The New York Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1852, Page 2

TEE POLITICAL CAULDROW.. Another Batch of Interesting and In- terested Letters, THE GOSSIP OF THE DAY. NATIONAL AND STATE POLITICS. Advice and Information Gratis for General Pierce, dey en dees THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDEROE. Wasarxcror, Deo. 1, 1852. Codbiact Making at.the Copital—Wiul Proscription be the Rble?—The Incompetence of the Clerks im Warhin gin. This city of magvificent distances, and of hopes deferred, of anxious expectations, of mournfal ap- prebensiors, and of torturing fears, is beginning to aseome 2 more bustling app:arance since the arrival ef numbers of Congressmen. The hotels are all ‘Miing up, and as the session approaches the private ‘boarding houses and vacant rooms are being in de- mand; andthe sharks and sbylocks, of every de- seription, who subsist by gouging, in various ways, money out of th ers aud visiters to this city efsump.uous living, vice, folly, and office begging, are a) op the qui vive to make their annaal descent ‘pon the pockets of the poor devils whe may have eed of their services in any way. ‘Phere seems to be much speculation through- @at the country in regard to the cabinet of Gon. Picroo I do not pretend to be @ prophet, or the ron of a prophet, bat I will venture the following prediction:—That no one of Mr. Polk’s seeretaries wil) be resurrected. Pat that down ae a fixed fact, and pat it down as a mat- fer of record that Caleb Cusbiog will be the Premier; and put it down asa master of conjecture that RM T Hunter will be chosen for the Troa gury; Robert McLane, Svoretary of War; Andrew | Jobnren, of Tennessee, Secretary of the Navy; Vol- ney E. Howard, of Texas. Postmaster General, and Charlee O’ Conor, of New York, Attorney Goneral Tie chances of Evmund Burke for the {nserior ere better than any other man As the Con waioner ef the Land Office is conceded to Hiineir, it is tad that the Hon. Robert Smith will have it. Mr. Smith represented the firet dietrict of that Stste in Congress for six years, (frem 1841 to 1847 ) aud was formally Koown by the sobriquet of “the Franklin of the House ” tor his votiing irdustry, diligence, and close attention to beriness, Mr Smith hails frem the Granite S:ate, but is ap o'd pioneer of the West, He possesses all the ehsracteristic evergy and aetivity ofa New Hamp. | shire man, and there isno more popular or better | quabfed wen for that portion than Me Saith; and | no sppointment thet wonld give greater sacisfsc tion | throvgbeut the whole West. By the selsction of | eomparaiively young cen, of acknowledged ¢alent, fisness, nnd experience, General Pisroe will iafuss an energy and vigor into the admiaistration of the | government that bave long been wanting, ani such as the times demend. The juose and buvgling men- per in which the progent administration have con- deoted our foreign relations certainly requires that | the men who are relested to correct those bluaders, to guard our rights, avd protect the national honor, theuld be young bo!d, vigorous, aud energetic; and sbould be selected tor those qaalities, aud not for the length of time they have been before the ooua- try, a recipients of padie favor Gieat anxiety seems io prevail here at this time among the ineumbents iu the various de- par'menis of tie yoveromens to koow whether Gereras Pierce's adwinieirstion wil be — pro- seraptive or not Wao belive heart of a doubt beg raired as to tae course wo incoming Pra sident woud pura in regard wo the paolie offices, unless, porbaps, whem General Taylor uray ewe we power? wabts were entertained, aud curio: iy was exetted, to hnew whether the general Gad really in‘end to re the President of @ party, and whether be bei friends to reward snd cuemies to pavish; but those dcubts were confined wo green eves The poltiivisns knew perfsedy well chat the wbigs haied the democrats; tuat now they were ia wer, and they would be avenged upoa them; and knows they exereised thst power with @ olooly bend Every sevsidle man kuows portectly well | boat the general's pledges befere the election were afi gammon, «Pd even if ibe old man meant im goed {sith to carry ont these pledges, the cormoraa s of hue party would not permit bun to doit. The preesnt incumbents imagine sbat (hey find sors sonsvlation | tm the speech of Gen Picice wade in In4h againstra | meve strom office. That xpeceh did not prevent re | mwvole—it dd pot have the desired effvct Lae waigs | paid no heed to it It was in the ejes of the whigs | bt that time, » erime to be a democrat, ii ered net what were hii i i er bis condition, hie poor, unofiending hoad cut off by the merciless Pvilorive; again in 1549, the poor demoorats wers | Gemolished by the earpess imp»rtanities of she very men who are crying quarters, and with ® cringing soirt asking for money at tbs hands of ajastiy ofinded parry Io fuet, if neme bu’ the tacvinpa- tent are removed. there will be work es00ga ta do, in che various depar'msnsa, at Wasbiagton. for iv 1s potcrious, ond itis wimisted by the whigs them- selves, that never sirce the organization of the | government bas the business of the goverameut been confide] to ruch Incompeton! men with tew ex- e@epiions It was a favorite snying with iho preseat | sumip)siration thet they wore ouly prossibivg vro- teription, aud equalizing the offives, (and is isrigat, | ro as aa the dis.rioucion emoug the ailfscens bases, seoorcing to the pepulstion of toe alate ealitied them, that tbey should be #0 oistribated ) sud thas will be the course adopted by General Pisrce, wv be comes inio office. [¢ is well koown tat, be fore, the states of Virginia avd Warylana have mo | Bopolived three-fourths of the offices at Washing on, but it will be so no more. Bul che whigs eqaaiizod With # vengeance, by turning ow democraie wud putting in whige, uo ii chers is scarcely @ oorporal’s | guard of demo rats lefs in office, either atthe Jepical or io ibe country Their fate ia inevitable, and they have no just reason to eompinia; they bad no wpatby for che cistrerses of the poor anferaaste wWecrala, who were removed to give place fo Saem selves. They snox'd also remeber that General Boott, in his letter of acceptance, male the iseus thas be would feel himself bound to select men to 6" the offices of the governor nt “who harmonized with him in centimen).” The challenge was as- cepted by the democrasy, and the democratic party have triumphed They must alse be aware of the fet, that where the present wJainistrati Giepense with the experionce of domecr teat they pur ished thom shamefully, by resortiag co the wiseronie subterfuge of cutsiug down their | sainries, ard giving these salaries to incompetoms men of their own party. It ts to be hoped, however, that (bere ore few of the present inoam deuts who are | so mean spirited as to wish to hold office under a | democratic administration, wod sil, many of taom, exhibit true A mer! pride, and resign theic p'avea | before the idexof Muren A: ee crying evil of | tbo present admio stration