, 1864-03-27

Captain in the regular army, and assigned to
3 company stationed four hundred miles In
the interior Of California. After two yceus
separation from his family he resigned aud
came home, settling in st, Louis county, Mo-,
hut In 1855 removed to Galena, ~ and en-
tered his fathers leather and saldlery store.
NOT 4 GREAT BUSINESS NAN.
In 1855 We find Grant i private citizen on
email piece Of ground near st. Louis, from
which he w2s o1ten seen to hall wood, dress-
cd in & fat1nefs garb, to sell st Carondclet, q
village adjoining that city. Many citizens
woodhousss, OF the honest load. In the
summer he had recourse to collecting for
business houses, and docs not seem to have
shown any great skill in the urt of duanins.
The father a tanner, the son rlre1y comes
nearer to joke than when he expresses some
tie art Of tanning, while the nation praises
him for what he knows in the art oiTar.
PERSONAL TRAITS.
The public have often heard the charge that
Gen. Grant ia diseipatcd mau, and how de-
sirous the President was to give some other
Generals some Of the same kind Of whisky;
that he is an inyetercte smoker, dresses like
q laborer, &c. The flrst Of these accusations
is happily entirely untrue. AS to the rest,
the public very naturally, In the absence Of
authentic particulars, imagined the frequent
counterparta which would make up elto-
gether the notion ofa jovial good fellow Of
the sporting sort. with TINT peculiar swaggcr
of good nntured demagoguery which makes
SO much spurious cmincrcc In this country,
and which covers itself from damaging scru-
tiny BY some contagious joke or jolly buttoon-
err. Nothing could be more mistaken Grant
like his mother before him, never jokes, nlgcfy
laughs. He never uses profane or Indecent
word, abhors dispute, and has never had 4
personal controversy In his life with boy or
pan never made a speech, led faction, or
engaged In idle sport never sad lie Is never
gay always cordial and cheerful, yet always
reserved. # he cannot b: perfectly sincere
lie is perfectly silent Tolerant yet enthusl-
astic, he Is always moderate, always earnest,
He seems destitute Of ostentation, aud total
ly unqualified to display himself even to gra-
tiff reasonable curiosity, yet Is not ashamed
Of himself, and appears to contemplate Ills
early and his late career with equal and With
simple satisfaction.
MILITARY QUALITIES.
His economy is universally conceded, aud
excited the astonishulcat Of Qnartcsn,astcr
General Meigs, when hc came to the field Of
the West.
A German, now GeueEal In the army,
noted for his excessive severity of criticism
ind intuition Of Character, meeting Grant
While on the staff of Gov. Yates, made the
sententfous remark: "That officer Is pair
Of balances TINT can weigh different things at
one time"
The amount aud varied duties and labor
dcyolying on 4 General With such command
as be has is incalculable, and yet It Is said by
his staff, several Of whom arc frst-clnss law
yerR, that he has never made n mistake or
blunder or made decision that needed re-
1cking. His military correspondence has
cost the Government fur less than that OF any
othar commanding General who has done
onc-half the amount Of service.
But the highest needs Of praise Is due to
Gen. GTa1t for having SO discharged his
duties that he has had no jealousics, bicker-
fngs, or quarreis in his camp among his OIL
eeTs-no court martial, and no man shot for
descrtion.
Being an excellent Judge Of character 1t is
O ready and easy matter for him to dcscern
between tho superficial pretendcr and the
man of solid merit, and .hc invariably hasthc
right one IN the right place when permitted
to make the selection.
He sent no foolish proclamations before
lime-issued no arbitrary edicts ngafnst the
prcss-has graced his victories with humant-
ty-eoyeted no tlattery, and molested no cit
izen In his rights or liberty. Original and
selfre1lant, be has patterned after no model,
hut marked with his own hand the bold out
lines ofhis success aud glory. In short, he
combines in himself all the great essentials
Of character, aud is nob1y appropriating
them to his country at the hour Of its needs
and darkness. j.
We have omitted tho writer's sketch Of
General Grnnt's operations In this war, Us
they are too we'll known to require rep
etftion.