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New-York tribune., 1871-01-14

The Senate of the United States has con-
firlned David D. Porter as Admiral of the
Navy. We now know precisely what quail
ties they are which, in the opinion of our pa
trician lawgivers. entitle men to the highest
positions in the State. The young men of the
country are told to be vain and lbelous and
captious and servile-to abuse their comrades
behind their backs and fawn upon them be-
fore their faces; to use the currish wit of
Diogenes against their equals and copy the
abasement of an Odalisque before her master,
when a President frowns. Now let the Senate
change the Admirars uniform to one embrac-
ing lackey's shOulder-knot and yellow-plush
breeches, to indicate family that inward SER
Witty that passeth show. And let Gen. Grant
be on his guard against the unsated malice of
the man he has humiliated by a public par
don, and to whom the Senate has given the
opportunity to exercise his mean malignity
upon those officers of the Navy who still pre-
serve a little self-respect.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14
LOSS or THE u s. STEAMER S1GN1W.
PARTICULARS OF THE DISASTER.


SAN Francisco, Jan. 13.-The u. 5. steamer
Saginaw left San Francisco for the Midway Islands To
months ago, with orders TO bring Off the contractors
party, tho appropriations for improving the har0O'
having gwen cut.
The Saginaw left the Midway Islands with said parry
on the afternoon OF Oct 81. and Capt scard having
Ocean Island steered for It. The Captain gave orders 10
go slow expecting 10 make the lsiahd early IN the os
ing. . , -, ,,..., . -, IN,
ordered the mainsa 10 be taken in and the engines
sfoppe reducing the steamers speed To u knots. M5
the officer duty reported, wind fresheninS and shP
few moments later he reported Breakers ahead
and ordered tho engines to be backed The men OF Ih"
watch seemed paralyzed. -.
The captain aud the officers by 1eat exertions. gos
up at the time was insufficient 10 dr'e , ne,
astern. The topsails We're reset, bur Jass
they were up the vessel struck she bilged Nlln ~
minutes, and flooded the hold at once; tLU OrW" D'I
broke OF within one hour OF the time of striking -.
The heavy swell ard reef did not afford inueh '''e,
and the vessel not being diagonaiiy 0raced, W. W w
pieces so fast they could barely save pro'"ohS III" "
the boats. ~,
All hands got safely ashore however. They VOTE. %
all the next day saving provisions and neoessdIs' ~
guns and heavy articles sunk In deep water ouel h
reef The paymasterss money safe ana nooNs' @ , ND
log book were saved. All the GoVerAinehs s'o's '
mems clothing were lost . a
All hands were living ia temporary tents ana aa' s r
cienS br,Nlsions Tor four months on quarter AW -.
day. After the wreck lieut. Talbot Nolhnccrel 10 -
boat 10 Honolulu. l,SS miles distant 10 o'inE JAVA
distance tO the Cr,N. - o..
Capt sicari i'm his Official report, bears testimony ~
The v0ulepr and mobile conduct 81 Lpa. Idiui' NN' -
pccted at Honolulu Win all ihc ,sndt from Ocean ''h'
Uu Ulr 10Th lf. r. 4.
ne Jmird States steamer Nyfrk. from c'.i,s, s
czpg.icL al h0no.Ulu 10 urins 'h' ",A % S''
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14
TIE Law or PRICES.
IIIE L4IW UT HIVLv'
E1ikOr OF The Trib q ne.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR On the 10th ult, you say, " The price
ecessary be regulated by the Average cost of pro-
duction." Again, in the article. "The average
cost Of producing the quantity required would g0Yeyn
the average price paid for it." Again, On the a7h nit
"our theory then, Is precisely this The average price
OF the article Ia our sarkets will depend on he cost at
,ch we can produce it," Now what relation does TINS
eory as you cali it, bear TO any Tariff whether high or
lowi Would it not be equally true under any GireHin
Seneca Falls. ". y, Jan. .. 1871.
AnS,cer.-Yes, Sir most certainly. What we
state is a natural law, like Grayitation, or
Magnetic Attraction. 1t is recognized by all Po-
litical Economists, and not directly disputed,
even by those whose theories it completely
subverts.
Mind that we recognize the seeming excep-
tions which really establish the rule. If, for ex-
ample, one man owns all the land in our coun-
try containing Nickel, or Quicksilver, or Zinc,
or any other metal, high duty on that metal
might enable him to charge an exorbitant
price for it, and thus enrich himself at the
expense of others. But where the raw mate
rial exists in abundance, so that no individual
or combination can engrOss it all, the average
price of the product will be governed by the
average rewards of Labor and Capital in other
pursuits, or in business generally.
For instance IL duty of ten thousand
dollars per bushel were imposed on Indian
Corn, no sensible person can suppose that the
average price of Corn throughout our country
would thereby be enhanced even one cent per
bushel And the same is measurably, though
not so absolutely, true of Wheat, Rye, Oats,
&C., &c. There may be small districts on the
Canada frontier where these grains would DO
made slightly dearer, at least part of the time (;
but their price throughout nine-tenths OF the
Union would not be at all affected.
Mr. Waller is answered, but perhaps not
satisfied He may still ask, What is the
"pertinence, what the cogency, of the truth
"you insist on I"
Just this, Mr. Waller: Your Free-Trade ero-
MES habitually assume that. y duty oe TN
posed on an article, and that article continue
n,rerfbeless to be imported, the consumers OF that
o,t;cle (whether the foreign or its homemade
r;von must pau for il more thda they otherw'se
,could. by at least the amount Of the duty. They
will say. "Of Lumber, S5,OOO,OOO worth was last
"year imported, while slOO,oOO,Ooo worth was
cent and sawed on our own soil; 30 the duty
" of twenty per cent compelled consumers to
.ssy o. ,coO,O0o inss eks TFs@sury and ssc,-
soaO.0oo 10 our own lumbermen.7 Our state
rssnts cited by Mr.. w. were made in exposure
of this false and groundless assumpbon.-l ~.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14

