Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-04-15
Longstreet--A Good Story of Him.
rom the Knoxville Press and Herald.

From the Knoxville Press and Herald.
We find in Forney's Press the follow
ing account of the modus op erandi o.
Longstreet's confirmation. We had
hoped that the speech of Senator Brown.
lew would have arrived by this time, bu,
we have seen nothing of il. We car
hardly hope that the Knoxville Whis
would now defile its columns with such a
TRADE against "a wise appointment or
give circulation to such abuse of man
whose appointment had commanded its
unqualified approval Here is what
the Press says:
After a stormy executive session o
the Senate, General James B. Longstree,
was confirmed as Surveyor of the Port oil
New Orleans, by vote OF twenty-five to
ten, but one more ths.n q quorum vote.
The Louisiana Senator'S were divided,
Kellogg favoring and Harris op posing
Cameron made a bitter opposition.
Brownlow indorsed his langus ge and
strongly protested against the con6rma-
ton. When the vote was taken several
Senators paired Of, and it was lucky for
Longstreet the vote was had at the time,
as in few minutes more the Senate
would have been left without u quorum,
the Senators dropping out one by one.
Warner, Of Alabama, made ari earnest
and eloquent speech in favor of the con-
firmation, pointing out the good effect it
would have throughout the South. The
majority of the Southern Senator also
favored Longstreet, and he was eventu-
ally confirmed"
All James B. Longst'.eetl" Thereby
hangs tale.
About year or little more ago, Cen
eral Longstreet having received, a.s he
thought, sufficient Endorsements and
commentators Of his reconstructed 10y
atty, to venture passage through loyal
East Tennessee-the scene of his chi'val-
rous deeds-found himself landed at the
depot in Knoxville one bright afternoon.
The train tarried long enough to give him
an opportunity to cast his eyes over tn g
scene Of his ravages, at the time he laid
siege 10 Knoxville and drove Brownlow
and other Union men out into the storms
of winter to seek uncertain refuge be-
yond the mountains. But he was inter
rupted in his contemplstions. A we'll
dressed gentleman approached and po-
litely inquired: " Is this General Long
street2" That's my name" was the
hesitating reply. 81 have precept here
for your arrest" was the astonishing re-
joinder of his interrogstor, who proceeded
TO inferm him that be was United States
Marshal for the District of East Ten nes-.
see, and that the dscument be held in
his hand was a cdpids for his arrest,
issued from the United States Court aE
Knoxville, in which court there was an
Indictment then pending against him for
high treason against the Government of
the United States. Glancing at the pa
per, the General, who felt his situation a
little more embarrassing than when at
the head Of his corps he sat down before
Knoxville 10 1868, saw that he was in
dicted as james y. Longstreei,"
whereas his name is James, without the
"B." THAT, sir, is not my name
James B. Longstreet is possibly very
bad man, but Pm not the man you're
looking for. Saying which, be spraug
upon the steps Of the car which was rap
idly moving off; and that is the way
General James Longstreet made his
escape from = United States Marshal. 20
land in a $4,000 Office in the. city Of
New Orleans. az
Cute fellow, that.