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from Various Parts of the Country. BROULATING GEN. PIERCE’S CABINET. General Scuffle and Scramble Among the Office Hunters. Political, Seelal, and Legislative Affairs, &e., &e, ke. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. @UR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE. WaAsuINGTon, January 18, 1853. Tha Pierce Cabinet—The Pierce Administration. ‘The declension of Mr. Hunter to accept the depart- ment of State, has set the cabinet-mongers and quid- wanes entirely at sea. They have exhausted conjec- ‘tare on the ‘‘premiership,” and have given it over for ‘the less exciting occupation of filling up the subordi- ; mate places in the prospective cabinet. But here no | wo agree, except as to the probable tender of the | War Department to Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi. It | ig well known that he will be opposed by the whole | weight of those patriots who invented the defunct “Union party;” but they invested their political influ- | ence, if in a very commendable enterprise, neverthe- | Jess in a closing one, and are bankrupt in that kind of | political consideration which controls future events: | How little importance is put upon their opposition is | shown in the almost universality of opinion that Col. | Davis will come into the cabinet, if he desires, in spite of it. A rapid comparison of the state of feeling amon; the different sections of the democracy now, with ak | i@ was a month ago, gives some significant and inte- | resting results. A far better and more cordial spirit exists, and there are many indications that Young America and the conservatives are coming to an un- | derstanding. In fact, as they come to compare notes, and define their respective positions, they find that, | after all, they agree in all essential respects, and that | With a little “concession on both sides, the party, in | and out, will be able to move asa unit upon most, if not all, the important questions before the | ite. So Mr. Soule is aaa the ablest man amongst the progressives of the Seuate, and popular impres sions have so far done injustice to Gen. Cass as to | suppose that his defeat at Baltimore has so embit- | tered him as to make him the inevitable aye nete of | conceive | all ‘ive men and measures. In this, thet they have done him injustice. He has | more mignanimity than that—more patriotism | and more wisdom. I[ have reason to believe that Mr. Soule is equally prepared to o: orate with the men whom popular rumor and mischievous in- triguants would place iu uncompromising hostility to him on all points where the interests of the countr: are involved; and I believe that his speech to-day will | avince that generosity of feeli vhich pertains, and | * Mlecessarily fiértains, to all truiy liberal and enlight- ened statesmen. If my opinions aré correct, the ad- ministration of Genera! Pierce will be strong 4 and at home, and be the most prosperous and bri Migr oi any in our history, If the resomtions of G modified in some more distinctly re- ‘| acceptable to the entire country, especially if the proposed contingent appropriation is made a pendant to them; for these resolutions, if pas will amount to a pr cal instruction to the P. dent, which it would unjust to him not to affor the means of carrying into fall and effective ex tion, should the necessity arise. A solemn declara- | tion like this, coupled with the tangible evidences of eur intention to enforce it, would do more to prevent foreign aggression than a thousand mere affirmations of principles, however solemuly made. I think there is good reason to beli¢ve that this conviction will be acted upon, and the resolution, and the means for its Yindication, be passed through Congress together. It would be an act of confidence in his integrity and | wisdom which General Pierce could not fail to appre- | siate and remember. ALERTE. WasutnGros, Jan. 12, 1853. Speeulations About the Cabinet—No Abolitionist or Free Soiler Suggested-——General Pierce Pledged to | the Compromise Acts—Necessity of Excluding all | who have Labored to Nullify them—Abolitionists | Named for the Cabinet, §c., Se. Rumor, as is well known, has been very busy, for weme time past, in arranging a cabinet for General Pierce; and how much that rumor, thus set afloat, may have been true, and how much of it false, of eourse the public has been left to surmise, and hence nothing like certainty could be arrived at. It has, however, been all along supposed that the President elect would select, as his cabinet advisers, men well mown to the public for their ability to fill the several executive departments, and also as consistent adher- ents to the principles and usages of the democratic party—national Union democrats—true friends of the compromise, and untinetured with abolitionism, free soilism, or any of the other disorganising isms of the day. | Among the persons heretofore named by letter | writers, editors, and others, as likely to enter the new eabinet, it is believed no one has presumed to insult the President elect by bringing forward the name of an abolitionist or free soiler; and no true friend to him, no true friend to the democratic party, and no true friend to his country, wowed, for a momeut, think of associating him with h company True, General Pierce was elected to the Presidency by « majority unprecedentedly large, and without pledging fanaa? o Seni called on to pledge himselt, to any particular line of policy; and this fact, in the view of seme people, leaves him perfectly at liberty to cast off all restraints, and to act, in all things, entirely free from party considerations. ul Pierce cer- tainly occupies a very enviable situation in this re- %, and one that niay continue to be such should he not forfeit the confidence of those who placed bim im that position. J 2 But the unprecedented majority by which he was elected expresses such almost unbounded confi- dence in the man and his principles, that a much stronger pledge is created than he could have in words, to prove true to the trust the people have thus reposed in him. On_ this inciple, the people who have ed him at the d of our government will hold false move in his ine ation of his cabinet, &c., n will be cer- a distrustful, if not an indignant, ted to make his administration any: thing but pleasant to him. The people of this country hav from demagogneism for not quietly submit to its eome. The President if he wishes to have a quiet and peaceable administration, to se- ‘eure the cordial co-operation of the democrats in , and the worthy portion of the democratic party in ‘the United States, and the respect of his some opponents, must not put himself in the ping of such men as Senator Atherton, nor call around him, as his constitutional advisers, such men as Jefferson Davis. Such a movement will most cer- tainly damn his administration in advance, and lose him the confidence and respect of those who have conferred on him his high office. In such men the public have no confidence. But, talking of pledges, there is one strong and solemn pledge which General Pierce gave by his acceptance of the nomination by the Baltimore Convention. That pledge was, to the | he slightest objection, would have prevented his election. How, then, will the people who elected him on the ground of the Baltimore platform feel towards him, should he, as | one of his tirst official acts, introduce into his atta | o net men who have followed in the wake Hale, Chase, Giddings, and others of the Ii stamp ?