New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-22
DOINGS AND SAYINGS.
r,,v ,Ro1rr PERSONS AND EVENTS.

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a. .rpop nj Twenty-eghtb-st. and Broadway MIS-
- "a the reeipient of many social attentions,
-, only from the military and political friends OF her
shed relatives but from the professional ana
other friends OF her sociay-ine lned husband whose
.copantance extends throughout the Union Ihus
mat Npw-York sOcietyz-is continuously reinie'eeu
nv accessions from the best social elements OF o'ucr
Lrge cities
Joaouin Miller, whose home in New-York is next Tue
Az - Church ,Round the Corner" blest at last WIN
q levofed little wife and rockspring OF pIeh''i0'
snerking and lovely as a poets DIR an MI "i"' BOY
he has found that the daily paper taxes Vo p'o,
si1-shooter I'm tins Eastern civilization nc I'd"
provided himself with ten OF these suoo'e'' VI oP
"a ntiotes or brains his enemies 10 ten newspapers
-, - 7, % needless to say that he makes nVey
.o-ao,dont Striking originality marks his Talk anu
ovsation He shoots out ideas which srlke WIN Tue
toroa Of a pchfork. Tennyson SAID last year 10 "n
American lady that he thought Joaquin Miller lse'
of the Amazons" the best poem yet proouceu J."
America
Collector Robertson thinks that the Repuoh-
cans Will win IN the National contest OF 1854 mainly
- of tho Democratic divisions upon the tariff ques-
IRONS The Republican candidate he says CANNOT yeV oo
named or fOretod. lie will in all proDaohy oe s'ino
new man who has not been mixed up IN tno iac'ion
ftrifes Of the past two years. he VIII "ioio INV"
g. n Western man. Edmunds, Judge hoDerC'oh
teors will suffer from The suspiciol that
- or,d ne ton much under Third-Term influences HIS
.ds aced I'm Chicago as If the onyD gOen-son OF su-
tition had taken possession of their bodies ana Souls
Iircon languishes candidate from the same cause
M resplt last fall indicates the Judgment of the Col
ector what the result would have been in TINS state III
1880 had Graut been the candidate Tor PRESIDENT
william E. Dodge, upon whom the mantle of prncely
merchant has fallen, says he thinks there Is ned IN
New.York for revenue or customs Journal whcu sall
nnbsh the decisions of the Treasury Department and
all
lass of merchants are inter ssted The provisions
the new tariff, ne thinks, will especially need
explanation an elucidaon, and the Department deci
sions Hereunder perhaps still more than the tarh
itself Such q trade journal, developed out OF me
Internal Repenue Record and Customs Journal, which
now exists II conducted IN spirit OF friendlnesS 10 the
Importers with judcous editorial comments upon deei
sions and new regulations, Mr.. Dodge thinks,
would meet with a satisfactory support. AS more
than half the OF the United States de-
rived from all is paid IN at the port OF New
York it would seem that the interests OF this most
important class of taxpayers should BIS guarded and
protected. and, in some journalistic way represented
Harry crattan almost the only Irish orator worthy Of
the name of statesman said that bgotry may survive
persecution but II never survive tcleraton" But
bieotry is not horribly criminal like murder HGrattan
were alive to-day he would say that the cure Tor murder
IL no. liberation but strangula.On Nothing stays the
red hand of the murderer like rope around the Wrists
and neck The force Of such argument he feels
The annual eulogies upon the Father OF Democracy
before Democratic clubs upon the recurrence OF the
birthday of the of d. emphasize the fact that the
mythical Jefferson, the historical Jefferson, Is the
Maternal party canonzed. T1e mythical St. Thomas Is
spruastic saint lived on the earth in human
FORM who supremely perfect IN all things, and VINO
entertained all subjects whatever opinions are
thought to wse just and popular 0y the party
militant at any particular period Of time The hstori-
cal T. j. was red headed youth who spent three hours
of each day for tweye years in adding who ran away
from college and ran away from his post as Governor
upon the approach OF the enemy who encouraged the
Whiskey Insurrecon, and in Washngton's Cabinet OPP
posed its suppression who both for aud against
the adoption of the Constitution who as the author OF
The Kentucky resolutions OF 9s the author OF Sc
eeson and as the author of the doctrine that one gen.
Grafton could bind another for the payment Of a
debt was the father OF Reputation -in short was on
both sides of every public question Of his time but was
only consistently WashingOns most treacherOus enemy
stabbing him in the dark while member of his Cabinet;
and was according TO the historian Won Holtz, the
most pestferous demag1gue Of modern times. Might
not the Democratic orator better study history in
stead Of mythology
Mr. c. l. Turner one of the oldest members OF the
Stock Exchange the country suffers aud has sur
fred having many Secretaries Of the Treasury
like Boutwell,, Richardson and Foger. who have had no
practical business or uaucal training TO lit them for
governing great monetary interests. Hamilton Nc
Culoeh and Sherman Mr. Turner thinks, have been the
three great Ministers of Finance He dwells upon the
fact that McCulOch united the largest practical with
the fullest theoretical knowledge OF financial affairs,
and that John Sherman, with his keen discriminating
powers direct business methods aud exceptional execu
tive abilities, accomplished financial results more ex-
traordnary than any achieved since the first Secretary
raised the corpse the public cred from the dead
he strangely overooks the only subsequent secre
tary to be named beside Hamlton-SamOn r. Chase, the
father of the Greenbacks the National Bonds ard the
National Banking system who perfected almost at the
tap OF the drum, scheme OF National Finance hitherto
unequaed in the world.
The great intellectual trio Of history not Clay,
Calhoun ard Webster, popular though they were, but
Hamilton Marshall and Webster These the tlree i'm
morias intellectually greatest and judged by that
standard American statesman is worthy 70 be
placed in the rank Hamilton, ms tine writer OF the
military correspondence of Washington OF The Feerats
Of the great report Finance OF many OF Washngtons
state papers including the farewell address, proved HIM
self to be statesman constitutional lawyer and hnan-
cier OF consummate powers and extraordinary genius
John Marshall the founder Of American jursprI ence
earned tie title OF the Great chief Justce and jur-
list proved himself the peer at least OF EdOn Mansfield
aud Holt Webster who sat at the feet OF Hamilton aud
Marshall as reverent worsnipper. while lack
ing the learning and versatility OF the former
and the legal lore aud marvellous nee ctual acueness
OF the latter in certain mOuntainike massiyeness OF
intellect surpassed perhaps all modern II is ssfe
10 predict future student II American history
will honor still his country's greatest statesman
greatest jurist and grandest orator.
IL was an oftquoted saying OF the eccentric Sam Gal
loway OF the Buckeye State that the only duty
OF ONO TO pardon Democrats out Of the Peni
Tertiary. This extreme illustration of the powers
and prerogatives of Governor in State where the
veto power is wanting. and where Governor Chase
once said the salary OF the Office just about sufficient
pay his postage BILL Nevertheless In State where
suen men old jeremiah Morrow Corwin, Chase Tod,
Brougb Cox aud Hayes were Governors the honor is
priced and the political possibilities OF it,
sion great Just the ObaDs are In doubt as 10
what the OF their coming candidate for Chief Of
State should be. II 1t is not 10 be Charles Foster IL