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Ths Signal Service Bureau report indicate for to-day for the Middle Atlantic States colder, clear, or partly cloudy weather, northerly Kinds, and rising barometer. So far as heard from, the Democratic papers which a few weeks ago saw no salvation for the party outside of the re nomination of the present State officers, are submit ting with wonderful meekness to the rod of Tammany and tho heel of tho Canal Ring. The World tries to' assnte its disgusted contemporaries that neither Kkllt nor Lord had anything to do with the result at Albany, much as ingenious persons try to palm Off on wide-awake lit tle boys castor-oil thinly disguised as a preparation of sugar and milk. The trouble is quite superfluous. All the party organs are' discreet enough to confine their display of independence- strictly to the period preceding the convention.

Democrats of all shades of opinion have swallowed so much boiled crow of late years that they begin to like it, of at least to for it on the bill of fare at the annual political reunions. There are certain occasional allies of the larty, however, whose palate and digestion are not quite so well disciplined. AU.KH Bsach, for example, is a morsel which such jVoters will obstinately refuse to swallow, just as they will decline to believe that the jomission from the platform of any reference to civil service reform is compensated for by the cheers which greeted what the World calls Air. i)TTXR ''outspoken ana emphatic indorsement of the civil service policy of "resident Hatxs. It needs more than 'usual ingenuity to discover any i such ifeatur la Mr.

Potter's speech, but jwore it there, It would only make i the absence of any similar sentiment from he platform more conspicuous than it is. There are people, even in the Denocratio Tarty, who will handle a good deal less gin- Rwlj than the World the question of what jthure is in the work of the Albany Conven tion to deserve sharp condemnation." In an article partially reproduced in an- Vother column, the Staa U-Zeitung, on behalf of a large section of Independent German Voters, counsels si bolt from both the Republican and Democratic State tickets. It admits that the time is too short for the nomination of an entirely new but considers it to be quite possible to make such a. selection from both tickets as would secure the support of men of "both parties who are given to think for themselves, and would give emphasis to the protest which such voter have made r.gainst the arrogant dictation of their poli-'tical leaders. The StaaU-Zeitung thinks that the Cooper Institute meeting might fitly be made the, occasion for nominating such a coalition ticket, and of furnishing the machinery by which it should be submitted to tho voters of tho State.

The obvious argument in favor of this course is that the Independent voters and the dissatisfied elements of both parties would thus have a ready method of showing their strength and of securing, in the future, some respect for convictions which have been of late openly and deliberately disregarded. There is certainly nothing In the eall for the Cooper Institute meeting to prevent thowe who occupy tho neutral position in party politics adopted by the Stoats-Zeituny from being thoroughly in' sympathy with it probable President's Southern policy is referred to in a manner which may be too enthusiastic fox most Republicans, but which will certainly be approved by the great body of Independent voters whether recruited from the ranks of the Dcruoc ratio or the Republican Tarty. But as we presume that the main I'nrooeof that meeting is to make a pro-t in the Republican ranks against i i presentation of tartr sentJmit which was perpetrated at wo fear that it willbe found a embarrassing to make it the occasion of nominating a coalition Stata ticket. The Rochester ticket is, 'in the weak, the Al bany ticket is, la the main, bad. Suppose an attempt was made to change the Republican ticket, so as to secure Democratic adhesion, by substituting the names of Mr.

Olcott as Controller and Szr-xocn as State Engineer for Messrs. Stl-TxsTxa aad Socle. The ticket would be very little stronger because of the substitu tion, and we greatly doubt whether it would be more acceptable to intelligent and fair-minded Republicans. Tet these are about the only substitutions which could be made without making the ticket less respectable than it is. We fear that the Independents must either' do their own scratching, or must organize a public meeting for the specific purpose of effecting sueh a coalition as the" StaaU-Zeitung proposes.

The storm of Thursday traversed the Atlantic coast from the espes of Virginia to the eastern terminus of the shore line of Maine. Some damage was done on the land by freshets and but the wrecks on the sea were more destructive of property, If not of life. On Long Island Sound and on the New-England coast the gale seems to have been at its fiercest, as the lirt of reported marine disasters attests. In this City, after a drought of a month, we have bad rain enough to eleanse the streets, flush the sewers, and dispel all fears of an immediate water famine. The storm has changed the temperature of the air from warm to cold, and it came and went with the suddenness of a Summer shower.

To-day's races at Jeromo Park ought to attract a large number of spectators. They will begin at" 2 o'clock, to afford a better chance to business-men to witness them with less sacrifice of time than usual. The weather promises to be all that could be desired, and the sport cannot fail to be good. The entries for the selling race are equally enough matched to warrant the expectation of a very close race, and though Lazil is the favorite at long odds for the Annual Stakes, the race may prove to be a good deal better than the walk-over which seems to be anticipated the friends of the Lorillard stable. The three-quarter daah and the mile race include numerous entries, and are likely to prove exciting buxdxess ix Party maxagexext.

