The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-26 00:00:00

STORIES OP 7HE CANDIDATES.

General Grant's father sued Messrs. Mack
Brothers, in St. Loni,, t. recover his share of some
speculations in which that firm was engaged. Ac-
cording to Mr. Grant he obtained a permit from his
son for the Mack Brothers to trade in cotton with
the South, on condition that he received one-fourth
of the proceeds, but that the plaintiffs, after thus
realizing a large profit, refused to give him his pro-
per share of the s2oil. Of course such a tale is
eagerly seized on to show him up as using office
to make an illicit profit. Great play has already
been made with the Christian names of Grant, and
it would never do to let his rival, Seymour, off on
this point. Why, it is asked, has he dropped the
second name of " Nelson," his true designation
being, it is said, Horatio Nelson Seymour. It is
clear that his name, whether directly or indirectly,
reached him from the great English Admiral, and
that, coupled with his own " bloated" British aris-
tocratic appellation, might be offensive to a genuine
democratic mob. If Horatio Nelson Seymour be
not as English as Grant is Scotch there is no virtue
in a name, and even supposing that the Democra-
tic candidate was able to drop the " Nelson" it
would scarcely be possible to obliterate the English
of what remained to pit against the " Mailed Scotch
tyrant." IVe learn that in 1863 Seymour nearly
filled' (as the Nation says) " a bloody and dis-
honoured grave." A party of gentlemen, at lunch,
were drawn into the discussion of politics, when one,
a good Democrat, on being asked if he did not intend
to vote for Seymour, answered with a frown,
"Never." The speaker, among others, had aided
to defend the Tribune buildings in the riots in 1863.
Horatio Seymour was addressing the infuriated
crowd, and the speaker, rifle in hand, mentally re-
solved, as he covered the Governor's heart, that he
would send a bullet through it if the mob should
leave Seymour to surge towards the buildings ; and
he added, " My bullet never fails."
General Grant has returned to the plains, and
will remain at Galena, Illinois, until December.
When at Benton, on the North Platte, he met
General Blair ! but notwithstanding the high ap-
preciation held of him by the latter, who said at
St. Louis that he was worth all the others " banged
into one," they did not rush into each other's arms,
but coldly saluted and passed on. At St. Joseph
a crowd assembled on the 29th July and shouted
for a speech from Grant. Both parties were pretty
equally represented in the mob, and so great
was the uproar around the hotel that Gen. Sher-
man appeared on the balcony and said—" Both
General Grant and myself are used to large crowds
and cannot be disconcerted ;" adding, " I think the
General acts the part of wisdom, considering the
position he occupies, in declining to make a
speech." As a man here called for three cheers for
Seymour, Sherman continued, " If I were a citizen
of St. Joseph I would duck that man in the
Missouri. We have fought rebels, and we thought
they had enough of fighting ; I am about to eat my
supper and go to bed, and you out there may do as
you please."
The following incident is said to have been
omitted from the many published biographies of
Grant. Of course its truth is vouched for :—" On
the evening of Sunday, after the firing had ceased
at Shiloh, and Buell had disposed of his forces for
the work of the ensuing day, he, for the first time,
expressed a desire to see General Grant, and an aid
being dispatched, that officer, attended by a few
members of his staff, made his appearance, Grant,
applrently unsteady, and this time minus the ever-
lasting cigar. Buell, almost bursting with indigna-
tion, drew aside from the mingled staffs, and
motioned Grant to follow him out of earshot, when
the following colloquy (as reported by two reposing
soldiers,one of them a drummer in an Ohio regiment,
and an intimate acquaintance of the narrator) took
place:—' General Buell—' Well, sir, is this a dis-
play of your generalship ; two-thirds of your army
retiring since daylight, being almost massacred
by a superior enemy, and the remainder wan-
dering leisurely along the banks of the Ten-
nessee ?' (alluding to General Wallace's, which
comprised nearly one-third of Grant's army,
and had not seen the enemy during the day).'

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Well, General,' replied grant, I did the best I
could ; I was not expecting this attack, and Wallace
has neglected either to move on the enemy's flank,
or to come to my assistance.' Gen. Baell—' You
were aware of the proximity of the enemy ; why
lid you dispatch Gen. Wallace on a wild goose
chase while the enemy were concentrating on your
front? Besides, sir, General Wallace denies hav-
ing received any orders from you daring the day.
And now, Grant, if this is the best you can do, I
pity the soldiers placed under your charge, for from
what I can see you are not worth the powder to
blow out your brains.' Buell, unable to contain
himself longer, joined his staff." The Democrats
of the 20;h ward, of New York city, have hung out
a transparency, which says—

