The Daily Union

THE SENATOR FROM BOSTON.

The Nashua (N. H.) Gazette--referring, we suppose, to Dr. Barker, the recently-elected State senator from the Boston district in Massachusetts--gives the following specimen of the stuff from which know-nothing dignitaries are made:

"A native of New Hampshire, he early 'left New Hampshire for New Hampshire's good.' A veteran office-holder, he clung to the spoils with the tenacity of death to a deceased African. He must have been cousin-german to the man who, when asked how he contrived to hold office under all changes of government, answered, that 'an administration must be d--d smart to change quicker than he could.' The vicar of Bray was an absolute know-nothing to this political weather-cock. A professed democrat on the eve of Polk's election, fancying that Clay's chances were best, he joined a Clay club, and as a reward for his eleventh-hour apostasy was deputed to go to the whig headquarters to get the result of the voting in New York, which it was anticipated would go for the great embodiment of whig principles. But, on the way, our new-fledged proselyte encountered a tremendous democratic torch-light procession, rending the welkin with cheers for Polk, who had carried New York by a tremendous majority, and thus achieved the victory; whereupon, abandoning his new friends, he purchased a torch, rushed into the democratic ranks, and bawled himself hoarse with cheering 'Polk and Dallas.' He held office under Polk, voted slyly for Taylor, held over under Fillmore, promised to vote for Scott, and did vote for Pierce. Being disappointed of the Russian mission or the Havana consulate--we forget to which he aspired--he finally withdrew the light of his spectacles from the Pierce administration, and denounced it, and has been chosen to a highly honorable office--let us call it a senatorship--by the know-nothing or pure American party. Hurrah for new men! Down with old party hacks! Nor is this a single instance. The elect of the secret party display many characters of much the same stamp."