Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-10-25
POLITICAL.

mittee of Pennsylvania have decidea "
contest the election of Judge Sharswooo.
| "a General Siegel, William Cullen
Bryant and Henry Ward Beecher nave
| signed a petition for the impeachment OF
johnson.
| Is General Sheridan has designated 10
the committee of reception in the city OF
Chicago that he will be able to be In tha1
city on or about the Goth of November.
| gyA large Republican mass meeting
| in New York, on the 10th, nominated
General Grant for the Presidency. The
| late Cook county, Ill, Republican Conyen-
| ton in Chicago did the same thing.
| gB Governor Seymour, of New York,
in conversation with q gentleman IN the
central part of that State, the, other day,
| said that he did not take political paper,
nor had he for long time. The largest
share of his followers practice the same me
self denial IS 2sa4ee
| GY- Alate number of the Toledo Btaac
asserts, on what it claims as good authority,
that Hon, Ben. f. Wade, has no idea of re
firing from public life. His friends viii,
next fall, present him as candidate Tor
Congressional Representative from the
Nineteenth (Garield's) District ,s,4r.
g5s 1t Is fortunate for ValIandigham,
says the Providence Journal, that Morgan,
who made the raid into Ohio, and was cap
tured and escaped, had not lived and be-
come citizen of the State. His claim
would come in direct competition with the
acknowledged leader of the Ohio Democ-
racy. .ro "a 3qs.
as The United States Senatorial oues-
ton has already been started among the
Ohio Democracy. The Dayton Empire,
his home organ, has started Vallandigham
the Cincinnati EaquSgor comes out for
| Pendleton, and the Columbus copperhead
organ declares for Thurman, who is the last
martyr. writ
US In Philadelphia, r. M. Ballurs, Re-
publican candidate for Clerk of the Or
phans' Court; VIM. Campbell, Republican
candidate for Register of Wills, and Benz.
Urwilel, Republican candidate for County
Commissioner, are going to contest the
elections of General Leech, General Baller
and Mr.. Megory. IL uyo291
| a85 The official returns of the Colorado
| election show q large increase in the pop
ular vote, it being 9,349 against 6,996 last
Iyear The straight Republican majority
at the late election, was 49, The COM
| blned vote OF the straight and Independent
| Republicans. give total of 876 majority
lover the Democrats; an increase of 76S
over last year.
| GB Returns from eighty counties in Iowa
give Republican majority of twenty five
| thousand five hundred and seventy Re-
turns from the other eighteen will make
| the majority about twenty eight thousand
| Grundy county is the banner county Of
the State, having cast two thousand eight
| hundred and eighty Republican votes to
eight copperhe I'd votes. III -
| G.& In regard to the town of Jackson,
Ohio, where all the voters, 400 in number,
voted the Democratic ticket the New York
| Commercial remarks: eve had occasion
to travel through that portion of Ohio a
few years since, when a colporteur inform
ed us, as the result of his observations and
| inquiries, that but one in thirty of the peo-
| pie could read, while on an average only
one In -fifty-five persons possessed Bible"
Us One OF the largest claims of cotton
now before the Treasury Department is
that of former President of New York
bank, who went South at the beginning of
| the rebellion, carrying with him large
| sums of money. His claim is for 900 bales
of cotton. captured by General Sherman
| at the fall of Savannah. The Treasury
| Department has refused to pay the claim,
| and the lobby is now at work with the
President, demanding McCulloch's re-
moval
gB The official vote Of Montana, at the
late election for Delegate to Congress, was:
For James M. Cavanaugh, Democrat, GALS;
for Wilbur F. Sanders, Republican, SITS.
Majority for Cavanaugh, 1910. Two years
ago the vote was: for Mclean, Democrat,
3,s0S; for Epson, Republican, g, 422. The
| total vote this year is II 500, an increase of
1886. In the last election there were 1913
Democratic to every 100 Republican votes.
while two years ago there were 157 Demo
cratic to every 100 Republican votes.
gB The Pennsylvania papers state that
| it is the intention of Mr.. Ketchum to con-
test the scat of Judge Woodward, elected
to Congress from the Twelfth District of
that State to fill the vacancy created by
| the death of Mr.. Dennison. Judge Wood.
ward, by the returns, has 178 majority.
Since the election, naturalization frauds,
have been discovered in Luzerne county
sufficient to give the seat to Ketchum. Six
hundred fraudulent naturalization certif-
Gates arekuown to have been issued in that
county
g8 Vallandigham seems to have broken
down almost at the start as candidate for
United States Senator. Beyond his en-
dorsement by the Butler county meeting
which was got upand engineered by him
self for the special purpose, and by his
home organ, the Dayton Empdre-there
comes no voice in his favor from any other
part of the State. On the other hand,
quite number of the Copperhad papers
have commenced urging Thurman's claims,
who is the latest martyr, and, of course,
can show the ugliest wounds. Pendlcton's