Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 27, 1878, Page 12

CIIICAGO TRIBUNLE: SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1878—TWELVE PAGES. and my report was the canse. T aald that the ‘\crll‘nk‘c(l commanders, guch as we had [n the A A General was bottled np, and used the phraso hezlnnine of the War, but not against drilted without meaning Lo annoy the General or grive | troops and a commander hke Steridan. The rank —;nmnu them, Rosecrans, Buckner, Mc- | Sheridan, Ile ranked Thomaw o had waived Clellan, Stone, McDowell, Buell, 1 felt sure | his tank to Meade, and I diil not think his mag- that cach ol these men woulil galn tha lighest [ nanfmity In walving rank to Meade should op of & bultercup, a horse™ hoof, eye, Lo be able to dravw it 10 the Ramy, (¢] VA. b 1 1 whicl LR ¢ di t- | rate aeainst him when the time rame for avand frane solumcs of wrlien examination.y,, his enemies a weapon. [l/ke Butler, ana have | tacttes for which dackson s famous, and which | command. Roseerans was a great disappomnt- | rate avainet himn when the ame f 3 " » rom Milwaukes wera Yery fair, and g0t alwaya found m?.?’. not only ns all the world | achieved such remarkable results, belonged en- | ment to us all,~to me especially. Hlone’s eneo | ing tho higher honors of the War, "It waano | A nght-Rlde from Waukesha bV great labor, both on the ’;m“ “"‘SM;X:" : W, knows, a man of great ability, but 8 patelotle | tirely to tho besinning of the War and to | wasalwaysa mysters, and I think s great | desire on mv part to withhold honor from 5 pupils. It wascuriond to notice, fn the gl His Views About the War, | mun, and s tan o1 conrage. honor, and sncere | the - pecutlar conditions under which tho | Weang was committed. Thomas or Meade, bt to do justice to s man Omnlbuse--Mystic Num« fion from s city, that the nasie <y S : convictions. Butler lacked the technleal ex- | esrllcr batties were fougzht., They would have ** [ knew Btone at school. I bave always re- | whom I reganted then, as 1 recard him norw, not b dren were nearly all German: and Lhue'd"" and Estimates of Its verience of & military education, snd 1t s very | ensured destruction to any_commander wno | zarded him as a very good, a very able, and a | only s one of the greatest anldiers of America, ers, they excel In penmanship and drawing, ac it possible to be & man of high parts and not he ot | tricd them upon Sberman, Thomas, Sherlilan, | perfectly loyal man,'but & mau ‘who hns had | but as one of the greatast soldiers of the world, benind In composition snd in the gy o ¥4 - Generals. great Genoral, Butler as a (enersl was fall of | Meade, or, in fazt, any of our great Generals. | theee ur four severs and surprising reverses of | worthy to stand In the highcat rank." prensing themsclses fnentiy d enterprisc and resources, and 8 brave man. I H;l(l mvex hiin “"iol cl?r{xd! wm\'l"“l:‘kr: like Adelbert Ames, or Schotield, or Mackenzle, or The Wilderness Campalgn---Lee’s | a dorsn I couid mention, he would have made a Consequently Jackson's fame as a General devends upon achievements gained hefare his generalship was tested, hefore he had s chance of matching himeelf with a really great com- e ar easily f 5 written work. The difficnity of thinkiny £ new languare has descended from the “fl i to the chilldren, The maps tram LaCroy et fortune, After the arrest of Stone and his GRANT AND IS COMRADRS. treatmeut, his milltary career fn our War was “Twas very fond of MacPherson,” aald the destroyed. I heliove, If Stona had had achance, | General, *and his death waa a great aflliction. he would have made bis mark in the War. | Howas on my mafl, and there I Jearned his mer- The Wisoonsin State Teaohers' Assoolation ~Exhibition of Work Done by B V48, o-Bol parcicularly those marked * semgry.y i e catipalen on the James, and helped mate- | mander. No rount s able and patient a man | Mctowell was alo tho victim of what I sup. | ft. He would have coms out of the War had ho Pablio-flohool Papils, Were excollent. Orr-Hipyy Sutronder--The Battle of jlaliyin iny olane | have ‘always been sorry | ax Jackior wii worked s ban at ancthing he | pote we shoutd el ii-Juck, | You will yomem- | lived with the highest raok. When [ look for | . Such an exhitition i# of more valua 1o, y, 1did not dv so, Butler s 8 man'it Is o fashion [ attempted, woull have adapted himse new | ber people cal him a drunkard and a traitor. 3 e charicters [n our War, inen who! Awake teacner than houra of discyy, Shilok---Fort Donelson. lo abasc, Uit he is 8 man who. has done the | coudtions and riscn with them. 1l died befors | Wel, b never drank & drop. of liquor in his | death has surroundsd with romnnce, © seo them | T6 Queen of Wisconsin Lakes, and Xts | prake, teacter than hoves doing; repn: country great service, and who Is wortby of its | his opportumty. [ nlwavs reapectéd Jackson | life, and a more loyal nan never lved. 1 have | in characters like MacPherson, and not only in Nurroundlogs---Going llome--- grammes, and roll-books are spread UL g gratitade." o personally anu esteemed his sincere and manly | the greatest respect for McDowell's accomplish- | the Sonthern arinles. Meado was a fine soldicr The H t nd he can readily compare hiy owy gt o 9 . THE SURREXDER OF LEE. character, He {mpressed me always ns & man | meuts and charmcter, and I was glad to make | and a loval, good man, He lins been criticised e Horves % of athers, g Prosident Johnson's Resolution to | We were conversing one evening sbont Lee's | of the Cromwell stamp, Puritan—much more | bin Major.General, The country owed him | for not having destroyed Les atter Gettyshurs, The ereninz .after the close of the 4 « . surrender. The Ueneral told the story of the | of the New Englander than the Virrinlan. 17 | that, if only as an atonement for ‘its {njustice | Bud the country scemed to share that disap- Bovetal Cornapondenes of The Tribame, tlon, the Principal of the Lake Geneys F;'h_m; Arregt Lea—Jeff Davis Did memorable event. +The nieht eforc Lea sur. any mun belleved n the Keliellion, ie did. And | twand him, “Dut McDowell never was what | pointment after the batle. "I nover thougnt (¢ | e s T achool. | Seminary very Kindly gavé s reccpioy o I rendered,” he sald, **1 had & wretched head- | hisnature was such that whatever he believed { you could call & popular man, He was never 0 | a falr crittelsm. Meae was new to his nrmvi Avkesia, Wie, July teachers. The senunary ulldings are ney ot All Any Man Conld for ache,—ticadoches o which | lisve been sublect, | in'became s eeo religlous' duty,—a duty ho | In the rmy or st Weet Point. ‘Yee I cauld | and did ot feel it in his hand. 1t lis could | master ta abroad, and I trust to bim. armen | substantial, and fincly focates ns ons sny 2 tha South rncrrfimc prostration, fntense pc;wna.l suffer- | wotild discharge at any cost, [t fs a tnfstake to | vever anderatand it, for no one_could know | have fought Lee slx months later, when he had | with nta primer, against the soldler lo tull mill- | Iake. Insuch aplace all the traditjonyf by L Ing. But, suffer or not, I had to keep moving, MceDowell without Hking him. His carecr ta { the army in his hand, or if Bherman or one of the surprising things (n the War, 8o fs [ Sheridan " bad commanded at Gettyshurg, Buel's, Buell docs not lfimme, I am afraid, | 1 think Lee would have been deatroyad. but I havo always borne my teztimony to his | But If Mcade mado any mistake, i llwl.wsu that L ever hul aoy feeling for Stune- 1 saw clearly, especially alter Sheridan had cut xlnl i off ‘l.he ea[:lm;‘ to |Dnnv=lln, thl:v. Les nu‘x:.lt sur- . nto_the moun Unlon Commanders-—Sherman, ~Sheridan, | Breac iy o dircctions .and Teave us # doren tary array.'? Waukestia was the starting-point for a party of twelve,who, at 10 o'clock in the evening, with tors that hang around boarding-school i ‘ be dissipated.. Latge, airy roonis, x fips 0 and oppartunitlcs far rawing, ealling, au) s acksun byt respect. Persoually, we wera s good fHenda; his character had rare points of merit; aod, although he made the ming, can but give a pleasing charin inistake of fightine againat his country, If ever | perfect Jovalty and his ability, Buell 13 8 man [ ho did not satisty the wishes of the country who | theprospect of a brittiant moozlight night before | study. toapy Nead guerilla bands to flzbt. My.campalgn was ot | aman did 8o conaclentioualy he was the man.’ | who would have carried out foyally every order | hooed for Lee's deatruction, he made a mistake | thain, left the village tur a ride across the coun- On the principle that " All work and nap Bllfltl', Bnell, MePherson, Meade, Richmond, not the defeat of Lee fu actusl fight, LER A% A COMMANDER, bo rocetved, and 1 think lie had genfus enough | Which any one wonld have made under the cif- | yoy 0t ike Ganoya, They preforred moonlightto | Makea Jack & dull boy,” the teschers T fl k, m but to remove him and his ariny out of the cun- ‘I'bis led to a remsrk as to the great and unl- | for the highest commands; but, somehow, ho | cumstances. Ile was new to tho chiofl com= > 4 8! steamboat excurston 1 aneoe e, test, and, if possible, to have him use his influ- | versal fame of Lec,—~especialiy In Europe,—a | fell under s cloud,” mand, sunlight, not that thelr deeds were evil, but be- causc the weather was so very war: When the mercury flirts with the 00's, it s highly proper to reverse the natural order of things, .He did not know how It felt towand him, THE MILITARY FAILURES OF THE WAR. and, having rotled back the tide of Inyasion, he This conversation about the [atlures of the | felt that any further tnovement would be a risk. War took & wider and more versonal range than | Meade sorved with me, seeved In cominand, and wuould be sultable for a journal; but £ will ven- | to my perfeet satisfactlon. kis memory de- ence fu Inducing the surrender of Johnaton and thelr lsalated armies. You ses tho War was an traln upon the country., Rich Rebel Commanders ~== Stonewall | 5°"0e™ ¢ire™'T 0 kot now. see liow ABOUT TIE LARE, stopping at Kayes' Park, Fontaua, Camp gy ete. No wonder that the pralses of this ety Wisconsin lakes hate been sounded reputation which seemed to grow cvery day, ' | yever ranked Lee ns hizh as sone others of the army,” sald the General, “that I8 to say, 1 never had as muceh anxtety when he was tnmy Ar iy v and change nightinto day. wide. A more lovely shect of wateeof the my H we could have cndurcd it another year, | front as when Joe Johinston was infront. Lea | ture to glean a few observations that may tn- | serves to be honored nmong the beroes of the § size could scarcely be found. Tho s Jackson, Lee, Albert Sidney even” from . financial pofot of view.” 'S0 | wasa annd man, afuir commander, who fisd | terest you. *Thg trouble with many of our | War. ancockcis a fino” soldler, At the time { = CoWperang "The Sofa," but this party would | well detned sud Wooded, doteed Wity orch Johnston, and Joe with thees views I wrote Lee, and opened | cverything in his favor. Hewas 8 map who | Generals in the begluning,” sld the General, |*he was named .\lnlonflcntml we were nat very | tuno its muse to houses, and the whito tents of tho camp: * the correspondence with which the world ts | necded aunshine. lle was supported by tho { “was, tiat they did not belleys inthe War, 1 | good friends, and 1 had personnl preferences for IR OMNIDUS M— Little boats, filled apparently with aun-haty uy Johnston. familiar. Lce does not appear well fn that cor- | napmmous voice of the South; he was sup- | mean they did not have that complete assur- | Hchofield, but I felt Hancock had earned the Whose back erect parsols, shoot out from boat-landings ang respondence—not nearly so well as he.did in | ported by o large party in the Northi he had | ance in success which belongs to goud general- | prowotlon, and gave bils namo to Stanton, Ho Distressed the weary frame that felt no ease; The alippery seat betrayed the sllding pact That pressed 1t, ana tho feet hung unuu;?l Anztous, fu vain, to find the distant toor, Yel theso samo twelve would bear witness to the fact that the suclal adsantages of an omni- bus are In direct proportion to its want of com- fort. . Prof. Joseph Cook, fn his ndmirablo lectures on Marriage, last winter, lamanted the lack of apportunity offorded the young peoploof the preseut day for thorough acquaintauce, and ured that the situstion demauded something more effectivo In that way than tha ordinary church-soctal. The experience of last week gives an {dea on the subject, Let eny ecclestical soclety that feels that its young men q backward, and maidens basnful, fuvest in several onmlbuses, with seats of iron, and backs {nshioned nfter the mannerot a pair of stairs. In thesolet the elders, with judicious care, pack tho young people of the flock by dozens, and send then off for a rideof fifty milesor more, ‘They will come back the best of friends. For a thorough and matual acquaintance, noth~ Ing can be cqual to jolting ncross the country the support and sympathy of the outside world. All this 1s of an Imincuss” advantagy to s Uen- cral, Lcee had this in a rumarkable degres, Everything he did was right. 1le_was treated like 2 demigad, Our Uenerals had a hostile press, lukewann friends, aud a public optnion outslde. The cry was fn the air that the Nurth ounly won by brute forve; that jthie generalship and valor were with the South. ‘This has guno Into history, with so many other Rlusions that are historical. Leo was of a slow, conservative, cautious nature, without Imacination or humor, nlwa}-- the same, with grave dignity, 1 never coull see in bia achloveents what justifies his reputation. ‘The illurlon that nothing but heavy odds beat him willnot stand the ultimate lght of history. 1 kuow It ls not true. “The South and North were more nearly matched than you would suppose. The whale population were In tha War, ‘The 4,000,000 of negroes were tho same as soldiers becatise they did the work in the flelds which white men would have to do. I belleve the South had as any men undor arms as the North, What de- feated the Southern arms was Northern conr- age and skill, and this, too, with detraction all around. You caunot imagine how dishearten. ing it was at the time, not unly to otlicers but meu. our subsequent Interviews, where his whole Corresskadencs Jas. ek fivaid. bearlug waa that of 8 patriotle snd gallant sol- Haunorg, July 6.—Gen. Grant snd his wife | giar coucerned alone for the welfsre of his army arrived here on Tucsdayevesing, Onthe morn- | and his State. I recelved word that Lee would fog after his arrival he was taken by tho Sens- [ mect me at a point within_onr lines near Sherl- tor1 on board a small steamer, and made a tour dav’s headquarters, 1 had to ride quite a dis- tance throngh a muddy country. 1 remember of the docks and basins and a amall run foto the now that lfv‘mn WI’IL‘QP{IE(' about my personal Elbe. The shive bad their buntloz up In the | qppearance, { had an old suit un, without my friendlicst manuer, some Engllsh aud American | sword, and without any distinguishing mark ot ahtps showing all thelr flags. In the cvening | rank, except the shoulder-straps of a Llcutenant- there was & dlaned glven by the Senate at the General on a woolen blouse. 1 was splashed with mud {n_my long ride. Twas afraid Leo Zoologicsl Gardens, — tho Burgomaster, Dr. | mivhitnink T meant 1o show him. studicd dis: Kirchenssauer, in tho ¢halr. The Burgomaster m“""fl.‘:{ 80 coming—at least I thought so. proposed the General's health in the kindest | But I no other clothes within reach, ne terms, speaking of the honor Hamburg roceived | Leo’ a letter found e away from my base of from his visit. The noxt day, bolng the Fourth | Sunplice, 1 kwn;r:"flil:g untit{ met heel of July, the General went down to tho shoot!ng- | heroes of the campaign, sud whose pursult of box ot James R. MacDonald, the Vice Consul, | Leo was perfect In its genoralship and en- and spent the afternoon walking about tho | ergy, told mo wherato find Lee. 1 remembor woods and talking with American friends, Thtn | that Sherldan was Impatient wheo 1 met him,— camo a dinner at a country hotel near by, about ;‘;:,"‘“?;:‘.‘i,"’:fl.‘,fi’,"“,‘..,;fi? 