New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-07

clear for Mr.. Hubbell. If he has been mis-
Judged or misunderstood or otherwise MAJ
treated by his countrymen, now is his chance 10
make that fact appear.
II would seem that dignity is not one OF the
things that hedge the Finance Committee Vi
the Senate of the State of New-lork. tester
day that body was engaged In this city III IN
yesticating the affairs of the Emigration Com
mission. What was done at the meeting Is toiu
in another column Two of the witnesses that
were called engaged in vulgar quarrel, hurl-
ING Mt each Others heads such terms as "cow-
ard @liar," and dirty blackguard." 1t does
not appear to have occurred to any honorable
Senator present that such conduct on the part OF
witnesses was an insult to the committee that
ought to have been sumnarily resented ana
nut an end to. The committee Will resume
the investigation this afternoon. Let us nope
that it will explain to the hot headed gentlemen
who disgraced themselves yesterday that SEN
ate Committee room is neither prize rlng nor
bear garden.
For many years the affairs of the City OF Troy
have been in an unsatisfactory condition anu
have been the football of politicians Inc aiu
of not few Legislatures has been INVOKED Dut
what the Republicans did for Troy when they
were in the majority was promptly undone
when the Democrats were In the ascendant ana
vice versa. Of late the city has seemed to DC en-
gagged In endeavoring to tie Itself into haio
and intricate knot, and at one time the exercise
was rendered additionally exciting by the rumor
that troops were to be called upon to assist.
The latest news is that the city is quiet but tha1
the old policemen are barricaded in the sta
tion-houses, while the opposing squads are hoiu-
ing their own. At present it is clear case OF
the immoyable trying conclusions with the ir-
resstible The courts will be called upon to
determine which side is to give way 1t would
be well for Troy as for good many other cities
that might be named if she would try to get
along with considerable less politics to the
square inch.
A great majority Of the astron omers, profess
sional and amateur, who watched the transit Oh
Venus yesterday were only partially rewarueu
for their curiosity. The planet. as If In lmlta-
ton of the goddess whose name she bears, was
coy, elusive and coQuettish to most OF those
who paid court to her. She showed her face
at intervals and then retreated behind the
cloud, Just as the belle of the season after be-
slowing a killing glance upon her admirers
retreats behind her fan. The American OBJ
servatOns on the whole we're satisfactory, and
large number of photographs were taken. Some
of the German and English astronomers Jared 30
badly that it would not be strange If they
smashed their telescopes and sought less I'M
certain and tantalizing scientific field. Several
of the parties who were bent upon watching
the transit and who we're stationed at what
were considered to be favorable points OF OBJ
servaton, have not yet reported The news
thus far received warrants the hope that the
great problem which lent special interest and
importance to the transit-the measuring OF the
parallax of Venus-will, as a result OF yester-
DAYS many observations, be nearer its solution
than it ever was before.