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room. ia the gsog shop. m the sociai ciscle.-- Evcrywhere t is sle eagrossing subject of4heaea, and taitle. For some tine past certain divines have been preaching morning and evening ser mons on political duties, and yerily believe that thesr hearers have been whispering ia theu pews about the canal enlargement instead of their souls salvation. Kossuth's advent, Barnum's fire ami hllator kumbug, and the fluctuations in fancy stocks, are scarcely me Rtoned Living amid such a universal political mama, you cannot wonder that your corresponden, finds it impossible to wrte letter without some allusiou to the popular ex. citement. There IS another reason, too, why the subject shohld excite general interest lhroughou, the country, Thurlow Weed, who IS the chief bottle washer of the whig party in this State and IS conceded on all hands to be a shrewd politician, has declared ia the Albany. Evening Journal- first, that ss goes New York 90 goes the Union; secesd, that if the wings are beaten now, they will be beaten again next year; and consequently that there IS no chance for a whg candidate for the Presidency in 1852, unless the whig State ticket IS elected. These propositions seem to me to be true, and put them on record as an index
 10 the future. The oaly chance for the whigs for success at this election lies in their being able ,o cajole a considerable number of the democrats,
 who are interested in the improvement Of the Fire canal, into the support of their ticket by the bold and unbiushing assertion that the whieS are the
 only party who will make the desired enlargement Every man who knows any thing about tho mat
 ter, knows that 1t has been under the adminiStra- ton of democratic government that the State has
 made all it's advancement in wealth, commerce
 and internal improvements. The democrats in
 New York, like their brethren everywhere, are, and have ever been, the steady friends of true
 progress. They are constant in their devotion 10
 the best interests Of the State and will enlarge the
 canal as quickly as the whigs; but they desire to
 wbigs well know they in the minority, and that
 they have no reasonable hope of success, unless
 sotne extraneous issue can be made. | From present appearances, the democratic party | will gain most complete and splendid victory in
 the contest which IS about to come of on next | Tuesday. The canal distnct. It IS generally con- ceded, will go whg; but the southern and lower
 tier of counties will more than countefbalanee it. | In the city of New York, the whigs have two tlek- l cts in eight wards out Of twenty, which xill, of course, ensure the election of the democratic ticket The remainder of the wards are pretty ! thoroughly democratic, and should not be sur
 prsed fl the democracy carried, at least, fourteen
 wards of the city.
 1 Although many good democrats were sedaced
 into the movement just made by the Castle Gar
 den Committee, you may feel assured that il was
 an original scheme of the silver gray wings. For
 the whig party such an organization was doubtless necessary. Under the leadership Of Senator Sew
 ard 1t was relapsng into open treason to the Un-
 ion as fas. as possible. But the democratic party lis union safety committee Tn itself. The defence
 Of the Union and the constitution could never be entrusted with such safety to any other school of
 politicians, to the disciples and followers of Jef- | ferson, Of Madison, and of Jackson. In OUT pTes- | ent State canvass the Castle Garden Committee
 have nominated four whigS and three democrats,
 giving the lions share Of their influence to that
 party which IS indubitabLy the most dangerous to
 the very objects they profess to have at heart-
 But they have nesriy reached ths end of their tether, and wilt soou sink into oblivion. Last week their treasurer reported that there was one uOllhI dtta CCutS HtS uanGnp hHQ resigned. Since then they have Leen sending
 out agents into the highways and byways to solicit
 aims from the eharitable. Some of these political ! beggars, however. have been taken for mpostofs,
 and narrowly escaped arrest and commiltal to the Tc1nbs
 Mr. Joseph Blunt the New York lawyer recent { ly appointed U. $. Commissioner to GhIua, is en-
 tireIy unit for such post, although the admins ,ration papers with consistent sycopbaucy to the { President, have been seduous 10 commend this appointment ss the bes; that could possibly have
 been made. The only qualifications that Mir. Blunt possesses are, that he stole matter enough from the report of the treasury department, and
 yarrous sasetteers and commercial dictionaries to make up a book styled the Merchants Assistant,
 or something of that sort; and secondly, that he
 Is an obscure member ol the Historical and Ethno- logical Societies, and has by years of profound
 torpidity become settled in the opinion that there is some slight difference between Chinese and Choctaw. though he does not exactly understand
 what. Mfr. Blunt is one of those men who are best appreciated where least known. and will no doubt be mole esteemed in kwsng tung than he IS in New York. Ills latest professional employ
 ment has been the management of the defeace of J. K. Herrick, the pious importer of stationary, who has been detected "a swindGng the govern ment out of thousands of dollars by swearing tc false invoices. The custom house officers made a descent upon the stock of the sanctimonious ifn- porter, and for time the wealthy Joe Blunt sas has counsel. We hear nothing more oi the prose euiion for frauds Oh the reveaue, and Joe Blum
 has been appointed Commissioner to China. Pu, lheSe and those together, and make the natural inference.
 The philosopher of the sndte coat, Horace Gree ley, was treated rather roughly by the wings oi the eighth wsrd he other evening. It appears that they had some family quarrel, aud had called grand ratification meeting. whrh was attended by Tom HyeT and Bill Poole, ew hig fighting char
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