The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-10

The National ntelligencer gives no additional r.
movals in its paper Of yesterday morning But who BE-
eves that 'the constitutional axe" is nactive' The Post
Office Department is doubt going on with its system
Of decapation; but the appointments which are made
by the Postmaster General (under ~ 900 salary are
not reported We scarcely hear OF these deal
ngs III the dark until the stroke of the is echoed
back 10 from the press of the vicnage. The corr,
spondent of the Baltimore Clipper of Tuesday says:
'sTwo months only have elapsed since the cabinet Off.
took their seats and yet count thirty changes
thus far in Washington alone the rate of $50 per
annum. The Postmaster General and his Second Assist
ant have removed about 400 posnaster and the Secretary
of the Interior probably 100 mahas, attorneys registers
and receivers OF land offices. &c. and besides the State
Navy War, and Treasury Departments have not been idle
We speak without consulting the documents but think III
within bounds say that upwards of TOO executive reno
vas mt least have been made within the last sixty days
tie of 200 annum This does not take into
he account a the subodnaes OF many of the officers who
have been removed. good beginning for the wings, and
bad for the democrats. As the ball has commenced
rolling down the steep hill, its momentum continue
increase When collectors appointed at New|
York and Philadelphia and potmasers in the cities
they will have opportunity to make five hundred
changes and in proportion everywhere BY july they
who born with caus over their faces will see sights
II has been so long since the wings have had oppot.
nifty deca plate, that allowance ought to be made
for their Ignorance in handling edged tools. By-andby,
they will get the hang OF the axe"
The war is principally made against the land officers
marshas custom house officers, and the postmaster
The question is as il with the associates OF Ulysses
in the cave of Polyphemus, "who is the last to bel
devoured -
The intelligent Washington correspondent dom Of hs
Baltimore Sun writes, on Tuesday:
Aulong the rusnors OF the day is of some sgnh
cancy in relation to the position OF the wing party in Con
,l,1 IL gutI (.u,ay
will submit himself to the influence of either Of the
rival representatives of the wing party in Congress-e
Mr. Clay or Mr. Webster; that lie does not recognise either
of these leaders his friends and will take with
them Yhis ds,r,st will probably be mutual, and
gular sort of warfare may be antic pated between these
prnci palities Mr. Clay will into the Senate he
did in ISif not then, inf aed with hope least burn
ing with revenge for the purpose of swayng the whg
party and illuminate, resstess all who have lwar
ed him
The feeble and mid and disappointed will perhaps act
with him. while those inclined temperate will
r.jec, his dctaon Mr. Webster will necessarily be war
both with his rival whose festival il not thought fiji
TO invite his presence, and with the Executive, whose nom
nation hs did deem fit to be made.
In this clash Of powers the .whtg party lose its unity,
result be It's return tedious and hopeless
minority and the loss of all chance the old leaders Of the
obiec, of their aims
What, meanwhile, will be the position of the admins
tration towards its opponents VIII it conciate them
will il, excite it does, tleir deson! Let tho
result of Mr. Tyle pocy show what is to be expected
The intelligent correspondent of the Sun portrays with
between the President and Messrs- Clay and Webster
It is for his cabinet TO say what lesson should ncu
| upon his administration.