Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1885 — Page 6

THE DEAD HERO.

Pen and Pencil Sketches of His Busy and Eventful Life. Outline of His Career and Public Services from the Cradle to the Grave. The Great Commander’s Military Campaigns, from Belmont to Appomattox. BIOGRAPHICAL. From the Cradle to the Breaking Oat of the Rebellion. Ulysses Simpson Grant was born at Point Pleasant, Ohio, April 27, 1822. His ancestors were Scotch. In 1823 his parents removed to the village of Georgetown, Ohio, where his boyhood was passed. He entered West Point Military Academy In 1839, appointed by the Hon. Thomas L. Hamer, member of Congress. His name originally was Hiram Ulysses; but the appointment was blunderingly made out for Ulysses 8., and so it had to remain. The study In which he showed most proficiency during his course at the academy was mathematics. He graduated in 1843, ranking twenty-first in a ■class of thirty-nine, and was made a brevet Second Lieutenant of infantry, and attached as a supernumerary Lieutenant to the Fourth Regiment, which was stationed on the Missouri frontier. In the summer of 1845 the regiment was ordered to Texas, to join the army of Gen. Taylor. On Sept. 30 Grant was commissioned as a full Lieutenant. He first saw blood shed at Palo Alto, May 8, 1846, and took part also in the battles of Resaca de la Palma and Monterey, an* •the siege of Vera Cruz. In April, 1847, he was made Quaitermaster of his regiment, but still participated in all active operations; and after the battle of Molino del Key, Kept. 8, 1847, he was appointed on the field a First Lieutenant for his gallantry. In his report of the battle of Chapultepec (Sept. 13, 1847), Col. Garland, commanding the First Brigade, s id: "The rear of the enemy had made a stand behind a breastwork, from which tney were driven by detachments of the Second Artillery under Capt. Brooks and the Fourth Infantry uhder Lieut. Grant, supported by other regiments of the division, after a short but sharp conflict.” “I must not omit to call attention to Lieut. Grant, Fourth Infantry, who acquitted himself most nobly, upon several occasions, under my own observation.” Grant was brevetted Captain for his conduct at Chapultepec, to date from the battle. After the capture of the City of Mexico he returned with his regiment and was stationed first at Detroit, and then at Sackett's Harbor. In 1848 he married Miss Julia T. Dent, of St. Louis, sister of one of his classmates. In 1852 he accompanied his regiment to California and Oregon, and while at Fort Vancouver. Aug. 5, 1853, was commissioned full Captain. On July 31, 1851, he resigned, and removed to Ht. Louis, cultivating a tarm near that city and engaging in business as a real estate agent. In 1859 he was employed by his l ather in the leather trade at Galena, HL

GRANT AS A SOLDIER.

His Military Campaigns from Springfield to Richmond.

