John Jacob Astor, William Astor, De Lancey Kane, Ward McAllister, George Henry Warren, Eugene A. Livingston, William Butler Duncan, E. Templeton Snelling, Lewis Colford Jones, John W. Hamersley, Benjamin S. Welles, Frederick Sheldon, Royal Phelps, Edwin A. Post, A. Gracie King, Lewis M. Rutherford, Robert G. Remsen, Wm. C. Schermerhorn, Francis R. Rives, Maturin Livingston, Alex. Van Rensselaer, Walter Langdon, F. G. D’Hauteville, C. C. Goodhue, William R. Travers.” These proud patriots, constituting a tribunal upon whose decision a man’s claim to social equality with any other citizen in New York must rest, could find much in the conduct of their descendants to question with regard to their title to social superiority. The ventilation given to the Drayton-Borrowe-Millbank affair reflected no great credit upon the great name Astor--the first on the list of the “Patriarchs.” The asinine utterances of a descendant of another of the “Patriarchs,” which is here given, gives little evidence of inherited wisdom or common sense. In the curious case recently tried in New York relative to the right of a women’s association to erect a statue to a lady who, though counted among the metropolitan “Four Hundred,” was possessed of much public spirit and philanthropic energy, one of the witnesses--a member of the same family--testified that her grandfather “never invited such people as Horace Greeley” to his house. A correspondent of the New York _World_ enquires: “Is it possible that we have an aristocratic society in this republican country of ours to which the great founder of the _Tribune_ could not be admitted? Horace Greeley was born in New Hampshire, the native State of Gen. John Stark, Levi Woodbury, Daniel Webster, and a long line of soldiers, statesmen, and men famous in literature. If it is a title to aristocracy to belong to a family who were original settlers of the country, the Hamiltons are comparatively a new people, the great founder of the family being an emigrant from the West Indian island of Nevis about the year 1770. The Schuylers derive their distinction from Major-General Philip Schuyler, who was a distinguished officer of the Revolution, but whose services could not compare with those of that sterling old hero of Bennington--John Stark. “Why, Mr. Editor, there are thousands of good Democratic citizens who can trace back their descent to the Pilgrim Fathers, more than a hundred years before Alexander Hamilton landed from the West Indies. Is it not a relic of feudal times and barbarism to claim distinction above our fellows and superiority of birth on account of the deeds of an ancestor a hundred or more years ago? “‘Honor and fame from no condition rise. Act well your part; there all the honor lies.’”