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v ALBANY REGISTER. KEPini.H an WATEitjnrEjrricsi. A Republican Statu Convention tor the State of Oregnn will be held at the city of Albany on TirCRStoAY, THE 11TB DAY OF 8KPTKMBKR, 1873, at 2 o'clock P. M., for the purpose of nominal lug a candidate for memlxsr of Congress o fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. J. G: WU noh, nnd for the transaction of such other business as may be deemed proper. The several counties Will be entitled to delegates in such Convention as follows: Ben'on 5 Baker 4 Clackamas S Columbia 1 Clatsop 2 Curry 1 Cons 3 Douglas Grant 2 Jackson 4 Josenhlne 1 Lane 1 Llnh 8 Marion 18 Multnomah is Polk 4 Tillamook 1 I'mntiUa 8 Union 8 Waoo 8 Washington 4 Yamhill..- I Total W The Committee recommend that the everal conn 'lea hold their primary elec tions on SATURDAY, AUGUST 23d, and their ( lounty 'on veil I ionson SATURDAY , AUGUST SWh, for selecting delegates to theSa,cCmvention.wpABRisH( Chairman Republican State Central Com. B. W. Wilson, Secretary. Bepiibllenn County Convention. In accordance with the above call, the Rent) I i' n vo crs of t he d ltTcren t precinct s in I. nn comity will meet in convention on Sa ur lav, August 23d, and elect dele gates to attend tic County Convention, which will convene In this city on Satur day "insrosl SOIh. Tlio several precinct s will Ik-entitled to delegates In the County Convention as follows: Albany 1,1 Lebanon ? San t lam ' Harrlslmrg ClO Brownsville Halscy Waterloo Cen'er Franklin Butte.. Orleans Brush ("reek 8yracusc Sweet Home Trnl 37 By order of County Central Committee, FRIDAY. AUGUSr 29, 1873. Yellows tone Expedition. A dispatch from the Yellowstone Expedition was dated at Mussel Shell Rivet, August 19th. Two fights had been had with the In dians, in which several soldiers had been killed. The first fight occur red in the vicinity ot Tongue River, between the Indians and a squadron of cavalry under command of Gen. Oiistar, which had been sent ahead to look up the road. The troops fought until their ammunition was all gone and then dispersed the In dians by charging them. One man slightly wounded in the arm and a horse wounded was Custar's loss. Three st.agglers, however, were met by the Indians and killed, dur ing the fight. On the 8th, Gen. Custar was ordered to take hiscav airy force, numbering 450 men, and follow and punish the Indians. He followed the Indians to the Yellow stone, but found the current too swift to cross it. Next day, Aug. 11th, the Indians, 800 strong, at tacked his camp. The fight lasted for hours and was fiercely contested, fighting Indian fashion. A charge was ordered, which our men gal lantly made, pursuing the enemy boldly for eight miles. Just then a train came up and opened on the Indians with artillery, which soon dispersed them. In this fight (Jen. Custar and AdjutantjKetchard had their horses shot from under them. Lieut CruJeu was badly shot in the thigh. Private Tuttle, uen. Custar's orderly was killed, and 20 of our soldiers were slightly wound ed. Four horses were killed. The Indian loss isestiraated at 40 killed. They were mainly Uncapas, sup posed to be under command of Sit ting Bill. They were well armed. Over in Nebraska public .senti ment has no mercy on a man who is so brutal as to chastise his wife. Fourteen women took out such guilty culprit, not long since, and thrashed him soundly, as was meeti V. N. Official Paper for renon. Our Nnbora Slff The new court house at Salem has a large figure on the top of it, intend ed torepimnt the g.xMeof justice. i.....,n.;.tMu.nf tt.;. representation, some considerable discussion was elicite1, pro and con. Whether the question is even now settled we are not informed. Here in Albany a topic of similar magni tude has arisen in the si ape ot a sign. It was put up a few days since by the editor of the Albany Democrat, intended to designate the place where that journal is printed. That sign, like the god dess, has elicited much critical dis cussion. Ot course, it is gotten up on the spread-eagle style, or it would not be like our neighbor. It ,"1 a mwrS tins tall. mot to is even gorgeous in its spread, rival-1 act wily which means to act ing the hues of the rainbow in the consistently and truthfully because number of its colors, and the taste ! il is ri!'ht 10 do W) a,ld of the Siwash in selecting the most to do so , but act prudently, sensi brilliant. The name "AM Rights bl-. s to be able to elect the Democrat," is ot dark blue on a ground of light blue. As the Ian- guage of blue signifies ''deject on," "low spirits." we consider that ap propriate as applied to the party it champions. The party has the "blue devils," over its past defeats and its hopeless prospects in the future. "News & Job Printing," is on a back-ground of green. The language ot that color is, "imma ture in judgment," "raw," "inex perienced," "awkward," which is probably meant to describe the re cent beginning of that department ot the office. "Office," is on a ground of red blood color. As the language of this color is "war," probably it is intended to designate a warlike character of our neighbor since he rose like a brilliant rocket to the tierce height of a Brigadier in the State Militia. The picture in the center of the sign is intended for a "goak" on a printing office. Near by it wiil be taken tor that, but across the street it has a greater resemblance to a kitchen, or wash house under a porch. It looks very well, though, and we are glad our neighbor has it. The yellow ginger bread work looks