Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 13, 1875, Page 10

et /THE —_— S CHICAG( TRIBUNE: TITURSDAY, MAY 13, 1875.—TEN PAGES, 9 SHERMAN'S MEMOIRS. Ly it Antobiography of Gen. W. B fiherman, Cherman os Licutenant, Bank- er, Lawyer, Professor, and General, From Dull Run to the Battlo of Lookont Mountaine | Rew Light upan the Rebellion. Ko York Ierald, Stay 10, truotR1 OF WinLot T, busstan, By Himedf, Tn Two Voluimea, Now York: D, Appleton & Co, 1873, w] bava sgain and sgain,” enys Qen. Buor- s, * boon Invited to write tho lilstory of this War, or to record for publication my personal recollections of it, with largo offors of mouey thorefor, all of which I Liave declined, becauso {he truth is not alwaya palatable, and shiould not siwara bo told. Many of tho actors in the grand drsma #till live, and they and fhoir friends aro quick to controversy, which should peavolded. The great end of peaco Lins been sttaiped, with little or ne change in our form of governwent; and tho daty of all good men {n to allow tho passiona of thar period to subsido, that wo may diroct our pbysical sud mantal Inbor to ropair the work of war, and to engago In the greater task of cone tinuing our hitherto wonderful natioual dovelop- wmeat. What I now prapeso to do is morely to give somo of my personal recolicctions about tho Listoric porsons and ovents of tho day, propared pot with auy view to their production, but rather for preservation when I am gouo, and thus to bo sliowod to follow into obliviou tho cords of gim- flar papers, or to bo used by somo Listorian who may read thom by way of Ulustration.,”” Gen. Bhermavu hias redeemed thia modest purposo in 4o of tho most siriking, eloquont, and original works the litorature of* tho war has preduced. Tho style ia freah, clear, easy, and often britliant, snd Mesurs, Apploton bave mndo the work wortliy of tho reputation of their housc. BNERNAN AB LIEUTENANT, Tighteon hundred xnd forl it found Gen. Sherman lu tho 318t year of his ae, and a Firat Lieutonnnt of Artillery in Iort Moultrie, 8. 0., under command of Capt. Robert Anderson, af- terword to becomo celobrated as tho defonder of Fort Bumter. With this cpoch in hig lifo the Goneral's memoirs bogin. War lind broken out in Mexico, and the Gencral describes his anxiaty 03 an impatient young ofticer to obtain an active command. 1iis application resultod in an order ta sail for California to take part in anoxpedition filted out to conquer that country. We find him sailing around Cape Horn as Licutenant in com- pany with Ord and Ilalleck, It was a long jour- noy,—reading, * gaming, but never gambling," and o littlo visit to Itio Janciro while Ienry A. Wizo was our Minister thero. Thoro was a visit o Chill, & trip to Valparaiso, and finally & reat st Monteroy, whoro tho young officor was in- for a hod, Lut slept on the grouud, without f of cold or rain. Thora whs a_hesapapar, * a curloeity in jta ine," using Lwa V's for 8 W, and other combinations of letters, msdo necessary by want of typo, which giew up to be the Al California. ~Thoro was much rivairy ss to widch wam to bn the * “New York" of the Pacific. Rlerman's f(dea wan, that Bionlcia was thio propor place, whilo athera fant- enod upon Lle town *“nponr tho mouth of the bay," univeraslly known as Yorha Iucna, 'Thoso whio hiad clinrge of Yerba Iluena maw the hinpor. lanco of 8 80, {n town couneil, changed e, 1 min convincod,” saya Gen. Bhermau, * that this littla circumatanee was big with cousoquencee. ~'Ilat Ienlcis was the best elte for s commorcial city 1 ain_ satisfiod aod, liad hialf the monoy and Lalf tho laboraiuce hontowad upon Ban Franclsco been oxpendod upon Bonicia, we should at this day havo o city on thio Carquinez Straits, Tho namo ancisco, however, lixod the cily whora THE GOLD-FEVER, QGon, Bhorman spoaks fu the Lighest torms of the fidehty sud lioneaty of tho commander, Col, Mason, who usod noue of Lis power to agyran- diza linnelf. On ons occasion ho opened 8 store at Corona, investiug £600, aud_recoiving £1,600 s hineliare of the profita. Thero waa groat trouble fn koeping thesailors aud soldiers In the cAmp § ovon z{m servanta—everyhody—ran mad with the gold-fover. ‘Lwo colored boys, named Asron_and Issac, kapt their foith, and * their conduct,” aays tho General, ' has given mo a kindly fealing of raspect for tho negroes, and malkes mo hopo that thoy will find n status in the Jutavlo of afairs in which wo now five," Thora sppeared also a singular character eatled Baron Bteinborgor, who **hoasted that La Liad helped to break tha Unitod Htates Bank by belng in- debted to'lt $5,000,000,” 'Tue Baron went tatotha buteher busiuess, and hie was tho firit butcliorin Ban Francisco. 110 tuade o groat doal of monoy, and becamo onv of the richiost and most fullu- ential men™ in California; wan fiually caught, and Locams hopelesaly bankrapt, followod Fro- mont to St. Jouis in 1861, ** sud moon aftor died a pauper in ono of the hospitals.,” Tho Becond Infantry came near deserling in nlk. Cnptains and mastors of shi;s abandoued their vessels and catgzoen to rush'to tho mines, whils preach- cra and Profensora forgot their croeds to take to tendo, oven to keoping gambling-honses, Tha Goneral indulged 1o 8 liillln land-spocnlation which brought bim & profit of 06,009, Labor waa #o high that &16 & day was a good carpen- tor's wages, Emigrauta came pourng over the mountains, and were eaved from starvation by the provident forethought of the Commssary Depariment ot the army, Finally, {n 1830, tho young ofticer returned to tho East, by way of L'nuatuz, the benrer of dikpatches to Gen. Beoit. MARRIAGL AND TOLITICH, Gen, Bhermau arrived in New York sbont the clozo of Jauuary, drlxt up at * Delmonico's, on Bowling Groon.” Then thera camo & diuner with Gou, Scott, who startled him with tho as- sartion that * tho country was on tho eveof a torrible eivil war.” Thonce to Wasbington, whore SBhorman became an nmate of *the family of tho 1on, Thomns Ewing, Hecretary of the In- terior in the Cabiuot of President Taylor. Tay- ltor Impressed the young ofticer by bis ** fine persoual appearance, and pleasaut, ecasy manuers,” In May, 1850, Bhorman married the daughter of Mr, Ewiug—tho mar- riago-coremony boing attonded by *n_large and distingnished company, embracing Daniol Webstar, Heury Clay, ‘Lhomas A. Bonton, Dresi- dont Taylor, and all his Cabwiot.” Taylor' died within o fow monthe, aud Sherman, in compavy with Gon, Sedwick and William I, Darry, then Coptaing, waa of tho military oscort at his funeral, 4 /0T OF WEBSTER, Thers oo iuiding timos ; compromise moas- nrvs we 1 tho tapis, and we bavo a descrin- tion of iuorman’y viat to the Sonato to hoar Wobster's grent 7th of March spoech in the old “Honato Chambor, mnow usod by the Supromo Ocurt. Corwin, of Objo, introduced ~ Bhierman upon tho floor. vitod to witness a play called ** Adam aod Eva.” |** I found,” lio bnys, ** a seat closo behind Mr. *Evo was i-)umuunled by a prolly young girl kvown 88 Dolores Qomoz, who, howover, was drensod very unlike Eve, for eho was covered with s potticout of spanglos, Adsm was por- sonatod by ono who lias siuce bacomo famous as the person upon whom was foundoed tho McGar- nhan claim. God Almighly wos porsonatod, aad Meaven's occupants seemed very humau yot_tho play was protty and lutercating, au tlicited univorsal applanee,” YAULY DAYS IN CALIFORNIA. These wore the early davs, whon the Spaniarda #til reiguod on the Yacifle const. 'Fhe Goneral tella of an amusing visit he ;rlll\l to ono of the Dous, who gavo bim & dish of rabbit with what o thonght to bo o satco of tomato, which was “rod pepper of tho purest kind.