Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1868-08-08
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General Grant on His Muscle


! While at West Point, Grant was
"run on" by the older scholars, accord
ling to the customs of that institution.
He endured a good deal without re-
sentiment, until one day, being on mock
parade, he was insulted by the captain
of the company, when he stepped from
the ranks, threw off his jacket and chal-
lenged the captain to fight. Abbott
tells the story as follows
Such a challenge could not be denied;
all the company looked eagerly on; the
captain soon fell beneath the sturdy
blows of Grant, and cried for quarter.
He had been very soundly whipped
before his pride would allow him to
yield. -.
The young champion. not at all IA
tigued and showing no excitement over
his victory, turned to the lieutenant
and said very blandly to him:
''It is now, Lieutenant, your turn
perhaps you would like to revenge
the Captain. shall be happy to meet
you"
The lieutenant, who had taken an
active part in the insolent jokes upon
the young cadet, could not in honor
refuse. To have shown a towards dis.
cretion would have exposed him to the
endless jeers of his comrades. Grant
made short work with him and gave
him a thor ough thrashing.
He then with as much composure as
if be had been simply attending to his
ordinary duties, turned to his compan-
ions in line and said /:
| "Who comes next? I want peace,
but am willing to fight the whole
company, one by one, if that is necessary
to gain peace"
His comrades now greeted him with
three cheers they came forward tu-
multuously and shook him by the hand,
declaring that one who had SO much
pluck should no longer be subject to
their annoyance. 1t was in reference
to this offer to fight the whole company
that he received the nickname Of
COMPANY Grant" This name he re-
tanned until on memorable occasion
he changed it for "Unconditional Sur
render Grant,
A HAPPY HoME.-The first year of
married life is most important era in
the history of man and wife. Generally
as it is spent, SO is almost all subsequent
existence. The wife and the husband
then assimilaAe their views and their
desires, or else, conjuring up their dis
likes, they add fuel to their prejudices
and animosities forever afterwards.
81 have somewhere read," says Rev.
Mr.. Wise, in his Bridal Greeting, ssof
a bridegroom who gloried in bis eccen-
tricities.- He requested his bride to ac-
company him into the garden, day or
two after their wedding. He then
threw line over the roof of their cot
itage. Giving his wife one end of it,
he retreated to the other side and ex-
claimed 49,
"Pull the line''
She pulled it at his request, SO far
as she could. He cried
"pull it over'
81 can't" she replied.
''But pull with all your might" still
shouted the whimsical husband.
But vain were all the efforts of the
bride to pull over the line, SO long as
her husband held the opposite end.
But when he came round, and they pull
led ct the same end, it came over with
great ease"
"There" !" said he, as the line fell
from the roof, "you see how hard and
Intellectual was our labor when we both
pulled in opposition to each other; but
how easy and pleasant it was when we
both pulled together! It will be SO
with us through life /"
In this illustration, homely as it may
be there is sound philosophy. Husband
and wife must mutually bear and con-
cede, if they wish to make home a re.
treat of joy and bliss. One alone can
not make home happy. There needs
unison of action, sweetness of spirit and
great forbearance and love in both hus-
band and wife to secure the great end
OF happiness in the domestic circle.
Home is no unmixed paradise of sweets;
the elements of peace and true happi-
ness are there, and SO, too, are the ele-
ments of discord and misery; and it
needs only the bitter spirit of the world
without to make it pandemonium, or
the loving genius of harmony to make
1t the prompter of every affectionate i'm.
pulse.
A RUBBER CARRrAeE.-The New York
Correspondent of the San francisco Times,
is amenab!e for the following: