Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1885 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. ■ ■■■U W. K. MARSHALL, - - Pubushbl

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TBS IiAST. An examination of the books of the ]ate Henry Conover, Assistant Cashier of the Manufacturers and Traders’ Bank of Buffalo, has disclosed a defalcation of $74,000, the money having been abstracted from time to time during several years. The officials announce that the bank’s capital and surplus are unimpaired... .The “American Benefit Association" and the “American Benefit Society, ” insurance concerns of Boston, have been decided fraudulent by the State Insurance Commissioner. They take risks and collect assessments, but pay no claims. They are managed by the same individual, and will be suppressed. ... .One man was killed and three injured by falling from a bucket in a shaft at the new aqueduct in New York. A dispatch from Mount MacGregor says: The letter from Mrs. Grant put in the General's pocket when he was laid in his coffin simply read: “Farewell, we meet again in a better world.” It also contained a lock of Mrs. Grant’s hair. Mrs. Grant visited the remains Thursday morning, and remained alone with them seven or eight minutes. Then she went to her room and remained there until evening, when she again visited the remains..... Dr. George F. Shindy, one of General Grant’s medical advisers, publishes in the Medical Record of Aug’ 1 an extended review of the “surgical and pathological aspects of General Grant’s case/’ He believes that the disease had its inception in the month of June, 1884. and gives a succinct history of' the progress and treatment of the ease from the day ip October last when General Grant first called on Dr. Fordyce Barker, his family sician, up to its fatal termination. It suggests no new theories in regard to the case, and is rather intended- to be a connected narrative for the benefit of the medical profession, being hugely couched in terms familiar to that body. x A New York dispatch of the Ist inst. says: “Preparations for the great military pageant, which is to be the principal feature cf the great funeral on the Bth, continue with great zeal. With the exception of the vast number of details which will now take care of themselves, these preparations may now be called completed. Gen. Hancock has appointed all his aids, and is now occupied during every working hour of the day in receiving and answering applications for place in the line. One hundred and fifty dollars has been offered for the use of a single window on Broadway on the day of the funeral. The decora'ions of the City Hall, where the body is to lie in state, were finished to-day and are very imposing. 'I be bufilling is being girdled with electric light, so that the somber center of interest while the remains lie there will be constantly illuminated. General Hancock issued an prder charging Major General Alexander Shaler with the formation of the escortpolumn of in which the army and navy and commissioned State organizations will be represented. ” Miss Nellie Haeeison, of New York, left Boston for that 6ity, carrying SIB,OOO worth of jewelry in a hand sachel, which was stolen from her before she reached her destination. There is no clew to the thieves In accordance with an act of the Pennsylvania Legislature defining the age at which boys may be employed in and about coal-mines, 500 boys have been discharged from the collieries in the vicinity of Shamokin.... The Supreme Court of New York decided that a load of gypsy paupers, landed there by a French boat, should be returned to France.

THE WEST.

A dispatch from Portland, Oregon, says the County Jail nt Baker City, in that State, was destroyed bv fire, and five prisoners were burned to death and a sixth severely scorched. Cbop reports from Minnesota and Dakota are to the effect that the reported damage to wheat has been exaggerated, and that, while there has been some damage from rust and blight reported, the loss is insignificant. Harvesting has begun in many places, and well-filled gameis are expected by farmers. A drove of cattle wrecked a train near Delphi, Ind., the engine and baggage car tumbling down an embankment. The fifty passengers escaped unhurt, but Bag-gage-master Robinson was severely injured. The financial loss is S4'I,QOO. John Edie, 72 years old, and worth $50,000, living near Philadelphia, Ohio, hanged himself in his barn, owing to domestic troubles... .Maud S. trotted at Cleveland in 2:08}, lowering her record half a second. The quarter was reached in 32}, the half in I’.tkj, and the three-quarters in 1:355. Simon Harris, the Chicago' attorney who has been filing libel suits against journals and persons in Ohio until the aggregate reached nearly $2,000,030, was delated insane at Cincinnati, and taken by friends to a sanitarium... .Hot weather, attended by frequent severe storms, prevailed throughout the West last week. Numerous cases of sunstroke and heavy losses from wind and lightning are reported from various points. The damage inflicted upon growing crops in Minnesota, Dakota, and Wisconsin is very great... .Valentine Wagner was executed in the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio. The doomed man was with difficulty prepared for his fate. He had to be carried to the trap, and then tried to lie down, struggling like u maniac while the officers were adjusting the rope. His neck was broken by the fall, and death was instantaneous. . *