President Lincoln’s call for troops to aid in euppressing the rebellion was made April 15, 1861, and April lu U. S. Grant was drilling a •company or volunteers at Galena, with whom he went four days inter to Springfield, 111. In May Gov. Yates offered him the Colonelcy of the Twenty-first Illinois Regiment, of which he took •command early in June and marched at once to Missouri, reporting to Gen. Pope, by whom he was stationed at Mexico, about fifty miles north ■of the Missouri River. Aug. 7he was commissioned by the President as Brigadier General of Volunteers. Aug. Bhe was transferred by Fremont to Ironton, Mo., and a fortnight later to Jefferson City. Sep. 1, by direction of Fremont, he wok command of the District of Southeast Missouri, and Sept. 4 made his headquarters at Cairo, at the mouth of the Ohio. His first movement was to seize Paducah, at the mouth ■of the Tennessee River, Sep. 6, and Smithland, •at the mouth of the Cumberland, Sep. 25. On Nov. 7 he made a vigorous attack on the -Confederate camp at Belmont. He drove the rebels down to the river bank and burned •their camps and stores, but re-enforcements having been sent by Gen. Polk across the river, and the guns of Columbus brought to bear on the Union position, Grant was forced to retire. For the following two months he was employed in disciplining his troops, making no movement save a reconnolssance toward Columbus in January. Preparations were now set on foot for an attack upon Forts Henry and Donelson, the loaner of which commanded the Tennessee River, and the latter the Cumberland, near the ■dividing line between Kentucky and Tennessee. With tills object Grant started from Paducah Feb. 3 with a force of 15,0j0 men, to be aided bv a fleet of gunboats under Commodore Foote. Fort Henry was captured Feb. 6, its batteries ■having been silenc d by the fire of the boats before the land forces arrived. The most of the Confederate troops escaped across the country to Fort Donelson. twelve miles distant. Gen. ■Grant transported his forces over the same road, surrounded that tort, and Feb. 14, as soon as the gunboats had come up the river to co-operate with him, began the attack upon the rebel works. The battle was severe,’ and ended Feb. 16 in the unconditional surrender of the Confederate forces under Gen. Buckner. Grant wan •commissioned Major General of Volunteers from the date of that victory, and immediately achieved national fame. Gen. Halleck, however, was prejudiced against him at this time, and used his utmost endeavor to deprive Giant ■of the honors of the Donelson victory, giving the credit of it in his report to Gen. C. F. Smith, Grant's second in command. The Government, however, had perception enough to understand the truth and to give Grant his well-deserved promotion. Whether from irritation at this act of the Secretary of War or other motive is not known, but Gen. Halleck immediately began preparation- for an expedition into Tennessee, the command o. which was given to Gen. Smith, and Gen. Grant for alleged disregard of orders was placed under ai rest After a few days, however, be was freed from this restraint, and •again joined his command, with headquarters at Savanna, Tenn. Gen. Smith had camped with the troops at the point where the battle of Fhloh was afterward fought, near Pittsburg Landing, on the west bank of the Tennessee •Biver, some miles above Savanna. There Gem

