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6 “4 GOOD ENOUGH MORGAN.” "Thurlow Weed’s Reminiscences of the Old Time Tragedy. STORY OF THE MORGAN MURDER. A Double Identification of a Drowned Man. WAS IT MORGAN OR MONROE? fo rug Eptror or tne Heraup:— The recent inauguration of a massive Masonic Hall apd Asylum in this city and the imposing demonstra- Yon of Knights Templars from various parts of the Union recalled an event in the history of that institu- tion which occurred almost fifty years ago and was the Decasion firs, of local and subsequently of general in- quiries and excitement. This is known and remembered asthe “Morgan Abduction.” Having been connected with that question as a member of an investigating Tommittee and as the editor of an anti-Masonic journal, L have been called on by the New York Hxranp for in- formation concerning the body of a man found on the shore of Lake Ontario, alleged to be that of William Morgan, but claimed afterward to be the body of Timo- thy Monroe, The allegations of mutilating that body, of palming it off upon the public for political effect and of Doasting that it was a “good enough Morgan till after the election,” were publicly made, widely circulated and ata distance generally believed. I was painfully conscious of this in meeting strangers at home and ubroad for more than forty years. In 1843, when in London, by a strange chance I lodged in a hotel near Blackfriars Bridge, which had been the ancient ‘Free- masons’ Tavern” and which was then frequented by tho oldest London lodges, My presence, as I was surprised to learn from its host, was tho subject of inquiry. While in Paris afew weeks after- ward I was informed by my friend, B. Perley Poore, that my visit had occasioned some uneasiness among Freemasons in that city. I had been repeatedly in- formed by gentlemen in New York, Boston, Philadel- phia, &., that until their minds were relieved by long and intimate acquaintance, their intercourse with mo had been embarrassed with the early impression that I had, for political effect, been guilty of a highly dis- creditable act, Prompted, therefore, by appeals, first in the Heraup-and then in the Albany Argus, 1 deter- mined to furnish the facts and circumstances out of | which the “@oop ENOUGH MORGAN” accusation originated. The completion of this narra- tive, however, has been unexpectedly delayed. Im | resuming, although this question opens a wide | field, I will endeavor to compress it. To do so I must | assume preliminary questions as fixed facts. In regard to these fixed facts there will be no controversy among those who have made themselves acquainted with a truthful history of that most extraordinary event. I did not personally know William Morgan, who was for more than two months writing his book ina house adjoining my residence, at Rochester. When applied to | by Mr. Dyer, my next door neighbor, where Morgan boarded, to print the book purporting to disclose the secrets of Masonry, I declined to do so, believing that a man who had taken an oath to keep a secret had no | Tight to disclose i, Although not a Freemason, I had entertained favorable opinions of an institution to which Washington, Franklin and Lafayette belonged. | On my refusal to print his book Morgan removed to Ba- | tavia, where he made the acquaintance of David | | Cc. Miller, editor of the Advocate, also a | Mason, who became his pnblisher. I pass vriefly over a series of facts which were ju- | dicially established, embracing the arrest of Morgan, his conveyance to and confinement in the county jail at | Canandaigua, from which he was released and conveyed | by night in cloze carriages through Rochester, Clarkson | and along the Ridge road to Fort Niagara, in the maga- | zine of which he was confined. While thus confined a Knight Templar encampment was installed at Lewiston, ‘When at supper the zeal and enthusiasm of the Tem- plars having been aroused by speeches and wine, Colonel William King, of Lockport, invited foar men (Whitney, Howard, Chubdbuck and Garside) from their | seats at the banqueting table into an adjoining apart- | ment, where he informed them that ho had an order | from the Grand Master (De Witt Clinton), the execution of which required their assistance. This party was ‘then driven to Niagara, reaching the fort a littke before | twelve o'clock. THE MURDER OF MORGAN, Upon entering the magazine Colonel King informed Morgan that his friends had completed their arrange- ments for his removal to and residence upon a farm in Canada. Morgan walked with them to the wharf, where the pantaioons to replace those lost which did not match the others, She also described one stocking that had been darned with yarn of a different color, Ina word, her description of the clothing was so accurate in every particular as to leave no doubt that each article had been under her special care, But, wonderfully accurate as she had been on this point, she was most strangely wrong in her description of the body, Monroe being at least three inches taller than the corpse, Sho described her husband’s hair and whiskers as coarse and black, adding that his hair had been cut quite short a fow days before he was drowned, while that upon the head of the deceased was long, silky and of a chestnut color. Monroe's son confirmed his mother’s testimony Telating both to the clothes and the body. No attempt was made to impeach either, nor was there any doubt that Monroe had been drowned, as alleged. Tt wag difficult to reconcile these conflicting statements. Mrs, Monroe was as clearly right about the clothes as she was wrong about the body found tn them. THe THIRD INQUEST resulted in finding that the body previously adjudged to be Morgan’s was that of Timothy Monroe. There were other circumstances connected with the disappearance of both Morgan and Monroe, assuming that both had been drowned in Lake Ontario, calculated to compli- cate the questions of identity. The body was found at Oak Orchard Creek a full year after Morgan's disap- pearance; of course it could not have been drifting about that length of time. It was known, however, that Morgan was weighted heavily when thrown into the lake; and, two months before that body was found, | the month of the river and that part of the lako where Morgan was supposed to have been thrown overboard had been thoroughly raked. In this way it was supposed that the body had been released from its weight, risen to the surface and drifted to Oak Orchard Creek. Monroe was drowned on | the 25th or 27th September. The body at Oak Orchard Creek was found on the Sth day of October, leaving but eleven or twelve days to drift a distance of forty miles, where it was found. It is understood that drowned | persons remain several days under water, It wns ascer- | tained by meteorological records that, during the in terval between Monroe's death and the finding of the | Dody at Oak Orchard Creek, tho wind blew most of the time up the lake, Now, as there is no current in Lake Ontario, and as objects float with rather than against tho wind, it seemed improbable that the body found should be that of Monroe ; while on the other hand it seemed equally improbable that a man drowned in the latter part of September, 1826, could have been found in a tolerable state of preservation in October, 1827, So that there were irreconcilablo facts and circumstances con- nected with this strange history. Mrs, Morgan and the