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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 10. 1871.


The bombardmcnt OF the Paris forts is advancing
favoiaby for the Germans. the barracks in Fort
Montrouce being on fire. Prince Frederick Charles
s pursuing Gen. Chauzys army in tie valley OF the
Loire. Prussian success isrepOrted near Befort
=- Republican instruction is in progress In spain
In the Senate yesterday, bill introduced for the
redemption of copper coin. The correspondence relating
20 the removal of Mt. Motley presented. The bill
revising the Coinage laws debated without result
- In the House, resolution was passed instructing
tho Committee of Ways and Means to report bill re-
pealing the Income Tax. Joint Committee was or
dered on Telegraph Cables bin was introduced for an
airline railway between Eew-York and Washington
The San Domingo question debated Mr. Wood speak
ing at length.
1t Is announced positively that Secretary FISH VIII
shortly resign and that Senator Morton OF indiana VIII
he his successor. - Tie ColOred National Labor Con
yention is in session In Washington. 49, paper mil
has been burned in Newton Falls Mass. - Oakes,
Ames & Co.. have been granted an extension by their
creditors The directors Of the New-Hayen Home
Insurance Company have made an assignment to Samuel
L. McrNin, jr.. as trustee.
The trial Of tho coored cadet at West Point continues
the accused conducting his own defense =- Mayor
Hall has tried TO stop the sale Of "The Bitter Bit" i
James Fisk it, has invoked the law 10 peTsecute rival
in the affections OF woman of the deRi-m0nde -
Gold 1lO2 l1OE. Thermometer, 1872 $40, l5o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

"The Colored Cadet Question" is evidently
not to be so speedily settled as was undoubt-
edly hoped by the majority of the members OF
the Academy when the present trial began
The lad is making a strong fight in defense
of his honor, and the issue is yet involved IN
doubt. While no one can assume that the boy
is any better than most others of his age,
there seems to be evidence that by n
blind prejudice against his tinge of
color Che is One-eighth negro he has been
bounded to degree almost maddening. He
has fought his battle, resentfully almost
always, yet often with patience and dis
cretion. He holds fair grade in scholarships;
and has given indications Vf oUni'y' /" tho
course Of harsh conflicts in the courtroom
and in the barracks which may yet win him
honorable prominence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

overstepping in the opinions Of the President
and Secretary, the instructions on the Alabama
question with which he was charged Divested
Of their diplomatic cloallug, the charges OF
Mr. Fish are that, instructed to allay existing
excitement on this subject, Nr. Motley. by the
use in communication with The English officials OF
forcibe expressions, strong epithets, allosions TO
the contingencies of war or peace, and TO the
responsibilities of Great Britain, tended, II he
did moi seek, to widen the breach between the
two countries and render peaceful settlement
of the claims impossible. Mr.. Fish intinates
in brief, that Mr.. Motley represented the views
of Senator Sumner rather than those OF the
President. The whole correspondence, as SUD
mittcd Yesterday in Congress, is Published on
our second and eighth pages
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10
NEW-,JERSEY,

The Republican majority of the Legislature
which to-day assemblies at Trenton is respect
fully entreated to ponder intently these words
eye cannot serve God and MammOn.n We
presume the authority viii not be questioned,
and the precept, though nearly two thousand
years old, was never more pertinent than it is
at this hour.
That majority will make or mar the fortune
of Rcpublicanism in New-Jersey. II it be
sternly upright and faithful, it will consolidate
the Republican agcendency; if they are con
"tho make" they will blast it. They may
enrich themselves by doing jOb-wOrk for great
corporations which viii impOrtune them for
the concession or peTpetuation Of gainful mo-
nOpolies and exemptions; but, if they say to
the agents aud borers of these corporations,
Get thee behind me, Satanw they need not
fear the verdict Of the People on their course.
AS to the choice of a United States Senator,
we refuse to print the letters sent us urging
the preference of this or that candidate. We
only insist that no man must be considered in
whose behalf money is offered, and that the
ablest and most efficient Republican be chosen.
He who has deserved most in the past, and
can do most in the future, is the man for the
Mace.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

