Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1881 — General Kilpatrick. [ARTICLE]

General Kilpatrick.

New York Sun. ' General Kilpatrick w r a3 popular in Chili. He liked the land and its people next to his own. He was Presidtnt of a fashionable club in Santiago, and of an educational institution there. General Kilpatrick’s house was a big and substantial wooden house two miles out of Deckertown, N. J. He imitated farming there on a plan that amused those of bis neighbors who had neither politics nor the lecture platform wnerewith to piece out their incomes as he had. He had thirty cows, and sold their milk and the butter it made. He had two hundred acres of pasture land, and used to say that Rome and his farm had tne same number of hills. Next to his giltedged butter he was the proudest of his pigs, and a visitor who spent Sunday with him not long ago wa3 astonished at an invitation'' to go out and chase in the pigs which wero running wild in the woods. After he and his guest were exhausted he * flung himself on the grass and talked of his plans. Incidentally, he said he thought there was a great opportunity for an American soldier to enlist in the Chilian army during the war against Peru. “I was spoken of as a reckless soldier during the rebellion,” he said; “but then I was but twenty-four years old, with nothing but fame to look forward to, and nothing but my sword to get it with. Now, at past foity, with a wsfe and children and my comfortable pursuits, I doubt whether I could maintain my r character a* a soldier.” I# He lived somewhat pretentiously; kep\a culoied waiter in fuir dress in his room, served dinners of many courses with various kinds of wines, and a house full of curious and costly things he had brought from Chili. His most remarkable characteristieswere those of the traditional soldi r. He was quick-tempered, wanting in business judgment, prodigal with his means, and not always guarded in his speech. Living in clover in his master’s stable, a year or more ago, was ‘Spot,’ the General’s war-horse, who carried the soldier thiough all the battles in which he took part under Giaut, and again under Sherman.