Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-01-11
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9TH. 1854.

A good deal Of chuckling follows the fate of
Mr.. Cuttings "hard' resolutions. Their very
friends now admit the impolicy of attempting
such thing, in branch of the government hay
ing very large nominal majority which, what
ever it may think of the administration policy,
would be slow to take up the cudgels for any one
man, though twice the saint and martyr of Bron-
son. There is a long road to be Travelled, before
the close OF, the session There are many ques-
tons of public policy to come up, before the end;
on which the administration processes ndffer-
ence at present, but will be found one side or the
other.
No President can be so free from ambition, as
not to wish to be identified with some measure
and none poor in spirit MS to be satisfied with
having done more than distribute the loaves
and fishes Thus talk the lizards" The Wing
vote though not very large is more than "A nu-
cleus. In any move not purely factious, it
will he found quite lizard" enough.
To this complexion it must come at last-the
llards' though strenuously urging their claims
to be the Democratic party, will find soon enough
that "A party without patronage is not the demo-
cratic party and agreeing already with the Wings
in certain very essential particulars, they will
be gradually absorbed in the Wing ranks This
has ever been the process of wing formation
the absorption of the best part of the party which
has never stickled at any man or measure so it
would go. Great as has been such accession, it
has not kept pace with the foreign emigration,
which swes yearly the ranks of Locofocoism
The number of poters arriving in n. York alone,
in one year,is quite equal to the average popular
majoiityn general elections.
There seems to be disposition in Congress to
increase the pay of Government employees in this
city. The cost of living to poor men is enor-
nous, owing to the fact that in the markets and
the shops they have to come up to a scale of pri-
ces adapted to the large salaries of high function
ariesand in the hotels, whose prices are adapted
to ready money travelling transient custom
Although so much money has been spent here
the people have had very little good from it.
The Improvement of the public grounds has Incl
dentally benefited property in certain quarters;
but who owns the property Not the poor and
the people OF late days, Congress has given
some attention to district DISTINGUISHED and
therefore uncared for. There are projected GER
tain improvements, which, when done will make
this the capitol indeed Ne hare no potes.-
Why,they even talk of running an air line rail
road from Richmond to Baltimore, merely to a
void us ! In the several letters which | have
sent you'll have said very little of the place and
people which afford much material for comment
Though could not undertake, do some, to
give you prices current of eggs and poultry; nor
yet report the doings and sayings of every "wor-
thy" ''noble" mechanic at "our Navy Yard"
nor yet note the arrival of oyster and potato
yawls in the river and long boats in the canal
there are yet many things in Washington, as it
is. that may interest and amuse.