Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-08

disgust % INC onensiVe practlceS OF any lndi
vidual, as that manifested yesterday among
the public men in Washington without dis
tinction of party, on reading Benefits dia-
tribe of the day before, on the Cutting and
Breckenridge affair, wherein he boldly ac-
cuses the President of plotting the murder of
Cutting with the rife, and heaps upon that
functionary the most filthy personal abuse, in
language as coarse as mendacious. The fact
tia. Bennett is understood to be yet an nn'tat-
uraiizsd foreigner, served greatly to heighten
the indignation 10 which he has given rise,
against himself, by his unsparing personal
villi6cation of the chief magistrate of the
United States For reasons best known to
himself, he refuses to become an American
citizen; yet he takes the liberty of interfer-
ing in American public affairs, in q style
which would very justly cost him his ears any
where south Of Mason and Dixon's line. He
laid the foundation of his fortune by pander-
ing to the vilest propensities of the vilest in
New York. Having thus, for pay, aided in
putting money in the pockets of persons who
should be in States prisons, his next move
was to rob them by his black mail system.
He thus obtained the start which gave him tho
means of assuming to play the fash gentle
man, in the face of the fact that respectable
people refuse to sit at the same table with him
in New York Hotels, or in the neighborhood
Of the box at the theatre or opera which he
pollutes with his presence. Having, by black
mail robbery, as before remarked, obtained
the means Of setting up for respectable man,
this unnaturalized foreigner sought to be ap-
pointed American Minister to France. The
President very properly treated the applica-
ton in his favor as an. impudent insult. For
failing to prostitute his Office to the extent of
inficting such an injury upon the fair fame of
his country, as the appointment of James Cor
don Bennett, Ambassador from the United
States to France would have been, the latter
has maligned him very much as Thomas JEFF
ferson, in his day, was also villifed by an
unnaturalized foreigner, to the disgust and
indignation Of the whole country. .
We are hearing all around us BENEFITS re-
voting BLACKBOARD abuse of President Pierce,
instanced by Wings, as cause sufficient to JUS
tify the present rapidly accommodating feelings
on the part of native born Americans against
the interference of unnaturalized foreigners in
American public affairs even as cause SUI.
fcient to justify the secret associations o.
the "Know Nothings." No American eve;
so far forgot his self respect and his allegiance
to the spirit of the institutions of his country
as to use such language concerning its CHIEF
magistrate, and to accuse him of the perpe
tration of vilIainous crimes, as Bennett does.
We need hardly add, that while he fails te
lessen the esteem for the President entertained
by any man whose good opinion is worth hav.
ing, he is rapidly generating among the pub
lie men of America, the impression that it i:
high time to take some steps which will he re-
after prevent mercenary and unprinciplet
men whose offences and crimes CAUSED
them to be driven forth from Europe. from
injecting our rising generation with the PERM
cious influence of their illegal and wholly un
authorized interference in American publ.
affairs, to their grievous decentralization.
A Decision on Power Of Attorney Cues
tion.-Recently, power of attorney to draw
pension up to certain date was presented
to an accounting officer of the Government
and was found to specify in the authority, ;
considerable period for which the pension hat
already been drawn. 1t was held that for tn,
amount Of pension accrued and payable sine,
the former payment, the power was not vitiatec
In consequence of its giving authority to draw
from time antecedent to that from which tn,
pension was due.
The Bill to Increase the pay Of the Govern
ment Employees. following is the bill
recently passed by the Senate of the Unite,
States to increase the pay of persons in tn
employment Of Government, on which no fna
action has yet been taken by the House o
Representatives
BILL to amend the third section OF the ne
making appropriations for the civil a. ID diplon All
expenses of government for the year Guiding In
thnleth Of June, eighteen hundred and fifty four
and for other purposes.
BE 1T enacted, DC, That of the clerks al
thorized by TIE third section Of the act ap
proved March third, eighteen hundred ant
fifty three, entitled Z" an act making appro,ri
atoms for the civil and diplomatic expenses o.
Government for the year ending the Thrift ETH
OF June, eighteen hundred and ffty-four, ?
those Of the first class shall receive a salary o
twelve hundred dollars per annum; those O
the second class, salary of fourteen hundred
dollars per annum; those of the third class q
salary of sixteen hundred dollars per annum
and all vacancies in any of the classes, named
In said act mentioned, shall be filed by pro
motion from the class next below, and all
clerks not provided for in this act, performing
the same or similar duties with any one of the
classes, shall receive the same cOmpens alton
as is allowed to such class; and the clerks en-.
ployed in the Census Bureau shall be paid
during the present fiscal year, the same rs i:
hereby allowed to clerks of the second class
Sec. z. Aad be 1T further enacted, That the
stamp and blank agent for the Post Office De-
partment receive the same salary as clerks oi
the second class, provided for in the first sec
lon OF this act; aud an addition of twenty pei
cent. Is hereby added to the pay now author
lied by law to each Of the messengers, packers
laborers and watchmen of the different execu
tive departments Of the Government in Wash
Ington to the clerks employed at the Navy
lard and Marine barracks at Washington. 70
the clerks. messengers and laborers in the of
nee OF Commissioner of Public Buildings, door
keeper, and assistant door-keeper at tbs Exec
utive mansion; public gardener, laborers en-
ployed in the public grounds and President
garden; two additional watchmen and the
police at the Capitol; watchmen employed Al
the Presidents house and Reservation No 2
lampllghters, the general superintendent th,
drawkeepers of the bridge across the eastern
branch and potomac- and that tho rro,;s;,p