™ At that timo & “les had arlson botweon the American ofli- wis,—Gon, Koarny, Col. Fromont, and Com, Stockton ench claiming the right to contral sftairs in California; Fremont resting hia right upon *s letter ho had roceived from Col Lion- ton, Lhen n Senator, snd & man of great f.uonce in Tolk's Administration,” oA~ vy was evidestly tho strongor man; wd we havo a visit of Sherman Fremout, in 1847, whoro ho spent an hour with him taking tes, “aud left without being much fipressed.” Thero was somo discussion aa to what would bodone with Fremont by tho intrepid sad flory Koarny. **Some thought he would bo tzied and shot, some thought he would be carried tack in frons. But ovidontly political iutlaenco was not altoghtor dead undor tho Administration of President P'olk, su Fromont was not harmed, Lot aimply shoved out of his rauk, which Kenrny sssumod,—Fromont roturmug liome along with Uen, Koamy, who shortly atterwards loft Col. R. D. Moron in supromo charge,—**an ofll- cor,” an Bhiorman ays, *of proat etporience aud of storn charactor, deomed by somo harsh and sovero,” but to Sherman **always kind and *agreoablo.” Ono of the first dutics of Shorman was o nrreat a \I!lll’plnfi officor namod Nash, *Alealdo of Sonoma," who claimed to bo Goy- eror of Californis, and waa disposcd to disputo the autbiority of tho military, 8horman wassont off with four horsomen and a privato to find Naaly, {0 suppress bis inclpient rebollion, *On Teaching tho house," says SBhorman, “I jn- quired if Nash woro in, aud waa first an- aworod ‘no,’ Lut one of tho women soon point- ed to him, and Lo rowo. Ilo swas armed with Riu(ulu, and the women worc ovidently alarmed, walked up to him and took Lis arm, and told Limto coms aloug with mo. 1lo asked mn Whero, and Isaid * Monterey,! ¢ Why?' I will explain that moro at leisure,” Groen put him- f between mo and the door, and demanded, in Leatrical atylo, why I dared arrest a peacoablo citizon in his own house, I simply pointed to my pistol and told bim to get out of tho way, ‘whick lie did. ~About that timo one of the euil~ ore, sandiiug Lis pistot carclessly, discharged it, sud Groou disapposred very suddenly, W took Nash to the cart, put lim in, took him to the it, and tho next moruing wo were gone,” THE FOUNDING OF TIIE PACIFIO EMPINE. This was Bhorman's first successful offort at wpprossiug rebellion, and cortainly. it was o goud sugury of Lis futnre carcer. Tho ciapters deseribing Lis m‘u’lfi life in Califorum, and his recolicctions of that couutr{, are vivid, pic- turcaque, and marked with €ho' fresh, incisivo, ranly chiaractor of tho illustrious author. ‘Thero + 1 plainly no romances more attractive than the furuding of California. Iu the spriug of 1848, gold was discovored. In ho spring of 1843, we hoar of two mon cnmlnf; to the otlice of the Uovernor, aud bringing with thom about a half- eunoce of placer gold. *'The Governor ssid to mo,"” saya Bliormau, * * what fa that 7' I touched 1, amined ono or two of tho lnrgor luwps, d aslied, * 18 it gold 2’ Mavou asked meir I bag over socn nativo gold, I answerod in 18141 wea in Upjier Georgis, and therasaw soma native £old, but it wan much fiucr thau this, and it was L pilos or in trausparent quills 3 but I said that, i this was gold, 1t could easily be teatod,—first, Ly ita malleability, and next Dy acide, I took n Ppiece Iu my tooth, and tho metallio Instro wua tfoct, 1 thon calied to the clork, Baden, to ug an ax and butchet from the back yard. Vhen thewo woro brought, I took tho lsrgest pleco and boat it ont flat, and beyond doubt {s waa metal, and tha puro metal. Bull, wo ate tached littlo importauco to ths fact, for gold was kuiown to oxist st Ban Ierusndo, at tho south, aud yet it was not considered of much value,” What was of more value, howover, ,.waa quicke Ulver, aud we have descriptions of the muuner i which qulcksilver mines wera disoovored, It Was not an uncomwmon thing In thoso days for o froat land-owuer to be the lond of asmall em- Tire, with hundreds of horses aud thousnndu of (uitlo, and yet to Lave nothingto eut in hiy Luuian oxcopt * & cascass of beof, from which the LRTHETT n)},{ht cut and couk, without monoy and VLot paice, whatover was neadua.” UL DISCOVERER OF GOLD. Thero w..s a visit to Capt. Butter, the dlscoy- erer of gold, Caps. Buttor was a mnil-owner, And Sholwan rlutes Buttor's own story of the it dizcovery of the metal which was io revolu- tianize the luancial couditions of the woild and 0 found & new empire, As Butter was sitting in Toom, near tho mill-house, one day in Fob- ry or March, 1815, & kuock was hoard at tho door, snd ho colled out, ** Come in.” 1o walked bis aneutant, sfarshall, who revealed to Butter tiat ho biad fonnd 1 the tail-race of the mill Sartain pollota of gold. Ho endeavored to tep tho matter a secret, but the news sotead, and scon the world was afiamo with tho djucovery, Men cornod from @40 to €100 Aday, Homotimes 8 lucky fotlow would strike & " fiocket," clear roveral thausaud dollars fu a Tew dayn, and then go abifting sbout wutil Le Jud expended all bo_ had earnod, Everything VM g1 apound, aud ameal §3. obody pad | got them out ay you bost can,’ adding that Wabster aud uear Gen. Scott, aud heard tha wholo of the speoch. Lt way henvy in tho ex- trame ; and I confess that £ was™ dissppointed and tired long bofore t waa finished. No doubt tho speech was Tull of fac: and argnment, but it bad none of tho firo of oratory or tho fuionsity of fesling thar marked all of Alr. Clay's ef- forta. A DANKER IN¥ OALIFORNIA. Thenco the young officor wandored to_ tho West and to Now Orlesus undor orders, aud in 1853, in July, we find him sgaln in California, ag » banker, Ity degcription of tho wild wmothods of conducting business in thoso days s vivid, and might bs read with instruction now, THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE. In 1856 tha Vigllanco Comuiittes took posscs- ston of Ban Francisco, Gon, Bherman's descrip- tion of this singular phenomouon in our history s 80 vivid that wo rogrot we caunot republish tho whola of it. Tolitica Lad Locome s regular, profitable, corrupt buainoss. Thare wax auch & thing'as a Bhorill paying $100,000 to be nominat~ ed for au oftico tho tiowinal ealary of which was 19,000 a yoar for four years. James Casoy, who wag aftorward hanged by the Committee, pub- lished a small paper in the building ocoupiod by Bherman aa & bauk. On ons occnsion a Mr. Slather, a banker and partnor of Droxel, complainod that Casoy's paper at- tomptod to biackmail the banks, **At that timo,” says Bherman, *we were all laboring to rostora confidonce, and I went up-atairy, found Casoy, and pointed out to bim thoe objectionabla naturo of bin article, and told hiwn plainly that I could not tolerato Lis sttompt to print and circulate slandors in our bnlldlu&.’ and, i he ro- pented it, L would causo him and his prosa to be thrown out of the window. Ife took the hiut aud moved to iore friendly quartera.” Tho rival journal, the Bulletin, published some documonts showing that ey bLad onco been sontenced to & Now York penitentiary, Casoy iuformed the editor, James King, that ho would “shoot him on sight,” Tuat evening, as RKing was walking Lome, Casey shot him, and was arrested. . Iho citizons, under the control of William J. Coloman, formed s Committes, ‘I'ne Gavernor, evidontly a woak creature,in com- pany with C. K. Garrison sud Sherman, ondaa- vored to suppress tho outbroal. On Sunday, May 22, 1850, the funeral of King took place, ‘The Govornor called on Bharman, and thoy wout np on top of a Lotel, from which they conld aca ilio wholo city. * Partfes of armod meu in good order “were marching by platoous toward tho Joll. Roon s wmall party was seen to advance to this door sud knocked, and a parloy ousued. Tho doors wore opeped, and Casey was led out.” Also & prisoner nemod Cora, who bind killed a Marshial. %'Pho day was excoodiugly besutiful, aud tuo whale procooding orderly iu the extrome.” *Ina vory fow days Cora and Casoy wero hanged by tho nock, dead, suspended b{ tho boams projecting out of tho windows of the Committoe's room, withont other trial than could be ivan Iu secret agd by night.” ‘Ilio Committee hiold