will be put down by Genera! Pierce, avd that is, the infamous essiom of mepotinm that wow prevailé, of paling wavls faui- ies into office to tne excinsion of better mou General Case will pot content to leave the Severe. Bachanan, Bascroft, and Wise, will go abroad Jobo Yun Buren wil! go, parbaps, to Spain. D. 5 Dickineon will, I guess, be your Uoliector, sad E 4 O West, Sovrstary of the Seitimore Oon- veution, will probably be Receiver General at Now York. xe Genwans. Wasutnator, Dec. 22, 1852. The Position of General Downs In w Jettor to the Hunan, dated Concord, pub- Tished Dec. 4, 1852, reference ia made to suadry Boathern democratic Union politicians in a conse- rioas manner, #4 having “ gone off with the whigs S year or two ago,” and “reluctantly onme beok inte line on the heel of the late olection.” and that they would have to ‘ underg « pargstorial Porifes‘ion for many years to come” before thay Gould be admitted into the party. Governor Cobb, of Georgia, Governor Foote, of insippi, and Benavors Clemente and Downs, are warned spocii cally. The allusion it doubtioss to the Union eara, signed me Published by sundry members of Orn grese, whigr and democrate, writer is a ecive oe Gendeal Doran” “Eines, h @ Union and compromise man, he refused te that card, aod resisted the ides of # separate orgsa- ization or Sur r the demoerasy of the South en thin ques'ion. ke this statement as the of friends of General Downs, who desire SEPAis position should et be matrwwaer NEW HAMPSAIRE. OUR NEW HAMPSHIRE CORRESPONDENCE. New Hamrsarns, Deo. 24, 1852. What General Pierce's Cabinet omg he, to Who will form the cabinet of the ry Prevident, is the question exbrelsing at present tho minds of most persons. Ae has been rscently shown in your interesting columns, the guid- aveo of the ship of state, during the next four years, through the storms and raging billows which it bas been Fillmore’s dastardly policy to exeite against her, will require no ordinary ability. Some bave epoken of one or two of Mr. Polk’s old” cabi pet a8 suitable men; but we earnestly hope Mr. Pierce wil) not think fora moment of taking into his counsela amy one of them. fhe men whe will have the contro! of the principal departments of the goverowent, who will enjoy the privave counsels of the ‘istrate of this great Union, should be Bvoonnecied with any petty cliques, should ve as little as porsible biased by sectional feelings; bat stou)d, on the contrary, be able to act indepeodvat- ly, and make “the greatest good to the greatest number” the object to be attained. The fact that the ‘Tr members of Mr. Polk’s cabinet are most, if not all, beads of factione, renders them, there- fore very wneuitable For the same reason we re- gard any present members of Cozgress as equally ol jioneble. ‘ we remember, sir, the unanimity with which the people bave placed Franklin Pioree in the Presi. dential chair, untrammeled by any pledges other then the great principles of democracy, we cannot but feel aseured that no choixe by Mr. Pierce of a evbinet ean se well meet their approbation as the choice of men like bimself—men who will come froe from any factions in the democratic party, and who will be able to act independently. A straightfor- ward independent course, we think, it would be next to impostible for any one whe compored Mr Polk’s eabivet, or apy present member of Congress, pursue. Concorp. MAINE. OUR PORTLAXD CORRESPONDENCE. PortLanp, ME., Deo. 1, 1852. The Re-election of Mr. Athe: tom—Defeatand Discom- fiture of J.P. Hale— Slinder of the Freesoil Press —A new Chest of Drawers—Candidates for Local Offices Copying Gravestones and Quack Medicine Advertisements for Recommendations— Weather. No event has oocurred in New England siuce tho Pretidertial election, which has given so mu sh satis faction as the recent re election in oar sister Stats New Himpshre, of the Honorable Charles Gordon Atherton to the United States Senate. The dofeat end dircomfiture of che sgita or aad arsh-demagogus, Jobo P. Gale, has caused no part of eur rejoiiog, because be has long been considered of no account, | and bo impertence bas been attached to him or the fanatics of whom he is the bead. All opposition to their irfamour Coctrines centred bere long ago, nad the Orsequenee was, tbat in a desperate effort to preserve some Jittle vitality um ther organ ia this pece—to bring it to the cotice of the people woo previously ** would wot touch it with & ten 160% pole” —ibe reverend publishes of that paper cums ous with # most Violent attyek ppon General Piefes, on temperare: grounds. The Bastom Times and other pipers cume tothe rescus, and the senrequence was that the whole charge was narrowed down to the | such rubstuutial people 4s jadges and police office statement of a good wld gentleman in New Hamp: shire, who, whist he sad a great cany chiegs ia favor of General Pieroo, sdded, upon boing fuecner qneriiened that he was * under the 1apression that abont che time ot the nomination, the General aid poriake of » gines of wine.” Whatcan we tank of thore who. n poi flimey @ baze, fousd a wholesale charge of dinokensers end debauchery? And yet, thisisonly ve of the miversblo death-stroggie efforts | o' cbe Hale party that we had to couceod with in this State Let them rest now—take no | wotioe of them, and four years henee they will be mombered among ‘what was, but is not’; ard if we then look op Mr. Hale we sdall no doub! fing hm wivecmung some vew humbug, or tire slavery But i¢ was of Mr Hale’s saot ce ju the United Stutes Senate that I intend- €0 (0 @riie; aud Well kuown sx he ls ts the country ut Jorge already, it muy not be amisa to add a few weds Mr Atherton is a personal and political friend of the Presiden elect; be bas bad mush expsriencs in the councils of tbe nation, acd is a man of tried in. tegrity—‘'1rue as steel” bas often been applied to bim, ane ibe first men is to bs found whom be ever deooived Ts ia therefore ex’remely gravifying to the tnends ef the incomiog udmwistraiion that the President will have the ai¢ of such @ friend ia another avd equa'ly ‘mportent brauck of the govern- ment. Could Mr. Atherton be spured from the Senate, it would be gracifying to bis frieuds here were bo placed iw tue cabiret; bas of this it is | theught there is mo probability at present. Lhe ciroles a} Washiegeon whieh airs. Acher‘on has heretofore aderneo, will greatly rejoice @: her re- turn; sné Mrs Pieroe will find in hor a choice and valued friend and rupporter. Touching the “cabinet making basiness,” whish 80 wavy bave gore into, probaoly for psstims, let We iDiroduce ty your readers a chest of draws manu- factured im this region prineipa'ly of yeang hiskory Bon. J: wer Bocasuan, of Pena , Secretary of St Hon. Howell Ooh. ef Georgia, Secretary of tho ‘Trearury; Gen Jaros Bbtelds, of Lil, mecretary of War, Hon Joby %oSeou of N.Y. Beoretary of the Navy; Col Folisett T Lally, of Me., Secretary of the Intenor: Gen. Pillow, of Tennessee, Postmas- ae G * ral; Hon. Pierre Soulé, ef La, Atvoraey iebere) re strife fer office here is