New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-12-14


afford suitable accommodations, aud as may not
be required by the War Department.
The officers and teachers shall be supplied from
those actually in the naval service; and all nautical
instruments, boats for practice, &C., shall be fur
nished from the Navy. This viii save nearly the
whole expense Of the schools.
Instruction in the schools shall be given to can
didates for admission into the Navy, and to mid
shipmeu actually in the service.
The admission of candidates shall be regulated
by law, as it is done in regard to the West Point,
Academy.
No boy shall receive an acting appointment IN
the Navy, uRtil he shall have passed certain pc
Rod of digent study at naval school; nor unless
he shall produce the necessary certificates from bis
officers and instructors Of his good conduct, ca
pscity, physical ability, and general fitness.
Among those who shall produce such certificates,
appointments shall be made according TO such
rule as Congress shall prescribe.
The Secretary makes many admirable sugges-
tons concerning the reform of the naval establish
rncnt and repeats his conviction that the several
grades OF Admiral, Vice Admiral and Rear Admiral
should be established in the Navy This he thinks
need not increase the expense of the Navy; and it
would afford IA opportunity to promote many Off
GERS who, though qualified for the highest stations,
are yet likely TO remain obscure under the presen
order, He asks also for an increase in the num-
Der of marines and marine officers in the lower
grades.
The Secretary thus urges the cause of Protec-
ton by allowing our country to furnish supplies
for the Navy:
1t is an object Of great interest to me, to make
the Navy subservient 10 the encouragement of
American industry. This may be DONE not only
by the protection which it affords to American
commerce, (upon which have already comment
ed but also by means Of the supplies which it re-
quires. We are, probably, the only people in the
world who can, with perfect convenience, build,
equip, arm, feed and clothe navy of the largest
size from our own home resources. A nation of
any magnitude, having all the materials of war
constantly at its command, is essentially powerful.
Hence it is of the utmost importance that we
should adopt policy calculated at once to cherish
and 10 deveope these sources of our strength and
security. The measures more Immediately neces-
sary TO accomplish this object have already been
brought to the notice of Congress; but as they
have not yet been acted on, it would seem to be
proper that should again refer to them
he recommends, for this purpose, the preserva-
tion of navy timber the public lands and the
establishment of navy-yard, on the largest scale,
on the waters Of the lower Mississippi; and thus
advocates his scheme by an argument, true in part
but MOTTO its utmost extent:
1t is by arrangements of this sort that the Navy
can lie made to return to the country twice the
wealth which is expended in support of it. The
wealth of nation does not consist in the quantity
of gold which it may have in its Treasury: the
economy Of a nation is not shown only in the
smalness of its expenditures 1t is rich only in
proportion its people are rich; and it is econo-
mical only far as it applies the public money to
more valuable to the people who pay it than
the money itself. This is but another name for
national thrift; but is the only sense in which
tional economy is of any value. NiRe-tcnths of
the appropriations to the Navy are paid back to
our own people for materials, laber and subsist-
ence 1t sthus put into circulation paying debts,
supplying wants, and sustaining credit. Every
dollar thus employed increases the tar-paying
ability of the people to more than twice that
amount; and this tax-paying ability is the true
wealth Of the nation The expenses of the Navy
therefore are not 10 be considered dead tax upon
the Treasury. They not only go back and circu-
late among our own people, but unlike most other
expenses of the Government, they give employ
ment to industry, encouragement 10 enterprise,
and patronage to genius. They perform, to agreat
extent, the Office of protective Tariff, in develop
ing and bringing into use various sources Of our
nntional wealth, particularly in copper, iron hemp,
provisions and coal. The effect of even small
disbursement so made, upon the public prosperity
and comfort, is much more important and extern
sive than the first view Of it would lead as to sup
pose
The Secretary says that he thinks much of the
mechanical labor at the navy yards too dearly
paid for, and that too high prices have been paid
for iron and copper that have been used. Great
frauds in the sale of copper to the department
have been practised-much Of it not lasting seven
years. when good copper would last 90. The very
best guns should be made for the service.
LYcEUM LEcrUREs.-We would call the a,ten-
ton of our citizens to the Lecture to be delivered
this evening ot tie Tabernacle, by GEORGE BAN
CROFT, ESQ, the Historian. The subject of his
Lecture is The early influence of New-Yerk on
American Independence :" and it is one which
Mr.. Bancroft, from his intimate acquaintance
with our Colonial History, is we'll qualified to dis
cuss. The price Of a single ticket we perceive,
has been reduced from fifty to twenty-five cents.
This change is most wise well as acceptable.
u DE-. HOMER BosTwIcK, of the Third Ward, will
visit any poor person who resides in his Ward and requires
medical attendance grauitousy during the remainder of
this ncemen season His Office No. IS Chambers-s,
This practical philanthropy, and hope Others and
GU, OF his profession will manifest the desire assist
the Poor in their hour of trouble.
u For contents OF the January number OF Grabaul's
Magazine Pests Advertisement, in another column.
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Dr. Buchanans Lecture which will be found in another
column
u j. enimore Cooper IS. Horace Greeley
and Thomas McEirath.-The great demand for