Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 31 January 1867 — Page 1

GEORGE IF* SJYY1DEIS,

EDITOR AND PUBLISHKE.

GREAT ..WESTERN WARBLE WORKS! "I.:- v" \X

PYKE, PAUL & CO.,

«&KRN 8TREET, FIRST DOOR SOUTH Off MAIN, OPPOSITE ELSTON'S BANK,

Crawfordsville, Ind.

DEALERS IK

.tjnERic.i.v iT.tx.r.M%'

MARBLE!

and manufacturer*

TOMBSTONES,

PA MILT VAULTS,

HWtNG

purchased tho stock of MARBLE belonging to H.Cou.ixs. and being permanently located, we design making tlr.s one of the ttoct extensive establishments of the kiuu tu *u6 trelt. Wc have been carrying on the

GREAT WESTfiRJI

Defy all

P. FITZPATR1CK.

O S Watches

JE W ELR Y.

1sortmenton

HAVE hand a largo and fine asof tho best American, English and Swiss Watches, now in the market.. Also, a large •apply of 8-day and 24-hour clocks of all kinds *nd of the bost quality. Also, a largo stock of

SPECTACLES,

•f all kinds to suit tho market, and warranted to *lre entire satisfaction. Also, a large assortment of fine Gold and fancy Jewelry, all of the Jfctoit styles with a fine stock of

Gold Fens, ^c«

Jt also just roccivfd a new and eomplote set of Watchmaker's

TOOLS AND MATERIALS,

«od am now ready to do all work that I may be favored with in the best style and with PBOMPTXKJS. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry repaired immediately, and work warranted one year. «SGr Call at E. J. Binford 8 Drug Store, Wa.htagton street, west of the

August 31, 1866.

ft.

r.

EKSMlXOKtt.

firo

MANSOLEMS,

MONUMENTS,

mil kind*, from plainest atyle to the most perte*t beauty and grandeur.

MARBLE WORKS

a| Hbomtown, TndL, for a number of year's, afid through ourefforti have succeeded in establishing trade unrqualed by any in the State and by the liberal patronage wo have received during the put year from tho citizens of Montgomery and adjoining counties, we have been induced for tho fturther extension of our trado

Establish a Shop in Craicfordsville,

a»d hope by strict attention to business and using none but tho best of material, which wo get ilroctly from the quarries, lo bo able to sell at goeh rates as te

Competition.

TTe visit all parts of tho country with designs »f our work, which will enable p-jraons to select •t their homes sr.ch work as they may desiro, and the saiaa prices that cculd be furnished at tu9

A W O E IV E E

ABd vre

WARRANT SATISFACTION OR NO BALE.

380- We are also prepared to furnish Building

fitoue and solicit a call before purchasing elsowhere. PYKE, PAUL & CO. mar 8 '66.]

SILVER -SMITHING I

1

XRICK

W. E. KICH0L80N.

ENSMINGER & NICHOLSON,

DEALERS IN

SADDLERY

AND

HARNESS,

-Maiu Street Crawfordsville,

WOULD

respectfully inform the citizens of Montgomery county that they have now on hand a general aesortmont of custom made work in the line of

HARNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES,

BE

HALTERS, WHIPS, SPURS,

./ &c., &0.,

la every thing eonneeted with their trade. REPAIRING of every description done with

promptness and upon reasonable termThose wishing anything in their line wUl do well to sail at their Shop, in the old Crawford Corner," east of the Court House. They are de-

A N

MACHINE SHOP

In Crawfordsville,

BLAIR, LYLE & CO., HAVE

NOW IX OPERATION a FOCXDRT and MACHINE SUOP, lu this place, and invito all interested ia

MACHINERY OF ANY KIND,

to give them a cali. They aro making all kinds of castings, such aa .........

MILL GEARING, every description

SORGHUM MILLS,

FURNACE FRONTS,

SUGAR KETTLES,

(-RATE BARS,

Making Patterns for, and Replacing

STOVE PLATES

OVENS, DOG IRONS, Ac., Ac.

They are prepared to repair

Tubular Boilers, Steam Engines,

Thrushing Machines,

Reapers, Drag Saws, Mowers,

and to make and fit up

Braas Castings, and Blacksmithing

of every description.

s&- All work dono by this firm is warranted to perform as represented.

CASn PAID FOR

OLD IRON,'COPPER & BRASS

f&T1 Shop on Green ptrcot, near ths Depot, may 10 '66.] BLAIR, LYLK & CO.

