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ALBANY REGISTER. Aim k pkt. r - v. a. official Pnppr for Oregon, FRIDAY. AUGUST 1. 1878. A crinif i Crime. The Falem .fcry, fri its issue of last week, labors hard to show that to ask amnesty for the late rebel criminals, though many of the prime lnulerK.rn.ri.ed to ask it fi.r themselves, was altogetherdiftlrent iu principle from asking it for Sen. ator Mitchell. In oilier words, it bellioii as men whose hearts were seared with brands of deadliest and virtually takes ti e position that excuse for taking back pay is the crime in a rebel is alt ogether a dif- very shadow of thinness. He drew ferent thing f'r..m crime in a Repnb- it because the House Committee on lican. For instance, the monstrous Mileage refused to allow him pay thieveries of a Floyd; the Hnry for the route by the way ot Port of a Jeff. Davis, and others, sworn a(1 ail(J Flw prat cisoo, but deter members of Congress and United ml;eA tie most jreot r,mte to le States officers; the perfidy of first j via joi(ie city ah(1 t(ie raeitic faiu opposing and then joining the re- Vo!,f( reducing his mileage $1,320. hellion as did Alexander -tephens, But he increase of salary bi 1 en now memher of Congress; the bar- titied hm , 100 mil.e than this barons system sanctioned by the ' ruling and lo compensate himself as authorities of the so-called Con'ed- mc, as ie C(lU(i fur tie 0 eracy, of slowly starving Union tW) ie C0U.i,Kled to gobble the prisoners to death; and the other m&ry rte8t , otfev t,e above as acts of cruelty and sin, whose cold- a jllrtifieat!on. Democratic papers blooded heart lessness stamped the wf Oregon have pronounced the prime actors and leaders of the re- bck .,av bill a rnnA a ail(1 most cruel hate; that these were . SateriK exc,lse tU)e8 ll0t ,)ace lim not criminal acts and the pertra. 0tside of tlie criminal circle. But tors not criminals, but only zealous p,.ulal)y t,e Memigj ill efforts of "noble, chivalrous, brave, ' 1I0W . ( rtea'.ing in a Democrat gallant, pnre(?) men." to carry out : js ,lot like stealing in a Republican their ways of jiohtieal thinking. I t,e one is an "erring brother," Why, the angels that kept not their the other a hell-deserving villain (?) first estate, replied because they - wanted to carry out their ways of j 0ur "ei',,bor last wcck devoted thinking. Are they described as about half a co umu to prove that "erring brethren?" Nav, veriy. lmblicaus have not a majority of "Hebe s," they are called, traitors 4,000 iu the Slate. Well, we don't regarded, and they were luirled , 016 tu wate time a'S'"g the mat over the battlements of 1,,. I ter, but will leave the vote of next If a man breaks a sworn oath, can you make anything less than per jury ot it? if he takes that which ! at ll,e last ekclioU 1111,1 tho belongs to another, appropriating it j thousands oT Democrats who didn't to his own use or the use ot his Vwte- a"d 0,, 10 ttmmhl fuT m friends, with nit returning an equiv-1 ei"U mch cnm afi 8re alent, is that any better than theft? by debated parties;) If he starves men to death, or per- j aild t,ie" "dndes that if Democ mits othf .s t.o An it. whom hn nn-! cv will only bring out a man for trols, isn't he a base murderer? In fact, if knowingly, with eyes open to the enormity of the offense, against the warnings and teachings of the fat hers, for the sake of per petuating and extending African slavery, well knowing its licentious ' wiI1 el llieir 'ai1 by ma and bigamous tendency, its accursed : jority ot m votes! WWta r influence npnn the body politic; such ! ,,ei,,bor was.,drawinir on that very person, after having heeii morelHific imagination of his, why highly favored by honors, em(;Iu. didn't he make the majority 5,000? ments and legislation than any oth- j II wo,,id l)e iwt 88 l,,ie8P a"d aI er; then, because he can no longer i tl,e mo,e enjoyable became of size: rule, turns upon his inuirisher, his defender, his lieuc'actor the Gov emmeut that gave him all his pros perity and seeks in blood and with curses, and by perjury, and theft, and starvation, io destroy the life of that Government, what is he more nor less than a vile, murder ous traitor ? Now, then, Mr. Mer cury, the leaders were all more or less traitors in the last sense, and it is only your tulitk-al sympathy for them that prompts you to show any more favor towards them, than towards a Iiopub ican who has com mitted crimes against morals iu the past If oath breaking, thieving, murdering rebels who brought more suffering and calamity on this na tiou than language can depict, tbt cause of crime ot every description, ftom adultery to murder, are worthy f your amnesty, certainly Senator I Mitchell should be favored as well; i tor did crimes did nut reach murder, and only involved the welfare of a i few persons at most, while the is- I sues ot the rebellion compasa-d the wel'hre of the nation and f the World. Mitchell's were bad enough, J (;, fnows; but nothing to com- ' rare iu "'lr 8"d "N itude with thoseofJefl. Davis, alone, whom y-". Mr. ,TWry, would have the (;''ve"nt m" 1'" make any concession w,,8Uver- Yon 81,0,11,1 ' ct,llHirt- c,,t' d "P It strikes us Hon. J. H. those who took it, thieves. It what tiiev ltvo aid of it is