exoceeively sing. In no other pert of the eonatry probably do they Manage s8 they do he When Mr. Polk became President, one of tho most univerealiy believed men iv Maing was the collector of this port. He had served the people aoc ptably in Congress many yenre, but Jike the President elest, rather declined than sougot office. Tae Presivent had 4 warm par- ronal regerd tor Mr. Ancerson, (the collector ) aad had no idem of euperseding him, bat one of the Argus clique, spprared at Washington with tions signed by several bundred persons, who preferred to speak the sentiments of the people, and the President eculd ney eonseien tiourly withstand the demand thas made upon bim. Mr Anaercon, a staunch demoerat. be'oved by every body. was removed. and an inefficient ia @ividual frem another tewn, another ocouns nother oollvetion district, wae brought to P: ; to hecoilester. This movement gave great dis eatisfaction, as did the briuging another of toe Argus clique, fom an sdjoming town, te bo Fostoas cr ot Portland This ety, with & popula tion ef 20.000, wae thought to 09 abnndantty able to furwieh both « collector and & posimaster Well this svecest im the petition line has set other work st the tame trade, aod every fifth man yi meet with Las a piper in favor of ove or the othsr carddaten. ihe eaudidetee fer oollsctor new, are Ezra Car ter, Jr, Rovers P. Daclap, Benjania Kiagt- bury, aud Crater Bo Smita, the first, te is #03, bas the personal friendship end regard of the Previdext eloet, aod if tits be tras, all will eequicsse im his apypiniwent. Ths third isa woi'by geutleowan who hae for some time been employes, at m small salary, to write the leadiag ecivoruls of the Argus, and b's appsintment would Bot be wee OLjcted to. The fourth dent of ‘he Bosrd of Aldormen, and ho re e@ & devorviag wan; bat Joon Anderson, if he will worep’, ongbt to bere the office For postmaster, we bave several “patriots” ia the field, uli of the ‘ Argus clique,” as Gaarlse | i | | | | 1 | democrat, however, General Pir, | iinmostalized | Gray.” 2 gentleman of Scorch origin—and prrasps article was published, and first saw it in the Boston Times newspeper, inte which it had been sepied from the Patriot. In conversation with cour mitted that the embodied monte jonolusion to w at woala not be difficalt to come, when we recollect’ how intimate be is with Mr: Ba‘ terfield, editor ef the Patrict, A story has been in circulation here, to the effeet that the arti- cle was first offered to Colonel Greene, of the Bos: ton Post, but tbat he refused to publishit. I do pot. believe it, for he eopied the artiofe tho carlicat. day after its appearance. The only thing that gives plausibility to the story, is the fect ta’, aday or two after the Patrict’s article appeared, the Pust published an editorial in which the groucd was ta- ken that President Pierce could not, with any kind of consistency, appoint ‘‘coalitioniats” to office. The article was clenched by extracts from the General's speesh in Congress. I may state, I preeume, for the benedt of those democrats at Wusbisgton who are taking part in the attempt to create @ new milivery office for General Soott, that General Pierco does not think that such office thould be created. While speaking in the highest terms of Gen. Scott, and admitting as fully as any whig in the land the greatness of his services, he ia still averse to the creation of » Lieutenant (icacral- ehip for his special benefit. His remarks on the subject, a couple of days ago, were of @ very con- vincing character ss against the proposition; bat I do not feel at liberty to give his langusge—I “ speak by the card.” There is a great increase of small offenees in this city, much to the disguet of all classes, though tome of the erimes are of # rathor amusing charac- ter, and sre, occasionally, committed by persons bearing famous names. Thus, on Thursday, “‘Psapklin Pierce,” a gentleman ef oolor, was arrested for muking of his mouth a medium fer blowing flour into a young woman’s faee; while **Henry Box Brown” was taken up for emptyiog a thaving potinto » gutter; and ‘‘Geerge Washing- ton” was rhnt up for seeking to sootho the feelings of asiok lady by playiog on a hand organ under ber window. ‘ Bibridge Gerry” was committed for triel, charged with an attempt to steal a saw- beste, and “Joseph Muller” for trying the sums dodge at a pile; and “James Crow” for making & dead set oS & pike inthe hands of © Jubu Raven” —acear relative, I suppose, of the celebrated bird by the late Mr. Poe Dansea drecended from a veversble persocuge of the awe Date in Seotiana’s mmetreley—found bimeolf iocked | vp for “merking » Juss” while under tae fiverce of religions mania in- to tbe election of Gen Pierce or to that of Mr. Cut ford, | am voi as yet prepared to say. 1 ought not | to ferget to meztion thas Llugh Maxwell bus brea tenterced to a year in the House of Correction tor preking pockets, and Oparles Carroll to fifies mon the of the same for hovee stesling. fhe *tougaes tba: sy lable (great) men’s named,” just pow here, sie upythirg but ‘aery,” belonging as they do to Geperal Pier® bas been tu town much of Lat He kfc here, yesterdsy, for Concord, (N. H ), bat will return come time uext week Ho has,of sourve, Dot a few virters while here; but I learn froma bighly respretsble rource, U he aot much troubled by office sec kers Lu: cerstand ibat a biography of Mr. Rantonl, to be accompanied with relections of his writings and speeches, isin preparation, by Mr Peabody, of Porca month, a relative of Mr Rantoul, and a gentleman abuodant'y capable of coiog the subjest juetiva You ses that we | | bave awful times here; +us whether they ars owing | big county ef Hompehi peeat whig cer pehire fg | ae jority. Even in Barnstable. the bi > at Bineteem votes would have defeated two w! ‘The coalition! ope member by | gtev, ard amother by fifty six. Chis is ig #nd ehows how carewly the whigs t, ater 7 side issues that were brongat to bear upen t oppovents. A eoalitioa ig Nan- tueket and Dukes counties would have led to the election of ap anti wbig Had Maine law been eut of the way, it would hav. mall up with Cirford ovd bis party. Mr Winthrop and his friends are said te be hard after che or s:orebip; but their prorpects are not of the most enocuraging character, though the goa Uemun certainly dererves well of bis party, he hav- ing wade racrifors iv ite bebalf. It is clear enough that be would have beeu Governor had be insiswd uccn the nomiration: yet he very kindly it of the way for Mr Cifford, because it was at be bad more availability, It is uptertunate tor Mr. Wiptbrep that he has no other way of ge:ting out of private life, except tnrough the seuatorstip His congressional district is already represented The Governorsbip is bespoken, and be bas udt suf- Goient weight, asa lawyer, to bo made Attorney General By the we among the politics! gossip, ia the rumor that Mr. Choate is to be Attorney General, if he will covsent to take the *, Woh most people think be-will not do. He is better on bs gontl ladies who oecupy