their sossions, issuing writa of arrest and banishmont. An offort was made to suppross them, and Sherman wan appoluted lpjor-Gonoral 1n command of the militia. The 218t of July, 1857, found Sherman living at No, 100 Princo street, in Now York, and opon- ing » banking-liouso at No, 12 Wall afreot. ‘Tho pasic came, snd by Ooctober his business was atanend. IHaroturnod to California to wind up some other nffairs connected with Lis old banking-houso, romained anothor year, and came home in 1838, Thon camo a littlo ox- perioncs iu Kausas, with his two brothors. law, Hugh aud Thomas Ewing, partly as lswy partly as real-ostate agent ; aud on Aug, 2, 18! Ihmunh tho influence of Major, aftorwar Geveral, Don Carlos Duell, ho was olected Bup- ermtondont of the Military Academy of Louis- laun and Professor of Eugineerin, BHEIMAN A8 FIOFESSOR, Bhorman's description of his life in Louislsna is intercsting. Ilo was somewhat vuder s cloud with the rulors of the Stato on account of the fact that his brotlier, John Blierman, was the Ropublican candidato for Speaker of the Houso, Uu took no pmr in politics, and would not evon yote for Bell and Evorett, Beccssion camo rolling upon Lim, the Arsenslof Baton Rouge waa taken possession of on the 10th of January, 1861, and on tho 18th of the sama month ho rosign. ed Lis pomtion Ju n lobter doing him groat credit and honor, *If Loulsiaua withdraw from the Tedoral Union,” he wrote to the Govoruor, * I profer to maintain my allogiauce to the Constitution as longas a fragmont of i nurvives, and my longer slay loro would bo wrong, In every sanse_of the word," “0nno earthly account'would I do auy act or think any thougit hostilo to or in advauce of tho old Govornment of the United Statos,” 1lis res ignatlon was accopted vith the most courtcons vxprossions of osteuw by those whom Lo sorved, A GLIMINE OF LINCOLN, Sherman returncd to the North, and £ March visitod bis brother, John Bherman, who took him to soe Mr, Lincoln, *‘Johu walked up,” ho writes, ‘“shuok hands, aud fook a chair noar Lincoln, hnmmfo in Dhis Laud sOmO papers referring minor -5. Pmulmung " o turned to mo aud , Mr. Prosident, my brothor, Col, Bherwan, who s just up fiom Loulelana, flo mav give you somo iuforiuation you want, ‘ALI' ways Mr, Lincolu, *how ara” tho: ;Lmln;: along down tere ' T'muld, *They thivk thoy sre gotting slong switmingly; they are proparing for war,' YOb, woll,' said "ho, I guesa wo will manago to koap bouso,’ I wassilenced, said no moro to him, aud we soon loft, I was ezdly disappplut- od, and romombor that I broke ont on John, damnivg the politicians ganorally, saying, *You bayve got thingsiua bell of fix, and yflfl‘ ml:y o country wan_sleoping on a yoleano that might hurat forth any momont, but that I was going to At. Lonis to (ake cara of my family, aud would Lare nothing more to do with jt." IN TIE ANMY OF THE UNTON, Dack went 8lierman to At, Lonia and became the Presidont of a stroot.railway company, Bhortly afterward camo s offerof tho position of Chiof Clork _of the War Dopartment, which ho doclinod. Thon, a3 there wan noma susvicion ag to lum loyaity, his wroto to Hecrotary Camsron, saying, I live now, an always, prepared o norve my conntry In the capacity fn which I yas traived,” T did ot aud will not volunteer for threo months, bacause I cannol throw my {amily on the cold charity of ths world. .Dut. for tho thron years' enl{nudn by tho P'restdent, an oficar can’ preparn hin command sud’ do good mervica.” “ 8hould my morvices ba needed, the records of tho War De- rnmmmt will enabla you todesiguate the atation I which I can rendor the most sorvice,” The oud of it was, that, in & fow days, ho wan sp- pointed Colonel of the Thirteontl Llegular In- fantry, and roported ab Wanhungton, s lad intarviews with Gen, Scott, who scomed vexad with tho clamors of the press for immediuto action, and ‘“tho_continued interferoncs in detatls of the President, Becrotary of War, and Congresn.” Ho enoko of organizing s wrand army of Invssion, of which tho regulara were Lo constituto “*the iren colutnn,” and scomod to intimats that he himsolf would take the flold In poron, though be wss nt that time *very old, very Leavy, sud vory unwioldy." Sherman took comwand of & brig- ado, havivg Corcoran, of the Hixty-ninth Now York, under bim, - Wo can anderataud the man- *ner in which military forces wero handled when wo road that, shortly before the battie of Iull Ttun, Gon, Keott wrote *ono of his characteristia Iottars to Corcoran, tolllng bim that wé wero about to engage ina Luttlo, and ha knew liy Iriah efforts would leave him in such & crisiy.” CIVIL, WAL Dull Run was fonght, Sherman's comment upon thia Lattle is characteristic, *IL tn gene orally admittod that that was one of tho best plauned battles of tho war, Lut ons of tho worst fought, Our mon had becn told so oftenat Liomo that all they had to do was to mako o bola appoarauco aad “the robels wonld rum, and wearly all of ua for tho firat time then hoard tho sound of cannon and muskets 1o angor, aud saw tie bloudy acones common to battles, with which We ware aoon Lo bo familiar, Wo had no organ- jzation, good men, but no coliesion, no resl dincipline, no respeot for authority, no real knowledge of war, Doth armies were fairly dofoated, and whichever had stood fast tho other would bavo ran. Though the North wns over-~ wholinod with wmortification and shame, the Soutn really bad not much to boast of; for in the threo or four hours' fighting, their organize- tion waa #o brokon up that they did nof, aud could not, follaw our army when it waa known 10 bo in & siate of of disgracolol and causclers fight. 1Itis casy to criticiao a battlo after iv is ovor; but all now admit that nono otlers, equaily raw in war, could haye done bettor than wo did at Bull Rus, and the lesson of that battle should not ba loat on a pooplo like ours." WAR IS EARNEST. Nothing was ta bo douo but to get to work and reorganizo thie army, ‘There fs an sccount of o sisit of Mr. Lincoln snd Mr. Soward totho Unlon camps,—Sherian sitting by the conchmau, and giving directions how Lo drivo. *As wo slonly asconided tho bil),"* he says, I discov- erod that Mr, Lincoln was full of feoliug and wantod to eucourago our men. I asked hm if he intendod to speak to thom, and ho aaid b would like to. I nakod him to ploaso din- courage all cheoring and noise, or suy sort of confusion; that wo Lad Lad enougn of it bo- foro Dull Rua; that what wo noedod wero thoughtful, hard-fighting soldiors,—no more hurrahing, no moro bumbug. Mr. Lincoln reached tho camp, and, standing in his carringe, mado one of the ncatost, best, and wmoat facling addresscs that I ever heard, reforring to our lata disaster at Bull Run, and tho high dutics that still davolvod on us, and the brightor days yet to como, Al one or two points the soldiera began to chieer, but hie promptly chocked them, nasing, * Do not checr, boya, X confesa I rathor like it myeelf, but Col, Shorman thinks it is uot wmili- tary. So I guess wo had botter defer to hia opinion, ' . MCLELTAN IX COMMAND, Than eamo McClellan in command, who, in- stoad of comiug over tha river tolive with the soldiers, took a houso fu Washivgton. McClal- lan told Sherman Lo intended to organize an ar- my of 100,000 men, with 100 fleld-battorios, ** L stitl hoped,” be said, ** that AcCleilan would cotmo on our side of tho Potomac, piteh Lis teat, s0d proparo for roal hard work, ' Dub his_hoade quartors still romained in s housein Wash- Ivgton City, I thon llmufiht. and still think, that waa & "fatal mustake.” In August, st the requesat of Gen. Andorson, Sherman was assigned to s command in Kontaeky, Gon. Auderson had Daen Bhorman's Caplaiu in the carlier yoars, and ho knew his morits ; and ho saked thoe President to give him, in addition to Sherman, Georgo H, T'homas, Don Carlos Buoll, and A, . Burnaide, Thoro was soms difticulty lu inducing Lincoln to orgoe 1L 'Thomas, a native of Virginia, 0 tany Southern ofiicets had alroady plaved falee,” Luteon the 14th of August tho sppcintmant was mado, and Shorman, giving up Lis duties in Wasbiogton to Fitz-John Porler, want directly Wost. TLLE STOBY OF INSANITY, Wo now como to that portion of Gon, Sher- mau’s history which describos his recommenta- tious as to the best plau for the conduct of tho war, aud the l!nE‘lYll’ slory, for some time in circulation, that Le was * Insano,” becauso ho recommended **an army of 200,000 men noces- gary o conquer Kontucky. Tho couversation upon which this cruel rumor was Lasod took Placo ‘botwsen Bhonaan sud Seorotary Cam eron in Loulavilis, and found its way into tho mewspapors, ~ What Sherman did suggest was far difforent from the story attributed to him, and ho *rosouted tha cruol insult with Iangusgo of intonue feeling," s complained that Bocretary Oameron Elva eredgnca to tho story In o mannor unjnst to liim- solf. 