The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-01

Convention In Boston yesterday, at which II was
resolved 10 Question candidates for Office whether
they were in favor Of the passage OF q ION hour
law.
| A despatch from Springfield announces that n.
! Petin and co nI auions made most beautiful as
cent with bis balloon, yesterday afternoon AT last
| advices no tidings had been received hoa tho
| aeronauts
| From bany We earn III It the sentence Of death
pronounced aglins; lea Sheridan, for murder, has
| been committed by the Governor to imprisonment
forlife.
We elsewhere publish some additional European
intelligence brought by the steamship Canada,
which will DO found rather interesting.
Accounts Of fires ut Dayton and Cleveland, and
the announcement that the Michigan State Prison
was on fire al the date Of the despatch, win be
-four VI der the telegraph head The latter may
| have proved a very serious affair.
| There is said to have been most magnificent ex-
hibition Of animal and vegetable productions, at
the Fair held yesterday in Hampton county, Mass.
Nearly the whole Of yesterday was consumed BY
the Episcopal Diocesan Convention, in unsuccessful
| ~ ballotina for provisional bishop The contest
| will he renewed this morning The chief candidates
are Doctors Wainwright and Vinton.
Although cotton and bresdstuiIs are not active,
We i, 20 to notice quit, Movemen. il other arti-
Gle y produce-aaval store, 50 largely produced
by our Southern pine forests, having taken quite
a start The demand being good, an stocks isht,
spirits Of turpel tine suddenly advanced from 47c
4se to SIC Per gal on, at VIII ch closed yesterday.
Raw tjEpentine b rs gone up from g 81 to o.; and
rosin from 81 20 81 40 o 81 40 an 81 80 ger bar
rel. The stock OF ger in this market, is light;
which was ascertained yesterday, to amount to
about .26,500 hbds,, 1000 boxes, and 5000 bags,
against 34,407 fhds 81, or boxes, and 4 324 bags
on the 3oth of September, 1851. The falling of in
Havana, the PRESENT year, is estimated. by well
Informed Ia;tes, at , OF less than % per cent.
while some 60 as high as so per cent. The only
foreign point vi full crop is said to have been
produce, is ia he is and OF Barbados, which will
yield about 5000 hds. The domestic sugars Of
Texas and New Orleans, are required for consump-
ton in The We tern States Toe first sale of rice,
of tie nsw crop, was made yesterday, by Messrs.
Pond, Gilman, Mack, and brought $5 3llc. per
l00lbs.
| Our inside pages to-day contain very important
| information to politicians, in b. shape of tables
giving the popular vote at the Presidential elections
since 1924; descriptions Of new buildings in the
Eghtee1th wad; evidence taken by the Coroner in
the Forsyth street murder case; meeting of the New
York Colonization Society; breaking up of gang
Of eounterfeters in Philadelphia; appearance of
kanesyille, or Council Bluffs; proceedings in va
rious courts; reviews Of financial ard commercial
affairs; advertisements. &c.
Who Is TO be our Next President !-FIgures
Never Lie.
The records of the psf are the seeds of the fu-
ture. Ifwepossess desire TO make an approximation
to the results Of the Presidential election of next
month, the only mode of doing SO is by means of a
thorough and careful and deliberate analysis of the
past elections, and their peculiar characteristics
In our columns elsewhere, to-day, We have compiled
in one mass the popular and State elections which
have taken place in this country from the year
1924 up to the present time. These tables are cal
culated from the most accurate data and have been
compiled and preserved during series Of twenty
year,, the most Of that time in connection with or
under The supervision Of this establishment. They
comprise the figures of every Presidential election,
from that of 1924 up to lsis besides including al
most every intervening State election since the year
1896. These tables will form, for the politician as
well as for the of business and the man of lei
sure, series Of authentic and curious facts, from
which, with his own recollection, united with the
facts of history, he may be enabled to form certain
conclusions based npon the past elections il tn
country, as pIODaDle IeEuitS
one for the Presidency now pending.
We have no room within the condensed limit. Of
an editorial article to generalize to any extent on
the various financial, political, social, and other
causes, which have, during the last thirty years,
decided sometimes in favor of one party and some
times in favor of another, beth in the State and
Presidential contest Yet even the tables which
wo now publish would be badly understood without
some general view connecting the series and the re-
suits in one unbroken line Of natural causes and
effects We do not mean to say much-because we
have no time-of the organization OF the old de-
mocratic and federal partiestheir rise, their pro-
grcss their decl me- and their final extinction during
the last PRESIDENCY of James Monroe. From 1924
up to 1928 all tie old party ties and party princi-
PIES of PREVIOUS years were broken into pieces
and scattered to the winds Of heaven. The Presi-
Dental contest ending in 1928 was guerilla fight
All the candidates were Iominally democrats or re
publicans-none Of them acknowledged themselves
to be federslists jackson, Adams, Clay, Crawford,
al ran candidates. lhree Of Thorn returned,
under tie constitutional provision to the House Of
Representatives, and that body, by coalition of the
Clay and Adams streng h in the House, elevated Mr.
Adams to the Presidency, although he nad less
number Of votes than General Jackson. From that
moment commenced the movements which led to
the organization of the modern democratic and
whg parties, although the latter did not assume
that particular speculation till the year 1892, at
Baltimore. During the administration Of John
Quincy Adams, The factions Of which Jackson,
Calhoun and Crawford had been the representatives.
all united, and formed opposition to the new i'd
ministration. General Jackson became their sole
candidate and although this vas the first time in
which military availability was brought before the
people, it is yet very well known that even General
Jackson, who had lost the election on the first trial.
could not have been elected in 1923 without the
union Of the old factions Of the ancient democrats
then reunited for the FIRST time in this country, since
Il -. &c