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| Ledger is for sale, the proprietor having.
4 lost the: use of his right hand>—The

Letter From Genéral Pack-
ard.

Laportn, Ind., June 15, 1868.

C. G. Powrit, Esq.—Dear Sir.—From
the last two numbers of the Michigan
City @nierprise, it seems that a misunder-
standing has existed in xeference to my
supposed declination of the candidacy
for Congress. No one can regret the oc-
I suppose that
it igs now understood that the error
arose from a conversation between you
and myself; yet I deem it but just to my-
self, and to ail the parties concerned, that

I should make a brief statement. of the
facts. When the conversation which led
to the misunderstanding between us’ oc=
curred, I had not fully made up my mind
to be 3 candidate. As early a3 February
last, I was in receipt of letters from va-
rious parts of the Disirict, giving me,
unsolicited agsurances of support,
should I be a candidate. Still I wag un-
decided, not feeling certain that my
chances were sufficiently favorable to
warrant me in making the race. “On the
Monday evening following our. County.
Convention, I received letters which ena-
bied me to say positively that I would go
before the Convention. This was pre-
vious to any positive knowledge that Mr.
Cathcart would be a candidate, bui. after
there were current reports to that effect.

While my mind was thus. undecided,
the conversation with you occurred.—
We had heard the reports that Mr. Cath-
cart would be «candidate. T expressed
the desire to know whether or not the
reports were true; and it w:
between us that you write a
| My sole object was that I might have the
| truth before my mind in determining my
| own future course; and it Ke ‘Once OC-

( LO -anything more would
be written, than a simple inquiry as to
the truth of the reports. That you had
a different understanding I have no
doubt,. yet I know that such a construc-
tion was wholly foreign to my intentions.
Hence my letter to Mr. Jernegan, of the
6th inst. My first impression was that
some person had maliciously mis-inform-
ed him; and hence [ made 2 positive de-
nial of the statement, for I was not con-
‘scious thén, nor am I now conscious, of
having given authority for the contents
of your letter to Mr. Cathcart. The in-
ference drawn by you from my language,
must have arisen from the uncertainty I
felfin regard to the matter; and per-
haps-a previously formed opinioa of your
Own as to my probable coursé.
- [trust this will be accepted as a full
explanation.. I make no charge on any
‘one. Ido not believe any one hag in-
tentionally. done wrong. I believe all,
have acted in good faith. Itis simply a
misunderstanding. There let us leave
it. ‘Very t

ruly yours, :
* JasPeR PACKARD. ~

Tam satisfied by the way that Gen.
Packard has treated this matter from the’
commencement. aud from his statement
‘| made of the conversation alluded to, that
‘| 7 saw bin next, afew days after the said-
conversation, be informed me that he
had concluded to be a candidate, and
should endeavor ro secure the nomina-
tion.” T spoke of the letrer I had written”
to Mr. Catbeart, to which he made no
reply. I bowever wa3 going to West-
| ville on Friday, and@ thought I would)
meet Mr. Catheart there and inform him
of the General’s purposes. but did not see
him as I had expected, and the first thing
I did on Saturday morning after my re-
turn, was to write him by mail. <I did |
not suppose that there was or could be
any misunderstanding about that con-
versation between Gen. Packard and
myself, until the Michigan City Enter:
prise alluded to my first letter, two weeks
after it was written, by saying that the
General had authoritatively” withdrawn
from the canvass in favor of Mr. Cath-
cart. Packard sent a frank denial of
this to all parts of the district at once,

a aaa

newspapers towards the close of last
week. I thought then it was time that
he and I had better understand each oth-
er, and hence for the first time-since-I
wrote the first letter to Mr. Catheari, 1
{learned his understanding «of ther -con-"
versation. I regret the cceurrence of |
this mishap, which has indeed been very
painful to me, and am certain that it
was only the result of a misapprehension
-—this‘and nothing more, and feel that
I did my duty at as early a moment ‘as
possible, in giving notice to Mr. Cathcart
of the change of the programme. — I trast
that nothing more unpleasant or disa-
greeable may grow out’ of it, and will
certainly try; so far-as I am concerned,
when requested to write a letter for a
friend, to known precisely what he wants
written before Icommence. OC. G. P.
rr a ee ——

From Our Neighbors.

