Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-18


living. His memory is perfect, his man
ners that of Chesterfield, and his conVer-
sation simply charming.
The Intimate of Great Men
A person with only slight develop
ment of the bump of veneration must needs
uncover in his presence, even out of doors,
on knowing that he was an attendant on the
Marquis de Lafayette while touring IN
America, that he was the class
mate and ccmrade in the Black Hawk War
of Jeffer;Jn Davis, Zachary Taylor and
Lewis Clss, that he was the bosom friend
of John Quincy Adams, the confdant of
Andrew Jackson, John c. Fremont, Mar
tin Van Buren and franklin Pierce, the in
IL mate companion of Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster and John c. Calhoun, the col
league in the House of James Z. Polk, John
Bell, Abraham Lincoln and Alexander H.
Stephens, and in the Senate the everyday
associate of Thomas H. BENTON, Charles
Sumner, Stephen A. Douglass, William
H Seward, John @. Breckenridge, Howell
Cobb and James Buchanan.
At Vincennes, Ind, where the General
was born, he was often as boy dandled on
the knee of General William Henry HarrI-
went to the then Territory OF Michigan and
engaged in lead smelling. In 1882 he served
in the Black Hawk War, and in 1885 he
was elected Democratic delegate (the last
one) from Michigan Territory, which in
cluded the vast domain now comprising
the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Minnesota, North and South Dakota,
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Washington
and Oregon. Ever since he has been
n IEI- L. - anA
this year for Harrison in the consideration
of the fact that "Old Tippecanoe" had
dandled him on his knee when boy.
Specializing With Webster.
On the Fourth of July, 1886, at General
Jones' instance, the great Territory of
Mi chigan was divided, and the Territory of
Wisconsin vas framed from it and named
by him IN bill he introduced for the pur-
pose. Wisconsin Territory then embraced
the whole of Michigan Territory except
the present States of Michigan. With
Daniel Webster in that same summer va
cation he engaged IN some land sDeculations
in the new Territory, Webster furnishing
the money, loaned him by Messrs. Corcoran
& Riggs, and Jones the experience
and supervision, with the result that
$4,000.
Shortly afterward General Jones was
elected as delegate from Wisconsin. He
served four years, but vas defeated for the
third term by his connection as second
with Hon. Jonathan Cilley, of Maine, in
the fatal duel with Hon. William j.
Graves, of Ken ucky. On the Fourth OF
July, 1888, through his instrumrntality,
the Territory OF Iowa was in turn created
from the Territory of Wisconsin, and named
in accordance with his suggestion.
o. fror, To-
gress President Van Buren appointed him
Surveyor-General of the new Territory OF
Iowa When Iowa was admitted as State,
in 1847, he was made Senator from that
State, together with Augustus Cesar Dodge,
sou OF Senator Dodge, OF Wisconsin. Young
Dodge and General Jones drew lots for the
long term and Jones won. Through his
close friendship with President Pierce, dat
ing from the latter's service IL Congress, he
vas largely instrumental in having Jefer-
son Davis appointed Secretary OF War IN
1858.
He Believed In the Code.
Senator Jones in his time was great be-
lever in the ''code," and figured in seven
different "afairs of bonor," although a
principal in only one. In 1926 he carried
challenge from Governor Dodge to DR..
James H. Ralph. Shortly after that he
carried q challenge to DR.. Ralph from Rob
ert I. Brown. Neither challenge was ac-
cepted, and Ralph was set down as q cow |
ard. In 1927, while studying law in st. |
Louis, Jones was himself challenged BY an
over-hasty young army officer, Lieutenant |
Williams, OF South Carolina. He promptly |
accepted, and all the arrangements were |
per ected, when the Lieutenant, being the |
aggressor, apologized. AMI the affair WIS de- |
clared ol. Later in the same year Jones |
served as second in o bloOdless duel be- |
tween Thomas w. Newton and Ambrose h. |
Severe.
But the greatest duel with which General
Jones was connected was the historic con-
hict in 1888 between Cilley, of Maine, and
William j. Graves, near the Marlborough
road, outside oil Washington, growing out
of a heatel debate in Congress In that
debate Ciiley charged that James Watson
Webb, editor OF the New York Courier and
Enq"irer-the man who gave the name
WING TO the Whig party-nad accepted a
bribe. Webb arrived in Washington that
evening, and, hearing of the incident, sent
letter to Cilley in regard to it by the hand
of Graves
Rifles Chosen as the Weapons.
Cilley declined to receive the letter, where
upon Henry Clay, surrounded by squad
OF adnlIring Whigs, declared that the re-
fusal to receive it was personal insult to
Graves Graves, though a close friend of
CilIey, was then preyzi!ed on to challenge
CilIey, naming rifles as the desirable wea-