The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-16 00:00:00

MAGAZINE" ON
OUTGOING AND THE INCOMING PRESIDENT

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
There is an article in Blackwood's 111agaz.; " of
this month on " The Outgoing and the Incoming
President." Both Andrew Johnson and General
Grant are sketched, but scarcely with the 110,
accuracy of that periodical. This outline of Grant's
career contains many errors which may well sot"
prise, considering to what notoriety within so late
a period he has attained. It is not our business;
however, to correct these, but we desire to extra°
some remarks of interest with which the article a',
the same time abounds. The writer says that after
General Joseph E. Johnston was removed—a mi_'
take of Mr. Jefferson Davis—and General 11°A'
substituted, Sherman saw his chance
,t with theinspiration of genius, and telegraphed to Genera
,
Grant before Richmond for permission to mare'
with 50,000 men from Atlanta, right through the
heart of Georgia. It was a march of i5O miles
to
the city of Savannah, and the road was full of PO'
sible and but too probable dangers. Grant was
sitting in his tent before Richmond thinking an
smoking, as is bis wont, when the telegram je
cipher was received. He read and reread it seve-
ral tunes, and smoked and smoked with a vigour
apportioned to the importance of his silent cogii:i3"
tions. When he had thought it over suffieiently,
he called a council of war, and submitted the Cary
and emphatic document to the opinion of his 0'
cers. Nobody knew what to make of it or wbat
to advise. Grant smoked, and passed no opini°°
for some time. At last, having heard what every'
body had to say, he put the telegram in his pocket?
drew the cigar from between his lips, and said,
while he knocked away the ash preparatory to
another whiff—' Gentlemen, the General must d°
as he thinks best. In the art of war we are all of 11l
babies compared with Sherman." On the
night
of the 6th December, Mr. Lincoln addressing all
excited crowd from the balcony of the White
House, said, "Fellow-citizens—I know where Sher-
man went in, but I don't know where he will come
out." Nor did anybody else except Grant. Maga
gives the following foot-note to show the love of
the mass of Northerners for the Union—for
which they were prepared to sacrifice anything,
even liberty—" While the Convention that
nated. Abraham Lincoln for the second term was
sitting at Baltimore, in July, 1864, a Wesfero
orator, of Trish extraction, related a story of a
patriotic old lady at Cincinnati, who had seven sons
killed in the bloody battles of the North. ll°
Mayor and Corporation of the City sent'a deputa-
tion to condole with the good woman on her great
loss. " Never mind me, gentlemen," said the old
lady, "I only wish I had known when I was 3
younger woman that this war was coming, and
would have had seventeen sons instead of seven to
fight the battles of the Union." The writer thinks
finance is the touchstone of General Grant's Pre°
sidency—holding tone opinion that repudiation i,sfar
from being dead. " All other questions are small,
and of poor account, compared with this. And one
of the difficulties in his path—and a very consider-
able difficulty he is likely to find it—is that a very
urgent and powerful section of the people does not
want to pay the piper at all." " Repudiation is an
odious word to the merchants and bankers of New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston, and to all
the leading commercial people throughout the
Union ; but not odious to the farmers and mecha-
nics of the Far West, or to the bulk of the Southern
people, forced by the superior authority of the
in-
vincible North to repudiate their own war debt, and
not at all indisposed to be freed from the weight of
taxation imposed upon them to help to pay the ex-
penses of their own subjugation." The question
is one of expediency, of policy, of wisdom, as
well as of morality. Blackwood's foot-note we
have given, was intended to show what Ameri-
cans will give and endure for the Union. If
they are persuaded that the interests of that Union
will be forwarded by honesty in this matter, and
deeply injured by dishonesty, why should they not
endure in this matter as well as on the battle-field?
IVe do not disguise the truth that it is possible for
the question again to come up, but we doubt that,
under any circumstances, can it advance to the
front under more favourable auspices than last fall,
when it was most disgracefully defeated, and driven
with ignominy from the field. We do not think bond-
holders need entertain much fear, but no one can at
any time say they are absolutely safe.

NAVAL AND 111-ILI7ARY INTELLIGENCE

A general court-martial has assembled at Col-
chester for the trial of Private O'Connell, 9th
Regiment, for insubordination. The president of
the Court was Colonel Tower, C. 8., 3d Dragoon
Guards, and Colonel Laye appeared as Judge-
Advocate. The sentence will not be promulgated
until her Majesty's pleasure is made known.
Yesterday two troops of the 6th Inniskilling
Dragoons arrived at Aldershot. The remainder of
the regiment is expected to-day.
On Tuesday the Ist Infantry Brigade at Alder-
shot, under the command of Major-General D
Lysons, C. 8., consisting of the 2d battalion
6th Regiment, under Colonel Elkington ; the
Ist battalion 12th, under Colonel Meade; anfl
the Ist battalion 25th (King's Own Borderers),
formed up on their respective parades and marched
to the General Parade, South Camp, where they
were exercised by the Major-General in various
field movements, which were well executed, and
were concluded by the brigade marching past at
the double with arms at the trail.
The Lizard, 2, 150 horse-power, iron paddle-
wheel steamer, has been entirely broken up in the
fourth dock at Chatham, and the dock will at once
be prepared for the reception of the double-screw
armoured-plated turret ship Cerberus, 2,107 tons,
250-horse power, which is shortly expected to ar-
rive at Chatham to be prepared for commission for
service at Melbourne.

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