—men who, as abolitionists and fre woilers, have done all they could to bi down the compromise, to destroy the constitu- tion, and to set up the higher Jaw. “How would the democrats of the South regard sucha movement? How would the democrats of the North and t Weet regard such a movement, after all the; done, and all they have suffered, to purge thei K of the foul heresy? Ii is not too much to say that, General Pierce having thus deceived them and dis peor their reas expectations, they would 1t him in a body, him to lean on the rotten supports which he had chosen. But will he do these things? Will he brir bi ng demagogues and | free soilers into cabinet, tothe exclusion of better | men? I hope not—and yet ther ns to be dangel ef it. What I am about to say to you is not goss it i not rumor. It is truth, and you may safely | ‘voueb for it as such. : } Mr. ‘on informed certain | General Pierce had fixed on cabinet, and of the number to Jefferson Davis for the War Department ; New York, for the Navy H i the Post Of) What’ « dit or support he administration the democratic party ter casy to be under | named as the probable | are numerous other applicants for the offic , bear of but | your city, are app | was duly organize tform, is not to be thought of. A cabinet made Lge materials must be short lived. Itisa little singular that in this business no senator from New England has been consulted except Mr. Ather- ton, who communicated the information, which*has created a great deal of feeling and disgust. Is not Mr. Norris a renator from New Hampshire as well a5 Mr. Atherton? Srecraror. Wasnixeton, Jan. 15, 1853. Fuither About the Cabinet—Scrambling for Office —Lectures at the Smithsonian Institute—Pas de Fascination before Congressmen, &c. The assignments, by the “knowing ones,” of {the different prominent individuals, in different sections of the country, to different places in the cabinet,’ are, as yet, merely speculative, no one being a whit more wise than his neighbor. Mr. Hunter has steadily re- fused all positions; Mr. Bright does not wish to change his relation to his constituents, being satisfied that he can benefit them to a greater extent by re- taining his seat in the Senate than by occupying one in the cabinet. The visit of Mr. H. to Concord, how- ever, may effect a change of opinion in the minds of both of these gentlemen. The name of Hon. R. W. Johnson, of Arkansas, has recently been named, as has also that of Hon. Jere. Clemens, of Alabama, for the War Seipieet yeh either of which would, [ imagine, be acceptable to the democracy of all sec- tions of the country; but the fact of the Vice Presi- dent being from Alabama would be an insuperable objection to the supnceent of Mr. Clemens. The friends of Mr. Cushing in Massachusetts are san- guine that he will be invited to the Premiership; | while those of Hon. A.G. Penn, of Louisiana, are equally confident that he, being so eminently quali- fied, will be called upon to preside over the Post Office department. Mr Slidell, of Louisiana, is also The offices in this distri tention ; the District Attorneyship, the offices of Marshal, Commissioner of Public Buildings, and Navy Agent, are all valuable, and claimed by man; who, of course, are ‘all honorable men,” and enti- tled to some reward for services rendered during the last campaign. For the first named position, P. B. Key, Esq., who held it during the administration of Mr. Polk, would probably be the most acceptable to the democrats of the district, for which same reason J.D. Hoover, Esq., the presiding officer of the Jack- son Association of this city, and who has rendered such efficient services in behalf of the cause, will pro- bably receive the appointment of Marshal. ae ut not one of them bas been so uniformly democratic, nor so zealous in the support of the President clect, as Mr. H in addition to which, the democratic clubs in the f Baltimore, and other places contiguous to this, have made unanimous requests for his appoiutment. For the next named, that of Commissioner of Public Buildings, I hear of no one named in place of Mr. Easby, the present incumbent; but as he is a whig, I suppose he will undoubtedly be put aside. will undoubtedly be a strenuous effort made to dis- place Mr. Walter, the architect, and reinstate Mr. Robert Mills who so ably performed the duties of his office under Mr. Poi, aid Who was remoyed solely on party grounds, Por the Navy Ageney, I one applicant among the democrats, Capt. of the United States Marine Corps, xves well at the hands of the in- His popularity among the ful labors in person, as well columns of the Zruthteller, in ated, aud will, doubtless, meet jaguive, late as with his pen in th 4 proper reward, > of these matte terest in Washington. , there is but little else of in- The lectures at the Smithso- | nian Institution, do not promise much for the winter; but the city at present is filled with attractive gayeties and places of amusement, which are frequented by members of both Houses, who, fin legislation at eight dollars per diem ons, are generally see evening ; there was not an e' » performances of the ballet troupe of Soto, de Metisse, ete., when a quornm of either House could not have bee admiring the artistic charming danseuses. NEW YORK OUR ALBANY CORRESPONDEN Apany, Jan. 19, 1853. Legislative Industry—Railroad Toll Bill—The New York and Erie Line—Struggle for a Cabinet Place—Bill to Increase the Number of Harbor- Masters—Candidates for the Post. Seldom, if ever, have prior Legislatures shown such an industrious spirit, or a desire to enter imme- diately upon the discharge of their duties, as the pre- set one. A great number of important bills have already been reported, which are in the hands of ap- propriate committees for investigation. The bill seeming to attract the most public attention is the one for restoring the tolls upon railroad freight. There seems to be little or no difference of opinion as to the justice and propriety of this measure; the only question discussed is whether all the railroads of the State ought to be included, or whether it should ap- ply only to those roads which haye been heavy reci- pients heretofore from the bounty of the State, and whose large profits can enable them, without injury or inconvenience, to make some return. At the head bi. ii by apparent general consent, ‘ailroad. There are nume- es of complaint stated against the managers of this road, which serve to heighten the feeling for the re-imposition of the tolls. The altering of the terminus of their road, and running it into the State of New Jersey, thus diverting a large portion of trade from the city of New York not only ungenerous to the’ i ion of their charter, and a ati But, whether all the and one or two others, ¢ to be subjected to tolls, it is generally J out of Use T