The New York herald., 1872-10-07
ANDY'S LIFE THREATENED.


vsss. Cheatham stayed outside and ook his religion
in from the eyes of all the pretty girls who to
saer nam their homage.
THE DISCUSSION IN THE COURT HOUSE
here was unattended by any consequential incl
Aont. The speeches were the same as l have
already you and the behavior OF the audience,
while not 20 provokngly unlmpassoned as ut
JOnesbOrough, was tamely respectful enough.
think Johnson had the most sympathizers, and the
fact that he was serenaded and called out in the
evening when he made speech defending the
dignity Of labor and tailoring and was loudly
cheered, confirms me in the impression. Maynard
has great many friends here, too ana Cheat
ham IL not without his support Those who
pledge themselves for the latter denOunce johnson
aS one OF the class OF men who brought on the
war. They say Johnson and others were tell
ing the young men Oi the South for years that
State rights were everything, and the Union but
secondary consideration, but when the momentous
crisis arrived and their doctrines were about being
put to practical test, they turned traitors and
went with the North. Now when | get ont In the
rebel counties west expect to hear this staple
argument against Johnson In this town party
feeling 10 at a low ebb. 1t has been running lower
and lower within the past three years, until il has
reached that stage where general apathy rules the
roast.
THE CHANGE COMING OVER THE SOUTH
Slowly but surely the town is changing its aspect,
south Is passing through. The Northern genius tor
thrift, industry, enterprise; the Northern love of
dens, welI-kcpt fences; the Northern taste for
sn1sic, the drama the lectnre-all stealing with
southern land The energy and genius the South
made such wonderful exhibition of during the
ST M qssBal on s Seen await Su
kened, and Southern men are now addressing them
selves to the rehabilitation OF their fortunes with
them through the terrible fortunes OF
the Coniederacy: The planter who rolled
ago to purchase his groceries, &c, would never
recognize the town. so greatly has 1t altered for the
mill is In active business. mills abound,
quarry OF marble pure as Carrara s being worked
near the town; two newspapers Ramages Press
and Herald and the Chronicle, flourish daily: an
Opera House as large as Steinway Hall is just being
doctors swallow their own drugs; a fine col
ege existing before the war, Is being enlarged to
moSe rm IN an upsr caae
OF Professor Nickerson, is showing to the farmers
around what science can accomplish In aid Of agri-
culture and on every hand see evidences OF pro-
gress and prosperity 1t is well that you should
know this at the North, for every step made by the
South In the great march of improvement rebounds
to the benefit OF the whole country.
THE MONUMENT or A TERRIBLE BuTcgERy.
Knoxville is a very interesting town. 1t Is built
on hills, or "knobs,'' as they cali them and the
whole surface Of the country around is suggestive
these huge ana Isolated ON
Sanders, which Is. stu standing, II was lip the
his troops i the gray Of YoSem6ef morning ff q
1862 and here in the lapse OF twenty minutes he
federate army, while the ederals lost but sixteen
men all told. Fredericksburg pales before the awful
slaughter here. on the parapet OF the fort stood
young federal officer nonchalantly smoking cigar
while he cooly flung hand-grenades down on the
desperate and struggling rebels, who were every
wires drawn through the grass and there, piled
prostrate on each other storm OF canister, grape
ana musketry tore through them without mercy.
iistory has no record OF butchery SO brief and
INTERVIEW WITH BRowNLow
could hardly pass through here without making
call on Parson Brownl0w, who lives directly In
the town. found him in his modest mansion
lying PROSTATE on a lounge, while at his feet sat
his daughter, the ministerlng angel of the house
hold-a patient. pae-faced girl OF about twenty
years The ParsOn was In his shirt-seeves propped
up by pillow, his hands and arms shaking vio
lently, as If urged by some invisible electric bat
terry, The volume of his once powerful voice was
reduced to the merest whisper, SO low that had
TO stoop to his pillow to hear him; but over
come and through his eyes mashed at in.
tcTvals CLEANS OF the same old FIRE that
MAJ made IN his ," foes tire tremble in the days gone by
tngs, If had none for his politics or his principles
He is strange characyer-a compound OF genius,
eCcentricity and charlatanism; fierce in agrees
Sion obstinate In opinion, bitter to his enemies and,
they say, loyal to his iiends-a combination OF
Wendell Phillips Bill Tweed, George Francis Tram
and Charles A. Dana.
"who do you suppose" inquired "wl be
electeu congressman al Larger
"Cheatham," he promptly responded; "Cheat-
ham is the man. The rebels will all vote for him,
and the rebels are not all dead yet The same old
battle field, and now they think they see chance
with Greeley en running for President to beat US IN
"But Greeley is a republican and a friend Of the
Union ~
"Greeley is anything Greeley as President would
turn back the whole tide here In the South, put US
In a worse way than we ever were. Grant II the
only man that can keep these rebels In their
DlaCes.f
.what do you think Of Johnson ~
"He is the same old fence rail. lie wants 10 be
always on the boards-in oflce or IN the papers,
on the tramp the same as he is now. He Is like a
stumpedtail bull In ny time. You can't keep him
still.n
Seeing he found u trying task TO make himself
heard, we cut the conversation short and left salts
life than this OF palsied, shattered old man cling
ing TO the bitter hates and preudices of the past
TALK OF CHEATHAM DROPPING OUT.
Coming back 10 my triangular trio find people
who talk more or less confidently of Cheatham
sey Ga' 10 say o. he e w e has ore p"cK h
that. The men who nominated him feel too Bit
acrly towards Johnson to make request Tor CHEAT
aaIns resignation. The original design OF the man
ayers OF the Convention was to get Johnson IN,
saugbter him and Chcatham and then nominate
lsnaup g. Harris, who is speaker and good friend
OF the rebel element Johnson being rejected
Dv tne convention, after allowing his name TO go
IN, would snfel in reputation by afterwards com
lng before the people as an independen, candidate
yie saw the game III time and his delegates kept
THREATENING ANDY Win ASSASSINATION.
In Mr.. Jonnson's possession is an anohymous
letter. sent 10 him from some part OF Mlthe or
western tennessee, threatening HIM with ASA ssh
nation II he continues in the canvass lie Is the
last man IN the world to be frightened OF the
course by that easy trick ON the contrary II will
give new and stronger determination to his re.
solve to hold on and fight the fight out TO
tIe' bitter end. So far the canvass has
been quiet though when senter and stokes
were runDtpg Ior Governor the platform from
which they spoke was generally occupied
by eighteen o. twenty armed partsanso OF each side,
and mul1evoDs aQrays were of constant occurrence,