Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1878, Page 12

17 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1878—TWELVE PAGE GRAN That Interview with the General in Europe. Lively Critiolsm from Both the North and the South. The Baltle of Shiloh, er Pitlsburg Landing, Fought Over Again, A SYARLING BUT FOOLIST DEFERSE OF TIE AILILOT SURTRISE. Ta the Editor of The Tridune, Frangrort, IiL, Aug. 3—~Will yon permit me to offer n fow comments on an article in Tun ‘Trinuse of July 20, headed ** Gen, Grant on Newspaper-Criticlam?’ You admit the possi- bility that Gen. Grant never uttered tho lane guage attributed to him, but criticise it all the same. It In very probable that he did not utter the language; nevertheless, if Lie never gets farther from the truth than in the statements quoted, he wiil deserve to llve in historv as the man who never told alie. The ncwspapers did not make Gen, Grant, and could not destroy b, What course Tne CaicAgo TRinusk may bave pursaed toward Gen. Grant during the War, 1 do not know; but I remember that, dur- fing the Presidenttal campalgn of 1872, a Chicago paper charged that, in conscquence of the tien- eral’s having refused to permit one of it corre- spondents to accompany a certain expedition atter he had boarded the bont In a surreptitious manner, Tne Trisuxna had never seen anything good in Grant since that gtme, What reply, it any, Tits TRIBUNE madd to the charge, I donot know, [1t our correspondent evor saw any statement of the kind, he is gullty of repeating a ridicu- lous falschood. It anything of the kind oc- curred, it conld not have had the slightest {nfiu- ence on the course of Trn TrIBUNE toward Gen. Grant. Tnz TrinuNgsupported and defend- ed (en. Grant throughout his nflitary careor from thetimehie appeared above theborizon until the last Rebel surrendered. It glossed over the * surprise® st Shiloh as well as possible, willing and anxious to place the affalrin the best lght, and stood atoutly up for him all through tho Vicksbury campaign, when most newspapers and public mon desoalred of suc- cess, fn the face of so many preliminary rebufls and faflures, and desperate and secmingly fu- surmountable obstacles. The opposition of Tos TrinuNe, under another management, to Grant’s re-clcction, was founded upnn faults of administration, bad surroundings, nepotism) and corrupt practices of parasites who had fastened themselves upon him and tho Treas- ury, and which subsequently led to the crush- {ng and overwhelming dofeat of the Republican party in 1874, and from which it has not yet re- covered.—Ep,] Itnotahostile, it cortalnly wasnotavery friend- 1y press that, after the battla of Shiloh, flooded the country with stories of Gen. Grant's besat- ted and beastly habits of drunkenncss, until mora than half the loyal people of the country belleved him not only unfit to comwmand, but a diegrace. This fre-in-the-rear was kept up all through the Vicksburg campnlgn, and was the causo of ecif-apointed comimitices of well meaning but inlstaken people visitine the Prest- dent to remonstrate against kecplog hwm in command. Duriug the Vicksburg campaign the writer ‘was ‘u the military-telerzaph service. The oniy Northeru daliy paper accessible was tho Cincin- nuatt Commiercial; and I well remember, day after day, that paper was filled with denuncla- tlans of Grant, and_of tho Adumiinistration for keeplng Iim fn command, True, when the grand and glorious results of that magnificent mm{um\, so ably planued and orille jantly executed, burst upon the country, the Commercial publisted the news In brilllunt und blazing head-lines; but that It retracted any of itk slanders agalust the General, 1 never heard. Judzigr fromn its present tons, 1 tnfer that it never did, and never will. I rolicht fol- low this up, and_show that, at every atage of the War, Gen. (irant was sublect {oa fire-fn- the-rear from a portion of the logal press, say- ng nothing of the dislayal, such as the Chleogo Timex, Clncinnati Enguirer, aud the Democratic press meacrally, . \;«m accase Gen. Graut of referring enviously L.co, [1nis is contemutible perversion of Tur Tuin- UNE'S observatlon,.—En,] I do not sce the envy In alluding to a remark- able fact. Nothing in the history of the War 1s more remarkoble thun the treaiment nceord- ed to Lee by the Southern newspapers. ‘There were Relet papers that woulil venture to crit- fcfse Jetl Davia und the other teadors and of- ficers of the Coufederacy, but no Rebel or Coprerhend paner ever alluded to Lee in any- fhing but ‘terms of cxtravagant praiso; and even Republicnn_papers reemed overcome with admiration lor that inlghty mélitary genlue, who never advanced bus to meet defeut and disuster (oven McClellan could not help whip- phog ll!m), and was at last contented to remuln on tho delensive, defending and defending, uu- til nothing was oft to defend. But the surprise at’ Shilon! * Agye, there's the rubl® Grant and Sherman say there was no surprise, while nowspaper-correspondents at the rear and some [thousanys of] soldicrs ut the tront inslst that thero was. ¢ I8 4 con- fitet of authorities. In this case persons will be governed by thelr prejudices. Those who dis- Nkn Grant and 8herman will belleve the other yarties, while thelr friends (of whom they nuve fow) will beliove them, One thing fa certain: (Irant knew the enemy wus in_hia front, and that he must meet him ina shorttime, Perbups, under these clreumatanees, be nud Shermun shouid have taken thefr axes on thele shouldera ond gone to the front, and cut down trees to proteet thelr commands, {ustead of remaluing st ibo reur, burrylg up troops and sup- plies, te get thein o positlon to mect the Impending battle,~hoping, if possible, to get thourmy in hand In thoe to commencs the attack, inatead of being compelled to tight on the defensive: hut this is just what auny wood General would have dove, newspaper-critics to the contrary notwithstanding. LThe fewer defenses of this kind for the “aur- prise ™ at Sbiloh, the better for Grant's milisary fate, Itis very evident this writer does not know what ho fs talklog about. If “(Grant knew that the enciny was {n his front, and that he must meet him In a short time,” why did he not giye vrders for the reghnents and brigades vearest to the envmy to fell some trees for breastworks, sud tothrow up a line of intrench- mentst Ho was o a hostile couutry, with the eaemy's splcs around him, sod the Rebel army not far off. One or mory of ths Ohlo Colonels in Sherman's divisiou did take this precautlon, without orders from Sherman or any other superlor offieer. 1t was notnecessary for Grant to have taken Lls ax on bis shoulder sud gone to the front to fell trees. A slnplo order, that would bave occupled bim one minute wo dictate to a stafl-offlcer, was all that was needed to have bad the whole front of bis army placed in areompleto state of safely sealnst surprise or successfal aftack, As to Sherman, he was on thie grouud at tbo front, Grant never szain otoitted such shinple and obviously prudent pre- cautions. He wus never afterwards canght uvappiug. 