The New York Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1860, Page 2

2 TAMMANY HALL! THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ouD WiGWAM THE POWIR OF THE ANCIENT REGIME. The Seeond Jackson Campaign Victorious, avd the United States Bank Ove: thrown by its ‘nfluenee. WHE NEW GENERATION IN TANMANY HALL, Rise of ihe Albany Regency and its Alliance with Tam any Hall. The Van Burens and the First Treason of Tammany Hall, ‘Phe First Split in the Democracy for Twenty-Five Wears. The Buffalo Platform and the Denouement. The Present Treason Identical with that of 1848. SPEECH OF GENERAL CASS. EFFECT OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY AGITATION, Plot te Create a Northern Party Developed at Charleston. THE NEW YORE HOTEL CLIQUE, THE BREAKING UP OF TAMMANY HALL. THE OL HARLOT DENOUNCED, men, en, ae, ‘Tho bietory of Taomany Hall for the last twe aiuce it has been under government of the present Regency, nod has been the bind instrument of ite dicta. torial will, adords asad example of the In‘acace cf seldeh and foolien counsels in degrading, io the miade of honora De men, a political institution whose influence ouce pre dominated thronghout the whole Union WE OLD KEGIME—SILAS WRIGHT, VAN BUAEN AND S45. The Tammany Hla!! of twenty yeare ago, when under We management of leaders of deserved social position and exjon')y aceredited political eminence, enjoyed a re petation nowhere questioned, and an authority from which there was no appeal. (ther political organizations bad their day with the causes which cxlied them into eatatence. As elections came and were over, 80 did thoy some sud depart, like other shadows of the hour; for Mhey were for the moet part but expediencies to meet the exigencies of the moment, like State or couaty coo ventions, which, having fulfilled their immediate fase Mons, passed away into the thinge that were, to be succeeded by organizations as temporary as ovance sent. Bot Tammany Hall in those days remained a con stantly organized Convention, in permanent session. The democratic party might be routed, aus seemingly noat tered to the winds, and ite #hort-s\ghted opponents hug Vhemeci ven with the consolation that there was no resur vection {rom the death which they had dealt it, Bat it was ibe mere maiming of ite parla, whictr eprang into life Again, like the fabled heads of Hydra. If ae body was wutilaied or seemingly killed, the #oufremsinet, and ‘Mat sou! was dPmocracy, everiiving, quickening, animat $ng, never deepairing, ever watchful while others «lum bored, and working wh of their own etrifee and contentious, and were obedient to her decition#, believi#g them to be the results of wie dom and patriotiem. Quick in observing the popalar wentiment, she gave to that seatimeat the form end pressure which made it irresistible, With @ut her aid the second Jackson campaign would in and withoat ber opposition Al probability bay Whe Bank of the Unite Wy farteved on the atc# woul have been permanent ntry, Aad these two eminent ex empiidicatiove of her induesce are but parts ia the long ferice of political ruccemser towarde which she exerted a more potent tofuence than any other po'itical organiza Moo that bas ever exited the foundation of the go- vernmeot. Such was Tammany under the leadership of her oid chiefs aud pacheme ‘Wib the election of James K. for chacget, ¥ poder thet thelr self res epon their cousctia, It is bo pect illy brooked familar faces, the pe Wey vever met fw other parts of the State, compriviog what bad become hong recognized a# the Marcy Regency; and mon long aa weil kDuwn by tbe r m°Ceration a8 they Lad Deen distin Iehed by iboir talents Ceased to take part as party ere, On some of tbese men age bad begun & make te cark, and tory were bal’ w to retire from srewes of party strife: mod the disgust caused by the re jection of Mr Van Borev at the Baltimore Conveation, Abrovgh tbe ‘utr guee of Southern po it'cinas, c» operated with their willing re from cones where they folk they were har Tamaiaay was eveu thea paseing (to » trarkition state, of which none could ex actly predict tue end anti annexation letwr of Mr. Van Boren—drawn from him for the purpose of piscing Lim in & [alee powition, with the same object, but S dierent result, from the famous Sherrod Williame’ letier of eome years previous—had Ines him the Soa while with the Sorts, aud more aapectally the State of New York, be held preemiccut sway and popularity om that misshlevous beginning sprang thons agitation upom free so!l end anti slavery doc Winer whe d perplexed the democratic party aad perverted ie popular sense. THE NEW RPOIME. ‘That agitation which firet developed itself in the Balti- ore Convention of 1844, to the general disturbaace of the whole country, will probably be closed by the result Of the eiec\jon of 1840. Bot the Tammany and Regency Managers of 144 persued « dourse very different from ‘Woee of 1800. Whaterer might have been the disap potimenis at ibe rewait of tue nomination of the Baiti more Convention, there was at least a sende of duty io @apportiog ite cand date, aod Ye bitter pill was swallow. ed. A fair eupport was given to Mr Pol heeled to the Preedewry. But uniort rising regeccy WAS coming (nto the Meld to take the a who for #0 many poare had kept the Gemocratic party wogetber in harmony, and to a ceriaio | extent they wade ther power (eit, as sadly as it hae ay tw the presen is wen they who urged open Sil Wright the pomination for Governor of the Siste of New place of (he eid Been felt from that Yorn, fr two purpoere—ite mm w depr Mr. Polk, if elected, of hie support in the Senate, and the second lo make Dim tbe Presideatial eeodidete vo 1445 Ip vain Were tbe protestations and pleadings of mr Wrigbt againet a course craal to bim aod inj ar democratic party. In Tain were the carves re the elders of the old Regency and the old lenders at Tam many, that bis wianes to remaia in the Senate m) complied with. When the election was over—Huik the mind of ine tien from many of bis oldest and best tried frende. Never were cow cow pon confining all \eflvence over him to thelr own ex chesive friende, and keepivg from hia pramence the boacat Men, whoinerer flattered oor betraye!, and who dared fo tell ine truth even thoogh it might prove anweloome. fe was then that they equally eodemvored to inepire him of free solliem. and ae thay hed already drawn bim from bis ae Position om the cones the vortex of State po\ tics, that they equally endeavored to induce him to rerara with diafavor those friends in the South with whom hy tad seted on questions of broad national policy. The grinfe of | with their own ne Of the bation to drag bim iato Martin Van Buren on account of his defeat at the Maiti more Convent bo in the etpcertty of bia ature, Van Pureo, io retarn for ects of d bia attachment vbatantial (riendeh, owas fed, a9 0 sbarer 'n (bore griefe, to lean more and more # copyert to the free eo.) doctrines which were ten com. bernatorial term, bis Rominstion ground of his’ free mol him in @ new defeat ensoed, sad his