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g ALBANY ' REGISTER. ' i i - ? V. 8. Offieinl Paper for Orrmm. 3ATXTtDAY, APRIL 18, 1874. Monday week a-ill be a large day for Albany. Lam County Circuit Court meets oo Monday at Eugene City. Magill, the insurance agent at San Francisco, is reported defaulter to the companies be lately repre sented, ia the sum of 650,000. t1 1 "t ' "ffwry rainfalls SroruiaJms settled the crop business, and far mere are rejoicing over tlie prospect ot buge crops. The Paris Government lias issued a circular prohibiting newspaper attacks on the Government, and declaring that McMahou's powers are inqontestible. It is now stated that Dawes will retire from the Senatorial contest in Massachusetts in favor of Hoar, and that he will take the portfolio of the retiring secretary Richardson On the occurrence of the city election at San Jose, Cal., on the 13th nil the saloons were closed. At the door of one ot the saloons a bottle was tied with crape around The inflationists have triumphed, and the bill providing tor the issue of $44,000,000 ot irredeemable paper money has passed the Senate. It is now in the hands of the Ex. ecutive, and if he approves, it will become a law. Page an.1 Luttrell, of California, are at loggerheads about postal matters in California. Luttrell charged in tl House that there is a postorfiee ring which has defraud ed the Government out of $100, 000. These grave charges are re ferred to the Postal Committee. Thomas Hubbard, a resident of Champoeg, was shot and danger ously wounded in the neck, on Monday, by a half-breed named Thomas Gerrand. Hubbard owed Gerraud a small sum of money. It was demanded, and Hubbard not paying it at once, Gerrand drew a revolver and shot him. Speaking of the investigation now going in the case of General How ard, the Sacramento, Cal., Union his this: "As the Howard Court of Inquiry progress fn its investi gation, the case looks better for General Howard. It is thought he will De ' found Innocent ot any wrong himself, but the victim ot orimes enacted by his: subordinates in the Freedmeu's Bureau. This will be accepted as good news. General Howard has done manly service fur the country, and it would be a pity should his tame be marred. We trust lie will be able to prove himself clean-handed and innocent" .aftfflrnsi;.''-; Says a late telegram : The tem perance crusade througlioulr Ohio and Illinois is not being so vigor ously conducted as previous to the late elections, but the movement till continues, though tangible re sults are not greatly encouraging so far as closing of saloons is concerned. It is, however, having the effect of arousing the temperance1 sentiment, and many signatures to total abstinence- pledges are being yot. Ml. ' - "L " .toil. ifclfff. 1JP . dis Las it became evident that exarf stwre ot dkmage than good te the cause. DUTittolkha NTATK mxvtm- -no. The tax payers ot Oregon met in Convention st Salem ou Wednesday last. The Convention was largely attended, and the delegation showed a large preponderance In favor ot the working class. The following ticket was placed in nomination : For Governor, Rev. T. F. Camp bell (Dern.), President of the Chris tian College at Monmouth, a man of fine education amlii good speaker. For Congress T. W. Davenport lUep.), a regular schrcecher on the stump- man favorably known nil over Oregon. For Secretary ot State, Jas. II. Donthitt (DeiQ.), of Wasco, one of the oldest settlers In Oregod. For Treasurer, Denial Beach fBep. ), of Linn, an honest, competent gen tleman, under whose care the State finances will be sate. lie is a safe man and a good one. For State Printer, W. M. Hand, of Wasco, proprietor of the Dalles MounUmetr. It elected Bill will see that the State work is got out in good slwpe, you bet. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, W. W. Ogilvies (Rep.), of Douglas a gentleman with .vhon we have no personal acquaintance. Both the Republican and Independ ent tickets being composed of good men, the voters of Oregon are going to be split up considerably as to their votes. As the Independents have two of the best "stumpers" in the State, tliey will certainly make the best canvass, and as we see It, will get away ith the largest vote. It will be a hot canvass, or we mistake the metal ot the candidates. Let her brindle. James C. Tolman, the Repub lican candidate for Governor, is thus "set up" by the Jacksonville Sentinel : James C. Tolman is a farmer, and has been a resident of this county for the past twenty years. He has been a Republican since the organization of the party, and has held some of the most important offices ot this connty. He is well known throughout the State as a gentleman of intelligence and high moral worth ; has always been fore most in his identity with enterprises ot public merit, and will not sacri fice the dignity nor neglect the duty of one possition in efforts to secure another, or in the accom plishment of personal designs. Possessed of a good education, sound judgment, thorough knowl edge of men and politics, and en- joying a personal character and politick record that challenges ac cusation, together wKh.. experience as a public officer, he will enter the contest with a zeal and energy un trammeled by the (ear ot exposure or the necessity of explanation. His residei.ee and service of twenty years in the State has not been decades of "struggles" for the office or favors at the public hand, but it has enabled him to acquire, a thorough, knowledge of the real wants of our State. No man in Southern Oregon could have been nominated for Governor