The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-04-21
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NEW YORK, April ID A small show
ofinrerest in the whereabouts of the
Iat. r. Stewards body is rcvivcd by
the completion Of the crypt INTENDED
70 contain his remains in the ma@nifi
cant cathedral erected by his widow at
Garden City. Long Island A cathe
draL parochiai schools tor boys and
iris and several handsome buildings
f,r diocesan charities are amsng the
offs which Mrs. Stewart makes 10 the
Iinecse of Long Island as II memorial
rf her husband, She belle. Is III 1t bis
remains are there, but not 4 nam ON
re puiIcc md detective force of this
city believes it. Judge iIilt"l refused
ia pas ont u penny Tor the bones of
-. utucfactor, and So they are left to
ref in "a hole known only to the men
,,h, violated his tomb. Mrs. Stewart
would willingly have treated with the
robbers 1T once; hut Judge Hilton
took thc matter IN hand, and TO the
outside world he refuses to max" any
communication wi lever The police,
however. unanimously assert TIA 1t the
bsdv has never htcn recovered, and d
.Hrerstitious world speaks OF it As i
iuloment upon tar man who IN lis
nfrtluc WAS ucvsr Known to stand he
tween the the puor man ana the grave.
notice III Il Philadelphia paper a
hight, imaginative article III relation
TO some duelling pistols and the La
m~ar-Coukling imbroglio. ConklIng
sud ms friends always have u great
deal 10 say about fighting, but they
never get within a miic of the battle
held. Il is like Conkling's patriotism.
In the first year of the war ConkIing
made a great fuss about going to the
front. aud SAID that nothing could
peas. him better than to 60 out as a
soldier. but that he felt he could fight
his cuuntry's battles better in the
House of Representatives. Sympathi-
zinc With his feelings his Utica con
s,:tuents in 1862 voted to leave him
at home, and sent the late Senator
Francis Herman to Congress in his
place. From March, 1868, to 1868 Mr..
t'onk.ing practised law and politics OF
Utica. 1t was the darkest period of
the war, aud every mans help was
needed. l. MS the time of the riots
in New York, OF Gettysburg, of the
Wilderness lud the prolonged agony
in front oi Petersburg and Richmond
but Mr.. Crnklng dli not offer to make
any sacrifice ter his country, though
his brother-in-law, Rutger b. Miller,
made q speech in Utica At the time,
saying he would gladly send his broth
er-in-Iaw to war. Even sarcasm could
not move tins self admIring patriot.
TO risk the limbs he cher.shes with
such ptIde on a field where yi,lanous
saltpetre might render them unsafe.
On the contrary, IN order to secure his
election te Congress in the autumn OF
1864, he used The Provost Marshals
office With %unblushing audacity To swim
die the government out of its quota OF
mel and elect himself to office.
speak ~ the card, and happen to have
some very ugly atndavits where | can
put mg hand upon them in proof OF
this very unpatriotic fact. As soon as
the fighting was fairly over-in March
IS65-Mr. Conkhng made his appear
auce again at Washington, armed to
the teeth with yindlctise wrath against
the South. When 1.-The boys came
marching home, and the enemy dis
appeare1., Conkling was ready for his
campaign, and he has been boiling
over with fight-that is, with fighting
words, ever slGce. His battle of wrath
ought to he pricked. 1t is only a puck
CT of va~iuelorying. In the flies of the
Provost Marshal's office at Washing
ton there are said to he some very ugly
matters of record which Democratic
Senator's if allowed access TO them
might probe with advantage. | will
here State a fact which has never been
put in print. but which came near en-
ding the political existence of Roscoe
ConkIing. 1t was in 1864 at the time
the bounty fraud trouble was at it,
height in this city, and General Lew
Baker, Provost Marshal here, had his
foums at the Astor House, that he ap
piled for and held in his possession a
variant for the arrest of eX-Con9rcss
man Roscoe Conklin9 on very serious
charges in connection with the bounty
fruuus. He had a stormy scene with
Baker at the AStor House, and begged
for and found mercv-it has been said.
through the interceSsion of Governor
Seymour, his brother III law. The
matter was kept from all tut one news
paper man in this city and was kept
out OF print. At the time Of Mr..
Conkllng's trouble with Senator Cor
don. OF Georgia, he told me personally
that his life had been threatened, and
that Il gentleman called upon HIM to
say that Senator Lamar was proving
around with a pair of pistols in his
pockets which be 1.-THE reliable infor
mant)had seen him load up TO the muZ-
zle, breathing u in the meantime ter
ribIe threats against the favorite son
of New York, Conkling told me thi
with great gustO, and sneered with his
imperial nose, as he expressed the
opinion that the Southern DULLES Of
the Senate" did not dare attack him.
and that they were towards and brag
CARTS. He said it in a self adniring
way that convinced me the man was an
srrant coward himself. These same
poetic pistol which Conkling in a burst
of confidence told me had reposed in
the bloodthIr.ty pockets of Lamar have
now figured once more IN the pockets
Of divers friends of Lamar who
are watching around the corner of the
Senate committee rooms for a chance
to assassinate ConkiIng. All. how the
Philadelphia editor has been taken in
by the meIlifiuous Conkling, who de-
lights in nothing more than in taking
his friends to his and in mystic
uOus whispers, as if the walls had ears,
picturing to them the perils through
which he is passing for his lear coun
try's sake. Conkling has mad moth
ing 10y his bIodless battles with the