New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-25

for freedom ten years ago, but they were
ovelpowered by the numbers as well
as by the superior skill of the Turks. who sent
able generals, such as Osman Pasha, against
them. Should it turn out that Egypt, at the
instance OF the Porte, is sending black troops
to crush the patriots, the Greek Government
NAV find it impossible to restrain It's people
from acts of retaliation. These may in turn
hasten the expected uprising OF the Hellenic
race against the Moslem enemy, who still
claims Thessaly as his own.
Minister Welsh has made an excellent I'M
preston i'll England, and has been warmly re-
ceived, as a London letter shows. SO many
Ministers to England have undOne themselves
by talking, that Mr.. Welsh's successful dely-
ery of four mexceptonable speeches on his
first dav on shore is all the certificate of his
good sense that is needed. Indeed, the
slilful way in which he met the unexpected
and unprovokcd Free Trade sally of the
Liverpool orator was proof, if any was neces-
sary, that Mr.. Welsh keeps his wits about
him. Even Free Traders will admit that tins
proclamation of their doctrines was so in
Opportune as to be almost ill-bred.
Scarcely is an arrest effected of men alleged
to have been engaged in bond forgeries before
a veil of mystery begins to be spread over
the transactions. Names, persons, places and
events connected with the fOrgeries, or
their utterance, are mixed III an mex
tricable way and three or four distinct
forgeries are mingled together. This seems to
be an invariable consequence when bond
forgers are arrested and the result usually is
to make their trials intricate and protracted'
Ist not possible that detectives, anxious to make
their achievements more striking, connect the
stories of different fOrgerieS and affix them to
the persons they have arrested That seems at
least as probable as that each alleged criminal
should have been engaged in various offences
widely separated by time, space and circum-
stance.
Mr.. D. T. Corbin, who claims to have been
elected to the seat which Patterson has awarded
to General Butler, makes singular expiana-
ton, in another column, Of n charge that has
been preferred against him. Many who never
heard that Mr.. Corbin had been accused OF
bnbng his way into an election by the Chamber
lain Legislature, will open their eyes at his adj
mission that, inasmuch as the courts had for
hidden the State Treasurer to pay the mem
beYs Of that Legislature, he advanced the nee
essary sum, which has never been repaid, and
doubtless, never will be. Does Mr.. COrbn
really believe that this was a proper thing for
a candidate for the United States ScnatOrShp
TO do? Mr. COrbin wanted the votes of these
men; he advanced the money for Their pay,
which they never would have got from the
State This is not legal bribery, but it was an
eficctual way of putting the members of this
Legislature under a considerable obligation.
M Corbin seems to have made one explana-
ton too many.
Cyrus II. Mccormick has won a suit against
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, which will be of
considerable interest to travellers. The ground
of the suit was, in brief, that after Mr.
McComick's baggage had been placed on a
tram at Philadelphia, and his demand for its
return had been refused on the ground that its
removal would prevent the starting of the train
at the proper time, the baggage was carried
TO Chicago, stored, and destroyed by fire. Mr..
Mccormick RECEIVERS its value, with interest
in all more than $15,000-the Court holding
that the road, having taken his baggage with
out his consent was responsible for it.
The decision seems eminently just, and
NAV afford the travelling public something
of that protection against the baggage-carriers
and baggage -smashers of which it is often in
need. They made a mistake when they Sc
lected "reaper Mccormick" as their victim.
He Is a man who means to deal fairly by
Others and to spend his last cent rather than
have others deal unfairly by him.
1t is the bright side of the savings bank
trustees of which the public gets glimpse in
an Albany dispatch this morning. Trustees
are so often unfaithful to their trusts and
so many have lately been put in the
pillOry, that the average man holding
such a position is in danger of going about
with the modest look on his face which
we have seen on the cOuntenances of really
very estimable men. who were almost ashamed
to confess that they were members OF the Leg
islature. But, on the other hand thirteen trus-
tees of the Oriental Savings Bank to take the
instance now presented, sacrificed more
than $4,000 in the attempt to carry the
bank through to better times, Mr. Robert |
Hoe leading the list with $4,000. There are
more striking examples than these, however, |
of public spirit on the part of savings bank |
trustees in making up deficiencies etc. Some
have been given very recently i'll tins city, |
and are enough in themselves to revive any |
waning faith in human nature. What makes |
such actions all the more meIitOrious is that |
they cannot be made known, unless, as in |
this case, the bank afterward dssOlves Their |
object is to save the institution in question: |
and one indispensable condition of success is |