'fl; : ',',Tn; r'}? leenb-w. thirty Amerlcans, Iadies and geotlemen, present, [ that tie bad Les at his fect, ana wanted to end and tho Consul preaiding. Mr. Wilson proposed | the bnn'lnelu by vg}nz lrlx u'nl llfll;flH,K nlnl nlnbgolnte the General’s health ss *the man who hadsaved | Burrender by eapture, In fact, ho had his troops remdy for stich an assault whea Lec's white flag the country. ! This tosst was dranlcwith chcers. | S0 oiiuin‘sia Tines, Twent. up to to houss The General made & specch in answer, 10 the | wheeo Lec was waiting, I found him'ina fine, over the atill water; eraceful yachts, with wmx: salls spread Lo catch the falntest breeze, Riigy by In the very poetry of motion, Occastong thia atieil] whistle of some small fittla steany ) heard, There are the same easc and abagg, here that one finds In quiet places st the sy slde. Arlstocratic city belles sit on the gryy under theshade ot some ald trec, umum’,‘ ~— or ply the oars of some shell-lke by, Fastidious* merchaots, in sun-hats and gy clothes, gans coller, wloves, and necktie, uy trolling for—what! Tired Professors are, {g the time belug, dwellers In tents, and have ¢y, changed knotty questions In phyalcs, and g glng about tue roots of dead ‘languages, tor g vices for keeping off mosquitovs, and exp ments {n washing up the dinner-dishes, Mesars, Sturges and Falrbank, tozether wiy otber owners of clegant summer-housca fa (ty fasored placo, hava arranged their rrounasy that they ara a constent delizht to all why py by on thawater; nod they also allow the publicyy anjoy them nsa driving-park. ‘Ihe arrangemeny of shrubbery, and eome of the foliaze and flyy designs, are very heautitut; aad tle lawnyyy kept in fine order. 3 The hotels in the village and alone shate full; endall the ‘{mrku and camplie-groundy seem o bo occupleds but the size of thalyy pravents any appearance of & crowd,—tngey no jostiing, aod no crowd, ship. They had vie bout élavery, protecting | wrote me a beautiful lettor on the subject, and Reuel propurty, State rights,—political views | our relations have slwave remalned on the most that foterfored with thelr judgment. Now, [ [ cordlal footing. 1 have great reapect for lan- do not mean to eay thay wees disloyal, ‘A | cock naaman and o soldler. We had a good soldler has ns good a vight to his upinivns as | many menin the War who weroburicdin the ataff any other citizen, and thess men were us loyal | and illd not rise. There is Ingulls, for instance, as‘any weu in the Unlon,~would have died tor | Ingatls remained Quarterinaster ot the Arul{' of the Uniom—but thelr upinfons made them luke- | the Potomae_durlng all eommands, and did a warm, and many failures cane from that. In | great work. Yet you mnover heard his namao some cascs It was temperament. There is War- | inentioned as a General. Andyet lomalis in ren, whose caso may bo rezurded as a hard one. | command of troops would, fn my opinlon, bave Warreu had risen to one of the highest com- | becomon great and famous (icneral. 1f the maods {a the army, and was removed on the | command of the Army of the Potomac had ever field of battle and i1 the last battle of tne War, | become vacant I would have given it to Ingalls. Yet it could not be helped, Warren Is o goud | Horace Porter was lost in the stafll. Like In- soldier and & good man, tralned In the art of | galls he was too yseful to he spured. But as o war. But, as a General, if you gavs bim an or- | commander ot troops Porter would have riscn, der he would not act untll“he knew what the { in iny opinlon, to 8 very highicommand. Young other corps would do. Justead of obeying,— | Mackenzio at the close of the Wnar was a moat and knowing thot the power which was guiding | promising soldfer. e {3 an officer, 1 think, him would gulde the otbers,—le would hesi- | fitted for the highest commands. 1 hiave no tate, and inqitire, and want to debate, ¢ was | doubt thero are many others (n the army, for this quality which led to our disaster at the | wo really had a fine army, Thero are natnes mine-explosion before Petersburg, But, when | that occtir In the hurry of conversation, You he shuufil liaye been In the works, he was wor- | never can tell what inskes a Ueneral. 8o many rylug over what other corps would do. 8o the | clrcumstances enter Into succoss, Our War and chatice was lost, Ishould havo relieved Ware | all wara aro surprises In that respect. But what ren then, but 1 did not like to fnjure nn oflicer | saved usin the North was not geoerslship so of so high raok for what was an error of judy- | much as tue pcople.” ment. But at Five Forks it was differen! ALUERT BIDNEY JONINSTON AND JOSEPH B. THE BATTLE OP SUILON, #Take the battle of Shiloh, for {nstance,”” There waa no thmo to think of rank or persons’ JONNSTON, in an omuibus, yaclit-race, que morning, between son followlog cffect: new, splendid unlform, which only recalled my | continued the Ueneral, **the' correspundents | feeliogs, aud £ told Sheridan to Tellove Warren | An alluslon was miade by your correspondent | However, this does not wholly aoply to the | pigin'hont-clubs, was quiclly exeitivg. Itvy GEX. GRANT'S FOURTI-OF-JULY ORATION. nuxiety a8 to my own clothes while on my way | and papers at tho time all sald Shlioh was a sur- | if he at all failedt him. Sheridan did so, and no | to AlbertSidney Johnston, aud the (ieneral snfit: nnrt{" with whom we began, They kncw one another belore they started, and had, morcover, all passed the ngo of bashfulness aud coy re: serve. At one timo or another every one lad followed the ancient and honorable cailing of o Pedagogue, ond hence could writo alter hls natne that titlo which Agussiz preferred to any other: Teacner. TIRT WRBH TWRLVE, It s sald that thero i luck In odd numbers. Wu talk of the grandeur of unity, of the com- plateness that exists in one "Everythlog in nature has its complement; all the world was created In doubles; heuce, wany clalm that tho perfect uumber Is fwe. Long arguments are olten based upon the Trinity. From the three- “Mn, Consul AND Fiesps—I sm much | tomeet blui I expressed iny regret that 1 was . compelled to rocet hius in'so uucermonious & obliged to you for the kind manner in which yout | pynnner ‘and hie replicd that tho oaly suit ho bad driok my health. I sharewith you in all the | availubls was ono which bad been aent him by pleasure and gratitude which Americans 80 far | some adwirers in Baitimore and which e then from homa shiould feol on thls anniversary. | Wore for the firat time. Wespake of old friends But I roust disseat from one remark of our | 17 the army. 1remembered hiaviog seen Lee la Mexlco, He wus 80 much higher In rank than Coupul, to the effect that I saved tho country 1! at the tme that I supposed he during the recent war, It our country could | had no recollection of me. But he sald Do saved or rulned by the efforts of any one | he remcmbered inc very srell, . Wo talked of ofd wo should mot have a country, and we times and exchanged “loquiries about friends, Xann Fourth of | e then broached the subject of our nicetlng, sliould ot now be celebratiog our Fourthof | y'yy1 jum my terms, soil Lee, listening atten- July, There are many men who would biave | tively, asked mo to write them dewn. I took aport to watch the five buats cowma fu ane afiy another, and clrcle about the white flag, wiy culors flylng, salla swelling, and sides just clex. {ug the water, A moonlight-row unon the lake will not s ho forgotten, The lights twinkled aiongits shore. Tho music of tho baund at the villgy grew falnter and fafnter. There was no sons) hut the steady plash of the oars. Then we wat. edin utter silcrce fn a loucly cove, aud wey ntarticd When somotimes 8 leaping st Sept through the tarn its lonely cheer; whtle all the time The moving moon went up the aky, prise—that our men wero all killed over their coffee, and so on. There was no surprise about 1t, except,' said the General, witha smile, Lo ncrluT; to tho newspaper cnrrespondents. Wo had been skirmishing for two days beforo wo were attacked. Atnight, before Buell's army camo up, I wos su well satisfied with the resuit snd so cortain that I would beat Henurezard, oven without Buell's afd, that I'went in_person to each Division Commander and ordered nn - vauce along the Iine ut 4 In the morning, Shiloh was one of the most tmportant battles of the Wur, It was thera that our Western soldiers met the enciny fu a pitchod battls, From that duy they never feared to fleht the encmy and one regretied the neceesity more than I dld. GRANT'S 2STIMATH OP BUERMAN, 8o far as the War Is concerned,” sald the General, “*Ithink history will 1ore than ap- prove the places given to 8herman and Sherl- dan. Sherman I have known for thirty-five years, During that time there never was but ono cloud over our friendship, and that," sald the General, tasughing, ‘*lasted about