Salem, Mass, this year affords another in
stance of the indifference with which well-to-
do and somnolent citizens regard municipal
elections. The registered voters of the city
are 1850 in number, and Of these only 1901
cast their ballots for Mayor. Yet, should the
local government turn out to be careless or
dishonest or extravagant in matters Of finance,
to tho enhancement of the taxes, nobody will
groan more loudly or lugubriOusly than these
Salem stay-aways. 1t is our old New-YOrk
story over again. If Salem has any poachers
on the public purse we suppose that they are
little fellows; but they may grow great for
all that. Speaking of municipal expenses, we
notice that Mr.. Castor, tie new Mayor of
Boston, begins, in his Inaugural, by warning
and entreating the City Council to avoid all
extravaganza and waste. He may well do so.
We think our per capita taxation enormous,
but it is only sos 3S against S34 Al in Boston
perhaps the highest in the country, We
cannot do better than to give q single SEN
tence from the Address Of Mayor CASTOR:
"waste in all its forms, improper, careless and rec
less expenditure Of every kind, whether for private gain
or personal qualification, resulting from lazy indf
ference should receive your seyerest reprObaon. II
you fail TO meet your duty In this regard you VIII fail to
meet the just expectations Of the people"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

The Iron Press SAWS: "Crude and fanatical as
,ome of THE TRIBUYE,s ideas on labor are, they
never quite reach the hight of folly, except when
applied TO the labor of women. An article appeared
in its columns few days since, in which we find it
said that womens salaries greatly less than men,
and the Justice of it lies in the fact that men gener-
ally have family to support, while women In nearly
every instance teach to obtain money TO buy iinery
and eew-gawso Foolish as The Troy Press can be- 1t
onobt not TO be idotic The article here referred to
was communication, printed as such, and edito-
rally controverted in the same number. II ire
Press did not know therefore tho faslty involved IN
the above attack. il can be excused from mcndaety
only on the plea of diocy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

of picturesque despair. There was va
victim with sweet mustache and
mysterious but lovely style OF conversation
who appeared at one Of these back windows
regularly for many days, and the young ladies
employed in q neighboring factory used to sit
ON the fence and talk to him, and give him
opples end candy, until stern jailor found 1t
ont and the prisoner was spirited away. No
bodv knew what became Of him, and Mr.
Kolso is supposed to have had him strangled
during the night and buried in the moat OF
the castle.
The latest mystery has just been scented
by a reporter of The World. On Saturday
night Superintendent KclsO was in secret
consultation for many long hours with
"prominent politicians and detectives. Ihe
World reporter, as usual in such cases, applied
himself to the key-hole, but an officer led linn
away by the ear,-which convinced him that
something was up. The next afternoon there
was a mysterious arrest. prisoner was
brought in at Police Headquarters, and bundled
with the utmost secrecy into one OF the strong
rooms of that establishment. Strict orders
were given that nothing should be said to the
reporters. No charge against the man was
entered on the books. All the officials
were profoundly silent When ques-
toned, they only shook their heads
Nevertheless Tho World contrived to learn
that the prisoners name was Stokes, and that
no chad been arrested at the instance OF
James Fisk, jr., on complaint growing out
"of the Erie Railway Company business"
Here was mystery, indeed; and if Mr.. James
Fisk, jr had acquired the privilege of throw
ing people into dungeons i'll this way, IT,
people of New-York might well tremble foi
their liberties. "Some further Developments
added our esteemed friend, "will probably be
"made to-day And sure enough, TIT
TRIBUNE to-day explains the mystery of Fisk
Kelso, the prominent politicians, and the mum
policemen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10
KE-KLUX At VEST POINT.