the more distingaisbed than enviable eee of de- fendan's, and is altoge:ber too kind-hearted a man to work sgainst the * unfortunate.” Mr Feveeerny, tsk far, has not been very suo- ecesful here. lecture on Swilt, delivered on Tuesday evening, was respectably attended, nothing more; but the attendance was quite as geod as the lecture itself, which was what from apy other man would have been called dull. His estimate of Swift may be i in w moral point of view, for medel man; but it will takes heavier battery thun the bistoriegrapher of the Snob fomily cao bring to bear against him, to show that a he wea wots great man in a great age. After all, Mr. Thackeray has not been able to say in his long laseare: anything balf so hard against Swift, as scaulay bas put into one or two of bis pregnant sentences. The lecture on Congreve and Addison Jatt evening, was not & vory alarming affsir. Some sensation bas been eaused by the announce- ment that the State govercment had sold oat ail its interest in the Rabie, ae in Matos, for mee song’? as one of the whiz rehad it. nose Tae 5 are the chars of lear! Sal in the division tha: was made in 1620, when Maine wasconsticaed acstete At that ime, our 3tw:e would have glad | Dy dirposed of her share to Maine tor $100 ¢ Maive either soald nos or would not wake she in- vertment. Marsachuretta bua received #! most $l,- £06,000 from the sales made. afier paving been plundered right and left, notenty by private tadivi duals, but also by the very psreone w10 were appoint- ed to guard her interests. Sv nocorioas bed nscome fois syetem of plander, that a committee was ap- pointed by be Legisisture, io the latecr part of Governor Briggs’s oJmumistration, to inquire ino the marter; bur bh s committee. although it a cer tained quite enough to show that the ramore of Swiocling had been my ne means exasperated, either failed to yes Deid of any legal proof against tie ewindlers, or else grorsly neg'ec:ea its duuy, for no thing more was doue than to corn ous toe old land agent, which did not eceur tid after the comiug in of tbe coslition goverument, and then 1% was uoder- £lood thut be Was removed on political groands. Amoig the members of the Comm Boutweil. Agits jaet session, the Le, rized the tale of the lond#, and the mattor paseod inte the bar ds of a commi*tee, or commission, com: pored of six Incompetent, flank-ys, so tna; the only change #as fro rogues to fools These sammis- sioners bave told ite twuds, in bulk, for 506,000, of which sum $60 C00 are to be paid dowa, and & | similar ouownt wo) Lue expiration of « Gwelvemoath The balance is to be pod inv twenty years, with in- Two or tbroe years vefore his death, afr. Rentoal | to'd me that Mr Peabody and himself were about to write cowetbing on ancient abd modern commeres, | ond that the modern department fell to his shxce. I kuow tbat he made lurge collections cf maveriala, to the end of treating the matter fully; bat it ie propa bie that the dewn1ds of political life were too great and presting to slow of bis writing muck on a sud- ject not to be baudied carelessly Tre amount of o obey tour far eubscribed towards a“ Webeter teetimopiai” in this city, hus reached to almost $16,000, and will be Jargely increased. Jt ie supposed that & statue of the great maa Will be pliced 1p some appropri: tebswipicue Ii rhe old City Ball. at the head of 5 ave ob eet, Were removed, no better place could ve lound. ‘There have been discovered, staong the ;ap2re of the revolatiousry General Knox, at his old maa- sion in Tboweston, Me. # large number of letvera from Washirgton, and other persone ewinowt in the hietcry of the war of Ind«peadence—Greene, Wayne, Lafsyette, Steuben, and eeveral more. Taese let | ters are in good prevervation, and some of thi re said to be valusbdie, though I presume they would net. if published, throw auy very great additional light on the history of the revolution. An evening paper, i wentioning the discovery, expre wonder that no biography of Gen-ral Kuex bas ever Appeared, ond ealls for one iorthwith. How soon the enll wiil be responded to, I shon'd aot sare to 8 sire, a8 the result of these | some | rediet: buvit is esd, all things considered, that | evry Koex should have thus far bad no geod biegrapber There wae no individual of the army, after Washington and Greene, who did better serv’ to the country’s cause, or whi | able Mr. Fry to deliver life had a largor | thare of those vicissitadea whieh are supposed to | constitute romance his first step in life to bis possession of # hands person—and it is the first etep only that costs, ao- oordirg tothe proverb I: wassoin hiseaee; even that step, however. essting him potaing He commended 8 “Boston bey,” born | @ company of citizen soldiers, in whieh capacity hie | fine person attracted the attention of bacdiom Flucker, daaghosr of the Seoretary of the Province father was aiory; and Kooxw men to boot; wud the sori d ions were closely marked in the old oolontal times. Mre Kaox turned cette be whet in these duys incalled a‘ siroug- wizded roman,” secompons ing ber husband to the ware. nod pssocinting with mex by preferenve Her nd a trades- Mire Flocker maeried him, though ber \ sequaintanoo with the actors in eur revolation was | provably grgater than that ef say other After the war war over, the Kaoxes ret Thomarten, ip what is now the State of Maine | {| | | Mrs Keox’s maternal grandfather was General Woeldo, aud tbe inherited from him @ share of the Waido patent. The femily lived at Thomedtin in aimoet beronial style, dispensing a most extensive hospitality, aud never happ er than when their house | was crowded with yuesia. Mrs Knox survived her bnebsnd some feveuteen or eightcen yeara, dying in 1824 In her latter days soe wae understood to hi yegrested that she h 0,20 some measure, unsexed | beroelf, aod raid that, were she to tive her life over | ogsin, she sould take a different course. Of ten children, of wnem ths was the mother, all byt three died yourg. It is vertvinty to be hopad tht, somo competent author will eon give to the world tho biography of & man whom itte was 80 singularly parred we was that of Hoary Knox Trere is vo be no ond to Mrs Stowe’s good for- tune. In writing ‘ Unole Tom's Uabin,” seo was uncen*ciously Betiing a modero puree of Fortunatas. The awount that she hus received, or wt! have re- ceived at the close of the present year, as her share from the preeecde of the sale of the seid ‘Cabia,” | is twenty thoneand doliars. Tao publishers have cleared 000 by it. American literature may be ehstievged to show anything to sompsre Bolden, Wenda! P Smith, N. P. Wendbuary, aud | with these facts Yet the boek wont bog- ovhgre “The inet mamed gentleman is the ose the * Clique” went out of town to got for postmaster, ab | the time of Col. Poik’s soseesion to she Presidency. For Ovi Ge M. Waterhouse, Bog Club,” workeys, and deserve good treatment fron the new sdusrration. Both are popular, and their sppointment to thons me istaction cfiee as U. Cot. Pole trenty y rk for cflice. The resen bere is