Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-09-09
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

LITTER fhOm NEW fUhh.
fl.uy.rohd.ncf p,' tie Richmond EnqpHtr !
New York Sept 8, 1859.
Ii i, time the public, il not the United States
Government, was undcceved about the humbug
OF opening the Nicaragua mail route, commenc.
ing about the lst Of October next Notwith-
Standing the numbcrlcss falsehoods sent to the
New York press, from Washington for the
benefit Of stock gamblers in Wall Street, it is
known fr0m :hc most positive and reliable all
thortv, that the whole scheme Of the mail con-
tract by johnson K Co.. ias we knew would be
the ease from the start, knowing as We did. the
character and position OF tho men concerned,)
La, utterly and ridiculously fallen through. To
ycr It mail contract line ready under JohuSon's
agreement. steamers should now be ready o.:
both the Pacific and Atlantic sides Bat what
are the facts, The concc.m do rot own
steamer in the uo,li, and have 10 means to
was 1T last accounts 'Dp NE sppVf in Calfor-
nia. The Washington, ditto To secure
steamer in the Pacific, they should send out the
cash hy the California steamer OF the 9th inst.
iinis they cannot TO. They hare tried To hire
lie l.rri'son here, but have failed. The whole
ra!l contract by Johnson Il Co, is an utter
hulni,ug. and vet scrbblcrs, hired probably by
stock iobbcrs in Wall street, telegraph that all
s right and the first steamer will leave on the
IN October. Docs Post Master Holt believe
S;ici. barclaccd iabrcations. He will find out
on cr about the ist Of October, when
the preScnt mail contract expires, that
there will be no steamer at New York TO
takc ont the California mails, and that, If no
other arrangements are made for their trans
z IL, 4, Tol,cnu { ~ they
will he left in New York, and the great transit
mail communication between New York and
San Francisco cut oil. II is notorious that
Johnson & Co. have done little else, since rc-
cciving the contract at ridiculousfy low figures,
than trv to sell il ont to others, including Van
,crbilt i Anderson, and the Pacific Mail steam
ship Company. &c, none Of whom would ac-
ccpt il as u gift Hence, the whole thing Will
fail through, and the Postmaster General with
tic Administration will soon find cut that he
has hccn glorio,isly humbuggcd.
About the only successful and regular /.
:. mail line Of steamers, running winter and
summer the year round, has been the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company. They havo per-
formed the service for years with the greatest
regularity and promptncs>.
The general committee oil TMnmany Hail
was in session MI ,..t before last, and the Mozart
Hall general committee also assembled ot their
headquarters in Broadway.
At the former meeting series OF resolutions
were passed in favor Of sustaining the princI'
rlc Of ciecting delegates to the Charleston C"n.
yention bv districts. The committee appointed
Monday evening next Tor holding an election at
Mozart Hall for tie choice of delegates TO the
Assembly District Convention. and who VIII
meet on Thursday evening next to choose dele
gotes to the Democratic State Convention to
meet at Syracuse on the l4th instant.
The announcement made by the daily
..Vews" this week that Fernando Wood would
bc = candidate before the people in December
ncyt for the SIayoralty Of this city, and that he
would not be- candidate for anything else, or
anv other Office State or Federal, has struck
terror into the rulers Of Tammany Hall. They
dare no, nut IN n candidate against him with
any bon, Of success. To do so would he to
meet with certain defeat. Cassidy will find in
due time that his attempt 70 slay Wood has
proved dead failure.
The meeting at Tammany Hall was NOISY
and contentious affair, and vas composed oi
, leaders nearly all Of whom ere aspirants lot
/, one kind of Office or another. and pledsed 70
the members of the Albany Regency to send
men To Syracuse who will cooperate Win
I them in cicc,ing delegates to the Charleston
! Convention irrespective Of the district system.
/ Tho difference between the Tammany and No
zart Hall General Committees is, that the Tor
mcr is largely composed Of federal and city
ficc.holdcrs with 4 sort Of controlling Soi
ShelI element. while the latter is Hard Shell tf
~" h.ct hone and is free from the influence o
tho rllilf
snirits were found in Fowler, the city post
master, Emanuel b. Hart, the surveyor oi th
port, and other custom-nouse onicia''' "Se'n'
with city and county office.hoders' :.
,ho meeting was Daniel f. Sickles, who wa
recognized and shaken by the hand by few oil
acauaintanccs-among whom was isaian hyr
ders, United States Marshal, and Alderma
Michael Tuomey. Sickles, without taking an
mart in the proceedings, departed, after havin
remained about thirty or forty minutes.
The General Committee, after some wrani
ling over the appointment of Inspectors
primary elections, who arr expected to be mer
automatons, to return, under their certificates
such nominating delegates as the General ITn
,nittec may designate, agreed to hold an eies
ton on Tuesday evening next. for the e'ec,lo
Of delegates, whose duty it will DC TO seier ,er
delegates to the Syracuse state To"sr"'I sud III
1t would have saved time and trouble. anu anu, u,
sham forms of primary elections, II the uenera a
, Committee had chosen delegates to the syr'
cusc Convention. .,.,s of dol,
! -. III, onnoar at Syracuse for admission I
, The syracuse Convention. Messrs. CASSIDY
the G .ho;r schemes for overriding the will {
t thc neople @ by intrigue and treacherIy progress
viii sI ind their difficulties to multiply.
:. " ., Another omnibus load Of staid individual
.,linp themselves members Of General Con
mittce of Wings, waited upon the Hon: Joh
T.. Minor Bolts evening before last to tell hi
how much they thought Of him as polite
n leader. The gentleman takes these calls in
: very kind spirit, and supposcs that the EXPIRE pr
n sions of the Ashlanders znd members ol
# Whis committee, in his behalf as their caau
date for the Presidency in 1850, are slnSel a...
1 This farce puts US in mind Of scene Pl'1IOS, n,
k on the stage by Chnsty's Alosneh -. n. II.
'darhey requested anoti.'- TO oP1r wy vi IN
-. .,d;eneA bM DAY ao3ll