New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-02
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candle. bnt something noisy. We begin to think
Henry Watterson has gone home to Kentucky. He
has been tarrying with us few weeks, having what
the gentleman who returned from Oshkosh with
one eye out, nose mashed, jaw broken
and ear bitten of, called "a little fun
with the boys He dropped in upon us early in
June came with the month in fact and even as 1t
comes with a great gush of blossoms stOrmed the
world" There is reason to believe that his orig
inal purpose in coming East not to deyastate
destroy At the solicitation of friends who had be-
come convinced that If the country could be spared
little longer. they would find places
on its pay rolls, he had dismissed his
hundred thousand men, and given the
country a respite Of fifteen months There was
mildness in his MEN, sweetness III his manner, and
tenderness in his tones when first he came among
u.s. True, he carried his Ratchet under his arm; but
il was the cherry-ree Ratchet of the Father Of his
Countrywide emblem of yeracty-and not the
weapon Of the Sycamore or Niskinskle. lie
did not come for scalps. HIS was mis-
sion of peace, and though ho crossed the
Allepbanies with the steadfast step of the
migratory grasshopper we knew he brought neither
Havoc nor Famine in his train. No plume of eagle
flashed from his soft felt hat but the white wings Of
peace were Just beginning TO sprOut on his
shoulder-bades and visibly disturb the fit of his
linen duster. He had all the appearance
OF man who, if he had not brought
peace 20 a distracted country. at least had re-
Trained from turning things end for end
aud inside down at time when he had an easy
poH sio i'm Kentucky and first-class lever in The
Coariey-JorRaI. 1t is not to DO denied that his
approach did excite apprehensions In the minds or
the tImd and that several citizens who imagined
he had come East TO take either New-Iork or New
England or both, did meet him at the Jersey City
Ferry. and abruptly ask him what he was intending
TO take He smiled. An answer worthy OF Ken
lucky.
But from this city he went to Washington.
Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, he
flashed through New-Jersey like beautiful dream.
From morn TO noon he fell from noon to dewy eve,
q Summers day; and with the setting sun dropped
into a Democratic Congressional caucus like a
cipher dispatch from Gramercy Park. And
then the trouble began. 1t was a caucus that
had been called to consider things. The first
thing they considered was at the suggestion of Mr.
Hewitt that Mr.. WattersOn had no business there.
Mr. Watterson accordingly went ont After ne had
gone out he went to his hotel and sat down, and
rested his head on his hand, and began to remember
enough things about Hewitt to fill four pages
of The Courier-JomTal, if he had only had
shorthand man handy by. Then he SAID, LET us
now make things hum" and returned to New-YOrk
and procured shorthand man. To him he said, 81
am reekng with intelligence of the most interesting
and startling character concerning the Count"
The reporter couldn't make it out at first whether
he meant the Electoral Count the Count
Joanncs but sharpened his pencil and began
to write out the questions with which Waiter
son probed and wrestled with himself and the
answers which Watterson, in the most reluctant
and unwilling way, permitted to be extorted from
himself. In both capacities he did himself JUS
ticc. The questions he put to himself were
Of the most aggressive and searching charac-
ter, showing the highest skill az a cross
examiner On the other hand, the answers were
so reluctant and evasiye. and yet so cOpOus,
as to sometimes even seem like volunteering in
formation, that one hardly knows which the more
TO admire, his skill examiner, or his capacity as
witness. The casual manner in which he conveyed
into the interview his opinion that Hewitt was
marplot, O chuckle-head traitor, cold-blooded
assassin, and fellow whose clothes don't fit, was
quite clever. 1t was incidental that one
would suspect for moment that Hewitt
was the objective point Of the inter-