Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08

IL Is one IulSlOEluue VI great people tuat
they must be talked about, isn't Gen.
Grant greatly and, in this free country,
not with the reverence due to the Grand
Lama. was glad to know something
of Mrs. Grant; a plain, sensible, quiet
woman, who takes the world as o matter
of course. We were talking of the great
responsibility of Gen. Grants position,
and made some remarks tending to AVA
ken any expression Of ambition dormant
in her woman's heart. No returns!
She said, Mr.. Grant. ESQ she always
calls him) had succeeded below, and
when he was called to this position, he
thought it was his duty to try what he
could do" We then expressed 2 hope
that he would succeed, and that he
would take Richmond. "Well, I don't
know, 1 think he may-Mr. Grant al
ways was a very obstinate man." NO
body learns that trait of charactersooner
than wife,
1t is said also Il was not there them
that this conversation took place with
regard to the election: eff Gen. Grant
succeeds, he may want to be President"
"But he is Northumberland. ~
EYES," but when man can be elected
President, it must be great tempta-
ton" ~ don't know. There has new
er been but two Lieutenant Generals of
the United States, Gen. Washington and
Gen. Scott. There have been number
of Presidents, for instance such men as
Frank Pierce and James Buchanan !"
No, it would hardly be ambition which
to be President.
Mrs. Grant, you are sensible woman,
and Mr.. Grant is an obstinate man."
Let us continue to Springfield
Republican.
H~ "Come and sit near me, and let
me lean on you," said Wilberforce to a
friend few minutes before his death.
Afterward, putting his arm around that
friend, he said: LET us talk ofheaven:
Do not weep for me; am happy. Think
of me, and let the thought press you
toward. I never knew happiness till
found Christ my Savior. Read the BIZ
ble--read the Bible! Let no religious
book take its place. Through all my
perplexities and distress 1 never read
want of any other. It has been my
hourly study; and all my knowledge of
the doctrines, and all my acquaintance
with the experience and relations of re-
ligion, have been drawn from the Bible
only. think religious people do not
read the Bible enough. Books about
religion may be useful enough, but they
will not do in the place Of the simple
truth of the Bible" Such were the
dying words of Wilberforce.
THE PRIVATE SoLDIER.-If there is a
being in the world who is deserving of
private affection and public gratitude,
it is the soldier who marches in the pri-
vate ranks Of the army, to fight for his
and offers his blood and life
as sacrifice for the maintenance of the
Union and the Constitution. And yet
how seldom it is that they get the hon
or and reward their services entitle
them to- 1t is the private who carries
the gun, it is the private who marches
on foot through mud, frost and snow, it
is the private who erects bridges over
ions; and it is the private, who, with |
he bayonet set, charges on the deadly |
life pits and the squared columns of the |
Enemy; and yet, how seldom it is that |
lie receives the honors and rewards of
lis noble conduct!
A CHEERFUL HEART.-It is not ess
ential to the happy home that there
hould be the luxury Of the carpeted
loor, the cushioned sofa, the soft shade
# the astral lamp. These gild the
partments, but not the heart. A neat
less, order, and cheerful heart make
lome the sweet paradise it is often
ound to be. There is joy, as real, by
he cottage fireside, as in the splendid
aloons of wealth and refinement. The
legancies of life are not to be despised.
they are to be received with gratitude.
But their possession does not insure
happiness. The sources of true Joy are
lot so shallow. The cheerful heart,
ike the kaleidoscope, causes most dis
ordant materials to arrange themselves
n harmony and beauty,