The convention of the Democratic party to nominate a candidate for delegate to Congress was held at Madison on the 21st of July. It was very fully attended, there being 78 delegates in attendance, representing every portion of the Territory.

The candidates were MORGAN L. MARTIN, HIRAM BARBER and MOSES M. STRONG. The preferences of the delegates were nearly equally divided between the three. There were twelve ballots on the first day, upon the last of which the votes were equally divided between the three candidates, each having received twenty-six. The next day there were six ballots, on the last of which Mr. STRONG was nominated, having received 45 of the 78 votes, the accession to his vote coming from those who had voted for Mr. BARBER.

This nomination was immediately denounced as being the work of the supporters of the defeated constitution, and it became at once apparent that the effort would be made to

carry the war over the defeated constitution into the election of delegate in Congress.

A leading paper in Racine County which had opposed the constitution, in its first issue after the nomination was known, contained a highly sensational, and not very candid article, from which the following extracts are taken:

"It is probably a fact that Mr. STRONG has commended himself to the favorable notice of many of the leaders of his party by his reckless and unscrupulous course as a partisan. It is well known that of all the advocates of the late

constitution there was no one so open-mouthed and violent in its support as he. This service undoubtedly had great weight with the convention in his favor, for, as far as we have been able to ascertain, that convention was composed exclusively of the friends of the constitution; those who opposed the adoption of that instrument having been carefully excluded from all participation in the deliberations of that body. And it is an undeniable fact, that no opponent of the constitution received a single vote in that convention, although in that section or branch of the Democratic party are to be found many possessing superior talent and undoubted integrity.

They (the members of

the convention) asked themselves, who proclaimed himself the most violent and uncompromising in support of our constitution? This question would be answered at once— MOSES M. STRONG!"

One week after the Democratic convention-on the 28th of July-the Territorial convention of the delegates of the Whig party was held. It was almost as numerously attended as the Democratic convention. After agreeing to the report of the committee on credentials and permanent organization, an informal ballot was had for a candidate for delegate to Congress, which resulted as follows:

Mr. JACKSON, who had been elected president of the convention, withdrew his name as a candidate, when a formal ballot was taken, which resulted in 62 votes for JOHN H. TWEEDY and 7 for A. L. COLLINS, when the nomination was made unanimous.

The Abolition party, in rather an informal manner, had nominated Mr. CHARLES DURKEE as their candidate for delegate.

The election was on the 6th day of September, and the following is an official statement of the votes, by counties, as canvassed:

On the 27th day of September, the Governor issued his proclamation, appointing a special session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory, to be held at the Capitol in Madison on Monday, the eighteenth day of October, to take such action in relation to the admission of the State into the Union and adopt such other measures as in their wis dom the public good may require.

The special session of the Legislative Assembly was commenced at Madison on the 18th of October in pursuance of the Governor's proclamation.

There had been but two changes in the membership of the Council since the preceding session. In Racine county, MARSHALL M. STRONG had resigned and PHILO WHITE had been elected to fill the vacancy. In the district composed of Iowa, La Fayette and Richland counties, NINIAN E. WHITESIDES was elected in the place of WILLIAM SINGER, resigned. The members of the House at the previous session had all been elected for only one year, and elections were held in September for members of a new House of Representatives. Only two of the old members were re-elected, viz.: TIMOTHY BURNS, of Iowa county, and JOHN M. STEWART, of Green county.

The following were the members of the House at this special session-the second of the fifth Legislative Assembly: Racine: G. F. NEWELL and DUDLEY CASS.

Walworth: ELEAZER WAKELY and GEORGE WALWORTH. Milwaukee: ISAAC P. WALKER, JAMES HOLLIDAY and ASA KINNEY.

Iowa, La Fayette and Richland: TIMOTHY BURNS, M. M. COTHREN and CHARLES POLE.

Grant: NOAH H. VIRGIN and DANIEL R. BURT.

Dane, Green and Sauk: E. T. GARDNER, ALEXANDER BOTKIN and JOHN W. STEWART.

Sheboygan and Washington: BENJAMIN H. MOOERS.

Dodge and Jefferson: LEVI P. DRAKE, HORACE D. PATCH and JAMES HANRAHAN.

Rock: DANIEL C. BABCOCK and GEORGE H. WILLISTON. Waukesha: GEORGE REED and L. MARTIN.

Crawford: HENRY JACKSON.

Brown, Columbia, Fond du Lac, Manitowoc, Marquette, Portage and Winnebago: MOSES S. GIBSON and GEO. W. FEATHERSTONHAUGH.

Of these, besides Messrs. BURNS and STEWART, none had before been members of the Territorial Legislature, except Messrs. POLE, BURT and MOOERS.

The Council was organized by the election of H. N. WELLS, President, THOMAS MCHUGH, Secretary, and EDWARD P. LOCKHART, Sergeant-at-Arms.

In the House ISAAC P. WALKER was elected Speaker, and the other officers were the same as at the previous session.

The Governor's message was brief and was limited to a recommendation of such action by the Legislature in the early organization of a State government, as would meet the wants and wishes of their constituents. He expressed himself in favor of the admission of the State into the Union in time to be entitled to give its electoral vote at the presidential election of 1848, and again presented many of the advantages which would result from an early formation of a State government.

The Legislative Assembly having determined to confine its action to this one subject, and the incidental one of the expenses of the session, referred the message to a joint committee, which on the fourth day of the session reported a bill in relation to the formation of a State government, to the Council. On Saturday, the sixth day of the session, the bill passed the Council substantially as it came from the committee, and was sent to the House.

On Tuesday, the 26th of October, the second day after the bill passed the Council, the House concurred in it with several amendments, some of which were agreed to, and others which were disagreed to were referred to a committee of conference, where the disagreements were harmonized, and on the same day both houses concurred in the passage of the bill, and on the 27th October it was signed by the presiding officers of both houses, approved by the Governor, and both houses adjourned sine die after a brief session of ten days.

The new law provided for an election on the fifth Monday (twenty-ninth day) of November of delegates to form a constitution. The qualification of voters at the election was a residence of six months in the Territory, preceding the day of election, and in every other respect the same as that of voters for delegates to the former convention. Every person authorized to vote was declared eligible to be elected a delegate.

It provided for the election of sixty-nine delegates, who were apportioned among the several counties, as follows: Racine, eight; Milwaukee, seven; Walworth, Waukesha and Rock, each six; Grant, five; Jefferson, four; La'Fayette, three; Iowa and Richland, three; Dane, Dodge and Washington, each three; Green and Fond du Lac, each two; Brown, Calumet and Columbia, each one; Sheboygan and