T. W. FRY & CO.

AVE just opened a fine assortment of

IS M33L ~OLT

A I N S

CHEMICAXS

O I S

Bye Stills, Toilet Fancy

AETICX.ES.

CIGARS & TOBACCO

OF THE FINEST QUA LI If.

Wo have aluo constantly on hand a Tory seloct stock of the best quality of

SUGAR, COFFEE, and TEA.

All of which wo will sell at the very lowest MARKET PRICE. Call and see ns, on Qreen street, two doors above

I'jle 21,n"««.

'/SOSOLSok'

«ar- Highest market price in CASIT paid for 'HIDES and SHEEP PELTS November 8, 1866.

v!0n9tf.

f^jLASS, PAINTS and OILS, for salo at Fry's new Drug Store.

S

Whole^al#

and Retail

GIRTHS,

july 12.

sure and $all at J. H. Benefiel's when you wish to jsuy Family Grooeries. irwrwOZS. QUININfi for sale at T. W. FBT

|1 PV ic Co.'*

Drag Store. [july 12-

T. W. FRY & CO.

w. ROBERTSON & CO.,

Manufactu­

rers of

rUSKITUftl,

Under "McClelland Hall,"

Washington St., Crawfordsville,

invites attention to their large stock of

HOME-MADE WORK,

and their facilities for supplying^ the trade and all others who favor them with a call.

COFFINS

of all kinds furnished on short notice,

WITH OR WITHOUT A HEAESE.

Anj. 2, 1866.

FIRE. FIRE. FIRE.

E

HARTFORD

FIRE INSURANCE CO.

As isolated examples only among thousands, it h»s furnished, of succor rendered tho unfortunate, and of blessings dispensed to tho public under trying calamities,

THE HARTFORD

Refers to'eome of tho marked disasters suoeossfully encountered, during tho

Fifty-Six Years

Of Its business career, as illustrating the character of the benefits it has conferred, and tho indemnity it furnishes

Kcw York, 183S|

St. Louts, 18491

Troy, 1§62

Augusta and Mobile, 1888J

Portland, 1S68

THIRTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS

Represent the appalling estimate swept away by these several disasters, which reduced to bankruptcy every Local Underwriting organiiation, save four in tho respective localities existing at the dates referred to 1! I

Tho claims by these calamities, upon this Institution, aggregating

Four Hundred Jc Fifty Thousand Dollars,

Were promptly met and honorably paid, without the loss of prestige or credit.

Moro conclusive evidence concerning tho great advantage possessed under such sweeping perils, by an institution whosa income and business is derived from national sources, must be sought in vain.

Its Portland Risks, 52 in number, covering 13 brick and frame dwellings, 12 brick stores, 25 Mercantile Risks in brick buildings, and one Public Library building, to amount of $147,950, and adjusting of $155,156 30,

.»('£RT.lt.VEl* J.YJO

PAID IIn 10 DATS,

Leaving its Capital of*0?7E| MILLION intact, and a a surplus sufficient to reinsuro every outa

Markot value of stock beforo fire,.. sfti'r .. (Shares, $100 each.)

200

Cash Capital, $1,000,000 OO Casli Assets, July 1, '66, 1,648,539 39 Average Daily Income, 4,000 00

The heavy losses of tho eurront period point to the necessity of

STRONG IJ\*HEMJ%*I

As one of tho lessons of tho hour.

Let "those who will, trust to tha untried and ephemeral.

PEUDENT MEjST,"

Studying the fact that TWELVE prominent Underwriting Institutions havo cithorfailed, or been compelled to retire, sinco tho commencement of the year 1866, will not fail to seek for REAL wealth, BONA FIDE resources, andTRIED EXPERIENCE, as requisite qualities iu tho present emergency.

ipS" Agencies In all prominent localities, where Hartford Policies can bo obtained.

Ultimate Safety the paramount consideration in Insurance. Paying rates demanded, and conservative principles guaranteed.

J. H. BENEFIEL,

WOULD

AGENT,

For CRAWFORDSVILLE and vicinity. October 4, 1866. tf.

PHOTOGRAPH

A E A. S. HUGHES

Inform his old customers and the public generally, that ho has again established himself at tho old stand, No. 1, Empire Block, third story, where he is prepared, with all the modern improvements in tho Photographic art, to furnish

PORCELAIN PICTUEES, PHOTOGRAPHS, MELAINEOT PES,

AMBROTYPES,

and all otlier kinds of sun-light pictures in a stylo unsurpassed by any other artist. He invites the public to call and examine his work. Mr. H. would also correct the erroneons impression that ho has left tho city, by stating that ho may, at all times, bo found at his room, ready to accowmodato all persons who may favor him with a call. [nov. 18, '66.-tf]

DR. J. 0. SIMARD,

Homeopatliic

PHYSICIAN,

CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.