his jturrtmeat from public life, A short tive before that yp conversation with Gy yernor Maroy, ‘his great mistake war in bin waving ihe Sepate, and in histeoing © the advice of meu whom ho ‘ound, when tt was too lute, were bet to be relied on. “Lem, paid be, “8 victim Wo &ccueptraay, ruined me, but one that i# directing e snd create hostility between the North ana the And go fell tois truly great man, the victim to wiles amd seduction of the new Rezency aad the rolere of Tammany Hall—of that Tammany Gall whose power Began Ww wane from ‘he hour waoen these men began to exercise ® controlling lni\uence over ite jachief. At 1 their couree of m wt r soon followed which bas not its influence to THB BISE OF THE ALBANY REGENCY—ITS ALLIANCE WITH TAMMANY HALL. A few remarke upon the condition of the democratic party at this period are necessary to an understanding of the relations between Tammany Hall and the now Re- into power, The defeat of Wright which was charged to the treache gency coming hastened =the totlers under the lead of B. F, Butler, 8. Young, George P. Barker, John Van Buren and other eminent politicians ‘of that school, aided by the councils of General Dix, at These men, early in the Logtslative seswion <f 1847, met privately at Albany, aud resolved as the firet step towards the eatablighment of free soil doctrines 4s part of the political code of the to bring forward the noted Wilmot whieb was then under consideration before the House of Representatives at Washington. corlipgly introduced into the State Senate, and it at once met ficvor with members of the semi abolitionized dis the State in both branches of the Leg med especially at Gecerat ainst the Proviso, acd equaily Mr. Polk, with @ view ft eve gentlemen for the next Presidesc Buren encouraged the pavaage which was adopted by a ow York democracy, roviso resolution, The resolntion was ao- thus casily started and smoothly managed at Albay, if through the urgeacy of Mr. Vao Buren, certainly abagemeat, was not bait played until Tam ould join, and by giving her sanction to it {ute tho body of paDy thie “eemni adol! the democrat ic had been eure! bly won over tc ite whole seope ano tendency had been too Oupes, who were Loo parbliad to see the path into which ee soiligrn was fast gathering into ite "ats; they in their sin 08 Of the arte that were muing and unacrapulous General Commitiee, ala, Wan DOL AO eaEily in © mere instrument of Yau y ce of Surveyor under Mr. Poik, was ailot ted the taek of sounding them; bat he soa rty throughout ti gly, but to themeelyes almost im The knaves who opds and more elotely reflecting ita sound opinic 20 cveply tainted with the new inf inated with !t ter eignal'y failed: bat such was the art af the uch the extent of the conspiracy, that io their of action they were almost eure to be succ’ nuccess, however suall, we Conveotim, which was 70 years, ful in some quarters, added to their airength. Tb to meet ut Syracuse, was the nex: Geld of their opera tions, and here matters had long beeu prepared before- PROVISO AND ITS & the principles of tbe democracy aso tees qucetion, war a p and wickedness to which few but theme but they were equa! to it, of to aay other attempt at con spiracy that toe imagination of political gamblers ever Among the supporters of the proviso were Field (who Drocght forward the resolution), John A. Kennedy and Geveral Nye, all ram. repubucans at the present mo of whom we we may contemea their doctrines, y to adhere to position of having either attempt Jemocratic party doctriaes hich they did then beilews them, of b have proved un- 8 were equal; Preston King, D. D. y oid not believe, or havivg abandoned th ’ popwiar giwong the sound masses feat awaited them in their attempt te bring over the Gon- vention to free eotlism, TBE VAN PCLENS AND TAMMANY TREASON ~T@E FIRST DIVISION OF THE DEMOCRACY, OR A QUARTER OF Jobo Van Suren and bis band of conspirators returned to Albany, and at & poblic meeting denounced the Goa- clr nominees for Stave ofeers, avd recom- mended the holding of a State Convention at Herkimer. At the latter Convention the South was alluded to ta lag- goage the mort severe, uncharitable and insulting, and sinvery, af part of their mort bitter terma. As a consequence of these divided counctla, the election resulted in favor of the whigs, as it t should by these rebels in the de. A wajmty of the sachoms of je others rested, She ruled by the consent of ine democracy, Who mate her the arbiter ttutions, devounced in the theee conspirators, ant the eympatny even extended of the Generil Committee. #48, Mr, ox Presigent Vag Burcn again virit ceiensioly to attesd the egbih of Jaouary many, Dut in reality to direct the approach- ery eleetious io the city for the selection of dele- gece to the State Convention, to be nela at albany on sigiog the State and choosing The Evening Post did not Ta the arly part conce:ve Tammany a6 replied by & rem from that paper and give them to tbe Haxatp, which, Afler a warts Controverey, was defeated by ihe effort of Theodore Sedg wick, George H Purser and the preseat De But the vational democracy was again fuccersful, end the Convention at Albany uominated for Geman J HedGeld and Campbell P. mstance of the renomination at at large upon the Union ticket The vote of the ©. ‘ulk, in 1844, the to- uence of thers old leaders began to flag. Men, clamorous , Hot eatisfed with being well, sought to be betier, bad Legua to neurp their places, and lutrude of Mr. Redfield as elect seEmP OM 'HOUs Of BuOLER is intrusion ; that their interests began to flag: that their atlendance at the old wigwam became Jess frequent, and that, from not meeting each others’ oa arrived when,as® body, ri! whicd waa creeplag over Tammany was Pecinning to creep over the lwadere vote of the State may age'n dect Copyention wae ¢ Van Buren at @ pe ounced dy the Van Serene, and Joba meetiog procla‘med the election of the whig candidate by a majority of ffiy thousana. Thie was the firet division of the dewocrats upon Presidential elvctore (or the last twenty Ove yeare The eecedere resolved to meet at Utica and nominate @ are aod cpooptaminated. A new cand) date was to be chosen, but extraordinary popularity hed in the meantime appeared {2 the person of Geueral Tay lor, and the Van Buren clique at once sprang to Dim, re- gardicrs of bis poliweal antecedents, as one certain de feat cither Caes or Polk, then the moet prominent demo. crate for tbe pomipation. free Poti Uicket, Tt may seem str dressed the old hero ® coutidential letter, sounding bim on the Wilmot Proviso question, and that the auswer ly upsatisfactory on this ter know little of polities, ati! of the Van Maren ecaoo!, and he plainly declared bis wn wil ingbess to become a candidate of any section or nay Ab it may easily be conceived, such directness: and honesty of purpose #uited neither ‘the vaste nor the political bavite of the Vas Bareos. Whiling to aeail thom- selver of the popularity of the soereseful General, they paturally locked upon it as ® marketable commodity to be torped