New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-21

Of the supreme CIiurt. FOR TINS position Mr.. JONI
n. Read OF this city was selected. Mr.. Read i,
lawyer of high standing, eulineutly fitted 10 Civ,
diguity 10 The berch He was once Democrat
and served ss United States District Attorney
under the rule Of Van Buren,. Tyler sent bis name
in to the Senate for Judge of the Supreme Court
but il hung fire there BY not being acted on, until
Polk came into power ahereupOn the country was
disgrsced by the substitution Of Grier for judge.
All through the CANVASS of the last two years Mr..
Read has steadily co0perated with the Opposition
to the sham Democracy, and may be eOuoted re-
liable man. His fitness for the office, aud his un-
doubted orthodoxy. combined TO make him the
choice Of the Convention, by whom hls nomination
was unanimous. 1t is difficult TO see what quarter
def at can come from. Signs from al parts OF the
State give token Of an unexamped triumph.
Reeder will be run for Congress, and will stump
the District in high Dutch. He can poll heavy
vote for himself aud may very probably be elected.
Jones-Jehew in the adjoining Egypt OF Berks,
will very likely fail Of being even Nominated. so
general is the Pennsylvania mutiDy against Bu.
cbansn. All the elements Of opposition have nov
q refuge in the Peoples Party. which they would
vaiDy seek for elsewhere.
You know that Allegheny County, IN which Pitts
burgh is situated, repudiated her bonds which
bad been issued for IA lroad purposes. As usual,
this reputation was the work Of the Democracy.
The Supreme Court issued a msndamus requiring
TO pay the interest. But its operation was delayed
by The repudators moving to qua,h This motion
was argued last week at Harrisburg. One William
n. Meredith for the bondhoders, crushed out the
application and the Court refused to quash. But
the end is not yet. The County Commissioners
stand two Democrats to Cne Republican. The ma
jority swear they don't care copper for the Court.
They will obey the laws as they understand them,
not the Court does, and refuse to raise the addi
ton,l tax. So you may expect to hear that these
Observation-Disclosures of Mississippi and Arkansas
morality have been arrested and imprisoned for
tempt. They are seeking this martyrdom in hopes
Of going to Congress or being made Governor. But
no one doubts that the people of Allegheny County
will repudate the regulators at the next election.
Public faith in Pennsy lvania must not be expounded
by the Mississippi code of morals, but by that laid
down by William Penn, and from his day perpetu-
ted until set aside by the Allegheny Democracy.
1t ia very probable that Thaddeus Stevens will
be nominated for Congress from Lancaster. If so,
be will have an immense majority. He is the man
Of all others TO act leader of the Republicans in
the House. He has a national reputation, an in
valuable experience as legislator, his ability is
most decided, and an eloquent debater the House
contains none equal 10 him. He is terrible in an
attack, prompt in defending himself and will be
sore thorn in the side of Lecompton. Mr.. Bu-
chanan would rather have the Devil himself in Con-
gress than such birthstone stick from Lancaster
as Stevens will assuJedly be. He knows Buchanan
like book, and Buchanan knows it. AT the late
Harrisburg Convention it was remarkable how gen.
eral was the demand for him to serve. From all
present indications the State will elect at least
eighteen Opposition members to the House, leaving
six Of the Democracy to condOle with each other
ard do the dirty work of the Slavedrivers. Bu-
chanan's organ at Harrisburg announces that all
the Lecompton men must be renOminated. Be it
cove want no better issue. MIR. Hickman's
speeches are making sore spots, and the Democracy
admit he will be reelected; so, to have an anchor
TO windward. they have ceased abusing him. Sena-
toI Biger is threatened with some ugly revelations
of his double dealing in Kansas, and Candlebox
Calhoun, since his dismissal, threatens to make
other disclosures. What precious SET tney are
and always will be-
great libel on the Colonization Society has been
most flippantly repeated by the newspapers, IN
asserting that tie authorities Of Liberia had con-
nved at the expectation of cOored emigrans by the
French, under pretense of free emigration to the
West Indies. The whole story Is Shareholders
lie. / have ascertained by inquiry among the
Colonization authorities here that there is not the
slightest foundation for the charge. On the con-
trary the Lberians have strenuOusly resisted the
whole scheme even to an extent offensive to the
French Government. So long ago as December
last the Liberian President, in his message to the
Legislature, protested against the traffic. law
was then passed to stop it. These measures so
offended the French Emperor that he meanly re-
fused to present to the Republic the war vessel ne
had volunteered to send it, Whatever the French
vessels have done in Liberia has been done fOrciby,
the Republic being too feeble to do more than pro-
test against the enOrmities committed.
The city elects new Sheriff in October. The
office is fat one, and every incumbent re-
fires from it rich The next term Of
three years will be a harvest even more
abundant than common. No wonder, then,
that there should already be forty candidates in the
field. The lust for Office, by which Democracy has
so debauched the public mind, will probably pro-
duce forty more before the nomination IS made
Now look at the consequences of this decentralization
These eighty men will spend and waste not less
than 500, 600 during the campaign, nearly as much
AS the term of Office is worth. The value OF the
morals DESTROYED during the same perod Is not 10
be calculated. Then there are five Congressman
and eighteen Legislators to be chosen, and various
other positions in what is known as State House
Row to be filled. They all good, fat offices,
making the incumbents tOerably comfortable by the
abundant pickings originated by the Democracy.
The five Congressmen will spend, or have il done
for them at least $780, 000 The Legislators will not
wade in so deep, but there nearly four times As
many. Harrisburg has rich fields for legislative pas
TUE, and there will be $4,000 spent IN putting
these candidates through. Take the whole cost or
loss to be encountered by the coming election in
this city alone, and it will reach quarter million.
Money, not merit, is now the key by which office
doors are unlocked. The base doctrine that to the
yctors belong the ,poils has sapped the very foun-
daton of public morality. Where else but with the
Democracy did it originate
The report of the Prison Agent for this city, Nr.
William j. Mullen, has just been published. Ihs
genteman's time is wholly occupied in visiting the
prisons, ascertanDg who has been hastily or wrong.
fully committed and in procuring the discharge OF
innocent parties speedily and without trial. He