The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-05

Three days later advices from Europe are now
fully due by the steamship Asia. One weeks later
news from California is also expected by the steamer
Ell Dorado from Aspinwall.
The Organ Question - The Administration
and the Washington Union.
What is an organ Ask the tidy housemaid
and she will answer that it is a nuisance-espe-
cially that fellow who brings his poor ragged
child along to play the tambourine, and dirty
little monkey to climb into the windows. Ask
the devotee Of the Catholic or Episcopal Church
and he will say that it is sublime accompani-
ment in those holy duties of praise and thanks
giving to the Most High. Ask the grovelling
muck-rake politician, and he will tell you that
the organ Of all the organs is that newspaper
which speaks by direct authority as the mouth
piece of the President of the United States. The
most particular definition Of Dr. johnson is
that an organ is the largest and most harmo-
NOUS Of wind instruments of music, consisting
Of pipes which are filed with wind, and stops
touched by the fingers. 1t is blown by bel
lows"
Now, according to the political definition, and
DR.. Johnson's taken together, there appears to
be prevailing impression outside of Washing
ton that the old Union of that city is the or
gan. and the special organ, of Gen. Pierce. But
of late its music has been SO discordant
as to satisfy us all that either the man who
blows the bellows has failed to supply the wind
properly. or that he who fingers the stops does
it pretty much at random. Yet, in limited
sense, we must admit that the Union ought,
perhaps, to be the organ. To the extent of the
official announcement of the doings of the adj
ministr atiUn it may bv so. 1t could not bc we'll
otherwise. 1t is the only democratic paper Gf
We except the newly baptized RepuJlic.) within
the federal city. 1t has had the endorsement
of the two houses of Congress in the vast mass
of their printing Of the last session. 1t claims
to be the ineal descendant of the Globe-thst
muscular and terrible organ of Gen. Jackson
and though it has fallen somewhat into the de-
crepitude and infrmities Of old age it has done
nothing to deserve a formal expulsion from the
confidence Of Gen. Pierce.
But we apprehcnd that it is no: the organ of
the President in the Jacksonian and Van Buren,
sense of the word. 1t has not the office of the
old Globe, nor that unmistakeable authority to
approve, to promote, to strike down, or kick
out, the rank and file Of the party as occasion
may require 1t is not the oracle of the kitchen
cabinet for as yet there is no kitchen cabinet
it is not the power behind the throne greater
than the throne itself 1t is indeed but fee
BILE echo Of the Union under the control of
old Rather Difnbia ;z J,1I
siyely dull--it is stale, fiat and unprofita.
ble." The intrinsic evidence is in its own
columns that it is left pretty much to
guess the particular views and intentions Of
the government in advance of any action for
we look through it's editorials in vain for ray
Of light or particle of information At the
same time il betrays all the timidity and trepi-
dation Of willing servant cautious, in the alb
sence Of intruders, Of doing anything or saying
for fear Of some fatal mistake. 1t is
evident in a word, that the Washington Union
its meek denial Of the soft i'm
Of the organ. and very anxious concerning the
result of its opportunities.
Meantime, it is manifest that the Republic
gives the successors OF Father Richie consider
able uneasness. Mr. Sargent in coming out
for this administration, must have some object
in view-some axe to grind. that it would be
well to look after. Perhaps it is o candidate
for the Office of the special organ for having
served pretty well in that.oapacity for Mr. Fill
more. it may be willing to make itself useful in
the same vocation to Gen. Pierce. Then there
is the printing Of both honses Of the next Con-
gross in the foreground to the securing Of
" hch the nod Of the President, ifhe chooses to
win be quite enough, because quite
enough has transpired to show that the party
Of the House and the Senate must abide by
their own election, and that Gen. Pierce il re-
solved to lie The chief Of the whole establish
ment.
And tits identical resolution, we appre-
hcnd, has kept him thus far aloof from the dan
gers Of special controlling Washington organ.
1t is the right policy. In delegatng his an
thority to such a special agent his own official
strength must DC diminished 1t will also in
evitably demoralize his administration, as Van
Buren's was demoraized, and as the prestige
of his position was destroyed by the dictatorial
nsurpatons Of the Gf0be. We admit that no
thing could have saved him froil the corse-
1ucnces Of bis financial policy; but had he not
allowed 20 large q margin Of authority over the
party a. was given to Blair & Rivcs his over
throw would have been far less disastrous.
1t win also be remembered that Captain John
Tyler had a special organ-the .nadisonian--
edited by John Jones; and more faithful organ
grinder than Jones never blew the bellows or
fingered the stops. But Captain Tyler's adj
which would otherwise have been
regarded as very respectable was rendered RI