[CP] This man was finally condemned in light damages, and this was
his only punishment. The object of assault survived the attempted
assassination.
[CQ] PAY OF OFFICERS OF THE FRENCH AND AMERICAN NAVIES.
_French Navy._ _American Navy._
Vice Admiral, $7,525
Rear Admiral, 6,000
Senior Captain, $4,500
Capt. Com. a Squadron, 4,000
Captain of Ship of the Line,
1st class, 2,750 Captain, 3,500
2d class, 2,700
of Frigate, 2,170 Commander, 3,500
of Corvette, 1,650
Lieut. Command. 1,150 Lieut. Command. 1,800
Lieut. 600 Lieut. 1,500
Lieut. of Frigate, 500 Passed Midship. 750
Midshipman, 1st class, 220 Midshipman, 400
2d class, 160
The gunners, boatswain, sail-makers, and carpenters receive,
In a ship of the line, 750 dollars,
For a Frigate, 600 "
On other duty, 500 "
In the French navy the pay of corresponding officers is from 400 to 200
dollars.
[CR] They are the governors of most of the States, and the heads of
the executive departments at Washington. These last receive only 6,000
dollars, and they are obliged to keep up a certain style of living.
It is singular that some subaltern officers are permitted to receive
enormous fees. Thus the inspector of flour in New York received in
1835, 10,000 dollars, the inspector of potash 20,000, and the inspector
of tobacco 34,500.
[CS] If the rich in the large towns of the North spend eight or ten
times as much as the clerk, it is not that they keep up much style,
or even that they have an equipage. When would the husband, always
immersed in business, or the wife, occupied with her household cares,
be able to use the coach? Suppose they had time to use it, and the
public opinion would not be offended by it, what could one do with an
equipage in the streets of Philadelphia? The principal difference in
the expenditure of the two classes, is that the rich man now and then
gives a ball, and piques himself on his parade, which the indulgent
democracy pardons for one day; this sort of luxury is much more
expensive here than with us, and it does not require a very brilliant
rout, in small houses, in which the company is received in two rooms 20
feet by 25, to cost 700 or 800 dollars.