Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 13, 1875, Page 11

] x e /THE CHICAGG TRIBUNE: TITURSDAY, MAY 13, 1875.—TEN PAGES, e e SHERMAN'S MEMOIRS. Tho Autobiograph W, ‘M. of Gen. fiherman, hhcrmun as Licutenant, Banlk- er, Lawyer, Professor, and General, From Bull Run to the BDaille of Lookout NMountain, . New Light upon the Rebellion. Rew York Ilerald, Say 10, $TraorRs OF WILLIa T, Bukastax, By Himeolf, Tn Two Volumes, Now York: D, Appleton & Co, 1873, !« bava again and again,"” eaye Gen. Bhor- yoan, ** beon invited to write tho history of this ¥ar, or to rocord for publication my poreonal secollections of it, with largo offcra of money thorefor, all of which I have declined, becauso {he truth is not always palatable, and shiould not slwsys bo told. Biany of tho asctors in the grand drama sLill live, and they and thoir friends are quick to coniroversy, whicl sbould. paavolded, Tho grost end of peace han becn attained, with little or no change in our form ©f govermmnent; and tho duty of all good men {n to allow tho pnseions of that period to pubside, that wo may direct our physical and mental labor to ropair the worlk of war, and to engago in tho greater task of con- tinting onr bitherto wonderful national davelop- ment. Wbat I now propose to do fa moraly to givo some of my personal recollectivns about tho Listorio pornona and avents of the day, propared pot with any viow te their production, but rather for preservation when I am gone, and thus to be allowed to follow fnto oblivion tho cords of sim- {lar papors, or to bo used by soma bistoriay whe may read them by way of Uilustration.” Gen. Eherman has rodeomed this modest purposo in tno of tho most striking, eloquont, and original works tho litorature of tho war has prednced. Tho style in fresh, clear, easy, aud ofton brilllant, and Mesara, Appleton bave made the work worthy of tho reputation of their Loune, BHERMAN AR LIEUTINANT. Cightoon Lundred and forty-six found Gen. fliermu dn tho 31at year of his age, and a Firat Licutenant of Actilleryin Fort Moultrle, B. 0., under command of Capt. tobert Andoraon, af- terward to becomo celobrated as tho defonder of Fort Bumter. With this epoch in his lifo the Goneral's momoira bogiu. War had broken out in Mexico, and the Geucral describes hia anxiety ssan impatient young oflicor to obtain an zotive command, 1Iis application resulted in an ordor 1o sail for Californin to tako part in anexpedition fitted out to conquer that country. Woe find Limn sailiug around Cape Horn as Lioutenant in com- pany with Ord and Halleck, It was o long jour- ney,—roading, * gaming, but never gambling,” and a littla vislt to Rio Janciro while Uenry A, ‘Wigo was our Ministor thero. Thoro was a visit {0 Chill, & trip to Valparaiso, and finally o reat st Monteroy, wlhoro tho .young officor was in- vited to wi{nena a play called ** Adam aud Bvo,"* “Lvo was Bomnunled by a proity young girl known_as Dolores Gomez, who, however, was dressed very unlike Eve, for ehio was covered with & potticost of spangles, Adam was por- sonated by ono who hias stuce bacome famous an tho person upon whom was founded tho McGar- nban claim. God Almighty was personated, aad Heaven's occupants secmed very humau ; yot tho play was proity and intorcsting, au elioited umvorsal applause.” YARLY DAYS IN CALIFORNIA, ‘These wora the oarly days, whon the Spaniards still relynod on tho Pacific coast, 'Tho Geueral tolls of an amuwing visit he Fnld to ono of Lhe Dous, who gavo him a dish of rabbit with what bo thought to be o sauce of tomato, which waa rod pepper of the purest kand.* At that time t bles had arison betwaen tlio Amorican ofti- cwia,—Gon, Koarny, Col. Fromont, and Com, Btockton each claiming the right to control afairs in California; Iremont resting Lis right Jpon “a lotter ho had rocelved from Col. Ben- ion, thon o Benator, and a man of groat fr_uonce in Polk’s Adwministration.” Kear- py was ovidontly tho strngor man; snd we havo o visit of Slorman to Fremont, In 1347J whore he spont an Lour with him taking tos, * and left without being much fmpressed.” Thero was somo discussion as to what would bodono with Fremont by tho intrepid sud flory Koarny. **Bome thought'ho would be icd and shot, some thought he would be carriod back in irons. DBut ovidently political influenco .was not attoghter dead undor tho Administration of Prosident Polk, as Fremont was not barmed, tut aimply shoved out of his rauk, which Kearuy sssumod,—Fromont returniug home along with Uen, Koarny, who shortly atterwards loft Col. RB. B. Mason in supreme chargo,—‘‘an offi- oor,” as Bhorman says, **of groat experience aud of stemn charactor, deomed by somo linraly and severo,” but to Blierman *‘always kind and fagreoablo,” Ono of the first duties of Sherman was to arreat a usurping ofticer named Nash, “Alcaldo of Sonoms," who claimed to bo Gov- sraor of Cslifornia, and waa disposed to disputo tha authority of tho military. Shermsn wassont off with four horsemen and & private to find Nash, to suppress bia {nciptent robellion, ' On roachipg tho houso,” suys Shorman, “I fu. quired it Nash woro in, and was ficst an- ;swored 'no,’ but one of the women soou point- el to him, and be roso, Ho was armod with &!lloll. and the women woro ovidontly alarmed, & walked up to bim and took his arm, and told imto come atong with mo, lo asked mo Iwhere, and 1said * Moutoroy.' ¢ Why# *I will lxrlnln that moro at lelsure.” CGreon put him- f betwreen mo and the door, and demanded, in heatrical etylo, why I dared arcost o poacosblo citizen in bis own house, I simply nointed to mg pistol and told hun to got out "of tho way, iwhich b did, _About that time one of the sufl- ots, handlivg hia pistol cnr:lculr, dischnrged it, and Groon disappeared very suddenly. Wao took Nash to the cart, put lum in. took him to the Scat, and the noxt morning wo woro gone.” TILE FOUNDING OF TIIE PACIFI0 EMPIRE. This was Bhorman's first guccessful offort at aupprossing rebellion, and cortainly it was a ood augury of bis futore carcer. Tho chinpters describing his early lifs in Californsa, aud bis recollections of that coflllll’{. wre vivid, pic- tiresquo, and marked with the fresh, incisivo, ranly character of tho {lluatrious suthor, Thero + 1 plainly no romances more attractive than tho touuding of California, _Iu the spring of 1818, kold was discovored. Tn tuo spring of 1818, we hoar of two mon comlng to the ofice of the Uorernor, and bringing with them about a half- sunca of placer gold, *'The Covernor waid to mo," aays Sherniau, * ¢ what {s that ?* I touched 4, and examined one or two of tho larger lumps, sud asked, ¢ Is It gold?*® Mavon asked melif 3 bad ever secn native gold. Ianawerod. in 18141 wznin Upper Qoorgla, aud there saw somo nativi fi‘ald, but it was much fiuer thau thiy, and 6 war it by piles or in transparent quills ; but I said that, this was gold, it could eamly ba teated,—first, malleability, and next by acius. I'took a Plece in my tooth, and tho motallis, Justro was Cc_xxm. 1 thon callod to the clerk, Baden, to rivg an ax and Lutchet from the baok yard. When thoso wero Lrought, Itook the largost Pleco and beat it out flat, and boyond doubt {t Was motal, and the pnro metal. Btill, wo st tached littlo importance to the fact, for gold waa Lnawn to exist at Ban Toruando, at the south, and yat it was not considered of much value," What was of more value, however, .Wwad quiuk- allver, and we Lava dercriptions of tho manner in which quickeilver mines were dlscovored, It Was not an nncommon thing In thoso days for o preat land-owner to be the lord of o small em- I'|ru‘ with hundrads of horses and thousands of aitle, and {nl. to havo nothivgto est fu his ulte excopt ' & carcass of beof, from which tho wr might cut aud cook, without mouoy and soud Luce, whatever waa neoded." AUk DISCOVEUER OF GOULD. ‘Thero w.s a visit to Capt. Butter, the discov- erer of gold, Capt, Buttor was a ll-owner, 2nd Bhieruan rvlates