remarkably open, and winter is ushered in without eold and wissout snow Drea the November skat ng ibe boys have beon dearived of this year [bs is good to be to, for ome wiuter lory exovge at beet. OCUumpwRL aD. States Disirict A'torney we haar namod Yatter has boen « worker fi MASSACHUSETTS. OUR BOSTUN OORRBRPONDENCE. Boston, Dee. 25, 1852 The N UW. Putrict’s Article—Gen. Pierce's Omni Gs tothe Liewtenant Generalship- Great Names ond Small Offences—General Pierce in Bostom— Bogrophy of Mr. Rantowd—The Webster Tests mortal—General Kaca's Papere—Probrb'e In- crense of Banke— Profits from the Bale of “ Uw cle Tim's Cabin” —Votes for Senatore—Mg. Wintkrop—Mr. Choate Mr. Trackeray’s Ly tures— Sele of the State's Public Lands— Arti Eaxchar gem Dr. Fry's Musical Lectures-—Christ- mas, Sc. The statement that has appeared that the article in the New Hamprhire Patriot, about the oonstrao- tion of the cabinet appointments, and ro forth, ‘was not official—that is to nay, that it was not som by Gen. Pieros before it was published, er that knew of its existenes till all the world knew of it— is corregt. General Piores was in Boston when the | | Shepley, and for United Seales Marshal, J. | th | i i he | Shows that several wing for ebiisber even, more than ‘*fom Jouss ” The aj firet offwred it to T od & of our first houses. bat they deoliued to eh it, on the ground of its herstioal views on subject of slavery. She then offered it to Phil- They ere of sho * A.ckory | liva, Sampson & Uo, aod mot with evens more determined repulse, that houre heing mos’ davidoJ- ly contervative Bosidos the to camo; and owe wili bo pab- There is to hea grost affort made to turn the whig triumph bere to acoonnt in the matter of bank- ing. Many applications will be made to the Logis- lature for inorease of capital, in some instanees, aud for new banksin others. A quorier of a million is wlready contemplated in Laxell alone, being ata rate which would give upwards of viz milifons te i sla Bate Bat prel'minary to this inore we. tei posed to repeal Mr. Mrochingham’s bauking law. pursed by the first oonlition Logitlature,nad by whieb the carb was put upon sapiring spsculatora with @ turn for opermtions to that partivuler line. Befe ard pradent men think the law a good ove; bat it has been cursed from the hour of its birth by all the ‘‘fast moo” in the State asan wojast restraint on finnectal genins. Mr, I'rothingham is one of ankers who did all they could te seoure the the whige to power, and it would be a amasing tight to ree tho whiga kill this law of his, as he i¢ rory much attashed to it, aad proud of beteg ite father: ‘My son, Sir.” Tho menopo- lista look to the advent of a whig government the return cf the golden age. Bank stooka are Lt ad favorites just now, and they propov to turn bie eentiment to a fl ae ssyoante—for them selves. Perhaps the Yer whigs may ‘bey did in 1856, when they oNowed Mr Rentoul’s lead, and would nos allow Boston to triumph The official count of the vote for State Senators of the members olect barely yume defeat 4s month wonnty, where the coalition stron n large, democratic ealjtion had but teu ever the roquisive red ta | Morera Jowell & Oo. taok it, and | on Wonld give gemoral | verniy they have had their rewurd The fist ue ned haseiceaty boon iv | eum already netted by them, they will raake shou- 4 Siatos District Attorney, uader | sands. eonnally, from it, for some tin cr nesriy | then e/l the other works of Mrs. 6 thas never been to Wasbington to | lished by iham | rand aad Cows terest. This bargain, bowever, ia to b+ ratified by the Governor and Council, aad there is some chances thet that booy wi! have the sense to leave the whole matter for the decision of the incoming ad- | ministration. There isa great differenoe of opia: jon #5 to the wiedom of the «Je in a p-onviary poiat of view, some people thinking thet, putting the money out at compound interest, the sum received fiem the purehscer wil go on multiplying after the | fathion of Mr Alnasesers prosperity. Ovshers take the view that more would be realized by bolding on to the jands But in # political point of viev, tae sale woulé be a hed thing for the ooalitionists, asit would bes grand tubj-cs to elestionser upon. The whige woul represen; the lands to be as valuable asbindbsd’s Vailey of Diamocds, or the emerald region of Ireland, co pleasautly spoken of ia the Pe'eon Family. Betide the vid accepted by the Cowmiesioners, there was another to the amouat of $50) 000, sad the Siare cf Maine is understood to have offered sbeut $100.000. The whole namber of acrea is sbout 1.800.006, of which 1,800 .600 oan be sold outiight, theremsinder being subjeet to ** permits’” towut timber for various periods The matter is jere ef uncommon imtcrest, and ull who will be isepoointed. rypposing the sale to be completed, vill make moet uomstodious howling over it Mr Wilism Y Be No 92 Tremont street, hase provided a roe for the free exhibition of pe- fores, siationcry, It is close by the Tremont Temple, and is very large, lefty, aud well adepsea for the purpoge for whivh it has been appropriased Ivie hoped that it will besowe a@ cori of Artists’ Excherge, and eo preve emimently useful to all arties Efforts are mnkirg to get up a rubs:ription to en is masto allectures here— | the eame that be is giving in your oity. From | what I hear, the effort will be» determined one; he ae people think it will not come toa great desl. We make o kind of half holiday of Christmas here. The Custom Howe, banks, nod similar gen- | tee] plares, are allenat up ‘This is hard upon gen- tlemen baving notes failing due to day, which they had to pry yorterday. n the old times the man who should Gave dered to observe Curistmas in Massachusettes would have been fined, or otheraise ponished N. 1 isa holiday by statute, and many prople are pious by law who would have been pious on the other tack if they had lived three or four Keverations ago Many good people were engaging teams on Thurrday, when the tnow was falliog bard, preparstory to weigbing today; but the warm weather ot yesterday ewept away the auow, and the carth is o8 sare as the head «f Heobylus, and saat wae miftekem fora stone. There is plenty of m apd slush in the peighborire coancry, remin ome of the deceriptions of the Russian eveppes after a thorough thaw. The oi! ag dirt can be Mr. Honter arrived here Jast night, and General Pisree this morsing They are st the Tremont Hours, where General Ouebwg iv also stopping Lbia ig quite su ominous meeting, the politicians think. ALGoMa. CONNEOTICUT. OUR RARIFORD 0 ORRBSPONDENCE. Maxtroxp, Coan., Dov, 19, 1852. The Eletion—Lemoccary Vrrumphant—The Cas- didates for Local Pat Offices from General Prerce— Preparations for ihe State Election— The Prospects of lie Whigs Desperate. The whigs of Conzeotion’ bave as yet hardly re covered soiliciently irom the stunning effect of the lste election, to he als to inqaire who or what hurt them. Thet they wore pretty seandly thrashed will admit of but ome oonelusion; but when, by whom «nd for what ssid thrashing