The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-04-29
h YORK HERALD.
Ne,. York, Friday, April 40. Is4a.
The Next Corporation.

The two sanity factions-the wings and loco
focos-are excessively buy every nlehtin orgahi-
zing their several clubs, holding caucusses and con-
situations, and every ether possible kind oil move
ment in relation to the great division OF the SPOTS 10
be obtained by the new corporation.
The wings are busy holding their secret sessions,
clubs, caucusses and conventions, al the howard
House, and several other places about town, and
making all the preliminary arrangements Tor appor
tionipr on. the spoils. And, connected with this bu-
sin ess. one of their strong points Is, TO give no office
whatever to any man, however trivial, who will not
pledee himselfto move heaven and earth in order to
support Mr.. Clay for the next president, and thus
s'head off Captain Tyler" in this city, and through
this city all over the Union.
Connected with this distribution, Jacob Acker, a
warm and efficient Clay man, (and a fine fellow to
boot) is 10 have the situation Of keeper of the city
prison; and Nat, Blunt, another strong Clay man,
is to be counsel ter the corporation; and Merritt and
Barney Osborn, both Clay men, all capital fellows,
are to be retained, and so on to the end of the chap
ter, including the reinstation of Jack Hill, another
strong friend of Clay, and one of the most hard
working and ard ent wings in the city-God bless his
rosy nose, down to the very tip.
These are the principles that the wings, when
they get the corporation, mean to go upon; and 1t Is
supposed that this movement will unquestionably
make Mr.. Clay the next President of the United
States. II The wings thus get possession ofthe city,
with It's immense patronage, and the distribution OF
more than a million OF dollars annually, they will
make il the great central pivot on which 10 turn the
whole Union, like a piece OF machinery, In favor OF
Mr.. Clay. And we all know the immense influence
exerted upon the country at large, by the city Of
New York, when she moves in these matters on a
large scale, and with all steam on Here are the
watchmen, street inspectors, lampllghters, custom
house officers, police officers, and magistrates, and a
new batch Of officers to collect the Croton water
rates, making altogether a perfect army of ofiice-hold-
ers'all devoted to Mr.. Clay and bis interests. If the
wings get the city spoils they will carry the State
next Fall, and then they will carry the Union in
1914, including the Millennium for a thousand years.
On the other hand, the locofocos are not idle, by
any means. They have held Sc, eral cauouses, and
their principal place of meeting has been the May
or's office. The chiefspeakers have been his Honor
the Mayor, and the District Attorney, Mr.. Whiting.
The !~ocoioocs are in great trouble about the re-
suit. They dare do a good deal, but they have
great doubts this time. They same to doubt whe-
ther they have sufficient legal grounds to hold the
position they have assumed in relation to TIE 9Th,
Sth, and l2lh wards. From the speeches and OPT
MONS OF Mr.. Whiung, it seems that they consider
they will have TO give ur the ground they have
takeng about the 9th ward, partly or altogether; and
let the whig members take their seats for it. The
practice of several legislative bodies heretofore in
somewhat similar cases, and the different decisions
given by Congress in relation to disputed seats, puz.
zles the locofocos immensely on this matter. 1t
evidently seems that their leaders are on the point
Of giving way a little; if they do so, they'll have to
go altogether by the board; and it is most probable
that the bullying of the wings, headed by the ,hun-
der of Col. Webb, of the regular army, and the
threat that blood must flow" will a~nnihiIate the
locofocos his time, and cause a clean sweep to be
made OF them.
There is another important point, however, con.
excitement, has been overlooked. 1t is now ascer-
tanned that among the whig members of the new
corporation that have been chosen, there are t,po
men that ,cil go for Capt. Tyler, and as they can't
be controlled by the Clay men, they can by a proper
organization and arrangement with the l~ocofocos,
succeed in upsetting the Clay men altogether. In
such a case, a few of Of the most Objectionable To-.
c%ofocos will have TO travel, the others will be re.
tanned, and Mr.. Clay's friends will be nonplussed.
In the mean time, both parties are terribly busy at
work day and night, moving heaven and earth.
They are so busy that they have hardly time to eat,
drink, wash, shave, go decent, or do any of the ne.
cessary duties of life.
The devil is also taking a great interest in this
matter, and he is anything but idle.