The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-22

and runners. The emigration this year has been
10000 persons less than last year. The Commits
sion is now nearly $50 900 in debt
In the case of VIM. H. Canniff against Mayor
Wood, Judge Ingraham, Of the Court of Common
Pleas, has rendered elaborate decision declaring
the plaintiff legally appointed Clerk of the Second
District Police Court and entitled to salary due on
the LIST of July last.
The Cincinnati Free Soil Know Nothing Con-
ventlon-very Curious ard Very Signiii.
cant Proceedings
We give conspicuous place in our columns
this morning to our special reporters account
Of the Free Soil Know Nothing Northern Con-
vention at Cincinnati called together by the
anti-slavery seceders from the Philadelphia
American platform, including yesterdays pro-
ceediDgs of this most remarkable assemblage
of political scene shifters.
The object of Senator Wilson and the other
leaders in this Know Nothing secession move
ment was complete division between the
American party, North and South, and the
fusion Of the Northern wing with the Seward
black republicans upon the Missouri compro-
mise question. 1t is therefore somewhat sur
prising to learn that Thomas II. Ford one Of
the most indignant boilers from Philadelphia,
| the free soil Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
elect, the right-hand man of Salmon p. Chase,
has stood up, as the President of this Cincin-
natl Northern Free Soil American Council,
and fatty recommended the union aud harmo-
ny of the American party all over the
country, on national platform. But
when this declaration is followed up
by motion from Mr. Dawson, of Iu-
diana, to expunge the Philadelphia twelfth
section, and to substitute as the national
American doctrine, that slavery is not ma
tional but a sectional issue, and must be settled
by the States respectively concerned, our sur
prise is lost in admiration and curiosity.
What can oil this mean? Have these Phila.
delphia seceders discovered, in the results of
our late New York election, that the restora-
ton of the Missouri Compromise is dead
hsmbug that the Seward abolition league il
o dead failure THAT the fusion of the North
ern Know Nothings with it in SO will involve
crushing defeat? and that, on the other hand
the reorganization of the American party,
North and South, on the broad and general
doctrine of non-intervention on slavery, as a
starting point, forcshadows certain success !?
Or, what is in the wind? What means this alb
sence of Gov. Gardner, of Massachusetts, this
unexpected nationality of sentiment on the
part of Gov. Johnston, Of Pennsylvania this
sudden revolution in the mind Of Col Ford
this harmonizing union motion of Mr.. Daw-
son--what mean all these symptoms of a whole
some reaction, if they do not indicate the
complete dropping Of all further associa-
ton with the Seward alliance by the
Know Nothings Of all the North, and their
junction with the Order in the South in CON-
mon American party movement, in both sec.
tions, for the Presidency? From the proceed
ings before us we can come to no other con
illusions than that they are the beginning of a
new order of things-that Gen. Wilson Is scheme
Of breaking the American party into ten
thousand fragments has recoied against him self
and against Seward and against all concerned,
and that our New York election has set
tied the business for the Seward Holy Alliance.
We await the definite action of this Cincin-
natl Convention on the various conciliatory
propositions before them for the complete ma
tionalizing OF the American party. The results
may not be equal to the auspicious opening of
the ball; but as the ruling spirits in il appear
to be thoroughly imbued with the idea that
the last month or two have vindicated the
"sober second thought Of the people, we an.
ticipate the complete defeat Of Seward and
Wilson in the game What wonderful times
are these!