The State Republican Committee Met

yesterday in Detroit with full numbcrs, and flxed the date of the state convention for August 27 and 28 at Detroit. A special committee was appointed to start the work and to coimnence organizatioii. Gen. Alger tendercd tlie use of a steum yacht for a ride up the river to the llats with a lish supper accompani inent, ,so the business was transacted on the boat. The membcrs report tlie ui-ua' outlook f ir victory tbis full and that hannony prevails among the workers throughout the state. It will Le au important election, aad a short but lively canvass is proposed. The sentiment for governor seeined to be pretty evenly diviiled between Rich and Turner. Wliy does not the Senate wake up ai;d dosomething? The House, whicli lias four times as many in it has practically Rotten its business finished, while the easy going Senators have been dawdling along without accoraplishing anytbing. They have the tariff bilí, the silver bill, the appropriation, the river and harbor, the steamship subsidy biüs and a host of others which should be pushed. The tarifl bill especially, ought to be taken in at once. That was the question, more than nnyother, which decided the last election and its speedy passage is dcmamled for the common good.