NT.W TO 



M J 



tin- 1 ., , v. liil,- th. Indians living upon 



reservations, h:t\i- incivawjd. 'J'llO CCIJ8118 Of 



-. hav'mg a 



'.:., ii.M, ami a product <>f $378,- 



. n>m, which f.xhihits tho 



1 establishment*, 



228,674,187, and a product 



of $4 I IK- increase of capital in five 



: . and in tho value of 



: PIT cent. 



.lions of prop.-rty in the city of New 

 u follows: real, $425,360,- 

 884; personal, $181,423,471; total, $606,784,- 

 \ aliifttions lor tho entire State in tho 

 same year \u-rv: real, $1,196,403,416; per- 

 sonal, "s:,:; : total, $1,581,229,636. 

 It i - . owing to the prompt and effi- 

 leral and State authorities 

 ic city of New York escaped the cholera 

 in ISC.';. At the request of tho quarantine 

 commis-ioiu-rs, the Secretary of War assigned 

 for their use the steamship Illinois, and the Sec- 

 retary of the Navy the sloops-of-war Saratoga 

 nnd Portsmouth. These were placed entirely 

 at the disposal of the commissioners, and were 

 used for quarantine purposes. Tho Secretary 

 of the Treasury detailed a revenue cutter at the 

 >f New York, in charge of a special agent, 

 to aid tho commissioners in enforcing quaran- 

 tine- regulations. These and other preparations 

 -c.-invly completed, when the steamship 

 Virginia arrived from Liverpool, having lost 46 

 passengers by cholera on the voyage, and hav- 

 ing a large number of sick onboard. "Whilo 

 u'oing quarantine, her sick increased to 

 Since that tune, 18 other vessels, in- 

 fected with cholera, arrived from foreign ports. 

 The health officer estimates that there were 

 about 2,000 cases on board vessels during their 

 voyage, of which about 1,000 terminated fa- 

 tally. The number of cases treated at quaran- 

 tine were 651. Few, if any cases, the origin 

 of which could be traced to the sick at quaran- 

 tine, appeared on shore. Eight out of the 

 eighteen vessels already mentioned arrived 

 after November, when the cold weather had 



Tho Democratic State Convention to nomi- 

 nate candidates for the fall election, was held 

 at Albany, September llth. John T. Hoffman 

 . cd tho nomination for Governor ; and J. 

 V. L. Prnyn, for Licutenant-Governor. Reso- 

 lutions of regret and condolence were passed 

 relative to tho death of Dean Richmond, a 

 member of the State committee, and the fol- 

 lowiiijj platform was adopted : 



Tho Democratic and National Union Electors of 



tln> State of New York, in convention assembled 



ut Albnny on this 1'Jtli dny of September, ISO'.. 



by reaffirm the principles set forth by the conven- 



M ut Philadelphia on the 14th 01 August last, 



An'i lunher. we atlirm that we, for our part, hold 



inviolable, and, as far as in u.s lies, will make good 



: the nation, plighted by the Senate of the 



'hition of July 2(J, 1861 ; by 



- in the same resolution 



if July -Ji'd; by General Grant at Appomattox Court 

 VOL. vi. 85 A 



House, and by President Johnson in his proclama- 

 tion of amnesty of May 29, 1865, which fully, law- 

 fully, and finally, restored to all the rights and 

 functions of citizenship the great mats of the people 

 of the Southern States, who, in their State Conven- 

 tions and Legislatures, fulfilled every required condi. 

 lion, uiul who, by their delegations in the Philadelphia 

 Convention, guvo every needful pledge of the sin- 

 cerity of their renewed allegiance, and their accep- 

 tance of the issue of the war. 



And, lastly, wo affirm that the centralization )f 

 power in this State, no less than in the Union, is 

 fatal to the harmony of our political system, and 

 dangerous to the liberty of the citizen. Recent legis- 

 lation at Albany has usurped a supreme yet fitful 

 control of the local affairs which counties and muni- 

 cipalities are entitle to regulate. It has also ex- 

 c-eiili-d any former precedent in its extravagant ex- 

 penditures, and its fraudulent tampering with the 

 public works of the State. At Washington millions 

 nave been squandered upon central schemes of local 

 benefactions, and a partizan Congress, while re- 

 ducing the appropriations for a patriotic soldiery, 

 has not scrupled to enhance its own emoluments of 

 office. 



Not to dwell upon other attendant evils, whose 

 name is legion, we confidently appeal to the electors 

 of this State to unito with us in a determined effort 

 to restore the just balance of governmental power so 

 wisely distributed by the fathers of the Constitution, 

 and to arrest that monstrous corruption which is 

 fast sapping the sources of public spirit and public 

 virtue ; ana by such union and earnest effort to en- 

 large the freedom, lighten the burdens, and promote 

 the happiness of the people of this State ana Union. 



The Republican Convention assembled at 

 Syracuse, on September 5th, and organized by 

 the choice of Lyman Tremaine as chairman. 

 Governor Fenton was renominated as the can- 

 didate for Governor; and Thomas G. Alvord 

 for Lieutenaut-Governor. The following reso- 

 lutions were adopted : 



J&sofaed, That, by the grace of God, and the valor 

 and intelligence of the people, the Constitution has 

 been maintained as the supreme law of the land, and 

 that every political, social, and industrial interest of 

 the .country, as well as the most earnest desire of 

 every generous and patriotic heart, imperatively de- 

 mand the speediest restoration of the Union which 

 is consistent with constitutional justice and national 

 safety. 



Resolved, That the Union of the United States is 



ferpetual, and that no power exists, either in the 

 'ederal Government, or in the several States, rightly 

 to dissolve or destroy it. No State can rightfully 

 secede from the Union or withdraw, or withhold its 

 representation to Congress with intent to prejudice 

 the Government ; nor can the jurisdiction or the gen- 

 eral government over a State and its inhabitants, or 

 its rightful authority to execute its laws therein, to 

 any extent bo lost or impaired by rebellion and 

 war, or other unlawful conduct of a State, or by trea- 

 son of its people. But while the constitutional 

 authority of the Federal Government can in no- 

 wise be impaired by the acta of the State or its peo- 

 ple, a State may, by rebellion and war on its part, or 

 treason on the part of its inhabitants, or by the 

 abrogation of its loyal State Government, and the 

 creation and maintenance of one alien and hostile in 

 its form, so far in fact rupture its relations to the 

 Union as to suspend its power to exercise the right 

 and privileges wnich it possessed under the Consti- 

 tution. That against such rebelling State the Fed- 

 'vernuient may wage war for its subjection, 

 using for that purpose all The powers of the laws of 

 war as recognized by the laws of nations ; and when 

 that end is accomplished it belongs to the Icgisla. 



