The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-20
Our washington Correspondence.

WASHINGTON, April Is, 1917
Removals. and Appointments Ne,c Paper, tn
Republic "A Crazy Man an the President!
House, &c,
Although five or seven hundred removals have
already been made by the administration, there are
many now here, who complain that the work Of
decapltatlon goes slowly on. II heads are to be
cut ef, do i at once, and let there be an end OF
what is called "reform,, or, as the democrats
term it, "proscription." The course pursued, the
broken doses, is nothing to the death-producing
draught TO the entire bulk of the locofoco office
holders Let all the tears be shed over one COM
mon grave, and but one song OF lamcntation be
heard over the land.
Within the last two or three weeks three leaders
Of the democracy in this District have been turned
out-three who were prominent on committees and
IN the political document room, vlZ:-Irother
Seignstack, the Warden of the Penitentiary; Gen.
McCalla the Second Auditor, and Lund WASH
lngton, Jr., twelve or fourteen hundred dollar
clerk in the State Department. There are others
who have been ousted and more who have intima-
tons to pack up their clothes and depart and the
comfortable assurance is gwen that on the first of
May, there are to be improvements" made in the
business regulations of the departments. Alto
gether, there have been about forty appoint
ments in this city, out of the seven eight hundred
incumbents, thirty-seven of whom are blacks. In
the course OF week or two, II is confidently said,
and after the Virginia elections, the axe is to have
wider swing.
The prospectus of the new paper, proposed to be
edited by Bulllt and Sargent, has been printed and
privately circulated. Inc sentence, that 1T VIII
be the organ of no person, or party, or fraction OF
a party, in that compulsory which will hinder
II from speaking boldly and candidly to the people
about whatever II concerns them to know" proves
the truth OF my expression in "A former letter, that
the paper will. If established be ''independent."
In tac the editors declare that the 'Rcp,ibc" will
'dis cuss public measures in an impartial lndepen-
dent spirit" General Taylor has not encouraged
this undertaking.; he has not been consulted in re-
latIon oft. Hehas the wisdom to see that ifa third
paper were established as an organ-an s'indepen-
dent one-it would be equivalent to turning the
National InteliigencG and the National Jp1jg our
Of office, for ''nterferlng in elections" and this
would not be tolerated by many of the whip partv
But il must be understood that, while the "Rs-
public" is not to be established under the auspices
Of General TAYLOR, he will not interfere with ii; for
he has no inclination to do II is private un-
dertaking by talented and enterprizng men, and if
the administration pursue an honest course, Gene
raj Taylor will ''ask favors, and shrink from
responsibility
A man from New York, named David Marble
who lsbored under partial alienation of mind en-
tered the Presidents House yesterday, and fright
ened the ladies' and gentlemen there assembled in
the East room and the hall, by paradlng with a
pistol to his head. This morning, he was arrested
while in the act of entering the House with the re-
vover IN his hand and on promising to leave the
Slty lnstanter, he was released on his parole of
honor. G..