New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-08
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wssa. There 10 little losbt sf ~ sleetion ef
Hale 70 the United States Sessts. Bell, the
WAfg candidate for Governor, 10 taiAeA o. - ne
ether Senator, bat - he is not - ssss1 - ns'e
sn he Slavery question he 10 nst hkeey - -
40 easily elected. Daniel Ciarh 10 spoken Of Alec
and so IL Ex-Governor Colby. The Anti-Adufn-
istYaticn Democrats, led BY Edmund Barrie sa4
Paul X. George, are desirons Of having their
share Of the spoils OF victory With not q very
brilliant prospect Of getting an extensive por-
ton Of the plumber. They speak Of George for
Senator, which makes people Who do no. belong
a that faction put their tongues in their checks
and .but one eye. George 10 not only soldier
Of fortune but 10 not very eminent or SUGGEST
IA, one He is now " a. good an Abolitioni,t az
:. hody:" but I semember meeting him IN
po.tou in 1859, Q few days after the sd-
iournment Of the Democratic National Cenven-
ton at Baltimore when his political phil
lo.orhy was Of quite another hind and color.
lie boasted at that time Of being the mes Ne
had brought about the domination Of FrankIia
Pierce, 20 effect which he had previous to tho
Convention trayersed the greater part OF the
Union, visiting the prominent Democratic poll
delegates to Baltimore and thus preparing the way
for the nomination whsn the opportune moment ar
rived for bringing forward Pierce's name. How
ever he does not boat OF tAaf achievement move.
The object Of his visit to Boston in isj2 wss
apparently to rsmY tho leading Free-Soilers and
find out what they were going to do problem
concerning which at that time Franklin Pierce
and his intimate friends were nightly anxious He
especially wished to know whether or not tAey
me ant to support Gen. Scott--a question then an
dersoug hot discussion in the private councils tho
ee-soil leaders The xact result Of Mr.. 0eorses
n.a..slic experiments do not know, nor 10 h 81
found out what the Free-Soilers meant A.. i-ss,
much "a at that particular juncture they did mos
themselves know They however pumped As~ 20
their hearts content His head was full oil gram
scheme Of Glhbusteripg with the connvance ana
in case of need the active assistance OF tho Uniteo
States Government. IL contemplated the scquisa-
tion of Cuba, Porto Rico, Hsyt. the Northern
States Of Mexico. and the Valley Of the Amazon.
Hsyti was 10 be seized aud suppressed a. danger
Gus nuisance aud put under military role, The
blacks to be not reenslsyed but kept in condition
\ of seridom The central doctrine OF the Georgian
philosophy Of politics developed during his visit
TO Poston. was that Slavery Was perhaps bed
thing, but il could not be helped, ana
that il was sheer madness and blind
rushing upon political ruin to contend with The
/ Slave Tower The shareholders were competed
tcpeler by the ysst interest Of capital OF ni'een
hundred millions Of dollsrs; and beside this great
money power they welded on their side tho stIou-
gest nsssions OF the national cbaracter-the pr'de,
the ambition all the prejudices of the Americas
people were with them. What was the use u
coptendng against such niuencesI NO Pohueise
who understood his business and knew on WHICH
aide his bread was buttered could fail 70 see snss
the'side of Slavery wsssure to win re ana 'o,oo
had accordingly gone for the winning side. Dunn8
lis travels in the South George had every where
pledged Fierce to the grand scheme OF terrtona!
ACQUISITION OF which have given an outnno' and
had thus secured TO him the votes oil the uiSre
southern politicians at the Baltimore Convention.
80 far az could be made out from George wsy
admissions Tierce's hopes OF successful admins
| trston were based ON the expectation that tho
| lust OF national ACKNOWLEDGEMENT could b % ex-
/ cited as Ia swallow no every other conaoefsuoo.
i But George has repenteJ II not convinced that
Ere, dom is stronger than Slavery, he ie st ioass
,atisfed that il dont pay to serve Franklin feree
| lie 10 therefore trying what he can mako BY oP.
l. posing that ungrateful gentleman. look upon is
as encouraging, however that so shrewd and selhsh
n politician as Paul X. George at last thinks -
safe TO take the Antislayery side IL looks - u
tie tide were turning, and as IL the North was -
coming visible lie may, to be sure, merely -
biting his nose of in spirit Of revenge, bat -
not think 80. Iiei not the man 70 indulge n suek
expensive nonsense
IL 10 lust year since the rendition Of the slavs,
n Antony Burns and the marty rdom Of BatchcldsT,
the truckmsn who fell lighting for the Union All
the Constitution in defense Of the Court House
against the AntiSlavery fanatics. HE widow was
lett destitute. The South was appealed to for I'D
for her, and n subscription was started there, an4
also among the Northern men with Southern prn-
ciplcs. learn that SSH have been received and
paid to the widow OF this sum two dollars al
fifty cents came from Virginia, and less than ten
dollars from all the South.
In one Of my letters gave you some account u
the EArth's King, discovered or rather Nentieed
| by Lituenont Jones OF the Nayy-ss l called him.
| Ihave since learned that the fortunate finder q
our planets ornament 10 not Lieutenant but .
Chaplain He 10 the Reverend George Jones, 1
telitye-certainly he 10 the Rseeresd Jones. He
! Was formerly q clergyman at Annapolis, Nd, I'D
| was appointed Chaplain In tho Expedition -
Japan. by the advice Of some ssiesti6c fFends -
devoted himself during the voyage 10 obscrvsooos
on the Zodiacsl sight, phenomenon Of the natural
history Of the Heavens which has puzzled Astrou-
omers for long while, and Of which the only ths'
DRY previous to that Of Mr.. Jones was tho unsans-
factory ore that the Light was ring around the
Sun between the Earth's orbit and the orbit Of
Mars. BY a series OF observations carefully made
morning and evening for two or tnre0
! yesrs in all the ATTITUDES traversed On tho
+ voysee to and from Japan Mr.. Jones has como to
the conclusion, supported BY chain Of Apparently
irresistible reasoning, that the z0diacal light 70 .
ring around the Earth inside Of the Moons orbit,
and probably in the ssme plano with that orbit.
IL 10 not 90 dense a. the ring Of Saturn apparently,
though on that point, A. we'll - on lie breaAtA.
thickness and exact distance from the Earth 10 u
not possible at pres~p; 10 form . reliable opoou.
Tie statue Of Judge Story by bis son, William
W. Story, which 10 on exhibition At the Athenr un,