"A great deal of blundering criticism would be avoided if the Republican journals which find fault with the course of The Times were capable of discriminating between principle and partisanship, between the demands of politicians and the obligations due to a great party. It is alleged, on one side, that after counseling a policy of silence in regard to the Southern measures of the Administration, we condemn Mr. CoKEXDfO for sustaining, and theRochester Convention for accepting the advice. On another side it is objected that while condemning Mr. CoNaXiKa and his adherents in the convention for an attack upon the Administration, we discredit the movement of members of the Union League Club, who propose indirectly to rebuke the Senator and to atone for the hostility tolerated if not actually shared by the delegates.

From these antagonistic jpoints of view The Times is assailed the two sides apparent ly concurring in the conviction that a journal identified with the policy of a party has no right to judge independently of its man agement or to resent the dictation of any set of men who profess to speak in its name. We interpret differently both our right and our duty. The objection to the nroeeedines of the Rochester Convention is, that the interests and purposes of the Republican Party were sacrificed to satisfy the malice; and further the personal ends of Mr. Coxxxnro. Had the first of (the resolutions adopted that, namely, relating to the South formed the clue to the attitude of the convention toward the National Administration, there would have been slight cause for complaint.

A m6re cordial recognition of the motives of the President would not, perhaps, have been ungraceful or at variance with the non-committal tone respecting the merits of his ac tion which is most favorable to the unity of the party. But the final expression of the hope that that action will result favorably, coupled with the promise that nothing shall be done to thwart it, divests this portion of the platform of all look of hostility, and is as much as prudent friends of the Adminis tration could have desired. The aspect of the whole question is changed, however, by the support accorded to Mr. Conexjso and his nominee, Mr. Platt, in their attacks upon the section of.

the party which tri umphed at Cincinnati, and generally in their insolent use of the power, derived from the organization of forces which have weakened and tbo often disgraced the party. A man whose conduct la swayed by paltry resentments, who destroys the harmony of an important gathering, and who while professing a desire for peace asserts pretensions which render in ternal conflicts inevitable, proves himself unequal to the responsibilities of leadership. And a convention which, under his guidance, proclaims opposition I to the essential characteristics of civil serjrioe reform, and in a roundabout manner assails the Administration for doing what Atsy chief is bound by his pledges and the toeuges of the party to carry out effectively; really arrays itself against the party and undermines the foundation on which it stands. Our quarrel with the convention, then, does not involve the issue raised by the President's Southern policy, as between those who uphold and those who deny its justice and expediency. We complain that under the guise of neutrality war was treacherously waged, that by an unscrupulous use of the meanest, basest, and most corrupt partisan agencies, the convention was made tributary to personal and factious objects, and that the success of the party in this State is thereby endangered at ft period when defeat would be more than usually disastrous.

Are we therefor to jump to the conclusion that an effort should be made to extort from Party an unqualified approval of everything the Administration has done Because mischief has been effected in one direction is it wise to incur the risk of mischief In another The party Is, confessedly, divided in regard to the Administration. Shall atone for wanton (frc itm-gnth offensivenes on the part of enemies Jby a display of sycophant! adulation on the part of friends Assuming that injury has been inflicted upon the Republican cause in this State by gratuitous insult heaped upon every man who refuse to acknowledge Mr. Cotclxxq's title to a dictatorship, will matters be mended by complying with the terms of a "Call which ignore difference of opinion respecting the Southern measures of the President and exacts applause In connection wttb the very points in dispute The movement originating in the Union League Club might, under proper di rection, render great service to all that is distinctive in the poliey of the party. Under another kind of direction, it may become the means of widening a breach that should, if possible, be healed, and of furnishing pretexts for the hostility which, so far as the Rochester Convention goes, turns upon personal spite. What is the chief object to be aimed at ff The moat rational object certainly is, to vindicate the party from the odium cast upon it by the proceedings at Rochester.

The Administration is not, or ought not to be, an element in the controversy. We have to consider the present and the future of the party in this State, and neither is Indissoluble connected with the President's idea of duty toward the South. Both, however, have a very close association with the -question, whether the party shall be controlled by it good or bad element whether its plans shall be formed in -consonance with an avowed and honorable policy, and whether its affairs shall be administered with a view to great public interests or with reference to the wants of cliques and individual politicians. The sinister influences preponderated at Rochester. We shall gain little by the display of another batch of partisan influences in New-York.

