The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-06

no spoils afoat- o business on ha1d, n life n
the lobby, 20 sprightlness in society, no fash
ionable weddi AMI match making, no car
nival of nightly frol cs AM oissipat ons on the
scale anticipated at the beginning # the ses-
sion. Even the gamblers of Pennsylvania
avenue are sal to complain of the dull times,
and are wait ng Ike the California miners for the
spring fools viii are to wash out the gold
dust by hu ldre 8, and THOUSANDS ani millions
at a haul.
The defeat Of the Wisconsin railroad land
jobbing bill in tie House, through the casting
vote of the Speaker, was a stunner to the land
sharks; the long sleep of Colts Patent extern
sion is ominous of bad luck to that class of
the gold hunters; but tie most disastrous mis-
fortune to tie administration and all the
other spoilsmen, insiders and outsiders has been
this :" internal Nebraska bill" for thus, we are
informed, some Of them have openly denounced
it in the Rotunda of the Capitol, within three
feet of the statue Of Washington. And well may
they execrate it as "this internal Nebraska
bill, for it has been working famine among
them, melancholy as the potato rot.
how instructive the miscalculations and disas-
tersof scheming two-penny politicians! This
Nebraska bill was designed to place the
administration fright side up with care'
in the South; to neutralize the free soil
antecedents of General Pierce-the free soil
C IMPOSITION and associations Of the Cabinet; to
take off the roSgh edge Of the Scarlet letter."
and IN To
platform Of the Cabinet and the repeal of the
Missouri compromise. But though this expe-
dent involves the great constitutional prin-
ciple Of popular sovereignty, it has proved
Trojan horse to the administration and the
spoilsmen. 1t has been breaking up the de-
mocracy most horribly in Congress and in the
North. 1t has left the administration with
Captain Rynders as their leading champion in
New York, and Mike Walsh as the rank and file
Of the administration party in Congress from
this great commonwealth, with thirty three re-
representatives. in the House. The worst of it is,
that in absorbing the attention OF the two
houses 10 to this time, the Nebraska bill has
suspended the operations of the spoilsmen.
The prospect, however, begins to brighten.
lHc NepIdshd UiIl AeS QuletIy III COmmlttee OF
the Whole The wastage Of debate has been
we trust, pretty well exhausted Longer days
and warmer weather are approaching. The
rubbish will soon be cleared out of the way.
and then we shall have fair field for larger ex-
periments of the land jobbers, patent iobbers,
contract jobbers, and all the spoilsmen. The time
is.at hand for the consideration of the Home
stead and Pacific railroad bills in the Senate,
and for a host of Western railroad projects, lu-
natic asylums, Benefits land distribution
scheme, French spoliations, patents, and the re-
gular appropriation bills in the House. Let the
Senate, in the meantime, ratify the Gadsden
treaty, and give the lobby lift. A million or
two from the spectators, including Santa Anna,
concerned in the Gadsden treaty, will give
powerful impetus to the lobby.
The Gadsden treaty is now the key to the
Congressional gold mines. Give the miners
start Ratify the treaty, and call in the whole
army of the spoilsna-n TO the grand scramble for
rne resldae of the five hundred millions of the
public plander. Ratify the treaty, pass the |
treaty appropriations, and the toughest of the
work is done. Things will continue fiat, dull
and stale at Washington until there is break
into the spoils. Ratify the treaty, and let the
sport begin.