The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-05-15
SALARIES OF OMITTED STATES

The annual salaries of officers in the
Army, in active service, are as fol-
lows: General. $l3.5OO; Lieutenant
General, $l1. 600; Major General. ST.
600; Brigadier-General, S., 500; Colo
mel. $500; Lieutenant Colonel, 49,
COO; Major, $2.5OO; Captain (mount-
ed). $4,000; (not mounted). $l,800 ;
Regimental Adjutant and Quarter
master, each, 81 800; First Lieutenant
(mountsd), $1,000; (uot mounted), ],
$500; Second Lieutenant (mount-
ed), 81, 500; (not mountedl, 81. 400 /;
Chaplain, 81, 800. The pay of retired
officers Except General aud Lieuten-
ant -GeneraD is Is per cent. less than
this. All officers below Brigadier-
General receive 10 per cent. in addi-
ton for each five years service. up to
twenty years, making a total addition
for veterans of 40 per cent.
The annual salaries of the principal
officers of the United States Navy,
while at sea, are as follows: Admiral,
$4,000; Vice-Admiral, $9 600; Rear
Admiral, $1,000; Commodore, SIS 900 ;
Captain, $500; Commander, s.. 500; !;
Lieutenant Commander, s.. 800 Lieu.
tenant, $2,4O0; Masters, $1,800; En-
sign, $1,000; Midshipman, $1,000.
Lieutenant Commanders, four, and
Lieutenants, Masters and Ensigns,
five years after date of commission, re-
ceive an addition Of $500 per annum
to their salaries. The pay of all these
officers Except AdmiraD, when on
shore duty, averages about one-fifth
less, aud when. ON leave or waiting
orders it is about one-third less.
Was the Union Restored.
g During the war, our Republic can
friends took great pains to assure rs,
and the civilized world, that as far as
they were concerned, they were not
waging war for the subsection of the
South but solely for the resto ration
of the Union. And this we take it.
nothing less and nothing more. was
the patriotic motive, under whose
guidance so many thousands of our
brave "boys in blue" marched forth
to bloody battle-felds and at whose
bidding 90 many left their bones
bleaching under the Southern sun. By
this priceless sacrifice, the Union was
restored. Fifteen long years have
passed away since the last sound of
armed rebellion was heard in all this
al
Grant received the sword of General
Lee at Appomattox, in token of the
suppression of the rebellion and the
restoration of the Union. For four
teen years the flag of the nation has
Heated over the whole territory of the
nation. But, are our Republican
friends content with the condition of
things? Are they rejoiced at the cree
love SO well Do we find them clasp
South: aud endeav0ring, in every
nal bands of our restored Union? Let
the answer. Instead of letting the
dead and buried Issues of that unhap-
py war remain in their tombs, they
TesuTEeCt suoiu Win Suoullsu &iee, On
every possible occasion. Instead of
clonng, with kind and friendly hand,
the terrible wounds of that sad, fra
ternal strife, they delight to tear them
more widely agap. Instead of sowing
the seeds of concord and harmony and
loye, they SOW discord and hatred and
strife7 Their pretended love for the
Union was all lie. Nothing but q
'ssubjugated South" South reduced
to political erfdOns, will satisfy their
insatiate tastes and their insatiste lust
for power. But happily, there still
remains a party-thc glorious old
Democratic party-that knows no
South, no North, no East, no West,
but whose great heart takes in the
whole country.-[Newark Advocate.