New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-15
subjects are suggestive and valuable, aud oil aro
worth reading. We make room for Is few:

and difficult situations This trip has been, perhaps
not crisis but certainly has placed me III s,aua
ago. w. b. Duncan. a prominent business man VI
New York retained me AZ his lawyer IN su,t 10 VI
heard in the United States Court IN Mobile a, anu
sent me the papers in the case studied them. anu
found that they involv an important and somewna
difficult question OF law. and made myseH suin-
cienilv familiar with IT, so That when Duncan ,cir
Qraphed me to be in Mobile on the first Monday III
June, went with pretty comfortable sense Oh
my readiness to meet anybody who shonld Dc en- M
bile found there two other suits connected
with this. and involving the ownership; sale ana ana
complicated rights of several parties to the Moo'e
After two days skirmshing, the Court ordered
the three suits TO be consolidated. The question
had prepared myself on passed wholly out OF slgnt
and the whole ENHANCEMENT of an lnsolvent Ia'i
road twenty-five wears old. and lying across loui
States, and costing SOC, .O0O came upon us q.
once. here were sven lawyers III the case besides
me. On one side were John A. Campbell. OF new
Orleans late member OF the Supreme Bench OF we
United States, leading New-York ana MopiIe
lawyer. Against us were Judge HoadIy OF Cin
cinnati. and several Southern men,. was assigned
the duty of summing up the case for our size, ahg
answering the final argument OF the opposltlon',
have never felt myself IN such danger OF failure pc
fore all had mucn better knowledge OF the facis
than l. and all had more experience with tbat CLASS
OF litigation but am no one OF thetn uIu
30 much hard work in the five nights and SIX days
of che trial az did. | am glad To tell you that
have received dispatch from Mobile that the Cour.
adopted my view of the case and gave us Verdic'
all points.
As you may imagine, am good deal used up.
WASHINGTON Nov. ., 1879.
Last evening called on Judge Black at the Ed
bett House and found him with a BDle III bis nani.
He sad: Il don't know any one who has properly
appreciated tie para bles oi Jesus. ! don't bcleVe
that the man ever lived who could have written
any one OF them. even the least OF them lhey are
unlike anything in literature or philosophy III thcir
spIrit purpose and character. If they were ali
that Jesus had left rs, they would be CONCLUSIVE
proofs of his Divinity" What do You thnk OF tnls
~ ,f,.,, "a
morning asked lady friend TO lend HIM some books
for sunday reading, and. among Others she had
sent him a volume entitled Alone win Jesus
And" said hc tho title repealed me lOr TWO
reasons first, 1t is piece of Spontaneous egolsm
for any man to assume that he Is OF so much consc
ouence in the universe that Christ would shut ont
All the rest of the world and attend 10 HIM; and.
second knew a bank cashier who stole every tllng
he could law his hands on, ana then ran away IN the
night. He left behind HIM diary full OF the most
plOus calculations, and IN the last entry nc maze III
n was this: Spent an hour OF sweet communion
alone with Jesus This remembrance spoiled the
book for me, and so have not read IT,"
/ spent several hours with him, and ionnd MN
more than usually brilliant. lie sad he was IN
clIned to believe that man rarely AFTER lie was
forty years Old. fell IN love with new poet. FOR
his own part, one later than Byron had taken
much hold OH MN. COlrTdge, Southey and W ords-
worth he had read but lttle, probably because
Byron had savagc denounced them as the Takers.
He has no admiration Tor lenDyson, and saws ne
never had the patience to wade through In Me-
moIiam." Tie greatly pleased with my plan OF
gong INTO the law, and prop sed to form sort OF
.pecia partnership i'll the that he ana might
nave III the Supreme Court here. his may be OF
much service 10 me.
WASHINGTON Jan. 9, 1874.
can't see that he John Stuart Mild ever came to
comDrehend human life as a reality from the actlal
course of human affairs beginning with Greek HE
down to our own Men and women were always,wlth
him. more less OF the nature of absraclons; whe,
with mis- enormous mass of books, he learned Won
derful power of analysis. for winch he was by ma
ture surprisingly fitted But his education was
narrow just where his own nlnd was Originally ae-
fcient. He was educated solely through BOOKS LOT
his father was never companion. His brothers
and sisters bored him. He had no payfellows, and
of his mother not word Is SAID Ill his autopiog-
raphy.
WASHINGTON, jan A, 1875.
With me the year 1874 Las been continuation
and IN some respects an eXaggeratlon OF 1913 lhat
year brought me unusual trials, and brought me lace
TO face with personal assaults and the trlal mat
comes from calumny and pubic displeasnre ms
year has perhaps seen the cululinaflop IL not the
end of that kind Of experience. L have had lnuch
discipline of mind and heart in living the life
which these trials brought me. Lately have been
studying myself with some anxiety 10 see now
deeply the shadows have settled around my spirit.
find have lost much of that exuberance OF feeling.
that cheerful spirit which think abounded In me
before. AIN little gravcr ana less genial tnah
was before the storm struck me. The consciousness
of this came to me slowly but have at last gwen
in to It, aud trying to counteract the tendency.
So far individual work Is concerned, have done
something to keep alive my tastes and habits. FOR
example since | left you have made somewhat
thorough study Of Goethe and his epoch and have
sought to build upn my nina picture OF the state
Of literature and art in Europe at the period when
Goethe began to work. and the stare when he died.
have grouped the various facts INTO order nave
written them out. so as to preserve memoir vi Tue
impression made upon my mind by the whole. Inc
sketch covers nearly sixty pages of manuscript.
think some work of this kind outside the track OF
ones everyday work Is necessary TO keep up real
growth.
The biography by Mr. Gilmore edmund
Krke" y is written III the lively and readable style
for which the author of Among the Pines" is well
known. 1t is spiced with abundant anecdote and
dialogue; it contains much that is fresh if not alb
solutely new and on some points it is fuller than
any of its three rivals. The following story has
been partly told before but never with all the de-
tails here given:
One dav during this visit to MurfrecsbOrOugh as
was sitting alone with Rosccrans, an aid entered
the room and handed him letter lie opened IT,
and became at once absorbed in It's contents lie
reread it. and, handing 1t TO- me- SAID kead that
Tell me what you think OF it," | read 1t. !ts out,
side indicated that 1t had come over ROAD nara
to travel" but It's contents startled me. III was
written IN a round, unpractised hand. but. though
badly spelled showed that its author was familiar
with good Southern English. Its date was May Is,
SG3. and II began thus {:
GENERAL: plan has been adopted for a sim
ultaueous movement or rising TO sever the Rebel
communications throughout the whole South,
which is now disclosed 10 some general III each
military department in the Secesh States, ID order
that they may act III concert ana thus insure us
success. :,
The plan is for the blacks to make concerted
and simultaneous rising. the night of the 1st of
August next, over the whole States III rebellion
10 arm themselves with any and every kind of
weapon that may come TO hand, and commence
operations by burning all railroad and comfy
bridges tearing up all railroad tracks and cutting
aud DESTROYING telegraph wircs-and wnen this IL
done take 10 the woods, the swamps or the noun
talns whence they may emerge. as occasions may
offer for provisions or Tor further depr"datiOns. No
blood Is 20 be shed except III seli-jeience.
he corn will be III roasting ear about the lat of
August and upon this and by foraglng Oh the farms
at night. we can subsist. Concerted movement ut
the time named would he successful, and the Rebel
lion be brought suddenly TO an end
lie letter went Oh with some other details, and