The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-28 00:00:00

7711: DEMOCRA7IC NOMINEES FOR PRE-
SIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT.

Horatio Seymour was born in Pompey,
Onondaga County, New York, 1811, being the
descendant of an English Puritan family long
settled in Connecticut, who were conspicuous in
the interest of their country during the war of In-
dependence. He commenced the practice of law at
Utica, New York, after leaving college at the
age of 20. The death of his father brought
him a good inheritance ; he was elected in 1841 as
member of the Senate Assembly, and was returned
in 181344-45. He closely contested the governor-
ship of the State in 1850, losing it by a small num-
ber, but he was successful in 1852, when he vetoed
a law forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquors,
and his decision was fully sustained by the courts.
Although again defeated for Governor in 1854, and
also in 1864, he was elected in 1862. When last
he contested the election he took his party by sur-
prise, as the nomination was tendered on the un-
derstanding that it was only complimentary, and
therefore to be declined, yet he sold his friends by
accepting it, and some accuse him of double dealing
on the present occasion. He is a man of ability,
acknowledged all over America, though he has
never sat in Congress, having confined his
cal career to his own State. He opposes high tariffs ;
on the subject of the finances he spoke fully and
strongly just before his nomination ; he is skilful a 8
a politician, thoroughly understanding how to play
his cards, nor over scrupulous in conveying impres-
sions to the minds of others. He commenced as a
strong supporter of the war, while denouncing the
Republicans, through whose conduct he declared it
had become inevitable. He was elected Governor
of New York on the strength of his war feeling,
which was found to have very little strength when he
attained office. During his term the great riots broke
out, and the rioters he addressed as " his friends."
The New York World thus describes his appear-
ance :—" Seymour is dressed in the old style shad-
belly coat, which is buttoned across his chest, leav-
ing open a diamond-shaped portion of irreproach-
able white linen and a very neatly arranged black
necktie of moderate dimensions. The head is well
shaped and set gracefully back on a firm pair of
shoulders, and the lower part of the face, below the
eyes, is almost a perfect oval. The eyes are of a
brilliant brown colour, and shine like diamonds be-
neath a firmly balanced forehead, which is bald--
the baldness extending back as far as the back part
of the skull. The mouth is pleasant and mobile,
and when Seymour smiles at you the feeling pro-
duced is a genial one. This is a cultured man,
man of free tastes and high purposes, a man of ele-
gant diction, and also of powerful analysis. The
skin of the face is sallow, and a thin seam of white
whiskers encircle the throat under the chin. Why
is it that all men of mind or mark in the world's
struggles have this peculiar sallow skin ? It has
always been an accompaniment, if not au indicator
of genius. The Ca3ars, Napoleon, Frederick, Tully,
Turrenne, Disraeli, Henry Clay, Webster, and
many others of similar celebrity, have had, or have
sallow skins. The dress of Seymour is in perfect
accordance with good taste, for Horatio Seymour 10
a gentleman first, last, and all the time. When he
makes a gesture it is dignified, and yet graceful•
His voice, slightly impaired yesterday by a had
cold, is correct in its intonations, full, and, when
approaching a climax, resonant. The hands, when
lifted in air, are white like a woman's, and the finger
slenderly shaped. When speaking all eyes and
ears are turned his way, and his influence on a large
body of men is magnetic and thorough. His long
and stedfast adherence to Democratic principles,
persistence in the right, through good and ill report,
has made the name of Horatio Seymour a dear one
to all Democrats. To the humblest man in the
party he is courteous, polite, and kind in his man-
ner. His knowledge of parliamentary law is full.
His manner of recognizing a delegate on the floor 10
all that could be desired ; and no man in the house
ever looks at him for five minutes without feeling
that lie is worthy of being the chairman of the Cell"
ven t ion."

Francis Preston Blair, son of Montgomery Blair,
who in Lincoln's time was a Cabinet Minister,
Was born in 1821 at Lexington, Kentucky, gra-
duated at Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1841,
and commenced the study of law. He served under
Kearney in the Mexican War, joining the volunteer
force in New Mexico, but in 1816 he commenced
the practice of law in St. Louis, beginning his career
as a strong free-soiler, and on that platform was
sent to the State Legislature and afterwards t°
Congress in 1856, where he continued until after
the civil contest, when he was chairman of al
Committee of Military Affairs. On the outbreak°
the strife he was appointed Colonel of Volunteers'
quickly reaching to the grade of Major-General'
He was noted for gallantry at the siege of Iricks"
burgh, where he commanded a division, as well 815
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in Sherman's great march, where, with the
Army Corps, he was often desperately engage'
and became renowned for his contempt of danger'
for which he suffered by receiving many wound'.
Since the close of the war he has acted with 6°
Democrats, and been a strong supporter of Andrei
Johnson. He has served long in Congress, and
has been noted for strong speeches again,t the i
Re-
construction policy. 11is family are well-known n
American political life, and like the old families °f
England in the days when all sides were taken, that
some member might be right whatever occurred,
Blair with the proper stripe has always bee" 3
hand when a good office was to be given aWaY•

In 'Worcester, Western Massachusetts, people Wet°
getting ready for the regatta week. The various c°Tr;
mittoes had been appointed. The college matches id
to take place on July 24, and John Tyler of Boston
ace
of Cold Spring,: N.Y., to row a single scull r_a
for $3OO a side. A six-oar race between the Wards Vie,
the Harvard crew may be on the week's prograrnTed
Base-ball matches between Harvard and Yale are arranibe
thus : the freshmen play on the afternoon of July 23, "of
university nines next morning. A representation ea
Brown University and Williams College was also 11°P
for.
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Births. of
DE WINTON—On the 25th inst., Mrs. De vcrintorl,
Maosliwch, ef a son. the fife
DUNCAN—On the 23d inst., at Leigh, Tunbridge, --ta
of Laurence Duncan, Esq., of a son. ~,mitt
VYsE—On the 26th inst., at 7, Sussex-gardens, lirle.'
the wife of Howard Vyse, Esq., of a daughter.

Marriages.
COSTLEY —ThomsoN—On the 23d lust at St• Gdf
Hanover-squhre, Captain Costley, late.' of 2311„,-"„;;;A
Ellen, second daughter of the ate Georg© '-1
Esq., of Ellingham House, Choltenhtun. ,
FORTNUM —LAwsoN—On the 23d inst at All Sou, ,
ha-place, John Hampden Fordhan.l, Esq , barl.itt3
tuto
law, toCatherine, the younoest daughter of the la
Wilfrid Lawson, Bart., of Brayton, Cuniberlaud•

Deaths. s rbit'n
A.LLENRY—On the 26th inst , at Glamor° nous%
Eveiitt Allenby, Esq., aged. 73. i-h
CORBETT— On the 25th inst , at Elsham, Lineola'
Thomas George Corbett, E;q, • i 0 II °3
NASH—On the 22d inst., suddenly, at his residen9z.;6,
Lodgo, Ilford, Essex, William Nash, Es+, ivSect George
THOMAS—On the 21st ins.t., at Bouloome, suddenly'
H. Thomas, of Uplands, Surbiton,%ged

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