The moral strength of the party exist independently of both. The lesson most needed nowadays in relation to party management and public af fairs is precisely that which the average politician is reluctant to learn. The people care very little for partisan shibboleths. They have slight reverence for dignities, and. none for the authority that would exact a slavish obedience to partisan decrees.

are tired of the pretensions by virtue of which Federal office-holders have contrived to run eonventions and primaries and to invest with dangerous power a few ambitious men. They insist that Mr. Lincoln's theory of government shall be applied to the practice of parties, and that the latter shall be organized and managed by and for the people. The spirit thus manifested extends to the policy of the Administration and the eOurse of parties in Congress. There is no more disposition to "gush" about the President's action in Southern affairs than to condemn it without Stint before experience has tested its merits.

Opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of a thorough reform of the civil service bat while crediting the President with excellent, intentions, it restrains its enthusiasm until these have borne substantial fruit. Altogether, the prevailing temper is calm and critical. It may seem to be one of indifference, bat this version of it, we suspect, belongs rather to the non-essentials for which mere partisans contend than to the substantial considerations by which public measures are ultimately to be judged. We do not recollect a time- when the great body of the people were, less inclined to submit to blindfolding, or when they were more averse to shouting at the bidding of fussy individuals. Names are now to them of less moment than things, and if the Republican Party is to retain its hold upon their judgments and patriotic instincts, it must adhere courageously to its principles and traditions without reference to the antipathies Or the convenience of those who aspire to be its leaders.

A XE W- YORKER IXDORSED. The Democracy of New-York having lent the Democracy of New-Jersey a Gubernatorial candidate, has indorsed the loan in the most handsome manner. It is good money," said a sharper to his borrowing friend, I made it myself." The Albany Convention, chuckling silently over the fact that the Democracy ha at hut one candidate less, since Gen. McClellax has been palmed off on New-Jersey, was willing to do the generous thing. So it was resolved that the aforesaid Democracy should "send greetings to the Democracy of our sister State New-Jersey and congratulate the voters of that State on the nomination of the patriot and soldier, Gen.

George B. McClellax." By some oversight, the convention omitted to say where the General belonged. If it could have been authoritatively stated In this indorsement that he was a eitizen of New-Jersey, it would have been useful in the campaign. The weakness of the Democratic candidate for Governor of New-Jersey Is in the painful doubt regarding his real domicile. To be" sure, there is a rumor, as yet traced to no authentic source, that he once hired a house in Hobo ken for three months.

But this lacks confirmation. And so long as there is a cloud on his citizenship there can be no enthusiasm over his candidacy. There has been no exhibition of receipted bills for house-rent, no a checks for carpet-bags, and no certificate of citizenship from any freeholder, Alderman, or registry clerk. It ha been suggested that the General lives on a Hoboken ferry-boat, and has hi meals brought to him. This theory is inconsistent with the fact that the ferry-boats keep' moving.

Gen. McCr.ET.T.tv, we say it to his credit, would scorn to- be connected with anything that moves. His forte is intrench-ment. Life on a perpetually agitated ferryboat would to him be intolerable. Nevertheless, we insist that the Albany Convention could not have done more for McCT.rr.l.AH than it did, always "excepting, of course, the omission of the designation of his citizenship.

And, now -we think of it, even this neglect was probably due to a tenderness for Gov. Robissost which actuated the convention, just as it wa about to suppress the Governor's projects and friends. It is only a few month since Robix-sdv nominated McCT.ET.LAlf to an important New-York State office. If the convention had congratulated the Democracy of New-Jersey on the nomination of Gen. Gxonoz B.

McClexlax, of New-Jersey," it would have been a direct slap in the face of Gov. Robixsox, who wa about to have something worse happen to him. And if the General had been vouched for as a eitizen of New-York tXere would fetmrs; gzmrti, (Dctttotx 1877 hare been an intolerable row in the Jersey Democratic camp. The happy noncommittal course, which always is safe in cases of delicacy and doubt, wa adopted, and the patriot soldier was launched upon the grat'f ul Democratic Jerseymen without any entangling and compromising allusions to his carpet-bag, poll-tax, or boarding So far a hi Democratic fellow- citizens of New-York could help him, the doughty General enter the campaign quite un trammeled. Next year, should the fates be propitious, Got.

Robivsox may again nominate hint for an office in this State, or the Mayor of New-York may nominate him for a City office, aa Oaxet Hall did in 1871. Bat the Democrat at Albany evidently considered that they were, to use a Western phrase, shut" of McClzllax by the complaisant generosity of their brethren, of New-Jersey. There are never offices enough in this State to satisfy 'the office-seekers, and it is manifestly determined that now that McClellax has been nominated In another State, he shall be kept there. The New-York Democracy has been bored with his frequent nomination long enough. It is now determined that he shall elect hi place of citizenship, and be com polled to abide by hi eboic after he has made it.

He ha been skirmishing arOtrad long enough it is time that he was. told that he most fish, cut bait, or go ashore." ne has gone ashore in New-Jersey. An 1 the least that can be done for him by the grateful and relieved Democracy of New-York is to give him a good recommend" as a patriot and a soldier. No footman out of place could ask for anything better than this. And as the patriot and soldier crosses the ferry with this admirable certificate in his pocket, he can confidently appeal to his new employers as a servant who has brought with him the good will of those who are glad to get rid of him.

