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due season. In the mean time, it VIII be wellior
the whg gentry now IN the Custom House there,
to {" make their wilis'-the hour is drawing near
which will conclude the desire OF !" the Govern
ment for their further services al present. Ban
croft says the appointments oil Morton. Ranoui,
Wright. and McNiel, are o. X, and " that Par.
menter has taken the place OF man who may
never be provided for" Also that Mr..
Frederick Robinson, should have the Boston Post
Office IN place OF Mr.. Greene, VINO has been
in il from time immemoral, and who has saved
a handsome fortune out OF IT, Aso that Isaac o.
Barnes must give place to Benz. F. Hallett. There
are "breakers" forming, and the removal OF Green
will, without doubt, soon take place. But there
exists serious obstacle to starting him. The
Boston Post, one OF the leading democratic Jour
mails IN that city, is said 10 be owned or IN some
way controlled by him, (probaby tnrougn ms pro-
ther, by the way) and II suggested That II won't
do But "George" says that's moonshine--Ihat
Greene has beer there sixteen years-and he'd
"oughter" back out Robinson Is backed up by
the biggest influence now in New England, and he
will probably be Postmaster OF Boston, within a
few weeks, ii the existing arrangements not
aside by some contingency now unexpected
Robinson is said to belong to the "od school" is
a prominent man, (havlng been lately run by the
democrats for u ). Senator against Davls) and Is
right worthy. But we shall all about that
In the matter of the Boston Collectorship,
when the subject tlrst came up, the vote OF the
council, IT IS understood, was three and three
Marcy, Walker, and Mason, for Rantoul-Bu
chanan, Johnson, and Bancroft, for Morton The





ton had attained, and the tact that he proml-
nent Candidate for seat IN the Cabinet, and offered
him the post, with the purpose OF appointing Ran
tou 70 the important place of District Attorney,
for which his eminent legal talents well adapted
him Probably Bancroft preferred Morton TO Ran
tou, for the reason that when Van Buren made ms
appointments originally in Massachusetts,, II is SAID
that he forwarded to GUv. Morton blank conf
mission, with ,he request that he (Morton) would
fill il up Morton Immediately placed Bancroft III
the Colectorshlp At Boston, and he cld not forget
Marcus, when his turn came round. The very
best state OF feeling exists between Rantoul and
Bancroft, however, and the former 10 SAID 10 be
quite we'll satisfied with the District Attorneys
place, as he could have been wlth the oiher--and
he certainly viii have u much better opportunity
to display his splendid talents there, than Col
lector The appointment OF Hon. Isaac II. Wright
10 the Navy Agency at Boston, seems to have
stirred up one or two journals in the old Henshaw
interest in Massachusetts, and some two three
obscure sheets attacking Wright, have been sent
here TO the President lately, as also 10 the Cabinet
officers, with certain libelious articles "duly
marked arouad, for the purpose OF calling especial
attention 10 them. These misslves hnd their way
very readily into the trash baskets and perfect
ly well understood here! No man in New Eng
laad stands better with James K. Polk and his
Cabinet, than Isaac IL, Wright, and he was one Of
the very few men whose application for Office was
backed up by Van Buren himself. | am acquan
ed with Wright, only by reputation. but he Is per-
sonay and politically acknowledged one OF the
friends ot the President, and is strong man here
In every respect.


In your own city, the story s, II. H. Morris, for
Collector, in place of Van Ness, and Mr. "Not-
yet.concluded-on, for Postmaster in place Of Gra
ham. No especial objection is urged against Van
Ness, and Marcy swears (no, Marcy don't swear)
bu! Marcy declares that Van Ness ought to be al.
lowed to remain. Well, the friends of Morris are
urging his claims-Morris is really good fellow,
but he must wait. Your obi ging and conceited
Postmaster, the Colonel VINO was so ambitious
short time since, to stick "spread eagles, and
things,' the caps and coats of his clerks, is po
ltely denomlnated here, "a political toad. eater''
Not being much OF natural list, am at loss to
kaow-what specles,or particular. genius he belongs.
Graham must go out though-that's fixed upon
and he will thank "Talleyrand" undoubtedly, for
the hint, and this "frst rate notice." tor which 10
especial charge Is made! The other appointments
already made in New York city and State, are
looked upon as agreeable, under all the circum-
stances-and 1t is said they might have been agreat
deal worse and great deal better.


In Maine there is not much to do, and, except
with the Post Office Department, little will be done.
Anderson, Collector at Portland, will not be dis
turbed; and Kinesbury, Surveyor will also remain.
Both these are strong men, and are well sustained.
Woodbury., appointed Postmaster at Portland, is
an sold hunker," and so the crumbs are divided.
Paris, U s. Marshal for the District of Name, is
cut off for reasons to your deponent unknown


In view, then, OF all the events and circum-
stances, which are so rapidly crowdpg upon us,
you NAV set down the following, as certain. That
James Polk is, aud will be, President that his
Cabinet ale as nearly ga unit" as four Northern
and two Southern men possibly make it-that
wholesale prescription has been prsscrlbed-thal
George Bancroft is more ''goiug to England, as
Minister," than you are that Buchanan will pos
itlvey remain in The State Department, and thatse
veral important removals will take place in Penn.
sylvania, shortly, on the new plan-that Graham's
tine is nearly out, and so it ought to be thai
Gave Johnson is very well disposed toward some
body in Gotham, but he don't tell who THAT the
appointment OF Benj. +. Butler, as District Attor
ney, is admitted TO be ''first rate'-,hat Isaac
Wright is one of the 'fixed stars OF this admins
tratIon-that it Marcus Morton does not fnally
(yOllectOYShln a ROSfOn Frederick
son Bradford Sumen will have it-,hat B. F
Hailett will probably be appointed u. s Marshall
IN place of Barnes-that Nathaniel Greene will b.
another quarter comes rouud-that Robinson, if moi
made Collector, will have Greene's place-that
Greene went like lhis-and, finally, that this is
an extensive land, and if any body shall enquire
'who Is your present correspondent" you can
answer, he is ''one who knows" and that ne is


TALLEYRAND.