1o his memolr-bovk, tien. Bherman suysi * We had no Intrenclinenta of any sort, on the theory that, g8 soon as Buell arrived, we would march to Corinth to attsek the coemy.” The duy telose the Rebel attuck, Geu, Graut telegeaplied to Halleck, at 8t Louls, s fol- lows: »The maiu fores of the enemy is ot Coriuth [twenty mfles from Bhilol, or less), with trouvs at different points esst [toward Grant's forces), 1 have scarcely the faintest Ilex of un attack (general one) Lelug made upou us, but will be prepared should such a thing toke place—~U, 8. GRANT." The polut I8, why didu't he prepure, 8s he telegraphed the day before the battle be wouldi—Ev.) ‘That the Rebel General falled to wotify Gen, Graut o the tiuie when, the place where, sud the Joree with whieh Le desigued to open the stluck, ts inost true; and o this exteut Jt was a urls»;:‘nmzuuur brave Lclhi'\‘vlo \vh&;‘:nwun- | ) oubtless ken un- bat llHlu)low tlat the army sed. The worst growler and wost uemy ol Grant must admit, tlat for ® surprised wriny, ours did wonders on that eveutiul Banday. It supears to Lo the cue to cry out * Whisky- Riug" to any oue who says a word in favor of Uen. Gravt. Iam not s wewmber of the Whis- ky-Ring; do not make, buy, scll, or drink whis- kY, an Vo 10 conncction with suy who does bul, buvingserved fn the wrwy fn a Capacity thut furnlsbied superior faulitics for kuowtog what \ ) was going on, am as well prepared to writs on this subject as any of Gen. Grant's erities. TON CONFRDERATE OUNS OF CONTROVERSY OPEX—AS THR BATTLE OF SHILOM A AUR- PRISE TO TuR FADERALS 1—TRSTIMONT FIER- LY CITED TO PROVR THAT 1T WAS. Lontretilg Conrder-Jonrnal. The statemnent of Gen, Grant that the battls of 8hiloh was & surprise only to the newapaper correspondentacannat be austained by cvidence, nand the suagestion of expectation of " an atiack conveyed In hig remark, *We had been skirm- {ching for two days befora we werefatincked,” [s contradicted by evidence furnished by himsell and Gen, 8herman, The attack on Grant's srmy was made on Bnmlg morning, Anril 6, 1862 At that time Gen. drant was at Savaonah, On April 5 Gen. Sherman telegraphed to Gien. Grank: ** All quiet along my lincs now; the en- emy lias cavalry In our front, and I think there are twd regiments and one battery six miles out.” [n another dispatch of asme date Gen. Bherman safd: "I do not spprehend anything 1ike on attack upon our position.” The same day Gen. Grant telegraphed to Gen. Halleck as follows: *The main force of the encmy fs at Corinth, with troops at diffcrent points east. [ have scarce'y the faintest idea of an altack [gen- eral one] being made u) ux, but ®ill be pre- pared should such a thing take place.” The next morning when the attack was made Grant was at Savannah lefsurely awaiting the arrival of Buell, who had not been advised that there was need of any nx!rnnn‘llmr{ haste, The plan was that Gen. Halleck was to Tead Grant’s and Buell’s armies on Corinth, and he had made preparations to leave St. Louls on April ? for that purpose. Buell was nol expected at Sa. vaonsh before Monday, and on Saturday Girant dispatched to Halleck In regard to Buell's three forcmost divisions: * It is my present Intention to send them to uamhurfi, some four wmiles above Plttsburg, wheu they all get here” In addition to this, Gen. Grant's army was nof dis- posed ar {f to meet an altack. 'They had no de Jenaes and no designated line, and there was no reneral officer ¢ u the fleld authorized, In Grant's absence, to take command of the whole foree in the event of a gencral attack. ‘Tha first Intimation of an attack Gen. Grant had was the sound at Savannah, fourteen miles away, ol the canuonading at Pittaburg Landing, Its continuauce induced him to go to the fleld ahid brenk the engageiment he had for a confer- ence with Bucil on lis arrival. The message ha left for Bucll was that the attack was an affair of outposts that he was golng up to look after, Buell was moviog under the ordersof Halleck, to whom QGrant Wwas also subonlinate. Of Grant's army and position and his own move- ment, Bucll saya: I inarched from Nashville, not to rescuc those forces, but to form a junc- tlon with them to operate agalnst the encmy's Ition at Corinth, and it wus desirable to effect the junction as promotly as possible. 1 whs informed that 1 should find Gen. Grant's urmy at Savannah, on the east side of the river, and | was surprised, and even concerned, when I heard during the march that it was on the wext bank, but I was rclleved trom anxiety by the inforination that it was su protected by hich ‘water In the streams which Intorposed between it, and nearly surrounded It, aa to be perfectly sccure.' = In lils memolr Sherman says: ' We had no intrenchments of any sort, on the theory that ns spon ns Buell arrived we would march to Corinth to attack the enemy.” Qen. Grant eays that It is not true that the surprise found the men in camp and _that some wers “'killed over thelr coffee.” That the sbsence of all defenses and the unexpected attack caught the men in camp and over thelr coffee Is proved by Grant's own olllcers. Blierman says In his report: “'I'he battle opened by the nnnm{'l Lattery In the woods to our front throwing shells ‘Into onr camp.” Cot. Buckland reported that betweea 0 awl 7 o'clock he learned that the pickets were being driven In, and he formed his brigade on tho color-line, fle pushed forward ono regi- ment ond then advanced his brigade in line of battle. He says he marched but thirey or forty rods when he discovered that the enciny hiad attacked the foremost regient, eizhty to one hundred rods In advance, and compelled It to falt back. Col. Cockerell re- ported that when the alarm was sounded he called bis men from brenkdast and formed on the color line. Advancing 200 paces, he met the encmy and opened fire. Col. Hilderbrand says of the cuemy: *He opened upon our camp o heavy fire of Infantry, which was immediately foltowed by siell.”” Capt. Barrett reports that the alarm was given about bhalf-past 7 on Bun- daynorning: that his battery was prompily placed In vosition, “and (o ten minutes there. afger commenced fring ou the right of the loz cliurch, somo 100 yards in front of Gen. Sher- man's headquurters, shero tho attack waa wade by tho enemy In great foree 1t some of Grant's men wero not “ killed over thelr coffce’! they made n very narrow cacape, and thero are Confederates now lviug who pare took of the breakfacta prepured fur (irant's men, Gen, Grant _asacrts that on Sunday night he ‘was 0 pleased with the situation that ho went n person to ench division und ordered s ad- vanco of the wholo lue for 4 o'clock the next morning. Bherman says In hia report that at daylight on Mondav he recelved Gen. (Irant'a order to ndvance, and that he then sent out his stafl to bring up all the nien they could find, Not one of Urant's divislon comuienders men- tlous the reception of such orders on Sunday night, but they all mention such or{lers on Mondny worning, Gen, McClernand spcaks of “‘your order of the morning of tha ¥th fora forwardd movement,” Gen. Iurlbut says: * About 9 a, i, 1 was ordered by Gen, Grant to move uto the support of Gen, McClernand."” ‘The time of theso orders s a gulte Important istorieal fact. Gen. Grant 1y endeavoring to sliow that hie was not surprisca and not beaten, and that his advauce was urdered without refer- ence to Bucll’s forces, The evidenva shows that hils orderfor an advance of tho fragments ul his army was not made until after Buel forves had reached the field and gone Into posi- tlon, ‘Tho less (en, Grant has to sav about the bat- tle of Bhiloh the betterit will Lu for his mili- tary reputation, _ His character as A commander barely survived thut battle, and his reputation myst always rest on other operations? WIIAT GRANT 8ALD IN 1805 AND WIIAT 1B SAYA NOW—CRNNURE OF MIt. DAVIS—IiI8 JUDGMENT OF MEN NOT INPALLIOLE. Yimington (X, C.) Star, ‘[he ex-President, who did so much evil and nflicted so much danisge upon the country, was for n lopg time regarded as the sflent man who kept his own counsel, and could not make specel. Binco hie passed from olliclal Jite and became o nahob abroad Le has foiproved in his snccch-making ability, aud has becomo quite Juquactous and communieative, The New York Jlerald keeps the world pretty thoroughly post- cd a8 to where Grant gous and what he says, « + » We do notdoubt that Grautls core rectly reported In the nain, aithouzh the man- uer of statiuz what wan sald Is doubtleas the correspondont’s. Probably thu whole report was reaa und indorsed by Urant before it was forwarded to New York. It Is really worth readinir, howover erroncous we mnay believe his Judggment, or however blased his statements. « o In18065—November the month—wu had s two hours' private conversatiou with Gen. Grant. Wo mention this that we may make ln- tellurently one or two comments unon the above. . . . o talked quits freely about the War, for we wers fnquisitive. ile had asked us o hundred pointed oud fotellt gent questlons concermng the Southern Ycuplu —white snd negroes—and told us why he did s, Ho bud been sent South by Presi- dent Johuson to exaining into the condition o afluirs, and