The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-02


they pay. The advance in the prices Of Alder
men is the cause of high taxes anddirty streets.
Faction Fight Of the Rspublicans-The
"Cameron's Gathering"
While the democrats seem to be emerging
out of their troubles and dissensions about the
Presidency, the republicans are in the begin
ming of their SORROWS and divisions. AS Douglas,
the most noisy of the democratic candidates
at the North, was the cause of the mischief, so
Seward, the strongest of the republican candi-
dates, is the source of the republican quarrels.
The Hon. Massa Greeley is opposed to Seward
on two grounds, which are both personal. First,
he knows Seward will not give him the Postmas-
ter Generalship; and, secondly, Seward once
MORALLY offended Greeley, who has never for
given him. The occasion of the offence was when
Mr.. Rust, in Washington, had fracas with
Massa Greeley, for something very offensive
he had said of him. The fracas was
related to Mr. Seward by friend of
Greeley, who was severe upon Rust, when the
New York Senator said he thought Greeley
ought to have declared he was non-combatant,
as the event showed, Notwithstanding his en-
gagement to be ON hand if there was any fight
ing going on under Captain John Brown. More
over, Mr.. Seward said he considered Mr.. Rust
was gentleman, and did not forfeit his claim
to be gentleman. What Seward said was re-
ported to Greeley, who has waged covert
personal war against him ever since. 1t was
by Old Blair and Greeley's arrangements that
Fremont got the republican nomination, instead
of Seward, in 1885, and it is believed that if all
fails he will propose Fremont again in 1860, and
that he holds his name as a stone in his sleeve,
with which to kill off Seward at the last moment
Certain it is, this was the object of Massa
Greeley's visit to Fremont in California at the
time of the election in which Broderick was de-
feated. Greeley watched the combat with great
| interest; and had Broderick been successful,
Greeley would have endeavored to establish
..ssnse corusaIe with nm and would have
| brought out Fremont at once But fortune
frowned on that scheme, and now Fremont,
who promised him the Postmaster General
ship, is only his dernier resort.
Meantime, with the aid of old and young Blair
he has ished up Bates from obscurity, where
he lay deep below the soil of Missouri, in
| the silurian strata, among other fossils of
bygone generations. For twenty i've years he
was buried, till Greeley & Co. went to work
as if they were boring for an artesian well, and
| brought him to the surface, rival to Seward
But in vain the Tribune has labored to get him
recognized by even fraction of the party. The
clique utterly failed to get the Bates man the
printing spoils of the House of Representatives
and nobody cares for Bates. He cannot get
even his own State. he is a dead cock in the
pit-Chevalier Webb having given him the
finishing blow.
But Seward has different kind of man now
to deal with. Simon Cameron, of Pennsylva-
MIA, has got the nomination of the republicans
of that State, and will become formidable RI
val to the higher law prophet. We know
Cameron well. He may not be so brilliant an
orator as Seward, but he has equal political
tact, and far more administrative ability than
Seward, Weed and half dozen men like them
rolled in one. It was he defeated Forney in
Pennsylvania; and now Forney, caught by his
hook, is dragged after his tail, and re-
joices in the position. Forney follows
him willingly, and loves to be caught
with the bait which so expert a politi-
cal angler drops into his mouth. Such is the
man who is now pitted against William 81.
Seward. The latter has the republicans of New
York State in his pocket, and may count upon
the New England States; but he is not sure of
the Northwest, and he cannot get Pennsylvania,
which has declared for Cameron, and it is very
doubtful If he can get New Jersey, which will
also, perhaps, come out for the man of the Key
stone State. Seward, who tried to head him
off in Pennsylvania with John M. Reed, of the
| Supreme Court is playing the same game
against him with Dayton in New Jersey,
with probably the same result With
| out these two States Seward could not
| succeed; but the republicans of Penn
sylvania hold that Cameron is the only
man who can carry their State, and that as for
Seward he is entirely too ultra for that region.
The Western States may arrive at the same
conclusion. Cameron has already out.mannu.
vrpd him IN a M aliminorv ob;ru;.h I'M. j.