New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-02-11
The New York state Appointments.


Grmed on the next Executive Day. For Health
| Officer HENRY VAS HoyENsuRGH. He must be
| the fox who has stolen the prize while the lions
| and bears have been fighting for it. His name has
hardly been heard of before to-day. Never mind
he gets the Office, and that's all he cares for-he
will leave the grumbling for others.) For Health
Commissioner, SrEpHEN HAzhts. For Water
Commissioners, SAUL ALLEY, SrEPHEs ALLEN
and WILLIAM Fox. For Resident Physician,
ALEXANDER f. VAcHE. Lucky fellow Chat
fax-seed pouItice story did the business for him.
For Flour Inspector, HENRY EvER:oH. Alas poor
Son George and Cornelius the Carpenter Ar
cULAR1us-thy cakes all dough, notwiths landing
| thou, like a veteran war horse,' vast Torn
! baker, and notwithstanding thy bravery in de-
Tending Brooklyn flights from an apprehended
| attack'-and, alas OLE fam salts! notwithstand-
ing thy unparalleled military exploits in escorting
| LAFAyErr to the Connecticut Lines in 1925,
| and firing off cannon on Putnam Hilr-yes not
wi.hstanding all these, and that powerful memoir,
| in which thy never-tobe-fergotten services to tag
party were so emphatically enumerated, thou art
| whis,ed off to the winds as thing nothing worth.
Would that | could even give you poor Jacob
Fathfuls consolation xnder all his troubles bet
ter luck next time'-bnt cannot. The die is cast,
and Notwithstanding thy ilustrous birth, thy dough
can never riseD For Tobacco Inspector, PETER
EselURoL. (You can't have the privilege Mr..
STEVENSON, alias JARVIS, again to run yourself in
debt S., 900 per year in order to serve the dear
people in the tobacco line. For Potash Inspector,
THOMAS L. STEPHENS. (This throws jim Cor.
sER's plat all into pi. Too bad, admit, but it
can't be helped.) For Harbor Master, ABRAHAM
rERSuRE This is all-what do you think of
them? 1t is whispered here that the Old Hunk
.rs' or Conservatives have triumpned, and that
,ae Sublerranean Democracy have been uncere
enormously shown the back door! Of this you can
! Judge better than can. All that know is, that
Ex-Governor MARCY and Attorney General BAR
xER are the sole keepers of his Excellency' con-
science, and what chance have the Subterrane-
ans at their hands
HARRINGTON was yesterday reelected Treasurer
and SILAs WRIGHT, JR. to-day redppointed
Senator. Only tJtyntne out of the one hundred
and fifteen Loco Focs members of the Legislature
attended the Caucus which made these nomina-
tiens! Comment is needless. Bear in mind the
prophecy Of my first letter.
The Legislature doing nothing The Erie
Railroad bill comes up tomorrow, but will again
DC put to sleep in order to obtain certain inform.
Atom The old story, of course, and sheer hum
bug. The road is &c gone coon, and the only
question is what day it shall be buried
JONES Billingsgate Report meets with little ia
yor in the Assembly. Many of the Loco Focos
were opposed to printing even the full number.
This, you well know, is about the highest inSult
that can be offered to Committee, and yet the
Argus attempts to torture it into compliment!
The Atlas makes no bones Of its disgust at the Pc
culiar taste Of the brilliant lumnares whose trans
cepdent rays illuminate the darkened minds of the
Judiciary Committee. IfJoNEs had had spark
Of common sense he would have backed out of such
station, for which he is no more fitted than am
to be President and you at least, fnot your read
ers, we'll appreciate the comparison. The
Atlas of this morning authoritatively announced
that the Objectionable language of this report
would be modified erpunsed' before it came
from the press, doubt this very much.
You will observe by yesterdays Journal, GU
rious resolution offered by DICKINSON, going into
the Regency Port Schuyler speculation sup to the
hub To-day it was adopted, no one saying nay
They dared not make opposition, for the Barn
burners are anxious for an expose which will hang
the Old Regency Hunkers,' with Gov. Bouck a,
their head, higher than Humans galows When
DIcxINsoN's remarks published, which will
be in few days, you will see the whole length and
breadth of this matter, and as pretty specimen
Of rascaty, and misapplieation of the public funds
to carry on splendid paper city speculation, as
ever was witnessed even in this State.
Old Winter is down upon us with vengeance
We have had considerable fall of snow, and
the weather to day is as cold as Greenland. The
disappointed Office seekers will have no critically
in trumping up an extempore fit OF the fever and
ague Tours, WATcHfowEN
/ Us frof. GouRAup delivered the second Of his
lectures on Astronomy last evening at the Ameri-
can Institute. to large and intelligent audience,
He spoke chiefly of the Sun, of its distance, mar.
nitude and physical character-explainins and en-.
forcing with good deal of clearness and skin
tbs opinion of ARAao that the Sun has ,hrea -.
mospheres, the ou,ermost Of Their, bclng that from
which emanete light and heat, and the other two
modifying it's influence so as to render inhabi,able
the body of the Sun. The thickness of these con.
joined atmosphercs, he thinks, is about 400 miles,
and the spots seen upon the Solar surface are
sEmpses of the body of the Sun, through open.
ings in the surrounding atmosphere, produced BY
some commotion as Of winds. The influence Of