'I'he nowspapora kept Larping on bis *in- sanity * and * paralyzod his offorls,” sud we can woll “boliove, 28 Lo says, that * thoy tortured from mo some words and acts of imprudonce.” Then camo tho movement on Fort Douolsov, the credit of which Bherman gives to Hallock, a4 ona akillful, suocosstul, and extromely rich in mil. ftary rosults,” Aftorward .wo had the battle of Shifob, which is described at great lougth. GUANT UNDER A CLOUD, i Aftor Bhiloh Gon, lalleck camne and took tho fleld, and Goin. Grant, after winning this battlo, was © substantially left out, and was named second in command,* according ta some Fronch notion, swithno clear, woll<lofined command or antbority,” *TFor more than a mouth Grant thua romained without any apparent authority, froquently vislting mo and others, but raroly complaining ; but I could see how deoply he felt tho diguity, if not tho iusull, heapod upon bim."* ‘This overshadowlng of Grant contitn. od for a ahort time, and ovidontly moved Hher- men's sympathlos toward the commander, One evening. ho Icarned thal Grant Lad aakod for thirty days’ loave, and was golng to do- l‘mrt tho next worning, * Of courso, we all now,” says Sherman, *thnt Grant was chafing under the slights of Lis anomalous position, ...5 I determined to seo bim op my ey back, ' His cainp was a abort distance off the Monterey road {u the woods, and consisted of four or five tents, with a eapling-rolling around the front. As I rode up, Maj. Ravling, Logan, and Tiliyer were In front of the eamp, and pilod up near them were the wsual effects and catnp-chents, roady, for starting in the mornlng. I in- quirod for the COencral, and wai _shown to lua tont, whero 1 found Lim seated upon & camp-stool, with some papers on a rudo camp- tabla.” Ife soemed to bo etnployed in assorting lotters, and tying thom up wiih rod tape iuto conveniont bundlos, Aftor pasgng tho usual compliments [ inquired if it wdro Lrae that he was going away, 1o said, *Yes.' I thou in. quired tho roason. Ifo sald: *Sherman, you know, You know that I am fn tho way Lere, hava stood it as long as I can, and can andurs it no longer,' I inquirod whero ho wad going to, Ho eald, #Bt. Lonis.' I thon saked If he had any business thoro, and ha wsald, *Naot a bt Ithen begged him to stay, illusiratiug Lis esso by my owu, Deforo the Latils of Bulloh I Lad boon csat down by o maro nows- inpar-wuumon of ‘orazy,’ DLut that eingle bat- 1o Lad given mo now life, and now I was in hig fenthor, I argued with him that, if ho went away, svents would go right along, aud he would bo loft out; whoreas, if ke rawaliaod, somo huppy accidout migut rostore hiwmn to favor and hid iruo place,” Tha rosult was, that Gon, Graut romained, and In & short time, by tho removal of ilalleck to Washington, becamo tho commander of the army, BERVIOK 1N THB WEsT, Wo wish wo could follow (ion, Bherman through tho loteresting dotails of the campaign in tho West. Ltiey aro mattors of history, Low- over, and it would bo ropeating a twico-told tale to dwell upon them now. Thero Is a froshnoss of stylo, huwover, in those pages thas will mve new lglht to the events of that tromoudous time, Ab wo paas along from page to page, we gather Lero and thero & glimpso of Sherman's origlual- aty of mind e bits of information that cote to ud with peguliar fraskuoes, Wo fiud him st ono timo writing to Chiaxo on tho cotton queation, saying, * If Kngland evor throatons war bocause we do not furnish Lier cotton, tell her plainty, it #bo cannot employ and fecd her own peoplo, to sond them liere, whore thioy cannot only carn au houost living, bulsoon woouro an indepond. ouce by modosate labor,” £o had hoped that Franco and (lermany wonld ba_friendly to onr cotntry In the event of war. Tlero are soma brilliant lsttern of the General, writton st the time to complalufug_Confedorates and others, that nhow the eireugth and poise of bLin charace ter. \We find him at Vickelurg i 1863 morving unlar Grant. McUlarnand was & tronblesoma quantity in Grant'a army, Then there in story of McClornaud's leading to a bloady attack on tho works at Vickeburg Ly lmpru;flr information, Tho Tebel position at Vicks- burg Bherman considora to havo bLeen airongar than Hobaslo) About this Hma Gan. Grant tolls Ehormsn that (en, Josaph E. Johneton waa about the " only Oen- oral ‘on tho Confederato aide whom ho feared.” As for the campaign at Vicksburg, Bliorman Ita coucaption and execution balong ex« clusively to Uen. Grant, not enly In the graud whola, hut in the thoumands of its detaila. [ atill retain many of Lin lotters and notes, in hin owa handwriling, proseribing the routes of mareh for divisluns and dotachments, and apoci- fying even tho amount of foud aod tools to bo carried along, Many persons gavo Rawlina the cradit for thoka things » but thoy were 1 orror, for na Cotnmnanding Genoral of an srmy ever gave moro of his personal sttention to detsils, or wroto £0 mauy of his own orders, reports, and lotters, as Gen, Grant. Tiis sucenss st Viekahurg justly gavo Lim groat fame at Lomo and abroad.” RULRIAN ON POLITICH Thorae is alongz letter from Sherman fo Hal- lock, written on tho 17th of -Bsptember, 1453, in which ha gives his idoas about the Rabellion aud ita possiblo futare, Lincoln was ansions to pub- lish thin lotter, hut Sherman woutd not consent toit. Houpposed the revival of Htato Govern- meuta in the Houth, Two noro battles would liavo to ho fonght befora there could ba eivil order—"'onn near Moridisu, 1n November, and ono near Shroveport, in tho apring.” As for tha farming and artisan olars in the Soutl, they woro the real third estste, snd wonld movo stith tho politicians, As for the Union men Hontl, thoy were heunoath contempt. sainy bloods,” sons of planters’ aud law- yers, were good billlard-players and sports- men, but thoy novor did any work, and wevor will. ** War auita thom, and the rascala are brave, fine riders, uttorly reckloss, who must all be_killed or omployod befare there can ba eace,™ * Civil government would ba ridicnlons. "Thioro sbould oniy be “military rulo” until the armion of the Sotth wore conquered. The Unlou should be parsmount, thoro could bo no compro- mise, and tho War must bo fought out Lo the end. If thislotter had beon published st tho $imo 1t would have made a profonud tmprasalon, but Bherman was resoluto In ki dotormination not to tako any part in politics. From thia [m&l the work procoeds rapidly to- ward Lookont Mountain, snd closes with’ the appointnent of Gon, Grant to be tho Commaud- or-in-Chief of the armfes, and Goo. Sherman in cxxzmr‘nnud of the Military Division of the Alissis- eippl. TIIE COURTS. Itecord of Business Transncted Yese teraay. THE NOCKFOLD, NOCE ISLAND & BT, LOUIS BAlle ROAD COMPANY. W. H. Ferry, Roceiver of the Rockford, Rock Teland & Bt. Lonis Railrond Company, Sled his rogular report yeaterday of tho coudition of the Company for the month of Apeil, which s in brief as follows 01 Liand March i -8 43,201.03 Rocelpts