Sovrn Brnp.—Mrs. Ed. Molloy has
become associate editress of the Union
——tThe ‘Constellations’ have been do-
ing theatricals for the ‘Benders’ this
week The examinations at Notre
Dame commenced last Thursday-——The
house of H. Jaquith was struck by light-
ning on the night of the 11th——There
ig a ‘‘Bachelor’s convivial club’ at the
Bend——An attempt was made to rob
the money drawer of Wagoner’s saloon
———The wood-shed adjoining the Dwight
House was burned on the moruing of the
llth; loss about-$500. Koes

Crown Point. —The Point has ‘‘ad-
vanced to the dignity of an incorporated
town——J. H.SLuther had his breeches
stolen the other night, and with them
$80. in cash———The potato bugs have
made their appearance——The liquor li-
cense law is virtually a dead letter in
Leke county. Not more than one-fourth
of the entire number of saloons in it have
complied with ita requirements——-The
Board of Commissioners last week ap-
pointed Mr. James H. Ball School Hxam-
iners for this county vice Mr. Cheshire,
Clerk of the Circuit Court The Audi-
tor’s report of the condition of the finan-
ces of Lake county, shows a net balance
of over fifteen thousand dollars in the
treasury——The Fourth will be duly
celebrated at the Point; Gen. Packard
of Laporte will deliver the oration
PiymoutH.—Rebecca Longshore bas
been lecturing to the ladies on physiolo-
gy——The Demotrats willtry to have a
rally at Uniontdwn to-day The Ger- |
man cornet band gave a pic nic on Wed-
nesday last——-On the 11th “some out-
siders” uncivilly interrupted a game of
base ball which was being played by the
Star club ;-in the melee which occurred,
Oliver Mohan, a member of the club;
was wounded in the arm by a ruffian.
named: Clarence Reed, who used a knife
While the silver band was playing
at the depot a tew evenings since, a
mean fellow cut a)hole in one of the
heads of the bass drum The Republi-
can County Convention meets to-day
The Juue bugs are infesting the eity in
countless numbers——The Republican ex-
horts the citizens to “‘rouse up” end make
arrangements for celebrating the Fourth.
VatPparaiso.—A Grant-Colfax club has
been organized——The graduating exer-
cises of the V. M. & F. College took
place last Thursday: the fall term. will
open Aug. 26th——The Democrats talk
of putting Hon. Samuel L. Anthony on
the track for Congress——The ‘‘Lookout”’
club has challenged the ‘Hoosier’?——
There will be a grand ball at the Earl
House on the evening of the 8d of July.
The Republican complains of the
miserable condition of the county jail’
Mr. Porter, for many years postmas-
ter at Hickory Point, died suddenly sev-
eral days since. Upon the Friday pre-j
day previous he attended the funeral -of
a friend apparently in good health ; but
upon the next Tuesday his remains were
escorted by his neighbors to his own
tomb. :
MiscetLanrous.—Capt. W. L. McCon-
nell, of Bennselaer, is candidate for
Judge of the Common Pleas——The Re-
“publicans of Jasper meet to-day to select
| delegates to the Congressional Conven-
tion at Westville——Asaph Reeves, of
Jasper, killed a Lynx recently——Some
bold thieves in Rennsselaer stole two.
horses, hitched them to a “light wagon,”
drove to Hopkins’ store, loaded it with
dry goods, shoes; ete., and came near
getting off with their booty; as it was
they decamped with the cash of the
money drawer-——The physicians of
Whitley county have ovganized.a medi-
cal association—-The Stark “county

F¥

Unionists-of Noble have put in the field

as sugpesied
d ascertain. |

without my knowledge,-and the first that}. ~
I was informed of this was by seeing |.
these denials published in the various |)

“From the South Bend Register. -

Timothy Field; Treasurer, Shepardson ;

Clerk, Dr. J. H. Rerick; Recorder, J. C.

