The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-01-25

| completion of her internal means OF cOmmuni-
cation shall enable the cereals of Castilc and the
Vascougada provinces to be distributed through
the kingdom. peaceful separation of Cuba
| from Spain will not diminish one iota the con-
| sumption in the former of Catalonian wine
and Andalusian fruits and oil. Popular
| suffrage and the right of selfgovernuicnt have
| peyer been known to effect a change in the
| palates of any people We might extend the ar
pument until it embraced every interest in Spain
except that of the soldier rule, which Mar
shall O'Donnoll tIuthfully sees is soon to be dis
placed by an "cra of Development and restora-
! tion.n This era involves different view Of The
! Cuba question.
| 1t is because Mr.. Buchanan has seen with
| statesman's eye these great changes which are
| coming over Span as well as the rest of Europe,
that he has dared to initiate policy looking to
peaceful solution of present and future compii
cations The short sighted can naturally see
nothing in the future, and the disappointed howl
at him because he will not view it through their
prejudced eyes, They thought and they say it,
that they had man of dough, fool, an
imbecile, to deal WITH just as the intriguers Of
Europe thought they had in Louis Napoleon;
but before two years more have passed away
they will see how the land lays, and find that
under Mr.. Buchanan we have an administration
unequalled since the days of General Jackson.
TIE use OF Douglas VS.. Fitch--The Case of
Collector SchelI-The Spols and the Spells
Democracy.
AL the world is aware, by this time, that Mr..
Senator Douglas, of Illinois, and Mr.. Senator
Fitch, ofIndiana entertained the Senate in execu-
tive session, the other day, with family quarrel
equal, in the terms and epithets Of coarse abuse
employed by the belligerent parties, to anything
that has ever eliminated in general row among
the terrible bruisers of Tammany Hall. 1t is
understood to be the custom of the Senate in
are all locked out to enter into the merits of the
appointment, or other subject under considera-
ton, with all that freedom in personalities, scan
dial and gossip of regular setto of caucus of
old women over confidential cup of tea. Thus
| it appears that the quarrel in hand was started
by Mr.. Senator Pugh, upon the question of con-
firming some paltry nomination in Ohio which
did not please him, and which he thought justi-
| fed him in assailing the administration. With
this opening, Mr.. Douglas came forward in a
general attack upon the appointments of Mr..
Buchanan in Illinois and it seems that the ILL
| nois Senator INDUCED in language so pointed
and offensive that Mr.. Fitch felt called upon to
| retort in similar vein examinations and re-
ordinations were thus pushed to the point Of
pistols and coffee" and at the last accounts some
mutual friends of the parties were industriously
| employed in the benevolent work of preventing
duel.
And this is the prodigious affair which comes
to us as the latest sensation in Congress-a vio-
| lent and disgraceful personal squabble in the
Senate over the distribution of the spoils The
same fruitful source of personal antipathies.
personal abuse, wrangling cliques and fighting
factions in the party camp, it further appears,
has just resulted in another gathering at Wash
ing of the Tammany enemies of Collector Schell
| for the purpose Of another dead set for his
removal. AS collector, Mr.. Schell has proved
himself thoroughly qualified for the faithful dis
charge of his official duties; but he has not been
equal to that other duty required of him, of salts
flying ten thousand applicants in the distribution
of eight or nine hundred Offices. His official
head, therefore, is peremptorily demanded. and
his accusers appear to be resolved to keep up
their periodical visits to Washington until they
| get it. We think, however, that the President,
| in making any change among his wrangling
| Office holding dependents of this city, ought to
| clear out the whole batch, from top to bottom,
| and appoint new set of quiet and unpresuming
men, who will be content to devote their time to
their official duties, and to leave the sachems and
savages Of Tammany Hall uninterrupted in their
dirty political schemes for the spells of the next
Presidency. Indeed, it has been very evident,
since our last November State election, that there
are some other federal functionaries here whose
cases more urgently demand the special atten-
| ton Of the President than that of Collector
Schell.
Under the administration ofNartin Van Buren,
Mr.. Calhoun tartly described the dominant
democracy as party whose only bond Of union
was 'the cohesive power Of the public plumber"
There was and there is much of truth in this
sweeping accusation; and yet it is equally true
that to their quarrels and squabbles over the
public plumber we may trace every division and
defeat which the democracy have suffered, from
| the election Of Van Buren, down to this day.
Thus, while the spoils have been their bond Of
cohesion, the spols have been their bone of con-
tenton; and il they have united from time to
time to secure the spoils they have been quite as
often cut up into ferocious cliques and factions
in the division of the spos.
The administration of Mr. Buchanan has been
very much annoyed and embarrassed by these
intestine squabbies over the spoils Immediately
succeeding another democratic President Mr..
Buchanan, in the outset, found himself between
two conflicting sets Of spoilsmen-the ms and
the outs-so that, as rule, to make room for a
democratic Office seeker, he had to turn out a
democratic Office holder. This difficulty might.