Smith was taken ill with a sickness from which he never recovered, and Gen. Grant was placed in chief command. At daybreak of April 6 the camp at Pittsburg Landing was attacked by a large force under Gen. A. 8. Johnston, and driven back with heavy loss. Gen. Grantspeedilv arrived on the field of battle and reformed the lines. Re-enforcements under Gen. Buell coming up in the night, the battle was renewed the next morning, and the Confederates were defeated and forced to retreat to Corinth. Gen. Grant was slightly wounded in this battle. It was one of the most hotly contested fights of the war, and the losses on both sides were terrible. False reports concerning Grant s conduct in this battle were circulated, and for a time the great General—whose military genius, however,had not yet been fully shown—was under a cloud. Halleck joined the army a few days after the fight at Shiloh, and took personal supervision of the siege of Corinth. During the fighting in that locality the next two months Grant was left in camp, though still retaining nominal command of the District of West Tennessee. In June he transferred his headquarters to Memphis. July 11 Halleck was summoned to Washingtton to supersede McClellan, and Grant succeeded him in command, and transferred his headquarters to Corinth. Sep. 17 he ordered an advance against the Confederate Gen. Trice, then stationed with a large force at luka. There a battle was fought Sept. 19, and a complete victory gamed by Gen. Rosecrans. As Bragg's force was pushing toward the Ohio River, Grant now lemoved his headquarters to Jackson. The Confederates, under Gens. Price and Van Dorn, then attacked the camp at Corinth, where liosecrans was in command, and after a desperate fight, Oct. 3-4, Were repulsed with heavy loss and pursued beyond the Hatchie River. Though not i resent in person at either of these battles. Grant directed the movements in both by telegraph. Buell had moved eastward to intercept Bragg, and met and defeated him at Perryville, Oct. 8, driving him back into East Tennessee. Oct. 16, Grant's department was extended by the addition of a part of Mississippi, as far south as Vicksburg, and he now began to lay plans for a movement against that city. Nov. 1 he began a movement toward the river, seized LaGrange and Grand Junction Nov. 4; on Nov. 13 the cavalry took Holly Springs, driving the enemy south of the Tallahatchie River, and Grant followed, taking possession of that point Nov. 29, and Dec. 5 he entered Oxford. While he was at this point Van Dorn’s cavalry made a dash at the camp of stores in his rear qt Hollv Springs, took 1,500 prisoners, and destroyed ordnance and supplies amounting in value to nearly $1,000,000. The army was now moved back to LaGrange, but headquarters were transferred no further than Hollv Springs. Jan 10 headquarters were moved to Memphis, Grant having resolved to reorganize his entire force for a campaign against Vicksburg, to co-operate in which forces under Sherman and McClernand were now coming down the Mississippi. Jan. 30 Grant assumed immediate command of the expedition against Vicksburg. Much time was lost at first in the attempt to cut a canal through the peninsula before Vicksburg, a plan which had been suggested by President Lincoln, but which, after an immense expenditure of labor, was found to be impracticable. An effort was also made to cut through the Yazoo pass, so as to hem in the enemy. But these attempts were found to result only in failure, and finally Grant undertook to carryout his own plan, which was to move the army down the west bank of the river, and cross to the east side lielow the city. April 30, 1863, he crossed the river, took Port Gibson and Grand Gulf, and began his march into the interior, defeating the enemy in the actions of Raymond, Jackson, Champion's Hill, and Big Black, kept J. E. Johnston from joining his forces with those of Pemberton at Vicksburg, and finally laid siege to that city May 18. After a great deal of hard fighting, Vicksburg was forced to Surrender, with 27,000 prisoners, July 4,1861. Grant was immediately made a Ma jor General of the regular army. He remained at Vicksburg till Aug. 30, when he made a visit to New Orleans. While th°>e he was thrown from his horse at a review and so much injured that he was not able to return to his post until Sept. 16. Oct. 10, under instructions from Washington, he came northward, meeting Mr. Stanton, the Secretary of War, at Indianapolis. That official notified him that all the military departments of the West were now to be under his suj ervision, with the exception of the Department of the Gulf. At Louisville,word was received by Mr. Stanton that Rosecrans. who°e campaign in East Tennessee had been so disastrous, was now about to aban-

