New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-27

One of the objections urged against the nOmlna-
| ton of Mr.. James Gordon Bennett as the Demo
| cratic candidate for the Msyoralty is that he ia
90 Old to attend to the business Of the Office with
the necessary energy and rapidly. This objection
is, We think disposed of by the fact that Mr. Ben
nett conducts morning journsl in this city, which
crculates every day 5000 or 1000 copies, at a
moderate calculation. The man, who can do that,
might easily be Mayor Of New-York, Brooklyn,
and jersey City all at once, and still have time
every afternoon TO take excursion 10 the lovely
Manhattan Island where the wealth aud fashion of
the metropolis will soon have their focus, and from
where magnificent points Of view clusters Of luIu-
rious and picturesque villas will look abroad upon
the splendid landscape.
But though We regard the objection We have
referred TO as being rather tile suggestion OF those
who can find nothing else TO say, We shall proceed
to answer it, not By reference to the daily achieve
ments Of the Candidates we propose, for that We
have done pretty concusivey in the preceding SEN
tence; but BY facts of another description. The
only evidence alleged in proof of the allegation is
ludb DcuLctt AoAA Hne pCNVuiS say SNs 'HA'
lie BY no means a certain indication OF age. We
have known men who were gray at thirty, just as
others become bald BY hereditary tendency; and
in the City of New York, the majority OF men are
grsy at folty FIVE, and while they are yet in the
very maturity and force Of sll their faculties Thus
il would be rash inference TO conclude from the
fact that man locks are frosted about the tenn
PIES that he no longer possesses his mental and
physical energies in full perfection.
The fact however, is, that Mr. Bennett is still
comparatively young, though he does not dye bis
hair, like some of the gay and gracious old bsche
ors that flourish about Tammny Hall. AZ we learn
by bis biography, from the choice pen of Isaac c.
Pray, esq, be was born about the year 100. Now,
in most biographies, such statement would signify
the year 1875 or 1877; bu. when we examine Mr.
Pays work, We find that il is characterized BY
effort not to exsggerate any fact relating to his
subject, which is carried 50 far that he understates
rather than oyerssates everything For this reason
We are convinced that the Zeal year is not 1900 but
rather 1903 or l-05, which would make the sge Of
Mr.. Bennett TO be now Sc or "A years. This,
We say, is comparatively young When Mr..
Buchanan became President, lie was o., or
ID years older than Mr.. Bennett is at present.
Gen. Caleb Gushing is now 90, Senator Slidell is
60, Gen. Csss is q, Daniel S. Dickinson is 80,
Gov. Marcy was Secretary Of State at 20, and yet
10 good Democrat would admit that either of these
distinguished leaders and lights of bis party was too
old to discharge with honor the duties of tie mos
eminent political positions. We trust, then, that
We shall hear no more with regard 10 the age of the
Union Democratic candidate for the Msyoralty as
contributing an objection TO his nomination. On
the contrary, il is an additional reason for choosing
him, because it implies experience aud practical
capacity to understand and regulate the working Of
political machinery. Let Tammany Hall and
Mozart Hall then unite IL nominating James Gordon
Bennett for Mayor. He IS true representative
paa, whom bath factions caa coSd.aly support,