The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-03-03

men of sense have brought against our colleges
and schools, is that they have not kept up with
this electric age-that they have TOO much Of the
monastic spirit still left Our best educated men
in colleges, are not fitted, by the present system
OF education, for the practical business of life; and
those who shine brightest in the university, often
accomplish the least when they leave it, Their
system is all theory. No young man Is likely, by
his college education, to become prepared tor life,
Its struggles, its suerings, its efiorts its drsap-
polnimenls, and Its heroic endeavors. Emerging
from the academic groves Of the university, the
scholar goes out dreamer; but the exigencies Of
life in this age compel him to be worker; and
in the great business of citizenship, under such
government as this, he finds that his books, over
which he burned cut unmeasured quantities of
midnight OIL are nearly as useless to him as was
the sack of pearls which the famished and ex-
hausted wanderer over the desert found, when he
was dying for want of bread. This learned pro-
lessor, in whose remarkable letter were con-
tanned some of the widest vagaries that ever
sprung from an academic brain, rallied against
the press, as the ''seIfelected" priests of po-
pular opinion, and gave his hearers to under
stand that its principal business and influence
consisted in destroying what had been achieved by
former ages. He would have us quietly close our
printing Office extingush the fires which burn night
and day, to keep the engine ceaseessly working on
its great mission, ostrac,se liberty of thought, and
submit literature to censorship composed OF
priests and monks and, in word, go back one or
five centuries to discover the true philosophy of
life. Surely so cool proposition as this would
be received only with contempt; but 1t is one OF
those significant illustrations We are sometimes
furnished with, going to show what the dreamers
Of the cloister and the schools would do if they
could have their way But while the never-tinog
clsnk of the engine is heard, and steamers are
ploughing up the deep Of every ocean, and tele-
graphs are flashing light over every continent,
Professor only made his hearers think of
whiffet dog, who barks at the steam car rolling
over fifty miles an hour. No, gentlemen of the
porco, this will not do in our times. Louis Philippe,
Plus TX, and the modern Professor" three hail
fellows'-ought to have meeting some fine even
ing and see if they cannot do something to stop
mankind from going to the devil
REMOVALS AND APPoINrMENrs.-It Is perfectly
well known throughout the country, that there
never have been 20 many removals from Office,
within so short a time, as have been made since
the present cabinet came INTO power. Never, since
the formation of the government, have there been
so many removals, under any administration, as
there have been under the present. This we
assert as matter Of fact, susceptible of proof, If
1t were worth while to produce 1t. Now, II is
very well known that all these removals have
been made at the instance of the cabinet, in
direct violation Of the promises Of General Taylor,
and, as every one q aware, great many, indeed
a majority, Of the new appointments have been,
and are to this day, utterly incompetent to per-
form their respective duties. This Is admitted to
q great extent by the organ of the cabinet at
Washington, in the following paragraph
IL possible that In instances, mistakes have
been made in olps the many offices In which change
This Inconvenience was unavoidable IL was incident to
the dchsrse Of the duty dsvolvsd upon the executive
into which the people Of the country ere divided.
We shall take the liberty Of altering the last SEN
tence ofthis paragraph a title, by substituting the
word cabinet for executive" Having done
that, we will take the liberty of exclaming
"Fudge !" and the author Of the paragraph knew
that he was writing fudge when he indned it. He
knew, when writing it, as well any one else does,
that, In the matter Of removals, prescription has
been prescribed by the present cabinet; and that
from the highest officer down to the lowest, there
has been an indiscrimnate system of removing
from office, for opinions sake, the like of which
has never been witnessed under any previous
administration. AS we have repeatedly stated,
these wholesale removals were not made at the
instance Of the President lie knew nothing
about them, and we venture to say that he is
much mortified at what has been done in this re-
spect by those in whom he confded, but who have
abused the trust reposed in them. What humbug
l.. 4 ~. a. IL.
public IN this way IL the organ Of the cabinet
were to preach till doomsday, it cannot alter the
fact-and that fact IL, as we have said, that pro-
scrpton has been prescribed, and that the same
cabinet have and are at tins moment deceiving and
dupng the honest old patriot whs occupies the
White House. The idea Of ''equalzing favor among
he two great parties" is 80 supremely ridiculous,
that to make any comment upon It would be TO de-
prive IT OF the only effect which it can exercise.
TrLrerAFnc OUTRAGE. - Some malicious persons
saved down pole and cut the wires Of the House PHI
lsdslphis line, In Eve or Elk places Newark,
Friday evening, sbsut half past nine o'clock This Is
the second time the thing has been done at tina.
place within the les. months II IL pretty we'll
deutood st the Office Who 10 engaged In this business
and We would recommend caution hereafter.
LAIR FROM RIO nv JAsrHo.-Ths bark d. Godfrey,
Capt Yours from rio de Jsnsiro arrived at this port
last evening, bringing dates to the 18th Of January
Capt reports that the yellow fever had made Its
Appearance ct that pls,ei and that the Prince, the
next heir to the throne had died from Its effects few
days previous to bis sailing from that port
L.rr rrox BsnMup.-By the arrival Of the clipper
brig Falcon, Captain Pitt, from Bermuda hav.
ceived fes Of the Royal Gsss, Ber~sda Hrad and
the BsrmrSian, to the 2Ith ultimo. They contain
thing of interest except shipping intelligence. which
viii be found In another column.