to their own hockstering porposcs, and they jotwed at Lhe proepect of and contro! over the honest mind ‘of the successful soldver, «ho might be used, as they used every thing elo that came (nto their bands, to sacure their The Free Soi) Conveution met at the ap; ed " legates from thie vity were Nelaon J, Waterbary, Jobn &, Deviim, the representative at prevent of Tharlow Weed; Wi The negro Dooglart was ® delegate at large, ceoupied @ prominent seat on the which he addressed of the politics son Small aad W. G thet «=Goavention of bim, wae the Stier tative of thet body of conepiratore against the peace o Letvere were read from Joba A. Dix and others | approving the morement, and in favor of the misubiev A Dew Bet Of delegston were chosen to the ibe free eotlere from this city eng, & J. Tilden, &. F. davemeyer, a RO. Mesiay aa part of thetr dele. THR PUFPALO PLATFORM AND THE RESULT. Th was ebortly afver thie period tha! the fauoue Baiato | Convention wae held, and the equally | piatiorm adopted—s platform which, as a specimen of | political carpeutry, was the oddest comoir ey materials that Ay ever atten to the language of Mr, Webster, it wae Ro ehaky ander the cat-like tread of Mr. it not only fel! to pieces from the fragility . bt it hae left oniy one trait to give the te proceed ngs. ne out of ten of thowe whe joined tw ite con that it trembied even > the vate of And i ‘@ thie sted Wo the Preaidewey, and Sint Wright to the Coveragrenp of the Mate of New York=the dret aad the unceasing Borie of the new self made Regency were w persavie Govercor Wr ght that all who Red been opposed ft the Policy of making bim Governor were bis enemies; and, Grange ae | may neem, the constant repetition of these @barges seomed at inet to bave made aa impremeion oa cvernor, And became the cause of a/\ene 2 bob Welling longer upon ite objeote and the names of its chitet actors, Dut we om t It to charity to the men, contempt which etwaded the @ho!* trantaction, ald who have sines sought to | at be for thie great error thorovghiy imbued with the moet ecure the adolitioniate, 4 catch, and while in {se inception, progre# aud couciusioa it Waa \uworthy of a true stateeman, 6 wae del ¢, the sethor and prime mover and the golta Were Admitted to sewte in the National Gon vention, but without producing eatir’ the free soflera withdrew, while the h Upon the retarn of the free soi! arn burpere & meeting wae held in the Park, wheo a report | was read by their delogatet, #4 8 separate ticket for the Presidency againet Gen, Cars recommended and adopted Vion to this movement @ meet! Commitwe was called at Tammany, and Case eustained—the barnburnere voting againtt the motion, while Straban, Delevan others, who, @batever might have heen their pradel)ctiona cptanies by free soll heretics, who bave #ioce felt deep ere around a wew kiog more intent | | whose voter [t was inter snworthy af Mr. Va The driegates of the hands ton to ether, a @ remained, but refused to vote. of the General were kept open, and Governor Wright, tor Van Durer, remained ping 1D, the prime here since bis retiring office of Attorney General, and other leading {reo follers from other parts of the State acded their presence and their councils to the organisa- tion centralized in his city. Iteooa became notorious Ubat this organization was amply supplied with funds, ‘and the mystery a8 to where these funda came from be- came en objet of epeculation. Organizations which, for ® brief anterior period, bad been !n favor of General Cass, came to their support, azd the Van Buren flag was raised ip quarters where shortly previous it bad never been seen; while in the same quarters there to be a sudden flash of money those whom that commodity had been a scarce article, It was asserted in the Bvening Post, the novretel organ of the free gollers, that Jonn Van Buren received a large moun: of money trom the whigs tw keep up the free suil organization, abd the name of oneof the moet distin- guished citizens and wealthy merchants was given As authority. Strange as it was that euch language should come from the Pest, ai explanation from Mr. Van Buren was ca!led for by the Hera. But no explanation was ever given. How large was the sum advanced to keep up the Van Buren organization was never known, nor bas the mystery ever been cleared, by thos who alone could clear it, of the sources of these supplies. But ng the object of thie large expenditure was the defeat of the Case democracy, the conclusion, forces itself upoo every impartial mind that it was b@colasion with the friends of Taylor that these fonds were supplied by the whigs with the necessary means to defeat the candidates of the Baltimore Convention. THE PREEENT TREASON IDENTICAL WITH THAT OF 1545—THE HARDS AND TB SOPTS, We must be excused for thus having run into details, many of which might seemingly be omitted without ap- parently interfering with ibe history of Tammany Ball. But they are significant, snd st this moment interesting, a cpplicabie to the movements of these same men io their present effort to defeat the national democracy in the coming campaign. The game they are now playing \e far from being & new one; it is but @eontinuation of an exercise in which, from long practice, they have become proficienis, The wonder is not that they are pursuing it; the greater wonder would be that they had abandoned it, The scenery, though painted over a little, is bat the old scenery—the old play remains the same. The chicl part—repreeented by an aotor who bow appears in the character of railroad and political engineer, with a mono poly on ck t prove his democratic borror of moneyed ftp io she person of Dean Richmoud— was theo fifa by sbother performer, of more moticy garb, greater varicly of stage tricks, aud more antic 48 porition, in the person of John Vau Buren. Tue free roilers, satieded with the result in the western part of the evr York alone was required to. place the organ\- f the remainder into their hands, To effect this moeting was calied of the principal cvatpira ting of the Van Burens, Purdys, Farbera, conners, Devlin, Waterdurys, Tildens, Bren” nave, and other barnvurners, comprising some ity per- zoos’ It wag here arranged that a declara‘ion in favor of fusion should be promulgated, aud decreed tbat in the approaching election for Common Couneil care #hould be taken tn the gelection of free sollers. The patronage of the general government betng in the hands of the oppo- sition, and with little proepect of arsistance from the rural districts, such matertal aid as could be gathered from the c\iy patronage wae ag important ttem, particu Jarly a8 the time wes not hikely very soou to arrive when tbe wbige aould De disposed to enter inw another pay lag contract. So fusion was the wawhword uader which pew mischief was wo be hatched—pew plans t» be carried out for tbe especial benefs of the free sotl portion of the democracy, The bards, in the meantime, were scarcely holding their own, for in management and trickery they were no match for their rivals. They labored under the