New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-06
FROM BOSTON.
rom An 9cc s.ionsl Correspondent.

Would sou extort the tale Of bricks from me, if
csn find no straw to make them hold together and
no clay Ieither? | remember yOu were good
enough to ask me to write to you about nothing st
al. But if even nothing at oil will happen what is
an unlucky correspondent to do II is fine grow
ing season hereabouts but the crop Of ne US seems
to be entirely cut of. Gossip is at famine prices
In fact it Is not TO be had on any terms. Nobody
that is any body s anywhere that anything can hap
pen to at any time. As Count Stickenmeyer in
Gilbert Quincy says, De unnewsablty Of de
"week is quite observatiOnable hope you like
Gilbert Gurney. 1t ia out of sight the best of
The odore Hooks novels and the Ohy one that sus-
taiDs at all his great reputation as brilliant ra
cOnteur and entertaining man of society. This
was, suppose, because it is in fact autObiograph
ica and the adventures he strings together on the
thIBest thread possible Of story really happened
to himself to others under bis personal observa
tOn.
And apropos to q tale of bricks" wonder
your Own Correspondent did not tell you one of
those who came together in Fsneuil Hall week be-
fore last, calling themselves the Know-Nothing
Convention. or Council or something of the kind
1t s too late Ill the day now to go into the partlcu'
lars, but they were Of the funniest description
when they we're fresh. But such things won't
keep any more than fish. They must be served
mp as soon as caught, if you would have them IN
the best condition. 1t was literally case Of
sitting up with the SICK the watchers never
closed their eyes all night and the symptoms of
the party " (tO quote Mr.. Omer of the firm Of
Omer Il JOram agsin) under their care were such
as betOkened a speedy dissolution. 1t was an un-
commonly pretty quarrel particularly rs seen from
the galleries. You may remember that DIR. Watts
in one of his psalms or hymns lays down the ex-
clsmstory proposition
90 what ,n entertaining sight
Are brethren that agree
Nov must make bold to differ from the con-
clusion of the Reverend Doctor (though he did
write Treatise on Logic) and to maintain in his
teeth that brethren that disagree are sight twice
as entertaining. And this was case in point.
The disagreement of the brethren on the floor was
as great as il we'll could be without actually coming
to fisticuiIs, and yet nothing could well be more
entertaining than the sight they presented.
he FillmOreites ard FremOnters were very
Dtarly matched in numbers, and hence arose the
interest Of the scene. The battle ragged around
the candidates for the presidency OF the meeting,
and it ragged long and loud ss any of those Camp
bell sings of. II Was not till the small hours
were beginning 10 wax big again, till = o'clock in
the mOrr ing had weled into o'clock, that Vic
tory percbed on the banners of the followers OF
the Pathfinder. As soon as this was decided the
FilimOreites took themselves of and saved the
account The majority of the remainder
nomir ated Gov Gardner, as you very we'll know,
and ther yet another bolt took place Of Fremont
Know NOthngs who had the bad taste not to be fond
of his Excellency. OfcOurse the Know. Nothings
can no longer be regarded as Secret COncave
now that these two bolts have been withdrawn. 1t
was stated at the time that Gov. Gardner was
entirely upcommitted to any Presidential candi.
date. but since then he has declared his prefer
ence for Col. Fremont His friends profess to
see in ttis saunt toward the Republican noni-
nation for Governor: but there is always mag.
Dant class ready to attribute the conduct OF great
men to little motives as his Excelency hath
more than once had occasion to expOund. Let us
leave sl such TO the stings Of their own con-
sciences.
There is seldom much question how Boston will
90 at any election. It's conclusions are "a fore
gone, generally, as any that can be tried The
only exceptional case, which did surprise some OF
the less knowiIg 9, was the very last one for Pres
dent WI en- Mr.. Webster beside belueathing his
larger debts to his most particular friends was
also liberal enough to bequeath Boston TO Franklin
Pierce; which last devise was much more readlly
accepted and relis carried out than the
first as tie larger creditors know to their cost
There is no question about il this !lue, however
The old Whigs who live in the memory OF the glo-
rious past, when they mad everything their owa
way are plotting in secret places how they can
hold back their former followers from going after
Your man, but it's of 70 use. The name Of toe
chaImer charms no longer, charm she never so
wisely. And no wonder, when the charmer, In.
stead of being young AID strong and healthy ana
handsome. with her pockets full Of money, has
changed into blear-eyed, decrepit, paralytic
dotted old bedame whose only hope lies in blight
ing her former lovers with her evil eye and trip
ping them up with her crutches That's what the
poor old Wing party is reduced to, by long adiic
ton 10 evil courses and vicious habts. An awful
warning to sll young parties how they behave
themselves in the days OF their youth and strength
There was never anything 80 depOrable as the
condition TO which this poor iefunct party mas
been brought. Fer defunct il il and the beldame
aforesaid is oily its grimly ghost. But even Its
ehos. is fast vanishing into thin air 1t hasn't
consistency eLOugh left 10 make spectre
that il visible 10 the naked eye Iruly'
its glory AID iis terror have alike passed away
People would at even listen 10 the Whlg Eciogue
euue in alternate strains BY those two gentle
swans, Nr. Winthrop AID Dir. Rlves NOBODY
cared about them. or what they SAID or sung
SWANS they might be- but they were s~ains win
ne'er sheep between them. The newspapers
scarcely noticed them. IA somebody said. i was
ike 4 rorrespOI ieGce between t~O old tories
about he Stamp Act after the battle OF Saratoga
1t is painful to see the dsrespect into when many
of Our First Men have fallen. The better part
in numbers and character even OF thofe, late
cone ever 70 the Republcsns-as for exanP'e Tue
sous Of the late Mr.. Abbott Lawrence. anc very
nany beside, of whom they are pattern And
es FOR the masses that used "a 80 II BODY IS IN
Wbig leaders pointed, there bss been regular
stemptde of them The Respectable Dahy hss
rot vet .hOwr is colOrs. IL Is waiting the result
of the Wbig COny entiOn called for souIetide 10
September in hopes that candidate may DC nv
uron whom the Wings can elect The CoH''' Is
firm il ne cause OF its country When tpe meet
oil laH last