The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1875, Page 10

10 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1875. THE STATE CAMPAIGN Both Parties Working Hard for the Rural Vote. THE PRESENT OUTLOOK. How the Republicans are Stirring Up Their Backwoods Sluggards. TILDEN’'S HOLD ON THE FARMER. Avnory, Oct, 17, 1875, There remains but two brief weeks now before elec- tion day, and from the present until the end of that Rime ali the work that is yet to be done to pave the way for victory must be done hurriedly by the two parties. Bwo weeks ago there was in the country districts but very little activity displayed on either side, It is trae Mat the State committees had organized long before; ‘but their machinery had not as yet been set in motion to any great extent, and for my part, upto about ten days ago, judging from what I saw about me in the various counties I passed through, | had come to the sonclusion that the republicans were going to let the democrats have their own way; that, in fact, they bad given up all iden of resistance as @ useless one. ‘Bnt since then thero has come a great change, and one cannot now arrive at a hotel in an interior city without of an evening hearing that there is to bea meeting held in this and that place a few miles out in the country. The cities to a great de- gree have not as yet been much troubled in the mass meeting ling, it being seemingly the policy of the managers to give the canvassers all the time possible to find out every republican’s whereabouts, so as to know whero tocollar him on election day, and leaving the mass meeting part of the campaign in the cities to the very last week before the election, Meanwhile, as {said before, the remote country places are being looked after with the utmost solicitude, I bave often during the past week got off the cars, as they stopped fora mo- ‘ment at some little station, and out of curiosity asked if there was to be a republican meeting tn the place that night. If the answer was not in every instance in the affirmative it was always to the effect that ‘just over to’ (and then a place was mentioned near by) there was to be one. THE SUDDRN CHANGER from a lethargy that was at first remarkable to this Btate of activity 1 find is duc to the State Committee’s Agents, who are now to be met at every town and whose special duty it is either to speak at six meetings a week pt six different little places away from the big cities er to dive into the furthest recesses of the re- motest districts to learn if possible how farmer John land farmer Tom are feeling about the approaching ‘lection. There is something that the men employed Dy the State Committee for this kind of work know ag well as most other people, and that is that there are ‘thousands of country rypublican voters who need to be stirred up to be induced to go to the polls at all, apd they know what most other people do not—how to “sound” them. “There are undoubtedly,” said ex-Lieutenant Gov- ernor Robinson, whom I met at Binghamton on Batarday, looking fresh and hearty, “more repub- cars in thig Stato than there are democrats, although it does not always seem 60 at the polls,” and the veteran grinned et the joke. “But,” he continved, ‘the trouble is to get them ont” And this. seems, 1 learn from the can- vassers, to be the fact. Unless there is some extraordinary issue at stake, and such a hubbub ts made ‘sbout it in the country towns that even the most care. fess must perforce become interested, the full repubd- Jican vote cannot be gotout One would naturally ‘think that a democratic farmer would be as backward in @oming forward as his republican neighbor, but ‘‘statis- ics—as a prominent republican {in speaking bout the queer circumstance remarked to me— prove to the contrary. The why and the wherefore no ne seems to understand. ‘The allegation that it 1s be- @ause they are hungry for political place—being among Bhe “outs” in politics—which I have heard given, is Wather weak. 43 MITRRTOR ELECTION. DISTRICT. A New Yorker who steps out of his house on elec- ‘tion day and only has to walk a block or two to reach Adis polling place knows nothing of the meaning of ‘‘elec- tion district” in the interior of the State where the population is very sparse, and where one may at times wide along the read in some parte and not come across & dwelling for az hour or two. The extent of an elec- Bion district—I wee the New York term to be intelligi- bie—can therefore be imagined, and what a nice thing it is for a farmer to leave his cosey hearth fire blazing in the chimney of = raw November morning with the rain pouring Gown in torrents, hitch up his team and ride to the polling place, the journey to and back, with the ‘litte intervals,” consuming, in some immances, the beter part of an entire day. “It is not all pumptin pie, bya long shot,” said one of them to me, whom I called apon with.one of the eanvassers; “and thomto get back to ham, all used up, and hear two or three deys after that our folks got ‘Whipped like thunder !’” ‘This being the situation of the country voters, when I tell you that the machimery of the two tate Cemmit- tees is such this year that,almost every voter, no mat- ter where or how far he lives away from the ‘borders of somewhere,” will be’ personally risited before @lection by some oily persumier, the extent of the work ‘wndertaken can de conjectured. The footprints of the @emocratic workers are found pretty thick im every district; but, so far as I have perceived, the canvass being made by them is not nearly co thorough as that ‘which was mado by them last year! Indeed. last year’s democratic canvass was «& perfect wonder f many ways, Dut then there was only ons prominent candidate to be voted for (at least he weemed to think so himself) ami there are now four or five in each State ticket; so {t sands to reason that every family in the backwoods haa not received free of expense the lithographic counterpart of each one’s beautiful self. Thero are mat nearly so many moetings being held by the femocrats, and by no means the same evidence’ of hard work fgotng on as there is on the part of their opponents. it may be that the republicans find more; need to work than the democrats, or that the talk( which was 60 freely tnduiged in in the earlier stages of ‘the campaign about the certamty of the Tilden ticket yeweeping the Btato by at least 70,000 majority, and botlt branches of the Legisiatare along with it, may have gtvem the demo crats AN OVER CONFIDENCE tn their own strength, aad conseqmently the ides that ‘there is no necessity to work day amd night to acoom- Plish what was certain to come to pass anyhow. Lam much inclined to believe that the demourats te be mot ‘With here and there in villages and towns who say when questioned about the situation, “Suse thing; no Wouble about it; all one way,” are \rather more Confident than is good for the party interesta, Still, the State Committee's hand i visible now and then Just wheres revival of the singgards is the most wanted, and I am told by democrats whos ought so Know that their chief work is a quiet work which will make a great noise only on election day. Both (parties ‘Were working very fairly before the Ohio election, yet there seemed to be un anxiety about it that made them hold themselves in, as it wore, until the result had been Known. It is true that the democrats in this Stano have a bard-money platform as well as the republicans, ‘but I am free to acknowledge that they seem to ve con eiderably down in the mouth sinre Allen's defeat, while the republicans have been correspondingly elated. Judge Curtia, who presided over the Demo- eratic Convention at Syracuse, and who made a hard money speech was, I am told, very much disap- Pointed on hearing of the inflationists’ discomfture, ‘nd in an argument with a hard-money democrat who Fojoiced, nsed some pretty strong language. Still the democrats generally whom Phave spoken to in various parts of the State since the Ohio election say they aro sorry that the democratic party there was dofeated, but