Sutter's own story of the dirst dizoavery of {he metal whick was to yovolus Houlze the lusucial couditions of the world sud 1o fouud m new empire, As Butter was sitting in 16 room, near tho mill-house, one day in Feb- fuary or March, 1845, & knock was Loard at the door, and ko called out, **Come in,” fa walked sasigtant, Alatehall, who revoaled to Sutter that ho Lad found 1 the tail-race of the mill tortain pellots of gold. lla endoavored to keep the matter o sccret, but the newa tnread, and weon tho world’ was attamo with tho diucovery, Men earned from $40 to 100 aday, Bomotimes a Jucky fallow would mtriko & “pockot,” clear vaveral thousand dollars fu a few days, and then go shifting about until Lo Jud expended all bo had earned, _ Everything vt §1 & pound, aud & woal €0, #obody paud | for a bod, tmt slept on the ground, without fear of cold or rain. Thers waa a uowspapor, *'a curiosity in its ino,” using two V's for & W, and other combinations of lottors, mado neccasary by want ot typo, which grow tin to be the Ailn California. “'There was much rivalry as to which was to Do tha ' “New York" of the Dacific, Bhermao's fdea was, that Donleia wan tho propar placo, while otliers fast- snod upon the town “near tho mouth of the bay,” univeraally kuown a8 Yorba Iuena. Thosa wlio hiad chargo of Yerba Iuona asw tho fnpor- innco of a name, and #o, iu town couneil, changed it to Ban Francisce, I am convinced,” says Gon, Shermau, ' that this littlo circumatance was big with conssquencos, 'That Bonlcla was the bent elte for & commorcial city I am satisflod; aod, bad half the mouoy aud Lalf the labornince boatomwed upon San Iraucisco beon expended upon Boulein, we should at this day havo a clty of Enlnnn on the Carquinoz Strail The namo of Han I'rancisco, howaver, fized the city whora itnowis™ TIE OOLD-FEVENL. Qon, Bhiarman spoaks in the higheat torms of the fidelity and Loneaty of the commnuder, Col. Mason, who used none of Lis puwer to aggran- diza nmnolf, On one oucasion hia opened a store at Coronn, investing 500, and_recaiving 81,600 a5 his einro of the profita. Thero was groal troublo {n kesping tho sailora and soldiera iu the camp 3 ovon tho servants—averybody—tan mad with the gold-faver. 'Two colored boys, named Asron and Issac, kopt their faith, and * their condnct,” anys tho General, '*has given moe a indly fealing of raspect for the negroes, and makes mo hopo that thoy will find atatus in the Juwmule of aMeira fu which wa now live.” Thore apveared also n singular charactor called Baron Bteinborgor, who **boated that Le had helped to break tho United Htates Bank by being ine debted to'it $5,000,000,” 'Tho Laron went intothe butehor businees, and he was tho first butchorin Ban Franclsco, 11e made & groat doal of monoy, and bocame oy of tho richost and most fullu= ontial wmon™ In Californla; wan finally caught, and became bopoleasly bankrupt, followod Fros mont to 8t, Louis lu 1861, ** and soon after died & paupor in oo of the hospitals,” 'Flho Bocond Infantry camo noar deserting in bulk., Captaina and masters of ahi;s abandoned their voascls and cargoos o rush'to tho miucs, whils proach- ers and Profeneors forgot thcir croeds to take to trade, oven to keopiug fimnbllnwhuunen. The Gonoral indulged 1n & little laud-spocalation which brought bim o profit of €0,000, Labor s no high that &16 & day was a good carpon- tor's wages. Emigrauts came pouring over the mountaing, and were savod from starvation by the provident forothought of the Commesary Deparimont of the army. YVinaily, in 1830, tho young ollicer relurucd to tho Eaet, by way of Tanawe, the Loarer of diepatchies to Gon. Beot, MANUIAGE AND POLITICH, QGen. Bhermau arrived in New York abont tho clogs of Jauuary, drut up at * Delmonico's, on Bowliug Green.” ‘Lhon thers cama a dinner swith Goun, Heott, who startled him with tho as- portion thiat **tlio country was on tho eve of a torrblo civil war,” Thenca to Washington, where Shorwan beeame an imate of “tho family af the Hon. Thoman Ewing, Sccretary of the In- terior in tho Cabinat of President Taylor, Tay- for impresacd tha young oflicor by his * fine personal appoarance, and pleasaut, cas) manuers,” In May, 1830, Shoerman marriod the daughler of Mr. Dwing—tho mar- riage-coreniony being attended by ‘s largo and distiguished coipany, embracing Daniel Webster, Heury Clay, Thomas A, Bonton, Lresi dant Taylor, and ali his Cabinot.” ‘Faylor died withiin a fow months, and Sherman, In company suick and William I, Barry, then as of tho military oscort at bis £ 6YTNT L OF WEBSTER. ~ nisig times ; compromise moas- 1 tho tapis, and we bavo n descrip- tion of Huutman'y viat to tho Sonato to hoar Wobster's great 7th of March spoech in the old "Sonate Chambor, mow used by tho Buprame Gcurt. Corwin, of Ohlo, introduced ~ Shorman upon the floor. 1 found,” ho snys, ** o acat closo behind Mr. Wobster and near Gea. Scott, aud hoavd the wholo of the speoch. Lt was heavy in tho ox- tromo ; and Iconfeas that I wny diseppointod ond tired long before it was fluished, No doubt tho speech was tull of fact and argument, but it had nonse of the firo of oratory ov Lhe jnonsity ot fealing that markedall of Ar. Clay's of- forts, A DANKER TN CALIFORNIA. Thenca the young officor wandered to tho Weast and to Now Orlosna under orders, and in 1853, in July, wo flnd him sgain in California, g o banker, His description of the wild methods of conducting Luainess in thoso days s vivid, and might ba read with instruction now. TUE VIGILANCK COMMITTEE, In 1956 the Vigilance Comuiittes took (})mcl— slon of Ban Francisco. Gen. Shorman's descrip. iion of this singular phonomonon in our histor; is 80 vivid that wo regrot wo caunot rapuhling tuo whole of jit. Tolitics Lad bocome a regular, profitable, corrupt business. There was such n thing as & Blioritf paying $100,000 to bo nominat- od for au oftico tho tominal ealary of whick was $12,000 » yoar for four yoars. Jamons Oasoy, who was afterward hanged by tho Cowmittee, pub- lishied » small paper in the building occupiod by Sherman =8 & bauk. On ove occasion s Mr. SBlsther, » banker aund partnor of Droxel, mmp{ulnud tuat Casey’s paper at- tomptod to blackmail the banks. **At that timo," says Bherman, “we wera all Inboring to rostoro confidencs, aud I went up-stairs, found Casoy, and poistoed out to nim tho objectionable naturo of his article, and told him plainly that I could not tolorato Lis attompt to print and circulato slandors in our boilding, and, if hie ro- peated it, I would cause him an hia pross to be thrown out of the window, e {ook tha hiut sud moved to more frisndly quarters.” Tho rival journal, the DBulletin, published some documonts showing that Casey had onco been sontenced to a New York penitentiary. Casoy informad the editor, James King, that ho would **shoot hit on sight,” TLat avening, as King was walking homs, Cascy sliot him, and waa arrested, . Tho citizons, under the control of Willism J. Coloman, formed a Commiite ‘Fhe Governor, evidently s weak creature,in con pauy with G, K, Garrison aud Sherman, endeg- vored to supprosa the outbroslk On Sunday, May 22, 1806, the funeral of King took placo. The Governor callod on Bherman, and they wout up on top of a Lotel, from which they conld sco tho wholo city, " Parttes of armed mon in good ordor ~wers marching by platoons toward tho jail. Boon & small party was soen to advance to this door and knocked, and a parloy ousuod. The doors wero openod, and Casey was led out.” Also a prisoner namod Cora, who had killed a Marshal, “Tho day was oxcaodingly beautiful, aud the whote procoeding orderly in tho extrome.” * In a vory fow days Cora and Casoy wero hanged by tho noclk, dead, susponded by the boans projecting out of ihe windows of the Committee's raom, without otlier trial than could bo given in nocret agd by night.” ‘Thio Committeo Lield tholr sessions, issuing wrils of arrcat and banishment. An offort was mado to suppross thom, and Shorman was appoiuted lajor-Gonoral in command of the militia, ‘Tho 21t of July, 1857, found Sherman living ot No. 100 Princo stroet, in Now York, and open- ing & banking-houso at No, 12 Wall streot. 