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Year: 1873

Into the arid atmosphere of politics
and bread and butter sometimes comes
bit OF romance of melting sweetness
OF such Is the story of two lovers and a
hard-hearted, remorseless father, which.
as it has just been told by Bostopian'
must OF course be true. Ten years ago a
beautiful young Boston girl was sent to
the Vermont hills to arrest, if possible.
the indications of approaching consump.
ton. She recovered her health. and
meantime inflicted "A cureless wound upon
the heart of an intelligent and well edu-
Gated farmers son. Unlike Lady We're
de We're, she did not sccrn his timid af.
lection, but returned it heartily, referring
him to her father. That traditionally
unromanfic parsonage wouldn't hear Of
IT, Never, never. shall a base mechanic
we'd my child!' The young man retired,
vent West, and made a large fortune,
and the young woman married the man
Wsscribed by her father. She went
,Ohve in France: her husband died in
tvOyears, and her parents also diving.
she remained abroad. The memory Of
her first romance faded with her as with
its object. who. though unmarried. was





TOO busy in making money for tender
thoughts. Last year his business tool,
him to Europe, and one night found him
on a little steamer plying between Mar.
Seilles and Leghorn. A storm came up.
and lady, who had risen from her seat
on deck to go below, was thrown over
board by sudden lurch of the vessel.
The base mechanic jumped after her,
and though in the dark the steamer
drifted away from them, they clutched a
providential plank and fioat,d until
morning, when they were picked up by
another vessel. During the night, in the
cold and darkness, they discovered in
each other the loved and lost of earlier
years. The old telling came back in that
fearful hour, and on their arrival at Malta
they were married. End of the poetry.
the rest is prose.
Year: 1873

Mr. COburn. who appears TO carry his Fourth
of-July with him all the year round, said that
"the Boy was now born who would mount
"his horse and ride from the Rio Grande TO
81 the Isthmus with the American flag behind
chin" OF course he alluded to Sergeant
Bates, and the idiotic enterprise is highly
characteristic, but why need it be advertised
in COngressf


Gen. Butler, who is recently displaying an
alarming frequency of lucid intervals, seemed
to have a monopoly of all the common sense
in the debate. He urged the retention OF
Spanish in the course for the evident reason
that our Southern frontier is entirely peOped
by communities using that language, and we
are much more liable TO come into collision
with them than with any others. 1t is fact
very little considered that the Spanish Is
spoken at the capitals of fully half the
nations with which we have dplo-
matte relations. There is no language
so important to the American soldier
and diplomatist, and every year for some
time to come will increase this importance. If
the present Professor of Spanish is not COM
petent, his place should be Immediately sup
Piled But even the plaintive appeal for a
Professor of Rhetoric, which intimates that
our sucking Caesars are learning no English
at West Point, should not suffice TO accom-
psh the abolition of this practically valuable
study The House at last appreciated this,
and rejected the proposition.
Year: 1873

There will he some astonishment at learn
ing that the Senate Committee on Claims have
caustically reviewed Presidential veto. The
bill for the relief of DR.. J. Milton Best, a
loyal citizen of Kentucky met with the Pres
idcnt's disapproval. He thought the principle
recognized by this bill would involve the
Treasury in large Disbursements The Com
mittee profess amazement at such state
ment, and proceed to show that Congress,
from the foundation of the Government,
has never refused TO pay such a demand; and
several which rested on precisely similar
grounds have been paid, lately, without OBJ
lection. The argument of the Committee on
the relative limitations of the veto power and
that of the legislative body is not specially
strong; but the logic of the case, so far as the
claimant is concerned, is certainly with the
! Senate Committee
Year: 1873

A good man struggling with adversely is not
more edifying spectacle than Congress
struggling with a matter of Bellies Lettres


