The Republican Salary-grabbers

Do the Republioan State Conventions oomposed oí' delegates fresh from th people, intend to excommuuicate from the party the 149 Republicana whom the; have virtually called swindlers anc thieves beeause they pocket inoney to whioh they have no just title ? In the Senate there is Carpenter, the President pro tem. ; Cameron, Chairman of the Comcuittee on Foreign Affaire Conkling, widely named for Chief Justice ; Morton, who claims to be leader o: his party; Howe, also spoken of for Chief Justice ; Edmunds, one of the principal debaters of the body ; Cragin, heac of the Naval Committee ; Sawyer, recently appointed Assistant Seoretary oJ the Treasury ; Cole, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations ; Ramsey, head of the Postoffice Committee ; and Nye, Pomeroy, Harían, and Stewart, all chairmen of leading committees. The condemnation reaches all the con8picuous Republioans in the House, its chief debaters, the heads of its important committees, the men who have given tone to its proceedings and sbapeditsmeasures since the outbreak of the rebellion. In proof of this we need only point to Dawes, the oldest member and ex-offioio the Republican leader; Butler and Bingham, always foremost in discussion ; Hooper, Chairman of the Banking Committee ; Kelley, special champion of the Protection policy ; Maynard, next to Dawes on the Ways and Meana, and the ablest Republioan from the South ; Sargent, seoond on the Committee on Appropriations, and just transferred to the Senate ; Shellabarger, Chairman of ihe Committee on Commerce, and Scofield, of the Naval Committee ; Poland, for a long time Ohief Justice of Vermont, but more fainous as Chairman of the Credit Mobilior Committee; Wilson, of Indiana, who has shown some zeal in investigating Pacific Railroad swindles ; Freemnn Clarke and Elias H. Roberts, of our own State, who occupied high places on the two most important committees of the House ; and so on to the end of the long catalogue. Never before in the political history of this country was there such a sweeping slaughter of the chieftains of a party by its rank and file. Not to put too fine a point upon it, the action of these State conventions may be regarded as the uprising of the masses of the Republican party to decapitate and devour their own heads. If the party can contrive to survive such heroic treatment, and thus rid itself of its present leadership and embark on a oourse of real reform, it may have a long and usoful eareer before it. - N. Y, Sun. Governor Dix has addressed a letter to Mayor Havemeyer in answer to the request of the latter for rifles for the polioe, and says that even if the meaus of granting the request were at his disposal he should decline, considerinff it very questionable whether the public order or 6eourity would be promoted by the organization of armed military bodies nnder the diraetion and control of al oorporations independent of th miltary authority of the State, and believng the existing mode of putting down resistanco to the laws bycalling upon the militia on extraordinary occasions is in all respecta the wisest and safest.