New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-21
How Things Work at the Capital.

Correspondent Of The n. y. Tribune
WASHINGTON Tuesday, April 49, 1853
This mac fcenlv-lsd-out City il NJ longer what 1t
VAS nd nany If the good peOp' who now KNOW IL
sIke book will soon know it no nore0r iOur years
Al least The begg rly elements OF L0cOF Oc0lsm are
down upon us: and must be provided for White hairs
are of no account---es ecaly silver grey and long
service constitutes only claim 20 quit In SNORT the
Postmaster General says that everybody suspected OF
Whggery must be thrust Ou--lnt0 utter DARKNESS ,i5S
three assistans--whO were all retained by the wing Al
minstration- Heaven only knows what Tor, unless one
X Hall is in the secretly of course consider tne re-
moyal ofWhg clerks d-n bad business with thaiho
At nose and wink Things are done IN corner here-
and very often in horn!
Fverybody however seems good natured at least on
our side which is most striking feature OF the "hoe
business of the present proscr ptl0n fouI years aS
when Gen TAYLOR came into power, and began 10
touah.e the offices between the two parties the scene
was truly sckening. The wives, the daughters she
mothers the aunts, the sisters, the cousins anu 'o %
.ntiol family connections beseged our kndhearted Ex-
eentiye and laid an embargo upon all his secretaries
and Mead with all the energy 0tears and s0Os that e
friends sbould not be touched by official power ms
not an overdrawn picture Ii comes Tar snort OF tue
reality The Union Joined in the general howl OF ais
tess and the entire LOcoOcO press echoed the ameh-
atiop The whole Democratic party mourned ana re-
fused 10 be comorted The result was that hulureuso
bad men were retained only to suck the lie ol te party
that fed them and sting the bosom that had Warcu
them The writer well recOllects hearing wing up
braid one of Gen Tayors secretaries for his temporz
mg course in this respect, and TINS response 3
God what can a man do when there are women ana
children cry lug at his coat tails that they are roooe "
their bread ~ go
do not now know of single instance under TINS most
proscriptve administration where wing nas ~
br ouarter When their time comes they are iouu az
0eir posts erect and with open fronts No man VINO
has been in Washington can have ialied 10 lo'ioe '
shows what soIt of material Wings are made Oh
OF all the lveiied carriages That ron over oui vo
e hx far hn
The most costly and the most magnificent. As IL was d
Present il cannot be justly imputed ether 10 "IlSo
&c feelings or to extravaganza. Ana YET " u?eS NV.
Somehow look Democratic; ao when gaze On It's w.
happnes think on the thousands Oi poor men Tto
70 biindlv Given only TO the name, Democracy iho
harness that was ordered by the Wing admirers oi zen
Pierce in Boston and which they were unWllng 10 pa!
the trine of 81 800 for | am informed mas 80 ~
chased by some old cock in your CITY ana vii" i; ~
find IFS way to Barnums Museum slight decline ~
cotton is now thought To have been the cauSe VIZ! NOR
Boston folks did not pay for the harness. was NV
owing to their great crop of small POTATOES al al
Most of the removed and disappointed Scott" GleS
are now doing very well and beside, they 90 no' 00
very badly. frs+
Col Fitz Henry Warren, am told is doing hrs'-
rste business here. -. Loa,
"Urcle y Truman Smith, who has in times past oeeh
the death of so many Locotocos' is getting Iion =!
degrees out OF the copper regions VI iso
Since the election his mines have been Increasingly
Senstor Foot of Vermont is going to England to buy
iron u make railroad III GeorS'" - has oona1 IN
Edward stanley of \. c. is going OF HAS sO"'I -
California, 10 practice ia" ct,,,l ,,bo has been
Hon CHARLES Chapman, OF hartiorH n S.lO na viii
suDersedd in Congress by a Federal Democrat VII,
eo,,nn -, nracIice law in that city ana at the next
election vim in all probability, be able to " h'e MS
Present successful competitor ,,,.,. Ill no yost
Quite large number of removed hugs WIN 20 "' a
and practice agrculture-that most ennoo''u VI
Sciences. -, .o-;,as and
Others are preparing for mercantile enterPraes "
her, and tbere a weak brother will only practce a.
The bar-that is, a decanter bar lilo a.v ovsr
Eli whneys revolving pistols were tried bepg
the best shooters vet 'Tented Yours truly
TKssEssEE-Col Nathaniel g. Taylor, OF carter
EQUITY announced as candidate to represent inc i
congressional district Of Tennessee In the next ocn
gess Of the United States, subject TO the action OF