Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-09-04


pie of the State from extortion and viii secun
the transportation of merchandise and passen
gers at reasonable rates; favoring the trans
ferring of the Indian Bureau to the con
troll of the War Department; recon
mending an amendment to tie ma
tional Constitution which shall for
ever prohibit any Congress from settling it
own compensation; advocating such legisla
ton, both general and local, as experienc,
shall show to be most effectual in destroying
the evil of intemperance; insisting that thu
| precedent set by Washington in declining ;
reelection to a third term of the Presidenc,
ought never to be deviated from; that the
| public lands Of the United States be sacredl,
held for the use and benefit of actual settlers
and condemning and disappearing of any
further grants of the public domain TO rail
! road or other corporations.
The Opposition State Convention met a
/ Springfield, Ill., on the Goth and nominated
for State Treasurer Charles Carroll; Schoo
| Superintendent, s. M. Etter. The platform
adopted declares in favor of the resumption o.
specie payments as soon as possible without
| disaster to the business interests of the coun
try, by steadily opposing imitation and by
the payment of the national Indebtedness il
the money of the civilized world; in favor o.
free commerce, and no tariff except for rev.
enue; affirms the right and duty of the State
| to protect its citizens from extortion and un.
| just discrimination by chartered monopolies
| demands that all the pensions of crippled
| soldiers shall be so increased as to shield
everyone of them from daily want without
compelling them to take refuge in so-called
Soldiers Home.
THE Michigan State Republican Conven-
ton was held at Lansing on the Goth. John
J. Bagley was renominated for Governor
and Henry Ell. Holt for Lieutenant-GO
E. G. D. Holden was nominated for Secretary
of State; VIM. B. McCreery for Treasurer;
Ralph Ely for Auditor; D. B. Briggs (present
incumbent) for Acknowledgement. The reso-
lutions adopted challenge comparison be-
tween the financial record of the Republican
party and that of any other party which ever
held power; demand that in all financial leg
islation Congress shall keep steadily in view
the resumption of specie payment to the end
that at the earliest practicable day the paper
currency of the country may be at par with
coin; declare in favor of free banking under a
we'll guarded national system; that it is the
high duty of the General Government to pro-
tect the colored people of the South in the
rights and privileges of their citizenship.
ACCORDING to Nashville (Tenn.) dispatch
of the Goth the negroes at Pickettsville, in
Gibson County, had for several days before
threatened trouble because of some supposed
wrong done them, and had manifested a
strong intention to kill two or three citizens
and fire and sack the town. On the 25th
sixteen of the ringleaders were arrested and
placed in Trenton jail for safe keeping. On
the morning of the 26th from seventy-fve to
one hundred masked men entered Trenton,
rode up to the jail and compelled the Sheriff
to deliver the keys to them. They then took
the sixteen negroes and killed six of them at
the edge of the town The masked men then
rode off with the other ten, and it was
thought at last accounts that they had killed
them. Whites and blacks were said to be
arming.
THE Ohio State Democratic Convention
met at Columbus on the Goth and placed the
following ticket in nomination: For Secretary
of State, VIM Bell; School Commissioner,
G. S. Smart; Judge of Supreme Court, w.
j. Gilmore; Clerk of Supreme Court, Arnold
Green; Member of Board of Public Works,
Martin Schiller. The platform adopted
declares that the Democratic party of Ohio
adheres to its ancient principles of securing
equal rights and exact justice to all men, and
to all the States and communities of the
American people, and of maintaining the in
dependence of the coordinate departments OF
the Federal Government, the Legislative, the
Executive and the Judicial, and resisting
every attempt to usurp any of the powers re-
served by the Constitution to the States re-
spectively, and to the people thereof; favors
such an increase of the circulating medium
as the business interests of the country may
from time to time require, and declares that
sound policy and justice require that not less
than one-half of the customs duties should be
PAYABLE in the legal-tender notes of the
United States commonly called greenbacks /;
favors the abolishing of the franchise of the
National Banks to issue a paper currency as
soon as the same can safely and prudently be
done, and advocates that the notes so with
drawn by the banks be substituted by the
Government with legal-tender currency;
declares that the $40 bonds, by the letter and
spirit of the law and the general understand
ing of the community, were payable in legal
tender notes. and that the act of March,
1869, which pledged the nation to their
payment in coin was an unnecessary and
wicked sacrifice of the interests of the tax
paying laborers for the benefit of the non tax
paying bondholders; favors a revenue tariff;
opposes grants of public lands to railroad
corporations, etc., etc.
A NEW YORK dispatch of the 27th says that
Henry c. Bowen, of the New York Indepeod-
e1at, had commenced three libel suits-a Grim
inal suit against the editor of the Brooklyn
Argus, civil suit against the Eagle for $780,
900 and civil suit against the reporter who
wrote bogus interview" for $4,000.
The New Jersey Republican State Conven-
ton met on the 27th and nominated Geo. A.
HaIsey for Governor. Resolutions were adopt
ed-declaring that they approved and would
continue to uphold the principles upon which
the Republican party was founded; that Pres :
ident Grant deserves their unabated conf
dence; that they are in favor of such national
legislation as will maintain infexibly the faith
of the Government to its creditors and secure
the speedy resumption of specie payments.
THE Pennsylvania State Democratic Con-
yention completed its labors on the 27th by
the nomination of the following ticket: War
ren j. Woodward for Supreme Judge, John
| Latta for Lieutenant Governor and J. F.
Temple for Auditor. Their resolutions de-
clare opposition to Government grants OF
public lands to corporations; that steady
effort should be made to bring the Govern
ment notes to par with gold, and to secure a
return to specie payment at the earliest posi-
BILE period that resumption can be effected
with safety; denounce the Civil Rights bill OF
the last Congress as a gross invasion OF the
right of the States to control their own do