The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-10

| ALWAYS ready TO clutch at anything that offers
chance of advancing his suit. few days since, an
| intelligent and well informed correspondence the
| Herald. furnished our readers with calm and DIS
nass;onate ANALYSIS of the materials of Gen. Taylors
cabinet. and on this, Col Webb has pouncedwith an
aacrity very amusing, and, like the well known ia
besof Esop, perfectly Ineligible to the meanestca-
pacty. Indeed, our correspondents letter was
evidently god-send to the poor Colonel, as it af
forded him an opportunity of delivering himself of
the elaborate puff of General Taylor ant his cabi-
net which he attempts to palm off upon the public
as a reply to the communication in question.
| The Colonel starts by assuring his readers that
he has not paid the slightest attention to the thou
| sand and one falsehoods which the correspondent
of the Herald have written from Washington, In re-
laton to himself" Now this is an entirely gratui-
tous assumption on the part of the Colonel. Not
word has been said about him in our columns, ex-
cept that he was candidate for the mission to
Berlin or Madrid. Is that perfectly true? Is it
not quite well known that our contemporary has
been logging the footsteps of the new administra-
| ion in the character of an Office beggar? Has
! there been any fasehood in the statements about
his appearance at Washington in this appicatory at
| titude! Not at all. The fact is notorious We
| have not published syllable more than was known
to the whole generation of beggars at Washing
ton and the honest people throughout the country,
who stand afar off and have their own notions
| about men and things in that delectable village
The Colonel, them the very first sentence OF his
long and labored article, states that which is not
susceptible of proof
Nor is the Courier and Enquire, any more fortu-
nate in the attempt to cast discredit the descrp
ton which our correspondent gave of the highly
respectable gentlemen who now occupy the
responsible position of the cabinet advisers of Co
neral Taylor. In spirit of impartiality and can
DOR our correspondent described the character and
status of these individuals. Colonel Webb does
not impugn the accuracy of that description In
| deed, were our account of the cabinet only emas-
culated in certain particulars, and loaded with full
some adulation, it would be almost as good puff
| as that Of the Colonel. Certainly, if the two
column first rate notice." which Colonel Webb
has so eagerly printed, be acceptable to the men,
bers of the cabinet, we shall be constrained
to put them all peg lower than that notch
at which they have been placed by our correspon-
dent. If the ''first rate notice" of the General
and his cabinet, contained in the Courier be
rewarded by the to Madrid, that by
the Herald ought to have the mission Lon
don. Ours is the best-his is too much
in the forid style of the fashionable matters
and perfumers. Truly great men do not like
to be pulled and advertised like some new
chemical soap or miraculous pain-extractor.-
| Discriminating, judicious candid analysis Of his
| character and conduct, should it point out
faults and errors, cannot be displeasing to
public man of worth and talent. But as for
this wholesale fattery and grandioquent eulogy-
faugh! "Civet, good apothecary!' But, true to
his natural instinct, Mr.. Webb bepuffs and be-
spatters the cabinet He did the like to MIR.
Polk till the brigadership was refused. They
are all gods to the point of refusal The countryne
yer before sawsuch men, They are giants in in
telect"-' men of mark" This one has " SO kind
heart"-that is "a perfect gentleman in his
bearing" Thus runs the Colonel through
nearly two mortal columns. At length, after ex-
hausting hyperbole, he says that Reverdy Johnson
s'will be- in times of difficulty, the cement, in the
hands of the old General, which will bind all toge-
Their as a unit" Good gracious! Our correspon-
dent described MIR. Johnson as ga very sharp,
shrewd lawyer but Colonel Webb, who swears
he knows him better, makes him out to be, after
all, only bit of 'court plaster"
AS if to cap the climax of his transparent SILL
ness, Colonel Webb accuses us of publishing ssgos
sip in which nobody places any reliance Why,
the poor Colonel himself has done nothing but
| tail gossip during all the period Of his anxious
soiourn at Washington. His idle gossip" about
General Scott and the President has been the SUBJ
;ect of general remark. 1t not, even, like the
the novels founded on fact y and was fatty con-
| tradcted in the columns of the Courier and En-
guircr ITSELF by ga perfectly reliable and responsible
person." Even General Taylor himself does not
escape this inveterate gossip. In the very article
on which we are now commenting, Webb says
ssthat the impression which the General makes
upon all who approach him, is far more favorable
than could have been anticipatedv' singular
compliment! But then Webb has such nice way
of saying pretty things! 'Far more favorable Inn
preston than could have been anticipated!' Does
the amiable panegyrist mean to nsinuate that peo-
pie expected to meet monster in General Taylor!
MIR. Webb adds in the apologize tone of some Miss
| Lydia Languish, indicating the love which she
has bestowed on some Unlocking fellow, deeply
| marked with the smallpox, ''The General is by
| no means a beauty but his smile is decidedly fas-
| cinating!'' This almost the death of us, and
it was not without great cachination that we got
through the succeeding two three sentences, till
we reached this one, and then we fairly yielded 3
& There is affectation about him and to ladies
and children he is particularly gracious, as if he
felt that they can lest understand his nature ~
Whew Ha ha ha i!
Really, really, this is becoming serious. For
he love of all the gods, gentlemen of the cabinet,
do get rid ofMr. Webb soon as possible. Give him
whatever he wants, without moments delay. If
you do not he will puff you to ruin No admins
tration could stand more than two or three broad
sides from such doting admirer. Do send him
to Berlin, or Madrid or Constantinople, or to Coven.
| try Some place he must have.
| How THE MONEY GoRs.-Some light has been
thrown on this problem in the Comptroller's re-