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The EXPENSES or THE WHITE HoUsE.-The editor of
the Lancaster Iateaigencer, writing from Washington
says By the way, do you know that all the expenses
of the WHITE HoUsE-servants, entertainments, and
the host Of incidental contingent expenditures-are
sustained out of the salary of the President 1t is
fact, of which, until to-day, entirely ignorant
Many persons believe that the Presidents salary,
$4,000 per annum, is very abundant; but when the
great mass of visiters is recolected-when the fire.
quent levees, dinners, entertainments, &c. con-
sidered-it soon dwindes away, and there is abso-
lutey nothing left for the Presidential chair but the
empty honor. President Tylers expenses in sixteen
months were over S38 600, and he left for his farm
on James River, Virginia with barely enough out of
his last years salary to pay expenses Gen. Jackson
came here with $4,000 of his own money, and after
eight years service in the Executive Office left for the
Hermitage with less than his travelling expenses
These facts which to be true; and they are
very painful facts