New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-22

the Pruth and $4,000 massed on the Asiatic
frontier, the Car may easily convince the
Persian ruler that he will overwhelm the dis
organized forces of Turkey. The Shah will
readily grayitate toward the stronger side.
| Our Albany dispatches show the amount OF
compensation paid to the officers of several OF
the life insurance companies. The list is as
yet incomplete, and in this respect Will not
satisfy popular curiosity. In general, the
amount of responsibility that the officers must
undertake, and the magnitude OF the interest
! in their charge should furnish gauge Tor
their proper salary. From this point OF we"
the report will prove of interest as it shows
some instances where the duties must be hSit
and the compensation il heavy.
Thus far the only apparent result of PrcSi-
dent Grants pardOns of whisky thieves mas
! hcep to restore to society n number of persons
whom society had willingly resigned to the
pcntentiary. Yesterday, however, came on the
stand in this city the one man who was par
doned for public and not for private reasons.
| 1t was Mr.. HeSing of Chicago, who seems 10
| have cheated the Government this time as
cfcctually as he cheated it before. lie sald
"No' to all the questions to which the prose
cution evidently expected him to say YES"
| and rctreated in good order toward Chicago.
! Under the circumstances, the fair thing Tor
him to do would be to 90 back to jail.
The agreement made in Washington not to
pry into the bank accounts OF either size
| brings Gov Tilden to his feet In letter
addressed to Senator Herman, he avows that
there is nothing in his bank account which
needs TO be concealed Fhe real purpose OF
his statement and its real significance are to
be found in this broad declaratlOn-"l never
made. authorized, or knew of any eXprnd-
ture in relation to the election in Oregon, or
d" the resulting controversies, or any promise, or
obligation, or negotiation on the subject"
There will be many who would be glad to put
! full faith in this denial. but who Will find nm
obstacle in the near relationship OF the nephew,
who conducted TIE negotiation, to the uncle
who now rcpudlates 1t.
Pacific Mail has raised its corrupt head again
in the Senate. This time it wants half a mil
| lion dollars for carrying the mails between
| San Francisco and Japan, which the lines new
running are ready to carry Tor MOTH
| ing except the ocean pOstages AS a
screen, it throws in another half million sub
sidv for line between Newlork and Rio
Janeilo Gentlemen who vote to throw away
a million dollars or half million for purposes
of this sort ut a time like this, and at the
bidding of so Infamous a corporation as
the Pacific Mail, may rs well reflect i'll advance
upon the figure their names will cut i'll the
A.
We can only add that the man who votes for
such bill without being well paid for 1t, Is
a fool while if he takes the pay he is
bigger fool.
Mr.. Adams and his colleagues of the Massa-
chusetts Railroad Commission appeal to the
Legislature for the passage of an act suggested
no doubt by the prOtracted railroad strike III
that State. They ask that the abandonment or
their engines by engineers at any point but
the Irregular schedule destinations" of the
road the obstruction of road in fnrtherance
of 4 strike, &C., I've made penal ollenses. The
law of this the Massachusetts Legislature can
determine for itself but the substantial justice
of it will commend itself to every one. If the
public has any rights which strikers are bound
TO respect the right to protection against pre-
arranged delays on railroads, always veXatlous
and sometimes outrageous, would seem to be
one of them; and some effective measures
should be taken to prevent its infringement Ill
future.
This story from Albany of missing and mutt
lated State records is enough to make the an
tiGuarian she'd tears of rage. More than 200
documents illustrating the earliest periods IN
the history of the State, valuable to the stu
dent and worthy of veneration by every man
who chcrshes an honest pride in the honor
able past of q great commonwealth, are not to
be found. They ran as far back as the time
of Van Twiller, and Kieft, and Stuyvesant,
and cover all that period over whose history
Irving has cast the charm of romance. They
do not seem to have been stolen, so that we
are deprived Of the pleasure of exccrating the
thieves They have been hacked out of the
volumes in which they were bound, sent to
persons who asked to he allowed to consult
them, and never returned. And to make the
loss hopeless, no list of these names has been
kept. Mr. Bigeow is doing what he can to
repair the injury permitted by his prcdeces-
s0rs, but he can hardly accomplish much. 1t
must doubtless remain a conspicuous instance
of official vandalism.
The last act in the great Presidential con-
test is playing itself out, as the last dispatches
come from Washington. The House promptly
voted down yesterday the objection to the
Nevada return, and six more States were
amicably counted. With these the final dis
pute was reached, and the case Of Oregon
| was referred to the Electoral Commission.