The New York herald., 1845-04-19


STEAM SHIP CALEDONIA is due at Boston with a
weeks later news.
The Succession
II is very strenuously insisted upon by the
Richmond Inquirer, that Mr.. Polk is not to be
regarded in the light of candidate for re-
election. 1t is declared that Mr.. Polk does
not even look to second term-that his
whole intention and design is to keep the dc.
mocratc party united, and that he will not favor
disregard any democrat 80 as to injure the party
or impair its integrity All this is very well. We
have no reason to suppose that it is not correct
statement OF MIR. Polk's position, views and inter-
tions But still we are thus presented with the
beet possible continuation Of opinion that Mr..
Polk must, per meCesitas, occupy position which
will enable him TO determine who shall be his sue
cessor.
We have, indeed, gone farther than this. We
have declared that circumstances might compel
Mr.. Polk to be candidate for reelection. But
we have never said that he "wished'' to be can
didate, or that he looked forward to second
term. He was himself taken up and elected be.
cause the party could not agree upon any Of the
candidates who were presented, and though he
was nominated under come sort of an under
standing that he was not to be again a candi-
date, yet, when we now see him wisely en-
trenching himself and giving new energy to the
democratic party, by re. organizing it all over the
country on his own plan, we are certainly pre-
sented> that some grounds for entertaining the
belief that he means at all events to have a con-
trolling voice in settling the important question
of the succession. And then, on the other hand,
when we consider that the aspirants for the
sion will be as numerous as ever-that their move
ments, plots and inrigues will create as great dis
turbance as ever, the probabilities that Mr.. Polk
may again be taken up, are indeed greatly aug
mented. Cass is in the field. His friends in
Michigan are preparing to effect for him nomina-
tion in the Legislature Of that State, with view
to his resignation of his and assumption of the
position Of candidate in lS4S. Van Buren in re-
tirement looks forward to the same position. Slas
Wright may occupy the same ground, and who
knows but Benton may also be in the field! The
condition to which the party Will thus be reduced
can be easily imagined, and the democracy will
thus in all probability, be again obliged as der
nier resort to take up Mr.. Polk-presenting his
name a pis-aler. Still we are very far from
saying that Mr.. Polk wishes to be a candidate. If
he were to make any such declaration, it would be
the means of marring the success OF his admins
tration, and most materially diminish his chance
of again saving the democracy, by uniting the dis.
cordant elements raying under the various avowed
candidates.
Meanwhile the wings are not idle in their
movements with reference to the succession-
Judge Mclean and his friends are moving all
over the country. General Scott is in the field,
and many talk of Mr.. Clay. The truth is that all
political movements are directed to the succession
Immediately after the election of one candidate,
and there is no help for it, 1t is the natural result
Of the action Of our system of representation In
variably, so soon as one election has decided who
is to be the President for four years, all parties
and all cliques begin to make movements for the
election of a successor.
THE ORaANsHIP.-Our Washington correspon.
dent made statement the other day relative to
the probable exercise of Calhoun influence on the
new "organ," which Mr. Richie very Indignantly
repudiates. We do not wish by any means to cir
culate any errors or msstatements to the prejudice
of the editor Of the Richmond Inquirer, for we
have very high opinion Of him on the score of
his intelligence and candor We should be the
last to say anything injurious him but his trans
formation and removal from Richmond TO WASH
ington, are of course matter of individual specula-
ton. In relation to the statement of Mr.. Calhoun
being the " fiscal partner Of the Globe under the
new arrangement, we do not believe that there ie
any foundation for it, any other than that the gen.
era belief at Washington is, that the first install
ment of the purchase money, amounting to proba-
bly, $4,000, ls to be furnished by the original
friends Of Mr. Calhoun in Pennsylvania. Il is
generally believed that neither of the two new edi.
tors OF the Globe have money to invest in the en-.
terprse, but that they have friends who will assist
mil 1hahI L.
$4,000 or $780, and, therefore, the first install
ment will be $4,000 or thereabouts
IHE PILOT OF THE SwAILow.-It will be seen.
on reference to our law reports, that the plot bv
whose negligence the late fatal disaster to tho
steamboat Swallow was caused, has been indicted
by the grand Jury, sitting in the United sta,.s
Circuit Court in this city. The result of the trial
In this case will be looked 10 with the deenee,
interest
The CAUCUS OF THE New CORPORATION LAST
NIGHT resulted in the following nominations:
President Of the Board of Al
dermen Oliver Charlick.
cOmpIoAer. John Even
Street Commissioner. 80. Elias T. smith #a
Corpor ION Counsel. ,... James r. Brady
corp auon Attorney. A. M. Snifen
9Tsln our record of the "Movemepts of Trave
ers," will be found the arrival at the As,or - n,
the Hon Caleb Gushing, aud Col. ]. Kuox Wake
private Secretary of His Excellency the Presidcn,
nd MI Of NHo