Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1870 — Hon. Anson Wolcott. [ARTICLE]

Hon. Anson Wolcott.

“lion. A. Wolcott, of White county, has been mentioned by several Republican papers in this district in connection with tl e nomination for Congress. Mr. W. is a gentleman of ability and large experience, and if elected would make a strong member of Congress. He has served four years in the State Senate, and his worth and ability is well known in this part of the State.” —Kentland Gazeltt. * * “We have heretofore said ’ that Gen. Packard was our choice, because we could see nothing in his course to warrant his being beheaded. »W e have not changed our i mind, bat we do believe if the north ! cast the General aside, then they i will have to turn to the south. We are not going to support any other man from the north unless compelled to. The General is not without friends in this county; yet, we have canvassed matters fully, and having no desire to deceive, we give it as our opinion that Mr. Wolcott will carry the county in convention.’’ —Ifonticello Herald. • ■ We make these quotations to show that at least ond or iwo of Mr. Packard’s warmest advocates have a second choice in case the opposition is strong enough in the convention to defeat Mr. Packard’s re-nomination. In the extract from tlmMontioello Herald we italicised

one sentence to direct attention to the tact that people south of the Kankakee river begin to think tjbaC once in tint course of sixteen or eighteen years, their majorities are entitled,, to some other consideration than the bare privilege of voting for men whose local interests are in the northern part of the district.

Gen. Packard and Mr. Powell, publisher of the Laporte Herald , are having an animated personal controversy. The General is anxious to serve his country in Congress, and Powell thinks lie is not exactly the man for the place.— This opinion is harrowing in the extreme to the valiant General, who Whines over it enough to sicken any one. The General says that Powell wanted the post-office, which Powell denies, and says he has a better office than a dozen post-offices.— We discover in Packard a vast amount of demagoguery, mixed with a liberal allowance of meanness, and are not entirely certain but what he is crazy. At any rate, if he is subject to such “tantrums” as that under which he is now laboring, he is not fit tor Congress, and should be suffered to stay at home.— Lebanon , /ad., Patriot , (Republican.) While wc have no desire to interfere in the political concerns of any District of the State outside of our own, nor would presume to do so, without invitation, we may be allowed to briefly notice the capdidacy of Hon. Anson Wolcott, of White county, late a member of the. State Senate, for Representative in Congress from the Eleventh District. Mr. Wolcott’s course in the General Assembly for a period of four years is well known; that it was generally satisfactory and able, will not be doubted, while his special study of National and State finances not only served him in good stead there, but would be of invaluable benefit to him in Congress, should the people of the Eleventh District see proper to elect him as their member of the lower House. — lnd. Jounal.

It is charged all over the District by the friends of Gen. Packard, that the opposition to his renonjination is upon the part of disappointed applicants for post-offices and other positions, and especially has this charge been made against Mr. Powell, tne Editor of the Laporte Herald, yet the Gen. in his letter to Mr. Bel ford, shows this charge against Mr. Powell to be false for he says: “The first thing I heard of Powell's wish as to the P. O. was his request to Dwight Fraser to be an applicant.” Again he says: “He never mentioned it to me.” Perhaps the people will believe that Powell would try. to pefanother man to become an applicant for the office that he desired for himself. And, that he would be angry with and complain of the Gen. for giving the office to the very man whom he had induced to try for it, but we do not think that they are to be thus misled, as to Powell or others. Packard says of the Westville Convention, “Cathcart, not a candidate I would have been nominated by acclamation.” If this be true it means that the north part ot the District having the power would have gone jnto the Westville convention, and nominated Packard over the several candidates from the southern portion by acclamation, and indicates the treatment that the south end would have received at the hands of Packard aud his friends at Westville, and also the treatment that we may expect at the ooining Convention if the Gen. and his friends have the power. If there was no intention to ignore the south override their candidates and nominate by acclamation then tke Geu. has stated lor fact that which is not true. Which horn of this dilemma will the Gen. choose? We of the southern counties have rights, and mean to maintain them at all hazards, and the north-, ern counties will do well to ponder the matter, ere they trample us.— Correspondent MonticeUo Herald.

The workmen at Mr. Kent's artesian well have just bored through a strata of coal three feet thick, apparently coal of good quality, at a depth pf a little over two hundred feet. Mr. Kent contemplates boring in another locality. The State Geologist, t Prof. Cox, baa been written to, asking him to come and make an examination of the specimens, and general indications. The new well will not be begun till after this examination. There is hardly a doubt now that we have an abundance of coal in this region. —Kentland Gazette. There is a bagnio at Goodland, an itinerant institution, lately from Jasper county, we are told.—Kentland Gazette. Supplies generally gravitate towards the demand; the “itinerant institution” is probably in Kentland before this time. Mrs. John Burt, living two or three miles east of this-city, the other week presented her husband with an eighteen pound boy—lß pounds clear avoirdupois by careful steelyard weight. We trust our exchanges will now quit bragging over their small fry babies. —Laporte Herald. The Westville Democrats headed their charter ticket last, with the colored barber of the village. How are you “pepper and salt ! ” —Ldporte Herald.