The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-05-08


small lot was sold at SIS. Sugars were active,
with less offering on the part of holders. The sales
embraced about 500 a 900 hhds. Cuba muscovado
and Porto Rico at rates stated in another column.
Coffee was quiet, in view of sale Of cargo Of
Rio to come of on Friday next. Freights were
steady, with moderate engagements.
the Pvesidency-The Administration ard
IT'S Plotting and PipelaSing for tho Cin-
cinnaH Convention.
The active plotting and pipelaying OF the
administration for the nomination of the Gin
ciDnati Convention must not at this juncture
be overlooked. If President Pierce cannot
command the sufrages Of the Convention he
may still be powerful enough to yanquish his
rivals aud PROSTATE the democratic party.
Martin Van Buren,, with bat delegation from
New York, at Baltimore, in 1913, failed TO de-
feat the nomination Of Gen. Cas- but ia car
rying off one half the democratic vote OF this
State to the Buffalo ticket, 10 the election, the
little Magician" secured most ample re-
yenge for bis Baltimore treatment, both ia IA
and As.
The Boston Post has pretty broadly hint-d
that the denomination of Gen. Pierce is a
question snalagous to The denomination Of Nj.
Van Buren, in 1910, inasmuch as the visible
prospect from such nomination as that OF our
Unsuitable President is an overwhelming de-
feat but the Post contends, nevertheless-and
right manfully--t that availability should
not enter into the calculations Of the demo
cratic party any more now than it did in 1910.
On the other hand, the President, who has
fought the battle Of the Nebraska bill (Which
nobody asked him to ight,) must be sustained
or perhaps We may witness among the free
soil Custom House retairers of New York and
elsewhere rebellious movement similar to
that which Van Buren, visited upon too indie
pendent and over-confdent party in the lament
able campaign of AS The Boston organ of
the Executive does not carry it's appeal to
this extreme; but to this alternative it may be
followed without much violence to the drift OF
the argument, OF, as we suspect, to the proclivi-
ties OF the administration.
One of our Washington correspondents ap-
pears to attach some real Importance to the
rumor that has been set afoat on Pennsylvania
avenue, that the President intends to withdraw
from the struggle at Cincinnati Upon this
point we doubt not the Washington Union
speaks feelingly and honestly, and may BE-
trusted when it declares that Mr.. Pierce does
not intend to withdraw, or anything like it.
We predict that he will only withdraw when
he shall have made the discovery, (Which he
has not yet made,) that the one term principle
is the law for him. Then he will withdraw, or
be dropped, but only, perhaps, that he may
show the deluded democracy the calamitous
mistake which they will have made in rejecting
him.
This rumor, then, of Mr.. Pierce's projected
declination in advance of the Convention, is
cheer humbug. 1t may be intended to sound
the delegates from the different States, and as
a ruse for detecting the weak and ishy Of the
Pierce detachment in season to CITIZEN their
backbones. This is the most that can be made
of this otherwise idle and ridiculous repor.
The manifest programme of the administration
il, first, a desperate effort for denomination:
and, failing in that, IL is, secondly, to kill of
Buchanan and Douglas, and all other Northern
candidates, so as to leave an opening again for
Northern man (from New Hampshire for
example,) in 1850. Did not Van Buren, con-
sent to Polk in 1874 with the expectation of
another good turn" in lS4S?
In pursuiog this plan of action there is every
reason to apprehend that, weak as the admi
nistraton is among the masses of the people,
1t may De strong enough in the jugglers' con-
vention to defeat an election by the people,
and to carry it up into the House Of Represen-
tatiyes, where the democracy are in hopeless
minority. II Mr.. Pierce can control one vote
over one-third of the convention, he may COM
msnd nomination which will cost the party the
sacrifice of New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Indiana. These extra losses, added
to the probable loss Of ell the New England
States and Ohio, will leave very little for Mr..
only the second best of the three parties in the
field. With one vote plus one. third Of the con-
vention, Mr.. Pierce may be thus avenged upon
an ungrateful party as fully as Van Buren,,
and without carrying his action beyond the
Convention.
Our consistent White House aspirant will
insist first, upon the admission Of the free soil
soft shell delegation Of New York. They de-
pend upon him, and he depends upon them.
This will at once leave the democratic party Of
the State, as We now have it, weaker than the
Seward coalition weaker than the Know No
things Pennsylvania may be thrown away
readily. There are probably not over two or
three men in the democratic party-possibly
there may be but one-who can carry that
State against the black republicans upon the
issue of Kansas and with some such "free
State" candidate in the arena as Commodore
Stockton or Col. Fremont. Ohio is pretty sure
to adhere to her anti-elavery hereeies anyhow.
And if the three great States of New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio are thrown overheard,
how many of the surrounding smaller ones are
tI,nra thaf Will not be carrind 6nun with 4La.za