who would have met with more favor than Judge James C. Tolman, and should he be elected, the people of Oregon can be assured that personal jobs and swindling enactments will meet With the veto of an Executive who has the ability to distinguish their character and the nerve to at tack and destroy them. We have known bim personally for thirty years, and have yet to hear the first charge of timidity, evasion or act of moral or political dishonesty preferred against him. The following is the Democratic County ticket for Umatilla: State Senator, H. C. Myers; Hepresen. tattves; & M. Penningtou and Wm, Kmseljj Sheriff, A. W. Kye Clerk, F. M. Crockett; County Commissioners, J. Hailey and J. B. Ptody; Treasurer, W. H, Mtwbaflj Aamaor, J. T. Mor- Common unMaravMorr fwiaii an DcnsMj The following is taken from a Berlin letter to the New York Herald. The sentiments ex pressed are said to have been those uttered by an old and favorite General in the Prussian army. We wish for peace and it is very far from us. France is again arm ing. She' is seeking tor allies. France has allies iu all the Catholic States of Europe. Austria, too, is bidding high for the support of Russia. We are surrounded on all sides by doubtful friends or open enemies. Our army ia one which fights well, but which, from the nature of its organization, cannot fight often without putting a com plete stop to our social machine, leaving our fields until led and our workshops untenanted. We are determined to put an end to this. We will not be kept in a state of perpetual alarm. .France must either conquer us or we will have her friendship, or we will erase her name from the worldlv map. What we are determined to have is peace, permanent peace. Our people do not want military governmcnf, but they will submit to it till France and Austria are reasonable and quiet or dead. All sensible and honest persons are dissatisfied with the terms of peace granted "to Franco. They say we should have taken no money. We did not want it. It has all gone and must go to the army, and now we are still so frightened of the French that we are obliged to keep up a military establishment altogether beyond our resources. The expenditure necesr sary to maintain it leaves us noth ing for our schools, nothing for sci ence, nothing for art, and the stand ard of our education is material iy lowered. We cannot, we will not, keep up so large an army. We i -t ... - win mane ineuas with prance or we will destroy her; and Austria, too, if she interferes ou religious grounds. What we should have done at the close of the last war with France, and what we will do the next time she troubles us, is to takeaway from the country and export to out own every sheep, every ox, every fowl, every horse she possesses. We will blow up every French bridge, we will tear up every h rench railway, and then France must spend fifty or a hun dred years iu repairing the damage we have done. Our Democratic friends have contended that Congress has the power to regulate commerce among the States, and the present Con gress, for the first time, has at tempted to apply this authority in adjusting the railway question. The McCrery bill "to regulate commerce by railroad among the several States" came to ft vote re cently in the House, and how did the members of the Democratic party, the bitter opponents,' you know, of monopoly and oppres sion," vote on .'the bill 1 Only Jive Democratic members of the House voted for the bill .'Democrats voted almost solidly against the bill, and it was carried only by Republican votes! ' bis is another evidence, plain an unmistakable, that all this cry of the Democracy of "opposition to railroad monopoly" in the past was tlie rrterest claptrap and humbug, to catch votes. And every pledge given by the Demo cratio platform, jju. the prefeat earn. paign, oi -retrenchment and re form," should the party be suc cessful in June, will be treated just as has this railway matter by the Democracy in Congress. It has been shown in ft case in Minnesota that two men can start a bank on $10 capital, take in money, and run away with 20,000 in thirteen months' time. mures near ouor uiy. Tmimmin at BrawMvlUe. Browxsviue, Apr. 16th, 1874. En. Register : In compliance with a motion made at the last meeting, a meeting was held at the M. E. Church on Tuesday evening, 4lh inst., for the promotion of the cause of tern iterance. A consider able degree of interest was mani fested. The following preamble and resolutions were presented by Rev. E. G. .Michaels, and adopted : Whereas, There is an unfortu nate class of our citizens who cannot Control their appetite, and who, when under the influence of intoxicating liquors are dangerous individu als to the persons and property of others, and all destroying themselves soul and body, therefore, Resolved, That we, the temper ance people of Brownsville and vidnity, are in favor of the next Legislature of Oregon, passing a law known as a civil damage law ; whereby damages done to peisonor property, by rny person in a state of intoxication, may be collected from the pei'son having sold or given the liquor to said intoxicated person, by which to become iutoxi- cated. Resolved, That we are in favor of a law by which a person may be arrested on a charge of drunkenness the same as on a charge ot insanity, and tried before a proper court having jurisdiction in the case; and it adjudged by said court to be common drunkard, such person shall be published as such ; and if any person shall give or sell any in toxicating liquor to such person after such publication, he shall be deemed guilty of