Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1870 — The Amende Honorable. [ARTICLE]

The Amende Honorable.

Elsew here will be found a noteworthy record of proceedings TiT Congress on Thursday. It will be remembered that General B. F. Butler made sharp war, a year ago, on our Representative, General Schenck, assailing his integrity, and promising an investigation into his alleged association with the whisky ring. It will also be remembered that Gen. Schenck dared Gen. Butler to bis worst, resting upon his unblemished record for bis own vindication. Now we have Gen. Butler, confessedly the sharpest, keenest, and most relentless investigator in Congress—«r out of it—going out of his way in a general debate in the House, turning to General Schenck in the presence of the House and of the w hole country, saying substantially, “I have wronged General Schenck. I impugned his motives; 1 assailed his integrity—which had been unimpeaelied for three-score years. I associated him with the whisky ring, and I promised to prove my charges by investigation. I have thoroughly investigated for a year, and I am now satisfied that I wronged Gen. Schenek 1 find his record clear. As the charge was publicly made in the House, it is due to General Schenck that the retraction should be made as publicly as the charge. I hereby declare that my allegations were unjust. The investigation shows that General Schenck is a faithful, honest Representative of the people.” This was manly in General Butler, because square retractions are so seldom made, but it adds nothing to the reputation of General Schenck whose perfect integrity to the public is so absolutely known to the thousands who have so long reposed confidence in him. —Dayton Journal. Speaking of congressmen the Laporte Herald says, “When an incumbent finds his renoniination (especially for a second term) strongly and fiercely contested, it may be pretty truly assumed that he himself has not done the ‘clean, thing;’ has made pledges lie did keep; has raised expectations which he knew must be dashed; or has played false and double, pattering and prevaricating —in fine, acting weakly if not basely. A man seldom has enemies in his own party, w ithout deserving them, and all the evil they do him.” At the solicitation of the members of the bar in Laporte, Fulton, Marshall. Lake, Porter and Stark counties, Hon. James Bradley, of Laporte, has consented to be a candidate for Circuit Judge of that district. The letter is signed by upwards of seventy of the promi- j neat men of that cirsuit, without respect to party predeliclions.— Such a demonstration of respect must be very flatteriug to its recipient. Dr. William Ilannaraan has been relieved from further duly as mjli-1 tary agent of Indiana, at bis own ! request. John G. Greenawalt, Ad-1 jutant General of the State, now j performs the exclusive duties of that office, as we are informed by a 1 circular from Gov. Baker. There is a bandbox factory at PWmonth.

I Four cases of delirium tremens iu South Bend. The people in Knox are building a graded school house. The Michigan City sandlappers ure planting shade trees. Cyrus L. Dunham is a candidate for the nomination ,to congress in the Second District. The Presbyterian denomination in Kentlaiul have recently procured, a new bell for their church. The Monticello Constitutionalist says wheat is looking very fine in the eastern part of White county. 11 on. Jno. Reynolds, of South Bend, was stricken with paralysis, while in Chicago a few days ago. Eighteen persons having failed to find their “affinities” have petitioned the Laporte circuit court for disintegration.^ James Huston, of Lincoln township, St. Joseph county, owns a six legged calf which the South Bend Register thinks Barnum will want to “offer a handsome price for.” Two Laporte youngsters wanted “suthin’ stronger iu their’s” and feloniously took six skunk skins from the accumulations of Mr. 11. H. Benton, and went to jail. Gov. Baker has appointed lion. D. W. Lefollette, of New Albany, Judge of the Floyd county criminal court to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of lion. Jno. 11. Butler. The Lafayette Courier claims to be “informed by Judge Schermerhorn, of the I. I). & C. R. R. Company, that the right of way has been secured through all the counties along the line, and the prospects of the road are very flattering.”