Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-12-02
POLITICAL.

-Four amendments to the Constitution of
Michigan were voted on at the recent cleo
ton, and all were probably adopted. The
first amendment strikes ont the word white
from the organic law. The second author
ICES County. Supervisors to borrow $4,000
and no more, on their official responsibility
ty, for the purpose of constructing and re-
pairing public highways and bridges The
third regulates the salaries of State officers.
The fourth is in relation to railroads, and
authorizes the Legislature to establish
rates of passenger and freight transporta-
tion; prohibits the consolidation of paral-
lei lines of road, and authorizes the Legis-
lature to provide by law for the payment
of county and town railroad bonds. .
White, late Democratic candidate for
Congress in the First Tennessee Dis
trict, proposes to contest the seat of
Butler, Radical, on the ground of alleged
frauds,
Mr.. Bowen, the present member, writes
that he will contest the seat OF De Large,
the colored Congressman-elect from the
Second South Carolina District. Bowen
claims that the ballot-boxes were stuffed
after the polls were closed 1t is also
charged that De Large was blockade
runner during the war, and took out Eng
lish naturalization papers at Nassau.
Congressman John Cessna, who was
beaten at the late election by Benjamin F.
Myers, Democrat, in the Sixteenth Penn
-,,l,-...:a N;,.r;o4 or ,o,,,oos I,so dntar,nipo
ton to contest Myers seat in the Forty
second Congress. '.ar -
The Alabama Legislature met on the
21st No quorum of the Senate being
present it adjourned until the 22d. The
House temporarily organized and adj
journed. SO 's4--
The official returns show that General
Woodford received exactly 10000. votes in
st. Lawrence county, N. Y. Fl .a
The North Carolina Legislature organ
ICED on the 21st. Hon. I. j. Jarvis, of
Tyrell, was elected Speaker. All the offices
are filled by Democrats. The Governors
message was read, .,...
The authorities in Virginia have counted
out Judge Alex H. Rives, the Republican
candidate for Congress in the Fifth Dis
trct. Judge Rives will contest the seat
The Tallahassee Sentinel, of the 10TH
says q The Florida Senate stands twelve
Republicans to eleven Democrats, with one
still in doubt, and the House twenty-eight
| Republicans to twenty,one Democrats
with four yet to be decided" . =.
The official canvass of the votes in New
York city shows Hofinan's majority to be
52,1s7; Halls majority, 24,4l7. Total vote
on the State ticket, III, 1G8. l..ti )
For Congressman-at- Large in illinois,
John A, Logan, Republican, received f6S,'
S06 votcsi Vim. B, Anderson, Democrat,
144, 19O,.a For State Treasures, e. n. Bates,
! Republican, received 161,601j Charles
Ridgely, Democrat, 144, ,458. ,..a
Aspeeial dispatch received in New York
ON the Goth says the next Legislature OF
Nevada will consist, according to latest
advices, of twelve Republicans and eleven
Democrats in the Senate, with twenty Re
publicans and twenty-six Democrats in
the Assembly. Official returns may posi-
bly, give the Democrats two or three less
in the Assembly .t'.a.s, 'f-.. o- --7-~1
The Illinois Legislature. on official
count, will stand In the, Senate, 81 Re-
publicans and 10 Democrats. The Houses
90 Republicans, rs Democrats, and lnde-
pendents. fl1r5f t.. A-raa 49,. .-st