OLDENBUBO. 



OREGON. 



005 



in 1868 was $32,000,000. There was also a 



incrvaso in certificates i-sued for tlio in- 



i-ation of manufacturing companies, Buch 

 a rolling-mills, iron fur. Ties, etc. 



us jHvlums are in good condition, 



.tent of their capacity, doing 



^'ood work committed to them. 



- been managed with firm- 



..M-xl discipline, and economy. Owing to 

 tin- fact tli:it tin- existing contracts for the labor 

 >f the prisoners wen- made when the value of 

 l:il>i>r was much lower than at present, the ex- 

 penses of the institution exceeded the receipts 



the labor of the convicts by the sum of 



$10239.86. More than three-fourths of the 



<-ta are anil r thirty years of nge, and a 



large majority of them are young men who 



have very recently come of age. 



The State Reform Farm was organized eleven 

 years ago upon the "family system" adopted in 

 some reformatories for youth in Continental 

 Europe, and was the first attempt to introduce 

 the plan into this country. A large proportion 

 of the youth sent there have been convicted of 

 pnnitentiary crimes, some of them of the gravest 

 character. The great aim of the commissioner 

 in charge, and of the elder brothers (as the 

 officers and teachers are called), has been to re- 

 vive in these boys a respect for rectitude and a 

 love for truth and virtue. All the discipline 

 and instruction has been directed to this end. 

 "While the fact of their deserving punishment 

 has not been ignored, they have been made to 

 feel that their crimes have made the discipline 

 of the school a necessity to them for their 

 own good, and a necessity for the community's 

 protection. Records have been kept of the 

 youth discharged, and their history traced as 

 far as it has been possible to do so, and the re- 

 suits have been such as to justify the assertion 

 that hundreds of boys have been made useful 

 and honest members of society, who would 

 otherwise have tilled the prisons of the land and 

 belonged to the class of professional criminals. 



OLDENBURG, a grand duchy in Northern 

 Germany, Grandduke, Peter I., born July 8, 

 1827; succeeded his father, Feb. 27, 1853. 

 Heir-apparent, Frederic August, born Nov. 10, 

 1852. In the German-Italian war, Oldenburg 

 e'nled with Prussia, and after the war it joined 

 the North German Confederation. On 

 27, 1860, Oldenburg concluded a treaty with 

 Prussia, by which the, grand duke of Oldenburg 

 ceded his claims to Sehleswig and llolstein, 

 while Prussia ceded to Oldenburg some districts 

 of llolstein, with a population of 12,004 inhab- 

 itants. The area of Oldenburg is now 2,408 

 square miles, and the population 314,416. The 

 movement of shipping in 1864 was as follows : 



FLAO. 



OMenhnrg 

 Foreign.... 



Tots) 



EXTKKKD. 



5,006 



LMt.. 



I4M 



120,100 



CLBABXD. 



8,220 

 8,209 



MJ.' 



89.071 



l.'l.-v.l 



The commercial navy consisted in 1805 of 

 610 vessfls, of a total burden of 2,396 lasts. 



OREGON. The election for State officers in 

 Oregon is hold on the first Monday in June, 

 biennially, except for Governor, whose term of 

 office is four years. The candidate of the Re- 

 publican party was George L. Woods, who wa 

 not committed to the support of the majority in 

 the Federal Congress. The candidate of the 

 Democratic party was Kelly. The reso- 

 lutions of the convention nominating Mr. Kelly 

 expressed a full approval of the policy of Presi- 

 dent Johnson for the restoration of the Union. 

 At the election the total vote for Governor was 

 20,239 ; of which Woods received 10,283, and 

 Kelly 9,956, making a Republican majority of 

 827. The Republican candidate for CongreMH 

 was chosen by a majority of 553. The state of 

 parties in the Legislature was as follows: 



Senate. House. 



Republicans 14 24 



Democrats 8 23 



Republican majority 6 1 



At the ensuing session of the Legislature two 

 of the Republican members of the House were 

 required to yield their seats to two Democrats. 



The session of the Legislature commenced on 

 September 10th. This period of its session had 

 been adopted owing to the difficulty for mem- 

 bers from the eastern part of the State to get 

 to or from the capital in the winter. A bill, 

 however, passed the House to change the time 

 of meeting to December. Resolutions approv- 

 ing the Constitutional amendment, article 13, 

 were passed by one majority in the House. 

 Atler the expulsion of the two Republican mem- 

 bers above mentioned, a preamble and resolu- 

 tions were introduced, declaring that the two 

 persons were "illegally and fraudulently re- 

 turned as members," and by their aid the Fed- 

 eral Constitutional amendment had been ap- 

 proved. Therefore, 



Jfftolved by the Tfovte of Representatives of the State 

 of Oregon, That the action of this House in passing 

 the said Constitutional amendments did not express 

 the will of this House as it now stands, after being 

 purged of its illegal members. 



Resolved, That the secretary of state be directed 

 to forward a certified copy of the foregoing preamble 

 and resolution to William H. Seward, Secretary of 

 State of the United States, within ten days from the 

 passage of the same. 



These were adopted ayes, 24; nays, 18. 

 A discussion ensued during the next day on 

 approving the journal, which declared the reso- 

 lutions passed, during which three absentees 

 recorded their votes in the negative. Much 

 confusion ensued, dnrinjr which tin- clerk ten- 

 liis resignation, "to take effect imme- 

 diately," which was not accepted. It was 

 claimed that there was an agreement to allow 

 absentees to record their votes, and some would 

 be absent beyond the current day. The journal 

 was finally approved yeas, 26 ; nays, 20. On a 

 subsequent day a resolution was parsed to re- 

 consider the above vote, and on the next day a 