intimate friends of Morgan de- scribed marks upon his person before seeing that body which left no doubt in the minds of all present that it was the remains of her husband. Strangely enough, however, she repudinted every article of clothing found upon the body. And yet Mrs. Monroe, who came from Canada, readily described every article, garment by gar- ment, with minute and startling accuracy. While, therefore, up to the time that Mrs, Monroe appeared there were no just grounds for discrediting the corroct- ness of the second inquest, yet after the third inquest had been held at Batavia there was a strong reaction in public opinion, Although the gentlemen associated with me in the investigation were still strongly of the opinion that the body was that of William Morgan, my own previously clear and strong convictions were a good deal dis- turbed. Nor can I now, after nearly fifty years’ anxious inquiry and reflection, say that I am satisfied that it was or was not the body of William Morgan, The discrepancies about hair and beard between Mrs. | Morgan and Mrs Monroe, after thé conclusion of the third or Batavia inquest, induced those who claimed the body to be that of Timothy Monroe to say that the hair was pulled out and the whiskers shaven off to make it | resemble Morgan. | That could only have been done in | the presence of between sixty and seventy persons, somo of whom were democrats and others Freemasons, and yet ail must have seen and consented to the fraud. The last inquest was held only a few days before the elec- tion. No other question entered into the canvass. Tho excitement was greater than I had previously or have since witnessed, ORIGIN OF TIE “Goon ENOUGH” STORY. A few evenings before the election I went into a billiard saloon to see my friend Gustavus Clark. A number of gentlemen were present, and among them Ebenczor Griffin, who, as counsel for several persons 1n- dicted for the abduction of Morgan, had conducted the inquest at Batavia, As I was leaving the room Mr. Griffin said, “Well, Weed, what are you going to do for a Morgan now?’ I replied, as I was closing the door, | “That is a good enough Morgan until you bring back the one you carried away.” This remark was repro- duced in the Rochester Daily Advertiser, with an ap- parently slight but most important variation, instead of what I did in fact say. I was represented as saying, “That is a good enough Morgan until after tho election.” WhatIdid say in reply to Mr. Griffin's question was a proper and harmless response, while what I was érroneously accused of saying was highly discreditable, and has subjected me, at home and abroad, for nearly fifty years to reproach and obloquy. Mr. Dawson, senior editor of the Albany Evening Jour- | a boat was held in readiness for them by Elisha Adams, an invalid soldter, into which the party passed and | rowed away, Adams remaining to warn the boat off by | Signal if on its retarn any alarm had been given. It | was nearly two o’clock in the morning when the boat | tame back, having, as Adams expressed it, lost ono man, only five of the six being on board when the boat | returned. When the boat reached a point where the | Niagara River empties into Lake Ontario, a rope being wound around Morgan’s body, to either end of which a sinker was attached, he was thrown overboard. It is due to the memory df Governor Clinton to say that Colonel King iad no such order and no authority to make nse of his ame. It ts proper, also, to add that none of these men | survive, John Whitney, of Rochester, whom I knew well, related all the circumstances connected with the | ast act in that tragedy to me at Albany in 1831, in the | presence of Simeon B. Jewett, of Clarkson, and Samuel Barton, of Lewiston. | ¥INDING THE BRODY. | In October, 1827, more than a year after the abduc- | tion of Morgan, a body drifted on shore near a small treek which entered into Lake Ontario, A coroner's inquest was hekl, and a verdict rendered that it was the | body of an unknown person, Tho Coroner wrote out a minute description of the body, and published it along | with the finding oftho jury in an Orleans county news- | paper. That description, attracting the attention of | persons well acquainted with Morgan, excited consider- | able interest. The widow and several intimate friends | of Morgan seemed so confident that it was his body that the committee appointed to investigate the abduction | determined to hold another inquest, of which public notice was given. On the day appointed some sixty or seventy people assembled at the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek, where the body of the unknown man was in- terred. Before opening the grave Mrs. Morgan and Dr. | Btrong described certain marks upon Morgan’s body, by means of which it could be identified. When the rude roffin was opened the body it contained disclosed the peculiarities described, and after deliberate examination the jurors declared it unanimously the body of William Morgan. From this verdict no one present dissented, and fora week or ten days the question seemed to be settled. THE BODY CLAIMED AGAIN. Later tn October there came a report that the body declared to be that of William Morgan was claimed | ™ by his family to be that of Timothy Monroe, a Canadian, who was swept in a small boat over Niogara Falls eleven {ays previons to the time that the body was washed | ‘shore at the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek. Tho re- | mains in the meantime had been taken by Mrs. Morgan to Batavia. A third inquest was now to be held for the | purpose of establishing the claim of Mrs. Monroo, A | large concourse of citizens was in attendance, Mrs. Monroe appeared, and gave a description of her hus- band’s person and of the clothes in which ho left home on the morning of the day ho was drowned. Previous to her examination Bates Cooke, chairman of the Mor. | gan Investigating Committes, examined the clothes taken from tho body and carefully preserved by the Coroner with great minuteness, This enabled bim to Lest the accuracy of Mrs. Monroe's knowledge and memory. Neither Mrs. Monroe nor any person sympathizing | with her or interested in the identification of the body ‘as that of Monroe had access to it or had seen any of the wearing apparel of tho deceased. And yet Mrs. Monroe not only gave general description of each gar ment, but underwent a rigid cross-examination by Mr. Cooke of more than an hour, in which she described with singular accuracy every rent and patch found in | then nal, who resided at Rochester during the Morgan ex- citement, recently wrote an article on the subject, in | which he said :— NEW YORK handbills, of which the following is @ literal and exact copy: William C, Green, being duly sworn, deposeth and says that he the said Green, with others, did attend , in the county of Monroe, and that there Mr. Thur! Weed did say that he the said Thurlow did pull the whiskers from the face of the body found at Oak Orehard Creek, and that John Marehant: did shave the same, he the said Thurlow being one of the Mor- gan Committee. WILLIAM ©. GREEN Subscribed and sworn, this 6th day of November, 1827, before me—Samcet Minter, J. P. This aMdavit appeared in the Rochester Daily Adver- tiser November 7, 1827, and was circulated in handbill form at the polls the same day, I preserved one of the handbills, from which the above is a literal copy. The affidavit is signed by