'Tho panio came, and by Ooctober his businers was at an ond, o returnod to California to wind up some _other affairs connected with his old banking-bhouss, romained aunothor yoar, and camo homo in 1858, ‘hon camo & litlo ox. porienca in Kanasas, with bls two brothors-in. law, Hugh and Thotuas Ewiug, partly as lawyer, partly as real-stato agent ; aud on Aug. 2, 1859, {hmufih tho inlluonce of Major, afterward Genoral, Don Cartos Buell, ho was eloctod Bup- orintondont of tho Xl Acadowy of Louis- lana and Professor of Engineoring., BUERMAN A8 VIOFZHSOR, Bhorman’s description of his life in Louisiana is interesting. 1lio was somewhat under a cloud with tho rulors of the Btate on account of the fact that his brother, Joun Bhiermau, was the Rapublican candidate for Bponkor of the Houso, Ho took no part in politics, and would not even vote for Dol and Everett, Bocession camo rolling upon Lim, tko Arsonaiof Baton Rouge was taken possession of on tho 10th of January, 1801, and on tha 18th of the samo month Lo rosign. position i » lotter doing him groat credlt and Lonor. *If Loulaana withdraw from tho Fodoral Unfon,” ha wroto to the Govornor, * I profer to maintain my sllogiance to the Copatitution as longas o fragmont of it suryives, and my longer stay Lora would be wrong, iu every senss_of the word.” “Onno osithly account'would I do sny act or hink any thougit biostilo to or in sdvaucs of tho old Qovirnment of the United Btates.” Liis res- ignation way accopted vith tho most courteous uxpresslous of osteow by thoso whom ko sorved. A GLINPSE OF LINCOLN, Sherman returned to the North, and {4 March visited his brother, Joha Shermau, who took him to wco Mr, Lincolu. *‘Johu walked up,” Lo writes, *shuok bLands, and took & chair near Lincoln, lholdg in his Laod somo papers referrmy; winor ap- poiutments,” He turued to mo sud eai * Alr. Prosident, my Lrothor, Col. Bhormau, who Is just up fiom Louisiana, le may givo you somo information you waut, *Akl' says Bir, Liucoln, *how ara’ thoy golting along down thera 7' I'sald, * ha{ '.hhfl; thaey are gotting along swuntwingly; they are proparing for war,’ 0, woll," said he, *I guess wo will mauago to keep Louse.! I was silenced, said no moro to him, snd we soon loft, I was sadly disappplnt- od, and remomber that I broke out on Juhn, damuing the ‘mlulcllnn geucrally, saying, ‘You Lave got things iu & hell of a fix, and you may gut thom out as you bost cau,’ nddivg that the country was slosping on a volcano that might hurat forth any momant, but that I was going to Bt. Louis to taxe aara of ty family, sud would bavenothing more to do with it,” IN THE ARMY OF TUE UNIOX, Dack went flierman to Bt. Lonis and hecame tho Dresident of a stront.railway company, Bhortly afterward camoan offerof tho posttion of Cliof Clork of iha War Dopartmont, which Lo to hin loyally, he wrolo to Hee eaying, ‘1 live now, aa slwi sorve my conntry In the “F”M in which I wns trained.” I did not aud will oot volunteer for threo montha, bocaune £ cannot throw my family on the cold charity of the world. Hnt. for tho thres years' coll mada by tho President, au oflicor can prepare hin command and do good gervica,” " Bhould my sorvices be necded, ~the records of the War De- rnrlmunl will enablo yun to dosignate the station n which I can render the montsorvice.” The oud of it was, that, in a few days, ho was ap- poiited Colonel of the Thirteonth Rogular In- fautry, and roported at Wastungton. 1la had intorviews with Gen. Scott, who raemed vexed with the elamors of the press for inmediato action, and *tho continued Interference fn details of the Presldent, Hacrotary of \Yar, and Congresn,” Ho wonko of organizing & wrand army of invasion, of which tho regulars were to constituto *the fron colunn,” “and neomod to Intimate that ho bimsolf would take the fleld in pormon, though be was at that time *very old, very Leavy, and very unwioldy.” horman took comwmand of n brig- ado, having Corcoran, of the Hixty-minth Now York, under bim, » Wo can undorstaud the man- *ner (n which military forces wera handled when wa road that, shortly befora tho battle of Bnll Run, Gen, Beott wrate * ono of his characteristic lottars to Corcoran, telllng him that wa wero about o engage tn & Laitle, and hia knew his Irish efforta would lesve hin in such » crisis.” CIvIL WaR, Rull Nun was fought, HShorman's comment upon this Lattlo in characteristie. **It ts gone orally admittod that that was oneof tho bost plauned battles of thie war, but ons of tho worst fought. Our mou bLad becu told so ofteu nt homo that all thoy bad to do was to mako a bola appoarance aad the robuls would ruu, and nearly all of ua for tho firat timo then heard tho sound of cannon and tmuskols 1 angor, and saw thie bloudy scones common to Lattles, with which ‘wa wore noon to bo familinr. Wo had no organ- ization, good men, Lut no coheslon, no real discipline, no respeot for authority, po real knowledge of war. Doth armiea wore falrly dofoated, and whichsver Lad stood fast tho other would have ran, Though tho North waa oever- wholwed with mortitication aud shawms, tho South really bad not much to Loast of; for in tha threo or four hours® fighting, their organiza- tion waa #o broken up that they did not, and could not, follow our army when it was known to e fn a stato of of disgracoful and causslees Bight, Itla casy to criticiso & battlo after it is ovor; but all now admit that nonme others, equally raw in war, could liayo done bettar than wo did at Isull Rug, and ths losson of that battle should ot bo lost on a peoplo like ours," WAR IN EARSEST, Nothing was to bo dona but to got to work and roorganizo the armiy, There is an account of a visit of Mr. Lincoln aud Mr. Soward totho Union camps,—Sherinsn sitting by the coachman, aud giving directions how to drive. *As we slowly ascended the Lill,” he says, *I diacov- cred that Mr. Lincolu wos full of fooling and wantod to encourago our men, I anked Lim if ho intended to epeak to thom, and hoe said Le would liko to. I pszed him to ploaso dis- courago il cheorlng and nofse, or auy sort of confusion: that wo had Lad enough of it be- fore Bull Run; that what wo nosdod wero thoughitful, hard-fighting soldiers,—no mora hurrabing, no more bLumbug. Mr. Lincoln roached the camp, and, standing in his carringe, mado one of tho neatost, best, and moat fechng eddrosses that I over Leard, reforring to our late dinastor at DBull Run, and the Ligh dutics that still dovolved ou us, and tho brighter days yet to como. At ono or two points the soldiors begau to ehoor, but he promptiy checked them, anying, Do not cheor, bogs. I confena I rathor like { myeolf, but Col, S8horman thinka It ia uot mili- tary. So I gueas wo lad bottor defer to Lis opluion, " WCLELLAN IN COMMAND, ¥ Than camo McClellan in command, who, § stoad of coming ovor the river to live with the eoldiers, took & liouso in Wasbington. ~3fcClel- Ian told Slorman ho intonded to orgeaize an ar- 1wy of 100,000 men, with 100 fiold-battorics, “ I stili hoped,” he said, * that AlcCleilnn would como an our side of tfw Potomac, pitch his tent, aud propare for real bard work. Dut Lis head quartors still remained in a house in Wash- ington City, 1 then lhuufiht. and st think, that was a faial mustake.” In Auguat, at the roqueat of Geu, Andorson, Sherman was nssigned to a command in Kontucky., Gen. Anderson had Dboon Shorman's Captain in the oarlier yoars, and ho knew hin merita; and ho asked tho President to give Liim, in addition to Bhorman, Georgo 1, ‘Thomas, Don Carlos Buell, and A. E. Burasido, ‘horo was soms diftieulty ia Induciog Lincoln to appoint Goargo 1L I'homas, a native of Virginia, because ** 8o wany Southern oftices bad already plaved falee.” Buteon the 14th of August tho appointment was mado, and Blierman, giving up his duties In Washiogton to Fitz-Jobn Poter, went diraclly West. TILY ATORY OF TNSANTTY. Wo now como tothat portion of Gon. Sher- ‘mau’s bistory which describes his recommenda- tiona a8 to the Leat plan for the conduct of tho war, and tho ein, r story, for some time in circulation, that waa ** [nsane,” becauso bo recommended *‘an army of 200,000 men noces- pary to oonquer Kontucky.