Reform committees here are, like
elsewhere, all disinterested parties
until election times come round, then
they are all candidates. From two
hundred, the Reform Committee of
New York has dwindled down to a
fraction of }, owing to a resolution
introduced in that body, prohibiting
members from accepting positions.
The Republican Convention met at
Utica and nominated an unexception
ably good ticket. A week later the
Democratic Convention met at the
same place and in the same hall and
nominated a ticket equally as good.
Last week the Liberal Republican
Convention met at Elmira and re
committed the abortion of Cincinnati,
placing in the field a "mixed" ticket
against those previously nominated
by the Republicans and Democrats
respectively.
The yellow fever in Shreveport and
Memphis causes a great deal discus
sion and the sympathies of the whole
country are aroused. The Standing
Committee on Privileges and Elec
tions of the United States Senate has
just completed their conference which
has been held from day to day at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. They have sub
mitted a plan by which the vote for
President and Vice-President will be
direct.
Yours retrospectively,
PENCIL DOT.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASuINGTON, D. C., October 11, 1873.