To be sure, it would be pleasanter to have a man's patriotism and soldierly qualities vouched for by a higher authority than a rowdy Democratic convention. But the General is not particular. He ought to be thankful that the convention said nothing about his being a 'contractor and a moth-killer, and that, the convention having condemned the Army and its supporters, he should have been indorsed in spite of his proposition to increase the Army. Indeed, the General has got off very well. Having been before the convention at all, he should be satisfied that he got away with anything at alL As the preacher who looked into his empty hat after it had been vainly passed around for a contribution, thanked the Lord that he had got his hat back from that congregation, McClellax may gratefully say that he fared better in the Albany Convention than many a better man.

PROPERTY AXD 1XCOME. The custom we have in the Republic of reckoning a man's means by his property, instead of his income, is as unsatisfactory as it is misleading. In the Old World we hear very little of what a man owns, though we may infer the amount from its productiveness. An Englishman has so many pounds a Frenchman so many francs an Italian so many lire1 a German so many marks, a year but the income of an American is seldom mentioned. He is always spoken of as worth a certain sum, which may be in Government securities, real estate, merchandise, defaulted railway bonds, non-paying stocks, or wild lands.

His annual income may be $30,000, $10,000, $3,000, $500, or nothing at all and yet his property, in any case, is set dovm at a definite figure. Real value does not consist in what we own, but in what we derive from ownership, especially since every prudent man depends not on his capital, but on the interest derive' from its investment. A pseudo-pious person once boasted of the treasures he had laid up in heaven to an irreverent listener, who declared that on earth they must yield a very poor income. The same might be said of the earthly treasures that many people talk of posseting. They are represented as large in amount and rich in prospect but the possessors no apparent benefit from them.

They may be tangible enough they may be comprehended in unimproved real estate, in unrentable houses, fn depreciated securities, in protested bills-receivable all of which will be perfectly good some day, though, for the nonce, they are valueless. A great deal of the property is owned in this country, particularly in the West but it is conspicuously ineffective as respects power of purchase or source of substence. In every State of the Union millions of this sort of wealth are held, and will be held till doomsday. One of its peculiarities is that it is always on the eve of appreciation, and that capitalists would snap it up at once if they knew their own interest. Capitalists, by the bye, who are popularly supposed to be extremely shrewd, are, in all instances of this kind, supremely stupid and absolutely incapable of enlightenment.

During the last four years any number of our citizens have had, and still have, on hand, sound property that is not available, but must be ere long. It should not be eon-founded with the estates that are shadowy, that exist on paper, that are to have high price in the undated future. Nevertheless, it is unfair to represent them at what they have been worth, or will likely be worth again. For the present, they are little more than, nominal in value, and are worth at best only what they would bring If put on the market. It la easy enough to see why their owners are unwilling to "Submit to- a reduced estimate and yet it can be very little satisfaction to them to be named as rich when they have no Income to speak of.

American who used to spend $50,000 and $00,000 a year and still kept within their means, have recently thought themselves lucky to get $10,000 from all sources. Families hitherto in luxurious circumstances have found it hard to live with strict economy. All these should be rated by their income. Such rating might make them feel poor but it Is better to feel poor when one, i poor, than to feel rich when one I not rich. Computation by income i wholesome and corrective.

It prevent people from vainly regretting their financial prosperity in the past, or from equally vain longing for a renewed prosperity in the future. It eonfines them to the present, and' in the present alone good sense and discretion abide. No doubt much anxiety, worry, and mental suffering would have been saved in all out towns and cities, these four years past, if income had been considered the measure of pecuniary means. It is the only true standard the only prudent, safe, and strictly honest one. Property without proportionate income, is property in the abstract cannot be counted on, and is apt to prove wearing and wounding by the perpetual disappointments and miscalculations which it causes.

As a rule Americans live In the future, for their land is a land of the future, and they are prone to defer their worthiest living to a time always in advance. They do not like to be cramped by serious consideration of the present therefore they have no fancy for being reckoned by incomes which restrict their energies and expectations to a twelvemonth. The grandly possible is what they love to contemplate. They want to behold with their mind's eye their 25 per cent stocky go to 1200, their paper towns rise into crowded streets busy capitals, their theoretio mines teem with the richest To estimate their property very liberally seems and sounds so much larger than to name their actual Income, that they are averse to the latter, which, while it may reduce them to com parative poverty, report their financial condition aright. If they were aceutomd to regard their Income merely, they would be far less likely to spend what they hare not got, and incur expenses they cannot afford.