was inflicted, they have wot yot fully: @iseoversd Thay appear to bear it with boooming grace; but still the ques: tiov, wha! caused this politiesl hurriease that so poarly swept them ont of existence, has been for weeks the eubj of avxions inquiry. The Cow- of this civy, (par mobile fratrum,) attribute it wholly to & lack of whig votes, while the Peliadivm wed Jowrnal, of New Haven, think au excess of demooratio votes the #olo reason. The more intelligent ©) the party, however, believe, wich the dyracnto Siar, shat "1s wis broughs about ay » convatenstion of fortuitous circumstances, taper: ipdnoed by a puccession of unparal eles oviewidences.”” ‘Chis leet disposes of the matter in so cleor and jue & Banner, and ip eo generally believed to bo the fact, that shere seoms but “little lefs for me to add.” However, that it was # triumph—a triomph, too, of principle, of natiouslity over fectionmim—no democras doabts, no whig daro deoxy. Two years ago, when partics here at the, | North were bending before the psetilential bin: of fenotivism, which was threatening to shake t! Union to tte contre, almost alone vinoag the North ern Gemeorsey, that party, in this State, at their Stato Convention, passed resointions endortiag the compromise retuluiions, and declaring it their de- termiostion to submit to nothing short of & com plete carrying out of all the measares and prin- ciples thereta contained. Busoessive ovnventions adopted those resolutions as a finslivy, aad enoh yoar by democratic votes have the reports of the committee on federal relatioog— which havo al- weys taken strong and unmistakeable grouad in favor of the compromise resolations - been carried. Thus, by pissing thomselves upon the broad plat- form of aerional democracy, hare tha democrats of Connecticut, eaeh yaar, been enebled to carry their Governor, the Legislature, &o, & 9; and inthe fires Prewicential canvaee following, given a plarality of 2,890 voice for their onndidates, and tha’, too, in the largest poll by thonsands ever given ia Oon- nectiout Sueh e result and for exch jons, they may well be prond of, and it should eosurethem no mnall degreo of influence with the incoming admi Bistration. This will undoubtedly be the 5 and many predict that one Stato will be honored with a yoioe in the cabinet in the person of Hon. Isaac mere conjecture, and is Tousey wae A' Towcey. ‘This, however, is bot ay all probable. Mr iene soy the new President = offer br ae Seymour, our wort Nive, rot 1 Picree, ) . aad at i a — ‘B MAWed for the Secretaryship of ene on! «peculations aye,’ however, the merest fudge. Cabinet waking is o trade, and Gen. Pierce will be found an adep: atit. Proba- bly before thin the members of his cabinet have bei ed wud bave been consulted regarding ing topics in hi ugural One thing is certein; it will be much easier for those who make polities! guessing a business, to tell who #ill-not be Members cf the ewbinet than to vame these who wil. Gem Pjerce goes into the Presidential chair with bands unied, and under obligstions to no one “but ibe »e*iens! democracy of the country To the thevesnds of political weather eooks whe aided in immenee we. rity, be feels under no or implied obligetion; be will, however, re- word them ar they deserce One thing, vee may be relied on:—bis administration will be emi- nently American. Wich biw vo faetion or remnants of parties witl ind any encouragemen:. Those who bavg been urlucky enough to enlist themeclves on either side of spy sectional controversy, whether socceesfal or unsuccessful, will, without a doubt, be Jefs sadly inthe lurch He will have as few favor- iten, probably, as avy President we have ever had; aud nothing but round. ate Jing qualities, will, under any circumstances, be toe ground of appointment to cfliee There, teo, who have grown fat upon the publie teat during former administrations, will vy left to shirk for themselves, General Pierce is not in favor of making any office beveditary— a fac: he will, without doubt, illustrate to office. Those who venture to rom the Cabinet, down in reguiar to the lowe't office te be filled, will proba- ly be gratifed But ‘here are offices to be filled, and between now snd the 4th of Maroh there will be one grand seremble To the honor of Oonnecti- eut demoerats be it said, they have as yet made no stir at all over their respective claims. Some politi- named Govervor for the the finger of interested par- ties oan be seen; snd be ie the lust man that would ack apything of the new aimivistra;ioa. He, with- out a doubt, enj ys tbe triendship and confiaence of Frank Picree; but he bes far toowush independence of eheracter to be a suppliaot at the DY one; snd smong toe crowd of those waitivg ond onxious co be eerved, he may be overlooked =e would truly ad ro any station— a fect which iv care to weigh well with the new President; yet tre idee of carving out for him | aby partion ar place ia wll moonsbive There are few tot offices here in Coduecticas, aud, as a mstier of ours, thee are @ coven or mote mes, *'good and trne.”” who sre ambitious of sere ing their State ovuntry by ailing them Poe Post Office ip iis ory ie che best offive ia the Beate and thar there should be # tolerable namber of applicants for it 1@ by no means strange, Che WOst promisewtesudioate ae yet i@ Hom Alovzo | Hirge. tormeriy froasurer of the State, and | worth $60,000 He 1s backed sy one or tw» tolersbly OWertw! Intlasnoes—iafluences which may procure for rim the wished tor place, yet (hare wilkbe mach strerg opporition to bis spp imiment Be is qaite Tecenily » deanverst, baviog bea a Harrison vieo- | tor in 1840, and be 15 wot @ residen’ of the city. B T. Pease, a young an % bookseller of this city, abo has friends who woud be glad to sre bim bave ibe place Ax hs makes more money, however, by seliing the New York Hewa.p, than | he oonid do by acting the people of Harttord les- tere, be vaceuntedly caren but title for she place Beisa good wen, sna would make a competent cficer Quite a firmicab e+ cucdidate has lately fprung vp in ths pereon, of FF. Rive, a mechanic of this oy, aod a men uriverselly popular. Me Ros ever been one of the bard working democracy, ard @ lage nomber of bis fellow-citizeos are apxions of rewsiding him by giviog him the Pest Office He isemybatioally one of *-the people,” and js both competent and deserviog Unser all the circumrtarecs, it would not be etrangs were he to be the iucky mao Bis appointment would give upiversel saisfaotion to tae wasses; and were the people to cecide the matter, thera could be hardiy Sny question but that he would be successful. One Matter yet to be settled, however, before the ap- pointwent can he gisde, ie, whether a vote of the perry shall be had in the matter cect think @ beliot the mos: preferable way of de- terminicg the mettor, This course wil piace those Who could ipflnense the water in no delicate fix, vod vo dieeetisteetion could be expresved by any | ope Some few only are opposed to this, wad pro- bably betore the day of devis.en comes, their better jucgrent