The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-12-14

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Extraordinary Nfeteoric Phenomena-The
Late Astounding ExplOs Ions In Politics.
The interesting study of meteorology has lately
been attracting very considerable degree OF at
tentlon We hear great deal about the explosion
of brilliant meteors, and the sudden bursting of
concrete substances in the higher regions of the
air But we think that the recent mete neurological
phenomena in the political atmosphere, which have
shot across the heavens, cleaning in all their daz-
cling brhancy, and then suddenly disappearing
In utter darkness, have been still more calculated
10 starte, amuse and interest sinners and
politicians For many years past, the southern
meteor-John c. Calhoun-has been throwing
its coruscations over the broad Union, and
astonishing the politicians as much as the No
vember meteors asonished the astronomers
The brilliancy he emitted knew no diminution up
TO the very moment when the House of Represen-
tatlves was organized, at which time one of the
most extraordinary explosions of which we ever
heard took place, and the meteor which had daz-
zled so many eyes, disappeared for ever leaving
hardly trace of the Calhoun party in any part of
the country.
This grand explosion has been succeeded
by little all over the country and of these
the most amusing has been the bursting up
of the journal, called the Gazette start
ed by the friends Of Calhoun is this city, for
the purpose of organizing a district system party
here, and carrying death and destruction into the
very centre of the Baltimore Convention next May
The appearance of this little luminary, its brief
career and its explosion, have been quite amusing
and instructive in philosophical point of view. 1t
seems that Mr.. Rhett of South Carolina in the
course of his gyrations through the country, made
his appearance in these regions on frosty morning,
some four weeks ago, and announced his intention
of collecting the scattered elements of the Calhoun
party and concentrating them into single focus,
for the purpose of astonishing the natives in this
part.of the world He proposed, in fact, TO establish
a newspaper which would completely revolutionize
public opinion, and in few days the bantling made
its appearance unfedged, and in the midst of very
inclement season. On this several othe newspapers,
such as the Evening Post, "NIadisonian,' erich
mond Enquirer and Charleston Mercury be-
came vocal in praises of the extraordinary talent
and efficiency with which the paper was conducted
and in proof, asserted that the presiding genius,
the master-sprit of the "New York Herald had
got away and was engaged in the production of
the manufacturer of public opinion, which was
about TO produce great effect our own
journal had done throughout the length and
breadth and thickness Of the country. 1t APP
peared to us, indeed as if these gallant South
erners had acted on the same sagacious principle
of the stupid fellow in the story, who supposed that
l. Ill Il.
sine, he could get up quite as brilliant petit sonpes
and entertain his guests with as much wit, humor,
and gaiety as his accomplished neghbor. Our
friend of the Evening Post" was quite excusabs
in his laundering conception that any single indi-
vidua formerly engaged in the Herald establish
ment carried Its immense responsibilities on his
shoulders for the surplus malignity of the eve
ming Post" must find some vent. But that the VEN
cradle Richie, of the Richmond Enquirer" or
the clever editor of the charleston Mercury"
could have entertained such an opinion, is beyond
our comprehension. They ought to know better,
and if they do not know better, why they must be
set down as consummate blockheads in their own
profession. No particular department of this Jour
nal is dependent on any individual He who
created it and gave it its popularity is still at its
head, and as long thoughts circulate in his mind,
il will sustain the same position in the country
But this is a secret In the art of newspaper manu-
facture which our bungling contemporaries do no
understand and this, too is a secret which can ne
yer be beat into the heads of the politicians. II
the friends of Calhoun TO collect all the avail
able talent in New York and start a paper with a
capital of 100000, they couldn't get afooting in
this part Of the counry-nor could any other party
Such is the present disastrous, and melancholy
and foolish state of things around which the bril-.
liant meteor Of South Carolina has been obscured
by the folly and ignorance and impertinsnce o.
those men who assumed TO be his special friends
and by whose crude plans he has been so effectu
ally ruined. And thus all over the country ruin anc
disaster meet the Calhoun party.
"oh Gertrude, Gertrude when sorrows come,
They come not single spies, but in battaons :"
Covered with defeat in the House of Represen
taives-thelr organ in this city, the head quarter
of public opinion dead and bured-and all owe