Litchfield enquirer., 1868-09-03
of the puddle. recited the lines.

ing, at the epitaph on one of the moss grown tomb-stones, and then answering herself Sure enough, it is Enoch! It is astonishing how important something which we formerly regarded with utter in- difference. suddenly appears to us. Thus, for instance, this name. which I have so often read on these stones among so many others from the Old Testament during my excursions on the island"
 And then, looking around, she added, '' It is q pity that your Phillip has not like wise namesake here, people would not be long in believing that the two heroes of your poem are buried here, and they would, maybe, lay the scene of your whole poem in the shade of these walnut trees. But tell me, Mr. Tennyson, what have you to reply to all those objections which I mentioned to you before?"
 "Very little, your Majesty" "What?"
 "I should be sorry, your Majesty, if the little girl wonder had to bear the stain of iliegltlmate descent.
 "What little girl?'
 ''The little girl disappearing just now behind the hawthorn hedge your Majesty l mean the child carrying the bundle of fagots.
 ! "And what has that little child to do with your poem?"
 "A great deal, for if the Bishop of N. had had his way, little Anna yonder, would be considered child born in illicit we'd | lock-"
 The Queen had stood still
 1 You do not mean to say, iIr. Tenny 1 son." she replied, that on our little is land here an event such as you related ir your Enoch Arden has really happened?"
 And as Tennyson was silent for mo ment, she continued, 'Oh, I know you dc not like to arswer such questions. But tell me, now, did Eioch Arden live here: And is he perhaps even buried beneath i that tomb stone?"
 l "Your Majesty," said Tennyson, "there occur among the lowly and poor many traits of heroism, for which historians might en " the quiet observer of the people. Hap
 py is he who can contemplate and compre
 bend such traits, with an unbiased mind
 happy he who is enabled to relate them ir
 his poems without spelling their simple
 originality too much; happy, above all, he
 of whom poets can tell such traits. Hi: memory disseminates heavenly seed"
 The Queon had walked across the lawr to the tombstone and laid her hand on it. moss grown edge. She stood there long while in silence, her eyes fixed on the spo
 where Enoch had found his last resting
 place. At length she drew herself up, and
 turning to go home, she sail Ef" him! He did r:-
 A->----- foRTER's OPINION OF GEN from Richmond Springs, to Frank LesIie's
 Admiral Porter is visitor at this mod
 ott oobtrus1vgg rust1vgn6G 6 4ltsscethe agetest and leas off poo zeal, and on whom the partisan press fall
 with no more startling result than is indi
 cated in the following observation from
 well-conditioned, retired merchant of ou
 own city. 'Of course," said this worth
 representative of an important class, " W must elect Grant, especially Ill view of tn , new revolution now threatened by the ret els and their sympathizers; but what :. pity that the General drlnks!' 'Sir, pronounce the story of Gener Grants intemperance a falsehood! 1 hay . known him since the commencement l the war; Our relations while cooperatl1 , on the Mississippi were intimate. The 5 were equally intimate on Hampton Road u on the James River, and on the Potoma lle They have been so since the war, both J Washington and Annapolis. l have sha o ed his hospitality, and he has often acceE l. ed mine. I have met him under all e | [ cumstances of fatigue and of festlvity, .. sunshine and in storm, in desponden It and in danger, and have had an opport le s nity of learning his habits and knowi q 'h his conduct; and I say that, during oo a whole period of my acquaintanceship WI It him. I have never known him to taste, | w ," have ever heard of his touching intoxl 1es le ting liquors of any kind, not even VII lS In common with all the officers of the Se my and of the navy who have served W
 # General Grant and shared his intimacy o ooi have been both shocked and outraged ai, reading and hearing this allegation agal ;m inn him; and had my position been ditfere lI. a1- and had it not been that my motives nal! od .od be misunderstood or misrepresented, eo would have long ago denounced the sl .u der as it deserves. I repeat, General Ctr ~" oM is decidedly temperate man, in primer 'oS and in practice. You, sir, and those
 hear me, may repeat what say to you, but my authority as an officer and man.