wilt be allowed to prevail, and @ vote by the people will be the copteqaence ~Pep erations ere siready beginning to be madi the Siete election in April. Cne demoora: bave to tight the combived forces of whiggery and Maine jawiem Of the reewt, there oan ve hardly urbaceofceabt. The whig party of this State are buried ro ter beneath the surface of the political hemisphere. that the ory of * psp” will hardly re- Furcitare the Broken devn, defeated, and dis- heartened, it 18 baraly to be expsored that they wiil tally with avy courage or enthasiaxm; and che ef- forts of their Maine Law siiies wiil hardly help them. Were thev to be called into the field in a week, they could hard'y poil 25,000 votes. A ful) vote in Conneoticnt has ever before been a Whig victory, but the reeens election has demon- strated the futility of all such calonlasions. The de- moorsts sre in the fuli tide of victory, acd knowing their strength will exert it; aud, if exerted, a vic- tory ts gure to be the result. Tae whigs ing woh disaffvetion in the'r ranks; ani there i# im their party litve of she uaity whish is necewsa- Ty to oorduct @ politiest osmpaiga successfalty. Trey will God muon difficulty in agreeing upon a oxpdidate. The old ticket ie as politically danned as if the eandidstes had beep mewbers of the Hars- ferd Convention. A new candidate will agaio leave the party 1m upeertwinty-—-a course that will seldom fail to kill acy party. Among the candidates, the names of James Dizon, ex Congressman; Abijaa x Oomptrolier; and s host [ need not name, wd. Lhe somtest in the Democratic omrention will be between Hon Chas A Ingersoll, of New Haven; foo Wm. J. Burrall, of Briogtport; end Hon Samar Ingham ot Saybrook Governer Seymour will not again be the nomiuee ; be will rot soo pt it. The congressional candidates are many cf them, nominaied, in embryo, and a menth wil foresiadow mutters so that [ can give you # predivion, whieh will be both eorrec! ia- wrettyr The contest will be ao interesting one, prineipal'y from the fet that tke Maive law @ill be BEC oud es)y be-—om phatio sgainst it, we sasli be rid of ali uch Dusences for a lorg time tocome = The meoaus opsrond: ef the different purties and organiza tions, scusbail be apprived of as they wax inter in ieue; and if the vores of the poopie te—se it will eatirg The weather is as plessant as a May mern- ing Farme: ecdy talk of ploughing their gar- dens, sud there is Jittlo sbont tue aspoot of nature that bet kens the middie of the firss month ef wia- ter Our Cennectiout farmers regard it as auspi+ clons, and counterery pleasuat doy a9 dollars in vheir pockets. Forgive this long eb NEW YORK. OUR ALBANY OORBESPONDENCE. AvBany, Dee. 4, 1952. Reply to the Albany Correspondent of the Herald— The Hunkers and ©Berners’--The Organs of the Factions--Canal Commissioner Follett—The Private Character of Governor Hunt—Dad Tuste of Mr. Chatidd—Generul Confidence in the Pre sident clect. I noticed iw your columns, on tho 2d inst, acom- muvication from @ correspondent in this city, touch- ing en thotwo feotions of the democracy, tie recent festival, &o. It is not from your regular eorcos- ponéent, I am quite sure, for he knows too well the true state of ficling existing with both huakers and burners, as well we the occurrences at the Stanwix, 2nd is too fully posted as to the actaal condition of sffairs, to make astortious co wide of the mark. A paseage, bowever, in the letter, has led me to oon- jecture the sowres, and I must say, that when tho writer speaks of the Argus burrowing type of the | Atlas, the communication mvors “of theahop” I Propose to reviow afewof tho assertions made by your eorrespondent, and shall take thom up in their order. In relation to the futuro prospects of the hunkers, I would mercly aay, that they have the greatest conGdenes in the abiliice and souwd judgment of tho President eleot, and are willing to trast to his judgmont in relation to formation of cabinet, ap- pointmentes, &o. The burners aad * sofie” appear to be the ouly anxiews once there are at prosent in this locality, and it is undoniable that only a few days since, two of the Jatter olin mado their way to Concord, to eo Gen Piorce in relation to the ap- pointment of ono of the most obnexicus * softs” to in his onbinet. It is rumored that the an- ewer of the General to their application, was, that no | porron weuld know anything concerning who com- pored his cabinet until afier thoy were appointed. Another little instancs of the uneasiness of the burners, ie the fect, that while the Biectoral Ool- lege wore in tetsion in this city, a paper war passed sround among ® portion of them, the sole objeat of which Was, 8 recommendation of ths nme “soft” before alluded to, fora place in the cabinet. This Toe more pru- | nfs present posinen rant Benate to saitareat'state frem what your correspendent asserts, and I infer he bas the buot on the wrong leg in this respect. As to tha? port of the communication that seys, “the burmers have deme vothing in the past in whieh they bad not the best intercets of the whole country at beart. and of whish their consciences do rot approve,” also, ‘tha: every democratic state reform, nearly, for the last fifteen years, has been carried through by the evergy aad untiring oxertions of the burners, fiequently againes the efforts of Jeadirg buvkers. ord tho whigs, it is almost too abrura onoties ” Truo, they were fighting against oy tapported both bunkers and w such and Beth aps. that is the time gore rerpond ne to; if tc, be is correct. The bunkers never bed their covsciences stretohed 40.08 to be made to belicve thas ‘the dest interests of the whole country” re yuired euch mon at the head of our national or State yoverowents. I believe the Hun- kere boast of elvaye having bad democrats at thir t- head. and never yet have been under the neeos of resorting to the whig ranks for material. Agaip, as regards the burovrs being so tras to tb, und, of iste, so mueh in favor of that defeated such men as Sermeur, Moulton, Mundy, Smith, Hough. avd [:elund, foroongress 1 Ts does not | look as ifthe whigs bad aenett, for they had not the power. Ic certa nly wae not the hankers, for these wenwere their obwice Whode‘eated them’ Itmnss barpburper orgen was op a tour in the northern .0f the State, cetensivly for the purpose Fellett. While on bis mission, a letter eame a reliable source, etaing the facts as The contents of the letter leaked out, and Palomar created quite a stirin tho camp. The bankers satisfies; al] they wanted was te understand the matter, #0 a8 to shape their course secerdingly, while tbe “burners were in tribulation, aad knew not whatto do The master ended, I believe, in the gemleman. or gentiewen, (for there were several ot them ) being oalied aome, and pl once More te fupport the whois ticket. Ball the votes | ehow that ‘hey intecd:d to defeat him, ag they had no ides of the temocrstioc wajorty in the State bi ing 80 luge. but esloulated chat om the State ticket it would be # clone mn | Op the coorrary . who was as obnoxious to