The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-04

praise all his colleagues, CAlfERoN is a.
cute as any Yankee, alive or dead. SMITH
& Co. are Just respectable people" The
impression made upon Mr.. RUSSELL
by the President Is thus described: az
have never seen any likeness which
conveyed the melancholy, tender expires.
sion Of Mr.. LINcoLN's eyes; they were
soft, full and bright; all the rest of
the large-featured, dark-skinned, deeply
scanned face was almost morose In the cast
Of the square jaws, firm mouth, and hollow
checks. Tall, over 8 feet certainly, loose
limbed, with long arms and large, Tapping
hands, dressed in q shining, new, black
cloth suit, he balanced himself uneasily on
his feet. As he took a step to reach me
with outstretched hand, there came most
pleasant expression and q kindly, honest
look into his eyes. You are welcome
What u squeeze that was! My fingers
tingled afterward."
Among the other eminent Americans
with whom the Times correspondent dined
during his first visit to Washington was
Gen. SCorT. who, Enthusiastically, was
warming some bottles of claret when his
guest arrived. Gen. ScoTT mentioned that
he had received n number of letters from
the Marquis of TwEEDDALE about the
operations to be undertaken in the event
Of a war with the South, and that his
lordship particularly dwelt upon the i'm.
portance of getting command of the Mis-.
sissippi. Coming away from the din
ner, Secretary SEWARD told Mr.. RUSSELL
hat Gen. SCOTT aimed at being a poet
us well as a soldier, and, in q letter to
the National IntcLtigencer, he had quoted
PALEY and SHAKESPEARE to show hat
President BUCHANAN should have for
titled the United States ports. "But,"
added the Secretary. che was a grand old
fellow in the field. He is the only General
1 know Of whose orders of the day in the
morning would serve in the afternoon as
records of work DONE"
On the evening of April IL, 1851, Mr..
RUSSELL left Washington for Charleston
in order to ascertain the state of opinion in
the South. Everywhere along his route
through Virginia and North Carolina the
enthusiasm for JEFF DAVIS was u%nbounded,
but the present installment of the Recol-
lections ends at Wilmington, where the
writer was expecting a visit from q vigil
lance committee.
The historical value of these notes is
rather heightened than lessened by the fact
that Mr.. RUSSELL came to this country I'M
prepared to sympathize with the North.
Had he been an Abolitionist, or inclined to
favor the abolition of slavery, he would not
have been selected for his mission by Mr..
DELANE, then the editor of the Times, who
was strongly inclined to favor the South.
Mr.. BANCROFT DAVIS, the regular CORE.
spondent of that paper at New York, was
an uncompromising opponent of slavery,
and, for that very reason, a special cor.
respondent of different prepossessions
was desired. Mr.. DELANE, however, had
no more belief that q serious conflict
was impending than had CHARLES SUM-
NER, for, in his letter of Instructions to
Mr.. RUSSELL, he said: 1.-THE South threat
ems to secede, but that has been held up
as a menace for a long time, and the quar-.
rel will be patched up for the North can
not live without the South, and lives, in.
deed, a good deal on and by It," That is to
say, the editor Of the Times imagined, as
so many did. that Cotton was king.