don Chattanooga. Grant, thereto c, with the full sanction of his superior, immediately relieved Rosecrans of his command, assigning Gen. Thomas to his position, and Oct. 1!) started by rail for Chattanooga, to take personal direction of the operations there, The army here was nearly surrounded by Confederates, and greatly w< ukened by sickness and losses, but Grant’s presence put new hope into their drooping hearts. He there concentrated troops from other points, attacked Bragg's army, strongly intrenched on Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, and carried both points by assault Nov. 24 and 25. Bragg's forces were now driven back to Dalton, Ga. Sherman being sent to the relief of Burnside, who was besieged by Longstreet at Knoxville, drove back the Confederates from that point, and by these successes the Confederate communication between the Atlantic and the Mississippi was broken. Dec. 7 Preddent Lincoln ordered a thanksgiving in all the churches for the victories of the Union cause. Dec. 17 Congress passed a resolution ordering that a gold medal should be struck for Gen. Grunt, and returning thanks to him and his army. About Christmas Grant went in person to Knoxville to inspect the command there, and Jan. 13 went by way of Cumberland Gap to Nashville, where he now placed his headquarters. Jan. 24, 1864, he went to St. Louis to visit his eldest son. who was very ill. Feb. 5 he was back at Nashville. March 1 President Lincoln sigped a bill passed bv Congress reviving the grade of Lieutenant General of the Army, and immediately nominated Gen. Grant for the position, and March 3 the General received the order summoning him to Washington. He readied that city March 9, received his commission at the hands of the President., and March 17 issued his first general order, dated at Nashville, assuming command of the armies of the United States, and announcing that his headquarters would be in the field, and until further orders with the Army of the Potomac. March 23 he arrived at W ashington again, and immediately began his preparations for the grand campaigns which were to terminate the war. At midnight, May 3, Grant began the movement against Richmond, crossing the Rapidan with the Army of the Potomac. His force now numbered 140,00 n men. His first battle was that of the Wilderness, fought May 5,6, 7. The losses were terrible on both sides, but the results were indecisive. Lee retiied within his mtrenchmentff, and Grunt made a fiank movement on the left in the direction of bpottsylvania Court House. Here followed from the morning of May 9 to the bight of May 12 one of the bloodiest struggles of the war. in which the Union forces gained some ground, and captured one division, but made no impression on the defenses of the enemy. Grant now made another movement to the left,crossed the Pamunkey and brought his army before the almost impregnable rifle-pits of Cold Harbor. These he attacked on June 1, but was repulsed with terrible loss. The assault was renewed June 3, with even more frightful loss of life, and the gaining of no advantage. Grant’s losses in the campaign from the Rapidan to the James (May 3to June 15) aggregated a total of 54,551; those of Gen. Lee were about 32,■000. June 15, Gen. Grant joined Gen. Butler’s army at Bermuda Hundred and the combined force moved again on Petersburg. On June 17 and 18 assaults were made on the Confederate intrenchments without effect. Lee's army retired behind tire defenses, and by the latter part of June Petersburg w s regularly besieged. Previous to this Grant bad ordered flanking movements by Gens. Sigel and McCook, both of which had failed. In the hope of drawing Grant away from his position before Petersburg, Lee sent an army under Gen. Early to raid Maryland and Pennsylvania. That invasion caused so much alarm that in August Gen. Sheridan was sent against Early, and in a series of fights, < losing with th t of Oct. 19 at Middletown, completely defeated him and laid waste the entire valley of the Shenandoah. During the summer, fall, and following winter. Grant pressed the siege of Petersburg with varying success. July 30 a mine was exploded under one of the forts, end an assault was made, only to be repulsed with great loss. Aug. 18 a division of Grant's army seized the Weldon Railroad and held it against several fierce assaults by the Confederates, in which both armies lost thousands of men. After a hard-fought battle on the road south of Petersburg the army went into winter quarters there, postponing active operations until spring. F eb. 27, 1865, Gen. Sheridan again assaulted and defeated Gen. Early’sforces at Waynesboro, and then joined his com-mander-in-chief with his army. The battle of Hatcher's Run and Five Forks was fought from March 29 to April 1, resulting in the defeat of the Confederates and the capture of 6,000 prisoners. On the following day Grant ordered a

' general assault on the lines of Petersburg and the works were carried. On that night the army of Lee evacuated Petersburg, and the members I of the Confederate Government also fled from , Richmond, and April 3 that city, as well as i Petersburg, was taken ixissession of by the Union army. The war lasted but a few days longer. Lee retreated as rapidly as he could to ' the Siuthwest, hoping to join the army of ■ Johnston. Grant and Sheridan pursued and intercepted him, and, after making one or two ineffectual efforts to rally his bro-ten and demoralized army against the victorious forces of the Federals, on April 9 he surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House. Va.

GRANT’S POLITICAL CAREER.