Gurnea——-The Grant club at. Kendall-

ville has secured a six-pound brass can-

non for campaign thunder Fulton

county iseued. 9 marriage licenses for

May———Samuel Heffley, a journeyman
blaékamith, mysteriously disappeared

from Rochester on the 1st inst., and has

not been heard of since——Warsaw has

four soda fountains——The county com-

missioners of Kosciusko refused to let
the Universalista have the Court House
__—The Brainard medical society held
ita tenth annual meeting at Winamac on
the 24-———Mr. James Douglass, living ©
few miles east of Warsaw, lost one of his
children recently by a distressing casual-:
ty; two or three of his children were
playing about a board-kiln, from which
some of the lumber had been removed,
réndering the remaining portion hable
to topple over, which it did, burying two
of the children, completely crushing, and
instantly killing alittle boy about three
years old; the other one was not much hurt
The Universalists of Pierceton are
pitilding an $8,000 church——Mrs.
Eversole, living about six miles west of
Waterford, Elkhart county, had her arm
dislocatéd-on Thursday of last week by a.
fall—_—-Rev. .Frank B. Cressey has ac-
cepted the call of the Baptist Church of
Goshen, and become its: permanent pas-
tor. Mr. Cressey was formerly a resi-
dent of Minneapolis, Minn., but, for the
lest three years has been a student at
Rochester, N. ¥., where ke recently
graduated——-Copper ore has been found
on the farm of Mrs ook near Misha-
‘waka.

The Congressional Race..
Judge Test, of White county, was in
town last week. He is a candidate for
Congress to fill the place of Hon. Schuy-
ler Colfax. On Wednesday.evening he |
gave expression to his views in a speech
of some half hours’ duration, which was
listened to by a fair audience. His re-
marks-were well received, and he is rad-
ical to the core. We publish in another
column an extract from the Lafayette
Courier, which briefly gives his public
career.—Crown Point Register of the 11th
inst.

“JUDGE TEST FOR CONGRESS.

Judge Charles H. Test is prominently
named in connection with the nomination
for Congress in the place of Colfax, in
the Eleventh District. The Judge has
been many years in public life—was co-
temporety with Hon. Caleb B. Smith,
‘Hon. Oliver H. Smith, Hon. Samuel Par-
| ker, and others of the old guard—was a
member of the Philadelphia Convention,
and aided in the construction of the first
-platform “upon which the Republican
party was organized. He will give
strength to the ticket, and if nominated
will no doubt be elected. The conven-
tion takes place on the 24th. There are
a number of candidates. —Lafayette Cour-
ier... : rt

We have received a communication,
but too late for this issue, favorin the
‘this place, (Rensselaer) for Congress.—
We do not know that Col. Hammond
will allow his name to come before the.
| convention as a candidate, but we feel

ceptable to the people of this county, or
| who would-poll a heavier vote. It would
‘give us great pleasure to see him nomi-
nated, and we would go into the contest.
“with a full assurance of victory at the
polls.—Jroquois Press. — 4

'The Grant and Colfax club will be ad-

He is a cand

claim that he will certainly be nomina-
ted. —Plymouth Republican of 11th inst.
GENERAL JASPER PACKARD.
oi Laporte, Ind., June 8.
To the Editor of the Chicago Tribune: 4

The announcement made in last Fri-
day’s Michigan City  Hnterprise, that.
General Packard of this place had wit:
drawn from the Congressional race i
mistake, though doubtless made in.
i faith by. t © editgref that journal. The
General is on the track and the prospect
looks fair for his success in the conven-
tion, which assembles at Westville on the
24th inst. Indeed, his friends contend
that his prospects are far superior to
those of any other aspirant, and are la-
“boring hard-and zealously to make his
nomination s certainty.

The General is a young man of supe-
rior abilities, a fluent and forcible speak-
er, energetic and faithful in the dis-
charge of every duty. The same argu-
ments which were used in behalf of Mr.
_Colfax’s nomination at Chicago, can be
used as firmly in favor of General Pack-.
ard’s nomination for Congress. He truly
represents the enthusiasm, the morality,
the virtues and integrity of the young
and vigorous Republican party.

: : O. H. B.

The Republican Porter County Con-
vention, held at Valparaiso, June 6th,
1868, unanimously adopted the following
resolutions:

Resolved, That the delegates attending
the Union Republican Convention, at
Westville, on the 24th of June, from this
county, be, and they are hereby instruct-
ed to present the name of Aaron Gurney
as candidate for Congress, and that they
continueto cast the vote of Porter coun-
ty for, and urge his nomination in the
said Convention, so long as there appears
‘to be a reasonable probability of bis
nomination.

