Washington, Aug. 21, 1841. No One Can Be Long A Resident At ...

Washington, Aug. 21, 1841. No one can be long a resident at the metropolis without growingsiek ot hoarl of public life. Intreagues and cabala are its moving influence, and dextrous, and sometimes iniquitous management bas achieved many a victory, and helpcd onward many a demagogue in the "tug for station and power." They are sliil. as they have been timo out of mind, most efficiënt auxiliiarics, not of ono party alono, but of all. Anyonc, with only few ami mdiflerent nieans of obaervatiun at itíe centre of the governmenl,can hardlyhelp uiscovcring movcmentsof guilty and cunning policy, which, if sent through the l.intJ, would startle many an honest repub lican with disrnul apprehensions not only oftheoverturn of his party, but ofhisfieedom indanger. The rush for office continuos as overwhehning as ever. From the duy when ilie new adiniuislralion entered upon its career, lbo clamor has been unceasing. - The deiuh of Gen. llarrtfon only suspended it; gave it a tburl lull : but like a úauv med aircuin, when it does break loose, il teat-8 on, loudcr and fiercer than ever. - Before that, the oflioe seeker3 uaed to come only n Iroops-j now they are flucking in armios; in Icgiuns; as thich, and us pebiiletitiul loo, as the frogs that awarmed over gvpt at lbo conimand of Moaes. From morning lili nigbt the President is Loset; the Secretaties hold a regular levee of applicants eveiy day, and members of (ingresa grow weury iu the eterna! din for oíiice thai is clanging in thoir ears. - Some unlucky sutiors are peremptorily refuaed. Sume are sent paekmg homo agaiu with promises of cncourugemür.t, which will navet befuliïlled, because they never can be, and a few; a very few, fiad their appücations successful, and enter at onco upon the elysium ofoilicial life. We had oxtracted a long account of the MiesissippünsurrocUon humbug, but we have no room for t, and give our readers tlio fullowing, wbich is the latest uiforumtion on the subject.