General Grant's chances of the Presidency increase from day to
day. The Republicans of Pennsylvania have already in- structed their delegates to the National Republican Con- vention, now fixed for June, to vote for him ; and on February 25th, the Republican Convention of New York, by a vote of 217 to 180, issued similar instructions. It is stated that the conventions of six States, already held, have appointed 124 delegates in favour of General Grant, against ten in favour of the next candidate, Mr. Blaine. Mr. Secretary Sherman has only two. General Grant has again left the United States, and is travelling in Mexico and Cuba, his friends being desirous to keep him out of the way until his nomina- tion, while he himself wishes to see the only countries in which the United States has serious foreign affairs to settle. He has as yet said nothing of his intentions, but his friends are allowed to say for him that, if his nomination is endorsed by the general voice of the party, he will accept it. It must be remembered, as one explanation of the general expression in his favour among the wire-pullers, that General Grant will receive a much heavier negro vote than any other possible candidate.
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