Blad that the money principle it advocated went under ‘with it Unauestionably Hayes’ yictory has had a cities and towns whe exceeds that of last year, This i those districts which are strongly republican. Hence it would seom that the work of th structed to get out the full republican vote is meetin, with success, and if they ean succeed as weil in the re- enect nm the repnpncans tn the State, and since jt has been placed beyond @ doubt their demeanor has been different, and their work has apparently received anew impetua And, what is more important, there is evidently a considerable change on the part of the coun— try people. Had the election in this State been held three ago, judging from what I was able to observe and see for myself in Various places and in counties where the magnates are not all of the same political com- paren the Syracuse ticket would have been carried y a greater majority than Tilden carried the State last year, and both houses of the Legislature been secured to the democracy, done now; and, although at the present outlook the apparent attitude of the voters in many of the counties But I do not think that could be Thave visited leads me to believe that the democratic ticket will win by a good majority, it certainly will not de by near aa large a majority as last year’s Indeed, if the republicans should. push on. tll mouth their planning to get out their full vote with the same vigor that they have been doing, there is no knowing what may happen, the end of this ‘The evidences are every- immense vote will be polled, in registration is of obligation stration in every instance far remarkably so in where that an I have found that the ose who have been in- moto districts they may have reason on the 3d of No- vember to congratulate themselves on their skill at political engineering. REPUMLICANS STAY AT HOME. The general complaint on the part of the republican leaders last year was that the rank and file stayed at home on election day in uncomfortably large numbers. It will be remembered, too, that some of the very men who are now doing their utmost to have the State com- mittee's hand to help the party in the way of canvassing, and to this, strauge to say, more even than to ilden’s popu- larity, they now gay the democratic victory of last year was due, drumming up process succeed did not hft a “Had we made the proper effort,” was the remark to me to-day of arepublican who ran for a high office last year and went under with all the rest of the household gods on the’republican State ticket, ‘we could have won the election. But, while the democratic canvass ‘was one of the most thorough ever known, scarcely a stop oat of the usual routine was taken to stir up the country people. ‘Another remarked:—‘There were comparatively few republican meetings held in the small villages last year, and things were so quiet some republican farmers hardly knew that there was to be an election.” ‘Things are certainly quite different this year, and if what I bave witnessed of the efforts being made by the workers in both parties in the counties I have been in is @ pattern of what is being done in all other counties the result will be the polling next November of one of the largest voles ever cast in the State. The re- publicans, as I have mentioned, believe that if they can get out their full vote they will carry the State on the mere ground that there are more republicans than democrats in the State. But how the canvass is going to determino beforehand which party owns certain votes I am ata loss to see; for itis not every repub- lean voter who talks freely this year, and I have found instances of this suspicious circumstance on every side, There was agood deal more of it some weeks ago than now; but wherever I have gone of iate I have come across enough examples of voters among the re- ublicans who “have not made up their minds; don’t now whether they will vote at all,” and who think Tilden has done a wonderful deal of good, and who speak enthusiastically about him without saying flatly that they will vote for him, to satisfy me that while oficial Tepudlican counters of noses may get the full republi- can vote out they may not be able to control ali of it on election day. These non-talkative voters are very plentiful in the Orange and Sullivan districts and across the way in Dutchess and Columbia, in Steuben, Greene, Oswego, Schuyler, Ulster and Monroe, In a'previous letter I gave you’ evidences of a feeling of reticence somewhat akin to this as existing in the extreme west- erly section of the State, where the republicans ‘hold the fort” year in and year out, and how there appeared to be a desire on the part of many republicans to vote for the democratic State ticket while they voted for the republican Senators, they seeming to be satisfied that this half way measure would be sustaining Tilden re- form and at the same time keeping themselves within the republican party. I have no doubt the republican leaders would greatly prefer.to have these queer repub- licans do this than to vote for democratic Senators. Just what the republicans who are not outspoken when spoken to mean I know not; but between this and the end of the month the canvassers of either side will, doubtless, have found out and have reported to head- quarters accordingly. RELUCTANT DEMOCRATS. It is, however, open to question whether, if these republicans mean to vote for the whole Tilden ticket and democratic legislative candidates, they will not be offset by democrats who will not vote at ail or who will make a dead set upon the republican candidates on the ticket, It is apparent that the delegates from the interior counties who wentto Syracuse must have opened their hearts to their constituents and told them how candidates were dictated to them by Tilden and they had to take them or stand accused of breeding dis- sension in the party, for there is au undercurrent of feeling against the head of the democratic ticket that is unmistakable in almostevery country. Mr. Bigelow will then, lam sure, be badly ecratched by those who are angry that he was placed on the ticket, being a re- publican, and by that no inconsiderable body of demo: erate, friends of the Canal Ring and others, who are anxious to give some kind of blow to Tilden out of dis- like for the man on the one hand and from detestation of the policy that has bared their ‘villanies to the public; bat to make sure of hitting at Tilden the canal- ers, a8 a general thing, wiil vote the republican ticket and for republican legislative candidates, Judging from what I have seen and heard unless some great revolu- tion of feeling takes place among them in the next ten days [ should not be the least gurprised the day after the election, if the democrats do carry the State, that Bigelow and Fairchild have been defeated by Seward and Danforth. he feeling among some of the demo- crats against PAIRCHILD’S CANDIDACY es of more bitterness than that against Bigelow’s. je, too, is regarded by them as one foisted on the ticket despite the better sentiment of the party and ‘under circumstances which brought humiliation to an oid time democrat who, in their opinion, deserved bet- er treatment, By the cutting of the names of these Two candidates, which will apparentiy prevail to a great extent in every district, they will run yery far behind their ticket if élected, and this is one of the ways the men whose noses were put to the grindstone at Syra- cuse by the Governer will return the compliment. ‘The fact is Tilden in some of the districts has made himself very distasteful to many democrate in more ways than those which, through his friends at Syracuse, he adopt- ed to carry out bis mandates “What do you think of Tilden?” I asked a well- known democrat in Ulster county. “Very well in bis place, but let him be content with being Governor. When ‘ho tries to tell us who we shail nominate for Assembly he goes too far. I know of acase in one county where a certain gentleman was to be nominaied. ‘J don’t know him,’ said Mr. Tilden, speaking one day at Albany lately to one of those who Was urging the nomination. ‘You had better take Mr. So-and-so.’ Such was the response.” I inquired of this frank democrat if Mr, So-an4-So was taken. The answer seemed a very strange ome to me, and pointed its own moral. “He was, but what could they do?” I gave it up THe PIGHT POR THE SENATE. That the republicans will make the most of the bed feeling ranking in the hearts of the croakers stands to Treason, and they are dowg everything to foment and encourage it wherever it exista I have found that their campaign is being conducted with not only skill, but great cuaning. They are it every Senatorial district acting on the same plan, and that ts to harmonize all differences at any price, but above all to be harmonious on the Senatorial question. They are determined, even if de- feated on the State ticket—even though the battle for the Assembly sbould go agaimet them—to be able after the fight is over to hold the citadel for two years to come-—the Senase. Everything is being done to secure this regult, and they argue, with a great deal of reason, that if @ d at ali other points and they hold one the Governor will be for another year precisely where he's now, so far as his political power is con- cerned. “Tho State officers are pow democrats, and the Assembly is democratic, and if we have the Sevato we are acheck to bis political pawer,” they argue. The democrata understand the situation thoroughly, and they would be great fools if they did not. So gb their meetings they are turning the argument of the republicans against them by declaring that it is now, more than ever, the purpuse evidently _of the republicazs to thwart the Governor in hia efforts for administrative reform as tae sacrifice, the determination their opponents manifest to carry the Senate being the proof ponttive. And the argument carries with it, I have no doubt, a good deal of weight with those voters who are wondering if, after all, tho republicans will, as they promise, give the Governor all the support he wants to carry oat reforins already be- gun. The doubt once suggested may create no smail muachief in some of the districta Still, the republican stump epeakere are careful enough not to act as though they wanted to dodge the question of refurm, for said one of them t mo—a mao, by the way, who has done good service ‘in the Twenty. fourth district in speaking at meeting the to ant ta just hero where the shoe seems to pioch the tightest with the republicans ip the rural districts. There is no painsying ‘whas Tilden bas dons, and the poople bav een kept perez weil posted, ‘free of postage, I find. about what he bas done and his Canal Commission aro doing. The republicans know this, and the ro i honest republican farmer who has been stragg ” theo to pay off the mortgage on hiv farm and who has ad bis eyes suddenly opened by the Governor's raid on @e ‘Canal Ring’ to the fact that while he and his neighbors were yelling themselves hoarse over the downtall of the Tammany Ring, men were stealiog the public money by the thousand right under his nove, is an eagor listene® at the meetings. This poe 2 has been a terrible revelation to him and he very naturally wants to know how it js all going toend. If he believed that the defeat of the demo- cratic cavdidates would defeat Tilden’s policy ho would vote for every democratic candidate, Senator and all. It isto stop any “mistake’’ like this that the re- publi stump epeakers are bending their utmost en- deavors, and, while shrewdly lauding Tilden for his efforts, they appeal to the republicans to aid him as fepublicans, but not to hand over to the democrats the “‘gorious tark”’ of returm, which cau be dono so much beiter by republicans. “Do you know," | heard a republican speaker remark after a meeting ut Dryden, “there were some people in that audience who actually believe that Tilden was the first man who exposed the Tai “rey wo cone really crushed it, He has done his work so cunningly that some of them have forgotten all abont the efforts of the fugemtionne to put democratic thieved out of power, and realy the republican i “ War years ago of the Canal Ring. » ceils ibaa + some of the meetings the countrymen are vory*{n- quivitive, I was hoaruly amused tar other evening after Just such an argument as is given in the above marks was used by one of the speakers, when & burly looking well to do farmer arose and said :— A PERTINENT QUESTION, “But aint Tilden doin’ the thing a leetle vit better than we did?” I did not wonder that the orator at once launched out about Tilden’s disloyalty during the war, after reply ing that the democrats had stood in the way of the republican effort at reform. But the numerous repub- ican country meetings are doing a great deal of good for the party, and they are always well attended, the farmers coming to them from pics 6 jong distances, and, asthe Senatorial question in each district is naturally the one in which all the local small fry politaciaus are interested, a great point is gained, THE PROBABILITIES, As to precisely what the concentrated ef- fort of the republicans upon the Senate prize will amount to it is almost too early as yet to speculate. Still the indications are unmistakable in some of the districts Ihave been through, Take the Tenth, for instance, which Madden, republican, repre- sented the last four years. D. B, St. John is the demo- cratic candidate. who resides in Orange county, and Morgan Shuit, the republican candidate, who resi in Sullivan They are both good men, The republicans believe they can elect their man, and that his personal popularity Will carry him through, but I do not believe they will, From ail the indications I think it certain that Mr. St. John will be elected, Congressman Beebe lives in the district at Monticello, and he isa host in him. self, and all his energies will be used to further the cause of the democratic nominee. Mr, St. John’s election will be a democratic gain, The two democratic members of Assembly from Orange, and the one from Sullivan, will also be elected The Eleventh Senatorial district may fairly be set down asin doubt, It was carried two years ago by Benjamin Ray, a democrat, by, I think, 1,900 majority against Hogeboom, a very popular man atthe time, and although the present nominee, Mr. James B. Mackin, who hails {rom the upper county of the district, Dutchess, is quite a popular man and well known, he has a most formidable competitor in B. Platt Carpenter, of Columbia county, The latter, too, has a great advantage im the support of the liberals, who, ander the lead of Abiah W. Palmer, doubt- less, two years ago gave Ray all the sup- port they” could, Still the chances, even with this balance in the scale against Mr. ’ Mackin, are not so much one-sided a8 to give the republicans too much confidence on account of the strength of their man. Dutchess county casts a much larger vote than Columbia, and Mackin’s great strength at his own home, with the aid, which will be considerable, he will get from the other county, may in the end elect him by a very handsome majority. I atm inclined to think that both counties will each send two democratic As- semblymen, which will be a gain of one for the demo: crats, In the Twelfth district the democrats may pos- sibly hold their own as to the Assembly, although the more enthusiastic believe they can this time not only keep the Firstand Second districts, but also get their man elected from the Second, If they do this they will be doing wonders, The Senatorship struggle will be a very hot fight, and as things looked some time ago the odds appeared to be in favor of the republican candi- date (Coleman), who is not an easy man to beat, even with a very strong candidate against him. If he should be elected, and it is almost certain that he will be, bis success Will tally a loss for the democrats, THE ALBANY DISTRICT is always in a ferment, and has been torn to pieces by factions for the past few years, The Sy @ Con- vention’s action last September on the contested of the delegates was tantamount to no