The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-25

FhRNANDo MooD AND THE ALBANY RAu.wAs
REGENcY.-A week or two ago we stated, ia
reply 70 number OF communications on the
SUBJECT, that Fernando Wood .ould not in all
probability, permit bis pane to be used rs a Can
oioate for the Mayoralty; that he had the best
understanding with the friends of Governor
Wise (baving visited Richmond to arrange
plans Tor the campaign), and that should Wise
receive the Presidential nomination at Charles.
TOP, it WAS not Improbable that the ex-Nayor
would have The second place On the ticket OF a
seat in the Cabinet
These suggestions, founded upon indubitabie
acts we're received by the railway phiioso phers
and tnanciers who control the Albany alias and
Argas, ard who keep variety shop for the
sale Of Central stock, newspaper editors, poll
tciaDs, places, railroad iron and other "notions,'
in the light OF the hest jokes Of the season.
5och reception was to be expected at their
lands, ANY thing that does not suit the Ceatral
slate is joke But on the principle that many
true word il spoken in jest our alniabie friends
up the riser may tind that our predictions con
cenniDg Wood are jokes which will tell us we'll
az their more serious schemes. They may re-
member that when this European war com
menced the Austrian officers filled with contempt
for the Allies, ordered their letters to BIZ sent to
Turin The French, in light way, said that
they would be IN Milan before the 10th of June
and the Zouaves, who ARE the funniest fellows ia
the word, told their ladies fair To send then
oillas doitx to Vienna The Zouaves who 40
nothing but make jokes, met the Austrians ia
the pIeesantest way at Montebetio aud Magenta
The ssoIid Germans ccaid not sec the French
Jokes, and answered them with cold, serious lead !,
whereupon, still joking, tie Zouaves, discaining
cartridges, tickied the Teutcnic ribs with the
cunic instrument known as the bayOnet The
point Of the joke is, that the Austrans are still
long way from Turin, and that the French are
ia Milan before the time specified. Really, it is
enc of the fnnnies. things Ia the whole realm Of
COMEDY.
We are afraid that this is the sort of Joke
which Woods Zouaves will play upon the Central
Railway Austriaus While the latter are chuck.
ling over SEINE spleudid things of Woods, mis-
adherents will be getting ready for u grand
yVuSt CAh ~ WHICH, WAL lltbt BIC Ou1IteeIOD
Convention another Magenta, the White House
another Milan.
The Albany philosophers have run away
with an insane idea that because they
can bull up or bear down railway stock,
corrupt Legislature, or bride half
dozen members of Congress, or direct the
movements of some village politicians they can
manage the affairs of the whole country. Sach
is not the case. The metropolis is the political
centre, as it is the focus from which everything
else radiates. A superior man, who is Chief Ma
gistrate Of this city, can make himself the most
famous and the most popular politician in the
country. That WAS what De Witt Clinton do
more than thirty years ago, and that is what
Fernando Wood has been doing. Clinton, while
Mayor Of this city, made himself q national re-
putation, and he became d statesman at once.
The position Of Mayor of New York is better
Than that OF Governor of any State for clever
and an ambitious man. Such was Clinton. Be-
tween bis time and Woods the Mayoralty was
held by trading Aldermen and ward politicians,
stepping from the grog shops to the City Hall.
Wood Infused new life into the old chair, and
will go from it to some place of national I'M
portaDce.- That's the joke for the Albany phi
osophers and politicians. Isn't it good?