The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-11

punish frauds on the land Offices, and providing ac-
commodations for the United States courts. The
erection c buildings for judicial purposes in Boston,
New York and philadelphia, is recommended In
Committee the Pacific Railroad biz was under dis
cussion, but, with the exception ef member from
Georgia, who in his speech urgel the necessity of
the immediate annexation OF Cuba, no one seemed
to have word te sly the subject.
THE MARKETS..
The -four market was cutie dull yesterday, and
all ordinary ard common &c straight Stats brands
sold at prices in favor Of huyors. The Eastern de-
mand was slack, with very little doing for export,
as prices ruled mostly aboye the limits of orders.
Indian receipts being light, tho market for
SCUM vas firm, with GALES at full prices. In the
absence of transactiens wheat was FIRM for prime
white, while red and common Western were nomi-
nal. Further salca in cotton were made, without
change in prices.
Our Next observation-disclosures enary Confusion
Of New York Parties ard Politics.
'.Who is to be our next Governor? What is
he to be "a whig or Democratic hard or Il
soft shell?-a constitutions Nebraska man, or
a disorganizing Seward or Van Buren, free
soiler?-a Maine law champion, or the lager
bier candidate?-the favorite of the Irish Catho
lies, or the standard-besrer of the Know :
thngs!" We can't answer. We don't know
Nobody can answer. Nobody knows Parties
are all thrown into confusion-"we arc IN the
midst of revolutions" new political elements
and organizations are springing into life-old
things are dying out--old ideas, old principles
old measures, old platforms, and old fogies, are
all in progress Of being superseded by new
ideas, principles, measures, platforms, parties
and politicians, consistent with the develope-
ments Of public opinion, the excitements Of the
day, the circumstances by which we are sur
rounded, and with the restless, progressive,
reforming, agitatng, fanatical, and revolution
airy notions OF the age.
Hence the dificulty-the impossibility, we
may say-of predicting or conjecturing with
the smallest degree Of satisfaction, who ia to be
our next Governor. Look for moment how
parties are divided and subdivided in this great
commonwealth. To begin with the wings: The
failure CT the Webster and Fillmore men to
come up heartily to the support OF Gen. Scott
in 1852 ito use mild eypression), separated the
silver gray and Seward factions beyond any
for oil time to come. The Bonapartists and the
Bourbons may, in the course of time, be fused
into common dynasty, as the white and red
roses were blended in the government of Eng
land under Henry the Seventh. The adhercnts
Of w. H. Seward and the Buffalo party Of Mar
tin Van Buren, may strike hands for the repeal
of the Nebraska bill; for BENJAMIN f. Butler
hoe, 10
for Seward for President than for Douglas.
These things may occur but so wide is the
chasm, so deep the antipathies between the ma
tional, union, conservative wings and the Seward
men, that outside OF New York, at all events,
they can never coalesce, and inside they arc
not likely to unite upon Seward or any man of
his choosing.
w. Ii. Seward, then, will not be our next
Governor, though one or his most Jealous or
gans in this city has formally proposed his no
mination rs stepping stone to the Pres-
dency. He will hardly be nominated, for in
addition to the old grudges OF the silver grays,
he has been too thick with Archbishop Hughes
to be acceptable to the Know Nothings. His
antecedents, in this respect, are not availaIls:
nor can his friends place much reliance upon the
Van Buren, free sellers: for, Notwithstanding the
declarations of Mr.. Butler, they are slippery
customers-they arr like the Irishmans flea:
You may put your finger on them, and they are
not there. Seward, then, will have to be left
ont. The wings must nominate somebody else
We incline to the belief tina. their candidate
viii be decided ant-Nebraska man, decided
Maine law man, and with just sufficient sea-
soning of the doctrines of the Know Nothings
to render him acceptable 20 The more reasonable
OF The antl-Catholc natives Greeley has beeo
prematurcly mentioned as the Maine law can
ddate; but the Webster and Fillmore whigs
would prefer old Mr. Van Buren,: and the
Know Nothings would probably prefer even
Catholic to canting iniidel and socialist, who
whips the devil around the stump as the wind
may happen to blos. Greeley. then. is also out
OF The question.
The mass Of the wings Of tie State are With
Seward-a majority of them, no doubt, ar, for
the Maine lava large portion sylnpathize
with the Know Nothings, and they cannot well
afford 10 sacrifice either the one faction or the
other. The whole of the New York wings. on
the other hand are hostile to the Nebraska bill
Their manifest policy. then in the nomination
Of either candidate for Governor, is the choice
oil such man as will be satisfactory to the
temperance people, the Know Nothings,
and the free sellers; aud when they
come to compare notes in their State con
vention, it is probable they may hit
upon the man qualified to unite tho three sides
Of this plausible scheme OF political irianydla-
zion. Should they fail TO do this, aai rest en-
tirely upon the agitation OF the slavery ques-
ton, OF the slavery question and tue Maine Law,
the Know Nothings win be apt TO throw t.,
balance Of power upon some opposition ticket
But upoa The plan. and TIC combined new.
fanglcd Issues We have suggested, dispensing
with Seward and his man Friday, the wings
win make tremendous leht, nal may pos