The Chief Events of His Two Terms as President, At the Republican National Convention held in Chicago May 21, 1868, Gen. Grant on therfir-t ballot was unanimously nominated for President, with Schuyler Colfax tor Vice President. Their Democratic competitors were Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair. Grant and Colfax’ carried twenty-six States, and received 214 electoral votes, against 80 for Seymour and Blair. Grant was inaugurated President on March 4, 1869. and on the next day sent in to the Senate the following nominations for Cabinet officers: Elihu B. Washbume, of Illinois, Secretary of State; Alexander T. Stewart, of New York, Secretary of the Treasury; Jacob D. Cox, of Ohio. Secretary of the Interior; Adolph E. Borie, of Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Navy; John M. Schofield, of Illinois, Secretary of War; John A. J. Creswell, of Maryland, Postmaster General; E. Rockwood Hoar, of Massachusetts* Attorney General. These nominations were at' once confirmed, but it was discovered that Mr. Stewart was disqualified by an act of 1789, which provided that no person should hold the office of Secretary of the Treasury who was “directly or indirectly concerned or interested in carrying on the business of trade or commerce.” The President, in a brier message, thereupon suggested to Congress that Mr. Stewart be exempted by joint resolution from the action of tire law. This was objected to, and Mr. Stewart declined, and George 8. Boutwell of Massachusetts was appointed in his stead. Soon afterward Mr. Washbume gave up the office of Secretary of State, being appointed Minister to France, and was succeeded by Hamilton Fish, of New York; while Secretary Schofield retired from the War Department, and was succeceed by John A. Rawlins, of Illinois, who died in September, when the vacancy was filled by the appointment of William W. Belknap, of lowa. Mr. Borie resigned in June, and was succeeded by George M. Robeson, of New Jersey. Mr. Hoar resigned in July, 1870. and was succeeded by A. T. Akerman, of Georgia, who resigned in December, 1871, and was succeeded by George H. Williams, of Oregon. Mr. Cox resigned in November, 1870, au i was succeeded by Columbus Delano, of Oh.o. As President Grant was in political harmony with the majority in Congress, the reconstruction of the lately rebellious States, which had been delayed by the lack of such harmony during the previous administration, now went on. A proclamation by President Grant, dated May 19, directed that there should be no reduction of the wages paid to Government employes in consequenceof the reduction in the hours of labor which Congress had enacted. In 1871 President Grant urged the annexation of Santo Domingo as a territory of the United States. A treaty to effect this, and aiso one by which the peninsula and Bay of Samana were ceded to the United States for fifty years, at an annual rental of $150,000 in gold, had been signed Nov. 29,1869, on behalf of President Grant and President Baez. Early in 1870 these treaties were confirmed by a popular vote in Santo Domingo; but it was believed that a free election had not been held, and it was said that, in anticipation of annexation, the Dominican Governmen' had granted to private individuals every valuable franchise or piece of property in its possession. In conformity with a resolution of Congress, President Grant appointed B. F. Wade of Ohio, A. D. White of New York, and S. G. Howe of Massachusetts, as commissioners to visit Santo Domingo, accompanied by several scientific men, and report upon the condition of the country, the Government, and the people. Their report, submitted in April, 1871, was favorable to annexation, but the Senate withheld its approval of the treaties. A “joint high commission" of five British and five American members met at Washington Feb. 27, 1871, an I on May 8 signed a treaty on the subject of the coast fisheries, river navigation, and the "Alabama claims." The last named que-tion was submitted to a court of arbitration to meet at Geneva, Switzerland, which, on Sept. 14, 1872. awarded the gross sum or $15,500,* o.j to be paid by the British Government to the United States for damages to American commerce by Confederate cruisers fitted out in British ports. The act t > ■enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution, popularly known as the Ku-Klux bill, was followed by a Presidential proclamation exhorting obedience to it; and on Oct. 17, 1871, the President suspended the privilege ol habeas corpus in the northern counties of South Carolina. Under the provisions of an act of Congress of March 3, 1871, President Grant appointed a board of seven commissioners to inquire into the condition of the civil service, and devise a plan for rendering it more efficient. The Chairman of the Board, George William Curtis, resigned in March, 1873, bee iuse of essential differences between his views and the President’s on the enforcement of the rules. At the National Republican Convention held in Philadelphia, June 5, 1872, President Grant was renominated by acclamation, and Henry Wilson of Massachusetts received the nomination for Vice President; while Horace Greeley and B. Gratz Brown were the candidates of both the Liberal Republicans and the Democrats. Grant and Wilson received 268 votes in the Electoral College, against 80 for other candidates. Grant’s popular majority over Greeley was 762,991. During the last session of the Forty-second Congress the salary of the President was doubled, and those of the Vice President, Speaker of the House, Justices of the Supreme Court, and heads of departments increased 25 per cent.

