The New York herald., 1872-10-21

In tho Empire state-HOw Goes the
Battles -r-~'~-
Our political readers, without distinction of
creed or party or race or color. will, in our
Judgment. be literally compensated for the
time required in the reading of the two spark
ling special letters which we publish this morn
ing--one from Syracuse and ono from Bing-
hamton-on the political situation in the rural
districts of the ssEmpire State" From the
initial State skirmish in March last in New
Hampshire and East, South and West. we
have, through our special correspondents in
the field, made it an object to foreshadow, as
far as possible, and fairly and without preju-
dice or partiality, from the facts and the
signs of the times, the general results of inn
pending local elections and the outlook in
each case for the White House. Having thus
fully posted our readers from New Hampshire
to Connecticut and thence successfully to tho
local battles of North Carolina and Vermont
and Maine and Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana,
Nebraska, South Carolina and Georgia, and
having amply reported and expounded
the spirited, romantic, chivalric and amusing
triangular contest in Tennessee for her Con-
gressman at Large, between Cheatham, May
nard and the inextinguishable Andy johnson,
we have come round from these incidental
State battles to New York, now the central
point of attraction, as it is now the central
and essential point of the general engagement
between the contending forces of Grant and
Greeley.
Our correspondents in the interior, like
"Japhet in search of father" have been de-
voting their attention particularly to the dis
covery of the forces of that mysterious ele-
ment, that unknown quantity in this general
contest, styled the straight-out or Bourbon
democracy But SO far, it appears, the re-
searches Of our industrious explorers have not
resulted in any extraordinary developments Of
strength in this Bourbon movement. The
managers have nominated an electoral ticket
for New York, but there are as yet no indica-
tions that it will amount to anything as di-
version in the election. The straight-outs of
Pennsylvania have resolved that, as the
results of their late October election have
settled the November struggle there in favor of
General Grant, the Bourbon policy for Penn
sylvania is mastery inactivity. In Kentucky,
in Delaware and in two or three other States,
we believe these infexible old-line democrats
have set up an electoral ticket for OConor
and Adams; but as the organization in every
State appears to be only small tea party,
without newspapers or funds or stumpers or
working committees, the probabilities are that
in no State will this Bourbon faction mate
rally disturb the concentration Of the opposi-
ton forces upon Greeley and Brown on the
all-important 5th day of November In short,
as the Presidential order of battle was formed
between the administration and the opposition
forces when Colonel Blanton Duncan's Louis
Vile Convention assembled, there was no room
for his outside Presidential ticket, and so, for
all practical purposes, it may be dismissed
with the labor reform ticket, the women's
rights ticket and the temperance ticket and
George Francis Train.
But while our special campaigners in the
interior of New York have been very poorly
rewarded in their searches for anti Greeley
or "straight-out'' democrats, they have dis
covered, without difficulty, pretty strong
force in some of the strongest repub-
lican counties of anti-Grant republicans.
The conclusion naturally follows that
inasmuch as there does not appear to be any
in these democratic Bourbons, and as the anti
Grant republicans do exist in considerable
numbers in all the strongholds Of the republi-
cans the chances in this State are still in favor
Of Greeley and Brown, even should their ma
jorty in this city fall SO low as forty thousand.
Meantime, however, the complications and
cross-frings of the various parties Of the city
on our municipal Offices to be filed in Novem-
ber are so inexplicably mixed up as to throw
into the shade the perplexities of the Schles-
wig -Holstein ENHANCEMENT or of the Spanish
succession.
Leaving for the present, then, these munich
pal difficulties to the high contracting parties
for solution, we return to the consideration
of the Presidential prospect in this great State.
In this connection our State election of last
November is no test whatever; for upon the
terrible hue and cry raised against the abound
ing and astounding corruptions of the old,
exploded Tammany Ring the democracy were
bewildered, struck dumb and paralyzed and
on short popular vote the election, even on
their State ticket went against them by de-
fault. But still, upon these fgures-the worst
that can be supposed for the democrats of this
city-on their Presidential ticket, they will have
a majority here Of forty thousand. Add to
this say five thousand Greeley republicans-a
moderate estimate-and this majority is en-
larged to forty-fve thousand. The democratic
majority in this city for Seymour in 1868 was
sixty thousand, upon the largest popular vote
ever cast in city and State, and Seymour
carried the State by ten thousand majority.
Upon the popular vote, then, Of the State of
1868, excluding this city, and giving Greeley