three weeks. Whon Sherman's ook canie out, Mr. Boynton, the correspondent, printed some lete ters sbout It. In thess Sterinan was made to disparage his conirades aud to dlsparage me eapecinlly, Leannot tell you how much I was shocked.” But there wore the lotters and the [ knewAlbert Siduey Juhnston befors the War, Wilien he was suat to Utah I hisd a high oplnlon of his talents. When tne War broke aut hs was rezarded o8 tho coming man of tho Con- federncy, 1 shared that opisfon, bLecauso. [ know and estecmed him and bocauso [ felt as we il did In the old army, where thero was a publle oplnlvn among the ofticera na to who would como out aliead. In many cases, in most. coscs, our public opivlon was in crror. Dramyg had o great reputation in the South. Dragg was the inost contentious of men, and there was a story in Mexico that he put every one In arrest under him, and then put himself fn ar- reat. Albert Sidnioy Johnston inizht have risen And nowlieeo did abide; dono far better than Idld ynder tho circuw- | ont my mauiloid order book aud pencll aud | pover went into action without feeling suro | exiracts. Icould uot belleve It fo Bherman— | In fame, nnd weall hiad confidenceIn hia dolng so, | folil nature of man,~body, mind, and soul,—wo Boftly she wsa numgum. stances {n which I found myself during the Wag. | Wroto thew down, Gen. Leo put on s classes | they would win. Stilloh droke the prestize of | tbe man whom I had always found so true and | but be died too soon, as Stouewall Jackson died, | mount to the sublime rovelstion of tho triune And & star or two beside. 1¢ 1 iad nover beld command; If I bad fallen; | 874 rend theut aver, The conditions guve the | the’ Southiern Confederncy #o far a8 our West- | kuightly, uiore anxious to honor others than to | 400 soon for us Lo say what he would havo dono nature of God, 8s Father, B8on, sud Holy Ghost, and doclars tuat the sum of all. cxcellenco dwells in the number three, Anclent Jowish history rovolves In cyelea of seven : with the Chineso and people of Indin, this number 8 symbolic of the highest, Wa preserve a trace of the superatition in num- beringour dnys by sevens, sud in arcriblng morvelous powera to the sovesth son of a seyenth son. In Rovelatlon, the number occurs again and again; a0 that the doubls enchant~ ment of history and propliecy hangs sbout the myatio seven. Then, there lsa charm about &, and all the decem-multiples. The other num- bers seem but to fill up the Intervals, It ia the clphor with tho fnuex befaro It that marks the perlods In the world’s history, divides our moneye, and rounds out the epachs of ourlives ‘The niotric system 14 the most natural, and fis. uniformn, unvnrly;lnz scnlo 18 ¢n. But, after all, In {we've wo strike a happy medlum, and hold In combination all the reat.” Louk at its digits,— one und two; thelr sum fs three; subbract this sum from ten,and scven fsloft, How would tho grocer monage without ths conven- fent doreni And,in contputations still more cross, twelve s the bosfs, Tho astronomer ivides tho heavens jnto the twelve slena of the 20 Wae number twelve nonths in the eury and ** Are there not twelve hours in the day " +1u all our courts, Justice is represented by what Lord Broughsm calls **twcive good menin s box."” T'ue twetve tribes of lsrac! were tha de- scendants of the twelve sons of Jucob, Christ chose twelve Apostles; aud wo read of *“The vity that hath twelve foundations and twelve nd at the gatea twelve sngels, and 's written thercon which are the namea of the twelve tribes of the Children of Iscacl,” All this by the way, It was a long wag, and there was ample thne for lenizthy dissertations on many subjects. The particulars of the rido aro of small interest to the general publie, but they will be remembered by those twelve perse- \'enuF disclules of tho cause of Learoing, Tho peopile who lived alung the road will not foruct 1t either, Let us hope that those of them who vented thelr wrath at belng disturbed o thetr sluwbees, by loud violations of the Third Cuw- mandment, repented ere the sun arose. Aj the object ot tho trip wae notwlually to st ten THE FTATH TRACHKRS' ASSOCTATION, proper respect demunds that that Lo mentloned flrst uned the Inko afcerwar s, ‘I'ho sesslons were held in the Ogera-House. An overy house hus ita ekeleton, 50 has ever: town {te Opura-house, every village s Hrowd- way, aud every 8tato [ts Washington, ‘This wos n very neat lttly opera-housu: Lhu Iréscolug sbont tho astare, views of Luke Uecncva, that ;umlm tantsliziug, these hot days, as o mirago n 0 desert, The Assoctation began Tuesday evening, with alectura by 1tof, Casuldy, and closed Thurs day stiernoon, with a sort of experfonce meet- Ing, when flve-minute speechics trom uny teachs ef, upon the progressof the work in his scction, were fn order, A paper on the backneyad subject of Phonotis Bpetiing called out a long discussion, Of tha 1wo ways of disposing uf such n subject, iz Jaying on the table, and pressuting s memorlsl 10 that much-sbused body, Cotirruss, \ho Iatter oflicers their side arms, private horses, and per. 41 all our Geoerals Bad fallon, thero were | puual bagsrage. J wald to Leo that 1 loped and 10,000 behind us who would have done | helleved this would he the closo of the War. our work just as well, who would have fol- 'fln::b It was ';mm ;v)nportkunnh;n:.;hn‘ men nlmul&z 1 n - | £o home and o worl and the Governmen ‘°"“;‘ 150 ““’]'"l"' “’.‘.‘,"‘ ‘;': “"‘:L“,“'f" e | shiould not throw any obatacles In tio way. Leo dered the Unlon, Therelore, answered that it would have a ioat happy effect and a reflection upon the peoplo to attribute 10 | ynd aceepted the terms. 1 hunded over my nie, or to any number of us who held high | penciled momurandum to an nide to put fnto comnmands, the salvatlon of the Unlon, o | Ink and we resumed our conversation nbout A4 our work ns wellas we could, andsodid | 9/ thnes and fricnas fn the armies. hundreds of thousands of others. Wae deserve x}',:!"“'mg:—w;?" l‘rz.l,‘r':,‘ 1‘;:':_ L“snuzxx'!lk:?ct'sgx’-eur{: po credit for it, for wy should bave bLeen un- | dan, Ord, and othcrs from our side. Somo worthy of our country aud of the Amerlcan A old ’-Tc“uql l.‘rlmgmcnl ululln}{m! for In- name if we had not mado everv sacriflco to save | stance, and wo had n goiersl lelk, les no v aoubt expected ine to ask for his swyrd, but I the Unfon. What saved tho Unlou was the | GG rShe iy wword: it would iy maid coming forwnrid of the young meu of the ha- | the Genera), smiling, *have gune Lo the Patent. tlon. Puey camo from their homes ana flelds ;::.Illu{ to ';’f worshiped ‘hy the \V‘m’xllmu{n time of thy Revolution, giv- | Rebels, There wes wnother pause when ha B hinc o, e connths. o thelr Gevo. | aid Lt most of Tie animnia In e vavaley and i artiliery were owned by the privates, and lio tion wo owe the sulvation of the Univn. The | iyl hike to kuow, under the torass, whether humblest evldier who carried n musket is on- | they would bo regurded us urlvate property or titled to oa mueh crodit for tho results of the | the property of the tHovernment. 1 said upder war as those wito were In cominand, Bologis as | the terms of our younjz men are nulinated by thls spirit there [ Guvernment, 1. Lee vead over the letter und will'bo no fear for the Unlon,” snfd thut was ao. 1then safd to the General There was somp dancing 1n a quiet way, and, | that 1 belleved and hoped this was tie last hat- as we sodo to_ the rallway station, there wers | tle of the War, apd I saw the wisdom fircworks in the woods at varlous points. The | of thoso men getling home and to work as next day the (eneral Junched at the honse of | svon as possible, and that I would rive orders Iisron von Ollendorl, one of the merchant- | to allow auy soldier or oilicer claiming » horse princes. Tho General was carrled off to the' | oramule iv takolt. Gev. Lecshowed some races; he went ao reluctautly that ne had al- | cmotion ot this—a teeling which I nlso shared— most to be carried. But the Hamburgers were | and salu it would heye nmost hapoy elfect, nuite bent on his scelng thelr track, nud they | The Interview ended, und i gave orders for fiad been go kind to him that ho could not re- | ratiouing his troops. The next day I meot Les fuee. 1t ralned, howeyer, and, alter seclng one | on horscback and we had a long *talk. In that #pin around the turf, the General returned to | conversution I urged upon Leo the wisdom of bis hotel, Among othor incidents of the visit | onding the war Ly tho surrender of the other was the appearanco of a Prussian milltary band | armies. I asked him to use his influenco with fn front of the General's hotel window at 8 | the people of the South—an influence that was o'clock on the norning o the Fourth, and a | supremo—to bring thu war to thu eud, Gen, serenade, Lee said that his compalgn in Virginia was the Ou Baturday tmorniug the General loft for | lust organized - reslstance which the South Covenhagen. o proposcs a visit to Denmark, | was capeble of m g—that I might have to and from thence to Norwvay. 