burden of some pride of consistency, some sentiment of good faith—qualities with which their opponents were not for moinent troubled. By wahow 0° euperior numerical Strength the eofte had won from their ranks some of the Weaker brethren, Who rejoice in majorities; and among the most conspicuous of those who went over to the seemingly strongest side was Lorenzo B Sbepard, to dvced to this step, ae was alleged, by the infoence of Marcy. Bet notwithstanding a fusion had boen declared by both the hard# and free roilers, the management was #0 flimsy, and go tl pted to the mood of the upyieid- ing barde, that only a day before the election an address appeared in the Henaty, slgned by Vache, Schell, Brady, Hike Walsh, Broderick, R J. Dilion and others, denoane: ing the whole affair, and pronownsing the fuston a chen). The plan ge lavorionsly concoo'ed, and with cunning erent, for the benefit of the free oilers, thus fell through, snd'power egain was in the hands of the whigs. Other attempts (o patch up a union between thi fine in repeated conventions, but where- ever Were the sults there was the untversal “nigger,” upon whom or about whom the *bole politics! plaustary system of the eofte rewclved. Nothing could be done, pothing could he thonght of ip the political movements of the softe in whigh there was not something redolent of Sambo. Still there woe something tn the shape of uaioa patebed vpon ‘the State ticket, by an eqnal division of the nominees between the two parties—an arrangement that waste revoitivg to the geueral reuse chat, although » meeting was called at Tammany Hail to give aatherity to be Lew treaty of amity between the discordant factions, and ihoygh O Conor, Ry adere and others appeared in the character of paciticators, yet ail was unavailing. The city went for the whigs, and the Stats, with “cme exceptowe of ne great mimect, went the sam> wey. AS an evidence of the eveplcions with which many of the leading political ac- lore were regsided, Sickles wat denounced at Tamma- ny at having reveived ald from the opporition and as havirg played falee to the party. At» subsequent movt- ing Ibis person was forcibly ejected from the room. #0 drvided bad Temmany at last become that one portion 0° the General Committee, Beaded by Wood, terued an ad dress claim!ng to be the pure, uncontaminated democra whi ¢ apother portion, under the leadership of H. manifesto with pretensic to be regarded a# the elect of the eleet, tue the undefiled, “ the real gennine Jacobs,” ich all other claimants were sham The quarrel of the pretenders was referred to the Council of the Sa- chems, and the deciwion of these political sages resulted for & new General Committee, throwing boib t0t8 of aspirants out of doors. THE GLOBE NEWSPAPER. At thie time the Giete newspaper, conducted by Oseper C Cbilds, and which had been started and furnished by members of each of these rival factions, became the object of the howtility of the free soiter#, who would have caused !t# discoutiouance bad ‘t laid in their power. The concern was greatly in debt—as concerns #0 started and supported are sure t) Decome—and Coilds, the busi ness mapager, was uprelentig in his demands fer meaos to keep (alive; and tt cootimued to maintain © precari uf existence, Owing chiefly to the closeness of his pec viary Managem The newly elected Genera! Comm! tee showed @ gail the side of the bards, but General Dix in the mean rrived from Washingtou, and gave new spirit to the by @ public speech, thoroughly 1 boed with Cree soil decirives, which vecessarily tended to reawaken al! the unsettied feeiing®, and to revive the digcontente of the Tammany dputents. SUCCESS OF THE HARDS. Both factions again appeared in the field in the ensuing Ptate election, but the bards were tuocessful la electing « majority of their friends to represent them. At a dinner previously given by the bards, at Tam- many Hall, to Daoiel S$. Dickineon, that gen. tlemep, in a speech of great severity, pot all the blame of existing difficultion to the account of the free sollers, charging General Dix with being the principal agitator, Thus stood matters until the meeting of the State Convention at Syracuse, at which a general feeling ‘was manifested in favor of barwoniziag peat diferences. Horatio Seymour was nominated for Governor, aod this pomioation wae received with acclamation a ‘Temman: if ii faction, bet had condemned without mercy w' ever it gy a ae Bot « more ——s One estimation which the up gained for Dy the Independence of ite course as weil as the Deve of ite views, was exhibited anortly after in & made by General Case at Tammany Hall. ‘Now, the orator, “Jet me do anotrer ect of fustion: lid thank the N do it ‘F)th pleewure, for] have particularly observed tbe course of (bat paper throughout the cris cheers wtre Unanimevely given for the Hea) 1 do thie with the more plearere, for it is not a paper attached toour 5 vat {t ie nevertheless a paper with aa American And one which has eapported the coun! in the day ite troubles, and in the howr o” tte pending With the distinguished ability which characterizes columes "* KVFRCT OF THR ANTI-SLAVERY AGITATION. ‘We mast leave bere the maddy pool of loos! politics and rections! intrigue and correption to glance at the general state of the country and ttre sted Condition. ‘The agitation of the *lavery question for the three yeart previous, commenc ng wtih the introduction of the Wiimot Proviso at Washington, and {te subse nent introduction at Albany, bad by degree aroused the whole country toa state of alarm, particolariy the South, who began to repare for resistance Against amsaulw ao of repeated. bet y of the Union became a subject of the most ao tiont apprebention (6 the miod@ of the wisest and most experienced stateamen. The excitement, while it was fim) lar in many respects to that which now pervades the country, was of amore intense character. The pubic miod wat not as well prepared ag it is now for the shock, as 't bad not up to that time became fo ‘amiliar with the Hiaenmmet of divonion as it now a haa, aol amid the threaten ings whieh cane with moat forebod: ofoe, every Whitper of compromise, every proposition coneiiation came with a welcome, deep felt and sincere. (ur merebani# came together ae men to join with their * in calming the troubles of the hour, and # call, ! General Soott honored the meeting eniid hie pre- sence, and the proceedings were marked with « folempity DeGtting the oncasion. The compromise of 1860 wae then before Congress, and bad the sapport of Webster, Clay, Cams, Dickinson and other ‘The “crise” being foretold seemed realty to hare come at inet. The passage of that act, or fratricidal war, seemed to be elf evident. With trembling voice the question Fd Keeed by wal wa the be may the next oe@s from ‘arhington hing us, IW MAY We cacape the dan gore which eurreand cal’ I NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. ' sprovghout the Btate, through thelr respective journals, | nation againat tbe ticket and the modo adopied ip making UNION OF THE DEMICRATIC