® The cauversstion upon which this cruel rumor was basod took plico “hotweon Bhiorman aad Sasrotary Game oron in Loulsville, snd found its way into the pewspapors. What Bhermsn did suggest was far difforent from the story attribated to Lim, and he *rescutod tho cruel insult with langusge of fntenes fueling.” 1o complained thai Secretary Cnmeron gave eredence to tho story in a manner unjust to him- solf, The nowspapors kept harping on bis *in- eanity * and * paralyzod his offorts,” sud wo can woil "boliovo, as Lo says, that * thoy tortured {from mo some words and aots of imprudoncs.” Then cama tho movament on Port Douolson, the credit of which Shorman E"“ to Hallock, s ono *akillful, succoestul, and extremsly rich in mil- itary romulte.” Afterward wo had the battle of Shifoh, whick {8 described at groat fongth. GUANT UNDER 4 CLOUD, § Aftor Bbiloh Gop, Halleck came and took the fleld, aud don. Grant, afler winning this battlo, wan substantially left out, and was named #ccond in command,* according to soms Fronch notion, withno clear, woll-tolinod command or autliority,” *Tor more than a moanth Grant thua remalned without sny apparont suthority, froqueatly visiting mo and others, but rarcly complaining ; but I could seo how deoply Lo folt the dignity, if not tho fusult, heaped upon bim." bl nven!hldnwlugi of Grant continu- ed for a short time, aud evidently moved Sher- man's sympatllos toward the commander, One eveniug. ho leammed that Qrant bad askod for thirty days' loave, and was golng to de- "un tho next moruing, **Of courso, we all now,” aays Bhorman, “*that Grant was chafing under theslights of his anomalous position, mfi Ldetorminod to sco himion my back, Hix camnp was & short distance off the Monterey road In tho woody, and consisted of four or five tents, with a sapling-railing around the front. As I rode up, Maj. Iawling, Logan, and Hiltyer wers in front of the camp, and pilod up near thom wero the tsusl effects and camp-chests, roady, for starting In the morning, I In- quirod for the Uencral, and was shown to lus tout, whero I found him seated upon & camp-stool, with some papers on & rude camp- taple,” 1o soemed to bo employod in sssorting lotters, sud tying thom up with_red tape into conveniont bundlos, After pasgng the nsual compliments [ inquired If it wdrs true that ho was going away. llo said, *Yos. I then in- quired tho roason. Ilo saids *Bherman, you know, You know that I am in the way hero, hinvo stood it as long as X can, and can’ endure it no longor,' I juquirod where he was going to. o said, *8t. Louls,! I thon asked If Le had suy business thoro, and he weaid, ¢ Not s bit.' Tthen bogged him to atay, illustratin his emso by my own. Before the batile of Bhiloh I had boon cast dowu by a more nows- paper-assortion of ‘orazy,’ Iiut {Lat single bat- lo Lnd given mo now lifo, sud now I was in Liigh feathor, I argued with him that, if Lo went away, events would go right along, aud he would be left out; wherous, if lie ramalued, somo lmpry accident might restora him to favor and his troo place,” ‘The rouult was, that Gon, Grant romained, and {n a short timo, by tho removal of ilelleck to \Washington, becamo tho commander of the army, BERVIOR 1x TOB WEST, We wish wa could follow (lou, Sherman through the interesting details of the campaign in tho Weat, Tuoy aro matters of history, how- aver, aud it would be ropeating a twice-told tale to dwoll upon them uow, Thero{s & freshness of stylo, huwevor, in those pagos that will give new light to tho events of that tromendous timo, Ab we pass along from pago to page, wo gather Liero sud thero a glimpso of Bhernian's origlual. 1ty of mind and bits of information that come to us with peeuliar frestnesd, We tind him at ono timo writing to Chaso on the cotton quostion, saying, * If Englend evor threatons war bocause we do not furnish her cotton, tell her plainly, it she cannot emiploy aud feed her own peopls, to sond thom hers, whoro thoy caunot only esrn su hionost uvhw& ut soon seouro an indopond- once by moderats labor,” Ho had hoped that Franco and Germany wonld be friendly to our country in the evont of war, Thoro aro soma brilliant Isttera of the General, writion st the tima to complaining Confedarates and others, that aliow the atreugth and poise of bis cliarace ter, e find him at Viekaburg m 1863 merving uular Grant, McClernand was a troublesoma quantity in Grant'a army. Then thers in a atory of McClarnand's leadinz to & bloady attack on tho works at Vicksbirg by nproper information. The Rebol porition at Vicks- burg Sherman considora to havo Leen tronger than Babmatopol. About this U Gen, Grant tella Hhorman that (en, Josoph E. Johnrton was about (ho “only Gen- oral on tha Confederats sido whom Lo feared." An for the canpalgn st Vicksburg, Shermau says: ' Itn conception aud exccution balong ex- clusively to Uen. Grant, not only In ths grand wholn, it in the thousands of ki details, I still retain many of his lotters and uotes, in Lis owa _hmndwriting, preseribing the routes of mareh for divisions and dotachments, and spoci- fyiug even tho amount of food and Loola to be carried along, Many parsona gave Iaswlina the credit for theea things» but thoy were 1n orror, for no Commanding Gonoral of an_army oyer gave more of hin peraopal attention to delaily, or vrote ro mauy of his own ordors, ronorts, and lotters, as Geo. Grant. s succass at Vil tly gavo Lim groat fame at Lome ANZRMAN ON TOLITICS, Thore [# & loug lotter from Sherman to Ml leck, writton on the 17th of -Beptembar, 1453, In which ho gives his idoas about the Itebellion and itn poesiblo futura, Lincoln was ansious to pub- linh this lotter, but Shermnn wonid not consent toit. Hoopposed the rovival of Hiate Govern- menls in the Houth, Two 1oro battles would havo to bo fought before thore could be civil order—**ono near Moridiau, 1 November, and ona noar Shroveport, in tho spring." As for the farming and artisan clars in the South, they woro the roal third estato, and woald move with tho politicians, As for the Union men of tho Honth, they wera beuoath contempt. The ** youny bioods,” sons of planters’ and la- yors, wore good billiard-players and sports- mon, but they wpover did “sny work, and nevor sill, *War suits thom, nud the rascals are brave, fine riders, uttorly reckloss, who must all be kilied or omployed boforo there can bo eace.