Cost Of Office Seeking

-Amgton letter writer iuiirnaies tliat the nuiïiber of pnrsons who hayealready been tu that city tur oílices for luemselves and their iriends excceds six ihousand. Some uftho.ui were trom a great distunce, and i ■omamcd on expense ibr some tune. Supposi.-ig tlie average expenses oi' eacb per son to be only one hundied and fifiy j lure, it wül appcarlhat tliey have expeuried thé sum cjfnmé iiundrcd tliousand dollars ah'e'n'dy m thcir cnierprise. This is, piM-liaps, a larger si;m than the new adininislration will bestow, in the aggregate,] on all t!:c new appoinunenis ofa i ate grade, thai they will make in their j fuur eíiis.