PACTIONS. Jt was at tbis time of doubt and apprebenston, when | had been of the most personal and vindictive character. wectioualiem ecemed to be precipitating ite most diretul As the representative of the bards, Croswell, of the @pusequences upon us, that the Heat, camepicuous | Argus, had shown ne quarter, sad his uncom- ility baa made iteelf most keenly felt among the prees of the coantry, ably and admirably rep- eo pth ba terciversations ho exposed resented the national seatiment, and its columns were | )7 consequence of an article reflecting oa Cagger—the Jooked to with the most eager anxiety. It gave, in th? | same Cagger who now figures as the chief conspirator ia darkest jpoments of doubt, its encouragement that day- | every pian of wickeduees caloulated to briug the demo- light would follow the gioom that lay upon the country. | cratic ty into contempt—he met with a warily, cepounced the creak rs Of the agitation with bitterness Serene cael by that individual, an act of bratality ‘and ferce, and held them up to the scorn of their fellow | which was chuckled over by the Vau Barenlte: a8 « vast men, It stripped and held to the public the veal | ly amusing transaction. Thus stood the condition of sutbors of the mischief, and ly the factions uf the faotions im Ub's State and city immediately previous to democratic school, who had been amoag the chief causes | the Presidential campa'go of 1852, with General Pierce as ofthe agitation. Parties and factions began at last $0 | jhe candidate. sbrink {rom the consequences of their bar gas A parallel case of :rozehery on the part of the Tam- the news came from Syracuse many leaders aud ile Regency, who deserted DS. ad at last died out, and reasoa and fraternal 84] Dickinson after baviog won om over to their falge pro begun to return, the joy was doubled by the information | fesgions for union ut +ha late Charleston Convestioa, from Washington that the Compromise bill had paesed, | was practised in 1862 oon Governor Marcy, who had and the peace of the country was restored. It was at | done a similar service to this treacherous faction a short vhis moment that Geo, Cass, fresh from his labors at | period befere the meetiug of the Coavention, The Van Washington, appeared at Tammany and proaouaced the | Burevs, Caggére, Onasidys, Purbers and Purdys promised firet euiogy upon the Herarp—which we have gtvea | to Governor Marcy the én pport of the Sta'e of New York, above. but, in the spirit of ‘their characteristic treachery, ‘The union of the factions, ecepealy aromas by the | they falsified their pledges and coalesced with Couvention and Tammany Hall, while on the part | other hostile parties to secure his defeat. The vow of the marses, and bailed as the foreranner of auccest, | of New York was all that was required to ‘was intended 48 @ snare by the leading barnburners, who | gecure the nomination for Governor Marcy. Tue wore hostile to foratio Seymour, the gubernawrial can- | fuct tbat both of tue factions unived on Pierce, Oidate of the democracy. This apparent union of bither-} while it gave an outward show of harmoay, did to conflicting interests among the democratic managers | not in the slightest degree assuage the embit wiarmed the whig leaders, and W, H. Seward bastened | tered feelings which st\i) ravkled in the breasts of the from Washington to attend to his interests, which seemed | stil! rival contestants for power. They returned to the to be greatly in jeopardy. On bis arrival ‘he waa visited | city with more embittered against each by John Van Bureo, who remained with him for some | other than ever before. If the pipe of peace bad Lours; sod this singular meeting and closeting of those } been smoked it must bare been with tobacco of « two notorious agitators led to genera! surmise andcom- | most bate inspiring ebar » Which whifled veo ment on the part of the press, but the foregone | geance instead of guod will, if the hatchet bad conclusion Was oon arrived at that the younger | been buried St was fo scantily covered with the sod that Van Buren was paving bis way a@ seat ia tne } it was ready to be grasped at a moment's warning, la Senate of the Uaited States in the place of D. 8. Dickin- | the meetings of Tammany and elsewhere the hards iarist- sop, whore seat wae to become vacant on the 4th of } ed on their rights in having their own men for offi March following. To accomplish this resuit—the defeat | and, es a matter of course, they were agsin opposed by of Seymour ana the continuance in power of the whiga in } the sofis. The Comvention at Syracuse which nominated thé city—was the consideration om one part; while, ou | Horatio Seymour for Governor, who had experienced a the other, should the Iegislature prove democratic, sudden change of heart since his previous defeat, aud union between the whigs and barnburners mighi sen: who, turning bis back on his old supporters, bad frater Dickinson into privete life, and equally send John Van } nized with the barnburuers, was characterized by scenes Buren to bis reat in the Senate of the United States. \ The | of violence and rowdyism equalled only at the Five secret was permitted to escane by Weed, who, a7 usual, | Points. ape Rony see, ee we Jota cnensies I. THE MARDS IN THE ASCENDANT. in conection w’ ese arrangements, and ag one re- rulting sooxequences of the cootract, efllces in the Cus | 1 this Conveation the ards were in the ascendant, wom House had been allotted w baraburners, the consi. | and John Van Buren aad several of bis barnbarner frients deration of the tenure of these offices being distinctly | were rejected as delegates, The real struggle was for the understood to e defeat of Seymour. This defeat, ; ee ne oe een ey toar ses icceat’ | anticipated spoils to bo distributed in the event of the sbows at Jeast that Van Buren and his agente throaghout | election Of Pierce. But the intrigues of the barnbursers the State understood and performed their part of the con- | were again at work to defeat his election, if possible, by tract. But the resuit did not exactly come up W the plane | secret weachery. But afew days before the election a of the contracting parties. The Legislature ia boti,] contract bad been made with the Broadway Post Oiice branches was largely opposition, #0 tha: Seward had’! for (he distribution, throughout the city, of elghty thon vo opportunity to carry out hus part of the bargain. The | sand electoral tickets, purportiog to be genaine demo. Jemccracy of the city, satisMed of the cleat that bad boen | cratic ballote, but without the name of & single demo- piayed upon them, retoived to reuaite the better elements | ¢, elector upon them. The discovery was announced of the party without concert with those who had betray- | atq meeting at Tammany Hali,on the Saturday evening €4 them, and the true spirit that chwrscterized their | preceding ie election, and the act was charged upoo & couneels in their best days eclected that steady and con- | poted barnbuarner holding at present sn impor. servative democrat, Daniel