The New York herald., 1863-11-28


lt4t Election I'm Particular.
Just at present there is considerable discus
sion about rings. This is hardly TO be wondered
at. Rings are very useful as well ss orna
mental articles. Almost everybody has enc d
some kind or other. Babies cut their teeth on
rings. Young women and men wear rings and
exchange rings Loving couples are married
with rings. When people die rings or wreatls
of flowers are laid On their ootins, and ring is
the emblem of the eternity which we enter
after death. From the cradle to the grave.
therefore, mankind has a great deal to do with
rings. Very naturally, then, the newspapers
and the politicians find rings popular subject
about which to talk.
The use of rngs is universal. Indians and
negroes wear them in their ears and noses, and
on their arms and ankles. Civilized people
are half barbarous in regard to rings,
as bracelets, earrings and finger rings
abundanAy testify. The ancients used 10
wear rings, and had some which were endowed
with magical properties. Tho arabian
Nights tells us Of rings which you had only
to rub in order 10 summon gcnius, who would
build you q palace in the twinkling Of an eye.
Our Common Council and our shsddy contrac-
tors have some rings of the same kind. The
ancients had prize rings, and so have We.
Heenan and Tom King are going to fight in one
before long. There Is another sort OF prize
ring, which poor Greeley had in lis Tribune .ot
teries; but these were of brass, and we are
only speaking Of the genuine article. Kings
wear rings on their heads and swine wear
rings through their snouts. Fairies have rings
in which they dance, and our ladies dance in
rings also; but, unlike the fairies, they carry
their rings about with them, and call them
hoops Scarcely any article, Of whatever sub
stance, is without its ring-if you can hit it
hard enough to get.the ring out Bells, for in
stance, have as many rings as bellies. In a
word, every person and thing in every age and
every country is connected in some way OF
other with rings
While undergoing the course Of training ne
cessary in order to write this article, we have
had to consult eightyfve dictionaries, thirty-two
encyclopedias and the entire Astor Library The
reshlt of this research was complimentary to
us, but unsatisfactory on the whole. We found
nothing about rings which we did not know
before, and which we could not have printed
long ago if we had had the space and the dispo-
sition. One OF the dictionaries, however, says
rather a good thing 1t declares that the
original meaning Of ring was o stretch or
strain. That explains how the Tribune came to
apply the subject of rings to the Mayoralty con-
test 1t must, indeed, have required q stretch
Of poor Grealey's imagination and strain
objects to Boole upon the ground that he has
had something to do with the ring. We have
just shown that all mankind are in the same
predicament. What then becomes of poor
Greeley's objection! Let him trot us out can
didate, if he can, who has never had anything
to do with rings. Is it Guntherf Is it Blunt!
We are ready to take the Tribune philosopher
upon either horn of the dilemma. Guntber is
backed by three rings at least. There is the
McKeon ring, which processes to be very nice
ring, and whose only object is to ring all the
other rings out, so that it may ring itself in.
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metal, and was badly broken at the late cleo
tions. Thirdly, there Is the constitutional ring,
which is as bogus as Bowery diamond, and is
composed Of links Of Office hunters. These
three rings back Gunther, aud Blunt leads quite
as many Of different Sort What nonsense it
is, then, TO talk about Bodies being the candi-
date of ring.
And yet this nonsensical charge is the only
one brought against Mr.. Boole. Every one ad-
mits that he is q competent man, an able man,
q smart man. The Tribune has said as much
half dozen times. He is very competent,
says poor Greeley, and would make an excel
lent Mayor, if it were not for that ring-that
dreadful ring. Humbug! There is a ring up
at Albany called the lobby, and Greeley be-
longs to il. There is financial ring against
the Central Railroad, and Greeley belongs
to it. There used to be a ring to put
jobs through Congress, and Greeley be-
longed to it. Vide the Matteson draft
and Sam. Wilkeson's report about the
Tribune Contract Bureau. With all these rings
to his back, poor Greeley must have the impu-
dence ofthe - Wendell Phillips to object to
Bodies ring, if such a thing be in existence.
What if Boole did once belong to rings There
are rings in every business-in churches, in
theological seminaries, in the House Of Bishops.
A ring, in this sense, is simply number OF
men who egree to work together for = certain
object That is the whole secret of the ring. The
mystery which some people have tried to throw
about it has given it great terrors to timid peo-
pie; but that is all it amounts to, we can as
sure them. Boole, like q circus rider, has
gone through this ring, and knows all about it.
When he is elected Mayor he can easily obige
the ring to behave itself properly, and thus
succeed, as all other mathematicians have not,
in making the circle square. The Tribune, we
remember, raised this same fuss about the ring
when Comptroller Brennan was q candidate
for his present Office; but We have heard
no complaints since from any quarter in re-
pard TO Brennan's honesty integrity and inde-