The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-03-23

Twelve 10 lNteeH DuuuTeO gTetuy, lmpalleuI aud
nsatable spolsmen have gathered into Wash
ngton since the fourth of March, aud large
Forces are daily lowering around the White
House and the departments, like wolves and vul
ures upon the heels and tanks Of wasting
army. They have CT me in FROM all quarters Of
characters and customers; by every train aud
teamboat they come
bark hArE The dogs do bsrkl
The beggars have o,me 10 Town,
Some IN rags and some in tags,
And some IN velvet gown.
Nor is the supply exhausted. From day to
day the daily vacancies in the ranks are filed
and 1.-The cry is still they come"-old men and
young men, fat men and lean, fast mea
md slow, healthy men and sickly, clever
men, as the world goes, and rogues and ras-
calls, believers and infdels, water drinkers, rum
drinkers, COMMANDERS, oificejobbers, long boys
and short boys, financers, gamblers, blacklegs,
stool pigeons and pickpockets-all fraternizing
together over the spoils, in the hotels, the bar
rooms the oyster cellars, hells and sinks Of the
federal capital caucussing carousing, eating,
drinking, swearing, laughing, scheming shutting
and balancing, bargaining, treating, cheating,
lodging, weeping and wailing and crashing
heir teeth;
The result has been thus far plentiful harvest
10 the rat poisoned hotels, bad smelling taverns,
Ium holes, reject prizes and gambling dens Of Penn
sylvania avenue. No wonder that the Board Of
Health have shut up the largest OF the hotels as
"A public nuisance. Ii 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 water, and
iumigate and ventilate, every public house in the
city, as for the expulsion Of the yellow fever.
Even visit of the yell9T fever would be pre-
ferable, one would think, in sanitary point OF
view to the compound pestIlence of the Office
beggals, Migrants and vagabonds, rats aud rat
prisoners, and mephitic taverns which now affect
he city Of Washington.
During the last year, with infinite labor at a
vast expense, and by the skin of his teeth, Me-.
Buchanan was elected President of the United
states. He went on TO Washington in February,
male and healthy, sound aud strong; but after
short stay he returned to Wheatland Disguised.
lick and poisoned. He recovers, goes again t.
Washington. to assume the duties Of his high
office, but is bare ly in the city month ere his
life has again been put in jeopardy by the deadly
gases and "villsnous smells" Of Washington
ootel life and by the incessant irritatons Of those
swSImiDg gadfies, the Office beggars, siaging ia
MS ears day ard night Give me this place, give
me that, turn this man out. send that one adrf'.
'or We are your friends, and remember VIII
cost US to elect you.
For every morsel Of plumber in the gift Of the
Executive. for every bone In The jaws of a Gus
toner who claims the right 10 bold il, there are
ten hungry dogs jumping, snspPing, snarling and
yelpiDg. Aud where If all this TO end? We have
been endeayoIing TO keep record Of the opera
iiOns Of these offi,e beggars, but each days
transactions efface the arrangements OF the
say preceding. The President has disposed OF
some of the principal appointments 10 Peunsyl
vaDia South Carolina. Louisiana aud New Egg
land, and VIC may expect that the loug agony
concerning those Of New York aud Virginia viii
next be settled; but do What the Executive may
the disappointed to the appointed viii be as
ten 10 one and the former will turn their backs
upon bbe WING IlOuse WIN Culrtc Dotu iOul duu
deep. Within the next six weeks these empty
tanded applicants will have sunk a SUN Of no,
less than one hundred AID fifty or two hundred
thousand dollars in their vain clamor 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 10 one, when the Offices shall
have been disposed Of, the spoilsmen Of the camp
will find themselves decidedly worse for wear
and tear, aud losses and crosses on the fourth Of
July, than they were on the fourth Of March.
1t is supposed in some quarters that the con-
sequences 10 Mr. Buchanan will be another split
or two in the democratic party, as was the case
with poor Pierce. But we apprehe.d nothing of
the kind Mr.. Buchanan occupies an independent
position. lie has nothing TO ask OF disappointed
Office seekers, and has nothing 10 fear. lie may
appoint and dissppont at his pleasure, ard his
course win not react upon his administration,
for the greater Issues Of Kansas and bred Scott
will oveishadow everything else in the division
Of parties henceforth, for perhaps twenty years
TO come. In this view, il would be we'll for Mr..
Buchanan, well for his administration for the
country, and particularly for the Office beggars,
TO re-apportion the public plumber with all pos
sible despatch, SO that the hungry horde who are
destined TO draw blanks may leave the city ere
they become permanent tax upon their friends
OF the town. -'' .a.-'i,'n 4