General Slocum Accepts The Democratic Nomination

Fruía the Bu Salo Courier . The followuig dipatcb from Major General Slocuni was rcceivcrl by Do'iln iiic'iuiniul, lifq., Friday nipjht, and wns telegtfaphèd to the Associated Press Suturduy aftornoon : VicKSBDao, Sejit. 14th. Hou. Dean Bicbmond : Your d8iatch announoing my noniination by tliu Democratie Convcntion bas boen reccived ; also, a eopv of reso llitiÓDH adoptcd by the Convention. - Ileartily endoraing the platform, I oheorfully accept the nomination. I hope to bo at hoiuo before the close of tb is memth. IX. W. SLOOüM. Thoro is no half-heartüdnews in tliis diwpatch. It is eloar, soldier-liko dofiriition of hts position. " Heartüy en dorsiny the platform, I clieerfully accept the nomination." These vvorcls oanuot bo miconstrued. Tundered tho nomination for Sooretury of State by both tbe politi cal purties, he has positivoly doclined that of the RepuMicaus, and as positively aooeptod that of the Dcinoeracy. We have reason to kuovv that bis decisión is baaod upon tbo conviction thaUit is bis dutyto make tbe personal saer'fi e involved. Ho leavea a Major-Goner. 1ship in the ariny and a salary of aonie fire or six thousand dollars a year, to accept tbe Secretaryship of State at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars, because, iu hia judgment, tbe publio interests demand the overthrow ol the Northern Radical factiou. The rebollion is suppresod and civil order so far estabüshed in his Department that bis services are not so esseatial in Missiüsippi as in New York, where the tvrin-boresy of secessiou ia uphold bj u vigorous factioa. General-Slooum is not prompted by ambition to the step he has taken, but by tho purest and most diainterested prttriotisrn.