Indiana State Sentinel

CLERICAL OFFICE-SEEKERS.—The Washington correspondent of the Ohio Statesman says that there were no less than twenty-seven competitors for the office of Chaplain to the U. S. House of Representatives. This race for the chaplaincy always affords a deal of fun in Washington; for the candidates, sometimes in person, and at other times by and through their respective friends, get to abusing each other with as much earnestness, as though all hands, being engaged in electing a ward constable (rather than a chaplain) were 'pretty well in for it.' So the world wags even in black gowns.