William ©. instead of Zephania Green. Mr. W. C. Green swears that he “heard me | say that I did pull the whiskers from the face of the body found at Oak Orchard Creek.” The Argus affida- vit maker, “Zephania Green,” swears that he ‘saw me pull out the whiskers,” &c, Now, the fact is no such affidavit appeared or was read at the poll of the election referred to; nor, as far as I know, was there any such man in or about Rochester as Zephania Green, But 1 did know William C. Green, | a democratic electioneerer, by whom, it was arranged, T should be followed and importuned with questions abont Timothy Monroe's hair and whiskers, The object was to keep me so surrounded and occupied as to with- draw my attention from the electors as they came to vote, Discovering its object I determined to put an end to the by-play, and when asked by Green if I pulled ont Monroe’s whiskers I answered affirmatively, and to the question “Who shaved the body,” I replied “John Marchant.” This turned the laugh against my op- ponents. Nobody, however, was misled by it, for all received it as it was in- tended. Green's occupation was spoiled for that day. On tho following morning, however, his aM- davit appeared inthe Daily Advertiser, and was circu, lated freely at the polls. Green swore to the truth, but ina manner to make truth a falsehood, All who heard me, incluiding Green himself, knew that it was a joke. Jndge Miller, the then young Justice of the Peace be, | fore whom the affidavit was. made, is now a venerable citizen of New Haven, Conn. I had no reason to com- plain and did not complain of the use made of my Jocose admission. THE OTHER ACCUSATION, however, namely, of boasting that the body found at Oak Orchard Creck was a ‘good enough Morgan till after the election,”’ thongh an utter perversion, proved serious and enduring. My action in reference to the body in question was influenced by a sincere and earnest desire for truth, I realized, in every step taken, the high responsibility of the investigation. I knew that a | mistake upon a question of snch exciting and absorbing interest would react powerfully. Thus impressed, I exerted myself personally to induce all who knew Mor, gan, whether Masons or anti-Masons, democrats or whigs, to be present at the second inquest, In looking back upon an event which occurred nearly halfa century ago, with the asperities and impressions which it occasioned allayed and corrected, and in view of the embittered feeling existing between the editor and proprietor of the Rochester Daily Advertiser and myself, Tam free to admit that they had provocations which, from their standpoint, excused the use of such political weapons as they found available, It was a sort of hand- to-hand conflict, in which I remember to have been un- sparing. The term “Mason Jacks,” freely applicd to all who acted politically aguinst us, was a peculiarly offen- sive one, and most especially so to thee edi- tor and publisher of the Advertiser, neither of whom were Masons, Even now it is evident that tho correspondent of the Argus has not forgotten or for- given that offence. In conclusion I affirm, in the strongest languago and in the broadest senso, that I acted in perfect good faith throughont the investigation touching the body fonnd at Oak Orchard Creek, and that I have truthfully repeated a playful and innocent reply to a question ont of which grew the unfounded charge of boasting that it was a “good enough Morgan till after the election,” under the odium of which I have rested forty-eight years, It may not be out of timo or place to add that in this case itis not too late to ‘‘vindicate the truth of his- tory.” The then editor of the Rochester Daily Advertiser 1s now aresident of this city. He was as actively and warmly opposed as I was devoted to the cause of anti- Masonry. He was familiar with the question from the beginning to the end. Ihave never conversed with him upon this subject, nor do I know what his impressions are, but if he is in possession of evidence either that I mutilated the body in question or boasted that it was a “good enough Morgan till after tho election,” he will, doubtless, re gard this a fitting occasion to produce it TW. August 6, 1875. THE CENTENNIAL THE REPUBLIC OF HAYTI TO TAKE PART IN THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION—MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION DESIGNATED AND CHAR- ACTER OF HER CONTRIBUTIONS. Wasmxcrox, August 6, 1875. Tho last mail from Port an Prine brings advice that the approaching Centennial Exhibition. A communica- tion containing an official acceptance will shortly be The phrase had its origin something in this wise. In | 1827, a few months after William Morgan disappeared, | the body of a drowned man was found in Lake Ontario, near the outlet of Oak Orchard Creek, It was believed and to murdered be the body Morgan, of while others alleged it | another missing man—one | howev Monroe had whiskers; this body had not. | But to overcome this important fact the then editor of | the Rochester Advertiser charged that Mr. Weed had shaved off Monroe's whiskers, and by doing so had | made “a good enongh Morgan until after the election” | then pending, The slander was industriously used at the time, and has been a thorn in the side of Mr. Weed from that to this. Of course its repetition is lees irritating now than it was forty-eight years ago, but its use even as a joke has always ehafed Mr. Weed, and his more intimate friends were careful never to allude | to it in bis presence, | Mr. Dawson's article brought a correspondent of the | Albany Argus ‘‘to the front,” who not only reiterates | the charge against me, but furnishes what purports to | vit of the person who saw me commit the | be an aflid offence. ‘Phe Argus correspondent says:— | William Morgan was a man of medium size, very bald, | and shaved his whiskers off even to the top of his ears! and the body, which was found and calied Timothy | Monroe, was six inches longer than the height of William Morgan, Besides, the face of the body found | was covered with whiskers, and it was said that to make | the body found appear like Morgan some of the com- mittee who were sent to Oak Orchard Creck to an im- mense mass meeting of anti-Masons, among whom were Thurlow Weed and his right hand man Friday, named Jack Marchant, had pulled out the whiskers and shaved | the face of Monroe. Some time after this, in t of when anti-Masonry had become rife in politics, | Weed, who was younger then than he is now and | 9: Mr. | quite poor, and desirous of making himself somebody, | became the leader of the anti-Masonic party, ined much hatred and contempt — fc did not vote the anti-Masonic ticket, especially for those democrats who were not Masons, to whom he gave the hame of ‘Masons’ Jacks.’ And some Jack Mason, as I understood it, was rallying Thurlow about his false Morgan, when he, either jocosely or in earnest, re- | plied, ‘It is a good enough Morgan. till after election,” uch has always been the understanding until the Journal contradicted it, as above stated. As prima | facie evidence that he did say so, I will relate a fact to ‘show the animus of Thurlow Weed then. In the tall of 1828 Genoral Jackson was the democratic candidate for | President, Martin Van Buren for Governor and Enos ¥. Throop for: Lieutenant Governor. three days in different places in the town. Y: and enter: | all who | ae correspondent was then a resident of Roches. | ter, and was one of those offensive ani- is called “Jack Masons.” At that election | about four miles southwest of Rochester the polls were | held, and our v then quite yonng, to | show his ineffable contempt for Jack Masons, led up to | the polls a jackass and put a vote into its mouth, and us al toward the taken, whereupon your cor loud voice th tn theee words Monros County, r.