The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-08

which were sold within the range OF 10ac lSc., leo
io Gonaives 1lAc. 1lhc, $50 Laguayra at t., aad
200 500 do Maracabo for export, on private terms
Freghts were firm but engagements were moderate.
Among them were 300 900 bales Of cotton compressed
and uncompressed, for Liverpool, at 31ed. 7-32ds
erce beef at 2s and cheese by steamer at as Cd and
spirits turpenune to London at S. ga
The Republican Syracuse Convention
Significant Silence in Regard to
Seward.
The Syracuse Convention has met and shown
its hand and good many Of the black repub-
lcans will be surprised, some will be delight
cd, and not small number will be deeply
chagrined at the aspect it exhibits.
1t is evident that Thurlow Weed calculated
upon having everything his own way, and that
he has been disappointed. He went to SYRIA
cuse with his slate made up, and with the in
tention of making Seward, whose portrait he
sen. to be hung up in the Convention, the big
sheep Of the woolly flock. But the slate list
had to be changed, and Stewards name kept
out of the Convention, for instead of being a
tower of strength, it would have proved an
apple of discord to his party. The fact is,
Seward and his ''irrepressible conflict" are
everywhere the bugbears of the moderate por-
ton of the black republicans.
In changing the slate the Convention has ex-
hibited an evident sign Of weakness The
candidates have in large degree been
selected from the old democrats, who,
disappointed in their ofiice-seeking aims, have
gvrc over to the nigger-worshippers The evil
dent object Of this movement is to pick up al
loose and soft democrats that can be persuaded
to follow some Of their old friends into the
republican camp. The next point in the Con-
vention is The rejection Of the Know Nothing
rump. This is intended to blind the German
and other foreign voters with the belief that the
black republicans reject the Ubiquitous Massa-
chusetts two years residence law. Then comes
the great sop Of all the State politicians, the
canals. The black republicans do not wish
these to be sold because that would cut off the
great source of the spoils; but they advise the
people to vote the giving Of the money appro-
priated conditionally by the last Legislature,
for they count upon carrying the State, and
they want sadly the handling of these funds
The Convention dared not endorse Governor
Morgan, because he had been honest enough to
veto some Ubiquitous schemes, and to be
ashamed Of the inquisitorial Metropolitan
Police Board which his party had placed over
the city Of New York.
The wisest thing the Convention did was not
to appoint delegates to Presidential Conven-
ton. There was good reason for Thurlow
Weeds consenting to this course. Stewards
name was too weak to carry the
delegation, and time is desired to see if some
fortunate event will not strengthen il. 1t is
worse than folly to talk about selecting can
didate for the Presidency now, when in the
coming ten months issues may arise to change
the whole face of the canvass, as they did in
1856. We regret the necessity the blackrepub-
hcans at Syracuse felt themselves under of Sc
lectng SO many political renegades for their
candidates, as such course shows either q
want Of good aspirants in their own ranks, or
necessity Of securing outside support for their
nominees. AS the Know Nothing rump has
been so CONTEMPORARY treated by Thurlow
Weed and his convention, the best thing they
can do is to break up their conclave, stop try
ing to sell votes which they cannot command
and turn their attention to making an honest
livelihood. As for Seward, he will have time
to ruminate on the curious fact that his portrai,
was hung in o convention where his friends
dared not to introduce his name.
Who ARE MnLIosaIREs?-On Of the Baltimore
papers says that the property Of Mr.. George
Brown, who died in that city last week, is
valued at four millions Of dollars. Now, here
was millionaire indeed; but how many mil
lionaires are there really among the number
who are classed as such? There are not per
haps in the entire country thousand men who
can claim to be truly millionaires. This coun.
try has certainly bad some Of the richest men
in the world, such as Girard, the Astors and
others, and even now great many men arc
very rich; but the countryis too new yet to adj.
NIT Of a very large accumulation of wealth 10
the hands Of any individual or any family. A
well-known Wall street banker some ten years
ago said that be could not count more than
twenty-five men in this city who were million
aires; many he found to come near the mark,
say worth five or eight hundred thousand
dollars, but not more than twenty-five whose
property was worth a million. No doubt the
number has increased, perhaps doubled since;
but as all is not gold that glitters, ii is not
every so-called millionaire that owns million
" dollars. complete and perfect list of the
rnli:lohares Of the country would be an nte-
tss~ps contribution to our financial statistics.