dusiug Ap o B 1] $128,748,27 Fxpondsd for operating exponses,, 53,083,4) Ol claima 3 Reuttoth Balance Moy loeu,surevesesnsosnnensan Tha repert was reforred to the Master, Ti¥. ELECTION CASR. An ordor was entored in the cnse of C. II. TRoed, State's-Attorney, va. Thomss Foloy avd the othor Aldermen, dismiesing tho supplemontal bill which mado tho alicgations s to tho viola- tion of the njunction. Tho attorneya for the Citizons’ Aseociation are obstinatoely #ilent, and nothing is known of what the next step will be, THE UNTTED STATES COURTH, Tho Fifth National Bauk flod s bill agamat Bparrow M. and Poily Nickernon, Josiab L, Lom- burd, and a largo number of otbor defoudants, to forecloso a trust-deod for $51,000, on Lots 21, 29, 23,24, and 25, in Block 4, sad Lote 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18, in Block 3, of subdivision of tha aud Bub-Block b of tho I, 17, of Hock 15, in Bhefield's Adition ; also L 45, 48, and 49, fu Block 1, sud Lota 3, 4, 5, apd 6,in Block 2, in the enbdivision of the W 15, 1 Sab-Block 5 of tha E. L, of Block 15, in the e addition. SUPERIOR COURT IN BRIGT. A, 1. Barley, Recelver of the Cook County Nntionnl Bauk, began & suit for ¢2,000 sgainst Mosos A. Thayer. Lrnst Kniepcko filod abill againat Charles Moes- singer, Cathorino Mosssinger, Louisa, William, Emma, Agnes, and Louis Wenthe, the Gormau- Awerican National Bank of Chicago, E. J, Kno- belsdorff, and William Harsch, to foroclose a murtgage for $2,000 ou Lot 10, Block 4, of Braiu- ard & Evaua’ Addition to Chicago. CIRCUIT COURT, Froderick Rosson bogan a suit in zeplevin against P. Mover, claiming $2,000. Fanny Fichliold broughs suit againat J. T, L ter,‘ claiming £32,000 damages for brokou cove. nant. Golta Tablnowsky commonced a enit in tres- pase againat Abraliam Itabinowaky and Edward Moonoy, laylug damages at 32,000, TUK COUNTY COUNT. On patttion of John Dieden, County Ageut, warraut and vonire urdered roturnsble the “20th inat., at 10 o'clock . m., to try the question of tho alloged insaoity of Joln T, Silbach, John Riloy, August Bolenke, Mary Nilson, and Lliza- both Bomuer, In tho mattor of the ocstate of Bornhardt Milt, doceased ; order that dodimus potostatem inauo to the Mayor, or Chief Magistralo of Paris, Franeo, authorizing him to tako, and certity to this Caurt in duo form of law, the teatimony of James Long, one of tha subscriblng witnosses to tuo will of decensad, ‘Tho Court adjourned till Monday, CHIMINAL GOUBT. Two Indictmenta agnivst Thomas Jofferson, for forgory, were stricken from tio dockot, with lsnve to rawstate, Bentenos in the caso of Minnie ITeth, the woman who was found guilty ot stealing & vel- vob c',fk from Iiold, Leiter & Co., wus sus- ondo i Goorgo Williame, a ad, was tried on the cliargo of pasuing a forged chiock on a man uamed Drad- Togt vordicty guilty, aud rocommonded ta the clomency of tho Court. J. H, lligswell aud William McDarmott pleaded guilty to Liorse-atealing; romanded for sentenco. Tha Court adjournod till to-morrow morning, whon the motion to quash the indictments sgainst I, K. Purnor for forgery will be heard. TUE OALT, Junar GAnr—177, 187, 192 to 104, 190, 197, 200 to 203, 205 t o0 call. 5 to Junor JANE50) Suna Maoke—XNo call, Jubor oatns—UG to 102, and set caso 927, Jupax Fauwrni—No call, JUDAMENTH, Usiren SrATEs Oineoit Count—Junax Dropaers —¥irst National Dank of Dauville va, Adam Smith £1,254,70 3 Lrastios TeMlt ot al, va, Horace inkson sud Alfred llinkyon, 81,602,19, BurEnion Caullf—Conpeastons—A, 11, Burley, Res calver, vs. Jobn 1L, lirown, $034.17; Busch & Hrand Hrowlng Company ve, Caupor Damm, §1 Mickael Hartalme ve, Henry A1, Fayuo, Hunry O, McNeill, and Williatm Lausbrouih, $181.23, Jubur GEAlY—Voreinan & FPriedlsnder vs, Jon Dip- Id aud George Dippold, $163.67,~Ferry & Lir tobers Leitch, 144,001, O, , Asslues, W, Binith, §1,116,40,—W, Landali ve, Veter Ned, fart L Blawart va. 3, W, Blisshisiiand Wallash Fri Uircuir Count—Coxrzssions—J, M. Walte va, William A, Travis, $5%.63, Jubat loagns—ElizgFoters, use B, W, Lill Willism Bpaulding, $100.—Thoinas Mahonoy Mauufacturors’ Natlonal Bank of Chicago, $150, —— e Now=Fangled Hoopskirts with Bricks but Attuchmonts Loutcille Courier~Journal, Tlho now style hoapakicts, with bustles attach. ed, wora by yuunF Iadies at preseut, aro nos the most ploasant articles of wearluy-apparel 10 have on the body, judging from an incident which oc- currcd to a lady toachor of the Female High Belioul a conple of atternoons sgo. In putting on the * plece of furnituro™ sho was compelled to tie balf of & brickbat to the bustle and hoop iu order to prevont ita spreading out too much. Batling down Fourth sireet, ahe heard something cluttering agalvst bor shoos, aud dlecovered, (o hor dismay, that the atrivg tied around the brick and attactiod to the bustls and skirt bad becomo somowbiat loosencd, and tue brick was hengiug down to her heels, shamed to attract any at- teution by stopping to adjust it, sbo walked on apparently unconcerned, silowing the brick to mE agaiust her sukles gnd brulse thom. Bho bhiad hiardly proceoded vory far, Lowever, beforo, to Lior burror, the string becamo s{ill moro look~ oncd, aud tho brick waa ratthug ou the ground and skipping over tha pavcmicut as sapidly as she walked. ‘Bhe ran into the tirat {nvitiug store took off the hoop, bustle, snd all, Lo bad discovered her distreasing anybody's attention was attzact~ ty 23, 42, 43, 44, . GEORGE WASHINGTON IH 1876 Eloquent Oration at Farwell Iall by Or, Tiffany. The Washington Monument and the IMan It Commemorates, Effort for Its Completlon, Tiro Itav, Dr. O. IL. Tiftany, of Trinity (3. E.) Church, dolivered hia oration T'csday evening on “Georgo Washinglon in 1873," at Farwell Hall, for the bonefit of the Wash- inzton Nationsl Monument . Amaocia- tion, Ths aunouncoment drow forth, in spito of tho rain, the largest and finost andi- enco the bullding bLas ever hald, The orator was introducod by the Ifon. W. ¥, Coolbsugh, who, with the Hon, If, G. Caulfield and other gentlomen of promiuenco, remsinad upon the platlorm. Tt Is to bo regretted that only & comparatively brief synopsis of the Lrilllant oration of Dr. Tiffany can bo given, Its raro echiolarship and brilliant diction excited the admiration and awoko the applanss of Lis hearers. Ifa mpoke substantially as follows: A hundred yoars ngo ths Amoarican eolonies contajuod less than threa mitlions of pecpls, and their homes, extending from New Iawpshire to Georgia, wero bounded on the esst by the bil- lowy of thoe Atlantic, and on the west by tho carthy, cloud-capped billowa of the Allogheny mountains. Deyond that range wers scaitered pctiloments, mostly military or trading posts, chief smong which wete Pittsburg sand the Falis of the Ohio, now Louisvitle. Au Inglisk port called Backville stood upon the benks of tho ‘Wabaab, andan old French mettlement, with an Lngnsh Governor, waa the only European rot- tlement iu Iliinois, All the Bouth which fronts the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas, aa well aa that part of the continent went of tho Miselssippl, belonged by litlo to Eu- ropean powers, but this Loundlees roa'm was ciaimed and occtpied by Indlans, srho were really THE LORDS OF TIIE FORI: . Baston, New York, Philadelphis, Baltimore, and Chiarieston were scarcely mors than viliages ; Albauy, Carlisle, Frederick, and Wincheetor wero frontior bamlots. Mlauufsctures scarcely esist- od. Consting smaclis, with a fow shipa from the West Indies and from Luropo, constituted tho ouly commerce. The womeu whirled their spin- ning-wheols, or plied the shuttle in the Joom in aluost ovory hotieo, whils the ax and the plow wore the $ools of nearly all the men. Domestic talk by the winter fireslde of tho year 1774, or the festtve gatheringe, was of Lord Doumore's war, fought in the previoua epring and summer, Nows was & slow traveler, it took weoka, even months, to receive