AS A CITIZEN.

The Last Eight Years of the Old Soldier’, Life.

Gen. Grant retired from the Presidency, upon the accession of Rutherford B. Hayes, on tiie 4th of March, 1877. His career since that date, which has been in the main a quiet and uneventful one, is too familiar to the reading world to require any extended notice. Every one knows of his trip around the world, and the enthusiastic receptions that met him in every city, town, and village through which he passed upon his return journey across the continent; of his candidacy for a third term of the

Presidency, and the heroic devotion with which his adherents in the Chicago Republican Convention of 1880 stood by him as long as there was hope; of his unfortunate connection with the banker Ward, and how the honest old hero was used as a sool-pigeon by that wily rascal: and, finally, of his fall upon an icy pavement, resulting in a iracture of one of his hips, which was followed soon after by the development of a cancerous growth near the roots of the tongue. For a time the public was kept in ignorance—possibly the docto*s were in the same blissful state—regarding the nature of the distinguished patient’s malady, and in some features, such as the unreliable or purposely colored reports of his condition, the case bears a strong resemblance to that of the lamented Garfield.

EARLY DAYS.

Grant’s Boyhood—The House Where He Was Born. « The life of Ulysses 8. Grant is a romance as eventful, wonderful, and interesting as anything ever evolved from the brain of a novelist. He lived in a time of extraordinary activity in the development of this country, and figured in its history more conspicuously than any other man of his time. The boyhood of Grant was not more remarkable than that of any child in the same circumstances. Indeed, the anecdotes of his childhood in no way convey the idea that he manifested any precocity. He was the eldest of six children. His early surroundings were severely plain, his father, who was of Scotch descent, being a dealer in leather, neither rich nor poor, but ranking among the hard workers of a young and giowing State. The humble home where Grant was born Is not unknown to the public through the engraver’s skill.

HIS BIRTHPLACE AT POINT PLEASANT, O. At the age of 17 Grant entered the Military Academy at West Point. Those who believe that a name has much to do with the destiny of its owner will find confirmation of their theory in the accident which gave him the name he has made famous. He had been christened Hiram Ulysses, but the Congressman who procured his appointment by mistake wrote him down as U lysses S. Grant. The authorities at West 1 oint and the Secretary of War were petitioned by the young cadet to correct the blunder, but no notice was taken of the request. Ulysses S Grant he had been recorded and Ulysses 8. Grant he remained, the name, now so world-wide in its fame having been bestowed through a Congressman's defect of memory. The initials U. 8. suggested “Uncle Sam” to his comrades, a nickname he never lost, and one peculiarly prophetic in view of his extraordinary career. During the war he was not infrequently nicknamed “United States Grant”and “U’ncondit onal Surrender Grant,” the U. S. seeming to have special significance in those days which “tried men's i-ouls.”

REMINISCENT.

Gen. Grant’s Early Life in »t. Louis—His Marriage to Miss Dent. The happiest davs and the darkest days in the long life of Gen. Grant were,spent in St. Louis. Lieut. Grant and Fred Dent had become friends in the military school at West Point, and ■when young Dent invited his chum to come with him on a visit to his St. Louis home, he did much toward shaping the destiny of Grant and possibly of the nation. The two young men. after Grant’s visit, went to participate in the Mexican war, and when young Dent fell with a bullet in his groin while leading his company to a charge. Grant picked him up and carried him in his arms to a place of safety. The affection between the young men increased, and the affection between the beautiful Miss Dent and her brother’s friend, with whom she corresponded, more than kept pace with it. After the war, the wedding. The elite of St. Louis were there, the officers from the barracks attended in full uniform, and it was the social event of the year 1848. The journals of that day were not given to making mention of social events, and the only newspaper reference to the wedding that has been discovered consists of the following notice that appeared in the Republican of Aug. 24, 1848, two days after it occurred: Married—On the 22d inst., by Rev. J. H. Linn, Lieut. Ulysses S. Grant. U. S. A., to Miss Julia, daughter of Col. Dent of St. Louis.