™ ' Civil government would be ridiculons. Flioro eliould oniy e *“military rule* until the armien of tue South wora conquered. The Unlon should be parasmount, thero could be no compro- mise, nnd tho War must bo fought out to tha end. If thisloiter had Leon published at tho tima it would have made s profonnd Imprassion, but Bherman was resolute In Lis dotermination not to take any part in politica. From this point tho work proceeds rapldly to- ward Lookout Mouutain, and closes with the appolntment of Gau, Grant to be the Command- or-iu-Chief of the armies, and Gon. Sherman in e&l)m‘mud of the Military Division of tho Alisais- eippl. ——— TIIE COURTS ftecord of IBusincss Transncted Yese terday. THE BOCKFOLD, ROCK ISLAND & BT, LOTIS RAlL- ROAD COMPANY, W. T. Ferry, Receiver of the Ttockford, Rock Ieland & Bt. Louts Rallroad Company, fled Lis regular report yeaterday of tho coudition of the Compauy for the mouth of April, which is in brief as follows: Ou biand Sfareh ..o Roceiyts during April $ 42,601.63 T3, $128,748.97 9,004,% Fxpoudod for operating expenses., Old cluims, waseres. Itent tothe Minneapolin k Bt, Toula R. R, Co, 19, Rent to the Oriun & Minerarilio T, It Co.... 4,52 Right of Wayaresseus 1 Dalance May1, Tho repurt was referred to THE ELECTION CABX. An ordor wzd entered in the cass of C.II. Tocd, Stato's-Attornoy, va. Thomaa Foloy aud the otber Aldermen, dismiesing tho supplemontal bill which mado tho allegations as to tho viola- tion of the wjunction, Tho attornoya for tho Citizens’ Association are obatinately silent, and nothing ia known of what tho next step will be, THE CNITED STATES COURTH, The Fifth National Bouk fOlod a bill agafust Bparrow M. aud Polly Nickernon, Josiah L. Lom- bard, snd a large number of otlor dofoudants, to foreclose a trust-deod for $31,000, on Lota 21, 21, 23, 24, and 25, in Dlock 4, sod Lotw 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18, in Block 8, of subdivision of ths g.r. sud Bub-Block 6 of tho E, 14, of Rlock 15, in Sheflield's Addition; also Lots 23, 42, 48, 44, 45, 48, and 49, in Block 1, sud Lota 3, 4, b, and G,in Block 2, in the subdivislon of the W 1g, and Sub-Block 5 of the E. 1, of Block 15, in the aamo rdditlon, SUPERIOR COURT IN BRIRT, A. H, Barlsy, Roceiver of the Cook County Nutioual Hauk, began a suit for €2,000 sgainst Blosos A, Thayer. Lrast Kniopcke filed abill againat Charles Moes- singer, Cathorino Mosssiugor, Louias, Wiiliam, Emius, Agoes, and Loais Wanthe, the German- American National Bank of Clicago, 12, J. Kno- belsdorff, and William Harach. to forcclose » mortgaga for $2,000 on Lot 10, Block 4, of Braiu. ard & Evaus' Addition to Chicago. CINCUIT COURT, Prodorick Rosson bogsn a suit in replevin against . Moyer, claiming $2,000. Fanny Eichliold nrnu&m suit againat J. T. Lea- tor, claiming 2,000 damagos for broken cove- nant. Golte Rabinawsky commenced a suit in tres- paos againat Abrabam Rablnowsky and Edward Moonoy, laylug damagon at 82,000, TUE COUNTY COULT, On patttlon of John Dieden, County Agent, warraut and vonire ordered roturnsble the 20th inut,, at 10 o'clock 8. m., to try the quostion of tho sallegod insanity of Joln F. Silbach, John Liloy, August Baleuke, Mary Nilson, and Bliza~ both Sommer. In the mattor of tha estate of Bornhardt Milt, docensed ;: order that dedimus potostatem fanuo to the Mayor, or Chief Magistrate of Paris, Tranes, authorizing him to tako, and certify to this Court in due form of law, the testimony of James Long, one of the subseniblug witnosaes to tho will of deceasad. Tho Court adjourned till sfonday, CIIMINAL QOUTT. Two Indictments agninst Thomas Jofforson, for forgery, were stricken from tho docket, with lsave to reinstate. Bontence in the caso of Minnle Hoth, tho woman who was fonnd guilty of stoalng a vel- vot cloak from llold, Leiter & Co., was &us ondod. Georgo Williams, a Iad, was tried on the chargo of passing a forged check on a mau named Drad- ley; vordict, guilty, aud rocommounded to the clemenoy of tho Court, J. H. 1lisawell and William McDermott pleaded guilty to horse-tealing; ramanded for sontence. "Tha Court adjourncd ' tiil to-morrow morning, when the mofion to quash the indictmenta sgalost I K, Turner for forgery will bo beard. TUE CALT. Junor Ganr—177, 187, 192 to 184, 196, 197, 200 to 203, 205 to 200, Junar JadxrsoN—No eall, Jupar: Moour—No call, Junor Roauus—9G ta 103, and set caso 927, Jupug Fanweri—~No call, JUDGMENTS, Uniren BTaTEs OincurT UoURT—IURGE BLODAETT —¥irst Natioual Bank of Danvilla v, Adam Smith $1,284.70 3 Erastiun Teflt of al, va, Horace llinkson sud ‘Alfred Hinkson, $1,000.15, Burenion CobRT—Coxrastons—A. T, Durley, Rtes celvor, va. dubn I, lirown, $030173 Busch & Brand Jirawiug Gompany vs, Casper Dam, $14 ficlael Tlartolmie va, lfenry M, Payuo, Heury , 1, and William Jausbraugh, $441.22, JupaE(RARY=Foremsu & Priedlander ve, John Dip- polil aud Georga Dippol ~Fercy & Dro, ve, Fobers Lotich, 20001 O, Moug, Aseiguee, vo. W: W, umith, $1,136,40,—W, Landnbl vs, Tetor Nedl, &37.50, itart L Bidwari va, J.W. Blioalsu and Willaih Price, KoUIT Count—CoNressions—J, M. Walto vi. William A, Travis, $384,03, Jduvat Rioers—Ehzaflsters, ure B, W, Eilts, va, William Bpaw\ling, $300,—~Thomas 3ahoney ve, 'The Mauufacturera’ Natiousl Dank of Gbicago, $450. by i Nows=Fangled Iloopsi| with Bricke= bat Attachmonts Loutaville Couricr~Journal, ‘The new stylo hoopskirts, with bustles attach- od, woru by yannP ladles at preeent, aro not the most ploasatit articles of wearluy-spparel to hava ou the body, judglng from an tucldent which ac- carred to a lady toacher of the Femalo High Bchioul » couplo of afternoons ago. In putting on the "{vlocn of furniture” sho was compolled to tie hslf of & Lrickbat to the bustle and hoop in order to prevout_its sproading out too much. Balling down Fourlh etreet, sho Leard somothing cluttering against bor shoes, aund alscovored, to Lier divmay, that the string tled around tho brick and attacliod to tho bustla and skirt Lad becomo somewhat Joosoned, snd the brick was hangiug down toher heels. ~ Asbamed to attract any at- toution by stopping to sdjust it, sho walked on |pEnmnlly uuconcerned, allowing the brick to rub apaiust her auklea and brulse thom, Bho Lad bardly procoededwory far, Lowever, before, to hor horror, the strivg bocamo tlil more loos- oood, sud tho brick was ratiling on the i;round and skipping over the pavonscut as rapldly as she walked, 'Bhe ran into the imt inviting store and bastily took off the Loop, bustlo, aad all, Fortunatoly, she had discovored her distrossiug u!;u‘ufim before anybody's attcntion was attract- ed o lior, GEORGE WASHINGTON Il 1876, Eloquent Oration at Farwell I1all by Dr, Tiffany. Tho Washington Monument and the Ifan It Commemorates, Effort for Its Completion, Tire Rav. Dr. O. IL. Tiffany, of Trinity (3. E.) Chureh, dolivered hia oration Taosday evening on "Ugorgo Wasbington in 1875," at Farwell Hall, for tho beunefit of the Washe ington Natlonal Monument . Associs. tion, The sunonncoment drew forlls, in mpito of tho rain, the Jargest and finost andi- enca ths bullding has ever hald, The orator was {ntroduced by tho 1fon, W, I, Coolbangh, who, with the IHon. B. G. Caulfiold and other gentlemen of promiueuce, remelusd upon the platform. It 18 to bo regretted that only a comparatively brief synopsis of the brillisut oration of Dr. Tiffany can be given, Its raro scholarabip and briliiant diction excited the admiration and awoko the applausa of bis hearers, lle spoke tubstaotially as follows: A hundred years ago the American colonien contaiuod lens than three millions of people, and their homes, extending from New Hawpahire to Georgis, wero bounded on tha cast by the hil- lows of the Atlantic, and on the west by tho carthy, cloud-capped Lillows of the Allegheny mountains, Deyoud that range wore acattered pettloments, mostly military or trading posts, chief among which wore Pitteburg snd the Falla of the Olio, now Louwvitle. An Lnglish port called Backville stood upon the bauks of the ‘Wabaab, and an old Freuch settlement, with au tingush Governor, wau tho only European eots tlemont in Illinols. All ths Houth which fronta the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Alabama, Loulsiana, and Texan, as wall as that pert of the continent weat of tho Misslnaippl, belonged by titls to Eu- ropesn powers, but this boundless realm was claimed aud ocenpied by Indians, who wera really THE 1L.ORDS OF TILE FORLHT, , Boston, New York, Philadelplia, Baltimors, sind Charleaton were scarcely mora than villages § Albany, Carlisle, Frederick, ‘and Winchoster wero frontior bamlots. Manufactures scarcely exist~ ad. Coasting emacke, with a fowships from the ‘West Indies and from Europo, constituted tho only commerce. Tho womon whirled their spin- uing-whools, or plied the shuttle in the loow in almost evers houso, while the ax and the plow woro the toala of nearly all the men, Domestic talk by the winter fireside of ths year 1774, or the fastive gatherings, was of Lord Danmore's war, fought tu the previoua spring and sumi Neowa was & slow Lraveler, and it took