Litchfield Enquirer

As this session of Congress draws towards a close, more trouble in the Jackson camp seems to be imminent. In addition to the exposure of the corruptions in the Post Office Establishment, by the committee of the Senate, another blow-up in the Cabinet proper is spoken of as certain. Mr. McLane, the Secretary of State, it is stated has positively given in his resignation, and only consents to continue to discharge its duties until a successor is appointed. Other changes are contemplated, the foundation for which our readers will discover by a perusal of the letters from Washington in to-day's paper.

A N. York paper of Monday morning says-- "Gen. Jackson came into office, as President of the United States, on the 4th of March, 1829. He has of course been at the head of this government, in the whole, five years and nearly four months. During that time there have been three Secretaries of State, viz. Van Buren, Livingston, and McLane--our Secretaries of the Treasury, viz. Ingham, McLane, Duane and Taney-- two Secretaries of War, viz. Eaton and Cass--two Secretaries of the Navy, viz. Branch and Woodbury-- and three Attorney Generals, viz. Berrien, Taney, and Butler. The office of Secretary of State is now vacant, unless it has been filled within the last four days. When filled, as it probably must be very shortly, it will increase the number of Secretaries of State to four, and, in the movements on the chequer-board, may multiply some of the other departments in the same manner. This is not only singular, but extraordinary; and we think the public have a right to require some explanation of the causes by which such a succession of cabinet changes, or to speak more correctly, of cabinet explosions, have been produced."

"Consistency."--The Boston Messenger, in commenting upon the abuse of this term, says-- "In the course of a debate in the House of Representatives on Saturday, on a resolution submitted by Mr. J. Q. Adams, asking information relative to the deposite banks, Mr. Beatty of Ky. moved to add an additional resolution, calling on the Secretary of the Treasury to state, whether the President, the heads of departments, or the Treasurer, have been in the habit of keeping their private accounts in the Branch bank of the United States at Washington, and at what time they, or either of them, ceased to keep their accounts in said Branch bank. Mr. Polk insisted that all the officers of the government, including the members of Congress, ought to be included in the terms of the inquiry; this, he said, was a whole-hog principle, and he himself was from a whole-hog country; a fact which nobody will undertake to question. if this is his customary style of debate. The amendment was probably suggested by a circumstance, of which less notice has been taken than it would seem likely to call forth. It was stated in some paper a few months ago, that the President was in the habit of keeping his private funds in deposite in the Branch bank; this was denied by a Baltimore paper, which stated by authority, that such was the fact, until a deposite bank had been selected, but that the President had since been engaged in withdrawing them. It certainly is a very curious fact, that, at the very period when the President was denouncing the Bank in the strongest terms as insolvent and guilty, that he should have all the while entrusted his private property to its safe keeping, without the least doubt or hesitation."

The Report of the Committee on the Post Office discloses some of the most gross and flagrant specimens of official delinquency ever presented to an intelligent community. We regret we have not room for the whole of the document, together with what is called the counter report, but their great length forbids the idea of giving them. Even the latter acknowledges great deficiency in duty on the part of the government officers. We have given some extracts: The following brief review of some of the disclosures we copy from Noah's Star:--

Let us for a moment look at the sums which have been paid to Van Buren editors out of the public moneys as contained in this report.

Horatio Hill, brother of Mr. Senator Hill, and printer of a violent paper in New Hampshire, favorable to the pretensions of Mr. Van Buren to the Presidency, was a contractor to carry the mail on fifteen different routes, with a privilege of carrying and distributing newspapers free of postage.

Hay and Bennett were contractors to carry the mail from Bellfonte to Meadville, Penn.; and having obtained an extra allowance, forthwith purchased an opposition press, and brought it out in favor of the administration.

True and Greene, of the Boston Statesman, are charged with having received $29,907 75; but Blair, of the Globe, who printed the Blue Book, carried it out only $6,899 25.

Mr. Greene is the brother to the postmaster at Boston, and editor of the Morning Post, a violent Jackson and Van Buren paper.

Hill & Abbott, of the New Hampshire Patriot received $7,543 26.

Blair charges them only with $1,494 36, Horatio Hill received $6,272, of which no notice is taken in the Blue Book.

Shadrach Penn, of the Louisville Public Advertiser, a violent Van Buren press, received $9,566 36, for printing, for twine and paper; but he is only charged in the Blue Book with $2,297 91. To other Jackson and Van Buren printers the gross sum of seventy thousand dollars has been paid.

Blair--the pure and patriotic editor! the sincere friend of the fairs! he who daily inveighs at the corruption of the United States Bank, received $21,634 90, though only charged $14,371 57 in the blue book.

Mr. Barnabas Bates, figures in the roll as a special agent, having received for travelling expenses $1,856.

We presume, from the extreme caution of Mr. Bates, that he said but little in favor of Mr. Van Buren on his route; and it is not a little curious that by an order from the department, these travelling items were set down as "incidental expenses of the Post Office, New York."

The whole statement exhibits a tissue of fraudulent conduct unparalleled in our history, and we never can bring ourselves to believe that Major Barry knew of its existence or countenanced its illegality, although the "responsibility" must rest upon him. The President knew that there was a deficiency of the public moneys, although the system of management of the subordinates in that department were, no doubt, carefully concealed from him. The people will now open their eyes to the true causes of charging others with corruption.