The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-01

Corn experienced a slight decline. Pork was duh,
and sales light. There was speculative movement
in coffee, and the sales of Rio embraced two car
goes, amounting to about 1000 bags Sugars were
steady, but comparatively quiet Freights to Liver
pool and London were again drmer, with a fair
amount Offering and taken for present and future
delivery.
Our Party PoIItics--The Syracuse Abolition
League-The October INSTRUMENTATION and
Confusion.
Our work in this State for November,
as cut out by our various party State
conventions, is dish of salmagundi, odor-
Gus of tainted pork and onions. Like the
offence of the King of Denmark, it emits an
awful smell-it sis rank and smells to heaven"
The abolition fusionists at Syracuse have re-
allied coalition compared with which that of
the French, English, Turks and Sardinians is a
model of consistency and c0hesiyeness. The
black republican league have put forward
whig fusion ticket, with an old Van Buren, free
soiler at the head and an ambitious and sedi-
tious outside free soiler at the tail; and be-
tween Preston King and Bradford r. Wood we
have most interesting mixture of soft shell
democracy, Seward whiggery and rampant
abolitionism; but never a word upon the Maine
liquor law. Let the administration look we'll
to its retainers in this State, or they will stray
away with Preston King and the Sage of Lin
denwold to this Seward mixed commission
upon their old Buffalo platform.
In opposition to this Syracuse conglomera-
tion of the negro worshippers, we have the
hard shell and the soft shell democratic tickets
and the Know Nothing ticket, with the tenn
perance alliance and liquor interest still in the
back ground likewise, the half-shell demo
cratic movement, contemplating compromise
and q reunion Of the hards and softs upon a
halfshell ticket and a hali-shell platform.
Such is the division and condition of
our New York cliques and parties at this cri-
sis--a state Of things clearly showing US that
in this great State there does not now exist a
solitary organization that is not of local or
sectional character. The democratic hard
shells are conservative, but they are only
fraction of the democracy; and the late ma
tional position of the regular Know Nothings
has been modified to the imaginary pressure of
our November election.
By reference to our political intelligence--in
another part OF this paper--it will be seen that
from the first to the ninth of October the State
elections of Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Ohio
and Pennsylvania, come off, and from the
tickets in the field in the said States it will be
perceived that the canvass is only confined TO
two parties in the Southern States of Maryla
Georgia and Louisiana, to wit: the American
and Know Nothing parties. In Ohio and
/ tha fn41n ho,1
| pretty much under the same promiscuous and
| temporary scrub arrangements as we of the
Empire State. In Pennsylvania, however,
there appears to be a "sidling up Of the Know
| Nothings, under the bad example of ex-Gover-
nor Johnson, to the negro fusionists of the
| Seward school. In Ohio, the German Sag
| NIGHTS, with the Seward Know Nothings and
Chase for Governor, while upon the rest OF the
State ticket the Dutch and the democracy are
hand in hand
This prevailing confusion, this eAervescence,
this inexplicable Distinction subdivision and
reconstruction of parties throughout the
North, affords abundant proof of the
great fact that the political revolution pre-
administration of Franklin Pierce has not
yet assumed any definite or satisfactory shape
for the great campaign Of SO. The democracy,
though somewhat uniform upon other princi-
pies, North and South, still clash upon the
niger question, and upon the more important
issue, TO their leaders, Of the public plumber.
The mass Of the Northern wing party is
absorbed between the new abolition league
and the conservative Know Nothings yet we
find here and there a silvery gray stragger
who knows not where to go. The Northern
Know Nothings themselves, outside of New
York, are playing fast and loose, more as a
balance of power between other parties than
as an independent, consistent and homogene-
Gus general organization. The simple fact is.
that no party of the North--not even the new
abolition league-has taken as yet the exact
shape, form and substance which will char
acterze il in the battle for Presidency.
In the late elections, however, and in the
October catalogue, which we publish to-day
there will be found the elements of a general
reunion of the democratic party, without
much trouble, provided they can shuttle of
this incubus of our Pierce administration.
And it is this re-awakening of the democracy,
North and South, and their manifest tendency
to a national reunion, that should admo.
nish the American party Of the North of
the necessity of some general line of
action more useful, practical, popular, national
and decisive than this temporary fraterniz-
ing with abolition fusionists, Maine law IA
| natics, or The old, worn out deusions of the
ancient federalists and the late unfortunate
whig party The American organization of
the South would soon be the controlling
Southern party, were il reasonably supported
by the Northern Know Nothings Even as II
is, the new party, in Kentucky, Tennessee and