, also. Wheth er His Extraordinary Highness will countenance tlie proposition of the French Assembly, in Paris, to make Thiers President for life, can hardly foil to become a matter of tremendous anxiety to them, and the rest of man kind. He may not consider tlie mat ter of sufficient moment to prepare a veto, but the Constitution will furnish him ample argument it lie chooses to do so. It Is unlimited hi its applica tion apparently with some. The Woodhnll and CImHIb. It will be noticed in our Eastern news that those notorious and shame less characters, Mrs. IVoodhnll and Claflln. have been arrested by the United States Commissioner, Osborne, on affidavits made by Albert Ander son, P. O. Cleric, Mr. Word, of Brook lyn, and F. W. Reese, clerk in the h4epmhnt office, who swore to the sending off of offensive publications by the accused. The proceedings were first taken against them by L. C. Chailis, a broker,, whom they had made the subject of a vile and scanda lous article. They have not confined their vile charges to brokers, but have circulated the most Indecent and wick ed calumnies against distinguished and honorable clergymen in New York city These are the elm rges preferred against them, by New York journals, and a wholesome application ot law in all such cases, female as well as male, is demanded by the moral sense of the country. The statutory penalty for sending obscene literature through the mails is imprisonment for one year and a fine of one hundred dollars. Anson fc In Bhnaath, The trial of Lloyd at Leesbnrg, Va., upon the charge of poisoning her.chil dren, has resulted.' much to the disap pointment of her prosecutors, in her acquittal. The evidence in this case showed that a physician had prescrib ed bismuth for one of the children, and an analysis of tlie dose which was given to the child produced arsenic in as large quantities as was charged to have been given by the mother. The evidence turned on this chemical fact, and the mother was acquitted. Though arsenic is found associated with bis muth, to find it in bismuth is a new discovery, it would appear. The dis patch says druggists, doctors and peo ple generally are considerably attract ed by the discover', and it is conjec tured that this metal will no longer be used in medical practice. The IMflerenee. According to a letter printed in the Salem Statenmm, there are fifty-six persons in the State Penitentiary who were under the influence of liquor at tlie time the crime was committed for which thev were sent there ; twenty- six persons were reduced in eireum stances by the use of strong drink, and thrown into evil practices resulting in crime ; eleven are Indians and China men, and six sober men. The writer of this letter claims that he made a careful Inquiry, and these figures may lie regarded as correct. By this is shown how small is tlie proportion of temperance men who go to the Peni tentiary, as compared with the intem perate, or those who drink liquor. ProiuptneiM. The money awarded by the Geneva Tribunal is to lie paid by England to the United States in one year lrom the date of the award. The men who lost their ships and cargoes by tlie Alukana and otlier cruisers covered by the award, will thus soon receive from our Government their proportion of the $5,000,000. The Government is now making preparations to distribute this sum to the rightful claimants, so soon as it shall be received. A government less careful of the interests of its eitU z, ns, might easily put off Hie distribu tion, and in fact ii"ver pay it over to them. Tlie keepers of the Ward's Island Asylum, N. Y., must lie taken from the lowest order of brutal humanity. Not long since we read of two of the inmates dying from the effects of brutal treatment from one of the keep ers, and now another case is given to the public. A keeper named McDon ald is alleged to have put Louis C. Samuels in a cold batlij l and then bru tally kicked him in the stomach, from tlie effects of jvhleh the victim died. Such deeds Ire revolting in their heartless cruelty and inhumanity, and ought to subject the pen trator to a permanent contraction of breath at the end of a halter. Tlio most astonishing tiling in the whole business is the election of W m. F. Havemeyer. Mayor ot Newlork. This was accomplished by the Com mittee of Seventy uniting with the Republicans. New York now has a Republican Mayor, the msmx IS OBBBOK. From the best advices up to Thurs day evening, we give the majorities for Grant in the different counties heard from in Oregon : Benton. 