Washington telegraph., 1849-05-09

ing of the steamer Monterey, which we
copied from the Natchitoches Herald, last
week, is said to be without foundation.
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RED River is receding slowly. There
is still sufficiency of water in the chan
mel to enable boats to reach Fulton,
The Ouachita, on the 4th inst, was SO
low that boats were unable to reach
Camden.
PRoscR1PTIoN.-Can nothing be done to
soothe the troubled spirit of the venerable
and patriotic Editor of the " Washington
Union" His case is an extremely des-
perate one, and unless speedily relieved,
will result in the most serious conse-
quences The fear of death, or punish
ment hereafter is a mere nothing CON-
pared to the horror he evinces at the bare
mention of the name of the End assistant
Post Master General. The gout, the
nightmare, and all the blue devils, that
ever haunted the imagination of the veri-
est hypocondriac on the face of the earth,
are meaningless in the estimation of Mr..
Richie, when he contemplates the terri
BILE axe of prescription, with which MIR.
Fitzhenry Warren is accused of making
headless the trunks of divers and sundry
Locofoco Postmasters. 1t is really pitia-
BILE and heart-rending, to witness the
squirming, twisting and screwing OF the
unbiased and unproscribing Editor of the
"Union;" and the echo of his whole pack,
Trav, Blanche and Sweetheart, at the un-
precedented and terrible prescription OF
the Cabinet generally, and of Fitzhenry
Warren particularly. They seem to for
get, that for twenty years, nearly gene
ration of usefulness, they have prescribed
the party now in power, from any partl-
cipation in the affairs of the Government,
while, for the same length of time, like
leeches, they fastened themselves to the
public teat, and tugged away at it, until
they have grown grey, and fat, and rich'
on official patronage Their battle cry,
"to the victors belong the spoils' was
carried out to the fullest extent, and the
Wings like bound boys at shuckihg g,
were compelled to stand back--they were
not of the true faith, consequently not en-
titled to any share of the booty, nor to
any place within the gift of the govern
ment. These were claimed by the de-
mocracy who, set up sort OF pre-emp-
ton rioht to all the Offices. 10 remove
Wing, was praiseworthy in democrat
ic President, bu. fol whig President to
remove Loco, is prescription. MIR. Polk
not only prescribed his political oppo-
neats, but democrats who favored the
election of General Taylor over Mr.. Cass,
were made to walk the plank, as in the
case of DR.. Wren of Natchez. Men have
been placed in Office, not because they
were better qualified than others, but,
that their services might be secured to
promote the views of their party, and In
MANY cases, where they have failed to ex-
ercise the powear thus given them, for the
benefit of the party, have been removed,
and their places filed with more plastic
material. Such has been the course OF
that party, who now raise the cry OF pro-
scription.
If the idea once gets abroad and is act
ed upon, that the locofoco party In the re-
cent Presidential election, has suffered
only partial defeat, and that consequent
". it will be impolitic for the present
Executive, by prompt and salutary re-
movals from Office of all who were foist-
ed in as partizans, to make that party
realize it's actual and unqpestionable dis
comfture-such an idea, once stereo.
typed in the public mind, land this is the
scope and aim of MIR. Ritchie's labors)
will become clog to the efficient ad
ministration of the government, and moi
a dead weight merely, but living resls
tance. The Locofoco party, if it is po
litically Hogged, (and who can doubt it,,
should, to some extent, be made to fee
that it is really So; not by unwarrantabie
prescription, but by healthtul and judlclou'
removals. Mr.. Richie, the Jack Fal
staff of the party, whatever may be nj:
instincts for his prince, can never succeed
in his efforts to inculcate this idea lnt(
the minds of the American people.