The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-12-22
only complicate the great question of peace with

only complicate the great question of peace wit
| Mexico.
The condition of things at Washington seem
to be equally gloomy for the prospect of peace
There is breaking up OF all the old parties-'
perfect disunion among the leaders, as to wha
ought 10 be done, or left undone. All our grea
mrn are carving to favor themselves, each hl'
particular role. Among the politicians through
out the country the same sunion, disruption
and confusion exist. Great political meetings
have been held within the last few weeks, and
greater ones still in store for us; but they on
ly tend to complicate and confuse the question
What has been settled by the great Lexington
meeting what by the two or three in Philadel-
phia what by the meeting in this city on Mon
day night? Nothing; we are no nearer the ter
mlnation sfthe war, or treaty OF peace, than we
were before. Judging from the difficulty be-
tween Gen. Scott and his brothers IN arms, there
is even more difficulty ia Mexico.
In fact, there seems to be no man fit for the
crisis in which the country is placed, but one
who unites simplicity of character, nobility of
mind, strength of purpose, and boundless pOpu-
larity and reputation, and that man is Gen. Tay-
lor. He understands the Mexican question prac-
tically; he is sufficiently conversant with all
other public questions to fill the White House
If the wings the democrats, either singly or as
a party, do not take him up, we trust the people
will commence movement in his favor, for with
Gen. Taylor we might have settlement of the
Mexican question, and we do despair of having
any rcpose or quiet till that fortunate result takes
place-his election to the presidency.
CAVE JOHNSON AND THE Posi- OFFICE DEPART
MENT.It is we'll known by the community, sad
ly known by them, that the Post Office Depart
ment of the general government has never been
more grossly mismanaged than since it has been
under the control Of Cave Johnson, the present
inefficient Postmaster General Since his ad-
vent, it has been outrageously and grossly con-
Quoted, and loud and deep have been the COM
plants by the press, of all parties, and by the
public, on the subject, but to no purpose. Every
day we have to record instances of this misman-
agement; and the losses which have been occa-
stoned, to say nothing of the inconvenience,
have been immense, and could not be reckoned
in dollars and cents.
His organs however, have commenced de-
fence for him, and have begun to hold him up to
the country as not altogether so inefficient as he
has been represented. But it is only those pa
pers which publish the post office advertisements,
at the rate of two cents per letter, which speak
in his favor. They have come forth as the de-
tenders of the bright genius who has, since his
elevation to the Post Office Department, thrown
both the foreign and domestic mails into state of
confusion and disorder, from which it will take
his successor year or more to eXtricate them.
They dig from the mountain of abuses which
have accumulated under Cave Johnson's manage
ment of his department, his retaliatory measures
towards the British government ON its action in
relation to our foreign mails. They hold that
forth in his defence, and exclaim, " See what a
jewel of Postmaster we have - Talk Of
Gave Johnson being an inefficient postmaster
Look here, see what he has done about our foreign
mails, and how nicely he has fixed John Bull !"
Now all this may be very well, but Mr.. John
sons efficiency would be much better exhibited
if he had, previous to the establishment of our
steamships, entered into negotiations with the
British government before the damage was COM
mitted, and not shut the stable door after the
steed was gone. He would not have had occa-
sion to adopt this retaliatory measure.
But, do his organs defend him for the abuses
and disorder of our domestic mails I? No, that
they can't do. Do they defend him for taking the
mails, on the Chesapeake route, frem railroads,
and sending them by post coaches, in the same
manner in which they were sent half century
ago, and with about the same expedition, be-
cause, forsooth, he could save some two or three
thousand dollars year by it, when the incon-
venience and direct loss to the public by the
change are too great to be counted? No, that
they cannot do they well know that the press Of
New York has been obliged, in self-defence, to
establish a daily express to obtain Its exchanges
regularly from the South, which 1t does, one day,
two days, and frequently three days, in advance
of Cave Johnson's arrangements.
1t is very little satisfaction to the public, or to
US, that Cave Johnson has succeeded in throw
ing the English mails into confusion, as far as he
could do So as well as he has the American mails.
No, the verdict of the press and the people is
recorded-Cave Johnson stands before the coun-
try, charged and proved to be the worst, the most
inefficient and laundering Postmaster General
that has ever been inflicted on suffering people,
and bonfires ought to be lighted, and every city
and town in the country illuminated, when he is
permitted to withdraw to his cabbage garden in
the State of Tennessee.
REMOVAL OF THE CAPITAL TO NEW YORK.
The Executive of the United States, and the
Congress, ought to be removed as soon as posi-
BILE to the city of New York, or its neighborhood
If the President and both houses of Congress
had residences arranged for them in Hoboken, or
somewhere in that neghborhood, it would be an
advantage, in every aspect of the case, to their
action, the nation, to the responsibility of the
government, and to everything connected with
public affairs. In the first place, look at the mi
SCRABBLE accommodations which members of Con-
gress have in Washington-look at the bad treat
,,a,, ,,b;cb tboy receive from, tho miserable