PersonaL.—We were favored, on last
Thursday, with a call from the Hon. A.
Wolcott, of White county. Mr. Woleott
is before the people as.a candidate for
Congress, and will, if nominated, receive
the cordial support of the Republicans of '
his District. He has served one term in
the House, and one term in the Senate of
our State.—Plymouih Republican of 11th
inst. :

Charles W. Cathcart is well known to
all our readers, having been many times
before the public. He has served in the
lower House Congress, and by ap-
pointment of Gov. Wright filled an unex-
pired term in the United States Senate.
He was a Democrat until the outbreak of
the rebellion, when he ‘‘came over into
Macedonia” and helped us manfully dur-
ing the war. For tuis he gained the ha-
tred -of the Democratic party, and as
might be expecied, is to-day very unpop-
ular with that class of politicians. He
is a very eloquent speaker, and if nomi--
nated would make a very strong and ef-
ficient canvass. Heran against Colfax
on the Democratic ticket in 1860.

-Gen. Packard, of Laporte, was a sol-.
dier during the war, and at its close was
elected Auditor of Laporte. county. He
is represented by his friends to be a
warm-hearted, whole-souled, genial gen-
tleman, of fine education and first class
abilities. He is an effective speaker and
for this reason was chosen one of the
Presidential Electors at our last State
Convention. Whether nominated or not,
our people will have a taste of his ora-
tory, as in either event he will be before
the public.— Valparaiso Republican. —

HON. SIDNEY KEITH.
Among the names proposed to fill the

| place which the Chicago Convention

made'vacant, by putting Schuyler Colfax |
upon the National ticket, we would men-
tion the name of Hon. Sidney Keith, of
Rochester, Fulton County.. Mr. Keith

‘has long been a resident of-the District,

is a lawyer of ability, and is ‘a good pub-
lie speaker, which willl enable him to
render good service in the coming cam-
paign. He is well acquainted with gov-

-ernmental affairs, and enjoys the implic-

it confidence of all who know him.” Sit-
uated as he isin the central part of the
District, we think there could be no dis-
satisfaction as to locality.

He is true to the Platform.

' Many Faienps.

Prosecurina ArTrorney.— Lieutenant
Parmalee, formerly of this County, now
a resident of Rochester, in Fulton Coun-
ty, is a. eandidate for the office of Prose-
euting Attorney before the- Westville
Convention of the 24th. Mr. Parmalee
was 2-fevorite bere with those who knew

LOR OR LAAT ; j
him, is a well: re. as so bid Lk sige

and able man, and every way wo.

the following ticket; Representative,

and qualified for th ition. — Vides,
ad Republic, 2. position. Hageite |

B

assured that no man would be more ac-

cheerfully acknowledge their integrity
5 i

| the honors?

For The Union and Herala, 5 .
Gur Candidate for Congress,

Within a week the Congressional Con=
vention meets at Westville. Who will be
the nominee? Truly a difficult question
to answer. January and May seem to
be-vieing with each other for this posi-
tion of henor, and one or the other must
carry off the prize. Ifthe parity expects
to derive any permanent benefit and
make the District sure for the future, we
should select a young men capable of giv-
ing us a thorough and vigorous canvass ;°
onein whom the fires. of ambition have
not been quenched, who is willing to en-
ter upon the life of a pclitical student
and familiarize himself with all the great
questions likely to engage the public
mind for years to come. A gentleman
with the weight of sixty years on his
shoulders, san at best, if nominated,

serve us but one-term, and two years
hence we would be confronted with the
same difficulty that tantalizes us now.—
Much will be expected from the successor
of Mr. Colfax, whose. dilligent attention
to the wants of his constituents has edu-
cated the mass of the people of the Dis-
trict to believe that the duties of a Con-
gressman embraces about everything
from an errand boy to a first-class law-
‘maker. Will these demands incident to
Congressional life be met and discharged
better by a young man than an old one?
The secret of Southern success. consisted
in the fact that she selected her young men
to fill all posts-of this kind. She trained
and educated them for its duties.» Law-
making to them- became a profession to
which they gave all theirtime. They
became ready
and able parliameniar
-advantage of the first sympte

ering or confusion in the line of the en-
emy, and thus for forty years they con-
trolled the foreign and domestic policy. of
the Government—secured positions on
the bench and wielded a power altogether
disproportioned to the population they
represented. Think you that Mr. Colfax
would be the nominee of the Republican
Convention for Vice President had we at
the end of the first term dropped him in
search of another. When be made his
first race he was a beardless boy—his
party was in the minority. His first en-
counter was with one of the ablest men
| of the Democratic party—true, he was de-
feated, but he rose from it stronger than

, ready to take.