we even monihs, to recoive intelligoncs of tho hiero- 1em of tho Lowises nnd their Virginia com- patriots, sud of tho foolish, not to w1y treacher- ous, paace which the Scotels Earl Lad mado with tho rod men. OUIt GRAXDAIREAR AND GRANDDAMEY aleo talked of Goorge III., aud of thoe autumnal Congress In Philmicluhia, the Boston tea-party, the Ministry and Parlismont. wondering if papor and ten wero still to be taxed, and if the right- eons aoulsof tho Joyal peoplo wero to be further vexed by sach jvjustico. Jehn sud Samae] Adsms and James Otis wero aapiring young lawyers in Lioston, where Johu Hancock ‘wus & wmerchaut prince; Alexander Hamilton was at King's. now Columbia Collego, New York ; Benjamin Franklin was in London, reprenonting the poutal nocessitivs of hiy native conutry ; tho Loes wero on thoir estates on tho Totomac ; Patrick Heury and Thomas Jofierson wers members of the House of Durgesses, in Virginia : the Pincknoys and Rutledges were on the:r plautations in South Catolina ; QEONOE WASNINGTOX was at Mount Vernon, nono of them anticipating thoir grent future—for what sage or statesman, though endowed with quickest eve and Locnost facully of observation, with the largost power of reflection and imagination. could hiave cast the horoscope of = cantury sud forctold what threo gonerations hve brougbt forth ? [Applause.] A nation born in a day. Europe dispossessed of a contivont, aud America, from tho 8i. Law- ronce to tho Ilio Grande, the abodo of many pooples, speaking ono lauguage, aweoaring foalty to one political faith, and under ono iag, on which are mixcd all the hues of Leaven. fhio shores of the Attautis and Pacific, bound by hooks of teel, and the Bequola Gigantea on the slopen of tho Sierra Nevada, which wero grow. inz when Solomon began his temple, the prop- erty of a raca which fells its pine forasta In Maino and hews its way througl the cactus of Arizona, California coina its gold in Philadel- phia. Now Lnglaud sends wares to the banks of the Columbis, tho orango groves of Florids find marts in Boston, San Diego and Virginia City find all they nocod in New Yorl, to which city ‘I'exas ahipa “its cattlo; Rockland Lake seuds ico ta Now Orleans, and Chicago suppli 8 world with wheat and corn. America {s recognized in tho tourney of the wosld an & gatlant kuight who, though young, bas fairly wou lus spurs upon tho feld, aud calmly takes Lis accorded station in tho lists amoug the nobles of bietory. Who:bath wronghit this wondrous transforma- tion which'mors than fullils the dreams of I'lato {u bis “idoal republic?” The undorlying relig- jons eentiment of the peoplo will aunwer God, and to Him bo all tho glory. Yet, underlus bonignant_sway one man, more than all others, was raised up for this achievement. *Many sons bave done virtuously” in this L cause whom the nation Lonors, ‘and whoso fame with glaun care ulie will *embalm to Immortality." ut one **hos excelled them all;” to him the nation owes aud always wiil owa its lni(ell debt of gratitude, Travolers who visit Bwitzerland como bome jto toll us of Mont Blanc; thoss who visit tho Cordilleras, returning, tell us ouly of Chimborazo, but any citizon of the world, spoaking of American history feels that WASHINGTON 18 IT8 BYNONTAL The Doctor Liore anoke of the difilcally of the theme, which aroso partly Irom its familiarity, partly from the fact of the symmnietrical charag- ter of Washington, which presonted so few salient poiata. ~Washington was no orator; was not a succesaful General, if judged by the num- bor of his victories ; waxa ploddiug and exacting man of business, and no euthusiast, Thackeray failed in making bim a romantic hero. Yet those vory detlcioncies wers necesnary to hia work and influonce, His blameless virtuo and Lis deop 1oligious convictions wero mentioned as the coro of hus character, and his creod, socn in hia con- duct, was declared to bo alife-Joug nct of faith in God and in Hlis provideuccs. Dr. Tiffany hero stated that it was uot his purpose to re- hoarse the story of thelife of Washington, for all ita incidenta were Louseliold words, but would rather weavo a claplet from tho tributes of wen of noto aud lay it on his sliriuo, The ciitical and learned Gorman, Von Taumer, sava: * I'ew men who hava camed for thom- eeives a celobratod name in the history of the world exhibit such a Larmony, auch a coucordant syminolry of oll the quslitios calculatod to reodor himsolf and othors happy ad Wasbivgton. His eoul was elovated abova party epirit, prejudico, self-inter- ost and party alms, o nctod according to the impulses of a noblo heart and sound uuder- standing. . . . . 1lis nobls, blamolous, snd gpotloss image will remain a model and rallying {wmt to all to cucourage tho good and to deter e bad. How petty do the comwmon raco of wartial heroes lrplu in comparison with Wash- wgton.” fApplause) Mone. Quizot eays: *Washington did the two greateat things which, 1 politics, man can hava the privilege of at- tempting, 1lle maintainod hyLmacol at indo- pondonce of Lis country whichi Lie had soquired Ly war," Da Chatesubriand eays: ¢ Washing- ton, after having raisod a uation to Indopond- «nco, slept peacofully a8 a rotrod magistrata undor his patornal roof, amid tho rogrots of iy countrymen aud tho vonoration of ali poople. s glory is the tncronsing patrimony of the n- croasiug eivilization, His reuown rises like ona of thoso aanctuaries wuercin & stream, puro aud incxliaustiblo, tlows forth foraver for thasolacs of the poople. When tho uows of his death reached France, Napoloon, the firat Cousul, not only went into mourning himsolf, but caused the wholo army to do tho same, aad be issued tho follqwing goneral order ¢ WASUINGTON 18 DEAD, "This great man fought sgainst tyranny, solidated the lbertics of his country, Ilis memory will ver be dear to the French nation, s toall free men i both tho 014 sad tus New Worlde sud es- pecially Lo the soldicrs of France, who, like Lim aud 1o Anierican soldlers, Bght for squaiity aud lberty, Dr. Tillavy alao quoted cloguout extracts in thesame vein fromthe pensof Foulcon, Kossuth, Thomas *Lrukine, Cuarlos James Fox, Houry Grattan, Blr James 3clntosh, Sir Archibaid Allison, Lord Joha Russell, Lord Macauloy, Lord Byron, Thackersy, Lord Irougham, Prof, Will- istn Bmythe, Charlos Phillips Hildreth, Chiof Juatica Marahail, William IL, Prescatt, Edward Tverett, Washington lrving, and Thowss Jof- fersou, who said, referriug to the stars: **Washington's fame will go on incressing until the brightest constollation u_yoader hesvonw i callsd by bis pamo." With great felicisy s, s cone ‘9 Tiffany haro introdnced an estract from Wash- ington's Farowell Addross, covaring his own atatement of himself. ‘Thus have the men mont sminent in both Leafspheres united in ascribing to GrOnOF WASIINOTOXN the foremost placa; the lofticst aud mont uranl- lisd patriotinm that hias appearod in tho round of lator tima, Nover, aavo lu the ases of tho 1fabrews toward Mosos, lias & nation owed such o aebt of pratituda to & man as America owen to V\-zh[nxtur’-. And gladly have our people tried tupayit, The Capital of tho nation bears his uamo, Nearly every State has ita county and {ta town of Waahington. It it 18 meet and seom- lnk—narl it is duly, as the contury of onr national lifo in eloeine, that tho shiofe which s the world's offering to his memory should be complated, no that tho sun which tises on Jaly 4, 1870, may crown with golden heams the eap atona of tho lofticst and noblest mouument evor roarcd to man, TIK NATIONAL MONTIENT at tho Capital, or ita crude beginning rathor, ntand o tha very epot desiynated by \ashings ton Limself for tho lucation of an “equestrian elatuo voted him by Uougress, It was hegun nmidst the acelai of the nation, and has peived itn proeont hieight Ly the fros-sill offeriuga of mankind, Not as the atatues, arches, pillan and pyramids of old ia thia structuro to be re: nd, “She civilizations