1f the tabiog is | march a good deal and eucounter jsolated vod he may linger a while in that country of | cominands hers and there: but there was ?ullx: twilight and high fatitude. ‘Thonce by | Bo louger any avmy which could wake a oca to Btockhulm, and over the Balticto 5t | stand, [ told Lee that this fact only mude his Petersbure. Mo wili go through Russis, comlog | responsluility greater, and any tdrther war out {n the direction of Vienna, and reaching | would be n erime. I usked blm to £o amoug Switzerland in the Jate sumener or carly Iall. the Bouthiern people and usu his Inuence to CONVHR3ATIONS WITU GRANT ABOUT TUR WAR, | have all mon under arms strrender on the same 1 have sumo memoranda of odds and ends of | terms glven to the army of Northern Virglnla. couversations with Gen, Grant fo {dle moments | lie replied hu could not do so without consulta- while wandering about these old towna, and (¢ | tlon with Preatdent Duvis, I was sorry. L saw seems to me that I can do no better servico to | that the Confederacy had gono heyond the the historlan than to throw these memoranda | reach of President Unvis, and that there was Into some shape, There are few men morowiile | nothing that corld be done excent what Lee fug to conyerss on any subiect which ho knows | could do to benetlt tho Bouthern people, 1 was tlan the General, uud, although his famo Isthat | anxious to get them home atd huve pur arnvics of o sflent man, thoac who Know him atall | o 1o their homes and ticlds, But Lee would know that in reality we bave fow better talkces | nob nove without Dasls, and, as a watter ot in America, ‘The charm of the Uen- [ fact at that time, or soon aller, Davis was u cral's talk is that It 1s never about anytbing he | fugitive in the wowds,* does not know, snd what he does knuw he JEFPEHION DAVIS AND THE SOUTIL* knows well. 1o Is never vivdictlvo, and never An alluston was made to the feeluz in the rosaips, and, when referriug to men and things | Bouth thur Duvis wus an fnjury to the Confed- n the jcrent ¢vents of his carecr ho Ia as pas- | erncy au7t did not do his beat. 1 never thought slonlcss and just as u historlan. Ho mever | 8u," Baid the Generul, * Davis did s best, did reiers to the War unless you put the subject to all that any maa_ coni 4o, to save the Confed- him directly. Ido not Eupu to give you the | erac) This argument is hke some of the urgu- ©Fn ArY WA CONCerio of Silvh. He really fons,—his own and M hitmself to be & consutmate soldier, Nothing could be fluer than his work at Shiloh, and yet Hhlloh was belittled by our Northetn peoplo so that muny people look at it as a defeat. The same muy be wald of Fort Donelson, P’eople think that Donelson was captured by pouring uen into it ten to one, or some such odds. Tho truth 18 our army, 8 new army, lovested a fortl. e place and compelled & surrender of a fores auch larger than our own, A Jarge nuwber of the Lteliels eseaped under Flogd aud Pitlow, but ns Iy was I took more prisoners thun I bad men under my command for the fiest two days of my fuvestment, After (he Investment we were refutorced, so that at the surrcnder there werg 20,000 Unlon troops, shout 4,000 of which werg aent back to guard the rond to where the steamera lay with our supplies, There were 22,000 ¢fective men in Douelson at the begloning of the slego. OF courso there was a'risk bt attackinge Donelson os I dld, but,” sald the eneral, swiling, 1 knew the men who cotmanded it. 1 knew some of Lhem fa Mexleo, Knowledgu of that kinl goes fur to- ward determining u morement lke thi THE ATTACK O FORT DONELSON, . * Buppose Longstreet or Jackeon had been In command! " suid your correspondent. ** If Longstrect orJuckeon," aald the General, ‘¢ pr even {f Buckner had been I commend, 1 would lave made a diiferent campaign, In the begluning wo all did things more rushly than Jutee, just as Juckson did tn Lis carlter cam- palens, The Mexlean war made tho olflcers of Lho old regular nrmica more or less acquatnted, and when we Linew the name of the Geueral op- vosing, we knew enough ubout b to make our plans uccordlugly. What deters mtned ~ my ottack on Donclson,” said the Cendral, *“was as nueh tho knowle cedge 1 bad gatued of its commanders in Moxico as anything ewe, But us the War progressod and each sido kept imuroving its arwy theso oxe Ketlmeuu were 0t possible. ‘Theo it became ard, caracst war, ond uuther sfae could dee pend upon any chanes with the other. Nelther sldo dared to ‘minke a mlistake, It was steady, hurd ponnding, and tae resutt conld only be ruin to the dofeated porty, ‘I'nat was o peeularity i our War that we were not fighting forapeace, but to destroy our adversory, ‘That made It s0 fard for both sides, and vapectally for the Bout.” PREMDENT JONUNSON'S RESOLUTION TO ABREST LEK QOING HOME, ‘The rids home was in the daytime, by unub mous vote of the party. Tho atate of the crop aud beautiful diveralty of the rolling countsy, with its ‘ulchcs of woodlatnd aud green brown flelds,—wlth, It rnust be contessed, tloy the first part of the way, intorvals of thistle: aud mullclu-stalks,—wers constant subjectssl conversation. Iarvest had just begun, and th sound of tha reaper, and volces of busy ma calling to ono anothor, gave lifa to the stlll landscape, Whilo the towcrlng haystacks 2l glaldn of goldening graln were a sight to rejoa e eyes. Il party cama back wishing more than evn that Waukesha had a lake, but feeling that i other respects, comparlsons between their o oud other villazes are odious, - QuixoTe QUICEsIGnL, Bherman was the hiero minanded two divis. win bodor for himsell. But thero were therlet- lers ond the coxtracts. So I sent for tho book, and resolved to read it over, with paper and pencl, asd make careful nutos, and, i Justico to my comrales aud iny- ucl!.lrmpnrun reply. Ido not think I ever ven- tured upon a mora palnful duty. [ was some timo about (t. 1 wos moving to Long Branch. I hod ofliclal duttes,and 1 am a slow reader, ‘Then Liutssed the books when I reached the Branch, and had to send for them, So it was thres wecks belore 1was through, During these weeks,” roplied the Ueneral, laughing, “Idid not soe S8herman, and I am-glad Ldid not. My mind waa soset by boynton's oxtracts that 1 should certalnly havo been cold to him. But, when § finished the book, I found that I approve ed every word; thnt it wus a true book, an hon- orable book,—creditable to sluu-xmmI Just to his companlone,—to mysclf particntarly so3 juat such a_book as I expected Sherman would write. Then it was accurate, because Shormau Kkueps a diary, sud he mm{n)nd thu book from nutes made at the thne, Thon hie Is % very nc. curate man. You cannot hinagine how pleaspd 1 wus, for my respect and atfaction for 8hermin wore 80 ireat that I lnok on theso threo weeks as among the most patuful (n my retnembrance, I wrote 8herinau my opluion of the book, 1 told bim thu ounly points I objected to were his eriticlsma upon some of our vivil soldiers, ltka Logan and Blalr. As o matter of fuet thers werg I the nrmy 10 two mien more loyal than Joho A, Logan sud Frunk Blair, T know that Shermon dld not mean to disparage elthor of thom, and that ho wrote hastily, Logan did a ereat work for the Unlon in bringiue Egvpt of the Confederacy, which he didi and ho W an admirablo soldfer, and I3, as he always haa been, au honurable, true man,—a porfectly just and falr man, whose record In the army ‘was briflfaut. Blalr also did n worlk in the War en- titling bim to the gratitude of every Northern man and the respecl of every soldler, But, with these two exceptions, I aporoved of every Jna of Stierinan’s book and. think it of great valuo as o history.” SUBUMAN AS A GENERAL. Tha General told bils story of thy three weeks! cloud as thungh the recoliection amused him. ** Shertan,” he sald, **is not only a_great sol- dlgr, but a great mav. fle Is vuo of the very wreat men i oour country's history, Mo s a many-astded wan, s 18 “an orstor with fow supcriors, As @ writer hu s among tho first. As a Ueneral, Lknow of no man { would vut above him, Above all, he hus a tine character,— #0 frauk, so sincere, 80 outspoken, so genttne, ‘I'here 1s not a false Hue ln Bherman's churacter, —pothing to regret. As a soldier, 1 know his yalor, L know what He was before Vieksburig, You see, we hud two lines to maintain, On une side was Pemberton, bis arns, shd bis works, That I was watching, On our rear was Joo Johnston, who miight come at any thne aud try und ralso tho slege. 