Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-19
MONDAY, NOVEMBER Ia, 1858.
THE NEW YORK ELECTION.

The result of this election appears to have disap-
pointed every body friends and foes, regards the
strength Of the vote of the Huiaker or HardsheH
wing, and shows how deep-seated and extended is
the dsafecton in the Democratic party toward the
Administration. Previous to the election evcn the
Hards themselves, we Understand =. not calculate
upor polling more than two-thirds Of the strength
Of the BarrJu,ner-. efishcN, or Van Buren wing Of
the Democracy, and the less sanguine among them
did not pitch their estimates above half; while
most of the Barnburners, we are informed, allowed
but thirty to forty thousand votes to the Bolters,"
as they designate the Hards. All these estimates,
however, have vanished into thin air before the ac-
tual results, which, far ascertaned, leave but
little doubt that the vote of the Hards will con-
sderably exceed that of the Barnburners or pre-
sent Administration party. A leading New York
paper says that if such result had been anticipated
the Barnburner vote would hardly have been worth
counting for thousands voted the latter ticket under
conviction of its numerical superiority who other
wise disposed to join the opposite faction and
probably will join it in future elections. There
does not appear to be the most distant prospect of
any future reconciliation with the Sos or with the
present Administration, on the part of the Hards,
who are deeply embittered at the injurious treat
ment of which they complain; although we have
seen too much in our time of the sudden evolutions
and mutations of party afhnities to undertake any
positive prediction about New York politics.
The Wings have now the uncontrolled command
of the State, with the exception of the Governor,
(who holds over from the last election,) but the
Wing majority in both Houses of the Legisla-
ture will be amply sufficient to overcome his We
toes, should he think proper to resort to that
treme measure in order to annoy or embarrass his
political opponents. In the Senate, in which no
new election will take place for two years, there
will be "a and possibly 26 Wings out of 30. The
Wing majority in the lower House is not yet as
certained, but it will be large. OF the returns of
80 members received 6S are Wings. The whole
number of members is 12S.
The moral effect of the result of this election
on national politics must be very great, and on
the Administration il cannot but be as great as it
is sudden. What political prophet could have fore
seen such state of things six months ago? The
identification of the Cabinet with the Rarnburner or
Freesoil party Of New York must work disastrously
on the party in every Southern State, so soon as
the case is fully understood there for it is hardly
possible for the South to abandon such men as
DICKINSON and his party, who, in the hour of
trial, so nobly and SO fearlessly stood up for the
rights of the South, and hazarded every thing in
the course they pursued.
The result of the election, however, cannot
but be gratifying to the great body of Southern
Democrats as well as Wings; for it can be viewed
there in no other light than as the triumph OF the
l. or . e THAR
Another effect will be, it appears to us, to extend
the disaffection in the North against the Admins
tlaton for it is understood that many of their sup
porters who have herscofore adhered to them under
a belief that the Hards in New York were compare
tivelv handful Of maconents and the Barnburners
an overwhelming majority Of the party, now realz-
iap the truth, will turn upon the Administration
and accuse then of being the cause Of the unto
ward" result and it is not improbable that the
Cabinet, on the opening Of Congress, will find
many members arrayed among the Democratic
opposition on whom they have previously calculated
for support The present aspect certainly offers
very striking contrast to the state of things which
existed few short months ago, when the party
anne into power 50 triumphantly; and the prospect
ahead for the Administration must be one of painful
anxiety.
These brief infcrcnces arc drawn from the facts,
as they now stand before US, and are not dictated
or colored by any party hopes or wishes
THE How. Mr. PEARoE-0ne most important fruit Of
Wing in State election will be the securing