The New York herald., 1851-11-22

the above table, and then ntroduoe the l,6lA votes
given to Doctor Brandreth, in the Westchsstsr dis
trict, aPportionng 400 10 the democrats and 2i4
to the wings, We have nearly the same remark able
close vote On the Senate tickets in the whole State,
as appears in the vote for Attorney General and
Treasurer, on the Stste ticket. 4
the Senaters elect. Ths frat on the list is ames
E. Cooley, residing on Staten Island, (Richmond)'
and representing that county, Suffolk and Queens
Mr. Cooley is the FIRST bookseller who has been
elected to the Senate since 1882, when Mr.. Ebene-
Fer Mack, of the firm of Mack X Andrus, OF
Ithaca, Tompkins county. was chosen to represent
the old Sixth district MIR. Mack made q very good
Senator, and was q Jealous promoter of the Erie
Railroad and other internal improvements, particu
lary those affecting the interests of the southern
tier of counties He had more pretensions to itefa
ture than is often found in booksellers being the
author of good life of La Fayette, and other
works. Mr.. Cooley is the author of book Of
Travels in Egypt, but it is not supposed that his
reputation as . traveller or an antiquary had any
peculiar influence on the democracy of the Island
district he will represent. The question asked on
Staten Island, and in Old Suffolk and Queens, was
not, does the candidate for Senator agree with
Champolion, Young, or Gliddon, in the interpreta-
tion of hieroglyphics, with Manetho, Bunsen, or
Colonel Vyse, in the dynasties of the Egyptian
kings, and the object and age of the pyramids; but
was he regularly nominated! The latter point ad
mittng of no doubt, Mr. Cooley had no difficulty in
securing his sction, after his unexpected nomna-
ton He bad previously operated wthAlr Richard
Adams Locke, and other orators, in addressing the
democratic masses on Staten Island 30 that he was
not unknown to them, and the democracy of Queens
and Suffolk having yielded the nomination to Rich
mond, we fad the majority Of Mr.. Cooley, a New
Highlander, over Mr. G. P. Disosway, a native of
the district, and of an old Huguenot family, ex-
ceeded that of Mr.. Wright, democrat for comp
troler, the State ticket by 80 votes, and that Of
Mr.. Chatfeld, for Attorney General, by III votes.
Such is the force of party and the system of regular
nominations.
Mr.. Cooley was formerly auctioneer, OF
Boston, and came to this city about the year 1885,
when he entered into the book auction and commits
sion business, engaging periodically in the regular
trade sales then established. He was afterwards
special partner in the book auction house of Bangs
Richards & Plat, and established the house of
Cooley, Reese & Hill, in 1916, in the same
business; the third partner, Mr.. Horatio Hill,
(brother of Isaac Hill, of New HAMPSHIRE
retiring from the concern, after q year or
80, and the business continuing under the
firm of Cooley & Reese, until 1885, when Mr..
Cooley retired The popularity of Mr.. John
Keese, (who is native Of this city, and we'll
known scholar, critic, wit, orator, and democratic
poitician,) as auctioneer, greatly promoted the
of the book auction establishment, and the
trade sales of Cooley & Keese, backed by Messrs.
Appleton, Putnam, and other prominent publishers,
were always well sustained by the book trade
throughout the country. To add to the attractions
of the trade sales, Mr. Cooley introduced the Gus
tom of giving champagne and edibles during the
noon recess at the saes which custom being highly
approved of by the trade was soon initiated by the
rival auction houses. The new Senator will find
that similar custom is prevalent at Albany; but
there the expense falls on the lobby and not the
members of the Legislature. Mr.. Cooley is, we
should think, about fortyfve years Of age, and may
be known by his tall, slender person, and "spec-
tacles on nose"
The Second District, the whig county Of Kings
is, strange to say, to be represented by decided
democrat, Mr.. John Vanderbilt. The circum-
stances which defeated Mr.. Edwards Fiske, the whg
candidate, and entombed him beneath terrible
msjority, are well known. Sufficient to say, that
Mr. F. was identified with the Seward interest, and
was marked by the silver grays for destruction.
Added to this there we're ferry and other questions
which aided to effect his defeat. The successful
candidate, Vanderbilt, is one of that lucky 6rm Of
democratic lawyers in Brooklyn, Lott, Murphy
& Vanderbilt, who, uniting in their persons the
interests of the three races of English, Irish,
and Dutch, to which they are allied by blood
and association, have long had the affairs Of
the democratic party of Kings county in their
own keeping. Thus, Mr.. Lott has been sent
TO the Legislature, and held various Offices
Of honor and profit Che was in isi9 the democratic
candidate for Comptroller of the state, then un-
successful Mr.. Murphy has been sent to Con-
grea and now the younger partner, Mr. Wander
bit, goes to the State Senate for two years. po-
sition certainly not unfavorable, in which to serve
his friends. There is, by the way, a parallel case
at Buffalo, in the law firm of Fillmore, Haven, and
Hall--tbe first being President Of the United
States; the second was last year elected to the
Thirty second Congress and the third, after hav-
ing held various Offices in Erie county, being called
into the Cabinet at Washington by the senior part
ner and now exercising the power and receiving the
emouments Of the office OF Post Master General.
The trio will, therefore, all be in bunch at Wash
ngton this winter The parties in the last case are
all Anglo Ssxons, and, consequently, received no
benefit by the union Of races in their persons, so
Significantly displayed in the Brooklyn Is not
this parallel worthy Of the historical inquiries Of
that as,ute sthnolOgist and antiquary, Archbishop
Hughes
Mr. Vanderbilt, who has been Judge in Kings
county, is about thirty-ave years Of age, Of good
personal appearance and address. lie is Of Dutch
ancestry, a native Of Flatbush, Long Island,
which branch Of the family are considered mere
sristeeratc, and better entitled to honor and pre-
ferment, than the Staten Island Vanderbilts, who
we're principally distinguished in the oyster trade,
until The renowned steamboat commodore arose
smorg tkem, ard amorg other achievements which
will rerpetua.e his memory. has opened the short
est marine pathway TO the III Dorado Of the Pacific.