Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-02-08
s1ou. or THE TMRs-The most careless OBJ

SIGNS Oh THE TIMES.-The most careless 90
seryation cannot fail to detect in the present as
pect of public affairs the infallible indications of
political revolution. Contemplate either OF
the existing party organizations, the result is the
same. On the one hand, unanimity of opinion is
counteracted by numerical feebleness; and on
the other, the power of numbers is rendered
unavailable by the antagonisln OF factions. Inc
party in power is torn by contradictory opinions
and by the bitterest personal enmitles. upon
questions of the most vital Importance, the fres-
ident and his Cabinet are widely divided; while
in the Senate, the House, and throughout the
country, insubordination rules supreme. VI the
mannerin which the Administration has conoucC
ed the government it is unnecessary to speak,
When Democratic Virginia Judge feels nm
self ca led on to discuss in the columns OF the LEAD
ing. Administration paper in the State, the ques-
ton, "Shal we have Dictator2" and when not
the least influential Democratic journal at the
seat of Government does not hesitate TO inquire
whether there exists such party as the Dem
ocratic-we NAV be excused from task SO tire
some and unpleasant as pointing out the ecu
ciencies and excuses Of an Administration winch
receives its worst castigations, at the hands Vi
| its adherents
1t is certain that fealty has ceased to exist In
the Democratic party, and as it owed to party ie,
atty much of all that 1t ever was, the absence OF
that fealty ensures its destruction. The process
ofdisintegraton will not be accomplished at once;
in an organization so large its progress must be
slow. But, maugre the desperate expedents sug
gested by INSCRIPTIONS leaders, the dissolution 10
will proceed Neither Cuba, nor the Pacinc
Railroad, nor modified tariff, nor all the pne-
rile efforts at retrenchment and reform, VIII a.
vail, except to protract an existence, tenacious
of life. but impotent of strength. Its doom Is
inevitable it has run its race its fate is sealed
Baltimore american.
WASTE OF THE PUBLIC MoNEY.-The Washing
ton correspondent of the Baltimore American
says:
While the House is engaged in the business OF
retrenching in small things, as may be seen Oy
the discussion on the civil appropriation bill, IL
would render some service by little attention
TO the larger excrescences. The overland mall
to California costs 100000 year, without the
first particle of benefit to the public. 1t is the
anomaly of q mail which carries no letters
When this scheme was drummed through Ooh-
gress by the Postmaster. General and bis lnstru-
ments, the bill gave him three alternatives
monthly connection at 100000 per annutn, q
sem-monthly at $3.50, 900, and weekly at Sooo-
! 900. The whole project was discretionary WIN
him. and he rushed into the experiment without
regard to the state OF the Treasury or the conVe-
nience of the country, paying this enornoussu
merely to prove that coach may De run across
desert, and few passengers may perform the
feat of travelling in it for twenty-three or iour
DAYS. The contract is for six years, and involves
dead loss of about four millions in round num-
bers. A contract for the identical service can
now be made for third of the money. And,
while this wanton waste is encouraged, to ad-
vance the imaginary claims of Mr.. Brown to the
Presidency, the service is stinted where the pup
lie wants are urgent. Such is their economy.
Tn late number of the New York Herald
paper that has heretofore only ridlcuied ana
laughed at our efforts to get up Conventlon'
and put Opposition candidates In the neid-ls al
admission that the movement in progress In vlr-
GINA is promising one, and may Dc very ior-
midable one, in its bearings upon the future. Id
an article on the Presidential question, and the
probability of combining the Opposition eie'
ments into a compact and organized party, 1t
I saws Meanwhile, we perceive that new ana
active experiment has been started in Virginia
| for the resuscitation of the old Wing party-an
4 experiment, too, which seems to have been at
4 tended thus far, aoith q remarkable degree q
success. Should it be followed up throughout
the Southern States, upon the basis OF the prom
inent features of the old Harry Clay Wing party,
the result may soon be such respectable array
of strength as will encourage all concerned "a, 10
pnsh il INTO the Presidential election. thus
Pennsylvania and several other Northern States
would pretty surely be lost to the Repnoiicahs,
from the diversion of the Old Line Wings ana
conservative Americans over to the resuscltateu
Wing party; and thus this Wing party in the
South would, while retaining Maryland, be very
apt to recover Kentucky, Tennessee and North
| Carolina. "-Rictmoad Wing.
The New York Express THINKS, that as things
are now going, "the astonishing paradox is Ike
ly to be exhibited, of Mr. Buchanan becoming an
Anti.Administration man." The question is,