Year: 1868

The Washington special of the New York


Herald of this morning contains the following


important announcements


While write Oast EVENING" Governor Walker
and some others are in consultation with Gene


raj Hancock to night. The friends of the Gene.


accept. The General himself is very mum on


the subject, having refused very politely to talk


with correspondents at all on politics. The


movement has made quite stir here among


general appear at loss in what way


to receive it, whether to regard 1t as


an addition to the chapter OF blunders


lately committed by their party, or to
vanqulshing the hero OF Appomattox. Opinions
differ widely, and perhaps thus htly reflect the
confusion that must ensue whether the scheme
be pressed to consunmation or abandoned as
inadvsable. Some take this view, that no wever
untimely the scheme has been thrust upon the
party, now that it Is out the better plan is TO
adopt 1t. The publication which will certainly
be given to it through the newspapers, they
urge, will be quite as damaging to the party as
TO adopt the scheme ITSELF 1t will show, they
say, that We are weak, hesitating, and In doubt.
We can't escape from that predlcament now, so
let us, In the name of Democracy, jump into
the breach, as we have to face the danger, and
bght boldly for success. If the scheme had not
leaked out we might let 1t drop without danger;
but now that 1t Is known, the best thing we can
do is to play it as our last card. There are
some who advocate calling the full nominating
Convention together; but as this step is scarcely
practicable, owing to geographical and other
difficulties, and as it might lead to unfortunate
dissensons and delays, 1t is probable only the
National C,mmittee will be summoned. AS
10 Judge Chase, l have had no oppor.
are s on this subject. The probabilities are h how
ever, that he will find reasons for not accepting
a compliment rendered secondhand. There
seems to be no doubt about General Hancock's
present feelings, which are decidedly adverse to
the scheme, but that he may not be induced to
sink personal considerations for the good of his
party, especially when appealed 10 by so adroit
person as Robert j. Walker, do not presume
TO assert. Nous oerronS.


There is no doubt that the movement is
pretty widespread at this hour 1l p. M l
learn that dispatches have been sent from
the East and West advising the withdrawal
OF Seymour and Blair, and that a committee
is on the way or about to start to Seymour's
home to induce him to retire. Rosecrans,
who is here, and who was visited tonight by
Hancock, throws out another suggestion. He
advises that a grand spontaneous national
meeting be held, and that Chase and Franklin
be declared nominated. In connection with the
subject may add that the leading Democratic
paper here, the IrtelHgencer, will publish sig
nihcant article to morrow, which by Hancock's
friends is believed to be in the Chase interest.
The following extract will show the tone of the
artic'e:-


In putting forward ticket in the present
temper of the country, we have always main
tanned they should have kept in view the fact
that the Republicans were divided in sentiment
upon the measures of reconstruction as well as
upon finance. 1t is unquestionably true that
the Republicans, before the adoption of those
measures, constituted majority of the Northern
people, In putting up ticket, then, sound
policy and patriotism commanded that the
Democrats should distinctly recognize as within
the pale of their ORGANIZATION all who
f be sk 6
otherwise, and nominated Governor Seymour
and General Blair. Those nominations, we
admit, were judcious. enough, If the object
alone was to MAINTAIN the integrity of the
Democratic party, but we had again and again
declared that the preservation of the Union,
under the authority OF its organic law, was the
grand purpose we had In view in entering upon
the canvass of 1868. As minority could avail
little in such work, policy and sound princ-
Piles demanded nominations which would draw
largely from conservative men of all parties.
That demand was not needed; but it is still in
full force, and now is the time to obey it. Let
those upon whom the convention of the party
conferred the great honor of its confidence rise
to the height of the great occasion, and then,
emuating their exalted patriotism, let the
National Executive Committee execute the trust
reposed in them by the people without fear and
with no other sentiment than devotion to the
country and the Constitution.


The committee that is to wait on Seymour
will meet tomorrow i'll Utica. There was a
meeting in New York to-day, at which the
ticket of Chase and Adams was agreed upon.
Chase, it is further said, was waited upon to.
day, and declared bis willingness to accept. 1t
is too late TO verify this point bat it seems to
come from reliable quarter. Barlow Tllden,
Wash. Mclean, and other Democratic poti-
clans have been telegraphing here all day
about the matter. The ticket of Chase and
Adams does not meet with favor in some quar-
ters as it is contended that to leave off the mill
tary altogether will operate to divert from the
party large share of the army vote. A New
York politician who is here to-day and had
access to the private dispatches, observed,
while reading them "That ticket with two
civilians will ruin u.s." Cant help It," was the
answer. 1.-THE ticket was made up in New \ ork,
and we can't change it."