The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-13
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or the Late Lamsutsd TIldsn-rhs Great DIsap.
pOlBt,d KaOeks the KtntuekIsn Out In Ohs
Round In CiImbins Stair, While Sammy
Comes Up Smllips and Fresh as Daisy.

Comes Up Sailing and Fresh As DaIsy.
New YoRx, June 12.-Mr. Henry Wat.
terson, OF the Louisville Courier Journal
who has been visiting Samuel j. Tilden
writes as follows to his paper:
l"I have been spending few days at
Greystone with Ex-Governor Tilden, and
not merely because his old friends in the
west aud south have an ever present per.
sonal interestin in him, bul because his name
at this moment il upon the lips Of politi.
clans Of every class all over the country,
propose TO give the readers Of the Courier
Journal some particular account OF him.
When parted from him year ago did
not expect to sse him again. Indeed
was 80 skepiical OF the stories
concerning his restoration TO health as TO
feel dellcacy about intruding upon his
privacy. He was good enough to send for
me, and ! went over to Grammercy Park
In q somewhat sorowful, sympathetic state
OF mind. My surprise almost exceeded
my qualification. The old house Is under.
going reconstruction and enlargement on a
magnificent scale, but the old library is
still the same, being held from the hand OF
|desp0iling splendor for the last, take it,as
la tribute OF alleclionate remembrance OF
old times, old friends and old books.
" THE GHOST OF THE PAST.
There / found the Governor. II an
apparition had stood before me could not
have been more astonished. The days Of
ils75.6 Z seemed to have come back. His
low voice was found again; bis eyes were
bright and his cheeks rosy; his intellect as
sinewy and clean and his wit US incisive as
they were when he made nothing OF riding
Blackstone" to Harlem and back or
driving the Kentucky bays from Gram
mercy Park to Greystone. He took me all
over the new house, pointing out
the various changes, explaining his
general design and discussing archi-
lecture and architects with characteristic
intelligence. He quite tired me out. A
iavorite way lie has VI Furnishing his friends
ia climbing long stairs, meandering
through labyriuths Of decorative art aud
threading the tapestried and freseoed
masses OF corridor and chamber. On cur
rent affairs he talked with usual pungency
and c4ndor. When endurance had ceased 10
'bea virtue said, "Governor, don't you
think we have had enough Of this?" He
smiled, aud in his dry, half pitying, half
sarcastic way, replied, "ifyou are tired We
will 60 down stairs"
TILDES's LIFE AT GREIsToSE.
At Greystone his life IL OF the simplest
and busiest. lie nas farm hard by and
no end of pigs, poultry and blocded stock.
OF course l had to be dragged over this
farm and the devices which the old gem
tleman put slyly forth to trap me into some
unguattled treason to the butter and eggs of
my blue grass country were many anu in.
genious. Istood my ground like hero,
but it must be owned that the Governors
farming is like everything he undertakes,
thoroughly we'll done. lusked him whether
he tried TO make any more money out OF 1t.
"0h, no, he said ''it iseasier made some
other way" .--.-.- -.----......
While l was at Greystone not so much
as the shadow or the ghost q politician
crossed the threshold orappeured upon the
grounds. Surrounded by uis nieces aud
shoots, the old statesman and philoso-
pher WAS rs unrespryed in his conversation
us he was and always is, simple and cordial
in his hospitality. One Of the Young ladies'
told me that tho little household had got
through over TWO hundred volumrs The last
winter. The Governor is q voracous aud
versatile reader, no less than an attentive
and wise observer OF atfAirs, and We
talked Of everything flom Thomas
Kelnpis TO Thomas a. Hendricks.
POLITICAL AYPAIRs
He playiulIy observed thai the chief OBJ
lection he had heard to the election Of Mr..
Carlisle 10 the Speakership was that in some
recent volumes published by one Mr..
Froude, there was suspicion that he had
mistreated his wife. Here must stop. l
know that the public is most curious 10
learn what are Mr. Tilden's views OF politi-
cal affairs, current and prospective. have
little doubt that II had the right to speak
could, by faithfully reporting him, make
myself at, once entertaining and insruc.
tive. But the opinions OF every man are
his own, aud his house is sacred.
Inever knew man more entirely frank In
his intercourse with his friends than this
Sage OF Greystone, but lam not hismouth-
piece, aud it is not for IN" TO c"me all the
way from Kentucky to New York to do
that which he is 80 much better able to do
for himself. I can say, however, for my
self that nothing passed which leads me 10
modify the opinion have so often express
ed, that 10 power on earth could induce
him to accept the Presidency.