New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-01

and elect him. This, his friends will ackn0w-
ledge, would be exceedingly awkward. Mr.. Cliff
ford has been in Office and no doubt thinks himself
the victim of some mistake in being turned out.
But when we have TO recur to Ex-Governors we
shall begin with Levi Lincoln.
The publishers of The atlantic promise articles
from LOngfcllow, Emerson, and Hawthorne in the
next number. Charles Reade and the author of
Charles Auchester have articles in preparation, and
Mrs. Stoves new novel will commence soon.
PROSPECTS AND HUMORS OFTHE FIGHT
From a Occasional Correspondent
BOsToN, July &c, 1860.
begin to take heart again. ! confess that l
y as ready to despair of the Republic. Looking at
matters from the seciusion of this obscure village
whose in.igniGcance excites your so frequent COM
p,ssion-it did seem to me impossible that we
could have any President at all, after the Gray.
haired Old Public Functionary shall have retired
from the station he now fills, ard fills as honorably
as he obtained it, And what would become of us
all without President Clearly, we must all 60
" to the demniton bow-wows" in the twinkling OF
bed-post. The Post here tells me that breckenridge
is to be President The Courier is equally sure that
il is to be Bell The Herald considers Douglas as
good as inaueurated And you say that Lincoln Is
TO walk over the course. But this last can't be
for Mr. Commissioner George t. Curtis, who saved
the Union some ten years ago from the traltOrous
clutches Of one Thomas Sims at the risk OF his own
life (as he once assured the public under his own
hand MIR. Curtis declared at Beleverett meet.
ing in RoxbuIy last night that " no man befiered
that Lincoln could be elected By the psopte So you
either don't believe what you say you do, or you
must be more or less than man. And you may
choose which horn OF the dilemma yOu like to impae
yourself on. know that Dllemmas are generally
classed among those cornuted animals that have but
two horns; but then know of nothing in Logical
Natural History to hinder there being trcornous
variety So you may take your choice.
But to the occasion of my relief from patriotic
fears. Perhaps you may remember my political
theory that any party wishing for candidate for the
Presidency (and the same principle would apply to all
the important elective Oices sure to win, must lind
one that can neither read nor write kOur system OF
universal education is playing the very deuce win
our monetary and public affairs. In consequence
of it our penitentiaries are filed with forgcrs, and
the land is white with the bones of Presidential can
didates whose letters have been the death of them
Now. it is clear that gentleman in difficulties
would never make the trifling mistake OF signing
another mans name to note Of hand II he had
never learned to write his own. And 80 none OF the
many political aspirants who have come to grief
through writing letters before election would have
met with their untimely ends If they had never
known how to write at ALL but made their mark, as
AN honest man should. To be sure, candidate
cannot be looked upon as absolutely perfect unless
he be deaf and dumb into the bargain; but that
would be too much to expect, perhaps. As 1t is,
am forced To fall back upon the candidates tor the
Vice Presidency for the recuperation OF my hopes
for the Union. But, as the game now seems TO De
PLAYED more with an eye to potential wee frcsl-
dents than to probable Presidents 1T makes not so
much difference
I rejoice TO see that the Breckenridge Democrats
have nearly, if not quite, secured my Model Man.
/ am not sure that Gen. Lane Gsn't ne Gen.
eral y NAV not have some pot-hOoks and hangers
among his furniture but it is not at all likely that
he will burn his fingers by trying to make his politl-
cal pot boil by means of them. 1t is affirmed,
observe, that this exemplary candidate, when on
his glorious expedition to Mexico, dated his hrs
letter from " Very Crosse" and that ne improved
the ordinary photography of the quarters OF III
soldiers from "baYYacks" to "bdraaI. IL is ais
affirmed that he spells :" dirt with two "ts," and
God with small "g'-which last certainly snow
a praiseworthy unwillingness to make capital OF III
Makers name. Now, though this is not all ina
couId he desired il is great deal better than moth
ing. 1t is not at all likely that he will ever break
away from his keepers, and 60 to writing let
ters On his own account-whCh is what the class
of lunaecs TO which he belongs is very apt TO 90,
if not closely watched. Fit be true
THAT words and spells have power
why should not such potent spells as these work
yirtuously at the planet-struck hour OF Presl-
DENTAL election? l have great comfort III Gen.
Lane. ~
But. then if be should fail me, can fall back on
his rival of the Constitutional Union Tor Old Gentle,
men's) party. Indeed Mr.. Curtis assured the Old
Gentlemen of Roxbury that if the next election can
only be iockeyed into the House of Representalves,
their Vice President will be the next President.
Now all the readers of The Ledger know that Mr..
Everett knows how to write that is, unless the
nrevalent report be true (Which for one don't be-
I;eve Il is). that the Mount Vernon Papers were
really written by Mr. Syvanus Cobb, Junior. But,
whether he is competent to write at present or not,
he has at any rate Telinqushed the dangerous ac-
complishment and refers his political letters 10 ms
committee TO answer tor him. This is wise pre-
canton for il is melancholy fact that he dd once
know how 10 write letters and made such reckless
use of those edged tools that he not only ct MS ON"
fingers but seriously wounded the Wing party oil
Massachusetts which suffered a temporary SyncoPe
in consequence A Mr.. Taylor OF Eutaw, Alabama,
having got hold of these ncendiary documents sent
an to mr.. Everett to know if he really had east
abroad these frebrands, arrows, and death and
what he meant by it, Mr. Leyerett Saltonstall, the
Grand Worthy Patriarch of the Order OF the
Old Gentlemen in these parts, was deputeu 10
answer this Episile-not General but very fartlc'-
lar. And must do him the justice to say that ne
did il very ceyerly indeed. He did not undertake
to deny the charges contained In the Indictment OF
even to extoauate them. He simply pleaded the
Statute Of Limitations in bar thereOf-whlcb ne
might well do, as more than twenty years have