Albany.
Correspondence Of the Herald

ALBANY, Feb. 5, 1845.
Whoi to be Health officer, and Pot and Pearlash
Inspector?
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ALBANY, Feb. S, lS45. 4
Whois to be Health officer, and Pot and Pearlash


Inspector?
EDITOR OF THE HERALD -


Albany is overstocked with office seekers and
their friends-men who have either axes to grind,
or who are payed to grind them for others; and II
is amusing for a ooker-on to mix with the several
cliqnes, hear their remarks of each other, and OBJ
serve the various means resored to in order to ac-
compllsh their ends. Among the most prominent
from New York are the candidates for the Health
office, and Pot and Pearlashes 1t is alleged by
the friends of the present incumbent, DIR. Van Ho-
venbergh, that he has fulfilled the duties of the
oitice in the most satisfactory manner-given libe
rally to the party, and that precedence has estab-
llshed the holding OF so perilous Office for four
years. BY others it is said, that he was not enti.
tied to the place originally, to the exclusion of se
veral whose claims and competency were of a
much stronger character; that he has already rea-
allied 1925 GOO, sum sufficient to satisfy the nav
OF any ordinary partisan-that he has been engaged
IN the washing and emigrant business, and that he
violated the law OF the State in allowing the schoo-
ner to 60 up the North river dealing death and
destruction around her, lnuring commerce exten-
ss,vely, and putting the city and county of New
York to several thousand dollars unnecessary ex.
pense, in consequence of his Ignorance and folly
VI MIR. Stevens, general grannyship is asserted;
i is SAID he is penurious, and refuses to
fork up like man from his overlooking hoard
10 the party; that he never had any in
fuence or any claims, and would never have
received the office but for the intrigue of Senator
Varan, his brother-in.aw, who log-rolled with
Senator Scott, the one for the Health officer, the
other for the Pots and Pearls. One thing, how
ever. is positive, that no one here can correctly
ascertain the wishes of the "democracie' OF the
city of New York, for all either office seekers,
or in their employ, and as no appointment can be
made without vacancy, the fight is fierce between
the parties. What Governor Wright will do defes
conjecture He viii not, however. re-nominate "a