New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-24


w. think HAT lstter writers and editors ought to
III c,d Buck alons, Nj he i fully competent % damn
bineelf 3 IN lntslis and purposs without the aid
II hi eeiss being called In reputation to assist
MINI With their kicks dowa the headlong path to poll
MI perdition. These Warrington letter writers
a balefbls hoisoue GLASS, who have mistaken
~ hat il i ther duty to their condolences and the
puhc q show up al The shortcomings Of the federal
pousss that IL. and expose them 10 the just indgna
don q the republican public. When man or an
administration 10 going down hill why not let him or
II Ego II alone instead Of pitching in and helping
him OF II on the downward track and thereby divid.
ing With him or 1t the credit Of working his or its
own ruin. Old Bucks Standardization OF the
gnvest matters OF State has been shown up, and
his in all large things unfeelingy exposed, as
II he who pledged himself to oonfding Democracy
and suspicious Opposition to do everything right
should mot be allowed to fulfill Democratic pledges
in the usual way BY doing everything wrong, and
thus answer the expectations Of few longheaded
old political indes that be and his supporters could
not quite come the Oily Cannon over them.
But though sufficiently and justly condemned
everywhere for his official course there his been one
credit generally allowed him on all hands, ana tnat
va that be spent his twenty-five thousand year ike
gentleman, or prince, In entertaining sne coun
try'e guests at the White House, and even appre'
tensions were felt that the regal muncence Of his
hospitality would impoverish the Chief Magistrate,
bis admiring organs having promulgated the repor.
that his salary could stand no such DRAIN and that
he must be making disastrously heavy drafts upon
his private purse to support the magnificent ex-
uenditure which his Of the dignity 81 bis oice
suggested Is the handsome thing Much compassion
VS. therenpon excited there WAS popular call that
the salary Of the President should be raised to
proper figure and much was written In favor thereof
Yet, It seems old Buck is to be robbed even Of
this poor credit Of being pecunary martyr in his
.country's cause, for meddlng letter writer must
needs come out and give the result Of close investi-
cation into the Presidents affairs which his prying
disposition hes induced him to make md this result
it, that 50 far from his expanding fabulous amount
of money over his salary, the head Of the Admins
tation will clear in actual cash, at least sixty thou
sand Of the one hundred thousand dollars which
Uncle Sam makes over to him in requital fol
his valuable services during his term of office. This
shows how much wiser, smarter, and shrewder q
man 10 Buchanan than Willard Fillmore, who neither
had the disposition nor the faculty Of i" laying BY
out Of his salary" This dsrepoably inquistive cor
respondent is Occasional" scribbling fellow who
has somehow got the reputation Of being rather more
reliable than letterwrters for the press are commonly
esteemed to be, and be says that the keen Pennsyl
yanian has reduced by the closest calculation, the
domestic management Of his establishment to q
science, and there can be no doubt that whatever
others have done the present occupant Of the Pres
Dental chair makes money out Of his Office" fol
!" be has restricted himself within certain circle
and he will moi 60 beyond IT, Ny impression is thai
he will save at the end of his term, out Of the one
hundred Thousand dollars appropriated to the Pres
dent BY Congress, at least sixty thousand" The
correspondent goes on to give his reasons for bis
conclusion, by entering into the detail Of the Pres
dents domestic arrangements, but really cannot
follow this needlesome edition Of Paul Pry in his in
decorous investigations, which show that the Presi
dents public dinners, which first induced the ipju
rous suspicion Of his hospi.able prodigality, and
which occasion his only public outlay, "under sys
tenn of close management, cost comparatively small
sum- We cannot close without suggesting that as
Mr.. Occasional" has displayed so shrewd an &C
quaintance with kitchen affairs that should Douglas
prove victorious, to the overthrow Of Buchanan De
mocracy, he should be compimented with the post oil
head sculion in the household Of the new occupant
of the White House.