The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-03-12
Old stuck ia the NIIre.

The father Of General Grant is writ
ing sketches of tho early Info and
character OF tho General for tho NcU
York Ledger, for u consideration. Tho
father commences with tho birth of
the General. According TO these
sketches, tho birth, sucking and carly
boyhoud Ottho General was most 70
markable, Tho peculiarly of his
BIRTH is that no was born of n women
and, unlike those two barbarlans who
founded Rome, he was not sucked by
n sho wolf, but by n woman. The
narrative is defective, msomuch that
1t leaves the public cropping IN ncer-
tainty as TO his ago when weanod, or
the manner in which he was weanod.
IL appears that he carly showed n
fondness for horses and was fond of
the circus, (nothIug Is SAID of the sabn
bath SCHOOL, and had n special ambition
to ride horses and villaiuous circus
mules in tho circus ring. Mono of
these mules could throw HIM. On ono
occasion he monnted ono Of these
mules, which vainly undertook to do
it. a monkey, full Of mischief and in
obedience to orders, camc TO the as
sistancc of the mulo by mounting up
Lchind the boy nov GencraD Grant.
and round The ring they won't ut q fu-
lyious rate, causing tho whole ampl-
thcatur to ring with boistorous APP.
plauso. II was tho best part Of tho
performance. Young Grant dismouht-
cd at his pleasur So proficient was
he in riding horses, that he used 20
rldo then some distance to water
barc-backcd, he tho while standing
erect, while tho horses wcrc undor
fIll speed. AS TO breaking colts, il
was marvellous how he Succeeded
These things tho readers Of the Ledger,
and especially tho Republican part Of
them, read with mouths agapo.
Tho last sketch; however, contains
az exploit in the boyhood Of General
Grant that throws his other cxploitsai!
into tho shade. IT wa2 christian and
heroic, and conclusivoly showed that
there was the sort OF stuff in him to
mako President out Of. a distant rel
ativc OF nls-a distinguished man from
X entucky-was once on q visit to his
father. So one day tho boy (now
GenoraD Grant, who had II lot Of mar
bles' ranging somewhere from one to
tw) dozen. offered to bet tho distin-
guishcd stranger tho whole lot of mar
blcs, not over rcscrving ono for q
"ncst oeg, THAT he could jump twenty
feet. Distinguished stranger looked
at him, and white mn i%ncredulons smllo
played oVcr his features, hc accepted
tho bet. Near the house in which the
Grant family lived, there was q tolor-
ably steep declivIty. To the top OF the
dcclivity young (now GoneraD Grant
went, and he jumped ~downwards, and
IN alighung no sank TO his waist IN
the miro. 4'ho old man Grant, with
an air OF great satisfaction, ana to re-
lieve the suspense Of Lcllions of pco-
plo who wore worked up to high
pitch Of wonder to know which won
the bet, says 'bat he (tho boy Grant,
iron The jct." SatlsGedi Tho matter
IS now explained. Wo did not before
know how it was hat the General
lately jumped into the RADICAL mire'
For n iow marbles, in his boyhood, no
did not hesitate to Jump into tho miro
up to his waist. In expectation of
securing the Presidency, he has jump
cd into tho Radical mIrc, covering
himself AL ovcr--a miro moro dirtIor
and moro tenacious than the mrre he
jumped into for tho marbles when II
boy. Ho can't DO oXtricatod from it
before the Presidential election, when
he will discover that no dirtiod his
clothes for nothing, and he will, in all
likelihood, be looked upon as old
stuct in tho miro,-Staosman.