The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-03-29
INTELLIGENCE By THE MAILS.
Our Washington Corres,on,

Our Warrington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, March 26, 1919.
The Cabime--Mr. Webster-Mattr, AID Ja,u.,
| The Government Organ, &c.
There has been scarcely rumer a1o,t in N.
streets to-day--scarcey the shadow of fact worth
noticing. All that we have heard is, that the al
mlnistratlon have been putting their heads IN.
gether in solemn consultation as If some grave md
weiehty matter were under special adysemen,
and we are admonished that the result is an e,'
pectation or suspicion that some patry locofoco
oihce-holder or two may probably be superseded
by a decent wing or two, on the morrow If this
ridicuius mus"
Nor do we suppose that the deliberations of the
CABINET can, at this time, relate to ANYTHING Of
hisher Importance than the distribution of the
oiiices; nor do we expect that they can have the
hardihood TO resist the outside pressure much
longer.
The plan that Is understood to be adopted, is that
OF waiting TIL the incumbent loco's commission ex-
pre-; hut TINT does not apply to the clerk shlOs of
from GOO to s! therefore, these fellows
must be reached on the score OF lncapacity or dis
honesty, or bad character, o, some sort. And we
understand that there are some enterprislng wings
VINO have made the discovery that a number Of
the locooco clerks, In the departments, are men
OF BAD character, guilty OF GRIM seductions,
midnight sprees, and other habits unbecom,ng the
scrIbes OF the executive departments, and not ts
be tolerated when there are decent men who are
in want OF these clerkshps, and must have them
Now, we do say that, in all cases where any of
the aforesaid crimes can be fixed upon any loco
loco clerk he should be discharged; but then the
question arises, ID wing IN every case entitled to
fill the vacancy! About one twenty of the voters
for Old lack for President were democrats; and
10 be impartial IL the division OF the spoiIs, the
ocos should have about one IN twenty of the Off
In the distribution for Pennsylvania, the
proportion should be one in ten. In some cases of
ordinary violations OF the law, one-halt OF the fine
goes to the informant against the offender but we
should say the informant against locotoco clerk
ought not to be appointed in his place, for fear OF
come truth IN the max OF "set thief to watch
a thief" Turn out the loco if hesbe guilty, but
give to some other man than the informant the
vacancy, Tor a prylng informsr Is a customer who
is not 10 be trusted. He Is suspicious individual,
and not entitled to confidence.
Mr. " ebster Is still In the city. He Is IN the
confidence of the cabinet, and may be seen IN the
OF the State department almost every
morning Doubtless he goes up at the instance of
Mr.. Clayton, to afford hun the benefit of his expe-
rience IN the executive branch OF the government.
There are two organs for the administration In
Washington =
/. The National E,teAigemcer.
2. The National Hing.
And here the prophecy is fulfilled, that the first
shall be last, and the last shall be first; for the Intel
ige~cer. which was the last to come out for old
3uena Vista, IS the first In the confidence of his
to which we do not object at all,
nd the Wing which was the first appears to be
he last, which we regret exceedingly w.