egislature, that something 0 must be done In Oia— fy grace and agility of those Goss. the great depletion in the treasufy PTOY eat likely to occur hereafter from, t ! i the,tolls. As to din mn, that is entirely out of the question, and is scarcely mentioned, A hard cont seems to be going on among the three sections i in procuring r sof the Legisla- andidates to a place in ( abinet. e barnburners have abandoned and are moving all together for Gen. ‘ond section—the soft shell hunkers— joy. Marcy,and are principally represent- ed by Comptroiler Wright; while the third most powerful—the hard shell hunk making a formidable demonstration for D: Dickinson. Which of these parties is likely to su ceed, of course it is impossible to say, but the contest here is an exciting and—to the lookers on—a funny one. A billy introduced yesterday, by a member from your city, to increase the number of harbor masters, and to reduce or apportion the fee: that the 1 shall not exceed, in the aggregate, about the present amount. There are only about five hundred candidates for the ten offices of harbor master to be filled this win- ter. If all that these gentlemen and their friends re- present of them as having done for the party be true, it is astonishing how the democracy was ever de- feated. Political services enough are alleged not only to have saved the State, but have carried the Union. OBSERVER. e- ALBany, Jan. 15, 1853, Cabinet Manawering—Scramble for Ofice—Dis- cussion of Claims and Chances on all Sides— Bills Before the Legislature+Ruwning a Tilt Against Gov. Seymour—The Slave Transit Bill and the Abolitionists—The Railroad Toll Bill, &¢ ‘The Legislature is getting fairly under way, and we can hegin to see a little of the course of the chamel. The shoals and quicksands jut out at every elbow, and for one to stem the current for a single day, without being thrown high and dry, he must be indeed most fortunate. On the first of the present month, the prevailing opinion ran decidedly for Gen. Dix for the cabinet of Gen. Pierce, and to this end the four abolition State officers, viz.:—-Wright, Chatfield, Randall, and Welsh, bent their united and determined force. Being backed in this action by Cassidy, of the Atlas, er, the Metternich of that wing, Col. Crain, imer, Gen. Nye, of Madi-on, and others, up the untaughty It was currently ramore . Hunter, of Virginia, whose will was law. signified his willingness—yea, his desire—to be ciated in the cabinet with Gen. Dix. the rounds, gathering strength at about one week, during which time t , and everything vomnmencved the ling government appointe ion among the inembers of for business. The inents. For all th petitions were in ci hoth branches of the lar hunker ean | candidate,” was the constant rallying « mendation. When the toral Colleve me petition was busily cir r signatares t members of that body, recor ding Gen. Dix f cabinet ; and just as the Co sabout to adjourn, the friends of el 8. Di n atarted Har one for him. natters stood until a few daysago when it wa hat Mr. Hunter had declined having hi« nome uved in connection with the cabi net: and, further, th I the talk ving, and pnfling for Gen. Dix. w Ronecombe; that the There | ound at the theatre, | he was a native of Hillsborough, the same in New Hampshire as (en, Pieree, tnd beckios nich rsonal friendship existed between the two; as had been the case with Daniel Webster, an: many of the leading whigs of the county. Bas cab- inet Selections are governed by a far di t rule. Well, what next was to be started? No one named Mr. Marcy, nor does any one ope of ie in Albany, any moré than though he had been in his grave a hun- dred years. Perhaps the reason for this is to be found in the fact that the original barnburners have reward- ed soft shells long snonge For the last three years the cream of their dish has been almost wholly given to these auxiliaries; and hence the old line barnburn- ers have concluded that it is time to look after their ancient household. Comptroller wea would have liked to open the ball for ap en e met with two stumbling blocks. First, he his fixed thas early upon the gubernatorial chair of this State; hence, to take an open stand now would surely kill his prospects. Secondly, he knows that Gov. Sey- mour is anxiously looking to the chances fora compro- mise candidate for the cabinet from this State; and to that goal his (Gov. Seymour’s) ambition zealously strives. Therefore, to meddle with the fea. bis (Mr. Wright's) brains might suffer. Erastus Corning has also an inanimate dose of Marcyism in his composition. The friends of Mr. Dickinson, thus surveying the ele- ments, took courage, and at once started a petition, recommending him to Gen. Pierce's especial favor, Up to this time a clear majority of the democratic members of the Senate and Amamably 699 signed it. It has been also ’signed by a majority of the State Convention for the nomination of Presidential elec- tors, by a majority of the electors themselves, and a majority of members of Congress elect from this State. “How Gen. Pierce can disregard Mr. Dickin- son’s claims remains to be learned. The history of the Baltimore Convention must be consulted by Gen. Pierce in every political action; and from that it clearly appears that for three days Mr. Dickinson held the nomination in the hollow of his hand. Vir- | ginia kindly placed it there, and the whole South | stood ready to defend him with it. Finally, he passed it back untarnished, to be bestowed to other keeping; and when it fell to Gen. Pierce, no acclaim was more sincere than that of Mr. Dickinson. Well, a few short weeks and all will be known. Certain it is, that Mr. Dickinson possesses a noble endorsement from the Empire State. Many of the important bills before the Legislature will soon reach their final action. In the House, General Burroughs, the independent member from Orleans county, and father of the unconstitutional nine million canal bill, has just commenced his argu- ment aguinst the Governor and his message. Against the Governor he is very personal, and against his message he takes two strong poirts—one of them, that the message is not what the Governor preached in the canal districts, whilst stumping the State for his election. That in his speeches before the elec- tion he plainly declared himself in favor of a change of the constitution, so as to secure and raise funds for the enlargement and completion of the canals, whilst his message nowhere even squints at such a measure, but only recommends the raising, by legis- lative enactment, of about one million of dollars annual- ly, for the deepening of the canals and lengthen- ; ing of the locks, so as to enable boats of 240 tons to | be navigated in them. Another popular point which M, js ma 1 Against the Governor fs, that he i Tn his message that the labor on the canals be procured at times and seasons of the year when the same is cheap. Now, it is a serious question, whether it is not, as | Mr. Burroughs argues, for the best interest of the State to set the example to other employers, by having the public work done by labor paid for at a full and reasonable price, and not to have the State | depress the working man