New-York tribune., 1875-05-12


q man whose official positions have made
public scandal. And it Is no who has
managed tho Patent Office, tho Land
Office, the Pension Bureau. the Indian De-
partmcnt, and everything else he has touched
in such manner that to mention either or any
of them in tho hearing of an intelligent
American citizen sends thumb and finger to tho
nose invol,ntarily-it is no who is even now
under cloud which rises above suspicion and
eliminates in proof, and who holds bis Office
only because his chief stands by his fricnds,"-
it is this man who writes to the Presi-
dent of tho Board Of Indian Commissioners,
saying hc is dcsirous of appointing commits
sion from the members Of the Board "to in
"vestigato certain reports put in circulation by
ga Mr. Marsh relative to the Indian service at
"Rcd Cloud Agency"
"a Mr.. Marshr' And who is "a Mr. MarshY'
A modest scholar, who never packed caucus,
nor managed a convention; was never candl-
date for public Office, nor ever took any part in
politics whatever; who never by himself, his
friends nor relatives dcfrauded tho Govern
mcnt Of cent; who has devoted himself to
the pursuit of science with greater enthusiasm
than any other man in his department OF
learning anywhere, and who, by his discoveries,
has shed honor upon his country; man
who is widely known hero and in
Europe as an investigator and djscovcrer, who
unites high personal courage and manly char
actcr with an enthusiastic love Of science, and
haS achieved a reputation second to none IN
the world as specialist in his department, a
scholar so unsclish and sincere In his devo-
ton to his profession as to give-not the
money of tho nation, Mr.. DelanO, nor even
tho money Of the college with which he
is connected, hut his own funds, to tho pr-
s,lit Of his studies and tho collection OF cabl-
nets which should aid the future student in pale
0ntOlOgy. This is the man to whom Columbus
Delano applies the indefinite article. "a Mr..
Marsh" indeed Why, when Columbus
Dclano and al the tricks of his Department
are buried and forgotten, Professor Marsh will be
remembered as the enthusiastic scholar and the
brave, undanted hero who, in the Winter OF
1874, took his life in his hand, and
with a small party of men plunged into a
country of hostile and savage Indians,
and rescued to science the wonderful cOllcc-
ton of fossil deposits and organic remains
which will long be the pride of the Peabody
Museum of Yale College. And it is possible
that Mr.. Columbus Delano's only hold upon
history will pc in connection with tho fact
that the condition anteccdent upon the per-
mission granted Prof. Marsh By the hostile
Indians to gather up those organic remains
was bis promise to convey TO the Great Father
their complaints Of the Outrages and swindles
which Mr.. Columbus Delano's agents prac-
ticed upon them.
"Thc reports put in circulation by a M
"Marsh!" The Secretary know, as every
body else who reads the newspapers knows,
that Professor Marsh had no interest in SER
"culating reports of this Lind. and that
the modest part he took i'll bringing the
abuses of Mr. Delano's department. to the at
tenton of the President was due entirely to
the fact that Red Cloud made him promise
to communicate just what he did to tie
President before the Indian chief would
give him permission to go down into
tho Bad Lands for the fossils hc
sought He made the promise, and without
any fuss or furry lie fulfilled it. For this Mr..
Columbus Dclano, Cabinet officer under
charges, and only kept IN Office because the
charges have been made public. speaks airily of
"reports put in circulation by Mr.. Marsh"
dozen, twenty or fifty years hence how
these two names will lock. "The Honorable
"Collunbus Dclano." a Mr.. MarSh!'