The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-05

schedule covering an aggregate OF, perhaps,
not less than TWO hundred millions OF tue pao-
lie plumber. The session is drawing TO a close
the s~poilsmen have been waiting long enough
they are becoming hungry and desperate they
must make a strike somewhere, and so they
have opened their game with Colts patent ex-
tension, close upon the heels Of the more
plausible bill Of French spoliations.
We have here the Indications Of a tremendous
scramble for the plumber from this tlme to the
drunken orgies Of the last night of the session.
The probabilities, too, are in favor Of a great
haul. There are many influential time-servers
at Washington with whom this session is the
last chance. They will naturally make the
most of it. Uncle Sam pays all. Who cares?
What a Godsend to such a lob6yman as Col.
Forney is a millionaire claimant for q monopoly
of millions, who sis fond Of a glass;" aud
whose mind, when required, can be "obfus-
Gated" to that degree at which it is impossible
to " daguerreOtype the testimony of a drunken
man" Who moves now for a Maine Liquor law
for Washington?
WASHINGTON NEws,-We Published in yester-
dsy's paper a despatch stating that Dudley
Mann had resigned his Office Of Assistant Secre-
tary Of State, his resignation growing out Of
the complications of Soule's mission to Madrid,
and it's happy termination, in spite OF Soule,
Dudley Mann aud all concerned. Now, it may
be that Mann has resigned; but we are not yet
prepared to believe il. We suspect he is not
quite so thin-skinned as represented by our
correspondent, and is too strongly attached to
the spoils to let 60 upon . mere punctilio, or
question of propriety. II has also been re-
ported from Washington that this inventor of
Pierce's foreign policy will probably go to
France in the place Of Mason. This We consider
too preposterous and ridiculous to be entitled
to any farther notice except this--that Mann's
foreign policy does not recognize the govern
ment of Louis Napoleon.
Our general telegraphic correspondent at
Washington has also informed us that 1t is
represented there, by interested parties, that
Collector Redfield has never intimated a desire
to be relieved from the duties Of his office, aud
that the rumors to the contrary are false"
What is in the wind now? Is there a compro-
mise? Are those ninety-seven custom house
short boys and ~pugilists marked for execution
to be reprieved, in order to appease Mr.. Red
field? The main difficulty of a reunion of the
hords and softs in this city, upon the basis of
the spoils, appears to hang upon the alleged
co operation Of the hards with the Know No
things in our late election. This charge, under
the representations Of John Cochrane, may pro-
baby have resulted in the postponement, at
the White House, Of the contemplated sacrifice
of those ninety-seven fighting soft shells, to re-
store peace and good will among the hards. If
this be SO, it is likely that our Collector has re-
called his resignation, and that the nomination
of Mr.. Pierce for the succession, by the two
factions in a Tammany meeting, is put of to
the first fair day.
We expect, in a day or two, the whole of the
projects and proceedings Of the late soft shell
delegation to Washington. 1t was large, their
business was important and complicated. the
White House junketings upon it were spirited
and lively, and the results must soon come to
light.