AT a meeting at Kansas City the Mayor and 1 Common Council sent a dispatch to President Cleveland, stating that great hardship would ensue, not only to the cattle I men directly interested, but to all classes who are in any way connected with the prosperity of the Western country, by the enforcement *of the order requiring the removal of cattle upon leased lands in the Cheye’nne , and Arapahoe reservation in forty days.’ The strict enforcement of the order would be a virtual destruction to the catt e interest, amounting to $1,000,000 in said reservation, and that it would seriously disturb the finances of Kansas and Missouri. ~. Tost Sunday’s storm was marked in Chicago by an almost phenomenal rainfall, the gauge at the Signal-Service office marking 5.58 inches for nineteen hours. This record has not been equaled for years. The sewers were pressed beyond their capacity, and as a result many basements in the business andresidence districts were flooded and much damage done.., .Amagent of the Portofiice Department attempted to Saji

from Sun Francisco on a Pacific Mail steamer, with trucks containing mail for Mexico and Central America, for which he offa*e«4 to pay as extra baggage. The purser declined to take the trunks on board, and the mail was forwarded to its distination via New Orleans y-

THE SOUTH.

Three brothers, Ed, Bob, and Porter Hawkins, called upon Horace Miullins, in Anderson County. Kentucky, and desired to know if he had used foul language about their sister. The four men began tiring at once, two of the dead at the first shot, the third leceivingl slight ■wounds at the second discharge. Mullins escaped unhurt... .The walls of a rolling mill at South Wilmington,' Del., fell, killing two men and wounding half a dozen others, some of them mortally. Two BROTHERS named Heaton were drowned near Huntsville, Tenn. One,' who had been taken with a cramp and rescued, when he saw his brother sinking, plunged i ? to assist him, and both per-, ished’. .. . Martha Brown, a youug woman in attendance at a ball in lt< gersville, Tenn... xvas instantbh kill'J™ hyi a.jbullet. from a revolver which fell from the pocket of a young man present upon the ballroom floor. '■ Charles Davis, George Jones,' and Mathilda Jones were executed for murder at Plaquemine, La. The woman fell off the trap in a swoon before the preparations had been completed and strangled to death, and alter the drop .fell in her horrible stiugWcs she clutched the bodies of the otluig* culprits, whose necks had been broken by the fa 11.... A gang of masked men rode into the town of Monticello, Ga., and proceeded to the jail where George Hopkins was confined. Placing the muzzles of their guns to the openings, they discharged hundreds of buckshot into the wretch, who meanwhile was pleading for his life. Strange to say, the jailer d d not learn of the tragedy until he brought breakfast to the dead man. Colored citizens of Vicksburg, Miss., in consequence of threats said to have been made against them, have adopted resolutions demanding protection at the hands of local merchants and land-owners, and thfeate ing to emigrate en masse if it is withheld... .Near Lampasas, Texas, the discovery has been made of a large a d apparently inexhaustible bed of bituminous coal, the quality being equal, if not superior, to the Indian Territory article.

WASHINGTON.

The following order Was sent out from Washington on the BCth ult: In recognition of the ni'tion’s loss in ths death ot Ulysses S. Grant, and in participation of the lamentation and expression of "reverence for his honored memory, all i ostoilices in the several States and Territories of the Union are ordered to be closed between the hours of 1 and 5 p. m. oil Saturday, the sth day of Augr.st, appointed, ior the celebration of his funeral obsequies. By s order of the Postmaster Geneial. —■ V- ~ APE. Fiist Assistant Postmaster General; The committee Appointed to represent the United States Senate at the funeral of Gen. Grant consists of Messrs. Morr.ll, Sherman, log ni, Ransom, Inga’ls, Cockrell, Hampton, Brown, and Manderson... .Gen. Burdett, Grand Army Con rnauder. declined to serve on the committee appointed at Washing on to present resolutions of protest against the interment of Gen. Grant at River- ide Park. Secretary Lamar informed a delegation of cattlemen that protests against the execution of the President’s forty-day removal order were unavailiiig, and added the threat that within a few days the pub-, lie might expect to hear a great deal more on this subject. Washington telegram: Referring to the regrets that have been expressed in .some quarters that Gen. Grant is not to be buried in his uniform, with one of his swords by his side, and to the supposition that none of his qnifonns or swords are available for that pui pose, because they were all turned: over to the Government - some months ago with his other mili ary relics, Adiutant TGrPhefaHh-umrsaid to an Associated^-Press-reporter that any or all of them are at the disposal of Mrs. Grant, while they remain in the War Department awaiting the action of Congress. The criticisms of the Naval Advisory Board upon the report of the Dolphin Board of Examiners, together with the reply of the latter, have been made public by Secretary Whitney. The Advisory Board insists that the Dolphin is exceptionally strong structurally, and capable of the full rate of sea speed stipulated for. and holds that the result attained in its construction is one “for congratulation, not condemnation”, .. .Attorney General Garland, in an opinion just transmitted to Secretary Lamar, holds that the Interior Department has no power, under the law. to authorize the Indians to lease their lands for grazi g purposes.

