The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-15

III.
sonal debate. We havea report. The Board Of
Aldermen have also adjourned until the first Monday
in February.
desperate attempt was made last evening, by
negro, to take the life Of Mr. Haydock, druggist in
Pearl street by inficting wound across his throat
with knife. The particulars are given elsewhere.
The jury have been empannelled in the case of the
parties charged before Judge Belts, in the United
States Circuit, with having caused the calamity on
board the steamboat Reindeer, and the trial has
been defniteyset down for Monday morning next.
The trial of the owner and officers of the steamboat
Henry Clay, has been postponed until March next
in consequence of the absence of witnesses Tor de-
PENDANTS. The United States District Attorney de-
cared himself ready now, or at any time to proceed
with the case.
Last evening, at P. NJ, Miss Bacon delivered the
second lesson of her second course at the Stuyvesant
Institute, which has already been reported.
Our columns to-day contain graphic description
of the sleghing festiva the effects of the weather
here and elsewhere; many Geographic dispatches
relative to late Mexican news, suicides, accidents,
markets, &c. and large amount Of other interesting
information, to which the crowded state of our CO
lumns will not permit US more particularly to refer.
Is General Pierce to have an organ, special
organ, and special organ grinder, at Wash
ington If so, which is to be the lucky paper,
and who is to be the lucky man ? And if not,
why not 4? If yea cui bono ? and if nay, what
for
Let US consider these questions. General
Jackson and Martin Van Buren, had an organ
in the old Globe. and the heavy cudgel of
Blair whipped all the factions. without mercy,
either into or out of the traces. But this was
before the era of railroads and telegraphs. Mr..
Polk had an organ; but Father Richie came
rather late, and was out of his latitude at
Washington, and was entirely too amiable and
temporizing in his disposition; and SO the party,
split up into various sectional and personal
factions, has never been harmonized effectively
to this day. The Union transferred to General
Armstrong a. Co., is up again for the or
ganship; and having got the important conces-
sion of the printing of both houses of Congress-
considers itself as the Legitimate heir to the
throne of the organ grinder. And yet, from the
signs of the times, it is doubtful whether the
Union will be invested with the potential au-
thority of the organ 1t is doubtful, indeed.
whether General Pierce will permit himself to
be cramped by any special organ at all. 1t is
very doubtful.
The Union people are evidently troubled
with some suspicious of this kind. We had re-
Gently to announce to the astonished world that
Mr.. John W. Forney, Clerk of the House Of Rep
resentatives, had made the pilgrimage to Con-
cord, and we have since been advised that his
trip was, perhaps in reference to the Washing
ton Union, in which he is said to have some
present or prospective interest Again: A few
days since. there appeared in the Union care
fully written article defining its position and
shaping its policy after the official pronuncia-
mentos of the Concord Patriot. Nobody can
object to all this; but it indicates that the Or
ganship at Washington is at least an unsettled
and an open question.
For the week last past the telegraph has been
employed from day to day in various rumors
respecting the alleged negotiations for the pur-
chase of the Republic, with the view of making
it slashing, progressive, fre-eating democratic
paper, and the special organ of Gen. Pierce We
have also had variety of rumors concerning the
establishment of new paper of the fast" kind.
peculiar to Young America; and that the Re
public. if purchased, or the new establishment.
if set up is to be controlled by circle of Cara
vajal's fllibusters. South Carolina fre-eaters
and the most terrible and bloody radicals of the
progressive democracy. as the only proper me-
diums between the new administration and the
American people.
1t is not surprising. therefore. that the Union
editors should have taken the alarm. But there
is. we apprehend no necessity for it. AS we
intimated yesterday. we rather suspect that
Gen. Pierce will not hamper himself with the
troublesome appendage of a Washington organ.
What could he do with it. The party could not
be rallied upon tit could not re-unte
the party; but it would be more likely,
in disclosing the weak points of the ad-
ministration, to enable the dsafected aspirants
and cliques the more effectually to cripple its
progress and break it down. We incline to
think that General Pierce understands this
business, and his true position, and the position
of the country with regard to special organ
at Washington. The old time of stage coaches
has gone by and railroads and telegraphs have
destroyed the Importance Of Washington as the
great central point for the dissemination OF in
formation to the country All the organs at
Washington are thus left behind the age. One
of the journals of New York gives more infor-
nation of the events daily transpiring at Wash
ington, than all the papers Of that widely scat
tered village put together. A special organ of
the President at Washington, has then, to all
practical intents and purposes, become an obso-
lete idea.
In view of all these considerations, we think
it very likely that General Pierce will have no
special Washington organ. He wants no such
incumbrance. But tbs highly probable that one
or several new democratic papers will be started