He thanks McMaster for his letter of Feb. 4 which manifests an earnest interest in Pendleton's success. His notions of propriety and dignity do not permit him to engage actively in his own behalf. McMaster has read correctly the two gentlemen in Ohio whose personal relations he well knows as shown by his letter. They are both old Whigs, converts to the Democratic party. Finck is the more radical, being more quick and active of mind, while O'Neil was the partner of H.J. Jewett, a candidate for nomination for Governor of Ohio on the Democratic ticket. He is now connected with the family of Cox' wife who was formerly of Zanesville. There is an attempt being made to use his intimacy with Clement L. Vallandigham in a way to injure them both by pretending that they have combined to parcel out good offices. No detriment will come to either from the straight-forward interest they feel and express in each other's success. He will have four members in Ohio delegation, with his chances for Finck, O'Neil, LeBlande, Hutchins, Bliss, and Johnston; nearly all the Pennsylvanians; all but two from Indiana; all from Illinois unless they have a candidate; all the Kentucky men who will go into caucus; and Maryland, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island cannot be spoken for. He can say nothing for New Jersey. His opinion concerning all of them is confidential. He is turning his attention to Ohio but not forgetting other places. He cannot cope with the peculiar industry of his competitor who begs and solicits aid even after having been turned down once. No office is worth the humiliation of one refusal to Pendleton. He doesn't think such a plan will be successful against the type of men there are. He asks McMaster to open and keep up his correspondence with the Ohio members, who are men with brains and can be influenced by a man like McMaster. Vallandigham's speech out West is being published in the papers there, and may be published in Pennsylvania and quite a number of New England states. Why is it that New York alone fails to do so? Is there a local influence at work with Democrats in the center and William H. Seward and Thurlow Weed leading the right wing as Convay described it the other day? He wonders if Yankee influence has found a way to run the Democratic party on a war platform with no higher object than cutting out every peace Democrat, in the meantime, and then having obtained power, going for peace too. The people will not stand for the State being broken by the West even if the politicians will. Those who keep their eyes open will certainly see. ` P.S. The copy of the Statesman contains as many false reports as truths about the speakership. Some papers have merely said a kind word for Cox; some have done the same thing for both of them; some have come outright for Pendleton; and the names of his newspapers are suppressed. He has no interest in any newspaper. The article is all bosh "nobody hurt" by it, :: I-1-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.