The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-19


,Eres Committee.
Last evening another attempt was made ct ergaAi-
sasn Of the General Committee Of the democracy OF
tAis city. The hunkers and hard shells met in Tammany
Han proper, numbering forty-two members, Alderman
Barr in the chair After discussion in reference to
Tie contested seats and attempt to obtain action from
tAs Tammany Society," they adjourned TO meet again
Thursday night and in the meantime to give notice in
TIE newspapers that the remaining contested seats in the
several wards would then be considered and disposed Of
The barnburner and soft shell section consisting chiefly
Of the contestants met in the Coal Holen which at
tached to the hotel building but il not in Tammany Hall
proper was proposed to have elections in the First
and Fifteenth wards, and some other propositions
also put forward and discussed but adopted
"a mastery inactivity being the policy of the hour.
They adjourned to meet again this evening The Young
Mems Committee, however, will have the hall this eve
nsng, for the organization of their body.
In connection with the proceedings Of last evening" it
may be interesting to readers to know that satur
day evening the Council of the Sachems met in reference
y the difficulty in question: but they took no action, and
adjourned without day. This deemed expedient NJ
their period of Office expires in April.
Last evening there was tremendous crowd in the
barroom of Tammany Hall, including several fighting
men, ready for action if their services only called
into play That however not the last evening;
and accordingly no heads were broken Mike Walsh
harangung the crowd and giving the barnburners and
seft shells particular q fits"
curious how this division in the democratic govern
ing body In New York occurs like epidemic, every two
years In 1S48 the barnburners seeded and finally held
their meetings at the of spenard street and
Broadway, and their committee called the Lspenard
Committee. In 1850, again, the Fernando Wood Com
ittee got up by the barnburners in opposition to
the hunkers known as the Henry NJ Western Committee
which was the first body in the North that called meet
ing to denounce the Wilmot proviso The meeting was
defeated BY the fighting men; but the hunkers rallied
and next time carried everything before Them having
succeeded in holding q tremendous meeting At the
close OF the year. It was agreed that both committees
snoGa Hsso1se anu tnat new committee DC organised
doubt that New York is . bunker city
It is whispered that the policy of the seceders in the
penard and Wood committees, and to effect separate
organization so that there is every probability Of two
Pect for harmony It is all quarrel for the spos The
hunkers and hard shells have the majority and bent
shells want to have finger in the pie, but their OPP
psnents seem determined not to permit them.
Movements of Thomas Francis Mcaxher.
Last evening Mr.. Meagher delivered lecture by nvi-
ation at the 0deon in Williamsburg. On the previous
evening he delivered lecture at Concert Hail. in Brook
Ign; and last evening" after the lecture in Williamsburg,
he presented with magnificent sword, by the Nap
per Tandy Artillery, Captain Hogan at the armory in
Cranberry street. Brooklyn Yesterday, Mr.. Meagher
seived invitation to lecture in Philadelphia This
evening he lectures in Commercial Buildings Jersey City,
and tomorrow evening" understand he will lecture
in Newark, N j. and on Saturday in Providence R. l.,
whence he proceeds to Boston, where he will deliver
lecture the 25th inst Having received invitations
from Salem Lowell, Lawrence Portland, &C., he viii lee
ture in each of those towns and returning to New York
about the middle Of February will then proceed South
BY way Of Philadelphia, Baltimore Washington, &C.,
to New Orleans ecturng in all the principal towns in
his route secret opposition organized against him,
by intoercnt gentlemen the pretended ground
he he
!ectured for Protestant institutions among which the
Mercantile Library of this city cassed though might
well be called Mahomedan institution having nothing
whatever to do with religion of any kind. What Mr..
Neagher made up his mind to do not to lecture for
any sectaran object whether Catholic Protest
ant Another ground Of hostility is his historical refer
to the French revolution in his lecture-an obec-
ton which implies that history ought to be sealed book
and, lastly, that he Of European revolution
AIRY committee that met at the Shakespeare HOTEL which
is untrue One Catholic clergyman in Brooklyn, on Sun
day last took occasion to attack him from the altar but
such illiberality is likely to njure the assaants
than the assailed, for the general feeling among all
Hghtened and liberal Catholics well Protestants is
decidedly in his favor.