The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-10

peppers. The Chief Engineer Of the Fire Depart
ment sent in communication to the Board. asking
permission to put runners on engines, and employ
horses to draw them during the snow. He was
authorised to do this the cost not being beyond two
thousand FIVE hundred dollars. The Board adjourned
till Friday.
The sales Of cotton yesterday embraced about
500 bales, the market closing quite nrm. Flour
opened dull at the previous days prices but closed
with 6rmer feeling and with sales at . slight ad-
vance. Wheat was firm; considerable sale of
Western red was made at 81 81. Corn was easier
at the opening, and closed with mere frmness on
the part of holders. About 10000 bushels Of rye
were sold for export Pork sold to fair extent, at
SIS SO SIS rs for mess. Clear mess scarce and
wanted for shipment to California, for which market
a small sale Was made at prices ranging between
$tS and $40. There was rather more doing in
sugars, and sales of 200 hhds. Cuba $50 boxes and
200 bbls clarified were made at rates given in ano-
ther column. The sales of coffee were limited.
There was more freight Offering for English ports,
and about $1,000 bbls. of -four were engaged for
Liverpool at rates ranging from g. Sd. 2s. Sd. a
IS, chiefly at g. sd. There were, also, fair engage
ments TO London and Antwerp at fuil rates
The Presidential Question Movements and
Prospects of the American and Democratic
Parties.
We give this day the first of our miscella-
neOus Presidential chapters for the year 1856.
From the perusal Of this our readers will, in
a measure, be prepared for the various move
ments of parties and politicians henceferth, to
the meeting of the Know Nothing National
Councils of the 18th and 22d of February, and
the Democratic National Convention at Gin
cinpati of the first Monday in June.
First and most conspicuous in our present
chapter are the proceedings and the address of
the late State Council of the orthodox AIeri-
can party at Philadelphia, which are very in
teresting. They show that with the repueia-
ton of the twelfth section of the national
platform of the State Council, under the lead
of Mr.. Johnston, last summer, the American
brothe rhood in Pennsylvania became divided
party, and that it SO continues to this day.
This division throughout the State, upon the
slavery question, satisfactorily accounts for
the success of the democratic party there last
fall. The wing of the American party whose
proceedings are before us, is the twelfth Sec
tiou, or national branch Of the order-the
division which they repudiate is the Johnston
and Seward faction, which controlled the
policy Of the party in the fall election Read
the address and the accompanying explana-
tory article.
How these two factions are to be reunited
it viii be for the approaching national Coun-
ellis at Philadelphia to consider. IL is their
affair, and not ours One thing is quite GER
tain, to wit that without reunion in Penn
sylvana the Know Nothings will have no
better chance of carrying that State than the
State of Illinois If they cannot effect salts
factory compromise, however, with the John
ston division, this twelfth section or old native
American branch very coolly intimate that
they will at least be avenged by falling back
upon the democratic party. Ominous warn
ing, that.
Singularly enough, the United American
Councils of The city Of Richmond, Virginia,
deliberately laid the twelfth section under the
able. at about the same time that the ortho-
dox wing Of the Order in Philadelphia were
making the same twelfth Sc .tion the test of
brotherly communion. This is very curious,
indeed. But the Richmond Wig informs us
that these united city Councils in question. in
thus abandoning the twelfth section, have out
ragged the sentiment of the thirty. five hundred
American voters Of Richmond. and that the
proceedings of the same united Councils.
therefore, practically amount to nothing but q
ridiculous experiment of the fuukies OF John
Minor Bolts Very well. We leave you,
brethren Of the Order, North and South, to
compare notes and settle your balances If
possible at Philadelphia. From time to time
We have given you the benefit Of our best ad-
vice, the result Of some experience and obser-
walton in political affairs, and we have nothing
further at present to submit.
Coming next to the democratic party, it will
general chapter aforesaid, that Mr. Buchanan,
thus far, is decidedly ahead or all his rivals
that Cass and Douglas are out Of the way, and
that Wise, of Virginia, goes for Buchanan
The extract which we republish from one OF
the late letters of John Van Buren,, threatens
the introduction Of the Syracuse trouble into
the grand Sanhedrim at Cincinnati, which
may be productive of mischief. The difficulty
experienced in efecting democratic reunion
at Albany on common candidate for Speaker
Of the Assembly, gives some color of reality to
these threats Of the Prince; but when we re
member that the central organ of the softs,
since the original publication Of the Princes
letter, has declared that the said softs will 90
to Cincinnati prepared to ratify any platform,
however strong, on the south side OF the niger
question, we must conclude that the Prince and
his threats have been laid upon the shelf, to-
gether with the venerable Buffalo candidate Of
The great stumbling block to both factions
of the New York democracy at Cincinnati will
be the man. If Pierce, Marcy, Cushing or JEFF
Davis should be nominated, the hards will re-
tire in disgust and if Dickinson, Wise, Cass,
lia,sr al D.s u. l. Al.