nice, too. The Democratic party is well represent ed by that sign. It has changed its principles as frequently as the number of colors, and the picture in the center is no more deceptive than it is. The nearer you get to the sign the more imperfect it looks, and the more you examine the char acter of modern Democracy the worse it apjiears. But no more now. Y e congratulate our neigh bor on the possession ot so appro priate a sign. May its colors never fade. wont no. The Salem Mercury in its anx- iety to convict the Republican party of Oregon of some serious fault, had the temerity to accuse that party with having been opposed to the building of the locks and canal at the Oregon City fa Is. The States man very properly denied this fal- sification of the facts in the case, stating "that the only opposition made by Republicans, was to the stealing done by the Democratic Legislature" in giving the contract of building the works to a company for $75,000 more than was bid by a responsible company thus robbing the State Treasury of that amount. The Mercury can't begin to girdle the Repub'ican tree with that kind ot a hatchet. It will have to spit on its hands and try again; Be Kixht, Mee e BlgM. The Oregon City Enterprise ys relative to its party .KHniiating 11 candidate for Congress, "This is no time tor foolishness." It wants Oregon Democrats to act as becomes sensible men, and bring out an "honest and tried Democrat, one who has always been such." Im possibb, Mr. Enterprise, tor your party to act wisely. It has acted foolish y so long, the climax of which was voting tor Greeley, that to act that way has become a habit to it. . It can't help it. Foolish ness is inwrought in its very grain. Look at the motive, the reason this journal urges to induce the Demo cratic; party to act sensibly. To ma" "m"- '" P,0U8 "ow democrats, jusi long enough to elect a uemocrat to t- on. gress. Doesn't the fact that the Enterprise indulges in such talk, its motive being so transparent to every one, prove that it is impossible tor that party to act in any other than in a foolish way? It commits the egregious folly ot supposing that the people of Oregon are so obtuse, as not to be able to see through that deception, or any other it may set up. To act- in any other way than foolishly, the Democratic party must be clnnged in heart, and the change must be a radical one. It must not be all pretense and decep tion, but all si: cerity and honesty, not so much for the sake of gaining a victory at the polls, as because it is right to be that way. Week before last the artistic si wash stood and gazed in mute admiration at the flaming circus pictures on old buildings. Now, how changed the scene ! In open mouth admira tion they stand in front of our neigh bor's sign, and take in its ginger bread richness by the hour, more or less. . It is stated that Meacham has gone to Washington to intercede for Capt. .lack's life. If the Modoc murderer is spared it should be at the expense of Meacham as a sub stitute. Democrat. We don't think Mr. Meacham went to Washington for that pur pose ; buc if he did, it was no worse than sympathizing with murderous rebels aud Ku Klux, as was done by the Democrat. The San Francisco Chronicle shaves down to the root when it says this : The Democrats propose to run General Jeff C. Davis for Presi dent The selection ot this gentle man would prove that there is something in a name. He would l)e run as Jeff. C. Pavis in the North and in the South they would omit the C. The St. Louis Republican, which for many years was the leading Democratic organ ot the Southwest, has at last come out plainly and declared itself no longer such. There is but one journal now in St. Louis recognized as Democratic the Tifnes. 'Tis thus that Democ racy is flourishing. The city of "Brotherly Love" has been enjoying a mighty rush of marriages this season. An average of about thirty per day is reported, which proves that the sisters are taking a half interest in the love EANTEMM SiKWH. Geo. F. Keller, reporter for the Brooklyn Union, and Geo. P. Rowe, reporter for the New York Times, were loth drowned while bathing August 20th, at Centre Moriches, Long Island. JohnJeager, of New Orleans, upon retun ing to his home on the night of the 20th, found his wife lying in the yard, having eight buckshot wounds in her breast and left arm. No clue to the assassin ation was found. The officers of the Varna, Peru and Mendotaand the Illinois, Mil waukee and Northern Illinois Rail road Companies have lately agreed upon a consolidation of all the roads forming an air line from Milwaukee to St. Louis. They take the old graded road bed, formerly called the Milwaukee and lieloit Railroad, but long since defunct, leaving the city to pay the bonds issued in aid ot tl.at enterprise, amounting to nearly ha't'a million. A Washington correspondent says a new question has arisen un der the Treaty of Washington. It appears that at the time the treaty was signed British Columbia was not part of the Dominion ot Canada. It is consequently doubtful whether that province is entitled to the ben efits ot the treaty as regards the free importation of fish and fish oil. The attention of the Treasury Department has been ca'led to the question, as one of great importance to be known by customs officials in Washington Territory. There ap pears to be no section of the treaty under which British Columbia may claim these benefits. It seems probable that the question cannot be determined without diplomatic intervention. Information has been received at Washington that the Mikado