Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-04-07
Affairs at WASHINGTON,

President Pierce and his Cabinet do
not get along smoothly and comfortably
in distributing the spoils of office to the
greedy and expectant multitudes who
throng the Capital. A vast proportion
of them insist upon having places altogeth-
er above their merits either as citizens or
partizans, while the residue would be con-
tent with an old and threadbare coat or
a meatless and marrowless bone-any
thing to keep them from starvation, or
from the necessity of regular industry,
which they regard as about as bad.
The chief difficulty arises from the hos
tile and irreconcilable factions into which
the democratic party is divided. Between
these factions there is much less real SYM
pathy and cordiality than between them
and the wings, or abolitionists, or nulli-
fers. They united in the election of Gen.
Pierce not from any particular respect for
his character, or reliance upon his abili-
ties, or concurrence in his views, but
simply to defeat the wings and secure the
patronage of the government in their own
hands. Now: they are each anxious to
get what they can for themselves, and are
quite as solicititous each to keep the 9TH
er from getting anything. In New York
the hards and the softs are by the ears.
In Ohio the hunkers and barnburners are
at war, with determination to give no
quarter. In the South the regulars and
the fre-eaters are pitching into each 9th
er. And all over the country the sup
porters and opponents of the Compromise
Measures are bitter and unrelenting. All
these quarrels, carried up to Washington,
are renewed there more 6ercely than they
ragged at home.
To add to the perplexity, the Cabinet
is not a unit. So far from it, all the fac
tions are represented in it, and no two of
the Heads of Departments arc disposed
to pursue the same line of policy. Hence
there are reports, not without foundation,
of disageements between the President
and his Constitutional Advises, and of
Cabinet changes likely to take place.
How the Administration is to extricate
itself from these perplexities, it is not ca
sy to perceive. 1t may parcel out the
principal appointments SO that each
faction shall have reason to feel that it is
as we'll served as either of the others But
hearty sympathy is not likely to grow
up from such reflection. And between
the comparative Indifference of all factions
and the declared hostility of some there
is probably not much to choose.
Some time since, (says the Tribune
correspondent,) John Tyler applied thro'
Caleb Cushing to Postmaster Campbell
for the Virginia mail route agency for
friend, and Campbell gave him encourage
ment. Soon after, Senator Hunter ap-
piled for the same place for friend of
his. Campbell evaded the application
Next day the friend told Mr.. Hunter that
there was some difficulty, and the latter
called on Mr.. Hobbie about it but Obtain
ed no satisfaction. He went next to the |
President with no better success return
ed to the Department; Mr.. Campbell out;
told the messenger to tell him as soon as
he MIR. c. came in. At length that gen.
tleman appeared, and tried to evade the
subject, when Mr.. Hunter exclaimed, with .
an oath, "Who commands this concern" I
and then went on to damn the Admins |
tration. lie said it had renegade Wing
for Attorney General, and renegade
Virginia Route Agent, and so left in high .
dudgeon.
The Washington Union contradicts
the above piquant piece of news, but the
Tribune correspondent re-af6rms the
statement, insisting upon it that Senator
Hunter talked as profanely as represen-
led, and that the story in all its parts is
true
The nomination of Slidell, of Louisiana,
rs Minister to Central America, made
ew days ago, creates some excitement
Mr.. S. is Union Compromise man, who
vas favored by Mr.. Buchanan. Mr..
Soule and the other States Rights men
Ire very much nettled by it. Almost ev-
,ry Louissianian in Washington dcnoun-
,es it as insulting to the State and her
many well tried statesmen. Excellent
says that the President regrets
he appointment, and it may be recalled
,r declined; but this is not probable.
A despatch from Washington says that
Mr.. Kennedy, recently removed from the
,ffice of superintendent of the Census, was
lrrested in that city charged with an alb
traction of public documents, in violation
# an act of Congress.
In the Senate, on Monday last Mr.. Hun
er submitted resolution which was a
lopted, calling upon the Secretary of the
Treasury to report at the next annual ses-
ion the average prices of iron for series
# years, at home and abroad. His OBJ
ect he declared to be to establish com.
promise between the consumers and pro-
lucers of iron, by fixing limit at which
10 duty should be chargeable upon it