Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-10-22
Correspondence New York HERALD
TENNESSEE.
Interview with RrewnIew

could hardly pass through here
without making a call on parsnu
Brownlow, who lives directly in the
town. / found him in his modest
mansion lying PROSTATE or lounge,
while at his feet sat his daughter. TIE
ninistering angel of the house hold
"A patient, pale faced girl of about
twenty years. The parsOn was III
his shirt sleeves, proppcd up by a
pillow, his hands and arms shaking
violently, as if urged by some invis
ible electric battery. The volume of
his once powerful voice was reduced
to the meerest whisper. so low that
[ had to stoop to his pillow to hear
hir, but over his stubborn soul no
palsy or tremor had come, and
through his eyes flashed at inter: ais
CLEANS of the same old FIRE that
made his foes tremble in the days
gone by. The old fellow had all my
sympathy for his suferings, if | had
none for his politics or his principles
He is strange character COM
pound of genius, eccentricity and
charlatanism; fierce in aggression.
obstinate opinion. bitter to his enc
mics and. they say, loyal to his
friendS--a combination of Wendell
Phillips, Bill Tweed, George Francis
Train and Charles A. Dana.
WHO do you suppose" inquir
cd. will be elected Congressman at
largc?"
"Cheatham," he promptly respon-
ded; 'Cheatham is the man. The
rebels will all vote for him, and the
rebels are not all dead yet. The
same old spirit is as rampant as ever.
We beat them in the battle field. and
now they think they saw chance
with Greeley running for President
to beat us in another field"
but Greeley is a republican and a
friend of the Uaion?''
Greeley is anything Greeley
as President would turn back the
whole tide here in the South, put US
in worse way than we ever were. -
Grant is the only man that can keep
these rebels in their places
"What do you think of john
SOM"
He is the same old fence rail
He wants to be always on the boards
in office or in the papers. or on the
tramp the same as he is now. He is
like a stumped-tail bull in fly time.
You can't keep him still"
Seeing he found it trying task to
make himself heard. we cut the con-
ver,ation short AMI we left. satisfied
that there are more agreeable phases
Of human life than this of pal-ied,
shattered old man clinging to the
bitter hates and prejudices of the
past.
TALK OF CIIEATHA& DROPPING OUT.
Coming hack to my triangular trio.
I find people who talk more or less
confidently of Cheatham dropping
out Of the canvass, Cheatham HIM
self is not likely to say he will. He
has more pluck than that The men
who nominated him feel too bitterly
towards Johnson, to make a request
for Cheathqm's resignation. The
original design of the managers of
the Convention was to get Johnson
in, slaughter him and Cheatham. and
then nominate ISham G. Harris, who
is a speaker and good friend of the
rebel element. johnson being rejeC
ted By the Convention, after allow
ing his name to 60 in, would suffer in
reputation by afterwards coming be
fore the people as an independent
candidate. He saw the game in time
and his delegates kept away.
THREATENING ANDY WITH AssAs-
sINATION.
In Mr.. Johnson's possession is an
anonymous letter. sent to him from
some part of Middle or Western Ten.
ncssec. threatening him with aSsas-
sination if he continues in the can.
vass. He is the last man in the
world to be frightened off the course
by that easy trick. On the contrary,
it will give a new and stronger deter
mination to his resolve to hold on and
fight the fight out to the bitter
end.