New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-23

lost about $4,000. 1t is noteworthy that
this loss resulted in part from advancing
| money on worthless sccurites-a fertile source
of injury to American institutions.
This Mr.. Chandler is a very bad man. Mr.
David Dudley Fields Committee have had his
bank account for six weeks past, and nave
been so dumbfounded at the appalling corrup-
ton disclosed therein that so far they haven !
! been able to gasp out report. And Mr. Da'lu
Dudley Field isn't man who scarcs easily at
corruption either!
Mr.. Joseph Cobun proposes to secure his
freedom at the expense of his professional
reputation His plea that he was beaten ny
Can't Williams in the police station wouid
excite greater sympathy if he had not peeh
in the fighting business himself, ana had no'
proved himself match for almost anything
except perhaps a pOliceman's club 'apl:
| Williams ought not 10 have beaten hlh oi
course. but nobody but MIR. CobuTn Is very
sorry that he did
Now that the Senate'has passed, apparently
without division, the bill making an apprOpll-
otiou for tbe erection of n building for the
| National Museum at Washington, to contain
the Philadelphia exhibits which, by the gen
| croSitv of other Governments, have become the
| propcrty of our own, it is to be hoped that the
| House will concur and the President approve
| II is not often that q museum is to he had
| merely for the cost of housing, and for tins
one a onarter of million dollars is mod
crate price 20 pay.
| A very hearty report from the House Com
mittee on Naval Affairs favorS an approprla-
| ton for an Arctic expedition. The method Is
70 be in general that which Capt. Howgatc
| has urged-fOunding q colony at high latl-
| tudc, say between SO and So, so as to be
| in readiness to take advantage of favorable
season and an opening in the Sea OF Ancient
lee. The project is generally favored by the
best authorities on Arctic exploration, and
large gains of scientific knowledge may be
fairly hoped for, even if the colony after some
wears of effort should come to Capt. Naress
conclusion, Pole impracticable."
! Spcaking of the Eastern Question, the En-
prror William told the Reichstag yesterday
that the strife to which it may lead endan-
eercd Germany less than any other nation.
|
same terms as Queen Victoria did IN her
throne speech, and like her expressed the hope
that the Turks will undergo change OF heart
without further pressure. The Emperor de-
cined TO say what he Will do in the event OF
war, but at all events he will take care to
stand by his allies. In plain words, the En-
pcrOr's language implies that Russia and Ger
many are on good terms and that the former
NAV attack Turkey with impunity so long as
German interests are not Imperfect
If the Father of his Country was with us IN
the spirit yesterday, the little hatchet was here
in the body. While law and order took hOL-
dav. crime seems to have devoted itself to
business, and enough blood was shed to make
it a red-letter day. There were assaults with
robbelics and assaults without rObberes, sui
cjdcs that succeeded and suicides that failed ;
pcople were searched for who are believed to
have undergone foul play, and people were
looked after who are suspected of playing
foul murder trial went on in spite of the
holiday, and whole freshwater business col
lege was turned loose upon the streets OF an
unsuspecting community. 1t was the day wo
celebrate, and, il must be confessed, pretty
much the way we celebrate it.
The Republicans of the Senate made gross
mistake in permitting the passage of the out
rageous Pacific Mail subsidy. Six hundred
thousand dollars were spent few years ago
in securing from Congress just such subsidy
for this same company. 1t is utterly without
necessity or excuse, since a far more responsible
company is anxious to carry the mails merely
for the ocean hostages. There Is absolutely
no decent pretext for this wanton waste OF
the public money. The Appropriations Com
mittce of the House will of course strike il
out. If the Republicans of the Senate still
struggle to carry it through by a conference,
they will give themselves "a heavy load. Who
managed the job this time? Stockwell was a
bungler and fool beside him.
The electoral count has consumed so m"cll
time that point is now reached where it may
be in the power Of a small and desperate
minority of the House to prevent its compile
ton, and it ought not perhaps to be matter
for surprise, in view of the composition OF that
body, to learn that this small and desperate
minority are now perfecting scheme for their
own disgrace and destruction. If their
proiect would accomplish nothing more, we