he desired to find out all that wus lnuulblu concerning the wishes, purposes, feel- ns,und necessitles of the peoble of this section, We guve him whutever information we could, Alaving been closely catechised, we, in turn, be- camu the hiquisitor, and found him plessant, sensible, and but unce disposed to reticence, Iu fact, he showed ability and judgment iuthe questions he propounded, forthiere was a logleal cupngetion in thew all. Weu remember with the utmost distinctnuss that be did not speak of Mr. Duvis then as ho is reported now, Ho sald Mr, Davis had shaped his plan of campalgn for him theee times; that Vicksburg would never bad [allen but for s apeech he nade ot that historic place; that lis (Grant's) plans wers oltogether differcnt; that he was alinitiz ut another stratevic point, but when e reud what Davis said—that Vicks- bury wus the Glbraltar of the South, the key of the Confuderacy—be sald to himself Davisouzht 1o know what lie {3 tulkiug sbout, and If Vicks- burg {a all that he says shen | will take that key at every buzard. He therefore changed sl of bls plans Instantly sud shsped Lis campalga to capiure the Bouthers Givraltar, Hu spoke of Mr, Davis’ want of wisduni In not concealing his views better, and tho fujury he intlicted upon the cause he had at beart by bis ludiscrectutter- ances from time to time, ‘W do uot wention this to jojure in the least an uged statesman and soldler we very greatly houor, but to show how Grant tulked ln 1585, Grand did uot pralse elther Gen. Leo or Uen. Juckson. He sald Lee's great truit or quality o8 a commander was in his Ib“ll{ to exclto en- thustasus ko bis troops, sud that he was u gool nun, repeatiug the Jast two words. Ho sald ackson wus u brave wmun, but a futallst. He ceosured President Davle for bis tolly {n re- moviug Gen. Jou Johnstou, ** who way conduct- fug the cawvaign a2 @ soldier,’ to quote hla exuct languaie, and that Hood was u gallaut fellow without bralus. 1o thouzht Brugg the weakest wan ou either side, with the exeention of Hood. We could reproduce, it necessary, the whole couversation alinost fu the language aud order in which it occurred, ws we had occa- sion to repest It several Lwvato fricuds soon after we wet the Ueweral, aid ft Lecame fuet- faccably fixed In_our mind. He talked ahout his campnign at &hiloh, his relicvine Rosccranz, his campaigm aainst Lee, and other points. ‘That our readers may sen that Grant'a judg- ment of men is by no means {nfallible, we may mentlon that (en. Jue Johinston was tho ouly Confederate he pratsed, and that Sherldan fa his model of a solticr, He told us that on the American continent there waas no greater solidler than Sheridan, snd that {f a milllon soldicrs were to be putin the field to fight & forelgn power he woull select the mill-burner and slaser of ola Indlans and children to command thém, * NOBILITY OF CIARACTER ATTRSTED IN RVERT LING "'—SIMPLE, CALM, AND TRUTHFPUI— ““RARECANDION, 8AGAUITY, MODESTY, SOLDIER- LY INSIGHT, AND GENENOSITY." Ruttand (1) Teraid, Gen. Grant’s nobility of character Is attested Jo every line of the very Interesting articlo which we republish to-day from the New York Herald. It is = report by n currespondent of the Ierald of varlons conversations held with (en. Grant, In_the course of which the interviewer sncceeded fo_drawing from the General some account of his military campalgns, his judg- ments respecting the ability of certain leading Generals on both the Federal and Confederate skles. Nohody can read this report without feeling that Hamilton Fish spoke the truth when he described Grant os the most unsclfish, true-nearted man he ever knew. The impressiveness of Grant's character I felt by friends and foes altke, It was only the other day that Col. Mosby expressed thie conviction that Girant was the only Repub- lican that had any constituency large enough to make him a formiuabte candidate for the Presidency on the Republican ticket, and ex- 8enator Lyman Trumbull, a Democrat, xaid it was remarkable what afeeling there was for Grant for the next Preskient among the Re- publicans. _1le belicves that Grant will be the next Republican nominec. In this conversation, os reported by the Hera'd correspondent, Grant appears in the light of amwan of raro candor, sagacity, mod- eaty, soldierly Insight, and gencrosity. This great man has evidently no spice of prejudice or malice tn his composition. ~ Ho ls as cool In his measure of his contemporaries as he was on the Lattle-fieid, It s no wew thing for Grant to spenk with grateful admiration of Sheridan and Bherman, but his nature is equuily noble when he measures Buell, Hancock, Butler, ant Biair, men who were never his Intimates, and by most of whom he has at one time or another been regarded with hos- nlity, Gen. Butler, who once ralled him o butélier, Is_ described by Girant as s soldier, brave, energetie, and full of resource, who, un- der more friendly _circumstances, would have achleved renown. Blalr, who sald Grant would never ‘‘leave the Whilo House until he waa carried out dead,” {s pletured as hoth a brilllant aud an able Heneral, and 1lancock, who was ones ostranged from (irant, Is spoken of in the hand- somest terma, _Uen. Buell, who has more than once attacked Grant In the press, is described as possessed of a military genjus that was compe- tent to any undertaklug, while Joe Johnston (s placed above Lee, not In personal character, but iu soldierly capacity, Grang admitting that he nover was so uncasy as when confronted by Joe Johnston, To the charge that the Wilderness campalgn cost him 100,000 men, ko replies that his exact loss in killed, wounded, and stragglers was onl . _He does equal Justics to Jef- ferson 3["‘, Juckson, Warren, Mlcade, McDow- ell, Logau, Stone, McPherson,and Halleck, speak- ingz asdispassiouately ot Rebiel as Federal, of tho unlucky as successful. Perhaps thomost retnark- abie passage In the report ts whero the natural humanity of Grant's characier crops out in the foltowing statement: *‘1 was never more e- lizhted at anything," sata the General, “than the close of the War, I never liked servicoin the army—not as & {uunu oflicer. I did not want togo to West Doint. My appolutment waa an accident, and my father had to use his authority to make ma go. I never went lnoto s battle willingly or with enthusinsm. I was always 2lad whena hattle was over. [ never want to command another army. I take no fn- terest fu armics, When the Duko of Cam- bridge asked me to revicw his troops at Alder- shot, I told his Royal Highnees that the onu thing I never wanted "to sce again was a mill- tary parade. When 1 reslzaed from the army and went to m faem I washappy. When thie Rebetifon came 1 returned to the service be- causn It was my duty.”? “Tne ehinple, calm, truthful constitution of thls great man's mind, tnakes him the finest type of unpretentious, unostentatious Ameri- cun manhood that has crossed the water siuce Emerson. Wo note with plensure that Gen, Grant speaks of Scuntor Edinunds as s man, though frequently aiffering with him on publie tuestions, always personally fricndly sod al- ways truc and honorablo under all circum- stances. EXCEPTIONS TARER TO GRANT'S ESTINATES OF BOUTIBRN MEN—IIA SILENCE AnOUT 1830 THOUGAT TO BY BIGNIFCANT, Augustn (Ga.) Crunicle, The Now Yorl llerult’l continues to glve an account of Gen. Girant's progress among the crowned heads, nod his oplolon of men and matters otineeted with tho * Rebelllon.” The last bateh fa really Intercsting. Of Jefferron Duvis the ex-President has o pronouinced and even high opinlonr. . . . Wao consider this lofty praiss of Mr. Davis, coming frow the source it docs, but Geo. (rant forizets to men- tlon that ahout thirt; forelen nationalities were “aroused " aalnat the Houth, as well as the “ young men of the North. Of ‘tieu, Ben Butler the ex-President speaks In—strango to ray—most ravishing terms, as it he wauted to bottle up tbat potential fnd!