Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-29

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President Of tia T1ited 6tateL
TAG F1ssr or APzII-In day or two
our streets viii be filed NTH carts, drays,
and express wagons, filed with the "iit-
t;ngathat changes locations every year, SIS
sure as the first of April comes around
1t is estimated that maa who moves every
year for space Of seven years, sperdaas
much money as would bur him comfor-
table house of his own, and did ne not
take it for granted that every person tries
to get house, we should take this occa-
sion to urge the matter upon the consider
alton of our citizens in as forcible man
uer as we know how. 1t is quite easy,
and we have no doubt quite pleasant fog
the laboring poor man TO build cottage
lin the air. and surround it with plants,
shrubs, green grass, shade trees and all
the beauties of nature: it is also very en-
livening and inspiring to pirate about ac-
curing wealth, --.s..-.. -.s..-
~ ' 4 Not for 70 hide It IN hedEeI
!, Not = train attendant
Bat for the slori0us privilege
or E<in0 iadsp.4dsnt.
We say this is all very fne, and while we
would not discourage a hopeful energetic
mind, ne must nevertheless, be permitted
to hint that it is great deal easier 10 talk
about building houses and getting money
than 1t is 70 do it. As contemporary very
truly observes, il the present condition Of
society ii is the next thing TO an imPossibili-
u for laboring man, or even mechanic
with good wages, to secure home to cover
himself and chiIdren-caPital being on one
side and labor on the other; and the claims
of the former are SO pressing that there is
no withdrawing them. The Inconvenience
OF being "houseless" is at no time so deep
~ felt as during the latter part Of March
and the beginning of April, when the
migratory population changes quarters,
and It is during the operation-when all
the discomforts of moving experienced
that some of our citizens resolve to
have houses of their own. Under the
spur Of the excitement many make the
effort, only, in most cases, TO pay large
amount of money away for the benefit
of the dealer in Real Estate, and the
Sheriff, and all because there are not
sufficient safeguards thrown around the
poor mans possessions. In no other
country is there to be found anything like
this moving from one place to another,
and in no old and settled country could
such an institution have had its birth
The domicile that shelters too many of our
people is to them just so much lath, bricks,
boards and plaster. We do not sufficient
ly comprehend the feelings of affection,
which cluster around the ancient house in
which two or three generations of ones
kin have lived, loved and died. In this
rapid, busting world, these considerations
are lost sight of which, perhaps, it were
better could we. keep in remembrance
Such phrases as the scarcity of old as so
Citations" have no meaning for most of US,
since the real thing has faded away long
since, ifindecd it ever had or could have
had, an existence among US. And it is
time our working masses should take
:cognizance Of this matter, and by forming
associations, free from all selfish ends and
aims, to aid one another to accumulate
the means to secure the desired object-a
home of their own-when they will be free
from the grasping nvarice of landlords and
spectators.
& IMPoRrAxr discoveries of gold are re-