New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-11-13

| tutional Convention Of '66 began Mr.. Townsend was
made member as was also Mr.. Greeley The latter ap
peared in the convention at its opening full OF honest
zeal and in the that il was 10 do prompt
excellent work. But 1t dawdlcd aud, tired out, after
weeks OF waiting, Mr. Greeley left the convention white
| Mr. Townsend making an inerininaDle speech. A
few months after Mr. Greeley was IN Albany ON other
business and walked into the convention u happened
that Mr.. Townsend again had the 1oor " What y said
the great editor, in his peculiar treble hash taet man
got through talking yeti"
When Disraeli's eulOgium on Wellington,
including his essay the character Of general was
shown to NJ THEIRS that eminent statesman at once pro-
tested that il must be hiss "Ca dot erc dc moi" he
claimed though it afterward turned out To be Armand
Carols Lord BeacOnsfeld Is the author OF innumerabs
phrases which have made their mark. The writer how.
ever of a very interesting article in recent number OF
Irdscy's Mdgd-e has shown that MI Dsrael sometimes
renait be1 like MOliere, wherever he CHANGED TO
nnd H. Wh,n Mr. Dsraeii called our street cab the
g0ndola OF LoTlon." he borrowed the PHRASE from
Friends OF Bohemia" Wild brilliant novel ~ the late
Edward Witty. MendessoBn, too had described Chera
bni as looking like an extinct volcano long before Mr.
DisraelI discovered IN the tOuse oI IOn.hohS a"hOa
row Of " extinct volcanoes
Mrs. HAYES is a handsome, refined, and
kindly matron, dark eyed and black haired Her homo
she is said to make coy and comfortable
rather than pretentous There is an amusing story told
OF her visit to her husbands camp in 1868 In one OF
the comuanes OF his regiment was goodnatured' I'M
sophisticated soldier named Parker. who before Mrs
Haycss arrival was known, lamen,ng to his com
rades the fact that there nobody IN camp to mend
and put pockets in his ragged blouse One OF them re-
piled: Why don't you take it to the woman who does
the sewing for the regiment and get her to nx itp
" Didn't know there was such woman; where Is sheF
asked Parker "Shc's up in the co0nels tent" said his
cOmrade and If You'll take your blouse up there she'll
mend in Tor Won That's what she's here for" Parker
nnce started for the cOlonels tent blouse in hand Col
Hayes politely returned bis salute, invited nm IN and
injured what he wanted lie replied that lie wanted
his blouse mended and Pc kcs put IN II, and that ho
understood there was woman there 20 90 sewing Tor
the regiment. With merry Twinkle III Ms eyes, tIe
colonel called 10 Mrs Hay and asked her II she could
do the work She promptly TOOK H. ana tohi Parker 10
call Tor il the after noGu. Parker returned 10 MS com
rades and told them how t- colonel received him, and
now kindly the woman dertook the work, ana they
could hardly tell whelc the joke Was Ana wheh later
in the day, Parkc, appeared VITA ms blouse neatly
mendcd and two ample pockets Ia H. ne was inc nero OF
his company.
Edmond About, writing of Erclmann-
Chatrian says that Emile Erckmann was born fourand
y years ago in the little Lorraine town OF Phalsnourg
His father a small bookseller, who combined the selling
OF few groceries with his bookselng, was neither
rich nor poor. He sent his son to the college, ana made
him study law. Chlirian like Ercklnann, Is native
of Lorraine. The collaboration Of Ercknann Is gentE
honme by the same title NM. Granier dc Cassagnac
father and SON. He q descended from family OF glass
blowers aud himself blew glass in his youth But that
trade not being his liking. he preferred to Renter as
niatte dttdeS the little college OF Phasbours, where lie
had been educated and there formed his friendship with
Erckmann. Their beginnings IN literature were faf
from successful and the friends might have died OF
starvation had nor tho had some little means OF ms
own and the other humble occupation. Clatrlan
earned 300 francs in the office OF the Chomln lie Fer
Do FEs!. Now they almost rich The Jour
nails compete for tho privilege or printing their
storics and IIcze an excellent and honest pub
fisher srs them by tho hundred thousand However,
Ch,tran has never left the railway, ana mas risen 70
very honorable post he il cdiSster deS hreS ara bis
..ary must DO some ten twelve thousand francs
wear. lie married and has three children He has a
pretty house ~ Rancy in the bde ana he possesses
great influence In his ntighborhOOd Efcknhhn' NhOls
not married, is an exile, without near relations lie
is the best liver ia the world; no adOres the
good wine OF Alsace, sauerkraut, ham, Inc cray
fsh Of the Zorn, tho beer OF S'rsbourg,
and ne gladly loses himself I'm the clouds that
Ii,o from his pipe with his cheeks little hollow lis
fat cn his long mu,tache and his bourgeois country
dress lie looks ike colonel on half pay. The two
friends see another rarely, whether AT Par OF
in the YO,gcs. When they do meet they elaborate To-
,etler the scheme Of "a work Then Erckmann writes
H. Chatran corrccts it, and sometimes puts II into the
ire 4 certain story conceived ia an anllceilca spirit
aud intended tho Mime STEELE Erckmaun Is at this
moment writing for the third time.
PANAMA, Nov. 2-Mr. Brassey, the English
capitalist and his family have arrived at Buenos Ayr'
on the yacht Sunbeam. He is expected 10 y6It Calao
Peru.