intelligeucs of the hiero- 1m of tho Lowises and their Virginia com- patriots, eud of the fovlish, not to 83y treacher- ©ouw, poace which ths Scotel Earl bod mado with tho rod men. QU GRAXDAINER AND GRANDDANEI alco talked of Goorge I1L., and of tho autamnal Congress in Philuielubia, the Doston Lea-party, tha Minlstry and Psrifamont, wondering it papor aud tea woro atill to bo taxed, and if the right- eona soulnof tho loyal peoplo wero 1o be furthor vexed by such ivjustice. John and Samael Adoms and Jamos Otis wero aapiring young lawyers in Ioston, where John Hancock was & merchant princa; Alexander Hamilton was at King's, now Columbis College, New York ; Boujamin Franklin was in London, represeuting tho postal nocessties of his native cauutry ; tho Locs wera on therwr estates on tho Potomac ; Patrick Heury and Themas Jefierson wers membera of the House of Bargosses, in Virginin 1 tho Pincknoys and Rutledges wers o thoir plautationa in South Catolina ; GEORGE WASTINGTON was at Mount Vornon, nouo of them naticipating their great Iuture—for what eage or statesman, though endowed with quickest ove and Lkeenost faculty of observation, with the largest power of reflection nnd imagination. could hiava cast tha horaacops of a cantury sud forotold what threo generations have brouzbe forth 7 {Applause.] A mation boro in o day. Europe dispossessed of n contivont, and America, from tuo Hi, Law- ronco to tho Rio Grando, ilio abodo of many pooplos, speaking ono lauguage, swoating foalty to one pohtical faith, snd under ono ag. ou which aro mized oll tho hues of Leaven. [he shoros of the Attautle ond Pacifle, bound by Liooka of steel, snd thie Boquola Gixanten on tha slopen of tha Blerrs Nevada, which wero grow- ing whea Bolomon began his temple, the prof erty of o raco which feils its pino foresta in Maine aud Lews its way through the cactus of Arizona. Cslifornia coins itw gold in Philadel- phia, Now Linglaud seuds warcs to the banka of the Columbis, tho oraugo groves of Florida find marts in Boston, 8an Dicgo aud Virginia City find oll thoy mnood in Now Yorlk, to which city Texan abipa its caftlo; Rockland seuds tco to New Orleans, and Chicago supplies the world with wheat and corn, Amnerica is rocognized in tho tonrney of the world as & gallant kuight who, though young, bra fairly won his spurs upon the deld, and calmly takes lds accorded station in tho lisis among tho nobles of hietory. \Whobisth wronght this wondrous transforma. tion which'moro than fultils the dreams of Plato iu bis **idoal ropublic?” The undorlying rolig- fons eentiment of the peoplo will answer God, aud to Mim bo ali the glory. Yet, under e bonignant eway one man, more than all others, was raised np for thia achievement. *Many sons havo done virtuously” in this great causs whom tbe nation Lonors, ‘and whose fame with lons care she will “‘embalm to immortality.” fhfl. one *lias oxcelled them ail;” to Lim the nation owes and alwaya will owe its largeat debt of gratisudo, Travelers who visit Bwitzerland cowo lhomo fto tell us of Aont Dlanc: those who visit the Cordilloras, returning, tell ua only of Chimborazo, but any citizon of the world, speaking of Amorican history fesla that WASIINGTON 18 ITS STNONTAI, The Doctor here spoke of the diiculty of the themo, which nroso partly from its familiarity, partly from the fact of tho symmotrical charac- ter of Washington, which presonted so few aallent pol Washington was no orator; was vot a succesaful General, if judged by the num- ber of his victories ; wasa ploddiug and exacting man of business, and no cuthuainst. Thackeray failed in malung bim » romantic bero. Yet thoss yory doficioncies wers necessary to hia work and influonce. His blameless virtuo and Lis desp 1cligious convictions wero mentioned as the cora of hus character, and his crood, seen fn bis con- duct, was doclared to bo alife-long act of faith in dod and io Ilis providouced. Dr. Tiffany bero atated that it was not his )urflnn- to re- hearse (hae story of thelifo of Washington, for all {ts incidents were hiouseholl words, but would rathor weayo a claplot from tho tributes of wen of nato aud lay it on bis shrine, ‘The ciitical and lesrned German, Yon Raumer, says: * Few mon who hisye oamed for them- eolves a celobratad name in the Listory of the world exhiit such n barmony, such a concordant eymmstry of nll the qualition calculated 0 rander himeolf aud othors boppy s Washiugton, s sonl swas elovated above party epirit, projndico, solf-iuter- cst and party simn, o acted nccordiug to Llis impulses of & noblv heart aud sound uuder- standing. » . . . 1lis noble, blameloss, and epotloss image will remain o model and rallying poiut tosll to encoursge tho good and to deter the bad, Ilow potty do the coawmnion raps af mariial horoes appeas iu comparison with Wash- 1mgton.” [A]T ause.] Mous, Guizot eayss *Washington did the two greatest things which, m politics, mau can bave the privilega of at- tempting. Ho maintainod by Enun at inde~ 'muunuu of his country whicli Le Lad soquired by war.," Da Chatoaubriand eay * Washing- {on, after having raised o nation to indopend- cnco, alopt pescofully as a retired wmmgistrato undor his paternal roof, smid the rogrots of his countrymon aud $he venoration of sll poople. I glory {8 the increnslng patritmony of the - croasiug eiviliantion, Iiw ronown rises lika ovs of thoso sunotuaries whoreln a stream, puro sud Inoxhiauatible, flows forth forever for the solace of the people. When the nowsaof his death reached Irance, Napoloon, thae firat Cousul, not only wort into wourning himuolf, but caused tho whole army todo tho ame, aud Lo isaued thio follqwiug gonseral order s WASLINGTON 18 DEAD, Thls great man fought agalnst tyrauny. M cone sotidated the Lberties of his couniry, His susmory will ever be dear to the French uation, as ioall ft meuin LoththaOld and the New Worlds, pecislly to the acldiers of Frauce, who, like Lim au 1o Auorican saldisra, Dbt for aquanty and Lberty, Dr. Tiffaoy also t‘nnled eloguent extraots in thesamo vein from the pena of Fouleon, Korsuth, Thomaa *Erskine, Ohurlos James Yox, Houry Girat Blr Jamea Mclntosh, Bir Archibald Allison, Lord Joha Russell, Lord Macauloy, Lord Byron, ' Thackeray, Lord Brougham, Prof. wWill- iam Bmyt! Charlos Phillivs Hildreth, Chief Justice hall, Willlam II. Prosoott, Edward Everett, Washington Irving, sud Thomas Jof- fersou, who eawd, roferring to the stars: *+\ashington's faime will go on increasing until the qugaufl conalollation i yonder heavons {a cal'ad by bis namo.” WIith' great felicity Dev F EB Tiffany bare fntrodnced an extract from Wash- ington’s Farewell Address, cavering his own aistamant of Limself. ‘Thus have the men most eminent in both homiapheres united in ascribing to GEONGP. WASHINUTON tha foremost placa ; the loftiest and moat ucsul- Hind pateiotism that has appearod In tho round of lator tino, MNover, savo i the assa of tho Hebraw toward Mosos, l1as & nation owad such a asbt of gratitudo to & man ss Amorica owea to W uhlnnm;:. And pladly Linve our paopis tried fo pay it, Tho Capitsl of tho nation bears his vamo. Noarly evers fitate han ita county and ila town of Waahington. Iut it 1a moet and seom- Ipg—nav, it is duty, a1 the contury of our nationl fifo in elowiug, that tha shafé which I tho world's ofTeriug to his memory shoald ba complated, Ao that the aun which tisea on July 4, 1576, may erown with golden heams tha eap- atono of thaloftient Rud noblest mounment evor roarcd to man. THR NATIONAL MOSTMEAT at the Capita), or ita crude beginning rathor, standa u the very epot designated by \Waalinge ton himeelf for tho lucation of an "equertriau etatuo voted him by Cougress. It was begun amidst the acclaim of the nation, and has gained its prosont hoight Ly the fros-will offerings f mankind, Not ss the atatues, srches, pillars, and pyramida of old {a thia siructuro to he rear- ed. “Hha civilizatlons which thay symbolize hava passed or are paseing away. Tho world prowa out of leading strings, mird the autocrat mast give way to tha bouefactor, Tho rends of the dasert cover many kymbols of princely powor, and pomps, and artogance, axy the floods of time have swept away tho palitical and social fnatitu. tlonx which they represent, I'hs world caunot afford to lot the famo and oxamplo of tha PATHER OF 1y eorsrRy die. Ha must ever hold the first place in the hearts of his countrrmen, We ouo 1t oursalven and to our childien that our munlicouce shall show us mindful of tho glorious legacy ba lofs us {n hin character, and warthy to bo sharars o tho heuedictlon of his famo. T'e simplo plauter by the Potomae, by disinterested aund golf-re- nouncing patriotis:, reared himeelf to tha lofliest staiion gained Ly man. Tho titles which la whupned and the powsr which L rolinquishiod conld not have sdded to bLin groatness, and the salary Lo rofisca at aimple interast wonld build threo monumenla, [.