New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-17

our State processes the method by which
Washington Legislators will settle the COM
pany's affairs.
The prompt action of the jury in finding IN
dictments against Joseph Coburn for Shootihg
two policemen yesterday gives some nope .hat
the city will at length be rid OF TINS ruinaii.
He has been breaker OF the peace here 1or
wears without interference from any OF inc
nroper authorities. The fellow can do better
service in the State Prison than can possibly
be hopcd from him ont Of it, and he ought I'd
be sent there in dOublc-quirk time.
When two such venerable birds as Ii. r
Butler and Is. G.. Jayne 90 INTO inc c'It'o"
business together, there must he some h'c'y
clowing for the larger share. There IS an IN
te,cs.ing story on another page OF the way III
| which. when these worthless combined to de-
spoil New-York merchants, Jayne "ut"itted
Butler 1t was accomplished by very ola
dcvice-too old, one would think, to catch any
one, much less one SO wary. He gave Butter
his note.
Mr.. Pilsbury is now Superintendent OF state
Prisons, Gov. Robinson following the passage
of the necessary bill with the prompt suDInls-
sion of his name and the Senate just as
promptly approving it by unanimous vote.
THE TRIBUNE, if we are not mistaken, frst
suggested Mr.. Pilsbury's name for this posi-
ton, and has steadily urged his appointment
in the full belief that that simple act would
be in itself the embodiment of State Prison
reform. He has a great work before him,
which he will do well.
However widely opinions may differ rs to
the value of our State Insurance Department.
| there is no room for question as to the enor-
nous quantity of work done there. Our AL
| bapy correspondence describes the labOrs of the
Department. People who are impatient OF the
| DELAY of the SuperDtendcnt's annual report
rarely consider the time that must be taken to
obtain correct analysis of the standing ana
condition of each company. Even with all
the aid which the companies themselves can
| offer, it is no light task.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has probably
| forgotten more about Florida than nlne-tenths
of the people who write about it ever knew, and
her letter. on another page, defending the
friendly spirit of its inhabitants, will be widely
read. She denies that Northern settlers are
not well treated, as a rule, by the people of
that State, and gives some interesting items of
proof. This testimony is especially valuable,
because if there was any one person whom
Soutberners were wont to hate with righteous
hatred, it was the author of Uncle Toms
Cabin"
Fraudulent bookkeeping must be practced
| to an appalling extent if the cases recently
made known bear to the whole number OF
cases in existence the same proportion that
frauds exposed usually bear to frauds con-
ceacd. The cashier of one of the Fishkill
banks, who was also treasurer of another, and
whose defalcaton is already an old story has
now been arrested for classifying the books of
both institutions, and the fraudulent entries
are said to exceed 100 in number. Regela-
tiors of this kind are coming just now with
unpleasant frequency.
The Patricks are old hands, it seems in the
business of corruption. An extract from the
testimony of James Z. Lyon in the Emma
Mine investigation, given on another page,
sets forth that TrenOr w. Park once employed
these skillful agents to corrupt a Utah jury IN
a case in which he was Interested, and that
the only question which seems to have arisen
between the parties to this remarkable bargain
was as to certain balances which Park had
failed to pay. Perhaps it was because he
learned wisdom from this little transac-
ton that in the later and more important
one Mr.. Patrick was so infexible in demand
ing the money before he did the work.
The distress in the silk trade of Lyons which
the French Government proposes to relieve is
due to the deaIness of the raw material, tie
CONSEQUENT decrease in the demand for manu-
featured goods, and the growing consumption
of wooden fabrics 1t proceeds likewise from
the dearth of money everywhere, which renders
silks dear at almost any price. As regards this
country, the French trade has been curtaied
bv the growth of our own industries, silks
being made here equal in luster and
quality to any produced abroad. The French
workmen merit better fortune, but they are
not worse off than the Chinese, who are idle
for lack of the raw material sent to foreign
lands.
Bishop Whipple's letter on the nations
treatment of the Sioux Indians well deserves
thoughtful pcrusal. He recites the wrongs
and pleads the rights of the Indian, in words
| which are evidently the outpOmings OF a sor-
rowful and kind heart 1t is impossible to
read this letter without feeling warm senti-
ment of admiration for Bishop Whipple; but
to extend this sentiment 10 the savages whose
cause Ire advocates is quite different matter.
There is no room for doubt that our Indian
affairs have been outrageousy mismanaged, and
that the Indians have been the chief suffer
ers thereby. One of the chief sources of