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GEN. CAMERON'S RETURN.
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Views of the Veteran Statesman on His Trip
Abroad.
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-This afternoon Hon.
Simon Cameron, the distinguished Pennsylvania
statesman, walked down the gang-plank
from the steamship Servia, following a bevy of
young school teachers, who, like the Republican
leader of past campaigns, had been abroad
to see the sights. To look at him as he leaned
against a trunk on the pier talking to a reporter
it was hard to believe that he had far
exceeded in lite the extra limit of four score
years and is as old as the century.
Replying to an inquiry about his foreign
tour, Gen. Cameron said:
"I enjoyed my trip very much and was well
up to last night. Then I got a cold by sitting
on the deck. I had a very good time and was
received very pleasantly everywhere I went. I
sepnt all of my time in Scotland and England,
and went around through the country- something
I never done before when visiting Europe."
"I suppose you feel good for twenty years
more, general?" "No. I feel I haven't got
long to stay now, and I intend to pass the time
I do stay as happily as I can."
"How did you leave Mr. Blaine?" was the
next question.
"I didn't see Mr. Blaine over ther,"
"Did you hear any talk by people who did
see him of his attack of 'hypoebondria?'
"Didn't hear anything about him, and don't
know anything about him," returned the only
surviving member of Lincoln's Cabinet.
'Was there any talk among Americans over
there about Mr. Blaine's chances for the Presidency?"
"I won't talk politics, I'm out of public life
now, and refuse to talk about such matters,"
was the emphatic response.
"Did you see Mr. Depew?"
"Yes; I saw Mr. Depew twice. Once at an
entertainment given by Consul General Waller
at London and once at the rib-roast of Buffalo
Bill. Mr. Depew spoke both times."
"Is he being benfited by his trip?"
"Didn't know anything was the matter with
him."
"But Mr. Depew's smile, I presume," said
the reporter, "is just as genial as ever, isn't
it?"
And the ex-Secretary of War replied that
such was the case, and the reporter rejoined:
"You know, general here in New York we
are told that Mr. Blaine fears he cannot be
elected President, and that Dr. Depew is his
natural legatee. Then it is also said that your
son Donald is to be chairman of the National
Committee. Is there any truth in that story,
or did you hear anything of it in Europe?"
"I tell you I know nothing about politics,
and if I did I wouldn't tell you." responded the
aged statesmen with decidedly splitted emphasis.
"All I have to say is that I have had a very
pleasant trip; didn't see Mr. Blaine, and don't
know anything about politics."
"You said, general, that you attended the
rib roast of Buffalo Bill's. How did the English
receive that?"
"Oh, I don't know. I believe Buffalo Bill is
having a very successful trip."
A few moments of conversation regarding
the depot, and the ex Secretary ventured the
remark:
"Has the Pennsylvania Convention met yet?"
The reporter replied that it had, and Captain
William B. Hart was the nominee.
General Cameron said Captain Hart was a
good man, but perempotrily declined to go
any further into New York, Pennsylvania or
national politics.
General Cameron at the Girard.
It wanted [?] five minutes to 6 o'clock when
General Cameron slighted from the New York
express at Broad Street Station last evening.
"I am very tired," said the General as he slipped
into a seat in the waiting room while
Colonel Duffy went to ascertain if they could
get a train for Harrisburg to reach there at a
reasonable hour.
The veteran tourist chatted pleasantly about
his experiences abroad and when the conversation
turned to politics he shoed much interest
in happenings in the State during his
absence, and manifested none of the reserve
with which he met the New York interviewer
on that question.
"I was very glad to hear of Captain Hart's
nomination upon my arrival in New York,"
said the general. "The captain will make a
splendid candidate and deserves the nomination.
Before I went away I had an opportunity
to say something in his behalf, and am
delighted to know that he was nominated by
acclamation."
In commenting upon the action of the Democratic
Convention on the tariff, General Cameron
expressed satisfaction at the routing of
the free traders, and remarked with much
spirit that he knew "the people of Pennsylvania
have too much good sense to tolerate any
such doctrine as free trade."
When it was ascertained that there was no
train till late, the general got in a carriage
and was drived to the Girard House, where he
went to his favorite room, and left instructions
that he could receive no callers.