The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-19

Corn was heavy md lower; old Western M ed sold
slc pew do at 49,, round yellow At SIC si;h S,u,aera
and Jersey yellow ut SIC. $50 Pork ag,ia heavy
and lower sales OF new % lte A. SO So tim
SIT, and prime ut Sl4 40 si4 So wth sAles a.
mese, deliverable 10 al the year aud oc'or the Tat
If November next, at $40, Beef wa, s,eay AMI Isrt
neavy Cof quiet and eSles mtsd Freight en-
ssgements light rst.s unchanged.
The Succession Movements OF President
Candidates.
The two busiest and most conspicuous demo-
cratic candidates for the next Presidency IRE
Governor Wise and Senator Douglas. Upon the
Lecompton question they stood side By side, like
Chang and Eng the Siamese twins; but now they
are separated by the impossible chasm which lies
oetwetn Congressional slave code Tor the Ter
ritories and squatter sovereignty. And go,
while Douglas is busy down South explaining
ard softening his position in that quarter,
Governor Wise, through his agents and pipe
layers in New York, Pennsylvania, and else.
where in the North, is quite as industriously en-
ployed in the work Of getting strong fooshold
in the Charleston Convention.
These National Conventions have proved on
several occasions exceedingly slippery and
treacherous to the old stag ers; but it is evident
that all the democratic aspirants this time-es-
pecially Wise and Douglss-intend to have their
delegates picked out with the greatest care
And, from their superior activity and sectional
availability we should not be surprised if the
Charleston Convention were to be divided, North
and South, between Douglas and Wise, excepting
a few scattering votes here and there for Breck-
inridge, Hunter, Davis, Cobb, Slide!l and others
We fear, however, that while the personal efforts
of Mr. Douglas in the South will fail to conciliate
the fire eaters, the labors Of the friends Of Gov
Wise ia the North will be useless in his behalf;
and that between these two high stools, Wise and
Douglas, the democratic party at Charleston will
fall to the ground and be broken to pieces
Upon this point, In late number Of the
Charleston Mercury the editor says in reference
to Douglas, that 1--WE will sustain or counteuapce
him under no circumstances whatever" that she
is traitor to the democratic party, and traitor
to those principles which secure the South;" that
she is dangerous and designing Away with him "
FINALLY say the Mercury, eve shall sustain no
man, of whatever party, clique, creed or section
who shall stand upon the platform of Douglas
principles, though be should be nominated by
twenty democratic Conventions" This is plain
among Southern men will operate in the Conveu-
ton to set aside Mr.. Douglas, and break up the
democracy into two sectional camps. The South
ern fre-eaters are in earnest, and Douglas, we
know, is not the man to knock under IF the
fre-eaters say war; he Will answer war, and war
it will be.
Such are the prospects for the democracy at
Charleston. The opposition elements are equal
ly deranged and discordant The old line wings
and Americans are moving heaven and earth,
North and South, to get up sort of joint stock
combination with the republicans on easy terms;
but as these terms involve first the shelving of
Seward, and next the sinking of the republican
party itself, there will be no bargain. The OPP
position conservatives will thus be compelled to
do what they can for themselves, under the banner
Of some such man as Crittenden, John Bell, Ed
ward Everett, or Edward Bates. Meantime, all
the pipelaying and scene shifting going on
among the republican managers appears to be
confined to three leading candidates-Seward,
Chase and Banks. The agents and managers of
Seward ,unquestionably hold the inside track,
and are confident of carrying their champion
through the Republican National Convention
with flying colora They have, the principal
wires and ropes and pullies in their hands, and
thus the chances are decidedly In favor of Sew
ards nomination. The strong pro slavery
grounds lately assumed by the opposition forces
Of the South in Kentucky, Georgia, Virginia
and Tennessee-increase the chances of Seward
in the exact ratio in which they diminish the
probabilities of fusion, North and South, of the
opposition camps.
Thus, from day to day, consulting the divisions
Of parties and sections, and the movements of
cliques and candidates, we strengthened ia
the impression that 10 1860 we shall have no.
thing but sectional parties in the field, and that
from failure to elect President by the people,
Seward, Douglas and Wise will, most probably,
be the three highest candidates carried up to the
House. A fusion Of the North Americans and
old line wings with Douglas, from all the indi-
cations Of the day, is much more likely to hap
pen than fusion upon Seward or a reunion
between Douglas and the fre-eaters at Charles
ton. In word, these old national party Con-
ventions have run to Seed and there il every
prospect tina. 10 1860 they will be practically
reduced to three OF four sectional factions. be-
ginning with the explosion among the demo-
cracy at Charleston.