The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-03

and We believe II is true. He said tina. one of
the kasling candidates for Alder,seu we for
get the name-had been indicted, aud was still
ubtried. for tnieving from the public treasury,
and that another had been Indicted. tried. cot
victed and sentenced tn four months in the
peu,tentiary tor telouious assault, but Judge
ment was suspended until be cMd be elected
an Alderman Of this great city. This il fair
specimen Of the kind of Common Council we
are going to have next year, after all the fuss
about reforn aud the Mayoraity.
| The Municipal Contest In = New Phase.
From he recent meeting OF merchants held
in New York in favor of Opdyke, the republi-
can candidate for the MAyoralty, and from oil
appearances and signs Of the times, it is highly
probable that he will be elected. The meeting
for Havemeyer was mere izzle compared with
that for bis rival. A large number Of the sup
poriers Of Hsvemeyer are going over to OPP
| dyke, in pursuance Of an arrangement that all
the republicans, with the debris Of Tammany
Hall, should unite upon Opdyks and drop
Hayemeyer. Owing to the rottenness and cor
rupticn. bad odor and violence of Tammany
Hall, respectable men who woud gladly sup
port an anti.slavery candidate like Havemeyer,
under different circumstances, decline to have
anything to do with the filthy Wigwam, its toma.
hawks OF its scalpiDg knives, and the idea now
is to concentrate on the other anti slavery can.
didate, who is not mixed up with d'sreputable
connections which would ruin his chances with
, all decent men.
in this municipal contest the chief
point of interest to the taxpayers aud
to the citizens at large is the cleo
ton Of the Aldermen, Conncilmen aud School
CommissioDers-tbose who have the power
of voting money ont of the peoples pockers
into the pockets of their accomplices ad libitum,
! and those who have the charge of the education
of the peoples children, and the appointment
| of the teachers who are to train up their young
minds. The Tammany ticket for these Offices
is headed by two criminals, one of them under
indictment, and the other a convict whose sen.
| tence has been suspended in order to enable
| him to become Candidate, and, if successful.
to rob the public treasury by wholesale. 1t is
impossible that respectable and honorable men.
no matter what their politics may be, will 50
their garments by coming in contact with snsk
degradation and crime. From this cause, there.
fore, the Tammany candidate for the Mayoral-
ty bias suffered so severely that it is deemed
| prudent to abandon him, and the leaders have
made arrangements to transfer the votes of the
rank and fle to Opdy Ike, in order to defeat Wood,
the national democratic candidate, who is with
ont alliances, and goes into the fight on the
single principle Of "the Union and the cousti-
tuition" to be maintained at all hazards, against
the designs of treason and revolution.
| The public attention is diverted by the arts
Of the wirepullers from the election Of men,
bers Of the Common Council to the election of
Mayor, which is of no Importance whatever,
municipality; whereas the election of the
Aldermen and Councilmen is ell important,
and involves the gain iuss of rniIiivus 10 the
city. 1t is only in political and national
point of view that the election of Mayor has
any significance. In that respect it is of the
deepest interest to New York 1t is vastly
| important to its commercial prosperity, and,
| indeed to the general interests Of the whole
country, North and South, East and West If
| New York, the stronghold of nationality in
this State, il surrendered into the hands Of the
abolitionists, the State is lost to the cause of
| Union and gained to the cause of dis
union, and that loss and gain are sufi-
cient to turn tie scale in favor of the
breaking up Of this mighty confederation,
and destroying the trade and commerce of
the American States, great when united,
| but of no account when divided into
two or more sections. By this calamity
New York city would be the greatest
sufferer, and those merchants who are now
blindly favoring the cause of disunion know
not what they do, either as regards themselves
or their posterity, or the grand interests of the
human race. The proud queen of commerce
would soon fall from her high position, like We
nice OF old, her merchant princes would shrink
into petty hucksters, her growth would be sud-
denly arrested, and decay would lay its de-
soon her palaces, commercial and private,
would become Wondering heaps Of ruin.
Unless the people, therefore, come forward
in overwhelming numbers, and with enthusiasm
for the great principle and the tremendous in
terests at stake, we fear that the battle is
lost, and that the loss of that battle
will result in the loss of q greater
battle, which will be tantamount to the disrup-
ton of the United States, and all the fearful
consequences which must ensue upon The disso-
luton of the confederacy. Judging from pre-
sent appearances, there is every prospect Of
Opdyke being elected. There is good reason
to believe that the corrupt Tammany leaders,
unable to win the election themselves, have
sold out to the red republican candidate, and
that sooner or later they will withdraw Have
meyer from the field. IN bringing about this