New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-08


fraud and he reported to have sent his wife to Mr.
Tidens door when the old maa was limp and haggard
from exposure, TO request enough OF settle
ment TO send Mr.. COyle ont Of the country,
lest he might he a too important witness Mr.
Tidens guardians repealed the suggestion ana
ever since Mr.. Coyle has been quartered on New
York He the clerk in The National InteHi0encer
Office aud the real publisher during the later DAYS OF
Gales aud seaton, two stately old Turveydrops who
thought beneath them to attend to business, and there
fore were every year before Congress asking that vast
deficiency be made up in their account for printing the
debates In those years Mr.. Coyle mastered the Dus
reatman around Washington, couldge any
where, and was constantly saving his country lsw-
suit the estate of mysterious but not unknown
woman gave Mr. Coye guratively speaking. black eye
in that city The propretors OF The Intgeneer died
poor and after they passed away taking the respecta
bty of the into the grave with Them MI Coye
became "a visiting statesman, and he VISITS the ho'el
registers every night to any OF the great folks OF
the former days have that they may sym
pathize with him.
Few persons would know q marquis wien they saw
him and none would identify the MARQUIS de Chambrun
You may see him standing at the corner OF Wat ana
Broadway least every other week. glane1g with the
sam. eve down both streets; OF diplomacy have
enabled him TO round corner. He Is the lawyer
who has bringing astonshed French heirs out OF
obscuty challenge the right OF Mr. Nelson Chase to
his property on Washington Heights. Chambrun IA
French lawyer who has been living for years at wash
ngton City where his chief social recommendation is
the good character and descent of his wife. who Is
grand-nIece of Lafayette. Her husband however, who
has illegal pOstionn connection with the
has lofty of republican government and akeeneye
IN business III mt least one republic The French arms de-
bate of his insgaton, and was an attempt to show
that hundred thousand dollars had been stolen In
to
own country which needed them badly Other parties
desired to inhame the German G0vernment and yte on
the subject IL is claimed at the Treasury Department
that thus alleged scsnda grew out of nthing but an i'm
perfection in the ledger which in time was onnd to
balance well enough At that time Chamb un was called
the French spy by sundry Senators Others alleged
that the motive of the investigation TO strike some
of the contractors IN In appearance ChhD0run Is
mon of the middle SIZE of somewhat slender yet we'll
fed figure. with highly nervous yet crafty look In
which faint elements Of arstOcracy lurk rather than
abide.
"Big Stewart the who inspired the lofty con-
ception striking Nelson Chase for little more cash
" Big Stewart was Kentuckian who lived around the
Washington lobby for years and died in hospital In
this city not long ago He married Octavia Ridgeey
the principal witness the defendant in the Sickles
murder trial. She considered a very beautiful
woman in Washington. and was an army o'hccrs
daughter When Lincoln assassinated Big
Stewart climbed the stage and ran after Booth anu
told some luid stories about having had one or the
other nand on Booth three times lie rode out OF
the alley Stewart hearing law argument from Charles
OConor the Junel will grasped the idea that he
might find French heirs and he went TO Chambrun
to hunt them up. After the heirs were found and
the case somewhat progressed Chambr tried TO shake
Stewart OF the case too. Dclahed smith, OF TINS
city, advanced 900 for the conspators to pass es
fhah ap fbeNin IN IN
sue the estate, although aliens. Matt Carpenter did
some OF his legal gymnastics IN the case. Chamhrun
survived all the rest Aaron Burr survived all in
the Burr conspiracy II Mr.. Chase had not been sup
posed to have had rich property the French heirs
might have taking their aristocratic meal OF tur
nps and crabappe ciGcr atths moment Tor al the legal
dignitaries cared about them.
saw gentleman who spent the past three months in
Mexico looking for business invest ens par icuary In
tobacco; he does not brn good account OF the
country Every train guarded with soldiers from Vera
Cr1iz 10 the capital seemed TO him 10 be warlikc pre-
face then In Mexico he the gentl men OF the town
riding with in the parks. The people are, In gen.
eral meagre consumers OF ANYTHING but common drink
ana common meat, and the agricultural facilities OF the
country dvarfed by the uncertainty OF the society
and the yet immature not to say denisavage cond
ton OF almost everything
A Washington friend who generally gets close 10 the
centre told that President Arthurs appointment OF
judge Gresham regarded In Washington as
against Senator Harrison, who was ex-
pected TO the reversonary legatee OF Mr. Blaine IL
is understood that Gresham lived in Michael C. Kerrs
district and ran against Kerr for Congress There is
large manufacturing interest there its propetors said
to be the weathest In Indiana, the Depauws, who
make plateglass. This house has assumed consider
able prominence in Indiana politics. and Senator Har-
rson has friendly with them During the present
winter criticisms not to say assaults, were made on
Harrison and his manufacturing friends by Indiana
editor very close TO Judge Gresham These articles
stated, weeks ago. to have been inspired by Gresham,
though little evidence was forthcoming on that point
Though apparently directed toward another individual
they aimed at HARRISON who was meantime rising into
strong prominence as the next Republican candidate
My friend says that Gresham was described to the Pres
dent filing several nice possibilities First. Garfield
had offered to appoint him; next he had been Br1stow
and Grant man four years apart-the friendship be-
tw BsOw and Grant being known 60 be that OF the
Kilkenny cats; third, he was against HARRISON whose
friends were making hunt for the Presidency and
with the influence OF the Postofce Department could
annihlate the Harrison movement IN Indiana and pos
siby bring that State up for Arthur in 1884. Finally,
Gresham a soldier and in the present condition OF
the Cabinet at Washington It feared that II the
British should up the Pauxent River, they did
In 1914 the entire warlke Administration would take TO
the woods Gresham, with a bullet wound is coming,
however, and security rcigns on the Potomac.
The late elections" said my ex-senator, show that
local preudces and questions far Overtop National is
Sues that the Republican party has submerged itself by
success its conclusions being accepted so generally
that there is opposition to Them while 1t Is at
disadvantage In local things account OF that homo
geneity which makes 1t the common target for the OPP
positions heterogeneous II is the party OF moral
straints in an age opposed TO old restraints. II
lacks q physical enemy. Within It the Puritan
and the oiice-sceking temporizer mt war" "What
patent medicine does IT needi" ASKED. WISDOM
the wisdom OF national inook IL must be national
again prescience and take positions before IL has
surveyed the field. 1t is already occupying advanced
emnences too far in front Of the line OF battle The
tariff question of which 1t is the bulwark 1t must not be
too extreme upon Put not all your eggs in basket
The tariff is much, but 1t is not the whole" Yet he dii