Show THE TREASURER OF STATES f the washington correspondent of a western vestern journal gives the following interesting berestin te stories of that most faithful of public bubli C servants gen Q G E spinner spinier whose strict and stern fidelity to duty dut y makes him an honor to the country and to our state general spinner who js now a hale hearty and plucky man of years capable of and doing more hard work worl than many of his young clerks is an example of the utility of placing in office men thoroughly trained for its duties he was for twenty years executive officer of the mohawk valley bank for four years auditor of the naval office in the new york custom house for two terms in congress on the committee of accounts and for another term wair cnair man of the same committee he was appointed by mr lincoln united states treasurer and can now say with just pride that during four years in he has conducted a business of 0 f thousands thon sands of millions and has received receive d i and disbursed in small sums from and an d to various persons prodigious and anex i ambled amounts of money not a dollar is unaccounted una counted for and not an error has been made in a calculation without be ing hunted down and cleared up the correspondent writes 1 I remember the fever into which the old gentleman was once thrown by a mistake of five thousand dollars made in the country count by a fema leclerk of apack age of notes received durin during ia the seven thirty loan from one of ta the tho new now york banks the clerk had carelessly thrown aside the little strips of paper pinned around each eath package and labeled with its amount date datlof wt counting ete etc and when she found suil sull forwarded by the bank only twenty five thousand dollars instead of thirty thousand dollars which the bank had charged she was without a clew to the date or place of counting the packages had been received in now york from the country correspond dent dents of the bank and forwarded without recounting on the faith of the accuracy of the sum marked on the strip of paper surrounding each package pack paek aole the N Y bank without those strips was unable to tell from what correspondent any particular package had been received or to trace the error the treasurer was therefore powerless and it looked as if there was to be a loss of he promptly said he would make it up out of his private means the poor girls who had nad done the counting in the department part ment were frightened out of their wits and hysterics for a day or two came as nearly ruling as arithmetic to the surprise however of every one by some accident one of the country correspondents of the new york bank discovered an error of in one of its returns and forwarded the missing missi hig fig package next day when it was shown that the error was not in his department the old treasurer was the besl best satisfied Sat IsRed and the proudest man in washington he had been nearly for four years striving to be able to say that he had gone through the payments for the greatest and most expensive pensive et war on record without an error of a dollar and his work was not lost he can say that now f A fj I 1 when the war began the general declared that he would go to no place of amusement till it was over and lie he kept his word wife and daughters many a timo time sought to entice him to the opera but he was inexorable for eor the same reason he refused to leave his post of duty for a single day and for five years he has never seen his pleasant home in the mohawk valley |