which thay symbolize bave passed or are passing away, The world prows out of leadlng stringzs, ard the sutocrst mnat gwve way to the bonefsctor, Tha randsof the lonert cover many aymbals of princely power, and pomps, and arrogance, as the floods of time hiave awept sway the political and zocial institu- tionn which thoy represent, “I'hn world eaunot afford o lot the fame and exsmplo of thn PATIER OF RIS COUETRT die. Hs must ever hold the firat place n the hearts of his countrymen, Wo owe it outsnlves and to our childien’ that our muniiiconce shall sliow ua miod(ul of tho glorions legacy he lof: us in hia character, and worthy to bo sharera tu tho henediction of his fams. ‘The simpleplauter by ths Potomac, by disintarested and salf-re nouncing patriotiam, rearcd imsaelf to tho loftiest station gained by wan, The titles which ho whupned and the powor which Lie relinquished could not have added to his greatness, and tho salary bo rofused at simple interest wonld build thres monuments, [Applsuse,] ‘The influence of his life Lna unconaciously become an en- nobling gower In tholifa of overy genuine Amer- fean, and our country is to-day” tho Lome, aud more wise, woll-oducated, msoif-povernnd, and liappy peoplo than are to ba found in any land on cath. Bhould our love and admiration for his patriotinm fade into forgetfuluess, thare ts no love for that of lesser men. _Dr. 'Tiffany bore oxplained the purpascs of tha ational Monument Association, aud the formn aud eizo of the shaft, how subscriplionn ars re- ceived, and, 1n farvid elogneuce, claimed that all the poople ought to sharo i building it, and ctoned as followa: e ‘Tho day draws nigh when wa shall calebrate the hundrodib anniversary of our birth, Weo Liavo bidden the world to our banquet. Thoy will coms from all races and all climes to study our institations, to marvel at our progress, to scru- tinize our bossted achiovomouts, and it may bs tocavil and to carp at our defocts. 8hall they, roturntag to thoir homoe, have canae to asy tuat our firat dobt of gratituds ju unpaid ? that whila » ginglocity can bLuild & monumout to Washing- ton unaided, the wholo peoplo of the Unitad Htates had left tho National Monument unfin- ishiod 2 8hall wo, failing in natural pioty, merit the fault-finding and the scorn of mankiud? Not so, my countrsmon. 1 am porsuaded that the matchless geucronity of thoe peopls will proclaim itsolf fu this illustrious ceusn, and onr glorious monument, eimpls, £, eze, sublime, bo complet- ed, 80 that the world, paialing to tho unoqualed shinft, may eoy: eBER QW THEY 1LOVED H1," If a trihute 5 Wastiugton waa to be reared on foreign soil, I would have our conntrymen watcli tho building as its wallsrose and its arched domo waa rounded io, but I would baye them accept no niche, receive no podestal, but when tho comn- pleted structuro pierced tho clouds aud itw lof~ et point atood ‘sereno in constaut sunlight, I would bave them claim that aa tho only just spot for a siatac of onr Washington, But this monu- mont stauds on Amencan noil, in reared by Amer. ican Lauds, cheered by American hearts. And on that glad day wheu shall bo pathered here tho ropresentatives of all othier lacds, let tho world Luow ihot amovy awmbassadors, and #avaus, snd artists, staud the peopls of tha luud, gazing upon & pura white sbnft which, towering neavenward, greots tho moroing sun and be- comes radians with hin earlicat beams, but bears no status on its lofty height, for tho world's beart cannot mistake the namo which it com- memorates, whilo the world's skill cannot work out a fitting semblance «/ tho Lero thus en- slrined and revorencod. e TIHE NORTIHWIEST, ILLInolE, Bloomington ia rejcicing in tho eatablishment of a kindergarten., . Judge Underwood, of the Eb Clsir County Cironit, has been atricken with paralyeis, Quincy people arc excited about the location of tho new Court-House in Wasbington Square, Another coal-abaft is being sunk at Bpring- fleld, oud miving operations are expected to commence by July. ! A correspondent of the Soufliern Iilinofsan is confident thaz Carbondals fn the Atheus of Southern Iilinois. Cairo robele. The City-Marsbal of Bloomington reports that 2,524 tramps wero furnished with lodging at the public expense during the yoar ending Juns 8u, The Joliot Siznal says that the Governor is somawhat too liberal with lis pardoning power., Eight couvicts, sontencod for loug torws, were lot out of tho Yenitentiary by the Governor dur- ing the weok ending April 19, WISCONSIN. The Oshkosh Northucesiern m still about the sizo of a man's Land, but it is a good spocimen of palmistry, ‘Wiid fires have been raging in many parts of Dunn County durmg the week, doing consider- sble dawnugoe to property, A Tacins merchant ueod the following words ¢ *1'11 Lie darned it L advertise in nuy&mpnr!" and the nest morning he was found dead 1 Lis bod, Notwithstanding the fire, thero was » firo- mew'a parade at Oshkosh the othor day, It was » mouruful oceselon, Nover wasthere a groater miockery. The Judges of the Buprcme Court, Btate of- ficors, sterks, and uxunl«:e‘on in and shout the Capitol have contriouted 8633 to tho rolief of Oshkosh sulferors, Cltizens of Appleton and New London aro soriously considering the expediency of oxtend- ing the Milwaukes, Lake Suoro & Western Hail- rosd from tha formor to tho Iatter place, An effort is being made to kill deadheading among Wisconsin cditors, but it ia gonorally foared that tho desdhioads eannot bo killed with- out thinmng out the profosuion iu thoe Stato. cs, Kohl, of Lewiston Btation, regrets now that she never learnod from the nawspupers how danfiumus is tho practice of locking up youug ehildren alone in & houso, Bho sried It witn three of lLier own last woek, and, as s conde- qufil‘l;:m the house burued down aud the children withic INDIANA, The Munclo Publio Library has 8,000 volumes, . 'The Kokomo Zemoerat doubt uy city in Tndiana can boast of so few bumi failures in proportion to the population an Kokomo, The Soclety of Old Eclampaus pnt a tickot in the feid at Nowport, Vormillon County, and elected (6. Now will gomabody tell us what tho Old Eclampaus is ? The Washington avioes County) Qazelle loarns that a vein of canuol coal of & superior quality hna been struck on tha Hou. AL, L, Brett's tarm.” The vein [u over 5 foot thiok, Dr. W. A. Flauders, & mliuuho physiclan, and s disciple of the Woodbull faith, foll dead at Plymouth last wouk., Poor follow! Ho left throe disoousolate wives and a gold-headed cauo, 1t waa & hardwaro man who remarked, upon eoeing a poerloss floung “Derro Maute Jady walk- g with some of Lor country cousius of whom shio was ovidently ashamed, that hie bated to seo poople act s * suporatitiously” towards poor relationa, IOWA, The base-hall people fn Keoliuk are scathed. They enjoy Chicigo’s misery, Fort Dodge is—fraud or no fraud—all agog over the * pirit photograph " business, Pabhic-spirited citizens of Dubuma want & cowetory, so that thoy may bave su lucentive to prolang tholr lives, An industrious youth in New Albin quarried out forty big unskea and a Jot of stone from = space 23 foot aquare during April. L, J. Bartun, formerly a bunker at Storm Lako, who departed from that place about one mr g0, leaving friouds and creditors to muwrn unsoitled sondition of Lis afairs, Las bosn arrorted at Cheysnns, and Slorm Laks on W sdneagay, T K6 Beck to The 'Cattls Quren of Jowa" fa whatsaey cail Mrs, Kimborly, ™ Yos, she's the boss nnm{tf:r thia Btate, suto.—Burlinglon Hatckeye. Tho stndenta and officern of tho Agricaltaral Jollogo have beon drubled ny # mynta) dinonso, supposod to be lmlnug lg’pcllg; g The Larlington Gazette has - k:a‘l‘.llm}dvh}gs. :‘\lu ";‘,‘{‘“’ “1!::‘::(“-08‘ m?tfl?