148. Clackamas. 241. Douglas, 200. Lane. 230. Linn. 87. Marion. 808. Multnomah, 870. Polk. 100. Washington. 315. Yamhill, 197. This makes a total of 3.193. The counties yet to hear from that will give Republican majorities, will prob ably swell tie majority to 3,500. If tlie leretofore Democratic counties shall go back on the Sage asdoes Linn. Grant 's majority in Oregon will fall little short "of 4.000. This being' the case we suggest the propriety ot a small blow out at the Court House in tills city on Saturday night. Who's on it? 'Ror! ' UEXKKAL M'WKIMJ VP- Republicans claim Missouri for Grant by a small majority. Louisiana is also I'laimed for Grunt. Greeley will get no electoral votes Kpntiiekv and Arkansas, and a nortion of these are as likely to go for Grant as tor Greeley. IfGreeley should carry all the States mentioned, he will have 8S votes out ot the 386 in the Electoral Cellege. But we are till of the opin ion (Thursday) that Missouri and Ar Kansas will go tor Grant, reducing Greeley's vote to 67. A new schism has taken place in the Catholic Church of tlie East. The Roman Catholic patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeanrite has published a protest against the moral infallibility dogma, and all his suffragaus are fol lowing his example. Catholic Mark onltes of Syria are also separating themselves from the Roman church. Seven female students have been admitted to the University of Ver mont at Burlington. The total capital invested in rail roads in the United States is $3,000,- 000,000. BANTERS SEWS. The Scott Monument in Central Park. New York, was to be unvailed on the 3d. Wm. Cullen Bryaut and others were to deliver addresses. On the 3d inst. the streets of New York were beginning to exhibit their usual activity, the horse malady having greatly abated. Tie Philadelphia mint has com menced melting one million one dol lar gold pieces into larger pieces. Twenty millions of these pieces are to be so used. A restaurant keeper in Washington. D. C. on tlie 2d inst., was lined iflOO lor refusing to entertain colored per sons at his establishment. The result of tlie trial of Mayor Hall, of New York, was the discharge of the jury for tailing to agree. It is announced from Darien, Conn., that the wife of Vincent Collycrwas drowned last Thursday while driving over a stream-crossing the road to an island where tbey resided. She was returning alone alter having accom panied Iter husband to the cars on his way to visit tie Kiowa Indian delega tion. Col. Albert S. Evans, of journalistic fame, was among tlie lost on the steam er Missouri. The Chicago Ti Unmu pays him a fine tribute. Benjamin Tle-mas has been appoint ed Indian Agent in New Mexico by tlie President. The public debt was reduced last month $5,000,000. The wife of Benjamin White, an Osborn, O., man, recently eloped with O. Judsoti, aud her husband thereon sold all that he had and followed the guilty pair to South Britain, Conn. Here the unfaithful wife attempted to brile her deserted spouse, but with out avail, and Jndson & Co. now await trial in New Haven jail. Uapt. Bates, and wife, a wealthy English couple were receiitly register ed at a Chicago hotel. The gentle man was eight feet tell and weighed LS5 pounds. His wife was just two inches taller. Both were well propor tioned, handsome and well educated. Tlie German Government denies tliat it lias endeavored to prevent or discourage the emigration of her owu citizens to this country. Tie funeral of Mrs. Greeley took place from Dr. Chapin's Church In New York, on the 1st lust. It was largely attended. Mrs. Victoria Woodhull was arrest ed last Saturday on a warrant sued out by A. M. Chalts, charging ler with gross libel. Warrants were also Issued against her aud lier partner In busi ness, on complaint ot other parties, on outside ot tne states or .uaryianu, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, Tpvhs Kpnf-nekr Ten I lessen. Missouri a like charge. The same parties were also arrested by the United States Marshal on a charge of sending ob scene publications throtign the malls, while they were In al carriage preoar ing for flight, with copies of their publications In tlie vehicle with them. On being brought before the Commis sioner the District Attorney charged fiat they were also guilty of libelling. The