New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-27

new Wander bit system from Harrisburg to Cleveland.
Mr. Oliver and his friends have generally oo-operaed
with the Pennsylvania system but that railroad some
time ago ceased to have any connection with State pol
ities and its old / )tea friends were released from
their allegiance and number Of them appear to have
taken up with the Vanderbilt property among whom are
Mr. Oliver and ex-senator Wallace. The railroad from
Ptsburg Youngstown does not come into fittsDurg
proper but follows the south bank OF the Monongahea
River and has a station Immediately opposite the MO
none aela Hotel at the end of the new bridge The road
then continues south side of the Ohio till near he
mouth Of the that river and runs on the
line of the old canal where Garfield drove the mules 10
the Mahoning towns, and there connects with Tue ho
Shore system The present road is seventy miles iohs
and has earned about 100000 year net lheIe no"
appears to be doubt whatever of the reality o. th'
Vanderbilt system through Southern pennsylvania
Mr.. Richard Bright, Sergeant at Arms OF the
Senate who is at the Gilsey House, told me yesterday
that his uncle Senator Jesse Bright died i'll the city OF
baltimore TO which he had retired. and was buried
there He had daughter married In Baltimore TO Law
rison Riggs brother Of George Riggs the recently de-
ceased Washington banker They were the SONS OF
Elisha Riggs of Montgomery County, Maryland, by his
first wife This Elisha developed from country store
in Georgetown, ID. c., such firms as PEABODY s. COT
coran's Riggs and host OF smaller bankers George
Riggs died possessed OF $6O00,000 Mr.. Bright thinks
Iawrison was not so expectaht but was Tch In the
manic of 1857 Lawrison lent George $3O0OOO In the
manic of 1873 the amount OF Sl4OOOoOO was forced
upon George Riggs without interest by depositors
George died possessed of greater fortune than W. W.
Corcoran has left is said Ex-senator Jesse Bright has
eight grandsons through his daughter Mrs Riggs said To
the robust and beautiful family of sons since Old
Prams
Admiral jenkins of the Navy, lately said; was born
in Virginia near Washington City At the beginning of
the war the State Department sent me to Richmond TO
look into the plans of secession. was there when tho
State seeded. 1t done. as the rebellion ended by
threats of assassination Three men accomplished the
sunderng Virginia from the Union: Wise. Pryor ana
Keitt OF South Carolina. Governor letcher had the
impudence TO order Winfield Scott TO report himself to
his native state for military duty took the path of
Scott and George r. Thomas, to my Nations nag, and
here am. It remarkable, sir. that the Secession
Government. after deluding many comfortably sit
uated officers OF the regular army and navy into their
vortex, neglected nearly every one OF them! Ihey
gave their best places to politicians and family depend
ants Especially this the case Ill the navy The
families of men never false to their country in Intention
but absolutely dragged into cOntumacy ana poverty 10y
these haiI-brained secessioniss. plead from their
wasted farms and melancholy graves to this day against
the cruelty OF rebellion Virginia, with 10000 majority
against secession was driven into it by asassins who
Immediately began fight her soil and make cotton
OH their own"
said TO Admiral jenkins: You aware that
George H. Thomas out OF the Nat Turner or south
ampton Virginia. district y YES and can recoleet
queer thing about it. was young officer and had
inst come home from foreign cruise in 1881 aud the
shin dropped anchor in Hampton Roads. Our
Inander said TO me: Jenkins. hear they are numbering
your people up the river Go and get some money from
the purser and accompany the detachment am going to
send to suppress the Instruction. 80 got $50 ana
started" Did You Nat Turner himself :" Yes; he
was a sInallish of a sinister countenancc and
pbeP ip IN
the slaves by addressing them missiyes maple bark
scratched with cabalisc cnara tiers he pretended TO DC
the interpreter Of and by these they were commanded
to rise aud join him One of my iellow-oicerS cut Oh
the head of Turner's chief officer with sabre riding up
beside him as he fled. Surrender Jim" he said or
must kill Won" IF surrender yop1l hang me. /
won't give up! With this the sabre took of the nrgros
head and was around and sold for fifteen dol
lars SO ! have seen tue three insurreouons; Nat
Turner'S John Browns-also suppressed by the marines
Of the navy-and the Secessionists'."
Referring 70 the Southern temperament Of the present
day. General Ellis Spear, of Washington, remarked to
me during the week had supposed until came IN
contact with them that the Southern people were more
merry and free than Northerners But observe very
large percentage to be OF extremely religious.
scdae heavy Of mind and their pulpit theology Is
precisely like that OF NewEngland Puritanism 200 years
ago. / have heard the sermons Of John Cotton ana
Cotton Mather almost duplicated In the Southern pups
within few years. The Puritan has become the Caya
ler. the southerner has become the Puritan. In the
growth Of thcrn pulpit does not lag behind
the Southern pulpit not to be informed or to fear
its congregations. An Old Testament bias has sur
vived slavery and the deductions OF the New Testament
lind slow welcome in that Pararchdl orthodoxy where
cursed be Canaan equal to the Golden Kue. An
ncapacity to modern To be the chief
disability OF the southern mind That Misrepresentation
of facts In the nursing OF theories led them into the
secession. AT certain old estate in Virginia found
ettor from public TO the owner of that estate tell
ing him there would be that the secession or
Virginia secured peace, etc. 1t reasoned out in
tell gently. but the facts 70 be that very
farm; the old house Quilted the inhabitants were
flgives the fences had disappeared Ruin spread her
InournfuI desert the field of theory"
James D. Fish is unique Qmong financial men. though
think his example Will SPREAD making his residence
in his Marine Bank building that he has no broad
rivers TO cross after business and in the
strong autumn Of life retire and rest at any accident
though he has had accidents In the third story
OF his building the most experienced decorators have
finished two rooms that Marie Antoincttc might have
envicd, beginning with the walls and ending with the |
candelabras and the s0ion. the
other the chamber. The walls in elaborate papcr
mache and leathef work. the curtains silk with gold
threads velvet-framed the portraits original
the ornaments bronze and gilt. the placqucs ancient
Asiac, the smyrna the furniture Colonial except
the chairs and sofa, when the latest nineteenth
century. G2s-wOod fireplace In the salon, real wood
ia the chamber the general tone deep crimson and gilt
the lesson that. who make money at least ap
precIate the charm of living elegantly and tasefuy like
the Dutch and Austrian bankers In the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries the best painters like Rem
brandt did not work for the Church the King but for
the inancicrs
said General locim the other day: "When was !
transferred from the Eastern to the Western army felt
angry but II the best thing that happened to
me- ! passed away from the field Of controversy and
faction to field OF hearty cooperation and victory
saw General Sheridan when he sent from the West
ern to the Eastern army How he did swear! Said he:
Just have my division well drilled and all sea
soned, 20 away of yonder where nothing turns out
right -" But he found the change became his glory.
We can't always tell"