New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-06
FROM BOSTON.

From Oer Own Couesponden'.
Boston, Saturday, Nov g. l-55.
This has been week of Faneuil hall meetings.
Mr.. Burlingame led off, in conjunction with Mr.
Hall Of Plymouth, one OF our new members OF
Congress. and Mr.. Wssbburn Of Maine. The latter
gentlemen made excellent speeches but the brunt
Of the battle was on Mr.. Burlingame. Several
hundred Know Nothings had conspired to put him
down, and for time they created such an uProar
that il seemed as if they might succeed; Ills
pluck and readiness OF retort however nn.ny on
ppuered them. and they were forced TO listen IN
,lent attention to a long and eloquent defence OF
the Republican party.
The next evening "wednesday great crowd
assembled 10 hear Rufus Choate, who made a
tremendous boohoo sbC ut the Union, layishlng all
the we 18th of his vocabulary in intermlnaole sen
fences and nextrcable metaphors TO paint its past
plories and bewail its prospective dangers lie
set ont with the impertinent but convenient as
sumption that the Republican party is 1isunlon
party-an assumption which is, if possible, more
gratuitous than the plea of sOmnambullsm by
which lie saved Tyrrell from the gallows. his
speecb had no argument in it whatever, and had no
effect except to confirm the hopelessly confirmed
II was lust as condemnatOry Of the whole past
policy Of the Wings of Massachusetts,, and OF Mr.
Choate's own course previous to lSoO, as OF the
Republican party. Ii showed clearly, however
one fact of some signifeance-that Mr.. Choate
and the leading VALLEY Wings are medItatlng
fusion with the Democrats next year.
Last hight Mr. Sumner addressed the Repabl
cans with great effect He had an immense audi.
ence. every inch of the floor being occupied and all
the approaches to the hall being blocked up by the
crowd His argument is unanswerable and IS al
ready circulating over the State in myriads OF
copies. All Mr. Summers meetings this campaign
have been unprecedeDtedly large. lie has durlsg
the last fortnight addressed more people IN Mas
sachusets than any man ever did before IN the same
time in fact so far as OratOry goes, the hepuo'
cans have distanced sill the other parties put to-
gether suppose that nearly thousand RePuo-
lean speeches have been made within the last
month.
Rockwell is clearly gaining every day. Had We
another week to work in we should certainly carry
the State high and dry. AS it is, we are confident
of success, though it is an old proverb in Msssa-
chusetts, more true this year than ever. that
there e no telling who to be governor TIL after
election. Beach has evidently gained during the
week, and there is great danger of sudden cosii.
tious against the Republicans, several Of which,
learn are under treaty In some Of the counties and
cities OLIVER
From an Occasional Correspondent.
BosTON Saturday, Nov. B. 1855.
The parties in this State seem to be doing up
their Fall work in husband like manner and
there are plenty of them, too, as you very well
know, to DO it up. The only trouble is that they
are in danger of treading on one anothers toes and
tumbling over each other, as rustic lovers some
times do at husking, each scrambing for the red
ear. which entities the fortunate finder to " the
most sweet guerdon" of kiss from the
peerless Dulcinea of that particular Toooso. L
am not engineer enough Indeed was never sus-
pected of being much of one) to tell which of the
rival sutors viii win the smiles and favors of that
harpy, Fortune, who is never so arrant tiirt as
when she plays her tricks among the politicians.
But politicians Of all stripes are in fierce
pursuit of her, and all are Dragging of the
certainty of their success. Even poor Mr.. ChOate
was forced to perform the part of Hamlet in
Fsneuil hall the other night as you have told your
readers and 10 moralize over the skull OF the de-
funct Whig party with pathos enough to make
rbinoceros blow its nose. Alas, poor forick! He
hath borne me upon bis back a thousand times !!
And now quite chapfallen Only there was this
difference between the inky cloaked prince and his
representative on the Fame u hall boards that the
former who was but mad north north west, does
not appear TO have suffered under the deusiOn that
the grinning anatomy in his hand was alive as well
as gfipnipg, and like 10 carry him upon his back
again There was more method IN his mad.
less than in that of Hamlet Choate, clearly.
You know it is impossible to convince persons Of
particular diosy ncIasy that any great maletactor
has really suffered the extreme penalty OF the law
Multitudes Of worthy people, who are allowed to
manage their own money, believe John G. Colt
and Dr.. John ". Webster to be yet in the enjoy
ment of life and health, notwithstanding the judi
cal and medical testimony to the reality Of their
tragic endipgs suppose DR.. podd must be dead
in the course of nature By this time but for long
Years it was believed in England, and yet more
firmly in Germany where be was a kind Of mythic
mystery that he was alive and well Now this
same love Cf the marvellous induces many very
excellent, welltO-do people whose balance at their
bankers you would be glad 10 have stand in your
name q! least .hould) to persist in believing that
political parties which have VIGOROUSLY and, as il
were at the hand Of the common hangman, re-
ceiyed their coup de grace, and are as dead as Ha
let's father or julius Cesar, or a door-nsil, or
whatever else is deadest, are still alive and kick
ing. dare cay you have specimens Of this class
in some Of the purlieus of Wall street-Cas.le-
Gard, mites, Union-safety committee men some
times profsnely called the One Hundred slave
eatchers) and the like, who still think that
they have a Wing party under them, ss faith
fully as Sancho Panza believed that he was bestrid
inc Dspple after the thievish knaves had cunning
ly slipped him from under the saddle, leaving the
same standing on four sticks II you have not,
re have. Grave, elderly gentlemen who go down
10 State street every morning and tslk politics
with one another, and read The Daily Adreniser
ard The Courier, and believe all they read, aud
really think that there is such an entity in
natara SIS Wing party Some Of them, il is said,
L.. ul.1lo ic IN ha ala al