POLITICAL.

■ln calling the Virginia Democratic State Convention to order at Richmond, Congressman Barbour referred in complimentary terms to the administration. Capt. Robert H. Crockett was made temporary Chairman and H. R. Pollard permanent Chairman. On the first ballot Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee was nominated for Governor.

GENERAL.

A marked improvement in the iron trade is reported from Pittsburgh, a mill which has long been idle has resumed, with a force of two thousand men. Brown, Bonnell & Co., of Youngstown, Ohio, have signed the Amalgamated Association scale, with slight modifications, and reopened their works... .A Cardinal's hat will probably be bestowed upon Archbishop Gibbons, of»J3altimore, in September. . < „ The United-Labor league of America adopted the following resolutions upon the death of Gen. Grant:* JiestiilrKl, By the Labor League. that we, deeply deplore the death of Gen..Gfant, and Bend condolence to his w ife and diiildren. Jienite , That i-i his proclamation of the eight-hour law, to shorten the hours of toil, he gave the honest laborer tin opportunity to improve his own condition and educate and ele- ■ ■vate his family, in accordance with the increasing wants of emancl; ation and human civilka.tjon. KesoZre/'. That as the leader of the armies of the republic he struck the shackles from the limbs of s.'-o-.000 men, and struck a blow for liberty which resounded throughout the world A l es'i/re</,That his name is inseparably linked with the cause of human freedom, that h a tamo belongs to no nation, but it is the property of all the people of the world. Th if steamer C. O. Kelly, of the Upper Ottawa Towing. Company, was burned to the Vater’s edge at the wharf, at Pembroke, Canada. Four of the cretv lost their lives. The steamer t tar. of the East was reported the Atlantic coast* near Bath, Maine. President Cleve£anp. who, at the request of Mrs. Grant, s<?lActed the pallbearers for Gen, Grant's funeral, tele-'

gyaphed her to know ii she had any preferences or suggestions to make fn the matter. He received a reply from her by telegraph, saying that it was her wish that he should name the paR-bearers, and that the only suggestion she would make was that in case any prominent Union officer like Qen. Sherman be selected, a leading Confederate officer 'like Gen. Johnslo i or Gen, Buckner be also included ituthe list Mrs. Grant’s wishes in this regard were respected, the President having appointed the following: .Gen. William T. Sherman, U. S. A.; Lieut.'Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, U. S. A;. Admiral David t).. Port&r» U. S. N.; Vice Admiral Stephen C. Rowan, U. S. N.; Gen. Joseph E. jehnsoU, of Virginia: Gen. Simon B. Buckner, of Kentucky; Hamilton Fish, of New Yorjc; George W. Childs, of Pennsylvania; John A. Logan, of Illinois; George Joiiek, of. New' York; and Oliver Hoyt, of New York. A severe thunderstorm prevailed at Mount MacGregor on the .evening of the" 30th ult., and a number of persons were struck by lightning among them Gen. R. H. Jackson and Col. W. Butler Beck, officers of the regular army, and Mrs. Fox. wife of a lawyer. Ail tne victims will recover.