Office with Township Trustee. aug2'66. m6w.

LOVERS

of (iood, Tea and Coffee will find the best that can bo had in the markets, at Dcci 20, '66.ast-tf] BENEFIEL'S.

NEW

A

Raisins, Currants, Citrons, Figs & .Prnnes at BENEFIEL'S.

VERY fine article of Pickles and Peaohe8_to be had at BENEFIEL'S

The XJnion, in any events

VOL XIX.--N0. 21.} CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND., JANUARY 31, 1867. WHOLE NO. 957

Speecli of 5Eon. II. S. Lane on tbe Bill to Regulate the Tenure of Oflicc.

The Senate resumed tho consideration of the bill (S. No. 453) to regulate tho tenure of offices, the ponding question boing on the motion of Mr. Sumner to amend tho amendment agreed to as in Committee of tho Whole by adding to it the following additional section:

And be it further enacted, That all officers or agents, except clerks of Departments, now appointod by the President or by the head of any Department, whoso salary or compensation, derived from fees or otherwise, oxcoeds $1,000 annually, Khali bo nominated by tho President and appointed by and with tho advice and consent of the Senate and tho term of all such officei'S or agents who havo been appointed sinco the first day of July, 1866, either by tho President or by the head of a Department, without the advice and consent of tho Sonato, shall expire on the last day of Fobruary, 1867.

Mr. LANE. If it is not considered out of order I wrill take a few moments to attempt to direct the attention of tho Senate to tho question before tho body. [Laughter.] I shall not undertako to anticipate a state of things where the President of the United States shall be regularly impeached by tho lower IIouso and where the members of this grave body shall bo his triers. I know not what tho result of such an investigation may be, but I hope we shall all bo prepared to decide that question upon its merits whenever, if at all, it shall be presented. But 1 desiro now to enter my protest against this doctrine that the freedom of debato in the Sonato of the United States shall bo or can be curtailed. I know by the parliamentary law that it is out of order to speak disrespectfully of a co-ordinate branch pf tho Government. Tho meaning of it is that when it is not necessary for tho purposes of the debato that we shall travel out of the record to denounce improperly a coordinate branch of tho Government, it is out of order to do so. But hero is a bill proposing to restrict tho power of removal of tho President, ba*ed upon the supposition that there has been an abuse, a shameless abuse of the power of removal and appointment. That is precisely the .subject-matter before the Seriate and ever}- Senator, under his responsibility to his constituents, his conscience, and his God, may characterize the conduct of the President in such language precisely as he believes to be t)t and proper, having no other possible restraint in tho law or in the Constitution.

Wo are called upon to act on the subject of the abuse of the executive patronage. That is tho subject now beforo tlie Senate. If it bo not so, the whole object of the bill is aimless and purposeless. And if wo aro to be tied here, if a padlock is to bo placed upon our mouths here, wo havo a despotism instoad of a Republic, and this high body, tho inquest of the nation, han no right to characterize tyranny and usurpation as they should be characterized Wo may not travel beyon tho verge and scope of proper debate to denounce a co-ordinate branch of the Government but when it comes legitimately within the proper discharge of our duties wo may, we must, we aro recreant if we do not, use fittin"- terms to characterize what we consider an abuso of tho appointing power.

Now, Mr. President what is contemplated by this bill Simply to restrain and restrict tho unlimited power of removal now claimed by tho President of tho United States. This has always been a doubtful question. It was raised in tho Fftst Congress of the United States and decided in tho Senate only by the casting vote of John Adams, the then Vice President. From that time to this the power has been doubted by distinguished lawyers. Tho power has been supported also, I admit, by distinguished lawyers and perhaps the Supreme Court alono can determine who is right and who is wrong as to the construction of the Constitution on this point. But this bill steers clear of all possible constitutional objections. There aro certain officers known to and recognized by the Constitution, whoso duties are defined by the Constitution, whose nocessary qualifications for office aro defined, whose tenuro of office is defined. Congress has no right to fix additional conditions or qualifications or a different tenure of office for those constitutional officers but every other officer in the civil or military administration is subject to tho jurisdiction of Congress, and they havo a perfect right to fix tho tenure of office, tho mode of appointment, the duration of the term, and the compensation. This bill does not propose to touch a single constitutional officer, but simply to provide a different tenuro of office for those officers provided for by law and whose only existences is under tho statute law. You have breathed tho breath of life into their bodies. The Constitution never called them to bo and to exist. It is your action and yours alone under which they exist, and the Congress alono can fix the tenure of their office.

