New-York tribune., 1884-03-23

Mr. Wattcrson Is now insisting that Mr.. Tilden can
under no circumstances be the candidate for President
and he is no the same time antagOnizng Mr.. Randall
think there is little doubt but that the Carlisle element
can control the party Congress and they will do their
best 10 nut into nomination for the Presidency some
other than friend Of Tilden Morrison was always an
anti -Thlen man. though well aware OF llldens large
following in the party. Carlisle il but Little o personal
and regards himself rather as an instrumeha
ity than a. an active quantity. He moves around the
Riggs House quiet. noisoess whitefaoed' speaking 10
whom he knows but seldom stopping anywhere
long 20 talk Morrison generally has two OF thrce ifehu7
in company he has mixture OF the austere ana the
genial nuctuang from to the other very Oddly ana
quickly. He looks like a lighting man bred to arms
than anybody around Congress.
Senator L. O. C. Lamar is ono OF the most interesting
the Democratic side, ana he has a literary ma
He Is not quite sixty years OF age, went 90 school
IN the north Of Georgia at the institution which Mr.
scney, of this city. has endowed and was graduated at
Methodist college early in Pok's Administration. or
about at the outbreak OF the Mexican War He went to
Macon I'm the south OF Georgia to study law where he
had considerable family support; one Of his kin became
the wife OF Howell Cobb, perhaps the abest man the
South produced in the era OF the Rebellion Another
cousin is Albert Lamar. tho editor. Mr. Lamars uncle
was the President OF Texas and wrote history OF that
young nation. Going to Mississippi at the age oi twenty
four, MI Lamar became professor Of mathematics in
the state University In little while he rOved back 20
Georgia again and pract,ed Ian and went 10 the state
Legislature He kept plantation in Mississippi to which
ne finally returned and he had been twice IN Congress
at Washington before the Rebellion.
Senator Lamar services on behalf Of the Confederate
Government various and prominent. In the first
place le was in the secession convention ID Wmch no
went from Congress al Washington. He was second in
command Of regiment and finally led the regiment I'D
the Id and then lis friend, Jefferson Davis sent him to
Russia on mission At the close Of the war he became
a college professor again in Mississippi, teaching political
economy, social science and law. He was sent back TO
Congress- reelected and then put in the Senate IN place
OF Colonel AcOrn, aud he viii sit IN the Senate if he lives
till 1859.
Mississippi IS State which has been overlooked in the
mental character OF its public men. There is prob
ably no state in the South which combines better
the spirited nature OF the Caronian with the practical
and material III sposon OF the Tennessean and Georgian
The Mississippi men, rue-at least those
who enter public nare very courteous quite individual
respond 10 good treatment and there are indications OF
changes in tho mental nature Of that society An at
tempt recently been made with success 20 move the
state Capital from Jackson to new railroad centre at
Meridian. Some literature Il picking mp in Georgia; Mr.
Claiborne who is still living at an advanced age pos
sessng literary and historical instinct in marked de-
gree The son -in-law Of General Ben Butler was the
military commander aud United States Senator from
Mississippi for some time and while he was hardly pop
ular there his force OF character was admitted
New-YOrk City draws into It's quiet whirlpool most Of
the floating Of the country see here two prom
nent Ohio men in a business partnership, General
Thomas Ewing and Mr. Southard, formerly Of GAINESVILLE
The latter has married the daughter OF prominent gen
teman in Northern NoW-Jersey General Ewing IS the
abest son OF man who is and more considered
As time creeps on TO been the abes scion Of Ohio
find I'm all parts OF the State especially among the
LAWYERS and OF affairs, that the elder Ewing re-
earded as having had TIE best natural powers and the
steadiest public nature OF all Ohio men He came from
West virginia and was of New-Jersey extraction The
New-Jersey element in OHIO is Of the most thrifty
and numerous in state and considerable portion OF
the same element settled about Lexington Kentucky.
The Younger wing settled in Kansas and his brother-in
law General Sherman, for while conducted the banking
and real estate business with him there Entering the
Union army Ewing the first man 70 apurchend the
violent and trescerOus nature OF the border runs along
the Kansas line and he compelled them to noYe Ell
as.e ont of some OF the adjacent Missouri counties In
tbose regions Ouantrcn, Bill Anderson Todd and other
afrocous characters hourshed and ever since the war
their mators have been robbDs trains and assa,snat-
ing inofensye people It had been designed to nom-
nate Thomas Ewing ir for ViccPrcsident I'm 1sd-, but
Frank Blair on behalf OF that Missouri clement wrote
| the ncendary Broadhead letter which got him the
nomination, defeated the party, and did nobody any
| good.
occasionally see Mr. Broadhead. 90 whom Blair ad-
dressed the letter bidding for the Vice Presidential
nomination. Mt Broadhead had been in no correspond
ence on that or any kindred subject with Frank Blair IL
merely suited Blair purpose 20 write him thus letter.
thereby blending Mr. Broadheads name with sly OF
aggressive and military politics quite foreign 10 Ills Ia
ture.
Another railroad is to parallel the Nickel Plate which
had uaraeed tie Lake shore This shows that the true
line OF tran u between the East and West is through the
STATE of New-York South Of the line Of the Erie Rail
road the Alle.hony Mountains present roush ahl
rucged country with very steep grades ana hSh sum
uit- The Mohawk and the su-quchanra branches give
low grade lines toward the Lake shore, and
along the Lake Shore there Is hut little resist
apre IN tLe soil TO easy railroad building The
Nickel Plate road picked mp 10y the Vanderbilt inter
est but they could not buy all the country over when
similar roads might DC built and hence another line Is ID
be nut down at once and there may be yet another one
while in the meantime. railroad systems are taking adj
vantage OF the lines OF the Allegheny and the Beaver
rivers 10 get over into the Ohio Valley. At least three
railroads in New-York state seeking lines OF com
mnnlcaton with the West, namely, the Lackawanna the
Iehiyh Valley and the West Shore. The only Line vest
ward they can depend upon at present Is the Grand
Trunk Railroad which passes foreign soil. The
railruad known the Buffalo, Rochester and lttsburH
has become an extensive corporation, but 1t has very
large debt aud think Will have TO be reorganzed u
become a dlvdend-payl ing concern IAe only ralirodu
being extended the mountains TO the south o '
New York open line Is the Penlsy wanna southern "oA
contempates using steel towers TO bridge the chasm
| and going through the SUBMITS by tunnels steam oi
fue has become great question In railroad transit
| Tho Pennsylyanla Railroad, which has an uneQualed
roadbed is sometimes criticised rthe rgidiy and firm
ness of that bed 20 want elastic properties
| A gentleman recently remarked 10 me that the word
million had done more mischief in America than any
single word Said he; Nobody thinks there IS any hap
piness In life unless he has got million Persons wlo
have got little than competence are stretched Ut
TO be ionnares and therefore moderate expectations
are out OF on and oug men 90 laborlng on VIII
q million in their mind, which they seldom reach anu
therefore are disappointed Another person remarked
on ms: A great deal Of happiness centres around