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huniorous uominatiou of tho iron iil oonvention wliioh met ai Cincinnat iü May has boon roceived by tho nation wil.li tho contrastod feolings usually awa koned in mixed audionces by a joke ; th groat masa havo no real picasure in it niany whose opiuions or prejudices hav been trifled with ruseut it ; a few liko it lut at first everybody laughs. To be sur Mr. Gresley was iu many respeobs a prott; old joko, and most of us had had our gib at his knowledgo of farming, his whit hat, and his handwriting ; but the publio is soniething of a ohild in these niatters, and likcs the ame thing ovor and over again. Besides there was aotually a ehook of novolty in tho nomination of a lifelong protoctionist by a convention re sulting iroin a niovemont of free-trade reforniers, and electrioal laughtor naturally ran aloug tho telograph wirea in tho country, and set the whole Union on the broad grin. It was so altogether preposterous, under the circumstanoes, nd his eleotion would be so mueh less Burprising, that Eeople began to say th.it very probably e would be elected. We supposo thoro never was any very good grouud for this belief, and its fallaoy soon appeared, aud has constautly grown more evident. The Demócrata, whom the gods have made definitivoly rnad, seom resolved by a largo majority to refuse tbeir opportunity ; the sincere free-tradors who in convention that unitod tho wisdom of the dove to tho harmlessness uf the serpent, wore certainly not answorftble for tho rosult, have geuerally rejected it; the wavering Kopublieans, who were halting botween their allegiance to General Grant and their hopos of a better man, havo almost universally detorrained to bear tho ills they hare ; tho white Southern vote niay be won for Mr. Greoloy, but th black Southern vote can not be counted upon for any one who wants the white vote ; the Irisb. vote- the intelligent, the logioal, tho dnlightful Irish vote - will be cast, as it has always been, for the choioe of the Democratie Convontion, whoovor or whateverthat may bo. These thiñgs are plain enough to auy reader of tho newspapers ; not raerely the oity journals, which attempt to lead popular opinión, but alSo the country papers, which are simply oontent to expresa it ; and in tho mean time the charges bronght against Mr. Grooloy, and tho reasons given why be shculd not be eleoted, present a diversified and instruotive prospect to the philosophical obsorver. On tho ono hand ho is held to be unsafe for the station he seeks, becauso though a man of good intentions and excellent heart, he is so guileless and single a mind, that he will bccomo the mere tooi of the wicked, and will load us to ruin by pathg that ho blindly takes to be the flowery wayg of reform; on the other hand it is declared that his eeoming iimplieity and virtue do but oovor a wily and treachorous nature, an unscrupulous ambition, an utter lack of principie. By some he is pronounced unfit tcTpresido in tho White llouse bocauao his manners are not agrceable, and ho does not dresa stylishly ; Mr. Wendell Phillips bolioves that. he has a " socret understnnding if not a positive contract "' with the Rebel voters at the South to place Joff. Davis in his Cabinot ; others insinúate that ho is in league with Taminany ; others )-et doubtle8S havo their little fears of Fouriorism, of free-love, of misoegenation, of woman's rights, of premature peace with the Bouth, or a prooipitute uttuck on Richmond, - of that whole order of sidelong, eocentric, suddenly repentant, violently persistent progross which is more vividly émbodied to tho popular fanoy by tho name of Greeley than by any other wotd. We have still to wait for the stock accusations of drunkennoss, ancestral piracy, Catholicism, and the habilual violation of the commandnieuts ; but it is yet early in the canvass, and they will doubtless appear in good time. For our part, at ft moment which seems favorable for all desiring to set up a private consoience, we confess that we should be very little troubled if we were an original Greeley man by any of tho facts of the present situation, save the fact that Mr. Greeley has consented to forego all his high protpetion principies and, if elected, not to use his power against fruo trade which ho has always professed to believe unspeakably disnstrous. On this poiut we should waive discussion ; as for the rest, we ehould answer that no friend of Mr. Greeley ever pretended that ho waa a glass of fashion and a mould of form, and thit nemight do uncouth thiiigs in the White House, but more probably would not ; that the bargain with Jeff. Davis and the league v.-ith Tatnmany had not the shadow of proof ; tbat the evidence of Mr. Greelcy's politieal wickedness was rathor to be found in the rancor of his onemies than the dtpravity of the caueos ha had espoused ; that ho was flekle, and eccentric, yes, but his sudden changos were from conviction, and that obstinacy was quite as bad in a President as honost icconsistency ; that the poBscesion of office is itself often bullast enough to steady th8 most erratio craft ; and that finally the reasons against Mr. Greeley are go contradictory that they can not all be good. They leave a groat deal to be said in his favor, - as, that ho is a man of unimpeachable private life, juut, charitable, generous ; that hko many of our greatest statesmen he has raised himself from an obscure station, by his own unaided exertions, to a place of great power and distinction ; that though he has been all his lifea politician, he has nevor basely sought offioe, and nevor held offioe save once, and then very briefly ; that with all his errors, his influence has always beon UBe ia favor of every true rol'orm, as well as many that merf ly promised well ; that he is a thorough believer in Ameri can ideas and things. We eay, a verv pretty oBe could be made oat for Mr. Greeley by the original Cfreeley man, and yet we should not be wholly persunded by him. We should fear that trait of inconstancy and that tandency to panio und compromiso which have appeared in Mr. Greeley at most great crisc3 ; and we should distrust his knowledgo of men. We should totally object to his protectionist ideas, and we should not tiiink it augnred well for the future that he had been willing to hold them in aboyance as the prico of his nomination. In short, between Mr. Greeloy and General Grant, we ehould prefor General Grant, of whom we have some reasou to believe wo know the worst. Uuder him du ring the next f our yoara it is not 1 r ilmblo the catión would be debauched by un entin of'oiBehcldors ; and it appears that hc favois oivil-fprvice reform at least as much as Mr. Greoley dors. His relations are now, we believe, all comfortably provided for ; grateful citiznis Imvo showored upon him m mttr.y fasta aa he will probably i'iiro to neceivo : tho Itormon perseoutions will hardly he resumed; tae AJabama questiön is in the wy to be s-ttlcd, however inKloriouslj' : and ilw r are no menacing difncultios before us. Hi re-election iii view of the fact that vast n-umbers of Republir;;ns wiuld voio for him as a choice of é-vile, oonld not bo taken for unqualiíií ,J bisadminigtratiosn and throig!it)ut I tena ■) office his ncts woilu be suliject to the scrutiny und oritioisai of a minority within his nwn party more numeróos, active, and determine khan tbatwhioh baa alveady c fxistcil. c We :ro. not, it may bare Been purmisor?, H vpiy ardent for Grant ; bnt it is soarcely )osiblc that the Philadelphin Convention, hy the time this reaohea the reader, will v 5ae nominated any otber. and it is nol '' prrobabls thai lidate will be preficntod tti ''uring this Mnvass a The original Grnnt men can doubtleaa 1 nake a more flatti . h:m :hnn we have done ; I uen are, as we have sEown, not w 'hout lf lefence; tho only men who fiave di ng at all to any for theinselvea are the !'■ iriginul Cincïnnati Convent ion men, who xpected eomi thing more Ihau n divis r an of thi party from that body. As ir' (.f tho.-.c', we hereupon h-M our o k . }', if