Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-14
Washington n evy.

A day or two before the president left
in cabinet council, various
consular app' 'antments were
finally disposed of. There was much
outside pulling and ha'uling for these
places, embracing as they do, more than
one of the exceedingly fat positions in
that branch of the patronage of the Ad-
f6inistration. Doubtless, the members
of the Government thank God that they
have thus gotten rid of so much of the
pressure of the ofice-seeking fraternity
as was involved in the efforts of some five
hundred patriots to secure these particu-
lar posts.
Like all those connected with the dis
tant press at this point, we have to
"scratch' for such items of news. In
this case we have, perhaps, to guess for
some portion of it. Yet we announce with
perfect confidence in the correctness ofthe
statement, that the following Consular
appointments were made on that occa-
sion, viz:
Lima. Caleb Smith, of California
Pernambuco.-William Llley, of Ohio
St. Johns P. Robin Parsons, of Flo
rida; Mantanzas.-Edward Worrell, of
Delaware; Nlarseilles. Samuel Dins-
more, of New Hampshire; Glasgow
Philip 7. Heart, of New York; Genoa.
E. Felix Foresti, of New York; Esineur.-
F. B. Wells, of New York Leith.-Jas.
Mcdowell, of Ohio Turk Island. John
L. Nelson, of Maryland; Mannheim
John Scherff, of Maryland; Bahia.-John
R. Bennett, of Missouri ST.. Jago de
Cuba.-Stephen Cochran, of Pennsylva-
MIA; Sumatra.-Commercial Agent Robt.
r. Purvis, of Suumatra.
ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL EXCURSION
We are informed that the President designs
visiting the Berkeley Springs lin Virginia
very shortly after his return from his
present northern trip. If so, he will
merely accompany his estimable lady to
that point, returning to Washington and
to his labors without delay, we take it.
The NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. -The
National Treasury will soon be forced to
bleed freely on account of the parsimony
manifested by the last Congress in their
legislation with reference to the Navy,
wherein the recommendations of the De-
partment and it's several bureaus were I'M
tremendously set at nought. With full
knowledge of the tremendous ratio in
which our foreign commerce is increasing
in every direction, thereby rendering
corresponding increase in our naval force
absolutely necessary, because our Navy
exists only for the protection of that COM
merce,) Congress chose to pare down every
important appropriation proposed by those
whose duty it was to explain to them the
necessities of the service. So far did they
carry this policy, as that they refused to
allow sufficient for the preservation of the
ships already built and commenced, with
out appropriating a dollar towards meet
ing the naval demands of our so-wonder-
fully-increasing foreign trade. This policy
was the result of the influence of ignor-
ance and demagogueism combined, among
the members enough persons to affect
their action being unfortunately in pub
lie life, who are either incapable of
taking statesmanlike views of the ne
cessities of this branch of the public
service, or are selfish enough to deny
to the Government the means for its
proper development, in order thus to
propitiate the favor of the ignorant at
home, by tickling their prejudices. They
have deliberately resolved that the Ameri-
can Navy shall only exist in name as it
were; so Gripping its efficiency, as that in
case of war, we will be much weaker on
the ocean, than we were when the war of
1912 commenced. That is, when we
compare the relative considerations of our
naval service now, with that of the other
maritime nations, one and all.
Even Austria, with an oceanward COM
merce second to that of some of the second
class States of the American Union, has
Navy superior to ours in its number of
guns, ships, and seamen. Indeed, when
there was symptom of trouble brewing
out of the Hulsemann and Webster COR
respondence, Austria placed in the Medi-
terranean as though by magic, feet of
war steamers sufficient at blow to have
annihilated ourlttle squadron commanded