Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1870 — Letter from Monticello. [ARTICLE]

Letter from Monticello.

Pulaski county voted down the Imposition for » public ur in aid of the Fort Wnyoe and Pacific railroad, by a majority of 787 in a poll of I|o©7 votee. The Miohlgan City Ktderpri m enterprisingly) announces that tho Jasper delegation to the Wanatah convention will oaat the vote of the county for General Jasper Packard. If the delegatee from all the counties claimed by his advocates vote as ours will Mr. Packard’s prospect* for rjenoinination are even less than his chances for election in case ho is nominated. The vote ot this county will not be cast lor him. Both the 'Lafayette Journal and ( ovritr refuse to recognize Judge Test as the uotnince of the Kent* land convention for circuit judge of the 12th district, and have placed the name of David P. Vinton upon their ticket as the regular candidate. We can not see how it will be possible for the republican party to elect both these gentlemen at the same lime, but we can foresee if they both persist in running and pretty evenly divide the party, that a democrat may get the office.

Editors Union: It would seem that Gen. Packard in his efforts to secure a renomination is determined to leave nothing undone that can he done, and while he and his friends raise a great outcry because, as they allege, the opposition to his rcnominalion conies from those who are disappointed by his appointments, the Gen. himself does not fail to use, his appointments where they can profit him in the least, and that, too, by an unfair means, in one instance at least as I shall show. On the fly leaf of bis address before the G. A. It. in Washington City, D. ,C., March 20th, 1870, which he lias published, he addresses his comrades and claims special credit for his appointment of soldiers and says, “The postmaster at Monlicclto was a soldier who enlisted as a private.” This, 1 am told by one who knows, is true, and the truth further told is that at the time of the appointineut cf the present incumbent Gen. Packard did not know whether he had been a soldier or not, but after the appointment had been made he wrote and enquired as to the fact. The Gen. did know that he was appointing the editor of the Herald , but did not know that he was appointing a sdldier. He now claims credit for the appointment of a soldier. I think he meant to buy the influence of the Herald and the course of its editor on the congressional nomination warrants the conclusion. Hut 1 ihe present incumbent of the Monticello post office succeeds Mr. Dagne who was the editor of the Heruld when the Gen. went into office, and at that time Daguc and two soldiers who had each served long and faithfully in the army, and each of whom were as equally competent for the position as was Mr. Dagne, were applicants f9t the office and sent their recommendations, signed by good and tine men, to Gen. Packard. The result was that both soldiers were passed by, and Mr. Dague, a'civilian, received the appointment. Of this lefthanded compliment to his comrads in arms the Gen. in bis fly leaf circolar 6nys nothing Perhaps he would have mentioned it had he not forgotten it, but whether he has forgotten the matter 'or not there are those who bear honorable scars who have not forgotten and can regard only with contempt the man who under such circumstances claims credit for the appointment ot the postmaster at Monticello. Index. Monticello, June 7th, 1870.