Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-10

While at college he was under the
guardianship of Henry Clay, warm
friend of his father. IL was gradu-
ated in 1925 and began the study of
law.
Gen. Jones has remarkable history,
and has probably greater personal
knowledge of public men and the
events of the century than any other
living man. He has been pioneer
member of congress, United States SEN
ator foreign minister, surveyor general
and prisoner of state lie was mem
Der of the class which on Marquis
de Lafayette's triumphal tour of Amer
lea escorted him through the state of
Kentucky. He was the classmate and
comrade in the Black Hawk war of JEFF
ferson Davis; the fellow collegian of
Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass; the
friend in congress Of John Quincy
Adams, Andrew Jackson, John c. FIRE.
mont, Martin Van Buren, and Franklin
Pierce; the companion of Henry Clay
and John Calhoun; the partner in bust
ness enterprises of Daniel Webster,
with whom he purchased the site of
Madison, Wis; the colleague in the
house of James K. Polk, John Bell,
Abraham Lincoln and Alexander H.
Stephens, and in the senate of Thomas
II. Benton, Charles Sumner, Stephen
A Douglas, William H. Seward, John
G. Breckenridge, John G. Crittenden
and James Buchanan.
Sixty years ago Gen. Jones was the
representative in congress of the vast
territory lying north of the Missouri,
between the Mississippi river and the
Pacific ocean, and represented as well
what are now the states Michigan and
Wisconsin. In 1s4s he resigned the POI
sition of surveyor general for the North
west Territory, to which he had been
appointed by Presidents Van Buren,
and Polk, and took his seat as the first
United States senator from the new
state of Iowa. He served in the senate
from 1s4S to 1859, when President
Buchanan appointed him minister
to Bogota, New Granada, otherwise
United States of Columbia. This APP
pointmept was made to prevent an
affair of honor, in six of which Gen.
Jones had previously served as second,
and in one as principal. In the mem
orable affair at the capital between
Jonathan Cilley, of Maine, and Will
liam j. Graves, of Kentucky, fought in
1888, Gen. Jones, at the request of
Franklin Pierce, served as second to
Cilley. The duel vas fought with rifles
at eighty steps, ind at the third shot
Cilley fell fatally wounded.
inc ,-r1f, naF1fa al
in securing for Jefferson Davis the port
folio of war from President Pierce.
While secretary of war Davis commits
stoned the son of Gen. Jones as lieu
tapant in the second regiment, United
States cavalry. While serving at Bo-
uota as United States minister and sup
posing jefferson Davis to be still
limited States senator Gen. Jones wrote
him requesting that he procure the
of his son, who had in
discreetly resigned his position. He
had once saved the life of jefferson
Davis and the letter was particularly
fr;endlv one. 1t was intercepted by
ne state department and Senator Jones
was recalled by Secretary Seward, who
tad served under him in the committee
e pensions. When he arrived in New
gorlx he was arrested as prisoner OF
'tate and sent to Fort Lafayette, where
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