New-York tribune., 1875-09-25

A life sentence for arson was the warning
Recorder Hackett yesterday gave the "fire-
bugs" who have been so active of late.
If Superintendent Walling and detectives
will now furnish proof of the guilt OF the
negroes whom they have arrested, charged
with the murder of the peddler in Westches-
ter, they will relieve the police in part OF the
suspicion of ineficiency under which they labor.
Gen. Spinner is always an entertaining letter
writer. The bluff ex-Treasurer says exactly
what he thinks, and, like the man whose sand
had dribbled out of the tail end of his wagon
all the way up hill, he thinks strong This
time it is the National banks he is after. In
the name of the people whom they are op-
pressing, he admonishes them not to kick
sleeping dog. n. B. The people are the dog.
Egvpt being land of exllaustless interest,
it is pleasant to learn from the letter of a cor
respondent, printed elsewhere, that she pur-
poses sending part of her ancient treasures to
the Centennial Exhibition. 1t is more gratify-
ing still to find that a perfect mania for edu-
cation has laid hold upon the people who live
on the banks of the Nile, and that the Khedive
ing more railroads.
Having achieved national unity, Italy is now
determined to regain her credit, and rank
among the solvent nations of the world. in
order to do this the Government is mOnOp-
oizing the local sources of revenue, leaving
the cities in a state of deplOrabe Indebtedness.
No good results can be derived from this
financial strategy, which is described i'll detail
in Mr.. TrolOpe's interesting letter on another
page To produce more and spend less is the
only remedy for ltalys fiscal troubles.
Commissioner Disbecker has not been long in
public life, but certainly long enough to know
that merely calling his accuser hard names Is
poor defense foi himself Until he refutes
the proofs offered for the charges before the
Committee of Crime, that he improperly secured
the appointment of policemen for country AS
semblymen, people will remember only that John
ID. Townsend, whom he berates, was years ago
prominent in the movement which relieved us
of Cardozo, and forced the retirement OF Police
Justice Bowling.
Incoming vessels bring further reports of the
destructive work of the cyclone which swept over
Indianola and Galveston. These show that,
while remarkable for its extent, the storm also
surpassed most Of its kind in other peculiarties.
The captain of the steamship State of Texas,
which arrived here yesterday badly damaged
by the gale, mentions that the barometer sank
to 26.O4-a lower point than he had ever
noticed in long cOasting career. His Observa-
tons also furnish interesting data as to the
track of the hurricane.
Since the fast mail trains began running.
frequent complaints have reached us of failures
by newsdealers to furnish the supplements or
triple sheets with The TRIBUNE. On Friday of
last week we were compelled to send out few
thousand copies without supplements, on ac-
count Of an accident at the last moment to
one set of our stereotype plates; but this is
the only instance in years in which IHE
TRIBUNE has given any newsdealer an excuse
for failing to furnish complete copies If
friends will let us know in every case who the
ncwsdealer is who serves them with an incOm-
plete CODY, we shall do our best to correct the
evil.
The announcement that New-YOrk has finally
been selected as the scene of the first sys-
tematic evaDgelistc labOrs of Messrs. Moody
and Sankey in this country may disappoint
jealous advocates of the claims of other cities,
but the wisdom of their decision will be gen.
erally acknowledged. Many reasons why this
field should be chosen will occur to almost any
one on reflection. 1t is enough to say
that they will find here public kindly dis
posed almost to the extent of absolute una
pimity. and that from now until the meetings
begin and throughout them the prayers of the
Christians of New-York will be offered unceas-
ngly for Il blessing 1pOn their self-sacrificing
efforts to make men better.
A weak place in the Democratic line of bat
tie i'll this State was powerfully reinforced
Yesterday in the dccinatiOn of exLicut. Gov.
Beach to serve as Chairman of the Executive
Committee, and the choice of Daniel MagOne, jr.,
member of the Governors Canal Commission,
in his stead. We believe no one suspects Mr.
Beach of participation in the Canal frauds,
or of a guilty knowledge thereof, but he,
~ well as everybody else, sees the obvious
irpropiicty OF his bearing conspicuous part
in This campaign. Mr. MagOne, Oh the other
hand. like MIR. Bigelow, is a very embodiment
Of the spirit of Canal Reform, and it is fit
ting that he should occupy just such prOmi-
nent position az that to which he has now been
assigned
Some uneasness has been aroused in Brook
lon b,, tbo discovery of a case nf unmistak-