will soon open Simonoseki, in Japan, to the commerce ot all nations. it Swainsborough, Ga., on the 20th, a fatal affray, resulting in the death of both parties, occurred be tween James C. King and Bruce McLeod. It grew out of King ad vising his sisterinlaw not to receive the attentions of McLeod.. Great fires were raging in the woods of Iosco county, Michigan, last week. Tawas City was in dan ger. The body of Thos. Munce, a wealthy farmer of Washington county, Pa., who left his home in July, was found pickled in the dis secting rooms at the Philadelphia University on the 21st. The body was found drowned on the 3d of July, and removed to the Morgue on the same day. On the 5th it was taken to the College, some one at the Morgue having sold it. It appears that an inquest was held, but at the time the body was not known. Two executions, both negroes, took place m Maryland, on the 22d one was for rape and the other tor murder. An attempt was made on Wednesday night of last week, to capture the Paymaster's car on the Hannibal aid St. Joe Railroad, between Cameron and Kansas City, by a gang ot men, thought to lie the same who robbed the Iowa Railroad train, some time since. The engineer saw the men obstruct ting the track, reversed his locomo tive and ran back to Cameron. Another attempt was also made to run & train off the track oil the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, near Leavenworth, but failed. Several shots were tired at the engineer, breaking all the windows of his cab. In addition to the testimony in the case of the Italian boys, marshal testified that in a two hours' search in Crosby street he found 150 chil dren, aud in each oom 10 or 12 boys tied by the wrists with cords. There was a man in charge of every room In some cases the children were marked by padrones by brand ing on the check, lip or ear. An accident occurred on the Bal timore aud Ohio Railroad ou the 24th, near Cameron, by which sev eral German emigrants were fatally injured, aud fifteen or twenty oth ers slightly. Utve Ck a Tint Tie selecting of a Delegate to represent the people of this State in the Lower House of Cot gress, is always a very important work and never more so than at, the coming election. Upon his ability aud in fluence largely depends the prosper Uy of the State, so far as Govern mental legislation can influence it. If he be the most qualified for the position the greatest good will re sult, aud vice versa. The qualifi. cation rests in the ability, the cul ture, the habit, and the jiolitics. It is tblly to send a man ot little brain to represent ns in Congress when the brightest talent ot other States, as a rule, is found. He will amount to no more than a poodle among mastitis. So long as we have men ot strong mental ability, it would be an insult to intelligence as well as a waste of time, to go outside of that class tor a candidate. He should atjeast have a compre hensive view of the needs of the en tire State, and lx; able to embody that knowledge in the shape of bills and resolutions, and then introduce and advocate their passage in Con gress, but culture is essential to a strong Representative as well as in tellectual ability We mean that kind of culture whTch is better un. derstood by the word refinement, or polish ot manners that which qualifies its possessor for the observ ance of the civilities of social inter course, thus adapting him to the ways of the best society. The cyn ical inclined may scoff at this, re gardiug the mind chief aud all else a mere waste; but our legislative bodies are not made up of that class, and facts will show a Repre sentative's influence depends greatly on the extent of the development of his social nature. Habit, too, is a very important quality to consider. Active, persevering habit how great its need in the prosecution of every work. Without these the two former endowments would remain inactive. A man who h? proverbi ally indolent and lazy at home should never be sent to Congress, no matter what his other traits mav be. Then he should be of sober habit. Oregon wants no drunkard, or dissipated man as her Represen tatiye in Congress. He should be a man of sober and industrious hab its. Of course, he should lie a Re publican in politics. The principles of that party are rational and pro- gressive, aud il is the party in pow er in both branches of Congress. The entire legislation of Congress is controlled by the Republican party, and will lie tor some time to come. Any other partisan but a Republican, no matter how great his qualifications, works at a disad vantage in Congress. I lis measures must harmonize with the principles aud aims of the dominant pity, or theyca not pass. His influence before committees in procuriig appropria tions for internal improvements on our roads, rivers, harbors, -etc.. would be greatly inferior to that of a Republican. Look over the his tory of our Congressional legislation of the past. Senator Corbett did more for the material benefit of the State than Kelly and Slater com bined. So it will lx! in the future. Should a Democrat lie selected next October, most ofthe legislative bene fits to Oregon will conn; through Sen ator Mitchell. Fleet a Republican Representative and it justdoubles the power in favor ofthe State. No one will deny that the lamented Wilson would have been ot im mense benefit to the State of Ore gon in t'ougresR, because he not only possessed good Representative qualities, but liecause he was in harmony with the party in power. Let the Republican party bring out. as gKf man, and all will be well.