New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-27

eouslv Indignant and somewhat mortified at the
fact that while the monitors Mantonomah and Ter
TOR (which are now here waiting TO receive the Mon
narch were lying for several days in Boston harbor,
hundreds of the citizens hocked to see them, ac-
cepted all the cvlties of their ofcers-and Capts'
Shufeldt and Ransom are among the most courteous
of men-and offered them no Inequalities at all in
return. For the credit of New-Engand, this city is
consequently more than ever anxious to be polite
The commanders Of the monitors have announced
that until the arrival Of the funeral fleet steam-tug
will pig at regular hours between the monitors and
the shore, so that all who wish to do so can go
aboard. The privilege is not likely to last very
long, for We have report to-day that the Monarch
has been signaled off Montauk. and as soon as the
storm of snow and rain which now RACES clears away
we may expect il to be sighted off this harbor. II 1t
arrives to-day it will lie off the coast until the storm
Is over.
/ have mentioned that Mr.. Peabody gave some
directions long ago about his funeral. When he
in America last year he felt that his end was at
hand and he should never geo his country again.
Just before he went back to England he called one
of his particular friends aside: s." said he, i
want to tell you something In confidence; have
taken nv passage for England and believe it will
be my last voyage ] shall go to Baltimore first and
do little more for them there then shall do
little more in London and that will be the end"
Mr. Peabody spoke of his departure with great deal
of feeling; and despite all that may be said, his
long residence abroad had not weakened his love for
his native land in the slightest degree.
He was of course very much annoyed during his
last visits by appeals to his purse as well as by I'M
pertinent intrusions upon his privacy To indiyid-
ua appeals for assistance he never listened All MS
letters were opened and read by his sister; and she
exercised her judgment about letting him see them,
or throwing them into the fire. Begging letters OF
any sort he never wished to read Even deserving
charitable institutions got nothing from him II they
asked for it. He gave only the mood took HIM,
and it may be safely said that all his benefactlons
were the spontaneous outgrowth of his own ideas OF
what the world needed, and what could be most
easily and efficiently put into practical operation.
lie was, in short. O philanthropist without sentl-
ment; man of tender heart and generous impulses
who believed that the highest duty of the rich was
not TO dole out small sums for the relief Of the
improyident, but to put the commonwealth
in the way of diminishing improvidence
by general education, and helping the poor to live in
decency and virtue. He had no near relatives who
needed his help None of the old Peabody stock re-
main about the place of his birth, and the family OF
that name in Salem in whose burial plot his body Is
to be temporarily laid, not only well to do IN the
world but are so dstantly connected with him that
they may almost be called relatives at all There
was no imaginable reason therefore why he should
not vigorously carry out his principle that while the
public had claims upon him. individuals had none.
1t will be part of his panegyric in time to come that
he took this plain sensible view of his duties that he
saw so clearly how he could make his money go
farthest
To show how impertinent people could be to him
sometimes, must tell you an incident of one OF his
"a. IL. attt r,a1pfa IA
Summer evening by an open parlor window. The
room within was lighted the street without was
dark so that while his form plainly recognizable
by anybody passing, he could not see what passed.
party of young men stopped in front of the house.
and began to call for Peabody "PeabodyP
George Peabody Supposing very naturally that
the townsmen wished to pay their respects and hear
a speech he came forward, when voice rose out of
the darkness: Say, Peabody! give us five thousand
dollars" Mr.. Peabody shut the window very sud
denly, and did not make a speech.
The good mans funeral will doubtless be an inn
posing pageant but its chief interest lies in the fact
that a genuine popular reverence has prompted it,
and the crowds which surround his bier will be actu-
ated by nobler impulse than curiosity. There is
impatience of course at the delay of the long-ex-
pected fleet but it will not interfere at least in this
city, with the heartfelt character of the demonstra-
TONS The fact is people generally believe that the
Monarch is making sort of trial trip of this voyage
She has never been on a long sea voyage before
Though she went with the Channel Fleet to the
Mediterranean and nobody knows what difficulties
a vessel of such a peculiar class may have expe-
rienced on long and stormy trip. Her choice for
this duty reminds of the stabe-keeper who
bought new horse. and having funeral to furnish
that day, put the animal to the hearse by way of
trying him. He banked. and pulled, and tugged at
the bit and wouldn't turn, and altogether the trial
was highly unsatisfactory hope the parallel will
not hold to the end. J.R g. II.