Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
lacked oratorical elegance, his words al
ways carried weight.
GoRpoN's CHARACTER.

It Is doubtful whether General Gordon
will have as much strength in the Senate as
he had, though it may be that his efforts
will be more to the good of the State and
less Tor his own good than Browns have
been. General Gordon is different man in
every respect from Brown. be is snowy
fellow, has aristocratic tastes, and his
speeches will be full of brilliant sentences
well uttered. 1 asked General Lawton to
tell me something about Gordon. He re-
piled: General Gordon is a man OF more
than ordinary ability. He is tall and fine
looking, and were it not Tor his Scared
face, made so by the wounds received in
battle, he might be called handsome. He
was fine officer during the war, was rapid
in his movements and was not raid of any
thing. He IS man of much more than
ordinary ability. He has capacity of say
ing or writing the right thing at the right
time, and he is nice speaker and has a
good address. He will, doubt not, be the
next Senator"
did you know Bob Toombs, General?" /
asked.
YES" replied General Lawton. ST
knew him very well. When the war was
over Toombs refused to take the oath of
allegiance. He was at his house when the
Union soldiers came to arrest him, but he
was
WARNED IN TIME,
and he slipped out the back door and jumped
upon fast horse which he had standing
ready saddlei for such an emergency. He
gailoped TO the sea coast, took ship to the
West Indies and finally got to Europe. 1t
was some years before he came back, and
when he again arrived in Georgia Senator
Brown had turned Republican. This caused
aNrenewal OF hostilties between him and
Toombs. Toombs was noted for his bitter
witticisrns, and in order to draw him out,
one dav friend of his asked, speaking of
Browns change of politics: We'll, General
Toombs, what do you think of your friend
Brown now?'
Quick as fash came the answer: Il
think his character casts a mellow shadow
over the wickedness of Judas Iscariot'"
DO you know anything" 1 asked, "of
Joe Browns duel with Toombs?"
"There was no DUEL" replied General
Lawton, land think Toombs acted very
oollshly in that matter. Toombs charged
Brown with bribery in engineering bill
through the Legislature. Brown replied
that Toombs' statement was false, and de-
clared that Toombs was an unscrupulous
liar. Upon this Toombs discussed the mat
ter Of sending challenge with his friends.
COULD HAVE HAD FIGHT
Said he: What can do with this hyp-
ocritical old deacon? If 1 challenge him he
will dodge behind the door of the Baptist
Church. He then sent a note to Brown
asking him il he would accept challenge
Brown replied to this note saying that he
was responsible for his own actions and Civ
ing Toombs to understand that it would be
lima 11k. -. i
cept the challenge when the challenge was
made. The result was that Toombs dropped
the matter. l doubt not but that Brown
would have fought if be had been chal-
lenged. He is brave man and it is by no
means safe to count on his being anything
else"
Tom Ochiltree is now in Europe hobnoh-
bing with the lords and dukes. He got his
entree to the best society there during the
Grant administration. He then went abroad
with letter rom the President and he be-
came acquainted with the Prince Of Wales,
Gladstone and number of other notables.
With this foundation for truth the Texas
Colonel has related 4 number of stories
about his experiences abroad in which it is
hard to tell when the fact ends and the fc-
tion begins
oCHILTREE's TOP BOOTS.
DR.. Bedloe, our Consul to Annoy, gives
me the latest one 1t relates to Ochiltree's
last Congressional campaign, which he
made after his return from Europe He
stumped his district in top boots reaching to
bis waist, with his pantaloons inside them.
He was asked why he wore them, and re-
piled that they were all the go in England
and that the Prince of Wales had advised
his wearing them. Tom told the Prince he
did not think it was proper to wear them
outside of a swamp, whereupon the Prince
told him he was mistaken, and offered him
pair from his own bootmaker on condition
that he would wear them when he got to
Texas.
"Well," said Colonel Ochiltree, when
speaking Of the matter, "what could I do?
The Princes wish was equivalent to COM
mand, and had to accept the boots. MY
dear !ellow,' said 1, as 1 patted Wales on
his knee, I will start the style in the very
best of our Texas social circles Send me
the boots and 1 promise to wear them.' And
want you to understand, gentlemen" as
he pufed out his red cheeks and looked
fercely out from under his sandy eyebrows,
that. whatever the newspapers stated to
the contrary, I am a man Of my word, and
it is for that reason that I wear the boots. "
FRANK G. CARPENTER.