The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-12-04

OF the electlOn, as IL ID " Tue CapuAuo'0o, o"o
even as to the mode of bringing them into the
field. The country is in labor-go get the mid
wife.
IMPORTANT POLITICAL WORCESTERSHIRE poll
tcans of this city, of all parties, are extremely
busy at this particular time. Every preparation
seems to be making in private for the organiza-
ton of conventions, the arrangement of caucusss,
the maturing of electoral tickets, and all that
kind of management, that Ewill have great in
fuence on the next Presidential election, which
is to take place in November, l84S. The friends
of Mr.. Clay, as we have already stated, are very
busy preparing themselves to come out in pub
lie meeting on the 10Th inst This will be de-
monstraton against Mr.. Polk, against General
Scott, against General Taylor, and against every
one but Mr.. Clay Of this movement the ITi-
bune is the organ, and its associate journals in
the interior of the State. On the other hand,
the friends of General Scott are not idle. They
are busy writing and organizing, and may, pos
sibly, be prepared to come out in public meet
ing soon after. Where General Taylors friends
are, it is not SO easy to ascertain.
The supporters of Mr. Van Buren,, as already
stated, are busy arranging the press in this me-
tropolis. tits now believed that all those ar
fragments are completely that the Custom
House, the Post Office and all the dependencies
connected with the government here, are believed
to be under the influence of Mr. Van Buren, and
his men, even in opposition to Mr. Polk, although
the latter gentleman is the head of the ad-
ministration. Accordingly, the Epening Post
has issued its manifesto, preparing the way for
again trotting out Van Buren,, and this mani.
festo is an extremely characteristic document, fol
no notice is taken of the Wilmot Proviso, which
during the last few months, has created 80 much
difficulty at Washington, and caused such 9
| complete disruption of the democratic ranks in
this State. This piece of humbug, having an.
swered its purpose, and given the friends of Van
Buren, the vantage ground in this State, is thrown
aside, and they are now calling on the party to
unite, and 60 into convention on the old prin.
ciples of unity and harmony-thinking that they
have secured sufficient strength by their arrange.
ments here and elsewhere, to carry their point
there. The manifesto accordingly counsels
harmony in the democratic ranks, and begs the
democracy to lay aside all ideas of the proviso-
that the friends of Van Buren, meant nothing by
making fuss about that question-and that John
Van Buren's famous speech has accomplished it's
purpose, and now all is right again. A great
opposition will, undoubtedly, be made to Mr..
Polk by the Van Buren, men in this State, and
really, Polk and Van Buren, seem to be well
matched. They are both of the same calibre-
of equal mind-possess the same amount OF
liberality and selfshness, and equal quantities OF
generous feelings and skulking disposition.
In Philadelphia and elsewhere, some feeble
efforts seem to be making in favor of Vice Presi-
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Mr. Buchanan, reigns paramount in Pennsylvania.
The friends of various other charlottesville.
Calhoun, Gen. Cass, Mr.. Webster, and Sam
Houston, and we don't know how many more
appear to be content with silence, or single
shot from solitary musket in the wild woods
of the West, or by the shores of the Atlantic
The whole Of these intrigues and movements
will concentrate at Washington, and then we
may look out for strange doings. The Mexican
question, the Wilmot proviso, and every othel
national matter, will be shaped and sacrificed sc
as to suit the presidential aspirations of those hal
educated lawyers who call themselves great
statesmen and wonderful politicians.
New POLICE BUsNEss.We understand the
police have recently opened shop In new trade,
combining in one branch the business of moral.
lists and modists. 1t appears that Collyer's living
statues, which have been exhibited at Palmo's
Opera House, have shocked the nerves of many
of our police officers, and that these have, In
consequence, prescribed the drapery with which
these beautiful females must be invested, during
each nights representation.
1t will be recollected, that Collyer (to-night is
his last,) has got up in this city an exhibition
which has been much in vogue in London and
Paris, displaying groups Of statuary, persona
ted by living subjects, generally beautiful young
women, in a state of apparent nudity, though en-
veloped in peculiar garments. These exhibi-
lions have been given at London for years past;
but our police have undertaken to dress them ac-
cording to their own views and ideas. 1t is even
said they at one time thought of putting a
petticoat upon the Greek Slave; but they have
been prevented for the present.
This is good symptom. The police in our
city have not borne very high character for de-
cency and morals, so far. II, however, they
were to carry their reforms into the Five Points
and into some other public parts of the city, they
would do more good than by medding with
| Coiyer, or lseekipg TO dress up the Greek Slsv.
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