The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-05

BosToS, May %, 1858.

BuTutd IN EWgy-A Tunnel PdT8 70 DC rOfWeu
The Webster Monument Meeting ofhs &c
neral Committee Of One H.mdrsa'-O Opinions ON
the Diplomatic Appointments Disappointment
Mr. W. +. Parmentcy-The Nen Bedford Mer-
curry on the Roald-ViSit Of the Netcark Conai-
nentalS-The Constitutional Conrenl0H-Detate
on the Plurality Question-RCporf on the Question
on Repesentatlon-Mr Josssiyn Nude Surveyor
of Salem Country AlpoiHtments-Boston Cas-
tom House Changes-Pian Of Distribaioa-7he
Post CGce-lnausur Of DR.. Walker as Pre-
sidcnt of Harvard CoHege-Tae Atheaaum Gal
lyz-1Mr. Brooke-Presentation IF Plate, &c.
The town has been very full during the anniyersa.
nv week the proportion of fools to wise men being
about as great as usual There have been all kinds
of everything present among US, from the meekest
of fogies to the most savage of abolitionsts-reh-
gious meetings moral meetings. reform meetings and
educational meetings have been as common as dates
on palm. tree. The abolitonists have been as full
of fight ever, but few people regard them as be-
ing serious in their ideas. They are looked upon as
so many Abby Folsoms, and are heard, stared at
and laughed at. They do not grow in any respect
not even in the intensity and quality of their abuse
There has nothing been added to their vocabula
ry for the matter of ten years. The old pepper has
been used at each successive feast, ever since can
remember until the public palate has come to regard
it in the same light as so much farina. With the
want of persecution Of the abolitionsts has ceased
their power, and their ability to increase and multi
ply. Their virility has long been gone. Mr. CARR
son would give good round sum for riot0us attack
not on himself, but some abolition meeting where
he had been; for, unlike Mr.. Barnaby Palms, he is
fond Of having his eggs over fresh, and always ma.
nages to get away when the rotten about to
rise 1t must be admitted that he is the most mag
nifcent Of humbugs, and that ne has made good
thing-for hmself-in pursuing with SO much energy
the philanthropic dodge under difficulties.
The Legislature closed its session on Wednesday,
taking pay for day over, which is rather better
than some of its predecessors have done. The COM
mon mode has been to adjourn on Saturday, and
take pay for the following Sunday and Monday
Most people appear to be glad that the assembled
wisdom has resolved itself into the general mass OF
the community. Even some Of the wing papers
have spoken most contemptuously Of the very body
in which their party was dominant. The truth Is,
the whig restorative has proved an utetr failure
failure in what it accomplished, and failure in
what it did not accomplish. Two great FLANDERS
were perpetrated-the onslaught on the convention,
ard the refusal to repeal the Maine law But for the
assistance which the wings received from democrats,
opponents of that law, Mr.. Clifford and his friends
would have been used as badly here as Gen. Scott
and his supporters were in the nation. Yet Gov.
Clifford had not word TO say against the law in his
Inaugural and not one half Of the wing members Of
the House could be rallied in support OF the bill to
repeal it, 1t is understood that the Governor is not
exactly the happiest in the world, and that in
reply to some Iemonstrances, made to him by certain
persons on certain subject, ms answer was tanta,
mount to that of the unfortunate fellow who could
not get pass into the ark hat he might go to
we'll known wateress region with has old tub He does
not anticipate reelection which is wise; and If he
should surmount the difficulties IN his path, ne Will
be agreeably disappointed.
The rejection OF the proposition to give State aid
to the Hoosic Tunnel project Is likely to have con.
siderable effect on our politics. correspondent OF
the Courier threatens the wings with tunnel con-
yention, and something more than insnuatcs that
the tunneies will throw their whole force into the
already heavy scale of the coaltonists. The feeling
on the subject is evidently very strong and its dis
discussion has made friends for the project, particu
larly as the opposition to it has largely proceeded
from rival interests 1t is hoped that the convention
will place clause in the new constitution forbidding
such action by the Legislature as the tunnel men ask
for: but this would not be binding on the next
Legislature, which will meet under the present
constitution. Such provision IN the new
constitution would go far toward causing it TO be re-
iceted Many of the anti tunnel men opposed to
any constitutional changes and would vote against
them under any circumstances; and in all that part
of the country which eels an interest in the success
OF the project men would very generally vote againss
an instrument OF government the adoption Of which
would be direct rebuke TO their cherished scheme.
So, you see the great bore is likely to have nice
part in our political games. 1t is enough to make
ones head dizzy, the workings Of our party ma
chinery, so complicated has it became, and much
at sea are gentlemen who once knew where they
were, but who now are quite as much puzzled AZ was
the late Mr.. Giles Scroggins, when he could not
determine the matter of his own identity.
Judge Warren, President of the Senate to whose
particular exertons the defeat Of the Tunnel bill was
owing, was burned in efigy at North Adams, when
the news reached there. The people Of that
IL prnu he udpQ ia wh
80 that it is only family quarrel, after all but
these family quarrels are proverbially bitter.
The Webster monument project was lost in the
House of Representatives, on the question of recon-
sideration. Had the wing members been present in
anything like full force the question would not have
been carried against them, but either purposely or
carGessy many were absent and SO the Tree sollers
had it their own way. Some of Mr.. Websters
friends were adverse to the proposition, believing
from the commencement that it was not possible to
have anything like unanimty on the question, and
party vote they did not desire. The disposition that
has been made Of the subject affords no criterion Of
the state of opinion in Massachusetts. In due time,
and when the applause Of friends and the malice Of
enemies shall have alike ceased to warp the actions
of legislators such public honori will doubtless be
paid to Mr. Webster as viii not fail to be acceptable
to all who shall love and revere the memory Of that
extraordinary man,
A meeting Of the General Committee Of One
Hundred, the Webster Testimonial, is called for
May 30th, (next Monday) at eleven o'clock, A. NJ,
in the Common Council room of the City Hall. The
report Of the executive committee will then be made.
/ should judge from the remarks that are made,
that people do not, as general thing, think very
highly OF the batch Of diplomatic appointments just
made by President Pierce. Some persons, who
ought to know, say that, emitting Mr.. Soule, there
is rot os much French and Spanish among the
vlo,e lot as would go to make up country school
master in Greenland. There seems to be more dis
appointment because everybody had been expecting
great things in the premises the idea having taken
possession Of the public mind that tie President was
about to lay himself out In the matter of renovating
our diplomacy-and so he has, some say only that
he has "laid himself out and our diplomacy, too.
The appointments are, to be sure praised gros in
certain quarters, just as they would have been had
they all been made in the dark from DR.. Howe's
school for idiots. 1t is not the persons appointed
that are considered, in such cases, but the person
appointing-theh holder of bo, bons and gingerbread
snaps.
They say here that VIM. Z. Parmenter, Esq, son
of Hon. Vim. Parmenter, went to Washington aftor
the place OF Governor Of Minnesota Territory. He
failed of success, but ESQ goes the story) he was
cffer small Office of Kind a r. a her which