New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-10
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
urN AND THINGS Tie COUNTRY ROUND.
Tur PERSONAL Nor,s AYD NOTIONS OF BROAD
WAY LOuNGEn.

~. ~. ,o,d mo that he considered Robert Lincoln
tb. onv available Republican candidate now 'h'"Ko
sunpors i'm prosperity i've morning hhh 'Iro "'''i"''H
AZ, arors the Tribune there VIII make. II IA stated
500 900 this year Tie Times Is sim ch'FP1'hE
II tho mental strength Of it, editor ia less per'c
,,o a. WA and his marble palace In the Sohth PARK
sonds half finished the most elaborate euilot '"H'"
I'm this country. The Day Fcrs has Two ea''ohS NOR"
On, and evening and 90 900 circnlai on. me hiH-
Occon ia believed 10 be paving moderate prom j" inst
william r. Storey has been on" ot the rrm"rh"po Ho"
aper founders of this country decidedly the most posi-
osculne snrit Of the city press west Of the Al
Iocbonv Mountains In many respects law unto MN
I, no asked no avors any other code ana creaed
the telegraph news spirit In the west "n''e Ms 'o'
pents on individuals and parties were Ike ,noSo W
Iames King-of- william. whose murder III 'alioriH"
causcd the Vigilance Committee TO rise; originated III
stubborn purpose to live without the support OF any rec
oauized boss or tenet. or human condition Fe wasa
oI rrord unfriended Ajax dcfyng the lightnings "he
rcininr in their wires Absolute. unrelated scoTnhg
consistency fierce, proud, there yet seemed man. III
uncaught one at WORK within his witness IKE Samson
I'm his SAVAGE locks, Israelitish patriot III all ne u
He broke the Jewish laws but the PhnS'heS ne never
ceased 10 fight
sroorinc IN william Edgar Marshall, the most emi-
nent American cngraver, about MI seymour hhnehs
disnorapenept of line engraving he Shd 10 me; He's
I'm error when he says that the lines I" represent texture
etc arc merely mechanical III "dh'"h VI" INV w
man in engraving INFINITE kinds OF lines ana
-ho, tho otcber comes to make human face he must
also he an engrnver or he put no character ana
subetv into it, Mr. ndcns landscapes Dat ne etcheS ~
agreeaby are of the second or lower order OF ART lno
needle point Of the etcher can give them pretty NeS
multitude but he cannot create thinking face by that
system Of frisking II in.
MARSHALL above is among the best OF the remaining
portrait painters America but he will not paint po
traits He tells his would patrons that he has not the
time His ideal head Of Christ the most extraordinary
thing done here the earlier stage OF American art
undcr Aston and vonderyn and men of that class he
a. uniting uron great copper plate and intends to
nulsh II in England He paints, etches ana engraVeS
gith equal skill and is only forty-six years Old his
head OF Lincoln engraved from his own painting ho WINS
maid S25 900 for For the Longfclow just coming out
he received $4,000 lie Clear. who died TWO weeks ago.
was portrait painter could convey character but
NOT IN the ounty color and gaantry of Charles Elliott.
WI was almost most home painting some rich down
town merchant instead OF some Scared ana soul-har-
rowed victim of ambition or genius
1ieu,ouopt- Governor Campbell OF Missouri, said to me
last week. "The momentary exclamation against Gov
eor Crttcnden procuring the death OF Jesse james
has spent force. and the robbers finishing Is now iu
dorsed The politicians however never liked Governor
Crittendcn Ex-Governor Phelps, General Marmaduhc'
Judge Norton aud others candidates ii jesse james
had not been that day by the FordS nc would nave
killed Bob Ford the night and his contemplated
bank robbery was probably preeXt to get the boy on
There "a one murder by James of which have seen
M r,cpon made After the Glendale robbery one Bar
ham, who performed IN it, was pardoned ont OF the pen
entiary to convict another named OBrien' VINO Is SUN
in Rorba,n became restless and settled near wichita
Kansas II was announced some time before James
was killed that he had gone TO settle in Nebraska. On
be contrary he rode to Barhams shany called him to
l,I inn
Rarhan told her lawyer of the killing, have never seen
il publicly imputed TO James.
"Goyernor Campbell" said l, "wn Frank James be
convictedl :" lie shook his head: "lOu see 50 many
pcople are dead that could to his robberes If
Cmnniin.s one of the band, could be found he would
convict lanes but it il now pretty well known that
Icsso James killed him; wood IIite says he did
OBrien in the pententiary, but says he VIII not teS
ufy The Youngcrs might he brought from Minnesota TO
do it, acquisitions from other States may hchcNe the
Same end After an aged nclghbor Of the James family
was shot dead by Franz James suspicion that he was
NOT true silence fell all that nc ghborhood, where
unoucsiionaby there Sympathzers with these rob
bers but more that were terrorAed Ihe FORA Droth-
err, said Mr. Campbell in another place, Will probably
use themselves up dssipating IN the cities The bahd Is
DESTROYED for any future dcpredaons. The three coun-
ties they infested. Jackson Lafayette and Saline, nave
no equals in the United states in riches yet emigration
goes beyon them to similar but thinner soil in Kansas
Those three counties the year after tho war; all deNaS-
atod raised 81 900 900 bushels wheat; and in $50
produced 10 per cent Of the hemp in America The soil
is thirty feet thick, but sells for only SO an acre"
John Norton the theatrical manager Of st. Louis, is a
New-York City boy born here in the days when We had
mn American drama If it Indian. He told me a re
| mar,able thing last Monday Said he: John Wilkes
Booth was the only actor from the Maryland region who
was for year after the war began an int oerant
Union man lie went to school with Albau5h, now the
Baltimore manager AMI in Boston refused to speak
! to Alhaugh because he not sound on the war
issues" Mr. Norton said that the aged actor Common,
now about eichy-fve years Old in Philadelphia wanted
70 play leading parts and sustain Mary Anderson. Mr.
Norton gave Anderson her early her man
agcr and mas the of being the kndest manager In
fellow feeling poor members of the profession in the
| whole country.
DE- Charles Todd of St. Louis told me the following
interesting "Reminiscences: "Wcre you acquainted with
the late Dr John Franklin Grey" he asked physician Of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel Well. he died year moro
ago Being in his room one evening he and Mr. Lnde'
of ST Louis began to compare memories and Grey said
that in year 1885 he introduced to President An
drew Jackson in the Executive Mansion at Washington
the subject of slavery President Jackson said: 1t
great evil and great hypocrisy for republican people
to kocpup in favor OF abolishing it, but not on
the colonization plan. 1 think we ought to buy the
slaves a. IA Government and ourselves the
auences of an agitation that is already rising am in
favor OF paying them, that nobody will have 1t TO
his interest in favor OF slavery Then would col
onize them IN California. We can buy California for a
small sum of money and make 1t the preparatory school
of the African race Has this been published
No." answered DR. TODD 81 wrote 1t IN II memoir OF
General Jackson and gave it TO the Missouri Historical
Society," and you print 1t in The TRIBUNE, 1t will be
| the first public mention OF the statement"
| Henry c. Murphy who died IN Brooklyn lately. had
the elements OF "a gentleman which so large "A com
ponent of greatness. We make ourselves everything
but that: morals will not make gentlemen Napoleon
failed chiefly on that side OF his mature To Dc gentle