Senator  Foster  of  Connecticut,  (Vice-president,-
ex-officio)  and  Senator  Doolittle  of  Wisconsin,  have
just  started  south-west  on  an  expedition  to  Santa
Fe  in  New  Mexico.  They  take  a  body  guard  of
over  one  hundred  cavalrymen,  and  will  sweep  around
through  Colorado,  across  the  Overland  Route  to  the
upper  Missouri,  and  come  down  through  Nebraska.
The  two  Senators  are  a  part  of  a  joint  committee


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