New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-26

other morning by seeing in contemporary PRINT,
believed to be in the secrets Of the Administration
an authentic contradiction Of the rumor which had
been walking the rounds Of the newspapers OF the
impending resignation of our valuable Minister at
the Court of her Catholic Majesty. We are assured
that the report that the Hon. Augustus Gear
Dodge entertans any design of deserving the diplo-
matte service Of his country is totally without
foundation. He has not resigned-bus on the other
hand, he is resigned to encounter yet longer the
perils attendant on the receipt of so much OF the
root of all evil as Sl2 800 per annum, and to suffer
all the paDgs of exile which they endure who have
left their country for their country's good Beside
the grief which 80 good a patriot must feel at bis
separation from the great and glorious country he
has been selected to ucarnate to the eyes of Spain
he is content to endure the pr7ations of Carthusian
silence, through his utter segregation from the
world around him by his innocence Of all knOwl-
edge of the outlandsh tongues of king and priest
ridden Europe. But, as Spain is Catholic coun-
try, such living martyrdOm can only commend the
COME ssor to the greater respect and admiration Of
all beholders.
We maintain, in the face of all scorners and scott
ers, that the imperially prenominated Democrat
who has gathered all Of our individualisms into his
representative unity at Madrid, is model envoy,
from whose pattern we advise Dir. Buchanan
(whose attention to our advices to other matters
we cannot too much commonly to model the lay
figures which it part of his business to distribute
fer their amusement, among the Courts of Europe
If "sma Latin and less Greek" were no impedi-
ment in the way of Shakespeare becoming the re-
spectacle play wright he is now generally conceded
to have been, (unless, indeed, Lord Bacon and Sir
Walter Raleigh really wrote his plays for hm); sure
ly the possession of small English and no French at
all should be regarded no hindrance to the asp-
rations of nascent diplomatists-of embryo pleni-
potentiaries. There is more mischief in one prag-
NAUTICAL busybody, like Soule the POyglOt, with
whole Pentecost of tongues in his head-with
more than leash of languages in his hand to let
loose on his destined prey-than in wilderness of
Dodses and Masons, who are compelled to muse
the praises of their country in expressive silence,
instead of intriguing and bullying for the enlarge
ment of her borders A deaf mute il the best
imaginable minister we can send to foreign parts.
The worst he is likely TO do is TO make us laughed
at. His folly 10, at two egresses, quite shut IN,
and there il much less danger Of its expatiatiog
abroad to our damage, than if the porches of his
ears were standing open to welcome sinister de-
signs, and the portals of his speech unlocked for
their evasion.
We laid before our readers the other day a
scheme for relieving the burdens Of the country,
BY Diminishing the entire army and navy, and pro-
vidng for the emergencies they are supposed to be
kept On foot by temporary contracts for the
dispatchng of each job as it comes along. Obvious
a. its advantages must be 10 all intelligent minds,
its principle will apply even more forcibly 70 our
diplomatic relations with the rest of the world.
We think that men could be found to do nothing 10
our service on much more reasonable terms than We
now make with those We intrust with that arduous
duty. The functions of an American diplOmatist
being mostly of corporal nature and consisting
of even less particulars than those which 60 to the
making up Of an English hereditary Legislator, if
we may believe noble lord who once deviated into
poetry and who says of such a one that,
AFTER having voted. dressed, died, drank,
The family vault receives another lord"--
large supply of the article as the state of the
market might demand. Dressing, dining, drink
Ing dancing, or causing to dance, bowling and as
tonishing Royalty by introducing young native
Americans to it, constituting the chief labofs our
diplomstists have to endure, we think there is
much greater proportion Of our citizens with con-
sttutions strong enough to survive them than we
were at frat inclined to believe.
Now our plan as TO this department Of our affairs
simply this: Instead Of paying men large sums Of
money for this kind Of work, We would have the
Secretary of State advertise for tenders, stating
the sum of money each aspirant is willing to pay
for the privilege of representing his own his native
land, at such or such Court. Then let the mis-
sion be given to the highest bidder-t being under
stood that he is to pay ali his own expenses while
engaged in is This would have the double sdvan-
tage of replenishing the Treasury and of giving us
a chance Of having representatives possessing such
of the qualifications for the post as are acquired by
education and the habits Of good society, which We
can hardly be said to have as things go now. Ser
vices on the stump, or in stufng ballot-boxes, or
driving voters from the polls, though valuable and
honorable in themselves, do not necessarily imply
the manners aud Accomplishments usually thought
ornamental if not indispensable in an ambassador.
From the pa,,ion which inhsmes the Republican
bosom for the atmosphere of courts aud the society
Of nobs, when they have changed their SKY, II not
their minds, by running across the ses, we imagine
that the only trouble the Secretary would find would
be in the inordinate number of applications that
would be sent in, and the comparison Of their seve-
raj proposals. But the simplicity of the principle
would relieve him of all anxiety and perplexity as
to the choice. 1t would be reduced to question
of the simplest arithmetic.