Modern battles of Trenton .. . o let it cool for a day and trust to luck for the rest. Friday came all tooslowly for them, andwhen it broke theylearned to their con-sternation that SenatorPeter D. Smith, of Sus-sex, was not among thepresent. The Senatehad eleven Democratsand ten Republicans init. With Smith out ofhis seat, the Senate wastied politically, and thepassage of the bill wasimpossible. No one knew whereSmith was. ColonelDickinson, the chief ofthe Republican opponents of the bill, laughingly confessedto the foiled plotters that he had hidden Smith in a dis-tant woods where he could no
Modern battles of Trenton .. . o let it cool for a day and trust to luck for the rest. Friday came all tooslowly for them, andwhen it broke theylearned to their con-sternation that SenatorPeter D. Smith, of Sus-sex, was not among thepresent. The Senatehad eleven Democratsand ten Republicans init. With Smith out ofhis seat, the Senate wastied politically, and thepassage of the bill wasimpossible. No one knew whereSmith was. ColonelDickinson, the chief ofthe Republican opponents of the bill, laughingly confessedto the foiled plotters that he had hidden Smith in a dis-tant woods where he could not be found. Messengers werescurried in all directions for^ him. They came back withouttidings. Mrs. Smith was importuned by telegraph to flashback his address with the return spark. She only answeredthat the dispatch of inquiry was the first intimation she hadhad that he was not in Trenton. The day had advanced tonoon before they learned that he had gone on a hunting expe-dition into the pines near Manahawken, in Ocean John P. Feeney. MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. 315 Dispatches sent to him there brought no response, and Assembly-men Feeney and ONeill were deputed to go after him. It was a circuitous route to Manahawken from or five changes of cars at little cross-road stations werenecessary. To pass either one of these change stations was tobe carried into Philadelphia or landed at some inaccessiblepoint in Cumberland county. Senator Pfeiffer, of Camden,accompanied them to see that they missed none of the necessaryconnections. They did not fail to observe as they traveled, thatSenator Cranmer, of Ocean, one of the Republican minority,was on the same train, and that as often as they changed hechanged. He protested that he was merely on his way homefor the recess, though when we asked him one time, saidONeill, in telling the story, how to go to Manahawken, hegave us a crooked steer. Chaperoned by the posted Camden Senator, the two anxiousstatesmen reached Mana
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