The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-01-04

4 Talk With Gen. GTdnf'S Father.
The Washingloa correspondent Of the Lewis
ton Journal furnishes the following account u
an interview with General Grants father:
last week had very pleasant and interest
Ing conversation with the father Of General
Grant. lie 70 very genial, social, unpreiend-
log old gentleman, whose fatherly pride and
pleasure Ia his sou Il was most pleasant to Wit
meas. During u conversation ofncarly two hours,
learned from him many interesting facts rcla-
tive 10 bis son early life and education aud !
should Ike 10 correct QUO or ;wo miss.aienents
which have seen in the public press. One Is
the oiisn-pablished story that, while at IVES,
Point, General Grant whipped one ofihe officers
This, said his father, was not true he was
never known TO have quarrel with any -Onc, Ell
thor rs boy or man; and also that he was new
Or known 10 use profahc word. This think
can DO said Of very few army officers
Another Is the widely circulated report that IL
was Only aileT great difficulty and strenuous ex.
ertlons GU his part that General Grant succeeded
10 obtaining commission 10 the army. lis
iather statement u that, 'aiter eleven years
service IN the regular army, Ulysses had rcsign-
Cd his commission aud come home TO live In
Tue spring OF 1861 he unemployed in his faith
er's store At 0alena, at = salary Of $500 year
One morning he came 10 the store early aud
while sweeping u out the moraing paper was
thrown In. lie picked u up aud read Of the
S,orming Of Fort Sumter, walked around the
counter, put on his coat. aud In his usual calm
deliberate manner. said "lloys, I owe my cdu.
cation To Uncle Sam, and although have
served eleven years In the army, still feel Ia
bis debt, aud ! am going 10 Offer him my sctvi-
ccs."
lie At once LETT the store and assisted in rails.
ing company. They wished To elec, him Tap.
tain, but he refused, knowing that his long eI.
PeFiencc wOuld be or more use elsewhere lie
soon wen, 10 Springfield, where he saw Cover.
nor Yates, who at first though, there was no
place Tor him, but Ia few DAYS reconsi,lrrcl the
subject, sent for him. when the well-known con.
versation occurred, Ia which the Governor asked
him " he knew how many men u took to form
| q company" &c. Tie was very soon PLACED up.
on the Governors staff, and was employed IN
mastering tho Illinois regiments into service. -
Whiie ne was so engaged, Governor Yates met
an old boOk.keeper formerly employed in a store
| OF General Grants father, and the Governor in.
qi,Ted Oi him what sort Of man Grant was
said he had offered him u Colonies commission
| 10 various regiments. but Grant had declined
them als0a Brigadicr Generals commission
which In also declined" The book keeper. who
Knew Grant very well, replied YOU wish for
"rant services you mus, appOin, him without
consulting him at all
Acting upon this information regarding Gra";'s
peculiar character, Governor Yates took al,an-
tage Of his absence from Springfield one, y-,, Il,
his family, 10 appoint him Colonc ~ the yer,
next regiment ready for mastering IN aui irl...
Rraphcd Ia him vi the fact. Grant at once came
back, quietly accepted his appointment Anl
promptly aud quietly commenced his work there
aud then. How he has CARRIED that work M H.,
country aud the world show. How h. will tin
ish the work which his country still has Ior him
20 do. We must judge by his past But iur
one, think General Grant has paid "unrlc sam
for his education, aud may honestly con.il,r
hms'li free from that lrht.
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stature, where, on the 10th inst
Senator Turner, from llellaitc, Offered a Joint
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lect committee Olive from tue Senate and five
from the liousc, with instructions To report ~
early ~ practicable the assessed value OF slaves
taken from the citizens OF Kentucky by Federal
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| L. y, known ~ the Thirteenth Article and
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| tueky corrupted . different position from other
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adopted. Yeas, % nays, C.
WnGHE THE LAND Gogs. --Congrcss has appro.
priaird from time 10 time--and the FIRST grant i.
no, Inany years old to aid railroads Ie,n ,,aD
acrcs of land II has also given To scverai States
- ,ssS 400 acres aud Including amounts ~
wagon roads, il Is estimated that ia the aggi--
gate ihrIr have been conceded Isl = /. $40 acres
Of which, quantity the government bA. given a
certificate ior about twenty -Onc million acres
This quantity Of land escrsds by more than five
millions of acres, the entire AREA oi al the New
England States, New York, New Jersey Penmsvl.
vania. BESIDES this general ouigo The govern.
neni fercived from sales last year ~ lIT 49,
| Agricultural land scrip, military anl bouhi,
land warrants, under the h0lne.trah law. ri
1859, - aud CT, aud railroad grant. alsn made
great demands upon the West Tie AREA ~ The
public lands, exclusive 81 Russian possessions. /,
now ,&Cs. t5s. 500 nrs Ia the new purchase
there are 3G9, 80. 900 acres, making I, total Ut
actes owned by the rnilrd States 81 sgI. 3gs.
s00.N T. EIgrsm
This ofiisrlf will pay the public debt IN twrni,
years.
49, The Souih Is not so ihoronshl, r,srnsituc.
ted that II will not b~ar morr watching The
Memphis iIYsai, Of the 1T, rlp".--s the srnii.
meats Of thousand, of eS. llrl,sl. whrn IL SAYS
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