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E.di,oral Correspondence.
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fn turmoil and excitement among the a5plrants
for STAT. Offices and their several advocates in
crcascs. Tie swarm here has increased up TO
I'M, moment, Tonight the first formal and gen
craI Caucus i to be held and will send you The
result By the mornings Mail. The friends Of
JONES for Secretary OF State and BgAnDsLEY for
Attorney General are confident OF securing a plu-
r7llity TO eac:l the first ballot, but my belief is
still tina, Col. YOUNG will be Secretary and Mayor
,MoRRIs A,torncy General=nnless there be some
thing un;crfand, and unless the unpopularit. Of
our City Delegation dcfc;., them ! ne great bulk
Of the country Loco-tocos lose opportunity OF
showing ,lla,=thcy are not=o the same breed with
GRour and WlER aud SwAcYHAMER. / can
admire this niccty Of taste but so it seems to be;
and L genuine Locos are shut ou, of Office By it
protest against that too. Give me hearty oppo-
nent before those


Who know, the right, and yet the wrong pursue
Ga ,ilc sane ground. think there is still fair
look that j. y. .Stcven$oa will come out ahead
among the score Of applicants for the Postof Com
r1issay General. There are no stanchcr Tam
many rlen than the mos, Of those Of his grade of
principle and morals, and on the principle Of 50
mn4h for SO much their numbeys certainly cn;i;e
them 10 one Of the State Offices,


There is :. scheme on foot to put Col. BoucK
back into the Canal Commission, in order TO nus
make room for Hon. .ToHs.A DIX cx-Sccrctary Of
State and 50 the rod back in the Rescncy
family | do NJ think it ran succeed. Colonel
BoCcx / am assured, wished to get off the Canals
long before he did, and he will not be coaxcd
back now. He viii be nominated unanimously as
n matter of form, aud decline, when DAVID HAM
ILros Of this county=or GEO NJ. DAWSON Of Sara
toga viii be taken up in his stead For the next
but will be choakcd off bv the Members from his
county going strongly for Beardslcy for Attorney
Gencrni. and of course giving him tho odd shoul-
der On the Onondaga division, JONAS EARLE.
Jr. Of Syracuse (now T. NJ. will be restored.
For the West, LYMAy B.sLAScwonrHY of Ro-
chester believe is selected. There is another in
doubt.


All DAY to-daywas consumed in the Senate upon
absurd propositions from the majority to wall up
their Journal against such Messages Us the Coz
crnor has sent or may send them; and to ccnsulc
him and all who may intimate he has any lights III
all. This procedure is more alrocious and in
tolcrablc than nny which has preceded it.


In the AssELBl.Y, the Chernung Canal bill
was still on The carpet. | understand that ar
rangements arc made with tic great Regency
linancicrs here who arc Interested in the Corning
and Blossburg mines, &c. to borrow the $4,000
required for this work on nine month loan, six
per cent. at par. When this is done, appropr;l-
lions will be made for the other works on the
same terms, and as the loans will not be taken
they must stop. II. G.


The Mail DELAys.-Thc Postmaster General
has addressed letter to the Editors Of the Ma
liona lntciligenccr, with reference to the com
plants of irregu!arity in the newspaper mails He
says that the special agents of the Department are
actively engaged n investigating the of these
delays in their respective districts aud suggests the
similarity OF the numcs Of different Posto-iFccs, and
the haste of distribution Us among the causes Of
this irlcgular,v. Re also recommends that the
name OF the County well as of the particular
Post-ot'ics, TO which package ofpapcrs is sent, be
put upon the wrapper, and invites information or
suggestions on this subject from postmsstcrs and
Editors through the United States.


MARYLASD.-A letter from Hon w. d. Mcr-
rick the Speaker of the House of Delegates of
MARYLAND is published in the Baltimore papers
!, relates to communication from Hon. /. B. w.
Misunderstanding of Mcssrs. J L. Kerr and w. d.
Merrick, L. 5. Senators, the reasons why the
claims OF Gen. TowSon were overlooked By the
Senate when they had under consideration the va
cancy caused BY the dcathof Gen Macomb. and con-
til1ncd the nomination of Gen Wool, of New iork,
and including an order of the House directing the
Committee OF which Mr. Randall was Chairman
to inquire into the proceedings of Senators kerr
ard Mcrrick or the memorial OF Gen. Towson.
Senator Mcrrck. in reply, says that the proper
method to ascertain the reasons which caused the
Senae,o adopt any particular course, is to ask the
Senate itself, and not Its individual members. he
thinks that the COMMITTEES of the House has no
rish: to inquire into the dongs OF the T. S. Sen
aiors and says that he is that the name
Q! l'en, lowson was mentioned at all in conncc-
ton With the office vacated By the death OF Gen.
Macolnb they as, the reason of this he refers
them TO the President Of the United States. with
whom resides cNclusivcjy the nominating power.


TEyNEssEE.--We learn from the Nashville
Banner Of the 25th pl,, ,ha, the Legislature OF


this State had agreed to end its session (wi,hout
clcc,ins Uni,cd States scna;ors) on the 7.h of
February.


QT On TUESDAY last FAplus NJ. LAWSON, ESQ.
was elected Treasurer of the Commonwealth, oi