Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1868 — The Indiana Electoral College. [ARTICLE]

The Indiana Electoral College.

The Electors chosen by the people of Indiana on the 3d of November to cast the votes of this State for President aud Vice President, assembled in the Hall of the House of Representatives at ten o’clock on the morning of the 2d inst. There were present Thos. H, kelson and Benjamin F. Claypool, electors for the State at large. Ist Disk—Andrew L. Robinson. 2d “ —William T. Jones. 3d “ —John Schwartz. 4th “ —John H. Farqnhar. sth “ —Samuel P. Oyler. 7th “ —Robert W. Harrison, Bth “ —James M. Justice. oth “ —Joshua H. Alelletk 10th “ Milo S. Hnscal. 11th “ —Robert S. Dwiggins. Hon. Elihu K. Rose, elector for the ,6th District, did not appear and the other electors proceeded, as provided by law, to fill the vacancy by election. Hon. Horatio C. Newcomb, late managing editor of the Indianapolis Journal was chosen. Hon. B. F. Claypool was made Chairman, and Col. R. W. Harrison, Secretary. The electors proceeded to vote for President and Vico President respectively, and cast the thirteen votes of tho State for Ulysses S. Grant for President and Schuyler Colfax for Vice President. Three copies of the certificate and list of votes were made out- —hue to be mailed to the President of tbe Unjtod States Senate; one to be deposited with the Judge of the United States District Court for tho Pistrjot of Indiana, apd one lu totwni by wspeeial mess Huger TC" Washington, D. C Hon. Thos. H. Nelson, of Terre Haute, was ohosen messenger to carry the vote to Washington. After adjourning, the members of the Electoral College visited the Auditor of Stats and received from him *a neat little present in the shape of a warrant each npon the State Treasurer for the sum of five dollars, aud twenty cents per mile for mileage. Hon. R. S. Dwiggins, Elector for the Eleventh District, was more fortunate. Upon arriving at brsrhorae in Rensselaer, hfi was agreeably surCrised in finding a beautiful daughter ad been born to him on the day ho was honored by casting a vote for Grant and Colfax, Thu* good deeds are recompensed and virtue warded.