Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-01-23
The Preside Election.

The New York +" Herald " says:
The most important movement yet made
by the Wings is undoubtedly the arrangement
effected in the great State of New York by the
Seward party for controlling the vote, for years
10 come, through the vast influence of the canal
loan of nine millions of dollars, and the dispose
BILE force of forty or fifty thousand laborers a,
their command to carry the State next fall. Ii
the canal contracts not disturbed-and ther.
does not seem to be force enough in Albany to
upset them-the State of New York is bound
hand and foot to the Seward dynasty, and the
Wing party will undoubtedly receive its vote q,
the next election for any candidate that the Phil
adelphia Convention may select. w. III. Seward,
with General Scott as his candidate, enters the
field with the vote of New York in his breaches
pocket, and will, of course, be the great mag-
clan of the Wing party at the coming election :"
CoNMEST.-The New York "Sun" informs us
that the legislature have appointed committee
to investigate and report on the manner in which
the canal contracts were allotted. 1t seems to be
admitted that the contracts were not given to the
lowest responsible bidders, but to favored poiti-
cal partisans, and that for this purpose, and to
stife inquiry, there has been a coalition between
the two parties. Who that ever heard of g Neae
York politics." can believe a combination of one
thousand contractors, embracing the influential
and most active politicians of both parties, with
n corruption fund Of nine millions Of dollars can
be resisted?
We may find it necessary to illustrate this
truth by special reference to the corruption fund
of Congress--the public printing-by way Of en-
forcing this truth on the minds of the deluded
cheated, tax-paying people. careful analysis
of the votes on certain measures which have been
carried by peculiar combinations in Congress, and
an exposition of the relations which those mea-
sures have to each other, and to particular indi-
yiduals, in Congress and out of it, may show that
the combination to distribute n corruption fund
of nine millions with profit of three millions of
dollars, among one thousand political contractors
is but one of the series of combinations formed
and maturing for the distribution of three hundred
millions Of dollars among the same parties, in the
ratio Of their respective interest in the combina-
ton.
We may have occasion to show how, and for
what service, and under what pretences, large
sums of the corruption fund of the federal gov
eminent have been, and are to be- distributed
We bide our time but time runs apace, and with
greater Veloclty IMAM steam. we auV1Se the peO-
pie to prepare for coming developments.
The Power OF Money and the Love OF
Ofico.
The writer had occasion to consult an eminent
banker in New York upon proposition to make
advances to the government Of Mexico on an by.
pothecation of the remaining instalment of the
indemnity His reply was that he could not in.
terfere with the arrangement made by Mr.. Web.
ster with the Earrings. He was willing, but fol
that arrangement to do all that Mexico desired
but, said he, nothing can resist The combined IN
.fuenee Of Websters patronage and Corcoraa',
money" Accordingly, when the test came, SC
great was their combined power in the last Con.
gress that every effort to get the yeas and NAYS
was defeated. We rejoice that a new Congress-
has interviewed; that the people have discharged
the greater part Of these unfaithful servants
who, from their participation in jobs and con.
tracts and schemes for plundering the treasury.
were so much under the influence of Mr. Web.
ster's patronage and Mr.. Corcoran's money, and
have sent up new men, who have required Mr.
Webster to furnish the information which he re
fused TO send to the Senate Nous urrons
CATHERINE HAYs.--This charming singer will
return to Baltimore in few days. and during
her concerts here viii, an imitation of Jenny Lind
give the receipts of one night for the benefit o.
the poor Of the city.--Bait. Sun