The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-12
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

THE Co,rier-Jou7aaL thinks Conkling
has the best chance for the Presidency
in 1876.
THE Cincinnati Times thinks Dawes
has less learning but more common sense
than Sumner.
CoNK1INe, in his last speech, said
Schurz was '' standing, as it were, in the
ashes of his ambition
ANDY JOHNSON is not only the only
ex-President now living, but is the only
one ever elected to the United States
Senate.
Six fingers on each hand and fourteen
toes on each foot had the baby of Mrs.
Jane Willet, of Stockton, Mo. Weight,
ten pounds.
the dead lock in the House he moved
that all the Democratic members be ex-
cused, and moved a rol[cal on his
motion.
THE Chicago Times says ssNo
shrewd actor now travels in the South
without having the play Richeieu in lis
repertoire. When, as the Cardinal, he
says: Take away the sword !; States
may be saved without it, he has time
to go out and count the evenings re-
ceipts before the applause, which rises
and falls, swells into thunder and dies
away only to rise again. finally sub
sides"
The Washington Chronicle says:
| ssGen. Gordon, the best natural orator
from the Southern States, is a Christian
statesman, a mixture of David and Jacob.
He has very little business ability, but
q -, ifa
President, etc. It is predicted that he
will be the Democratic candidate for
| Vice President, with Sam Tilden for his
colleague; the two Empire States sit to-
gether, New York and Georgia"
| ANDREW JOHNSON first took his seat In
| the United States Senate in 1857. OF
| those who sat there with him then were
| Toombs and Davis and Benjamin, Sill
| dell, Mason and Hunter. Douglas and
| Crittenden and Fessenden, Sumner and
| Seward. Broderick and Houston and Bell
are dead. Hanlin, Wilson and Cameron
will greet him In the Senate on his re-
turn. Wade, Trumbull, Harlan, Foster,
Dixon and Dooittle are among those
| who, still living, have retired to private
| life.
A WASHINGTON correspondent says
Sam Randall made such good fight fol-
/ 1A4O S14C AkeVC
ing contest that he has brought himseli
to the front as leader, and his associates
upon the floor begin to rank him as
prominent candidate for the next Speaker
ship. Randall took almost the whole
burden of watching the fight out and
during the forty-six-and-a-half hours
contest, he never left the Capitol
Neither Cox nor Wood made any figure
In the fight at all, but remained in the
background, In appearance no more thar
Indifferent spectators
TIE Cincinnati Gazette thus admsn
ishes the Pacific Mail investigators
Messrs. Dawes, Beck, and other mem
bers of the committee: Your con
duct is not satisfactory to the public, anc
unless you push matters and try to fine
out something, the knowledge of which
is within your reach, you win be on tria
at the bar of public opinion. Your bust
ness is not to whitewash, cover up, ol
protect anybody, but TO expose corup
Mon and corruptionists without fear O.
favor. The first business on hand nov
is to compel Schumacher, member-elec
of the Forty fourth Congress-, to tel
what he did with the $500, 900, or senG
him to Jail. II Congressman were bribet
or rewarded, that is what the public wan
to know"