The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-24 00:00:00

NAVAL AND lIIILI7ARY INTELLIGENCE.

Yesterday there was a grand divisional route-
march of the whole of the troops at Alder-
shot, under the command of Lieutenant-General
the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, K.C.B.

The Cavalry Brigade, with two batteries of
Royal Horse Artillery, marched to the vici-
nity of Bagshot, taking up a position near
the Golden Farmer, with pickets oa the right
and left of the road. The 3d Brigade and a battery
of Artillery marched to Frimley-grove, and oa ar-
riving there threw out an advanceAcet towards
Bagshot, communicAting on the right with th,! Ist,
or Major Gen. Renny's Brigade. The latter bri-
gade, with a battery of Artillery, marched by the
North Camp station to Friinley-green, where i: halted
and detached a regiment to the right of the Wind-
mill, communicating with Gen. ilorsford's Brigade
on the left. The 2d Brigade, under Major Gen.
Carey, C. 8., with a battery of Royal horse Artil-
lery, crossed the canal at the Commissariat-bridge,
and recrossed it at Mitchett-bridge. They then occu-
pied a position extending from the sign-post on
the Guildford-road on the right, overlook
iug Henley-park, to General Renny's Brigade,
near the Windmill, on the left. The infan-
try were supplied with five rounds of ammunition
per man. The whole were in position at 11 o'clock,
and about that time General Scarlett inspected the
disposition of the force. Shortly before 12 o'clock
the firing of the artillery announced the approach
of a supposed enemy, upon which the outposts fired
and retired, and the 2d Brigade delivered two or
three volleys, which appeared to have the effect of
checking his advance. The troops returned to
quarters shortly after two o'clock.
The 98th Regiment, now stationed at Aldershot,
is under orders to leave camp as follows : —Head-
quarters and four companies to Newcastle, three
companies to TynemDuth, and three companies to
Sunderland. The 98th will be relieved by the 35th
Regiment, from Portsmouth.

A board of officers has been assembled at the
Royal Marine Barracks, Woolwich, to verify the
services of such men as are about to be transferred
to Chatham. This will be, the first portion to leave
the garrison.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty:—W. V. Miller, paymaster,
additional to the Valiant; and Arthur Chance,
midshipman, to the Royal Alfred.

HORACE GItEELEY ON ABRAHAM

LINCOLN.

On the 3d instant Mr. Horace Greeley delivered
a lecture on " Personal Reminiscences of Abraham
Lincoln," at the Cooper Institute, New York. He re-
marked that no biography he had seen of Abraham Lin -
coln conveyed to him his idea of the man. He was not
the supernatural genius his eulogists represented,
but better in intellect and heart than his detractors
were willing to admit, and more suited than these
idealized creations to instruct, inspire, and stimu-
late the young men of the present day. The entire
employment of his youth and,manhood was devoted
to laborious manual pursuits ; his instinctive thirst
for knowledge, his greedy acquisition of such infor-
mation as came in his way, led him to study
surveying, as a means to enable him to continue
the study of law and other branches. Here Mr.
Greeley suggested the inquiry—How much real
importance to the accomplishment of a successful
life is what is termed a common school educa-
tion ?" Jackson, Harrison, Benton, Corwin, and
others received less than this ; yet Henry Clay, at
the zenith of his life, appeared in no wise inferior
to the educated men who surrounded him, in cul-
ture, information, and educational taste. The
effect upon Lincoln, a raw boy, born and bred almost
beyond the confines of civilization, must be con-
jectured of his two trips down the Mississippi river
to New Orleans. They taught him much, and sug-
gested much more. Mr. Greeley .then traced Mr
Lincoln's political career from his first nomination
as member of his own State Legislature in 1831
till chosen its speaker in 1840 when he was acknow-
ledged the leader of his party in his State.
Thence he was sent to the House of Repre-
sentatives, and after serving one term returned
home, and was little observed beyond his
State till the Kansas-Nebraska Bill brought him
forward as its strong opponent. Then he engaged
in the Senatorial contest with Mr. Douglas, which
Mr. Greeley considers one of the most remarkable
and important events of its kind ever witnessed in
America. Mr. Lincoln lost that contest, but ob-
tained through the remarkable abilities displayed
the nomination of the National Convention for
President and his election to that office. The
lecturer traced Mr. Lincoln's steady advancement
first to his entire fealty to his party, being its firm,
steady, earnest advocate ; and secondly to his logical
powers, which enabled him instantly to perceive the
value of an argument, and at the same time to pre-
sent it to an audience in the most forcible and con-
vincing form. His apparent apathy during the first
few months of his administration while the rebellion
was gathering ahead, arose from a belief in the im-
possibility of a civil war in America. When the
truth was forced ou him he met the emergency with
all the energy of his nature, and was ever ready to
meet any proposition that would stop the blood-
shed. His sole aim was to restore the Union and
secure the country. If the Union coull be restored
by retaining slavery, slavery should be. retained ; if
it could be restored by destroying slavery, then
slavery should be destroyed. This le I him in the
early days of the rebellion to veto the efforts of
different military commanders to free the slaves in
their charge, and later in the war to proclaim a
general emancipation.

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