— Wholo Famlly Mir: L Barned to Death,” w“l?m’ epe Bibg Johin Barkley wastried in tho Dis at Fort Madinon last weok on the cha ‘:‘l :i‘ Sg;\? ing 10 conts ,Wcrlh of waod from schioal-hotisa in Jefferson ‘Township. Tho caso was tried bes fore Justico Griggs, and defendant found gailty, Tho membots of Lo Grand Army of th pubilo [ Gedar Raplda linve by vors dectni oo observo ths Babbath, May 30, ss Decoration Day. Tho Times doesn't’ liko it, and thinks Saturday would bo a botter day for this purposs. Judzo Dillon and his family are making ar- raugnmente for & trip to Europs this monih. They contemplnte maiting from Naw York on the 2040 inst. in tho steamsbip Busais, Tho Judge will ba abaent about five months, but tho family will probably ro matn abroad a yosr, Missounl. Itinstated that the Kensas City Times ha sunk 49,030 moca I starled, and hua not begun to pay vet. The Boston Phitharmanie Clitb las baon play- in;z at Bt. Joo, and enthusing the rural critics considerably. Tho grasehoppers aro dying off by thousands in (1o western pazt of the Biato, and the farmers aro Leginning to clicor np, ‘Tho Brunswicker Invites tha Constitutional Couvention to sit permauently at Brunswick in proference to Kansas Clty or Ht. Louis. Tha whisky in Erunswick novor kills, The villago st the othier end of the bridgs ia aowing tho wind just now ; it will begin to reap tlo vhirhwind whon tho Eaetern bane-ball cluby tako Liid of those brown-lLosed followa. KANSAS, The liherifl of Clay County has Jatsly retnrned fro:n o mwjnterlous expodition with "fifty alot. guus. Ho proposcs o arn a pacty for tho oze termumation of the James boys. Tho Kansas crop prospect is very oncoursging. An abundance of rain has fallon recently, the wheat crop 18 in zoad condition, and the outiook for cora-raising was novor bottor, flomo Kanass meu nre now in the Cherokea Territory gotting out waluut timbor. Thero s & largo forest of this kind Lotweon Kausasand Texas, and tho apcculatora are stripping it clean. Dr. Dickineon, State Tibrarian, bas sdded a spleadid Liblo, with nolos sud ilinsteations, to the Stato Librdry. Tho natives como sronnd occasionally and borrow it for spolling-matehes, and the Iniryers consult it for authorition in per= plexing cascs, There 18 fiome talk of calling tha Legislaturo 1 oxtra aeasion to look at it. PINNESOTA, McVicker and cowmpany are playiog st Min- neapolis thua weok. The 'hoppers are coming cut by millions in tho neighborhood of Gleneoe, T Carloton College, at Norinfiold, has become the recipient of a chiolce colloction of Minnesota birds, consiating of about fifty vpecimons, As Dill King goos about tho strests of Minne- spolis frionds shiake him warmly by the hand and inquiro: **How aro you, Biil#" Dnt il 1ofusca to aay how ho ia. Tho apportionment of Stata ssed wheat for Murray County wasno largo that it cannot be diposed of. T peoplo are ocoiriog it in quautities of from 30 to G0 bushels, ‘Tho Worthington Adeance thinks thnt tho re- cent accidents on tho Bionx City Lailroad ate the judgment of God upon the Compan: thoir wickeduosd in runniug trains on Sundsy. Tiso wholo number of loga cut on the Uppar Mismesippi and Bum Bivers lnst zoasonin cati- mated by ths Burveyor (teneral of Loys roughly at 150,000,000, ngaiust £90.000,000 feo! eut aud driven last neason, All tha fops will Le sue- cerafully driven with tbo ezcaption of th bavlod on small stroums, On Arbor Day, A. T. Good, of Marion, Olr- sted County, planted 1,969 trevs ; J. 3L Bhap, of Lilua Earth County, tho same number ; Weu- ley Labaroe, of Watouwon County, 3,100 enttings; Whalter I, Johuson, of Nicollet County, 5,855 rocted troos ; W. I. . Cunmingham, of Brome, County, 3,140 cuttings ; and Johu Voterson, of v thio oame county, 2,620 troes aud cuttings, - HEBRASKA. Tho Council Binffa Aonpareil eays that Omazs faa e twlstor, not a twin sistsr, Omaba in proverbially modeat, butthat doss ne Pprevout four out of her sevou dologatos to tue Constitutional Consention from nspirivg to the presidoncy of that organization. Benstor Tlitcheock asendaiword that a certain condidato for tho Ilathoad Indian Ageucy cxa sccure the appointment providad he can comply with tho regulations that roquire all cangidstes to sccnra au Indorsement from some clergyman or Diskiop, -— ANOTHER “DOG-SCHNZIDER" STORY. Correspandence of The Chicaqo Tridune, Enig, Pa., May 10.—About esven yuars ago a party of huntern from Allegheny City, this Btato, camo bero to hunt ducks up on I'reaque Islo Peninsula. One of the party, AMr, Charles L. Hutchinson, lost a valuable gold wateh acd chain, a gift from a vary dear, dcceased friend, smong the numoroua little ponds that intersecy tho Poninsgla. Long nnd diligent search, cone suming scveral days, was mado; and, no tracs of the watch being found, the search was gives u‘: o8 o hopoleas one, Mr, II, went back to Alleglieny City, but could not forget his loss. Baven years Lave passed aitoo thon, - Last wosk, while Liers on a visit, ko felt n -lmnrhlucllmum to renow the soarch for his long-missing times })lnw, and alone ho again wont over the grousd ormerly traversed by Lim. Whilo sitting down among the bushes to empty his boors of tho mand that Lad just got into them, ho chanced to cant his eyes upward, whes, to his intcose surpriso and joy, ko saw the watch and chain, hanging to_the limba of & small sap- ling, just as they had hung there seven years bo- foro, when the young twig—now grown quite largo—Lad Jorkod thom from his pocket! ‘The wood of the sapling had grown over and abous the cliain, bolding is In a firm grasp, Mr. Hutcle inson carefuily cut off the brauch within whicn the chalu was imbedded, and expressos his ine tention of presorving it in that coudition. Tla wateh has been cluancd and ropaired, aud, atrange to 8ay, is now keeping as good tims as foinver yoars, ‘Tho watch is au English bunting;- cano, and, when found, bore littlo evidencs o) tho exposure to which [t had been subjected. e g ey Mays State Tomperanco Convontion. Tho second Mans Temperance Convention ¢f tho State of Indinns, undor the susplces of tho ‘Woman's Christian Tomperanco Uion of tha Stato, iy hereby callod to assomble in the First Baptist Church, in the City of Indirnapolis, at 2 o'clock p. m., on Wednesday, Juno 8, 1875, to continue thronghout Thuraday aud ono-half of Triday, Juno 10 and 11, Believing that the temporance quoastion has hiccome of paramount importauce in the church, Babbatl-schiool, jo logistation and fa socioty, that the evils of intemperance can only bd sup- provacd by the combinod mworal forcos and powers of law in tho Biato, it has boen otormined by tho Ixecativo Committes ta juvito all churches, Sabbath-schools, andg tomperance organizations tn sond ropresenta tivos, and to sk mumbors and ox-members of the Stato Logixlature and Natlonal Congress, ministers of the Gospel, lawyere, physicians, teachors, aud all mon and women of Indisna who doplore tho ovila of lutemperauce, to coms to this Couveution, aud awssint in davising wmeasures whicliy with the Llensiug of QGod, &l ultimately result b its supprosaion, ‘I'he eitizoun of Indlanapolis tender tholr hos- italitics to thoso who may attoud tho Convens ion, Rallroad arrangements will bo aunounced in tho Indiauapolis papers on Monday, My 21, A Commities of Arrangomonts wil receive vivitors at the Third Presbyterisn Churcl, on Iliols etreot, oppouita the Academy of Muslo, betwoen tho bours of 8 a. m. snd 1:30 p. m., on 'hl'humy. Juno 9, and’ assiga thom (o tholr otues, . A committos of gentlomen, wearing white badges, will meet them at tho depot duriug the sawe hours, “Tho Ilinole-streot cars leavo the weat end of tho depot every few minutos, Jmuln; the Lhird Cliurok, which ia five squaros distaos, Persons arriving during tho night, or on earl trains, can find tomporary accowmodations, o roduced rates, at tha National llotel or Sponoer House, opposita the dopot. Thoss arrivivg aftor the oponing of the Convention will roport st the Firast Baptist Churol, Nowspapers ({‘uangunm the State are respect- fully requested-to publish this cireular. [ M b G Mus, B, X, iy, Secsetary. WaLtace, Presidest. | |