Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-03-17
The spoiIs and spoiIsunen.


The Washington correspondent Of the New
York Herald gives graphic sketch of the
digni6ed and patriotic uses to whiah locoiooo-
ism isputling lis victory. In his letter o. the
10th he says:
General Pierce left this afternoon for Bo
timore, and will return tomorrow with Mrs
Pierce. He il overwhelmed. He IL fotiu.
nate If he can get more than one meal during
the ,lay or II he cna retire To rest before =, o
o'clock in the morning. TO be up again at six.
,He receives visitors of all sorts, IN the lump
He was engaged in the service to-day I'LL near.
ly two o'clock. To day, when the company
were dismissed. several persons followed him
into side room. He then came out iuto the
hall, bringing them after him. aud being rhns
relieved, he slipped into another door, aud tho
door was shut.
Tho office seekers don't ike these mixed
assemblies. IL is the one minute in private
that they desire. Sometimes in the crowd,
they try TO draw him aside, but they generally
fail. Sidney Webster, his private secretary.
is The next resort and the poor youth is per-
picked with the pressure of the hungry swarm
ill even he is compelled to Glove doors.
The Cabinet to. day, in business STYLE, are
receiving company. One or two go into the
Secretary al time tell their story, onl hand
in their papers. The ihrong of applicants in
the ball are waiting their turns. The pres
sure on Secretary Marcy. for foreign mission,
and consulships, IS astounding. 80 is il Of the
rest.
The Union is hurrying ON The work, Able
the doomed office holders are trembling with
dismsy."
Something like this may be met with in BY
ron's description ofthe lean dogs" Lenearl
the walls Of Corinth, holding heir carnival o.
vertbe bodies OF the deod, "gorging and grow
ing DER carcass and hub" We do NOT now
where else to look for parallel. TO the scenes
now presented by The greedy and gloating de
mocracy at Washington. VIII not The mas.
SEES of the patty, who have no participation no,
interest in this la72aroni scramble. lea, FROM
1t the selfish motive that acinaics their leaders?
AUSTRIA AND TUHKEY.-Iate Intelligence
from abroad renders n collision between these
governments probable There has been no
good blood between them since The protection
given TO kossuth by the Porte. Russia is be
lieved TO be stimulating hostilies. with tie de
sign of making herself party TO the qlaar /
and using the occasion o extend ltroWn do
minions eastwardly.in obedience 10 tbrpolicy
prescribed by Peer the Great, mud never losl
sight Of by his Successors
The principal pretended cause Of coaplaii
b. Austria Is the mode in which the TUX
have coaduetej the campaign IN Montenegro
II is known that the Austrians have given,
"aid and comfort TO the ,llious Montenc.
grams, and that the Austrian Minister at Con.
stantinople was directed 10 insist upon certain
conditlons-the surrender of TWO posts Kleck
and Sutorio, 10 Ausiiis-whch the Sultan re
garded as offensive and unjust and SO regard
ing. rejected them. As soon as this deermi
nation was announced the Minister " ith the
whole legation, retired from Consan,inoplo.
and Austrian forces were marching upon ,he
Turkish frontier.
The Sultan has,ii is reported requested France
and England 10 arbtrate between the Empe
ror of Austria and himself, tut Ausl.aac
coridng to the Cologne Gazette. hal riec,ct
the proAercd arbitration. Sui, il was tot Jc
lieved on the London Exchange on tho 25th
uit, that war would cnsnc. The Sultan has,
is said given assurance 10 Austria that the Pc.
lsh and Hungarian lefugeos serving in the
Turkish Army will be recommended to 90 to
America excepting those who have embraced
the lslamst faith.
ONE CENT Mile RAILROAD FARE-The
n. Y. State Engineer and Surveyor, McAlnine