New-York tribune., 1876-12-22

considered very good for the times, and that
Mr.. Johnston will not only get back his money
but will not lose the interest He has done SO
much for Art in this community that all will
be glad to see Art paying him back with
liberal hand.
Notwithstanding the hard times there viii
be a goodly show of payments of interest and
dividends in January. The aggregate of these
semi-annual figures is far larger than is gen.
orally supposed outside of banking circles, and
when the payments take place they set adift
a great deal of spare cash for few days. 1t
speaks well for the condition of commercial
affairs that the effort needful to bring these
amounts together and pay them in this city
creates no stringency in our money market;
and that the States and large corporations that
will default in their January payments are
small in number compared with those that VIII
meet the expectations of bOndholdeIs, bloated
or otherwise.
Now that QuimbO Apo has been disposed
OF for some years to come the community is
several degrees safer. This was his fourth
murder, and if the next seven years OF his
life were to have been spent in the destruction
OF his fellow-men, and not within prison
walls, there is no telling what point he might
have reached in the ascending scale of nu-
neral adiectives. This blOOd-thirsty Celestial,
so hot in temper, so quick with his knife. and
so cunning in his own defense, fairly deserves
to rank among the things that are loosely
called social problems, and as one by no
means easy to be solved. Society would per-
hans he better of if he could be wiped clean
off the slate.
Doubts are still entertained as to the course
of Turkey on the Bulgarian question. 1t Is
contended in London that the Turks will
refuse to allow any foreign troops to occupy
the province, even if they have to resist
Russia single-handcd. 1t is more probable,
however that Midhat PaSha, who now directs
affairs, will submit as gracefully as he can in
case the conference decides absolutely against
him. The Constitution which he is about to
have proclaimed is his last resource. He seeks
by that measure to convince Europe that the
Porte is resoutely intent on REFORM But
there is no reason 10 suppose that he VIII con-
vince Gen. Ignatieff, who appears to be run
ming the conference. The Russian ambassador
knows that it is rs necessary to occupy Bull
garia now as it was for the French troops to
remain in Syria for nine months in 1S6O-6l.
Prof. Seelye's plan for dispOsing of the In
dian problem by putting the entire bureau
under the charge of a trust commission Will
not strike the secular mind as being very
sagacious. The proposal to make the commits
sion sclf-pcTpetuating contradicts some of the
principles upon which the Government Is
founded and the citation of the successful
management of college and Of asmissiOnary
society on this plan will be apt to excite
among the advocates of steiner
administration. The conclusion of the
average citizen will doubtless be that the best
way to get rid of the difficulty will be to sepa-
rate the bureau from the Interior Department,
as Washington dispatch says is contemplated
by many, and make it an independent Depart
ment without representation in the Cabinet
or to put it back where it was for the first
sixty years of the existence of our Govern
ment-under the War Department.
If Mr.. Hewitt had taken the advice of
homely proverb and thought twice before he |
spoke once, we should in all probability never |
have heard of the alleged tampering with his /
letters, ana Jne bcHSatiOH Vi dn HOuI "Ouu |
never have had even that brief existence. All |
the circumstances show that the charge was
warmed into utterance by the heat of the de-
bate Mr.. Hewitt, if he had been cool, would |
never have made an accusation all proofs Of |
which he had destroyed, and which would have |
been very difficult to prove even if it had been
well founded and the evidence, such as he
had had been preserved. Nevertheless, he re-
treats from an untenable position in the best
manner possible, ard Postmaster James can
hardly regret the episode, of which we have
probably heard about the last, when he is in
receipt of such hearty tributes to his efficiency
from men of both political parties. 1t can
hardly be unpleasant to be accused when one
is so promptly and Overwhelmingly indicated.
The first step toward compromise is an en-
couraging one The composition of the Senate
Committee is such tlat the parties within the /
parties are all fairly represented, and the
minority are allowed the services of some Of |
their best members. Indeed, if either of the
parties has any reason to complain of its rep
resentatives it is certainly not the Democrats.
Mr.. Thurman and Mr.. Bayard are undOubt-