ton in the land that the revenue operations
should thus end III bloOdshed. When the
story Of the mob comes to be told. it will ap-
pear that the officials of the Government and
those Of Brooklyn are jointly responsible for
the not. The Revenue officers make no effort
whatever 10 arrest and punish the offenders
except by destroying their property, and thus
lead them to believe that personally they are
beyond the reach of the law. During the raid
of yesterday the Brooklyn police guarded the
water hydrants and prevented the use OF
water and steam-engines in destroying the
captured material and in dispensing the mob
which followed threateningly at the heels OF
the soldiers and Revenue wOrhmen, and the
Water Commissioners, on being applied TO
for permission to attach hose to the hydrants,
refused it, Every man of the mob doubtless
construed this action to mean that the Brook
lyn officials sympathze with, and are disposed
to aid, the riotous dstillers as far as they
dare. Al this simply encourages the distlllerS
to riotous action, and mob and bloodshed
must eventually be the natural consequence.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14

We have great faith that the public agita-
ton of the schemes for quick city transit Will
attain the object sooner than any "jObbery'
in the Legislature, and that, too, in spite of the
"Ringn which seeks to control such matters
The Citizens Association of Yorkville and
Harlem was instrumental in securing by agita-
ton the opening of the Madison-ave. route, and
it is now demanding a through route from the
City Hall to Harlem. 1t holds at the BrevOort
Hall tonight meeting for that purpose, at
which a large attendance is expected and de-
srable. That the agitation has somewhat
troubled the "Ring" is evident from the
nervous haste with which its leading spirit.
the Mayor, promises to be present.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14
JOANNES.

Charles Lamb, in one of his essays, plain
lively recites some of the inconvenences at
tcndant upon being hanged. The testimony
of one whose trembling hands had clasped the
corroboratve prayer-book, and whose ashen
lips had sucked the moisture of the last con-
solatory orange like him in whose character
the genial essayist wrote), ought to be ac-
cepted as an explicit assurance that the an
noyance occasioned by the process is too much
for good natun. The sensations and the Sc
quel are too ridiculous The entire business,
therefore, ought to be avoided AS sedulously
as possible. And 50, while the Count Joannes
continues to abound We think people ought
carefully to. abstain from being murdered.
There was time when one mighs 10 sssD-
fortably slain and laid away among the ashes
of his fathers, without tho prcspnss Of icing
posthumously paved about by an elderly and
mquisitive nobleman and oOunselor-at-law
This was the golden age of homicide; when
the brains were out tho man died and then
un end bat now, obedient to tue wizard ipcan'
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14

