New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-02-10
xi.hSsxn from this city 10 farm 10 tie West
IA, "a Ak a blessing whenever lie eats.

xou out Of your whole fortune why blame any body
or anything but your own foolish confidence
What an age Of fallacies we i've IN. Fase lights
abound in every direction. Theology Is overrun
Nth them. But in politics and morals We discover
very little else. With Clay and Adams the race Of
statesmen died out, and 10 them has succeeded
generation of mercenary plgmies, whom another
generation Of even greater pgmies IA urging on with
penny whistles 10 occupy the places OF departed
giants. We are diminishing in caliber at every
turn. The moral standard OF twenty years ago 10
dWiDdling away, and al a rate which even ia our
own day must cause il TO disappear altogether NO
power seems left but the cohesive faculty whose
sole instinct il that of public or private plumber
In contest so purely selfish and mercenAry, no"
can personal integrity private faith be exPectedto
survive The pestilence which desolates our cities
in time dissolves every tie of friendship or Affection
The care of self alone survives and personal security
becomes the ruling thought. Confidence ia at an end
men fy from one another, leaving each 10 persh
AZ he NAV. so that he himself escape. Yet the po-
6tcal struggles Of the day are not pury self-
sh than this hearess anxiety to let all others fare
az thew may 80 that the fugitive himself get of IN
safety. But no far az mere law may 90 10 punish
the thieving rascal who connives at the plumber of
bank in which he is the principal officer, the Legis-
lature is about perfecting bill for that purpose,
with especial reference 10 facts that have but re-
Gently transpred in this city, changing what has
heretofore been considered breach Of trust into
State Prison crime. The London bankers who are
guilty Of these crimes, baronets and members of
Parliament though they be, are justly tried, con-
victed and transported, while our rogues strut
through the streets in all the odOr Of especial
tity, unwhipped Of justice, and prolific OF whining
appeals to public sympathy, Of impudent denlalS OF
stealing owing dollar, and sturdily refusing
to answer the damning question, Where has all this
capital of two millions gone
The Democracy of the city have been in peck of
trouble about selecting delegates TO their 4th OF
March State Convention. The Lecompton intru-
sion occasiOned the most intense excitement IN the
party and led 10 OF brutal ferOcity, personal
abuse and recriminatiOn almost ryang the bloOdlest
Touchdown and dragon ever enacted i'll Taminany
Hail. But the Anti-LecOmptOn-Pac Packer wing Of this
virtuOus party obtained complete triumph, and
elected delegates opposed to that stupendOus fraud.
This is another victory for Mr.. FOrney who conf
IDENTITY calculates on row in the Convention, such
"a the harmonious Democracy of this State has
never yet witnessed. and clearly symptomatic of
impending puyeriZatOn. Their horror OF the Le-
compton imbroglio sticks out prominently on all
occasions, great and small, and no party was ever
placed in so embarrassing predicament. In the
Legislature il is considered so dangerous an element
of discord that the Committee having charge of the
solutions instructng Our Representatives 10 vote
against it, has been ordered not to report until the
10th of March, thus carrying the matter beyond the
ii.
COnye ntion. But their efforts thus to lay the devil
they have themselves raised, will prove utterly
futile; and you may rely seeing him stalk into
that august body, h0Of and horn there to wake
up a new panden0nium. 1t was discovered that
the House Committee, thus tied mp from reporting
at present, was ready to denOunce the LecOmpton
swinde though the Chairman was a Democrat.
But the staving off is no indication of a majority
being in favor of the swndle, because when the
Chairman of this Committee moved TO discharge
them from the consideration of the whole subject
the motion was voted down-39 to $50 that
though the House knew the Committee pre-
pared to report against LecOmpton it refused to
discharge, and thus get rid of the report. 1t is
thus evident that the Douglas wing acquires strength
by delay. This is accelerated by the knwn hostil
ity of Gov Packer, who has some crumbs of pat
ronage always in store To distribute among the
faithful at home.
Then Forney's monster demonstration at the
National Hail. last evening, was a tremendous out
pouring Of the Douglas Democracy. The call in
vited an assemblage of call who are inexoraby OPP
posed to all attempts to force the Lecompton
Constitution on the protesting people OF Kansas,
in violation of the will of the majority" 1t was
a brave call-nO Sinking of the great ssue-but in
keeping with the sturdy hostility which FOrney has
manifested from the beginning, and which ne boasts
is attracting TO him an amount OF patronage sui
fcient TO place The Press upon firm foundation.
Great cards were also thrown out in the shape OF
Gov. Walker aud Secretary Stanton, who were an.
nounced az speakers. These attractions, combined
with the high state OF excitement among the party,
secured an immense attendance. | found the i'm
mense hall crowded at an early hOur-the pavement
and all its approaches being equally thronged. You
will find the full particulars in all the morning papers,
but they give you but faint idea of the spirit
and enthusiasm manifested this occasion. 1t WAS
a perfect triumph for the Ant-LecOmpton party,
las apaA Uly in r.
ter. Gov. StantOn's speech was minute, clear and
convincing. Ii was received by tempest OF ap-
pause, and many of hls points brought down the
house in a manner perfectly terrific. If such
missionary as he would penetrate into the be-
nghted places of this benighted city and explain
the merits of this gigantic swndle to the multitude
whs lack understanding of its particulars, he would
revolutionize the community. There Ia an air OF
sincerity in his language and manner which carries
conviction to every mind of the absolute truth Of
all he says Ii was intmated that the rowdies of
the Keystone Club intended to appear in force and
break M the meeting. But whatever may have
been their wishes, the demonstration was too for
midable to be interfered with. Mr.. Douglass
name was received by the immense audience with
shouts and hurrahs. Altogether it was more en-
phatc expression of popular feeling than the great
OffcehOlders meeting few weeks ago.
There is So heavy business done in this city in
the manufacture and sale of leather, and boots and
shoes. that some notice Of the condition of the trade
at the opening of another season may be of value
lust now. Many causes have operated to produce
the dulness which now prevails. First, the gem
eral want of confidence, not only in the ability of
buyers, but in the continuance of prices. Buyers
from abroad take the manufactured articles in small
quantities, fearing further reduction in prices for
the whole trade has gone through severe contrac-
ton during the past year Within that period
hides have fallen fifty per cent and leather twenty
five. with general conviction that prices must 90