Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-05-04
Correspondence of tho Baltimore Patriot.

Correspondence of tho Baltimore Patriot.
WAsulSGroS, April 90 1888
You are wp.ting | suppose, with some anxiety, |
to learn what charges actually TO take place
among The Ki,chen dignnres, SC of this city |
Thers is much in embryo can assure you, but The
hubble viii no, be fully burst before the 10Th OF ncx'
month. Then, sir, look out FOR tho breakers, Ii Is
again confidently asserted that Maj. Barry IS TO
leave the Post Office directly and TO proceed ON
n Mission to SPAN and that Amos Kendall is 10
tax. his place at the head Of the Post Office Depnrt-
menl-,his transfers him nj once from the lower 10
The upper Cabinet Mr. Van Buren, still fingers
hsre and his hand is not only in this trenifer OF
places, IN, he watches every movement upon the ,
political chess board and takes that all goes 10
$50 vn rdvastaee
have reason To believe that Major LAWS is ar
ranged in'o favor agoin-he will retain his present
place ~ Second Auditor and " first lord of the bed
shambar,' with the promise of advancement lie
has been touched by the wand OF the Magician
end is growing less UAitesh.
|, is really wonderful how Gen. Jackson lives
To day he will be taken down violently sick, with
scarcely hope of his ever recovering, and io-mor
rev. presto he will 10 riding on, for his health
But this riding ont is getting to be pretty well I'M
ssstood. II iy all done for effect abroad. The
oLl man is very low and feeble indeed, and when
he rides out he is very carefully placed IN close
warm coach, uad carried but a lIule distance
Were any ohcr man in his very feeble state,
would soy he could not survive I'LL summer. Blu,
General Jackson is a phenomenon, physical, moral
md political.
Speaking Of the President how much Of his sal.
airy Of S25, 900 do you suppose he annnu lily lays
up! hayr heard II repeatedly declared, by those
who have the means Of knowing, that II mot less
than SIS 900 You may say he has iepecS and
r;x md I'M f,arn in
these, TO make them very expensive To him who
gives hem One gets n SIGHT OF the rooms, the
furniture and he yisers n the lcvccs, and this is
pretty much all.-Well, as II regards dinners, the
President gives one round to about two thirds of
the members ef Congress, Foreign Ministers, &c.
&c. For these dinners his marketing may cost
him $50, and the wnc--oh, lac has double the n
moun, consumed, given him every year. Aud
,hen the President i. away from Washington no
little portion of his time when i, Of course, costs
him but very Iit,lo TO live. Gen. Jackson i, also
not over fond Of manfcsting his charities | am
told that Whenever a charitable object is presented
before him, and his aid is solicited, I've meets II at
ence by saying " Jim 3hnroe, Che always calls
the late President Monroe Jm) left the Presidency
bankrupt and AndrcU Jackson will take care that
he saves himself
The salarie, of,hc Clerks in the Departments
il this city are full high, and their lobors too
easy, generally speaking, both for their own
health and reputation, md for the interest of the
Government. Their salaries, ccnrr'ly are from
$500 20 1900 per annum They go into the offices
al about 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and out
70 dinner at 3 after which they have nothing more
to 10 for the day How do they spend their lei
sure time II must be employed some how, and
1t is no difficult task for one 10 imagine h0W great
pant Of them employ it, II these gentlemen clerks
ha1 to work trhe harder, and their salaries
~sre uine reduced it would be no great DANA &C
10 them.
Mir. Kendall is too active and party
Politician TO make a Trustworthy Post Master Gen
cral. This station shouts be sc, apart from tho po-
litical game, and filed by person who could com
mand universal confidence. Mr.. X. would be held
10 bs minister Of political police, devo'ed and
useful TO patty as Fouchc was IN Psrls to his
fsvoriIs ruler or faction. Already The impression is
general that he has been chosen specially for the
purpose OF rendering tie whole Post Office ma,
chinery ministerial to tho elevation Of Mr.. Van
Buren,. Mi. Ga.
Treaties ,oM Asia-Thc Washington CORES.
poaden Of the Journal of Commerce, under date OF
she 7th instant, writes
Mr. RoDKRrs, of New Hampshire has been
appointed 10 carry gu, the presents for The King o.
6iam, end thence 10 proceed to Cochin China, witt
instructions for forming commercial arrangement
with the Government of that country, similar tt
the subsistag arrangement with Siam. lie sos
s:t in . sloop ofwar."
Thin 10 all right. The extension of friendly ar
rangemcnis with maritime States, however distan,
Gxrishes facilities to commerce and protection Il
= Svigation. The policy that dictates them, there
fore. Is sound and praiscworthy The adoption O
by those who detained SO loudly agains, the lat
administration for pursuing the same course 70
which indeed j, riJicaled by its opponents III
the i" diplomatic a4minisira toh'--is an mrcon
seiqps uibae on the pat Of the present odmnis,ia
Iisn to tina, which preceded it. What, in thu