New-York tribune., 1878-11-20

a friendly correspondent ID lnc country
has been searching for the remains OF the
late \. T.. Stewart with the ald of guide
nobody else has thought of employing. 1t
was high time to do something fresh and
original. "Clcws '-and there is an awful
significance in the word 4" clew have been fol-
lowed by entcrprising metropolitan reporters all
the way from ST. Marks Church to Wcchawken;
mysterious trunks and boxes have been traced
to remote places, and midnight hacks have
been pursued over lonely country roads. One
Journal has had exclusive intelligence of the
opcratiDns of an enormous bloodhound about
four feet high, whose eyes flash fire when
he strikes n "scent" and who rises aloft at
intervals on bis fearful hind legs, and roars
like a cataract. This eminent beast got
sniff at A. Il. Stewart about week ago, and
Immediately started from the graveyard for
the wilds of New-Jcrscy, where he is now
spreading terror among the farmers little boys
and girls and keeping the police and the
reporters In an agony of expectation. Five
highly respectable "ghouls" have already
been run to earth. and each of them has been
shadowed" day and night by an invisible
detective 1--WE believe this is the cOnsecrated
phraseology), with hand uplifted ready to
grasp
on the signal TO "striker being flashed
from headquarters Such at any rate
was the interesting situation fOrty-cight hours
ago. But unfortunately two of the ghouls
"succccded in bribing the detectives" to take
down their upifted hands, and then ran away.
This caused "a hitch III the promised per-
formancc yet il did not interrupt the
hunt. The stolen bones have been
found score of times. They are buried in
wood. They are buried in a cOrn-feld. They
are buried in "A cellar. They are buried in
cemetery. They are buried i'll the crypt at
Garden City. They are put away under
thousand tons of granite in n burglar-pr0of
coffin. They have been restored to the
desecrated family tomb. They have never
been stolen. Every morning we have
a new and blOod-curdling narrative of pursuit
and capture. Every afternoon the whole
work has to be done over again. Every night
there is "ollicIal information on the highest
"possibc authority" that the hunt has been
successful and yet il never succeeds.
1t is time, we say. for new departure; and
our friend in the country deserves great
praise for his ingenious idea. Instead
of consulting the columns of The Da;iy
Stop Pail, he has conSultcd-Planchette
From this accomplished and accommodating
little instrument he has learned where the
body of A. r. Stewart is at this moment, and
who put it there. Beyond the fact that man
named Smith had share in stealing 1t, and
that it is concealed about certain premises
in Brooklyn, We decline to make public
any of the important "clews" furnished
by Plauchete, lest we interfere with
the operations Of the able dctectlves-profes-
sional and amateur-wh0 are now working up
the case, and following up clews, and pursuing
trails, and tracing threads, and getting
"stecrs," and running down tracks, and closing
in on footprints, and shadowing suspected
persons. and doing all the other secret
and high-toned things which detectives
always do when they wish to find
anything. We take it for granted that
Captain Byrnes, instead of vcnturing another
cold ride into the interior of New-Jerscy, will
Immediately buy a Planchctte, ana inquire
the address of Smith and the number of the
house in Brooklyn. Then he will supply him
self with spade and pair of hand-cuils
and the great hunt will be at an end.
Let us leave the Captain, and Planchctte,
and the dog, and the reporters of The Daily
Stop Pail and The Morning Scredmey, to
converge" ut their own sweet will on the
"trails" which are leading them irrcsist-
IDLY to the solution of the mystery. For
ourselves, we shall try to be content
with the humber but perhaps not less
useful function of telling the plain truth
about the case, and postpOning the an
nouncement of startling discoveries until they
are really made. We do not know that the
premature publicity" given so many times
since Thursday to intelligence of the recoy-
cry of the remains and the arrest of the
thieves has done amy appreciable mischief in
the way of defeating the ends OF justice"