New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-11
FROM WASHINGT0

of Own Ccrespoudert
WASHINGTON. July Q, 1859.
Tie eaorts to convert Mr Guthrie of Louisville
IA cov Wise into Democratic candidates for the
p,ssdetcy have thus far made very lutte head
-sv ard are not l,k-ly 10 BE- att nded with any
be,t.r success IN tue future Neither of toem pos
sesses ire necessary elements of popular or parry
strength. Dir. Guthrie is rich, ambitious ana
practical man y no is wiling to pay tor MS oon-
or, ard Who would Ike Ia enjoy them at his ease.
He hss been seriously damaged by the super
s.rvicesbe zeal Of a feS i'iper,nt advocates, who
have .ratulrousiy assumed The 4npgcm-nt OF his
cas@ and att. upt,d to maoIpujste all the recent
Copy,utinns for the electOo OF Delegates to Coarle
ton, Beyond . single distinct 10 Kentucky, be has
no position u candidate, aud III that the OppOsl-
fioB msj"riiy is marry %,VVV'
Gov " ,se IL in even ~nr.c condition. since bis
Lst scfotatc feat, Of tUrnlng Bis back upoo TN
self In advocating slave code for t1e Terrific
ries be has Loot hat little gfouud he teld at the
Moth, without adehDcbg sl1gle step at The
Souhb WEefe be- bad briufe b-cUulo Odl"us, by Op-
posing the L"compi"u fraud. Aud II viii De
found whichever Virginia goes into the C0nveo
ton that Gov. Wise caGn0t command a ,fpOral's
pus,d. with oil the DEGRADATION Oi The Richmond
fnquirtr, Which bis son ,nodrstly edits. Mr. Hun.
ter bas the State at hi. bach, and ~l have it,
There is no rivalry on bis sde aud the attempts 10
Manufacture that sppearaIcc OH the Otber are
simply ludicrous Ia the ewes of tnOee who
uDdei staDd the Tesl state Of faces. Fernando
Wood knows better, and he ought to
atom The Tnquirey, or s-nd tie yonng MARRIOTT who
presides there to the wars WITH Louis Napoleon.
That might cnol hs ardor and restrain excessive
patriotism little.
The Subterraneans are for Jo. Lane as the Demo
cratic candldste. He smuggled IN Oregon State,
by representing tnat she oai ~. UUO population,
when there Is not paper or man IN the state, oil
any intelligence c1ndUs who believes hall thit
number Of people il there to-day. This may be
regarded as smart trick since it put bin AMI that
poor creature Deuslun Smth, INTO the Scnate,
VITO does not know enough u keep out of the rain.
q But it will badly pay 10 tho long run. III he
is 10 be no minated, Brigham Young should
be on the ticket Dy oil me1Ds sO as To give TIA
finishing touch of grace mud elegance. la point OF
ability unO of sharpness too. tue latter Il, ny all
odd. entitled IT, the first place. Considering how
he m-nsg-s his peculiar institution IN Utao, and
TINT We hear Of none of those sectional dscOrds
which hive distur bed toe ot0tr lOstltutiOn, which
Jo Lane 50 much adUi'ed, there ls still an add
tiopal reason why he shOud DO ad 'Pted as COM
promise m the uUur at Democratic tflbuatlOn. Let
us have Young and Lane, or if that ,nnot be, why,
Lane AM Young. Ii Is about Elk vi ole ana haH-a-
dOZoD of tue other.
Ii turns out ms WAS anticipated by the friends Of
Cen Robles here that the story Ol his appropriate
In toe Mexican oOnduCta of five millions Is untrue.
This fact illustrates tue r-adIocss with which every
incident perverted t. influence public feeling ADD
create prejudice IA this country, upon O1e SIDE OF
politics tbtre. all the stories wuch come from
Vera Cruz are evidently made up with bas IN
favor ui Juarez and vita hostility toward the Gov
erbmeDt at the capital. Mr. McL,ne's last dis.
patches TEEN with deuuUciatOns OF toe " robbery
Ierpetratrd by RobIcs-a chuge which is now
shown to have been fabricated upon the slight pre-
text bis mperafy dett utiOn Oi the cuuduca, uu-
der orders from MlrauiOn, to prevent Juarez from
levyiDg u compulsory tax upon IT at Vera Cruz.
Had be acted upon thu princple, which sotne 9th
els have asserted that all Thugs far Ia war, he
might bave appropriated tins mou"y and put dln'
self at The bea0 Of new movement, depUslhg Ml-
ramon and routing Juafez. la refusing t. possess
himself OF questionable meaDs be certainly ex'
hibited much more scrupe than is cJminon to
Mexican captains. lie lis very doubtful IT some OF
,Jusr,zs Generals wOuli have resisted the tempta-
ton quite 20 siroDtly. MramOn aud his friends
are sufi, riUg on this Continent, Just as Austria is
Oh the utheI sioe, om The effects ot bad charac-
ter The practical difference between Mexican
parties is LOT very great