- vidual's wrath. o+ . . This may lave the effect fntended of completely vaptivating old Ben, but wo doubt it. Not many months ago we lieand him speak of Grant in terms the re- versa of complimentury; but there Is no telling what flattery may do in this wicked world, Of Stoucwall Jackson, we are told that ho died too kuan for 8 prooer estimate of his abih- tv: that “If he had attempted on Sheridan the tactivs hic nttempted 80 miceessiully on others he would not only havo been beaten but de- atroyed. We ratlier think there would have been Mttle left of Sheridan had Stenewall cn- countered him. Gon. Lee is dwarfed In Grant's opinion, e speaks in these terma of the fllus- trious Confederate commmander: *“Lee wasof a slow, conservative, cautious nuture, without im- agination or humor, always the same with grave dienity. I never could sée In his achicvemeuts what fustitled his reputation. ‘The fltusion that nothing but heavy odds beat him will vot stand the ulthnats light of history, 1Kkunow it s not true,” , . . Jtinust beobserved that Grang speaks of Leo only ina mititary polnt of viow, and does not touch his ludividual character, Whilo we think his estlinate of Lep incorrect, it Is frauk, aud ho nuturally shirank from couslder- ing bimvas o man and a soldler, 'Thy perfect charucter, In jts glorious combination, might well junke the ex-President quall, ‘When (irant tricsjto]imske out that the two sections were about evenly matched, and that the Buuth had as many men under arms oy the North, he descends to sophistry and fiction, It 1s & falschood, known to the world at large, If not to Gen. Grant, Besiles, no account i taken of the naval superiority of the North and the deadly effect of wun-boats in our rivers and nieu-of-war _bluckading our cosst. Eliminute the United Btates navy, and Grans would vever bave been President. Wa are for the first time informed why Mosby became such a friend of Grant. , . . Mos- by's gratitude secms to Le superior to bis putriotism, snd is tho longest-lived on record. ’l’llmru must be something else behind the cur- tuin. .\hm(!I Bouthern men will be strorised to hear that Grant's relations with Gon. Hancock “lisve always rematned on the most cordial fouting.” Uraut agrees with éx-Prosident Davis that Albert Siduey Johnston was the greatest of Bouthern Generals, but he died too soan. The ticueral winds up with cluboraf enes plinsell. 1le never Hked service In the ariny; did uot want to go to West Poiot; was Flu when the War ended; never went intos battle willingly: was glad when the tighting wus over: never wants to command another ariny; takea uo interest In armies; was happy as b frrmer, but curbed Uis feellngs simply out of o high regard for Providence, of course, Ho dwd not want the Presidency, and yet he says his clection was a great gratiffeation. He declined peremptorily to run for u third term, Ho fore- a “erippled Admiulstration.” Ho was ;Lfi: ot uilice, and left the Presideucy with etrhit, All of this muy or may not be true. On one subject he preserves silence, and that1s » third term {n 1850, If theso utterauces of Grant do not mean his willinguess to ba the Republican candidate fu 1850, what do they meani refer- Y PHOVEY MIS MAONANINITY AND CANDORK." Eimtva ddcertlser, The last talk ot Uen., Graut is bulictined by the New York fera'd correspondent from Ham- burg. It is about the War and chief command- ers, and proyes the msgusnimity aud candor vf Lis eriticlsta upon the mien aud the time, Ie alludes, ulso, to sowe portious of his ¢ivil Ad- miolstration and the reasou why s third term would have been lnopportune, * He testitles to ko loyulty and splendid figutiog qualitles of hls Lieutcuants und curps commanders aud utters a dispsssionate oplufon upon thuse of the Bouth, He thiuks that Gen. Lee was over- ruted,—he did not bave the skil for which he was rated as Commander-ju-Chiel. He rather gave the mpalw to Gen, Joc Juhuston, whe did pot eecure bis just desirts from the South. Leo was high-toned, the pet of the chivalry, sfucere o convictlons of duty, but wanted dash aud. mn;ilneu-: promptoess, acvord- fvg to Jef? Davls. “Fhe latter, Indeed, bas ex- pressed about the sawe opiojun as Gen. Graut, whather from plguo or as the result of calm udgment. Stincy Johnston and Stonewall nckson, gave promiso of rea commandera, but he thinks that the Cromwelllan solidier would have found plenty fo do had he lived to have met Sherman and Sherldan on Inter flelds, As regarda Jackeon, he divlded milltary study at West Point with religion. e was woremit- ting in the pursuit of his profession. Gen. Si- ney Jotinaton was & dashing soldier, and beloved by his men. e led by affectlon as well ns commanded, The Conlederscy met with an ir- reparable loss when he fell at Shiloh. Com- gnrnd with (ten. Joseph Johnston, he places Idney second. Tle praiees the Northern and Western corps-commanders, carefally discrimi- nating each one’s fitness and abitity, and apolo- Izes for mistakes. He even relieves Gen, But- er from the ignominious term of * bottlcd up.” It was not meant in the sense na caught up by the public. He eives Justive to Gen. Btone anil to Gien, Warren, who did not know how to obey promptly. He thinks that Meade (i as well as any other General would have done handiing & strange army. Jt 1a evident that Shermun and 8herldan completely flled his eye, He thinks that 8heridan Is the General of most nfinite re- sources. There {s nothing he nttempta but ho will do. (Gen. Girant elings to the idea that we ought to have bad 8t, Domingo sa A navai sta- tion and to command our place among the West India Islands. Tle says that President Johngon was bound to make ‘‘treason odlous’ hy arresting Gen. Lee. Ile was given to understand that the Lleutenant-General would resign did he carry .out such an onder, in violation of the terms made by Gen. Qrant with Lee. Mr, Seward put his foot down and th® matter ended. The (eneral decided that ho wauted no third term with the persistent {nfluences which would be brought. to bear to vilify his actions and cripple his Admin- lstration. The Genernl vindicates his ability to talk, ta cxpress discriminating opinfons, to prss unpartisan judgment, when the occasion war- rants. Hctween him and Sherman there was a three weeks cloud when Sherman’s volumes l#mnn.‘d on the War, but when lo sat down to thelr thorough perusal he was so thorourhly convinced of the truthfulness of the writer that the cloud was dissipated Into thin alr. Ho nssed a high estimato on the lamented Me- herson. 1le acouted entirely the romance about the battle of Lookout Mountain. Infact, there waa no real battle there. These table talks of Gen, Grant are very Instructive ns well as Important. A CONFEDERATE VIEW OF THR BATILE OF SIILOM—ORART NOT A GENERAL, BUT SIMPLY ““TNR MASTER MECITANIC WIIO HAD CHARUE.! Nushrilie (Tenn.) American. Gen. Grant Ia not happy in his denlal of o sur- prise st Bhiloh. The Confederates left their camnplng grounds on Friday, and marched and bivouacked In the rain that day and night, Next day they wers marching and getting into gnnulon along the line. Friday night ur Satar- lay morning & considerable Federal scouting porty was captured, with an ofllcer—If we ro- member richtly, a fleld_officer. - Nono of thess smovementa appear to have arouserl a auspleion of & fcnurnl movement, for the Confederates attacked early Sunday morning and drove in the outpusts, and at ouce assafled the encmy In thelr camp. It Gen. Grant was not surprised, the other horn of the dllemma s worsy for him as a General. Certninly, if he knew of a gencral movement. or even of a reconnols- sance in force, he would bhave atrengthened his outposts and prepared for battle, Whether he ‘was surprised or not,it is eertain that his troops were, and it {s Inconcelvablo that u comtmander would have allowed his army to rest in security, and his maln line unprepared to receive an at- tack In thelr tents from an army which had been an entiro du{ getting futo position on his front and two entire days out from Corinth, 1f Gen, Grant was not surprised, ho eertalnly should have occupled a better’ position than that in which ho inet the first shock. It was low and ,c(:;t. easily assailale, and survounded by mwch fter positions, 1f he was not surprised, his nanuor of meeting an approaching enemy ought to have surprised