The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-12-30
ErenInE. Dec. Be. 1889
wAsMneroH GossIP.--The Washington

TUESDAY evening. Dec. ss. 1859
WAsHEeroE GossIP.--The Washington
correspondent Of the Cincinnati Gassits says
that "the rival houses Of Cass and Buehan-
an, are at deadly feud, Ia the struggle for as
cendaney under the new dynasty. From re-
cent indications,i il has become probable, both
will be set aside, since the preference Of
one. would be regarded US an intentional dis
paragement of the other. The contest may
finally relieve the new President from an
overshadowing influence, which it might
have been difficult to have brooked in an ad-
ministration, where he was acting as the
nominal and ostensible head. Gen. Pierce
understands his own position sufficiently
well to know, that the presence Of either
Mr.. Cass or Mr.. Buchanan in bis Cabinet,
would divert attention from the Executive, to
the power upon which he leaned. Hence it
may be inferred, he will not be anxious to
obscure himself, and that he will discover
abundant reason for excluding both these
interests, on the plea, that discord in the par
~, would be the inevitable consequence of
the selection ofeither. He is polite enough
to appreciate the value oil mediocrity, and
will take care, therefore, not to embarrass
himself with advisers, who may be danger
Gus as rivals for the succession, or who will
have power K ability enough, to raise up OPP
!, position, when personal interest or ambition
may need such an expedient."
Gas the majority in the Senate have pref
ty we'll determined that President Fillmore
shall not fill the vacancy on the bench ofthe
Supreme Court, before the close Of his term,
efforts are now being made to secure that
important and responsible Office under the
new President. Mr.. Senator Downs, of La,
whose term will expire on the 4th Of March
next, is among the anxious seekers, and 1t
has even becn said that his Lame has already
been brought to the notice Of Gen. Pierce,
with a view Of securing a presumption right.
There was a period in our public history,
when the fact Of soliciting such an office
one SO far removed from the struggles of Or
binary politics, would be of itself, a disqual-
? flying reason; but in these latter days, every
2 sense of propriety is disregarded in the fierce
scramble for preferment. tits a melancho-
Iy sign of degeneracy, to witness under any
Administration, or any state of Circumstance
a es, that sort Of decline in public morals
: when the Court Of highest judicature is traf-
licked away among partizons, the common
! perquisites Of political management"
g "The Committee of Ways and Means are
s making unusual efforts in the preparation Of
$ the annual supply bills, and if they should
o continue to progress at the present rate Of
s expedition, all the appropriations will be re-
ported during the ensuing month. There is
a vast accumulation Of unfinished busines'
living over from the last session, which nigh
easily be disposed of, IL this ordinary routine
was once completed. But cabinet making
It and the partition Of patronage, seem to b'
J. insuperable obstacles in the way Of practica
legislation and the m jOrity manifest no dis
" position to al andon them Tor more impor
tant purposes.
n The correspondent Of the New York En-
r. press says that "thore are moe democrats q
% office to-day than there are whigs, and if you ex
y cept the heads of Departments, who mus
be changed, as a matter Of course, there no
lie been, and is, much more money paid I
'e them IRON the National Treasury than to tn
VI Wings. These are not random assertions
but are made upon a careful statement o
u fncts. There are bureaus and Offices wher'
there are many more democrats in office thai
Wings. The Comptroller Of the Treasury
8, Elisha Whittlescy, has thirteen clerks, MIN
of whom are democrats. Not a democra
- has been removed by him, and not a VIII
" appointed, except to fill vacancy"
is While the opposition always acts uPo
m the maxim, "to thevictors belong the spoils,
', defeat Of the Wing party will be inevitabl
so long as a Wing administration prescribe
its own friends and rewards it's enemies.
The Republic says that ga new flood
ne shinplasters are now circulating in our con
of munity, purporting to be issued by the Ban
is, of Columbia, the Bank Of America, the Ban
a. Of the Republic, the National Bank, and th
Freeman's Bank, and dated in this city,
a These institutions purport to, and may prof.
| a ably for the present, redeem their issues
dy offices in this city; but are they wholly n
sponsible in law, and are they not in dire
he violation of an act o. Congress, prohibitir
of the circulation of bank notes under the d
ID, nomination Of S5! Who are s~tockholde
~ and directors Of these so-called banks! A
he they known IN this community! The e
1T. ample already dearly furnished our citizel
to- in the failure of the Bank Of the Union, al
IN the Potomac Savings Bank, should put the
nat on their guard against receiving this mise
able trash as currency. Touch not, hand
rho not, is the safest policy to pursue, now tn
-. gold dollars are sufficiently abundant for
in business purposes"
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III Our LEGIsLATURE.-Our neighbor, I
ev' Enquirer, in speaking Of the proposition nc
) of before the legislature to abandon the pro
ach tice of publishing the luwsin the newsr
pers, makes this remark:
tnlb uTho.a 4, ma roaaon in fnvor of the nj