action at ail other than tliat which would give the two parties farther cause than ever to quarrel, and amid their quarrels to permit of the republicans reaping the re- ward of their own harmony, It is true that the McEwenites had some justification in declaring that as their candidate for Senator who was put in the field first, was a good democrat against whom nothing could be said, who had always been faithful to his party, and who could be relied upon by the Governor as an earnest supporter of administrative reform, the other party (which was declared regular by the Syracuse Couven tion) should have indorsed the nomination. Had this been doue the hope expressed by the Committee on Credentials at Syracuse in their report might not have proved a delusive one, as it has thus far, that har- mony might prevail among democrats in the district. Yet the regulars no doubt feared that had they indorsed McElwain, their old antagonist, would lodk upon it as cringing the knee; so they held aloof, had their own convention, and the result is two democratic candidates in the field, the “regular? being Jesse C. Dayton, who served during the last two years in the Senate, It is under- stood that he is backed by the Governor, who earnestly desires his re-election. “Efforts, 1 understood, when I was in the country, were to be made to bring about a compromise of ome kind so that only one candidate should remain in the field, but they did not look very promising. It it needless to state that the repub- jicans are delighted over the situation, as they see in the Albany quarrel otily a repetition of those little quar- rels, more or less endangering their euccess, which I have found existing among democrats in several districts of the State, if not over Tilden or Bigelow, at least over something which, if they followed the example of the republicans, they would sacrifice for their party’s welfare. In their delight the republicans first took up Henry R. Pierson, and then dropped him like a hot potato when Willlam H. Vanderbilt’s letter gave Mr. Pierson the hint to step down and out on the scriptural ground that no man can serve two masters, and Hamilton Harris bas taken his place. If the quarrel goes on with such a man as Harris in the field, it needs little prophecy to tell how the contest will end. Certainly if the Governor is 80 anxious to secure the next Senate he ought to be able to make the crooked way straight right in his own neighberhood— that fs, if he has not already come to the conclusion that the Senate can’t be democratic anyhow. The district represented by Mr. Connolly, republican, will be very closely contested, apparently. Mr. Schoon- maker, his opponent, is popular, and will run gplen- didly. ‘But, with Connolly in the fleid, the combined vote of the two counties of Ulster and Greene being largely democratic, the democrats are all united aud saying they will certainly elect their man, I think Mr. Schoonmaker is sure of success. Ulster will elect one democratic Assemblyman and Greene one. Ulster is the county, I might mention, which gave a democratic mujority in 1873 and 2419 last year. So the workers have always their hands fall, and in Kingston the cam- paign ammunition and plans are being got together by both parties with the most destructive intentions There was a prospect at one time that there would be A REPUBLICAN BPLIT in the Fifteenth district, it being generally understood jast year that George West, who has represented the First Saratoga Assembly district 60 acceptably fer sev- eral terms, Would be nominated Senator this year in place of Mr. Wagner, In fact Mr. Wagner, it 1s said, promised not to ran again, but when it came to the jumping off place at the Convention he managed to get ‘ue more vote than the genial West. The latter very naturally felt indignant, and the way the friends who had supported him talked, if not absolutely bolting, at least of not voumg at ‘all, gave the democrats great promise of boing abie to slip their candidate in during the smoke. How they could do this, even with such & candidate as 3. 'f. Benedict, a very popular man, it is rather difficult to imagine when their candidate two Ss ago only 22 votes out of 14,52 ‘ast, Mr. West has been moliitiea, howeve following the spirit of conciliation which seems to animate the republicang in all the districts, he has ac- cepted the nomination for Assembly from’ his old dis- trict, The democrats talk of being able to carry the Second district, but their prospects are very slim. I have shown you im a previous letter that Mr. Tobey in the Sixteenth, Mr. Darins Moore in the Seven- teenth, Mr, Harnden in the Eighteenth, as well as Mr. Cole in the Twenty-ninth, Mr, Weilman in the Thir- tieth and Mr. Veeder in ‘the Thirty-second, all repub- leans, weil be elected, owing to circumstances over nich the democrats bave no possible control It is possible that Fulton and Hamilvon will elect a demo- cratic Assemblyman this year, at least the democrats in Johnstown gay they Will.’ In Schenectady county it is believed that Mr, Benedict's candidacy for the Senate will result in electing a democratic successor to himself to the House, The democrats at Amsterdam » confident that George W. Voorbies, their candidate mbly from Montgomery county, will be elected. be Been that In those Senatorial districts, not and out republican, of which I have spoken, the rats in all,probubility will elect their candidates iu two districts’ now represented by republicans, of loaing in one now represented by a democrat, of re- tainwg their hold in another now democratic, and that another now held by them may possibly be lost unless good . councils prevail between the democrats of the district before the day of election. In my next letter 1 shall be able to give you some interesting particulars about te district from which I now write. NEW PARTIES. (From the Cincinnati Coramercial. } A large aumber of demoerata of the purest old Jack- con stripe have voted tho republican ticket, and an equal number of republicans have yoted the democratic ticket, The softening of the brain about soft money mast have loosened the tissues, or they would not have beoa able to go for Allen and Cary.’ People have for some years been talking of a third party, and there bas been. an immenwe pother whether sucha thing might, could, would or should be, Certaiuly the dissatisiac~ tion of the moet inteHigent citizens with the old organi- zations has been grow: wt the shifting vote is capable in many piace ying she majorities from side to wide, This is a condition of affatrs that we do »k upon nnfavorably. It seems not impossible, ef, Shut in the era of the ¢ zion of business question’ upon which we are entering the country may have to make choice ‘een two pariles both new, SENATOR DAWES CRITICISED. (From the Bostow. Post—democratie, } Before considering the especial phaso of Senatorial wisdom which Mr. Dawes ilivstrates on the stump !p this campaign it is proper to \recall the fact that one year ago he was supporting with equal earnestness the ¢ of an open and mvyowed fnflationiat to ® seat in Congress from Massachusetts, going down into Butler's district and urging decemt and sensible men to vote for one ot whose record on other matters #t 1a un- necessary to speak, but whose views on the subject of paper money are perhaps the worst in their tendency of any that have been promulgated, When Mr, Dawes arraigned the Grant administration onghe floor of Cam- gross for extravagance and incompetenay and then rep away to New Hampahire for convenience in eating his own words out of sight of home, he vide no moro ridiculous oxhibition of instability than in bis present pretensions a2 an advocate of hard fhoney sdsoon after js appearance aa a champion of Butler. WICKHAM'S WAR. No new developments took place yesterday before Mayor Wickham in the matter of the Police Commts- sioners. The Mayor will not a# yot give a in. formation relative to the rumor that he hos preferred charges aga'nst the Commissioners to Governor Tilden. It ig stated, however, that »o