To live according to income is to live within one's means, and to live within one's means is the basis of all pecuniary independence. When we have learned to rate ourselves by income, or by real earnings, which is substantially the same, our tendency to overtrading, to abuse of the credit system, to promiscuous extravagance, will be curtailed, if not positively checked. Business men will understand one another and be subject to much fewer losses in their dealings when they declare what their last year's profits have been, in lieu of what their general prospects may be. With such declaration, the periodic panics, reverses, and revolutions to which we have been accustomed will become less common and less disastrous, and the whole tone of commercial life ean scarcely fail to improve. Now that we are mending so many of our loose financial ways, and getting nearer and nearer to a solid foundation for transactions of all kinds, this would seem to be an excellent time to begin to represent men's resources not by liberal estimates' and vague prospects, but by actual income or earnings, which, being fixed facts, can be dealt with as such.

IMPCDEXT IXDIAXS. The impudence of the Indians who have just held an interview with the President at Washington is simply amazing. They shamelessly asserted that white men had no right to take away the lands which the Government had granted to the Indians without paying for them. Not contented with making this preposterous claim, they tnen proceeded to enumerate their wants, and announced that they wanted clothing, farming tools, school-houses, and Roman Catholic priests for teachers. In other words, they unblushingly asked to be civilized and taught religion, these monstrous demands were made in spite of the fact that an experience of many years has taught the Indians that they have no rights whatever, and that extermination and not civilization is what they really need.

It can hardly be supposed that the idea of granting the requests of the Indians, or of accepting their theory as to their right of property in land, will be for a moment seriously entertained. Still, it can do no harm to point out the inevitable evils which would follow wero the Government to weak-lv acquiesce in Spotted Tail's, and Sharp Nose's demands. Hitherto we have pursued a policy based upon the great truth that the Indian is not a human being, but a wild beast. This theory has justified us in breaking at our own pleasure the temporary arrangements which the Indians affect to regard as treaties. Of coureo, no agreement, whether it be called a treaty or not, which we might make with a dog would be binding in case we should see fit to abrogate it and similarly, it would be folly for us to keep an agreement made with an Indian.

Thus, although, we had solemnly promised that the Sioux should keep the Black Hill territory forever, and that no white man should enter it, we had a perfect right to drive them out of it as soon as we discovered that it was really valuable. Aside from the intrinsic absurdity of regarding the Indian as a human being with whom we are bound to keep faith, there would be no pretext afforded for exterminating this or that tribe, if we could not drive them into hostilities by depriving them of their land. If we onco adopt the theory that the Indians should be left unmolested upon the lands which we have guaranteed' to them, they would increase in numlfHj, or, at any rate, would obstinately declineo become extinct. Had the Modocs never been compelled to move to a reservation where there was insufficient game to keep them alive, they would never have gone to war with the United States, arid we should never have had the. opportunity to hang Captain Jack and his associates for the- cowardly and disgraceful crime of defending for many months their so-called home against the whole power of the Government-Criminal as it would be to recognize Spotted Tail's claim that an Indian should not be robbed of his land, it would be still wbree to grant the other demands of the visiting chiefs.

If the Indians aro clothed after the manner, of white men, if they are taught agriculture, if they are educated in schools, and are instructed in religion by Roman Catholic priests, they will become undistinguishable, except by color, from the other inhabitants of this country. More- oxer, as they become civilized they will be better able to resist the diseases incident to savage life which now have a useful effect In preventing any marked increase in their numbers. It is obvious that as soon as an i Tin i an cnoe oecomes civilized ean no longer betreated like a eolony of prairie dogs. If the Government should announce it intention of repudiating a treaty under which a civilized tribe holds it farm and village, and should order the tribe to remove to Alaska, a discussion would arise which would totally defeat the Government's purpose. Indian lecturers wquld travel through the country addressing audience of silly philanthropists upon the subject of their so-called wronsra.

and Indian news papers would publish article trpon ths question whieh would give great' pain to those who were anxious to take possession of their land. Were troop to be actually sent to drive the civilized Indians away, a large part of the people of the Eastern States would bo Indignant to learn 1 that Rev. Mr. Srrnxa Beab's Sunday-aohool had been put to the sword, or that the young squawsXof tho Crazy Horse Female Seminary had been bayoneted in their school -room. At present, Indian women and children can be killed, and Indian war riors ean be scalped, without exciting any unpleasant remarks but aot like these.

If perpetrated upon a community of eivillzed Indians, would very probably be called murderous by unreflecting people. The par tiality shown by the Indians for Roman Catholie priests ought alone to excite a strong feeling against them. In spite of the fact that owing to their tonsure these priests are ineligible for scalping purposes, they have uniformly, gained the friendship and confidence of the Indians by treating them as If they were human-beings. To permit the Indian to have Roman Catholie priests among them will encourage them In their mischierou belief that they are entitled to fair and honorable treatment What we ought to do Is to send them a few able atheists to teach 'them that they are really mere brutes that; perish, and should hence make the most of the rum and rices of this life. It most be eonfessed that while our present policy of extermination is Infinitely to be preferred to a course that would end in obliging ns to recognize the humanity of the red race, it is still by no means perfect To shoot or bayonet an Indian eosts a great deal of money, when the Indian has to be hunted by a regiment of troops.

