New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-30


Mr.. Gould goes to Havana next week. hear, In his
yacht sailing from Charleston to avoid Hatteras. The
ATLANTA is being put in commission in the Delaware
Mr. Gould takes his family and threatens to stay two
months.
Mr.. Billings, II confidently said last Thursday,
would succeed Mr. Willard in the Northern Pacific Com
pany In a few days at most.
Mr. william X. Vanderbilt acquired from his grand
father millions OF dollars increased It by personal
skill and force three fold, and had attention
paid him till he made ossos. He Is his fathers
fayorite son. has cut the work for the family
large extent and never made losses like the old Com
modore's who would have left nothing without some
yenturlng genius Cornelius Vanderbilt the present.
does not trade at all and is thought TO be worth
S10,O00000
As visited the crowded of tho BaEthOldi Loan
Exhibition on Friday afternoon feeling of wonder
came over my mind to the generally vacant or non
pssed cOuntenances gazing there on rare brcabrac OF
mystic modern art wistful know why and what TO ad
mire profoundly dOce, Americanly Opaque. Clergy
men were among them, magazine readers were as dis
tngshable az II they had been In Shaker or bunker
dress the moral earnest prevailed but seemed
70 lie between It and the wrestling conceivng growth and
sight which in Japan or France had moved so con-
deny to the place OF masters We have been sure that
what We knew ALI faith Is hardly doubling yet
but there Is not absolute Dlss III our fehahnB lgho
rance. Why ore such ugly pictures so expensive
What could compensate that man three hundred years
ago for carving horn more regiousy than we pray
Why is this dirty old violin better than one at tho toy
shop Such questions we're ineligible on many de-
vout face wcodeny by having had nothing under it but
hard sense The differences In the art culture OF Fing
enlightened nations and perhaps In the capacity for such
culture are great between the Africans WOOL ana
heel and old McissOnner's beard.
Poygamy seemed an odd subject to pu. before three
toast-speakers ut the recent NewEneland dinner IN
Brooklyn lfr Beecher declared against carna war as
a means OF checking t. find in no less Puritan than
John Milton tan article on The Special Government OF
Man y the following strange views concerning II; u
have not said tho marriage OF one man with one woman
Lest should by Implication charge the holy patriarchs
and pillars faith Abraham and the others VINO hd
more than wife at the same time, with haDuai sn
and lest should be forced 20 exclude from the sanctuary
OF God as spurious the whole offspring which sprang from
them yea tho whole OF the OF Israel for whom the
sanctuary Itself was made For II Is said In Deuteron-
omy xxi p bastard shall not enter into the congre-
CATION Of jehovah even to the tenth generation Either
therefore," proceeds Milton, polygamy Is true mar
riage or all children born In that state arc SPURIOUS
which would include the whole Of Jacob the twelve
tribes chosen by God But such an assertion would
be absurd IN the extreme not 10 say impons and az
the height Of Injustice as well example Of the most
dangerous tendency in religion to account as sin what
f. not such reality t appears TO me that so far from
tho question respecting lawfuness of poygamy being
trivial II IS OF the highest importance that t should be
decided Not a trace appears OF the lnterdiction
onpoyeamy throughout the whole law not even IN any OF
the prophets
A quaint Christmas present that saw was a match
box made Of Ave rings taken from old japanese dimos
swords in the ring under the guard which Is IN de-
signs Three Of these rings were Of black inwronght
gold called ehdqudo and two were silver marked
shibdeh and on each partial designs, as OF the
bamboo tho rose the dragon etc, in yellow gold called
shippo The lid was the end Of sword hilt with hui
man design These rings said 10 bring $40 apiece
through their scarcity.
That the young lady and the young who sat with
the Incolns I'm their private box the night OF the as
sassination should have married multiplied and endedn
terrible tragedy Is greater subject OF wonder than
any other human combination Often nearly super
natural crime bears traca postey for deeds reproduce
themselves Ike men Il eau probably be shown that
every violation Of nature makes the vacuum or example
into which similar events rush One sailor found the
indies Westward and all his brethren and coucm-
poraries turned navigatOrs The impression inadS by
powerful crime Il greatest according TO the degree OF
contact whether that contact DO personal or mental
Mrs Lincoln. mind broke after her husbands murder
John Brown provoked a race of invaders from those
about his gallows player reading tho weak piece OF
John Howard Payne Brutus, went and Killed magis
trate.
irwin bo no help to weak Presidential timber to avoid
conversation any more than Baaam's animal would
have got moro notice II he had never spoken at ALL
Protesting no knowledge OF my on the subject,
report statement from generally authentic source
that about last Wednesday Mr. Willard put hs resgna-
ton the Northern Pacific presidency in the hands OF
Mr.. White and Mr.. Fsbbr, TO be accepted when they
Thought best 10 Ia also said that Mr.. Willard had
resolution passed by tracablo directors Of the oregon
and Transcontinenta Company last summer authorizing
him 10 do As thought WISE and under the said resou
ton passed In the State OF Oregon he carried on the
grand speculation In the Northern Pacific stocks Not
many have ever heard Of this resolution before II It
was really passed Under It Mr. Willard IL represented
a. doing what he pleased and keeping his counsel
exclusively. The sequel shows that in multitude OF
counsel ors Ia safety"
Says Mr. Smith, the rich periodical publisher: For
men OF the world and experience the cutting the prices
OF the morning papers smart bnt for The Herald
to do 70 and then quarrel with the newsdealers was
idloc" Time was that when the brain, were ont the
man would die
General Grants wounds have both been falls. After
taking vloksburg he rode rough nervous horse in the
streets OF New Orleans and experienced terrible fall
which kept him clutches long AFTER ana thlnK ne
had hardly recovered when Stanton went 10 Ohio 20
meet him and plan tho Chattanooga campaign General
Grant and oil his boys In sound financial crcum
stances and In every respect I'm METER condition than II
the 3OG political programme had prevailed at Chicago.
fit had been started he would scarcely have
critic much less an enemy. left in this country.
General John A. Logan holds immediate relations with
Grant Chafee and Don Cameron. He might draw a
little scattering strength from Pennsylvania and New
Yorkn lightning came very close 10 him. lie aud
Frank Blair the beat politician generals in the war;
In Genera LndeTs "Reminiscences of.the Bench and
Bar OF Illinois Is said that Logans father was ply
pcan that John hardly sat down In the Legislature be-
In a sneenh. and TINT he hated ahnonist