The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-21

TROUBLE IN THE Coal HoLE-DBUDEDLY
RIM.-We are informed that there is consider
able anxiety and trouble in the Coal Hole of
Tammany Hall, concerning the hard shell
convention Of the Esd; and that a full soft
committee of persuasion will be sent up from
the Custom House to Syracuse by Thursday, to
see what they can do. But this is nothing COM
pared with the trouble concerning the soft
convention Of the goth.
We understand that there was an anxious
meeting Of the Tammany wire-pullers in the
Surveyors Office at the Custom House, yester-
day, in reference to the platform of their SYRIA
cuse Convention, Mr. John COchrane acting as
prime minister on the occasion. There were
present goodly number of city soft shell dele
gates, and there were interpreted among them
a fair sprinklng of the bone and sinew Of the
"rural districts" Mr.. Cochrane, still faithful
o his promise of the 4th of July, 1854, to
"carry the President in his arms" proposed,
as programme for the Tammany assemblage
at Syracuse, the following schedule, to witt
/. A dead set at the Know Nothings, in good
round set terms, as perfectly safe.
2. An unequivocal, double-breasted demo-
cratic onslaught upon the new Liquor law, and
all such despotic acts Of class legislation.
8. A general endorsement drawing it as
mild as possible, but still some sort of approval
of the administration, in consideration of its
wise dispensation Of the public plumber
4. A judicious silence upon the Missouri
compromise, the Kansas troxnAes :" the border
rufians," the removal Of Governor Reeder, and
all those bothersome issues which have sprung
up with this new Northern niger agitation.
Mr.. Cochrane, with the Scarlet Letter in the
bottom of his pocket, argued the policy of
this schedule with his accustomed logical
acuteness and classical skill, and in tone
half confident, and half dictatorial, asked his
country brethren if they thought that wouldn't
do, and there was very emphatic response
that it wouldn't.
A delegate from the rural districts, having
no immediate interest in the cotton trade, and
none in the science of Custom House politics,
very fatty said that the Sinking Of the mig
ger question wouldn't do. AS for the adj
ministEation, the least said about it, perhaps,
the better. He might, however, gulp down
SAC "AAAAAOhs Va oAOyCO"h NAV AA"AotAD,
'the border rufians" and Governor Reeder
were "fxed facts" which could not be lodged.
And the soft she'll country delegates would in
sist upon a showing Of hands on these ques-
tions; and upon clean breast Of it against
the Kansas-Nebraska bill, the doinge Of Achi-
son and Stringfellow, and the "border ruff
fans" and the removal of Reeder. In regard
to Reeder there were country delegates who
would prefer him as the democratic candidate
for President to any man in the admins
tration, or any of its recipients or aspirants
for the succession. It was all folly to talk of
silence on the Kansas question, when all
the country is in perfect blaze of indigna-
ton.
And SO there was no agreement upon the
soft shell Syracuse platform; and the dele
gates dispersed with gloomy forebodings of
precious row and an awful split in the soft
convention Of the goth. The next meeting
upon the platform, will probably be by gas
light down in the Coal Hole. Will nobody send
by telegraph to the Prince, in Virginia, to
come post-haste to the relief Of Mr.. Cochrane!