The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-04-02
Death of Mrs. Caaa.


Affairs; Advertisements, &c.
Death OF Mrs. Cass
1t was but yesterday morning that the re-
mains OF Mrs. Fillmore left this city for their
| final resting place at Buffalo, and last evening
| they were crossed upon the way by a telegraphic
message from Detroit, announcing the death
of Mrs. Glass; the wife of the distinguished Sc
nator from Michigan.
| General Cass was called home several weeks
ago from Washington, by telegraphic sum-
mons announcing her dangerous illness. Her
death, therefore, is an event not altogether I'M
expected; but the blow will fall none the less
heavily upon the veteran statesman, whose
| partner through the most eventful portion of
his eventful life is thus taken away. We SYM
pathise with him in his loss and in the desola-
| ton of his house, which time to him can never
more subdue
| Mrs. Cass was domestic woman, and has
| seldom, of late years, left her Western home
to mingle in the vanities of fashionable soci-
ETY. at Washington. In this respect she resem-
bled Mrs. Fillmore and Mrs. Clay, who still
resides at Ashland; or, perhaps. more nearly
Mrs. Gen. Taylor, who. even in the White
House, maintained in strict secluson the quiet,
simple habits which had marked the even
tenor of her life. Mrs. Cass is but another
sheaf gathered to the harvest of the Universal
Reaper, and she, too, has gone to her reward.
The Spells - The Administration - OmInous
Signs Of the Times.
The inaugural of General Pierce pretty dis
tinctly defined his policy in reference to the
distribution of the public plumber, and not a
shadow of doubt remains as to his meaning
from the practical commencement of the work
1t was, indeed, the great substantial issue of
the last years campaign There was no equivo-
cation, or hypocrisy, or double-dealing, about
it. The democrats made no false promises to
'proscribe prescription" as did the wings in
184O nor any of those fine-sounding but delu-
sive declarations of clemency to the Office
holders which characterized the Taylor cam
paign of ls48 Quite the contrary. The demo-
cratic party entered into the canvass of 1852
with the emphatic declarations emblazoned upon
their banners that the Augean stables must be
thoroughly cleansed-that the c"lrh;~~ --~--
be turned adrift and that the executive depart
ments of the government must be washed,
eorubbod, funaiga and ventilated, as the first
essentials to healthy administration.
The grand result Of the election, involving
this direct issue, justifes, therefore-and, in
truth. the popular verdict may be said to de-
mand-the utmost rigors of prescription against
the wings in office. as the legitimate penalty of
their false pretences and inordinate populations
upon the treasury. They have been duly warn
ed-they know their fate-and they submit
with remarkable and dignifed spirit of resig-
nation We remember we'll when the ''no-party"
scruples of poor old honest General Taylor were
broken down, and the doors were broken open,
and the halffamished wings rushed in and hur-
ried out the fat and sleek 'locofocos' to exc
cution; we remember well how they howled
upon 1.-The scaffold, and how piteous were the
sympathizing groans Of Father Richie with
every fall of the guillotine. He kept us chin
deep in the bloody horrors of the Jacobins for at
least six months. By contrast, the present gen.
tlemanly submission of the wings and the whig
press now that their turn has come. gives them
something Of the sublime port and bearing of
the ancient Christian martyrs at the stake.
But what is to be the end of all this? There
never was more prosperous epoch in this coun-
try, or any country, than the present. Labor is
abundant, provisions are plentiful, money is al
most drug in the market, the field for ac-
tive speculation and enterprise in thou
sand channels, with capital and without
capital, is almost unlimited. and was never
more inviting The gold fields of Cali
fornia appear to be only the more inexhaustible
with every ship load of the dust that is brought
away. while the mines of Australia seem to be
limited only to the monstrous proportions of
that mater monstrorun,v of the Indian islands
We have yet vast expanse of appropriated
territory. inviting the snterprising to agricul-
ture, to wealth and to happiness and thou
sand objects and openings for profitable adven-
ture on every side And yet, notwithstanding
all these advantages to men possessed of any
degree Of talents, skill, enterprise. or industry
never has there been an example Of or any
thing approaching to, the sorry spectacle Of the
hungry hordes Of oiiice-seekcrs which have in
tested Washington since the advent Of General
Pierce. We look upon the scramblng scene, not
only with disgust, but amazement; and the in
evitable idea which is suggested is, where is
this thing to end?
Can General Pierce hold his administra-
ton and his party together upon so frail
platform as this-'that to the victors
belong the spoils?' AS far as he has
gone, he has evidently been distributing
the plumber to the end, if possible, ofholding
the present cumbersome and incongruous ma
terials Of the democratic party together II
must also be conceded that in this unpleasant
task lie has exhibited q wonderful amount Of
tact and cool discrimination. The Philadelphia
appointments have thus been apportioncd with
very considerable skill and discretion. The
same nice adjustment Of the balances has mark
ed the appointments between the members Of