The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-27

g1essionai aspirations had q great deal to do
| with the course that was adopted BY the whig
managers. 1t is reported that the Doctor has
got some or the Know NottiAgs ON his side, in
which case his prospects may improve.
In the Salem district several persona have
been named az Mr. Upham's successor, and
rum0r say 8 that that gentleman will not run
again. Mr. John l. Baker, of Beverley, stands
about as well al, any man for the nomination,
ana would probably be as good q mau as could
be selected with reference to strength Mr.. A.
w. Dodge, of Hamilton, is another person
named for the same place, and would be q good
candidate. Gen. Devereux is q third, and from
bis practical knowledge of saddles, he ought to
be able to distance all competitors. If he should
be a. great in the chair Of State as he is great
on State saddles, nature evidently meant him
for Governor. and to hold the place rs long as
Caleb Strong. Mr.. F. J. Baker is talked Of as
the Know Nothing candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, which does not look much like
running Mr.. Philips for Governor, as both
gentlemen belong to Essex county. Caleb
Stetson, OF Norfolk county, is also talked Of as
the Know Nothing candidate for Lieutenant
Governor. He is man of decided ability,
very firm and energetic, and would fill any
Office well. He Is OF the old line democratic
school of politics, and superior man.
There is n report that the Know NOthings of
Charlestown have quarrelled on the subject Of
nominations know nothing about the story,
bot the CharlettowD folk have always had a
reputation for pugnacity without distinction
OF party"
The Democratic State Committee held their
first meeting last Wednesday, and appointed
the 26th OF September for the time and Lowell
for the place Of holding what is to be named
o Democratic State Convention. The place was
PROBABLY selected with reference to the Lowell
Post Office influence, the gentleman who is there
Postmaster having been one Of the fathers Of
the coalition, though, after his appointment to
his present place, few days before the issuing
of the Gushing ukase, he had the hardness of
heart to stab bis own child as it lay struggling
on the ground against the exertions Of the
wbigs, Catholics, and Palfreyites. The call
allows each town 10 send one delegate, and
then one for every twenty-five democratic votes
thrown in such tow. II r.sponded TO, this
would secure conyeu on Of about 1000 men,
hers; so that it should seem that the democrats
are trying to play the same childish game that
was attempted by the wings, in their desire to
have mass convention. The wbigs called for
1900 men, and got $50. The democrats
are some $4,000 behind the wings in num-
bers, and have not 30 many men
in their ranks as can afford to pass their time
in political loafng, SO that they cannot look
to have convention Of above three hundred,
or thereabouts. A question of some impor-
lance Wdy arise. AIc Iuc uclcBdtee W De CuOocu
according to the number of the Wales demo-
Gratis, or of the Bishop do? or are they
to be united together. or Jumped, as 1t were!
The convention will have to either endorse the
Nebraska bill, or condemn it, or let it alone,
after the sneaking fashion of the Paris demo-
Gratis Of Maine. 1t they should endorse it,
the PEI pie will leave them altogether. II they
should condemn it, the administration will be
down upon them, and 'crush out" the dsaf-
fpnt tpd III no
condemn it. they will offend both the people
and the administration. Many democrats
would have been glad to have had no conven-
tion called, as the proceedings must be in the
nature of q farce; but they did not like to
take the initiative in opposing the ab-
surd tom-foelery If the convention had
would probably have taken the mat
ter up, and have laid the smallness of
the vote that any party that they favor must
have, to the account Of the opponents of the
usual course AS things are, the administrs-
tion, and its skeleton battalion Of supporters,
will now have the entire responsibility OF the
election is sure to show has happened. For my
part, / wonder that there should have been
found any body ready to waste their time in
holding meeting under existing circumstances
The statement that has been made to
the effect that the Democratic State Com
mittee passed resolves endorsing the admin
istration and its measures, is not true. A
motion was made that the call for the con-
vention should be made upon "the friends
Of the administration and its measures" which
was lost emphatically; whereupon Mr. Hobart,
chairman OF the committee. and an Office holder
under President Pierce, as he also was under
Gov. Boutwell,, resigned dispensation that
the committee, by the aid of Divine Providence,
were enabled to bear up under. A resolution
wasthen offered endorsing the administration;
but it was withdrawn by its mover, without
any action being had on it, learn that in
course Of the debates that took place, the
administration had some pretty hard things
said about it, Its only friends, with one ex-
ception inf the committee, were Office holders,
and men Of that stamp; good men, uDquestion-
ably, but with their ideas warped by their in
terest9 ALG0NA.