Our law-givers gave the world that pleasure
yesterday. A proposition was made TO strike
out of the West Point appropriation the pro-
vision for a Professorship of Spanish. This
has been repeatedly attempted on the ex-
tremely statesmanlike pretext that the present
Professor is Objectionable. Those who do not
like him propose to get rid Of him by abolish
ing his office, az the Chinaman in the story
burned down his house to roast his pig. But
this object was not avOwed in the debate of
yesterday. The SOlOns who spoke took much
higher ground. Mr. Sargent said there
was no Spanish literature worth mentioning,
by which he probably meant that Cervantes
and Calderon entirely neglected any discussion
of Yerba Buena or Central Pacific in their
writings. Mr.. Young rushed TO the defense of
the Castilian tongue with more zeal than dis
cretion for having said he would not take
thousands of dollars for his knowledge of it,
it straightway appeared he was ignorant of it,
which showed rare cOnscientiOusness on his
part, as many Congressman exhibit sad
alacrity in taking something for nothing.
Year: 1873

We are not in the habit of bringing The affairs
of The TRIBUNE before the public, but since
several Other newspapers have made editorial
refer ence TO the matter, we see no further
reason for withholding mention of the fact
that Mr.. De Long, Minister of the United
States in Japan, has been guilty of gross
breach of his diplomatic duties IN demanding
the removal of Mr. Edward H. House, the
valued correspondent of this paper from his
post as Professor in the University of Iedo.
Mr.. De Long imagines that he has a cause of
quarrel with Mr.. House on account
of some criticisms written by him
and printed in this journal on the
conduct of the Minister in the case of the ship
Maria Luz. The criticisms were entirely
proper and cOurteOusly expressed, but Mr.. De
Long felt his dignity touched by them, and
demanded, in the name of the United States,
that the japanese Government should dismiss
the writer from his chair. The demand was
not complied with, the Japanese Ministry hav-
ing much more accurate idea OF the extent
of Mr.. De Longs pTerogative than he himself
appears to possess. The matter has had, there
fore, no practical result, except TO place upon
the records of the American Legation in Japan
the story of a great impertinence of our Min
ister, properly rebuked by the Cabinet of the
TennO.


1t is probable that Mr.. De Long has not
sufficient sensibility to appreciate the position
in which he has placed himself. But he is
probably the only American to whom the
facts are known who does not feel Blight
emotion of shame at the thought of so petty
and indeliGate an exhibition of unavailing
malice, made by the representative of great
country before court which is striving
to bring its people into the line of modern
civilization through our example and encOur-
agement. There are many things they may
wisely copy from us, but it is not likely that
they will take our diplomacy as model, as
long as they are represented in Washington
by so clever and accomplished a gentleman as
Mr. ArinOri MOri, and we can find nothing
better than Mr.. De Long to uphold our name
and dignity in japan
Year: 1873

other pretty solid constituents. Now. If comets
are meteOrs or meteors comea; or II one may
become the other, what we Want to know
and respectfully ask Of the wise .nen is. how
does it happen that when the iron; metoors
were Biela's comet they were transparent
gas, and why did they shine with the light of
carbon instead of iron 7 While they are abSut
it they may also favor the community with
calculation as to the date and probability Of
need of fre-proOf umbrellas next No
yember.
Year: 1873




We are desirous that the question of a new
charter for this city should be decided on other
than personal grounds. What we have said of
the organization of a new Ring to control the
appointments under il, and of its cunningly
devised provisions to play into the hands OF the
Ring, deserved indeed the gravest cOnsidera-
ton and the literal accuracy of our statements
is in no wise impugned by the frothy denials
of the Ring spOkesmen. When THE TRIBUNE
denounced the present charter, the same spokes-
men were just as ready with their denials.
When it pointed out, last Autumn, the plan of
putting Davis on the Bench to provide for
Bliss in the District Attorneys office, they were
Just as prompt. In each instance the denial
was known TO be deceptive, but it was
put forward as means of checking the too
rapid rise of the public Indignation. Denials
now mean Just the same thing and not an
iota more. THE TRIBUNE has disclosed the
exact programme of the Ring. There is, of
course, the possibility that they may have to
make recast of the offices, but if so the re-
suit will show, not an error in our disclosures,
but a result of them.


