The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-13

Of not much account He eSt dsgused with the demo
life fast as he thought he Htsrrrea 50 instead o
trading secretly with the abciwisnists his partner
lMr Pierce) did, he cut the conneetbn went over
10 them bag and baggage He has only been heard OF
snce-occasionaly since The dirty waters OF abolition
ism him. and he up to the surface once
in while to breathe.
"CcneraP Wilson, of Massachusetts,, is also stumpus
me State Tor the abolitionsts The General former
whig but "cut out' in 1s48 for similar ia
shose which governed Mr.. Fowler. He is a good sac
cisn and has been thorn in the side of the Ma
sets wings for the last four years He is the author
the famous coalition and he s the person to whom e
Pierce expressed his approval of that measure which Ca
eb Gushing has since condemned The conversation be
tween Pierce and Wilson took place board
coming down Lake Winnipissogee. "Generalv Wilson
has but defect in his political character He thinks
that he great orator, and it is great mistake He
ther educated nor gifted he is justly considered as the
backbone Of the free soil party in Massachusetts, His
hand is clearly visible in the present election this
state He not only speaks at public meetings he d
rects. He has flooded the Sate with Senator Chase's
speech and he has been floating about between this city
and Boston during the last three weeks He il not pop
uar in this State fact the people here don't like any
outside interference in their affairs They 'preu-
diced" in their own favor, and they have the sublime
inn udencc to say that they manage their affairs
without the help Of strangers
The iesoilers also assisted by Amos Tuck who a,
you ale aware sent to Congress a whg and voted
with Gddnes His district is represented BY George
W. kttredge. The people like TucRbeter than Wilson
or fnle but that is not saying much. Then there is
Too mas Russell, Esq, handsome young lawyer with
such divine whiskers" as the ladies say Russell got
scat on the Police Court bench the coalition ad-
m istration in Massachusetts, Being judge il is not
e'isicred the thing for him to mix himself up
Official affairs in Massachusetts, yet he don't mnl
crossing the frontier and preaching aedition in New
Hampshire; Anson Burlngame, young lawyer Of Dos.
ton and pretty orator enough also stumpng for the
free solers As the people don't know much about Mr.
buringame they have no particular opinion about him.
and only few Of them 60 to hear him.
The game which the wings and rce-solers intend to
and places where they cannot elect to defeat the regu
lar Democratic candidate They do not expect TO defeat
Baker but they playing for the senatorial stakes
The caucus TO nominate Mt man to reign over this
city Mayor for the next year held this afternoon
The present Mayor Joseph Lowe, ESQ, is democrat,
and generally popular There some dsafrcction,
however his account, he insisted upon enforcing
the laws relative to the sale of Intoxicating liquors But
as he was recommended by both Pierce friends and
mics, he triumphed over the rum upholders, and
renOmnated.
The weather has been rather bad for electoneering
Snow fell during two days Of this week. and day there
has been smart rain storm, by way of variety It
impossible for person not on the spot to imagine how
Is IN
bluest" II it not for a sleigh bell and thcn
or sharp political discussion occasionally all the ct
zens and soourners would go Sleep and wake
again. w.
The Knovv-Nothings In Massachusetts.
OUR BOSTON CORRESPONDENCE.
BOSTON, March IL, 1854
Rise Of NeW Party-Gyeat victorIes Of the " Know
Nothings"- WahAam, Salem and Cam1ridge-Whig
Fsars-7syyible Overthrow Of the Rum Men in the
Legislature-Rise in Railroad Fares-Constttutional
amendments, de-
Last Monday, March the eth will long be remembered
in Massachusetts, as the day which there first
clearly manifested here the existence Of party and
which, venture to predict, will have much weight
in local politics. and not improbaby make itself felt
in matters of national character Then it that the
Know Nothings first formally stepped into the polit
cal arena and with the calmness of true power gently
brushed their opponents it were, out Of sight.
Wherever they acted they victorious. Nothing
could stand before them It mattcred not straw how
good how porsar the canddAtesof the two old
regular partes-alns humbugs-down they went, If
they the most wicked and odous persons in the
world. They fell like Apollyon before Christian, re.
corded in the most celebrated work of the late Mr. Bun
which, it relates to progress may be said to have
allegorics connection with Yankee politics. In Walt
ham, one of the most growing Middlesex towns, the
know -nothings" carried their whole ticket by ma
joy of 275 the whole vote being 580 very respectable
aggregate at mere town meeting The fact that they
In the field with ticket not out Of their
ranks until very few minutes before the polls
opened but what they had been about was pretty well
known after the said polls had been closed In
Cambridge the regular whg ticket was knocked into
whole continental army of cooked hats, though Cam
bridge is place where opponent of whiggcry has
heretofore had about much chance of existing dog
in the vicinity of sausage mandatory Perhaps how
the greatest upset that whiggery received in
the ancient the respectable and the eccentric city Of
Salem The memory of does not extend to the time
when the wings had not majority in the old witch hang
ing town. where Satan used to be especially busy in
the ancient times Free-soilism in Salem has been
next to nothing, and democracy considerably less
than nothing an Irishman would say. To fight the
wings there to fight against fate To make nomina
tions in opposition to them ridiculous They might,
at times indulge IN .s.e Local qIarrslng but their
which generally turned out TO be about warike and
destructive as 80 many Quaker guns. Salem has been
good to the wings to the amount of eight hundred
jority Last November the majority given against the
proposed constitution eight hundred and sixty
and It upwards of eight hundred against the coali
on candidates for Governor The whole vote then cast
was 2020. Last Tuesday the whole vote ,s33 The
regular whg candidate received four hundred eighty
votes being hundred and cghtysix less than
were cast for Governor Washburn last fall and Mr. New
comb, the know nothing candidate, received ,346,
Washburn, and only ninety -four less than thrown
dganst the new constitution on which point the wings
and bunker democrats were united All the other know
nothing candidates were elected after the most triumph
ant fashion. Never were the wings more hand
somely threshed than in Salem on the 7th Of this
current month OF March, They endeavorng to break
the force of their defeat by stating that Mr. Newcomb is
a whig who did not want the Office, but who has bene
violently consented 10 serve that he has been 40 tr
umrhantly elected Such beneyoence is quite
presume that Gen. Pierce would consent to
second term he could get IT. and there is not Office
place forever for the pious The plain truth
is that tho wings of Salem we're thoroughly and efec
tualy drubbed, their regular candidates. In every in
stance, being killed of in the most summary fashion.
The coalition itself not more completely "srushed
out by Calebs ukase than they have been by the deter
mined action Of the " Know Nothings" who have
tiiyed 10 do much.
The leading members of the whg party are more fright
ened than they four years ago just after the
coalition Of democrats and free soilers formed in
this State, under the especial patronage of at least two
members Of the present United States government,
and the warm approval Of two more. The success
Of the coalition showed to the wings that thcy could be
BEATEN and now just after having disposed Of that
ty, by the aid of the Catholics the rummies and the
national democratic administration they find new one
sprnging right up in that path along which they had
proposed to go the pace for years to come undis
turbed by the Vaccinations Of the wicked with the full
confidence Of blessed with the Of power Ia
really too bad to the virtuous disturbed Whether
the party shall turn the wings out OF ONCE we
shall be better able to judge months hence but II
is very certain that the latter not about TO have that
easy time of IL which prophesied to follow from the
utter route of the coalition They may keep the State
spoils but they will If be compelled to fight hard
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