New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-02


Sears directed hs property 10 be invested IN real
estate. and the trustees have put up, on Franklin
street the finest block in Boston. You come upon
II as you 20 through the old d" Theai~r alley, ana
il makes a splendid appearance.
The death of Mr. Francis has some little niu-
ence on politics in this way: ar. Il. NJ. hasoh'
h- son-raw and one Of the executors and trustees
is partner Of Mr.. Amos 4. Lawrence, ana lne
latter makes this fact and Mr.. Masons Prcoaeir
retirement from the firm, one oi his eAcusei 1.t
declining the Congressional nomination III tne WIN
District. and for dallying with the Gardner Know
Nothings, who be ought 10 know, cannot
give him more than 1900 votes Tor
Governor But this is probably one OF tue
least Of his reasons. Ii is somewhat hard 70 teh
What the strong ones are yet they must be very
strong 10 induce man. protesting to take an III
terest in the cause of Freedom In ksn-as ana else
where and 10 desire the overthrow OF tne bu-
chanan party and the reelection of Gen. Wiison 10
the Senate 70 DO such absurd things a. he IS no"
doing. Put Mr.. Lawrence is victim OF " na,
"tionality" He belieres in ii, most implicit! ana
sincerely as the country members OF the Anu
Masonic party believed in Anti Masonry. lie mas
got the idea into his head that the country VIII 20
To- destruction if there are not two national par
ties. Ike the old WhIe and Democratic parties
with slayeholGing wing a, tie South and dough-
face wing at the North. " | hope never to see
'.
"a united North" And he acted in accordance
with this fervent invocation By voting for Fillmore
and doing his best in that way 10 elect Buchanan
and enslaye Kansas, for which he had spent :"
much money. Then again. Mr.. Lawrrnces greM
ambition il to be Governor. He is surrounded by
a set of fellows who persuade hlm that he Is gong
to bc elected or at least Ia be- placed in position
from which he can easily step into the Gubernato-
rial chair next year. One of the men who have
his ear, told me the other day that Mr.. Lawrence
would get 30 000 votes and he said II without any
apparent hesitation lack of confidence Ii IL
fair to presume that if he would make such non
sense as this common talk, he would say Ia Mr..
Lawrence himself that he would get 10000 or
$4,000. And j think IL not improbable that Mr.
Lawrence believes it, for the gullIby oi man Il
great.
Mr.. Lawrence being out of the way. for these
various reasons, the Republicans of the WITH Dis
trict turned their attention 10 Mr.. A. II. Rice and
they had just got things arranged so that he was
toleraby sure 70 receive the nomination, when he
cups and declines" In his case, too, We have 10
grope for reasons. His osiensible reason is the
pressing character of his business affairs,
and this very likely governs him in
some degree. But in my opinion he is afraid
OF being beaten. Within a few days there has
been rumor that Rufus Choate would allow
himself to be persuaded to run as the Hunker can
ddate: and Mr. Rice has great dread Of being
beaten and also a great dread of offending Boston
respecability by running against any of the great
men. In 1854, Mr. Rice, being then Know
Nothing was talked of for Congress; but he de-
clined to run, partly because he was afraid and
partly because be dsliked TO run against Mr.. Wal
lev He is Z" not the man for Galway" Driven
from Mr.. Lawrence and Mr.. Rice, the Convention
Yesterday found itself compelled to resort to
Mr.. Comins the present member, and he
is the candidate for reelection. Yet he declined
months ago, and yesterday his friends said they
were authorized to withdraw his name. He was
nominated on the 9th ballot, receiving small ma
jority over John p. Putnam On one of the ballot
ings, Mr.. VALLEY received good vote. Mr.. John
{. Gray received few votes, and without doubt,
would have been the strongest candidate. Mr..
COmins has been very fair epreseDtatiye-ab0yc
the average of the DelegatOn-but the | do not
regard his nomination as fortunate one. The
City of Boston has not had representative in
Congress for four years, Mr.. Comns, being Il resi-
dent of Roxbury, and Mr. Burlingame of Cam
bridge. 1t is not i'll Boston nature to put up with
this slight any longer, and expect To find the OPP
position abandoning political discussion where they
are weak, and concentrating their tax the local
question, as they did with so much effect al the
last election OF Mayor.
The only other Congressional nomination on the
Republican side, thus far, is that of Mr. Charles
Delano, of Northampton, in the 10th District.
Nr Delano il equal, in point of ability, to either
of the leading candidates who competed for the
nomination. and is man OF sterling worth, ln-
tegrity and devotion to principles. He will have
four or five thousand majority over whoever is put
up by the Buchanan party. Other nominations
will be made in few days, and shall not trouble
you with speculatons as to who will be the candi-
dates.
ought to add to my statement of affairs in the
4th District that the Know Nothing Rump met
Monday night and ballOtted and Quarreled and
quarreed and ballotted, till midnight, without
coming Ia agreement. The votes were almost
equally divided between Mr.. COmins. Newell 4.
Thompson, and Mr.. Nichols. Mr.. Comins's
friends have some expectation that he will receive
their nomination. but think majority of the Con-
yention is governed by feeling OF hostility tO the
Republicans, aud viii shape tkeif action to
defeat them il possible.
The Boston Bee has upon several occasions lately
seen tit Ia warn the public against Your Boston
correspondence. That paper seems Ia he beset
with the erroneous idea that il has the sole right
and title to give the public political information
If the fact were So, the public would be ignorant
of great many things, for The Bee is VIGOROUSLY
a slow coach in the matter of news. There is an
other thing to be said about The Bee, and that
is, that il is about the only specimen We
have, on the liberal side of our politics.
of the old, blind, unhesitating partizan hack news
paper-the kind of newspaper that Gov. Banks so
condemned and repudlhted last year /
in his speech at Worcester These being lis char /
and blindness-t of course ,
becomes, excited whenever any important niorma-
ton, accompanied by All honest expression of /
opinion adverse to any member of It's party /
gets into THE TRIBUNE, or any other paper having
the same general purpose as itself. Its ebullitions
of i'll nature have not replied TO- One day last week
however the senior editor in an article the tone of
which was commercially different from that of
some other articles from another pen. undertook
10 make a correction of certain statements which