There were 184 failures in ths United States reported during the week, against 215 in preceding week, and 299,155, and 305 in the corresponding weeks of 1884, 1883, and 1882, respectively. About 83 per cent, were those of small traders whose capital was less than $5,000. In the principal trades they were as follows: Grocers, 20; gefieial stores, 21; liquors, 2R hotels and restaurants, 10; drugs, 8: provisions:, 7;-tobacco and cigars, 0; lumber and “-materials, 5; manufactures, 5; books, printing, etc., 5; shoes. 4; coal and wood, 4; crockery, 4; dry and fancy goods, 4; furniture, 4; grain and millers, 4; jewelry, 4; millinery. 4; markets, 4; caipen- ; ters and builders, 3. The jury in the case of Riel, leader in ’ the Northwest Territory rebellion, returned a verdict finding him guilty of treason. A dispatclufrom Winnipeg says: “The juryretired at 2:15 p. m. At 3.d5 there was a murmur in the court, and it was whispered that the jury had agreed. All was bustle and excitement. Riel prayed fervently, kneeling in his box. and looked unmoved as the jury entered. A verdict of guilty was rendered. Francis Cosgrove, foreman, crying like a child, announced that he was asked by his fellow-jurors to recommend the prisoner to the mercy of the The Judge said the recommendation would be considered. Riel was then sentenced to be hanged Sept. 18 at Regina. Judge Richardson said he could hold out no prospect of a reprieve or interference by her Majesty. Riel took the result coolly.”. ... A dispatch- -Northwest jterri—tory, says: -Gov. Dewdney has received a dispatch staling that eight whites had been butchered by mar..tiding eight miles south of Maple Creek, in the : Cypress Hills. ]t is believed that the In- I dians came on the victims by stealth, and i when a -favorable opportunity presented : .itselL pounced upon them. Some of the J attacked escaped by swimming and wading i across the narrow lake. 4 Sunday, August 2, was memorial ' day at the Grant cottage, and the family I held a sacred service of prayer in the par- ■ lor where rested the remains of the old comm tnder. A telegram from Mount MacGregor says: This afternoon the widow asked that Dr. Newman should be sent for. Wh nhe came, 1 Mrs. Grant reminded the pastor- that her dead | would be hers only a little while longer, an I asked him to be with the famiiy while they gathered m the cottage parlor to, say their farewells. Thus it was that about two o’clock Mrs, Grant and her daughter and etch of her threi “sons anTwheir"AViveHrwere in the room with” the dead. Dr. Newman aryl wife were also present. The' family surrounded the catafalco- Mrs. Grant, from a tab e, brought her dead husband’s Bible, which she opened and j assed to Dr. Newman. It was found that the book was opened at the eleventh chapter of Job. The chapter was read, and then the clergyman rerea-J the sixteenth, and nineteenth vers. s. aiKi then a prayer of gratitude was ohered up - gratitude for the beautiful character of the silent one. After this the entire family, there alone with their pastor, entered with Km into a religious conversation. and then each and all dwelt upon reminiscences recalled of the General’s last sickness. A New York telecram of the 3d inst, says: —lt requires great watchfulness to pre. ent relic-hunters from carrying away the bricks which are being used in the construction of the vault in Riverside Pai k, designed for the-last-resting place of Gen Grant. Trading booths have sprung up like mushrooms in the immediate n ighburtrood, their proprietors expecting to reap a rich harvest. President Cleveland has extended a special invitation to eX-Presidents Hayes and Arthur to attend the funeral of General Grant. Men-of-war will be stationed in the North River, and fire salutes as the pr cession moves to the burial place. Rear Admiral Worden has been appointed as dneef the pall-bearers in place.of Vice Admiral Rowan, unable to serve on account of ill-health. General Jbseph E. Johnston, one of the Confederate pall-bean is. tell graphed from Portland, Oregon, that lie is on his way East. At the memorial services at Augus.a, Me., Mr. Blaine will deliver the address.

FOREIGN.

