Washington telegraph., 1856-09-17
The "Heayen-Descended" Jones.

We bear no malice towards the ex-Gover-
nor,-on the contrary eve feel' to pity him
for his fall, "a la mode de Lucifer,"
from the pearly battlements of the old
Wing towers, into the slough wherein he
founders nows We bear him no malice,
but can't help feeling. " "tickled at
the following from the Memphis Eagle
& Enquirer. Pending the assembling
of the Convention which nominated Gen.
SCoTT, friend of ours, then an enthusiastic
admirer of JONES, and Whig-now a
supporter of ''Old Squatter Sovereign" !"
wrote to us with the most positive assu-
RANGES that JONES stood first-rate chance
for the nomination for the Presidency,
and that if he failed in that he would
receive the nomination for the Vice Pres
idency. "Let who might be nominated,
(said hey mark you, the ticket will be
elected. Why, sir, JONES was never
beaten for anything in his life" We re-
piled to him that nothing but the fact of
his (JONEs' nomination for either Office,
would convince us that he stood any
chance, and that if be was nominated he
would bring disaster and defeat to the
party. and if his choice received the nom-
ination the result would be fatal to the
party. Well, JONES and SEWARD secur-
ed SCoTT's nomination. What the result
was, let history tell. But to the extract
PRENTICE AND JoNEs-ssIn Governor
Jones Senatorial stump-speech, published
the other day by the Memphis Appeal,
he called Mr.. Prentice, the editor of the
Louisville journal, San eminent man, a
man of superior talents" and further
said -
81 hold in my hand a book, and it is a
very important book, written in 1881, a
few years after these things transpired-
And by whom was it written? By one of
the most gifted and talented men in this
nation-George D. Prentice, of the Lou
isvilie journal. Mr.. Prentice was the
confidential friend Of Mr. Clay, and his
biographer."
Now let us see how Hir Prentice returns
these compliments. In the last number
of the Louisville Journal, we find the
following paragraph, in a leading editorial
written by Prentice himself:
'sGov. Jones, one of those fuming but
fading zealots who blazed with Wing ardol
while steeped in the magnetic influence
of Mr. Clay, but who quickly rayed cut
their enthusiasm into the night which set
tied upon his tomb, has, as is well known
whole bosom full of private griefs against
Mr.. Fillmore, springing from the latter's
too impartial distribution of official pat
ronage in Tennessee during his admins
tration. We have no doubt tl.at Gov
Jones held out bravely against his paltry
griefs, but he IS qc~aA gessel and has
sunk at last. riddled with pique and perfo
rated with grudges and streaming with bit
terness at every beggarly pore Tht
waves that closed over him sang his dirge
Politically speaking he is no more
This is certainly new way of pay
ing the game, ''tickle-me-and-Tll-tic
you" In another place, in the same ar
! ticle, Prentice calls our Senator ga politi
cal harlequin" Won't the Appeal com,
to the rescue? Or, does it remember tha
it accused Gov. Jones of coalescing Will
the Freesoil Seward wing of the Whie
party, under Scott, in 1852, in order t,
! defeat the conservative national wing unde
| Fillmore ?"