The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-01-11
The Enemy in Possession Of the Out
Works.
Incontinem Increment Of SoheHojc'S
Courier.
mr. ~ FLANKED ON THE WAY.

pondcncc Of the journal IN rcgnrd 10 the
Senatorial fight now In progress nt Colum-
bus, italicising the "nObby" portions of Il.
We have no doubt II win be intensely inter
cstlng 10 Sohenck's friends hcrcnbouts, aud
at the same time give our Democratic rcnd-
crs n faint idea Of the manner In which the
abolition cauldron Is boiling just now,
We confess that we have no special Interest
In the termination Of the fight. We don't
care which whips. We may remark, how
ever from very reliable information, that
Schcnck's friends from this section were
on hand IN strong force, but were unable
TO make point II Is said that an over
whclming delegation Of Sherman's friends
will bc IN Columbus when the ball opens
aQain next Wednesday night.
CoLuMDus, Jan. 10, 1865.
Senator Shermans friends Gnrly took the
lobby by storm yesterday afternoon, aud up
every train from the Northern counties.
The effect of 80 many active workers was
visible. General SchGnck's friends, how
ever, were not alarmed about II, hut would
have felt more cOb(Oridbie VI Southern Ohio
hal sent up load 10 couutcract the In
1uencc Oi opposing nHmDrfH.
The Caucus met nflcr tea and organized
by clocting SchenGk man chairman
senator Kellogg Of Ashtabula--but unfor-
tunately he was absent. senator Martin Of
Stark, a friend OF Mr. Shorman's was then
called upon 10 preside. Six members were
| absent
| The ball opened with resolution by
| General Banning to exclude everybody
| but Representatives and Senators, which
.l .Ns.Nt ,.(
the press mad but what rights they have
| IN caucus, ! can't comprehend. Admit
ting the press Is purely matter Of cour-
tcsy, and they show very bad taste by cx-
hibltlng temper II they are not invited. 1
make the point, however, that nothlpg IL
| gained by excluding them, since, If they
understand their business. they win be
sure TO get all the flicts they want Under
such circumstances they ARE under no con
strnlnt, whereas, IL admitted Into caucus
they could Dc controlled. The motion 10
exclude the press carried, aud " was sple-
ncticaly charged by the correspondents of
the COmmerciai and Gdsctte rs II Sc,icnck
movement, and they published everything
they knew, besides some things they
| guessed at.
Hon. Mills Gardner opened up the main
question by resolution postponIng the
| Senatorial election until the adjourned ses-
| sion Of 1867, aud supported u by M able
| speech. A long discussion rnsucd. but the
resolution was voted down. When the vote
was taken, todnt NJ discipiino drnOng
| SehGnck's Criens iods piainv mdnifehted
some Of them voted yea, others IN the
negative The inference that MIR. SIirr-
mans friends drew from the vote aud attn
ted 10 correspondents, wns not fair, for the
vote Of siNty against thirty for postpone
mcnt did not Ht all represent the friends Of
either candidate. The majority vote In
rludcd friends Of Schcnck. Sherman and
! bingham. Since the papers have men
| toned communication OF Gen. Schcnck
| 20 his friends during thG caucus, II t. proper
| to give the ihcts.
The resolution 10 postpone and the atti-
tudc of numbers townrd il was surprise.
| A message was scnt 10 General Schenck, 20
know what should be done about IL. He
replied substantially, that he was not In the
caucus, therefore he could tell nothing
about II, and mllst necessarily leave the
| whole thing To- the discretion Of his friends,
As his friends ioeye mol Hor0ughy discipiiaed.
they Hedttered In the ski7nish, don't know
| by whom the message wns sent from tlie
caucus, but whoever, he was, he mas i,lrOU-
ttnrnt, Cor he "bioioed" Jefore he got across
The STREET.
After this question was disposed Of n
motion 10 90 into nomination toruight was
| voted down, whcn Col. ParrOtt moved the
Il
2ith inst. Another friend of Gen. Schcnck's
moved An amendment naming next We'd
| ncAdAy night. This was carried nj once
aud by large vote. As the question was
taken Uipd DOce u was impossible to deter
mine the relative strength Of the candi-
| dates, btn hs tmpresSiOn mus construed (dUOT-
| attn N bhsrDidn's y friends. ~
The latter did n good deal Of Dragging
and departed themselves like Di0tOrs, but
Schcnck's friends &hOised Gght. My lni-
prcsslons are that Sherman now has few
more votes than Schenck, but not enough 10
nominate him, the balance of power being
held by about ten men who urge bingham
from the Senate. A full Union caucus num-
bers nnety-ilyc aud iorty-clglt votes will
be- necessary tO choice.
Yesterday the Sehenck slate showed nify
votes, but to-day new slate Is necessary.
Shcrman's slate IL alsO broken, and Ills
friends claim from forty-ninc 10 sixty
votes. From this time until the nOmina-
| tiOn, the contest will be strong and active
| I understand that the candidates intend 10
leave the field 10 the exclusive manage
mcnt Of their respective friends. They viii
return t0 Washington.
| I am glad tO say that ~ yet the eam-
paign has bceu conducted without aerl-,
mony. w. u. Is.
Bonds 10 the amount of S332,OOO are 10 he
issued 10 the Union Pacific Railroad COM
pany, for twenty miles Of road now conI-
pleted westward from Lawrence, Kan.
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The boiler of n locomotive on the Toledo,
Wabash and Western railway exploded at
Decatur on Saturday morning, instantly
Ia. al. Il. a.