The New York herald., 1868-03-16

| Tuesday. us8g&M r.FA exeu4ss
CORDOBA, the colored candidate for Secretary OF
State In South Carolina Is claimed By New Haven to
have been formerly preacher in that place.
| Floods are prevailing ct Albany and Schenectady.
The water at the former place h two feet above the
DOCKS and q portion Of Schenectady is inundated.
The Monroe paper mill In Waterville, Me-, was
burned yesterday morning. Loss about $4,000.
The Connections Elcctisn-Faxragut Versus
The State of Connecticut is but an outer
suburb Of New York, and as such pointing
in some degree the political tendency of this
great mass, its elections are important indica-
tions Of the possible future Therefore the
election which takes place in that State on the
9Th of April next has peculiar interest Last
year we instructed the democrats how to con-
duct the campaign to q successful issue.
We showed them how to take up such
character as Barnum, the Snowman, the
most conspicuous republican candidate, and
from the abundance of the reservoir of folly,
humbug and immortality in which he was i'm
mersed draw sufficient odium to drench the
republican ticket from top to bottom-to
make Barnum, in fine, the point of attack, and
with him carry down all the republican
leaders, The democrats followed our advice
and triumphed, and that too, despite the
contrary course pursued by democratic papers
here, which supported the woolly horse through
and through. Now the question Of party SUI
premacy in Connecticut is coming up again.
There is no such striking local issue this year
in favor Of the democrats as existed last year.
Barnum is ''dead duck" badly broiled and
out Of the question in this Connecticut fight
But though there is no local issue that so dis
tinctly shows the immortality and corruption of
the republican party, though the Connecticut
democracy may not be SO happy in it's candi-
dates as it was last year, yet there is grand
case to be made in forcing the national issue,
in hammering away at the destructive policy of
Congress, and, above all, in gathering the fight
around name of Presidential significance
Connecticut can be won by the democracy in
this way, and so winning will lead the country
for the succession.
Now that the smoke has cleared away In
did pretty well there, and that the republicans
have little to justify their noisy boasts. As
matter of numbers merely the republican ma
jority is cut down one thousand, and this is a
large loss in 80 small q State. New York city
alone has vote one third larger than the
whole State of New Hampshire. Such de-
crease Of the republican majority, if applied
proportionately to State having large vote,
would be sufficient to fright the souls of radical
adversaries for many month. Applied to the
vote of the State Of New York, for instance, it
would represent q loss of ten thousand votes.
Although it is conceded that for the democrats
to cut down the republican majorities is, in its
nature, as important sign as for the demo-
Gratis to actually win the campaign, still it will
be urged in favor of radicalism that this repub-
preceded, indicates that the tide is broken.
But this is to forget the very important feature
in the case-that New Hampshire is in New
England. New England feels itself responsible
for this radical party-errors, crimes and all.
It is the New England party-the party of
narrow minded prejudice. New Hampshire,
has q peculiar natural sympathy
with this party, from which no reasoning and |
no experience of bad results that does not i'm |
come home can move It; therefore |
The party loses less there than in more liberal |
thinking New York.
Let the democracy in Connecticut therefore
be assured that the story Of New Hampshire
presents no fact that ought to discourage them,
but much to urge to further effort. But they
need an issue-a starting point-a grand rally
ing cry Of a more positive character, fresher
and nearer to the popular heart than the cry
against radical ruin. They must organize their
fight around the name of Admiral David G.
Farragut, the Old Salamander, the hero of Forts
st. Philip and Jackson, the hero of Mobile,
the little MILDLY of the glorious old frigate Essex
under Porter in the Pacific. This is the man
for the democracy. Much Of the strength of
the republican struggle in New Hampshire
seems to have been due to the fact that Grant
was kept forward SO prominently that the issues
of the war were fairly brought up again. Far
ragut is the card to play against this game.
Grant, standing on the stump of his Appomat-
tox apple tree, is very pretty picture of
abstract heroism but more magnificent pre-
sentation, one that win catch the popular eye
with its more attractive charm, Is that Of the
sailor hero in the shrouds of his ship, his whole
figure lighted up by the fire of the battle raging
below. This is the case for the democracy;
let them fight it earnestly, and they will inevi-
tably win.
Radical Rule and Its Effects I'm Tennessee.
In our Washington news Of yesterday we had
it reported that General George H. Thomas had
informed General Grant that the state Of affairs
was hourly becoming more alarming In Ten
nessee. The State, in fact, was on the point OF