Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-11-07

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THE APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGNERS TO OFFICE.-The
Wing and KnowNothng press and speakers have
repeated again and gain the charge, that the Ad
ministraton had filled the various Offices with for
eguers to the exclusion Of all native citizens. This
charge has been often denied, and abundant evil
dence in support of that denial has been spread be-
fore the country, but still the charge is reiterated
We have recently read very able speech of the
Hon. John Perkins, Jr., of Louisiana made to his
constituents shortly after the adjournment of Con-
gress, in which he reviews the acts and measures of
the administration with unusual power and effect.
From that speech we make the following extract
this much pressed point, and as Mr.. P is gentle
man of high character entirely and implicitly to be
relied upon, we ask for his statements that weight
to which they are justly entitled
"Whcther the administration has appointed an
undue number of foreigners to Office can be treated
by reference to facts
% w hen this administration came into power there
were moro than three hundred and siXty-fiVc 1850
unaturalzed foreignerS-citiZenS of other powers
In the employment of our government abroad as
consuls and vice consuls.
lone of the first of the Secretary of State
was order that in future only American citizens
should hold such positions. The consular and dip
lomatic reform bill, which subsequently passed
Congress, confirmed this order of the department.
and made it permanent law.
" Now, as to nGturdIiseG foreigners in the en-
ploymeEt of the government:
The United States government has in it's en-
Ployment as ministers, commissioners and secreta-
rles OF legation abroad, forty one (4) persons Of
these, all are natlve-born except three
awe have abroad 22O consus and commercial
agents of these, all are natve-born except 40.
The difficulty of getting citizens either native
naturalized to fill certain of our petty consulates
abroad, has compelled the government to employ
such as it could command.
so much for our foreign service
How is at home? There are in the State de-
partment proper forty persons employed, and under
IN the States and Territories as governors or Sec
retaries, Q6) sixteenth all, Sc persons Of these,
there are (5) five foreign-born. That is less than
one-eeventh.
There arc in employment in the treasury De-
partment including those in the mint revenue-cut-
ter service, coast survey, lighthouse keepers and
customs, e, lO4) three thousand one hundred and
four. Of these only (2S5) two hundred and eighty
live are ascertaned to be foreigners. That is less
than one-eleventh.
"Undcr the Interior Department there are 7s9)
seven hundred and eighty nine persons employed.
OF these, (SS lightweight foreigners That is
less than one ninth.
There were employed in connection with the |
lower house of the last Congress (5 fty-four per-
sons vi these only one was not native-bor citizen.
have not the facts as to the other departments
but am assured that they give no ground for the
charge | am refung.
AS much has been said of our country being the |
receptacle Of oGupers and criminals from the Old
World, and of the administrations neglect in not |
exertng its powers properly in the matter I will |
merely say, that, so far from emitting its duty in
this particular the State Department. after the
gress, instructed, by circular, consuls abroad
not only to demonstrate specially against all such
intended shipments but to give timely notice of any
such to the department. and to the collectors of the
different ports to which they should be shipped
In the case of the Sandman vessel arriving at
New York last year with some emigrants supposed
10 be OF this class, am personally cognizant of the
TACT that the Sandman minister at Washington was
demonstrated with on the subject, and he went in
person to New York to prevent their being landed"
PANTALooNs WITHOUT Observation-Disclosures La
8orde, of South Carolina College, in his recent work
IN Physiology, says:
I" AS the women have concluded to dispense with
shoulder straps some men, especially in the CITY, have
hought they would prove pantaloons can be worn
without suspenders. The men now strut the streets
With their pantaoons tightly buttoned side by side
With the women, whose skirts petticoats are firm
y bound around their persons. Upon fair view
he evil is the same in both cases; pressure upon
he vital organs, impairment Of their proper action
want OF Development deformity, disease and prema-
ure death. The New York chronological journal
avs AS we walk the streets of our city, we see
cores of boys from twelve to sixteen years old with
heir pants buckled very tightly around their dis
onnected bodies preventing growth at this rapidly
rowing age, and the result is generation of dys-
eptIc, pale-faced, puny apologies for men,"
BANKRUPT CITY.-The city of Philadelphia ap-
'ears to be bankrupt, there being funds in the
reasury to pay the ordinary expenses of the courts
chools, and the salaries of the officials. In the
jourt of Quarter Sessions Monday the Jurors
omplain that they could neither get their pay from
ne city government nor the warrants for it. The