The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-05-12

ssdentaA scnAnasion or we oeDocx1ey. He b hAofing
they sy to bring about the 1Onnation q General Yra.l
Pierce Of New Hampshire, fer the Presidency Tn,
movement may como to sonething. General Pierce /,
quite as able most Of the told fogies and youo
asprants whose merits and claims the democratic pres
is guarding edifyngy The question is, did
Judge Woodbury. mantle fall upon the military shoulders
OF General Pierce II to be certain that ii Judge
Woodbury. had lived he would have received the demo.
cratic nomination. Ills death was remarkably intimcd
and Loot to New England the only good chance she
has had for years of making Of her chief the
Union.
Speaking of the Presidency, 1 am reminded that the
proposition to nominate Mr. King of Alabama for the
Presidency finds considerable favor among democrats
Of all shades of opinion The bunker branch pleased
at the prospect Of having Of the old school for their
leader and the coalition democrats have almost without
exception always been in favor of tho nomination Of
Southern statesman such they would not be
obliged to treat them unusy and tyranncaily to prove
that he is not abolitionist His locality would be
sufficient evidence Of his soundness that point They
do not hesitate to add too that Southern leading
more liberal and manly than those Of the North.
The Webster delusion is getting on amazingly. The
arrival Of the great man himself among has operated
on his party like gavanm corpse. The ether
ing Webster Association was formed meeting being
held for the purpose at Cochtuate Hail. The gentlemen
present and whose names appear as officers Of the
club, among the bost men in the State. only wish
had ream of notes with their names on the back
thereof to sell State street but unhappiy that not
exactly the kind of paper which Mr. Webster most desires
at least not at present He wants votes and he can't
get them. don't know whether all the gentlemen en-
gagged in this ludcrous affair really believe all they pro-
TESS Some of them sagacous in all other matters
that 1t is quite impossible that they manacs in poll
tics but it Is quite certain that Mr. Webster believes
that all that is done done in perfect good faith and is
convinced that he to be the next President of the Uni
ted States That this is sufficiently proved by the
fact that every spurge in his favor coincident with
his own arrival here No sooner does he come than his
friends meet "organize raise tin resolve that he is the
greatest man In all creation and therefore must be elected
President and in other ways kick up very great fuss
Then Mr.. Webster goes to Washington his friends
longer meet the organization breaks up, tin comes in
faster than "rcpale' money into the treasury Of Mr.
john OConnel resolves broken easily the most
brittle of temperance and everything remains quiet
until the hay fever something else drives the Secre
tary once more to Now England when the same farce,
with some slight variations perhaps again performed
for the edfcaton Of Mr. Webster and the amusement of
the rest Of mankind As the fat and melancholy Prince
Hamlet late Of the royal family of Denmark poc
caiy remarked Thus the world away''after the
sword the shouderknot, and plume of General Scott
Presidential question. The Alias goes straight out for
Scott but its editor (Col Schoulcr.) has far
and his intense egosm is constantly getting him into all
Kinds OF scrapes with his own party should think his
life would be about as pleasant as that of eel on
gridiron The Courier by far the abest paper of the two
is for Webster and for nobody else though it would per-
haps take Fillmore as pis a These two journals
now engaged in very respectable quarrel about the
which may come to something. The Daily
qdre is for Webster but not with the warmth of the
Courier and it is quite clear that it would not be ire
If Scott were to be nominated. The Journal
without taking very decided ground in favor of any par
lcular candidate is not Scott paper, and has indeed
being nominated by the wing conventon--an opinion
that it may have occasion TO revive about the midde Of
June The Bee is Webster paper to the fullest extent,
the friends Of the Secretary having in at least
spect shown more than the other whigI mean in
securing the services of cheap press.
Rumor has assigned the new JusticeshiP on the SUI
preme Bench to almost dozen eminent lawyers. The
latest runner is that tho Council has refused to confirm
the nomination OF General Cushing whose had been
placed before 1t by the Governor; but have not been
able to trace it to anything like definite 1t is
said that the General positively needs the Office for al
householder Of Messna having had losses
that is his tin is all locked up in Western specua
Tor the time regularly MISUNDERSTANDING fear of the de-
mocrats is that he would not retain the Office after Prcs
dent of their faith shall have been inauguraed which
they expect will take place about the 4h ofnext March,
Summer has come upon per sdlim, rs 1t were re-
mindng of voaires lively description of the speed
with whsh follows winter in the extreme ORTIZ
The most distressing results follow from this sudden
change. Catarrhs looking up, sneezes are lively,
common colds brisk. and the various nfallible
he operation Of the varying skey Influences,
quoted at rather high figures It that such
excellent people Yankees should have such
ounded bad climate. Even Kossuth broke down under
t. and was regularly invaded yesterday thus disap
proposed to show him on that day the places where
their ancestors welted the Dritshers seycntyseven
The Legislature proposes to get up the 14h but it
does not look much like that now. ALGOMA
CAMBRIDGE, May 5, 1852.
'SSnt- annual Emt0tf0n o. CdmU7dSc-A0SsW
Among the Cantabs.
For once, the famed east winds Of Cambridge
failed to bring storm, and with strange reversal
Of their old time character, aided in furnishing
clear, bright day for this semi-annual collegiate
display. Indeed, one could scarcely have improved
upon the weather, which seemed especially adapted
to the comfort Of crowded audience. With
bright sky overhead, and crisp, cool air around,
there was enough in the usual attractions offered
to fill the college chapel to its utmost capacity; but
on this particular occasion, another and more power
full attraction promised in the expected presence
Of the Great Magyar" Nor were the audience
that filed the chapel disappointed The exhibition
is semi annual one and consists in the delivery of
poems orations, &c., original and translated, by
members of the junior and senior classes With this
preface we will pay passing compliment, as
sincerely given as it was well deserved, to
the brilliant array Of beautiful faces which had
ssembled-mothers, sisters, cousins, and friends
to shed their approving smiles upon the new COM
petitors in the race for fame, and then 90 on with
the programme. After the audience had duly set
tied and become composed, the Mendcssohn quin
tette commenced and ushered in the presiding
officer President Sparks, and the faculty with the
to question the propriety, we pass to the criticism
Of the Latin salutatory which followed the ceas-
ing Of the music. This was delivered by Alfred
W. Cooke, Of this village, and purported to
be discourse upon the study Of the art Of
music among the Greeks. Whatever the sub
stance may have been, the manner Of its deli
very lacked force and spirit. The pronunciation
Of the noble old language in which it was
composed and delivered, has formed question for
dispute and discussion by ADLER pens than mine
The speaker, in the absence of the veritable or
genuine Roman mode, pronounced his words by
Englishrules.
The next piece on the Programmes Creek Dia.
logue- (rendered into Creek from the Tartuffe of
Moliere, omitted. The one following was a
translation of part Of Barthes defence Of Bcran-
ger. noble euogy on the world famed Chansonnier
of France. The matter good, the subject in
terestng. and the delivery, with the exception Of
some parts, where the excitement of the speaker
hurried his defamation, pleasing and graceful.
A disquistion upon the kingdom of Japan and
our relations with it, was delivered by G.. W. Nor
ris, Of Boston. In this the speaker endeavored to
show the probable effects of our proposed japanese
expedition, and with leaning to the probability of