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New-York tribune., 1872-01-17
PUSSJd IND THE UNION.

The friendship of Russia for the United
States, of the United States for Russia, is
almost as old as our independence. When
Western Europe was banded against Russia in
the Crimean War, this country was almost her
only avowed well-wisber The jealousy of
Russian power and ambition, which has kept
the Turks cncampcd in Europe long after they
should have been compelled to leave the fairest
portion of earth to their Christian subjects, who
constitute much the larger portion of its people,
has never clouded our vision. The organizing,
civilzing, Christianizing progress of Russia
across the vast plains and steppes of northern
Asia, has never been viewed with alarm or
reprObaton on these remote shores. We have
deplored the fall of Poland, the gallant yet
fruit,esS struggles of her aristocracy to recon-
quer their lost power and prestige, with
out branding Russia as sinner above
other nations which have vanquished
and absorbed the domains of heredi-
tary foes. In our own terrible strug-
gle for existence, Russia's sympathy was pro-
claimed and hearty, when scarcely another
friendly voice from the Old World encouraged
and checred us but that of her Emperor. In
short, the traditional friendship between Rus
OF strength and security to each, without in
volving sacrifice or peril to either.
All this is now changed. The successive de-
monstratiOns against M. Constantine Catacazy,
the EmperOr's Envoy at Washington, culmi
mating in that embodied in the Presidents late
Message, have evoked a manifesto from NJ.
GortschakOff which, if it were leveled at Ger
many or Austria, would be regarded as pre-
mOnitory to m appeal to the sword. NJ Cata-
cazy will very soon leave us because he must,
though he appears to be still sustained-at all
events, uncondemned-by his Imperial master
The friendships of nations, like those of
individuals, are fragile. The friendship born
yesterday will be two days nearer its close to-
morrow. No one has ever expected even
close alliance between Independent nations to
withstand the strain of clashing interests-of
one of those pronounced antagODisms which
the progress of events may at any time de-
velOp But, in this case, look in vain for those
clashing interests. In considering it, we look
around for cause adequate to the produc-
ton of this undesirable feud, and look in vain.
Why should Russia and the United States be
less friendly in 1872 than in 1862 Grant that
our need of allies is less urgent than it was,
what is there to provoke or justify alienation 7
To an ordinary vision, this seems like a
women's quarrel about precedence, or invita-
tions, or something equally trivial. But the
facts are not yet developed, as they must and
will be. There must be more than is obvious
at the bottom of this unwelcOme feud, where
from both parties suffer injury, whereat their
mutual rivals chuckle, and with excellent
reason We trust that all the papers relative
to this case will soon be submitted to Congress
and the country.
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17
Amnecmenta, ctr.. Gins Gpenraa.

BO0TitS THEATER-"J JulinS Cesar Booth
FHTH AVENUE THEAIER." Divorce
CRAYn OprR, HousE.-"No Thoronghfarc.' The
FloGenccS
LIMA UpwINs THEArEE.-OpcCa Boui,e; bdroe
B'cur" Mlle Amec
NIBIos GARDEN.--"The Black Crook.
OtyN,lC T1tFATER. Al and ut 3: liumpy
Dunpty l.cconsurtcd. G. i. FOX
Sr,pr IHEATER.-Gcrman Opera: IL Air'oaine'
Fahbr
ST. JANIS THEATTB-" Monaldi' ). ;. MacN'N'.
IlNIoN-soUARE TnEATER,-At % and at s: Variety
rompsuV
WMI.,CK's TlIEETER-" john Garth" l.. Wailack.
IE\vTT1's ART ROOMS.-PaleitH Exhibition.
STR\w,V HAu.-COncert. Santley.
ST. Fl crR'S HMI--Mrs. Jarleys Wax Works
SAN EEANcIsCo MINsTRTIs.-Birch, Wambold. etc.
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

