Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-12-11
From the Cincinnati Commercial

[From the Cincinnati Commercial
The true relation that E. b. Wash
burne bears to General Grant is requir-
ed to be explained, by good many
readers
Here is E. B. Washburne A broad
shouldered, good bellied, large, and vet
a thin man. He leaves a plump impress
sion upon your mind, while you admit
his leanneSs. You say to yourself, in
wardly, when he has gone" the model
is Yankee, but the cargo is Western -
The man was meant to be lathy, and
longitude 'chucked' good deal of corn
and pork into him." His age is beyond
fifty-four. His hair is grey; he dresses
plainly; he has very impulsive man
ner, accompanied with look almost of
faRaticism out of large, lightish gray
eyes. He wears no beard; the expires
sion of his face in repose is rendered al
most untranslatable by his intense indus
try, which, being of a nervous sort, keeps
him screwed up to a headIong gait all
the while. He never listens to hear his
own brother speak more than few min
utes, being brimful of things to do and
say, and the lines across his forehead
deepen and thicken as he scratches away
with pen. tears the wrappers off news
papers, whistles for a page, leans over
backward to talk quick and nervously,
Jumps up to object or interiect remarks,
and now and then stops when at work
TO blow off like steam engine, with
his hands behind his head, clasped. Di-
rectly be is up yonder in the Diplomatic
Gallery, talking to a lady; again down
in Downings restaurant, taking proven
der. A horse and buggy comes with
him to Congress every day; his house
is up near General Grants. and close by
st. Aloysius' Church, in the new subur-
ban part of the city, and there he lives
with his family and his rich brother,
Cadwalader Washburne, the General,
of Wisconsin.
General Washburne is also gay and
fully up 10 the water.mark of fifty. He
is a heavier, graver, more composed, and
less ierky than E. B. Washburne. There
are New England lines 10 his face, and
also soma German marks. He has been
a successful business man, is man of
force, and admires his brother, but does
not always agree with him, and yet has
many of the same stubborn, persistent,
positive characteristics.
E. B. Washburn is an independent
man, but not rich one, Cad wallader
having the longest purse. The former
went West while still young man, and
met at Galena young girl of French
extraction-creole, / believe. is the word
the exceeding piquant,pretty and petite
daughter of a former chief engineer of
the United States Navy, General
the names escapes me.
She has been tenderly reared and ed
ucated, and has been, all along, the so
cial equal of his career, as indeed she is
equal to any rank which he may ascend.
They have had six children. and one of
them is at West Point, in the same class
with Grants son, the two young Gale
MATES being thick as the old ones. Mrs.
Washburn is now in Washington City,
temporarily sick. When Gen. Grant
came here, the other day, he and bis
family made the earliest call upon Mrs.
Washburne. General Grant has pre-
scented Mr.. Washburne with fine horse.
or rather, allowed him to use it ninety
nine years, on condition of treating it
like an Arab--the Arabs, as you know,
being kinder to their horses than to their
wives--and the General and Mr.. Wash
burn often go riding together, behind a
pair of Grants horses, once going as far
as Baltimore, which is days drive.
E'ihu B. Washburne is remarkable for
all the best New England traits. He
does not drink drop of liquor; he nev-
er smokes. He has an affection of the
kidneys, which sometimes gives him ex-
exceeding pain, and is probably the cause
of some of his testy exhibitions of tenn
per.
| do not mention the last as a New
England trait.
His love of his birth place and his
honor of his father and mother are unos-
tentatious and profound. He and all
the boys go home to Livermore, in
Maine, every year, sacredly, to see the
old gentlmaI, whose hair is white as
snow, but who looks like the father OF
generations to be. His is fine face,