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Tho President's Message
MEssRs. EDlroRs 1t has been extremely cold in
indeed than has been experienced for something like
twelve or fifteen years. In shaded places during the
day time, the thermometer stood about Is and IS
degrees above zero; and at night in the situa-
tons it was several degrees lower With this severe
cold there came snow in abundance for sleighing;
but SO seldom does season of the kind occur here
that there is never any thing like sleigh on hand
for marketable purposes-say to sell, hire or lend
out. A few goods boxes and crates, however were
improvised into the proper trim, and the fast boys
INDUCED themselves in the luxury of being
noiselessly borne the unyiedng snow, to the
merry naturalization of jingng bells and the
tngling, musical accompaniment furnished in the
voices of merry bellies. Meantime much liquor
good, bad and Indifferent has been disposed of "by
the small" and hiarity quite general prevailed;
such as cold, bracing, snowy weather so much con-
tributes to.
Alas, there is an offset to the bright side Of the
picture. While many are able to make the best of
intense weather, and indulge with their friends
in old fashioned convivalities Or by purchasing en-
JOY those comforts accessible to wel-lncd purse,
many poor people suffering, and suffering
y for tile common necessares, the indispensable
cessores to fc-bread naeat and aoood Many per-
have been cnticed here by the idea that tny
died with the yellow fever, and that consequently
plenty Of work could be obtained in the Navy Yard
and at even advanced rates of pay. Such consid-
cradle number have acted npon this hope, that there
have come something like four five individuals 10
each vacancy occasoned by death, and tho result is
that their calculations have proved ruinou> d, lu-
sion. Numbers of them here without money
and without employment, and to such the weather
We have been passing through has been of
ing Of hunger added the chilling blast and
the 'scomforts Of insufficient clothing and bedding,
the situation Of the sufferer becomes one personally
painful and disheartening to himself and appealing
strongly to the sympathy, pity and compassion Of
the more favored.
The destitute are not the sole sufferers The poor
man who gets employment at the best wages going,
81 25 per day, and win gets his pay promptly and
regularly, has also a hard time of it. HIS wages
amount to 81 80 per week. The majority of them
married and have families Take man with
small fani!y-nOte his expenses at the lowest figures
that express the facts Of rent, living, &C.:
House rent per week, consdcre. lov at $500
Marketing seven days, at 81 cts. per day G3D
Wood, s. and 81 per cord, say ! cord at $50
$3.50
amounting to the of ten dollars and eighty cents,
three dollars and thirty cents per week over what
he possibly can earn. He must stint himself and
family to the sternest pinch Of economy, without
any calculation to clothes, some must
cessariy lose by becoming his creditor the latter
is rare one that you perceive that both classes
the entirely destitute and the fortunate enough
to get laborcr pay-make up aggregate Of actual
want and privaton, sufficiently gloomy and sadden-
ing to break in upon any diversion of the more in
dependent INDUCED in to pass away time and bad
weather, and to make the strongest kind Of APP
peal to the charity Of the humane.
Let Us turn from this to more pleasant and
the entire nation and in other of features
concerns the whole civilized world-the Presidents
message. The appearance of the message Gust at
the time it ssued) excited double degree OF graft
ticati0n-in that it would wait longer the era
~ delays Of undgniiicd and unorganizcd Con-
grcss, and in that its contents were so appropoS
we'll suited to the demands of the time
Questions are now agitatng the brains and dis
turbing the nerves of statesmen and legislators
the other side Of the Atlantic which will become
deeply and absorbngly historical in their character
and impression. These questions they are vainy
attempting to reduce to their simplest and lowest
proportions by equations drawn from the political
aigebras Of Westminster and the TucilereS. But we
OH this side Of the deep the who are to
solve these matters, by certain "formutne" laid
down by MIR. Monroe as to a portion, and the Dem
Ocratic party generally TO the remainder. Right
boldly clearly, pointedly, and impressvely does the
President enter upon the solution. On the foreign
enlistment the Central American, Danish, and all
other questions involved in our foreign associations
and antccedcnts Mr.. Pierce meets them bravely,
readily, and with coSumnate tact, and disposes OF
them not only with emphasis and energy, but with
an irresistible logic, drawn from the theory and gc-
MUS Of our government understood and eiuciia-
ted bv the distinguished statesmen of the cOun-
try since its origin. There is orthoio in reIi
gon, in morals, criticism, aesthetics, and III every
, thing else whose boundaries and functions, whose
uses and limits arc well determined and defined;
and there is no less an orthodoxy in politics, any
departure from which is for the country
wosc policy such politics indicate. The Deinocra-
cy from Jefferson down. to have hit upon that
orthodox set Of principles most consonant TO the
prosperity of our country and the performance OF
its government and the most exactlng could not re-
qure any thing more orthodox than the message IS
as Democratic document.
1t has been received in Europe by this tirae, and
the prominent statesmen and diplomats of that
country, after reading it, will have to change their
views, modify their policy. or re-asscrt them with
dogged determination to persist i'll the wrong, and
abide the inevitable and perhaps melancholy result.
No Vienna protocol can disspatc away tie points,
of the message. No Austrian King give gloss
to it so good as its unvarnished but torcible
language affords
Then again, upon the great disturbing internal
issue MIR. Pierce is equally delicious and direct
There is not the slightest shade of an equivocaion,
nor the merest suspicion of non-committalism about
it. Black Republican Know Nothngs are taught
what encouragement they may expect from truly
national President, and Southern Know Nothings
shown that if they be sincere and honest in their
protestations, he is the man Tor their admiration;
while Democrats the sterling champions Of consti
nationality, the good old stand dys in every time
of trial and trouble, find that in him their conf
dence has not been misplaced. have not gone into
speciaties in this notice of the message for nearly
every one has read it for himself, and in conclusion
would add, in general terms, that as manly,