The papal allocution delivered at the consistory in Rome, arrhigns the Italian Government for various sins of commission and omission, and renews the protest against its occupation of the city of Rome. His Holiness says the difficulties with France have been increased by French obstruction. and that the negotiations with Prussia have proved fruitless, nptwith standing the conciliatory attitude of the In the British House of Commons a petition a mile and a half long, and containing 500,000 signatures, was presented, urging the passage of a law for the protection of young girls... .Sixty Russian criminals, while eu ibute to Siberia, made a break for liberty.,. .Twenty were killed by the soldiers, and thirty of the survivors made their escape. Two soldiers were wounded.... Subscriptions to the Egyptian loan of $45,000,000 have been closed. They aggregated four times the amount desired. .... Severe storms, attended by great loss of life and property, have prevailed recently in the southern provinees-pFFrance. ... .Said Pasha, Turkey’s Grand Vizier, is, becoming insane. A Native soldier at .Bombay, having been reported for misconduct, took his revenge by shooting and killing two sergeants, after which he murdered his wife, and ended the tragedy by firing a bullet into his own brain... .A German officer has been arrested as a spy by the Russian authorities of Jacobstadt, on the Baltic. Documents proving the character of his mission a:e said to Have been found upon bis person. ... .A Dublin dispatch states mat the Registrar General's quarterly return estimates the present population of Ireland at 4,094,342. ' i The two political parties in England are reported as much divided, the attitude of several of the leaders toward the ParneHites being the cause of the division. Lord Randolph Churchill has been severely criticised by the Tories for his efforts to conciliate Parnell and secure him as an ally. Nearly all the provincial Tory election agents have sent remon- ' strances to the Marquis of Salisbury, the. Premier, and the result has been that Churchill has agreed to submit more closely ito party discipline. He ha?. ho,wever, sei cured the consent of his more aged party

managers to advocate a policy embracing local government reform and reform in the British land laws. It is piedicted that in time he will form :i coalition with Purnell and Chambeilaiu, and aim- to become a leader independent of Conserve-, lives and Tories. In the Liberal party the more advanced; I '.Radicals are urging ths adoption of a p’atform Which shall embrace the disestablishment of the church in England and Scotland, home rule for Ireland, and a reform of the feudal land system. In the meantime the Pameliites are industriously carrying out their policy of aggression,.and ate. pb paling to invade English and Scotch constituencies.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

About 200 Consular posts yet remain to be filled, mostly small agencies. It is now intended to complete the reorganization of the service by (January. South American trade will receive special attention, and Consuls at ports on that continent, it is said, Will be expected to make reports of a nature valuable to business men. Before his death, the Mehdi designated four chiefs to continue the war in the Soudan, 'and set aside 20.000,000 piastres toward defraying the expenses. .. .A Biusse’s journal asserts that England has accepted the Russian proposition to submit the Zulficar question to the decision Of the joint boundary commission. A tremendous waterspout passed over Transylvania County, North Carolina, carrying away bridges and wash ng away houses. The water is said to h ive rolled oyer the country in a perp end icu'ar .wall twelve feet high and a quarter of, a fniie wide. The destruction of crops is complete in the section over which the storm passed. A masked burglar entered the yesitlenee of the Hon. W. R. MerriariF, at St. Paul,, and meeting that gentleman, the burglar placed a pistol to his head, compelling him to point out his valuables, took his watch and diamond studs, and then walked out of the front door. , , .The land suit of King vs. Remington, which has been on trial for some time in the District Court at Minneapolis, Minn., and which involved §1,500,000 worth of property, has been decided in favor of the plaintiff... .According to the census recently completed in Wisconsin, the population of some of its important towns is as follows: La Crosse, 21,212; Fond du Lae, 12,681; Madison, 12,063; Appleton, 10,907; Janesville, 9,941. The city of Toronto has been visited by the most destructive conflagration in its history. An hour after it broke out in an eight-story glucose factory the flames extended for half a mile along the south side of the Esplanade. Scores of vessels of all kinds were moored at the docks, and all were destroyed.’ Henry Wort, a private -watchman, is known to have perished in the flames. The most exciting scenes were on the craft at the docks. The crews were cut off by lire from the docks, and as the vessels caught fire they were forced to jump into the water and swim for - their lives. So rapidly did the fire spread that small boats were consumed before they could be launched, and the sailors in the water had to depend upon their own strength until tugs from the outside could pi, k them up. As it was, many of them were badly scorched, and, it is feared, some fatally. The loss is estimated- at over §1,000,000. The following telegraphic correspondence passed between General Fitz Hugh Lee and General Hancock: Governor’s Isi and, N. Y., Aug. 3. General Fitz Hugh Lee, Alexandria, Va.: Would it be agreeable to you to be appointed as aid on_ the occ ‘sion of the ceremonies in connection with the obsejuics of General Grant? If it would, yon will 1e so announced. Id ease repl y by telegraph. —-- W. S. Hancock, Major General, i Al EXAN’DKIA. Va.. Aug. 3.; To Gen. W. 8. Hancock, Mount MacGregor, •N. Y.: Your te’egrain received. I accept the position, because by so doing Lean testify my. respect for the memory ot a great soldier, and thus ieturn, as far as I can. the generous feelings he has expressed toward the soldiers of the South. ‘Fitz Hugh Lee. The storm which swept over the West proved very severe in soma of the Eastern -States. At Camden, New _Jersey._a_number of persons are reported to have been killed -or -Injured and hundreds of buildingswrecked. Along both banks of she Delaware River the elements wrought great I havoc. Off Greenwich Point the excursion | steamer, Major Reybold, carrying many passengers, was struck by the storm, and was towed tojts dock at Philadelphia a dismantled hulk. During the gale the captain and pilot were washed overboard, the latter being lost, and William Grassmore.of Salem, New Jersey, was struck by a flying timber and fatally injured; 'At Baltimore, Philadelphia, Reading, and other Eastern points, the rainfall was heavy and the damage extensive. .. .The population of Albany, N. ¥., according to the census just completed, is about 96,000... .Jewish citizens of New York propose to erect a monument to Sir Moses Moutejfiore in Central Park.

