The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-24

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thony OFT, resigned
| THOMAS TRENoR, to be Consul of the United
States at Valencia. in Spain.
THOMAS c. DOM, to be Justice of the Peace for
Washington county, District of Columbia, from the
2otn instant, when his present commission will
expire.
| The Coming Cabinet.
Nobody seems to know any thing in regard
to the coming Cabinet of General PIERCE,
while the prevailing impression is that both the
new President and his party are likely to be
exceedingly exercised in its formation. 1t is
conceded, too, that Mr.. DIX, or some gentle
man equally identified with the Buffalo plat
form party, will occupy prominent place, and
that ne will be offset by some thoroughgong
Flre-eater and Secessionist. 1t is also pretty
generally conceded that there is no place for
Mr.. CoBB, or Mr.. FoorE, or Mr.. Downs. or
any Southern man who has distinguished him
self by the support of the Compromise mea-
sures. 1t is settled, as we understand, that all
the latter class of individuals are to be pro-
scribed, and that only politicians rank with the
odor Of Sectionalism and Disunonism are to be
selected from the South-such, for instance, as
JEFFERSON DAVIS, or Mr.. VENABLE, or MIR.
| SoULE.
Never were set of mon so miserably de-
celved and deluded as those who were deferred
at the late election by the humbug outcry of
Sewardism" from voting for General Scorr.
If the General had been elected we should
have had thoroughly national Cabinet, with
out any mixture of Secession or Abolition.
They would have been true and tried Union
men. AS it's, we are bound by an memorable
political necessity to have Cabinet in which
the Disunion elements will predominant. Not
Democrat who has struggled and suffered in
the Union ranks will have any influence or
| favor In the new organization. If any such is
| admitted to the Cabinet he will be oversaughed
by his Disunion colleagues. The result was
obvious to every rejecting man before the cleo
ton, and yet General PIERCE was elected as
better Union man than General ScoTT!
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury is
strong business paper, and proves quite satisfac-
tory 1t was surrepttiously forwarded to some of
the New York papers, and by them published in
advance of or simultaneous with it's being sent
to Congress 1t was the boast of MIR. Bulwer,
while Minister here in Washington, that he could
obtain any paper he wanted from any Department
for fifty dollars. wonder whether it is true? /
don't believe it.
-# Correspondence of Baltimore SUM-
We are compelled to fear that MI. BuLwER
was not far from the truth; not perhaps in the
amount stated, but in the substantial fact.
Where the practice is tolerated of permitting a
clerk in a Department to be the correspondent
of newspaper, it is in vain to think of pre-
serving secresy in regard to papers or facts.
Your correspondent will sell out the Depart
ment whenever he has the opportunity
The rule should be uniform, and strictly en-
forced, that no information and no documents
should issue from any of the Departments except
through its official head. And yet for several
years past intelligence of any interest in the Post
Office Department has appeared for the first time
usually in the Baltimore Sun--anticip ating the
official promulgation of it by one of its CORE
spondents acting as a clerk in the Department.
Nor has this abuse been confined to the Post
Office or to the correspondent of the Baltimore
Sua. The Norfolk papers have their CORE
spondent in the Navy Department, who fur.
nlshes them with naval intelligence of more
or less interest; and we remember that at one
time vast amount of matter was furnished by
somebody in the State Department to a CORE
spondent of one of the Northern papers in ad-
vance of its publication in the Washington pa
pers.
Copies of documents are sometimes given to
individuals connected with newspapers under
the Injunction that they should not appear till
day certain, or the happening of particular
event. In this way they are sure to get into
irresponsible hands and are always liable to
publication. A report of the Postmaster Gen
eral once, through some such channel, found
its way into print before it was presented to
Congress. So it must have been that the
citizens of New York enjoyed the benefit of
MIR. CoRwIN's report some hours before it was
communicated to either House. Who knows
how this happened2
we may add, by way Of postscript, that some
of the clerks in the Census Bureau for LONG
time communicated habitually to one Of the
New York papers all items that they could
turn an honest penny by, and we never heard
that any one Of them was dismissed or inter-
tered with for this clandestine correspondence.
The fact was probably never brought to the
attention of the head of the bureau, or the
abuse may have grown up in his absence.
AS long as this kind of correspondence is
permitted, there will always be reason to fear
that fifty dollars or thereabouts would bring
any foreign minister any document that he
might be curious to see.
Foreign Policy.
The DEMOCRATIC newspapers, under the
lead OF the Union, are making great outcry
over the foreign policy of the Administration
They are much exercised, apparently, because