The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-05
WASHINGTON. Feb. q. 1884.

There old politicians In This place 70 Know
everything, end who have the ms and outo the res
DENTAL movements or their party at t'r myers enos
Meeting with Of these learned pbosophers the other
evening We had the good fortunsso draw rom ns 70
Of wisdom the following instructive views in re-
Charleston Convention
Well sir, viii the Convention be able 10 agree upon
platform and ticket harmoniously!
"ney will. Their platform will DO the Cincinnati plat
fsrm tho simple change Of reference Of the slavery
question in the Territories 70 the Supreme Court aud with
some strong combustibe resolutions Brown, Helper,
Seward and the rreprcssbls conflict Of the black
Publicans"
Will that de9
"That will do"
Secondly, them you have various candidates should
like to have your views concerning some Of them For
example, hear that General Joseph IAne Of Oregon is
considered mighty available man in quarters
"Od 10. mighty good old man. but he doesn't carry
guns enough His political capital too, ID gunpowder and
that has become drug in the market Besides the old
General, although apparently one Of the moss simple
hearted and innocent old chaps In the world suspected
by the politicians deep old schemer, with will Of
his own He Ia one OF those plain, of hand democratic
men that please Old Buck; but be is not Old Buck cand
date. And, in fact Old Jo s not troubled himself about
the Presidency.
Perhaps Jefferson Davis would come nearer the mark
snow you are on the trail Davis is q strong man,
and dsunionist than the Mayor Of Washington
MIR Buchanan likes him You will remember that in
1850 Mr. Buchanan wanted the Missouri compromise line
straight through TO the Pacific. That, too the
plan OF JEFF Davis, and many other Southern men, They
tried it, They failed; but those men, especially Davis,
from that circumstance became strongly attached TO Mr.
Buchanan, and he TO them, especially TO DAVIS And
have you that for the last two three years
jeff Davis has been Of the most consistent aud useful
defenders of the administration in the Senator
DO soppose, them that Davis will be the Charleston
"No, sir do say that but the administration will
not stand in his way"
But, them there two three candidates in the Cabi
net-Mr. Cobb, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Black, Mr.. H,lt,
and
''stop, my friend. They must look for themselves
And the Vice PRESIDENT
"A superior man, sir-too young. perhaps, for the
old politicians and too popular The President likes him,
Breckenridge, however, because or his sympathy for
Douglas Should Douglas be shelved, Breckenridge will
serve as peacemaker with the Douglas men better than
any other man.
Better than Wise9
"wisel You don't suppose that Wise has show do
your Has be given Douglas the go-by squatter
Sovereignty Have the New York softs forgotten the
Donnely letter? Besides, was there such foolish
fuss got up as that raised by Gov Wise over Old Brown
II fair occasion for good Presidential capital
but Wise really did run the thing into the ground That
letter to the President too got for the Governor lesson
on State rights which laid him out But the strongest OBJ
lection against Gov Wise that he is apt TO fly OFF the
handle He would run like mill among the adopted
citizens il nominated because Of his splendid fight with,
and suppression Of Know Nothngsm In Virginia cam
paign for Governor. But for all this, Wise skyrockot
up he goes, and a aaz whsz, bang he sxplodes in
OF the House and Of the Senate and they will tell that
Wise won't do for these tckish times They are afraid
that he would write letters enough to swamp the party,
even II his election, when nominated should be perfectly
sure"
How then, will Hunter do9
"Hunter has splendid chance. And that late
able Conservative Southern speech Of bis in the Senate
doing good service among Northern men But Wise has
the inside track thus far Virginia and Hunter
beat Wise In his State he may have to haul off, The
President has very high opinion Of Hunter for he has
horn kaar
required to defend the measures expenditures and est
mates OF the administration. With the administration
Hunter is a strong But, sir, this whole business
depends upon the disposition that may be made Of
other man"
And that man is
"Nr Douglas He the Little Giant in the path of all
the rest but for that very they ali the
cse of Martin Van Buren, in ls44 lie had majority in
that Convention but the two thirds rule applied and
| he was defeated. The rule holds good 1t cannot be
safely repealed will stand. But as the majority car
ries the PLATFORM and as the platform in this will be
the first business the Douglas may be strong enough
TO carry It, But that will not help him. for the real d
! Guilty with Douglas, is Douglas himself He would have
many accounts to settle If elected against this man,
that man and the eher that they viii find IT their com
mon object to rule him off,"
But suppose Mr.. Douglas were to conclude treaty o
peace with the ADMINISTRATION
He would perhaps now be too late but he appears TO
have no inclination that way great mistake. As he
stands his nomination would be rebuke to the admins
ation and we have seen enough Of the democratic
y Of this Congress, in both houses perceive that the
administration will be endorsed at Charleston"
Butwe assured that Mr. Douglas is gaining strength
In the South, with his late speech John Brown thu
underground railroad companies.
"He is But not in those quarters from which dele
gates to Charleston are drawn My opinion is, that Mr.
Douglas will be superseded-that he and his friends will
be retained In good faith in the party and that Hunter,
who not Objectionable TO Douglas TO the party any
section will most probably be the nominee OF the Charles
ton Convention Hunter has implacable enemies and
Ia really m available man."
WASHINGTON, Feb g. 1860.
The Presidents Lda Leree, and Some Account 7hercoei
Great Gathering and Glorious Nme-Fac Fancie aad
Philosophical Cbse7rotioas. aid Nothing About Politics
The Presidents reception last evening a great
affair The White House taken by storm, and all the
gay world was there 1t was something like the crowd
at an Inauguration opening the turnout OF a bright
New Years day The accumulation of carriages in front
of the mansion blockade which produced many
amusing exchanges Of compliment between rate coach
men and indignant hackdrvers and not in the choicest
parliamentary language. The press the door for An
hour, going in, dangerous to tall with big feet
and to little women with extensive headdresses Of ara
cal shrubbery, and the crush hour coming out
was somewhat perpexng to plain country people, and So
az the levee opened at eight and closed ten good
old tune Of "Yankee Doodle you will perceive the
flow OF the tide had hardly ceased the ebb com.
menced
And seldom indeed have seen at any tmc in the
observations Of many years, more brilliant assembage
than that which waited upon the diguiled and
nerable chief and the lovely young mistress of
the Executive mansion last evening In this term
brilliant We include Of mark and beautiful
or distinguished women. AT nine O'Clock there must
have been more than two thousand people present They
filled the east roomeighiy by orty-and they hlled all
the approaches thereto, including the famous eliptcal
saloon, like restless swarm OF bees And there were
more beautiful women, more distinguished women, and
more handsomely dressed women, In the tnroug.
than o. any OF the ministerial receptions OK
| the season, that necessarily limited TO
given number OF invitations This is worthy o. no.
mark, considering the fact that the doors OF tue White
House on evee nights are open to al well behaved people,
OF high and low degree. We say this worthy o. re
mark, because the presence Of many Of the copper
ten thousand at reception open 10 the lower hun
dred thousand shows that the former quite ready TO
meet with the latter this common ground OF demo.
cratic .lhcrtY. EQUALITY md Fraternity 2, 9th