The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-24
CITY POLITICS.

A Diagnosis Of Tammany Hail-The Late
County Conyention--Irenty Of Alliance Be-
tween she Wiawum and Mozart Hall-The
Rascnltttes of the Rins-NominafiOns for
County OMces-Their Hopes and Chances,
&c.s DC.
II any intelligent foreigner should have CHANGED to
have been In the vicinity OF Tammany Hall last Mond
evening, his nrst impression glancng at the crV xd
who swarmod around the building and who sat in the
nominating Convention for Judiciary and county Off.
GERS, would have been that Q gamo Of cock fight
ing or bear batting being carried on within,
and that all the beetlebrcwed rowdiss and desperate
characters Of tho community had large stake upon the
probable result and assembled there With heated
passions 10 whether they had TO or lose upon
the animals they had bet upon
To have told ths Intelligent foreignery tina. this was
convention OF persons charged with the duty Of selecting
the chief CRIMINAL officer In the person Of Recorder and
Judge important Surrogate, aAl FOR officers to oil
various other positions Of trust and emoumcnt how
great would have been his surprise The physognomist
would have pronounced theo men more likely TO
save graduated from lails m the past and 10
select Jndc'ai officers TO rule the community /.
but 80 il gees The cup. Of Tammany's power
runnne low and the closer they approach its bottom
the nearer tboy get to its disgusting drega II s
and fraud over the entire state and viii break down 90
lanenisby IN the effort that nothing will be left Of H.
even u their State tcket should receive fifty even
sixty thousand majority in this city.
TERRIBLE TzNiAN RUB0Re
Dismaying rumors float through democratic circles
tending show that great numbers OF Fenians recently
ION duty at the 'front.' along the Canadian frontier have
suddenly within the past few weeks become
New York as hoathy happy prosperous and agreeable
neighborhood in which TO soonrn until after the
TONS II is also said that city Fenans are quietly
resolved not TO Governor Fenton any cause TO say
that they ungraeful for his refusal 10 call the
troops Of the state OF New York against the Fenans
When General Grant photographed from Buffalo that such
n a mi lfu oontA
have answered, Let the Canadians DO their own police
drty and English Queen declared that when sho
died the word "Caais would be found ongrayen her
heart SO this sentence LOT the Canadians do their
police duty has become the wachword OF all the ir-
repressble boys who the green How far this
ing win avail TO add to the Slate ticket OF the
radicals cannot be determined but Is element
IN the calculation Of chances which who desires
to make money by the next elections leave OF
sight The democrats nevertheless, affect utterly 10
that anything shake the strong fidelity with which
adopted citizens OF Mlesan origin bave heretofore fol-
lowed their standard At the democratic Headquarters
In the Astor House, 1t is but just 10 say, confident pre-.
dctions are made showing large majority for their
State ticket In fact all the counties which MessY
upon as certain 10 give heavy democratic maortes win
only carry out the portion OF the programme assigned
for their enactment the the friends of Governor
Fent0n abandon their present costly and 1aborious
their tempeis and pockets The tide Of political senti
ment keeps rising and falling with unsteady fluctuations
and il must be conceded that the hopes the demo.
cratic side fewer and feebler like the last pusa-
tons OF breath in the breast OF dying sinner while
every renewed ncursion the great curly headed pillows
impetus and lash the crumtlng crags Of conservative
opposition with higher and more destructive surf