true, Mr. October to determine it. He speaks, however, about illegal votes being Congress, who is "undoubted" in his integrity and Democratic ante cedents; and if no illegal votes are cast; and it those thousands of Democrats who didn't vote, will only vote, and vote right, why then I aii : w lien that lJemocratic cau d idate of "tv idoiibted Democratic an- tecedents" is nominated, our neigh bor, in his society, will be entirely out of this "speer " Judge McArlhur has gone to the trouble of writing a letter to the Bedrock Democrat declining to lie a candidate for Congress. The Statesman says his letter was a waste of time and a postage stamp, as nobody suspected him of an in. tention to run. We think so. The Portland News has got itself iu a fix by denying that Slater took the "salary steal." Slater says he did take it, and now would like to have that journal assist him in try ingtogettb position again, to he can take more. The Good Templars ot Coos Bay have a splendid mw cabinet organ, Hew Sew, netnrrnta? How about the back pay steal now, Democrat?,, How nw, Mer cury, Democrat, News? Why have yon become still all of a sud. den? Where are your hot words of bitter denunciation for Slater and Nesmith ? Your howl at Kepult licans yet ech.ics Why don't you show some of that sublime agony of condemnation towards these? Your theory, too, as you have de vefcipedjt since Mitchell's private affairs were nosed into, is to show no mercy towards crimii als, politi cal or moral, no matter how hard they may try to do better. Cold, implacable justice yuu have de manded, in the case of Mitchell, shall be enforced. Why not in these other cases? You have called Republicans, who took the back pay, "thieves." Slater took it and says Nesmith took it the other time, and so they must he thieves, too. But maybe yon take the po sition, that as Democrats are so much in the habit of pilfering, in office, that it is no longer a crime in them? You can't do that, though, it's too thin. Because one, by frequent practice, becomes an expert, it makes the crime no less a crime Now, Messrs. Democratic editon'' Jm mm f with yur words of burning denunciation on the devoted heads of these two back pay steale s, or be branded as eaters of your own words and hypo crites of the meanest type. The Oregmiian says that most of the apologists for the crimes of adultery and bigamy, in the Repub lican organization, "are persons who only identified themselves with the party after it became triumphant, and have attached themselves since, exactly to the extent that they have received official posit on andemo'u ments at its hands." In saying that, the Oregonian utters a mean slander uK)ii a portion of the Re publican party. We know of no apologists for the crimes of adultery and bigamy in the Reimblican party, neither among leading men, or privates, new or o'd. The party in every department has ever ar. rayed itself against those sins. The above fling of the Ortganiun at a class of Republicans who came into the party subsequent to its en trance upon its present career of triumph, who had a right to, and whose motives ot honesty that jour nal has no more right to question than he has the verity of his own meanness iu do ng so, is but another step in the direction of treachery towards the Republican natty, which that paper seems determined to pursue. The Albany Democrat of last week, in animadverting upon the statement of the Rkgistkr, that the life of Mr. Mttchei in Oregon was noble effort in the direction of reform," says that he (Mitchell) was a confessed bigamist for five years of the tiu this reformation was going on. Now, it that jour nal will tell us where and when Mr. Mitchell made that "confes sion," we will have more respect for its Veracity. The fact is, M itch ell never has, to our knowledge, either in print or otherwise, con fessed anything ot the kind. We regard the charge ae nothing more nor leas than one of the pare, twn- jectufes, or fabrications, for Which Democratic joortftb are m tU noted; No wonder these Democratic ! A severe engagement is reported quill drivers resort more to abuse 10 ' have taken place near Pampei and calling names than anything ,u"a' Sfi" ,jetww" tne Republi- ilse. Should the poor fellows take C"lfc. J ... .... , hatter were successful They are position in defense ofa good priu. id to have captured two guns eiple, the conduct in the past or and 300 prisoners present of some eader would spoil When the Shah met Queen Vis it all, .tid they would have to gulp tori. he kissed her with perfect ' down their own words Now if !1,'Iicar-v 8nd K1' l,d tn i he irtr i,o,i , i . .i . hitherto he had reckoned his years the paty had a character that was from the day of his birth, but in above bankruptcy, its jounialsconhF future he would reckon from the occasionally refresh their dried up souls with insistent arguments in favr of good principles. It they cmild be free from the hn - thought that they are constantly leing ridden by the devi', wouldn't the novelty of the sensation, if noth ing else, make them haipy? We think so. The SStatesrmm says the editor of the Ronton Democrat is still blowing away on the "salary grab," apparently not having heard tnat Hater and Nesmith took it. As Head edits