New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-10

that tho ex-vice-P Presidents complaint that p.
TRIBUNE "basely' misepresented him by Tia Oh,
ously accidental omission Of single word in o,.'.
it's repeated publications of his South Bend a..
is preposterous twaddle. The fatal diseaas "a
which Mr. COifax Is stricken is not typopranh,..,
mistake and, at any rate, tho omission had no ~
ing on the main charge. Nobody has accused ~
of saving that Cakes Ames never offered him a
stock The original accusation was that be t<or
the stock and took the dividends and then eyas,v,
denied botl and deceived the people That A..
been proved; but, in the light Of the =.
worse facts about Nesbitt, which Mr.. Cof.-
himself brought out, and the uglier matt.
which he adds every time he opens his mouth. th,,
has come to be almost overlooked. We have A..
the heart to add one word, save that the Presd.,.
has now given to Schuyler COlfax, retiring frm.
public life exactly the same sort of letter he y.
under similar circumstances. to Thomas Murphy.
An English critic thinks he il justfed-yes. re.,.
justIfied-in saying that America is beginning !.
have q characteristic literature Of her own. tn
apostles of this very desirable thing are aecordin.
to this wise person, Walt Whitman. Mark Twain
JOAQUIN Miller, and Bret Harte. Ii is 10 Walt Viii,
man. he SAYS that the more discerning among us Ar.
especially looking for something great ard il th.
something does MT come then thero'll be an end a
arguing what a man may do from what he b.
already done. As for Mr.. Miller. he thinks that bin
publishing his poems first in England WA a mia
take, AZ was also the ap0stroDhe at Niagara And
when he says, the history of American litea
ture comes to be written, the name of Samuel Lane
horne Clemens will be mentioned among its found
ers" For which let Mark Twain be thankful. Bird
Harte gets the highest sort of praise for " broad
humanitarianism " and fnish," and all that kind
of thing Our magazines he pronOunces more than
respectable. but our journalism-alas our journal
ism is, in his eyes, low; that is. with few e.
ceptions For that we thank him profoundly And
80 we have the modern English opinion of modem
American literature.
Mr.. James w. Hale lusty young gentleman Of n
years of age came into THE TRIBUNE Office last Set
urday to set his thousand the contribution Of
a printer who, for trihe of 50 years, had not
set a single type but wished now to unto in thn
way in raising the fund for the printers type metal
monument to Mr.. Greeley in Greenwood. The fol-
lowing is what he set, and exactly as he set it:
About the year 1914. / was apprentice in the
printing Office of Samuel L. Armstrong, in the town
Of Boston My duty, as printers devil. was TO mako
the fires sweep out the office lug water up and down
stairs read proof go after wEnglagd rum, for old
oliver the bressiflan and numerous other chores.
AT the governors hOuSe,--welI, we had no boys TO
give 'em a shine" no C0chituate water, ana plenty
of wood to split, with such other odd jobs as only Q
yankee girl could think of.
MANY evenings / had to go over to Charestown, TO
carry proOf-sheets TO VIM. u. Eyarts' father This
was only for recreation then learnt To set ypea
little. That was 50 years ago, and from that tina
until to-day have never set up stlck-fulll oil type
JAS. w. HALE,
Public Notary, 90 Wall ST.