removals will bo made until alter election, LL ROSCOE CONKLING, Speech of the Blond Senator at the State ‘Capital, FAINT PRAISE ‘FOR TILDEN. The Canal Reforms Regarded Through Republican Spectacles. Comparative Expenditure of the Two Party Administrations. Aubayy, N. ¥., Oct. 18, 1875, The opening speech of Roscoe Conkling in the pres- ent political campaign was made in Tweddle Hall, this evening, to a large and enthusiastic audience. The Senator was in excellent condition and evidently well prepared for the work which the State Committee have jaid out for him, The following is au abstract of ‘THE SPEECH. The Senator opened his remarks by a little sally at the expense of Governor Tilden, in which he apologized for not being a farmer nor even a Governor, and pro- ceeded to compare the claims of the two great parties in this State to the support of the 5,000,000 voters who are soon to record their judgment on several far- Teaching questions. One memorable fact, said he, stands in front of all others. By their declarations both parties in this State are agreed on the questions which have rocked the country for twenty yoars. Is not this amazing? Is it not full of instruction? For twenty years the republican party and the democratic. party baye been locked in a grap- ple for the mastery over certain broad, distinct ques- tions, You know what they are. The republican purty was born of these questions, was born to champion them on one side. The democratic party, till very re- cently, made a stubborn, dogged fight upon them, But now both these organizations profesa to hold one and the same ground. One or both must have changed in opimon or profession, One, at least, must have been wrong, Which, one is it?’ Has the republican party proved to be wrong or mistaken? Has it changed front? No! But the democratic part las at last be- come conyinced—so its platform makers assert—that the cardinal principles heretofore denounced year after year should be accepted and approved. Thus the ro- publican party is vindicated on the great issues of the century, and thus the democratic party confesses itsolf beaten and wrong in every position it has maintained since 1855, The speaker charged that the democracy had always claimed the right of a State to break up the Union, and that this very hall, on February 1, 1861, rang “with solemn and vehement denunciations, and threats uttered with unanimity by a delegated State conven- tion against all attempts to chastise and put down re- bellion, and long years later this ground had not been abandoned. Emancipation was one of these questions, and when Lincoln set free the slaves he set free also the most frenzied and savage spirit of opposition throughout the democracy that ever ran riot in our history, Allowing the slaves to join our standard and carry a spade or musket for us was another bone of contention, and General McCleilan, before being nomi- nated for the Presidency, declared by public proclama- tion that every black man who came to the Union camp should be returned by force to his master.” The Senator reviewed the action of the nationat de- mocracy on the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendinents, and charged that down to the last hour of the last session the democrats in Congress made common cause against every measure intended to vitalize or ulilize either of these’ amendments, always voting for every claim coming from the South for dam- ages done by the war. ‘THE CANAL REVORM. He stated that public attention in this State is di- rected now from more general questions, and fixed chieily on certain matters of State administration. The management of Sar patie works and State affairs stands in the foreground of political discussion, and ‘canal re- form’? is the one thing we are invited to consider, For me, I gladly accept the invitation. The subject is not new, and most of us are not new converts to its merit and importance, Extravagance and profligacy in canal and prison management and in other branches of State administration is older than most of us, It is a matter which I have often urged upon my fellow citizens. In this hall, in October, 1871, when the doings we hear so much of now were fresh, the people of Albany gave mea long hearing upon what had then re- cently been done aud what was still progressing in profligate expenditures upon the canals and prisons of the State, Muny times and in many pluces, and by many republican speakers and editors, a8 the files of the press will show, the very cana! management which has lately been dissected has been denounced and accused and demonstrated by facts and figures to be not only prodigal but dishonest 1 rejoice that at last the truth, in part, is coming to light, and the republican party would not, and cannot and dare not, withhold any effort to go to the bottom ol the wrong and retorm it altogether. ‘The speaker pro- ceeded to analyze the “reforms” in the State and painted in his eloquent and sarcastic style those in the democratic party a8 politicians who see “MILLIONS IN 17.7" There are, he said, yet other reformers—sincere, ef- fective, ubostentatious reformers—who carry no long faces, making no prayers on street corners, not wring- ing their hands or shaking their heads, nor vaunting themselves, but lay hold of wrong and correct it in a hopeful, honest spirit, Such reformers and such reforms should have the active aid and sympathy of every man who would preserve his country, his property, his rights, and who would maintain his integrity and self-respect. No man can mock at such reform and keep himself unspotted. The Senator re- ferred to the work of the republicans in the elections, Havemeyer, Mayor, died defeating the Tammany Ring, and asserted that Mr. Tilden and the whole demo- cratic party supported every democrat tn noiination, notoriously allied, as many of them were, with Tweed; and now we see that anew “Tammany Ring” has again blossomed out in practices loss flaring but as certainly hurttul and dishonest ag those which distinguished ‘Tweed and his confreres, * * * * But we are told that because Governor Tilden has takeu ground agwnst canal rascality the people must elect the democratic ticket and the democratic party. This position I want to examine. To begin with, Governor Tilden is not running i this canvass. “poss” KELLY IN NEW YORK ig quite as much in question as Governor Tilden. The democratic party 1s running, and it is a good deal more important to know how it stands than to know how Governor Tilden or any other man stands, It is important to know how both parties stand, and who the candidates are and how they stand. In Albany it is well to know bow Mr. Dayton stands, how he stood and how he voted and how he did not vote last winter. If he has been and is honestty for rooting out the rasealities which have preyed upon the public works, and bis opponent is not for so doing, I ‘think Mr. Dayton ought to be elected to the Senate. If Frederick W. Seward and Francis E. Spinner and their associates are not to be trusted, I think they should be voted down, especially if their opponents can be trusted, Certainty they start with no personal inferiority, and their political bias cannot stand in their way. Why should a repubiican, as such, wish to uphold the “Canal Ring” or the “Tammany Ring?” Whenever these two rings are finally destroyed, the sword arm of the demoe- racy in this State will be broken, and the army which the republican party has met in so many baitles will find its legions thinned and its exchequer unprovided, THR CANAL FRAUDS, ‘The speaker for balf an hour devoted his attention to the canal frauds as scen through republican spectacles, and, critically exam:ning the antecedents of the actors in them, the state officers under whose administration they were perpetrated, came to the conclusion that the democracy alone are responsible for them Pro- ceeding to the doings of tho Canal Bonrd, Mr. Conkling snid:—All these officials were democrats. They are the same men whom, two years afterward, at Rochester, Governor Tilden assisted in