27 FEBRUARY 1864, Page 2

The Democratic Convention for the nomination of the next President

of the United States will meet at Chicago on the 4th July next. The Republicans will wait to see the result of their enemies' deliberations before they nominate their next candidate, but all the best men hope the choice will fall upon Lincoln. Not only has he been a sagacious, an impartial, a devoted, and, above everything, an upright ruler, but his selection would avoid the enormous evil of a new change in the permanent service of the Government,—an evil which all thoughtful Americans are begin- ning to regard as greater and greater with every new experience of its results.