The New York Herald

The New Jersey Democrats-Stockton And Cass

There has been a sharp contest in the New Jersey Democratic Convention, between the friends of Com. Stockton and Gen. Cass, in which the gallant Commodore appears to have achieved a dry land victory, almost equal to any of his land battles in California. The Cass resolutions and instructions were defeated, and a majority of the delegates to Baltimore are set down for Stockton. But for his late funny speech at Trenton, in glorification of Mr. Webster and a high tariff, he might have got the whole of New Jersey. The prospects of Cass are thus somewhat further diminished.

Nearly the whole South, from Virginia down, is for Buchanan, in addition to Pennsylvania. Kentucky is for Butler, and Illinois, and some of the new States west of that, will go for Douglas. New York is divided between Cass and Marcy; so that even a clear majority for Cass is doubtful upon the first ballot. But the nomination at Baltimore will require a vote of two-thirds of the convention. Will the Cass men go over to Buchanan, or will the Buchanan men go over to Cass, to secure to either a two-third vote? Not likely. Will the Cass and Buchanan men consent to unite upon either Houston, Douglas, Stockton, Marcy, or Butler? Not likely. Will they not be driven to some new candidate, such as King, or Dickinson, or Gen. Pierce, or Gen. Lane, or somebody else? Very likely. Cass, and all the standing candidates, may experience the fate of Van Buren and the old fogies of 1844, in being set aside for some new man, not now taken into their estimates of the chances. But we can't yet see through the fog, for New Jersey throws very little light upon the subject.