The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-12-10
GENERAL GRANT AND HIS
WIFE AT THEIR GALENA
HOME.
a Chat with Mrs. Grant, and an
Account Of the General

! the Medasa Of Furies, encouraging
lretrogression to the dwarfdom Of the
dark ages, end while Horatio Sey-
lmour blew blasts of political poison
to critical crowds in a halfa dozen
States, General Grant, unmoved from
the proprieties of his station, has been
here, surrounded By part Of his low
ling family reesiving his .neighbors
land friends at his own freside, in
democratic sociables, where witty
chaFades and other domestic amuse-
|mepts whiled away the happy hours,
riding over the surrounding hills, re-
i turning calls, and acting the part of
/ a "great e0mmonerN generally.
His family proper consists Of an
Rmiable wife, three sons and one
danghter5 but ono son (the eldest) is
at Vest Point, the second one in
Washington, while a lovely dangh-
Ter, with
"a round.'White neck and wealth Of tress,
A beautiful plenty Of hairs
and little Jesse, nine years of age,
who will be q second HTad" in the
White House. are here. Judge Dent,
aged eighty-one, the fne-looking IA
ther of Mrs. Grant, is also of the fami-
by, and so closely allied to the pri-
vate. matters. of the General are the
members Of his staff that Colonies
4 Badeau and Gomstock may be de-
Nominated a part Of Grants house
hold. Nothing more clearly evinces
1.-THE modest and undemonstrative char
acter of General Grant than what be
said to a gentleman recently:
al stay here, " said he, because /
like the place and my good neighbors,
and because I want quiet. I did
think I oould spend some time at the
watering-places; but on second
ithougbt, ] came to the conclusion
Ethat stay at Saratoga or Long
/ Branch would be kind Of martyr
Edom that did not care to endure.
Grants domestic character is one
Eof the sweetest and purest elements
Iof his greatness. The whole country
lis familiar with letter published
tduring the campaign, written from
1.-THE armytO his father, wherein he
lspeaks of aJulia aud. the Children
/ Would it not tickle the ntiment Of
1.-THE civilized world to find NAPOLEON
Bonaparte writing to Carlo Maria Of
Josephine and the children2' The
black stain which mars the grandeur
IOf Nap0leon's life is the course of in.
fanny be persisted in toward his fond
wife Josephine, and the heart of the
lage encourages a sweet romance in
the quiet domestic peace of George
and Martha Washington. TheiI
names go down in history indisso u.
bly, linked together, and the warm
tear shed over the one must fall alike
on the other. The story of thei1
marital peace is no fairy tale, with
nought but fiction from tille-page to
| to ,colophon.
/ 1t is not necessary for one to enjoy
| the spirited affabibility, the exquisite
Conversational powers Of Mrs. Grant,
in order to learn that Ulysses Grant
has a well-developed domestic nature;
THAT his love of home and family is Of
i the purest, highest order; that his
home relations are refreshingly. sweet
and beautiful A visitor two at his
fire side will disclose these facts, and
they are seen, too, not in the grand
drama of family ezhi0ition,n with
tthe astonishing reality behind tue
curtain, but in those small, intimate
land familiar matters which, combin-
ed, form the delightful supersHueture
Of a happy home. General Grant
takes great delight in his children
particularly the youngest-the fami
| ly pet-Master Jesse. He is, indeed
a dear, bright boy, and worthy of any
fathers affection; but Grant makes
him a companion, and is beth a father
and a friend to the young scion
Speaking of coming cares and respon'
sibi,ities of the Executive Mansion;
and Of the old-time joys when they
lived in rented brick cottage on a
towering ridge in West Galena, Mrs.
Grant said to me:
'sThOse were the happiest days of my
life. We had a sweet little home, witt
every convenience and comfort; the yarC
was large; You saw it. Well, it doesn'
look halfso lovely now as then; the grasl
grew lnXufiantIy, and bright flowers ans
fresh trees made it little paradise. Il
1.-The evening Mr.. Grant would come home
land I would have the children all dressed
and myself in an evening robe, and W.
were just as happy as we could wish. OF
| ten we would ride ont with the children
and did really love to keep the housr
: then"
AS she said these words her eyes
sparkIed, and they were uttered with
an earnestness which plainly indieat
ed their depth of meaning. She spol
,, of a published statement in a Pari
. journal, alleging that Grants militia
Try discipline was SO severe that h
even praetised the most painful exhi'
bitions of it in his family, and related
as an instance, a certain infiction Oh
a son, which was made severer b,
his mother for some trivial offence
Mrs. Grant said it was wholly un
founded, and that 'the children ar
never punished-never, by either G
US. We are extremely lenient t
them, and try to conquer and rule b
love. If General Grant determine
on furnishing them, I know l shoul
protest" And all that I saw of Jess
and his. Oldest sister, goes to affirm m
opinion that the domestic peace
never disturbed, and that few, indeed
are the "family jars" which interfer
with the the marital joys Of UlyssC
and Julia Grant.
i During the memorable dark Apr
days of 1865, it will be reeollecte
that something was published aboU
lit having boen the intention of Gem
raj Grant to accompany Presider
Lincoln to Ford's Theatre on the Fl
tai night of April IA. Ia all prob'
bility the desperate assassin intend
commit a double murder, and perhaI
the nation does not know that it wi
;, by the decision OF Mrs. Grant th'
such an augmented calamity wa