by its own example. The | Slave Transit bill, introduced by Mr. D. B. Taylor, of New York, is calling down the anathemas of all the | abolition and free soil papers in the Union. Never- | theless, the bill will in a very few days be brought out of the Judiciary Comittee and put upon its final “ote. No doubt, as many of the barnburners and soft shells as can conveniently will dodge; but I should not be surprised, notwithstanding all that has been said against it, to see it pass. A powerful effort is already being made to restore the canal tolls upon the railroads. This will meet | with tierce opposition, not only from the railroad in- | terests of the State, but by the representatives of the | cities, whose local railroads would seriously suffer by | this retrograde movement. The most healthy spirit seems to indicate that ‘‘ every tub should stand upon its own bottom,” and that no good reason can be given for taxing the citizens double price for bring- a warm | simply because the canals are frozen up, and this e: 8 of price is given to keep alive the canals. ALPHA. OUR SYRACUSE CORRESPO! Be Syracvse, Jan. 1, 1853. Cabinet Speculations in this Quarter—Insinuatrons to Mr. Dix—Slap at the Southerners—Hard Hit- ting all Round. The suggestions from the various letter.writers from Washington and elsewhere, that the President elect proposed to call Mr. Dix | cites in this quarter very general surprise and incre dulity. It is not believed that it has any other au- thority or foundation than the wish of some interest- | ed persons, who seek, by paid feelers of this kind, to suggest and promote what they most desire. | To suppose that such a purpose is seriously enter- tained by Gen. Pierce, is to impute to him an entire Againstthe Washington Letter Writers—Hostility | into his cabinet, ex- | obliviousness, in respect to the past course and posi” | tion of Mr. Dix, and of public men in this State and in the nation, very far from complimentary. Can it be so soon forgotten that Mr. Dix was the chief advo- cate, in the Senate, of the Wilmot proviso, occupying then the same position with his successor, Governor Seward—that he was made, and has always been used by Van Buren—opposed the election of General Cass, in 1848, at his bidding, and became Mr. Van d. | Buren’s candidate for Governor, to help out the trea- | son of that campaign, and to aid in the election of Gen. Taylor, by giving this State to the Whigs? else, in effect, would it be than restoring the at so. It would be strange, ~ te " party, defeated in the nation Must the democratic Van Burens end Dix in 1848, should immfwery of the its restoration to power, take one of the chief leader? in that memorable bolt—the leading preacher of abo- litionism in the Senate and on the stamp—and place him in a distinguished position in the cabinet. Low, indeed, must the national democrats have sunk, to do, to suffer or submit, to such dishonor and indignity. Its self-respect, if such a thing is predicable of a po party, will have departed when that event happens ; it would he paying a most remarkable premium upon | party infidelity, Sectionalism would have achieved thereby a most encouraging triumph. All party men would learn a new lesson—that party treachery is a fadiexiRie ogtice to old iples and their resis- and Dew elements of and social distraction, were left alone in this State, as the supporters and defenders of national principles of politic , and the opponents of sectionalism. ‘ith much personal reluctance, and a t sacrifice of personal Salag, and almost of self-respect, they made the union of '49, to check free soilism and re- in this State, and store the democratic ascendancy save the Union from the dangerous agitation of a most exciting local question. its of their doings is seen in the settlement of the ous question alluded to, and in the restoration of the de- mocratic party in the Union. The storm has passed, and the principles of the abused ‘‘ old hunkers,” alias the old democrats, have prevailed and have mae in the election of General Pierce. Can it be, the first salutation which they are to receive upon this joyous event is an im ion to witness honors stowed, by the President elected so Somphanty. upon their principles, upon one of the leaning sere in the bolt of 48, and the freesoil candidate for Go- vernor of this State in that year, nominated and supported with a leading whig abolitionist for Lieu- tenant Governor? Could any greater wrong and in- sult be offered to the national democrats of New York? Conld party Fdegradation descend to any “lower deep,” or party ingratitude perpetrate any greater injustice? Nous verrons. OnrTaRio. { OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENCE. Rocnesrer, Dec. 30, 1852. Importance Attached to the Home Organ of General Pierce—Hcemily on Consistency and True National Democracy—Pleading for the Spoils of Office. You must have noticed what essential importance a certain class of papers of this State attach toan article from the Concord Patriot, which purports to indicate the policy of the President elect, in the for- mation of his cabinet. They elevate it to the head of their editorial columns—let it occupy the very place from which the Baltimore platform was carefully ex- cluded during the late presidential campaign; to make room for it, they suspend their laudations of “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” their exultations over the Lemon Slave Case, their flings at the compromise measures and the “peculiar institution,” and even neglect those dear friends and co-operators over the ocean, “The Women of England.” Well, and what of it? Why, a democratic paper printed in the city of General Pierce's residence, has astonished and delighted them, since they construe it as meaning that they are subjects of political grace!—more than they expected, as would seem from the surprise they manifest, and they betray, too, palpably, a consciousness that it is more than they deserve. It may be very properly questioned whether the President elect has any home organ to be the expo- nent of his policy; and yet there is nothing in the Patriot's article new or startling, or objectionable, It but announces what was well kuown of General ot—that he is eminently na- tional in his views; will “know no North, no South” in short, that he is a national democrat. the em- bodiment and personification of the Baltimore platy form—every plank and stanchion of it. If all this is news to those who would_seem to regard it as such, it is not so with those ‘who stood side by side with the President elect throughout the stormy period when the Gnion was assailed by sectional factions. Not tu have known where General Pierce has always stood, battling manfully in his own State, and upon the floor of Congress, against abolitionism in all its phases, pretexts and disguises—one of a national phalanx that breasted the torrent of disunion and sec- tional fanaticism—is almost a confession of having heen wanderers away from the national democratic fold—followers after strange gods, even to the foot of Lake Erie. It needed not the assurance of the Concord Patriot that General Pierce’s cabinet will be made up of those