renominating and whom he supported with all the appliances which ministered to that immaculate campaign. They arc the game men for whom the whole democracy voted after their doings were notorious—the same men for whom they counted ag many votes in New York city within ‘about 8,000 as had been counted for Hoffman, when, as we know now, upward of 15,000 was fulsuly added to the count; and all this at an election when republicans laid aside party and gave their votes to Mr. nour, Mr. Tilden, Mr, Tiemann and other democt , because they believed them for reform. Mr. Conkling Continued tn this strain, giving instances of | fraud and calling special attention to every case whore republicans were Instrumental in either dofeating or exposing the th’ ; and referring to Governor Til- den’s course he said: “I concede that for all he has really done to assail them, Governor Tilden is entitied to credit and applause. No man shall ever hear me detract from his just meed of praise, He deserves praise, and so do the whole body of republican senators and members of the Assembly who sustained every effort, and voted for the most novel and stringent measures to aid the Executive with plenary power. But how can it be that the democratic party and its candidates, general and local, aro entitled t make gains from such @ damning exposure? When the na- tional administration exposes and hunts down its un- faithful agents and scourges them from the temple, the opposition press cries aloud that republicans have been caught in offictal wrong, and calls upon the people to vote down such a party. But when the whole body of democratic State olficials are convicted of systematic misdoing, the same pres® insiets that other democrats must be put in their places, amid gevicral applause, ‘The Senator here called attention to the figures as to canal receipts and expenditures, recently published in the Albany Heening Jowrnal, which showed a large sur- plus revenue in favor of the republicans. UNDER ANTI-DEMOCRATIO CONTROL, Tolls and Cost of Col- Miscellaneous lection and Surplus Year: Receipts, Repairs, Revenues. 56. .ae+ $2,740,133 40 $786,633 40 $1,962,500 00 21550;400 06 970,458 46 1,580,015 70 UNDER DEMOCRATIC RULR. . $2,072,204 83 $1,078878 OL $090,325 97 1 "3,860.870 63 807,878 96 962,000 67 ENDER RRPUPLICAN CONTROL. . $2,416,088 29 $746,976 78 $1,009,011 61 1 "940% 623 20 706,786 14 2,605,842 16 | 4864, 080 67 = 778,808 82 41,591 35 Re TIOK2 62 —QUADRUPLE SHEET. Tolls ana Cost of Coe Miscellaneous lection and = Surplus Year. Receipts. * ‘Repairs. venues, 1sta. 4,340,265 52 1,028,909 464,317,366 06 1865...;: 3,577,465 45 1,927,373 59% — 1,850,001 86 4,300,746 12 1,434,880 73 2,874,756 39 4,060,357 79 1,220,192 65 2,830,165 4,477,540 17 1) 184,245 3,293,301 13 161,280 10 1,278,507 52 2,882,772 68 UNDER DEMOCRATIO CONTROL, ++ $8,107,188 90 $1,045,695 927 $1,161,502 98 1l "284549 94 2)250,145 02 592}404 32 avy and unusual freshets’ aud breaks largely increased the expenses this year. tNot including $591,528 37 advanced by the Albany It may be sald that reduetion of tolls explains somo obra Sacre, — two years when the tolls re alike, one year in which one ‘was in power, and one year in-whiob the other had control:—— UNDER DEMOCRATIC RULE. 1871. Cost of repairs and collecting tolls Surplus revenues. , UNDER REI 1873. Cost of repairs and collecting tolls... Surplus revenues. Difference in cost of repairs, &c... seeee $790,080 It appears, further, that under republican manage- ment $5,000,000 annuully of canal revenues were paid to the canal debt and that under democratic manage- mont the payment fel off ono half The republican party in ten years reduced the canal debt $17,000,000; under democratic control it has not been reduced $1,000,000, Under republican ‘management the cost of the canals has averaged twenty-five per cent of the receipts; un- der democratic management tho average has be seventy-two per cent In other words, under one party $75 of every §100 received has gone Into the treasury; under the other party only $28 of every $100 received has found its way into the treasury, DIX AND TILDEN COMPARED, You probably do not believe in everything the Gov- ernor has done even recently, nor do. the peuple believe in all he has done, For exainple, tt is not graceful, to say the least, at industrial fairs and other non-partisan occasions, or indeed anywhere, to assert that the ro- duction of taxes which has been effected ts the work of the Governor or his party, There are several objections tot; one ts that it ia not the fuct, Gavernor Dix, and not Governor Tilden, 13 the Governor to be creiited with this, Governor Dix and a republican administra tion and Legislature found a sinking fund rifled. by democrats and they made it good again; and the de- crease of taxation—not nearly 80 great as’ the sums we see paraded—resulted from action which Governor ‘Pilden did not and could not effect, This so-called re- duction is merely the abatement of taxes after the sink- ing was made good and they were therefore no longer needed. ‘THR CANAL COMMISSION, The speaker next considered the appointment of the Canal Commission, and charged bad faith on the part of the democracy. Said he:—Dismiss the question whether it was or was not desirable to havea neutral and impartial tribunal, and then how does the case stand? The Senate and the public were induced by the Governor and Mr. Bigelow to believe that the commis- gion was composed of two men on each sida, The Gov- ernor may have been deceived ; it is to be hoped he was, Bat Mr. Bigelow was not deceived; be knew the fuct, and yet he concealed it and acted apart, knowing that if he disclosed the fact he would not be allowed to act it, What would be thought of such a proceeding tn church, a body of Masons or Odd Fellows, a college so- ciety or aclub? Mr Bigelow was on the democratic ticket; Mr. Van Buren, another Commissioner, does the same thing; Mr, Magone, a third Commisefoner, is made chairman of a partisan convention aud steps from there to the chairmanship of a partisan committee, and rumor says that the Governor meditates a place for the remaining Commissioner. Here we have on a commission of four, which has been held out as non-partisan, three eager, interested partisans conducting an inquiry, appealing to party ad- vantage at every step and emitting bulletins for per- sonal and political ef : If anything can excuse this it must be necessity, and there seems to have been @ necessity to hunt for cand)- dates, for I see they discovered the long-lost veritable “Charley Ross” and put him onthe ticket, Loading the Commission heavily on one side ts already bearing ite fruits, and charges are rife of suppressed and gar- bled testituony and of foul practices with witnesses and others, ‘TILDEN ASKS FOR POWER QUITE IMPERIAL Other things might be meatioued not easy to under stand and approve. The Governor, notwithstanding his familiar repugnance to “centralization” and “Omsarism,’”’? asked for powers quite imperial—powers far more absolute and kingly than wero ever wielded by any Governor in this State or in any other State m ‘America, He asked to be clothed with authority, upon his mere ipse dizit, to expel from oitlce the chief execu- tive agents elected by the people, and to pus whom he pleased in their places. ‘This startled his own party and his press everywhere. No one was prepared to go quite go far, but the Legis Jature complied in substance. ‘The Governor was in- vested with power to suspend officials at will, on condition that the reasons should be after- ward submitted to the Senate, and that there a baro majority should guillce to make the suspension final. There must have been some supreme and urgent reason for asking such high prerogative. What was it? It is an open secret that the government declared several officials deserved suspension and removal. Month after month has passed, and yet no use has been made of this great remedy, So pressingly demanded. Why is this? Those who know best think 1 ts not for ‘want of appropriate occasion. * * ‘These