The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-12


This muscular convention is, however, most
important matter in political point of view.
AT the November election we have to choose
members of Congress, Of the State Legislature,
several Judges, and number Of important
county officers. The local election promises
to be an exciting one. The democracy
are in such a delightful state Of har-
mony that they will undoubtedly run
two tickets throughout, and the partisans
of Old Abe will endeavor to profit by this
charming state of things SO as to seize the very
small portion of the spoils which Thurlow Weed
& Co. have been obliged to leave to the arbi-
trament of the popular vote. Under these cir
cumstances, the attitude OF the leaders among
the shoulder hitting fraternity-the real govern
ing classes-becomes an affair Of the gravest
significance. II viii be gratifying for the can
didates of the several factions to know that
these sighting men, like honest Captain Dalgetty
of immortal memory, do not bother their hard
heads about questions of principle. They have
had wisdom beaten into their skulls. aud they
know as well az we do that the politicians
are all humbugs = that their plat
FORMS and speeches, and resolutions.
are all CANNON, aud that the whole thing re-
solves itself into stand up 6ght for the public
| plumber. So the shoulder-hitters are always
| ready 10 sell themselves and their friends to
the highest bidder. We can say also, for the
information Of all parties concerned. that for
the coming election competition will be very
lively, and early application should be made.
We presume that there are as many as five hun.
dred candidates in each party and for each
Office, each of whom l. morally certain to get
the nomination he covets; but they must re-
member that moral certainties are good for
nothing against physical force, and, therefore,
| we advise them to be on hand at Jones Wood
| tomorrow. There and then they may select as
much "inauence" Of the strongest kind--the
"inauence" that comes straight from the
shoulder-the influence" that is sure to be felt
at caucuses or primary electons-as they see
fit to pay for. 1t is chance that occurs but
| very seldom, and aspirants for political prefer
ment should not fail to make the best of it. In
the meantime, let US seize on this favorable op-
| portuniiy to congratulate ourselves that we
live in an age Of progress and civilization, and
| telegraphs and free presses and, more than all,
point is so cheering that we are really com
PEELED to stop and enjoy it at our leisure.
THE MYSTERY OF. THE JAFASEsE SwNDLE-
The Common Council are evidently laboring
under the idea that the people and the press
will forget all about the Japanese swindle in
some other passing excitement, and that by de-
laying action upon il for little time they can
pass the appropriation without attracting any
attention. But the people are not going to for
| get it. On the contrary, they have the strong
est desire to learn how the bill could possibly
have amounted to the extraordinary sum of
over hundred tn ousand dollars, and they are
4 awaiting with much interest the '~S'-A. -f Ne
Unatheld's apriicat.en to the Supreme Court
for an injunction restraining the Comptroller
and Corporation from paying it, which is to be
decided on Tuesday.
| In casting round for some means to solve this
mystery, circumstance occurred to our memo
| ry which we thought might help Us out Of the
difficulty A few years ago we spent the win
ter in Havana, and while sojourning in that land
of balmy airs and orange groves, q truly be-
nevolent friend presented us with Panama
monkey, captured and bereft of his liberty in
the wild woods on the Isthmus. He was O
smart fellow, q very funny fellow, addicted to
Well, We brought him home with US to New
York, and put UP at FIRST class hotel Every
thing went on fair enough until one day II hap
pened that our funny Panama friend broke his
chain, clambered up on the curtains and made
q small rent in the upper part Of them. De-
scending from thence he scrambled considera-
bly, about the carpet, throwing things generally
into slight disorder, as unfettered monkeys
sometimes will. AT the end OF the week we
were furnished with bill for sS25 for board
"and damages" which bill we paid without q
gpumble.
Soon afterwards we learned that the astute
landlord, whose furniture was somewhat Of
the faded sort, removed the whole of the fur
niture from the room, and completely reflr-
nished it in splendid style. and charged the ex-
pense to the Panama monkey.
Now, this circumstance may afford some
clue 10 the labsrynthian recesses Of the Japan
csc bill. The Lelands are capital fellows, Grst
rate hotel keepers, smart men, who deserve
well Of the public, and the public treasury
also. On the occasion Of the Japanese visit
they furnished in magnificent style. all new.
some seventy rooms in the Metropolitan Hotel;
they are said to be superb in their appoint
ments and adornments, and could no, have cost
less than FIVE hundred or seven hundred dollars
for each room-probably hfty thousand dollars
In all. The ball and the board of the Embassy
cost, We suppose, about thirty thousand
more; that makes eighty thousand dollars; and
we don't know but the remaining twenty-five
thousand wen, to pay the walters Of the Corpo-
ration for cleaning up the rooms and putting