The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-05-04

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A rumor was prevalent in New Orleans on the
9th ult. that Baker, the murderer of Bui Poole,
had been captured, and Sss being conveyed to New
York.
New Jersey Know Nothings ali Right-rhe
New Workers Close at Hand-PhiladelPhia
National Council-Good Prospect.
We publish This morning an interesting spe-
cial report of the proceedings of the late Kaow
Nothing State Council or Convention at New
ark, New Jersey. This report shows that the
Jersey men are in good sailing order, and In the
right channel for the White House. They have
appointed delegates to the Philadelphia Grand
National State Council Of June, whose princi-
Piles are in accordance with the compromises of
the constitution, and consistent with the project
Of great national Union platform for the grand
campaign Of 1856.
The good example of this Jersey movement
will have its influence at the forthcoming State
Council at Syracuse. The delegates from this
State, one from each judicial district, emitting
the fifth, have already been chosen. The Coun-
Gil at Syracuse will meet for other purposes.
Here, too, as in Jersey, they require some al
terations of their ritual and constitution to
bother the outsiders; and here, too, they find it
necessary and proper to vindcate the nation
atty of their principles, SO that their brethren
in Virginia and the South generally may in
season have the advantage of this new move
ment. The Know Nothings of New York. like
those of New Jersey, repudiate the abolition
principles and proceedings of the so-called
American party in Massachusetts,, and it is pro-
per that their brethren Of Virginia and the
South should have the fact officially proclaimed
We have no doubt that the Syracuse State
Council will take high national ground upon
the great constitutional issues of the day and
we believe that their course will have decisive
influence in the National Council at Philadel-
phia. In the interval, the proceedings at
Syracuse will probably 60 far to determine the
result of the Virginia election, some three
weeks hence; and that election will determine
the national unity or disntegration Of this new
American party. II they lose Virginia they
must prepare 10 take their chances in Sec
tional scrub race; In they gain Virginia, the
whole course Is open to them round the entire
circumference of the Union, and down the mid
die, from the ST. Lawrence to st. Augustine.
The formidable power of this new party in
this State is aptly illustrated in q letter in
these columns from an Albany correspondent.
The movement for fusion between the Seward
factions and the Van Buren, free soil admins
tration democrats has fairly commenced But
how they are to manage it in this city we
cannot readily imagine. We understand
that here the Know Nothings are with
the liquor interest, against the Seward
party and their Maine law, and all their corrupt
traders and villains" big and little. We
py the same ground Of hostility to the Seward
temperance programme. We apprehend, there.
fore, that the attempts at a fusion between the
Pierce. Van Buren, ami the Seward factions
upon the slavery question, will result in Soon
fusion worse COMPOUNDED" upon the liquor
question.
The prospect of a reunion between the demo.
cratic bards and softs is equally unpromising.
The softs are billing and cooling, but the hards
are shy, and before they come to join hands
again they will be very apt to exact an under
standing that this free soil Buffalo Pierce ad-
ministr alton is to be abandoned.
With these difficult and irreconcilable divi-
sions among their enemies, the Know Nothings,
with their catalogue of over $4,000 enrolled
anti Seward, ant-soft shell, anti-administration
members in the Empire State, feel pretty sure
OF il, from this time at least to the close of the
grand campaign of sc. Under this impression
they appreciate the Importance of their posi-
tion and their strength. They perceive the
propriety OF powerful diversion in Virginia
against the pernicious and heretical doings of
the abolitionized Know Nothings of Massachu-
sets. Hence the call of this Syracuse State
Council; and we venture to say that its proceed
ipgs will show that NewYork goes with Virginia
and the South for q national ana constitutional
platform, national party, and national tick
ct, and repudiates the sectional, seatious and
dsunion Know Nothings of Massachusetts,.
The new party of this State, supported by New
Jersey, nnsylvania, and the whole South,
can ford to repudiate and outlaw, not only
the intractable Know Notbings of Massachu-
sets, bur of all the New England States with
impunity.
Let the Syracuse State Council bear in mind
the sllimportant fact that everything depends
upon the result in Virginia. and that the Vir
ginia election may possibly be decided by this
Syracuse Council for Flournoy or for Wise.
We have little fsar however, of the result at
Syracuse, or in the Old Dominion. We venture
to say that it will show that New York is with
Virginia, for the Union and the constitution,
against free sellers, Cabinet spolsmen and dis
unionists and that Virginia is the key to the
next Presidency with New York. We are
verging close upon definite solution.
The SAINT GEORGES SocIETY-A CoNTRE-