The true system was hit upon the other day in the ease of Craxt Hokse, who was brought Into camp, and was there bayoneted by a solder, on the alleged ground that he declined to be handcuffed and locked up. Were we to assemble a few thousand Indians 'under pretense of distributing -valuable presents among them, and then blow them up with a concealed mine of nitro-glyeerine, we should save a great deal of expense. Such a course would be the only one thoroughly worthy of the nation which has so skillfully driven Capt Jack. Srrnxa Bull, and Chief Joseph to would be the most rapid and satisfactory way of solving the Indian problem. STATE POLITICAL XOTES.

The Democrat of Schuyler County have nominated Adrian Turtle for Assembly. The ReDublican convention for the Twenty-fifth Senatorial Distric la to ba held In fort Isyron to-day. The Working Men of Albany County have nominated candidates for county officers, and N. B. Taylor for Senator.

The Republicans of Onondaga County have nominated Nathaniel M. White for District Attorney, and Martin L. Gardner for Justice) of Sessions. The Republicans of Cortland County yesterday nominated A. P.

Smith for County Judge, Joseph H. Dixon for Assembly, and William D. Hunt for Justice of Sessions The complete Republican ticket of local officers in Oswego County is: For County Judge, N. W. Nutting; Surrogate T.

W. Skinnerj Justice of Sessions, D. Barney Coroner, Dr. D. D.

Drake. The Republicans of the Thirteenth Senatorial Dixtrtet held their convention in Pouffh-keepsie Thursday, and nominated Stephen H. Wendover, of Columbia County, for Senator by acclamation. Hon. Charles O.

Tappan has accepted the Republican nomination for Justice of the Supreme Court in the Fourth District, with due appreciation of the honor conferred and the obligations Imposed, and with the detenaination, in case he should be elected by the people, to administer the office justly, impartially, and to the best of his ability." OEXERAL XOTES. Those complaining Newfoundland fishermen are sanding up their annnal wail about the total failure of tha cod fiahery. A Montreal Alderman said at a late meeting of tba Finanee Committee that he would pot his hand on his eonadanee If he could find it." Gov. John O. Domlnla, who accompanied Kin Kalakaaa to this country in 1874.

arrived at San Franeiaco by tha last steamer from Honolulu. Sugar grower In the Teche country, according to the Kew-Oiieans Democrat, have lately suffered heavy losses through the work of nag-ro laeea-din-lea. Tho Roger Williams Monument, in Roger William Park, Providence, la to be dedicated on Taes-day, 16th Inat. The procession will be entirely Masonic. A blighted female in San Francisco, 65 years old, has brought a suit for breach of promise of mar riaa against a gay deceiver of 70, the damages being laid at A Prohibitionist estimates that about more is expanded yearly In this country for nun than the total gross earnings of all our ralL roads amount to.

The New-Raven Journal has returns from all but three towns la Oonneetieut which elected local officers on Monday, and finds tba 69 are Bepab-Uean, 74 Democratic, and 2jl divided. Connecticut papers say that there ha not been a death (by dliesae they mean) la the State Prison for 16 months, and. that although there are now 271 eonviets there Is not one la the hospital. Mr. IP.

G. Vennor, of the Canadian Geologi cal Surrey, reports the discovery of extensive da. posits of phosphate of lime in the County of Ottawa, Province of Quebec, lying north of the Dominion. capital. Hon.

E. B. Kephart, President of. Western College, Iowa, declHies the Antl-Seeret Society Con vention nomination for Superintendent of Pnblie la- struetioB, and says that he shall support the Bapub- lican nominee. Mr.

Henry IL Faxon, who manages to keep himself before the public of Massachusetts as saeee folly' aa any other Prohibitionist in the State, advises all the temperance people to -scratch Rice because ha vetoed the amended license bUl last Winter- Mr. John Brougham was robbed of his watch. chain, and diamond locket, valued at S400, at the IZdredge House, ta Albany, oa Tuesday night. He had placed them on a bureau near his bedside, and when he awoke la tb.e morning they were gone. Congressman Casey Young, of Tennessee, has written a letter urging a consolidation of public sen timent in favor of the improvement of ths Mississippi River, and the eo -operation of the people of all the States la the MiaaUsippt VsSey la IU favor.