But the question at Albany deserves other
VI
Andrew II. Green does not seem a step in the
direction of Reform. The prospect of having
Mr.. Thomas Murphy in an important financial
position is one that does not need to be char
acterized. Yet above and beyond such
personal matters rises the graver ques
ton, Are we to have charter under
which good government is probable,-nO mat
ter who the persons in office are To this
we entreat the attention of well-meanng
citizens of all parties, and of no party. Is it
desirable that city elections should still be
complicated with State and National politics. 7
Is it desirable that appointments should be made
by Ring of Aldermen whom nobody, at the
election, thought of choosing for that purpose
Is il desirable that we should once more find
ourselves wholly unable to fix on any person
who is responsible for bad appointments, and
at the next election turn him QUIT Is 1t
desirable, in a word, that we should take our
old enemy to our heart because he comes to
us with a new mask


It is to considerations of this Sort rather
than TO any of purely personal. nature, that
we would entreat the attention of our citizens.
They meant to secure reform last Autumn.
lncy are naVlnB III SUZUKI away hoih Vhoni'
under their very eyes. The men who
told them the Tweed charter was a
noble instrument say the same of
this one. They denounced us when we OPP
posed the first and they denounce us when
we oppose this They had the power then to
carry their plans out; and, unless Mayor
Havemeyer, Gov. DIX, the Committee of
Seventy, and the great mass of wellmeaning
but easy-going citizens bestir themselves, they
will make just as clean a sweep at Albany
now
Year: 1873

If it were not for the infamous Durell de-
cision, some other view might DO possible ;
but that dictum ia binding. whether law or
not. If a new election is ordered, we take il
for granted that the Kellogg Government will
have the management of it, as it is not likely
that the WaImoth Government will be rein
stated
Year: 1873

The TRIBUNE ALMANAC for 1878 is fuller
and more complete in its election returns than
any of its predecessors and the fact that over
10000 copies of the first edition have already
been sold would seem to indicate that it still
remains the most popular of Political Animals.
Year: 1873

1t would be hard to draw a more graphic
picture of a certain political class in this city
than Mayor Havemeyer made yesterday in one
sentence of his reply to the congratulations of
the Liberal Republican delegation. He char
acterized the coterie who are now banded
against municipal reform as consisting of men
"who gamble all night to cheat each other,
land intrigue all day to cheat the people"
Year: 1873

The parting idiosyncrasies of Parisian suicides are
countless and nearly always picturesque. To adjure
the stars to gaze upon the Qon or the picture of the
not impossible She are usually their last perform
ances upon ifes stage. A more original ending was
that of the young gentleman-sad TO bo crossed in
love-who sadly contemplated the monkeys in the
tardin des Plantes for a full hour before he shot
himself Wherefore thisi Perhaps he followed
Darwin and took deep if melancholy pleasure
in that last gaze upon the living pictures of his sa-
ce6toTS
Year: 1873

We are told Of the death of an American named
Roberts IN London, leaving fortune of $4,000.
When his father set him up in the second d-hshd-
clothing business, in which he made his money. no
was advised by that father never to let his ex-
penses exceed IS. Cd. per week" He adhered to tho
advice, and one of his last struggles attempt
in his seventy-second year to live diet horse
ohestnuts Ii was failure. and he went to JOIN his
revered ancestor in place where the weekly ex-
penses are still less
Year: 1873

Our Paris correspondence, to-day, gives a
picture of the newspaper debates over the
open grave of the late Emperor, and shows the
defiant though evidently not confident spirit
in which the Imperialist organs still strive to
defend their ruined cause. Meanwhile, the
only genuine Napoleon in temperament and
talent the Red Prince, hastens to avow his
independence of the plots of Chiselhurst, and
only asks his rehabilitation citizen of
France.
Year: 1873

Minnesota is specially gay and joyous The san
tary advantages of that delightful spot have been
duly set forth already but what will be said now.
when we announce that :" a mine of EPSON salts
has been discovered there" So we read and il tho
agreeable aperient were only little more costly.
there might be rush of dyspeptc people 10 Mime
sofa. At any rate the dear children will agree win
US that we have quito EPSON salts enough whefo
we ara
Year: 1873

When the franking privilege was abolished,


people thought that we should save the cost
of that expensive luxury. 1t seems that we
were mistaken; the House Judiciary Com
mittee's bill provides that the generous sum
of S1,713S27 ~, alleged to have been saved by
the discontinuance of the franking privilege,
shall be absorbed in an increase of Official
salaries. is not this keeping the word of
promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope 7
Year: 1873

