New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-30
a HAPPY FAMILY.

The .,m..nable combinations which make up
le roursay dele, alton to the Democratic State
Connection nay well astOuish even that veteran
u " polir:,' Brother Zen. Wood. Such an ar
Jos ~ intarIsous nomes was never before pro-
duced by the venerable WigW4m, nor indeed by
o. o,h.r cfgAlizoiion. II il "hoppy family "
viii d SURPRISES BArnuu.'s wild I dreams. For
once the small sge.tures o. Ward organizations
have been thrust aside to mSIe way Tor men Of
wealth and Intellectual renown. But let nobody
suppose that this change il voluntary. 1t is an
unwilling sacrifice 10 dire necessity. The
arch-,neny Fernando still threatens the
Old hail. and the loss of Federal
patronage has cut of her customary rev.
enues Something must be done TO keep up
the supplies which for 50 many years have beea
drawn from the CustOm-llouse and Post-Ofiice,
and, after much elaboration the Sachems have
esoyed to call upon certain rich merchants to
bleed Tor their country. AS some consideration
or value received must BE- offered as n lure, the
wire.pullers magnanimousy propose that these
nabobs shall take in hand the reconstruction of
the State Democracy, well knowing that the
great unwashed masses can, and will, at any
momeut after the required cash eyies nave been
collected, "reassumo the powers delegated to
" the State Convention" and restore the good
old rule of the broadest shoulders and the heaviest
tit.
At the head of this remarkable delegation
marches Prince John Van Guren, formerly OF
Buffalo, and subsequently engaged in watching
negroes in New-York. At his heels lodges the
giraffe John McKeon, ex.United States District
Attorney, always first in opposition to tho Tycoon
Of Mozart Ex-Register Miner, true Soft, who
has driven his political coach to much profit,
leads in Mr. Andrew j. McCarty, ex-Council-
man, lately in serious difficulty about an alleged
murder. The effort to cut oil small men in the
lower Wards was stoutly and successfully re
sisted; and so we find ex-Councilman George p.
Bickfcrd, defeated, aud Morgan Jones, a sac
cessiul candidate for the Common Council, flank
ing that fastidiOus millionaire August Belmont,
who has been accorded the distinguished honor
of assisting the Fourth Ward porter-hOIse keeper
in representing Water street and the Five Point
upon this suspicious occasion. With this
remarkable trio comes cynical John Clancy, ex-
Alderman, now County Clerk and editor of TIE
Leader, enjoying the joke in his inimitably dry
manner. Handsome Gen. Hiram Walbridge-all
things to all men Democrats, we mean) -comes
with Sheriff Kelly, unadulterated Soft, from the
Third District, having in tow Andrew Clark
prosperous contractor and ex-rumseller, and one
Sam. L. Barger, new victim, strongly rec0n-
mended for his willingness to stand aud deliver.
The Fourth District sends two editors, Police
Justice and on ex-Canal Collector; Mr.. Often
dorfer Of tho Stats Zstung (whose stomach re-
yOlted so noisily at the October fasion) walks
through the elbows of the Mincio and the SYM
pathes of youth with VIM. ii. liurlbut, native
OF South Carolina and the most elegant and ac-
compished Of literary men, who, from being
Garrisonian AbolitoAist, n Republican, and a
Douglas Democrat lately abandoned The ".
Y. Times, as has been said, because it
would not hoist the Palmetto nag and glorify
Secession and Slavery both together. Matthew L.
Brennan, esq. (who spent small fortune to DO
elected Register, and wasn'D is also in this
delegation. And now We reach the reilly great
name of the lot--JOshua j. Henry, inventor and
patentce of CniOn-Sayng COMMITTEES, and whole
sale and retail dealer in Fusion tickets. He is
accompanied by Wilson G. Hunt, ex'candidate
in general, solid citizen, whose small expert
encc in politics has been just enough to qualify