The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-04-15

round MN. Ihey know the President IS honest,
and they know he is unsuspecung. They know he
is net interested in these claims. They know he
is just man, and has no need OF such a cabinet TO
pass his former accounts as General or as Presi-
dent. They know he has no Claims upon the pub
lie treasury, that are not just and right No honest
man, no honest press, and no honest party can or
dare stand up and defend the odium of such official
corruption and rascality. What sorry spectacle
is exhibited TO the country and to the world by this
state Of things! II is disgraceful TO the nation A
popular President elected--a strong and intell-
gent party in power-and year has passed, the
administration that commenced with such brilliant
auspices is covered with shame and humiliation.
Not single man of character, in either house of
Congress, to defend il. In the Senate two polti-
cal trcksters and Adventures only, 10 countenance
il occasionally; and in the House, few supporters
who have sold their adhesion for an office in pros
pective, when their constituents renounce them!
Who has made this astounding change, Who
has brought our honest old President TO this low
and humiliating degradation z Has he done it by
any act of his own! No. II has been brought
about by his cabinet alone, and the President, it is
said, now sees il. He feels keenly his position,
and the cabinet are trembngly awaiting his ac-
ton and his decision That he may decide for
his honor and fair fame we hope and trust. There
is but one way-remove the men who form this
cabinet. They are the guilty ones. They should
and must 90 knowledge Of men is one of the
greatest attributes of great and efficient executive
officer-of the chief magistrate of our mighty
Union. What contrast do the members of the
cabinet Of every administration that has preceded
this one present. Look at the glorious and gifted
cabinets of Washington, the Adamses, Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, Jackson. Then look at the
cabinet Of President Taylor! Would not such
statesman rs John c. Calhoun or Henry Clay, had
such been President have read these men like Il
printed book Could they have been deceived
with such a cabinet !! No; no. They would have
seen through them. They would have known the
history of these men from first TO last. They
would have known that good fruit don't grow on
weeds; that eagles and lions don't spring from tom
tits and jackasses-that statesmen and cabinet
ministers are not made out OF bank SPECTATORS and
small lawyers. General Taylor, honest and patri-
otto as he is himself, might borrow leaf from the
example and experience of these eminent civilians;
and we believe every Independent press in the
Union viii join cordially in these sentiments, and
cannot conscientiously support worthy Presi-
dent until he gets rid of these people, and chooses
for cabinet other and different men.
The PROMISED REFORMS or THE COMMON
CorNCu.-Whcn the new charter became law,
the world was led TO expect wonderful things from
its operations; and when the present members of
the Common Council sought their seats from the
people under that charter, they made large pro-
misses Of the mighty reforms they were TO accom-
plish; but what has become N the performancesl
January passed away with abundance of talk and
foam, but no reform. February passed away with
the same result March expired as fruitlessy
and we are midway in April, and what can
the Common Council lay their finger on that is
crcdable 10 themselves, or advantageous TO the
public! Three months-nearly four, have elapsed,
during which there have been more meetings than
ever tool place in the period (hcy are all 10
lie paid for at the rate Of 81 per for each) and
the best that can be said of them is that no great
amount of evil has been peIperat.d tho time beno
chiefly consumed in everlasting talk; but as for
any good, il would be as difficult To find il as a
grain Of wheat in bushel of chaff. The only
thing worthy Of note that has been done under the
new regime, is that they have voted salaries 10
themselves.
The former Council were kicked out of Office
for their gross neglect Of the public welfare, their
inattenton 10 the Cleanliness and the health Of the
city, together with their lavish expenditure Of the
public money. Blu, how are the people better off
10y the changed Is it not from the frying pan into
the fret And do not these gentlemen stand con-
viced Of having obtaiRed their election under false
pretencesl The city-was never more abonnably
filthy than il is al the present moment. Gowhcrc
YOU will. nuisanccs assa your losthing senses.
The sunkcn lots, the piggeres, the COW stables,
the bone-boiling establishments, the slaughter
houses the obstructcd sewers are all 50 many evil
dcnccs rising up in judgment against the negcci Of
the city fathers. What measures have been taken
TO carry general system of drainage, that will
thoroughly drain every street. and lane and alley
a SANITARY arrangement achieved in other cities a,
a cost Of MANY millions of dollars, but which could
De- accomplished in New lor, az a comparatively
small cost. nature hayng done 81 much that little
is l.lt for man Ia do There is a dccliyity from
the ridge ~ the island To the TWO rivers which
wash its shores on either side, aud which. like two
greai~cavengcrs, await the filth and oal, To sweep
them away TO the iathomlcss depths of ocean.
Have the Common Council co-operaied with these
uncommon natural advantages. in order TO the ru-
rifcaton Of the city Nothing. absolutely nothing,
has been done, and the summer is now upon va,
when the ANGEL Of death spreads his wings ON the
Hast, and lrools over the unclcan places with The
same uncrring certainty that the carrion attracts
the vulurc
Yet. while nothing is done 10 rurify AMI improve
the city, the TAXATION is increasing 50 fclrfuy and
rents are becoming 30 startling. that our citizens
are running AWAY Ia New Jcrsey. IIol-,kcr, brook
lyn and Willamsbureh. to avoid the crushing
weight which unfortunately mus, fall on those
who remain behind. II there were any thing useful
or salutary TO be shown for the enormous eNpcndi-
ture, people would become rcconcied 10 their
doom; but when they see the city Of New York
the thicsi and worst governed in the United States,
or in the civilized world, and the taxation az the
same time swelling like a destructive avalanche
that increases as II goes, u u no wonder they
should ic scared and terrified by a state Of things
which. ind, dually. they have not thu power to
control or rcciiiy. Retrcnchmcnf was on &c tie
promised reforms. Where j. IL Echo answers
" where r. Tho truth i, tina, the Common Coun-
ell have been So busy in making clap-trup speeches