" Grant's ingratitude to M'Clellan
Makes countless thousands scam ;"

but a treacherous Democrat has balanced this by thus
eulogizing the candidate of his party : "Mr. Seymour
is descended from the nobility of England and has
bright aristocratic blood in his veins !" Our readers
may imagine the horror with which Mr. Seymour
read those words. Although Blair is away in Kan-
sas the penny-a -liners are busy with his name, and
have thrown in, as an apple of discord, that it was
he and his soldiers who burnt down Wade llamp-
ton's house and stole his plate at the taking of
Columbia. Of course substantial proof is forthcoming
—at least enough for electioneering tactics. When
the war ended, Blair addressed a General Order to
his army corps, wherein he told them of the Roman
custom-ia conquered lands to give homesteads to
their brave soldiers, which the United States ought
to follow. The Government had ample means of
doing this from the lands of rebels it had seized, and
homesteads should be carved from them. After
some of his operations in Tennessee, in reply to
Grant's question whether he had taken any pri-
soners, he said " No, but he had burnt a sight of
houses." The investigations into his college career
have as yet only produced the assertion of a class-
mate, who states that "poor Blair's only distinc-
tion at college was the amputation of a class- mate's
nose with a carving-knife in a tipsy spree." Little
of late has been heard of Colfax, but the notion
gains ground among the Irish that his " Know-
Nothing" oath will prevent him from giving office to
a single citizen of foreign birth.

THE WAR IN PARAGUAY.

The mails from the Brazils and the River Plate,
by the French packet Navarre, bring news of the
change of Ministry at Rio de Janeiro ; which is
Conservative, composed of men known to be
favourable to peace with Paraguay, and it was
hoped in Brazil that the war which has cost Brazil
so much will now come to an end, either through
negotiation or mediation. The Chambers having
refused to vote the necessary supplies have
been dissolved, and a new one is to be
convoked on the 3d of May next. This is
a long delay for a country situated as Brazil now
is. The new Cabinet (considered to have been
elected unconstitutionally) will have to issue paper
money, without auy authority to carry on the war,
which, if not ended through negotiation of some
kind, appears as far from a termination as at first.
The last accounts show that the Paraguayans are
as determined and brave as ever. On the 9th of
July two hundred and fifty Paraguayans, in
open canoes, attacked two of the Brazilian ironclads.
Nearly all the officers and men of the Rio Grande
were killed ; but owing to the fire of the bat-
teries of Tayi sweeping the decks of the ironclads,
the Paraguayans were unable to carry away their
prize, but destroyed the machinery of the steamers.
Humaita still holds out, and its communication with
the Chaco is uninterrupted. Its fall "is still a
question of time," as the Brazilians say ; but that
time so anxiously expected during the last three years
has not yet come. As usual it was reported that a
grand attack would be made on the 10th of July
(the day after the sailing of the steamer) on Timbo,
the Paraguayan fort in the Chaco, and " if" carried
an assaulton Humaita would take place immediately.
Meanwhile the Province of Corrientes, whence
the Allies get most of their supplies, has been for
weeks in open revolt against the Federal Government,
and General Caseres has been ravaging and de-
stroying all the military stores he and his lawless
band could get hold of. General Urquiza, the Go-
vernor of Enter Rio; the neighbouring province of
Corrientes, has been calling out the National
Guards of his province, and is said to have 16,000
men in arms to oppose the entrance of Government
troops into his province ; and, as others state, to
oppose the election of Senor Sarmiento as President
of the Confederation. Whatever reason General
Urquiza, the most powerful military chieftain and
friend to Paraguay, had for calling out his troops,
the Argentine Confederation seems to be again on
the eve of a long and bloody internal strife. At
Buenos Ayres the Chamber of Deputies had re-
jected, by twenty-four against seven, the Protocol
annexed to the Treaty of the Triple Alliance. This
and the nomination of Sarmiento and Aleina for
President and Vice-President, the personal and
political enemies of Mitre and his party, was ex-
pected speedily to break the alliance with Brazil,
which is highly unpopular in the River Plate. The
monetary crisis in Montevideo still exists, and has
greatly affected the money market at Buenos Ayres,
where National Bonds are quoted 43k, and discount
if to 2 per cent. per month. The Government at
Montevideo ordered that paper money should still
be taken, and that the banks have as yet no need to
resume specie payment, but must redeem 3 per
cent. per month of this paper circulation, which is
a very heavy amount considering the immense
quantity of paper afloat. All the gold has vanished
from the market, and people have no money to buy
the every-day necessaries of life. News to the 31st
July has been received from Rio de Janeiro, which,
if confirmed, will finally settle the question between
Brazil and Paraguay. The long-delayed attack on
Humaita was at last made on the 16th July by
10,000 Allied troops, who were disastrously re-
pulsed. Their loss is stated, even by the Brazilians,
to be 3,000 men ; and therefore when the whole
truth is known, will be found to be far more. An
attack had also been made on the position at Chan,
which met with the same result. This furnishes
the best proof of the reliability of Brazilian news—
the fall of Humaita baying been regarded as a cer-
tainty ; the only question being the number of
days before accomplished.

The Chinese Government has employed Dr. J.
M'Gowan, who visited San Francisco some two years ago,
to write a book on mining and metallurgy. A Mr. Martin
has also been called upon to prepare a work on natural
philosophy; and a Mr. Fryer to make translations of seve-
ral scientific treatises.
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