New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-12-04
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payerssof Taxes. and viii 'ieel and see scco'uiHs
w. They are good ren in the main bat not ex-
enpt from the foibles Of frai Human Nature Tue
men whose votes effected the late chanse ana
they to whom the Government Is entrusted are
by 10 means the same. Ask every Wing voter
in the country If some $4,000 year $ not rsther
more than thew consider fair compensation 70
the four Members OF Congress from Texas FOR
merely coming 70 Washington and gong Rome
again-at Al actual cost Of something IKE sl'JOO
in all-and they would unques,ionsbiy say J IS
bat il "a very hard 70 bring Congress TO say any
thing on the subject If bill reforming the
Mileage swindls gets through the House u IS sure
70 be struck with paralysis IN the oenaie' and
CO, rsrsg-au for want Of time, oi course. -
It seems impossible % stop the paying o. Ss''O0
outfit each beside $4,000 year salary 70 Minis
ters 70 Russia. Spain. Brazil, &c. where We need
no such officers sus where Charge al si''o1
year would be ample. There Is no work Man
ever attempted more difficult 70 oonsunmate than
the Rercnchment Of National Expenditure, since
each particular abuse in the whole system Is
alarmed by 81 attack on any other and all rally
by instinct 70 the common defence-not by fair
manly resistance. which would be as good as &C
ouiescence. but by 4, guerrilla warfare OF ambus-
cade maneuver and parliamentary tactics, which
xiii bat leave 10 track Of the slayer
Whether such shall be the result Of the recent
revolution We cannot yet i0resee' though we ap-
prehend il viii. The private interest J. strenu-
ous and on hand the public Is more careless and
remote. searching retrenchment act passed by
the present Or the next Congress will 70 the mass
Of the citizens be at once unexpected and vel
come
Another great and needfll Reform-the reduc-
ton Of Executive Patronage by confiding the cleo
ton Ji Pos,masters 70 the People Of the several
locslitie.-is Of the most vital and enduring con
sequence 10 the purity and perpetuity OF our Re
publican Freedom. IL viii take some time to e.
feet this Il an amendment OF the Federal Consti-
tuition IS deemed dispeusabie-thereore It ought
TO be started soon But iriH it,
NavAL-Two schooners left the Navy Yard on
Friday Afternoon for Norfolk carrying each draft Of
eighty men from the receiving ship for the L. FriEste
Rsrtan which takes the place Of the Cumberland IS
the aag-.hip Of the Home Squadron. These men are
mostly .esmsn party being under the charge Of
Lieut. swartwout and the other Of Lieut. Mead.
The Cumberland frigate is 10 go in ordinary, and the
work Of dismsnilng her 10 nearly completed
The Savannah waits her officers and crew 1t /. IN
dertiood she IL destined for the Pacific and that Capt
LatImer has the command Of her Several of her for
mer officers nave already reported and she will proba
bly, 20 into commission in ten days
The store ship Fredonis, Lieut. Neville commanding
/. resdy for sea and will sal Immediately She carries
out stores to our squadron in the Pacific.
Il /, UNDERWOOD that Commission OF three officers
from the Navy Department will join the Falcon, which
sailed yesterday for Chagres at NcwOreans and 90 to
ths Pacific, 70 select sites for Navy Yards new
territories bordering on that Ocean.