E. Delavan, as their graadea- | ant county office tn thie city. The whole chem. of the tickets were seized, brought into Tammeny Hail THE ERIE CANAL, aod geatroy ed Tais act of treachery and wickeinem omen! decame | #as the work of one of the most influential repud- phere spiairedeeodimn sagen thee: sebogeras Hican anti.fusion men of Tammany Hall, and but a & cubject of wide discuseicn, and the cemaud for the im- counterpart of the {smous secret circular from the same provement became so geveral that political parties were | faction some years previous, which had been discovered compelled to yield to tt, The barnburners were opposed | And expoeed by the author of this article. to the meagure, while it was advocated by the hards, who, PIERCK’S FATAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPOILS. by this course, added greatly to their strength ia the | But the spoils to be distributed by General Pieroe were western part of the State, [t became evident that a0 | now on hand, aud many were the hungry claimants. The organized opposition to the measure would ve inja- Vites tn the ‘sorte emaninn ts ann tobe: Predstug to appolutment of Governor Marcy as Secretary of State the beceteity of the case, joined with the bards in recom | Was regarded by the harde as an augory of their suc- menaing the measare. United on this point, the 8am® | cess: but, alas for the faith of politicians, it soon became spirit of unity predominated in their proodedings at the exeuing. State Gonvestion, ‘where taey passed | Anifert that the eympathice of the newly appointed soe spa —— Ft eng Moog = rus Secretary tended to an opposite direstion, Even he—for question, in favor eine m whom they bad borne and suffered macb—he enlargewent of the canal, which bad been appro; been y jdm « John Van Seen reign = by the previous Legisiature, and with @ zeai for internal | mediate coad jutors—| turned bis back upon his improvemente which would have been highly commend@- } friends, and war mpathizing with those who had bie if it bad been character:zed by a little honesty, re | been Kia moet paiee opponents, But this was solved tuat the enlargement sbould be proceeded with | only the bey inning of & series of complicated forthwith. Equally enthusiastic in faror of iaternal im- | gimeuities of new confusion added to the old; new misun- provemenis wus the new Dorn zeal of Tammany Hall,and | derstandings again ripening into more intense hatred. resolutions in favor of the \mmediate enlargement were | Pierce bad come into power with the general understand. passed with acclamatiga, ing that ei! past questions of an irritating character ghou'd TRIUMPH OF TAMMANY TALL—VORACIOUS arrerits | be put a: rest, and his election was cous:dered # guaran- Gr Tas SPOR ENDS. tes nets aed caleaintiee, of Soc tenne of the commu ‘The whigs at this period were beset with their own nity who were not politicians set at defiance by the up. troubles. The dearly beloved but perpetually troabie- ted and short signted course of the new Presideut. tome African was rtill there. The elder members of the | The balluc sate ts entail aeate at bes tee whig party bad become wearied with his incessant iniro- | ig one of the most extraordinary on record, To elect him duction and the inevitable misshief of which he was the | factions the most discordant suspeaded their dis. caognssions but certain cause, They chewed aymptons tnd the general Vody of the democrate hg of discoutent, but the whip and spur of Weed and Gree- | gusied with their inccrsant Dickerings. Though profes- ley were applied o@ persuaders. The convention woich | giors of fraternity among ineir leaders might bad denounced Webster and Clay for their support } pb their usual _hollownecas, yet of tbe Compromi¢e measure was in the main sus- | were honest men im both factions who sought tained, But the dissatisfaction which had arisen} a union of the conficting elements for the among the mo conservative of thé whigs ocon- | generai good of the whole country. They were quite will- Moved to lag inet The eye Voice of Webster | ing, so long as the President should wae rained it deLoubeing the fast extending treason, and | mente from among capable and honest democrats, that the election was carried by the new united democracy | some sail preaominance me throoguout the city and State, the only candidate on the | might taxe place, for they knew that tn the chances of selec- city Neket defeated being 1 V. Fowler, who ran for Sur- | tion soch aocidenta would more or lees occur; and taey ‘ogate, The Common Leg both branches, was | were willing x advance to Apandoa ail cavils on thet point, democratic, The appetites of Tammany leaders were | and to Te pose & generous Sonidence in the wise Just herce, aud the good things to be devoured were plentiful. | intentions of the appointing power. But in the ments! Tam poor, | exaltation under which the President labored, it was his ig & long period of pecuniary exdaus | especial monomania that his individual management must :, ‘ eagles | be brought into action to barmouize the fuctions, and he ' sand never were eagles more Vora | seemed to be inap'red with the belief tbat his accession cles 2 point of prothgacy and extravagance, 06 | wo the Presidency was « special mission Wo regenerate the famoue ‘forty thieves’ of tbe City Hall were outdone by | democratic party. Aud most sadly and Dunglingly did tocar less ecrupuous but more mo go Agen oe The | be £0 to work, dalanc! the appotatment of a hard by a neglected that prodiabie pri- | the appointment of a soft, aud the appointment of « soft ee might be advanced, of legisiation for the | by the appointment of a bard, throwing a little more ow at the expense of the many, with all the vie acoea#o- | dough im each scale as it roso or fell, all the while bat atiend uper organizations in which hunger and | jook: b most if. euality Keps equal pace, is the briet history of these ‘ua- | Copgraiclatice. Aad: ‘yer aye’ bea wones tae tes scrupulous representatives of an party. | weeks, or weeks into months, before the very appoint- Railroads ard railroad grants passed ja succession io | ments that in his managing mind were sure to conciliate opposition to the vetoes of the Mayor ang the denuscia- ‘Roser the puto Mer dla thie ce an ane effect of dividing the party ino more Hon confine itself to the Commoa Council. Even the judi Let us bere etat@ that there was one cause for dissatis. clary—up to that period free from reproach on the score | faction in the course pursued by Generai Pierce that was pty eee eee a Aa almoet ‘ly Connected with bi« service of offios, joned of @ reconsideration It was nothing more nor less than a waut of faith, from the ® previous opinion, which brought to the “sober second very oferty tats saperter quabineasionn ter tee treet, Uhought” of the converted judge the snug um of $4,000. | tiai position. There was nothing im orabout the man Aldermen who took their seats without a dollar in the | that ve to bis decisions the stamp of superior authority. world became the owners, in