When the Court at the United States Mill
tary Academy has discovered whether Cadet
Anderson trod on Cadet Smiths toes, we beg
that an inquiry may be made into the extra
ordinary story of the Punishment of three
young men by their comrades for an offense
of which the authorities of the post had
already taken due notice. The quarrels be-
tween the cOlOred lad Smith and the mettle-
some young warriors who are leading the
odd niger" such pleasant life, are doubt
less important in their bearing upon the con-
dition of the Academy though not of mo-
mentous consequence to the world at large !;
but the outrage charged upon the members of
the first class deserves more particular atten-
ton, and calls for o rigid Investigation. Three
members of the fourth class, it seems, had
committed the Offcnse of drinking whisky,
and to save them from expulsion their class
mates volunteered to take a pledge of absti-
hence during their whole course at the Academy.
This was common practice at West Point
and a very good one too-but it did not please
the young gentlemen of tho graduating class
that it should be applied to the present case,
and they accordingly took tho law into their
own hands. In the dead of night they dragged
illc IlOm uudlltlsy HuduC luClu
dress in their suits of citizens clothes, and
marched them to old Fort Putnam, where the
three lads were left, and warned never to re-
turn to West Point, under penalty of coat
of tar ana feathers. The class consists of
forty-three members and all but ten took
part in the outrage.
Thus there appears to be at West Point
sort Of Vehmic Court, which assumes the
privilege of overriding the appointed authori-
ties, and executing its DEGREES by midnight
terrorism and violence, as the Free Judges of
Westphalia punished the victims Of their secret
tribunals by the knife and cord of the sworn
assassin. If such things happened at an ordi-
nary school, we should think them bad enough;
but when they occur at the national establish
ment where the soldiers Of the future are sup
posed to learn the soldierly virtues of strict
obedience, subordnation, respect for authority,
we arc apprehcnsive that there must be some
lack of discipline in Tho administration of tho
post and a dangerous spirit among the pupils.
A formal court of inquiry is not likely to reach
the root Of this evil.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10
FOREIGN DEBT-HOW TO ray IT.


SIR: It has been estimated by supposed com
pctent parties that the debt we the people Of the United
states owe to foreign creditors amounts 10 s3OooOoV"
II YOU will toll us satisfactorily in THE TRIBUNE no" VIC
can commence paying the debt with the wages vi o9
and labor at or the present rates. VIII so' !
club of so subscribers for TIE WEEKLY TRIBUNE foHS'
dull Lake r. o., Mich, Jan. !, 1871. GEO IhoNN''
Answer BY The Tribune.
Though we do not owe to foreign creditors 20
much as is estimated" abovc-propaDiy ho'
half so much-it is nevertheless true that VIC
owe, O large amount, and that it is deciaeuiy
less agreeable to pay debts than to incur mem;
Il is hard to work year after year ior dcau
"horse. But to our answer
We Judge tho debt Of this country to Eu-
rone Gpublic and private together to reach il
not exceed Fifteen Hundred Millions OF Dol
lars. ON which we must pay about Ninety MIL
lions nor annum AZ interest. How came we
so nvOlyedf
Our lote Civil War ia responsible for part
of the burden. We had for years to feed,
clothe, equip, arm, &c, nearly One Million
fighting men, who produced nothing and de-
stroyed more than they needed to consume.
That War cost this country at least Five BIZ
lions of Dollars; and we ran in debt for most
sides paying the interest punctually, been pay
ing ND and canccling the principal at the rate
| OF fully One Hundred Millions per annum 30,
YOU sec, it is demonstrated by experience that
we can pay debts.
"But how about our foreign debt2 That is
"the matter in hand"
Very true. Well: we have been building
Railroads faster and more extensively than any
other people. We have to-day not less than
Fifty Thousand miles constructed, whereof
nearly or quite half has been built since the
Rebellion succumbed. We built about Ten
Thousand miles in 1870, at cost, including
| equipment, of at least Three Hundred MIilons
of Dollars. We might have foregone tins rail-
road-making-as we almost wholly did during
the War-and this would have prevented our
runnjng deeper into debt and enabled Us to
nav off some. In other words, we should have
imported less by some Two Hundred Millions
worth of Iron, Steel, Wares, Fabrics, &C., and
exported considerably more Cotton, Grain,
| &c, than we actually did. Thus we should
have reduced our foreign debt; whereas we
have actually increased it.
The tcay to pay of debt of phdterer kind ia TO
produce and sell more while spending and con-
sum,ing less. That is the whole of this very
open secret with regard TO the affairs of ma
| tions and individuals alike. Earn more than
| you spend, including the interest on what you
owe, will take any person, or any community,
out of debt 1t has been tried millions OF
times, and has never been known to fail Id.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

