The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-30

lot be idle, even among the butterflies. And
who can resist the atmosphere of the ballroo
the gay assenblage, The bright eyes, the fair
forms, the sweet faces, The music. the magic,
the youth and beauty there? II can't be dooe.
Under such influences, if you can catch him,
even Benton becomes genial, and Bright may
be conciliated, for "hard" as he is in the
Senate, at the soir6e he may be subdued by a
smile
| What a contrast between this facinating des-
/ cription Of the working Of the gold mines At
Washington and those OF California and Austria
| liza
| The difference between Mahomet's parad Sc
and the miseries Of Ireland is not greater. 1t
| is just the difference between supper Of oys-
| tiers and champagne, surrounded by captivating
| hours, and cold dinner Of salt pork and sea
biscuit in the Dead Mans diggings, enyhoned
| by yelping Indians. sAnd the contrast between
| the wealth Of the mines ut Washington and
| those of California is just as great-the latter
yielding fifty millions year. and the former
| calculated to yield five hundred millions during
| the present Congress, if worked to the bottom.
| Such is the grand programme OF the spoils-
men, Five hundred millions! And all things,
too, indicate their success upon grand scale.
We have spoils administration and spolls
Cabinet with the chief of spoilsmen at the head
OF it; and he is always for the spells. When
not in Office he has been among the spoils-
men in the lobby, and lie will probably end his
career among the very thickest Of the gold dig
gers at Washington. And the House is in for
the spells; and the old party leaders of the
Senate smell the spoils, and are on the track.
The mines must and will be worked The gold
is there and must come out. They may discuss
N Congress, the slavery question, the Monroe
doctrine, the army, the navy, and anything else;
but behind the dust and smoke, and under cover
OF all the proceedings, speeches, moonshinc and
clap-trap for Buncombe, the gold diggers will
look like beavers after the spells. In word,
this is to be the great session of the age--the
greatest for the spoilsmen and the spols.
GEN. ScoTT AND MARcY's CABINET ScAvES-
GERs.-One of Marcy's cabinet scavengers at
Westinghouse little penny paper !here-states
that Gen. Scott who was SO outrageously
abused by the New YORK HERALD during the
by fattery and praises from us. We never
abused Gen. Scott. We opposed his election in
1852 on certain political grounds; but that OPP
position was open, frank manly, and honorable
to both parties alike. We acknowledge the
high merits Of Gen. Scott as military chief
tain, as a gentleman and as amau We OPP
posed his election because we were afraid that
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free soil interest in New York and the North.
We acknowledge now that we were in error in
that belief, and that the election Of Gen. Pierce
has brought about a greater evil in that respect
than could even have resulted from triumph
involving the advancement Of free soilism I'M
der the Seward influence. This greater evil is
the restoration of the Van Buren, free soil dy-
TASTY in this State.
We deny, therefore, that we ever abused, in
any true acceptation of the term, General Scott.
Yet we are sorry to say that Gen. Scott, in one
essential particular was abused in the columns
Of the New YORK HERALD: and that abuse,
without our knowledge thereof at the
in mean, cowardlike and skulking man
ncr. We allude to o document called mill
tary review or history Of Gen. SCOTS career.
The IN CT tic committee at Washington,
which had the superintendent Of the arrange
ments for Gen. Pierce's election applied to US,
through their chairman, and wanted us to pub
lish that abusive military review of Gen. Scott's
life. We required to see it first. Mr. Penn,
member Of Congress from Louisiana, brought
the document in proof sheets to us. We de-
clined its publication at the time, on account Of
the injustice done in it to the military renown Of
Gen. Scott. Mr.. Penn who was stopping for
the time in this city, took the paper away, and
again returned in day or two, requesting US
to publish it, as it came, he said, from one Of
The most distinguished statesmen in the land.
We did not then know that be alluded to
William L. Marcy, who was a. that time secret
" experimenting the publication Of the abusive
review in question. We looked at the paper
again ard told Mr.. Penn that if we published it
we should accompany that publication with an
editorial article condemning the spirit and
character OF the document Again he took the
paper away, not consenting to its being pub
lishcd on these conditions. In day or two he
returned, for the third time, we believe, and
requested us particularly to publish the paper
against Gen. Scott with any remarks we might
choose to accompany twith, in order, as he said,
that it might find its way amongst this great
community-a thing which it could not do in
any other form. With great reluctance ct the
time we consented to let it appear. for we al
ways had high admiration Of certain portions
Of General Scotts life, particularly Of his bril-
liant military career, and his gentlemaniy and
honorable demeaDor as q man and as public
character. But it was pressed upon US, as We
have shown, again and again; and at length we
Yielded, and published this paper, issued Ivy the
democratic committee at Washington, and writ