The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-11

likely to create disease among the inhabitants of the
city. After transacting an unusual amount Of
routine business, the board adjourned until the first
Monday in September next.
The Cunard steamship Africa is now about due,
with three days later advices from Europe.
WING MOvsme n tS-W What VIII the Wings OF
New York Do.
We have ben watching with interest the
movements Of the scattered fragments Of the
late whig party, North South, East and West,
for some me nths past, with view Of ascer-
tanning the prospects for a future reorganiza-
ton of the party. But thus far there are no
symptoms of crystalization. Here
and there the Particles amalgamate but the
general mass is still in chaos. The great lights
of the party have been extinguished; the great
measures Of the party have been condemned
and superseded, and have become " obsolete
ideas;n the party itself, defeated by the terri
BILE democracy, has been substantially dis
solved by it's intestine commissions.
There can be no national reorganization
short Of national convention and as yet
there have been no stsPs taken in this direction;
purpose, policy prospect in view, the person
mel Of the late whig party are awaiting the
dispensations Of Providence. They are
down-they are bankrupt. broken up, root
and branch, used up, done for. and laid out;
and yet the more hopeful among them, in some
cases comprising whole detachments, keep up
the show of an organized resistance, from the
nf ND oil IF lie
the hopeful Micawber Iare evidently IMPRESSED
with an indefinite but pleasing expectation
that something may turn up" Or, like the
wretched invalids around the miraculous pool
of Sloan, they are waiting for the waters to
be troubled so that they may tumble in and be
restored again to health and activity.
But the policy of the believing Micawber ap-
pears to have been most generally adopted by
the disbanded wings = they are waiting for
something to turn up. 1t is evident that at the
late election in Virginia they only made a me-
chanical resistance, almost unavoidable from
the force Of habit-that they expected nothing.
and were not disappointed. In Kentucky and
Tennessee they have proved their faith in
resurrection, rather than their adhesion to the
ruins of the old wing platform. In most
other States their warfare has deterio-
rated from the regular movements of a
consolidated army, to the paltry annoyances
Of guerrilla fighting, like those operations of
the Mexicans along the valley of the Rio
Grande after the battle Of Buena VISTA But
they are watching the administration and the
family jars" of the reunited democracy over
the spoils, with the ultimate hope of turning
them to practical advantage. Powerless to re-
sist the policy Of General Pierce, in the cabinet
or in Congress, they seem to be waiting, like
the Russians for winter. to make an opening
into the camp of the enemy, now in occupation
Of the Kremlin. But as to what the wings ey-
pect to do in contemplation of national re-
organization, they are utterly in the dark.
They are waiting for 90 something to turn up
In Georgia, however, they have gone to work
Independently. and have adopted the most avail
able and expedient platform for immediate ac-
tion or prospective service-that OF the Union
party, Of which Mr.. Webster was the candidate
for the Presidency. If they are successful,
their experiment may lead to important con-
sequences, in wide extension of their or ga
nization; if unsuccessful, the Union party
of Georgia will probably sink beyond the
reach even of the Castle Garden Union Safety
Committee. The result OF the approaching
election in Georgia. in any event, will be of
some practical Importance to the future move
ments, not only of the wings, but of the over
whelming, cumbrous, and discordant admins
tration party.
Failing in Georgia, however. there is still
hope for the wings in the policy lately adopted
by their brethren of the enterprising State of
California, where men of all parties are apt to
direct their line of action to the practical bust
ness Immediately before them. Speaking of the
California wings, the New York Tribune is
pleased to submit the following substantial in
structions to the wings of New York -
A Wing State Convention assembled last month
in California to decide on a course to be pursued
with reference to the approaching State election
That convention deberated and acted as became in
telligent patriots Though wings in principle, they
did not desire to embarrass by factous and futile
opposition the men to whom the people have seen
tit to entrust the federal admin stration They saw
no proprety in attempting TO galvanize dead issues
or refght old battles, merely because they had re-
suited disastrously They wisely decided to defer
national politics to more fitting season, and go to
the people on single Issue OF State retorm-the re-
ducton of exorbitant salaries the rer snchment of
nordinate expenditures and the restoration of the
finances Of that scaDdalously plundered and deeply
involved State TO a condition of sovency aud thrift.
State Reform go to the people on the
single issue of State reform!" mo propriety
in attempting to galvanize dead issues." Mark
that-none. No .'re-fghting of old battlesl"
Think of that-turn it over, put it in your
pipes, ye wings Of New York, and smoke it.
The wing party is gone. hook and line-its is
sues are swamped. Why revive them except
the tariff question? Why not let them pass?
What's the use Of wrangling over the fugitive
slave law? Let every man have his conscience,
think and act as he pleases on that subject. See