Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-04-01

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William =. Massey, On hearing that the policy o.
rotation 81 once had been resolved upon by tire
new administration, dryly remarked: Well,
they hare ii that am the author Of the ofEcc
seekers doctrine, that 10 the yictors belong the
sposlA.s but Icersainly should never recommend
the policy Of piIlaging my orn camp In
other words, this sagAcions old fogy, like the
sly fox swimming the stream, would rather
have the gorged flies remain, than hare them
driven Away to be succeeded BY fresh and
hungry swarm that would certainly bleed him
TO death before he could make the opposite
shore.
e AZ described by several Of our private cor
respondents, the Office begging scenes nov daily
TRANSPORTING 1t Washington resemble more the
democratic piliaging of the democratic camp
under the reign Of ravenous anarchy and bad
whiskey, than the orderly applications Of Office
expectants At the fountain Of power. From
twelve TO fifteen hundred greedy, impatient and
Unsuitable spoilsmen have gathered into Wash
mgton since the 4th of March, and large forces
are daily lowering around the White House
and the departments, like wolves and vultures
upon the heels and TANKS Of . wasting army
They have come in from all quarters of the
compass, and they comprehend all sorts Of
characters and customers; by every train and
steamboat they come
Hark! bark! the dogs do bark!
3faN The beKgars have come to town,
Some In rags and some In tags,
And some In velvet gowns.
Nnr 10 tho cunpiv ban 81 Eeo,,n day "a
day the daily vacancies in the ranks are filled,
and s'the cry is, still they come"-old men and
young men, fat men and lean, fast men and
slow, healthy men and sickly, clever men, as the
world goes, and rogues and rascals, believers
and in6dels, water drinkers, rum drinkers gor-
handlers, ficejobbers, long boys and short
boys, fnanciers, gamblers, blacklegs stool
pigeons and pickpockets-all fraternizing to-
gether over the spoils, in the hotels, the bar
rooms, the oyster.celars, bells aud sinks Of the
federal capital-caucussing carousing, eating,
drinking, swearing, laughing, scheming, shut
fling and balancing bargaining treating, cheat
ing, lodging, weeping and wailing and gnash-
ing their teeth"
The result has been thus far a plentiful har-
vest to the rat-poisoned hotels bad smelling
taverns, rum holes, refectories and gambling
dens of Pennsylvania avenue. No wonder that
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the hotels as public nuisance. 1t would be
well il they could close them all up, and expel
the noxious Office begging vermin that infest
them, and cleanse, scrub with sand, soap and
fumigate and ventilate, every public house IN
the city, as for the expulsion of the yellow te-
yer. Even visit of the yellow fever would
be preferable, one would think, in sanitary
point of view, to the compound pestilence OF
the ofice-beggars, Migrants and vagabonds, rats
and rat-poisoners, and mephitic taverns which
now affect the city of Washington.
During the last year, with infinite labor, at
vast expense, and by the skin of his teeth, Mr.
Buchanan was elected President of the United
States He went on to Washington in February,
hale and healthy, sound and strong; but after
short stay he returned to Wheatland, disgust
ed, sick and poisoned. He RECEIVERS, goss again
to Washington, to assume the duties of his high
office, but is hardly in the city month ere his
life has again been put in jeopardy by the dead
ly gases and .'villainous smells of Washington
hotel life, and by the incessant irrltations OF
those swa rming gadfies, the ofice-beggars, sing
ing lin his ears day and night: Give me this
place, give me that, turn this man out, send that
one adrift, for we are your friends, and remem-
her what it cost us to elect you.
For every morsel Of plumber in the gift OF
the Executive, for every bone in the jaws OF a
customer who claims the right to hold it, there
| are ten hungry dogs, jumping, swapping, snar,
ling and yelping. And where is all this to emo
We have been endeavoring to keep record OF
the operations of these offce-beggars, but each
days transactions efface the arrangements OF the
day preceding. The President has disposed Of
some of the principal appointments in Pennsyl.
vania South Carolina, Louisiana and New Eng
land, and we may expect that the long agony
concerning those of New York and Virginia will
next be settled; but do what the Executive may,
| the disappointed to the appointed will be as ten
to one and the former will turn their backs
upon the White House with curses both loud
and deep. Within the next six weeks these
empty-handed applicants will have sunk a sum
of not less than one hundred and fifty or two
hundred thousand dollars in their vain clamol
for the fat berth of Mr.. Smith, or the daily
bread which feeds the children of poor Brown
In fact, in the ratio of ten to one, when the
offices shall have been disposed of, the spoils
men of the camp will find themselves decided,
worse for wear and tear, and losses and crosses
on the 4th of July, than they were on the 4tf
of March.
1t is supposed in some quarters that the con
SEQUENCES to Mr.. Buchanan will be another split
or two in the democratic party, as was the case
with poor Pierce. But we apprehend nothing
of the kind Mr.. Buchanan occupies an indie
pendent position. He has nothing to ask o.
disappointed office-seekers, and has nothing te
fear. He may appoint and disappoint at his
pleasure, and his course will not react upon his
administration, for the greater issues OF Kansas
| and bred Scott will overshadow everything else
in the division of parties henceforth, for per
haps twenty years to come. In this view, II
would be well for Mr.. Buchanan, we'll for his ad
ministraton, for the country, and particularly
for the ofiice.beggars, to rc-apportion the pub
lie plumber with all possible despatch, SO that
hungry horde who are destined to draw blanks
may leave the city ere they become perma
nent tax upon their friends or the town:
RoBBERY OF THE MAILs.-President Pierce
kept such infamous scoundrels in the Missouri
and Kansas Post Offices that even Gov. GearJ
complains of violation of the mais-as dis