We printed yesterday, as part of the news
of the day, the gossip gathered by our Wash
ingtOn correspondents concerning the specula-
tons and probabilities as to the organization
of the Committees in the next House. The
Evening Post, deriving great comfort from
exceedingly small encouragement announces
that, coming from high ProtectiOnist source,
"this is important as an acknowledgment
"that the monopolists have been compelled to
"take back seats" Some day or another we
hope that respectable journals will learn that it
is not journalism to distOTt the facts presented
in the news columns for the sake of
favorng the opinions presented in the edi-
toral columns. The TRIBUNE does not
acknowledge" news. 1t searches for and
proclaims it. 1t undertakes to print all the
news worth its readers attention on every
subject of general interest, and undertakes to
print It without the slightest reference TO the
question of its being pleasing or displeasing
to its Editor, favorable OF unfavOrable to its
own past utterances, in accord or at variance
with its purpose or its wishes. The Epen'H0
Post, it would seem, suppOses journalism to Dc
something other than this. We hope ior It's
ultimate enlightenment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

The political prospects in Connecticut are
explained in letter from Hartford which we
publish elsewhere. The most encouraging OF
its statements are that the Republicans are
united for the coming contest, and that there
will be no dispute in the Convention, when
meets on January %, over the chief candi-
dates. But our friends in Connecticut must
not forget that their opponents have always
been positive in their party tactics and perfect
in their political organization, and hence are
not to be easily defeated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10
prirce Chn1les and bis comrade OF Macklen-

Prince Charles and bis comrade Of Mecklen-
burg on the Loire ere not disposed, it seems,
10 await the advance of Chauzy's columns
from Tours and lie Mans, but arc themselves
advancing westward, driving the French from
their advanced positions Apparently there is
a determined movement afoOt to take Lie Mans.
1t has been matter of surprise that no ex-
petition has been previously directed on this
important railway center. TO capture LIE Mans
is wholly to sever the railway communications
between Northern and Southwestern France.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10
4 FILE FOR THE FRFE-TPADTPS

If we could believe Commissioner Wells and
other advocates of Free Trade, the Protective
duties On Iron greatly restrict the coDsump-
ton of that article. We have always held the
reverse--that Protection, by stimulating the
home manufacture and creating home compe-
tition, has made Iron cheaper than it would
have been under policy of Free Trade. In
support of the latter theory, we wish to call
attention to fact which seems hitherto to
have escaped attention; that the consumption
of iron in the United States is considerably
greater than that Of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland.
The production of pig iron in Great Britain
in 1859 was about 100000 tuns The exact
figures for 1868 are 4,970,206 tuns; in 1867,
A. 7G1 O23; in 1866, 4523,S97; and in 1865, 4s1925
so that VIC cannot he much out Of the way in
calling the produc on 100000 tuns for 1869.
To this, add the imports of GS,4G3 tuns of pig
iron, 1916 tuns of unwTought steel, and
1881 tuns Of wrought OF manufactured iron
and steel, and we get total of 5,C0l,5G tuns
of iron and steel manufactured in and brought
into Great Britain in 1869. Now, according to
the British Board Of Trade Returns for that
wear the exports of Iron and unwrought Steel
amounted TO 2,577,403 tuns; which, deducted
from the above aggregate, would leave 2,514,-
OG7 tuns Of iron and steel for the consumption
of Great Britain and Ireland. This VIC can
easily show 10 be less than the amount used in
the United States.
According to the advance sheets Of the forth
coming Repoltof The United Iron and Steel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

The German fire has been turned from the
silenced forts of Issy aud Vanves ON the one
next them on the southern line, Fort
Montrouge. The latest information from the
scene of the bombardment represents the bar
racks of MOntTouge as on fire, and the early
reduction of the work seems probable. No
attempt appears to have been made to seize
either Of the silenced works, as such effort
would doubtless bring ON an engagement of
flo infantry
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

of the controversy. We have printed such
reports as were attainablo of the conferences.
The case has now gone TO arbitration. Having
given both sides q fair hearing and having
published all the attainable facts, we now
decline long communication addressed to us
by Mrs. Washburn in reply to the article IN
The Observer, and decline permitting any pro-
longation of the controversy in our columns
pending the decision of the arbitrators.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

It was understood some time since that Mr..
Fish was induced to remain at the head OF
the State Department when Several months
ago. ne contemplated retirement. in anticipa-
ton of troublesome complications growing
ont OF the war abroad. 1t seems that these
reasons exist now in greater force than ever,
yet we are positively assured that Mr.. Fish ID
to retire in favor of Mr.. Morton. This change
at this time will be regretted for several
reasons, not the least of which is the fear that
it may result in delaying active prosecution OF
The Alabama claims. Mr.. Fish has been an
able and upright Secretary, and, if he should
retire. he will carry with him the hearty re-
spect and regard of the Country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10
MYSTERIES OF THE TOyRS