The House yesterday wisely refused to
strike out of the Omnibus bill the appropri-
alton for the Bureau of Education. A Dem
ocratc member from this city promised that
when his party came into power it would
regulate the Bureau of Education by abolishing
it. Unfortunately for the section of country
which the Bureau is intended to benefit, the
past policy of the Democratic party was to
keep its people in ignorance. But, for
tunatey for them, the threat of the injudicious
advocate of Democracy, though justified in
the past, is not likely to be made good in the
future, since there is little probability that the
party opposed to the diffusion of knowledge
will ever again come into power.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14

Another opportunity is offered the Legisla-
ture to undo in part the mischief it has made
in legalizing the robbery of the Erie Railway
by the present Directors. Mr.. Goodrich has
offered in the Senate bill to repeal the act
which keeps Jay Gould, Fisk, jr., Tweed, and
others, in control of the Erie property against
the wishes of its stockholders. If they are
honest in their loud assertions that their man
agement meets with approval, they will let
their creatures repeal the act and consent to
the election of new Board. Or course we
have no notion that Tweed and his confed-
crates will permit any such proceedings, or
that we shall ever again hear of the bill of
Mr. Goodrich. But though they may postpone
the hour of reformation, the managers of Rail-
way and Legislature cannot forever defer the
day of retribution or avoid that of final ruin.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14

"Ned,r exclaimed the sobblng Colonel, she
won't let mo leave my S'im-shoes IN the
"house."
Most of our READERS will acknowledge that
tbis WAS carrying matters to an extreme; and
after the tears and entreaties of Mr.. Fisk had
failed 10 move either the infatuated Stokes or
the heartless Josephine, it was only natural
that fierce animosty should fire the bosom
of the discarded lover. The power Oh the Erie
Railway Company was first brought lhto play,
to restore those gum-shOes to their proper
place on the LawlOr dOOr-mat. Stokes had
contract with that road, representing an amount
of about $4,000 year. 1t was promptly an
nulled. Stokes had business connecuon WIN
Mr. Fisk individually other words, Achiiies
and AgamemnOn were partners IN tho OIL
business-that business must be broken up.
Tho manner of the breaking Is known
exactly only to the Erie lawyers. How
Fisk promised to sell, and did MT; how Fisk
nromsed to buy, and did MT; how all the four
or five partners suddenly began TO protecV"
Themselves against each other; and how, as
result of the tumble, Mr.. Stokes found MN
self one night in jail-all this has been told In
the police reports, and nothing is clear from
il all except that oil has no virtue TO heal
wounded heart, that Fisk is still raging for
his Josie and the Lawlor still faithful to her
Stokes.
Meanwhile Agamemnon has got out OF quod
and gone back to the arms of Briseis, and the
fair creature is testifying unmitigated DIS
"gustp for her ex-proprietor through the
medium of copiOus affidavits duly sworn 10
and attested Rumor has it that Mr.. FISK mas
resorted to his customary remedy, and caused
Judge Barnard to solemnly enjon Mrs. Law
lor from receiving the visits of the too sue
cessful Stokes. We are not prepared to SUD-
stantiate this statement, but any one who has
watched Mr.. Fisks career in our courts Will
accept it as intrinscally probable. Judge Bar
nard is understood to be "great on injunc-
"tionsn and he has many time done services
for the Vice-President of Erie quite as re-
markable as the kindness he is reported to
have extended in the present afflicting case.
The course OF law in NewYOrk City is sub
ject to extraordinary alterations, and If there
is any use to which an injunction cannot be
put, Judge Barnard we are sure is not aware
of IT,
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14
2tg.u$l}ork Duly Gribm1ts
SATURDAY, JANUARY "A, 1871.

