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Show j HURDLE RACE. The coming national campai.su tfives ; , token of a great political excitement, , tho like of width has never been: boon known before. ' At (ho first glance, one would .sup-1 pose lieneral Grant would only have;' to walk over the course; but when one picks up the various Republican news-i papers, and attempts to arrange the dil- j fercnees that are known to exist one. j commences wondering" if he will be1 nominated. Still, it is j-enerally con-j ceded that Lieneral CJrant is probably! tho most available man; yet there is a long period between this and the nom- j inalion, and a straw tn his path may; cause him to fall saying nothing of tho many hostile senators who would gladly fico any one else occupy his place. ! The Democracy have, in the Itiu- j guago of tho highwayman, "ihrown'up their hands; " their columns are brok- ' en; they arc in full, rapid retreat ! Vet, an army in retreat is always dan-! fgcTous; some hill, some river may givo them respite, new loaders lire their drooping courage, and they again become the threatening hosts of yes-: terdny. Hut tho augur which ha.i tapped boilr political parties seems to be boring , still the great trades unions and laboring classes, from whom all parties) have hitherto gathered their votes, j Scattered throughout every city, in vading every hamlet, they are a vast! host! As yet they have not found n fitting head;thoy have no great leader-. ' nor prominent issues escept that "alii men are brothers, and we must lake! earc of ourselves." It is a whisper ' that has gono upou the winds; who ; knows but it may be the seed of a great j political whirlwind? Who would have i supposed sis months ago that "Hoss Tweed" would have skulked from tho ollicers of New Vork city. He made them, they bowed to tho dust when he passed; yet they are huniingi him now! 1 So the world moves; and when the men of America come to tho conclu . sion that all parties are rotten, there will bo a "Hurdle Kacc" and "the man on the old white mare" will as surely win the race as he came there. There is a ditch and a fence, and a pit of destruction from the people, and their loud voices tell him how to avoid it- and so the race is won. ! To the landsman who looks out upon the ocean and sees the gentle ripple of the sea, everything appears calm and j lovely; but tho "old salt" who stands ' ; hard by, docs not watch the ocean but : 1 the heavens, and he knows the storm j is coming, and that soon the placid sea i will be foam, and billows bring wrecks to the shore. So tho parties of the j present hour may go down, for when L ; the great body of conservative men f j unite they scatter politicians nationally I I as they do in States. Haight, of Call- j j fornia, thought a few months ago that j he was certain to be vice-President of j ( the United States; now, "there is none I ; so poor as. to do him, reverence." i We repeat, the race is beginning to ' become exciting, but as Utah is still a ' Territory, wo can take no lot nor part othcrthau to hope as wc trust every ? honest man does that, the best man ' ' for the great interest ofallniuybe' -1 successful. - j |