one tac ion es ett was co the other, received the whole Cemocra ic vote, as well a8 a share of the | avtivent, thus showing, 4% least, toast the huokera acted 98 they always do wo-n pledged—ia good | faith Cap as much be said of the oarnourners? You after defeuttpg, or » Comping to defeat, one of our cundidares, tory wil ory out lustily, “harmony! | barmony !” | As reyxerds the oonras of the Argus and Atlas, over the -peech of Atrorvev General Chatfield and | the euppres-to0 of toasis, | would vorreet your cor- respoudent 1p 4 few of bis statemects Im the first | place 1] krow that reveral tuasts which appeared in the Ai/as of the totlowiog day were never read at the festival; they wey bave been presented or * shorn up” by trose whose modesty forbade their appourcing thew from “betr seats, thet all might. | bearthem This, of couras. wes @ matier of tasce, and the same wuy be said of rhe notise in the Argus of Mr. Chatfelo’s remarks, or rather of the propriety | or expediency of tukicg soy ootivse of the slanderous Jarguage te usd op thas occasion. Bat this, it appears, Was inecried in che sbrence of the respone | sible editors of thas paper; bat I do vot believe there are exceptions to toe goveral sentimant in re- | gard to his abusive, personal remarks, or that ¢! weu'd nor have been equaily mortafied and chagring at the condnot of » dewocraiio state offisial in attach: g whet is geueraily understood hers to be | impeacbable- the pnvate charaser of Governor Hunt — the gra‘ui’ous expre-vion of your oorresson= Gent, thay the rem sks of the Argus on Mc, Chat- | fleid’s uccalied for und uvexpeoed speech, was @ | matier of regret by ali #bo atiended, is very wide of the state o/ fact); mud I assert, without fear of fuccestfui contradiction, thet smopg the guests as- sembled at the festival, taking into the rauge both feetions, there were Looe, or searcely one, who did Bot depr-cate the attack and condewn it open'y. | Asa member of the democratic party, who has always supported the democratic candidates, of courte, Toker no defence of Governor Hugs; nor can, | L rubsoribe to any sep iwent from such dem | wro are known to teau'gs and glory io psrsoni shure of men kvowu to be worthy citizens. It is extirely in corflet with the geveral eenument, and | expresced at a time when the party were convened, ROL to abuee inéividueis who differ from them in opinion, but to congraiulete eash other over @ brilliant democratis iiuwph La this Mt. ChatGeld’s remarks, to any the leart of them. were in deciced bad taxte ; and cowing 94 they did from on “invited guest,” were deservedly repro! and condemned by thore though whese courtesy he was fevored with am invi ation. ‘The eeptiment offered in relation to Goneral Dix,’ T find ip the Argus Tho one in relation to Mr. Ven Boren was pever read a: the fescival, and was cfiered by ope whe bad been very offi io the publication of toss 6 was notised by all Yeaders of the pub: accounts. A» you remind your corresponden the Atlas suppressed, tome, I wili paes over shat point. Your correspondent does injustice te one ofour estimadle citizens, by asserting that he is a candi- date for portmaster of this city. I allude to Oolonel John Mofardel. I assert positively that he is not among the aspirants jor that office. AL3any, Dee. 6, 1952. The Hard Shells and the Sift Stulls—The Con vention of the College of Electors—True Nature of the Coalition— Secrets Let Out at the Supper— Conspiracy Agninst Daniel 8. Dickinsom—Great Efforts to Serwre the Avporniment of Erastus Cor- ning tothe Treasury Bureaw. In commenting om the remarks of your Albany correspondent, of November 29, you say that “fair play is & jewel,” from which assertion I infer that | you are wiliog to hearand publish @ little on both sides of the question. ‘Tho suppresemg, or publishing, of a fow tonstes ts but a emul! sffair to write an exsay about, especially as both pspers referred to nosed ubout alike in the matter. Your oorre:psndeat epeaks loud in praise of the reforms introduved in «ur Btate affairs, by what be calle the radical Gemocracy. With alldue deference to his opinion, some very sensiblo men be- | lievethat many of those boasted reforms evinos wore demazoguciam end political quackery than found statermansh!p, or !ogal acamen, commencing with the new constitution, aud ending wikn thet bungling abortion--the code. The balancs of ite reforms covsista in g-tting ap ismos ab war with the cenztitution of tats Unioa, and the domestic in- stitutions of Gfiecn revorsign Statee—in amalgama- ting withevch democrats os Feith M. Gates and Charlee Francis Adams, end ia placing the State and national administretions in the hands of the common enemy. Ino bis statement of the oomparae tive wealth of the candidates for the Post Office here, he is ar wide ef the mark as when ho ussorts that the wational demeeracy, or hard @ a, are bute emall minority compared with the combined soft shells and barnburasre A few frets must serially outweigh bold esvertion Afier the Baltimore Convention the united face tions Wore at their greavess strength; yet here fo the very centre of the inflaenos of Maroy, Corning, Coggor, avd Cavetdy, threo strong friouds of Diok~ ineun, Were w RE Os Gelageta: tora this county lo the Syracuse Convention, and toy other delegate acted with them, exoopt on the matter of voting for Cor- ning ov the S18: ballet. {rt ts alvo well knova thug the bard zheile hac cided majority #t the organt- zation of the eonveotion, and that @ safficient num Der were coerced tuto giviug Seymour # bare mxjo- rity on tbe second baliot, ancer direct or impled threats that if he was neminated, Pierce must go by the board. The next teat of strongta is in cae Con: sioval delegation; out of twenty-one demoosratic members ected, at lease fourteen aro harde, or were nominated as susb; while Seymour, [reland, Moulton, Smith, and Mandy were all of that siripe, and were barefacediy deferted by free soil treasoa— an aot of vo'l\oal turpitade whiva none be ttempted to defend, dew», or palizat {With regard to the ovsiition:—the free soilers here, toa msn, deny that they have given up aay of their principles, and aster: that they conepoed Frankiin Preree without the platform ; #0 tho qaex. tion appears to bo one of adjourned veracity betwoon the parties concorsed, whisa is not likely to bo dis- P of uutil aftr the appointments are made, thea it will probably be disoavered whether the mountain toMabomot, or Mxhomet|wont to the mountain. Another proot of the wenkures of the ceslitiea com- pared with the boasting of your correspondent, oa curred at the weetiag of the elesteral collage om Tuesday last. It was avnoanced in tho different papers tbe two hovorable gentlemen, Beymour and Corning, now forming « politioal » Cho eon of the latter being married to the nicoe of the formor, juct revurning from o pilgrimage to Convo job their tatellites soon w olepered about hud been Bpueceesfal one—that they hai the ronage of | the President for this State in the hollow ‘of toot ; bands, and thas Dickinson was The