who are “imbued with the same national ideas” that he entertains himself, or that it must be a “unit, harmonizing in all its views.” The best security tor all this would be the selection of a cabinet who, like himself, have had no other than “national ideas,” | Faw ns < a | when it cost something to entertain them; when fac- | ing provisions and commerce to market by railroad, | ton was howling, and the spirit of disunion was hiss- | ing; when in some portions of our country—even here in New York—it was encountering political, and almost social, martyrdom to espouse the integ- rity of the Union—to raise a voice or a pen against its assailants. This is the language of reality, not of fiction. An eminent citizen of New York, whose voice and influence in Congress were potent in slay- ing the hydra of sectionalism, was made the subject of personal insult. Invited to Western New York in the heat of the contest of 1848, to he the speaker at a democratic meeting, on retiring through the crowd he was assailed by hisses, and insults in other forms, from a motley gathering of abolitionists, Seward whigs, and those who claimed to be democrats. Some of those hissers will claim a right to insist that this same gentleman they then insulted shall not have a place in General Pierce’s cabinet. They fear that it will disturb the “harmony” of the democratic party of New York. The best guarantee for sound “national ideas” is, never to have entertained any other, nor never to have compromised with any other. If a member of General Pierce's cabinet is to be taken from New York, the national democrats of the State, of 1848, ying period, and now, will be quite likely to insist that it be one who has never faltered; and in these views they will be seconded by the democrats ot other States. It will be said in some quarters that these views are proscriptive. They are not so. With reference to the democratic party of the nation, to the har- mony of the incoming administration, to exigencies that may soon occur, and are likely to occur, they are simply prudential. Tam not the advocate of proscription ; rather am Tin favor of a Vas latitude of indulgence and for- giveness with the really cured and healed of the badly diseased of 1848. “There are many such, while there are many others that were so much attainted | with the virus, that but small hopes may be enter- v. so far as the President could do | passport to favor and to distinction—that fidelity in | the support of ey nominations is no longer to be required or expected, or at least is no recommenda- tion to a political aspirant--that those who expect promotion or honor in the party should be guilty of no such weakuess or simplicity. But it is said, by some of the letters writers at Washington, that Southern men will not object to Mr. Dix. Doubtless there are mean scamps among Southern men as among Northern, who wil stoop to anything for office or pay; and it is not surprising that such men should infest the capital of the nation; but there are large numbers of men of character and honor at the South, who would scorn to make or as- + sent to any such bargain—who wonld as soon go into the cabinet with Frederick Douglass as with Mr. Dix. Not that Mr. Dix is not a gentleman and a man of courteous bearing and decent behaviour, and of respec- | table talents—not that he or those who acted with him | in 1845 should be proscribed—not that they should | not receive office from the national government, pro- | | vided their repentance is sincere, and they promixe tosin no more; but that their defection from, and their return to, the party is too recent to entitle them to the highest veats in the synagogue. Wither he and | they have fallen from grace, aud sin inst the arty, and return as penitents s hey are coalitionists, or Swiss, working for | without regard to principle. If they come back to the national party in the former capacity, let them be kindly treated—let them share with the rest at the cominon table, and he promoted as they shall de- serve hereafter—not pisoed at once, without trial or proof of their sincerity or good behavior, at the head of the church. But it may be said. perhaps, that there had been a union of democrats in this State, and that the bolters of 1848 have been taken back, and have faith- fully supported General Pierce, and that these remi- niscences ought not to be revived. This is true. There is a union, which the sound nat 1 democrats made, and have observed in good faith, with the bolt- ers of 1848. This union was made by ind demo- who had strongly resisted the yrts of the ati rty, from old dem it k to their duty and fidelity, in Union by sustaining the national cher mocratic part This union of democrats, in this State, will doubtless be maintained, + is distracted by untoward influences at As iationalist prevailed in the 1 men imst be sustained aud pre has been gai , mal demoerats due to the B he Tand resisted the am which pervaded of thi storm of » | the State ng in its swelling current of passion the whole whig party of the State, and nearly half of their former associat under the lead of the V Brrens, Dix Gardinerand others, whom the dem netion punikers and placed in py When the election « as they were called itions of influence « tained of them. I would have little of discrimination in the distribution of federal patronage in this State, in the ranks of those who act fully up to the faith of national democrats. Bat in the formation of a na- tional cabinet, the selection of such as have never toyitain ed other than “ national ideas” would seem Of the nation wil aoe eat tne comooracy oth I sf what will he likely to be his own views? oud But are those who seem to be delighted and sur- prised with the comfortable assurances of the Con- cord Patrict, free, themselves, from a proscriptive spirit? They can see what would be proscriptive on the one hand, but are blind to it on the other. At this very moment they have a league among them- selves, as strong as was that they made with the abolitionists in 144%, its aim being to keep out of the oto delat national democrat of this State; en threaten a repetition of bolting, if their pre- are not consulted and gratified. They have e e for the syren song of “ peace, harmony, union ;"’ another, hoarse and harsh one, which de- mands a rifice on the eae of national democrats, that they will not feel willing tomake. Mason. OUR UTICA CORRESPONDENCE. Urica, N. Y., Jan. 7, 1853. The Beginning of a New Political Era—Gov. Sey mour's Appointments—Hunker Majority in Caw. eus—Defeat of Hunker Congressmen by the Barnt burners—Van Burenites Praising “Gag Atherton’ —Mr. Taylor's Bill in the Assembly—Soft Shells Puzzled what to do—W. E. Robinson's Speech, $e. Fe. The commencement of a new year, ushering in a legislative session at Albany, and producing invaria- hle changes in the personnel of the State government, is, with the politicians of the rural districts, a season of considerable excitement and anxiety. You of the great city, with other important and daily recurring political events transacting in your midst, can scarce- ly comprehend the interest with which the entire centre and west of the State look to Albany about the beginning of each year, when a change, or atleast a renewal, of the administration is taking place. In the canal counties this feeling of interest is particu- larly strong, and perh Utica, which geographical- ly seems to have been marked ont for the capital city of the State, has of it more than her share. The inau; rnor, and the as- sembling 6 th is demoera both Wy hing remains sion of the reek- This process has al- as it were, and promises to be a pro- ely less interesting than that of winning You will have perceived that Governor Seymour had appointed and made public his military staff, th the exception of the Inspector General, con- } ably in advanee of the commencement of his rol office. Great is the wrath of the hankers at ctions made; all of whom, with one single exception, are barnburners and soft shelis; and all of whont, with two exceptions, are said to be rela or connections of Mr. Seymour. 