1 st Sherman to keep thut ling aud wateh bhim. [ never tud u moment's corn whils Bherman was therp. I don't think Shermau ever went Yo bed with his clothes off durlng that campulen or altowed & nlght to puss without visiting his pickots two or three thnes in person, His Lntustey was prodigions, Ile worked il tue time, aid with an cuthuslasm, a patience, sud & under th later and”altered conditions of the War, The Soutbern army had many good Qet- crajs. Lee, of course, was a good soldler, and sowas Lonugstreet, bur 1do not know that thers was nnr vetter than Joe Jolnston, [ havae had nearly all of tha Southern Gonorals In - high command in front ot me, and Johnston £ave me moro auxioty than nny of the others. [ was never half sv ansious about Lee. l!{ tho way, I saw Iu Joe Johnaton's book that when [ wad asking Pemberton to surrender Vicksburg he wus on his way to ralso the slege. 1 was very sorry, I I had known Johnsion was conlng 1 would haye told Pemberton to walt In Vicksburg untit I wantod him, awalted John. ston's advance and given lm battle. e could never have beaten that Vickaburg army, and thus I would lave dustroyed two arimics, pere liaps, Pemberton’s was alresdy gone, and I was quite sure of Johnaton's. I was lurr{ I did not know Juhnston was comiug until it was <00 Iate. Take it all in all, tha South, io my opin- fon, had no better soldler than Joo Johnstou— uowe at feast that gave me wors trouble.” NO COUNCILS OF WaR, Some _remork was muedo nbout councils af war, and how far thelr dullberations affected an army's woycinent. **I never held s councl of war In my life. Incver heard of S8herman or Sueridan doing 80, Ot course I heard all that cvery one had to say, and in headquarters there 14 an juteresting and constant stresm of talk, Rut 1 always made up my mind to act, avd the firat that even iy stafll knew of any movement was when L wrote it out in rough and gave It ‘o be copled oft.” A TOMANTIO PATTLE. ‘There was another question as to thoe poetle effect of such a buttie a8 that of Lookout Moun- taly, tho battle sbove the clouds. *The battlo of Lookout Mountaln s ouc of the romnnces of the War, Thero was no such battle, und no action even worthy to beeatled o battle on Luokout Mountuin,” 1t 12 all p e — ra DELAVAN, WIS, Bpecial Correspamilence of The Tribune. Detavan, Wis,, July 20.—~The crops of Ro- cine, Walworth, and Jefferson Countles are beings rapldly harvested. The fndicatiuns are of avery larga ylold, esoecially barley and onts, Notwithstanding the army of tramnps that have Infested this section for the past few weeks thie furmers flnd it diflicult to obtaln men enuugh to sceure thelr crops. Une or two bundred harvest hands could find employment ot 310 $2.60 per day, “Thie ratlrogd party, conslsting ol thirty-fve or forty of Lthe vromineut men ol the Weatern Union Rtallroad, headed by the vid-time rallroall man, Al Foster, arrived to«lay for the purpose ol camping at Delavan Lake, Tho g’rn:[ml’l Commanderyof KulghtsTemplar have purchascd six acres on the lake, whero they ure now erceting a hotel, "The party will con- sist of 125 or 150, The Moody Sundsy-school campers have mado 8 very fuvorablo impression here, Mr, Cragin, thelr teacher, couducted services at une of the chiurches Buanday evening, . 'fhe boys louked floe, ks sixty of them with blge cunplog. sufres on Uled into clivreh, Alour ANUN, — Bauce for the Gander, Bosrow, July 20,—To the Editor of the Nation: Every oue, whethera friend of paper curreny or hard money. must have enjoyed the thor ough setting-down which Gen. Buller gave tt ridiculous young bloods of tho Coaching Cluhla his Newburyport * greenback » specch of Jult 4. It was so ncat aud pointed that I am sun You can afford spavs to print It: Let mo !lvn yon un illustration, becausa ities beautiful thing In this (ree country of ours. i any of yon over neard of the Tally-ho Clab 1 Net York? "1t is comvosed, I think—1" tuny not rightiy give tho numbor, beeatine they never bavo fnvieh e to any ooe of tholr catertalnments, but 1 thins thoy hava ten four-or-8ix-hordo conches, nud thef drive on the road between two palatial hotelss coach with a fne-looking man sitting up behind witha tin horn,—I believe, in this cusey §t Iy brass bugle,—for what? Whouro thoy? Ther all youny mnen of great woalth, of wreal liferary culiure, wita all tho advantuges of the con feges. ANl of them are ten who han no ewmployment on carth, but plenty of fne come 1o Tive on, ana the only shing ‘they can ol 1o o i3 10 play conchimen duy by day for the fun of tna thing, I'hey toll not, ncithor do they #plo, LLaughter.] Ther are men of & class that u Krowing up In thls country, ana that in my judze nent~npd you may put this down agatnat “me- ouglit to be syuoiched &:np\nus» ,—nien Who b nothitng 1o do_on earth, "and do it every d. {Laughlor, | 1t ought not to be, and 1t {s not, rep- ntable fu this country for a tan to have no resu: lar, steady -mgloynmni for the goug of hia felluw- sen, And, 1ho mure money iia has, the mor responslullity hu ins 10 employ tha money” o to vestments aiid In onterprives for the good of hit sace; und any max that ought and don't do thal, workingmen ougat 1o voto s law to make him do wome hotest work, He Is tho warst kind of & teamp Llangiter and applasso),—u teamp chulce and not fromn nn'eull{; and §f 1 wary, and if { had the power in Yurk, e 1 once bad taca shoet tima (lawghter warnld set tial cluss of men to dolng oxactly w thoy have stiown they ara fitted for,—to drivi Broanway coach from U in the morning Wl 1 in the evoning, 80 thoy would have enougli of playing coachimen. Now, ull this 18 both good, and true, aod witty. 1t will make tho old hero of New Ur lcans hosts of friends amony those who despls auch nonacuse. Unbapolly for e, being al ready sn ardunt political admiror of bis, I am ulued In this mutter to notlce on absenco of fi.g!c in tbe Ueneral. I never saw a * Tully-ho coach, but 11ive on the sea-shore and dusces ender they belonged to the Your correspondent reentled n rumor eurrent at the time about the intentton of Julinsun to wrrest Lee, ** Yes,'" satd the Ueneral, » Mr, Jutimson had made up hia mind to arrest Leo and the lending Sonthers ollicers, 1t'waa tu the begdunitg of hits Aduinloration, whea by was mukiog specches saying hie hud resolved to make ull treason odfons, tie was adiressing delega- tious on the vavject, and offering rewanls for Jdelt Davis and_others. Upon Lee’s arrest e pad decided. I protested aguty and sgam. 1t would comnu up In Cabinet, and thooniy Mintster who supportedd ny views oponly was Beward, ulwsyas suld that the parole of Lew protected him u Joug us he observed It On one oceasion Mr. Juhnson spoke of Lee, and wanted to kuow why was chiosen, Boelling-reform, 1ike drces reform, reat muny yschts and, being & poor man my- any mititary commander had o right Lo protoct | pood humor that wavs ki frreat power wigh his e — temperance-reform, Civit-Sirvice-refurm,andall | S5 RAY VEEHa3 wod, belnk & poor man mr: General's exact words, aithourh as far as | ments current I history, that the war wan a | g arciitraltor ron e laves, 4 veas ey at | Soog "Hhor (hat £avo i keeat powver with bis MIDSUMMER, tho rest, 1nust cume by n pricoss nf grwiuad du- | S5us,the stcht of @ bloated amateur vachtana I do so. I rewember, for fn- | war ugainst windinila, aid that IF one man or | g) oke carness TNy o shoraw 0 " playlug sullor, In a Llue cap with & gold baod, flffl:z:’,:f‘mf; the Qeueral r:,hy he fimrnog gnother had leen in suthority the result wonld e et dend blututy to the | or liavo a bigher reapoct thion for that of velopineut. On the principle of the survival of the Atteat, the allent letierb aud awkward diphe thonus, will, aftera ‘lum. ceass to by, and our (great-great-granachildren wilt beed a diciionary 10 umderstand our books, os wo do to resd Chaucer, ‘Tho ayes aud nues of any Legisia- tare vaunot scttlo the speltlug-quostion, uny inere Liun they can the hundrods of attiers thut Veesiteut. 