Year: 1860

| Editor Of the Progress AS, in all human pro-
bability. nomination will have been made by
the Baltimore Convention before this letter is


printed, it is not worth while to speculate upon
the course which the New York delegation will


pursue. That Douglas is the spoil of majority


of the party in this State cannot be conscientious
ly denied by any intelligent man whose pursuits
and tastes afford him opportunities for convers-
ing freely with people of all classes in different


sections of the State but that other democrat
ic candidate carry the State ifregularly nom-
mated, is absurdly false The desire to keep the
Government from falling under the control of a
man so VIGOROUSLY unfit to administe it as Lin


coin is will rouse the democracy of this State,
they have never been aroused before, to defeat
him And they aciU defeat, too, whoever the de-
mocratic candidate may be. | am taking it for
granted, of course, that there will be only de-


mocratic candidate in the field for cannot think


it possible that in this great crisis of the history
of our country and large and influential body of
democrats. either North or South would dare to
bolt a regular nomination, and thrust into the
field candidate of their own, thus deliberately and


surely consigning thirty millions of people to an
arcEy, possible civil and the other horrors


that would naturally result from the abolitioniza-
tion of the federal government by Lincoln and
Hamin. Nor do [ think that any democratic


statesman could be found who would accept an
irregular nomination, and allow himself to be used
by a few disappointed and misguided politicians
as tool for the qualification of their spirit of


revenge al the risk of the integrity of the Union.
I saw. this morning, specimen of Japanese
1t was in the possession of a chemist who
had analysed portion of it for down-tow mer-
chant My scientific friend informed me that
this We gtabe has all the quantities of bees
wax The officers of the Japanese embassy say
that the supply of this valuable article is mex


hanstible in their country. It can be imported
here for one fourth the cost of beesWaX.


"Tommy'' is reported to have gone rather too
far in his attentions to young lady who board


ed in the same hotel with him at Washington.-


In common with others Of her sex, she used to


make point of waylaying him three or four times


day. each time exchanging cards with him. 1t


seems that the girls of the National Metropolis


used to toy with Tommy and caress him, think


ing no harm of it. His trowsers SO nearly resem-
bed peticoats that it impossible for them to


realize that they were hngging and being hug
ged bv one of the opposite sex. He is so young,


too and so little. They had no more hesitation
or decacy about going into Tommv's room than
abont visiting each others apartments. One la
dy in paltiular was very importunate. She acould
have his likeness Tommy had two three good
daguerfeotypes of himself and it is fair to sup
pose that she alluded to one of them. But Tom
my did not so understand ner request; hence his
firm and persistent refusal to accommodate her.
Notwithstanding her coa1ings and endeaments
It appears that. in Japanese, in European, lam
guages, words have different Specifications, end
that when Japanese lady asks 4 gentleman for
his likeness, she is understood TO mean living
one. Tommy, whose knowledge of English is
quite limited. imagined the same pecuIiarity to
exist in our language. Hence his heroic virtue.
Human nature, however, IS pretty much the same
ali the world over. One afternoon, the lady went
to Tommys room. and, half in play, half in
nest refused TO leave without his likeness-She
alluded, of course. to one of the three, Or four,
which were lying on his table. But Tommy, not
so understanding her, complied with her request
a In Japanoise, compassionately and reluctantly,


however. and remarking, as appropriate to the oc-
cason, "America great country Somehow the
affair has leaked out though not through any
lack of retsense in Tommy whose reputation as


man of strict honor in all afaircs du stands


un .mpeached in his own country.


The chief ambassador is sorry to hear that it is
customary in America to attach disgrace TO fam
ily, If one of its female members takes steps to
procure the likeness of prince. AS to Tommy
marrying the young lady. the ambassador pledges
himself to lay the matter before His Majesty. the
Tycoon, who will communicate with His Majesty,
the President, the subject. The young lady
is reputed to be anxious to blacken her teeth


pluck her eye brows, and cross the raging main
with her beloved Tommy, and the latter is I'M
derstood to be willing to marry the young lady,
but to be unable to do without risking his ife
unless he first receives the imperial sanction.


The ambassador has further suggested to the


father that it may be better for him and the other


male relatives of the young lady to postpone the


{" happy dispatch" " (disemboweing themselves


until His Majesty. the President, receives a COM


muncation on the subject from His Majesty, the


Tycoon which may possibly be favorable-but


ruled by their own Judgment, they know best


the requirements of etiquette in America, and


whether it is possible,> under the circumstances


to make the suggested postpOnement. Sc runs


the story. give it for what it is worth.