Tn view of the evidence before the Senate
Committee investigating Louisiana affairs, it
a. not easy 10 see how any conclusion can be
eescbed save that there is no legal Govern
ment in that State. This, we understand, Is
20 be the substance Of the report IN the case;
no other decision would satisfy the country
Year: 1873

1t is satisfactory to learn from the Hon. j.
Wiley Edmands, who is well qualified to speak
on the subject, that the wool industry was
prosperous last year, and that both its great
branches are equally earnest in maintaining
the common protection which has led to a
large increase in the production and diversity
of American woolens, as well as fOstered the
growth and quality Of domestic wool. The
success of the wool industry seems assured so
long "a this harmony Of feeling continues, and
its representative men display the same ability
and energy as heretofore.
Year: 1873

Isn't this too muchi Washington correspondents
are allowed large latitude in the way of gossip, but
there are mits-and this is the way person steps
over them: Mrs. SenatOr"-the name is given
"wore the most superb black velvet dress L ever
saw The lace and psssameDtarie used in trimming
was costly and elegant She is fine linguist and
the foreigners dote on her, and she uses them as
vehicle by means of which she may make use OF her
accomplishments She is little odd and eccentric.
and has unbounded faith in herself and surround
ings AS an educator, prosperity is not the best
teacher OF rather does not mpat humility, but 1t IA
q matter of taste whether not that be an admra-
BILE trait of character" We happy to assure


this correspondent that it is not merely matter OF
taste whether .Or not impudence be an admirable
trait of character II is MT Neither is bad grammar
lovely What blessed boon would bo the complete
abolition Of the Washington Society Correspondent
Year: 1873

Tho wise Major Pendennis in the novel once
shrewdy remarked 10 his nephew that man might
bear a very good coat Of arms and yet be great
blackguard This was said in discussing the merits
of a man who ia represented IA having an undoubteh
right to a respectable blazOnry This can hardly DO
affirmed Of a great many respectable repubbcans
who get extempOrized arms from those professional
people who, for a consideration, make researches.
and always find coat for every customer, no matter
how obscure may have been his ancestry. good
lineage is not thing to be despised but it must be
admitted that very few Americans know much. or
can know much, of their remote progenitors. Tho
very names have been changed by uncertain
orthography transmogri6ed when few people could
write and much less spell As for arms, the CHANCES
are that a man is not descended at all from those
who were entitled to bear them. However, we sro
informed that magazine is TO be started in neigh-
boring city, tho purpose of which IL TO discuss
genealogy to give portraits and to furnish engraved
coats of arms of families. Tho beauty OF the
arrangement is that every family is to be per
mtted to furnish its own history and its own
coat to be photographed or engraved et its own
expense If these are inserted, it is expected that
those thus distinguished will order number Of
extra copies of the work. If those who are thus
invited to glorify themselves choose to be amused
in this innocent way, there il moral objection.
we think to the indulgence. 1t ought to be fairly
understood, however, that most modern heraldry is
humbug, and that arms, whether Of dominion. of
pretenson, of community, Of assumption Of patron
ago. of succession Of alliance, of adoption, Of con-
cesson whether paternal and hereditary or not are
usually mere inventions of those who carry them or
of those who for a consideration furnish them TO
their customers In America there is no authoritar
tive heraldry, as there is in England. because wo
have no such thing az legslized family rank and
honor. There is no objection to a gentleman's as
sumption of heraldic honOrs, il he can BIO satisfied
that he is entitled TO them though we must say
that as a rule people are too easily satisfied.
Year: 1873

HHE District Attorney of Murderer's s


IL Bar stood up to his kneesin the Yuba.
But as his rubber boots came as high as his
hips there was no fear of his getting wet,
as he made the muddy river muddier by
his unceasing labor at the rocker.


