The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-31

sion to be jubilant on next Monday, we should
be glad to know what it is.
New York State Politics signs q Trouble
among the Democracy.
While there is every probability that the op'
position forces of this State will be cut up into
with separate State ticket, we begin to dis.
cover some symptoms of discord aud trouble
among the bewildered democracy. In the nor
thern section of the State, notwithstanding the
large body Of radical or free soil Van Bu-
rem democrats that went over to Fremont and
the republicans in 1885, there is still consis
derable leavening of free soil in the democratic
camp, which, it appears, has taken the shape of
an active sympathy with the Douglas detection.
The Watertown Jefferson county, Union, in
an article On our November election, urges
"the taxpayers of the State to see to it that the
nominees for Canal Commissioner and Lieute-
nsnt Governor, on both tickets, are above and
this slang phrase Of the "canal rottens," &C.
cording to the Daily Ners of this city, an organ
of the hard she'll faction, was applied to the
canal democrats in the days of Hoffman and
Lewis, by class of dsorganizers, most of
whom are now where the editor of the Water
town Union will yet be-in the black
republican ranks" We suspect, however,
that this shot from the Watertcwn paper is
leveiled at the ''rotten" Albany canal and rail.
road lobby, in which it is understood that Dean
Richmond, Peter Cagger, Erastus Corning,
Edwin Croswell, and other conspicuous demo
Gratis are as deeply involved as Thurlow Weed
and his SET. Suffice it to say, that this Water
town exponent of democracy recommends
bolt of the radicals" in case the State Con-
vention of the party should play into the hands
of these aforesaid ''canal rottens'' in the nomi-
nation of State ticket.
From this and some other symptoms Of de-
moralization in the camp, our aforesaid hard
shell contemporary says, lit really seems as
though the INSTRUMENTATION radicals, anti
canal men ind Douglasites were forming a COM
bination and threatening to try to control our
State Convention;" and we are sorry to hear it.
Meantime Mr.. Dean Richmond and Mr.. Peter
Cagger, chairman and secretary of the Demo.
cratic State Central Committee, have issued q
call requiring the committee to meet in Albany
on the fourth Of August, and then and there,
wesuppose, they will appoint the day for
the State Convention which Is to decide either
for or against the 'canal rottena" We had ina
gined, from the comparative silence of the last
few weeks among the late wrangling factions
of the party here and in the "rural districts"
at uar in, fat e. ~
union over the pipe of peace; but it appears
that upon this point We have been laboring
under considerable mistake.
The Catskill Recorder (democratic) says -
There can be no doubt that the position of
Douglas harmonizes with the general senti-
ments Of Northern democrats, and that the
practical question in the case is simply whether
in Illinois this sentiment will be yielded in COM
pliance with orders from Washington and that
the tone of the Washington Uisioa precludes
the idea of Cancellation" This has the sound
Of screw loose in New York, and is ominous
Of Douglas bolt here should the Democratic
State Convention afford the slightest pretext for
the movement. And 80, between the discordant
factions of the opposition and the demoralized
cliques and divisions of the democracy, it is
difficult TO tell on which side in this State the
Generalization il the worst.
We shall doubtless have some hot work, some
curious doings and some remarkable develope-
ments at our August and September State con-
ventious on all sides-republicans, democrats
radicals" "Douglasitcs' and "canal rottens,"
Know Nothings and temperance and freedom
men included. But what of that. All these
troubles, discords and divisions in the camps Of
our existing parties are but the workings of the
elements Of the great political revolution which
was opened In 1852 with the extinction of the
old wing party; and this revolution, thus com
menced, must work itself out, until our nation
al parties are recognized upon new principles,
new issues, new measures and new men.
THE WAR o. THE TRANSIT ROUTE We have
received some late news relative to the Nicara.
qua Transit route, by the arrival of the Grsna-
da at this port The Vanderbilt party who
were sent down TO that republic about six
weeks since, full Of instructions and 100000 in
specie returned in her. Gen. Maxine Jcrez,