1§ sald that os General 1t was uone of iny business what he or Congress did with Gen, Lee or his other cammanders, lie wizht do s be pleased ubout civil rights, contlscation of prauerty, aud sa on. Fhis did ot come o wmy vrovince, Butn Geveral commandiug troops bas certain responsibilitles, aud duties, anid puwer, which are supreme. Ho must deal with Bher 1o fa not only one ol the best men Jviog, but oo of the greatest we have bad ln our history.'! GRANT'S ESTIMATE OF SUBILIDAN, ¢ Aa for Stieriing, " suld tha ticneral, I havo only kuown biw sluce we met_durlug the War, Hejolned my reglnent—the Tontlh infantry- after 1left ity and so 1 did not see him, ‘Then and brass-buttonod coat, atirs 1y bile, much 88 _tho lly-ho " coaches do glorous, biuf old Ben's. This Is what troubles me. “There ls n yacht catled the America, which safls by my houss olteuer thay any other, aud ft belouzs to the tieneral, Why don't he denoutice gmateur satlorfui us well as amateur slage-driving! Bomoe ol us poor men haty thew both, Letwd fuvested Richmond as be bad {nvested Vicks- | have been different; that sume more placable burg and starved out Lee: **Such a move- | man thun Davis conld bave inade o better fight, meut," sald the Ueneral, * would bave fovolved | ‘This ta not true. The war wus o tromendous moving my army from the Rapldan to Lyach- | war, and nv_une knows better than thoss who burg, 1 considered the plan with great care | were fu {t. Davis did all he could and all any before I made tho Wilderncss move. 1 thought | man could for the Baulh., ‘The South wus ol massing the Army of the Potomacin mova. | beaten from tho beginning, Thore was 1o vie- ble columns, wiving the men twelve days' | tory possitle forauy (iuserument resting upon Aftor the May-tline, and after the June-itme, Mare with blossoma and perfuines sweal, Cometh the roand world's rayal nuan -t — ‘'he red Miusnimnor of hlazing beat, Whenthe Sun, Hiku wn eyo thut never cluses, Beude on the Earth T4 feevid gage, And the winds are atil), and the crimson rosea Droop, aud witer, und uic u ite rays, iy hoon dragging on siuce atstesmen wera in- | Joo) w1 would roads pull | Lhe enictny du front of hin 80 a3 ta destray bl | o i 8 el Vouiger san than bhermsn or my- vented, 1 oo futoun, il Wrowing | iveell ety | the, platiorin ot the Bouthcrn Comteleraey, | e “imay el il iliny conturo ' uio, | e g s ot serve o Morio, T sy | V(e R rarans come tat sesso, i Bavaniugos of the Blutrle uster, pura | Jiare auy ofyou srer beard of the Now Yort C o e engige ol 4 0 M U 0\ etile v . 3 o Nad made thle movement succosafully— | ¥ouns meu of the North and called out the | secred so far 4 eogagements ure | gl { remember mecting Steridan was whon | When uver tho Stars of I'rivde and Reason and undetiled, without any of the fluo, Alcxan. they loud to tho de- struction of the foe, 1 made certalu terins with Les—ttiy best wtd only termw, 1§ had told htm and bisarmy that thelr Hberty would be juvaded, that thiey would be oben Lo arrest, irial, und execution for treason, Lee would Fgltiy ive the nuwber, becauss they never have foviled e (o any one of tholr :nwmlnmenua but 1 think they have ten sloops or schooners, An they sail on the hay by front of palstial hoteles vessel with & fino-Jooking man standing at the wheel -1 helieye, fn this case, it ia mounted wheol—for what? Who aze they? 461 had been #a fortuuate as I was when I threw | Nutlonal feeliug thore was no end but the cnd tny army between Pemberton and Jue Jotinston, { that came, Davia did all he could for hia side, the War would have been over a yosr sconer, 1 | ana tow mncts ho did no one kuows better than am not sure that it was not the best thivg to | those wha were fn the tald.” have duone; i mmm{ was tho plan 1 should BETONEWALL JACKBON. have preferred. If 1 had fulled. huwever, It 91 hadaletter from Mosby,” said the General, he was the Colunel of o Michizun reginent, Wo met at o rallway station. He was atuut to muve hls regitent to Joln some other General =1 ihink Uordon Uranger. 1 know I had sent a reglment, but bad uot indicated that of Shecte dau, and really did not wish It to leaveit. £ Hatls Love's cloudicss uounday Sun. Like & great red ball in my oosan burning, Witli tiren that nothlng can quench of tame, 1t Zlows—ithl my hoart dleelf acems surniug Tote a tiquid lske of teme, der . Bteptiens® superadditions, were talked about. ‘Fliat much-to be-deslred change is on- other that will vome by degrees. An admirable paper on the Kindergarten, by Mias Stewart, of Milwaukee, wss fullowed by a lyely debate, pro & n, ub taking littte chil. hever tave surrendered, and we should have ko to Sheridan, and Lo seld he wougt | Tighooes halfouby, and ho dreame half-tender, | 4roidroin thenureery, sud tratning thow to steing | 47¢ all 1en of great waaltll, of great litarary ety wonld have been very serlous for the country, | “some tine ago, deprecating some attack § had | Iose tmany lives In destroylui hin, . Now, m, " . : o oy | iR fears And sluha of 80 eaelior da; cs, and make mud-pies scvording | Bres With all iho advaniages of tho colleges. Al und 1 aid ot dare tho rlak. What deterred mey | made upon Mionewall duckson,. | wrutc hit | Lerins of surrcnder wera' Sbcarling o Witary. | Tooies 40 thuth siuy, orwoine eucl auiswer, which | vader tho noantidv's rayal aplendur buttous In figures, and i wias bruspue und roush, sud snnoyed mo. § dou't think Sheridun could have safd unythine to have made a worse fuipresgion on mg. ~ But § watched bis carcer and vaw how much thero was fu hiw, 8o whien I camg East and took cow- maud 1 looked around for 8 cavalry comuander, 1 wus stundlng 10 frout of the (White louse, talking to Mr. Lincolu aud Gen. Hatleck, | 1 satd, I wanted the best oo L conld find for Ihnu\w:\ra.' *Thes il Hatleek, * why not tako U'hil Sberldau i’ '“'rll{’ Lsuld, * 1 was Just groing Lo say il Bherlyn.! So Sheridan ‘waa sevt for, aud he came very much disgusted, Ilo was just wbout to bave u” corps, and by did not kuow wh{ we wanled bim East, whether it was 10 disclpiing bim," sald the Goneral, laugling, “or not, But hu came, and took the command, and camo out of the War with & record that e titjed bim to bls rank, As a soldler, a8 a com- mander of troops, s 8 wian that fs ce- pable of dowg sl that Is poaslbls with any number of men, thero s uo wan liviug greates thau Bheridan, Le belougs o the very trat rauk of soldicrs, not ouly of our couutry, but of ths world. No man ever bad such afuculty of inding out thiugs as sheridan, ol kuowing all about the enetny. Me was the beat Informed msu iu bL's cotimand ss to the euemy. Then he had that muguetic quality of swaying men which 1 wiak 1 had—a rarc quality o 4 General. 1don't tluuk uuy oue can give Bhber{dan too bigh praise. Wheo I made him Lieutcoant-Geucral there was some eriti- clsm, Wby wot ‘thumas or Bleadei 1 I bave the utmont ruspect for thase Generalsy Do una Las more; but whea the task of selec- tlon cuwe I could not put uuy mau abead of of them are nien who have plenty of income 39 livo on, and the only Ihiug they con dud to do 18 10 play sallor day by day for tho fug of tno thing They tail pot, neiloer do toey eplul Theyars men of a class who are growing up ii this conntrys and that in my judgment—and you may put this down agalust we-anght to bo squelched polausa),—men who have nothlog o do 08 earih, and do Jt evory day, . . . And jf |had my d if | had the power 3n tbe Cliy of New a8 | once had for a short time, I wonld sct a8 of men Lo doing exactly what they ha'e shown they are fitted for,—to nul{ a Nshlog-smack from 6 ia ihe moming 109 in tha evening, 80 1beY ‘wuuld have cuough of playing eailor.'