unprecedented demands for legislation cannot have been merely sensational, cannot have been mere claptrap or caprice. Then why, after such loud mani- oat has there been such a lame and impotent concla- sion ARE THRSE THINGS POR REFORM? Is this campaign really being waged by our adversa- nies for the sake of pure government? Is it to protect amassing a corraption fund by levying party contribu- tions bg the myriad of placemen in the city of New York Is it to advance reform Mr. Jobn Kelly is removing upright judges from the Bench and putting bis confed- erates in their place? Is it for the suke of good example that Mr. John Kelly brings from New Jersey and puts at the head of public works in New York a man tried by his peers ‘con- victed of treachery in the late war? Is 1t for wholesome effect that the private secretary of Jefferson Davis was broaght to New York to serve writs on the people? Is it Jor the public good that the city nt of New York costs auaually $25,000,000" of, In. other words, $29 16 for each soui on Manhattan Island ? If we deduct interest and pensions piled on us by the At the rate of democratic government in the city of New York the national expenses would be $1,370,000,000 a rebellion the whole government ot the United at home and abroad, costs $3. head annually. year. Is it for reform that our opponents are so managing the greatest city on the continent that taxes, assess- ments and debt are piling up till property ts poverty, and Now Jersey, Connecticut and other States are being peopled by famnihes driven from New York by unbearable exactions? Let-us look at these things before we walk under the yoke of a party which, in war and in peace, has in- ficted wounds for which it can never atone, THE INFLATION QUESTION. The Senator devoted some time to a discussion of the position of parties on the currency question, and charged that the democracy had shown inconsistency, and New York democrats mourned the defeat of Allen, while the republicans, in all their plasforms and tho utterances of their representative men, were consist- ent. Referring to the declaration of the New York de:mocracy on this great question, the speaker asked:— But suppose in this State the'declaratton is earnest. Only jet New York go heavily democratic, and what will be the result? The party im the South abd West— where the power in national conventions is—flushed with the belief that a democrat can next year be made President, and that New York can be counted im any way, will’make such a platform as the South and West want, whether New York and New England want it or not, Will Mr. Tilden refuse to ran on such a platform? Will the democracy of New York bolt such a plat- form? Did they ever bolt such a platform? Did they repudiate {t last year when Ohio and Indiana and many other States adopted it? On the conurary they fired guns and made bonfires to express thetr joy at the triumphs of inflation, Did they repudiate it this year when Ohio adopted it? Is there a Tiiden rin the State which did not want Alien elected? Is there a Dy ra democrat who wanted Ohio to vote as she has lone? PRER SCROOLA On this subject Mr. Conkiing stated that the republi- can party everywhere is pledged to guard and preserve the schools, ‘This is well and {t is timely, said he, It {s devoutly to be hoped that religious prejudice may be kept out of polities, but we cannot conceal the fact that movements are on foot aimed at school management— movements in which alliance 1s sought between politi- cal and religious ereeda, It cannot be denied that hos- tility to common schools {8 making its appearance in different Staves. We see {tin far-of Texas and other States of the South, We see suspicions signs in Obio, We have seen them in several cities of this State and about the Legislature. Our opponents in their plat form preserved ominous silence on this subject, but wo know that school houses are not nurseries of demoo racy, and we know other things enough to warn us that'the wolf is not @ good shepherd for the lamb, Wo therefore put ‘free schools” on our bauner, and we mean to keep the words there as notice that the common sehool aystem in this State will be defended against all comers, now and hereafter. THE CANDIDATES COMPARED, ‘The Senator concluded by analyzing the candidates of the rival parties, Kither general or local, ead he, the democratic nominations have little to commend them to those who seek purity and efficiency in public affairs, For the Senate, we seo in the flold men like Mr. Ham- mond, long known about the State’ House here, and Mr. Jacobs, of Brooklyn, also not without fame in Albany; and these men, and other such, asking votes for both houses, wear the livery of “reform.” “Phystc- jan, heal thyself.” Casting our eyo toward the city of Now York, we see the mockery of democratic pretentions. Mr. Kelly, the ‘'Boss,” pulls down and seis up. He has cast out the Recorder, Mr. Hackett, a fearless and faithful judge, and selected for his place a closer Tam- many man, Laying aside party, the republicans have | stag! taken up Mr, Hackett, life long democrat as is, and placed him on their ticket, ‘e hear tho plea coming up already that Governor Tilden did not approve of the action of Kelly and the Feat, bus that he could notstop thom. If this is trae, it a tale you will hear every day if the democratic gains power. Governor Tilden is powerless Pig’ 4 city where he lives to prevent the men nearest to him from openly outraging pub\sc sentiment, What will be done when such mon. ft the whole control? Mr, Kelly not only invades the Bench, but the police and the commissions, and threaters to to put out tried yy be pnt in. behead those who refuse at his bidd! and faithful men, that political may The piebald State ticket hag little to make confidence. Mr, Bigelow iM COOMA My Bk Jey Aa pub WAY AM, des ¢ canals that Mr. John Kelly ta Saees ete mover of ——- money wherewi r. George D. endowed, and the other im their experience, ability or wise or desirabl le. ‘are well selected. Mr. Seward be has done rn % ‘He ‘able, cultivated an has large experience in ‘ae. General Spinner bas ever been a sleepless, and the office of Comptroller needs just the has. General Merritt is @ man of churacter and talent, He has di fered from many of us in the ‘he isa man of and strong attachments, and the with vies be adhered to old friendships is not to his discredit, There is, 1 hope, no republican who will not cheerfully aid his ‘election to the utmost. Mr, Danforth is an able, upright and experienced lawyer, and ft to be in the place of mrrendny General, the official leader of Bar. The candidate for State Engineer, Mr, Cornell, also pears a name which is one of the treasures of the State, He is a man of unblemished character, and a well instructed ‘tical engineer, not merely on the carpet, but in the eid. Mr. Tinsley, the nomince for Canal Commis. sioner, is an honest man, a good business man and an editor who never, that I have heard, wantonly libesed other men because he could do it, Mr, Ives, the candi- date for Inspector of Prisons, is a minister of the gos- pel, long familiar with prison affairs—an able, practical man, who reforms by his works as well as with hig lips.’ Local nominations have becn carefully and dis- creetly made, with the determination to put no doubt- ful man on guard. Election guesses ‘are dangerous things. I do not: often venture upon them; but 1 venture now to pre- dict that the republican ticket needs only a full vote to elect tt, Only bring out the voters that are with us, and New York will be where New York belongs—at the head of States standing for good government and real Progress and reform, ELECTION IN CALIFORNIA TO-MORROW, ——__+___ STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUC~ TION AND JUDICIAL OFFICERS TO BE CHOSEN— THE INDEPENDENTS RETIRE FROM THE: FIELD—A SQUARE CONTEST BETWEEN THE REPUBLICANS AND THE DEMOCRATS—THE CURRENCY AND SCHOOL QUESTIONS, The election that is to take place to-morrow in Call. fornia, though only one State officer is to be chosen, has some features that attach to it a national inter- est at this time, In California the election of political officers is separated from that of judicial and educa. tional; but this year no vacancy has to be filled in the highest court of the Commonwealth. A State Superin- tendent of Public Instruction is to be elected, and there are two candidates before the peoplo—democratic and republican—the independent nominee haying with- drawn since the defeat of that party on the lst of Sep- tember last. Thero is no feeling whatever in California. on the school question. Sectarian- ism in connection with education has never entered into politics there. All parties entertain similar views on the subject, and besides, the liberal sentiments of the people would be a barrier to the in- troduction of any issue that would create among therm angry dissensions on religious matters, Both the can- didates for State Superintendent are admitted to be men of probity and capacity, and really the people have only to be guided to-morrow in making their choice by their political preferences. It will be square fight as to which of the two great parties (the independents having retired) is in the ascendancy, and the democratic and republican State committees have strenuously urged upon voters to act from that stand- point The democrats are of course most anxious to hold thetr own and to show no signs of losing strength. ‘The vote for Governor in September was—Irwin (dem- ocrat), 61,509; Phelps (republican), 31,322; Bidwell (in- dependent), 20,752; showing a democratic majority of 500 over the combined vote of the other two parties. But it has to be remembered that Bidwell received, it is estimated, in the neighborhood of 10,000 democratic votes which the republicans cannot expect to be cast for their candidate on the present occasion. THY CANDIDATES. ‘The respective candidates are Rev. O. P. Fitzgerald, democrat, and Ezra 8. Carr, republican. J. M. Guinn, who withdrew from the canvass, was the in- dependent candidate. Objections on personal grounds have been mado to each of tho two first named, and these may havo some influence onthe result, Fitzgerald is a minister of the Epis- copal Church South, is a resident of the State over twenty years, and has served one term in the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, He 1s a man of broad and liberal views, of amiable character, and gen- erally esteemed. Carr emigrated to the State from Wisconsin four years ago and held for a short time the position of Professor of Agriculture in the University of California He bas made himself popular with the grangers, who will, no doubt, give him considerable support. The fact of Fitzgerald being a minister and » Southern man will operate against him in some quar- ters. Many of the democratic papers contended that the independent party, particularly its founder and leader, ex-Governor Booth, had too mnch at stake to persail that organization to prattically drop out of ex- ence by making po appearance at the polis to-mor- row. It was indisputable that It would not come off any better before the people than it did last month, but still, by failing to place a substitute for Guinn in the field, 1t added to the chances of success of the candidate of Sargent, Gorham and “Billy’? Carr, who manipulated the Republican Convention and who stopped at nothing in thetr denunciations of Booth and his principal tol- lowers. It is likely that the latter feared that only a fraction of the 380,000 yotes cast for Bidwell would now come out,’ and that the result would show that in’ less “than two months the independent party which was to __ become national and nominate a candidate for the Presidency in 1876 bad dwindled down to acorporal’s guard in the State in which it originated. It may, however, be op concluded that it was not with any view of serv- ing the repablican nominee that Guinn withdrew or that no one was put in his place. Booth owes his election to tho United States Senate more to dem- ocratic than to republican support, and during the late campaign was treated with a degree of courtesy by the former, while Sevator Sargent and Secretary Gorham assailed him in the most truculent manner, “Whatover influence the independents can wield will probably go for Fitzgerald, for Booth can hardly aid a party that be pronounced a short time since rotten to core, and whose leading men, since he left it, have vilified and ridiculed him in aumeasured terms. The contest to- morrow will bo, ag stated, a square fight between the democrats and republicans, and whichever wins will claim the victory, on fair grounds, ag a party success. THE CRESCENTS, Though no judge of the highest court ts to be chosen, district judges (corresponding with New York Supreme Court judges) and other magiswates are to be elected in different parts of the State. In San Francisco there has been a lively campaign, and one of the candidates— an able and upright jurist, who has served on the bench acceptably for six years, and who has been nominated the democrats and indorsed by the people’s and taxpayers’ parties—is opposed by a secret society Known as “Crescenta,” on e ground of his being a Roman Catholic, This fac- tion voted against every caudidate profeseing that faith in September, and succeeded in placing several of thom in minorities, The order does not extst out of San Francisco. It numbers about 800 members. No party would openly receive their support. but in close con- tests they prove of controlling weight, They of course will vote for the republican nominee and against the candidate referred to above. ‘The question of inflation or contraction of the cur- rency forms no political iasue in California, The eircu- lating medium 1s gold and silver. The financial dif- fieulty that now occupies the public mind is the disap- rance of aa emp.oyé uamed Pinney at the Mare land Navy Yard, after having, by means of fraudulent certificates, defrauded the government out of about $1,000,000. Pinney was brought on from Washington, and, on recommendation of leading republicans, ap- P sesinns clerk to Paymaster Spaulding of the navy. eo matter js now audergoing investigation, bat tn the Meantine General Lagrange, Superintendent of the Mint, one of the parties who indorsed Pinney, has re- signed, and it's understood other federal officials in San etn will either follow his example or be re- move CUSTOM HOUSE NOTES. The diamonds, valoed at $10,000, seized some months back from Sefer Leon Labbe, by a special Treasury agent, on suspicion of being smugglod, have been unconditionally surrendered to that gentleman, ‘The diamonds were imported from Havana and were seized from Mr. Labbe as he was about embarking with them for France, The cause of their seizure was that the owner had been offering them for gale in this city without having previously paid duty, Proof having beon given to the contrary, the diamonds have been roleased as above stated. Special Troawury Agent J. O. Russell, tili lately con- nected with the Syndicate at London and Paris, was at- tached yesterday to the staff of Troasury Agent Colon ¥, B. Howe, of this city. THE SUGAR RERATR, Pry) Cotleetor ra lg Recspets'at esterday with r. Hunoph: e firm . Morgan & Co. ; Mr. Olineh, “Astistant Collector, and Mr. 8G. Ogden’ the veteran Auditor, as to who the three experts shal be to decide on the question of drawback on bard re- fined J ef morghe the government and the sugar expo Great dificulty is experienced in procuring these exports, and the desiro {s expressed that tho services of sugar refiners who have retired from busi- ness shall be obtained. The Messrs, Stuart, the well known cormewn sugar refiners, were, mentioned as ports, appeara that they did not personal jnporintend their own refining. Te addition 7 this, - havo been out of business for the past five years, fare supposed not to be familiar with the latest in- for obtaining the most refined sugar out of » iver pple Mug a ee on this particu. porat © question hinges, . Var nclom 3 ing qu bi Mean. fe ua cade avail dovelaumania,, ==?" tnd Oe e 3 ES rr