not bo made TO apply to prcexisting contracts
the country very generally acquiesced: bnt
with the reorganization Of the Court came nm.
eaSiness and whisperngs Of a reopenng Of
the case concluded in 1870 IL w,s
objected, with great force, that 70
reopen the constitutional question wonld ma
to divert the regard Of the people from tho
tribunal itself TO the men who composed IT,
for it WAS notorious that the opinions of ,bs
learned Judges who had cOncurred in the
original dictum of the Court had not CHANGED
but that men who held other views on tho suh
jcct had been added to the Bench. TO procu,.
new poll of the members Of the Court f.,
that reason, was TO destroy It's imncrsor,l;tv
and resolve it into body subject 10 cban,n.
of personnel. if not of opinion. If we ca.no,
look to the Supreme Court of the United
States for certainty and consistency wbero
can we look for it'll
Tho latest decision of The Cou,f ,vo ,,;,,o,, 80,
Monday by Mr.. Justice Strong. whose onnoint-
ment to the Supreme Bench was suppo4cd IN
have carried with it certainty of an ultimate
reversal OF the decision of 1870 The points
are briefly AZ follows: Congress has authority
to enact laws necessary and proper for tbe
execution of all powers created by the Con.
stitutiOD; the necessity spoken of il in IN,
judgment of Congress; one of these duties i,
the preservation of the Government: tbe cir
cumstances of the war made the issue of
Legal Tender (Or some such expedicnN nccos-
sary to maintain the army and navy; Congress
had choice of means. and il chose tn
authorize the issue Of Lpgal-Tender
Notes. SO far, the decision probably fol-
lows the popular opinion; but the Court goes
on TO declare that Congress can constitution
ally give Treasury notes the character and
qualities of money, absolutely and finally.
Congress can make such notes available b
fulfill all contracts, not expressly excepted.
sOvablc in money, and without reference h
the time when they were made. The learned
Judge, speaking for the Court, argues that
Congress has indirectly the power to impair
the validity of existing contracts, as IN bank
ruptcy cases, where the expectation of tho
debtor and the anticipation of tho creditor
are each disappointed. Then we have some
fine hair-splitting on the question Of Vauo.
and the Court announces that Value Is an
ideal thing; the silver dollar is one repre-
sentative of Value; the Legal-Tender Note IA
another; the power to make one OF these
representative of Value implies the same
power with reference to the other
The country is already familiar with tho
views held by the present minority of the
Court. The Chief-Justice, in sharp, lnclSye
manner, put the case as heretofore held Dy the
Court, and concluded his opinion with a lew
we'll chosen words to the solemn and bind
ing character of a decision once announced.
Whatever may be said now of the abstract
merits of the question thus reviewed it must
be acknowledged that its disturbance is untor-
tunate and untimely.
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

Our Tariff is eminently a Farmers Tariff.
At the recent joint meeting at Syracuse of the
Wool growers and WOOl-manufacturers, a Mas
sachusetts cloth maker said that if the exist
ing moderate duties were left undisturbed for
the short space of six years, the cost of pro-
ducing American cloths would be SO reduced
by the stimulus which Wool-growing would
receive, that they could not be undersold by
the paupcr- woven cloths of Europe. Six years
il very short time to wait for equal Free
Trade in Woolens. Can t the British import
ers be patient for that brief space 7 England
has made the world wait over FIVE hundred
years for her profession vi Free Trade, and
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17
FOE THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
Always a necessity. TIE TRIBUNE ALMANAC
will this year be absolutely indispensable to
every politician or welI-infOrmed citizen.
Whoever would form his own opinions about
the Presidential prospect in each of the States;
whoever would calculate from past votes the
chances for this year anywhere; would know
what majorties are behind prominent represcn
tatves on either side, how long superserviceable
Senators have to serve, or what they
may fairly expect about reelection, must
have THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC. Hero arc
returns from every State in the Umon'
not only of the last elections, but with
comparisons with those of former years. Here
are lists of House and Senate; tables OF Stand
ing and Special Committees the roll OF Cablnet
officers, Supreme Judges, and Foreign Min
listers. Here is the full statement OF The
Public Debt. Here is the population, by the
last Census, of every County in the United
States. And, besides, there are tables OF
imports, receipts and disbursements. the
Treaty of Washington, the Presidents Pro-
clanatiOns and all important public laws and
Joint resolutions passed at tho late sessions
OF Congress.
Many other publications give different parts
of this information no other prctends to give
it SO compacty or completely. In election re-
turns THE TRIBUNE ALMANACis the authority
recognized by all parties; and for its other
contents no manual so comprehensive, detailed.
correct and cheap has ever presumed to rival
it. The number for 1872 has been delayed for
late political statistics. but advance copies arc
now out, and it will be ready for delivery
next week,-advance orders being filled IN
accordance with the date of their receipt.
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

When the Custom house investigation began,
it was airily said that there was no evidence
worth the least consideration; the affair would
soon blow over. But it has not blown over,
and thc evidence is accommodating SO fast that
there seems to be no immediate prospect OF
an end. The Committee, therefore, have been
Obliged to institute night sessions i'll order to
get u the bottom of the subject in reason
ably short period. The evidence yesterday
was, like most that has preceded it, conclusive
A. TO oi ginal charges of mismanagement, and
excessively uncomfortable to implicated par
ties and heir defenders.
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

