The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-10

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policy of his friends has so far been capital They
first began by declaring that though no applican
for Office, it would never do to let him go withou
one, as experience showed that he would be SURF
to bolt in any ouch contingency, and that he is By
long odds the most dangerous man, when boiling
in all the country. Their next move was to create
the impression, as far possible, that the Admin
istration stand in such dread of his boiling, that
! they can hardly dream ofany thing save the terri
BILE endorsements and dsappeintments which
are surely to result from failing to throw every
thing in their gift at his feet that he ma suit him.
self without STOPPING to intimate that he desire.
any thing Their third card played was success.
full effort to create the impression in Washingto
among the outsiders, that the Administration be-
lieve him to be the most important public man in
the country, on account ofth positive value of his
countenance-of his active and earnest support. So
adroitly have they managed this work, as TO super
induce very general belief here, among the
Democrats, that in his case the old saying-biess-
ed ia ne who asks for nothing, for he shall not be
dlsappolnted-is about to come true to the letter.
have no idea that any member of the Admin
istratop has been directly affected by either of the
expedients of the industrious friends of this gen.
| teman, yet they must be almost more than hu-
man to avoid being influenced by the effect of their
eIectioneering on the minds of the many outside
Democrats now here from all quarters ofthe Union.
MIR. Wise, throughout the whole of the canvass
occurring since the I'd of November last, has shown
that his political sagacty is equal to his eloquence
which is saying much, indeed, for him. His every
move has been so far as successful as bold.
As the public are asking why it ia that the Off
cial head of Mr.. John B. Preston, Surveyor Gene
raj of the district of Oregon, still remains on his
shoulders, every other Wing Surveyor General
having been decapitated, ] may remark that his
exemption from the common fate of such Whig
mortality probably results from the fact that the
legislation of Congress has complicated the du
ties of his position, making him a Receiver and
Register, as well as Surveyor General, as to rem
der it a rather dangerous experiment to substitute
any other gentleman in his place in the present
condition of his Office. Up to last accounts from
that quarter he is understood to have managed the
many duties thus confided to him much to the sat-
isfaction of the Government, who are believed to
realize that to swap him off at this time will be
likely to result in little future trouble in con.
nexion with the public land operations in Oregon
The selection of the Harrodsburg Springs with
two hundred acres attached, for the site of the
proposed Western military asylum, in preference
to the Blue Licks, gives eminent dissatisfaction to
the friends of the latter locality in Washing
ton. Some of them cannot realize how it comes
that General Scott didn't cotton as much to the
Blue Licks on this occasion before the Presiden-
tial election. The wags ineising, in fact that
the Generals mortal aversion to these same Blue
Licks settled the question in favor of Harrodsburg
at 100 900; Though the Licks aforesaid, with four
hundred acres attached, were offered for $50 OOO
1t to be estimated that the Harrodsburg site
ia worth in open market some $50 900. If go
Uncle Sam has come off better in this trade than
in the purchase of a site for the Memphis Navy
Yard, having to pay only twice as much as the
property is really worth. However, fifty thousand,
here there, is a mere circumstance to the Gov
eminent in the matter of getting the very best
possible location for such establishment.
The Democratic politicians about Washington
are just now calculating that Mr.. Auditor Day
toms official existence il rapidly drawing to a
close-very rapidly, indeed Though it may be
that no distinguished political friend of the Adj
ministration has designated Mr. DPS Office as the
one for which he is holding out his hat, there
are certainly three four hundred of these gen.
tlemen demanding auditorships. among them be.
ing twenty for each such Office in their gift whom
the Administration would very properly like ex-
ceedingly to crafty. So, if Mr.. Dayton remains
in Office for month longer, there Will be rea-
sonable ground for great astonishment indeed.
ton, and Burt, have not only appointed Mr.. G co.
Humes, of Maryland, (who was decapitated by
Mr. Forney. it will be remembered, being found
guilty under indictment for WMggery,)
to clerkship in the Third Auditors Office,
but they have just had the temerity to vio-
late the office hunters code by reinstating in
the same Office Messrs. Scott, Winter, and
Beattie, Wings, removed few days since.
presume that an indignation meeting will
forthwith be held at Browns, corner of PennsyI.
vana avenue and Sixth street, to invite Secretary
| Guthrie to resign. If not then to turn Messrs.
| Burt and Washington neck and heels out Of Office
for entertaining for an instant the idea that the
public business may be in condition to
make it advisable to keep Wing clerk in Office.
Mr.. sohl, of Pennsylvania, recently appointed
to clerkship, also in the Third Auditors office,
| declines. Hearing this fact, devoted an hour
| to day to hunting him up, being most anxious to
be able to boast in my old age that had actually
seen the man who declined Office in these
| times Finding him, was ast.unded with his
| resemblance to mankind in general. The mystic
| ry was solved on learning that he had declined
the Third Auditors clerkship, and-accepted
one in the Post Office Department.
Messrs. Boynton of Ohio, Clark of Wisconsin,,
and Green of Maine, were sworn in to-day as
| clerks in the Pension Bureau.
! The President has lately been delivered of an
exceedingly vexations case-the Norfolk (Va.)
appointments. Samuel Sawyer, ESQ.,, editor ofthe
Southern Rights PAPER of the borough, being
made collector, and George Loyal, esq i, being
| reinstated in the navy agency. Colonel Sawyer
| is the nephew of Mr.. Lemuel Sawyer, who, hav-
| ing been in Congress, is remembered by many
old residents in Washington. But if am not in
correct, the Colonel himself, when a very young
man, alec represented the district which sent
to the councils of the nation his never to. be for
gotten uncle. Mr.. George Loyal, though not a
veteran in the last war with Britain, is veteran
| in the navy agency at Norfolk, having held that
office whenever the Democrats were in power,
fpom General Jackson's time to the present
Whatever may be said by those disappointed in
getting the place relative to the incongruity of
making life estate of Office, with the doctrine Of
rotation in Office, it is certain that no such place
was ever better filled than by Mr. Loyal. And,
further, that no gentleman applied for it who was
in any respect his superior l may say, also, for
Colonel Sawyer, that while be enjoys the conf.
dence and sincere respect Of the community of
Norfolk, he has worked harder for the last six or
eight years, and for less pay, than any other I'M
fortunate wight wot of who boasts a seat on the
tripod of q provincial semi weekly