The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-05

iands' whi be remembered, were recently sold by
so-caled treaty at q merely nominal price to the
Leavenworth and Galveston Railroad Company.
from tle plains we learn that the Indians are
again becoming troublesome. large body OF
savages crossed to the south side OF Platte river,
between Plum creek and Willow Island, on Thurs
day last and drove OF q number Of wood choppers.
The removal Of troops from Forts Smith, Phil. Kear-
ney and Reno is progressing rapidly. About two
thousand Shoshones and Barrock Indians held
council with General Augur on the I'd inst. Inc
shipment of gold from Central City, COL, In June
4 amounted to 5000, 900.
The steamers gettysburg Narva and Francisco de
Ass arrived at Havana yesterday the current prov
ing strong that they were compelled TO buoy the
new telegraph cable which they are engaged IN lay
ing four miles east of Moro Castle.
| An interesting compilation of religious intelligence
on the eleventh page of this mornings HERALD will
found refreshing reading especially to politicians
now in the city.
The Navy Department has issued orders conform
ing to the law for an eight hour system of labor.
A man named John Rands was stabbed in Baxter
| street last night by an Italian named Magaldo. He
died instantly, and his murderer arrested after
| a desperate struggle
An old man named Francis kerrigan was MUIR
dered last evening at the corner OF Warren street
and Underhill avenue, Brooklyn Two men, named
Joseph Lynch and Martin Dempsey, were arrested on
charge Of having committed the deed. Kerrigan
stabbed In the region of the heart with scls-
sors and died almost instantly.
John NJ Sheldon, a member Of Engine Company
No. 10, was run by the engine at the of
Myrtle and Casson avenues, Brooklyn, yesterday
afternoon, and instantly killed.
The National Convcntion-Nice Little Game
Of the Albany Regency.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
thrice presented him kingy crown,
Which he did thrice refuse
So says Mark Antony of his friend ''the
noble Caesar" who was by Brutus, Cassius
and Company put out of the way, mot that
they loved Caesar less, but because they loved
Rome more" Our Ex-Governor Horatio Sey-
mour, has been as patriotic and magnanimous
as Caesar; for has he not thrice refused the
democratic nomination for the next Presidency?
His last declination, some three days gone by,
was so frank and unequivocal that it has been
generally accepted as conclusive. He was
not equal to the great distinction; he had not
been seeking it he did not want it and he
would not have it. Yet, in our judgment, this
is but stroke of strategy in the nice little
game concocted by the Albany Regency for
Seymours nomination.
1t is the identical trick which was so success
fully played not many years ago to secure to
Mr. Seymour the democratic nomination for
Governor. He had withdrawn; he was not in
the fight; but his friends thought, in the nick of
time that complimentary vote in his favor as
the first choice of the democracy would be
very acceptable to Mr.. Seymour, though he
would unquestionably decline the nomination.
Under this assurance the experiment was tried,
but the Convention was caught; for Mr.. Sey-
mour graciously accepted the nomination thus
conferred, and the thing was fixed. Now,
in this Convention the advantages of the same
trick Of strategy are visible to the naked eye.
Mr.. Seymour, it is understood, has positively
withdrawn. He thus ceases to be an object of
attack, and his friends begin to be sought for
by the other candidates. The Seymour de-
tachment becomes a balance of power in the
Convention. It beats about the bush right
and left 1t adroitly contrives and assists in
the slaughter of Chase, Pendleton, Hendricks,
Hancock and the rest, and then, at the point
where all his rivals are used up under the two
thirds rule, Mr.. Seymour is trotted in fresh
and good as new, distances all his exhausted
competitors and carries off the prize.
The two-thirds rule is a beauty At the
Baltimore Democratic Convention of 1874,
where it was invented to kill off Van Buren,,
we find that on the first ballot Van Buren, had
l46 out of 233 votes cast on the ninth ballot
he had only two votes left for Polk fresh
nag, was just then brought in, and a general
rush for Polk nominated him, to the astonsh-
ment of all concerned. In the Baltimore Con-
vention Of 1852 the old stagers, nine of them,
fought pretty stubbornly to the thirty fourth
ballot, when, having betrayed their exhaus
ton in an effort to unite on Dickinson poor
Pierce was trotted in, fresh and prancing, head
and tail up, and on the forty ninth round he
walked over the course. This is the game of
the Albany Regency with Seymour. II is to
keep him back until his rivals are worn out
and killed off, and then to charge with him
after the fashion of the Old Guard of Napo-
leon at the turning point of the battle, fresh
and vigorous, against the exhausted centre of
the enemy's line, break it, double up the two
wings rout them and take possession of the
field.
There are two cliques among the managers
of the New York deegation-a Seymour clique
and a Mcclellan clique. Certain democratic
financiers of this city who made some sacri-
fees of ''der monish" in behalf of Mcclellan
in 1864 would like to get 1t back, and doubtless
his nomination and election in 1868 would
answer this purpose. These men constitute
the New York Mcclellan Central Committee.
Their chance is very slim. The Seymour clique
Is powerful and is headed by the Albany
Regency. They argue in this way: Seymour