The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-03

sons engaged In the East India trade, and the sug
gesticns contained therein challenge prompt asten
ton from the government
The cotton market was very firm yesterday, ami
closed at an advance Of Id. ID. psr To-, with sales
of between 5000 and 1000 bAles. Flour OF COM
mon, medium and good grader, was sgain from
lac. to 25c. per barrel higher. Wheat was also
frmsr, with fair sales Of Tennessee and other new
Southern red and white, q! rather better prices
Corn declined TO e5c s5ac., closing hesvy at the
inside figure. Pork was steady, with moderate
transactions. Freighss were steady, with limited
engagements. Sugars and coffee continued firm,
with fair amount Of sales.
Our Divided Democracy-Sew Fusion Move.
meAt OF the Softs-WIl the lKards Come
In!
The door is open. "Barkis is willing.,'
Will the hards walk in? We call the attention
Of our readers--and especially of the hard shell
democraey-to the new call concerning the Soft
Shell State Convention of the 10th inst, from
the Albany Junta. 1t will be seen that the
original allowance of one delegate to the con-
vention from each Assembly district, has been
changed tVtwo, and the reasons for it are thus
set down by the Albany .4tlas, the special fu
gleman of Marcy
This change has been made in the call, withou. de-
liberation and discussion and after some hssation and
urged, by private letters from all parts OF the state,
and democrats have been appealed to by the presses
different quarters, to afford all the possible
cure in the present Of State affairs that
among democrats to which all classes irrespective of
government without desiring to arrosa.s 70 taem
seives new powers yet determined not TO thwart the
w,shes Of 50 large numSsr OF democrats, oppose
project which promised further the unity Of par
~, ano restore TO its uft position o. ascsncsncy and
power the committee have followed in part the prece
o. a 10
delegation. We believe the proposition made TO them
was ed in entire good faith. II accepted ia me
gooG spirit and honest desire for reunion Of
the ranks 81 the democracy, preparatory TO the coming
ccntstt.
Precedent of last year." double delsgs-
tion''-a hard and o soft shell from each As
sembly district, to which the committee have
been urged by private letters from all parts of
the State" The magnanimity Of the Junta, ia
this response to those private letters il
| above all praise. 1t will so hard with the hards
| to refuse this touching appeal-this
| generous concession-this fraternal peace.
| Offering from Marcy's STATE Central Commit
tee. How can they refuse it, when the softs,
for the sake Of harmony, propose to give the
administration the go by, and to make their
platform for November OF the two broad planks
Of opposition to the new Liquor Law and hos
tility TO the Know Nothngs? Even the Ne
braska bill is to be left an open question, to
avoid all cause Of offence TO the sensitive hards
ION the niger question Gould more be
asked, or expected or desired?
Vii! the hards come in? That is nov the
question, and it is O poser. Dsafiection and
rank rebellion agains. Pierce Marcy, Forney
& Co, and the Custom House and Tammany
Hall, have taken the symptoms of chronic
disease with the hards, and we fear that neither
lubrications nor liniments nor catsplasas wilt
take this rheumatism from their bones. Aud
| we caution the hards to beware Of the cat in the
| meal tub. We have NO allusion made in this
call to the administration at Washington, and
the soft shell central junta are silent upon the
slavery question. Yet Martin Van Barren him
sci. has been throwing out feeler for the free
democracy" in that late Hudson River move
ment for a Democratic Van Buren, State Con-
vention On the 22a Presuming that project to
be abandoned, We may still look for the free
soil emissaries Of the ex President and Preston
King to be pi esent st Syracuse on the 29:h; and
the best that can possibly be expected Of them
IL another Buffalo platform.
But even II the hand Of the elder Van Buren,
should not be visible in the doings at SYRIA
cuse, the hards may rely upon it that Prince
John will be there to dictate the terms Of their
capitulation to Marcy. And what have the
hard shells now to gain by surrendering at dis
cretioD, we should like TO know? II they are
the real Simon Pure democracy, it is their
business to prescribe terms, and not to accept
them. Ii there was any just cause OF offence
when they first broke with the Pierce party, it
still exists. We are no. aware that anything
has occurred since the dismissal Of Judge Bron-
son TO atone for that act Of factious proscrip-
ton, except the bornbardment OF Greytown and
the treaty Of peace between Commodore Nc
Cauley and General Concha As democratic
measures, these things may have tended some
what to soften the hards; bu. they cannot,
surely, be prepared upon such grounds to sacri-
fee Dickinson and take up Marcy in bis place.
In our State election Of November, 1853, the
hard shells polled the handsome aggregate, ia
round numbers, of a hundred thousand votes,
being several thousand ahead Of the adminis.ra-
ton Van Buren Custom House faction. In
1854, on the other haad, the soft she'll candidate
fox Governor, Mr. Seymour, secured 10000
votes, while Judge Bronson, the hard shell can.
| didate, obtained only some $4,000. Since that
| day the hards have been under cloud, but. as
we think, they have had no sun cient reason
for IL. The liquor question and the Kaow NJ.
things, the Nebraska bin and the question Of
Stewards reelection, completely destroyed in
"a al the old party landmarks. Some :hoa-
sands OF hard shells and hundreds 81 whigs
voted for Seymour, solely because Of bis posi-
ton on the liquor issue--thoasa1ds Of hards
also voted for Ullmsn as Hobson's choice be-
tween Seward and the administration. The
poll ior Congressman in 81 shows the hsrds, If
we are not mistaken, still ahead Of the sof,s il
the popular vote.