New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-17
and if the faithful should take this sort Of iust
ton IN dudgeon. why, there is Mr. Buchauaa's Ia.

and if the ithful should take this sort Of lu,trs
tiCn IN dudgeon. why there is Mr.. Buchanaa's To-
augursl, say iIg be will not be "a candidate for re-
election mind you, " q candidate, nothing more
If the peryerse people should insist upon renomi
nstiop. that is Their business. He i. no candidate
but they may DO 8, they please. This is one of the
de'icste mental reservations which the Inaugural
contains. though delivered By res pectabe gen.
tleman q threescore and ten. whom the biogra-
piers by strange paradox have kept receding ia
year. IS be advanced in life. They have succeeded
in establishing one valuable historical fact th,t
nay be useful century hence, and that is, Mr..
Buchsuans standpoint is precisely o.
The intention now ia, 10 take up the Pennsyya.
Dis appointments tomorrow, and TO proceed with
those Of New York during the week Mr.. Red
field, the Collector has not rendered his resigna-
ton, either personally or informally. HIS term
will not expire ustil December. When he visited
Mr. Buchanan at Wheatland, be signiied his will
ngness 10 relinquish the Office at the expiration
Of the fiscal year. on the Both Of June which WAS
considered acceptable. If the Congressional dele
CATION from the city could agree among Themselves
upon any one, the Pres dent would at once
select lis successor. the appointment to take eec:
from the time indicated. But all the efforts to
unite them have failed. Mr. Clark went home.
declaring bis preference for Mr.. S,hell, and oppO-
sition to oil his competitors. Mr. Cochrane keeps
On the shady side. looking n the future. ald the
other four are split up into individual fragments.
The indications of the hO1r seem To point 10 Mr..
Butierworth as the strongest probability as COM
promise, but they may change as suddenly. II
oohs "a if +. B. Hart would be Surveyor. The
Post Office is in the clouds. with Fowler close upon
lis heels, and John Van Buren, preparing Gas for
the imitation Of his balloon 10 follow both.
Mr. BucLauan knows the danger of delay in the
appointments which he has concluded to make, aud
therefore will hurry up the decisions nov, whether
Nfoas la fiiad immediately mr. nnt Eaalinp
the case to BE- one possibly of life ard death, he
Inears to have il of bis hands and 10 dismiss the
hungry crew who now inftst the White House, and
pursue him without mercy or moderation
Within the next ten days some positive determine
ton Will be announced III order to relieve the Al
nil sration of this pressure aid to enable 1t TO be-
STOW a share OF attention upon urgent pubic
affairs.
Since Gov Marcy has been released from the
cares of State and had time to indulge hls social
tast. $ all bis naiSe waeg .hness has returned, and
Re seems to delight in administering little OF the
official torture 20 bis successors, which he so re-
Gently was compelled to bear philosOphlcally him
self He pties the SORROWS OF the poor old men;
he knows what TIER Affections must be-. and he
nouns over the ohdurate degeneracy OF Their tor
mentors Whenever half chance offers he gives
them consolation by say Ing these troubles will only
endure four years, and comparing the ttlals OF has
time with the trfng eXictlons OF the present.
Old General Cass takes this comfort kindly Just rs
he would a soothing pOultce on rheumatic JOINT,
but then he is exercised about the policy Of the Adj
ministraton which doesn't seem to work smoothly.
Wien Gov Marcy was told that the rule of re-
movsl was to be applied vigorously to all Office
holders at tie expiration of their commissions, his
only reply was. that he :" thought he had gone far
enough in declaring that to the yictors belonged
'tbe spells, but be never supposed they would be
encouraged 10 quarrel among themselves and pll-
"age their own camp.
Bet re the adjournment of the Senate, yesterday,
the Vice President retired allow the election of a
President pro tem.-a delicate duty which Mc. Dali
las refused to perform when he was in Office. Mr.
| Rusk was chosen, which was quiet but effective
| rebuke TO Mr. Mason, the recent incumbent. 1t
came cut singuarly enough, in the last moments OF
the sion, that Mr.. Brishts case had never been
| referred to the Committee on the Judiciary; and
wht ii was incidentally suggested he intmated a
| disposition to combat the point. Our sharp Re
publican friends were not quite as igllant as they
might have been, and the plea that Bright aud Fitch
stood on the same footing does not relieve palpa-
| bic negls CT somewhere.
Notwithstanding all the contradictions OF en.er-
pris ng newsmODgers, Gen. Thomas IS Assistant
| Secretary OF State, and likely to continue IN the
| epioyment of dignity which exactly suits his Sc
| and ambition. When Gen Cass-whO may be con
| sidered authority on this pOint--cime into Office
ten DAYS ago. ne assured the Assistant. that ne was
| as firmly fixed in his place as the Emperor OF
Russia was on his throne" Now, this was de-
cdedly tersc and epigrammatic; bu. ii the dis
tiueushed Secretary OF State had sought an Illus.
trat.op under our democratic system, and confirmed
The tenure by an assurance based upon the safety
| of lhe nOn-abOut which all his misgvings have
| di,apueared since the i'h of March-Or the perpe-
tuiiy of free institutions, il would have been far
more gratifying. BESIDES, this sort Of familiarity
he,rsys a philo- Rus,iansm inconsistent with the
impartiali,y If Premier who holds the fate OF
empires in biz hand and before whose mighty nod
| dynastes tremblc- in Pckwickian sense. linden.