THE MARKETS.

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REMINISCENCES OF GRANT.

Gen. Horace Porter’* Recollections. [Mount MacGregor special.] Gen. Porter said he felt keenly for Mrs. Grant, for he knew how very strong was the bond of affection between her and her late husband. They were always together, except when the General was in the field, and there always existed between them the utmost harmony. , ■* Speaking of Gen. Grant’s disposition, Gen. .Porter said: “It was one of the happiest dispositions I ever knew. I was with him for nine consecutive years, nsver leaving his side but for a few hours at a time, and I never knew him to be angry. The nearest approach to it was once when he saw a teamster unmercifully beaitng a poor horse. The General dashed up to him and said: ‘You scoundrel! you ought to be ashamed of yourself.’ The teamster made some impertinent reply, and the General ordered him tied up by the hands. Gen. Grant never in his life uttered an oath. I never heard him even utter the mildest form of an imprecation, which is a most unusual thing in the free-and-easy atmosphere of army life. This tame happy disposition was one of the reasons why all those who were immediately about Lim, from the humblest dependent up, were so devotedly attached to him. An instance of this is shown in the case of Albert Hawkins, the coal-black coachman, who has permission to drive the hearse at the General’s funeral. I don’t knowAvhere the General got Albert, but it was before he was made President the first time. Gen. Grant was pre-eminently a man of the people. His heaat.warmed to them, and he liked to mingle in throngs. In his journeys by rail he loved to leave his private car and go out into the smoker and sit down in the seat w'ith somebody and chat. Yet he could very effectually crush undue familiarity. I remember once coming up with him from Long Branch. We were in the smoking-car, and a rough-looking fellosv who sat in the seat in front of us glanced around and recognized the General,' Tipping a wink to those about him, he turned around to the General, and said: ‘Say, Cap, give us a light, will ye?’ Gen. Grant looked calmly over him with that imperturbable face of his, and then, taking out his match-box, he handed the man two matches. There was that about this simple little action which definitely checked any further advances, and the man who had tried it, from that time on, was very much interested in the passing landscape. “I never in my life saw but one man so cool under fire as was Gen. Grant,” continued Gen. Porter, “and that was a bugler in the Fourth Cavalry. Both the General and this man could look right in the face of the heaviest fire without even so much as winking. Not one man out of thousands can be found who will not involuntarily, move wben bullets whistle by his • ear, but Gen. Grant never moved a muscle. He was also a wonderfully ready man. I reinember that second day’s figftt at the Wilderness, when in the evening word came in that Shaler had been captured, that Seymour had been captured, and Sedgwick’s command driven back. Gen. Grant coolly and swiftly gave his orders, moving thousands of men here and thousands there. It was as though he had known the situation for days instead of a few minutes, and was basing his movements on carefully. matured plans. He was alsoequally quick in expressing his opinions when suddenly called upon to do so, and when people requested his views on certain points, and asked him to write them down when he had thought them over, he would say: ‘I can write them down now for you.’ Then he would take pen amp paper, and quickly write page after page so clearly and concisely that not an interlineation would be required. He. wrote his message vetoing the inflatibnOT ihe currency in just this way. lie sat down at a. little round table in bis bed-room and wrote lapidly on until he hid finished, and the message contained one of the most exhaustive analyses of our currency system that have ever been published. “In the field the General usually wore a common blue army blouse and a slouch hat. He had two horses, one called Jeff Davis and the other Cincinnati. Jeff Davis was captured down on Davis’ plantation, I believe. It was a brown pony, and a very easy-riding animal. Gen.GrjmtTOdethiß horse when I accompanied him to the front at the time the miiie was exploded ill front of Petersburg. There was some bungling about the work, and the General pushed on to the front. The men did not recognize him as he hurried through their ranks. Dismounting from his horse, he leaped over the works, crawled through the abattis, and pushed on to the extreme front. Gen. Grant was one of the best horsemen I ever saw. He could ride easily on any horse, no matter how awkward his gait was, and he had the knack of getting out of his horse all there was in him, too. I remember once when Mr. Bonner asked him if he did not want to drive one of his horses. The General replied that he did, and drove the horse over the course, getting out of him the second fastest time he had ever made. He had a strong, friendly way of handling a he 4b a that at once won his confidence, just as a little child feels confidence in the nurSe who holds him gently and securely.” /

