The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-07

graph, and we call for the release of Mr..
OKelly without delay
Our Flag In the Mcditerra mean.
We are sorry that Captain Bryson, of the
Brooklyn, thought fit to use offensive terms
in denying two or three correspondents of the
newspapers the privilege of being present on
his ship when he received the President of the
Spanish Republic in the harbor Of Barcelona.
No one will venture toauestion the full author
ity of a man in his position to admit to the
deck of his ship, or to exclude therefrom, any
person he chooses, however any one may
doubt the taste of such exclusion when it is
merely the expression of an arbitrary whim;
but an officer of the navy may be even arbi-
that he might be wanting in good manners or
in the ordinary courtesies and civilities of life
to his countrymen whom he may meet beyond
the seas Our correspondents have, we believe,
never before been denied fair treatment on
such occasions, and are accustomed to cour-
tesy at the hands of Captain Bryson's SUI
periors. One of them was warmly welcomed
to the deck of the flagship by the gallant old
Admiral himself on the occasion of his re-
ceiving the Prince and Princess of Wales-a
reception quite equal in dignity to that of the
reception Of Sefior Figueras by Captain Bry-
son. But then the old Admirals head is not
turned by trifes, and we believe there are
more heads in the feet of good American
temper, not carried away by these little vani-
ties of foreign festivity so that their owners
forget themselves altogether; but Captain
Bryson's head is apparently not of that kind.
The Terrible Tale OF the Sea.
The stories of the escaped passengers of the
wrecked steamer Atlantic, which we print this
morning, add another chapter to the heartrend-
ing tale Of the disaster. In the history of ship
wrecks there is nothing more tragic than has
been the HERALD's news during the last few
days. The stories of the sea, though often
terrible, have long had pathetic and an al
most romantic fascination. This story, too, as
it was traced in its lighter as we'll as its darker
shades by our correspondents, had all the
fascination which belongs to subject so hor-
rifying in every outline. great ship wrecked
before its unlucky passengers could rise from
their berths All the women without excep-
ton lost Husband and wife refusing to be
separated and dying in each others arms
The bodies of the dead swept ashore by the
unfeeling sea and robbed by still more unfeel-
ing men! 1t is all dark and dreadful except in
the beautiful examples of love and devotion
which show that there is much that is
noble in human nature, as well as much that
is ignoble All this the HERALD has told, and
told it well. From the beginning to the end
this journal has kept the public better in
formed in regard to the developments of the
awful story than any other newspaper could
hope to do. Indeed, most of our contempora-
ries have been obliged to avail themselves of
HERALD enterprise in order to print the news
at all-some by copying it after it had
appeared in the HERALD and others by taking
it under more favorable conditions, at 1.-THE
of its cost. But, great as is this triumph in its
journalistic aspects it is in all other respects
sad and solemn requiem over men and wo-
men who were lost in consequence of blunders
which were worse than crimes. The arrival
Of the stately ship in port, with oil on board
alive and well, would have obvated the recital
of the particulars of this catastrophe;
for though it is highly honorable in
public journal to paint great calamity in
more vivid colors than can be done by any Of
its contemporaries, a thousand hearts in every
land are happier when there is no such picture
to be painted.
The New ''lRREPREssBLE CONFLICT The
Chicago Times styles the present agitation
among the farmers in the West in regard to
the railroad monopolies an 'irrepressible con-
flict." 1t has already been characterized as q
war against the slavery of monopolies" How
political history repeats itself! Will the new
'sirrepressble conflict the war now waging