a penal offence and punished by fine Reaolvea, That the Chairman of this meeting appoint a committee ot three to correspond with every person running for office iu this county and State, and ascertain their views on the subject, and re port to this meeting before the next election. Resolved, That we will not vote for any man whose antecedents do not prove him honest and temperate, and who will not pledge himself to use fais influence, if elected, to pro cure such a law as we desire. Resolved, That these resolutions bo sent to our county papers for publication, and that we request the co-operation of all persons in the State favoring the cause of tem perance. R. H. CRAWFORD, Chr. Geo. C. Blakelt, Sec. The National Uraage. Much has been said and writ ten about the officers of the Na tional Grange, and up to this time no one has thought of giving an account of the different offices of the organization, which will cer tainly prove a more striking history of the progress of the Order than the biographies of the men connect ed with it. During the year 1867 O. H. Kelley, who occupied then, as now, the position of National Secretary, resided on his farm in Sherburn county, Minnesota, and tliere the first records, of the new born organization were kept. So extensive were they that until 1670 the hat of the Secretary was eon sidered an ample and sufficient re ceptacle, and no other provisions were made. During the year 1870Mr.KeHey removed his headquarters to Wash ington, and the office of the Nation- al Grange followed, of course. With the help and assistance of Miss Carrie A. Hall, the business was conducted in the Secretary's own house until the increase of sub ordinate Granges and the formation of severa) .State Granges necessitate ed the want for more help and more commodious quartora. and there, tor die first time, rooms were procured, to be used as the office of the National Grange. Two rooms were occupied in the building No. 48 Third street, in Georgetown, an additional clerk was added to the list, and there the work commenced in earnest. The growth of the Order in 1872 was considerable, and 1873 opened with brighter prospects for the fnture. In August, 1878, the Executive Committee, finding that the limited quarters at Georgetown were very insufficient for the fast accumulating mass ot documents and correspon dence, secured the building at 612 Louisiana avenue, in Washington, where the present offices are now located. They thought this loca tion would be amply sufficient for years to come, but the unparalleled spread of the organization sIiowb that men's minds are apt to eny for to-day there is hardly moving room in the building, where clerks and employees are kept busily at work. 1 lurtoLMi persons arc at present writing, kept constantly busy in the office, and ten rooms do not furnish sufficient space tor work. The times are greatly changed. Only a few months since the Secretary could take the packages under his arm and walk up to the express office. Now the .dams Express Company send a wagon and mes senger every day especially for the packages of the National Grange, which average daily more than 200. A description of the present quar ters may prove interesting to our many readers, and as it is also a matter of history in connection with the organization of the Patrons of Husbandry, we shall give a correct pen-picture of the office room. No. 612 Louisiana avenue, Wash ington, D. C, is an unpretentious looking building to all outside ap pearances a neat residence, and were it not for a small sign over the door, indicating that it is the office of the National Grange, would pass un. noticed. The building is built ot brick, and consists ot three stories and basement. The basement contains the pack' ing rooms, where all the parcels for new Granges are arranged, wrap ped, addressed and tied, ready for shipment. Packages of documents for deputies are also prepared there. Five deputies are busily employed in those rooms, and the number of packages made and shipped daily average more than four hundred. On the hrst floor we find the office of the Secretary in the front room. I here the correspondence is opened and distributed to the differ ent departments ; or, if it relates to some particular or special matter, laid or the desk ot the Secretary for his own attention. Another room on this floor is used as a record and cOrrespond once office. There the applications are recorded, letters answered, dis pensations forwarded, etc, Four persons are occupied in that room. The records of the Order are also preserved in that office, and one can form an idea of the amount of work accomplished when we slate thai more than two hundred volumes. which are entirely in manuscript. are found on the shelves. In the second floor are kept the charters and documents more close ly connected with the inside work of the Order, aiid two persons are kept there constantly busy prepar ing those documents. A room on this door is reserved as a special office for the Worthy Lecturer, and is also used as a meeting-room for the Executive Committee. Thd third floor is the Deputies dormitory the sanctuary where they can rest their tired limbs, and attend to their special duties when they visit Washington. The thjrd story is, figuratively speaking, the "bay-mow." Everything is conducted upon t)m strictest principles of order, and the hands of the worthy sisters who as sist the Secretary i his arduous work are careful in Hay'"? eyiiTJ scrap in its place, and keeping the whole office in .ft: perfect state of I Tb M of Bator CHy ant engineeriagfternM k reported.