The Richmond XHspatek of the 4th Inst, says Virginia is able to pay i and eves with the losses brought upon her by the aati-funders, it is entirely practicable to redeem the honor aad pay the dabs of tha Stato without addition to tha publle burdens." A Philadelphia man sent down word to a committee who came to notify him of bis aominaUoa for ofDee, that he was asleep. Beiac Philadalphians, they were not surprised at the message, and they accepted it from a Fhuadelphlaa without question. a The catalogue of the library of the Boston Atheasurm, prepared by Mr. Charles A. Cutter aad half a dose arlstasta.

wttl stake five octave volumes and win be published at a cost of about $100,000, bT a Boston neper's statement aaa be aeesnted as true. (1 In a speech la Cincinnati, Monday night, Sen ator Tbarmaa said that he should never ehaase his optnioathat if the date be strMcrt est of Resumption bill eaa reach tperie payment and maintain them, sooner than wltI4 that date ta the Miss Mary Louisa Fields, whom ei Massachusetts, was to have marrUd this wek died at Bethlehem, N. JL, oa Sunday, of brain avert She was a native of Philadelphia, about 80 jean of age, and of rare aeeomnllshments ant most Stttaetlv qualities. i A Cheyenne person writes that after nearly 10 years of experiment la Wyoming uih tha itatula aes ta poUtica, he can see ao good aeeemplUhad by ha vote. As Juror, odica-holder, aad men generally," he says, she la below the teq alramfsU of the standard.

I Ex-Commlssloner S. S. Bardett snrSthMbl health Is now better than for many years paa. He has fully recovered from the neuralgia of stomach which "caused him to 'make hu longjoeaaa toar.l and Is ready for the strictest sxai ilnatlsa Into otleial conduct. j.

Prof. S. A. Lattlmore, of Riches' erf University, has made a careful analysis of wetari takes from 40 suspected walla ta the city, and report) then all to be very Impure. He advisee le tltlens abandon the wee of well-water entirely, as' uee dential measure against typhoid ever.

I The Richmond (Va.) Whig of tlje J3d( seyst "One hundred and eighty thooassd dollars 1 due the school fund for the last Basal aay, that exwred the 1st of October, the Tyeasury jla kmpty, and we suppose the flrrt Installment ol tba maeuat appropriated for the present year Is also! i S. la A Mrs. D. D. Davis, of Alteram5 who died Sept.

24. bequeathed 94.000 to jKalamkaoo Callage, $3,000 to tb XasbviUe University, MX) ko the Baptist Sunday -eahool work la Mlrhltfai, several be. quests to relatives, and the remainder of prop ertr. estimated at $00,000, to the BsptW Chares laAOegaa. The Philadelphia Saanlfiests little restlessness under reseat failures of jthe Iodic- tioM" sent out by the Signal Service, sod evyacially at the freouent ordering of cautionary lrnU" lot tha Jersey coast during ths two Weeks prWvr 22, when there was aotninf wsatever waathe alone- there ta vindicate tb One of the Republican papers 'Of which does aot like the new United States Senator from that Bute, says of hlm-i "He la ritot pa ticle of experience as a legislator Is a faan if very mediocre ability is a crossbadsout Uiperd aulsaathropist i a chronic grumbler, and he will ba as lees la the Senate as a mule, and about as stub- II I A Democratic candidate for the Sf nt Via ginla says.

"I am opposed to the paynieirt of single dollar of tha public debt as! secertalhed) by the Funding bill. I deny that Virginia is Jerkily or morally bound for the sum so aaocrtainL in not repudlattonlsf -And the Richmond humb! asks thai Samuel Leeee tai tall hrhat br whs a "repudiatloalst'Tls In his estimation There are a great many Democratic en for the United States Seaatorahtp 1 Cal among them James T. Farley, who wa the Nothing Speaker of the House IS 1835 i land, a San Jose banker, who was alsd a me tha Kmow-Kothin- Legislature ef 1863 1 McDonald, a San Franeiaco broker i M. QraofaeCur. tia, a Sacramento lawyer, and Gov.

Irwin I rUmnael for accused lumbermen in la ease brought In the United States i District jconrtl at St. PatU, on the 1st Instjfof trespass nbon the public lands, accused the District Attorney and the Marrhul of studiously taking precautions that ths name of no citizen ef HeanepU Codnty placed la the box from which (he Otend Jury was drawn. Judge Nelson, however, overruled the oo lections to the jury, and it was allowed to, proceed ta Its duties. AS ISDSPESDSST TIW 6F TuE GXfYXX TIOXS. I I After referring to the objectionable ehjtracter of the Influences which have UiWnphed at the State Conventions of both political paroles, and, to rtne necessity of preventing the complete auceei either ticket, by wsy of administering a lessoh to the party managers, tna xsew-l orx wm w.