Did The Times happen to observe The evil
dence of Mr.. Van Cleft2 This is one of the
witnesses named. in the worthless testimony
from THE TRIBUNE Office the other day, be
fore the Senate Committee, as able to testify
that the late Collector had carried his use of
patronage and interference i'll local politics
so far as to reach over to the Brooklyn
Navy-Yard, and throw out of Office
naval officer owing him no subordi-
nation at all, because of refusal
to obey his orders about a NewYOrk Primary.
Well; like every other witness named in this
testimony who has yet been called, Mr.. Van
Cleft more than confirms the whole story,
swt caring to it of his own knowledge and
giving also the names Of other witnesses.
Does The Times think a black beetle could be
convicted on evidence like that? Or is it, by
this time, so stunned that it no longer has
any thoughts on the subjcct9 If not, suppose
it give its mind also to the evidence taken
yesterday of Mr.. De Camp. Capt. Grant,
and others, whose names and Che
substance of what they could
tell were first given the Committee, in The
TRIBUNE testimony. Would Mt it be well to
have another article, showing how worthless
all that "hearsay story" was '
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

II is customary to speak of the State Con't'buary
OF Massachusetts, "a having effected nothing AZ
apy rate il has seized during tho last year 2'SS
parcels of spirits, wine and the ike. containing
53 s4j oallons-enouQh at least to make one msn
DRINK fftv-three thousand times. or fifty -thro'
tbous,nd men drunk once. The value commercially
s,eokinp of the fluid, thus seized was S070o' Inc
Constables have also promoted 1905 prosecutions io'
Gouor-sellng. 1t is evident. therefore 'ha' SA'
Copstables have done something to put down ln''l'-
perance. although we do not mean to say W An'
means that they might not have done much 'no,o
Add 70 this-for it is only equitable to do so-'h'
arrest of I'D gamblers with two seizures OF oo~en'
publications. while the force since last Jniy IL"
numbered only 90 men. We still think iocai CON.
st.hulary preferable whenever it can be mano 20 n n
its duty; but that. we are sorry TO say !" :"
means always or often.
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17
BnsllIe5s Noures.
SAN-r EIErErN DNILArS.

SAVE FIFTEEN ltOiLNf>.
reehr WILSON SHUTTLE StwiNG MAcNNs The hett IN
N. Nor S45 sold payments Of - Mouth War
rs7re few good Csnrssc and Agents wanid Once
sui >sle'u WnsoN SEvN"MAce;NF C">rI>Y 'oI b''H"ay
POrTABLE WINDOW NENTILATOR, NAMES,
sf prrsc houses, Frcsh draft f "njo"
irco 80. Send cr circular UNDrrHIt Co" 70 Du1neSt
ARTIFICIALITIES-PAIMER LINES.
81 G-oaiu, VI 6o9 Chestnut st. ihL; 81 Green 81 bo"p.
TEMPERANCE MEN, you can safely recon-
wIriIAu.s ExIEAcT J,NAicA GtNGEL
934.554 ACCIDENT POLICIES WRITTEN to Jan.
T. bt TEAyHiXe, LiTE AND AccIrENr lNsrE,NCE GO,
Tun CRY, tie ne,U Illustrated NdGdsin6, JOr
yqasor s;, py Jaasary lo has ben Teaeced DA 9"tr
or ad ~ dcn11ad erhGT,Fi Ht first S"rfy@ @pes
~ as5r 1ias 0rcr Uas'rc'ioN ia'ldng h "eT A"r
~, phot'-r1pts Of tngrs"ngs from Senator S'""0s oof'
sos ih va pal, Of ch Hcrog nene and in respect p'
~ pranng csargss c Ism. ho d~srd"d a'''tS " C'''
spna.r H,rlo, Cry oaf EGDr md C. SbdadH tpoeml I"'
gr sgv N Illustrations than anything OF The Ahu 10
q r. IN anr American periodical IL aims 100 hgh' INC
wan 'Tur vuSr MONTHLY EvEE FUhLiSHkp u r"s
,.-NtrY The essay The Best Portraits in hnsla'hg
Ber - tie finest article PubhShed IN an American
p.c,ape The Tr.un> Tines nsrSpepeS osgr ~Ao"'
tu hie praised for iS literary and artistic elff"N me
,risi oC lnGfns By tie nerlHirofeed AH'yp' process
.l han ai-ndf rim deay account Of imperfect Ja"-a
2y ,-i,.a sss somerh1 re;OTded The publication o' VI" o"
~ 10 Vnf-T ne ,neOura9s"at alrtdfy rfo7ea
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

