Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-06-17
Anecdotes In the clouds.

" WntutNtE any Atuefhi " uVllN NMN4t
springs suddenly into puhicfavor, set Of sen.
sation scribblers and penny-s.linsrs rush into
print with not only exciting panegyrics upon
the new hero, but with also LOT oil rscy rem.
niscences Of his former career. and anecdotes
illustrating certain characteristics which the
aforesaid Alcbedes is supposed 70 posses 10
their haste 70 be frst before the admiriug
gaze OF the worthy populace these oacheKics
iumble up facts In a most ridiculous manner,
forgetting the old proyerb
Lest meu suspect your tale untrue,
Keep probability in new.
! The Cincinnati Commercial is responsible
| for tho following, published some months ego
General Grant, yesterday morning, asked .
q backman at the Spencer House what he .
would charge TO take him across the river 70
Coyington. The reply was, three dollars
General Grant said that il was too much--he /
would rather walk--and walk he did
Now that Is rather steep. In days gone by, /.
q famous indian chief, named "Walk-in-the.
Water used to make frequent visits to bic
Great Father st Washington and in one Of
his accustomed forays he mysieriousy dsap-
peared Can it be that the Egyptian theory
Of transmigraton Of souls is true, and that
the spirit OF walk in the-Water' has entered
the body of our noble General2 II so, he is
a bigger brave then ever, and could walk
across the Ohio without ever wettng bis
galoshes, as ii appears walk he did for
there is yet no bridge at The place msntoned
We are sorry 20 see that Mrs Harriet
Beecher Stowe has fallen into this evil habit
of cachexcy and in her late brilliant pane
gyric on President Lincoln, she has sought
TO elevate her hero at the expense OF our
credulty. In her elaborate sketch Of the
Defender Of the Faith" she treats US to the
following moroccan
In 1886 our baekwoodsman, hat.boat Land,
captain, surveyor obtained license 20 pract-
ice law. and, ms might be expected, rose rap.
, idly One anecdoie will show the esteem iu
which he WAS held in his neiRhborhood
a client came to him In case relating &c a
certain land claim, and Lincoln said 20 him
4 "Your 6rst step must be to take thirty thous.
! and dollars and 20 and make legal tender
OF course it will he refused but il is neces'
sary sep
a "But, said the man, al haven't the thirty
. thousand to make IL with.
4 "Oh, that's it, just step over to the bank
4 with me, and I'll get it,
:, so into the bank they went, aud Lincoln
= says to the cashier I'VE Just want TO take
& thirty thousand dollars to make legal tender
:. with III bring it back in an hour or two
4 The cashier handed across the money to
a. "Honest Abe, aud without scratch ot the
a pen in acknowledgement, he strobe his way
d with the specie, all in the most earnest sim
IA plicity, made the tender, and brought it back
with Ms much nonchalance AS If he had been
"A borrowing a silver spoon Of his grandmother.
"a In the days in which the above incident
4, was supposed TO have transpired, no bank in
~ the Northwestern country except the Bank Of
"a the State Of Missouri, ever saw or imagined
A. they saw any such oum OF specie. In those
~ times gold, too, was scarce commodity, and
a. not TO be had, even IN the Atlantic citios ex
n cept at premium OF one per cent over silver
NJ and our own experiences and recollection
a leaves no shade OF doubt bat that any coir
:. held by any such bank must have been il
4 silver dollars Now, $50 900 in slver weight
in Just 1000 pounds troy--t0sHtyfre hundred
as pounds is a pretty good burden even for "Oo
ed Abe" TO trot off With aud we think Mrs
he Stowe drew the arrow rather tight that tirne
n. 1t ia almost equal to the narrative of th
~ graceful and welI-known writer Of household
nd stories, wherein n thoughtful aud pruden
nv wife aaved up the odd change from her mar
ne ket money, and when her husband in 1881
on was just toppiuR of the precpce OF ruin 70
ss the want Of 81 900 to pay the last note wit
.e- (t's always the iastnote this charming help
mate trips rally up stairs aud brings dow
70 IS 500, all in ten and Eve cent pecea, in he
on apron, TO the delight ana astonlshment oi he
tly spouse.
,is This story ran the rounds the papers, ur
in Ill some growing old bachelor Of an edrc
by discovered that the little pile weighed abor
,te seeea hundred pounds, and remarked that
sh. wou Id like TO know something about them er
apron strings
rd 1t is to be earnestly hoped that the iai
led record OF General hancocE, and the ne
an heroes who are niehing themselves into Fam
nd will not be smouched by any such gauzy adj
tic lation.