—Lephania 6 rietta, in said county, doth depos low Weed pull ont the whiskers of dae hunt he did shave the same pent saith not, Sworn to before me, September, I indow where mndent printed copy of an affidayit, which was votes were ireen, of the town of Hen and ‘say that he saw Thur imothy Monroe, and And further depo: #27, ZEPHANIA GRE A CORRECTION, The Argus correspondent, it will be seen, claims to e bad personal knowledgo of the matter about which writes, and 1s evidently one of those who believed, , the accusations against mo to be true. ently does, on his memory, 1 will not hold him severely responsible for utterly misstat ing every material fact in his article, The election to which he refers was not held in 1828, but in 1827, neither General Jackson nor Martin Van Buren nor and still beliey Relying, as he @ when ‘e candidates, Enos T. Troop w The affidavit which, he says, ho read aloud at the polls at that election is a more skeleton perversion of an afMdayit which was | published in handbills and freely circulated, not only at the polls referred to, but throughout the county. I The polls were | r read in qnite a | transmitted to the Central Committee at Philadelphia The list of the members forming the Haytian Commis- sion is not yet completed, but among those re- | by many who saw it tobe the body of the kidnapped | Siding in the United States are the following:— Mr. B. C. Clark, Haytian Consul at Boston; Mr. Camillo Lynch, of New York; Dr. J. F. Chauveau and Mr. | Timothy Monroe. The latter met with this difficulty, | Alfred Harrisse, of Washington, the last gentleman as secretary of the commission. facturing country ITS CONTRIBUTIONS will chiefly consist in the products of its rich and fertilo soil, Various ores from its mines, specimens of its Hayti not being a manu- | forests, so remarkable for their precious woods, and timbers of every kind; indigenous plants used in in- dustry and commerce and numerous other interestin; staple articles which make Hayti one of the principal Antilles for its natural growth. Among the objects worthy of the attention of lovers of art will be a statue (said to have been purchased by the government) made by a young Haytian sculptor, Mr. Edmond Laforestrie, who was awarded a medal by the jury of the last annual exhibition at Paris, The peace and satisfactory condition of affairs en- joyed now by the people of Hayti, and the energy they jaiely have displayed in varions pursuits, it is claimed will enable them to make their contributions very creditable and attractive. THE CRISPINS STRIKE. MEETING OF THE STRIKERS—THE ‘‘CUTTERS” AND ‘BOTTOMERS” TO CONSOLIDATE—A GEN- ERAL STRIKE ANTICIPATED. A very enthusiastic meeting of the bottomers on strike at Weil Brothers, No. 80 Warren street, was held yester- day, at No. 100 Chatham street, Previous to this meet- ing the Central Council of Knights of the Order of St. Crispin, Manhattan district, held a session, and issued a card to the press explaining the condition of the strike, This card states that the organization has not been ag- gressive, but they have at all times made it their espe, cial duty to consider what would be most conducive to the general interest of the trade While they have made many concessions to their bosses they do not wish it to be understood that their organization is weak. They are willing to meet the employers on any ground, but old require that when the employers agree with the counell the agreement must be kept, and in case of any viola- tion the shop will be immediately YLACED ON STRIKE and remain so until the employer pays the expenses of the strike. The card is signed by Michael P. Murphy, | Presid and by delegates from lodges Nos, 105, 130, 138 and 142. The council, after preparing their statement, received a delegation from the cutters on strike at B.C, Burt's, 5 Thomas street, the object being to seek a con. tion with the team men. The conneil informed delegation that they were governed by a code of and, although their entire ass was with the poli the | tay cutters, they could.do nothing definite until the various team lodges met during the coming week, The cutters Were satisfied with this, and retired, The matter will be brought — befor the lodges this w , apd if a consolidation is effected it is feared that goveral team | men will be ealled out from various shops, meliding | those at work at Burt's, This appears tobe a com- | mene of a general strike among the men, and our | reporter was informed last evening that such Aetion is not only probable but may take place to-day or to-mor- row The number that was Weil brok er upon. conneil state that Weil's shop wa “settled”? two weeks his word in regard to what tl The cor one of the go, but Mr. conneil had culled on him to know the reason why he did t but were received with con- tempt, and the matter now stands with him not 80 much «question of wages as the recognition. of the council, No matter how much wages he offers, he must recognize the council first and he settle with his “bottomers” untoss by | the strike. This action is taken by the | ofthe “bad faith” of the bosses, and they are deter- | mined to protect themselves by every means in their power. |" The men are confident that the bosses cannot hold | ont much longer ax the work is spoiled by incompetent | men, and the “scabs,"’ as the outsiders are called, are each garment, She indicated buttons she had sewed om | preserved, and still retain in my posscasion one of those | discharged almost as fast as Whey are engaged, poll of election held at Haward’s, in the town of the government of Hayti has decided to participate in | | searching for acquaintances ai THE HAMILTONS. History of a Remarkable American Family. FOUR OOTOGENARIANS. Sketches of the Surviving Members. IS GENIUS HEREDITARY? In this the centenary season, when the memorics of the great struggle for independence are being revived all over the land and the memories of the men either directly or indirectly connected with it recalled with more or less of affection and admiration, Alexander Hamilton and the family he left behind him to connect our times with his cannot well be forgotten, Hamilton, the brave, patriotic, chivalric type of politician of tho early days of the Republic, is invested in our time with a halo of glory and greatness that his brightest dreams of posthumous fame could hardly have ever hoped for, As we recede from the high standard of public morals held sodearand sacred by the fathers of the country tho qualities of mind and soul possessed by Hamilton as- sume grander lustre and proportions, The children of such aman become naturally the subject of much peculiar popular interest at this especial time. Few of the founders and architects of the Republic left immediate descendants who are living at this day and who havo anything like the flbre of their ancestors, It may be possible that, throngh the mellow haze of time, we givo the ancients credit for greater mental grasp, higher moral training and sterner virtue than the moderns, The