If there be anything thoroughly childish ~ - o go.
grief of a Southern man over the loss oi a' 49,:
legged chattels. The Richmond Wig walS a., 'I
we had property amounting to SS1OOoo'OV. a"t
about by the sacred guarantees of the COh''n' ss;
coniscated by the best Government the worm !,
saw Now. nobody ever claimed that piOp0lyh ~ -.
slaves was anything more than creaiioh '. !,
law. e. the STAKEHOLDER had no natural prope, n,
his men and women. Mr.. Clay always argue" h.
question upon this ground. That is propsip, pp.,ra
said. which the law makes property ~
he argued that the law creating snoh prope'S 90,
irrepeaable, hut the event has shown tna' ;,h h.
mistaken. The law has been repealed anu "''l .,al
disappearance the slaves also have ui',p bat
The emancipation is the result of higher .f The
then il was precisely To this higher Id"
Shareholders appealed.
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

rh. change in the branch of the Attorney
Generals Office of which Mr.. Charles OCOnOr
has h,d control is due to the lack of further
necessity for a separate organization, In
consequence of the residence of the new
Attorney General in this city. The
public will learn, however, with special graft
fication, that Mr.. O'Conor continues to aid in
the suits which have been instituted against
the thieves of the Ring, and gives public
promise of aid in such others as may be in
kltuted. =
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

President Theirs continues to evince his de-
termination that his is a government that
must not be laughed at. The Constitutional
and Gauiois have both been practically sup
pressed by ordering that copies of these jour
nails shall not be publicly sold. NJ. Thers's
good will is undoubtedly very honest, but his
Republcanism has a spice of personalism
which makes IL dubious
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

Paris correspondence of TIE TRIBUNE, pub
Iished on another page, contains fair sum-
mary of the provisions of the French Primary
Education bill. Some of the points will strike
an American leader as curious, and it must be
confessed that the Educational test proposed
for voters, if applied in some portions OF the
United States, would create great conSterna-
fiuu
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

Moe Investigations for municipal bureaus in
this city. The Clerks Office and Registers
Department are to be overhauled in search of
excessive charges and oppression of clients.
This is the right course to pursue, and the
only one which will reassure the public mind,
now kccnly alive to every suspicion of dis
honest practices in Office.
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

The Grand Army election to-day promises
some excitement. Even here the political
struggle has penetrated, and the question OF
Woodford or Barnum, we are assured, is also
the question of Grant or anti-Grant. Mr.. Wood
ford protests that he is not a candidate, i'll a
card which, as sent us, occupies several pages
TO sav Just that. "Methinks he doth protest
to, ynUch
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

conceded It at last only in the products in
which she was an Over-match for the wor'o'
BE patient foreigners just leave the Ameri-
can Tariff alone for ten years, and Eng'ahu
and the rest of manufacturing Europe VIII
get all the Free Trade out of us they want
and n great deal more.
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

srccablc. They established ther Republican
ism' in conclusion. by singing the Marselllaiso
fortunately, not Yankee Doodle This is the
story sent to us from London, and, if true, it
only shows that Rcpublicanism has taken hold
far down in the lower strata OF society, as
well as in those which are ornamented by such
men rs Sir Charles Dixie.
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

These quantities, il must be remembered,
indicate the shipments only. When the ore
consumed in the local furnaces is added, the
total quantity mined in 1871 will be found to
approximate One Million TINS. This ore is
very "rich,n yielding in the blast furnace
about 90 per cent of metal; it will be OBJ
served, therefore, that nearly one-third Of all
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17
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New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

English ruffianism is not all monOpolized
I,y the Monarchists, it appears. The Loyal
1T, fwhnse very name shows that there is
s,ue.nng wrong with rOyalty) have been
n.obbcd at Knightsbridge, London by Repub-
leans who broke up meeting, SMASHED
benches, and made themselves generally di3d-
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

The illustrated Christian Weekiy for jan ~ jus,
has an excellent representation OF Pr'n''ns 80.
square and the Franklin statue. to De u"' an
day. as we'll IA an enlarged sketch OF the u.s." ..,n
another page. II is published by mo 'a nHUa smoas
Tract society, aud deserves "a''n -, 49,
u "a 70 Clasa VI tcldeIs
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