'To my m Goyernor has done exactly as he should ‘have don to the house aith? ='The sole tment which is yet undetermine Incrative of them all—the I is rumored to be pending bety of Madison county, and nl | Philip 8. Crooke, ings—both barnbarners and | the Hunap” for a month at least, nor have I seen freeabilere of the most bitter and unmitigated breed, him since. The truth is, that the flerce howl set up The of the Assembly democratic | by the Buchanan tigers, has brought an echo back to caucus, on Monday evening, have demonstrated in their own , and their malignant scratch- haps un d fact that the hard shelled hun- | ing has raised a dust not altogether in their Pore eve in a majorit of the democratic members of | nostrils, They are now sna that House. Had they been able to unite upon a growling at this echo, pt by their pi Be notes, Let candidate for Speaker they would have elected him. blame themselves when they get sick of it, The By dividing thelr strengt between Taylor, Shaw | press of the whole State is stirre: up by this late de- and others, they were unable to prevent the choice wonenes of Buchananism ae the columns of of Ludlow, upon the second ballot. Mr. Ludlow is_| the jan. The samo—the very same im- a man of respectable talent, and will, in all proba-"| pulse whieh dictated “the letter in the ALD”? 6O- bility, make a very ble Speaker. Eo the | annoying to the Pennsylvanian, has spoken out first ballot for clerk, Mr. Nafew, hard shell hunker, | from every point in the Commonwealth where a was triumphantly elected over the candicate of the | tongue or pen existed capable of being moved by Marcy and Van Buren coalition, Mr. Church, by a ; majority of twelve votes—Mr. Corey (hunker) re- ceiving five votes. The result is an undeniable tri- umph for the hards, and proves that the arrange- ments so carefully made by the barnburner and soft- at the seat of govern- ment, by no means met with the approbation of the members direct from the people. It is the first hard shell hunker majority of democratic members of the Assembly for six or seven agra The Senate retains its old officers, the Lieutenant- Governor being its president, and its clerk and his deputies ranking as hard shells. A majority of the democratic senators are also firm friends of the com- Froniieg measures, and of the eminent defenders of same in Congress. These things look well for the ascendancy of the national democracy in this State. Certain remarkable facts are elicited by the official canvass of last fall’s election, lately published over the certificate of the State canvassers. In your pro- vince, as a neutral paper, which is at liberty to pub- lish the truth, without partizan fear or favor, I have thought it well to communicate these items to you for the sake of placing the same on record. It will be remembered that, in several districts giving stron, Pierce majorities, whigs, independents, and free soil- ers, were elected to Congress, by considerable ma- jorities; so that, while these sections of the State put themselves in a position to demand offices of the in- coming President, for services rendered, they were at the same timeembarrassing his administration by electing repreventatives known to be hostile to it licy. Your correspondent has already referred to is matter, before the official canvass was published; but as the figures are now in the ion of the public, the circumstances of these disgraceful acts of party treachery can be the more clearly manifested. It will be remembered that the democratic candi- dates for Congress who are thus defeated, are, with- out exception, hunkers of the strictest school; and it may as well, also, be known that each and every one of them was a supporter of Daniel 8. Dickinson and Lewis Cass throughout our late and present factional stroggles. That they were destined to defeat was well known in this city before the election, the in- tention being to prevent a hunker majority of the de- | mocratic delegation to Congress from this State, and consequently any recommendation of Mr. Dickinson for the cabinet by such a majoriiy. The result has proved at once the potency and impotency for mis- chief of the contemptible faction which aimed the | blow. Pierce loses at Washington the support of true democrats, whose opposition to sections ‘agita- tion would have been as manly and copsi~ ont ag hig own has been; but, for the rest, ** 19 treachery has | availed nothing, since there ©, even yet an actual | majority of the delegatio:, favorable to Mr. Dickin- | son, in spite of the “creat of the half dozen hunkers | T have allude? { The »<st amusing things of the day, in the politi- | co" une, are the eulogies showered upon Hon. Charles | G. Atherton, since his re-election to the Senate, by | the free soil press. The days when the same prints | used to stigmatize him as “Gag Atherton,” “the | reat doughface,” are fresh in our minds; the reso- | fations passed through our Legislature in 1840, (by | the combined forces of the whigs and of those who were afterwards barnburners,) vituperating his course upon the anti-slavery petitions, are still upon our statute book; and, as late as 1849, similar abuse and | obloquy, levelled at him, was a daily treat tothe fanatical readers of the Van Buren newspapers. But times have changed, and Mr. Atherton is now sup- | posed to have the ear of the incoming. Executive. How quickly their words are eaten by the utterers! | The Concord Patriot's eloquent and, what is better, | well deserved praise of “the great doughface,” as a | statesman “enjoyin; the confidence of the democracy | of the Union,” is echoed by every cur of the pack; | and no honeyed compliment in addition is wanting | from the presses which, only a few years since, print. | ed his name encompassed with wide black lines, and never alluded to him but in terms of ridicule and | contempt. Times have changed—but he has not | cumged; nor have they; they are only wanting office. A test of the sincerity and fortitude of the demo- cracy of this State is already at hand, in the shape ofa bil, brought into the Assembly a day or two | since by Mr. Taylor, of your city, providing for the | repeal of the law by which our ports are shut to citi- | zens of other States, travelling with