his trlends. Gen, (rant, moro- over, saysthatso confldent was hoot belngz ableto contend with the enemy slono on Monday that he on8unday evening ordered anadvance slong the whole line at4 o'clock inthe morning. Ity very stange that he was so confident he could do on Mondny what he totally failed todo on Bunday, when hls army was driven back to the river aod the flower of his troops captured. Agaln, If he was able toadvauce at 4 and confident of his abllity to meet_the enemy, it ia strange that he should, with Buell’s force ad- ded, have awnited the attack on Monday until Iate in the morning, instead of advanclng at 4, Qen. Grant displayed no gencralship at Shilol. Modern warfars {s tho directlon of ascertalned forcea to produce a calculable re- sult, and Grant was slmply the master moechanle who had charge. lis ainfities of a certaln kind were unquestionable, but they did not cnabie ‘him to avold what was to hinr s crushing defeat at Shilob, nod one he haa never before alluded to. ‘¢ 1118 BINCRMITY CANNOT DE QUESTIONED,' Bugin (wurier, In Gen, Grant'sconversutions with the Jfera'd interviewer he referred to his 8t, Domingo an- nexation scheme. As he flrst broaoched this favorite project in his second aonunl messace, and could not refraln fromn referring to it oven in bis cighth and last annual document of the sume kiud a few months before e retired from ollice, lis sincerity in_this matter cannot pos- sibly be questioned. He was unquestionnbl canvinced that thescheme would preatly benefit the country, That there could Ls mon who as sincerely and earnestly thought that the annexation of the island—for Hayt! would soon have sbared the fute of ¥an Doming: wouid be a Pumiu calamity, is beyodd the ex-President’s comorehenslon, Ile refera in the Interview to Messrs. Bumner and Schurs as tho roverse of “'good and honorable men,"” and refuses ta sdmlt that Mr, Sumner could have opposcd the schetne for cunscientions rea- sona. The late Massachuscits Senator perhaps mever rendered a greater service to his country than when o opposea this measure. Yet Geri Grant is evidently unable to understand that there could be tivo onlnlons on the subject. “ooon‘wum‘n YOR ALL." 88, Loulx 3 Tt is very hard to recoguize our glum and tacl- turn ex-President in the loquacious gentlemun who fllls the columns of the New York Herald with, Lis views, dpinions, and conversations upon inen and things; but those who have been admitted to svclal futimacy with Grant say that when once la has couquered his nat- ural rederve he changes intoa great conversas tionalist, and that hia talk 1s ns free and un- rained oa it |s Interesting, . Jtis vertalnty pleasure to nnte that the ex-President's later utterunces have Mitle of that rancor und per- sonal bitterness which his friends regretted to note, Ho has notbing but guod words for all, recognizes the merita und ubilitics of enemles aa well as friends, snd he {s cvidently under- Rouinz & judicious course of tralnlug for that ihird term which he refuses to accept, ‘I'Imm: 70 ;lim'fi" urrsburg Teleqraph, . When Gen. Grant observed strizt slience, do- elining to tutk Ellhly with casual callers on pub- lfc aflairs, the Democratic press spcered at hin for his lack of conversatfonal power; uow that ho fecls at lberty to talk, us all private citizens may, the same authority denouuces him ns a blabber. [t ts hard to please people always under the control of thelr projudices, SWISKI TIAN It was." Ruracuse Courier, ‘That was a very modest, pretty little speech rant made at Hambure, Germany, on the Fourth of July. [t shows the General has grown wiscr thun ho was wuen he claimed tho l'ru(dem:{l waa his personal perquisite, und was no more than the country owed 1o him as its savior. It may be a sbrewd bid for auother term; but never mind, it was very good. YN0 wONDER, ! Loutavitia Churier-Jinrnal, Qrant'a obacrvations sbout the battle of Bmlal{a which we print this mornfog, do not coinclde “with the opinlons of other military men on Loth sides, Grant was o whipped inan at 8hiloh, and Buell's coming alone saved him, It is no wonder that * muauy people Jook upon 1t aa a defcat, ¥ as Grant remarked. “DENJAMIN LIKES IT." Washingtan i, Grant says It Is the fashion to abuss Butler, and that it lsall wrong, We don't sce why Qrant should shed auv tears over {t. Benjaniin lkes It He never 18 st peace untess be {s at war. “uis IXCIIIDII"I KINDNESS.' aln s Ihgala Express. Itis poticed thus Gen. Uraat bas not ono word tosay about Uea. McClatian; bub it sin- rlly shows bls exceediog kindoess to that gen- leman, —— FProm Whest to Uriddle-Cakes Ioslde of Four Minut Curroltgn Democrat, At 4 o'clock six minutes und ten seconds the reeaper drawn by Cy Buruett's dun mules, aud driven by Wili 'Turpio, stood atthe coruer of tho growlug wheat, machine in gear, ready for ustort. Men were stationed every few feet slong the e of graln ready to selzo an arminl 28 1t fell from the reaper snd rush with it to thy thresher close by, woich, uuder the direction of the veterun drivers, Buckiughum and Hum- vlirevs, was geting - under way for busiucas. Acthe will, just eixteen rods away, Lawton atood et thy window watchlng the momeut when McCaw, tho swifteat borse Iu the county, should start from the thrusher with the grale, whblle Mre. Luwton end her biece, Miss Alice, bLsa all the prepara- tious wade to wmake griddic-cakes and bisenita in the shortest possible {tme, At the drop of the hat the dun mules sprang to tho work, andin one minnte and filteen seconds the threshed whent, about o peck, was In the Anck and on the lorse, and the race commenced for the mill. Thera were two bridiges to crosa, and the exelted spectators could oniy sec o column of dust, heara couple of taps on the T"""‘ bridges as tho horses flew over them at fghtniug aperd, and the wheat was delivered to Lawton in the mill. In a minute and seven- teen acconds the flour was delivercd to M Lawton, aud in three minutes and Aifty-five scc- onds from the starting of the reaper the flrat griddic-cake from the hands of Miss Alice was gobbled by a dozen eazer hands,'and that was the lust of It. In four minutes and thirty-seven seconds from the starting of the reaper, accord- Ing to the best double-timer stop-watch in the country, hekl by Charley Brackey, a pan of Lis- culta was delivered to the bungry crowd by Mra, Lawton. ARMY NEWS. IEADQUARTERS OF TIIE ARKMY, ‘Wasnixotox, D, C.—Llent. R. T. Iloxie, Corns of Engineera, will report to the Engincer Commln- sloner District of Columbin, fordnty as one of the sealslants to natd Commissioner. The following-named men have been ordered to be dlscharged: Corporal Dennls Burkhett, Com- pany I Sixth Infantey; Willlam Clansen, Com- pany K, Twenty-sccond Infantry; Privates John Cufl, Battery €, First Artillery: John Murphy, Company C, Twenty-third Infantry: Frank M, Parker, tieneral Bervice: Panl Casriinir, Ordnance Corps; and Charles 1l Warner, Company H, Eighteenth Infantry, DEPATVIMENT OF DAKOTA, Heapquanrenas Fonr 8xzLuixa, Minn, —The nne derrigmed bereby resumes command of this De- partment. Alfred 1I. Terry, Brigadier-tieneral, U.CB A John F. Weaton will proceed from Helena to Forts Shaw ang Lienton, M. T\, on public rer fce connectad with the Snbeirtence Department. Capt. Il B. Freeman, Seventh Infantry, will Frocct‘d. vin the Missourl River, to join his post at Fort Shaw, At the reqnest of Inspector 4, H, Hammond, Indian Department, Secoud-Lient, F. F. Kisling- bury. Elevonth infantey, witl procecd on public rervice from Standing ltock Agency, D. T., to Fort Peck, M. T. DEPARTMENT OF THE PPLA'TTE. HiEADqUARTENS, OMAnNL DARRACKS, Nob.—A Qeneral Coust-3iartial was convencd at this poston the 20th of July. Detall for the Court: Maj. Charles Pago. Surgeon; Capts. Frederick Mears, ‘Thomean . Tinrrawa, Ninth Infantry: Jolin Livers, 3 1€, 3 Fieat-Lieuts, Alfred Morton, Nin/ fantry; Waltor ¥, Schuyler, A, D, . ; and W. L. Carpentee Ninth Infantry, dudgo-Advoeate, Upan the recommendation of the Chief Pnymas- terof the Department, Maf, 11 . Thoman will delay at tho end of the pay tour asslened him, to pay (on_retuculng to his atatlon nlslvlno{ Har- r:u‘l(!