The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-04-12

il is q generally accepted axiom, that where
there is great deal Of smoke there must be some
fire. We have heard great deal lately, OF dis
uption Of the cabinet, from every source, wing as
well as democrat, and we are inclined 70 believe
that General Taylor has at length perceived that,
in the matter of selecting his cabinet he committed
an GORGEOUS error in taking, as his constitutional
advisers, such men as John M. Clayton and his
associates. General Taylor has always held high
position in the confidence and esteem of the Anne
rican people, but il cannot be denied, even by his
most intimate friends, that his administration has
been brought into discredit and disrepute, by the
unfortunate selection which he made of cabinet
advisers. Ar bad luck would have il, he gather
ed around him men who were possessed of no
thing but low and fox-like cunning and had no
idea above paltry intrigue for personal or party
purposes. The constitutional advisers of a Pre-
sident Of the United States ought to be men
Of compre heneve intellect, Of undoubted patriotism
and of soul that would spum to sacrifice or
jecpardize the great and exalted interests Of the
country, TO any private or party purpose. General
Taylors cabinet is not of that character and never
was 1t has never represented either the views of
General Taylor or those of the American people,
any subject, especially that connected with our
foreign relations, the cabinet management of
which. since they got into power, has been unsa-
tisfactory, ant-na tional, and anAmerican, in the
highest degree. If an explosion has not already
taken place, il may, we Think be looked for be-
fore very long.
The House of Representatives yesterday trans
acted business Of any special importance, if we
except the bill reported by Mr. Patten, establishing
mail routes in California, Oregon, Minnesota and
New Mexico. We have not yet heard of the de-
tails Of this measure but it is of the greatest impor-
lance that there should be a speedy and regular
postal arrangement in new territories, which
rapidly being populated by our citizens. If
the mnes in California prove as productive as there
il every to believe they will, Cali onia and
Oregon will, in a few years, become as important
States on the Pacific side of the confederacy, as
New York is on the Atlantic. We look upon the des-
TIMES Of Oregon and California SINH ar. The one
is bleeecd with agricultural equal, if not
superior 10 any Of the oil States. She has got
timber in abundance, well as water power. She
has fisheries, the like of which cannot be found
elsewhere. California possesses none of these, or
if she does, il is TO a limited extent II cannot be
supposed that We, on the Atlantic, are always to
eupply California with what she needs. The time
must come, and come il will coon, when Oregon
will supply all the wants of the gold country of
California. Oregon and California, therefore,
being linked together, and the destiny of each
being brilliant, il is of the highest consequence
that the inhabitants should, at the earliest moment
poseble, be supplied with mai fac tiles elua to
such as are enjoyed on the Atlantic coast.