The New York herald., 1851-11-04

tion majority in the Senate, on the organ.
ization Of that body, according TO present
appearances, cannot be less than eight, win most
cies that will exist in the Senate and which will bs
a. many - half dozen, it Is most likely, will be
filed by the two houses In convention that tie
jority that was chosen against them last year. but
also the Senatorial coalition majority, whatever
that may be. Suppose the two branches mst
with eight coalition majority IN the one, and seven
whig majority in the other, then the senatorial va
canSes, in at least majority Of instances, will be-
filled by the election OF coalit0nisSs; and tn On the
election of anti whg councillors Secretary If State
State Treasurer, Auditor, Sc will be aafe for the
coalition side. AS to the Governor, biz political
character will depend entirely upon that ofthe Sc.
nate. Should the House contain none but whgs
it would send up but two names to the Senate,
and those two mus. be selected from the fovv high
will be Winthrop, Boutwell,, aud Palfrey, and
the fourth will be one of the persons for
whom the scattering votes shall be cast.
It is true that the fourth person voted for
gentlemen named, though he should not receive
above five and twenty votes Suppose, for Instance,
that Mr. Winthrop should receive sixty five thou
sand votes, Mr.. Boutwell, forty.two thousand, Mr..
Pafrey thirty three, and MIR. Increase Slow twen-
ty.fve the last named distinguished parsonage
would be just as eligible as Mr.. Winthrop, and
should their two names be sent up to the Senate 6y
the House, the former could, without the least vo-
laton of the constitution, elect Mr. Slow Governor;
and Governor he would be, for one year, just as
much if he had been elevated to the post by the
unanimous voice of the people Custom, to be
sure, has made /; sort of rule TO send up two out
of the three highest, there never having occurred
an instance of the four candidates receiving largo
votes. The interval bet ween the third candidate
ard the highest of these gentlemen who have been
fourth candidates, from time to time, has always
been large. Last year, the third candidate re
ceved almost twenty eight thousand votes and the
fourth less than seven hundred and that year was
more favorable than usual to the fourth candidate
Let the Senate contain majority of coationis,s,
and the House be in the hands Of the wings, and
Boutwell, or Palfrey will be Governor. The wings,
at one time, thought it might be made to turn out
differently from this, and were not disposed to re-
sist some of the democratic candidates for the Sc.
nate condition that they would, if elected, vote
for Mr. Winthrop for Governor, should the House
send up his name, and that Of Mr.. Palirey, to the
Senate. They were, however, given to underst and
that, if the names Of these Two gentlemen should be
sent up to the Senate, every democrat there would
vote for Mr. Palfrey, just every free soiler would
vote for Mr.. Boutwell,, if his name should be sent
up with that of Mr. Winthrop The union of the
two parties, far as State politics is concerned,
would eeem to be indeed complete.
/ do not know whether you consider readiness to
bet in support of cause on the part OF its support
certain that this is the first year in which the demo-
Gratis, or any other politicians ever bluaed the
wings by offers to bet. Whether their conduct is
caused by prudence, in highly developed moral
sense, born of unwonted adversity, is more tn An
know; but there is an astonishing amount of dis
gust existing in the whig mind Of Massachuse etts,
about these times against betting. The improve.
ment in this respect, is really cheering, aud shows
that this is the shop for morals The other day,
in reply to some pretty strong talk on the part Of
whig, leading free soiler offered to bet one hun
dred dollars that Mr.. Winthropp would lack one
Thousand votes of election, and one hun ied dol
op fhon nd nm IN fan ha vuh h,V
fused to the thous Ind dollars thus offered,
the ground that he would not take his opponents
money, and that he was principed against betting.
SIN inclined to think that ii he had had the re-
otest chance Of winning even one of the ten bets
offered him, he would have pocketed the money,
and his conscience too.
The wings are alarmed about Hampshire county,
which has hitherto stuck by them through all the
popular vote is concerned, is now threatened The
ticket they have up for Senator, isnot popular.
The Webster and Winthrop coalition go:s on
very smoothly, though some of its organs declare,
substantially that the editors of others OF its organs
are guilty Of treason. The advantage, however, is
pretty much all in the numerative side. The Bos-
ton atlas, which used to declare that to sup
port the Fugitive Slave law would sink the
wings of Massachusetts, still further in per-
dition, now handles that statute as tenderly as
Izask Walton would have anglers handle frog
they are about to turn into bait The New Esd
ford NuooV is silent concerning MIR. Webster s
alleg cd offences against Northern principles. Mr..
Choate has taken the field in behalf of the wings ;
ard as he 10 the particular friend of Mr.. Web
s,er,-the Patrocles of the New England Achilles
the fact is regarded as being uncomnonly sgniG
can't How far this reconciii alton is sincere, few
men say. The probability, however, Is, that, like
most reconciiations Of the kind, it very mu,h 70.
sembes the "makipg up between Asmodeus and
Pillardoc, as mentioned by lie Sage. awe en-
braced," said Asmodeus, " and have been mortal
enemies ever since" Bat 1t will answer its pur-
pose, in giving to the wings a greater power of
carrying on the war. They'll hiss now, and bite
afterwards. Like certain other folks,
"They all agree to disagree
most united fAmen
There was a bit Of bree 40 in the Circuit Court,
yesterday morning, between Judge Curtis ami Mr..
Dana, one Of the counsel for the defense in the
cue cases. AS Mr.. Dana Is a rather aristocratic
sort Of gentleman, people do net mu,h regret that
he was snubbed. The affair is taken as an indici.
ton that the Court means to keep pretty tight
rein over gentlemen Of the bar.