( the troops at Forts Fetterman and MeKin. nay.(including Col. Merrltt's command) for the muster of Ang, 31, Acting-Assistant Surgeon J, J. Marston, will re- rnrl. m person to the commanding officer Camp Jovin, on Littlo_Siweonrl, for duty. Acting-An- wistant Sargeon I, L. Ureen, now at Camp Devin, wlll report in person to Medical Director of the Denartmont for nunulmont of contract, Secoad-Lieut, Witltam Gerlach, Third Infantry, will repart In person to the commanding oficer Fort Fotterman, V. T,, for temporary Garrlson Court-Maurtial daty. DEPARTMOENT OF TIIE MISSOURI. HBanquantens, Fonr LEavexwontm, Kan.— Acting-Assistant Surgeon A, L. Comfort will pro- ceed to Fort Lyon, Colorndo, and report to the commanding officor. The following named men upon thefr discharge will be furnished with teausporiation and sub- sistence from Fort Biayard to Santa l’c, New Mex- ico, the nenroat point nt whicn a Paymaster ls sationed: Corporal Iasac Bmith, Company B, Privates itichurd Milter snd Wilhiam Watson, Com- pany €, Ninth Cavalry. DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO, HeAnQuanTERs, SANTA 'R, N. M, —Flrat-Liout. L. If. Rucker, Ninth Cavalry, will proceed to El Moro, Col., and recelve anu nesign to the Ninth Cavalry a detachmont of aixty recraits In accord. ance with tho recomniendations of the regimental commaader. Lieut, 3L W, Day, Ninth Cavalry, will accompany Lieat. lRucker for duty with the detachment. 1n obedlenca to tnatenctions from hoadqunrters Depariment of the Missourl, the 'ost of Fort Craig, New Mexico, will bo abandoned, and the following inatructions will b carrled out withont nnnecessas ry delay: Maj, N. W, Osborne, Uifieenth Infant- !'l]. s assignod to the command of Fort Dilss, ‘cxns, Company G, Fiftecnth Infantry, is nse signed to the Postof’ Fort Bnyard, Now Mexico, and to tomporacy daty guarding Indian prisonors, ublic butldings, oic., ut Ojo Callente, New Mox- K:u. Company A, Fifteentts Infantry, i aasienod to duty at Fort Lilas, ‘Texis, ‘Tho detall on duty ot Ojo Callents belunging 1o Company A will at onea be recalled to Fort me ant move with the company, to Fore i, Tras-Licut, ‘Thoodore Smith, liteenth Infautry, will remain on duty and 1 chargo of the bulldings and proparty at Fort Cralg untll further ordera, In obedience Lo Instructions from Headquartora Dapartment of the Miwourl, tho pust of Fort Sel. den, New Mexico, will be abandonced, and the fo! lowing Instzuctions will ba cacrled out without us necesmary delay: 1rat-Liout, W. 0. Cory, [if- teenth Inhuh‘{. will continne on duty at Fort Scl- den untll furthor orders, and horeattor bo subject to tho orders of the commanding ofticer at Fort Blias, Tox. Mo}, N, W. Osborng, Fifteenth In- Tautry, will, ll‘xun his araniming command of the pust of Fort Blisa, causeall such stores needed for uee at (hat post to bo transferred from Fort Seldon, MISCELLANEOUS, Maj. Chatles J. Wilson, Paymaster: Second- Liouts. I. E. Roblnson, Fourth Infantry; John M. Baldwin, Fifth Artiliery; Jaues B3, Goe, Thire toenth Infuntry; Copt. Thomas B, Dowees, Third Cavalry, —————— JUNE ROSES, \hen wo aro old, and our llyes are bending *Neath the lieuvy lond of weary care, I'he swoct June rosen, their perfumes sending, Tell of a )ife that s aiwaya fair, They whisper of peaco and welcome freedom, Of gardens of Jove and endless youth, Whero treasurea torn from our earthly kingdom Come back to ua in the hght of truth. Ah! swoet rosce, whlle breathing your perfume, 1 think that maype God knew the best ‘When Ilu took, n all thelr falr, bright beauty, Sy tlowers to fils aternal rest, The thouuht brings comfort to still my monrning, Whess my heart {u filled with wild despair, “Ihiat, whoro the luve of iny youth is waitiug, Are gatherud for aye the good and fair. It norves my hand whon with toll ‘its weary, find eaes th aclia it iy tirobbing broaat, For the way Is lung, and lite so droary, And 1 bitsorly turit from seotning rest, 1 think of a time when, wisdom rcarning, 1100k the (airest that Earth could bring, And looked ot Lifu as a long, bright worning, With naught to do but to laugh and sing, Dutsoon Earth's froit turncd as dust and ashes, And crumbled and wastod h\mmy hand; The dreams of Youth § had heuped together Were washed as u nsine from the yellow sand. And, though to the youny Lifo's fair and tendor, '0 the old it is bitter, dark, aud hnrd; \ Fot beurtw are broken, and idois shattered, And lives grow hardoned, audueswed, and scarrod, I'm hrushing the wehs from Memory's vists, And luoking back at my earty lifos Aud deeds are rising from ghostly chambeors, 'That have hielped, not bindered, earthly steifo. And, though it is hard, 1 can but seo it, That, had 1 beoo wisor, 1 had not done Deods that have made Life's toll seem the harder, And have not sdded to Life's groat sum. Yer, Lifo lv bitler; but, bending over ‘These, sweut Juno rases, 1 taink (jod knows, Aud sees, and plties the bleeding footprints ‘That wark the thorns whore the etray one goes. And T sometimes think our Heavenly Father Ulvea tho sweetest rest from care and palny ‘To xouls that have vassod the fery furnace, Aud bronght through the fire no earthly gain, Franvweixuy, 11 118 BTONER, Carelosanoss of Min Corvespondence Neto York Yimes. In‘ouldImnnmruilymnpuml that a sense of constant dauger would nake mfuers cau- tlous above other men; but tho fucts go to prove thut It only makea them {ndlfferont and ucglectful of the most ordinary precuutiona. A uuwiber of men are killed uvcr{ {mr while lmndllnglrluum&‘\nm‘dcrwl:hthflr Ihted lamps dansiing from thelr caps, ‘The looscly-nuuz lamp tumbles o8 aa the miner bends over his powder-can, or drops a spark from a crusted wick, und the couscquence is a disastrous ex- ploslou. Others are Lilled by vonturing too uear a blust. Edward Dowd, at the Lebigh Colltery, “fired 8 shot ™ (Auglice, Nghted o blast), und came very noar lulhue kis *butty by neglecting to mention the clreumstance fu timo to permit the latter to cscape. A few min- utes alter he fired wnother shot, retreated o 8 saly position, und stuck hls head out to wateh the explosion. [t came, and o fylog plece of voul struck the expused head, snd put av end to its dangerous owner then und there. At an- other colliery Mictael McDouald and Williamn Boner met thelr deatbs by what Iuspector Gay plumply calls **sulcide.” They had been warned by thelr fellow-workmen of th davgerous ~ condltion of the roof unde which they were working, and,ss the warn fusz was unheeded, the boss stopoed their cars, 0 that they could seud vut uo wore coal uutil they complled with his order to make thelr breast sccure. They then placed theniselves directly under tho dangerous roof, and drilled n hole in {t for the purpose of patting in & blast, when down came flficen tons of coal un their heads, and both mien were taken out dead. John Thomas was warned by bin bose ot to handle powder with a lighted lamp on his head. Next day_ John Thomas opened a keg of powder and sat himacl! down heside ft, lamp aud ali, to make a cartridge, snmuhln5 iy pened, and John Thomas was burned to m\t'l’.' ndrew Geaghan was Jonding o car with coal, His trother told him to cotne nway, the rool waa working; but Andrew sald ho wanted to il the car first, and while dolng so the raof fell, kitling him. Benuel Wise, n miner, fired a biast which shook, but did not immediately bring down sonte cont for which lie was work- oz Ho cautfoned his iaborer not to go near the place, as it was dangerous; but a few minntes afterward took his r!ck and began working at the trembling mass himself, ang, of course, was burled under It wihen It fell. Martin tirecley, Anthony MeAndrews, and Jolin Gavan blasted down part of an unsafe roof in thelr breast, and, as Gavan sald, * tried to got it (the rest) down, but did not try very hord; wo thought 1t would stand; we ought to have put s nrng under §t;" but thought it would old a little longer, and Greeldy was killed by [ta ' unexpected " fall. Whiat killed Thomas Hoskins may be_leat re- Iated In the vikor language of Inspector Wiillams B. Joues: ** e was cngaged in taking out pillars, and had worked out the bottom