Grant at Vicksburg His Kindness to Those About Him. [Dr. E. A. Duncan, in Louisville CourierJournal. 1 “How did General Grant appear before Vicksburg?” “As plain as an old stove. It was hard to make the new troops believe that it was him as he rode over the field. He -wore a commo# soldier’s blouse frizzled out at the bottom, and cavalry pants stuffed in his boots. He wore a low-crowned, black hat, without so much as a gold cord. The simplest Major General’s straps were the only thing about his dress that told his rank. He always rode a splendid horse, however, and the trappings of the steed were always in full uniform. But that was due to h s orderly more than anything else. He delighted in a good horse. He usually kept six of them on hand—two or three in the field at the same time. His favorite war horse was of the noted Lexington of Kentucky stock, and I think he called him Lexington." 1 ■ ' “Was the General a luxurious liver?” “By no means. He enjoyed a good meal aa much as any one, but never complained of what was set before him. He would have been satisfied with hard-tack and,, sow-belly. He did not dripk a drop of liquor during the siege of Vicksburg. He had promised Genend Rawlins, afterward his Chief of Staff and Secretary of War, at Shiloh, to abstain. He never broke over but once from that day to the close of the war, and that was accidental. A banquet .was given to him and General Banks after the fall of Vicksburg, at New Or’eans. and in the conviviality of the hour he took a few glasses of wine. ” 4 “How did the General treat those about him?" “With the greatest kindness and respect. He had less egotism than any great man I ever saw. He was eager to give every man a full measure of praise and > appreciation for what he did. He would even hunt out what each man merited. One element of his greatness Was his dosire to pull ,up his friends with him. It never occurred to him to claim the glory