ashort time, of splendid | por ed as @ man of ease, he was considernd residences and Re TB ade 5 mad that surrounds | no better than a hundred other men of sense, such an we wealth. The political brokers of Tammany did s thriving | fund constantly arouad us, with whom we do not hesitate AB preparation for the approaching Preeideatial election. RETROSPECT OF THE SECKET CAUSES OF THE DIGINTE- GRATION OF THE DEMOCRACY, which Tet us take a glance at the past, and secertain, if we | class statesman, towards whom cab, be couse for Unis disintegration of parties, sad the for inten y ite Sppro- | whelly Driated to buy up orgenizations hitherto opposed to them, | thet be might pot come up to the of bis prede- om" re consequent wickedress practised under new organiza. they are Mora asuming to themselves the names of democrats. pw Ano It te eaay in our mind to trace it to ome cause, the disap. il Tecomm< pdstion to Country jo the course of Mr. Van Buren with pationce, for the mea- ped at the ‘sbown by tion of his name brings with it the wretched anti slavery favor of the influence Shae t — bis be oy fe glen offered to exbidit a for ‘Oreweut tated, 090 bards were 7. fhe conduct of ot retvaas, Preaideat’s confidence in the he offices with them. The offices oaly of Col. of Van Buren | lector and Worney were awarded to the hards, ay Sere event 8 oe SS Se So on oe Bpite named desired or would sccept places . ecifehpess of the most | This strange conduct of the administration valoescened Presidential candidate | the freo soilers, who at once commenced to reorganize , bo og om CS ae, ee abeorbipg Pierce taking the prominent lead. Thus, in lowe than two Peis nat operation the scenes pag mad vexatious slavery | question opencd anew, by means and his ab. question would never have occurred, for he had practised py © caguhas he Gcets a oe jong af de could turn } State, In the extremity of his foolishness be went so far im and his grief, and | as to select none, or almost none, but free soilers for : Meeaa'ts upon the | office, reviving that fection into more than ite Sovth, the councils of have been harmo- | former vitality, and thus giving the highest honorabie and jest | stamp of autbority to their conduct, The harde, cavcuses veo: | mortited at this sod treachery ot the part of toe , aad ‘weld | Pres! mined not to their position, but wR , ie the to rally for the Convention that was to meet in the’ fol hes, lowing Beptember. Whenever and wherever they coal! h' exerc.re proscription upon democrata who were not of Ube ¥ ‘their immediate family. tree sollers were sure to exercise wes by it, and with the tical approval of the President, A Armed with the strength derived from his supposed bility w juestion frieuded Ta TF og was not confined to moment be tm veceral bat |t war equally atte, ‘im city ap. bad #0 pointmenta, The State had been handed over, mo far as wo the the dietr bution of office was concerned, into the bands of ‘There the barnburners, aod the infoence of that faction bad erm, become #0 paramount with the sdministration that placer =e ae yor oom SL Eeen Tee dee Oo © 5 treacher, Care o inson. Even \plomatic appointments marred is Dame would have remained in | preferences were given to free gollers, until the encou- Ab ot aod tagerment of that lon, whenever an opportunity omer. he al ed, Dewame fo giaring a to produce & general sense of in- he nero Cgnatien and disgust i$ the coun ry. ue produced Oa reagan of Oa RESULT OF PIERCE'S POLICY. ‘The reevit of this state of atairs soon became apparent. Since J ipened into bitter fruit, and be bas had the retiee- | rections held in Staton which had given large mejoritios for Pierce wold an entirely opposite story, and deserted atic party for many years afver hie voice had | not merely the edministration bat the democratic party, sept ntaneelt end hie hocueiean “35,*2itit oC | And these changee had taken place in the first #ix moathe iti of the pew Presidency, and a united democracy had in Sd on then brief period of tine beea. oplit ato fragments. The deciared almoet immediately after their passage free soilere, teem ingly rustained by President Pierce, be- Soogrees, and in carry: out ale determination iced came insolent in their eupposed strength, and cruelly in. hed in the streets of oor prinei; wlerant whenever they hed an ity to bring that Sole citiee, and it wae ry, by the a T ‘ot py into exercise, At the ber State Conven- the goverkment at Waehington that the ogening of a | ton they appeared With thelr hired Sghiiag men, beld | oral fratrieidal War was avertes. The «py organizations, forced the nai ional telegates Content which bad fo long insinuated itaolt into > to nominate 0 separete tects. ‘Their intolence was so in- coune!# of the democracy, thovgh seemiag!y quicted, | tolerable thet the harde were not treated with decent was still at work, The forme of union bad been gone | respect. To proscribe them war accounted « virtue, for throvgh with, Dut the spirit of bitterness wee stil at | the pretumption was regarded ‘at a thing h wort. Members of the same political houseold regard. | the general administration at Wasbingtoo winked edench other with mush batred Sceming reconcilia- | S$ aod encouraged. Greene C. upon an tions might glomm over and conceal, but never extin- | Charlee O'Ornor, the newly — appoini Coileo- quisbed the distrast with which the brethren continue to | tor and inetrict Attorney—both hards, cn whom each other to the present boor. ipimente bed been conferred under them of « fair divieion of offices Detwoen the factions—had been iav ted CROSWELY AxD CAGOER. to addrise s soft meeting at Tammany Hail, which ens ‘The strfg Dejweew the leaders cf ibe two mactions | declined by these geul omen in verme of #trong condem- r*) ee See pored denied DOUGLAS LOOWS UP—THR PEDENAD OFPictAL> And Doogias, af early as 1854, came prominently for ward ae a candicate 1 carry the prize, by the introduction of the famous Nebraska Dill. Strange an it may appear, the Pofte oppored this moasure, while the hards were in favor of ite paasage. Pierce, who saw that it wase bid for the Presidency, sept his instructions Yo fam. many to oppote it, and here again came ap the orgro agitation & ope of the ¢lectionsering clementa of of the South, regarding threw stout as a bait for the free States of the North, Dow abvnt to Lge Honiste of Tammany meaning of the eather, falled wo At that time coneidered & bard, and this rated to bie Gisadyantage, It will be reco! ected > for powtment none but hards Ww ovilice in the Custom Bouse, The Tammany faction wanted this place for ther own creatures, and the unportunitios for the removal of Broneoe Were success!ul, hus furuisiing themselves wit a new proof of the sympathy and confidence of Pierce and hi Cabinet. Tne New York Henaup, whiot had given @ fair aad \inpartial support to the sdininisira tion, observing the existimg state of things and ine do» parture of General Pierce from the honorable policy wiier was expected of bim, became his must decided and bitter oppouent. And yet, notwithstanding