New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-24

formed. she house was made Comfortable rx,.
statement, We confsss, fills US with wonder .o5 :.
tcni.bmept Because from the eagerne.. .od A.
solute appetite which certain gentlemen. vru
known 10 u, to b., persons 81 great TASTE and YER,
par tcular about their personal comfort, have ar.
hibited, for re.idenc. in the said house, wa hA
supposed it to be Demssne Of Delight, compared
With which the private residence Of Kuba Kh,,
was squsEd hoyel. Judge OF our astonshmsnt a,
learning, as We 90 learn from the Upholstery Cor.
respondent Of The Boston C0urie,, that this psl.c.
has either never been palace or has undergone
sort Of Clnderella.chsnge dresdful to con.id.,.
The deep conimisseration with which We have "a,
some time regarded Mr.. Buchanan. has found -,
lower deep. "The silver in the house 10 uaoxl,
:" that bought in Paris during the Administratioaf n
"Mr. Monroe" Think Of that, We luIurioa, ssD.
tlemen who promoted Mr. Buchanan to thi, eop
comfort, aud who have, as is well known, the vsr,
poorest of you, silver BY pounds st your nOo,,id,
lunches, and silver by tuns at your eyennz din.
Ders But We have still greater desti,uno.
" There are but two or three pictures in u.
house" The following is, We are informed. Ii.
artistic catalogue:
P.rrs, Of Washington cut from the frame snd secured ),
MIS- ns'ison when sshinslon occupied By the Bri
sh d.nnE The war OF Artn saksoxa
Portrait OF BoHv1... ssk.sr.
The house, We are also told, is perfectly dss,.
tute Of " household orus nents," which statement
is not complimentary to Miss Lane; and one which
considering her presence there, we take pccasio,
emphatically to contradict. II there are none Of
those "bousehold ornaments" which some of ~
regard as the most valuable and which are CON.
monty called " babies that we submit, is rather
the fault of the President than of the nation Still
We must sympathize with Mr.. Buchanan in this
perfect artistlc destltuton. His fne natural taste
tas been cultivated, as We know, by gazing upo.
the canvas gories of the London Gslaries, to uy
nothing of the marble glories-prlncipauy 10 tho
oy ster shell stste and therefore more fully sppn-
clated by the Hon. John Y. Msson-of 0stend
We should not, if Mr.. Buchanan were destined 10
occupy the White House for any considerable tine
object to an appropriation of few millions OfdolIsn.
for the purchase of the chief works of Michse An
gelc, Raphael, Audrea del Sarto, Donenicaiuo Cor.
regaio. Carayaegio, Murillo, Rembrandt, Padir,
Prsxitele., Cspoys, aud Crawford. 1t may notee
convenient in hot weather or in cold weather, always
for an elderly gentlemen to be compelled, by his
rampant esthetica emotions TO walk or to ride from
the White House t. the Capitol, 70 satste his soal
by gazing upon Persco's Columbus and the Nine
pin Bal. He should have those things always abcat
him.
Moreover, we learn from this fellowplush cor.
respondent, that the President is put to prodgious
expense for "cooks buffers table servants, femsle
servants, coachmen." He is Obliged TO draw his
wallet whenever he wants any beef, or pork, or
mutton-yea, even for the humbleSt chop lie
manages, by Liebigian cultivation, to CLEAN a lew
cucumbers for the house garden-that is all.
When he has his friends to dinner, he feeds and he
houors them at his own expense--he is compelled,
in feet, To d the expense, like other aud lees
prominent roysterers. Since the tight times which
overlook the Lord of Ravenswood and poor Caleb
Balderstone. we have heard and we have read Of
nothing happening like this.
OfMr. Buchanan's other sorrows We mus! uats
short work. He has no private entrance to tho
White House. Wherefore, this writer proposesto
abandon the said House, and at once build another
Presidential Mansion, with hume rous private and
public entrances, avenues, gates and doors, with
picture galleries, and sculpture galleries, and music
galleries, and cabinets and cupboards and dvan'
and double -bedded rooms and sngle-bedded rooms
and bathrooms and great garrets and great cellars
for the Presidential wine, to be bought at the rs
tionsl expense and all other apartmcnta conven
ences We should listen to these cOmptin~ aud
propositions with more complacency did we not
know that several Presidents have retired IRON
the noble chair with wallets in comfortably d[
tended condition. There is Mr.. John Tyler, VINO
went into office without money enough to bujt
paper of Solace," and who is 50 rich thH
be chews from ten to twenty pounds Of the finest
"Virgn Leaf" daily, and has "two cloaks" and
every thing comfortable. There is Mr. Fillmore
who went out Of Office so much richer than h
went in that be ardenty and patriotlcally desired
to try the nhctOn second time. There Is Presi
dent Pierce, who was ihaugurafed without mucn
cash, aud who is now travelling luxuriousy, viewing
the ruins of the Old World WITH sympathetic sat''
faction. II Mr. Buchanan, when be goes the way
Of all Presidential flesh, is very poor, We shsll not
object to national testimonial Of specie. But nos
until then.
The anecdote must be fresh in the plbic NINA