New-York daily tribune., 1859-06-03
pssa Our Own CcresSerSeDt
WASHINGTON, May %, 1859.

York Custom House during the present week.
After much delberation on one side aud resistance
On the other, it is at length decided that the super
sumeraries must go az they should have gone II
months ago. Pending the Lecompton struggle, IL
was necessary to keep full force employed, at any
coat, and without regard 10 the condition oi Inc
Treasury. SO, too, at the elections hst T all "nen
il was supposed the power of patronage was sun
cient 10 thwart tho will of the people. onoor 'uo
vretense Of economy now, these redug.ions arc W W
Be made, while the great leaks OF fhe ressury are
running A. usual. We shall see how they VIII
6gure IN Mr. Cobb's next report, little before the
meetipe of the Charleston Convention.
Tbis game is perfectly understood, and will not
rroduce the desired effect The great central fact
remains, that the expenditures have increased dur
ing the term of MIR. Buchanan, and in time
peace beyond all precedent, until they have fully
doubled the largest average OF any Wing Admiois
trssion. The money has disappeared, and all the
people get for it are very e1 SSSse, Gneslded and
unsatiss, ctory statements which few believe and
none understand. Mr. Cobb and hls colleague
NAV attempt TO copcilia.e favor at Charleston, bu
thew will be received with cold and distant formal
ity. No member Of this Administration, from head
to foot has the slightest chance of recog nltlon
there. That il fixed az fate and just az certain
that no President ever yet transferred directy
from the Senate 10 the White House, or Is ever
likely TO be. Gentlemen who encourage themselves
with such snscipations had as wen Keep TINS hs-
torical fact in view 1t would hardly be fair to ask
them TO resgp since the Senate would be left with
ont quorum - organize. 1t took disconnectlon
with the Senate, two years 10 Europe, and the ab-
sepce of all personal complication with an Obnoxous
policy TO put Mr.. Buchanan in trim as candidate
In cav netting of twenty years of industrious effort
and management in the same direction.
r Inofo birhx eQnf n
psrasusv TO figure in that sea phase of the Utah
mar have returned much to the surprise OF the
officers whose lives were risked when ordered 10
take them TO sea. The Metacomet was left be-
hind, as wholly unseawortby. A Board was ap-
pointed to examine her, and 100 holes were re-
norted as found in the boiler This boat reported
10 have cost Sl2, 900 when new, and was purchased
for less than 600 before being hired to the Gov-
ernment A contract was made through Mr.. Knox
Walker, formerly Private Secretary OF fresldent
Polk. by which the Navy Department agreed to
pay $500 month for the rotten hulk; so that,
IN any event, the parties will clear perhaps $20 900
on the operation to say nothing of the damages
to be asked of Congress for the nOn-Ieturn of the
boat. The ChapiD another member of this militia
armada, had to be towed home, and the whole of
them were the laughing stock of every officer in
the service. Yet, the public was complacently
told through the organ, recently, that the only
I" the purchase of seven lote-prieed steamers much
{" reour,e:a by the Navy at a cost of S2o9, ,OO0!'
Ths whole of them t,csether would not bring fifth
of this sum in open market, a,nd they are utterly
useless ip, and dsgraceful to the NaS%. Wneh
proper Committee of investigation shall be ap-
pointed next Winter We will see how much THESE
hulls were "required" "and through whose inflIi,
euce the requsition became so urgent. There Will
=. =. seme interesting developments before the end
" The last returns from Virginia give different
complexion 10 the election eson, those upon which
nv comments were predicated at the first blush.
The citadel Of sham Democracy has been stormed,
and if not really TAKEN it has virtually capitulated
In any view this is a moral victory, for 1t proves
that even there, where the party ascendency has
been unbroken from time immemOrial the seeds OF
detection distvust snd disorgaDizaton have brought
forth fruit which has matured and sprung up like
the teeth of Cadmus. The friends of Mr.. Goggla
maintain that he took no such PrO-Slavery gr0und
as has been inferentally ascribed to him, but ID
comparing Mr.. Letchers present position with that
which he occupied when he approved Of the Kun
ner pamphlet denOuncing Slavery, 1t was oniy W
expose the hypocrisy and two-facedness oi ms 20.
itica associations, and to prove to the PeoPe ua'
such partisans always adapted their PrlnciPes W
their necessities. Mr. Goggin did not, IL aP-
pears, in any way announce himself as prop
agandist or in favor of slave code ior Tue Ie.li
tories 1t is triumph, under almost any c''cuiii-
stances, to shake the Gibraltar OF Democfac! W us
foundations, and this has heen DONE ht1ie 10 'he
qualification of John Letcher
From Our Own Correspondent. - -o