The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-01

master workmsn, and the mass Of mechanics. Bo-
meath this last GLASS ID herd Of porohs. conasting
Of lahosers. sailors. 60, universally voted 70 DO
very disgusting portion Of the community, aAd not
worthy Of being classified; but the moro libsral
members Of the arst0cracy admit that these vulgar
creatures not absolutely useless in the vale OF
creation The distinctions of class (you might call
it caste. for doubt If there be moro exclusive
spirit in Benares that paradise Of pious bulls and
holy monkcys) are most rgidly observed. One Of
the first class would not use cup or spoon that had
been in ''the paws of one Of the second GLASS and
a member Of the third would not pull one Of the
fourth out of the harbor if he were dro wing while
Of the pleban mass beneath there is not a man
among il who would crook his little finger to keep
the entire upper crust from being "dooe" as
brown as Dives. The cxclusiveness of the English
exclusives was nothing to that Of the oleaginous
race of this thriving town. who turn uptheir noses
at each other with most amusing insolence, though
there never was but one man of their hole number
who had grandfather, and he is preserved in q
glass case, like any other rare and precious thing.
You cannot trace back the ancestry of even our rst
men" without finding that their coat-armor consists
of pair of greasy and naked elbows, with mighty
tendency to what artists call keeping in the shape
OF practical SdnS calOttiSm. To go back two gene.
ratons would be altogether too nasty, for it would
lead one into all the old junk and scrap sron shops
in the place, to say nothing Of daily visits 90 places
compared to the odor Of which the foulcSt smelling
wharf IN New York would DO worthy Of being called
Araby the BEST
Do you soc that handsome. intellectual looking
man! That, sir, is John II Clifford, Attorney
General Of the very respectable, aud rather oonse-
genital state Of Massachusetts,; gentleman who,
tho wings, the coaitionists, and the fates per-
mittpg will be the next governor OF the said state
Mr. Clifford is native Of Providence, Rhode Island
and is about forty-Gve years old He csme hero
zone twenty years ago, or therea bouts, and soon
took rank as 4 lawyer. In politics he has always
be n wing, though he once had IL little am0rous
datiispcc with tho anti masons. lie has been
State Attorney for this district; and few years
sln e La a.fA
neral, he selected 10 Gil it by Governor Briggs
He has been very successful in it; aud, by his
management Of the famous Webster case. at once
attained TO American and European celebrity.
Governor Boutwell, found him in office when he
became chief of the State, and being afraid that
he would prove formidable head to tho wings,
smothercd his Politics by keeping him in Office,
under the pretence that there was no lawyer in the
democratic party capable Of filling the Attorney
Generalsbip As tho pear was not ripe" Nc.
Clifford held on to the Office; but it ia supposed
that he no. thinks it ripe, or even rotten. If it
lie true, as has been whispered about here for the
last two or three days days. that he will not accept
the whig nomination, on account of tho divisions
in that party's ranks with reference to the Presi
dental nomination, though he is a Scott man, aud
even virulent enemy Of Mr.. Webster Mr. Cliff
and they tell story here Of his refusing to attend
ball to which some two or three mechanics had
been admitted His own origin is not SO very
high, for though his father was q Providence NOR
chant, he rose to that station from the loWly
condition of servant boy, and was never ashamed
of his origin. The name alone is aristocratioal in
this case. The Clifords, as you know, were do
soendants Of that eminent public character whom
the late G Sly, Esq, called g Richard Conqueror,"
and they played very high parts in English history
1t was, probably, the recollection Of the highly
aristocratical sentiments Of one Of their number
that led to the title of Lord Clifford being conferred
on our distinguished townsman, the Attorney
General. .,
was in hopes to have visited the Damp meet
ings that have just been held on Cape Cod in the
Vineyard, for the purpose Of giving you some 40
count Of them; but I was disappointed hear,
however, that both were great affairs, and that
Satan very particularly and successfully pitched
into at each. Two upon ono is not exactly up to
the Yankee ideas of fairness; butt considering that
the other party was the most deceitful and double
dealing of fellows, forbear to protest.
A. CUsHNEr.