New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-21
nI.p AR,rY AND NAYY.

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napt politicians Il Il part of it viii be used for
purposes of public leBc icelce and National we-be-
inc in eariuc &C. .upt o, tie Resolutions Of IS.
To avert so dir catastrophe, way OF disposiny
of the Surpue must be devised and what other ships
well so bottouless as the Army and Navy II was
long since obvious that if the Pacific Railroad is 10 be
defeated and the improvement Of Rivers and Harbori
neglected, there must be more money spent on the
Army and Navy--more ships and forts built more new
officers appointed and old ones promoted and larger
leevav provided for stealnes under the mysterious
designations of Transportation" Forage" GUAR
tiers" Mileage" &C. &c.
But on what pretext should this new tax every
Americans earnings and subsstence-fsr such it
amounts to-be imposed We are at peace with all
the world and ere likely to remain So While Europe
is arinC for deadly and almost universal conflict there
is scarcely speck of war on orr horizon. Nobody
sssails u.s. nobody mensces US, nobody to want
ANYTHING of us but to be lie. alone. What are zee to
waste countless Millions on larger armaments for
Senator GWIN in Thursdays debate in the Senate,
assigned reason Speaking in behalf of California
that ilused regn which never has any thing done for
il BY the Government Though it's Mails Defense and
Government cost the Union two dollars for every one
it returns to the Treasury he discloses her latest and
severest grievance. She does not now complain that
her miners-being allowed to take for nothing from
Public Lands the Gold which cost the whole American
People many Millions and have their letters rapidly
carried to and fro at cost of more dollars than they pay
shilliDes-are not provided at public expense with
negroes to dig and wash out the precious metal
he does not even pretend that California Is not
abundantly protected against internal CONFUSION
and foreign invasion; be complains that her nhabit-
ants are not sufficiently protected by the Government
against their own nsatate longing to rayage and plum
der abroad They not merely peculiarly organized
and constituted with regard to hankerng after what is
not their OWL but they peculiarly situated also
Temptations throDg and thicken around them; the
Sandwich Islands in direction; Lower California
in another, and Sonora in third; md if the UoiOn
DO Mt stop them, they cant help putting their hands
deep down into their neighbOrs pockets Their strait
reminds us Of tie Iri.hmans who wondered way
Father Mathew ,eouidnt come along and give him the
pledge before he drank himself to death And though
their Senator assures that the great majority of his
constituents are Lones lawabling stay athone cit
zens be insisted that they could exercise control
over the residue who noald 20 or Fbustering unless
tie Government should erect forts and station ships so
as to stop item.
We have Just been foled in an attempt to send
Military expedition 20 California One.fourth OF the
troops WHO started for that destination one little month
ago now sleep Of the bottom Of the ocean; another
portion have gone to England in Distress the residue
ere hack upon our shores The public loss by ths single
disaster cannot be less than Quarter Of a Million to
ray nothing Of the ncllculabe loss of life Every sol
derive send to California costs at least $3.50 dey
cred and tie expense Of paying and subsisting him
there cannot average less than $500 year Got that
the privatcs receive anything like this but the officers
allowances for Travel TransP Servants, Quar-
ters Fuel &C. bring up the average to fully that sum-
How many of every hundred privates desert we can
not say; probably half in the course Of three years,
ard this is TO be charged 20 the profit and loss Of the
general operation And the cost Of manning provision
ing ard repairing National vessels stationed on the
coast of California is fully proportioned to this Few
or 10 seamen are enlisted there and the Government
must pay and feed each enlisted this coast many
months before he begins to be useful in the North
Pacific.
Now we object to Mr.. Owns requsitiOn, not merely
that it is unreasonable and that compliance Herewith
would prove enormously expensive but that it would
never prove efficient. Ten Millions year spent in
troops and forts and ships Of the coast OF Cali
ioInia would never prevent her peoples Fibustering,
if tbey are really inclined to that game. Our laws
cur habits, the genius Of our institutions are all in
tensely, uneonquerably hostile TO the domneeriug,
scrutinzing poke-nose system Of armed police which
would be necessary to render such force reliably
efficient. We challenge Mr. OWNS naked assertion
that Fillibustering expeditions must be got up in San
Francisco, and must pass seward through the Golden
Gate they are absurd One thousand men might at
any time be recruited in the Southern Mines to march
overland to the invasion of Sonora or Lower Celifor-
Ma if they could only clearly that it would pay
and there other ports in California whence
petition could ssil easily and on far shorter yoy
age 10 the invasion OF adjacent Mexican provinces.
as from the Queen Of the Pacific.
But suppose of our COmmodores stationed in the
&c den Gate with ample force, Instructed to stop
al Filibusterng expeditions and should hail vessel
going out with three hundred armed men on board
What them who are youl" California Miners
returning TO Our Atlantic bones" What have yol
on board" arms and provisions" why arms ''
20 We are going across in small parties from AGA
"pulco to Vera Cruz, and Yankee stands no chance
al-tLs lhc tIcIrtIe NitLVut MS Ilut WHAT IS tue
Commodore TO do in such a case They may be Fill
busters but then they may their vessel is regI-
larry cl, AIRED for Acapulco and is tighhsnded bust
ness TO seize her. overhaul her cargo to see if
there Tay not be few old guns at the bottom Of her
hOld-merely for ballast And if one with three nun.
dred men on bOsrd may be stopped, it will be easy to
send cut only hundred in one ship and lei tie pas
seugers by halt dozen vessels rendezvous 81 San