The Yazoo Democrat., 1860-06-30
OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
NEW YORK, June 10. 1850:


EDITOR OF THE DEMOCRAT AS in all human
probability, nominations will have been made
by the Baltimore Convention before this letter
is printed, it is not worth while specializing
upOn the course which the New York delega-
ton will pursue. That Douglas is the choice
of a majority of the party in this State cannot
be conscIentiously denied by any intelligent
man whose pursuits and tastes afford him op-
portunties for cOnversing freely with people
ofall classes in dierentsectons of the State; but
that no other Democratic candidate can carry
the State, if regularly nominated, is absurdly
false. The desire to keep the Government
from falling under the control of nan so no.
toriously unfit to administer it as Lincoln is
will rouse the Democracy of this State, as they
have never been reused before. to defeat him.
And they qoiH defeat Lincoln, too, whoever the
Democratic candidate may be. | aIn taking
! it for granted, of course, that there will be
only one Democratic candidate in the field; /;
for cannot think it possible that, in this great
crisis of the history of our country, any large
andinAuential body OF Democrats, either North
or South, would dare to bolt regular nomina-
ton, and thrtist into the field candidate OF
theif own, thus deliberately and surely con-
signing thirty millions of people to anarchy,
possible civil war, and the horrors that would
naturally result from the abolitionization of the
Federal Government by Lincoln and Hamlin
Nor do think that any Democratic statesman
could be found who would accept an ir-
regular nomination and allow himself to be
used by few disappointed and misguided poll
ticians as tool for the qualification of their
spirit of revenge at the risk of the integrity of
the Union. In speaking of Lincoln as being
''notoriously unfit" to administer the Govern
lnent of this Union, | mean that man who
has used such vulgar insulting language to-
wards the people of One-haf of the States Of
! the UhiOn, as is to be found in his speeches.
that d man whose sole claim to consideration
by the party which nominated him, is the vio-
lence and Scurrility of his denuncations of
Southern institutiohs-that n man who has,
time and again, promulgated the doctrine that
this Government cannot last, if slavery be per-
mitted to exist, and that, if he were in any
public position, he would use every iheaiis at
his control to e&tingush slavery mean, that
any man that has said and done all this, and
more, cannot be an impartial Chief Magistrate
of these United States.
There was a good deal larger turnout to
receive the japanese Embassy last Saturday
than at the Atlantic cable celebration There
has been nothing to equal it since the Kosshth
/ demonstration. The streets through which
the procession passed were literally jafhmed
with human beings; Broadway, from the
Battery to 14th street, presented bne of the
most lively spectacles | ever beheld Not only
were the sidewalks crowded to Prohibition,
but the hotiset6ps and windows were alive
with human beings. The Federal Government
is said to have expended 81 100000, from first
to last, in efforts TO bring aboHt a good under
standing with the japanese Government, anI
to sscure a good treaty and there is no doubt
that the lffone5 has been we'll expended.
saw, this morning, a speciifieL of Japdnese
vegetable wax 1t was in the POSSESSION Of 4
chemist, who had analysed portion of it for
downtown merchant. My scientific friend
i informed me that this vegetable wax has all
the qualities of beeswax. The officers of the
Japanese Embassy say that the supply of this
valilable article is nexhaustble in their coun-
try. 1t eah 6e imported here for one-fourtll
the cost of beeswax.
"Tommy" is reported to have gone rather
too far in his attentions to young lady who
boarded in the same hotel with him at Wash
lugton. In common with Others of her sex
she used to make point of waylayiug him
Ithtee or four times Gny, each time cxchang.
ing cards with him 1t would seem tliat the
girls used to toy with Tommy and caress him
thinking no harm OF it. His loose trousers So
nearly resembling petlcoats that it was ilnpos.
sible for them to realize that they We're hug
Egihg and being hugged by one Of The opposite
sex. iie is so young, too, aud so little. They
had no iitdfe hesitation or delicaty about going
into Tohihy's rboih than about visiting eacl
others apartments. One young lady, in par
ticular; was very importunate. She wanted
Ibis likeness. She would have his likeness
Tommy has two Or three good dagherreotypes
of himself, and it is fair to suppose that She
alluded to one Of theifi. But Tommy aid not
understafid her reG6est; hence his firm and
persistent refusal to accommodate her, not
withstanaing fer coaxings and endearments.
1t appears that, in Japanese, as lib European
languages, words have different Specifications,
according t. the position they occupy in d
sentence, &C., &C., and that when JAPANESE
lady asks d gentleman for his likeness # is
universally Understood there that She means a
living one Tommy; whose knowledge of Eng
lish is quite limited; imagined the same pecu-
liarity ,t0,'exist. in, our language. Hence his
heroic virtue. 11tJGap nature; however; is
pretty much the SAME All the world over. One
afternoon the young lady went to Tommy's
room, and, halfin play, half in earnest, refused
to leave without his likeness-she alluded, of
course, to one of the three or four which were
lying on the table. But Tommy, not so under
standing her, complied with her request, a la
JdpGnOise, compassionately and reluctantly,
however, and remarking, as appropriate to the
occasion, 'America great country" Somehow
Or other the affair has leaked out, though not
fthfongh any lack Of reticence in Tommy; whose
reputation as o man of strict honor in all
G6aires dW ceear stands unimpeached in his own
country. The chief ambassador has informed
the father of the young lady that he (the am
bassador) is sorry to hear that it is customary
in America to attach disgrace to d family il
one of its fenRdle members takes steps to pro-
cure the likeness of Il prince. AS to Tommy
marrying the young lady, the ambassador
pledges himself to lay the matter before His
Majesty, the Tycoon, who will communicate
with His Majesty the President, on the subject.
The young lady is reported to be anxious to
blacken her teeth, pluck her eyebrows, and
cross the raging main with her beloved Tommy.
and the latter is understood to be willing to
marry the young lady, but to be unable to do
so without risking bis life unless he first re-
ceves the imperial sanction. The ambassador
further suggested to the father that it may be
better for him and the other male relatives of