\pp]luu.}’ "Tho inlluenco of hin lifo has uneconsciously become an en- nobling porer In tholifo of every gonuinn Amer- fean, and our conntry is to-day” the boume, aud moro wise, woll-oducated, nolf-governed, aud bhappy peopla than ate to be found in any land on earth. Bhould our love and admiration for his K:t!rlnfiflm fade fnto forgetfuluess, thara 18 no ope for that of lesaer men. Dr, Tiffuny bore axplained tho purpoees of tha National Monument Association, and the form aud #izo of the khaft, how gubscriptions ero re- ceived, aud, 1 fesvad eloqucoce, elaimed that all the poople oughito shnro fu’ buildingit, aud closed as follows : : Tho day draws nigh when wa sball calebrate the bundredth anoivereary of our birth, We have biddeu the world to our banquot. Thoy will comne from all races and all climes to atady our institations, to marvel at our progress, to kerite tinizs our boasted achiovemente, aud it may bs tocavil and to carp at our defocts. Buall they, roturning to thoir homes, have canse to ssy tuat our first dobt of gratitude is unpaid? that whilo aginglocity can build a monumont o Washiug- ton uwsided, tho wholo people of the United Htates had left tho National Monument unfin- ished? Blall wo, failing in natural piety, merit the fault-finding snd theecorn of mankind ? Not no, wy countrymon. I am persuaded that tho matchless feusrusity of tha peopla will praciaim itsolf in thls Hluwtrious canun, and onr glorious monument, eimple, =2 cre, subiime, ba complat- ed, 60 that the worid, pawting to tho une;ealod shiatt, may sor: “*8ER MOW TUET LOYED DL” If & tribute ta Washington waa to bo reared forelgn soil, I would havo our coutrynien walci tho buildiug as its walisrose and its arclied doma wan rounded in, but I would Liave them accept no niche, receivo no podestal, but wheu the com- pleted structuro pierced tho clouds and its tof- ticst point atood meruno in courtant aunlight, I would hava them claim that as tho only juat epot for n ntatuo of onr Washington. But this monu- meut stands on Amencau soll, ia reared by Amer- ican hauds, cteerod by American hearts, And on that glad day wheu shall bo gathered hets the representatives of all other lauds, Jot tha world koow (ot amouy ambassadors, aud savaus, and artists, stand the peorlo of tha lad, gaziug upon o pure white sunft which, towering heavenward, greota the mioruing sunand bo- comen radieny with his earlicat beums, but bears po atatus on its lotty height, for tho world's beart cannot mistake the name which it com- memorates, while the world's ekill canaot work ont & fitting semblance oi the bero thus en- shrined and reverencod. TIIE NORTHWEST, ILLINDIS, Dloomington ia rejcicing iu ths eatablishment of & kindergarten., . Judge Underwood, of the St. Clair County Cironit, baa been stricken with paralyis. Quincy peopls are exciied about the Jocation of tho new Court-Houss in Washington Square. Another coal-saft is being sunk at Bpring- field, sud mining operations srs expected to commence by July. ! A correspoudont of the Southern Iilinotsan Is confldent that Carbondale is the Athens of Southern Ilinols. Cairo robele. Tne City-Marshal of Bloomington reports that 2,524 tramps wore furnisbed with lodgings at the publio expenso during the yoar euding June Su, The Joliot Signal says that the Governor is somowhat too lberal with hiis pardoning powor, Eight eouvicts, sontencod for long torais, were lot out of tho Penitentiary by the Goveraor dur- ing the weck ending April 19, W/ISCONSIN. ‘Thoe Oabkash Norficestern 18 atill about the #ize of a man's band, but it1s a good spocimen of paimistry, WIId fires hova boen raging in many parts of Dunn Couuty durmg the week, doing coneidor- sble damngo to property. A Racino merchant nscd the following words 1 STl be darned if 1 advorzise in any paper!” and tho noxt morning hae was found dead 12 his bed, Notwithstanding tho fire, there was w firo- men's parade at Oebkosh the other day, It wan a mouruful occasion. Nover wasthere a groater mockery. The Judges of the Rupremse Court, State of- ficers, clorfiu, aud employos in and about the Capitol bave contriouted £633 to tha rolivl of Osbikosh sulforory. Citizens of Appleton and Now London are seriously conatdering the cxpodiency of oxtoend- Ing the Milwaukes, Lake Bhoro & Western Rail- zoad from tha former to tho latter place. An effort b8 Leing toade to Lill deadheading among Wisconsin editors, but it is gonorally feared that tho deadboads canuot bo kilted with- out thinoing ont the profossion in tho Htate. Xrs. Kohl, of Lewinton Btation, regrets now that sho never learned from tho nowspapers how dangoroua is tho practice of Jocking up youug children alone in a houso. Eho tried It wiit three of hor own lat wook, and, an & conko- qmm;:', the Louss burued down sud the childron withit. INDIANA, The Munclo Public Libiary has 8,000 volumos, s The Kokomo Democrat doubts if Aulyetty in Indiana can boast of ro fow busiuess fallures lu propurtion to the population as Kekomo. The Bociety of Old Eclampsus put s tickot in the field at Nowport, Vormilion County, and elected it, Now will omebody tell us what the Old clampsus is # The Waskington aviees County) Gazelte loarns that a vein of cannol coal of & auperior «quality haa bean struck on the Hon. M, L, Brett's tarm.” ‘The velu is over 5 foot thick, Dr. W. A, Flanders, a mmlnon_e physician, and s disciple of the Woodhull faitl, foll dead st Plymouth last wouk, Poor follow! He loft thros discousolute wives aud s gold-headed cano, It was » hardwsro man who_remarked, upon seeing poerloss young Terro IMaute Jady walk- 1ng with some of her country cousing of whom slo was evidently ashamed, fhat he hated to seo poople act so *suporatitiously ™ towsrds poor relstiona. 1OWA, The baso-hall paoplo in Kookuk are scothed, They evjoy Chilcspo's wmisery. Fort Dodgo is—fraud or no fraud—all agog over the ** apirit photograph ' busmcss. Pablic-apirited citizens of Dubuque want & comotory, 80 that thoy way have su lucoutive to Prolonp thoir hves. An {ndustrious youth in New Albin quarried out farty big knakes aud a lob of stone from a epaca 25 foot squaro during April. I J. Bartun, formerly a bunker at Btorm Lake, who doparted frow that place about one ear 830, leaving friouds and ereditors Lo mourn 15 uioidlod coudivion of bis aaiy, has bosa arrosted at Ohoyenno, and waa takew dack to Btorm Lake on \Vednenday, The ''Cattle Quesn o Towa” Ia whalsaey ea: Mrs, Kimborly. - Yos, sha's the boss wataan of thin Bate, suro.