New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-01

made in that way before the Senate was ire
sformpd" was commentary enough upon this
extraordinary method of transacting pubic
| business.
Centenarians usually find that their sole re-
ward for having lived hundred years IS tne
scepticism of mankind, who suspect them OF
beng youths of seventy-fve engaged IN 1rOnc-
some imposture But we have now an Official
centenar1an. He is tue oldest surviving ex-
| member. of the Assembly of New-IOrk, and
that body did him the honor yesterday to cele-
brate his birthday. No doubt it will please the
Hon. Levi Robbins, Of the Legislature OF 1917,
to be thus remembered.
Finley swore that he told the Democratic
q pa1tv in the State of New York" that Don
nelly would be seated, and nov coming down
to details, says that he told eX-Alderman
Tuomey, ex-Lieutenant Governor DOrsheimcr,
and ex-AIayOr Wickham. In other words, OK
Mayor Wckham, eX-Lieutenant-GOYem0r
Dorsheimer and exAlderman IuOmey, consu-
tute "the Democratic party in the State OF
"New-YOrll" There are three men whom this
statement will Ovcrwhelm with peculiar as
tonislnent, and they are ex-Lieutenant-Gov-
emor DOrsheimer, cx-Alderman TuOmey, and
ex-Mayor Wickham.
As the inquiry into the shooting of Dr. Steele
by Mr.. Sawyer the electrician, goes on 1t
brings ont many amusing incidents. Odd
people often drift together in city boarding.
houses and relieve the monotony of life for
the bOarders but existence in the same house
with both DR.. Steele and Mr.. Sawyer, while
their wives were hostile and their landlady
was ANYTHING but neutral, must have had al
| together too much of relief. The sensitive
head of the house who objected to the title of
" proprietress" and insisted that her boarders
were guests" is a cOmiCal figure in this farce,
which was almost tragedy.
West Point ideas of dignity have spread to
| the privates of the militia. Three of them were
| lately before the courts on charge of retain
| ing their uniforms after after having been dis
| charged from their regiment, and were released
upon agreeing to surrender them to the proper
| authorities. Yesterday they brought these
venerable garments into court, asked the
! Judge TO receive them, and objected to surren-
dering them to the proper officer OF the regi-
ment on the ground that this would "humil-
late" them. The extent to which the court
might be Inundated" by being made re-
ceptacle for cast-Of clothing, they did not stop
to consider, but the Judge succeeded in over
coming what he truthfully called their pig
"headed Obstinacy."
Senator Burnside discussed the West Point
controversy yesterday in manner which will
attract much attention, because he is graduate
from the Military Academy, and has long been
one of it's special friends in COngreSs.is remarks
were addressed particularly to the amendment
providing for the annual appointment by the
President of two colOrcd cadcts-at-arge, and
began with the unexpected declaration that he
| should vote for it, though at first inciuCd
| against it. General Burnside put the whole
| case into single sentence when he said that
it might be too soon after the war to expect all
"preiudces against the cOlOrCd race to have
died ont among the people, but an institution
@under the direct control of Congress should
"not be allowed to keep this feeling alive"
| Here is the injustice in the isolation of Whitta-
ker. The institution is National, supported by
the people for the people, and there is no liml-
tation of color in either case. White and black
alike nay the taxes for the support of the
Academy, and white and black must enjoy the
same privileges and benefits within its walls.
The Government cannot, ana would not,
| compel association among men who are not
congenial but it must, and will, insist that in
o National institution there shall be not only
legal equality but universal liberation.