their slaves. Mr. | Ely, of Broome county, it wil be seen, has introduced resolutions having a similar purpose, and the pa- ternity of which we can guess at, when we re- | member that Broome county is Mr. Dickinson's | residence. These projects will, of course, be op- | posed by the remnants of Sewardism, while the disciples of Van Buren will be obliged to prove | whether they love better the party of good feating: and harmony throughout the Union, or that whic! adopts the black flag of avowed abolition, preaches ernsades against the constitutional rights of the South, and ignores the scmewhat antiquated com- mandment, “ Thou shalt not steal.” The subject has already caused much tribulation to the leaders of the soft shell and barnburner coalition, who, being puz- zled as to how to dispose of the question, preten see in it a deeply laid plot to disturb the “ union and harmony” of the party. Fortunately, we have heard the cry of wolf so frequently of late years, that no- | body now heeds it in the least; and the ‘union and | ee oe ean between national men and abo- | litionists, in both great parties, will, I much fear, | outlast the tenure of office of these anxious coalition- ists. The result of their deliberations has not been, | as yet, made known in this quarter. | x collection of the partisan pamphlets published | during the late campaign, beginning with “ Why I | am _a Whig,” and concluding with the dignified reply of Fillmore to the dignified resolution of the Senate, giving the items of Pierce's and Scott's pay while in ublic service, would be an instructive lesson to pos- rity. In looking over one the other day—a speech | made by W. E. Robinson—I fell upon the charge ap- pee to Gen. Pierce, of being “ perhaps the most | higoted and brutal lump of stupidity in the universe.” | Depend upon it, that fellow will be a candidate fe office before Pierce gets warm in the Preside chair. Oneida county has seen as sudden somersets | as that. | PENNSYLVANIA. OUR HARRISBURG CORRESPONDENCE. Hannispura, Jan. 3, 1853. such flagrant injustice—such black vengeance shown. upon peerless men—for having loved Gen. Lewis ‘ass. The voice raised by the press of the State has now frightened the Pennsylvanian—if not Mr. Buchanan himself—and they have drawn in their horns in a very ungraceful article, attempting to show selves the only true friends of General Cass, and denying that Mr. Buchanan will pppose bo ee article for appointments under General abusing prominent Cass men in the same What strange hallucinations possess their minds.. But we will ves them for the present. The members of the Legislature are now nearly all in Herrisburg. They organize to-morrow. Thear many of them, from different points in the State, ex- press the utmost indignation against the persecution of the friends of General Cass by Mr. Buchanan, lately develo) in such a disgustingly malicious shape. The Sage of Wheatland has not as much in- fluence in his own State, at this hour, ashas General. Cass, either amnone te ple or in Congress.. ‘This fact I have heard mentioned within a very few days, in the political cirles here, in their conversa- tions relative to the cabinet of Gen. Pierce. Mr. Buchanan’s friends now declare that he would not, under any circumstances, accept a place in the cabi- net. That he will not, most well-informed persons readily believe. You are at full liberty to give my name to Mr. Buchanan, or any of his clique, who: have opened their abuse upon the most conspicuous islayia) of. irianier — os this oo and I will gird for their malice, only asking to have an it to tell the truth when my time shall ee ite written you through the plain dictates of justice alone, and a desire to have the real trath ap) in relation to the facts I have stated. Neither Mir. Me- Allister, nor any other man attacked by the Pennsy/- vanian, as yet needs any vindication before thie country. They are highly honorable men, whose oy fault has been their love for General Cass. For a Pennsylvanian to love this great leader of American statesmen, is a crime in the bleared vision of “the favorite son,” as his eye is cocked just at this time. Does the Pennsylvanian now think it has done any wrong to Mr. McAllister? Will it now do him jus-. tice? We shall see. Foey.. ere CONNECTICUT. OUR HARTFORD CORRESPONDBNCE. Hanrrrorp, Conn., Dee. 30, 1852. More Advice for Gen. Pierce—Cabinet Speculations Over the Left—Names of Sundry Gentlemen Not to be inthe Cabinet-—Mutters at Home+Whig Expectations and Results—Truman Smith and the Whigs of Connecticut. In the Heraxp of yesterday (Dec. 29) your cor- respondent suggested that it would be a mach easier task to tell who would not be member of the cabinet of Gen. Pierce than who would. Since, then, he has taken another squint through his political telescope, but has seen nothing to induce him to correct the prediction made at that time ; and as all the corres- pondents of the Heratp have volunteered their ad-- vice to Gen. Pierce, (they probably supposing that he reads the HeraLp,) regarding the proper persons to compose his cabinet, may he (your correspondent) also be allowed to name a few individuals, who, ip. his enlightened opinion, will not be invited to take pews in the governmental church of the incoming President. A few words by way of preface. 0. P. Q., (the Connecticut correspondent of the Herap,) has ever had a very good opinion of Gen.. Pierce. He has ever regarded him as a sound, un- | wavering democrat, and a man every way worthy of, and competent to fill, any office under the heavens.. When he heard of his nomination for the Presidency, he was unanimously of the opinion that it was a. coup d’état second to none within his recollection, and that he (the General) would be triumphant! elected. On or about the 2d day of November last, your correspondent learned that such was the case, and thereupon he concluded General Pierce would make a good President. Reason for this was, that as the principles of General Pierce had always been liberal, and progressive: in their tendencies, it was fair to presume his ad- ministration of the government would be; and, secondly, frem his well-known ‘prudence, that the men he called about him for advisers and co-workers would be men who were not, and never had been, identified with any cliques—men who, in the house- hold quarrels of ‘the democracy, had never taken any part—but men who, like himself, were open, fearless, deserving, competent, and _ politically pure. This opinion, also, your correspondent has seen no good reason for chinging, and consequently he is of the opinion that the following gentlemen will be in- vited to stay at home :— From Mass., Hon. B. F. Hunker. . do. do. _ do. Chas. G. Anti-coalition, Esq. do. New York, Hon. Daniel S. Hard-sheli. do. do. do. William L. Soft-shell. do. do. do. John A. Barnburner. Pennsylvania, Hon. J. Cuba Buchanan. Georgia, Hon. Howell C. Union. _ Mississippi, Hon. Jefferson Secession. _ do. do. Henry 8. Anti-secession. Mlinois, Hon. Stephen Y. Fogy. . Michigan, Hon. Lewis 0. F The above are only a few among omne genus, that General Pierce will leave to scheme and plot for themselves, rather than for him and his