Litchfield enquirer., 1864-04-07

Washington Htelligences', from which Vt quote:
 THE GRANT FAMILY. Gen. Grant was bora at Point Pleasant Cermont county, Ohio, on the 18th day o April, 1922, and is consequently only in hi' forty second year. His father, Jesse k. Grant tanner by trade, is q nativs of Pennsylvani a, and was born in estnoreland county iu l794, and is now living at Coyington, Ken lucky.
 The mother of Cen. Grant was Hannal Simrson, a woman remarkable for good sense attention to her domestic duties, and serious christian character blended with easy man. ners. She is a type of the mothers who produce the heroes of he revolution. Ulysses IS the first child born of thas marriage, and the" S. , in hls name stands for Simpson, the name o his mothers family.
 ULYSSES AT TWgLvE.
 In his boyhood he always exhibited basi ness turn, and was never without some partic asar purpose in hand requiring responsibility perseverance and Zeal--serious enough for more mature years. An incident in point will illustrate this.
 At the age of twelve he aspired to the man agement 0! his fathers draught team, and was entrusted with it for the purpose of hauling some heavy hewed logs, which were to be load cd with the aid of levers and the usual appii, ances by several stout men. ile came with his team and found the logs,bu! not the men, A boy ot more imaginative genius, niI Of equal but differently directed contr!vance might have laid down to listen or dream, or build houses of chips. Not so with this hoy, who unlike others, acted upon the idea that where there was will there was a way, and hesitatad not at the undertaking. Observing q fallen tree, having gradual upward slope, he unhitched his horses attached them to a log, drew 1t horizontally to the tree, and then drew one end of it up tie inclined trunk, high CT than the wagon truck, and so as to project B few feet over, and thus continued to operate until he had brought several to this pGsition.- Next he backed the wagon under the project ing ends, and tiaally, one by one, hitched to and drew the logs lengthwse across the fallen trunk on to his wagon, htched up again and returned with his load to his astonished tather.
 Nor GREAT BrsINEss MAN.
 In 1855 we find Grnnt a private citizen on a small piece of ground hear St. Louis, from which he was ul,ea seen to haul woo'i, dressed in farmer garb, to sell at CurOnde!et, vi- iase udjoin!ng that city Many citizens ihor;: recoect the Ielvely sy him, at thelr wood hunses If the hunest bad, In the oaAElar e h,l,i recourse tu collecting Tor business iloH ses and cues nuL seem to have shown Hny great ski! iii the art o duti!iBg.
 PERSONAL. TRAITS.
 The pni.lic have often heard the charge that Gen. Grant IS a dissipates! man, and how desi- ruus lhu President W!s to give other gel rais some of tic same kind oi whislley; that it IS xn .t4i iel7rule smoker, dresses like il la5OEcr, &c. iii. first uI lLrso accusations Is happily -nlirciy untrue. As to the rest, the public ve- v il:ti.f,,IT, in tEe ai,sanve Of authentic fas llraars. imagined tho frequent counterparts, NEici. would n,ake up altogether the notion of il j,viai good fellow oi the spor,ins sort, with that peeuilar sY.Hger ci good natured dema yuyuuly which makes s0 much spHr"uS einl- n.ncu ln this cout.;ry aud which covers itself fro |. damaging scrutiny by sonc eoutaglous joke or luity hu1oonerv. Nothing could be more mistaken. Grant, like his mother before him, never jokes and rarely laughs. lie never uses profane or indecent word, abhors dispute, and has never had u personal controversy in his life with boy or man, never made speech led a facton,o or engaged iii idle sport never sad he is never gay always cordial and cheerful, yet always reserved. If he cannot be perfect ly sincere he is perfectly silent. Tolerant yet enthusiastic, he is always moderate, always earnest. He seems destitute of ostentation, and totally unqualified to display himself even to gratify reasonable curiosity, yet is not asha- med of himself, and appears to contemplate his early and bis late career with esusl and with simple satisfaction.
 MILITARY QUALlrlEE.
 His ecoDomy is universally conceded, and excited tie astonishmeut of Quartermaster General Meigs, when he came to the field of the West.
 4 German, now q general in our army, noted for his excessive severity of criticism and intu ition of character meeting Grant while on the staff of Gov Yates, made the sententious re mark, "That officer isa pair of balances that can weigh different things at one time.'
 The amount and varied duties and labor de- voiving on general with such a command as tc has is iuca!cuIa,ie, and yet it IS said by his staff, several of whom are first class lawyers, that lie has never made mistake or blunder or made decision that needed revoking. His military correspondence has cos the govern ment far less tban that oi any other comman ding general who has done oHe-half the amount of service.
 But the highest need of praise is due to Gen. Grant for having so discharged his duties that he has had no jealousies, bickerings, or ouarrels in his camp among his officers no court martial, and no man shot for desertion.
 Being an excellent judge of character it is a ready and easy ma ter for him to discern be- tween the superficial pretender and the man of solid merit, and he invariably has the right one in the right place when permitted to make tbe selection.
 He sent no foolish proclamations before him-issued no arbitrary edicts against the press-has graced his victories with humanl ty-coveted no flattery, and molested no cltl zen iu his rights or liberty. Original and sell reliant, he has patterned after no slodel, but narked out with his own hand the bold out lines of his success and glory. In short, he combines in himself all the great essentials o character. and is nuby appropriating them to bis country io ths hour of its needs and dark. ness.
 The amount of gold and silver produced throughout the world in 1863, is estimated a follows:
 California S70OO0,OO other portions 0 the United States S30,OOe British Columbi'