The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-23

tons of the Excise law. He will also furnish them
with statistical information of the amount of the
various descriptions of intoxicating liquors manu-
featured in this country, the amount exported and
imported, together with the leading historical facts
of the manufacture and effects of liquors. and other
information on the subject of a varied and interest
ing description.
The Grand Jury submitted two presentments in
the General Sessions yesterday, which will be
found in our report of the proceedings of the court
The first attributes the prevalence Of crime and
pauperism to the liquor traffic, and denounces the
proprietors of Sunday theatres in unmcasured
terms The other paper slludes to an alleged
abuse in the administration Of the militia laws.
Charles p. Thompson, who was convicted on Wed
nesday of perjury. was sent to the State prison for
three years. The particulars OF this interesting
case will be found elsewhere.
The Baltimore OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ecx.
plosion OF the Democratic Party.
The train has been fred, and this time the
gunpowder plot of Guy Fawkes has blown the
Parliament into mass of ruins. We refer our
readers to our copious reports of the intensely
interesting, exciting and revolutionary pro-
ceedings Of yesterday in the Baltimore Conven-
ton.
Dean Richmond, with his cunning devices
concocted q year ago to control the Conven-
ton, has thus come to the ground. His thirty
FIVE votes, secured from his packed convention
at Syracuse last September, have done the bust
meas. Had the Wood delegation, or even half
Of 1t, representing the national democracy of
New York, been admitted at Charleston, Q less
violent death To the party might have been
achieved. Treacherously giving II out at Wash
ington, in advance of the Convention, thst they
were ready for any man acceptable to the
South the Dean Richmond set were admitted
without difficulty. From that moment, casting
of their DISCUSSES, the trouble in the tabernacle
began.
But why II Is that Richmond and his subordi-
mates of the New York delegation did not fall
back, after hating, at the critical juncture of
the Convention yesterday, remains TO be told.
Rumon are abundant in the way Of explanation.
One has IL that Richmond and the New York
Central railroad jobbers were 30 interviewer
with Douglas and the railroads of the North
west that the inducements TO hold fast to the
Of the party. We presume, however, that Rich
mond himself would, In the crisis, have sold out
at half price, but that he was overruled by his
and their less flexible ideas Of con-
Between Douglas and Yancey, the
Northern and the Southern vote, Richmond at
the hero Of the "Beggar's Opera" between his
two mistresees-
How happy could be with either
Were tothcr dear charmcr away.
II IL magnifying very much, however, the
importance Of the New York delegation To
suppose that they could have saved the
party. Had they united with the South
upon the Southern platform, and q Southern
chosen candidate, the Douglas wing of
the Convention would doubtless have bolted
and repeated the revenge Of Van Buren,.
The seeds Of corruption, decentralization and dis
solution were sown broadcast over the party
under Van Buren's administration, and his
crushing defeat in 1910 would have been the
last Of the democracy but for the follies Of the
triumphant wing party. From the follies Of the
opposition, some new sensation, the almighty
niger, and the lucky accidents Of the hour, the
democracy since 1886 lean minority In the
popular vote Of the Union, have managed, like
a bankrupt, by the extension Of his notes, 10
hold fas, to the federal spoils with only failure
or two, down TO this day
There was q report yesterday that Mr..
Douglas had sent q despatch to Dean Richmond
Withdrawing his name al candidate, In order
to save the party. The report was doubtless
feeler, which II was discovered came too late.
The lines Of division and Of revolt between the
Douglas and anti Douglas wings of the Conven-
ton had become too tightly drawn to be any
longer within the control Of Mr.. Douglas. He
was like the necromancer who had conjured up
q spirit from the Internal regions, but could no
bid him down again.
Well, what Of all thiss Here Is an explosion
of the dominant party In the general govern
ment for the last thirty-two years II came
in upon the glory Of the battle Of New Orleans,
Il goes ont, goes down, and goes to pieces upon
the miserable abstraction of squatter sovereign
ty. The event marks q new epoch. new de-
parture. new order Of things, In our political
affairs. For good or evil, II is the most momen-
tons event in our political history since The
frst election Of Jefferson. What J. ~ follow
The triumph Of the republicans The election Of
republican Congress, a republican
what them The imagine
ton vainly eudeavors 10 compass the compre-