The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-26
The New Administration, and Its Nsws-

The New Administration, and ITS Nsws-
papers.
At present, there are only two subjects connected
with the new administration at Washington, which
engage public attention-one being the removals
and amendments, the other the newspaper organs
of the President and his cabinet No very great
importance attaches, Just now, to the removals and
appointments, although we may have, by and by,
some very interesting disclosures and develope-
ments The newspaper movements, embracing,
as they do, the struggles and rivalries of no less
than three asprants for the position of the govern
ment "organ, are, on the whole, the most piquant
and attractive of the excitements now prevalent in
the city of Washington.
In accordance with limitations which we gave
considerable time since, new paper, friendly to
the administration, is about to be started, under the
management of Messrs. Buliin and Sargeant-the
former from the South, and the latter from the
East Both gentlemen possess great deal of
talent, and have had more or less experience as
newspaper writer's. If the old connection be-
tween the government and the newspaper press at
Washington, which has existed for the last thirty
years, is to be continued in all the excellence and
beauty of Its fat jobs and bad printing these gen.
tlemen have undoubtedly las good right as any COM
petors to enter the lists and struggle for the prize
Before General Taylor left New Orleans, there was
an understanding, it is said, that Mr.. Butt should
proceed to Washington, for the purpose of esta-
blshing an "organ." This gentleman had en-
joyed the confidence of the old hero, and 1t was
supposed that he of all Others could best announce
and interpret the views of the President, through
the medium of newspaper at the seat of govern
ment. But on reaching Washington, it was found
that the venerable grandsires of the InteNigencer
had idea of being pushed aside. They had
been in tribulaton for considerable length of
time, and necessity had made them desperate. BY
prescrptive right, they claimed the honor and
emoluments of the organship. Besides, they were
sustained by certain portion of the cabinet. In
these circumstances, after good deal of negotia-
ton and man9uvring, and attempts at concil a.
ton, 1t was found that the only course left for Mr..
Bullitt was, to organize separate newspaper esta
blishment. Thus, we now have a third candidate
for the post of "organ," and the contest promises
to be quite lively and exciting
!. The imbecili,y and decrepitude of the old party
organs at Washington the InteAigencer and the
Union-are the subject of general ridicule Nothing
could be more laughable than the warfare in which
these Grandfather Whteheads of the party press
are now engaged. few unimportant changes have
been made in the inferior clerkshps of the various
departments, and hundred small post offices over
the land; and 10 these aged drivellers fill their
columns, day after day, with the most magnloquent
TRADES ofvtuperation, one assalng the admlnistra.
ton, and the other defending it, in reference to mat
tiers of the most trivial interest," and about which the
public does not care straw. Some unfortunate John
Jones is removed from the Office of messenger TO
the War Department, and out comes old Mr.,
Richie, with three four columns of furi-
Gus Indignation. Jones is "martyr" Justice
has been inundated in the person of Jones. The
election of Jones has brought the country to the
brink of destruction. Every drop of the hot Vir-
gilman blood which still circulates in the veins of
the octogenaran patriot, boils with indignant re-
probation of the atrocious slaughter of the excel
lent Jones. Next day the antediluvian Gales takes
! up the cudgels in defence of the administration
showing triumphantly, in two editorials of ten
columns of extracts and comment, that the glorious
principles of the wing party have been indicated
in the eyes of the whole world, by the crucifxion
of the miserable democrat, Jones. Thus they
whine, and storm, and rave, and drivel,
From morn till noon, from noon till dewy eve,
the laughing stock of the whole country; SQUAD.
bling about some patry appointment to clerkship,
like two lll-bred brats, the Five Points, fighting
for an apple. "Infamous proscriptionr' shouts one
"Just retrbution!' screams the other. ssFalsev'
says old Richie. "You liev retorts his aged OBJ
ponent. Such is Washington journalism-such the
occupation and character of these "organs" of
party!
We have more than once taken occasion to adj
vert to the contemplate character of Washington
journalism, and our views are now reiterated by
several OF the newspapers of that very party to
which the Washington InteNigencer itself belongs.
In noticing the establishment 81 the new whip
paper at the seat of government, the Courier and
Enquirer of this city, with great deal of sy sar-
casm, twts its aged and decrepid coadutor The
Courier speaks of the ''amable responsibility" of
the LteHigcncer, but makes it out to be, after all,
superannuated, debilitated, and worthless concern
Even the benevolent and philanthropc Massa
Greeley, whose pulse throbs with so intense a love
for the whole human family, gives poor old Gales
severe thrust under the fifth rib, by quizzinp
him about his "vivacity." Fie! Fic, Yet.
these journals at the seat of the general 90
vernment, the InteAigencer and the Union, imbe-
cie, weak, silly and garrulous as they are now
acknowledged to be, even by their own brethren.
have received almost incredible sums, under the
cloak OF the public printing. The InteHigencey has
been, tor thirty years, stipendiay of the govern
ment. Millions of the public money have passed
through Its hands. The public printing has cost
the country, under this corrupt system, four times
the amount of the regular and equitable prices.
We will be prepared in few days, to present a
statement, from official documents, of the expendi.
lures for the public printing, which will sartle and
astound all who have not had an opportunity of
looking into the subject. The most fagitious cor
rupton will be thus unveiled When the public
learn the vast amounts of money which have been
poured into the pockets of these voraclous. servie
journals at Washington, they will not be astonish
ed at the violence, viruence and shamelessness Of
the contests which have taken place, under every
for the position of ''organ" to the
government.