The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-02

garo 10 our city railroads, what Is to preveI
1t doing the same in the case Of the ferrief
The Common Council, by its corruption foF
many years, and its disregard of the Interest,"
Of the city, has invited this invasion of the
rights of New York. Had it been faithful ID
its trust, and let the ferries bona tide to tina
highest bidder, and sold railroad grants on thd
same condition, the Legislature would not dare,
to interfere with those sources of legitimate|V
revenue to the city. As the matter now stands.
the public have little interest in the dispute.
for it is of very little consequence to the people
by which class of robbers they are despoilsd. n
That they will be plundered by one or the
other is certain; and 1t is only choice Of evils
OF which 1t is very hard to say which is least.
The REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION
AND ". H. SEwARD.--F From the proceedings of
tue New York Republican State Central Conf
mittee. published in yesterdays HERALD It an.
pears that it was decided by vote of nine
against four that the delegates to the Chicago
Convention be elected by State Convention.
which is to meet at Syracuse on the 18th of
April, and not by the people in their Congress
sional districts. It was further determined
that the distant day appointed for holding the
Presidential Convention should not be changed.
From these proceedings it is evident that
Seward will have the nomination of the repub-
licans of this State. Weed has fixed that mat
ter Indeed, the object of electing the dele
gates by convention is not disguised-it was
boldly announced at the meeting that it was to
prevent difference of opinion, and to make sure
that the delegates to Chicago will vote as a
unit; that vote, as one of the speakers re-
marked, being for Seward. Said Mr.. Strong:
"There was but one opinion in the party in the
State, as far as he knew anything about it, and
that was for Seward
This is exactly the game played by Cagger,
Cassidy & Co. as regards the delegates to
Charleston. The Republican Albany Regency
takes all power out of the hands of the people.
and gives them no voice whatever in the choice
of delegates. This is what was done before
by the Albany Democratic Regency. Both Re-
gencies want to have the packing of the re-
spective national conventions. The Republic
can Regency, consisting of Weed Il Co., per-
ceive that among the rank and file of the
party in this State there is q revulsion against
Seward, and that the Union and conservative
sentiment has gained ground. They fear that
this would be developed strongly in the cleo
ton of delegates by the people in the Congress
sional districts, and they are determined not to
give it chance. They will smother the popu-
lar voice, and rule the party with a rod of iron,
and despotism akin to that of the Emperor of
Austria or of the Russian Gar. The postpone
ment of the Chicago Convention to the middle
of June is designed, as we have shown In q
former article, to favor Seward, by allowing
time for the storm rising against him to blow
over; and the election of the New York dele
gates by convention is another measure avow-
eddy in his interest.
LetSeward by all means be nominated There
is no man the national and conservative ele.
ment in this State so ardently desires to have
for an opponent in the great contest of next
November as the apostle of the "higher law
the champion of the "irrepressible conflict"
VERDICT IN THE CASE OF THE LATE HUDSON
RIVER RAILROAD SLAUGHTER-The Coroner's
jury, in the case of the late accident on the
Hudson River Railroad which resulted in the
death of two persons have done their duty
very well in censuring all the parties concern
ed, but they might have gone farther and have
done better by including the managers of the
railroad in their condemnation who, according
to the facts ELECTED, must have been aware that
the engine Of the damaged train was in an un-
fit and imperfect condition. The jury censure
the brakeman, Hartley, for not Fastening back
to warn the coming train of danger, and they
censure the engineer of that train for running
SO fast when he knew that the train before him
was propelled by an imperfect engine. Now,
it is evident that if the engineer knew the loco
motive to be in dangerous and unit condi-
ton, the managers who put it on the road, and
allowed it to remain there, must have known that
fact also and are consequently far more CEN
surable than their employees and should be held
to stricter accountability.
Accidents there may be on railroads that no
foresight can avert, though they are very rare
indeed, but an accident occurring from any
known imperfection in the road or the engines
is not to be excused or pardoned. We hope in
this case that the managers of the Hudson
River Railroad will be dealt with as they de-
serve. The locomotive which was the cause of
the late deplorable disaster should not have
been permitted to run one hour on the road
after its imperfect condition was ascertained.
The Expected European Steamers.
sNON-ARRIvAL OF THE AMERICA.
HALIFAX, Feb. 1-SPH
No signs Of the America, now in her nineteenth day
from Liverpool. tremendous gale e prevailing bore