success of his party was. assured. What
we need above all things is a young man
in whom the party has some capital—one
ambitious tosignalize himself and win
the good opinions of his fellow citizens—
one who will fully realize that his con

ability he brings to the discussion of
great questions—one to whom a long life
is not improbable. If we select # gen-
tleman who has-already touched on the
border of three-score, we start with the
conviction limit hig abil-

| ae f him! = =

tumn of life is not the time to cultivate
political hopes,or start on thp rugged path
| that leads to éminence—and four years

hence at best, new. and, untried feet will
he placed on the road, unaccustomed to

the ruts and obstructions in the way.

| gentlemen who believe that another Col-
fax can be picked upon demand. Heis

| his own parrallel—in the whole nation {|

there is none other like him—and the
fman capable of filling his position has
/not yet been born. But we can at least
‘approximate his
least make #n ef

forward one
dicate himself
the service of

which are overflowing the country; the
customs and habits of former days which
have become ingrained and deeply root-

ina moment. Unperceived almost they
steal upon one, and color the judgment ;
‘they suggest that the world is going too
fast, that the roads they trod in their
youth are the only safe ones now. Then
let us take a young man who has been
’ baptised in the ideas of the great, revolu-
tion through which we have just passed ;
who sympathizes heartily with the pulsa-

and who only knows the past from bocks,
not experience—with such an one we
can trustfully anticipate success in the
canvass, and feel that the reformations
inaugurated by the Republican party
will be carried out, aud the nation placed
on the broad plain of equal rights and
exact justice to all. : S

But whoever he may be, the duty of
the party remains the same. Hf it is old
age with its wisdom, or youth. with its

poise of faculties—the battle must. be
fought with dagh-and fortitude.
ering of the standard,-no wavering of
the column ; but with weapons all bur-
nished, under the lead of the Great Cap-

with the invincible intrepidity. which has
tied this District so often in the past to
victory; ‘and young and old must vie
with each other in the noble work unto
which we are called. With the sincere
hope that the deliberation. of the Conven-
tion may be characterized with calmness
and dignity,” and its ohoice reflect the
most enlightened sentiment of all who
shall assemble, I await in patience its
results. : SILEX.

A word trom a Soldier.
Laporte Co, June 19 ’68.

Editor Union-and Herald:—Allow me
to say a word about the man who ought
to succeed our honored Colfax... We have
several candidates, just and true men. It
strikes me, however, that the. Union and
Herald has not put forward the claims of
your fellow townsman Gen. Jasper Pack-

ard, in a manner befitting his merits.
I had the honor to know the General
in 1855, when the first signs of the storm

began to perplex the country. 1 knew
him then, as now, for a modest unassum-

true as steel to the principles 6! :
When the ery: ‘to arms” rang through
the land, we all know he shouldered his
musket, going out es a private. He
came back with the well-earned stars on
his shoulders, won by bravery in the
field. Bearing also the scars of honora-
ble wounds—wounds that were all but
mortal. ——
In his civilian’s record and ability he
may be ranked by his honorable compe-

rtitors, who, I believe, are all civilians ;

but in his war record, to: mecand others
of my class he is so much ahead.
Comrades, choose. ye, civilian or a
man every inch a soldier. Who deserves
A Sopisr.

The Cincinnati Commercial of the
14th says that twenty-four members of
the Democratic delegation of Ohio to the
National Convention had a caucus at the
Burnet House a few days ago. ‘he spe-
cial subject of the discussion by the
convention was the financial policy of
the party. It turned out that only seven

‘out-of the twenty-four delegates were’

converts to the Pendletonian-Enquirer

greenbacks. :

—A Washington dispatch says thet
the impeachment managers have suc-
ceeded in tracing the sum of $60,000 to
the doors of a certain Western Senator,
in the shape of two drafis of $30,000

drafts were cashed in the name of anoth-

now be found. —

Atlanta paper come out for

tp have

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Grant and Colfax.

and adroit debaters, acute }

ns of wav- |

ever—and from that hour the ultimate |

tinuance in public life depends on the |;

~ the au- jj

In making these suggestions I do not |
| wish to be classed with those sanguine |

ellence, we can at |

ed are not to be altered or sponged out},

tions of our newer and better Civilization, |

enthusiasm, or middle age with its equi- |}

Nolow- +

tain we must march to the great conflict |

ing gentleman, and a loyal Republican,

doctrine of paying the national debt in)

each, but they have singe found that the |.

er party or parties, some of whom cannot

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