* Gen. Butler defluce & » Greenbacker® as 43 man who 18 dissatisticd,” [ am confouuded!y dlssatsticd every time Lsce tho Americs, Wit that * fluc-lookiog rman? at the *brass-mount- cd wheel,” sall by iny door, | want uew p litkcal partics, aud uew Jeaders, snd 8 new plals forw. The tirst plank in my new platforn want to be in theso worda: " fesolvad, That e sauce for tho goose s sauco for thegander "'y aud [ waut the candldates on my platform 0 live right up to that plank. Just now eved bluft, gelm, old * Grébnbsck Bea don't sced quite todo It. Oxg or T0E GREAT DIssATISFIED. however, was the fact that I was new tothe | thers must be soio raistuke, os 1 had never at- urmy, did uot have it In band, aud dic not kuow | tucked Jucksou, what 1 could da with the Generals or men. §¢ Your correspondent asked the General how it had been slx mouths later, when 1 had the | he ranked Juckson smong soldiers, 1 knew suny i huand, and Koew what a splendid army | Stonewal) Jackaon, said the Goneral, “at West 2t wax, and what the oflicers and men wero capa- | Polut and in Mexico. At West Point lie camse bio of dolng, und | coula have nad hierman aud | Inta the school at wn olderage than the averase, Eteridan to saslst In the moyewent, I wouldnot | aod begsn with a low prade. But he had so bave besitsfed for u moment.” much courage and cueryy, worked so bard aud THB WILURINESS CAMIAIGN. goverued his Hie br a discipline so stern that he “ By the wav," suid tho Geveral, *thero is | slcudily worked his way alovg sud rose far one point about the mmglu:n n tne Wilderness | above Gthers who had more advantages. Stones varth remembering. My critics 2y that 1| wall Jackson, ut West Point, wus fu a atate of threw away 100,000 men in that camoa(yn. ‘This | coustant linprovement. Me wus o relizious Lus ueen tepcated 50 ofteu that it wiltsoou be | wun theq, sud satme of us regarded bins asn hbstory, Now, v total losses were about 89+ | funatic. Sometimes his religion ook stringe all told. Badeau's book will have the | lorme=hypochondris—funcles that an eyil tlgures, but thas is about the Qgure; and those | suirlt bad tukeu esston of bim, But loases do wot meau killed, but the pumber of | hu never relaxed in his studies or his Chrlstian vllective inen taken frow wy aruly by death, | dutles, [ kuew ol fn Mexico. He was wounds, capture, and desertfon. “I'hat wmove- | always 8 Lrave and trustworthy ofllcer, nons ment cost oe 3,000 wey, but do not forget | word so fu the army, [ uever kinew Lim'or en- whaot it cosy Lee. Remcumber that Lee bud to [ countered bim dn” the Kebetlion, 1 uuestion dzut as much as Ldid, He had the advautagaol | whetlise his campalios (n Virginia justify his belni un the defcusive, which {4 always sn ad- | reputution us a great commander. He was kill- vautuge, and ¢ had o uttw.k and attack, but | ed tou suun, uud befors Lis runk allowed bl & svery blow | struck weakeued bip, snd when st | great command, 1t would have been o test of last be wus fupced futo Richinond it was n far | genciatehip if Jackson bad wet Sbieridan fo the differcut wesny from wiat whicl wenaced Was! Valley fustead of sume of the men b did meet. ington aua juvaded Marylaud aud Penusyiva- | From all 1 know of Jucksou and all § see of biis nia. 1t wae no louger an invadiog army. The | campalgus | bave but little doubt of the result, Wuderuess cawpaisu wus necessary bo the de- | If Jackson had attewpted on Sherldan the tac- structiot ol the Bouthern Conlederacy. tics he attempted so stccessfully ubon others be BUTLEK AND HIS CANPAION ON THE JAMES. would uot ouly have Lecu besten but destroyed. [ bave always seurctied thio censurs that un- | Budden, danuy saids, under » foo Geoeral hke wittiogly came upon Butler Io that campalgo, | Juckson, might do azalust raw troops sud foex- “ to zeometric putiine, The child-garden §s do- servedly populus fn Anierica; but whother all children should be trausplanted from the home- garden, or whether it is for the unfortunates whio have no Loine, or, baviog bomes, bave tua many brotuens aud slsters, or else nonoe st all, ia the polat. Tho Convention was made up of as finc-look. ing a clnss of men snd women as vns often secs. Fhsy appeared not only inteilixent, but bappy, and euthuslastic in all that touched upon thelr wuork, Perlaps tho most Interestiog feature of tho Jostitute was Droop 1k rosed, aud wither away, Frouthe lilts of Doanbt no winds sre blowing, Frow the laic of Paln na hreeso Is sent— Only the Sun in a white hvat glowing Oyer an vcean uf great Coniout, Sink, O my soul, in this goiden glary ! Die, U my heart—iu thy rapture swoon ! For the Autumn musi cowe, with ils saddening slory, And the rare Midsummer will pass toa soon. Eiia WiprLss. law, ta the ustructions of Mr, Lincoln und Mr, Stauton, and so lung s Lee was obscrving his parole § would never vonsent 1o bis arrest, Mr, Beward nodded spproval, 1 remember feeltug yery strongly on thie suvject, The matter was allowed to the out. 1 shoull have restned the command of the arny rather than have carried out any order directing me to srress Lee, or any ol his comumrders who abeyed the luwa, By the wuy, ono reason why Moaby becaine such a friend of mino was because, us (feneral, 1 gave him o sufo conduct to atlow him to practice law aud carn a hving, Our otticers fu Virgiady used to arrest deading Confederates wheuever they moyed out of thely homes, Mrs, Bosby went to Mr, Juhnson aud usked thut ber bus- band might be allowed to earn bisliving, Bug the President was in s furious mood, and tuld her treuson iwust be inade odiuus, oud so on, Blie cams to e fu distress, sud § gavetbe onder tu allow Mosby to pass uud repass freely, Bad no recotlection of this until Mosby called it to my sttention, By the wuy, Mosby descrves wreat credit for bis serviess fu” the cause vl the Unlon. Ho 1a av_honest, brove, cousclentious mun, snd bas suffered severcly for darioe to yote a5 ho pleased wwon tho people who hatied i;l{m‘n'u a bero aud i whose bebalt Le risked bis o —————— Just Like Boys. ° et Bglater, A Medina boy luvited ral of nis fricnds to his fatter’s louso to Lave a (ood tine the other evenivg, ‘Pho boys were given the diniug-rov »all 1o themselves.” Wheu the lady of the house yentured 10 Jouk fn upon tho Lappy party, the picturo prescuted was not exuctly ol 8 ki to yuwt ber perves. Au adjoivlog bed-room bLad becn despoiled of Its bed. * The strw-tick bad hncnflawd I the middle of the dinjug. ruomn, aud oue of the lads hnd worked bls way fuslde of it until al) that apuearcd was Lis head. A butile was [ proecsd aud pillows were used 88 weapous. Beveral mulu-*uns ulso did wood service oo the flanks und wall-vaper, while vari- ous kinds of liquids served 85 simmunition. In thoe anidst of all this the ludy of the house weekly fnguired If that wus the way they acted wien they went visitiug. * Sbol that’s woth- tog,” gaid one. *Down to B-—s, the otber night, we got his tat hog inta the parlor, tapped bis cistern wud let the water out, and then touk down the kitcben stove and sct it up in the warret," THUE EXUIDITION, In the basemeut, of work done by pupils of the publlc schools in dlifereut pares of the State. Iv would have delightcd the heart of Gen. Banky, whosu patchwork Educational bill fotro- duced Juto Congress last winter, tor the benutly of tha public schiools of the district. wus the oc- caston of much good-natured sport. ‘Thils exhidit wis mado up of wl such scholars® and teachiers’ work 08 cau be sepsratea from the school-rooin, from the gay pasteboard deshizos of little children in the ‘Kiuderearten, to the elaborate phvsiological drawinge by young la- divs sud centlemen 1nYhe Btats Normal Schoul, ‘Tuere were specimens of pensusuship besutiful a3 copy-plate, and bound volumes of drawiugs that were nlp!»nuru to sce. In the Jatter tue advantage of a rough, tinted paper over glazed white, for showiog olf work was very platu. Studics fu Botany and Natural History,on Jarge from the Hlzh-Bchool st Beloit, showed great advaucement ju these departwents, 1 thorouglly oue wust understand the e ——e—— Heavy Gamuling. Lowdon Latter. The scavengers ol goclety) who read the “wolang aud slander papers,’ bave been gloat: {ng over tho luformation thist ir Robert Fecl lost $100,000 at whist, 'other pight, to tbo Murquis of Huutley, sud refused to pay—10f some reasou not clearly stated. The cunse Quence was & row sud threats of an acHoB. STONE, W'DOWELL, AND BUSLL. We wero talkiug of the various commanders in our War, aud huw surprislug were the changes of fortune in the way ol reputation and so ou. “Tuero were 8 fow men sald the Geoera) + when the War broke out,to whom we who bud been in the arwy looked for success sud bigh