The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-02

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the Post odhcs Depestment to-day relative to some
| thirty removals which vere to hsve btea made
there. according to the prognosticatioa Of some
I'D good natared friend" Three O'Clock came.
however, Ind they were all paid OF without kgt-
ane Mgnt OF suspicious bilet-doax In ssya1i4ew
.iVer. 30 they will breakfast tomorrow aaorn-
| ing with appetite as keen as usual. am happy to
| be able to write
near that there is an interesting squabbls ia
progress over the Geneva (New York; postmaster.
SNIP IN which "the party's" choice fnds hifoself
Utmost noored BY the clergy man. MIR. Kelly, the
Denocfauc collector oftolls there Ia backed bv the
clergy VINO sign for him in great numbers. The
irienos o. Mr. Parker. the editor of the Geneva
uo@es'e' t'ene Parsy,) are furious over this un-
expected opposition to their man, and are down on
the clergy in those diggings "like thousand of
brick"
The mission to Naples is actually actively sorobt
for by nearly seventy five gentlemen Senators.
members of the House of Representatives, ex-
Senators and Representatives in Congress. ex-
Governors, ex-Foreign Ministers. etump speakers
from every where, and not few party edil ors are
on this list. Many Of them possess the most ample
qualifications, they belle their reputation ia
Washington, where the capabilities of public men
are pretty well known. The reason why that
particular position is SO much more sought after
than any other, hes in the fact that Naples ia the
cheapest place on the continent in which to live
like gentleman; and that while the duties of an
American charge there are almost wholly nominal,
bis commission affords him facilities for Willing
away his time in elegant triaing, such are to be
enjoyed by men about town nowhere else under
the sun.
Colonel James Wall. of New Jersey had an im
posing chance for this Office shortly after the reiec
Of "
the chargeship to Switzerland But Senator
Wright Of their State has Ut him quite hor. du
combat
1t seems that Mr. Wall is very unfortunate in
two particulars that is, in being the brother-in-
law of Ex-Governor Peter D. Vroom, who has the
honor of being the head and front of the little
anti-monopoly wing of the harmonious ia New
Jersey, and in having exerted himself to prevent
the nomination upon which Mr.. VIM. Wright WAS
recently elected to the United States Senate. So
the Senator DEGREES death to his hopes and TO com.
pass that end he is urging the appointment of -
Stephens, esq.,, of Newark, travelled gentleman,
to the same position. This division of the party
in New jersey this subject insuree that no Jer.
seyman can get the Office, more especially az
wellnigh all creation elsewhere is striving for it,
Mr.. Charles Shelton here yesterday for Mr.
Wall
Vnile Wrltihg OF iorelgn missions, may not
forget to mention that the most absurd of all abb
surd newspaper stories are those which alIege that
Mr.. soule. Mr. Boriand, and Mr.. this gentleman
and the other, each accept their positions only
with the distinct understanding that they are to
be exempt from the operation of rule with which
no government has ever yet been able to dispense
for moment in the conduct of its foreign affairs
Diplomacy, like war, is essentially a game of
chess, ministers and charges being the knights,
castles, &C., as are generals armies and squadrons
From the day the first am AMBASSADOR of ancient
times was sent forth to the present, it has been
found lmperatvely necessary to have head at
home devising and arranging the moves of the
agents abroad, the skilfuI chessplayer concocts
the harmony and grand result of the peregrina.
tons of his pieces The members of any govern
ment which would "progress' to the point of
giving up this 90 necessary rule, should be one
and all of them in straight jackets. Fancy the
idea OF our new diplomatists (some Of whom are
necessarily to be but legislative statesmen, know.
ing far less of the philosophy of foreign policy
tnan OF the cost Of the drinks necessary to carry
certain precincts in warmly contested eIection}
each conducting the affairs entrusted With him
according to the dictates of his fancy. Why, ia
such event, our "foreign relatione'' would be by
the ears in trice. As we'll might we hayesexe
pected victory in the Mexican war, with every
officer and man instructed to fl sht as he pleased
and to move as he pleased, in the emy's country
as the successful conduct of the foreign negotia-
tlons OF the United States under any euch new
tangled eystem. The stories to which allude
above are the work of particular admirers of par.
ticular diplomatists, who certainly lima CINE that
they are creating the impression that the Govern.
ment at Washington conceyes it only necessary
to send Mr.. A. or MIR. B. abroad to insure eminent
success in all our purposes in connexion with the
affairs of other nations.
have repeatedly heard of late that rich firm
of San Francisco-Johnson & Co.-offered to build
the San Francisco mint, and furnish the necessary
machinery, well to supply the site for the
building, so 900 less than the bid of Mr. Bar
ton. late foreman under Mr.. Samuel Strong, which
was accepted, and then transferred to Curtis, Per-
ry Ward. By way of setting this matter at
rest am able to write that no ouch proposal was
properly before the Treasury Department. 1t was
withdrawn before the bids were opened. Lucky
fellows were Messrs. johnson & Co. in withdraw.
ing it-otherwise they might have enjoyed the
pleasure OF working very hard for Uncle Sam for a
twelvemonth, and then finding out that they had
paid about l90, 900 for the privilege of doing 60
The grand result of MIR. Postmaster General
contract for the great low pressure mail
on the Mississippi bids fair to prove something like
set off for the unexpected very heavy cost of the
Departments future service in the section recently
let. Thus, to supply the river post Offices, and
those depending on them, with the way mail faciIi-
ties incident to the terms of the arrangement
would cost the Department $50 200 in the four
years more than 10 to be paid to Glover and Ma
ther for the transportation of both mails--express
and way mails; the former being much the most
important to the community at large, though thus
thrown into the bargain as it were.
There some dozen Ohio politicians Demo
crats) now in Washington looking after their
States share in the current distribution of the
spoils. These gentlemen are in agonies in antici-
patton of the appointment of Governor Wood to
the Brazilian mission. They have written to the
President that Ohio asks no first class mission,
being quite willing to let ambitious gentlemen
from other States monopolize all such places.
provided her seekers after minor Offices are
literally dealt by. The Governor is literally
without friends in Washington from home, all
that delegation concurring in the declaration
that he owes his present position altogether to the
remarkable combination of negative qualities in
his character. When one pokes at them his ia
nous majority of twenty -fve thousand votes as
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