The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-05-12
Ne.ys Gleaninss.


The Treasury Department officers are
led TO believe that fully one-third of the
outstanding fractional currency has been
destroyed and never will be presented for
redemption. and that the total amount In
| existence at this time is not more than
/ $50, 600. 600. The basis for this belief Is
that the otal amount of old issues of frac-
tional currency which have been redeemed
and replaced by later ones. In paying out
silver coin tor fractional currency, the
amount of these old Issues which has come
in is found to be very limited. iustifylng
the conclusion that fully SO. 900 have dis
appeared from circulation, and will not
make Its appearance at the Treasury
again.
A letter was published In Washington,
May 6th, from Fitzhugh, doorkeeper Of tire
House, to a friend in Texas. The follow
ing are few characteristic extracts: IL
wish you could be here with me. Do try
and come. The government furnishes me
WITH 1ine turnout and spanking pair Of
horses and before and after the Heuse ses-
sion, and at recess have the exclusive use
OF them. have more invitations to frolics
Win members and Senators than any man
IN Washington. { am bigger man than
old Grant. cannot put my foot on the
noor of the hall but that they make
break for me, aud sometimes there are a
dozen trying to SEQ me at once for place
Tor some friend. have boy to take my
hat and coat, and | cannot turn round
without someonc at my beck and call, and
whrn get all my app0fntees broken in
shall hayea nice time. Goodnight
Blaine sfill lends for the Cincinnati nom
snation, tEoCgh the Bristow pressure on tho
party machinery grows stronger daily
Politicians how concede more freely That
Conkling would beat .Tilden i'm this State
u Doth were nominated. The best opinion
denies the recent impression that Tilden
mao captured Southern Georgia. II is GER
teln mat nc is not even the choice Of the
deie~aeees to st. Louis. Gen. Hancock is
more tais-ed g by the Democrats. Wise.
Of Virginia, eariaestly urges him, and
Judge Black declares that Pennsylvania
should support him as nes- Css'zen, whose
heroic conduct in arms is only eqtseieu Dy |
ms scruPulou5 devotion to tiae princs pies OF |
ciyii liberty in time of peace. The S,..a /
cialmes that no man was ever nominated +
Tor President without the cordial support
III convention of his own section of the
Union, and ON this theory counts Blaine
Out IN the fight. Blaine's friends say New
England will unite upon him after few
complimentary votes for others.
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Herdtd says the next President ii
he be chosen from among candidates now
prominent, is not likely to be poor man.
On the Republican side, Blaine is richest:
bristow aud wife are worth quarter of a
million; Hayes is still better off; ConkIing
s believed to possess over 500. 600. while
Norton and Wheeler have smaller fortunes,
ifluen, OH the Democratic side, Is wealth.
sst. he being put down at $1,000, 600 or
E0.OOO, 600; Davis owns more than OIL ,OOO,- ,
~ anu Thurman has large fortune;
fS FOIL ~ ~mptas Il r 4
comfortable circumstances.
The Postmaster General, at Senator
instance, has declined to ap-
'rove the special agents recommendation
or reduction of mail service on routes {
rom kelton. Utah, to the Dalles. Oregon,
nd from WInnemucca to Boise City. ,
The ladies Of the Congregational Society
t Olympia have been placed under obliga-
lous to the officers of the Pacific Mail
teamshin Company. by having the steam
hip DGkno rendered them for an excur
ION onathe 9Th of June next. 4
The Walla Walla Spirit says: s.Fresb
utter has come down to Zero 2ls cents
or pound, and not great demand at that :.
rice even. DaiTymelI aud farmers begin Il
drop the lower lip aud declare they won't j.
lake another pound until it comes up TO a %
wing rernmeFatiye figure oi
Moths are in6ustriously working ON the &C
ople trees in Salt Lake and vicinity, aud =.
not soon brought to grief, will destroy
We apple crop this season. :.
Last Sunday being the last of the month, :
y. Otis, commanding officer Of Fort
'alla Walla, mustered and passed Ii, re-
ew the troops, and found everything
rect.
Dir. Shirley, from Petainm. CAL, pur-
ased of James Reynolds, of yYalIa yyalla,
200 of fine cattle which are destined for
. Rat river regions, adjacent to the new
ines. an
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