Distance lent beauty and picturesque
ness to the District Attorney. A near view
disclosed several details that were not
creditable to the guardian Of the legal hon
or of Murderer's Bar His red shirt, that
a hundred feet off would have set an artist
to sketching incontinently, at ten would
have made laundryman groan. At pho
tograph distance his mother would have
wept, for although the District Attorney
had only been away from Yale two years,
and in California one, his nose had acquired
a color that, like tho hue of a choice.meer-
schaum, could only have been gained by
steady effort. II the parson of his native
town could have been concealed on the
bank Of the Yuba, he would have changed
his opinion of the District Attorneys natu-
raj piety, for although the young man was
of excellent family he took a clay pipe
from between his teeth and swore ably at
Year: 1873

saturday night at late hour man whose name
is unknown fell from the ferry bridge foot OF Tenth
street, East River into the dock and was drowned


Yesterday morning william Humphrey OF No 437
East Third street. and John RUSSELL living in Green.
point found % the body, which was sent to the
is supposed to have lived IN BrookYn Nooo"'eN
Year: 1873




Coroner Bayss, In conversation with a reporter
yesterday. stated that he had doubt whatever
that the remains found were those OF Kelsey
knowledge OF the coastline and OF the usual
flow OF the tides and currents would satisfy any
one OF the extreme probability that the remains
would float in the exact direction in which they
did, and the fact that there were number Of sea
spiders on the remains when found was proof con-
elusive that they had been for some time lying In
deep water.


The Coroner further statcd-a fact which has not
yet appeared In evidence-that when he first drew
the remains On shore and uncovered them they
appeared to be fair and plump, but upon being ex-
posed to the air they began Immediately to putrify
and the stencil from them became almost intOler-
able He accordingly at once ordered them TO be
placed on Ice. He examined the remains with the
greatest care, and asserts positively that he found
q considerable quantity OF tar upon the groins and
upon both legs, and that there were literally hand
fus of feathers intermlngled with it, especially be-
hind, where especial pains appeared to have been
taken to place them where they would express the
greatest indignity some OF them having been actu-
ally thrust into the person. But, still. the
mutaton OF the body was of the most horrible
character. Whether 1t occurred before or after
death it may now be impossible to say.


1t was further learned from the Coroner that the
relatives oI helSeV were 80 Certain tnat the re-
mains were his that they were perfectly willing
upon the testimony already adduced and rom
their appearance, to accept them for burial, and
that the funeral would have taken place on Satur.
day but for the fact that they desired the funeral
to take place from the Second Presbyterian church
in Huntington, and the authorities OF the church
demurred to the arrangement before the close of
the inquest, at the same time expressing their en-
tire Willingness that the ceremony should take
place In the church, II the remains proved really
to be those Of Kelsey. The funeral is therefore ap-
pointed to take place on Wednesday next.
Year: 1873

sunday Excitement at the Long Island Village
Over the Terrible sensaton-The Drift of
Opinion and the Probabilities of a Public
Observation-Disclosures with tho


Brother Of the Murdered Kelsey


Statement Of Coroner Bayliss.
Year: 1873

Our Albany advices indicate that there is
likely TO be some friction between the persons
having the Republican Committees charter in
hand and the Mayor. 1t is said that the point
of difference which may arise is the response
bility of the Mayor for the Heads of the De-
partments; the present Mayor naturally desires
that these appointments shall be placed IN his
hands alone. 1t viii be interesting to note
whether this Reform Legislature, IKE the
last, is to spend most of its reformatory time
in trying to grind over the offices of this city
into griSt for the party mill.
Year: 1873

It is TO be hoped that individual cases will
not be lost sight of in the large number OF
buildings reported as unsafe in the sweeping
condemnation made by the Department of
Buildings. We publish to-day another long
list of these insecure and dangerous structures,
of which a great part are private prop
erty. These are declared to be insuffi-
ciently secured against fire or not provided
with adequate fre-escapes. 1t is one thing to
point out the danger, and another to remove
it; now we want vigiIant enforcement of
existing laws and regulations, or, if these do
not meet the case, more legislation,
Year: 1873

The abstract of the report from the House
Committee of Elections on the contested seat
of the lid Congress District of South Carolina
reveals an odd state of things. They find that
unfair and dishonest measures have been so gen.
orally used by both contestants that it is next
TO impossible to say which contestant is legally
entitled TO the seat. Bowen, whose notOriety
in the courts best describes him, is now
Sheriff, and De Large, the colored contestant,
has been elected to the State Legislature, and
both of these positions under the Laws of South
Carolina are incompatible with that of a seat
in Congress. That the Committee have de-
cided to declare the seat vacant is therefore
q natural conclusion, however bad 1t may be
for the voters of the district.