Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1874 — General Grant’s Turnout. [ARTICLE]

General Grant’s Turnout.

The fuss the papers make over the carriages and outfit of the PresidenUll prepares one for the quite ordinary stud Gen. Grant keeps for his own use and that of his family. The old stable of Buchanan's time is now partly a conservatory and partly a wood-shed. Nearly* a quarter of a mile away, on a new and yet uncultivated part of the public grounds—outside the Presidential gardens —stands a low brick edifice, somewhat castellated, ans this is the Presidential stable. A coach of modern style, trimmed wholly in black, except the handles, with no ornament of any kind but “U. S. G.” on the panels, is the State and family carriage of the Chief Magistrate. It would not be a fashionable coach fora New ‘ York snob. It would need but little change to turn it into a first-class mourning carriage, A small, light-driving wagon is the favorite for the President "when he drives himself. To this is hitched a small black mare of marvelous speed that came from the State of Maine. The carriage horses are beauties. One of these is over sixteen hands high. He was picked up in a hack in this city, where he attracted no attention. He cost but S4OO. He could not now be purchased at any price. A fine sum would be paid for a mate. A pair of black ponies of great speed and grit, driven to a low basket wagon, with a rumble behind, is the fa- ~ rorite team of Miss Nellie Grant. The horse of mark in the stable is Cincinnatus, the old war-horse of the President. This animai is a deep mahogany bav, slender and of wonderful symmetry. His life-work is done. He is eighteen, a crip- , *P d will live in clover to the end of - his days. A>fonr-y ear-old colt of great s«e and speed completes the horse outfit of Gen. Grant.— Washington Letter.