New-York tribune., 1874-10-19

fruits and the lsothermal warmth of the kuro
Siwo. In fact, Mr.. Elliott is candid enough
to advise the Icelanders who think of coming,
to seek Puget Sound, instead OF Alaska where
they will simply "waste their lives" Perhaps
the discrepancy between this and previous
accounts arises from the circumstance that the
Special Agent is a student of natural history
and close observer, and is qualified by long
residence in the region to know what he Is
writing about
Secret sessions still continuing in the EpiscO-
pal Convention, there is little to be reported
of public interest. The need of secrecy IN
these meetings is likely to be called in ques-
ton, since the proceedings are really not
of a sort that need to be conceaied
Apropos to the main interest winch
attaches to this Convention, we furnish
to-day a complete statement OF the rltuaiistic
movement in this country, describing its oo'
;ects. character and history. This Will be
found of great value when the expected dis
cussion upon the subject takes place, as there
are many among both its foes and friends
whose knowledge respecting it hardly equals
their zeal.
Some of the materials for such a story OF
low life in a crowded metropolis as would
have delighted Dickens. are to be found IN
the sketch we give to-day of Bryant, the
dealer i'm postage stamps Keeping an lnslg-
nifcant stand in William-st., near Fulton, ana
bearing the usual indications of poverty, he
has carried on business in stamps and old
coins for many years. Some days ago we gave
an account of his arrest. The evidence was
that his business of buying stamps at less than
their face value was the means OF making
young thieves of Office boys. While he was
under arrest his apartments were robbed, and
he declares that $4,000 in gold, and other
property amounting to at least half as much
more. have been stolen. There is in this story
a very obvious moral about ill-gotten gains;
and some other reflections about the danger
of being robbed if on any cause or preteXt
one is arrested, and about the extreme rarity
of stolen money being recovered, will suggest
themselves.
Elsewhere appear two cards from Dr. Sears,
concerning The TRIBUNE's report of the pro-
ceedings of the Trustees for the Peabody
Educational Fund. The Doctor seems to have
made some brief verbal statements concern
ing the doings of the Board, and to have
furnished long report of his own doings as
Agent, which he wished THE TRIBUNE to put
In type and forward for simultaneous publi-
cation by the entire press of New-YOrk and
Boston. The TRIBUNE used the news about
the Boards meeting, but promptly returned
the long dOcument-nOt thinking the matter
worth the space in its crowded columns.
Thereupon the Doctor denounces the brief
account of the Trustees prOceedngs-a differ
ent matter altogether-which we did print-as
inaccurate" and "a gross violation OF a
"pledge of personal honor" and rushes hastily
before the public in defense of the cause OF
truth and honorable journalism" The Doctor
is a most excellent man, of high character
and pure motives; but we judge from the
tone of his explanations last night as well
from his second note, that he has probably
discovered by this time that in his excitement
at our declining to print his report he went
off at half cock.