New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-06-18
From Washington - Appointments - Office
Seekers. &c.
Correspondence Of The Tnbun'

WAsHINGroN, June a. 1919
Mr.. BARRINGER of n Carolina has yet been
appointed Minister to Madrid. The announce
ment by the PennsylUani0a that he had been was
premature The batch Of foreign appointments
published in the Washington papers this morn
ing believe includes all that have yet been made
ia tho State Department Several cases have
been hanging by The eyehds for two months past )
but somehow they never reach a termination To
day the happy applicant rejoices in the near ap
proach of the bubble which he cOvets, aud while
he reaches out his hand to grasp 1t, some unlucky
missile tears off the covering and 1T vanshes -
To morrow he goes home Disappointed and hfm
IN the belief that nothing hut change IN the HoV
ernmcnt Wi save the Union from utter ana nope
less destruction There are quite too many oil TINS
class who follow IN the wake of the party, ana lhe
sooner they are "hired' the better
There is another class of applicants, however
flor foreign appointments esp&lally') whose
claims are only equaled by their talents ana
whose success would at once add 70 the sueustho'
the Administration aud b the honor oil the country
They are Wings and are recommended because
of their superiority. But they DO not sehe'aIS
succeed because there is always enough, win
inferior merit to cry them down with falsehoods,
and ply the ears of power with calumny ana mt
mated threats. What would be thought II
should be said that certain man. recommended
for a consulship by the first statesmen 10 the
country-and among them New England Purltans
could not get an appointment because he nap
pened 10 be n Catholic Shall our adopted clu-
zens of 81 wears residence be prescribed from OIL
fee Other things being equal, no complaint
would OF could be made.
The doings OF the Cabinet to-day have IN the
Home Department added seven new hls 1 p,
and taken lust that number from the Loco oV's
This is the average extent OF Mr.. hwiHg semi
weekly prescription, about which the country IL
daily made to ring from the center to the clrium-
ference Ofthe 50 900 office holders OF the Union
there is vet probably ID Loco Focos to every
Whig. many of whom have not only grown men
and corrupt upon the spoils but have become gray
m the service 1.-THE Administration should spend
twelve months in making removals II Is not prop"
BILE that the patronage of the Government would
at the end oil that time be more than equa"zeu,-
But a petted pie, when 1t has always had all the
milk, will sQueal when made to share IL win an
other even though there be All abundance. 30 Is
II with Loco-Focoism.
The appointment of Hon. A. A fEriEN"lLl'
Editor Of the Bridgeport Standard, To the mar
shsship of Connecticut. Will give great sausao-
ton TO the Wings of that State. Personally MI
Pettengill is universally popular, as Tar as MS &C
ousintsnce extends while, Potlcaly,no man mas
been more true and faithful 10 Wing principles
Mr.. Pettengil possesses fine talents he Is
graduate OF Yale College
The Cholera has killed drunken Negro IN A =
exandria The negro has never enjoyed SO mnch
freedom before, since the grass began to gro" IN
the streets OF that dilspodated town A