About these days look for mysterious pris-
oners locked up in inaccessible cells. Certain
reporters connected with the daily press have
made some astonishing and tantalizing rcvela-
tons of the secrets of the station-houses, and
it seems to be the general impression that SUI
perintendent Kclso daily issues Iettres de cdchet,
and hides the victims of his suspicion i'll the
deepest dungeons of Mulberry street. The
Nathan murderer, we understand, is ut this
moment confined in the back cellar of at least
five of the station-houses, with policeman
and dark lantern perpetually at the door of
his cell, and other officers distributed along
the passage with fingers on their lips and re-
vovers cooked in their hands. Occasionally
the pale face of gentemanly prisoner whose
name aud oilense no reporter has ever been
able TO learn, appears at the grated window OF
some remote dungeon, and emacaied hands
arc thrust betweca tho bars with gcslurea
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

The correspondence between Secretary Fish
and Minister Motley growing out of the recall
OF the latter is certainly exhaustive, and fully
explains the some time mystery of the reasons
therefor. The manner of Mr.. Motley in his
record of the circumstances Of his recall is
n at courteous and dignilicd, nowhere betray-
irg che anger which it is natural to suppose
j., felt, and his letter will win him ap-
la,se from new admirers. However much
J. IN may Differ on reading the cor
!. .pondence, as to his failure in car
iying out the instructions Of the Govern
Iegt, none will deny. what is so evident, that
J.: labOred with zeal in the direction DO con,
coiged 10 be the proper one The reply Of Mr..
J .,L IeYva.s that iiT. Motley was recalled for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

The House evidently means to expend some
thing of it's wisdom in discussion of the Senate
San Domingo resolutions for it refused yester-
day to pass them without debate, by vote
which indicates that serious and unexpected
opposition to the Commission has been devel-
Oped in that body. 1t was subsequently dis
cussed at length by Mr.. Wood and others, and
the debate is to be resumed to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10
amnermenle. elt., ahie @peninp.

ACADEMY OF Music Brooklyn" Zip Van VIM
HE" Joseph le.CTson.
poory's TuENrER.-"R icholieu." Edwin Booth.
Furu-kvENUE TuEATER.-" Saratoga"
VoyrRr,rNTH-ST. THEATER-ltalian Opera: I'm
p,ii, L. Mathe-a" Mme. \ia'di
GRAND OPERA HOUSE. D." Darbe Bleue," Nile.
Alme.
Try, EDwINs TuEATER.-" Kind TO a Fault and
90 lltin"
KmIos GARDEN.--"The Black Crook"
O,y,,ryc TneArER.-"Wee Willie Wrinkle" G.
i. For.
SrApT THEATrR.-"J Jane Eyre" Nine Seebach'
WAIIACK's TuENTER." War"
N,sv-YopK Circus" Cinderella" Equestrian ex-
ercisrs. scrObsic performances, &c L. r. Lent
SAN FRANCIsCo MINSIRELs No $50 broadway
PONG dnrces. eccentric acts, etc -
= srFnwAY Hn1.-I,ecture: mems Rights Miss
Anna r. Dickinson.
W0oDs NvsTvH AND MTNAGERW.-At ,: " True
% N. Last r B: s. Gccrsc an h Dragon Iho1n1on Troupe
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

English opinion deprecates os unimportant
the Republican instruction reported in Grana-
da, Spain. Feeble as such protests against the
restoration of the monarchy may be, they are
not without significance enough to make the
new monarch nervous.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

Vice-President COlfax does not dodge the
question of Italian Unity; and the letter.
printed elsewhere, to the Committee having
the approaching celebration in charge does
him as much honor as any act of his life
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

We have printed careful statement of Mrs.
Washbum's side of the great Washburn Will
controversy with the American Bible Society.
We have printed from The Obserrer nm equally
careful statement Of the Diblo S0oetys sldo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

How many rights men have and how many they
ought 10 have is--to deal freely win the laI
lecturers title to her discOursc-to be the theme OK
Miss Anna T. Diclinsons address tonight ut Stein
wav Hall