TIC Frc:ch have defeated in two severe engage
n,ut, dr Lc Mans, that city being occupied by the
P--,is... The bOmbardment Of Paris is still vigOr-
ousy prosecuted by the PrCssians. - Gen. Won
Wer Ter j. following up his success at VnlersexeL ==
Another c5ucTy explosion has occurred in England 20
I.rsons 5ciIs either killed wounded. - The Dean
OF C,utrI>aiy is dead, ------azsss
T.. the SEM .e tIe House bill for Joint Committee on
D. an C.,,ss was briefly discussed. The Senate ad-
,3,rucd ul; Monday =-=== In the House the bill in
crrasil the amount of per cent bonds authorized by
tEe FuuG..c b.u was amended and passed. The Omni-
BIS bill was debated. bill was introduced providing
FOR c appointment OF Commission TO audit the claims
fog iaaag.s by the Rebel cruisers.
TIE san Domingo Commission consists OF tn, Hon. b.
r Wade. Prof White OF Cornell University, and DR..
Samuel g. Howe OF Boston. -= Admiral Porter was
conf rned Ly the Senate yesterday. - Dion has won
the billiard match at san Francisco ==- party OF
ma lcl me. have killed several negroes In Kentucky
= cen frank Blair jr.. has been nominated Tor U.
{ motor by the Democrats Of Missouri. === Wyom-
in Tnl.s les committed suicide.
ypleo rancaer opened the case against Dr.. Lanahan
a. -1o .bc NcfbOdist Book Committee. - The Brook
l,1 whisky war vas continued yesterday == Justice
lr reserves bis decision IN the Peeter bond robbery
O.. - E<-Psstmaser Kelly was buried in Calvary
C..aetsry - Gold, ILL., lOl, 1lO.. Thermometer 5',
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14

Nobody has been found guilty, or is likely 10
be, of the Cuban bond robbery (the examina-
ton of which was yesterday concluded, though.
to be sure, the Justice who withholds his de-
cision for the present may yet find something
positive in the evidence. Thus far, however,
the trial has only established beyond pcrad-
venture that the relations of thieves and
the receivers of their stolen goods ara
openly kept up with greater freedom now
a-days than Fagin the Jew and his victims
ever enjoyed. The fact seems to be that ne
" gotiating" for the return Of stolen bonds has
become profession, in which lawyers OF stand
ing in the Courts and brokers Of respectability
in the Street indulge as unblushingly as De-
tective officers themselves, and that is saying a
great deal which, for the credit of the police
service, we wish there was no need to say.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14

The proposal Of the Third-Ayenue Railroad
Company to put "palace cars' on thc>r tracks
ought to be watched. The bin introduced by
Senator Genet empowers them TO contract with
a Dir. Squires, whom we suppose TO be Robert
Squires, their own President, TO run drawing
room cars and charge for each passenger zen
cents in addition to the regular faye. This
would be public convenience il it did not
result in an abridgement of the accOmmoda-
tions in the ordinary cars. But what guarcn-
tee is there that cheap cars viii not be with
drawn to make room for the dearer cncs'
The road is already oyercrowded with convey
ances, and it would be difficult to add many
more without serious inconvenience TO miscel-
laneOus traffic. OF course it will pay the com
pany much better to carry twenty passengers
at fifteen cents than sixty az five
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14

The Committee which is inquiring into the
the affairs of the Methodist Book Concern
yesterday very sensibly concluded 1t wiser to
suffer from public exposure of their business
than to labor under the suspicion of secretly
conspiring to conceal the persons guilty OF its
mismanagement. SO they threw open their
doors to the reporters, and the charges and
answers were made public. They are published
in full elsewhere. The charges against DR..
Lanahan are not of very serious character,
and if his assertions, made in bis replies to
the specifications, are made good the Book
Agents and Committee will be proved to be
poor business managers, but not necessarily
dishonest men.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14

In consequence of the capture OF merchant
vessels by the French men -of-war, the North
German Government has withdrawn its declar-
a'0n that me9o. antmen of the enemy should
b. exempt from capture. 1t was hoped at the
time this declaration was made, on the opening
of the war, that the French would accept 1t IN
the spirit in which it was offered, and virtually
declare a truce on the sea. But they de-
c,ned 10 DO so, and German patience came to
-. end. The French steamers may now be
,.,sDed TO our docks as closely as the German
8 sis were. =
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14

The Ne,c- York Tablet, in its synopsis OF
Father Preston's lecture on the Temporal
Power of the Pope, gives the following ex-
cellent reason for Catholic unanimity in its
support:
"There Is no difference Of opinion among Catholics on
this subject for do not ali0W any difference on such
questions The DEGREES of the Church forbid it, The
reverend Father read from the Syllabus in support OF his
propositions Whoever maintains contrary opinions can
not be a Catholic This may be arbitrary, and is so.
Truth arbitrary, and this is truth No Catholic can
maintain opinion opposed to tho Temporal Power Of
the Popev
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14
Amnsem.n:s. rlc.. gbis Gpenina.

