Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1870 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Republican Congressional Gam paign Committee recently held their annual meeting at Washington, and chose an Executive Committee, as follows: Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, Chairman (who js also Chairman of the Campaign Committee); Logan, of Illinois ; Cameron, of Pennsylvania; Ketcham, of New York; Chandler, of Michigan; Sawyer, of South Carolina, and Platt, of Virginia. The Michigan Republican State Convention is to be held in Detroit on the Ist of September. The Massachusetts Legislature has voted a separate prison for women. Senator Anthony was re-elected by the Rhode Island Legislature on the 14lh, and Senator Cragin by the New Hampshire Legislature. The recent Delaware Republican State Convention nominated Hon. Thomas B. Coursey, of Wilmington, for Governor, and Hon. Joshua T. Heald for Congress. The J udges of the new Court of Appeals of New York will meet at Albany on July 4 to take the oath of office and enter upon their duties. Judge Folger one of the two Republicans elected, has resigned the Assistant United States Treasuryship in New York, to take effect on July 1. At the Republican Convention held at Shawneetown, 111., on the 14th, Hon. Daniel W. Munn, of Cairo, was nominated unanimously for Congressman from the Thirteenth District. The Republican Congressional Convention for the Sixth Indiana District, on the 14th, nominated Hon. Moses F. Dunn, of Bedford, Lawrence county, for Congress. The recent Republican Convention for the First Indiana Congressional District nominated Capt H. C. Gooding, of Evansville. Hon. H. R. Pritchard has been nominated in the Third, Hon. James N. Tyler re nominated in the Eighth, and Hon. William Williams re-nominated in the Tenth Indiana Districts. In the Tenth District Convention some three hundred delegates withdrew, and nominated General Milo A. Hascall, who accepted, and promised to canvass the district.