The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-30

with sales Of at si4 80 s14 e2k afterwards held
asia 76, and prime at $40 Is $40 40. Beef dull
while lard steady the demand fair Tho sales
sugar embraced about $50 hhcs at prices given In
another place. Coffee was buoyant, while sales were
moderate Freights were steady while engagements
we're light. Some cotton for Liverpool Was taken at c
and some oil 10 Lcrton ut 2os
The Mode Of Choosing Delegates to the
Charleston Convention.
1t is high time, US the elections for delegates
to the State Convention at Syracuse are pro
gressing, for the masses of democrats in the State
Of New York to take serious thought how far
they are willing to ALLEVIATE from themselves,
virtually, the right Of suffrage. aud of being
heard through their representatives in the ini-
portant matter Of choosing candidate for
President Of the United States. The gang Of
political miscIeants constituting the Albany
Regency have 60 demoralized the democratic
party by their treachery aud misdeeds that this
State has become nearly as black republican as
Massachusetts, and they have determined that
no alternative shall be presented to the people
between voting for some miserable creature of
their own or OF appearing to support the In
famous doctrines Of William II. Seward as ex-
pounded at Rochester. The Convention which
Is to meet at Syracuse On the 18th of September
has been called for the nominal purpose of MONT
mating certain State officers, in place Of thosa
whose term Of Office will expire on the LIST OF
January next. The Regency, however, are se.
lecting their candidates to that Convention
without the slightest regard to this object, and
with sole eye to their subserviency in the mat
ter OF appointing packed delegation to the
National Convention at Charleston.
The fact is that Cassidy, Richmond, and
that combination Of ex-barnburner and rail.
road interest which has been Cooperating
for twenty years with the swindling system of
Sewardsm In finance, inaugurated in 1888, do
not care rush for the principles that are in-
volved In the coming State election. They are
lot only wlling-thoy would 1sjoios to see the
endorsement Of New York given In November
to the atrocious programme of Seward, and they
would care little If this were to become perma.
nently an ultra abolition State. They know
that their coalition with Weed will secure the
success Of their private schemes at home, how
ever disastrous defeat may be suffered by the
party But in the Presidential game they fore
zee danger. If Seward becomes President,
they will, Of course, retain the upper hand but
the election to the national chiet magistracy OF
an honest, upright, clear headed democrat would
keep the federal plunder out Of their hands
until 1864. This is what they are scheming to
prevent.
Previous to the meeting of the Democratic
State Committee at Albany on the Sd inst the
Regency wirepullers had been industriously Ia
boring in two directions firstly with the friends
of Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson and the hards to
persuade them that they would support hin for
the Presidency; and, second, with the personal
friends Of Seymour, to show these latter the ad-
vantages that would accrue from cheating Dick.
inson. The pledge was substantially given to
the harda, by Cassidy's colleagues, that they
would use every effort to have an equally
divided delegation, half hards and half softs,
sent to Charleston provided the district system Of
electirg delegates were tacitIy abandoned and no
disturbance was created on this point. On the
other hand, a hint to Mr.. Seymours agents was
unambiguously enough given that this under
standing would fail through of itself when the
State Convention met, and that "want Of power"
to contest 1t would be abundant excuse for any
apparent breach Of faith. In this manner the
Regency carried their point, and the per6dious
disclosure by Cassidy, OF the critical moment, of
the Wise Donnelly letter, created panic which
served his purpose for the moment, and induced
many who abhorred the iniquity of a packed
1alo %n rhor 30 Ia &ha
which seemed to have been prepared on the
other side.
The Regency have made up their slate Of
names Of delegates to Syracuse in such manner
that, their candidates ere elected, they will be
enabled to send the greatest pack of rascals to
Charleston that ever disgTaced councils on ma
uonai interests with their presence. The bar
gain with the haIds will be ignored, and the I'M
derstanding with Seymour will bs paid equally
little attention to. It viii be an out-and on
butcher boy delegation, whose sole erraud vii,
be to sell the vote Of the State to the highest bid
der for the Presidential nomination, aud the one
they can best rely on to carry out the Regency
conspiracy for robbing the treasury of the coun.
try, as they have already done that of the
State. Every promise or agreement which in.
terferes with this object will be broken, aud
every individual viii be betrayed who has been
foolish enough to place confidence in them. The
principal leaders Of the Regency clique are said
70 be already positively pledged to half a dozen
PRESIDENTIAL aspirants, and as the period APP
proaches FOR the Charleston Convention they
viii be secretly committed to as many more, in
oraer 70 eyade the fate they most fear, namely