The Republicans elected both branches of the Legislature and eleven of the fourteen Congressmen.

The aggregate vote for State officers, Congressman-atLarge, and Congressmen, by districts, is as follows:

Governor-R. J. Oglesby.

Lieutenant-Governor-William Bross.

Secretary of State-Sharon Tyndale.
Auditor of Public Accounts-Ö. H. Miner.

Treasurer-Geo. W. Smith.

Superintendent of Public Instruction-Newton Bateman. Attorney-General-Robert G. Ingersoll.

TWENTY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

The Twenty-fifth General Assembly convened January 7, and consisted of the following members:

SENATE.

Daniel W. Munn, Cairo.
John W. Wescott, Xenia.
Dan'l Reily, Kaskaskia.
David K. Green, Salem.
A. W. Metcalf, Edwardsville.
Wm. Shepherd, Jerseyville.
J. M. Woodson, Carlinville.
A. J. Hunter, Paris.
J. L. Tincher, Danville.
W. H. Cheney, Cheney's Gr.
John B. Cohrs, Pekin.
M. McConnel, Jacksonville. J. D. Ward, Chicago.
S. R. Chittenden, Mendon.

Jas. Strain, Monmouth.
T. A. Boyd, Lewiston.
G. L. Fort, Lacon.
W. Bushnell, Ottawa.
A. W. Mack, Kankakee.
Wm. Patton, Sandwich.
D. J. Pinckney, Mt. Morris.
A. Webster, Rock Island.
J. H. Addams, Cedarville.
A. C. Fuller, Belvidere.
F. A. Eastman, Chicago.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

N. R. Casey, Mound City.
P. G. Clemens, New Liberty.
Jas. Macklin, Harrisburg.
J. M. Sharp, Mt. Carmel.
N. Johnson, Mt. Vernon.
Hugh Gregg, Marion.
Dan'l Hay, Nashville.
W.K. Murphy, Pinckneyville.
J. Campbell, Steel's Mills.
E. N. Bates, Centralia.
R. P. Hanna, Fairfield,
D. W. Odell, Oblong.
Eli Bowyer, Olney.
Geo. W. Cornwell, Mason.
Patrick Dolan, Enfield.
A. B. Pope, East St. Louis.
A. Thompson, Belleville.
John H. Yager, Alton.
J. F. Alexander, Greenville.
E. Harlan, Marshall.
Chas. Voris, Windsor.
J. B. Ricks, Taylorville.
J. C. Conkling, Springfield.
Wm. McGalliard, Lincoln.

Wm. C. Shirley, Staunton.
R. M. Knapp, Jerseyville.
H. C. Withers, Carrollton.
J. H. Dennis, Chambersburg.
T. Hollowbush, Naples.
Jas. M. Epler, Virginia.
John M. Beesley, Bath.
F. G. Farrell, Jacksonville.
H. L. Warren, Quincy.
P. J. Corkins, Fairweather.
A. Hanson, Bushnell.
Geo. W. Metz, Rushville.
J. G. Fonda, Fountain Green.
Dan'l W. Sedwick, Suez.
F. M. Bruner, Monmouth.
John Gray, Wataga.
Caleb B. Cox, Vermont.
Geo. W. Fox, Ellisville.
Thos. C. Moore, Peoria.
S. F. Ottman, Wyoming.
Wm. W. Sellers, Pekin.
Wm. M. Smith, Lexington.
H. S. Green, Clinton.
Jas. M. True, Mattoon.

Malden Jones, Tuscola.
N. B. Stage, Bloomfield,
Clark R. Griggs, Urbana.
A. B. Bunn, Decatur.
Dan'l S. Parker, Kankakee.
Geo. E. King, Watseka.
Phil. Collins, Morris.
R. Clow, East Wheatland.
Wm. Strawn, Odell.
E. Baldwin, Farm Ridge.
F. Corwin, LaSalle.
Wm. C. Stacey, Princeton.
R. T. Cassell, Metamora.
A. P. Webber, Henry.
Aug. Allen, Geneseo.
A. S. Coe, Port Byron.
Jas. Dinsmoor, Sterling.
G. Ryon, Paw Paw Grove.
T. J. Hewitt, Foreston.

S. A. Hurlbut, Belvidere.
R. Hampton, E. Paw Paw.
Jas. W. Eddy, Batavia.
Wm. P. Pierce, Lisbon.
E. B. Payne, Waukegan.
T. B. Wakeman, Harvard.
A. I. Enoch, Rockford.
Jos. M. Bailey, Freeport.
Elijah Funk, Mt. Carroll.
Henry Green, Elizabeth.
Henry C. Childs, Wheaton.
Lester L. Bond, Chicago.
Jos. S. Reynolds, Chicago.
H. M. Singer, Chicago.
M. W. Leavitt, Chicago.
H. M. Shepherd, Chicago.
A. F. Stevenson, Chicago.
E. S. Taylor, Evanston.

Lieutenant-Governor Bross presided over the Senate, and Chauncey Ellwood, of DeKalb, was elected Secretary, over J. R. Flynn, of Macoupin, by a vote of 17 to 7.

Franklin Corwin, of LaSalle, was elected Speaker of the House, over Newton R. Casey, of Pulaski, by a vote of 58 to 24. Stephen G. Paddock, of Bureau, was elected Clerk, over M. B. Friend, of Cass, by a vote of 58 to 24.

Among the new members of this Assembly who were able and active were: Munn, Boyd, Fort, Casey, Bates, Hanna, Bowyer, Conkling, Knapp, Hurlbut.

The Governor's message was presented to the Assembly on the 7th. It was an able and somewhat lengthy state paper, in which was a careful and practical discussion of all the State interests. During the two years ending December 1, 1866, the State debt had been reduced $2,607,958.46. The experimental school for idiots, under the direction of Dr. C. T. Wilbur, which was authorized by the previous General Assembly, having proved successful, he recommended additional appropriations in that behalf, as also for the Soldiers' Orphans' Home; recommended an appropriation for a monument to the memory of Abraham

Lincoln; renewed his recommendation in favor of an Industrial College; supported an appropriation in favor of having Illinois properly represented at the Universal Exposition of the Industry of all Nations, at Paris; favored the establishment of a house for the correction of juvenile offenders; recommended a reform in the pardoning power; called attention to the necessity of calling a convention to revise the Constitution.

The two houses met in joint session, January 15, and re-elected Lyman Trumbull United States Senator, over T. Lyle Dickey, by a vote of 76 to 33.

This body was in session fifty-two days. Acts were passed to provide for the erection of a new State House; to locate, construct and carry on the Southern Illinois Penitentiary; to aid the Illinois Soldiers' College; to declare the Normal University, at Normal, a State institution; to remove the remains of Gov. Wm. H. Bissell to Oak Ridge cemetery, and to erect a monument over the same; to establish a Reform School for Juvenile Offenders; to create the office of Attorney-General; to establish a State Board of Equalization of Assessments; to locate the Industrial University; to provide for reducing the rate of State taxation for payment of interest on the public debt; to regulate warehousemen, and authorize connections of railroads with warehouses, and the 14th amendment to the National Constitution was ratified.

Under the law creating the office, Robert G. Ingersoll was appointed Attorney-General.

SPECIAL SESSION.

Gov. Oglesby convened the General Assembly in special session, June 11, to provide, among other things, for the passage of a law for the assessment and collection of taxes on the shares of capital stock in banks and banking associations, and to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate