The New York herald., 1872-07-09

Coming, as they do, like the last bugle
notes the night before battle we make few
quotations from some of our partisan con-
temporaries relative to the Convention at
Baltimore to-day
The Chicago Times, of the 9Th instant (anti-
Greeley democrat), declares that ''the only road
to success is for the Baltimore Convention to
boldly take upon itself the duty Of respecting
and acting according to the wishes of
three-fourths (of the democracy, and throw
the most disagreeable and Objectionable
demagogue Of New York overheard"
Some Of the Greeley papers have
been declaring that the Chicago Times
bad succumbed before the Greeley deluge but
IT would appear from the above that it still sur
wives to battle for the pure old Bourbon demo-
cracy-,a democracy purer than that ever pro-
duced even in the Blue Grass region Of Ken
lucky, for it is not at all adulterated by the
Greeley process The report, therefore, that
the Times had gone for Greeley was only a
Roorback for the hour, silly story to frighten
timid democrats. The Times concludes -
AS for the great body OF the sincere and earnest
democracy whose voice Will not be heard at Balti-
more, and whose wishes will there be disregarded
by the nomination OF the most offensive anti.demo,
crat and least trustworthy politician In the United
States, they can honestly and patrloticaly say
''We put no trust in those men; we wash our hands
OF the foul business; tor the consequences we are
not responsible"
The Cincinnati Commercial (early Greeley
sounds one of the softest possible notes on the
eve of the contest, as if it would lull the Con-
vention to-day to sleep on the great Greeley
issue. It recommends the passive policy,
inaugguratea by the st. Louis Republican, but
which Was discarded by that print Immediately
after the Cincinnati Convention, when it nailed
the Greeley and Brown flag to Its masthead
and took for its motto 'No surrender" The
passive was then called the ''possum''
policy, and the possum, like ''that same old
doom in Henry Clay times, begins to show its
head. ~ r.'f,,..,' ~,
The Philadelphia Press (Grant republican,
thinks 1t probable that the Cincinnati plat
form will be slightly tinkered by the Conven-
ton which meets to-day at Baltimore. 'This
change" it adds, ...'wil be concession to the
angry spirits that do not relish the Feast to
which they have been invited A few Of these
members Of the Pennsylvania delegation, the
Delaware delegation and number of Con-
gressmen-go to Baltimore to secure the
nomination Of a straight-out candidate" And
here the Press significantly suggests that
'they are bent upon as fruitless an errand as
Don Quixote's tilt against the windmill -
The Philadelphia Age (old-line democrat),
although net convert 1t says, to the policy
of nominating Greeley, is not blind to the
circumstances which have invested the
Philosopher of Chappaqua with the peculiar
fitness that many see in him for the existing
political condition. His friends and his
enemies seem to have worked together for
him. The Age concludes in the following
philosophical strain
But IT, contrary to our opinion, two-thirds Of the
selected representatives of the democracy of the
whole Union shall offer the leadership of the Joint
forces to Mr.. Greeley or Judge Davis or any other
liberal republican, who has received the support
and endorsement of large number Of democrats
regular decision Of political question in the ie-
gitimate and proper manner, which the minority,
under the settled principles OF the democratic
party, have no right or power to reverse.
The Boston Post orthodox democrat, but
going for Greeley says, in its issue Of yester-
day, that the single purpose that animates the
great body of the people is q perfectly safe
guide for the democrats of the Union in con-
vention assembled. They will assemble in
Baltimore, as party, 'still further to
demonstrate the supremacy of genuine pa
triotism over all forms of party rule" This
may be taken as the final bugle note of the
orthodox democracy of Massachusetts, before
going into battle to-day.
The Boston Advertiser (Grant republican, is
slightly shivering at the prospect of the results
of the Baltimore Convention. 1t warns its re-
publican friends not to underrate the strength
of this Baltimore combination. "Both parties
to it, 1t says, shave staked heavily upon the
issue; and no trifing matter Of punctilo or
party etiquette will be tolerated between them"
The advertiser advises those republicans to
freshen their memories who think the time has
come "to transfer the power Of making and
administering the laws relating to the rights Of
citizens to the public credit to the power Of
the national government itself, to an admins
traion In which the assassins Of public credit
and public liberty Will be represented l.,
The Providence Journal pro-Grant), Of yes
terday, has nothing to say about the Conven-
tion but mentions geographically that "Mr.
Greeley, while in Boston, was constantly in the
hands of the democrats Whatever the re-
suits of the Convention which commences its
sitting in Baltimore to-day may be, one thing
is clearly evident--to wit, that many repub-
ican leaders and organs are about this time
dreadfully "skeered.'
The Condition of the French Treasury.
In prospect of fresh French loan being
put upon the markets of the world we notice
that some prominent European journals are