New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-22
LECOMP TON IH PEENSYLPHHIi.
THE PROTECTIVE MEETING-JOsEPH T..
CiANDLER-NEW-JE JERSEY POLITICS.
TIE WAGES OF LABOR-CRIME.

ton documents are going through tho msis il.)
every County in Pennsy lv4nis, gent thi'aer under
the frsnk Of Beler, Clancy Jones, L1niy, sni
others If our misrepresentation. They are load
ing TIC MALL DOWN by the tub, scattering thee
poisoIOus documents wherever toey suppose read
ers may be found No better evidence nesd b,
leaders 10 make Lecempton q t4s. at the coming
election il October. We are i sorry or dismiyed,
but rather exult at the prospect. Never has the
country been 30 ipperatyely required 70 defeat an
Administration a. nos, aud seldom have we been
better organized, prepared, and more impatient 10
be LET loose for doing it. TIE great ball was pu. in
motion at toe Protective Meeting ast week. You
seldom wltnfss a more overwhelming turn out in
this ciiy-only half the people could get inside Of
The bali. 1t reminded me iorcibly Of the old rally
il the pslmy dsys Of the Wing party. A note
worthy feature of the occssisu was the appearance
OF thousands OF working mon-poor fellows VINO
have been for years the willing tools Of the sham
Democfacy-votlngi in the Free Trade demsg ogaes
by whose misgovernment they are now turned into
the street. This class of men came - the meeting
in large numbers, and it was very apparent that
their adhesion to tie Democracy was at al end.
The vast assemblsge was most appropriately pre-.
sided over by cur distinguished fellow citizen,
benny c. Carey. Content, in general, with using
bic pen oDy, 80 on this occasion he gave up the
speaking t0 others. But while lOokog at Mr. Carey
as be sat upon the platform, and remembering bis
patient and aborious services in behalf Of his fellow
citizens, the thought came over Inc thai none other
th6n be should be the next Governor Of Penosyva-
nis. The day may come when this random sspira-
ton will be realized.
The times we live in being full of political mar
wells, one must not be surprised at seeing Demo
cratic President appointing to foreign missonsuch
a man as Joseph X. Chandler But the last two
years have occssiOned sad political and social dlso
cations Chandler is o living evidence of their ir-
remediable severity. His whole history is Gu
lious one. He came here from New-England
good many years ago, and opened school, in which
be taught grammar by machine. Having occasion
to advertise good deal he fell in with the prOpre-
tors of the old Jnittd States Gazette, who knew how
to print q good paper, though not competent to
write even A paragraph. Finding him to be ready
writer and whal extremely Industrious they en-
gsged him to furnish original matter for the paper,
which be did satisfactorily that he was finally in
stalled as editor, whercupon he dropped his gram
to the press. In this vocation he labored
cessfully that Tie Gazette rose rapidly in pub
lie estimation, and became the leading Wig
journal in the State. He next became joint
proprietor, ard finally sole owner. During
long editorial career, Mr.. Chandler was model
Wing, the bosom friend and champion of Henry
CLAY, and as such was elected by this city to Con-
eress. Some years since he married Roman Cath
clio wife. Whereupon he abandoned the Puritans
and united with the ROmanists. The strong Native
American feeling of this city revolted at such rep
resentatiye and he was accordingly laid on the shelf.
He had no place of refuge but in the camp Of his lie
long adyersarics, the Democrats. But they took
him in, az they do all others. So, when Buchanan
came cut. Mr.. Chandler voted for him, and has now
turned up u regular trump, just like that old Wing
William y. Reed. The twain were model Clay
men. Mr. Chandler finally sold his establishment
for large sum- aud it became merged IN the pres
ent able North american. Being thus man
ample fortune, he will no doubt have good time
it at Naples But it is nevertheless one of the cd
dties of the times that such man should have been
so utterly transformed from what he was in the
days of Henry Clay as to become acceptable to
such an Administration rs is now IN power.
The nomination Of John ?. Stockton of New
jersey as Minister to Rome possesses more pOlit-
zeal significance than has generally been attached to
it. When tie Legislature of that State untOrtI-
nately reappointed John X. Thomson for second
His Anti LecOmptOn preferences rendered his
chances of success quite encouraging, so much so
that the Thomson men were afraid 10 bring on
Joint meeting for deciding the question. The Re
publicaDs, having 10 possible chance oil electing
their own man, were quite willing to 60 IN tor
Stockton-n fact for any body rather than Thorn
SON. In addition to this Mr.. Stockton Is lawyer
Of decided ability, and would have made an Infinite
" more reputable Senator But, for unexplained
caufes the Joint meeting was STAYED of, the canvass
for Stockton became gradually less active, and
Tompson was finally elected without any serious
opposition. Though Stockton was apparently de-
feated on this OCCASION yet there was great danger
of his turning up stronger than ever when Mr..
Wright's place comes TO be filed next Winter. Mr..
Wright having achieved distinguished honors during
a brilliant Senatorial career, is not willing to go
back To making saddles and harness-unless for the
army in Utah-and so wants to be Senator for six
years longer The idea is, that if Mr.. Stockton is
got out OF the way BY sending HIM to Rome or Hail.
fax no matter which, the world will be lett clear
for Mr.. Wright to hustle in, ard herein fancy may
be discovered the cause of the uk i'll this cOcOanut
But we shrewaly anticipate that the people OF New
Jersey will have a word of their own to put IN
about this nice arrangement say sometime IN No
veuber, when they viii pretty certainly elect a
Legislature that will blow Mr.. Wright and al his
fine schemes SKY high, winding up by sending back
10 the Senate such a man as William l.. Dayton.
An evidence of the deep depression into which all
publc Improvement is how sunk under the dominion
of the powers that be- is furnished in the recent let
ting of contracts on the Sunbury and Erie Railroad
Some 20 sections embracing only IS miles oil road'
were advertised 10 be given out, yet the sIsgnhlloh
Of such employment is universal that contractors
came in crowds with bids for the work. Mere than
Geo bids were given in, and the work was dlstrlo-
uted among 10 contractors at prices lower than