New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-17

all officers when they become sixty-two years
old. This may hurt their feelings since IL wiz
affect the pockets of some OF the olhcers' pu'
it will save them the confession OF supefan-
nuation, and afford opportunity to their friehas
for compliment in assuring them that they no
not begin to look their age.
II is given out that n bill will shortly be In
troduced in the Legislature providing Tor 'he
erection of q new residence for the Governor
The present Executive Mansion, which was
purchased by the State five years ago, IS con-
cededly not what it ought to be. Governor
Cornell was seriously i'll the summer after ne
came into office. and in the opinion OF seVefai
doctors malarial poison furnished by the man
sion was what brought him down. But even
If the mansion did not possess this fatal de-
fect-and it has lately been overhauled with
view of curing tit is objected to on the
ground that it is situated in a comparatively
unsightly section of Albany. The two sites
for the new mansion that are most talked OF
lust now are the lot on which the State Hall
now stands (diagonally across from the old
Capito), and point several squares further
west on the high ground near or in Washing
ton Park.
Extract from the records of tie National De-
batting Club: "The member from Mississippi
"felt it his imperative duty to demand Of the
" honorable Speaker whether Ire had used the
"word 'reprimand' in its parliamentary sense.
The Speaker had no hesitation III saying that
"he had not-that he had used the word in its
Pickwickian sense. (Hear, Hear) lie was
"bound to acknowledge that, personally, he
| Il .n,s1 and DGtn
" for the hon. gentleman, He had merely threat
"ened to 'reprmand him ina Pickwlcluan point
"of view. The member from Mississippi felt
| "much gratifed by the fair, candid and full
explanation of his hon. friend. He begged 1t
"to be at once understood that hrs own pre-
"viOus observations had been m"''S Intended
"to bear Pickwickian construction Nheers.)
"At this point the debate termll"''' having
CARVED at such highly satisfactory and in
"tellgble point"
In contrast with the management of many
wrecked financial institutions after the assets
have fallen into the hands of receivers, is that
of the broken Sixpenny Savings Bank, which
went to ruin in 1873, and whose receiver
yesterday began to pay final dividend
to depositors, making $3.50 per cent which
Lucy nave ItCtlNtu. iHc iUtho VI 'NpNH'O
in winding up the bank do not ap-
pear, but it is not likely that they
will prove to have been outrageous. The
honesty of the receiver, the large per
cent paid and the short time since the failure
are against any such unpleasant supposition
1t appears that $4,000 in dividends has not
been called for, which, under the law, i'll the
end will probably find its way into the State
Treasury. 1t seems as if it would be nearer
doing justice if this sum could be distributed
among those depOsitOrs who have cared
enough for their interests to ask for what was
due them. 1t is a comment on the question
of very small deposits that many persons were
urged to place in the bank sums as low as
cents. To take account Of these cost twice as
much as the deposits themselves.
The Navy Department will probably he I'M
willing to rest many days under the suspicion
Of having sent out its officers and men to high
ATTITUDES in an unseaworthy vessel. Engineer
Melvile's letters to his wife, written before the
Jeanette entered the ice and published this
week for the first time, vaguely expressed his
conviction that the vessel would never do for
such a voyage and would never return. Some
" of us may weather it, he wrote, but am
sure the Jeanette will never come back She
"will never stand the ice" In this respect he
shared the apprehensions of Lieutenant De
Long himself, who admitted that the vessel
might not return, although he was confident
the crew would escape. Both men faced the
contingency of wintering in the open pack, and
understood how perilous was the undertaking
in which they were engaged. We do not be-
leve that either of them thought that the
vessel was unseaworthy. The Jeanette had
made several voyages in the Far North before
Mr. Bennett purchased her, and there is every
reason to believe that she was materially
strengthened at San Francisco and admirably
adapted for the dangerous service that was
before her. An unseaworthy ship would not
have resisted for twenty-One months the grind
ing pressure of the ice.