conl, leaving the top coal hanging tor over fivo yarde, and that having n louse end on threo sides; this left it with no support, only tho end Joiniug the pilinrs. Ile was elther pitching voal back from under {t, or was working out a plece of conl in the battom tier, when about fiftecen tans of coal fell upon bim, killing him inatattly. This custom n(" leaving extcnsive arcns of top coal hanging with no }m);ls under It is very dangerous, even in regu- nr chawher working, but_in robbing pillar it Is. a hundredfold ore so. There are but few men who are competent to do this work of robbing the pillars, and [Toskins was not one of them," A very long list of accidnnts trotu falls of roofs, cansed by insuificlent propping, proves thetruth of Mr. Joncs’ remarks. THE GOURTS. Record of Judgments, New Bults, Tax Argu. ments, Criminal Matters, Ete, The Aesign ¢ of the Grent Western Insuranco Comnany flled hissemi-occaslonal report yester- day, which is as follows: Cash on hana April 1 825,287 Receipta since. U, 242 Total. i 31,030 Pald out, chlefly for attorne: BIENCO'S {UR. e vocs ue oo o oo 6,200 Balance on hand.ciues vees 400826,0330 J. K, Murphy, Assignecof the Chieago Fire- Insurance Company, makes the following re- vort: Cash on hand Jaly 1,.. Disburssments. .. .- Dalanceon hand..ivveesirsesns seeenens 817,205 The State Insurance Company showlug is as follows: Cash Aprill .. Recelpt 817,450 . 1,40 " Tolal Pald ont,. Dalance on handi,veeeseecrescanen A NICB POINT OP LAW. James P. (irund yesterday filed a bll} nzainst Bernard Cavanaugh, Martha J. Eills, Sarah B, Lingle, Join 11, Mcrryman, Michael J. Dunne, and Larjssa I’ Grund to set astdo cortaln con- veyances. Complutnant says that in 1863 his father, Francls o, Grua d, leaving a will which provided ns follow: lenve all my real and -personal cstate to my wife, Larissa P, Grund, trusting to her natural affection for her son Jamnes to make such provisions for him as wlll beat sccure Wim that share of my property to which he would be otherwise entitled.” Amone the property of the deccased was Lot 59 Jn Prussing’s Buhdivision of the ., fl of the 8, W, of Bee. 2, %), ‘13, ond this Mrs. Grund, in 1872, sold for 81,050, and by mesne conveyances 1t passed {nto the possession of Berpard Cayv- anaugh, one of tha defondants, Complalnant allegzes that thowiil in fact doea not give his mother anything absolutely, but merc¢ly makes her a Trustes to hold the property of his father for his benefit, subject mcrely to her dower right; that auy one who bourht of her was bound to ace” that the procceds of tha salo went to the ceatul que trust, and, she hav- ing diverted tho funds, the purchaser was responsible for the amount. ' Complalnant therefore asks that the salo may bo set usldo, and the land reconveyed to him, or_that the do- fendants, through whom the land has gone, may be compelled to account to him .for tho amount ol the purchuse money. DIVONCES. Harrtet A. Raudall filed her bill for divorco yesterday from George F. Randall on the ground of desertion. Fred Otto ulso put In a prayer for a similar flecroc on avcount of the unfalthfulness of his wife, Mary Jane, to her marriage promiscs, And Jofianna Wellmann also chose yesterday 08 the day to renounce her allegiatice to her huaband, 1lenry C. Wellmanp. She says lic hus been for years ‘In tho habls of getting drunk i“m abuslng hery, and she cannot stand it any longer. Honora O'Ilaron was marricd in tho fall of 1678 to Martin O’Hlaron, but about four mouths afterward he broke up housckeevlog in & somne- what sumtary inanner by selliug off his furni- turs, and thea pitchine "all the provisions and fually his wifo out of tho window, telling her at the sume thno to go and take cars of herself, Bhe has supported herself ever since, but thinks shie would breathe freer 1€ ahe could get rid of his cquity of redemption in her, and so nsks for thu usual deereo of divorce. Lastly, Johu W, Hodge complains that his wite, n 1874, found ler marriage bonds too atriet, and feft him for the soclety of other men, He repeatedly wsked her to comw back, but whe refused, and now he rays she shall not, cven thouwh sho wished to do sv, 1TEMa. Judze Blodaett left on his vacatfon last oven- g, fiml;;cn Murphy and Balley, of the Appellate Court, left for hume veaterday. i Juage Jameson will buar motions this morn: ng. UNITED RTATES COURTS. ‘The Illinois Contral Ralivond ConlBln( com- [l d a suft yesterday agalnst J. D, flarvey, United States Internal “Revenus Collector, ning $50, It scems that the Company recently declartd o dividend on which the United States lovied its usual tax. ‘The Com- paoy pald the tax, but now sceks to recover it on the ground that the dividend was not taxa- hle, not having been declared out of the ocarn- uges of therond, DANRRUFTCY MATTERS. ! John P. and Eduwmnd Q. Jugersdll, privters, at No, 41 Clurk street, under the nume of In- eersoll Bros., went Into -bankruptey yesterds ‘Cheir preferred debts -arc 8142, and the uni cured 814,519, Tho uiscts cousiat vl notes, §160; stock of paper, candboard, cte., in thelr privt= ing busjncss, §200; stock of oil-stoves, cte,, 84003 type, presscs, cases, fIxtures, etc., H open accounts, 84,0175 sud cash, alo. George W, énmnmxll was yosterday sppolnted Assigneo of Warren M. Hrown; Charl Lusk, of Frances F. Browne; aud It fus for Prutt & Lawler, ‘Tho creditors of Boemer & Beomer accopted acomposition of 20 per cent, payable vn tho contirination of the comuosition. Asalgnces will bechosen at 10 a. m. to-day for mis ‘T, Palmer, for Auzust and Albert Grundics, and for Albert D, Bingham, BUFERIOR COURT IN DRIRP, The Georgo K. White Haruwood Lumber Company betzan a sult yesterday sguinst Arthur Bell, cluiming §1,600, CIRCUIT COURT:. Qertrude Uthe began n sult for 87,000 agninst Mtorton Culyer und Michael Gormley, John Hassett sued James C. aud Tlitls 8. Mackay and E. F. Ureen for 81,000, John Campbell broughit suit for $2,000 againat Willlum Burke. TUE COUNTY COURT. Mr, Adams coucluded bls urgument In the clty tax cuses yeaterday about 11 o'clock, after speakilug for over two days, Ho road from authoritics to show that taxes had beea lovied {n 1573 for the year 1857, under au cnabling act of 1942, tho caso belng where the property bad been destroved fu L by fire, und whero the Court held that the power to levy taxes by the Lewtslaturo was unlimited, cte. Binilar ralings were vited Ju lowy, Ohlo, Calliornla, and Cun- peetleut, from which be argued that the power of the Legisluture of [llinots to leyy taxes was sll-poaerful, und that - the wuly remedy the poople had sgmust the abuse of the power was i the cholve of fit represoututives. ‘The City Couuctl, he salil, had suthority under the sct 6f 1877 to levy auy amount for’ the tazcs of I8TT4 within the umouut of the spuropristions for thoss years, but such o levy ald not divest noy \'nlu«(vrh:ln or take any tudivilual’s property” without pro- cess of law: e further contended that thoss who lmdtpfllvl auy part of tho so-calied {tlegzal tons of the avprovriativus could ot huve what they bad pald deducted from the amount claimed as detleieney, but, on the contrary, un- dur the act of 1577, tho city might levy the full amouut of the appropeistion. Iuconclustor, ho urged that the Court Lad wvo right to determioe on the justncss of & tex, o whether fis helng lavied was for or agalng Vi poliey. 'I1 i hnd uch power nver i . of engo, taxation by the representatiy, the peonfa would bo at an end.' e ol Bome discussion then followed ns tothe of the further arguments, when It was ¢ mined that the attoruave for the oblectors should follow, and_that Meas. Bonileli ang Bmith ahoulil follow for the city. . Judge Woadbridge followed for the obfeotorg in a_carcfully-prepared argument, aftor whic; an adjournment was had until this moraing, 4 { al of 0880 for tha mur Balvatore Pletro wns continued VN‘!