This bill by its first section provides that certain officers, excepting the Cab­

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inet of the President, shall hold their office for a certain time and until their successors shall have been confirmed by a vote of the Senate. That is substantially tho first section of this bill. Wo might, if wo chose, apply this principle to tho Cabinet officers of the Prosident of tho United States. I know heretofore tho doctrine has been held that Cabinet officers stood in a rolation to tho President so confidential that ho alone should 00 consulted in their choico and, except perhaps in two instances, no Cabinet officer has been rejected by the Senate but

Then comes the amendment of the Senator from Massachusetts, more wide sweeping in its scope than any provision contemplated by tho bill and that is that all officers, whose annual compensation is moro than a thousand dollars, shall bo appointed by the President subject to the apnroval or satisfaction of the Senate. That applies, I understand, to all officers who aro not properly constitutional officers those. I suppose, wo may not touch. Excluding the Supreme Court, tho President, Vice President, and, according to the provisions of this bill, the Cabinet officers, all others shall bo subject to confirmation by tho Senate of the United States. When this proposition was moved a few daj*s a?o upon a pension bill which I had the honor to introduce, I opposed it as an amendment to that bill but I now support it. From my heart of hearts 1 support it as a proposition to be attached to this bill, to which it is properly germane. I would make all those officers subject to confirmation by the Senate of the United States. We must lodtje discretion somewhere, either with the Executive or with tho Senato. In tho light of passing events, I prefer to trust, the Senate. I have confidence in tho Senate.

But gentlemen hero upon this floor echo the objection of the President in his recent veto message, that danger to public liberty comes from popular representation. Sir, if you will read the history, ancient and modern, of the Old World, you will find that popular liberty lias been in no single instance stricken down by popular representation. Look to tho revolution in England, look to tho terrible French revolution, look to tho Greek republics and to tho ropublics of tho middle ages, and you will find that it was the tyrants, the dictators, tho self-consti-tuted usurpers of authority who overthrew public liberty. I deny that the great dangor in our institutions results from popular representation. If that be true, all history is a lio, if that bo true, your Government is a fraud and a cheat, and tho people are not capable of self-government. But that argument is used by tho President and repeated here. There is no danger from popular representation. Under our theory of government tho only dangor is that the popular voico may not bo heard, and constitutionally heard.

I would not strip the President of the United States of a single ono of his constitutional powers. But, sir, what are the two powers now threatening the liberties of the peoplo They aro tho veto power and tho indiscriminate uso of tho power of removals from and appointments to office. Tho people, thank God, havo disposed of the argument arising out of the veto power, and wo have now two-thirds majority in each House of Congress. Tho loyal voice of this country is heard. By the echo of the previous decision of tho people the veto power is no longer regarded, although such is tho frequency of its exerciso, that it has wrought a secret

and almost silent revolution in the

if wo chooso we may fix tho tenuro ofjyou will open tho mausoleum whore their offices. Wo have as much power reposes the history of the past and the over them as we have over an inferior dead of a?es, you will find that popuclerk. hey aro only head clerks of lar representation has never throattho President, echoing his wishes and will and tho moment their action bocomes objectionable to him thoy aro removed. Such is tho theory of our Government, and such is the practico that has always prevailed. I do not know that it would bo expedient now to embraco the Cabinet officers in this bill but I am willing to go even to that extent. I think, however, they may bo properly loft out of this bill as proposed by tho Senator from Vermont, and let tho President havo the absolute power of appointment and the absolute power of removal in reference to them, and I do not care how soon ho begins to-exerciso that power of removal. •What furthermore is contemplated by this bill? That whero an officer during tho recess of Congress shall be shown to bo incompetent or unfaithful, tho President shall have a right to suspend him from office, and the duties shall then be discharged by tho person empowered by law to perform those duties in caso of a vacancy, and that tho President shall report that suspension, with his reasons for it, to the Senate of the United States at their next session. I BOO nothing wrong in that. The law in most instances, already designates the proper person to discharge tho duties when the incumbent shall be incompetent from absence or an}' other cause. I see nothing wrong in giving the President power to suspend for good cause, and allowing the functions to bo discharged by tho persons defined in law in other cases, or even to allowing a new appointment of a temporary character in such a case.

