The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-29


ton and sugar growing State or two in that
direction might not prove Improbable
acquisitions. We are apt pupils over here,
and the example of our excellent progenitors
will not be lost on US now nor hereafter. His
lectures on international comfy, however
(apropos of the island of San Juan), with the
practical illustration OF the same, which this
underhanded negotiation with Guatemala af.
fords, might, perhaps, be dispensed with.
preach and prey seems to be Palmerstonian
policy. BY all means let Mr.. Buchanan try
bis hand at little negotiation in Central
America, now that the Clayton-Bulwer conven-
ton has been put out of the way by the act of
Great Britain herself
The NOMINATIONS FOR THE SENATE AND AS
sEMBLY.-The November elections have, as
usual brought to the surface the scum of the
political cauldron. For the Senate and the
Assembly the nominations by the various dirty
little factions in this region amount to fully
hundred. There is a cogent reason for the
eagerness which this fact indicates on the part
ofthe different committees and political aspi-
rants. There is a vast amount Of profitable
legislation to be done during the next session,
and the Albany lobbyers are laying their plans
to make clean sweep of it. Thurlow Weed,
the republican, and Confidence Cassidy, the
democrat, have on the slate for legislative con-
firmation, during the next six months, various
schemes and jobs, amounting to probably little
short of six millions of dollars. Amongst
others there are the Broadway Railroad, which
in itself may be set down at million and
half; and the commission to lay out Washington
Heights, which will cost from three to four
hundred thousand dollars more. Agents are
sent down by the lobbymen to manage the
committees and suggest the nominations, in
order that such candidates may be elected as
will enable them to carry through their vii
famous schemes of plumber. There is the less
difficulty in doing this, from the fact that an
endorsement by one of these committees is
merely the condition of an arrangement by
which the latter is enabled to levy so much
black mail off the candidate.
This abominable system, as it will be seen,
excludes wherever it prevails every candidate
of responsibility and principle, as no man of
character will stoop to owe his nomination to
such influences. OF course all those who have
a prospective interest in the schemes Of legis-
lative plumber laid out for the session find it
worth their while to bleed little for the sake of
securing their chances. Thus the system works
beautifully all round, the nominating commit
tees getting the first slice of the public spoils,
the members who have paid for their seats
taking the next whack at them, by the sale of
their votes, whilst the lions share falls to the
arch-conspirators who have directed the whole
operation. 1t is after this easy, undemonstra-
tive fashion that the rights of the city are legs
lated away and the public taxation increased
to an extent that is no longer bearable. In
view of the general completely existing be-
tween committees, candidates and lobbymen, it
would be well if those who are acquainted with
the characters and antecedents Of the persons
nominated, would forward the facts TO us, in
order that we may select the good men from
the bad, if any good there be, and make up
such ticket as will prove satisfactory to the
respectable portion of the community
graph informs us that the general government
is busily engaged in collecting evidence as to
the parties who were acquainted with the trea-
sonable intentions of Ossawatomie Brown, who
aided and assisted him in his Kansas s'work" las
Gerrit Smith calls it), and were thus guilty of
treason against the United States When the
first news Of the Harpers Ferry attempt was
received here, people were disposed to treat
it as the freak Of mailman. Nobody sup
posed that men eminent in the political world
could countenance anything likssn attempt to
overturn the government; but later develop
ments 60 to show the Brown plot had very
deep ramifcations; that some of the leaders of
the Seward party were aware that it had been
concocted, and that an attempt would be made
to stir up servile instruction. That attempt
was made, war was levied against the United
States upon its own property, and bloodshed
ensued. In the first place, it was deemed
proper to leave the affair with the au-
thorities of Virginia, but now it seems that
the federal government will make full inves-
ugation of the facts, to see how far Seward,
Wilson, Sumner, Giddings Greeley, Gerrit
Smith, and others of the same party, are impli-
Gated; and it is not improbable that some, if
rot all Of them, will be tried FOR treason--trea-
son more dangerous than that for which Brown
was tried.
Greeley seems to have been implicated with
Brown something after the fashion of his
connection with the celebrated thousand dol
lar draft, which he carried in his pocket
so long without knowing to whom it
belonged. The Tribune justifes Browns
conduct, and compares him to Washington,
and is nearly as warm in his favor as the
Anti Slaray Standard, which cannot with
hold' its admiration from the self-devotion
and constancy with which they browns men)