of any campaign. He always spoke of his victories as due to this, that, and the other General. ,He was the best balanced man I ever saw. I never once saw him exalted by the most glowing success nor depressed by failure, He took things as they caipe. lie had more of the qualities that inspire hero worship than any one I ever came in contact with. Such a man does not appear but once ip an age. He rarely ever used a profane word. When angry, which was rare, he was the opposite of other men. He would then knit his brows, compress his lips, and speak slowly. ” “What day did he enter Vicksburg?” “The 4th of July. Gen. Pemberton wanted him to enter the day before, but he replied: ‘No, I have been waiting to celebrate the 4th.’ The first thing he did was to issue abundant rations and parole the prisoners. That was a master stroke to parole them, for had he sent them North they would' have been a tremendous' expense to the Government, and as soon as exchanged they would have returned to the rebel ranks. As it was they were glad to go home and remain on their parole." “You say Gen. Sherman was in full sympathy with Gen. Grant?" “Assuredly. I remember to have heard Gen. Sherman use a remarkable sentence in speaking of hib chief. Said he: ‘The thing that makes Gen. Grant so great is, that it is impossible to incumber him with men or responsibilities. He could command a million men if you could get a field big enough. Gen. Grant commanded the longest line of battle ever fought in the history of the world—that is Mission Ridge, seve.i miles. Fighting was going on that entire length at once. The General sat quietly by a little telegraph instrument and ordered commander after commander to develop what was in front of him. He always knew what he was doing. He onceordered a certain general, whose name I will n'ot give, to make an assault. The general, who did not want him to succeed, replied: “I fully comprehend your order, but to carry it out is the destruction of my army.” Gen. Grant instantly sat down and wrote: “I am gla d you ‘comprehend my order;’ obey it. ” Victory was the result.’ “Gen. Grant was the first one to discover the brilliant fighting and commanding qualities of John A. Logan. It is a mistake that any of Gen. Logan’s preferment came from political centers— he wen it all on the field with his sword under Gen. Grant’s eye. They had absolute faith in each other, and were as affectionate as brothers, There was no man north of Mason and Dixon’s line that so quickly forgot the bitterness engendered by the war. No one had a higher appreciation of the valor and brilliancy of the Southern soldiers. He said Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had never been excelled on earth. ” “Where did you first see Gen. Grant?” “At Galena, 111., before the war. He was sitting in front of his father’s tannery whittling and smoking a small pipe? -die cared nothing for business. He ht/d no idea of its details. He would not have known a piece of bank paper from a Chinese Wash bill. Capt. Grant, as he was then called, looked about as old then as he did four years ago, when I saw him last ” “Did you live in Illinois?” “Yes; Ipracticed medicine within twenty miles of the General.” A Generous Ofler. [Washington special.! “Gen. Grant has received the most delicate and heartfelt sympathy in his illness and misfortunes from some of the Confederate officers and soldiers who had known him in the old army,” said an intimate friend of his the other day. “And apropos of this is an incident.which occurred, last year. When the news of his complete pecuniary collapse became public thero was a very general expression of regret all over the country^ —and many offers of assistance were “tendered, none of which, however, he accepted. I was s.tting with him at his residence in New York one morning while he was going over his daily mail, when he looked up with a curious expression, and said: *1 Want you ttf listen to this,’and then he proceeded to read. It was a letter from an old officer in the United States army whom Grant had known in Mexico, who left the service about the same time Grant did, and subsequently became a distinguished Confederate General. The letter, as well as I can remember, ran this way: “My Dear Grant: You and I have known each other for many yeai-s, and because of that long, and. in its early days, intimate acquaintance and friendship, I venture to ask you to do me a favor. I have read in the papers that, by reason of circumstances beyond your control, you have lost the means you relied upon as a maintenance during the balance of your life. The favor I wish to ask is that you will allow me to send you SIO,OOO, to be considered as a loan and repaid at your own convenience. I know you will receive this request in the spirit I make it, and the only condition I couple with it is that the matter shall be kept a secret between us, Upon a notice of your acceptance I will send the amount to you in the shape of my personal check on the Bank of New York. Be assured, "my dear Grant, that you will confer a personal favor on me by permitting me to be of this slight service to y° n - ” “Do you know who it was?” was asked of the speaker. “Yes,” he replied, “but I cannot give his name. He is a man of large fortune and could easily have done it, but, respecting his friend’s wish. Grant desired that his name should not be made public. I have never seen Gen. Grant show so much emotion and appreciation as he did in this instance. Shortly after that Congress passed the bill empowering the President to retire a former General officer of the army on full pay, and Grant was at once nominated and continued, and thus was put beyond the need of availing himself of the generous liberality of his friends.” There is reason to believe that the person who wrote Gen. Grant the 'letter mentioned was Gen. S. B. Buckner, of Kentucky.

Life on Other Worlds.

Whether we turn our thoughts, saysone of the ablest of modern astronomers, to planet, snn, or galaxy, the law of nature, (recognized as universal within the domain as yet examined/, that theduration of life in the individual is indefinitely short compared with the. duratitm of the type to which the individual belongs, assures us, or at least renders it highly probable, that in .any member of these orders 1 taken at random, it is more probable that life is wanting than that life exists at this present tiipe. Nevertheless,, it is at least as probable that every member of euery order —planet, sun, galaxy, and so onward to higher and higher orders (endlessly—has been, is now, or will hereafter be, life-supporting “after its kind.* —Exchange. ” We are accustomed to pity the trials of the schoolmarm who has to labor six hours a day with forty children. Don’t say we told yoti, but the nurse who tends one baby ten hours a day is entitled to E 0 per cent, of the sympathy I and all the gate moneys