New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-07-15
FROM FLASHING TON.

WASHINGTON, July 3D. 1853
There is sort OF Summer stampede among the
Administration. Mr. Floyd is of. Mr.. Thompson
is of Mr. Cobb is of, aud Mr.. Brown 10 TO be OF
Beside this exodus, tho President is soon ~ have
bis usual Hegra among the mountains at Bedford
SpIngs-say q month hence. Mr. Appleton, tAs
Assistant Secretary of State, 10 of also, and var
GUS Auditors and such like are absent, especially
among the Free States, which require psternL
solicitude in these AntLecompton dats STILL
strange to tell the Government wsgs on % il %.
body was really missiDg-snd perhaps nobody ID.
Since the revenues have run up at New-YOrk for
week, the Secretary of the Treasury has felt more
comfortable, and thinking himself in a smooth $50,
has run down to Norfolk on board revenue cutter,
to smell salt water and eating soft crabs. The lat
ter part of this performance is not to be- despised
and the other il very good in its way, with Uncle
Samuel to furnish the craft. The chief clerks,
meantime are quite oyerpOwered with their tenn
pOrary hOnOrs, and their proyerbia m0desty shines
Orth in all the official signatures and franks 1t 10
uggested in fact, that the Government might get
on a. well without the Secretaries at ALL and save
g., coo head per annum beside As the Admins
tration affects to be particularly economical, Mr..
Buchanan might introduce this reform into bis next
and Cabinet.
The sensation newspapers inform their uncertain
public, that Sr. Mata, who has come here on
mission from Juarez, to raise money and to estab
lish a GOvernment-bOth Of which his master
has fsiled to do in MexicO-has been received by
the Secretary of State, and is a full grown lion ia
Washington. He may be lion but nobody has
heard him roar yet. In fact there is suspicion
that he is connection of Snug the Joiner, a gen.
tleman well known in Mexican circles. Anybody
can see the President the Secretary of State in
these days, without feeling himself much cOmpi.
mented either. The Presidents receptions are open
from ~ TO daily, Saturdays excepted, when b
prefers the country air and quiet dry smoke Mr..
Buchanan never smokes as we plebeans do, with
an old. fashioned draw and Whit. You can meet +
these receptions any quantity Of Matas, and soma
mata doris, too, who ignore the ancient science and
now take the bull by the horns. Office-seekers
beggars-if they do not belong to the same tribe
tOadies, jackals tme-servers, charatans, presdont
makers and politicians make up the thrOng, who
are thus received" And 80 it 10 pretty much at
the Department Of State, except that tho
Secretary does not open his door to the
rabbe, and takes care 10 ascertain whether
q man has q name or net, though be never
ventures to inquire if lie had q grandfather,
since that might be esteemed reflection on Popu-
lar Sovereignty" What right has man, who sub
scribes to the doctrine that NE people may resu-
IN.
have grandfather Brigham Young gays he never
bad, and without disrespect TO the Cincinnati plat
fUIm, he never means To have one. Now ST. MatA
may have been " received like all these other IL
lustrous personsges, but hardly otherwise Zuolsgs
is the recognized President Of Mexico de aeto and
bis Minister, Gen. Robes, is the only Minister.
Any other is only an lnterloper, pretender, b0-
gus contriyaDce, like the English swindlc which
the people Of Kansas are about to repadists. This
bad pace for ST. Don Experimental Nsts to
borrow money in. Mr.. Cobb would really like ~
raise trfe himself and but for the delicate cir.
cumstaDcss, might hint as much 10 this would BIZ
diplomat. Juarez tried New York, and found he could
not raise the wind there. Mata will discover there
are propIti0us breezes here. He may therefore
pack bis carpet bag, envelope his dispatches cut of
biz eferyesesnce, and 90 10 grsss Or any place but
Mexico.
Nr. Stoeekl il going to Russla on leave of sb.
s.nce and will take his Yankee wife along, 10 show
Alexander how diplomatic relations may BE- es-
meDted by domestic ties. lie vas long tns
Secretary Of Legation under Dodiseo, who Jew ~
he was, lived here for d quarter Of Q century.
making fortune, and winning not only golden
opinions from all s0rts Of people,, but the fsire&
BRIDE that has bushed for mary day on the banks
OF the Potomac. The moral foYee OF good example
was vel illustrated ~ bis faithful Secret,ry who
Vas prompt 10 adopt the hin. contained In q aug
gesiicn made BY the Minister Of Foreigo Afsirs
alter B0cIsc0s DEATH When. speaking OF Stoecki--
uen bachelcr-be remarked he was glad 70 hea
be had taken all American wife. In few montss
after ne removed the only obstacle TO prorleco ana
the fun mission followed as a natural consequence
We Rave done good deal TO Anericsnize fcreigaa
diplomacy BY such tender connections, and VIA
more credit than by grating accounted adsea-
turers upon respectable holsess!ds through 'os
weak niDls Of fast young women, or tEe Anb'sIea'
LhrUtes Of haf-cracked mammas.
Little faith is entertained in n1vAl c.rclss hero y
% the svccess of as Tsegrsp1 40 psjiAoo and sss