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country, so that, now, when we look They now support and sustain the pol-

Terms:

to measures of legislation we do not inquire as to majorities, but whether wo can secure a two-thirds vote and overrule tho action of tho President.

So much, then, for the argument attempted to bo drawn from the assumption, as I conceivo whoil}' unsupported in history, that the dangor to public liberty results, not from tho power exercised by tho king, or tho emperor, or the despot, or tho Prosident, but results from tho tyrranny of the majority. Sir, if you will cause to pass beforo you in procession the grand nations of ancient and modern times, if

enod popular liberty in any country upon earth. Gentlemen toll ug,s howevor, that there is no evil here to be remedied, and consequently no necessity for a new law on this subject. Gentlemen tell us that the removals havo been few and far between, and that the President in tho main has selected men for offico who voted for himself and Mr. Lincoln in 1864. I know not how it may be in other sections but in my own State I do know that two collectors of internal revenue have been appointed by Mr. Johnson who were among the most able and efficient supporters of McClellan and Pendleton during tho controversy of 1864. 1 KJJOW or iiiosw O*»v i~3T-.si.nnes: there may be hundreds of others, and perhaps there are but the argument is that he has not always appointed Democrats to office, that he has sometimes, carrying out the sentiment of one of his Cabiuet ministers, appointed men to eat his bread and butter who were ready to sell their principles for the sake of offico. I regard that as more demoralizing in its character and tendency than tho appointment of honest ana upright Democrats.

Now, Mr. President, I desiro to say a few words in reference to this question, 8J that I may bo properly understood at home. We are told upon this floor that out of four million votes cast at the last elections eighteen hundred thousand wero for the President's policy and out of a vote of four millions there was*a popular majority of only four hundred thousand in favor of the congressional policy and that the eighteen hundred thousand who suppurled the policy of the President are a hir^'0 minority who huvi- right to share in the patronage of the General Government.

Si•, our Government proceeds upon .the the theory of majorities. Tho major it}* have a right to rule. Heretofore when an Administration has come into power, as in tho case of Mr. Lincoln, where the President has been in accord with his party, he has distributed tho offices to his party friends. That system was introduced by General Jackson, as I believe, under the counsel— at least it was so stated—of Mr. Van Buren and from that timo to tho present it has always been considered that upon tho incoming of a new Administration there should be a change of officers, so to make them generally in accord with the adminstration.

In I860 Mr. Lincoln was elected Prosident, and when he came into power in 1S61, there was an extensive removal from office, but I believe not so extensive as there should have been but he was in a2fcord with his party, that party representing a constitutional majority of tho people of tho United States. Mr. Johnson, the present acting President of the United States, elected Vice President in 1864 upon the same ticket with Mr. Lincoln, comes into office and finds Mr. Lincoln's appointees in place, and he, for more political and partisan purposes commences a general removal from office. Now, tho quostion is, who represents the majority of the people of the United States? Tho grand national LTnion Republican party which has sustained the country through five years of terrible ivar. Who represents that party, the President of the United States, or tho Congress of tho United States? To whom do tho offices belong, to the President, or to tho people? If they belong to the peoplo, the peoplo come only to bo heard through the voice of their representatives "in -Congress. Do they belong to tho President If 80, tho jrrand battles and triumphs of tho Revolution wero fought in vain, for then we havo a despotism moro onerous and terrible than any despotism which has ground down tho eastern nations.

But gcntlomen say thoy should have a part of those offices. Who cast the eighteen hundred thousand votes that sustained tho President at tho last elections, and who sustain him to-day? Tho Democratic party, who brought on this war, who aro chargeablo for every grave which furrows tho battlefields of tho South who aro chargoablo for the terrible convulsions which have shaken the country and threatened free government and free institutions upon tho continent. Thoy gave these eighteen hundred thousand vote3, and they claim now to participate in the patronage of the Government. Who, furthermore, support "my policy?" Who stand by tho President to-day? Not only tho Democratic party of the North, who in the Chicago Convention resolved that the war for tho Union thus far had been a

failure, but the ten States in rebellion,

S2 OD PER YEAR IN ADVANCE 2 50 WITHIN THE YEAR.

icy of the President of the United State3. I ask you, Mr. President, to look at tho emergency now upon us, at the grand crisis through which tfe are now passing, in tho terrible and lurid light of five years civil war look" at it in tho history of Libby prison, and Salisbury, and Andorsonville, and you mustrocognlzo your right not only to protect loyal men hero, but loyal men everywhere.

