Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-05-05

TIC speech. Inns is the head ard front Of his
offending, causing Bennett to snalign him ss
though he was positively the worst man in
the length and breadth of the land.
0ne Dollar per diem.-Seversl laborers in
the employment Of the Government at this
point have called On us to ask that we would
plead their cause for an increase Of wages.
These men have fair reasons for asking for
this advance, and we therefore do not hesitate
to comply with thsir request. Of the twenty
who hare been to see US on the subject, oEery
man Is the father of and provider for 9 fami.
ly. We recollect well when with DAYS wage,
for labor in this city at 81, -four was six Col.
lars per barrel, corn SO cents pcr bushel, DO.
tatoes 37t cents per bushel, bacon 81 cents
por pound, and beef, such as labo,ers for the
most part buy, cents pc. pound At this
moment, with the same rate of wages, they
must pay $l2 per barrel for Aour, corn meal,
u 31t cents per bushel, potatoes 81 per bush
ell, bacon 81 cents per pound, and beef 12s
per pound. Rents, too, have risen 100 per
cent. upon them. The increase in the price of
everything they have to buy for the subsist-
ence of their families has been in proportion.
These are facts which every mGn in Washing
ton VINO knows anything, knows to be true.
ct the wages of these people remain the Same.
We will, then, be believed, when We assert
that the wages Of a faithful and Industrious
man in the service Of government who 70.
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ceiTcs but one dollar per diem, deducting Loot
days ter wet weather, will barely keep him
self and wife and one or two children alive
This is not right. To make good citizens, in
dustrious, competent and steady laborers should
lay Up something, and the government should
pay such wages as would enable that class of
laborers to gradually get beforehand" We
trust that thcsa few hints will induce those
who can say what such laborers sha III DO paid
to institute an inquiry into the relation between
the prices at which the necessa1ies of life now
sell for here, aad the means OF purchasing
such articles, which the government at this
Il Ge accords to those in its employment who
earn their living by tho sweat of their brow.
character, connected with the press, has per-
petrated the insult of heralding the name of
Mr. A. @. Dodge, the new American Minister
to Spain, in print, as '' The Honorable Gene
raj Augustus Cesar Hannibal Dodge" That
is, in announcing him among the passengers
by the last steamer for Europe. The wit of
the performance consists only in the fact that
1t shows we have among those identified with
the American press some men Of dirty, sour.
riiious propensities folks who delight in
treating gentlemen in an ungentlemanly man.
nsr, when, as in this case, perfectly sure that
they are beyond the reach of dae punishment
for their offence against good manners. The
dirty thick to which We allude is, however.
but on par with the misrepresentation of
the character, mind and position of Mr. Dodge
as public man, in which the New York
Times INDUCES. Protesting to be ardently in
favor of the acquisition of Cuba, that journal
makes the occasion of the departure of the
new American minister for Madrid its time for
the publication Of column of SANDERS against
him personally, which but for tho notorious
pariizsn cast CT the journal in which they origi-
nate, and the utter want of personal standing
on the part If its conductor, might operate to
the prejudice Of our couniry's rights and in
'erests in his hands. Fortunately, those with
whom Mr.. Dodge will hold official intercourse
are men Of sense and experience, and there.
fore cannot fail to judge of him as they find
him, through their opportunities, which In
the present condition Of our relations with
Spain must be Immediate and frequent He
has served long in tee councils of the nation,
where his corteous manners, high character,
never-failing good seGse, and well-improysd
experience secured for him great influence
and the unfeigned respect of all his compeors
in public life, Of all parties as was proved by
his instantaneous and unquestioned cor irma
ton to the most important mission no known
il our foreign relations. The story which the
New York Times tells of the circumstances
connected with the .enatorial request that
Dir. Dodge should be appointed by the Prosi-
dent to an Office Of high honor and trust, is an
unmitigated falsehood, without a grain of
truta for its foundation, and we dsfy that
Journal to attempt to make it good.
fhe New u s. Revenue Marine Regula
uons.-A week or two ego We mentioned that
an entire new set of REGULATE ,ns for the future
government Of the United States Revenue
Marine Service had been prepared by the As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury, under the
immediate supervision of the chief of that De-
partraent, and presented synopsis of some of
its principal features. 1t is now being sent
Off to those for whose instruction it was pre-
pared. We find, On further examination of
it, that two very important new features are
embraced in it, which We had previously over.
looked. These are, provision that the loca.
tons (stationS Of the different revenue cutters
on CUR coasts are to be permanent, not shift.
ing as heretofore; and, another, that the off.
GERS in the service ere to be promoted accord.