Daily national Republican., 1865-09-02
PoIfticaI.

The Senatorial contest in California is
very active, agood deal mixed, and threatens
TO become somewhat acrimonious and posi-.
bly, little corrupt. Mr.. CONFESS is sup
posed to represent the mining interest, and
it is claimed that his colleague, who is to be
Mr.. McDouGALL's successor, should be So
lccted with view to efficient services in be-
half of agriculture and commerce. Mossrs
gentlemen named for the place under this
proposed division. Thereupon Mr.. Low, the
present Governor Of the State, appeared as
an intervener, and has, it is reported, the
countenance Of Mr.. CONFESS. This addi.
tion to the list of candidates induced Mr..
JonS B. FuLToS, q very rich man, to 20 in
and run for luck, and he is represented to be
ready to go big pile for success.
"THOMAs NJ. KEY, who has been nomi-
mated by the Democrats of Ohio for the Su-
preme Court, was " not formerly Major
KEY, Of McCLELLAS's staf, who, It will be
remembered, was ignominiously. dismissed
the service by President LINCOLN for assert.
ing, after the battle of Antietam, that 1t was
not the policy of the Government to suppress
the rebellion, but to allow 1t to continue un-
til the people would be compelled to acknowl-
edge tho necessity Of its termination by
compromise" although a Now York paper
says he was. He was Colonel on McCLEL-
LAN's staff, and when here was pretty radi-
cal Abolitionist. The Major KEY who was
dismissed the service was brother of his, but
quite n different sort of person. %,
The great meeting of Tuesday in Rich
mond, it seems, was 4 dead failure. Not two
hundred citizens took part A correspondent
Of the Baltimore American gives several
reasons for this but this seems amply suti-
cient:
The greater portion of tho people of this
| city have determined never again to mingle
in "politics," as they call every public affair
This has not sprung .:om sullen defiance but
from other reasons. The returned soldiers
laugh and say "the Government will attend
to it without our going" and the property
soldiers generally are afraid to mix them
selves up with anything. Notwithstanding
these reasons there was one that out-weighed
them all, and thus operated upon a large
number of our people .
The new sets Of custom house officers in
New York and Boston were inaugurnted yes.
terday. - .
TIE Democratic State Committee of Mary.
land have issued an address to the people in
relation to the registration law. They say:
We denounce this law at the outset, there.
fore, rs unconstitutional, as violative Of some
of the most explicit provisions of the Consti.
tuition of the United States, and of the bill OF
rights Of our own State, as subversiye of all
republican government, as establishing the
most intolerable of all despotisms, the rule OF
an oligarchy. and as introducing and attempt.
| ing to naturalize on American soil, the d..
testabIe doctrine which British Tyranny
sought to enforce against our fathers-taxA-
tion, without representation. ,.,.,
But, nevertheless, fellow-citizsns, the law
is upon the statute. book, and until repeal ed
by competent authority or pronounced un.
constitutional, and therefore null and void,
by the courts, is for the period of its exist.
ence the rule Of our conduct, and the measure
of our political rights. ..l.