that journal, it would be natural to suppose that the wind it would raise would be a head wind; but it seems that a paper ot that persuasion without a "Head is more up to the times and better off than one with. Our neighbor in alluding to the new dress of the Oregonian says: The Oregonian has at last doffed that dingy o.d frock which has iu years iast covered its many black Republican sins, and is out iu a bran new suit of modern toggery. We'suppose that "modern tog. gery" mea s the kind of shoddy Oregon Democrats wear. FOREIUX NEWS. Baron Wolverton (George Tarr Glyn), the head ot the London banking firm of Glvu & Co , died on the '24th. The deceased, who was a Liberal, was among the first batch of Beers made by Gladstone when he first became Prime Min ister iu 1809. At the time of his death he was iu his seventy-sixth year. The Journal de Paris of the 14th inst. says that the project of plac ing a Prince of the House of Hohen zollern upon the throne of Spain has not wen abandoned. A num. licr of Carlist leaders and former hiberahUniouists are said to favor the llohenzollein candidacy. The Journal also says that the Cure of Santa Cruz was proc aimed a rebel by Don Carlos for being concerned ill this intrigue. The Shah and suite left Paris July 19th on a special train for Geneva. Government troop attacked Valencia, Spain, on the 26th. After a struggle of five hours, fight- nig was suspended, and the insurg ents ottered to capitulate, but the terms were refused, the Government demanding unconditional surrender. Heavy reinforcements were sent forward and the attack was to be renewed next day. A destructive typhoon visited Amoy on the 21st inst. Great damage was done to foreign prop erty and to shipping iu the harbor and river. bill authorizing the construction ! of the Church of the Sacred Heart, a grand cathedral on the heights overlooking Paris, pawed the Prench Assembly on the 24th inst., after an exciting debate, iu the course of which much violent relig ions partisanship was evoked. Fifty persons who particited in the beer riots of Frankfort, some mouths ago, have been convicted and sentenced to prison for terms varying from nine mouths to four years, An explosion of fire damp is re ported to have occurred at a coat mine it Framieres, Mguim, the other day, by which 8v miners lost their lives and others were injured. day of his meeting the Queen of England. . A Par'R dispatch of the 24th lJ,FWfcfc c)mn hag tendered counsel to Bazaiue in his trial for the surrender of Meti to the Prussian army. Rumors of trouble in Northern China are unfounded. Yokohama dates to July 7th Mys that it is stated on good auuiority that as soon as the mission to. Europe returns, the whole coun try ot .japan will be thrown open to foreigners. The Inspector of Consulates sent from Washington was engaged in overhauling tiie American Consulate at Yokohama, on the 7th. MISCELLANEOUS. The Attorney General on the 28th recommended pardons to be issued to Felix Dover, Stephen Spawn, Edwin Murphy and Wm. Scruggs, convicted iu North and South Carolina of Ku Kluz out rages. A board ot officers in Washing ton is considering a plan, submitted by Captain Howell, for a ship canal, to connect the Mississippi river with the Gulf of Mexico. It is said a Roman Catholic prest of St. Louis has married a wife, and accordingly lieen dismissed from his charge by his Bishop. Some Illinois papers, which have been in the habit of publishing the railway time tables gratuitously, liave dropped them since the roads have announced that there would be no more dead-heading on their part. A woman in Richmond, Va., turned her mother, who is more than ninety years old, out of doors on Monday because she is old, use less, and expensive. Iowa farmers complain of a scarcity of laborers. Three dollars a day will not bring them help enough to attend to their crop. And yet the cities are full of idlers. The managers of the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company have decided to abolish the pass system altogether, refusing to give return trip passes lo cattle shippers over their Hue Illinois farmers are attempting to exterminate the Canada thistles, by cutting them off near the ground and pacing salt on the stump to kill the root. Hon. J. B. Grinnell, of Iowa, threatens to deliver an address on the life and character of the late Oakes Ames. A Hartford lady is said to have got all ready to hang herself twice in one day, recent y, and was both times interrupted by callersr The second time she concluded to indefi nitely postpone voluntary suspen sion. A crazy old woman recently rushed into a Richmond (Va. school-room and said she had come to teach gymnastics. Tha teacher fled in terror and the wild woman went ahead, putting the pupils through some most astonishing evo lutions,. A band ofK'x Kmxes raided the farm of Mrs. Mason Brown, mother ot B. Grata Brown, in Owen county, Ky., on Friday night last, and killed Louis Wilson (colored), burned his iioase down and damaged other fan property. Tha nine contained large growing crop of cotton and tobacco, which it will be difficult to harvest i the absence of labor driven off by the Ku Klu Other farms visited by than and the owner warned against employing negJVM a