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The Navy

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Day
27
Month
November
Year
1843
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Public Domain
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The Fourierists have a standard by which the profits of Labor, Capital and Skill are to be divided. What is the precise proporüon allotted to Skill we do not recollect, but beliêve that it does not exceed two-fifths of the whole. So that while a mere laborer shal) receive supposeone dollar per day, the man of Skill and Knowledge shall receive one dollar and forty cents. Whether this proportion is enough, may well be doubted. Governments, however, in all parts of the world, are of a different opinión. Their proportion gives at least five times as much to Skill as to Labor. Thus, in our Navy, the Captains are paid thirteen dollars a day, while the laborers in the Navy yard are allowed eighty-five cents, and au effort has recenlly been made to reduce their pay to eighly cents per day! Thus the personhl labor of one Captain is cqual to that of seventeen laborers. The ordnance officers at Washington receive, with their pay and perqnjsites, eleven dollars a day, to maintain themselves and families. The laborers under them are expeted to do the same with eighty cents. The same diproportion runs through all the officers of the Navy. The pursers receive f rom eight to eleven dollars a day in this time of profound peace. We annex the following article respecting the Navy, which is going the rounds of the papers, and would commend it to the notice of those Democratie Editora who blamed Hon. J. M. Howard for not voting for the reduction of his own pay. The Nayy presents a field for extensive and effectual retrenchment. From the Washington Capítol. Our Litlle JVavy, - Ve have just been presented with a copy of the Navy Register of the United States. A slight inspection merelvof this pamphlethas furnished us with much information new to us, and which we trust ill prove interrsting to our readers, when presented to them in a condensed form. 1. Our Navy can boast at present of eleven ships-of-the hne: of which four are on the stocks, and two must be rebuilt or rozeed before they can be brought into service. 2. One rnzee.3. Fifteen fngates of which, three are on the stocks, and one is we believe, abo'ut to be b roken up. 4. Seventeen sloopa of war, of different classes, besides the eíx lately ordcred to be built. 5. Eiffht brifrs of different sizes. C. Eight Kchooners. 7. Five steamers, now, since the deetruction of the Missouri. 8. Three store ships. This constitntes onr whole cfFective forcé in shipp, viz: 68, large and smnll. Of officers we find G3 captains, 96 commanders, 332 üeutpnants, 136 surgeons of the different grades. 21 chaplains, 23 engineers, 31 masters, 123 p3seed midshipmen, 9 master's mates, 85 boat6wnins. 40 yunners, 86 sailmokers, making a total of 1,403 person wlio receivu liberal salaries whether idle or on duty. There are besides, 1 General of Marines, 1 Lieutenant Colonel, 4 Majors, 10 Captains and 40 Lieutenants. The offioers of the Navy, receive three different grades of pay, occording as they are doing duly at sea, doing duty on &hore, or doing nothing, besides being paid their travel - ing expenses when imder orders, and receivmg pay of a higher rank when performing the duty of that rank. A captnin at sea receives $4,000 per an. otherwise mployed, 2,500 doing nothing, 2,500 A commander at sea roceive3 2,500 otherwise employed 2.100 doing nothing 1,800 A lieutenant at eea receives 1,800 othcrwise employed 1,500 doing nothing 1,200 A passed mid, at sea or other duty 750 domg nothing 600

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