New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-16
details can be safely left to the committee into wnoSe
charge the matter would be given.

charge the matter would De glVen'
Tho anticinations of the admirers of the late
Thomas Carlyle will be agreeaby excited by the
information that he hos left behind him ample
materials for Memoirs These are committed 10 tne
hands of Mr. Froude, who will confer great favor
mon the reading public of England and America II
he will exercise the editorial functions WIN ak
nossible moderation There may be much. particu-
larly IN the great mass Of correspondence winch ~
would be wise at least prudent not 10 prln'' uuS
we hope that whatever IS printed VIII not DC earDeu
or absurdly trimmed and fashioned out OF us orgnai
nronort,ons. The responsibility of the work Wnlcn
Mr. Froude has undertaken IS great, nor arc niS
precisely the hands to which we might nave "isneu
the task to be committedj but 1t Wouid appear
hardly possible for him to give US dull DOCK, sco
It will contain letters from jeffrey, Uoetne' STUART
MIL Dickens, Thackeray, Leigh HuhU' oUeIi'ns,
Emerson and Won Ense. We can hardly walt
natientlv for this feast Of good things Then too'
there will be much original matter from the
hand of Carlyle himself, including MS
journals. unfinished MSS, "reminiscences etc.
etc One does not fear any melancholy
axrosnre of personal weakness from the puDlcatIoh
of sucb relics; for the great writer has never naue
any pretension of starched propricty, nor mas ITO
ever said or written in corner tnat WHICH "0
would be unwilling for all the world to rcad' Inele
has been many a great man, OF man "holh 'no
rld - ,us,dored to be great, the writing OF whose
biography in a spirit of simple veraclty woulu nave
made havoc of his fame. For this reason sometimes IL
has been written falsely, or 1T has not Decn "r'en
- oil vbore are those astonishing Memoirs OF
Talleyrand, from his own pen, for winch We na'o
bosn waiting 40 long. and waiting in vainf How
long did we wait for Life OF Napoleon whose
nages should be free from The glamour which Kills
D,,i vyhn If those
in the least OF what nature he was fears 10 see
rIaced in broad daylight the cOmpioest memory OF
Thomas Carlyl4f
Fnr want Of something else to find fault with, the
Democratic papers are complaining OF the arrange
ments tor military parade as feature OF inc ihau
culraion ceremonies The official part OF this palaue
IL to consist 0l u few companies OF regulars drawn
from tine garrsons of neignbounG forts. All told
this force will not number as many men as Orion
march in a single New-York regiment on festival
occasions in this city. II it is proper to ceie'
brate HOLIDAYS in Ncw-YOrk with military
na,cantry. there can certainly be nothing
ont of the way in dgnifying so important q
National event as the beginning of new Admins
tration with A respectable display of United States
troops Mt the National Capital Tue volunteer o.
gan cations which are to take part in the procession
On of their own motion aud at heir own expense
They want to sec the sights Of Washington, witness
an interesting event and have good tlme anu
they have as much right 10 as any other citZes'
We are glad there will be 80 many OF tuem. DV
heir numbers and the wide range OF country
fro,n which they will come. they will show
the strength of the National sentiment ana the
general 600 feeling entertained by the people to-
ward the now President. Let them polish their
guns and brush up their uniforms and pay no atten-
tion TO the earnings of the Democratic press.
Itls gratifying to learn from the statements OF
Controller Wadsworth that the new taxes on cor
pcratious are working well and are bringing to the
; tate treasury a nue. OF $4,000 Per day.
similar system OF taxation has long been in opera
ton IN Pennsylvania with results 81 satisfactory
that ~ state lew whatever now made up real
estate IL may not be desirable to copy the Penn
-y.y"nia tax system to the extent OF e1empthg real
estate from contributing To the support of the State
Guyeru,uent but the success OF the corporation tax
may enable the LEGISLATURE TO simplify the tax system
and to exclude from It's range the kinds OF personal
property which clute the assessors search ana are
only found by inquItOrial process when found az ALL
There ~ ample tor further Improvements III the
cxlHIng system. and sucn improvements should
doubtless be in the direction OF limiting the appNca-
ton of the tax laws to property that cannot hide or
run away.
Tie bill pending in Congress to reorGanize tho
Marine Hospital Service app ars 10 be wise meas
urr in the man. II IL open 10 two criticisms how
ever Ia the selection of a Chief the President
should not br limited 10 the surgeons of the corps
The otlc IL an administrative rather than profess
sonal on and il better man to fill it can De found
on side tnc corps than any of It's memoirs the PreSl-
dent should be able TO appoint him. The Medical
Purycyor should be-. rs at present, skllf"l phar
u,nrputSt ;tud chemist AMI not neCes> arlly sur
geon IA the bill provides. Doctors are not always
the best in !go of the purity aud strength OF meIi-
cInes. 1t requires some SPECIAL training to make
a nan a good judge Of drugs and hospital stores
The mp jriaaCe of the Marine Hospital Service IL
shown by the fact that DUNG the year 1850 the
number of sick and disabled -"amen furnished relief
WV - 1 SNn--an Incrn.sn OF 4 .OD2 over 1870.