The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-12
Grant In a Corner.

The Washington correspondent OF the Cincinnati
Commercial, writing on the 4th, says:
While depesitiDg my ticket, yesterday. in the
ingeniousy arranged box OF the F street cars,
was actually startled on looking down. 10 see,
quietly seated in the corner, our president elect.
The car was comfortably full. and yet more
notice was taken of tie msn who now fills our
thoughts than If he were brevet brigsdler gen.
eral, common CangTsssspsn OF the pEoSrlstor I
myself as | settled en- the opposite seat and in
dnlged in q healthy stare at the knobby, square
head and solemn lace before me. l was having
an interview, and che about as satisfactory a.
anybody can have with this man, who smokes and
saves nothing. Certsinly, General Grant, without
intel ding it, has managed 20 make himself the
center of more thought. anxiety and curiosity
than any man since the day when Weston walked
from Portland TO Chicago.
He is little man, al Tar as stature goes, and his
face is so markell may say go fxed-in its ex-
preston that the yidely-spread photographs and
engravings make it familiar TO every one. /
looked at his straight cut, firm set mouth, made
mp of bloodless lips, with no spare adipose, and
his small dull eyes, that made one think of d
smoulderipg fire. and thought read the attributes
that had marked HE private life and made his
public career famous. They we're those of man
who could endure poverty with logged frmness,
even if il drove him TO selling cord wood by the
wagon load, or picking hides with his own hands
in cellar, and could enable him to ride unmoged
through Wilderness that writhed with m iugled
humanity. IN an sasmospneIe poisoneu Dy inc uh-
buried dead.
/ nave heard lions rear in my time, as IL has
been my good fortune TO be near enough TO some
of the greatest ntelects OF the day TO study their
outer seeming, and make out for myself the sort
OF frame work nature and thought fashion for the
master mind. found myself driven to the con-
| clusion that bad man before me that could do
| great things without being great himself, and
| work to a swift conclusion the events he made a
| part of. Stanton saw the turning point in the
| fortunes of the Confederacy snd crowded on men
| until it fell through exhaustion. Grants indomi
| table will and cold courage crowded them TO the
| lannon's mouth, and rode him into popular favor
| in the victory. But Stanton was felt and recog
| pized al all times, and under all circumstances
| Without Stanton and without war, Grant would be
the unknown tanner in Illinois.
While j was thus speculadng, gentleman-
| Young and enthusiastic, saw Gen. Grant through
bis gold-rimmed spectscles, aud immediately
| moved on MS works" he seated himself by the
| president elect and opened an earnest converse
ton. That is. my youthful friend, divine,
should ssy, did the talking, and Grant tried Il
| listen. He was a. calm as a cow-pen, aud cold o.
| On icicle--respopdiDg, when he did respond, II
| monosyllabes. Nothing daunted, the younl
| divine continued. | saw the brow of the genera
corrugate, and an ugly little CLEAN of fire glitte
| in bis eyes. At last he suddenly jumped up
pulled the bell and disappeared from the car.