The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-05-12

those beverages ct dinner, or st other times, TO
whieh use has 70 accustomed them that to drink them
has become o sort Of :" second nature"
to many, perhaps necessary for health but at all
events necessary to enjoyment. The chief city of
Rhode Island, Newport, hitherto famous as water
ing place, will be ruined by this law, and the hotels
and s.orcksepers of the watering places in the.
States Of New York and New Jersey will be
benefited in proportion. Saratoga win flourish,
and the gay, the fashionable, and the invalid will
thropg 20 It's springs, while the grass will grow upon
the streets Of Newport, and it will soon present the
appearance Of deserted village" Nor will this
law be without its effects in the rural districts. The
farmers, hitherto, were in the habit of giving the
men employed in haymaking and other agricultural
work. a certain allowance of New England rum,
which did not cost for each man more than two
three cents, but which had the effect of procuring
great amount of additional work, especially in wet
meadows. Now tho men will be dissatisfied, and
will not work so hard, and the farmers will have to
put on more hands; and their farming operations
will cost them more, while their remuneration will
be less, the market for the produce being rendered
worse in consequence of the prohibition to it in
the manufacture ofdstilled fermented beverages,
to be used temperately. Thus the law will work in
those States, till it works its own repeal at last.
HIGH SALARIEs.-A strong disposition to increase
the salaries of oil tho public officers Of this city
civil nd judicial-has manifested itself in various
quarters of late. This increase has varied from fifty
to seventy per cent. Thousand dollar salaries have
been augmented to fifteen hundred two thousand to
three; and three, to four or five. The given
for this extraordinary increase in public salaries of
city functionaries have not been very clear or
very satisfactory to those who pay the taxes.
Among other reasons, however, we have heard il
stated that the extraordinary production Of gold in
California by diminishing its value article Of
exchange, and the rise in the price Of provisions
including beef and potatces-were some Of the prn'
cpal motives fer the increase Of these salaries.
Among the whole tribe of officials, Of all kinds,
whose salaries have been augmented for these rea-
sons, or any other, not one has manifested spirit
Of moderation and contentment equal to that shown
by Recorder Tillou. This worthy magistrate has
actually refused to accept increase of salary, de-
claring he was perfectly satisfied with the salary al
ready attached to his Office Such instance Of self
denial and moderation is probe without exam
pie in the history Of this city tor the last half CEN
tury where there has been such scramblng for the
spoils among all parties, and in every quarter.
But the mania for high salaries is not alone the
passion Of the moment. There seems to be, in va
rious quarters rrepressble desire to create new
Offices and new jobs for new favorites and fresh
beggars for the public spoils. The Board Of Emf
grafton, under the literary and philosophical in6u
ence Of Mr.. G.. c. Verplanck-a highly respectable
cold fogy'' OF Tammany Hall-has actually created
new and unnecessary Office, worth four thousand
dollars year, and gvenit to some one, for tho pur
pose, undoubtedly, of enabling the individual to
make decent living and good show in society.
There ought to be some limit put to this DISPOSE
ton of increasing salaries, creating new Offices, and
lavishing the public money in all directions and in
all quarters. 1t is true gold pacers have been dis
covered in California and Australia, but the pacers
which pay for these high salaries and new Offices are,
as yet confined to the pockets of the handwriting
people of this city.
CALIFORNIA MINING CONFERENCE.-The number Of
mining companies organized in California alone. is
estimated at about eighty, Of which forty are vo-
untecr associations, without articles OF agreement
and composed of fifteen twenty persons each, who
work their own mines ana ulvIue r.a6ts
The other half are generally arcled aud legalized
associations, with presidents secretaries, cashiers
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from ten to fifty, some Of them working their own
mines and others employing assistants. Of these
eighty companies or associations, of all kinds it is
supposed that not more than ten, fifteen, or twenty
Of both classes, highly prosperous or successful
Two-thirds of them are estimated to be the merest
bubbles in creation. The great bulk of gold dust
exported from California generally from ndi-
vidua diggers, and only small proportion from the
organized and artcled companies.
We have received some curious reports, state
ments and results Of Investigations on these Cali
forna mining companies, which we shall give our
readers at an early day They represent in the
true light some of the peculiar characteristics Of
these associations. The California companies Of
which we speak are distinct and different from
those few which have been org anzed in New York,
London, and Paris. In the latter cities there arc
probably about twelve or fourteen companies or
ganized, and in this city about half Dozen Those
in this city are principally got up under the auspices
Of the stockholders and philosophers of the Tribune
newspaper, and are generally considered to be hum
bugs Of the first water.
DR.. BEECnER, THE TRIBUNE PHILOSOPHERS, AND
THE DuTY ON CoAL-The Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, in his organ of abolitionism and s'the
higher law." concurs with the philosophers Of the
Tribune on the slavery question, and the Kossuth
question, Intervention, money, saddles, muskets,
scrip, and all But upon the question Of duty
on coal, the parson and the philosophers disagree.
Beecher goes for abolishing the duty entirely, for
the benefit of the poor and against the wealthy coal
monopolies Of Pennsylvania. The philosophers of
the Fourierite circle whose stocobbing operations
extend to the Pennsylvania coal mines, are opposed
to this plain and consistent doctrine Of Christian
charity. and plead the good old policy protection
and high prices. And wherever coal monopolies,
or California quartz mining companies, Lake
Superior copper stock jobbing, or New Jersey zinc
specuatons are concerned, these interests will be
protected, and pulled, and inflated, by our pious
philosophers and if the credulous are swindled in
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