the combised in fluence of the administration and the federal officers im ‘this city, the national democracy, with their candidates, tp the State election, beat the sufts by several thousand, ‘votes, the State passing into the bands of Seward and bit friends, In this election the vote for the hards stoxd 100,000, and for the solte 95,000. ‘The last triumph of the democratic party in this Stato for the election of Governor terminated in the chotoe of Horatio Seymour for that office, and the last it will prove to be for many years should Linoola be successful for tha Presidency, That the defeat of the democracy of thig State was in a great degree owing to the miserable ma~ napgement of the Cabinet at Washlugton there cannot de® moments questicn. But the respousibility was shifted from tbe \abinet to the shoulders of the Presidest, who by this time was becoming a football’ between his confiden- tia! Cabwet advisers and the outside political agents who had obtained the mastery over him. The situation of the perplexed “public functionary "’ was pitiaole ip the ex- treme. Aware of the iofluenays which be had permitted \o gather arduna him, but unable w shake them off, oon etaptly making foolish concessions and inventing le promises which were sure to return and plague the ine ‘Ventor. jealous of an intriguing Cabinet which was eqnal» ly jealous of him, himseif descending the Pitiavle game of outmanaging the in whose §=bands he was but as olay in the hands of the polter, he stumbled on {rom one blunder to another. He had forfeited the cont dence of one branch of the demo:racy, which woald not fawn upon Bim and which dared to tell him the honest truth, Wo secure the contempt of tae other branch which deceived bim and laughed him te score, while by threats ‘or by cajolery they were making him the dupe. ‘It is but Justice to Mr: Pierce to say that, tuongh he was always ma- aged by some one ingide party, it could hardly be said that avy particular faction always controlled him; for uncertainty of poticy precluded that idea, and insiders ag well as oulsiders were constantly puzzied by bis incon~ fistencies, It is said that when Seward held the oifice of Governor of this State the real duties of the office, 80 far ag appointmente were concerned, were discharged by ‘Thurlow Weed. As to who was the rea) President when poor Pierce held the title was never clearly * and must remain a pozzie to inquisitive historiang, who will have to rest content with the assuraace that though he ruled principally by deputies, yet his deputies were 30 pomerous and his own mic so uneertain that the honor or shame, which ever it may be, of bis administration, must be divided between bimee/f and the politicians with whom he conaorted, in And about ¢qual ratios of weakness and wickedness, Bus #tern aud unrelenting bistory will pot pause to be an- poyed with such trifies, and the severe voice of justion will pronounce him as one in whom the higher qualities of statesmanship were deficient, and whose failure ag President was Owing to innate weakness of > upfitting him for the great emergencies of the office. Wheu the defeat of the democrats of this State had oc- curred, the federal cflicers, who were the main cause of ‘this disaster, proceeded to Washington to explain it away: in the manner peculiar to themselves, and to ebift ite Teeponsibility irom their own shoulders. It was at this period that a reguiar fund began to be raised, obtained principally by taxation C cones House fubordinaies © defray expenses of parties represent iF intes reets ip Washington and elsewhere. The pony of pers sons calling themselves gentlemen might be given who, for the remainder of the Pierce administration, were fortea wholly out of (ne means thos raised, ‘including the ge Outlay® for expenses incurred in the wiklest sod most dissipated extravaganoes. ‘THE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION’ — FREE STRBCHt QUENCHED IN TAMMANY HALL, The principal operators at Tammany at the same or about the same period orgauized what was termed a “Protective Association,” of which the chief branch eam~ pried certain office holders and private agitators, amounting in all to ten persous—a second class known by the appropriate term of “Blowers,” and a third, a body gard, com} of the most desperate fight: men of the city. Advising council met see rt for consuitatig?, and whenever any of their plans were ripa for vent! the task was mney ndedenany of of je | oy An hd constantly op hand, and men Bot work without pay, they bad their due share of the contingent fund ‘ben a fight was ro- e the directing pact order verbally, but through a system of signa, the lifting of an atm or the raising of a Anger from Chief prompler would at onoe lead’to the desired revulta, A word of dissent at biic meet: wo ning by ther couelratora would e an red a ie, an unex which, being personally unable to meet, he Hquidated ‘With the funds of the Post Oitice, Expensive entertain- ments were lavished upon influential political strangero Passing through the ity, avd every seduction of every kind that money could supply was applied by the close: corporation, whicb, strong in ite influence over the I’re- ident and Cabinet, and equally strong in the possestion of fands, ruled with a eway as selfish as it was (yrauai- cal, Large sums were obtained by members ef init or- exerc: ve power over than did thie oounctl of bum- ber, on whom President of the United States 283 5 i 3 dent to aweit their cevelopements, whica Rbortiy bo made. Saye ie woes exbioit that avhappy wan ip tbe light of a mere instrument in the hands of bio. wicked and upprincipled associates, who knew bis weak. nees of besrt, and availing themseives of his yielding na- ture, induced bim to the committal of those acts whica, i ef to tbe promptings of his owa ressoa and uatcral o- stincts, be never have committed. There are vow Vbose who walk the streets of New York, of repated Tenlth, nd large polisieal infeence, who owe wassever Wey may poswers of either of these qualities to this an- fortanate maa. His pecuniary difficulties in his accounte 5S Sheerness see ane ghd pte ES him to farther acts of upon sury, with the assurance bs ae make “ail one e government ‘Let those of nis seducers: them there are some of the many Hali—if there is one their natures for one on whose apt forced him mane atonement as Taang ter Gate visti come means ring remainder of his ex: We iriend in this city be writes: —' bundrea doliars left me, and knows what I thall do.”” The Yittims; the eunshine Stipendiaries who did the work which be wap too proud to do, but not too na for another victim. The fate ore ‘cian who, once having i F i i i Among the curiosities of this curious period was the endorsement of the barnbarners of Tammany by H. A. had lately been siectet Governor of Virgiaa. LEAGUED AGAINST BUCHANAN, The Cincinnat) National Convention was Aapproech ioe, netructions of Pierce aad rented, and between wanders: a ding den of Southern eentiment, dent the Little Giant bad—at least for the time