New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-03

cost them nothing 70 learn whose labor is very light
wbo are sed IN REQUIRED to deduct for lost time !es
who think 81 500 the proper measure OF their ser
vices, and Will very probably obtain IT, IhOo'''''
rsr .. the universal tendency to ofiee-seekns' VINO
will not nader that the only aa'ido'e 70 'h''
rigorous reduction Of Official saares to the rates
which similar capacities snd services would COMMAND
in unofficial empOyment'.
-Tbelast feather piled OF the csmeis or donkey -
hack ssvet is the vote Of the senate TO pay each OF
our potca sgents at the minor Courts of Europe ana
eoutb America So 600 instead of $4,000 year win
corresponding outfit by changing their titles rom
e. Cbsre: d Affairs" to " Ministers Resident. Ana We
presure ,hi, is foreordained to become law; for II
!. not bill. 0. this sort but those which seek 20 bene-
&, The poor. the afflicted the industrious that stand
in apv danger Of veto from our present EAeeu-
tive
Yet there was never q more wanton waste OF pun
lie money than Is here contemplated. In the hr'l
place we have no need OF Charges Afalres al nan
these Courts much less Ministers Resident. lake
Rome for example-we haves Consul al the Eternal
CITY. sub Consul at Ciyta Yecchia, and Consul
I'VE believe) az Ancona who wise passports ahd
bleed our travelling countrymen acknowledgements do
commerce. and what little we have with them Is
transacted through the Tuscan port OF Leghorn VINO
We have no diplomatic agent in Tuscany hohe
maintains no Minister al our Capital why should we
keen one At hers The fact that Major Cass, VINO
has been Charge there for many years, finds time 10
nav long visit. 10 the United States, to pass much OF
lis time in Paris Florence and elsewhere away IRON
Rome is conclusive. If there were anything lot an
American diplomat 10 do at Rome, he would stay ana
do il: but. since there is not, he spends his time
where he can spend it most sgreeaby, industrously
drawing his salary: and his labor is to be in
creased BIZ making $4,000 year instead of >i,oOD
And he is the Oldest in service, very possibly the most
capable. ofallwho are thus complimented WePresume
none ofener exceed him in fidelity to his duty There
i. Editor Daniel Of The Richmond Eraminer just
made Resilient Minister at Turin though we believe
he has actually been resident at Naples, threehundred
miles away, ever since his unlucky letter about
.. Italian Counts sinking of garlic and begging his
opera tickets made him suddenly famous We know
he was away in Southern Italy for good part OF the
winter we have not heard Of his return; and we have
no doubt that the best service he can render his
country is to keep as far away from Turin possible
So of SeibeIs in Belgium OSullivan in Portugal &C.,
&c. They are of more use there than fifth wheel
to COACH and not appointed because the places
needed men, but because the men needed places.
And now the fourteen of them are to be paid S5.OOD
a year (besdes extras) instead of S63,oDO-a clear
souge of SCI 600. Shall we never have an end of
this system of beggering the Treasury by corrupt
.rstites and debauching the People with the lus OF
Ofiice