National Salaries

The salary of every public oificershould be apportioned accordtng to the amount of services to be perfoimed, and the knowledgc and skill requisite in performing thcin. Acconttng to this principie, tliere should be h gradatiqn, in the compensation óf the oilïeersof the government from President down toan urdinary niesícnger. Thie gradation is preserved, yet the pay of ihe ini'erior otneers is probubly considcrably greator than the same persons couldobïain iu other situations n private lile: Tliccompensution of oome of the highcr clerks at Washington amottnts to eight dollars fier dn y. or more. This amount may not be too imjc'i in s on:e cases invohinggreai careaudreponsibiliry - uut it is obvious thai far the greater numher of clerks must be mere copyists, whose dutiee would reqnire only ïndustry, care, and a legible hand wriling. By the recent acts of Congrcss, we notice that provisión is made for employihg in ihe Trensury department six additiona! clerks, at $1.00-) cach; one at S 1.2:10; two at SI ,250; onè loan ele k at $1,400. orre law clerk ai$],S00"; offë additional c!erk at ff 1 ,000. In tde War dejmrtmcnt are to be three clerks at $1.000 each: one at $1,100; one at $1,400. In the Navy departinent, two ndditioöaï clerks at $1.40.); two ai $1,200. Pnr.sers in ihe Navy receive receive from 3."i0I;0 to $1.60) per anmun. The chiefs öf eer-' lain bureaus $3,500, or more than eleven dollars per day. t'ke chiefe of the bureau of conp truction md provisions, jj-3,000 eaoh: of $'2,500. C(;rtain clerks receive respecively $2 000, $1,400. $1.000; one corrospmiding clerk. $1,500; two issÍ6tnnt. do. $1.200 ench; óue wnrrant clerk, $, 1,200; oda misr.clluneous. $80ü. A large number of other c'erks nre specified.whose averago cornpensition is nbout $1,200 ench. - The messoirgers of the rinvy department reeeive not exceeding $70(' each.It appenrs to us i hut most of these salaries, whicli nre bit a mere specimen of the whole. miglit be reduced one tliird or one hnlf, without detriment to the public mierest. They are high n comparison ofthose which are paid for the most responsihlc stntions under the.State Governments. The inembers of the Legislatures of New Enlnnd receive on an average not qnite tWo dollars per day. In dl the Sfates. the average pny is a lilile less thar three dollars per da}' - not equnl to $1,000 per nnnurn, the coinprnmtron fi.xed for the lowest elass ofclerks at Washington. The Governor8 of Indiana and Illinois receive $1,000 each; of Conneoticnt, $1.100; of Vermont, $700; of Rhode lsland, $400; ófthogreat ' Siate of Ohio, $1.200. The average compensation of the Governors of all the Statca is about $2,300 each. Purscrs iii a snip of the line receive $3.500. antf s on to those of a . íoop of war or steamship. who roceive $1.500 It is the business of a purser to deal out the prövim'ons and other articles to the hands on botird oía ship; án d whit nmount of skill an] judgment may be reqüired to perform that service inore íhnn is req uisite to attend to the afïairs ol a million of poople. as is done by the Governor of Ohio. we are t a oss to understand. Efl'.ris are mi.king in Michigan to reduce the pny of the Legislature froni thrce (o two dollars per day, whüe the undergrade of mere cíerk6 at Washington, and pnymasters in the navy, receive from four to eleven dollars per dny for servicea beyond comparison less diificiilt and important. The earderrer vho erversees the capítol grounda at Washington receives 1200 n year, while some whigs of our State proposo to reduce tmr Governor's salary to one thousand. Michigan pays her part of these salaries as truly ns she does her own State oflicers, nnd it belongs to her Senntora a nd Rcprescntnlive to use ' exertions to have them reduced. Have they done t? Havo they triod even to reduce their ownI ;iy' ]i ís w b remwiibi-red ún '.' i : k . ■ pbaiieiUy ;;ho Ití-i'orin i'arry.' and liic valué of ttic proiession ís lo bejiiííged by is l'iuits. ttTPOur wliig friends have the advantage tifus in one rt-epcet. Tliey nre great in prophecy.- Tlicy seoni to linve nn e.xtraortünary talent va that line ' lt is a resource that pe ver fíiila tiicin. As ihc Liberty pany makes ita nppcarnnce at each election to íheir iní:ntt annoyance, tliey think to overeóme it by prophrsying t vil againat it, ns Balaám atiempied to do against ñie children ol Israi'l; and henee we c ir titiunlly liear the malcdidion - "Tlie na: eleciion wil! be the last of you." Thisarguüient hna this advmtage. 'hat it loses nothinar of its forec by constant us. and is alwayo rea'ly and approprifiie for tho neit eiection. Our nöighbor of tíie Journal, in defanlt of all oiher argurnentB, 6eems to put lus trust in it greatly: for he says: "Wc coneider this coming election the death struggle of political abnlition, from ih? eiiects of whicil toa prop'wsy, it will ncvrr recover." Supposing he does so propheay. what thein? Are hispredictions infallible? We shall not now enter the 1 iets with him in 'proph esyins large things,' but meiely reinind him of Mie old adane, that we cun best te!l who is Gjvernoi after the eleciion.CSome o! the whig papers refer whh much e.xultation, to the fulli ng off of the Liberty vote in Vermont, and thénce argue that the Liberty party has received its death blow, and will, therej fore, eoon perish every where. The principie hcic nssumed is. ihat a diminution of voiea. in one Stnte, at one election , insures the detruction of that paity in every' State. Admit -he premiseej if you picase, and see vvhat will bejcotneofthe whig party. Tlieir votes have been I rcducod at the lare elections in some séyen ör eight States, or one thiid part of the Union. We saw n statement the oiher day shewing thnt since thé Presidenti:il electión. in all the States, there had heen a demoerntic guiri of !fi(ï,000, being 20,0 ;0 more thah President l4arrison'a ciajority, which which was 145,900. Does not (hat look more like.a "death blow" than a diminution of 8 or 900 Liberty votes? Or. if you piense, we will state the case 1 gically, thus: "Every diminutiou of n party vote in one State insures the destruclion of that party in every State: Tho Libeity party has suffered such dimimnion in Vermont, and the Whig party Iikewise in Matne; Therefore. the whig party and the Liberty have each received their death-blow, and will be exrinct ih j every State." How dn you Iike this conclusión, j which incvitab'y follows from your own premtsea?EPOur Wayne Couniy friends will obeerv that the meeting at Dcarborn for county nbmiha tions ie to be held, on Saturday the 8th, and no the lOth as first adv-'rtised. ifJCFThe Baptist Church in New London re cénily adopted the folliwing reeolütion: "Resolved, ThaMVe shoutd not consider it a privilege to have a slareho'lding minister of thé gospel iivited to our pulpit - and tliat we wou ld iKt consider it a privilege to commune with a elnveliolding Church - nor with a meniber of a Church. having a sïavchil ling tnember in it." EPRend the excellent le'.ter óf Hon. Wm. Stide, on the duty of Churches in reference ta siaveholdera. Wc commend it to the conscience of every Christian. [CPTlie Richmond Lnquirer saya of the TalifK- We must get bnek to the spirit and principies óf the comprornise - Co which me public faith is pledged - an' wir.ch was in '33 the "treaty o; amiiy and peace" - or the south will never bè sutiificd-'S EVERt