HOUSE IN WHICH GRANT WAS MARRIED. The house where Col. Dent lived, and in which the marriage was celebrated, now stands on the southwest corner of Fourth and Cerre streets, St. Louis. There is very little now in the grimy and dilapidated exterior of the house to suggest the elegance that characterized it in the davs when it was the city residence of the Dents. The lime dust and coal smoke of ferty years have coa ed its walls to an extent that discourages renovation, and vandal hands have knocked’the corners off the bricks and defaced the elaborate carvings which gave distinction to the front door. As though to emphasize its degiadation, the following legend, tacked up against the door frame, invites the attention of all who pass:

BOARDING AND ROOMS. . $4-$5 per Week. TABLE BOARD, $3.00. Single Meals, 25c. 5 TICKETS, SI.OO.

Mrs. Putcher, a very obliging lady, answers the old-style bell and admits the caller to a spacious hall, from which a very precise stairway leads to the floor above, with one abrupt and uncompromising turn at the middle of tue ascent. The stairway affords the first strong trace of the old-time richness. Its balusters are exceedingly plain and straight, and its sharpcornered newel post is innocent of carving, but all the parts are of mahogany and the top of the post is inlaid with pearl. The double parlors in which the wedding occurred open off the hall to the left. They are c< mmodious rooms of about 16x18 feet in dimensions, and separated bv very heavy sliding doors. The door facings and window facings are very broad, but without carving or molding, and are painted white just as they were in their dav sos glory. The knobs of the doors are of solid brass, and perfectly smooth, as was the fashion when the house was built. The fireplace is surmounted by a wooden mantel, and is faced by an ornamented sheet-iron front, which has escapejd any Serious defacement or injury all these years. The most notable feature, however, is the chandelier, which is the same that lighted the memorable bridal festival. It is a very unique affair in brotuSj

with three burners and thi’ee supporting rods, between which latter is a handsome knightly figure. The wonder is that such a souvenir as this has remained safely through all the mutations to which the house has been subjected. The front room is now a sleeping-room; the back parlor is a dining-room. There is nothing in the general plan of the house to call for special mention, as it lean ordinary dwelling place, with three large rooms on each of the three floors, and a hall-room additional on the second floor. It would appear that the days of this relic are already numbered, as it lies directly in the line of the proposed route of the elevated road which is to connect the Iron Mountain Road with the Union Depot. The bridal couple did not make this house their home, but after a wedding trip they returned to St. Louis, and lived for some time with Mrs. Grant's parents out at the farm, on the Gravbis road. Young Grant resigned his army commission in 1854, and located with his family out on the Dent farm, Mr. Dent having made his daughter a present of eighty acres and feur slaves. Thev lived there very nicely, but Grant did not find the life congenial. The chief farming he did was to haul cordwood to town and sell it. on which occasion the very familiar costume which clad his gaunt form was a jeans pants, grav woolen shirt, one or two “galluses, a pair of raw-hide boots, a slouch hat. and an untrimmed beard. A blacksnake whip made him complete. Tiring completely of farm life, fie moved into town, and at first occupied for a time a house at the southeast corner of Seventh and Lynch streets, and then moved to a little h use which is now numbered 1008 Barton street. His employment was the real estate business, but he did not prosper, and in 1857 moved to Galena, 111., where he went into business with his father as a tanner. Soon afterward the war broke cut, and Grant was not long in discovering that there was at least one way in which he could earn a living, and earn it nobly.