head of A Brilliant Opoortunity," goes on -o aay The time preceding the NOTettber! election ta too short to think of an organization -ex temdinx tsrer the whole State for the nomination of auotbeS ticket. But there Is a practical plan, and one, too) which eaa aaiiy be executed, namely, va eeiecs rrou mf wcaoca nomlnateC at Koc neater ana juuany we wy itch, those who are known to be Out little identified with the motives that eontroitea tne aonyenuous whieh nominated them, and to provide! tllbaeicitlsens who are dtsaatiaaed with tba d4ngs ef hoB parties with tickets with the namaa of thnea aniU4taa. It will require a comparatively small number vote, to secure tha election of the candidates sebxrtod la this manner. It Is true these eaSdUlatws will still remain the nominees of the Rochester or Albany Convention, but it will be shown that they oe their not to the views Drevsillnc at thbseteoaven- tions. but.

oa the contrary, to tb opposltionto the Views, and neither At. (Job kiln nor Mr. Avefty eouia then boast a victory. I Ttm nMtiu (tailed at COODVT InStitU' 10th Inst, offers the most favorable oppMt inaugurating this movement. It Is the pi tala maatina to DTOtesf against the reaolutlo' Rochester Convention which eonlomued th titration's Southern volley sad its elvi nfam work.

Should the manager of tha simply content themselves with such a protest, tht-a the speeches which will be made OS that the resolutions whieh will be adopted, wilrbe like throwing a stone into the water which at a greater or shorter diotanre, eauesa some odi motion, but which shortly afterward leases undisturbed the surface, over which Mr. Conkllug will 4' tri" umDhantly toward hia goad. Should, however, the i i meeting rocommcnq a ucui ramiww i i- candidates of both parties, it win, as regard partiri- loSapi jln thf isonri ids tet Bornla, pCaow fr.By- mber of Mark I tai on tha Snlty for irpoee nf of ths a A din in. i service meeting nation and enthusissm, equal the meeOnjt held April, 1M61, at Union-equare, when tha Sews of the fall of Fort Sumter was received, aaV fai hs eonse- quenees, it might prove as beneSrent fof tt future of tba country as that memorable damonstroikin. "The sealous Insolence with which the party hacks fight nowaday the people's beat dntrraata, is as great as was the seal and the laantoaaa Sown by the Secessionists lol agalart the Ctosernment of the United Slates.

The perils which jaefiace the country at pros eat in consequence of the overbearing of the party managers are of no lead Magnitude than that which threatened Cbe existenos of the I'ukB at the beginning of the war of tha febellloa. The Union League Cluh of our llty, whirh fa given tha impulse ta the msssmsetint' at the Co4n InstV tnt- tha loth la now offered a brdliant op portunity if it will but make this demonstration th oolnt of a fight against the eo-up Re publicans aad the Bourbon Uemoerat who I tsoUed the eonventions at Rochester aad Albany, JIB. BLACXMXTBJf TOM MPS. Congressman Blackburn, of Ksntui t. at tha Imlsvilla the Southern Demoersts have given the port hern Democrats all the offices since the war, and that he Is avow ta of a Southern man foe jSpeaiefc Speaking of his own candidacy he aaysi thave no asked the support of any one rv mendonedthe matter to some of our ewa delegation, and hsre received many letters from friends la other pates oa th subject i this the extent of my eajivass.

I will aot vote for aa aastem candid ate, that la, a mas coming from a State east of the mouatahis. Tha m- teresta of the West aad South are Identical 'and they should staad together in this matter I wilvota fog any Southern candidate named by mf aide of ths Mouse, aad several good men have bee mentioned for the place." Of Mr. Randall he said i I am sett- fled that he has pledged atmaalf a friend ef the Texas Padftc Road to the Bouee Oomeaittee. but foe could not gat an Castera Democratic rota if the believe he was ta favo of tbeeehemei so It Is evident that he is using two kinds ef halt ta Baals for the Hiieskkershio." Aad of htmasU again I am no tm favor of the MIL I am oppose to au I trnk koim AOAISST TOM cbisaA a i Bam FnAJrcmoo, Cat, Oct. 15.

A statement of JToha Meyers, the suspended Consul-aeaeral China, relative to his suspeasloa by Minister Seward, la pubUahed. He claims that f. his kaspcnfalon wal prompted by Improper motive! aad thai Mr. Seward's hostility was due to the fact that he jjf.Meyers) had eppossd him la corrupt and Improper traasse- tioasi that Mr. Seward was Interested la building roads aad railways in the vicinity of; Shanghai, aad used his official Inflsenee to fbree this enterprises upon the Chi ansa people ta iontraveatkm of the -principle of international law and treaty obligations i that Mr.

Seward leased the Consulate buildings. rented them to the United States! at a profit of $400 per month i that one Of the United States Marshals, John Phomlx, had been ssrviag yean under a temporary appoiatment at an anaual salary. ef Sl.OUO, while the fees of the, office had bean a propriated, aad that the record have beea rautilated to cover sp these illegal prmtlne. These and othet transactions war eiarevered by Meyers, and met bH opposition, which occasioned Reward i Hi v. The statement was pre oared by the aid of eon nee while Meyers wss recently ta till city, and with e-umpaoyiog document will be presents to the eaa.

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