The New York herald., 1864-09-26

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is due to their surviving relatives that The pre-
else manner OF their taking off y should be a
once set forth. Let Mr. Secretary Stanton com
mehce publishing all the reports Immediately
Postmaster General Biair's Resigna
! tion-Eis "Time Haas Gomez
The Hon. Monte omery Blair has at last re
signed his place in the Cabinet including, W,
| presune, his place as the right bower Of tht
| old man Blair in the Kitchen Cabinet. Tht
correspondence OH The subject between Ole
Abe and the retiring Blair is very sweet. Old
Abe says:--"You have generously said to me-
(al in my eye}-Enore than once that when
ever your resignation would be relief 10 ne
It was at my disposal, TIE tirne has come
How eloquent and comprehensive that simple
nosice-'.he time mas come" You have
hecr good and faithful officer, old boy;
but your time has come" SIR Blair
gracioasly acknowledges the compliment,
gracefully takes the hint, and bows himself
out with a smile. This is drowning victim in
rose water.
But this is the front view OF the picsure.
Turning to the other side, we get the true inter
probation Here we end the republican radi
Gals gathered around Old Abe, and reminding
him that certain resolution Of the Baltimore
Seward, but of Blair anyhow; that he has be-
tra,ed the administration in Missouri, and sold
the State to the copperheads and that the place
in the Cabinet held by this obnoxious Blair, if
bestowed upon Mr.. Dennison, chairman Of the
Baltimore Convention, would 60 far to con-
ciliate Mr.. Chase and his friends in Ohio, and
in season, too, for the Ohio October election.
to do, gentlemen How am | to get rid of this
Postmaster General Blair without incuIring the
wrath Of Old Blair, the head of my Kitchen
Cabinet, in spite of Forney?' And the radi-
cal committee reply:-"If Mr.. Montgomery
Blair will not understand the broad hint OF the
Baltimore Convention you must tell him aatly
to CO." Thus driven to the last resort, Old Abe
puts on his bandest manner, and says to Mr..
Montgomery Blair, "Your time has come, and
the thing is done.
The Blairs, with the wrath of Hannibal, made
war upon Secretary Chase until they got him
out Of the Cabinet. The removal of the Cabi-
net Blair thus became q necessity towards
treaty of peace with the unfortunate Chase, and
to this end Old Abe, in notifying the Cabinet
Blair that his time had come, politely inti
mated that be had been waiting for resigna-
ton till be could wait no longer. What nexts
What will Old Blair do He can't do much,
and we dare say that Mr.. Seward ha, been
giving some useful hints to this effect, in order
to save his own bacon. But Mr.. Seward is
necessary to the harmony of the ''happy fami
lyn in New York till the November election
After that even the Secretary Of State may be
notified that his '.time has come" Rome was
not built in day.
The Omnibus Nuisancc and How TO
Reform 1t.
The omnibus nuisance is becoming as intol-
erable as the bone boiling nuisance. Every
day we are overwhelmed with letters from in
dignant citizens, who have been insultcd or
have seen ladies insulted by the drivers of the
stages. The ticket swindle is regularly perpc.
trated upon passengers. Some of the drivers
keep a supply Of bad money, which they en-
deavor to pass of in change. The line which
contracts to carry its passengers to Thirty
fourth street stops at Twenty sixth street and
forces them to change omnibuses. In every
possible way the public is being outraged,
swindled and humbugged by the stage compa-
nies, which have recently raised their fare and
cut down their accommodations.
A person who undertakes to ride up or down
Broadway in an omnibus exposes himself to
physical discomforts and vexations of spirit al
most too numerous to mention. In the 6rst
place he works his passage by passing mp other
peoples fares. When exhausted by this graceful
and pleasing exercise, be is expected to give
up his seat to a lady and hang on by strap.
Calamity consenting, he becomes involved in
personal squabble, apparently tending to a
personal conflict with the insolent driver, who
persists in giving the lady ticket instead Of
her change. If anybody hands up ifty cent
stamp, the driver keeps II a few moments and
then returns it with the remark that il is coun-
terfet. The passenger examines his stamp,
and finds that the driver has substituted
counterfeit for the one originally banded to
him; but of course there is no legal evidence
upon this point, and, after an animated dis
cussion and few oaths, the driver re.
mains master OF the situation In the
meanwhile all the other passengers are
without their change, and some OF them,
arriving at their places Of destination get out
without IL, greatly TO the emolument Of the
driver. The ladies' worried by ell this clatter
and hard swearing, take any sort of change
they can obtain and hurry out Of the omnibus,
TO be ierked of their feet and thrown upon the
slippery pavement by the premature starting
Of the vehicle So the old victims are shuffled
off and new victims are crowded in. and the
omnibus rattles along. the worst managed in
stitution in the country.
Now, If these stages are to be a permanent