The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-01-15

Washington by the formal opening Of the fash
| ionable season And a gay, dashing fashiona-
bic campaign is expectedIa jubilee-a perfect
carnival-based upon the public plumber at the
disposition of Congress Of five hundred mil
lions Of dollars. Patent agents and India rub
Der agents. with their carpet bags full Of gold
railroad land jobbers with their pocket books
full Of drafts and fancy stocks; steamahip
| agents. with any amount Of treasury certih-
| Gates /; contract agents and claim agents, flush
of money, will be there. No risk-no gain; but
where the pile is five hundred millions the risks
will be tremendous A hundred well invested
may draw five hundred but ten thousand, ju-
diciously put in may draw million OF the
spells.
With all these rich agents Of the lobby at
Washington, to say nothing Of the hopeful bach
elors Of Congress, there will be numerous as
piring mamas with their hopeful daughters in
the field, on the qui rice for eligible husbands.
1t will be gay, dashing season of money max
ing, love making, and match making--ot stock
jobbing. railroad jobbing, contract jobbing, aud
all kinds of jobbing for the spoils. Flumnery,
fashion luxury, dissipation, and unbounded ex-
travagance, will be the card, all resting upon
the glorious chances OF q haul from the five
| hundred millions of the public plumber. What
carnival it will be 1t will be perfect Car
| nival of Venice with all the modern improve
| ments
| Our New York tradesmen should not over
look this opening harvest. Stewart, and Beck,
and others, should send on their richest speci-
mems Of the latest styles Of silks and laces,
with competent lobby agent, to the fashiona-
BILE market at Washington Genin should send
on the costliest articles of his bazaar; and
Phalon should not forget that soap among the
Washington spolsmen is always needed. They
will require large supply of soap before ths
session is over. Nor should our fashionable
tailors lose sight of the fact that the tailor
makes the lions at Washington, from head to
tail. Corraz, up Broadway, is the artist for
Pennsylvania avenue at this crisis. He is
French tailor, and understands the anatomy of
q good fit. Where there are no calves to the
customers legs he can supply them, or Gil out
a pair of narrow shoulders. or straighten a
crooked back by the cut and the trimming of
his garments. What an acquisition would such
man be among the broken down party hacks
at Washington, ambitious of appearing young
and handsome among the ladies. And for
making or patching pair of breeches Corraz
always adapts his prices to the minimum Of the
State Department.
Our wine merchants, too, should send on to
the federal city some of their very best brand. Of
wine of all varieties, for Newark cider and
other limitations can no longer be tolerated at
the Cabinet and Congressional assemblies as
champagne, Hockheimer or Burgundy. We are
in now for the real thing-real champagne,
real diamonds, and the real gold, twenty three
carats fne--for the spoils to be appropriated
amount to FIVE hundred millions OF dollars.
Only think of it Five hundred millions, in
claims, contracts, patents, railroads and what
not Five hundred millions The Queen of
Sheba-no doubt very handsome brunette
made royal visit to King Solomon, bringing
whole caravan of gold, spices and other costly
presents to Jerusalem; bnt she went away
vastly richer than she came. She understood
| the game for the spoils She ought to be in
formed OF the five hundred millions in store for
| the spoilsmen at Washington. Who is our Con
lions What a carnval-what feast for the
faithful At the head Of the table sits the Pre-
sident, with Marcy at the tail; and there is Col
Forney on one side, and Sidney Webster on the
other, dissecting the wings and side bones of
the ducks and turkeys while Gen. Armstrong,
Of the Union, armed with the sword of Gen.
Jackson, is master Of ceremonies, and dispenser
Of the wines
| 1t is the year of jubilee to the spoilsmen at
Washington-the year of fashion-and the car
nival is opened with general amnesty and
general invitation to join in. The good time
SO long coming, has come. The ball is opened
and from this time perhaps till next September
we shall have nothing but dining, and winning,
and gambling, and carousing, and intrigues
among the spoilsmen, and marrying and giving
in marriage, and so forth-the whole forming
the fashionable programme for the carnival Of
the five hundred millions. Let all hands put
in for share of the fun or share OF the
apois. Is not this free country.
| THE SENATE AND THE PREMIER ON CENTRAL
AMERIcA--The debate opened the other day in
| the United States Senate on Central American
affairs by General Cass, in q lengthy rigmarole
Of diplomatic verbiage, has been continued and
remains to be further continued, by Mr.. Clayton,
in his still more long-winded rigmarole in de-
fence Of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. From this
beginning we are promised nothing but waste
| oftime in this senatorial discussion.
On the other hand, Secretary Marcy, in his
correspondence with Lord Clarendon which we
published yesterday, presents the real merits of
the assumed sovereignty Of the Mosquito king
| in nutshell. Our Premier says =
II is not now made known for the 1rst time to
/ Her Majesty's government that the United States
denies that these Indians have any sovereignty over
the country they o:cupy; but government does not
make-nor does it perceive any good reason for