The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-06-24

NEE-CHAsE OUT OF TEE RING HENDRIcKP
: s. srSsoa alBLY THE coMIEa M6k-JERoME P6RK
: ! RACES AND THE NEW RACE COURSE -soUTHERa
~ KDuoGrfoNITHE,so soAos1s AHD THE PBrss CLUB
!, , iTHE PIN And THE rEr11ooxT, &c,4c. = y
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/ ,,Tfe New York correspondent Of the Boston
Post writes under-date Of tha 18th instant: q
p Il is considered as good dsas settled that Chase
is ont OF the Presidential race. The Herald
and Sun, both pretending to be Democratic
no,o, still urge, him strongly, on the ground iof
availability; and the rich men, With an eye 70
responsibility, favor him as much as they DID
two weeks ago. But neither Bennett nor Dana,
q nor the rich men:in Wall!street and Fifth Ave
hue, ,tan make the DepQcratic masses believe
that Chase Is their MANI ..,,,F s,,;t., =:
: ~ ~! THE pEniooaIT1c PLATFoRM. y
There will be nothing wisby-wsshy in, the
Democratic platform. It win not ignore any
iof the proninent isstiss of thelay. The planks
felnting to finances. and the public credit will
Be- framed to bear .. great deal more meaning
on their face than the corresponding plRnks In
the Ohica9o platform. In regard TO the rights
|, Of American citizens abroad, it will boldly
assert, lthsn doetrine thstn the government LIB
bound to protect them, and must dofso. at any
risk. other points, such as the tarlh, taxa
tlOn, eNptNultufebj ncs, tso ueSIeiestuu "1ti
be Ia any respect Sequivocsl: On the question
of taxing goyprnment bonds, it will maintain
that all property should bear o just share OF
the public cost-in other words, that bondhod-
ers should pay taxes as we'll as other people.
II will, in fact, be an. ontspeken Democratic
5platform; so free from ambiguity that every
one can understand it; and the men selected
sto stand on it will be men whose words are un-
exceptionable. whose Democracy ls and has
been sound, and whose abilities qualify them
for the high Offices in which the Democratic
people purpose TO place them. {
f1ss; THE CANDIDATES. q maya Z
4 III is much easier to say who will not be can
didates before the people than who will! 1t is
believed, and it seems highly probable, that
the strongest candidates before the convention
will be Pendleton, Hendricks and Hancock,
and the opinion is pretty generally expressed
|. that Hendricks will, after awhile, concentrate
tho strongest, ,vote.n 1t is conceded that Hem
ydricks, on account Of his experience and the
be worthy and popular candidate. General
Mcclellan, Governor Parker, Governor Halght,
and Judge .Sharswood, of Pennsylyania, viii
have friends. in the convention, but neither ;is
olikely to command much strength From pre-
sent indications, the contest Will be between
.Pendleton, Hendricks and Hancock with ap
experienced. statesman for the second place,
viii giYelit a hearty support and majority Of
fifty thousand at leas'.'' =
THE JEROME PARK RACES
Are now going on despite weather OF the
most moist and miserable quality. 1t! is Q
sight to see Broad-street, and Fifth avenue
efnptied into Jerome Park about two o'clock
one Of these afternoons, and look at the grand
stand with it's brilliant multitude OF fair and
last occupants; the parks objectionable equip
ages lying along the green slopes; the quarter
stretch with its knots and crowds OF merchants,
bankers and men about town, all betting away
for dear life and discussing the chance Of this
ror that favorite coming in by 3 meek or alength,
and the sinuous course itself winding in and
out around knobs and past the magnificent
!Olnb House, where champagne corks pop time
10 the thunder OF flying hoofs as the horses
dash along, aud come round with o grand
sweep where the fold lies fat and the course
is bare to every eye in the great excited null
titude near the winning post; glorious sight
of dollars it costs to see; but there is one
thing about it that makes thoughtful mon
reflect and that is the reckless whirl Of gamb;
ling on every side. tOldL men, young ladiesI
fast men, steady clerks, solid merchants, thrift
w middle-menAal are ready with their pocket
books and all are talking about odds aud time
and other things pertinent to replace and
ClTCum6tauc6S. lQ6I6 HI0 uO BTedU lOTtubc5
staked and lost, as in England, but the aggre-
gate of greenbacks transferred from one pock-
ct to another would do wonders for the poor
if applied to their benefit instead OF wagered
on equine performances. Enough was lost the
first day Of the races il is estimated, to sup
port the poor of New York for q month. How
ever, it is not my business to moralize on the
evils of the course. merely note that the
races draw great crowds from the metropolis,
that they are admirably conducted, and that
people will bet their money despite all the lec-
lures and lecturers in tie world.
NEW RACE COURSE.
Sam. Pike. of Opera House fame, is one;of
Tho most enterprising men in tho universe.
His Opera House on Eighth Avenue will never
put much money in his pocket, but his groat
project of reclaiming the New Jersey fats, now
nearly contaminated, will certainly help him
to q high place on the list Of milllonaires. A
year ago he bought four thousand acres of
marsh within fifteen-minutes' ride of New York,
Immediately set an army of laborers at work to
sdyke and drain it, and now has it almost free
from water and flt for habitations. Pike ex-
poets to see city built on his reclaimed marsh
some day; but in the meantime he will lease
tholand for gardening and temporary, dwell
irss, except enough for an immense race
course, which he proposes to lay out and have
completed just as soon as his irrepressible en-