—Burlngton Hawkeye. Tho atndents snd officors of the Agriculiural Colloga havo beon duubled up by & myaterious digoayo, suppored to be Induced by poisoa. The Burlington Gazelte haa strnck - ins! head-li o a8 lo"n»::,E‘flgem%lang:l::l?:’u— A Whole fly i Bumed to Degthy ’““‘fml: Lscapes Bolng Johin Datkloy was trled in the District Court a4 Fort Madison last wook on thia chargo of steal- Ing 10 couta worth of wood from s ncfimal-houm in Jefforson Tawnsbip, Tho cass was ricd boe fora Justico Griggs, and dofondaut found gullty, Tho membets of tho Grand Armyof tho Row public in Cedar Rapids have by voto decided to abgervo the Habbath, May 80, ss Decorntion Day. Tho Times duesn't Viko it, and thinks Baturday would bo a better day for this purpose, Judge Dillon and his family are making sr. rangamonts for a trip to Europe this monih, Thoy contemplate railing from Now Yotk on the 20th inst, in tho ateamabip Russis. ‘Thio Judgs will bo absent about flve manths, but the famify wiil probably romain abroad a yusr, MiSSOURI. It In stated that the Kensas City Times ha aunk #$).030 muco It started, and hus not begnn 10 pay yet. Tho Boston Philharmonic Club_Tas beon play- iy At BE. Joo, and euthusing the rural critics considorably, The graeshoppers are dying off by thonsands in WMo vestern E;m of the Biato, aud the farmers aro Logiunlng {o cheer up, ‘Tho Brunswicker invites the Canstitutional Couvention to sit permanently at Branswick fn proferenco to Kansas City of #t, Louis. Ths whisky in Lranswick uover kills, Tho villago at the other and of the bridge i nowing tho wind {uet now ; 1t will begin to reap the whichwind whou the Enetern bane-ball clubs tako tiv.d of thoso brown-liosed follows. KANSAS, Thie fbrriff of Clay County Lias lataly returned freimn o missterlous’ expeditlon with “ft5 shot. gund. 1o proposes to ann a pacly for tho ez termenation of tho James boys. The Kanass crop prospeet is very encoursging, An abundance of rain has falten recently, the wheat crop 18 in goad condition, and the outiook for coru-raising was never bettor, Homo Kansas men are now in tho Cherckea Territory geiting out waluut timbor, Therc is a larga forest of this kind botwoon Kansasand Texas, and the epcculatora are stripplag it clean, Dr. Dickinson, State Tibrarien, bas added a splendid Libla, wits noics and ifiusteations, to tho Stato Library. Tiio natives como sronnd occasionally and borrow it for aolling-matches, and tho Inesers consult it for suthorition in pere plexing casen, Thero i poma tall of ealling tha Legislatura 1n oxtra essioa to look at it. MINNESOTA, McVicker and company aro playiog ot Min- neapolis this waek. ‘The *hoppers ers comiug cut by milllons {n the neighborhood of Glencoe. Carloton Collefo, at Norttflold, hias become the recipient of a choleo colloction of Mivnesotw birds, cousisting of about filty vpecimena. As Bill King goos about tho streets of Minno- epolls friends shake bim warinly by ths nand and inquire: *How aro you, Bil?" Dat Lifl 10uses 10 eay how ho is, Tho npportionment of Stats esed wheat for Murray County was 8o large that it canuat be disponed of, “The peoplo are reoceiving it im quautities of from 30 £3 G0 bushels, ‘Tho Worllinpton Adeance thinks fhat the ro- cent aceidents on tho Sionx City Railroad ave the judyment of God upon the Company sur thetr wickedness in runniug trains on Sonudss, Tuo whole numbor of loga cut on the Upper Mismasippi aod Lom Divers last zoaron is catt mated by the Barvayor Genoral of Loga rough =t 150,000.000, agaiust £00.000,000 fea' cut an driven Iast ssaton, Al tho lors will Lo sic- consfully driven with tho excoption of thoss Lavked on small streuis. On_Arbor Day, A. 7. Good, of Murlon, Oiras stedl Counts, plantod 1,909 treos; J. 2L Shuip, of Blue Earth County, tho s8mo number; Wes- ley Labare, of Watonwon County, 3,100 enttinga; Waltor 1t.' Jolhuson, of Nicolls Conntr, 5,385 rovtad treea s W, I W, Cunningham, of Browr County, 3,110 cuttings ; and Joun l'cterson, of ¥ tho same county, 2,620 trees aud cuttings, HEBRASKA. Tha Council Blaffs Nonpareil sags that Omaza Isa £n twlstor, not a twin uister, Otaba ln proverbially modent, butthat dosy pravont four out of her keven dologaton to tue Conatitutional Convention from aspirivg to the presdoncy of that orgauization. Benator Tlitehcock sendsword that a certnin candidato for tho Flathoad Indian Agency cra sectir the appolutmet provided tie can comply with tho regulations that roquire all candidates to secnra an indorsement frown #oms clorgymau or Bishop, —— ANOTHER “DOG-SCHNZIDER" STORY. Correspandenice of. The Chicaga T'ribune, Esg, Pa., May 10.—Abont soven yoars ago a party of huoters from Allegheny City, this Btate, camo Lere to hunt ducks up on Presque Islo Peninscla, Onaof tho party, Alr. Charlea L, Hutcbineon, lont a valuablo gold watch ard chain, & gitt from a very dear, deceased friond, among tho numorous little ponds that intersecy the Poninsula. Long and diligent aearch, cone suming several days, was mada; and, no traca of the watch being found, tie search was gives up 03 o hopoless ane. Mr. II went back to Alleglieny City, Lut could not forget his foas, Boven yeara have passod siuco then, - Laat wook, while Liere on & visit, ho felt & strong Inclination to renow the soarch for Lis long-missing timse })luw. and alone La again went over the grousd lorwerly traversed by Lhim. While mtting dowa among $he bushes 1o oempty Lia bootn of tho sand that bad just gob into them, hio chanced to cast bis eyes upward, whea, to bia lutense aurprige aud (jur. Lo saw tho watch and chain, hlnghlfi to_the limbs of s small sap- ling, just as they Liad hung there seven years bo- fore, when the young twig—uow grown quite large—Lad jorked thom from bis pocket! ‘The wood of the asapling had grown over and abous tho chaiu, bolding it in a irm grasp. Mr. Hutch. inson carefuily cut off tha brauch within whicn the chain was fmbedded, and expressos bhis in~ teution of prescrving it fu that condition. TLo watch Las been closued sud ropaired, aud, strango to ey, is non keeping o8 good tima ay 1y fotwer yoars, Tho watch is au English huntin: caso, nnd, when found, bore little evide: tho exposuss to which {8 had been subjected. e Mnpys State Lempornnce Convontion, ‘I'ho second BMlaus Tomperance Conveution of the Stats of Indiana, under tho ausplces of tho Wowan's Clristian Tomperauco Union of tha Btato, 18 liereby called to sssomble in the Firet Daptist Church, fn thoe City of Iudiaaapolls, at 2 oclock p. m., on Wednesdsy, June 8, 1875, to contiouo throughout Thurslay aud ouo-balf ot Friday, Juno 10 and 11, Delloving that the tomporance question hiag bocomo of paramouut importauce in the churcl, Babbuth-rchioo), Ia legislation and in socioty, and that the evils of {utemperanco can ouly b sup- prosscd by tho combined moral forcos aud powers of law iu tho Siats, It Las bocn dotormined by the Lxecutivo Committes to invito all chorches, Babbatb-scliools, and temperance orgsnizations to sond rop: tivos, and to ask mombers snd ox-members of the Stato Logislatira and Natloual Congress, ministors of the Gospel, lawyers, phyaicians, teachors, aud all mon and women of “lndisna who deploro tho ovils of lutemnparauce, to come to thly Couvention, aud asslst in davislug weasures whicy with the blessiug of God, shall ultimately result n its supprossion. ‘I'ho citizous of Indisnspiolis tender thelr hos- italities to thoso who may attoud the Couven- on, tallroad srrangements will bo aunounced in tha Indlauapolis papors on Mouday, May 25, A Committes of Arrangomonts will” receive visitors ot the Third Presbyterian Church, on INinols stroet, opposite the Academy of Musio, botwoen tho houss of 8 a. . and 1:30 p. m.,, on ’t‘humu:. June 9, and assiga thom to thelr otmes, . ) A committos of gentlomen, wearing white badges, will meet them st ,tho dopot durlug the same hours, ‘'bo Hlinota-stroet card leavo tha weat end ot tho depot every fow minutos, J'W“Z the Third Churel, which'ls Lve squaros distant, Yorsons arriving duriug tho night, or on esrl trains, can find tomporary sccowumodations, al roducod rates, at tha National lotel or Bpeucer Houss, opposite the dopot, ‘Thosa arrivivg aftor the oponiug of the Convention will report 8t the 'rlrolh 118t Church, 7 Newspapers tl ong'l;,oul: :g;flflm:l are reapocs.’ Toquested to publsl reular. fully xoseu e \Wartaqe, Prosidsat, Rzs, B M, Fox, Beoretarys -