The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-04-11
Washington Gossip.

washington OO6@bps
rcoxsssrorpErcs or THE lsruBLtQ.l
Mobile OStecioyship-A Feature Of Aiabens Peli
NffSsosvi-Ihe Nese Yak C6ji4 prskip-
Mr. D5ckinson's Declension-1xe Zast Aqpoistes.
A1aII \. 1853.
The Cabinet were sorely tried on FFiday over
The question Of the Mobile colectorshp, thstwo pro-
minent candidates. Mr.. Sanford. Of the Registev,
and Mr. Jones Withers, being Union men; the
other two, Messrs. Deas and Boykins, are ultra on
the other wing. The latter had no show, there
being no Alabama Senator in favor of either. For
once, therefore. field was left altogether to the
Union party of the South; yet the fight was des-
perate as if between deadly enemies rather than
sworn friends The Hon. Senator Fitzpatrick
bore aloft the banner of the excellent Mr.. San
ford, and Senator Clemens welded the spear of
Withers. Clemens had the advantage up to the
last hour; charging with an argument which
seemed likely to override the long services, great
worth, and real necessities of Sanford. This
plea alleged that he was essentially an Old Fogy-.
too old to have good thing. though he had
fought some thirty years for the party without re-
alizing the first red cent. But commission of in
quiry was instituted, and it ascertaned by the
President that, though somewhat in6rm from long,
protracted and severe labors, Sanford will not be
eclSut Until ucAt f06es AAib V1CtOIy was tu06
won, and Alabama's Senators have sheathsd their
swords for the time being. Over every appoint
ment in their State there must be similar strug-
gle between them. The whole Southern Rights
wing in Alabama is deadly hostile to Senator
Clemens, whose amiable colleague is we'll aware of
that fact. The uniform kindness of the latter to
everybody, and the success with which be manages
to be always in an extremely moderate position,
rAnderS hia in the Mems boar Ia IN
Southern Rights constituency, while his nominal
Identification with them keeps him in favor with the
Alabama Union party Democrats, who are being
deserted fast enough in all conscience, without driv-
ing off their lukewarm friends. He knows that
under the stars now shining in every quarter MIR.
Clemens must go down; and though willing to do
almost any thing in the world to accommodate,
he is not willing that his sun shall set with Jere-
mlah's. Therefore it is that the Alabama Senators
are to measure weapons over every Alabama no
mination yet to be made. Mr.. Clemens struggles
to keep Clemens party alive in Alabama. Mr..
Fitzpatrick, to escape the necessity of dying poll.
ticly, because the fates decree that his spirited
colleague must so die.
1t is thought that the anxious bench is to be oc-
cupied by their respective friends until after the
special election in August, the present incumbents
in that State being left in Office until that event
shall have occurred. Neither Colonel Benton nor
bis Democratic opponents like this determination,
it is believed, yet it both alike, neither
can complain that it is directed against them
selves. At the late Congressional election in
Missouri but i've members were CHI sen; the sub
sequent apportonment emitting the State to Sc.
ven. In redistrcing the State to send the two adj
dtiona representatives, the Democratic politicians
of the Missouri Legislature have emulated their
brethren of the Legislature OF the Old Dominion,
who of late were cutting and carving to SO stock
the cards to turn out the sitting members; eav-
ing their seats to be filled by some of themselves.
So, with perhaps two exceptions only, all the
members elected to the 33d Congress from Mis-
souri, were chosen from districts in which their
residences are not at present embraced; thus rails
ing before the next House of Representatives the
question whether their certificates of election
hold good. In August election is to be held
for the choice of the sixth and seventh men,
bers to whom Missouri is now undoubtedly enti-
tied; and the Administration, in view of that fact
intend Withholding the sugar-plums in Missouri
from all, until ascertaining whose boys-Benton's
or Atchison's-behave best. Wonders in the way
of the restoration of harmony in that quarter will
doubtless be accomplished by this novel, but, az
the sequel will show sovereign specific for the cure
of the long raging Benton and Anti Benton fevers
Many dispatches were received in Washington
yesterday, descriptive of the sudden change in the
appearance of wel-known Democratic faces in
New York city, occasioned by the declension of
Dickinson and Judge Bronson's appointment to the
collectorship. The Hards, who were patronixing
at great rate the democratic headquarters" in
ward, (that is the bars those Establishments
have suddenly disappeared, and are again looking
out for work, or mourning for the loss of the im-
mense booty which would have been theirs but for
Mr. Dickinson obstinacy in refusing the collector
ship, with the condition annexed, that the influ
of the position should be dedicated to the main
tenance of harmony upon the precise terms Of
union agreed on in State convention by the Softs
and Barnburners. The Softs are now again in full!
feather; Mr.. Bronson'a appointment being equiva-
lent to a formal guarantee from the White House
that fair portion of the five hundred Offices of
the New York custom-house, 80 recently voted
sour grapes by them, about to fall to their lot
Acorresponding change has certainly been wrought
on the countenances Of the Hards and Softs yet in
Washington. The former urged that Mr. Marcy
had "done" them in Mr.. Dickinson's appointment.
Now they are bitterly censuring Mr.. Dickinson
for sdoing' them worse in his declension Really.
thu gentlemen are hard to please.
IcHABoD.
Correspondence Of the Philadelphia North American