The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-04-06
Our Boston Correspondence.


BosroS, April l. 1851.
TIE Last attempt to Elect an U. S. Senator The
4iy7roaoting Eisction-The Fugu,rc Sdpe Case.
The defeat of Mr.. Sumner by majority of twelve
notes.-the largest cast against him yet-on
Wednesday, may strike people abroad as indicating
the approaching dissolution of the coalition but
this conclusion would, in time, be admitted to have
been wrong. OF these mon who have been
in TIM habit of voting for Mr.. Sumner, not
Hess than elven, absent from sickness.
or from some other equally imperative cause
Only one whig was absent, and only two
bunker democrats. Had these absentees been
present, the whole vote would have been 39i-neces-
sary to a choice, 1873; Mr.. Sumner, 100, or bat
eight short of the required number. Nor was this
all: Mr.. Stone, of Charlestown, prominent free
soiler, and who has heretofore been strenuous a
supporter of Mr.. Sumner as any man in the House,
not only made speech against further voting for him
On the course of which he decnred his election to be
impossible, but also voted against him. A leading
wing mem told me, short time after the ballotng
over, that he saw MIR. Stone vote for Mr. Mills
and, thatgenteman received five votes in ALL il is
sonsble to suppose that they the result of
MIR. stones movement, and came from the free
soil side of the House. Had they been thrown for
kir sumner, he would have stood just where he did
after the first bootng was overlooking
six votes of the necessary number You may
have observed that Mr.. Phillips, who the free
soil candidate for Governor, has often received
three votes in the course Of these ballotings They
cast by three wings, who were elected to the
House by feesoil votes under the pledge that they
would vote for freesoil United states Senator
They that they keep their pledge by voting for
Mr. Phillips, who should have been the freesoil
candidate but il is understood that if Mr.. Phil
lips should be brought forward in that capacity,
they will redeem their pledge by voting for Mr..
sumner The free soilers of the towns which
elected these "spry' politicians, laughed at or
cursed by men in the House, according to the
manner in which they affected by their votes.
Three four times these three members alone
have prevented the choice of Senator. Polti-
cisns cannot be too sharp in selecting their repre-
eentatives; but freesollers were always very
sefs, They might have sent two three good
leaders to the House, whose services would have
been inappreciable at this time; but they would
not. and now the whole coalition in the House is
Just like the awkward squad" Of a militia reg-
ment-utterly unable TO accomplish any thing.
There is q report that the project for loanlng the
credit Of the State to aid in tunnelng the Hoosac
Mountain, will depend for its fate the solution Of
the Senatorial question. The State will be
quired to lend its credit to the amount Of two mil
lions Of dollars, or Whereabouts; and the project,
rumor says, will be defeated If Mr.. Sumner should
not ultimately be elected. To do the free soilers
justice, | do not believe they are engaged in any
movement Of the kind. They are no better, pre-
sumo, than their neighbors but they are so in
tsierably stupid that they don't understand, and
can't be made to understand. the great art and
tesy OF log rolling Everything connected with the
state government is a. stupid and as drowsy az if
the whole concern the result Of coalition be-
tween Rip Van Wrinkle and the Seven Sleepers Of
4Ephesus.
The result Of the Rhode Island election will,
SUPPOSE, be proclaimed all over the Union as
great democratic victory, which IT about as
much resemble as Donny brook Fair resembles what
q Peace Congress ought to be. There is scarcely
man elected 10 any office who Is not what would be
called an ''ultra whig" in any other state. There
has been quarrel among the wings Of Rhode
lnl md md tla has Will hal NAL
tact, and with something more than the usual par
~ Disregard Of common honesty, taken advantage
oftbe circumstance. he men chosen TO Office were,
with some few exceptions, all remarkable for their
opposition to the suffrage extension move ment Of
1872 and renomous in their opposition to Governor
1orr. IL would seem, from this, that Rhode Island
principles by electing Mr. James to the Senate,
concluded that the sacred night Of Instruction
was too heavy cargo for their craft, and 20 started
" overheard. Dir. Allen, who IS elected Governor,
Is . connection Of Mr.. Don. lie il a wealthy manu-
fscturer, and has many good traits Of character,
and viii make popular Governor without reference
to politics
cant Congressional districts, where elections to
be bed on the 7th inst The free soiers hard at
work, and hope to eloct Mr. Allen in No D, and to
give Mr.. Palfrey n lift in No. I, 80 that, at the
next trial. when the plurality law shall be in opera
ton he may Ego in and win" The wings will give
them tough light before they will permit them to
succeed in that way.
Everything points 10 very long session. This viii
add some seventy eighty thousand dollars 10 the
expenSes Of the government to say nothing Of near
" ~ much more that will be added thereto by the
Legislature. being much larger than II has been
for somc years past. As there has been deficit in
the treasury for time there will be beggarly
account Of things by the time that the fall campaign
shall have been entered upon II the coalition Is
doomed 10 die, II will be smothered in an empty
treasury.
You viii have learned by telegraph all the par
ticulsrs Of the arrest Of Simms, said 70 be a
fugitive slave There is less excitement about the
af.ir than most people expected would follow from
10 The edge was taken Of by an excitement 81 a
somewhat different cha racter which grew out Of
the arrest Of Fletcher Webster, Esgr, surveyor Of
the Por, Of Boston, and son o. the Secretary Of
state Mr. r. Webster declares that he inter-
fcred prevent the ringing Of the bell, because he
supposed that II was sort IT sounding Of the
tocsn," having for its object the getting up Of
mob to rescue Simms. II i q ridiculous affair,
The occurrence 81 which Is 20 be much regretted,
because Of its liability 70 be nisrepresented. NO
one appearing against him, Mr.. f. Webster has
been discharged.
Mr. Rantoul made speech al Lynn, yesterday,
70 o very large meeting Of democrats, in which he
took strong ground against the Fugitive Slave law
* msnv Mas.erSaa,,, a.,"oera,s 70 whom The
Fugitive Slave law has always been odious,
though They have never seen fl TO make any open
oII9aiuon 70 ~ The prospect increases every day,
OF the mass q the democratic voters here coale scing
firmly with The freesoilers-with what effect, those
who live shall see, as the French have IT,
\. S.-There are all kinds of stories in circula-
snoys Of national officers here but have not been
able TO trace them to any definite source Mr.
Cresfys removal from the collec,orship H. however
expected by some Of his friends CoLoSNA.
Danes s,rSr-The rsiroad bridge over the Cones.
ten near Lancaster Pa wns burned ast night but
80 "a travel on the state works floating bridge
bss srrsdy been thrown across the stream new per