Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-04-02
THE oFFICE-sEEKING MANIA.

The ofice-seeking mania-the like of which, it is be-
eved has never been before in WESTINGHOUSE de-
porabe but the deporable now when almost every
good citizen get better living than Office will
give him in the common pursuits of life Ofceseekng,
when all business is suspendedwhen trade paralyzed
money unattainable by hard workmay be excusable
perhaps neyitabe but now, when every thing stirring,
and money be got any to live on
tainy-ofice seeking is indeed deporabe. Generally
speaking, half the amount of industry anxiety devoted
business that is devoted to the pursuit of Office would
twice return the fruits to labor that returned in
the pursuit of this delusion-a place There few
prizes to be sure but very few and these prizes
in nothing to be compared with the prizes business
holds up all around Besides, offce-seeking humates
the applicant degrades him in his estimation
his temper and makes him hate humanity and his
The confessions" of oceseeker if successful
would open page of the human heart that the eye would
shrink from reading
Office, therefore, money making pursuit, in the
main, makes adequate return that is, lit does not
pay" There must be ten twenty disappointed for
every appointed and hence disappointment is proba
BILE at the start The only excuse for the pursuit them
there can be- is in the supposed "honor that app
cant believes belongs to the Office he pursues What this
honor is in these latter days of the republic, every
must judge for hmself but if the offices had no
salaries apprehend that but very few would set any
estimation them without. There are, however, some
few who really do desire their country for
the good they suppose they do it. and such amb
ton is of the audabe kind but in the scramble
such must undergo to his place he be-
comes debased in his estimation, and is very likely
to shrink second time from its pursuit-N L. Express.
The following account of shocking accident from the
bursting of fluid lamp given in the Worcester Mass
Transcript. We repubsh it fresh warning against
the use of this very dangerous article:
We copied day two since a paragraph briefly
stating that the wife of Dea. Perley Allen burnt
death Tuesday evening by the bursting of fluid
lamp She sitting by the lamp when it burst, from
some unexplained cause, communicating the fire to her
dress. There one in the house but aged man,
who too feeble to render any assistance Mrs Allen
bed in which she rolled herself to extinguish the
fire from her person She succeeded in doing So but
until her clothes entirely consumed from her waist
downward and her flesh burnt to crisp In the
time the fluid had set the fire yet, notwith-
standing her terrible condition. she had the courage
think of extngushng the fire, which, by this tme had
communicated to various parts OF the She
the well and drew pail after pail of water which she
dashed around the room till the fire subdued thus
saving the house and the life of aged and helpless
She then into the street and made her condition
known She badly burnt that she fingered in
circulating torture butnne hours, when death terminated
her sufferings