administration. He stands in no need of their ser- vices or assistance. With such men as Hunter, Cush- ing, O’Conor, Butler, Gwin, Black, &c., about him, he and the country will be safe. Matters here, since my last, have undergone but little or no visible alteration. Our worthy P. M. is preparing to pack up his duds and decamp about the Ist of April. He a@ good man, and were it not for one big fault, he would | probably be allowed to remain. He had_ been | shaking in his boots for some weeks prior to the election, and until Truinan Smith wrote him: “ All is safe! We shall carry the ‘Empire State’ with a rush. Ohio is ours ; and the majority of Scott and | Graham in the ‘ Keystone State’ will he counted by thousands. We are tolerable sure, also, of carrying gui, Ilnols, Wisconsin, and Virginia. “ Mr. s me, that he thinks Virginia is certain. Abuse and Persecution of Prominent Cass Men in Pennsyitantu—swtien Railing Oner. and Rais- ing a Smoke in its own Eyes—The Wounded Harpies of the Pennsylvanian—Unexampled Mean- ness of the Pennsylvanian towards the Honorable | Richard McAllister—Buchananism Going Blind or Insane with Spiteful Rage—Mecting of the Penn’ | sylvania Legislagure—Indignation of the Mem- bers Against the Recent Developements of Spite | and Spleen—The Press of the State, §c., §c. The following characteristic piece of blindness and spite appears in the Pennsylvanian of Saturday last; and as it reflects upon the Hon. Richard McAllister so unjustly, and in such low and mean terms, I cannot, in justice to that honorable gentleman, refrain from noticing it. It seems that my letter endeavoring to do ee ee recent ferocious outbreak: Mr. Buchanan, through the Pennsylvanian, has called out a new burst of rage against Mr. McAllister, and in the blind, reckless gabble of that paper he is charged with being the author of the letter to the Herann, from this place, dated Dec. 28d, 1852. This last piece of Bnehanan spite, spit out through “ the organ,” reads thus:— ‘The letter in the New York Henaty on Tuesday last, from Harrisburg, about Richard MeAllister and the Penn: sylvanian, is evidently from McAllister’s own pen; it bears His indelible mark on its faee. This is blowing ones’ own trumpet with a vengeance, “It hears his indelible mark on its face,” says the | Pennsylvanian. Oh! how wise—how penetrating— | isthe Pennsylvanian! Its natural sagacity is quite as limited as “its knowledge of prominent public | men in the interior of the State.” Did the editor of | the Poansylvanian ever read, or hear, that “whom | In short, have no fears. Unless our friends here | greatly deceive themselves, we are sure of electin, Seott and os was balin in Gilead to his | faint hea Je expected it, and forth- | with his courag’ Truman was believed to | be a demi-god, and his predictions were ever known to be correct. The letter was shown to some of the | initiated, and Scott stock took a sudden rise. Sun- dry officials walked the streets with quite a conse- | quential air ; and even their spirits underwent such a change that, for the first time during the season, { they forgot that betting was a sin, and offered one | thousand against five thousand on the general result. This offer was quickly accepted, which, by the way, was a sort 1 ropathic dose for them; yet the speech of W Robinson put them torigh again on the evening before the election. Tuesday at length came, with its “rain and mud,” to remind | them of Waterloo and General Scott ; and they took the field and fought well, and, as result, gave | sixty-five majority in the city for Scott. ‘This, too, | Was get ‘and their spirits rose still higher. | Returns from Wethersfield, and other of the in- | ing towns, come in with majorities for Scott and | Graham. Whig Tekan pee smiled; betters grinned and chuckled; leaders and expectants strat- ted pompously in the streets; file swarmed. The be te oftice was crowded, and the excitement ran high. The first despatch—* at ten thousand majority for Pierce in New York city”’-—came upon them like a clap of thnnder out of a cloudless sky. To describe their looks, repeat their sayings, and give any idea of their actions then, would he beyond the powgr of my pen; and when that despatch was followed up by “ Boston, six hun- | dred majority for Pierce,” one would judge they had | severally been Kk with a slung-shot. ~ Not “slowly and sadly,” but quickly and madly, they beat a retreat, and left the democrats masters of the the Gods intend to destroy they first make mad?” Is not the hopeless editor mad’ What can be the matter with him? Is he insane, blind with spite— | or what is the matter? This editor—or these edi- | tors—or the harpies of the Pennsylvanian, are blind with vengetul spite, anda little delirious in | their trouble—their wounded fluttering—how the; do flutter! Yes, they are a li rage; they sce “indelible marks’ insane in their ot exist— | ttle | fe: field. They manifested but little surprise, and ap- peared dispored to view the matter very coolly. Being believers in the doctrine of political fore-ordi- nation, they had probably forgotten that it was ne- cessary to kick up a row over a matter-of-course event. This is much the spirit they have mani- before and since the election. They ave beginning, however, to discuss the claime of candidates for various offices, although, as yet, I should say spectres, perhaps, of “his indelible mark | Very tempevate in all their movements and sayings on its fac Ha: McAllister’s exposé, his plain | The excitement will, however, wax greater soon, and truth.speaking letter, which the Pennsylvanian re- | a8 the Hearn is expected to contain nati de ete of fused to publish, driven the Pennsylvanian crazy ? st, occasional letters will be found therein Oris it Jrell-haunted for denying an innocent man 0. PQ. the privilege of making his reply to their malicious attacks in its own columns? The Pennsyleanian sees ghosts, mania sights, “indelible marks,” &c., none of which exist—what can be the cause? It ia b ning uneasy, too, in the smoke its overboiling factious spirit” has raised. Perhaps standing so long in the shadow of thesage of Wheatland hasen- chanted the Pennsylvanian. Does the Pennsylvanian attempt its wonders by enchantmenta? Bgyptians nd Ishmaelites of old did, and it would be quite be- coming in “the organ" —quite characteristic, But let | me assure the alarmed—haanted—enchanted—crazy | Pennsyleanian, that “the letter in the New Yor& Hy 48: ‘from Mr. MeAllister’s own ister never saw d in the Heratp—indeed, | far as my knowled Thad | eter before writing: etter fay | ing around the “young ‘ui O10. } OUR COLUMBUS CORRESPONDENCE. Convers, Ohio, Jan. 10, 5 Scramble for Office-~The Porties and their Leaders— Political Episode. T would that you could have be to have witnessed one of the rich political se The Buck “Old hunke fore th n here on the Sth, nd most exciting which had transpived in many a day. “democracy were out in their strongth. n abundance were here for days be- convention, bowing and seraping, and totter pping the promises of pen niouths with great liberality. Cevery offyg in this State iy tbe crumbs into their It is said 11 ‘ogy. Betis et id” and the rank and.