Commissioner decided to admit the accused to bail in $8,000. No bail was furnished and they were sent to the Ludlow-street jail. The horse disease was still abating in New York on the 4th Inst. It showed new and alarming symptoms in Brooklyn. Bad health prevents Chief Justice Chase from attending business. Un less he improves a trip to the Pacific coast will be taken. White the right of baptism was le ing performed in a Baptist Church at Evanston. III., on the 3d. a portion of the floor gave away precipitating a part of a large congregation a distance of fourteen feet to the ground. Bu two were seriously hurt. Scircdv a horse was to be seen in Chicago on the 4th. Mori, the Japanese Minister, has recently been In New Haven, Conn,, examining the school system. His views are pronounced both liberal and patriotic. n,r n nnWsXnn rj turn trehrht trains. Nov. 1st, on the Huntington broadtap naiiroaa. a conuuetor anu tnree uurci were instantly killed. The office of Indian Commissioner is so urgently pressed upon Assistant Ktt the PwiaiiiAnt I7LVI Villi J wmim WT Jk. ivjim"'" Secretary Delano, Board of Peace Commissioners, Young Men s inns tlan Association, and Methodist Con ference, that he will be bound to with draw his refusal to take the office. Gen. Sherman will submit no ex tended report upon the army this year. Mrs. Horace Greelev died in New York on the 30th ult.. at the residence nf Aivin Johnson. She had two chills daring the night and passed peacefully away. Oar BneiM Vtate letter. Bukna Vista, Nov. 1st,, 1872. Ed. Register: The late showers have brought the horse and plow into requisition, aud fields once more begin to assume a business like appearance. The present unprofitable prices for grain, it would appear, would lessen tie farmer's faith in his avocation; but facts contradict appearances, as shown by the fanners who are putting forth every effort to liave a heavier yield the coming harvest tlian tbey had the last . Three large warehouses at this place are groaning under the burden of their fill of grain, awaiting the arrival of tie boats, which are anxiously expect ed in a few weeks. Messrs. Wells & Houk have finished picking and drying their hops. They had between ten and eleven thousand pounds, the product often acres of tmtfnm lniiil. for which tlev are re ceiving from forty to fifty cents per pound, aecoiiiuig to quantity iwsireu. Tuna nni I tpi I hnve nroven the ( Ireiron hop to be fully equal, if not superior, to tlie California or Eastern hop, for all purposes for which the article is ......1 If ,., mm, n Inrur llrlnt'nr VAll doubtless have a fair idea of the exhil- Irating effect produced by Oregon hons after iMssiuir tlirouirh the hands of a skillful brewer. If you are not, a judge of tie beverage, Jet me say. you are swindling yourself out of the iionev of the earth ; hut if you are a lover of tie nectar, don't ! no, don't, Imll iii Hneua Vista, tor if V'OU do. your thirst will become alarming be fore a samaiitan win come to your res cue. Tins place raises more uops man urn nther Iru-aiitv in the State, and is the only place in the State where jugs are built out of mud ; and still there Is not a grog-shop nearer than seven miles of us. "Oh! what can we do to be saved?" Vote for Greeley ! IU 1 f. Mill,.,. ifiessrs. nuinsr .uiini niuiumiiR iug toenlarge and otherwise materially improve their already- extensive pot tery. Next Spring they are going to manufacture pumps (jug pumps) on a large scale. Mr. Ramsey is an exier ienced hand, and is confident of selling such pumps readily after getting them introduced through the country. Dr. Lee, one of our village doctors niwl ilrninrlsbi. who lias been a resident ...... l-o - ? ot this place for the last seven years. has packed nis goods ana is maKing ready to locate hi Junction City. A Dan was given in tne city mm on the night of the 28th. Those who at tended pronounced it tie best one " in a coon's age." On tie evening ot the 30th of Octo ber, Rev. Mr. West, of Jefferson, per formed tie marriage ceremony ior Mr. D. E. Thomas and Miss Mansas Smith, ot this place. They faced their destiny as bravely as hornets. After Sol had witklrawn his rays, the boys repaired to the domicil of the newly married couple, and repeatedly concussed tie bottoms of tin pans and other small reverberating receptacles. No welcome response being given they returned to their quiet conches, n di Wna Mr T. and lfldv lutein!