The accession of Pierce to the Presidency was soon followed by the retirement of F. P. Blair, who had edited the _Globe_, a semi-official press since the inauguration of President Jackson, and by the establishment of the _Union_ as the new administration organ, under the editorship of Mr. Ritchie, the proprietor of the leading Democratic print in Virginia. This was the first unmistakable evidence of the deliberatively proscriptive policy of the new Cabinet. Mr. Forney, who for many years had been the Washington correspondent of a Philadelphia print, was assigned to a prominent command on the skirmish-line of the allied pro-slavery press. Though not a wit himself, the following skit will warrant his friends to claim for him the credit of being once very nearly the cause of wit in another. Its chief interest to the reader now consists in its glimpses of many transitory political issues which only live in the daily press and private correspondence of the period. PROSPECTUS OF THE "FORNEY-CATERER" "A daily journal will be established in the City of New York under the title of the _Forney-caterer_, the first number of which will be issued Jan. 1st, 1854, or on some other first of January. "This journal will profess radically _Democratic principles_. Believing in the largest liberty--especially in using the public moneys, it will insist on the extension of that liberty through all the domains of the public treasuries, national, state, and municipal, as the true idea of _Democratic progress_. It will be in favor of _free trade_, as practically illustrated in steamship contracts; and will particularly sustain the _Sloo_ contract, and the assignment thereof to George Law, Edwin Croswell, Prosper M. Wetmore, and Marshall O. Roberts; and the _Collins_ contract, which its editor will also personally advocate in the lobbies of Congress for a moderate compensation. Opposed to _internal improvement_ by the general government, it will urge liberal appropriations of the public funds to any private company which shall make satisfactory arrangements for grants in aid of the Pacific Railroad; and will take a small interest in the purchase by the United States of the property of the Hudson's Bay Company, should that beneficent measure be revived with a prospect of success. "In respect to the foreign policy of this country, it will be equally explicit. Asserting the honor and dignity of this great and powerful people, it will uphold the claims of Messrs. Hargous with firmness, whether against belligerent or bankrupt nations or against refractory or unconvinced commissioners. "Located at the great commercial centre, this journal will aim to be metropolitan in its character. Not indifferent to the concerns of sister States, it will take a large interest in maintaining the Camden & Amboy monopoly and other domestic institutions, the blessings of which no traveller ever can pass a sister State without feeling.