The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-04
Some Of the Distinguished Men OF the
Convention.

The following paragraph is clipped
from letter written from Nashville,
by correspondent of the New York
Tribune. We are prepared to cor
rect one of the correspondents state
ments in regard to Col. GORDON. He
did not have cob-pipe, but stone
one, which probably may indicate his
descent from the royal PowHATTAN,
from whom he also takes his "Peak
of Teneriffe" head. The Colonel. like
JOHN RANDOLPH, II. M. T. HUNTER,
and other distinguished men, is de-
scended from POcAHoNTAs, and in
herits her many noble qualities of
head and heart:
Soon after my arrival here, fell
into conversation with a short, stocky
man, who was wrapped in a big blan-
ket, and whose head, amply supplied
with lron-gray hair, was surmounted
bv a tall felt hat. caved in in all di-
rections. He had a fine, open smile,
and sharp, pungent, ringing voice,
like the sudden dash of water over
rocks. He was a delegate, and af-
forwards learned that he was George
w. Jones, of Lincoln county. The
Convention, he said, was sure to be
harmonious there was no reason why
it should not be the meter!al was
excellent, and there was no necessity
for wrangling over what was to be
done. Having heard something of
the reputation of Tennessee COnven-
tons, L wondered where such harmo-
nious elements had been CLEANED
from. Just as he was on the point of
expatiating upon the excellence of the
peoples choice as to delegates, he
caught sight of little, red-faced
whirkerless man, whose silk hat SIM
ply looked stupendous upon his peak
of Tenneriffe head. This was Colo
mel Gordon, the only delegate to the
present Convention who participated
in the deliberations of that of 1884,
The Colonel had his cob-pipe in hand,
and was searching after some tObac-
co with solicitude highly amusing.
and, leaving the two with an immense
double-breasted delegate from an adj
iacent county, who was going down
into the mysterious depths of pair
saddle-bags after the weed, L improved
the opportunity in searching out Gen.
eral John c. Brown, who represents
three counties as "fioater," and is
probably one of the best informed
men We shall meet in the Convention.
He was sitting in his room over a
coal CRATE heaped with fuel, that did
very little toward elevating the tenn
perature of the place, which had more
drafts than ever unlucky town or vii
LACE i'm the hottest times of the war.
Brown. like many of the other dele
gates, was in the rebel army, and
fought with zeal against the Union.
Vanquished, he has settled down to
be a quiet. peaceable, law. abiding cit
izen. His frank, easy manner, so diff
ferent from the style of most Tennes-
seeans. was decidedly refreshing. On
the opposite of the fire sat Ex-Gover-
nor Neill S. Brown, of Nashville, also
delegate to the Convention. The
Governor is tall, very tall, brushes his
hair smoothly back from an expan-
sive forehead, below which appear
sharp. grey ewes, His mouth indi-
Gates a sturdy firmness seldom seen
in that feature, and 1 could not help
admiring its indications of power, in
spite of the tobacco juice which STAIN
ed the lips and discolored the cor
ners. He spoke with a positive con-
viction which tailed well with his
physiognomy, and l am much mista-
ken if he is not one of the foremost
men in the Convention.