The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-12

lower, and sales of mess were made at $l8 Sc q
SIS 62t, with small lots at $ls IS. sugars were
irm with sales of about 1000 TO 200 hhds. Cuba
muscovado at full prices. Coffee was firm, with
moderate sales Grain taken to Liverpool at Sd.
3D. in bulk and bags, and -four at 2s d. %. Cd.
The Great Contest-rhe Northeru Masses
Moving for Fremont.
The true Presidential candidate for all the
INSTRUMENTATION forces of the country is
looming up at length into bold relief. In every
direction where the name of John G. Fremont
is mentioned, it strikes the popular fancy with
electrical quickness. The spontaneous out
burst of reclamation with which, at Concord
the other day, he was proclaimed the cham
pion OF the snti-Pierce coalition of New Hamp-
shire, expressed, we have no doubt, the gene
raj sentiment of an immense majority of the
opposition forces of the North.
So self-evident is the spontaneous feeling
among the anti-democratic m asses Of this Sec
ton in favor of Fremont, that if these June
conventions Of anti-slavery Know Nothings
ana niger worshippers are wheedled aud
tricked by their little peddling and thimole-
rigging politicians with any other nomination,
they will either collapse and fall to pieces like
empty tubs in the sun, or be compelled to CUR
render to the pressure of outside public
opinion. No confidence is to be placed in the
hideboaud party presses of this or that fac
ton of the opposition camps. Very little Of
common sense or practical sagacity can BE-
expected of these cut and dried conventions,
packed by few active aud INSCRIPTIONS
pipe-layers to suit themselves, and their little
short sighted and contracted schemss-men
who appoint themselves, or get themselves
appointed by the process of Tom
appointing Dick and Dick appointing
Tom-men who, to ill up the vacancies in
these patriotic Conventions, will pick u6 the
first available loafer from the street, after the
fashion of the great democratic party, or sup,
ply score or two Of delegates In behalf of
distant States, from the surplussage nearer
home. Aud what's the odds? Does not the
New Yorker, appointed to represent Wiscon-
sin, for example, know all that is required to
be known Of the opinions and wishes of his
party in Wisconsin? And if he does not,
what difference does it make, so that these
managers come to an understanding among
themselves, and the party are servile enough
to swallow the imposition?
Occasionally, however, we see that even
these convention jugglers are compelled to
give way to the outside pressure of 'the
masses" This was the case at Cincinnati. A
msjority of the jugglers there were determined
to kill off Buchanan. For months previously
we had predicted his nomination from the i'm.
pressive and powerful reaction among the de-
mocratic masses against this corrupt, imbecile
and most wretched administration and it's chief
supporters. The first two or three days Of the
Convention locked gloomy enough. Bargain
ing and bullying, wrangling and threat
ening, were the order of the day, and
whiskey sings, dice, cards, and other kin
dred amusements, were the order of the
night But after all their whiskey drinking.
gambling, bargaining, bowie knives, bludgeons
and rufianism-aft all their plans and efforts
to drive the Cow upon some desirable
obscurity-the jugglers were beaten, and the
manifest will of the masses OF the democracy
at home carried the day even over that hedge
and ditch of the two thirds rule, where so
many of our old democratic horses and their
riders have been thrown headlong into the
mire.
The election of Mr.. Buchanan is another
thing, and it will depend less upon the strength
Of the democracy than upon the divisions among
the opposition factions. Should they combine
honestly and enthusiastically, Mr.. Buchanan
hotto nd fho
prize Of the White House, which some suppose
to be within bis grasp already, may rapidly
recede from his sight, till completely obscured
by the clouds now gathering around it.
The signs Of the times, after careful obser-
walton of the opposition camps, are over
whelmingly in favor of general concentra.
tion upon Fremont. Next to Scott and Taylor,
We are probably indebted to Fremont for the
acquisition of the California gold fields, the
treasures of which have revolutionized the
financial and commercial relations Of the
world. The tide is just setting in, fretting
and splashing against the rocks, but net appa-
rently threatening any immediate danger. Yet
we shall not be surprised to see it few days
hence rising and swelling at the rate of
ten feet an hour, like the wild rush OF the
sea into the Bay Of Fundy, where, wave
upon wave, with all their stores Of cod
fish and mackerel, the grand inward flow is
sustained till it gives you glorious tide of
fifty, sixty or seventy feet. Such may yet be
the surf and swell of the popular tide for Ere
mont, overwhelming or bearing away Know
Nothings, niger worshippers, and all the rag,
tag and bobtail of the floating materials of the
country.
olive Oak George Law" with the Conven-
ton which meets to day, holds fast to the tail
end of Northern Know Nottingham As Gen.
Walker seized the effects and confscated the
charter of the Nicaragua Transit Company for
breach of contract, 60 has "Live Oak George"
brought to the hammer the great American
of