The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-10
NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY TO- 1868 TRIPLE SHEET

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tain Leitch, for Queenstown and Liverpool, viii
sail from pier as North river about one p N. to-mor
row Saturday, The European mails will close st
the Post once at twelve M. on the 18th inst. =
The steamship Denmark, Captain Thompson, OF
the National line, will leave pier At North river on
Saturday, 18th inst, at noOn for Liverpool, calling
at Queenstown to land passengers.
The Anchor line steamship Hibernia Captain
Munro. viii sail from pier 20 North river at twelve
NJ, tomorrow Saturday, for Glasgow and Liver
pool calling at Londonderry to land passengers 60
The Merchants line steamship United States, Cap
tain Norton, will sail from pier IL North river TO-
morrow Saturday, at three p NJ, for New Orleans
| direct.
The steamship San Jscinto Captain Atkins will
leave pier No. North river at thee p. NJ, on Satur-
day, for Savannah.
The steamship Charleston Captain Berry, will sail
from pier No. North river ct three r. n. tO-mor-
row, for Charleston.
The steamship Moneka, Captain Marshman will
leave pier No. North river at four p. NJ to-day Fri
day, for Charleston.
The stock market was strong yesterday. Govern
ment securities were strong. Gold closed at 14Ox.
Tho Democratic Nemination-A Clear Field
for General Grant.
The die is cast. The Democratic Convention
has decided that our next President shall be
General Grant. There was q splendid oppor-
tunity offered this Convention, in the nomina-
ton Of Chief Justice Chase, to carry OF the
balance of power from the republican camp,
North and South, East and West, and to inau-
gurate in the approaching Presidential election
q substantial and enduring conservative revo-
luton. The advantages Of this nomination
| were at once appreciated by the democratic
masses and the independent thinking men of
the party with the agitation Of his name as the
democratic candidate for the crisis, and they
were enthusiastic in the cause of Chase; but
the party jugglers of this Tammany Hall
Convention had different game to play. So
far as the New York managing politicians are
concerned, this game was fully disclosed in the
HERALD of Sunday last in reference to the
mock declination of Horatio Seymour.
The old fable of the mountain in labor has
been fully realized, and the delivery is ridicu-
lous mouse as the democratic Presidential can
didate against the conqueror Of the rebellion.
Seymour against Grant in 1868 amounts to a
democratic surrender or q disbanding of the
democratic party. The ticket of Mcclellan
against Lincoln was a strong ticket compared
with this of Seymour against Grant. 1t has no
prestige but that of defeat. In 1862, indeed,
Mr.. Seymour was elected Governor; but it was
on the platform Of 90 more vigorous prosecu-
ton of the war" In 1868 he returned to his
idols of the copperhead faith, and there he
would have remained but for the blunders of
the republicans and their divisions in the State
elections Of last year. Now, as In 1868, GA,
65 and &c, after their successes of 1862, all the
capital and all the foothold gained by the
democrats have been thrown away and lost,
and the battle of 1864 is revived, with some
changes to be sure, but as against Seymour
they are all in favor of Grant.
There is nothing in Seymour, nothing in his
record, nothing in his platform that will bring
single recruit to the democratic party, but
everything to rally the whole floating vete of
the United States, with all the conservative
republicans, around the glorious banner of
Grant. 1t is supposed by his friends and
political trainers that Seymour is at least good
for New York, with its fifty thousand
democratic majority of last fall. That majority,
however, was delusive, the result Of republi-
can disaffections and divisions, which only the
nomination of Chase as the democratic can
didate could have turned to substantial ad-
vantage in this campaign. Seymour against
Grant will bring all the republicans into line,
and the result will be another political reac-
ton, which will give New York to Grant by
twenty, thirty or forty thousand majority.
The Pendleton guard have hitherto dis
played extraordinary directness, firmness
and courage. They put their candidate
forward with bold front, published his
principles to the world, claimed the votes |
of the Convention for him on his merits, and |
scorned to help him to success by any under |
handed trickery or secret bargains. When |
they became satisfied that Pendleton |
could not command two-third vote in
the Convention they withdrew his name
in an honorable, manly manner. In all
their action, from first to last, they dis
played the true, manly spirit that seems the
natural production of the pure air and invig-
Grating climate of the great West, and to
spring up in the breast Of the Western man as
grass springs up on the broad prairies; the
spirit that animated the men who marched in
Sherman's ranks from Chattanooga to the sea
and carried the national banner through the
heart of the confederacy. The delegates who
came from the prairies and the plains to the
Democratic Convention were called together
by pure patriotism and by resolve to stand
by the constitution, now threatened by Jacobn