Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-07-11
From our Washington Correspondent.
WAsHlNeroN CRY. June 29,h, ls5O.

FROM our washington correspondents.
WAsHiNGroN Cry. June 29,h, 1880
The House of Representatives lor the last fur
days has been engaged in the contested election from
Iowa. On the first resolution which was, that Dam
iel F. Miller, (whig) the Contestant, duly elect
ed and entitled 10 his seal. the vote was. ayes %,
%. Then on the vnle iha, Wm. Thompson.
the sitting member elected there were. ayes ga,
noes lu3. The free soilers, with the exception of
Messrs. Wilmot and Julian voting with the Wings.
Mr. McGaughey then offered resolution, that the
vacant. which was adopted. 81 The gentle
will 60 back and try their luck befnre
the people. The investigation brought out some
strange developments of corruption in high places
The question depended upon the legality of sone 40
votes cast at the Mormon settlement on the Missou-
ri river in the Indian country, about 80 miles west
of any organized territory. These Mormons, who
always their leaders tell them had been driv
en- out of Illinois from Nauvoo, and had sought tenn
porary shelter in the Indian country on their way
their future residence in the valley of The Salt Lake.
Orson Hyde was their leader and spiritual father.
and professed Ia speakNin unknown tongues and to
hold direct communion with Heaven. Just before
the election in 1913, this same Orson Hyde visited
Burlington, where resided Col. Fitz Henry Warren,
the present Second Assistant Postmaster General,
who then Chairman of the Wing Executive Com
mittee of Iowa, and had charge of the funds. Mr..
Worren gave Hyde letter TO Hon. Truman Smith,
Chairman of the National Executive Committee at
Washington. This letter enabled HYDE TO purchase
in Cincinnati printing press and materials costing
800 dollars. In return Hyde gave Warren letter
to his brethren and it is curious document,
give it in full:
BURLINGTON, Iowa, July 8, 1S4S.
Dear Friends and Brethren 1T has seemed good
unto me. your brother and companion in ribuation,
and counsellor in the church of God. to advise md
request you to cast your votes, al The ensuing elec-
ton in favor of the Wing candidates for office. This
letter placed in the hands of Col. T. H. Warren,
who will give you the same to be done, all
necessary information how and when to act. due
respect for our prosperity people, and for the
prosperity of The country at large, has influenced me
to give yon the above counsel, and with it give you
the assurance of my hearty good will, and inter-
est in my prayers That Heavens blessings may rest
upon you here, and that His glory may be your re-
ward when the wicked cease from troubling and the
weary at rest. Your brother in Christ.
ORSON HYDE.
precious piece Of cunting hypocrisy. Elder
Hyde gets his printing press, and in return, under
the profession Of revelation from Heaven, he trans
fers the Mormon to the Wing candidate. The
next Thing that is heard Of this transaction, is that
certain agents, acting under the direction Of Col
! Warren sent to Kanesvie, the Mormon village,
10 orgaDze election precinct and to give direction
show and when they act. For this service
Warren admits he paid one hundred and forty dol
lars. Polls opened and about 400 of these
sieat persons, many of whom had not been in the
State one week, voted About sixty of them were
marched off at the expense of the Burlington Wing
Committee, who had charge of the corruption fund
to Dallas county, hundred and eighty miles dis
tant through wilderness country, for the purpose
of casting their votes for the Wing candidate fol
State Senator, taking them about twenty days per-
form the pilgrimage.
! nding this evidence of corruption ant
fraud the most black and datnning ever perperatet
ON the purity of the BALLOT box every whig and al
the free soilers, except Wilmot and Julian, voted
legalize it by giving Miller the seat. The case ha
been sent back to the people, who will determine a
the polls, whether their will is 10 be set aside by
of religious fanatics, whose leaders openly il
the market for bribery and who hypocrilicaIly pro
fess 10 be guided, in all their temporal concerns. by
direct revelation from Heaven.
swinde and there will be some warm times. Craw
| ford will be censured, but told he wall bear
like man. and hold on to his one hundred and six
teen thousand dollars, and his office to bon. Oh
Zack, who loves money, says, that it is shame iha
one of his Cabinet should get more for single fee
in single case, than he gets for his salary during
the whoa term. The Senate will vote on The com
promise bill next Wednesday, at farthesi during
the week. Mr.. Clay seems to be struggling with re
newed vigor to accomplish his object. None doub,
his patriotism or the purity Of his purpose. [ sin
cerely believe that his only anxiety this earth, i
to accomplish this great object aud peace. harmo
ny and good feeling restored between oil parts of tn
Union, before he dies. Aided by such as Cass
Webster, Dickenson, Badger, and Mangum, the objec
would be accomplished but for the influence Of Tay
lor and his Galphin Cabinet. who are determined t.
defeat all compromise aud all settlement, with hop
of securing the re-eec ton of their old chief tla
they may continue feed and fatien the life boo
of the Union. They have already secured the heart
cooperation of the aboliiionsts, and Taylor's 30
niggers will be sufficient security the South Pros
poets ahead are rather gloomy. XAVIER.
/ Monroe County.
The Democratic Convention of Monroe county ha