The TRIBUNE is inclined to search for its
saints in Tammany Hail." says a cotempo-
rary. We submit that, if it were deemed neces-
sary to have this said. the job should have
been imposed on some journal that has ess
character to lose than The Ne'cark Daily i'd
IerfiSpr
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

Tue WEEKLY TRIBCNE will be ready this
mornus at o'clock, in wrappers for mailing PT1ce
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

POTABLE WINDOW NENTILATOR, MAINE
houses, Fresh draft FITS whjo"
L. .. Send l-- c.lcn.lr INnrLmIL 90. % nnlne.L
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

TTMprRANCE MEN, YOU can safely recon-
Nc, Wutrtv.. .. TxrrACr JANAlCA GuNGEs
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

Rn7 The recbrtc WILSON SHUTTLE SEwlNGMAcUNR The h IN
The Nor rcc s45 sold payments Of - month War
e ~ fvc few good Csnrsssc and Agents wanted Once
MACp:VE CoNrANN. 1OT hr'eifay
New-York tribune., 1872-01-17

334554 ACCIDENT POLICIES WRITTEN TO Jan.
T. b. TK.yEtxe, L.7E ACCIDENT lN'CR,NCE Go.
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-27
SATURDAY MORNING, JAN. %, 1872.
VIII. sbinhnilainr is not Relieved.

Next summer the Democracy OF this State
will present curious spectacle when they be-
DIN their annual Jeremiad about ssthe decline
of shipbuilding." We have explained here
tofore how the comprehensive measures pre-
sented by Mr.. Lynch, after the most protract-
ed and exhaustive investigation of the sub
ject ever made in this country, were embar-
raised and finally defeated by Democratic OPP
position. This week the Dem ocrats OF the
House have shown that their attitude re-
mains unchanged. The bill introduced by
Mr.. Hale, providing merely for drawback
on material entering into the construction OF
vessels, was prevented from an INN ediate
passage, if not defeated, by an amendment
pressed by Mr.. Cox, Democrat, of New York.
That amendment was aimed directly at the
shipbuilding industry and was presented IN
the interest of the great shipowners OF onr
large cities, whose selfishness commonly
dominates over their patriotism. Mr. Hale's
bill was designed to revive American ship
building; the amendment of Mr. Cox, on the
contrary, was designed to promote English
shipbuilding. The latter proposed to deprive
the bill of all that made it of any avail by rem
dering it useless for the shipbuilders of Maine
to take advantage of its provisions. What
market would their tonnage find, even when
built under more generous customs regula-
tons than now, if the competition of English
shipyards were to be invited? 1t may be
that free trade is right in principle, but it is
infamous to propose that it shall be applied
to ships while the protective system is applied
to all else, and when the evils of that system
in its application to other industries have fall
en- with blighting force on the very branch Of
industry that it is proposed to revive! Ship
buildinghas suffered almost humiliation from
protection; Mr.. Cox now proposes to finish it
by free trade.
If the bill is never reported from the Ways
and Means committee, it should be put on
record that Democratic opposition of the
most senseless and inexcusable kind killed it.
The measure was one which it was impossible
for men having the remotest interest in the
revival of American commerce to oppose. II
proposed, instead of the ampler assistance de-
manded by the special Congressional commit
tee of the last Congress, only one simple
thing. The weight of the tariff was to be
taken off, and that was all. If anything in
the nature of relief to shipbuilding is reason
able, surely this is the least that can be ask
ed 1t is worthy of note that the bill receiv
ed the hearty support of our entire Maine del
egation in the House.
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-27

The Portland PRESS says that the Argus
is opposed to railroad consolidation, and calls
upon other Democratic paper in the State to
emulate its example. Can't the PRESS con-
troll its own Legislature in this matter, that it
must call for help from Democratic papers
The Legislature is four to one Republican,
Bangor Commercial.
1t will be a just reproach to the Republican
party, if the consolidation bill finally passes,
as it undoubtedly must. That party will be
mainly responsible for the establishment of a
government by monopolists, and when the full
enormity of the offence is apprehended as it is
likely to be within three years, it will suffer
for its agency in the matter as it never suffer
ed for anything else. But it is to be observed
that the Democrats voted against indefinite
postponement in just about the same proper
ton as Republicans. Both parties will be
cautious about putting the men who have be-
trayed them in responsible positions hereaf-
for