The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-10-14
POLITICAL.
AN INSTRUCTIVE COMPARISON.

Itisan instructive and striking fact
! that while the New York Ring has
! spent for stationery for the county
alone, for the past twoaiid II htlfyears.
not including law books or blank
! books. tie enormous sum of $50. 600,
or at the rate of $40, 0c0 per year. the
entire expense of all the stationery
used by the Treasury Department of
Washington, with it, 2, 200 employees,
| all faithful workers and no siilcctlists,
/ is only $4,000 per year. n ro.l5n
! comparison showing that the entire eA-
pelisc OF the Government printing for
Congress, and all the Departments.
with its many hu.Idrcd thousand vol
lunes of reports of all kinds, does not
exceed the probable annual expenditure
for printing and stationery tor the city
and county of New York. i1ie total
cost at the present day OF the lnagilifl-
cent Treasury building. which is, next
to the Capitol, the largest building IN
the United States. ana which is nearly
six times the size i'll superficial area
and in capacity of the New York
Court House, is So, 0Uo, 900 against $l D.
600. 900 for the iatter building, not yet
finished.
THE RESULT OF REPUBLICAN RULE.
In II speech in Columbus, Ohio, &c
political issues OF the day, Gen. Ed
ward +. Noyce thus summed the rule
OF the Republican party
If the Republican purity shall be
continued i'll power, everything PROM
ises well for tie future. iile tide OF
emigration is setting rapidly in from
the shores of either ocean railroads
and telcgraplls, more potent than con-
stitItioaS and laws, are binding the
too I'll.
eSts OF the far West are giving place to
fields OF wheat and bioltt ;tcrcs oT WAY
ing corn the enterprise and capital Of
the \ ortl and East are finding their
way to the neglected Plantations OF the
South; etiiicaliol and Intelligence are
| being uliItl>eu among the ilit,-eS: our
mechanical lilVeiltio.l, are rapidly iiiui-
tipiying and making labor easy; the
re1iIeiiicit5 OF civiazation are bca:iii-
flying our social iltc; tile national re-
sources are being dcyc,opvd wealth.
is accumuating comfort AID c2Ate.it-
ment fill our homes labor lsUWlrd-
eli as nowhere else, and there Is work
for all to do. We may congratulate
ourselves that the civil war, Which Tor
four year, de-oi:tted our land, has LETT
us more prosperous and happy tiilil
1 ever before. Grateful. Tor the Bie ;sliig;
of free Institutions, and Tor the abuiid-
;llce with which our lives are crowned,
we look trtl,tiillly to the future. Re-
membering the glorious traditions OF
our state, and the great names whose
lives adorn the history OF Ohio, the
wise council of her Statesnleil, and the
brave deeds OF her soldiers, having
confidence in the patriotism and in
teliigence OF her people, and faith i'll
the Providence Which Overrlllcs uS, we
q. t1a n homo tnr fIta nf GIlt.ii
principles. now and hereafter. as will
insure prosperity and wealth, and hap
piIless TO that prosperity whose inherit
;tiice we have Helped to secure.
PERFECTLY AWFUL.
The New York Espress has fig,lrer
WHO has discovered that during the Ia It
ten years each tick of the clock has
seen IS 3 added to tie national debt.
and each minute s496 so. But this
alarming Admirable CI'ichton has
failed To remark that this whole debt
was added because the democracy
kicked Hip I; little "ullpieasa;Itie So
! Nor does he inform us since Grant
came into the presidency every tick OF
the clock has seen S:s y of the national
debt paid and every minute sl93 20.
And ne forgets to add. too, that for
every dollar paid there has been an
cause it was done. Now, suppose this
modern Euclid should tur,l his matil-
enrttics towards New York city, and
tell lis how much money has been sto.-
Ell per second in that hot-bed of de-
mocr;lcy also how much Of the debt
Oaky Hall u Co. have paid per min
ute, for that would be an interesting
number to repcat.-1St, Joseph (N9
| Ierutd.
Our Democratic friends who are so
! deeply moved by the spectacle of a po-
liticsil Convention held in United
States Court room in New Orleans
have short memories. The circun-
| stance is Denounced by them as an act
of unprecedented impropriety. An
act of i,npropricty it certainly was. but
it i not unprecedented. In 1883, du-
ring the Know Nothing excitement.
which ragged very tierce!y in New
Orleans, Il political Convention met i'll
the Cutoi House, and was surround
ed by United States troops; but the
Convention in that case was IA Demo-
cratic one, and the troops obeyed the
the orders of James Buchanan. We
don't ourselves approve OF the resort
Of the Republican Convention to the
public buildings; but if we did, we
sho,iid have Il well defined Democrat
ic precedent.-Nesc York Tii.ies.
Page after page of thefts, eompris-
ing millions of dollars, continue to be
published by the New York papers,
and the question seems to be. is there
anybody or anything honest in New
York? Dispatches say that Tweed
and Others of the ring" are convert
ing their property. so wrongftllly OBJ
tained, into gold and diamonds, prob
ably with the intention of leaving the
country before the halter overtakes
them.
Recent explorations i'll the valley OF
Salt River. Arizona. have caused the