Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-06-14
Dayy Crockett, the Second.

Davy Crockett, the Second.
Mr.. Crutchfeld, Congressman elect from
Tennessee, in many of his striking original
traits bears great resem6 6ance to the lmmor-
taI Davy Crockett The following is from the
pen Of a special correspondent of the Washing.
ton STAR who accompanied the excursion Of
the late St. Louis Congressional Convention to
Texas:
At Grand Junction we left the rough dia-
mond of the Congressional party-the Hon.
Wm. CrutchGeld, the newly elected member
from the Chattanooga District Since the days
of Dayy Crockett, Tennessee has always man
aged 70 have at least one mOuntalneer charac-
ter in Congress; and Crutch6eld, the latest, is
said to resemble Crockett more in originality
aud style than any Of the intervening line. He
is suuburnt, Wiry lite man, with foxy hair and
whlskers, and though, by report, of cousdera
ble means, wears the cheapest of homespun
suits, good deal frayed at the edges, and with
IL pair of heavy weil-greaSed cowhide brogans
that we're the perpetual despair OF the Pullman
boot-blacks. He is not only mighty hunter,
like Crockett, but is moreover shreWed busl-
ness man. He built the "Crutchfeld House"
at Chattanooga, which was sold during the war
Tor 900 10 Confederate money, and the
proceeds prudcntly turned at once into real es-
tate in the shape of valuable farming land. La
the same prudent way Crutchfeld invested
Confederate money as fast as it came into his
hands into tobacco, which, on the advance Of
the Union troops, he sold at $3.50 per pound
in grccnbacks Knowing the country and the
people thoroughly, be was OF great service to
General Sherman as a scout. When be was
put up for Congress nobody supposed he stood
any chauce of being elected, as the District
went Democratic at the previous election by
some 5000 majority but his neighbors took
hold of him aud elected him by about l,500
majority.
Crutchfeld, by his quaint remarks and racy
narratives OF mountaineering experiences,
made himself vastly popular with the whole
party, aud when he took the train at Grand
Junction, it was conceded that We could
have better spared better man. So there
was general demand that he should make
parting speech while the train waited, and he
mounted platform barrow and proceeded
about as follows:
"Geu-tcl-meu-We air about to part after
having travelled about good deal hyar and
thar; but hope to meet you next winter over
thar at Washington. My friend Hype, Of Ar
Kansas, give me some good advice how to keep
from bcln sea-slck when We war down thar on
the Cult. 1t war to lay head back, and look
up. thiuk, my friends, that in these mo- bi-ler
"ihcs tudt VIII De Souu luloS " " mnon
get to Washington. Tremendous applause.
Gen-tcl- -men-We have been through great
country. Napoleon Bonny-part trul y said,
when he threw down the pen after deciding
Louisiana to the Americans, "Thar's the
heaviest blow great Britain ever got lAp-
pause. Gen tel -mcn-I wish you could have
gone up home with me. am the little dog
in the big rye up thar have got the smartcst
old woman, and the finest brats you ever sot eyes
on. We've got the tallest mountains and the best
whiskey you ever sampled. lAppiause. Thar
is Lookout Mountain, from which you can see
four States-Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and
the drunken state Gen-tel. men-1f ever you y
here the engine gave snort and the train
moved off, amidst loud cheers for Crutch6eld.
Pecnniary Rewards Of Authorship.
Practical people have sometimes looked upon
literature, and, especially, poetry, as mere
moonshine, but its results in these latter days
are sometimes intensity practical, even in the
most material sense of the term. The Phila-
dclphia Press remarks that one wonders at the
immense sums received in these later days by
Scott and Moore, Byron and Bulwer, Thackeray
aud Dickens, and is almost inclined to doubt
whether there ever was such haunt TOR au-
thors us Grub street; whittier Samuel johnson
sometimes took his eleemosynary dinner at Ed
wv
ragged to bear the mid day light; whether
Goldsmith ever tried to live on halt -rations, in
agarret i'll Green Arbor court; whether Otway
died Of starvation or Savage in a prison at
Bristol. lu these later days authors have fall
Gu Into pleasant places. IfPoe should pc.
r'sh 10 the prime of life and flush ofintellect, it
easy Tor a Griswold or Briggs, men utterly
ocIold OF imagination and addicted to fault
n,ndng, to speak of his errors but, with U.s.
there has been ouly Que Poe, whereas Longtel-
low, Bancroft Emerson, Whittier. Holmes,
ana other gifted men have won by the pen re-
spectacle Incomes and sometimes what even
Third street or Wall street broker would es-
innate as aflucuce.
The Press refers to the fact that, when Rev.
John keblc, of England, died, in 1866, it was
aaScer'Mned that his little volume ofpoems 'The
christian Year." had gone through unety-two
editions up to that time, having yielded him a
royalty OF $4,000 per annum 1t was frequent
y reprinted in the United States, but without
any considerable pecuniary advantage to the
by the English publishers. At last, however,
tue legal copyright has expired, and mul-
a'ude OF new and low-priced English editions
may be looked for-to realize for many publish
crS ten times the profits gained by one on the
exclusive principle.
Every one who reads books must be aware
mat, enormous as were the profits of Sir Wal
Ter Scott'S numerous works during his life
time, the profits of various editions since his
death have been treble, at least So with the
the works of Dickens, Thackeray, Charlotte
B5rontc, and others, repubEished since the au-
thOrs died. A new instance is about being
Presented. Geo. Routedge & Sons, enter
prlsiug London publishers, who paid Bulwer
$4,000 per annum for long time, on condi-
ton of being allowed to recoup themselves by
printing cheap editions, have now purchased,
at an immense price, the copyright of all the
published and unpublished works of that bril-
liant and thoughtful author and will imrne-