

Correspondence OF the Herald
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ALBANY, Dec II, 1914.


The Political Pot Boiling Railroads, &c.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ESQ.,


In this geodly city the elements of discord seem
to be hushed between the argus clique on the one
side, and the Attas clique on the other. But it is
the calm which portends the storm. The waters
Of strife bitter, and run deep, and twill require
all of Governor Wrighis well known skill to bring
anything like harmony out Of the bad feeling he
will find to exist among his friends; but he is a
shrewd man, and if the Argus has the State print.
ing, and the atlas the Legislative printing, one
barn burner has this appointment, and one old
bunker that, all may b. well; but we advise all
your office-seekers TO be promptly on the spot
the "Cato of America will be prompt in his
appointments, and they will not have to wait the
ambling pace of the sold white horse" Bad luck
1t is whispered that Major Flagg will be called
by President Polk to the Treasury department
He would doubtless adorn that station, but his
friends say he would prefer to remain where he is;
having become identified with the present financial
policy OF this State, he has set his mind on having
il carried out.


We have been favored this week by meeting
OF railroad moHopollsts, representing. or rather
misrepresentlng the great line of railroad between
this and Buffalo. The privilege granted them last
winter Of carrying freight during the close of the
navigation by canal, has thrown these wiseacres
all into comrotlon, and the two cardinal things
under consideration now is, which Of these mono
poles shall take the biggest slice out OF the pc ope
and how they shall contrive to avoid paying toll
to the State. There seems to be no head nor tail
to tins convocatlon, unless, indeed the head be q
certain notorious Wall street speculator, who, noI
long since. undertook 10 come it over his friends
IN Harlem stock, for which perfidy he was made to
"suffer somc"-and the tail, the amlable cashier
of defunct red dog buffalo Bank. Remedy for
these evlls-Let the State take the roads.


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