Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-08-20

| rough named Ed. Burns, and badly cut and
beaten with brass knuckles.
| Vincent Collyer has received a commits
sion from the Secretary of the Interior, and
left on the 18th to visit the Indians of Alas
ka. On his return he will see those of the
Northwest.
POLITICAL.
General Rosecrans has declined the
nomination Cor Governor of Ohio. The
following is his dispatch to Hon. A. G..
Thurman, from San Francisco: "After
the war resigned a very desirable posi-
tion in the army and left my State, to Sc
cure at least the possibility of fulfilling the
duties deemed sacred to my creditors, and
find those duties forbid me the honor of
leading the Democracy of Ohio in the
pending canvass for Governor"
An order issued by General Candy at
Richmond, August 8, revokes the previous
order of General Stoneman exempting
| from taking the test oath Commissioners
in Chancery, and removes all such officers
who cannot take the oath. This order
was regarded at Washington as an as
surance that, unless prevented by the in
terposition of higher authority, he will
enforce the requirement for the test oath
on the recently elected members of the
Legislature.
The Kentucky Legislature is composed
of ninety-two Democrats and eight
Republicans, in the lower House, and in
the Senate, thirty-six Democrats and two
Republicans
Governor Senter met with an enthusias-
tic reception at Nashville on the 10TH
A Montgomery, Ala, dispatch of the
10th says: "Full returns from the Third
Congressional District give Heflin (Repub-
lican) 260 majority over Parkinson. The
delegation will stand as follows: Buck
from the First District, Buckley from the
Second, Hefiin from the Third and Hayes
from the Fourth-all Republicans. Dix
and Sherman, Democrats, from the Fifth
and Sixth Districts. This is a Democratic
gain of two, the delegation in the Fortieth
Congress being all Republicans"
At a Cabinet meeting on the 10th, all
the members were present except Secre-
tary Boutwell, and Attorney General Hoar
The principal business was the disposal of
routine matters from the several Depart
ments, but, just previous to the adjourn
ment, the Cuban-Spanish question was
brought up. 1t was generally believed in
Washington that it was agreed to detain
the Spanish gunboats seized in New York
until some definite news is received from
Spain.
At the Connecticut State Temperance
Convention, held at Hartford on the 18th,
to appoint delegates to the National Tenn
perance Convention, resolution was
adopted, nineteen to fifteen, that, in the
opinion of the convention, the interest of
the temperance cause would be advanced
by the formation of an Independent polit-
ical temperance party. Resolutions were
also adopted pledging the convention not
to vote for legislators or executive unless
they will favor and sustain prohibitory
legislation. .ss.E
A Washington telegram of the 18th
says: "General Grant has not, either in
conversation or by letter, requested Judge
Dent to withdraw from the Mississippi
canvass, and in view of the complications,
it is reiterated that Judge Dent will can
vass Mississippi in the interest of the
Conservative Republican candidates,
whether himself or another leads the
ticket Meantime the Judge continues a
candidate before the convention"
A Nashville dispatch of the 11th says ::
"Senter's majority is 62,0Go, with nine
teen counties to hear from. The State
Senate, composed of twenty-five mem
bers, stands twenty-one Conservatives to
four Conservative Republicans The
House of Representatives, composed of
eighty four members, stands sixty-seven
Conservatives, nine Radicals, and six
Conservative Republicans, with two dis
tricts to hear from" s
Montana has voted, by majority of
600, to remove the capital of the Territory
to Helena.
The members of the Democratic State
Central Committee of Ohio have filled the
vacancy caused by the declination of Gen.
Rosecrans as candidate for Governor, by
unanimously nominating George I'll.
Pendleton, who has accepted.
The California general election for
County officers and Members of the Legis-
lature comes off September Il that for
Judges ofthe Supreme Court October 90.
A Jackson, Miss, telegram of the 18th
says: "Judge Jeffards, of the Supreme
Court; A. Warner, Secretary of State
Judge Speer, of the Criminal Court OF
Warren county, with large number of
minor officers, were to-day removed by
General Ames The persons above named
are prominent in the Conservative move
| ment in this State"
Another Dodge.
Somebody from New York, signing
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