THE NEW YORK RESIDENCE.

The Mansion in Which Gen. Grant Lived Before His Removal to Mount MacGregor. 'The house in which Gen. Grant has of late Sears resided is in the most fashionable part of ew York City. It is near the beautiful mansion of the Vanderbilts and the house that Henry Villard erected, and not far from the new cathedral.

Within rifle-shot are. a score of houses that cost more than $75,000 each to build. It is in Sixty-sixth street, just off Fifth avenue and close by Central Park. The tide of fashion set to that neighborhood ten years ago, and the finest mansions in New York City have been built there since. It is a neat brown-stone-front house of a shade less than the average width of city houses, tour stories high, and with ornamented window casings. A bay window looks out from the parlor floor. The front faces the south, and the view from the rear window cor.mands part of Central Park.

ANECDOTAL.

Didn’t Mean to Be Beaten. After the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, Gen. Buell began criticising in h friendly way the im-, policy of his having fought a battle with the Tennessee River behind his men. “Where, if beaten, could you have retreated, General?” asked Buell. “I didn’t mean to be beaten," was Grant’s sententious reply. “But suppose you had been der seated, desuite all your exertions?’’ “Well, there were .all the transports to carry the remains of the command across the river.” “But, General,” urged Buell, “your whole transports could not contain even ten thousand men, and it would be impossible for them to make more than one trip in the face of the enemy.” “Well, if I had been beaten,” said Gen. Grant, pausing to light another cigar as he spoke, "transportation for ten thousand men would have been abundant for all that would have been left of us.” They Have a General Now. There is a story that upon the next morning after the first day’s struggle in those tangled and all but impassable woods of the Wilderness. Lee and his officers came out, as aforetime, to see the Union forces going back again over the river, and that when he saw, instead, signs of their resuming the attack, he remarked to his companions: “They have a General now. It is all up with us!” The story may not be true: but its facts were. It was after six days of battle that Grant sent to Washington th > dispatch which ended with the grim remark: ."I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer." Spottsylvania followed, and Cold Harbor; the investment of Petersburg, and that long series of assaults, forays, intrenchments, and battles which ended with the surrender of Lee and the explosion of the rebellion. Grant’s Coolness. An incident occurred one mornin gat Spottsylvania that illustrates Grant’s coolness and selfpossessidn. While the heaviest artillery tiring was in progress, Gen. Grant was standing, in company with Gen. Meade, near a fire, talking and endeavoring to keep themselves dry, when a 'rebel shell struck within a few feet of the twain. A disposition to move was manifested on the part of a number of officers standing atound, when Gen. Grant, looking slowly around and fixing his eye on the spot where the shell struck, asked at once tor a pocket compass, which being furnished, he examined the course of the shell, found out the location of the battery, and it was not long before shells were thick among the men working said battery. Tanning Leather. A party of Illinois politicians visited the headquarters of Gen. Grant when they were located near Vicksburg, and endeavored to obtain his views on the political questions of the day. One of their number was especially earnest in his efforts, and while in the midst of what he considered a very persuasive speech, was interrupted by Gen. Grant, who quietly remarked: “There is no use of talking politics to me. I know nothing about that subject, and, furthermore, I don’t know of any person among my •acquaintances who does. But,” continued he, "there is one subject with which I am perfectly • acquainted; talk of that, and I am your man." “What is that, General?* asked the politician, in surprise. “Tanning leather,” replied Gen. Grant. An Obstinate Man. In the early days of the campaign, Mrs. Grant gave an opinion about Richmond, which was as well founded as that of the General’s father about Vicksburg. Somebody was so good as to express to her a hope that her husband would take Richmond Mrs. Grant observed, with a dry simplicity of phrase that sounded as if she had gone to school to her husband as well as married him: ’* Well, I don't know. I think he may. Mr. Grant always was a very obstinate man!”