The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-06-18
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During the examination at West Point re-
Gently there were many incidents q an in'ei4
esting character The Cadets mop was ainonk
them. This continued until broad oayhsnt
One of tl,e sets was made up OF GEN. Grant
ond Miss steele of Washington; Gen. Sher-
MON and Mrs. Grant; Col. Audenried and Mel
lie Grant, and Lieut.. Hosmer and lady OF
Georgetown The correspondent OF the new
York Tribune says: "The attempts OF the
President and Gen. Saerman were by no
means successful, the Chief Magistrate seem
inc 10 lack energy, the General of the Army,
onthe other hand, exhibiting an immense
amount Of motive vim, but wanting sadly in
Judgment. was quite shocked to see first
iieutenant,punch the President by way of adj
monitor, and Colonel use violence to his SUI
perior officer in the vain effort to keep him in
position" IL must have been rather a ludi-
crous sight to see these great characters blum
dering about in the dance, and jostling one
another and the ladies.
Just before the President started for the fer
ry, Gen. Underwood called upon Gen. Sher-
man to pay his respects and bid him good by e.
"Taking Grant off to to that drum matca'
are you, Underworld said Gen. Shern,an co
eyes, General, and ] am very sorry you Can
not join us. . -
"Well, il isa kind of disappointment, you
KNOW en- pass son he'll be-
horod ~ Death And, worse than all that, he
has M ear for music. Why, do you know that
Grant couldn't tell the difference between
Yankee Doodle and Zip Coon?"
al 10 O. clock the whole corps OF cadets was
reviewed by Gen. Sherman, who expressed
himself as delighted with their appearance and
their proficiency. When the review was over
the corps was drawn up in hollow square in
form of post headquarters, with the graduates
in the center, facing the General of the Army
who was supported by Gen. Pitcher and Maj
Boynton. The names of the graduates were
called, one by one, and as each stepped for
ward and saluted, he received his certificate o.
fitness for position in the United States
Army, the well-earned reward of four years
hard study. After the presentation of the di-
pl0mas, Gen. Sherman addressed the class
substantially as follows:
Twenty-nine years ago he stood where they
were standing, and he. might well be excused
if he allowed the recollections of that day tt
crowd his mind almost to the exclusion of the
thoughts to which it was his duty to give ex'
preston in this the address to the graduates Of
1862. In those % years important events had
| occurred. Europe had been conyulsed more
than once, and great wars had worked changes
| in the condition of her States. In our country
| we had seen the close of the old Indian war
| we had passed through war with Mexico, ans
had just emerged from an intefnecine struggle
gigantic in its proportions, terrible in its bitter
ness almost ruinous in the losses involved, bu
of vast Importance in the lessons it taught {
| citizen and soldier. In all these struggles il
which the National honor was at stake tn,
graduates of West Point had proved the valu
| of the instruction they had received, and 0
the system Of the discipline under which the.
had been trained as soldiers II 81 y
/ We have not space for more of the General
speech which was decidedly much better thai
his dancing His address was loudly applaud
ed by the cadets and visitors.