Ac,Dr:y OF Music. BrooAlyn.-"Rip Van Vim
ke' JosTA iele.,1u.
Boorr's TuEATFR.-At T. "Nchelicu.' Edwin
Booth At g; Love ami Loyalty
FIFlu-AvEyUr THFATrB.-At1l Il aud $: "Snratoga."
GRAND OPERA HoUsE - AT IL: " La Graude
Dsclesae." - 81. "Bsrbe Blcuc.'
LIMA EpwfN's THENTER.-kt2 and 8: Kind TO n
Pallt' Aladdin" and Little JacS sheppard"
Nmo's GARDEN.-At II ands: "The Black Crook
OLYMPIC THEATER.-At2 2 and s.: "Wee Willie Win
he" G. I. Fox.
WAIIAcK's THEATER.--At T. and s: "Wsr."
NFw-Y0DK CIBCUS.--At 2t and s: Cinderella
ElueIsn sy-rise9 Scolaic performances. Sc L. T. Lent
SAN FRNNCIsCo MINsTREIs No 5Sj Broadway.
Sout, dancCs eccentric sots
N'Op'S MUSEUM ANp MN AGERIE.-At .: True
ae Ies N 81 ST. GEORGE he Dragon" THOMPSON TT
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14

Cae of these days the Fifth Ward of Brook
I'll. viii be the scene Of terrible riot which
r.. ~ gunpowder viii suppress. Revenue officials
AID their guards Of marines VIII be assaulted by
iaiuriated armed rufiians and severely beaten,
possibly killed. Some Of the rioters, too, Will
al, and there win be great cry OF In0gna-
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14
6u5,ncss Notlces.
DARING ATTEMPT OF BURGLARS.


4l3 B1oADwAy NEw lOEE, Jan. 1 1871.
A. fT-AG S.gE Coea iC1: IuE FiRR BURGiAH lAO0F
So viA tscss Of t'inCd sere rF1
Ids ~ Brsrs fhe IA Of The it inst The evidences Of TIE
nd TALFNT tie part 81 the thieves l. @
SHOVE CSC tools len behind ther oby e metoi
rrrl relieve of vauahle- IBE oUlRB
htdj} Int showing lie elects Of Cutters
'. y crcts &c but The BUBGLAR-PROoY CBEsr OF
ipNn aa laos. ccure b. SAaeFS BANK Look proved
ter skl tOosGy ,iacaiug claims o 20
olI.g We b.: rejoice the failure Of t'
rsc..r ard ctecuy give ths testimony concerning TIE
.rg u goa Yours trulJ, 4. T. DUTION Co.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14

The bill recently introduced by Assembly
man O'Neil to prevent hor' railway cont
Oanies from carrying any more passengers
New-York tribune., 1871-01-14
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STANDING; TRESlri.

AEayeler may g. 81 over the continent
Of Europe, 81 assil and Africa, without
seeing anE man eSefpt ~ Amofioap, oiier
40 stteat ,.nd tit cnclilnel, nc stite
Social enough, ,shpt whom they turn into b
;eafe to sip their wine and branded coffee
together, each man pays for his own
When two Germans. long separated, meet,
they will bo very apt to embrace and then
turn, into an adjacent beer cellar, sit down
aud drink lager and cat pretzcls and chat,
but when they part again each man settles
his own score Independently. soih Italy.
The Italians are proverbially merry and
generous. but every man pays for his own
wine, nacaroni and cigars, They never
20 into each Others pocket books in the sa-
cred name Of friendship. They would us
soon think oftransferring their washerwo-
lnau's bill. There would be as little work
for the Good Templars in America astherc
ism Germany, France and Italy, if this
pernicious and baneful habit was abolished
10 this country. Treating Is, to take it all
in all, the most ridiculous. the most unrea-
sonable. and the most pestilcnt custom that
ever laid its tyrannical hands on civilized
human bsings.