The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-01-21

for prince included in the sales 400 casks for export
Sugars firm with sales of 900 hhds and $50 boxes
at rates given elsewhere. Coffee firm with sales of
bags and mats of Java and 500 bags Cape at rates
given in another column. Freghts without change
of moment while engagements moderate.
The Presidential QUESTIONED New Opposition
Movement I'm Pennsylvania.
The letter of our Harrisburg correspondent,
which we publish to-day, embraces point or
two of remarkable interest to politicians and
President makers. First, it appears than an ex-
tensive combination exists among the opposition
managers of Pennsylvania in favor of General
Simon Cameron for the next Presidency-that
his friends have succeeded in electing the officers
of the lower branch of the Legislature and the
State Treasurer, and that, in short they are
in position to WELD powerful political inhu-
ence during the next twelve months Secondly
it appears thai the republican House of Repre-
sentatives at Harrisburg has almost unanimous
ly passed series of tariff resolutions endorsing
the policy of specific duties recommended to
Congress in the Presidents annual message,
and that an overwhelming majority of the peo-
pie of Pennsylvania of all parties, are earnestly
devoted to this policy ofincidental protection to
their great industrial elements of coal and iron
We may, therefore, pretty safely conclude
that unless some greater political issue than
the tariff shall be made the test question
among the people in 1860, the tariff, in that
contest, will at least command the balance
of power in Pennsylvania. And as that
great State, with the present sectional organi
cation of parties, has become the admitted ba-
lance of power upon the Presidential question, the
professional politician will be at no loss to dis
cover the important bearings of this Cameronian
movement at Harrisburg. 1t was Pennsylvania
that gave the first positive impulse to the popu-
| lar movements which resulted in bringing out
General Jackson upon the Presidential course;
it was the casting vote of Pennsylvania that
elected General Taylor; and it was Pennsylva-
MIA and her candidate that saved the democracy
and secured them another term of the Presidency
in 1856. Nor can it be denied that, upon the
basis of the existing organizations and divisions
of our political parties, Pennsylvania will hold a
commanding position as the umpire between the
North and the South in the contest of 1860.
The leading republican organs of this State
have lately pronounced against the manifesto of
the Chevalier Webb issued upon the heel of our
November State electon-that W. II. Sew
ard is the fixed and inevitable candidate of the
republicans for the Presidential succession.
Greeley says Mr. Seward is no such thing as his
pre-Ordained standard bearer; Thurlow Weed
cordially seconds the motion; and even the Che
Waller Webb himself backs down to the plea that
it is yet too early in the morning to discuss the
question ola Presidential candidate These and
other similar disclosures are but a few of the
floating straws indicating the dead low water to
which the ebb tide of the Kansas agitation has
reduced the political parties of the day.
We suspect, however, that the remarkable
failure of Mr.. Stewards bloody abolition Roches-
ter programme among the people and the politi-
clans has had much to do with this quas-with-
drawal of his superior claims upon the republi-
can party. His managers and trainers, we sus-
pect, have simply taken him into the stable to
rest him, rub him down, and apply the necessary
stimulants to restore his wind. At all events.
it lie decreed that he must stand back, and
await among his competitors the upshot of
events through the important interval to 1860,
and this decision, in reference to Seward. gives
some additional consequence to the Harrisburg
movement in favor Of Cameron.
The democracy, upon the Cuba question have
the game Of the next Presidency in their hands.
and to secure it they have only to play the
trump card of the Thirty Million bill, and follow
up the movements of the administration under
the authority Of these thirty millions Pass the
bill, and it will not be long, we dare say, before
the question will be developed, through Mr. Bu-
chanan's negotiations, into shape which, with
out involving the contingencies of war, will com
mand the reorganization of parties throughout
the country. But in default of this bold and
dashing movement for Cuba, the democracy will
remain as they are-enfeebled, distracted, divid-
ed, and at the mercy Of the winds and waves.
Should the leaders Of the party thus go back
from the present Congress, among the people,
they will return at the next session to find them
selves subject, most likely, to the DEGREES of an
opposition majority in the House.
There is no prospect at this session, from the
democratic majority of either house. of any salts
factory tariff bill Of specifics or nd ya,orem,.
The party, North and South, is, we fear, hope
lessly divided on this subject for, whatever the
Northern majority of the House may pass in
favor OF the specific incidental protective
policy, the Southern and Western free trade
majority in the Senate will most likely reject. To
prevent this tariff question, therefore, from be-
coming the pivot upon which Pennsylvania may
be carried over permanently to the opposition
side, nothing but this Cuba movement will avail.
But that will avail, and can soon be made to
overshadow all other issues everywhere, as COM
pletely as did the Texas annexation question in
its day.
in this view, the Importance of the Pennsyl-
vania opposition movement for Cameron depends
upOn the Cuha noliov of tho dop,ocrot;o ,,a;or;,