reverse of the saying, ‘The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones,” holds true in the estimate Americans are in the habit of making of the early patriots. Politics and politicians have fallen so far in the virtue and excellence that marked the opening chapters of tho ‘nation’s history that we gladly ascend the stream to taste of and admiro tho limpid purity of the fountain head. Hamilton, though leaving behind him no offspring who have made their mark on the public records of this generation, gave us citizens, who, in the duties of lifo, tho example of high and irreproachable character and all that goes to ornament and elevate society, excelled. The recent demise of Alexander Hamilton, second son of the great statesman, must awaken universal interest in all that concerned and in all who were attached by ties of blood to one who fills so distinguished a place in the roll of America’s legion of heroes. And Hamilton was a hero, though he never won great laurels by the sword. He will, however, abide in history with the more rugged warriors of the Revolution, because he fonght as successfully for the same object as they did, though with different weapons and in another fleld— Btrow his ashes to the wind, Whose voice or sword has served mankind; And is he dead whose glorious mind Lifts thine on high? To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die. And now that the centennial era ts upon us no more appropriate theme could be revived than the memories and virtues of the first patriots. People are naturally inquisitive about THE DESCENDANTS OF GREAT MEN. ‘There is a pardonable curiosity to discover if they in- herit any of the characteristics of their fathors, America is not without being able to show many instances of the transmission from generation to generation of high fam- ily traits in mind and character. Though on the other hand it must be admitted that in the majority of cases the inheritance of uncommon gifts. drops with the original possessor. In no country on the globe does the son of a _ great man, if not in some degree great himself, sink so quickly out of sight.’ The death of the late Alexander Hamilton and the announcement that he was the eldest son of the famous victim of Aaron Burr's pistol must have been a novel surprise toa great many people, but it awakened uncommon interest. It recalled the mem- ory of the senior Hamilton’s brief, fitfal and brilliant career, around which more romance and touching in- terest clustered than that of any other man identified with the Revolution. From being the bosom friend of Washington to being the victim of Aaron Burr’s fatal weapon, the interest in his life for the | reader of American history deepens with tho progress of the story and reaches a ten- | der-toned climax with the recital of his dying words, The melancholy ending on the heights of Wee- hawken of a career so promising, and in a quarrel that the insane code of the time demanded should be arbi- trated in blood alone, will never lose its tragic interest for Americans, When his military and political services are forgotten the story of that duel will be remembered. It is touching to recall an incident of that unfortunate transaction as illustrative of the cool character of the man along with the tender and earnest solicitude of the parent. HAMILTON'S LAST WorDs, Two days before he was killed he drew up his will leaving all to his wife, to whom ho thus addressed him- self:— Should it happen that there isnot enongh for the payment of my debts Tentreat my dear children, if they cr any af them shonld ever be able. to make, wp the deficiency. I. withont hesitation, commit to their delicacy a wish which is dictated by my own, though conscious that I have too far sacrificed the interests of my family to public avocntions, and, on this necount, have the less elaim to burden iny chil: dren. yet I trust in thelr magnanimity to appreciate, ns they ought, this my request. In so unfavorable an event of things the support of their dear mother with the most re. spectful and tender attention is a duty all the sacredness of which they will feel, The night just before the mecting ho drew up a long Paper, ina part of which, referring to the duel with Burr, he says:—If our interview is conducted in the usual manner and it pleases God to give me the oppor- tunity to throw away my first fire, and I have thoughts of even reserving my second fire and thus giving Colo- nel Burr adouble opportunity to panse and reflect.” Burr wrote an equally long farewell letter to his “dear Theodosia” Next year will be celebrated the cente- nary of General Schuyler’s success in checking the ad- vance of Burgoyne’s army. Then the fact will be re- membered that just about the time the jealonsly of Gates was making the heart of the noble Schuyler soro with irritation the balm to his wounded ‘spirit came in the oceurrence of the marriage of his daughter with | Alexander Hamilton, then on the staff of General Washington. THE LIVING SONS a of Hamilton—John C., James A. and Philip Hamilton, aged respectively eighty-five, eighty-cight and _seventy- three years—live in different parts of the country; the first in Twentieth street, New York; the second at Irv- ington, on the Hudson, and the last at Poughkeepsie, The deceased brother ‘lived unostentatiously at No, 83 Clinton place. Wherever they have lived report has always spoken well of them. They have never ob- truded themselves on public notice, but, on the contrary, have studiously avoided notice and lived the lives of quiet, unpretending citizens, discharging their duties as such in a modest’ and unattractive fashion. All the brothers were men of splendid physique—men of the olden type—given to all kinds of manly exercises, open air recreation, temperate habits of life and cheerful ways of thinking. ru A Henan represen IP HAMILTON, live Was proceeding in the hot along the in street of Pough- keepsie asking here and there of a passing countryman without, success for the residence of Mr. Philip Hamil- ton, when he ree ed a kindly hint to “call on Bill Morris, the auctioneer,” and the encouraging addition, “He Knows everybody, and who he don't know ain't | worth knowing.’’ Bill himself was within earshot at | the time and received the compliment with a smile of | satisfaction, Bill certainly looked as if he might know | everybody worth knowing—a little dapper man, with fashionable side whiskers, a white hat tilted over bis left eyebrow, hia right thumb screwed into an armhole of his vest, and a pair of bright, pinkish brown eyes, mong the passers-by, Ball appeared to wish he knew the whole world and the whole world knew him. “Of course I know old Mr. Hamilton, and feel proud of his acquaintance,” responded Mr. Morris, with a con- siderable air of importance, in answer to the inquiry as to his ki the gentleman who was bi ought for, t know, sir,” he continued, Hamiltons are the most aristocratic family in this coun. try, bat old Mr. Hamilton here don't appr ite himself, That's what's the matter; he don’t appreciate himself,” And hore the little auctioneer put his left thumb in the other armhole of his vest, shook his hat back on his head, closed one eye and fixed the other on the weather vane of a church in the distance, ‘ nean, | suppose, Mr. Morris, that he puts on no that ain't it A to, people he hadn't ought to talk to and goes around like any ordinary man," He couldn’t put ’em on ithe | but he’s too much of a democrat, talks to | * How long has ho lived here ?”” “Not very lou He b'lonas to Rochester, Ho was ‘ HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUS? 9, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT, the of a district court up there forty years ago, He vey ated here only. a few a and that’s the rea- son he ain’t known so well. But the old man is a trump, you bet. Though, as I said before, he don’t ap- te himself. That's just it, He don’t take a tum- to himself, as “you say in D'ye suppose that if 1 was a son of the great Alexander Hamilton I'd keop an auction shop? No, siree; I'd keop thoroughbreds and raise a shine.’ “But per! Mr. Morris, he is happy as he ts.” “That may be !’’ exclaimed the ambitious little man; “but a great name ought to be kept up, even if you to run a cireus to do it.” By this time the hour was up for the auction to be- gin, 80, leaving the auctioneer and following his direc- tions, the reporter proceeded along Washington street to the corner of Mansion, On the way, in order to make sure of the address, he shopped 10 ask a gentle- Man sitting on a doorstep and fanning himself, “Whero does Mr, Philip Hamilton live?” “There's no such person,” was the quick and de- cisive reply, as if he should know all and every one who lived around, : “I mean,” was the astonished retort, ‘tho son of tho great Alexander Hamilton,” “Ob, yes, now I understand; you mean ‘the old man. “And is that his name?” “That's his name,’’ FAC TO FACE, So the reporter went his way and soon stood in front of a low white paling extending a few hundred feet on two streets and enclosing so dense a mass of foliage that it was impossible at a first glance to observe a residence inside, At this moment there came walking down the road, with a weighty but firm tread, a tall, portly man, with white hair and side whiskers, an dressed in a suit of dark blue flannel. He looked like a retired admiral or an old commandant ofanavy yard, His suit of blue was just sufliciently suggestive of the marine service, while the conscious bearing and air of authority, as of one accustomed to command and to have his own way, made the delusion. all the greater of his being some old’ saperannuated ofh- cer of high rank in the pavy. When he opened tho wicket and proceeded up the avenue leading to the house (pointed ont as that of Mr. Philp Ham- ilton) there was little doubt remaining in the reporter's mind that this was the man_ ho sought, and so ho elected to follow, When, however, the writer made his appearance inside the wicket, a dog hard by growled in irritation and the big man in the blue snit turned round to greet the in- der. A well-preserved, hale, hearty and good-look- , in fact handsome man, is ex.Judge Philip Hamil- ton, youngest son of the first U “1 States Secret of the Treasury. Standing over five feet ten inches, erect a8 4 palm tree, full in the face and little wrinkled, with a clear eye, a quick hearing and a steady voice, he seomed as it he had many more years of health and vigor to exhaust before succumbing to the inevitable destroyer, Nor did he seem to be one devoid of lively spirits, though cool and reserved with strangers, as all the Hamiltons are, for the reporter noticed that the old gentleman was beginning a banter with one of his hired help just as he entered. The house had no pretensions to show, A modest white frame building removed from the road and hid in leafy trees and shrubbery, it seemed a snug and suitable residence for an old couple descending into the valley of the shadow, Vines trailed over and under the piazza; a heavy hedgerow stood beside the avenue leading to the rear part of the house. All about was cool and green and inviting to rest, HIS CHARACTERISTICS, The conversation was not of long duration, but yet Jong enough to show that the ex-Judge has not lost any of his mental vigor and keen observation. He was flai- tered with the kindly notices published in the New York papers concerning his deceased brother, It was Possible to detect a slight resemblance to Secretary fish in the manner, voice and features of Mr. Hamilton, though the latter looks really ten years younger than. the distinguished head of the State "Department, Fish is of the old Knickerbocker type— full-featured, good-natured, mellow-voiced—a man not. likely to frighten children from their playthings. Judge Hamilton lived among the Knickerbockers so many: years that his featufes would seem to have assimilated to the ancient type. Among his friends and neighbors the Judge is represented as a man of merry mood, brimming over with ancedotes of the olden days, when the earth was to him fresh and golden, The new has no such charm for him as the old, Ho loves old hou old trees, old books, old wine and old friends. His wife is still living. He had two sons, one of whom was killed in the last war. in the perform: ¢ of w gallant action, The other practises. medicine in this city. Of course Mr, Hamil- ton has long since retired from active life, but he keeps en rapport with the events of the day and the muta- tions in polities and the progress of the country. He Pe regularly for his mail to the Post Office, where he is always a Welcome visitor to those who know him. “It's very delightful to hear him talk about former times,” said a citizen of Poughkeepsie to the reporter. “When he is in the humor and hkes his company he can talk well.’? “Does he talk much ?? “Well, yes; sometimes when the old man warms up to the subject. You see he has always something to say. You should just hear him tell how he argued Sol Thompson's case before a new country judge up at Utica thirty or forty years, He flummuxed the Judge on Greek, and, though his case was a bad one at the best, he won it,” Another impression given by a native of Poughkeep- sic about him was to the effect that if such men as Judge Hamilton could only be got to go into public positions the country would be inestimably benefited. “Look,” said he, “at what a fine and impressive rep- resentative of America such aman would make at the Court of St, James or any other Court in Europe.” “Why is it such men cannot be induced to try popular favor?” asked the writer, “My opinion,” said the gentleman, “is that training has a great deal to do with it. Men who live the pecu- liar, shy and retiring lives of the Hamiltons become wodded'to that way of passing existence so entirely that the excitement of politics acts as a bugbear on their nerves, and rather than venture in for the pyblic good they remain out forever to gratify themselves.” Before quitting the Judge he observed to the reporter that the Hamiltons had so few salient points to notice in their lives that a short paragraph ought to be sufll- cient to dispose of the whole of them, Of course this was only an expression of the innate modesty of the man, for there are certainly enongh materials in the ca- reer of so long-lived a race to make several respectable volumes. THE WAMILTON AT IRVINGTON, At Irvington the Heratp representative saw Colonel James Alexander Hamilton, who is: now in his eighty- eighth year, and wonderfully well preserved. The family type was unmistakable—the full formed features, erect figure, clear eye and mellow voice told he was a Hamilton and the offspring of Phil Schuyler’s noble and beautiful daughter. Colonel Hamilton stands fully five fect ten inches, He wears no whiskers; his face is clean shaved and florid as a boy's, He has a good crop of silver-gray hair on his head. His manners are of the old school— | simple, suave and alike toall. The energy of mind and muscle he exhibits at his advanced age is the marvel of all the villagers, who love him as a father and patri- arch. He has passed forty years of a well spent life in the neighborhood of this picturesque highland vil- lage. He was a colonel in the war of 1812 and subse- quently Minister to Russia under Andrew Jackson. His profession was the law after he quit the temporary service of a soldier. Being thrown, like the rest of his brothers after his father’s death, on his own resources, he made his way in the world to wealth and distinction more rapidly than the others, He had a penchant for politics, without ever taking any active part therein, but during the late war President Lineoln deigi ask his advice on more than one critical oce: A low jutting spit of land below the village of Irvington marks the estate of Colonel Hamilton, where it projects across. the railroad into the Hudson, It was originally several hundred acres in ex- tent, but some years ago it was cut up in three portions, one being given to his daughter, Mrs.George L, Schuyler} asccond to his daughter, Mrs. R. L. Blatchford, and a third was sold to Mr. Joseph Stiner, the tea merebant, of New York. Still there is a very fair extent of estate left. In the middie of it, on an eminence, facing the Hudson, stands an Italian villa of handsome propor- tions, thongh now neglected to some extent, as also arot the grounds. Here the Coldnel lives in the simple man- ner of the Hamiltons—no Inxury, no extravagance, The place is called Nevas, and the’ owner is proud of the name as well as of the place. He had three daughters. Mrs, Schuyler and Mrs, Blatehford are dead, and the third daughter is now me ried to the husband of her deceased sister, Mrs, Schuyler, The Colonel is married to his second wife, a dangbter of Robert Morris, an old resident of Irvington and for many years Chief Constable of the village. Captain Warner Epeaks in raptures of Colonel Hamilton's character, “One of the old school,” eried the Captain, who is a man of Liliputian frame, with @ Brobdingnagian soul “One of the old ‘school,” he repeated. > onel Hamilton will leave no man like in. the village when he dies. Old and young, rich and poor alike love and honor him. He belongs to one of the biggest families America ever produced and®| yet he is just as simple and unpretending as you or me, and to see him hop around; why, sir, he is as spry as a green bay colt in fly time. Never Was sick a day and may live ten years yet. He is the sociablest kind of man Lever see. He has a good, kind word for every- and unless a man is on good terms with himsel why, he don’t feel like throwing a kind word to any- body else, But take a look at him; go and see him, and if you want to know more about him, come down in a day or two and I'll try to get you his biography, wrote by himself, that’s up here in the Children’s Sabbath meeting school.”” The Captain went home after this, with a better appetite for his frugal meal and with re- newed ad 1on for the character of Colonel James A. Hamilton, ir JOUN C. HAMILTON, In a large, roomy brown stone honse on Twentieth street, off Fifth avenue, Mr. John ©. Hamilton, the third surviving son of Alexander Hamilton, resides, It is. a house a Hamilton would be likely to select. It is solid without being pretentious, and while within ear- shot of the fashionable hum of Fifth avenue is suf. ciently far removed to secure all the objects of quiet and seclusion. Retirement from the bustle of the world a pears to be the hereditary disposition of the Hamilte family. The interior of the mansion, like the exterto Verity ‘There is a wide vestibule, without ent, and rooms with solid mahogany tables without a serap of carving, Here Mr. John ©, Hamilton passes the evening of his life m the comy of his two unmarried daughters and in the enjoyn of his books, for he isan author, and, witho! distinguished himself much in’ the fleld of liter has done enongh to show that he might have done bet- ter if he tric In 1888 he published the life of bis father, in two volumes, Tt was written under a strong filial sense duty, and is entirely devoid of those or- naments and attractions that are so frequently em- ployed to make biography endurable reading, The work Was never finished—that is, the tragic at the subject of thediography was Jett antonehed, and everybody must adinit this commendable in every “semee. The book is now hard to tind, and im truth is wholly forgotten. It is not known whether Mr, Hamilton ven- Wired into authorship subsequently, but that he has strong literary tastes, if a member of the HistoricaP Sor ind evinces a deep mterest in the progress anil elevation of American letters is generally tndorstood, He is a man above the medium height, of full frame, and, like the reat of his brothers, with the appearance, if not tho reality, of possessing a suverabundant stock oF aah ond vilahtr, Mo has o planet Des and | 4 vor’ indy, courteous: jeman. ives retired lifo, Sianan invading the busy marte o men where commerce, war, politics, the crops or the last sensation in Wall street make the staple of conver- THE RUDRET OF THE HAMILTONS was named Philip, after his «futher, General Schuy- ler, He was untimely cut off, and was deemed to be the boy on whom the mantle of bis father was destined ta descend, He fell, like his parent, in aduel. His an- tagonist was jeorge Eucker, from Palatine, Both ‘oung men had a military turn of mind. Eacker was in his twenty-fourth year, and was a great admirer of Aaron Burr. Hamilton’s supporters nicknamed him “the — Mohawk — Dutchman,” Hed 4 a young friend named Price, one evening Philip lamilton paid a_ visit to the Park Theatre, where he ized Eacker in the auditorium, aceompanied by a couple of ladies, Hamilton made use ofasneering remark toward Eacker, and the iP re- sponded by saying that he should expect satisfaction, ‘The code of the day made it obligatory on both Hamil- ton and Price to challenge Kacker, which was done the same evening, The following Sunday they met, Price first engaged Eacker, and after an interchange of five or six shots the seconds inte and honor’s Somande were satisfied, Hamilton camo next, and at the first fire fell mortally wounded, His remains were interred in Trinity churchyard, and two years subsequently hig father was laid by his’ side, Racker, overcome with re. morse at killing Hamilton, failed away, and died in twe years after, GENERAL ALEXANDER HAMILTON, lately deceased, was the eldest beeping a the Hamil. ton brothers. He died at the age of eighty-nine ian preserving to the last an uncommon of iy and mental vigor. James A., John C. Philip Ham, ilton aro aged respectively clghty-clght, eighty-five and seventy-three years. The first nai lives at Ir on the Hudson, the second on Twentieth stroct and tho Jast at Poughkeepsie. The deceased brother lived at No, 83 Clinton Bisco, The entire family numbered seven children, all of whom wero born in New York, Tho an- cestors of the Hamiltons came from England and were distinguished there for extensive territorial ‘asions and active participation in the public affairs of the king- dom. At the time of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr the Hamilton fam- ily lived at No, 52 street, and wera deemed un extremely happy houschold, Mrs, Hamil: ton was a noble woman, celebrated in the society of that day as well for the charms of her person as for the more enduring qualities of her mind, head of the family was the most conspicnous man in America, He wat President of the Society of the Cincinnati, a leadin, light of the Bar, while behind him streamed a brig! chain of patriotic performances in the fleld and in the forum. The children of parents so eminently distin. guished could not fail to be surrounded by the best 8o- influences within the city of New York. Young «ler Hamilton was a lad of promise, and was quite forward. at school at the time, seventy-one years ago, when his father fell by the platol of Aaron Burr, The senior Hamilton left his family in rather redaced circumstances, and this was an incentive to the sons to struggle for themselves. Young Hamtl- ton at the age of twenty-cight was a general of volun- teers in command of the fort at Sandy Hook, which at that time was a crazy combination of mud, fonce rails and sand bags. Subsequently he was off to Meet the enemy at varions points on the coast and in Canada, and, though not mentioned as having promin- ently distinguished himself, most of the ongagementa in which he was involved having been of minor im- portance, there is no question but that ho worthily sustained the reputation of father, When the war ended he left this country for France, and remained there for over five years, making in the meantime several trips through Ruripes Ho was married to the daughter of a leading merchant of thie city, whose residence then was on Greenwich sti Mr, Knox. On returning from abroad, he settled down al where he passed a singularly placid and unevent career up to the day of his death, He was of shortor stature than bis other brothers, but of broader propor. ae He was Soave pea bright when peat Saree and if, as some speculative writer su; tho greatnoss of bis father’s fame did not Create him and vent his true development, he would havo equalled Alexander, Sr., in all the qualittes of a statosman, LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. The romance of war is to have fresh illustration ing work entitled ‘The Woman in Battle; a Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, &c., of Madame L. J. Velas quez, otherwise known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, ©: S.A.” which W. A. Ramsay, of Atlansa, will pub lish, An enlarged edition of that valuablo work, “Down- tng’s Landscape Gardening,” with a new supplement by Henry Winthrop Sargent, is in tho press of the Orange Judd Company. The useful arts and their related sciences advance so rapidly that all the old books become quickly obsolete. Hence the seventh (London) edition of “Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines,” nearly all rewritten, and filling three volumes of 3,274 pages and 2,100 om gravings, will be welcomed. Our hygienic literature grows apace. A new book im press is Dr. W. W. Hall’s “How to Live Long; on Health Maxims, Physical, Mental and Moral.” Mr. Linus W. Miller has in press his ‘‘Notes of am Exile to Van Diemen’s Fand, comprising incidents of the Canadian Rebellion of 1838; Trial of the Author im Canada, and Transportation to Van Diemen’s Land.” Macmillan & Co, have tn press a complete ecclesiast} cal history of Ireland, by Rev. W. D. Killen. ‘The French government, it appears, cannot get along without the censorship. It has just interdicted the Abbé Michaud’s new book, ‘De L’Etat Présent de 1’Eglise Catholique Romaine en France.” ‘Among forthcoming works of local history is Mr. P. Fuller’s “History of the Town of Warwick, R. L,: from 1642." Mr. A. M. Dias has issued from Osgood’s press “Work and Culture in the Household: a Domestic Problem.” A new volume of the calendar of State papers relating to Ireland has appeared, and covers the three years 1608 to 1610. The Bacon-Shakespeare controversy is reopened in ¢ book entitled “Bacon versus Shakespeare: a Plea for the Defendant; by Thomas D. King,” which the new United States-Canadian publishing house of the Lovd Printing Company at Rouse’s Point, N. Y., will bring oat The Rey, M. A. Sherring, who is intimately acquainted with Oriental subjects, has brought out in Londons “flistory of Protestant Missions, From their com mencement in 1706 to 1871.” Dean Howson, whose genial presence as a traveller is the United States is freshly remembered, is writing, im conjunction with Mr. Alfred Rimmer, an interesting work on the “Old Streets and Homesteads of England." Shakespeare’s materials are to be brought out by Mr. W. ©. Hazlitt in six small volumes, under the title of “Shakespeare's Library; a Collection of all the known Plays, Novels, Tales and other Articles which the Great Poet is Supposed to have Employed in the Composition of his Works.” The London Atheneum is “agreeably surprised’’ with an American novel, “The Mills of the Gods,” by Mra, J. W. Twells, which Lippincott has published, The swarm of books about Spain has been enlarged by the publication of ‘Cosita’s Espaiiolas; or, Every day Life in Spain.” by Mrs, Harvey. * The new quarto edition of the “Cyclopmdia of Ameri, can Literature,” by A. FE. and G. I, Duyckinck, bring: * ing the work down to 1874, has been completed and published in two volumes by T. K. Zoll, of Philadelphia. ‘The veteran historian Von Ranke has published a work on the origin of the war of the French Revolution, 1791-2, which is distinguished by all this author's peculiar ability. The new correspondence of Schiller, with his sister and brother-in-law, is very disappointing, consisting almoes wholly of letters of mere family interest. ‘A volume of very eloquent lectures on the Vedic myth- ology, by Professor do Gubernatis, has just appeared ag Florence. Under the title of “Adam's Ancestors; a History of Fossil Man,” M. Meunier has given a capital scientifio treatise to France and to the world. Mr. Tennyson's publishers mako the fixed charge of five guineas for permission to set any of the poct’s songs to music. Applications of this kind amount on an aver- | age to two or three a day. Tho fourth volume of “La Guerre Civile des Etate Unis,” by the Comte de Paris, ts nearly completed, bringing the narrative down to the events following the capture of Savannah, in 1865. The “Memoirs of M. Thiers,” on which he ts still en gaged, will make at least twenty volumes, ‘There has long been needed a good history of Prussia in the English language, and Captain Wyatt is about to fill the void by his “Iistory of Prussia and its Mili- tary Organization,” the first volume of which will ap. pear in London tho prosent fall. M. Francois le Normant has added to his many achol- arly works ono entitled “Ia Divination ot la Sctence de Présago Mr. George B. Emerson's great work on the trees and shrubs of, Massachusetts, which has been long out of print, will be reissued in two volumes, handsomely th lustrated, by Little, Brown & Co, The correspondence and souvenirs of the brothort Jean-Jacques and André Ampére, from 1805 to 1864, jast out in Paris, are exceedingly interesting. Smiles’ “Lives of the Euginoers’’ are sometimes erith ised by men of that profession as “historical novels,” but they are still having a great run of readers, A presumptnons penny-wliner named Edwin Paxton Hood has written a book on Thomas Carlyle, which tha Atheneum denounces as extremely ambitious, extremely silly end marked by every possible fault of taste and af style, ’