The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-08

his place. Az the same time, they nominated
Charles L. DAILY to tho Common Pleas; mar
who belonged Ia the very meanest class Of adj
voca,es which the city contains, and who is al
unftted for the high position he holds as Judg.
Roosevelt was calculated to reflect honor on
the Bench.
How can IL be otherwise And what pros
pect il there Of a change for the better, while
the rowdy ciiques that have usurped the right
OF nominating party candidates to Office be
long to the most deprayed and abandoned oil.
scourings Of the metropolis! Keepers aud
owners Of dens Of prostitution, proprietors OF
low groggeries, graduates from Sing Sing aud
BIackwells Island, shoulder hitters, gougers,
manners, thieves DULLES, gamblers and vaga-
bonds, are members Of the General Committees
which control primary meetings; aud, out OF
these latter, bribed. prepaid conventions are
created, which nominate candidates for Office,
Ia accordance with concerted plan, devised
by the leading wirepullcrs of different parties.
Thus nominees for judicial and legislative
| Offices emerge from the same sewer Of iniauity
which produces inmates for our State prisons
| and penitentiaries.
| The State Of New York possesses, in fact.
| four great Institutions. These are, the two
State prisons, at Auburn and Sing Sing the
ackwell's Island penitentiary, and the Capt.
tol at Albany. They are too nearly alike in
quality, If not in quantity. Could the secrets
of the lobby be impartially and judicially
. unfolded, it is probable that large mum
bers Of the members of the State Senate
and Assembly would be annually drafted
down the river, to work the quarries.
where more laundering criminals do peni-
tential service to the public. We could
name men who have been engaged in lobby
service for over ten years, who are among The
candidates TO be voted for to-day. There are
others Of like stripe, who seek for nomination
at the coming municipal election, and the only
claim which these miscreants possess upon con-
ventions and primaries, is that they have so
long been concerned in every species of infis-
nous intrigue for robbing the public, which
has been carried on at the State capital
A time may yet come for reform; but the
neglect and apathy which hare characterized
heretofore the respectable masses of the com
munity, must first Of all be entirely thrown off.
They must be, in sober, dead earnest, prepared
to encounter difficulties. to be deaf to slandcr
and misrepresentation, TO resist the appliances
of intriguers and plundercrs, and not to be dis
couraged by defeat. They must set their faces
against the howlings for money Of the Re-
gcncy, and OF the knavish rowdy plunderers
who control the various republican and demo-
cratic organizations in this city, and only sub
scribe through their own agents whom they
can trust, for the support of men who are
exactly the opposite Of those who will be elected
to Office this day. For the choice between the
different tickets is only choice of evils, and
whichever ticket is successful will prove a
curse to the people who have SO culpably per-
mitted their presentation as candidates.
Our Relations with Mexico-The Position.
of the Treaty Negotiations.
Our Minister to Mexico left here yesterday,
on board the frigate Brooklyn, for Vera Cruz,
and Senior Lerdo de Tejado, the Mexican Score
tary of the Treasury, who has been for some
time in this country, has gone to Washington.
on his way to New Orleans, where he will take
the mail steamer of the 18th for Mexico.
Both of these gentlemen return TO their posts
with the hope Of carrying out the new treaty
between the two. countries, which shall give to
the one valuable transit and commercial privi-
leges and to the other the means of establish
ing the rule Of order and constitutional govern
ment in its distracted domain. We have reason
to believe that neither the President nor our
Minister in Mexico are entirely satisfied with
the conduct Of the Juarez government in this
negotiation. After long discussion between
Mr.. McLane and Senior Ocampo, the Mexican
Secretary Of State, Of the questions and points
involved in the treaty, the affair had been ad-
iusted and the terms all drawn up before
Mr. McLane left Vera Cruz. Two days
more would have suhiced to bring
the treaty into form for signature,
when Mr.. Ocampo was suddenly superseded
and new Secretary Of State was indicted into
office. Whether this proceeding was the act Of
Mr.. Ocampo, as cur Vera Cruz correspondent
has stated, or Of President Juarez, is
of little moment; the discussions had
10 be renewed with Senior Faente, who
could not sign treaty the reasons for which
he did not understand. II Mexico has been c.
loser by this delay, she can only blame her
own government for il
We are given to understand that this event
defeated completely the admirable financial ar-
engagements for Mexico which Saaor Lerdo had
prepared here, and this gentleman now returns
to Vera Cruz with an arrangementfor resources
on large scale for Mexico, but which is con-
tiugent upon the conclusion Of the treaty be-
tween the two countries. II is generally be-
lieyed that upon this event turns the result of
| the coming campaign in that republic. The
! country has become tired Of conflict which,
| from the exhaustion of the parties, has come to
| be one of simple passive resistance; and if one
| or other Of the bclligerents does not soon dis
! play the energy necessary to restore order.
| both will be rejected, and third combination