‘:\:I:{ morning. The evidence had been lh-l-hm”,{ dar hefore, and soon after the Jury fiied jny the room tho Btate's Attorney “proceedod 'y apen the case for the prusccuton. " fTs anos about forty minutes, devoting himself pripe. K““’ to clting authorivies. He was followed |, Mr, Kettell for the prisoner, who spoke ahont two hours, reviewing the evidencn and ey, authoritfes, Mr. O'Brien mado tho coneluding argument for tho prisoner, which was oxha,. tive, eloquent, and forcible, Mr. Milis will . clude for the prosecution this morning, and the cass will be given to the jury about noon, A JUDGMRNTR, HureRion Counrt—Coxressioss—I. 8, Daven. port va. Charles W. Rtichmond, $1,577.10, WISCONSIN AUPREMHE COURT. B Bpecial Diepateh to The Triduns, - MiLwAURER, Aug, 2.—In the case of Bonng va. the Wisconsin Central Ralroad Company and others, in the Supremo Court it fs declany that under the awa of this State, when a ry). road company shall solicit ald fzom any county, clty, or tcwn, the law on that suhicet requiring that the rafirond company shall state “Hirg terms, conditions, and considerations ' on which such ald Is solicited, the *constderation ™ myy be o lawful one, and it.muat ba a valld * congj). eratlon” for the afa granted. In n separay ooinfon, Chief~Justice Ryan holds that only 4 atock aubscription can “anch municipal aid by voted to ralirond companles; that fs that sto.x in the company s the only *‘vonsideration which can be granted for auch aid. I this easg Important polnts arc nleo decided as to the pu. lications of the laws, 1t {s held that the pyp. lieation of an act in the bound volume of sy slon laws, with the usual certificate of the N retary ot State attached, ‘“creates a preeump. tion (hat it became a law In accordance with thy Coustitutton,” 1t {s nlao declded that where, {n the lepistativo Journal, soveral bills are reciteg by their title with the words “was read n thin] thne and passed,” the word *was ' 13 simpls 4 clerlent errory and it will bo lield that the Ly were aeverally passed. Chlef Justice Rvan In his scparnte oplofon holds distinctively tha municipal bonds Issued {n raflrond ald for any otl[xltlsr consideration than stock subscription arg vold. In the case of the Clty of Oconto vs. Tho Chi cago & Northwostern Raflroad Company, thy Supreme Court decides that where, by 4 city charter, the Common Councll have full power over the streots and sldewnlks, and authority 19 keep them In repalr, §f o rallroad company, after coustructing Its road through certain of the strects, ns‘zlcctml, thuugh requested by the Street Commissloners, to restore such streers and the sidewallts thercon to thelr former cop. dition of uscfiingss, as the statutes require, nud 3t the Commissioners procure such repairs toly done, for which payment is made by the city, al| reasonablo expensea so {ncurred by the ety may be recovered from the Company. THE TASIMETER. Tow Edison's Inventton Worked in the Eelipae, w Trlegraph to New York Herald. Rawuins, Wy, T., July 2.— . . Buts new evil soon beeame manifest, A strong wing began blowing the frail pive structures used (o obacrvatorics. These commenced torock. Edi- son’s obseryatory, which, 1n its normal condie tlon, I8 o hen-liousc, was particalarly snscepti. ble. e hurried toward it only to find lus sen- Ivaly-ndjusted apparatus In an extrems e of commotlon. Every vibratlon threw the tasimeter into a new condltion of adjust ment. ‘Fo retnedy tho cvll was far from casv, as thoe time was theu so short and precions it was too late to remove tho apparatus, and sceming. Iy imporslblo to breuk tha force of the wind, which was gradually Increasing Into n tornalo, Hatlees and coatless he ran to a neigliboring lumber-yand, and in a moment a dozen stalwart men were carrying boards with which to prop up the structuro and ercct a temporary ence at lts side, This completed, the chronomater In- dicated half-past 1 o'clock. At thirteon minutes past 3 the moon began to make her flest appearmco between sun and carth, Agaln Edison ndjusted his tasimeter, but only to find that the gale continucd to sway his projecting telescope 8o violently that a satiafactory resnlt was almost Impnln(’blc. A rigaing of wire and ropes soon partlally over. cama the difliculty, and once morc tho “tnstru- wments wero ready for work, Ina fow moments there came from Dr, Dm?cr the anunouncement, # There she gocs,’ nod the crowd of spectators order leter. lmmedmml{ lovelod their smoked giasses at thesun. The moon bad just made hor appear ance, At hall-past 2 p. m, one quarter of tho sun's dlscwasdarkencd with slow but stendy pace. 'The progreas of tha moon coutinued, = In the observatory of Dr. Draper the fall of a pin could bg heard; outsldo slnost equal qulet relgned, Tho ' only placa of dis- order was fn that frall stricture of Edison's. Notwithstandue his eiforts the wind contloucd to mive hlm troudle. In valy he adjusted and readjusted. At 8o'clock three-quarters of the sun's disc was obscured, and darkuoss began to fall upon tho surroundini reglon. Tho hills around were alive with peopla watching for the moment of totality. 1n Dr. Druper’s observa- tary evergthing was proceedlug oxecllent! ‘The force ‘of tho wind had buen broken, Ed- ison’s difliculty scemel to tucrease ns the precious moments uf total cclipsu drew near, At flve minutes past 3 o'clock the sun’s disc was soven-clehiths covered, and tho country around was shrowded in a pale erayisu lght, resembling carly dawn. At a quarter-past 3 darknoss was upon the fuce of tho earth, Too few wmomcnts for which the astronotners had traveled thousands of miles had arrived. 8till Edison's tushweter wns out of adjustuient, Al the other {natiu- menta wero in excellent worklug order. ‘Fotul- Ity had brought with It s marked cessation n tho forco of the wind. Edison worked assldu. ously, but the tasimeter would not come to s proper conditton, At last, just us the chro- nometer tndicated that but oneminute rematned of total eclipse, he succeoded fn concentrating: the light from t‘m coroua upon the small upen- fuz of the instrumont. Instantly the tire ray of light un his graduating scale sivent along tha rght, clearlug ite boandarivs. Ldigon wus overjoyed, The experiuient bad shown the cx- istency of about fiftecn thues more heat in the coruna than that.obtalned from the star Ape turus the previous night, Edlson's tastinoter showod its power to meas- ure tho coronn's heat. It, however, was al. Justed ten thuos too senaitively, Nover having uaed 1t before for a shnllar purpose, ho bad no weans of tolling the degrca of scusitiveness necessary, The heat from the corons threw the ray ot lght entircly oil tho scale, and before ho, could naka the sccond test tho eclipsa had passed uway, Tho experiment demonstrated tha mpared to soinv of tho fixed stats, the corona’s hicat was muth greater, EDLA Dlus-eyed beauty from the Northl Whito thy hosom es its snows; V' afa its Ares ut Yuloti heart within that gl'am. Heur mo and gracious bo: Edlat 1love but thee, Yiold thysolf unto my keeplng, Maiden with (! ut-brown halrg Not n siuglo tress shall whiten, Blanched by sorrow, grief, or care, ‘I'ice ')l chierian ever, Edia, yes, forover! Fair ns Ivory thy forohead, i T 1ke tiuy 8! +tinte : Chueks Whosa blooh shames ail the heath. Ali! thy charmas enchant e Bdla dear, 1lovo thee! Bweet thy words, and breath a8 incanse, Frea thy roundod figure's grace, Modest every thougbt and action, “Fruth i writtun on thy face, "Thee I think of ever: Edla, my heart's treasural With thy yolce and smile to cheer me, 1ardeat 1abor would be play — Thy Iips' fruitage compensation, Tileh reward, for tullsome day, Hopo | yes to win tbeo, Edla, fauitless boauly. Cutcao, i, Aug. 1, 1875, and, Axoon. ———— Bismarck's Little Joke. Oi1 Uity Derrick. After the Congress adjourned the other cven- {ng Blsmarck pubched Beaconatield plavtully fu tha ribs, as the Lwo sauntercadown Aalu atroch and sgid: * Who's Lreatvl ™ ** No particular Individual can clalin ft, w0y dear fricud. ‘The treaty belong toall of us. 1% 13 the product ’'— “Oa, vipo your sbin off; schoot it1" sald m,.- wmarck, lauzlinz, * Tou't you huoterstaut!" and bo repeated very slowly: ** Who's—treat, eb! tri v to e feller if ho vill bat sowe: el up. Beel" fleld tumbled, and stepplog behind 3 ou, exclauned: roen ac 1t wine! s wine! What will you bave!” ¢ Peer,” replicd Bismarck, his taco beawing with good buwor; *elry dimes peer.”