Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-11
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Correspondence of the Spy

Boston, June 10.
Dear Spy With the departure of our most
inglorious Legislature, I had thrown down nv
/ pen, resolved not to address myself farther 10
your appreciative readers but the episode which
has of late transpired in the American party. and
which threatens to become war equal 10 that of
the Roses, has induced me to re-point nv pen
and give you some slight account of the doinos .,
1t seems at least that portion of the faithful not
having the fear of King Harry the first before
their eyes, have conspired and plotted his over
throw, and called convention with malice gye
penSei whereupOn Major Cobb of the ayino ar
ullery issues his bull of excommunication AGAINST
a who dare to take part in at conventional the
Ieepuoliean' either, at which the Bee newspaper,
the eonsprators, and " the rest of mankind
snap their fingers, Tecoleeting, no doubt how
VIDE the Major was of his calculations at the
commencement of the Fillmore campaign, when.
70 herald IN the nomination of his aceidencv said
nylng artillery fired a salute of five hundred euns
on Boston Common, killing one of their own
NUMBER; the further fruits of the campaign thus
brilliantly commenced being eight electoral votes
ana those obtained from the - Plug . and other
" Ogies of the same sort
But, to return to Major Cobb who inst INV
seems to have the weight of Gardnerism on his
own shoulders, the conEentionists affirm that
ne was IN the scheme and promised not to inter-
iere with their nice laid plans to make Mr.. Banks
5SofSlHpts Dut lne IlOe was TOO strong tor him
to resist Every office holder within reach of the
Know Nothing sceptre Joined in Gardner's howl
OF agony and madness, from the Insurance Com.
missioners down to the Clerk and Assistant
Clerk of the Senate. If Cobb don't have any bet.
ter success in managing this affair than he did
with his own, last Fail, when he tried to get the
nomination, first, Of councillor and then of mem
Ter of Congress in his own district he will most
assuredly get skunked He is evidently looking
Tor some place where that place is it is hard to
tell. II certainly is not in the law, for he never
snone there, except as star of the seventh mag
nlt0de; nor is it in politics. for there he is CON
tnually laundering. We guess, after all, we shall
nave to leave him in the milen tary," that hap
Ply and appropriate sphere for all mountebanks
composed of fuss, feathers, and fustian Mean
while, there two men in this Commonwealth
Just now on the anxious SedtS--N. P. Banks and
henry j.. Cumberland this time Gardner has
the vantage ground, being on his own duughill.
Inc report this morning is, that Mr.. Banks is
padly poisoned from some noxious plant he has
come In contact with upon his farm, We sim
cerely hope he will recover from both that and the
seeming infection of Americanism with which
ne seems to be threatened just now. Singular CO.
incidence though, is it not ? The Republicans
look upon this struggle among the camp followers
very much in the same light the woman did upon
the fight between the bear and her husband, not
caring which whips. This Is only the faint pc.
numbra of most disastrous eclipse which the
Know Nothing party is about to suffer and which
Is TO De total and eternal. ROLAND.