Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-09-09

York, by the Workingmen's Contra
Union, local political organization.
A. j Hunter, Of Paris, is the Democrat
ic candidate for Congress in the Seventh
Illinois District.
The Republicans of the First Congress
sional District of South Carolina have
put in nomination State Senator Rainey
(colored), to fill Mr.. Whitternore's unex
pired term in the Forty first, and also the
full term in the Forty-second Congress
Congressional nominations on the Both
Republican-Third Michigan District
Austin Blair, re-nominated; Third Illinois
81. g. Burchard, re-nominated. Demo
cratic-Eighteenth Ohio, J. M. Gotten.
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Is The New York Democratic State Cen
tral Committee has appointed the 21st Of
September as the time for holding the
Democratic Convention at Rochester. ?
Congressional nominations on the 31st
Republican, Fourth Michigan District,
T. W. Ferry, re-nominated Sixth Mich
igan, j. F. briggs. Temperance-Eight-
eenth Ohio, John D. Taylor. At Large,
in Illinois, John v. Farwell, of Chicago
The Prohibition Party of Illinois, in
Convention at Bloomington on the 31st
nominated: For State Treasurer, K. g.
Hammond, of Will county; Superintend.
ent Of Public Instruction, Prof. D. Will
kins, Of Mclean; Penitentiary Commits
sioners, J. M. Smith, of De Witt, and
DR.. F. s. Simpson, of Green. ga
Private dispatches from Dayton, re-
ceived in Cincinnati on the 31st, state that
General Schenck had concluded to accept
the Republican nomination for Congress
in the Third Ohio District.
The Michigan Democratic State Con
7ention, in session at Detroit, on the 31st,
made the following nominations: For
Governor, G. G. Comstock of Kalamazoo;
Lieutenant Governor, J. A. T. Wendell,
of Mackinaw; Secretary of State, Isaac
M. Crane, of Eaton; State Treasurer, P.
j. Laranger, of Monroe; Auditor General,
Charles w. Butler, of Lansing; Attorney
General, John Atkinson, of Port Huron;
Commissioner of the Land Office, John
G.. Hubinger, of East Saginaw Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, Duane
Doty, Of Detroit; Member of the Board
of Education, M. J. Bennett, of Jackson.
3 The Republicans nominated Ex Gov
ernor Newell in the Second, and John
Hill in the Fourth Congressional Dis
tricts of New Jersey. Hon. John e.
Smith has been nominated for Congress
by the Republicans of the Fourth Mary
land District. Orestes Cleveland has been
by the Democrats of the Fifth
New Jersey District.
At the Illinois Republican State Con-
vention on the. list Gen. John A. Logan was
for Congressman at Large.
Treasurer Bates and School Superintend-
ent Bateman were re-nominated Casper
Butz, of Cook, and Elmer Washburn Of
Madison, were re nominated for Prison
Commissioners. Sis io M
The Republicans of the First Ohio
Congressional District have nominal
ed Aaron F. Perry; and Job e.
Stevenson is the Republican Candidate
in the Second Ohio District. The Demo
Gratis have nominated Byron G.. Stowe
in the Fifth, and ]. G.. Sutherland in the
Sixth Congressional Districts of Mich
igan. as ,R1i
The following are the nominations made
by the recent Republican State Conven-
ton of Michigan For Governor, FL. ?.
Baldwin, of Detroit, renominated; Lieu
tanant Governor, Morgan Bates, of Ira
verse City, renominated; Secretary of
State, d. Striker, Hastings; State Treas
urer, v. 81. Collier, of Battle Greek; Au-
ditor, General W. Humphrey, of Adrian,
renominated; Commissioner of Land
Office, Captain g. A. Edwards, of Branch
county; Superintendent of Public In
struction, o. Hasford, of Oliyet, renomi-
mated; Attorney General, Dwight May,
of Kalamazoo; Member State Board of
Education, Witter J. Baxter, of jones'
vile
The Republicans of the Fourth Dis
trict of Louisiana have nominated Gen
ersl Jas. McClerry for Congress.
United States Judge Hugh L. Bond, at
Baltimore, has recently decided that Fed
eral courts do not properly have jurisdic-
ton in cases arising under the provisions
of the act for the enforcement Of the Fif-
teenth Amendment, and that Congress
did not intend to interfere with each
States qualification of its voters, except
to remove those imposed by race, colcr,
or previous condition.
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eY A statement has been prepared at
the Treasury Department at Washing
ton, giving a comparison between the ex-
penses of the Government under Bu-
chanan and Grant. 1t shows that during
the last fiscal year of Buchanan's Admin
istration the expenses, per capita, were
$201 In estimating the present popula-
ton at forty millions, and deducting from
the present expenses such as arose direct
ly from the war, so as to compare such
items as make up the usual expenses OF