Mr. President, I regret that I havef injured a very fine voico in donounoing the outrages of tho Democratic party for the last twenty years and I am sorry that the state of my lungs is such that I cannot proceed either with satisfaction to myself or satisfaction to tho Senato. I havo only to repeat that 1 B\mil givo my vcrto for this b'il! in its widest and most extensive scope, not for the purpose of striking down any proper constitut:onal power of the President, but with tho firm determi-: nation to stand upon and assert every constitutional power of the Senato. There I stand and shall stand as long as I bave the horror ta be a member of this high body.

Stolen Money.

In the annual report of John I. Morrison, Treasurer of Stato, tho following paragraph occurs "In order to correct any rni3apprehension which may have arisen front erroneous reports, I wish to state distinctly that the State Treasury has sustained liu lOSS

UUllLIg LUJr uailllu'lulliu

tion. It is true that an adroit thief abstracted four packages of $500 each —$2,000 in all—from tho Treasury, during the transaction of public bus?noss, about noon on the 4th of January, 1866 and, although tho loss was discovered iu a few minutes after thai theft, and detoctives were at once employed to ferret out tho matter, in tho absence of sufficient proof tho thief could not bo brought to justico. The money was thereupon roplaced by a similar amount from my private funds, the Treasury thus losing nothing."

That is the manly and honorable' way of adjusting losses to the public* funds. John I. Morrison, go up. You. have done an unprecedented thing.— It gives us pleasure to state that, in the opinion' of everybody, you havo made as good a State Treasurer a"s Indiana ever had. Instead of stealing yoursolf, you havo made good tho depredations of thieves, "the Treasury thus losing nothing." May tho State always bo blessed With officers as conscientious.—Neva Albany Commercial.

Senator TRUMBULL has been re-elect-ed to tho United States Senato by tho Illinois Legislature. For this act

Wo

accord to the radicals all praise. It is one instance where they have exhibited good judgment. Trumbull's competitors were dirty Logau and a wretch by the namo of Palmer. ,,

We copy the above paragraph from tho Crawfordsville Review, in order that our readers may soe for themselves how totally lost to common courtesy, as well as to every patriotic emotion, a Copperhead editor may become. The Review here hypocritically affects to be gratified with the reflection of Senator Trumbull, when in fact tho only object ho had in view when penning the language above,7was to make a stab at Generals Logan and Palmer whose great and crying sin ia that they rendered gallant and effective service in the field in the suppression of the rebellion. For this they aro denominated by tho Review, "dirty Logan" and "wretch Palmer.":—Rockville Republican.

Six United States Senators havo beeii elected within as many days, and all Radical Republican. Cbas. D. Drake takes tho place of B. Gratz Brown (Republican) from Missouri. Lyman Trumbull succeeds himself from Illinois. Oliver P. Morton succeeds Henry S. Lane (Republican) from Indiana. Roscoo Conkling succeeds Ira Harris (nominally Republican) from N. York. Simon Cameron succeeds Edgar Cowan (JohnsoniteT) from Pennsylvania. Jas. W. Nye succeeds himself from Nevada. In Maryland and Kentucky there is a dead lock in the contest for U. S. Senator iu place of Cresswell (Republican) and Garrett Davis (Rebel). The Republicans have nothing to hopo for in

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A SINGULAR AFFAIR.—Wonienti6hod on Saturday the arrival of the Sheriff of Louisiana, Missouri, with a man named Guthrie arrested atBloomfiold, this State, on charge of murder. Guthrie was lodged in jail here until tho: next day, afd in tho meantime tho pretended Sheriff endeavored to borrow money to take his prisoner to' Missouri. His actions excited suspicion and to hold him, he was arrested on charge of kidnapping. It turns out that both Sheriff and prisoner are escaped jail birds. Guthrie from tho1 Bloomfield jail, and the pretended Sheriff whoso real name is McRoovos, from tho Vincennes jail. Guthrie was taken yesterday to Bloomfield, and McReeves is in our jail awaiting tha demand of the Sheriff of Knox county.— Terre Haute Express.

Tho Post's Washington dispatch saysK that General Sickles' testimony beforo tho Congressional committee, relati'vo to affairs in South Carolina, is very strong. He declares that many counties of that State require constant military control to secure to freedmen aoy of their rights