The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-07-30


Lexington, is equal to that at Lowell.
Fonr Touring mills had been erected,
but were burnt by Gen. Hunter, and
but one has been rebuilt.
THE MILITARY INSTITUTE AND WASH
INGToN COLLEGE
Are situated on a beautiful ridge ex-
tending from the town to the river,
the buildings all facing South. The
system of education at the Institute
is an improvement on West Point,
and is intended to fit men for
the duties OF business life. 1t
was founded in 1887, by the State,
but its alumni did little for the
military service in the rebellion
aDd are most prominent in the
material enterprises of the country.
Its buildings were burnt and its Ii
brary destroyed by Gen. Hunter, who
also carried off the bronze statue Of
Washington, and six cannon, present
ed by the State, but these have been
returned by the government. Oar
troops were permitted to search the
College Library and burn the resi-
dence Of Gov. Letcher. Most Of
these acts of vandalism were then dis
as they are now, by right
minded men. The Institute and Col
lege have no connection whatever,
nor is Gen. Lee identified with the
former. Gen. +. II. Smith is at the
head of the Institute, assisted by five
professors, (among whom is the rebel
Commodore Maurey,) } and about 25O
cadets attended last year The build
ings are being rapidly repaired, and
the library will soon be replaced
The buildings of Washington College
are finely situated, and are at once
elegant and spacious. The profess
ors' houses are uniform in style and
are built in fine taste. The library is
fast filling up from contributions by
Northern people. The funds of the
College were mostly lost in Confed.
crate bonds, and efforts are being
made to re- e-endow it. Mccormick, OF
Chicago, who was raised near this
place, has given $4,000, and indica-
tions promise entire success. Gen. Lee
is President, and resides in a plain
but spacious and comfortable house
erected especially for him. The Col
lego had its origin in a Seminary,
founded by the Reverend Robert
Alexander. at Greenville, in 1749
but was endowed by Gen. Wash
ington in 1898, by a gift to its
Trustees of one hundred shares
of James River stock, worth $780,
600. This had been voted to him by
Virginia, but he refused to accept it
for himself. In our times great men
are less modest, and one only has
been found brave enough 20 refuse a
gift, and that was Gen. g. III. Thomas.
Thousands have been educated at
this College, and 348 students attend
ed last year. The rebel Generals
Turner, Jones, Rhodes, Gordon and
Malone were of its alumni. Gen.
Lee is residing here, the quietest man
in Virginia, but loved and reverenced
by the millions in whose behalf he
fought with such mastery skill.
VISIT To GEN. LEE.
| called on him, with good letter,
and was received with frankness and
cordiality. Our conversation turned
upon educational matters, and he
manifested a deeD interest in the
cause. When he learned that I had
served with the Army of the Cumber-
land, he complimented that command,
and spoke highly Of Gen Thomas
lie is a fine looking man, sixty-twO
years old, with gray hair, but good
head. He is naturally kind and re-
ligious, and must be a good father
and true husband. His voice is rath-
er feminine and his appearance really
mild. All who meet him will be fa~
impressed. As he is really a
great man, misfortune will chasten
rather than embitter his disposition,
and he will win sympathy and re.
speet. There is little of sadness in
his expression, and l doubt not, he
often thinks of Arlington and of has
great mistake in quitting it to make
war on the old flag. tits yet in his
power to make partial atonement by
labors directed to the general good,
and I believe this is his earnest pur-
pose.
''sToNEwALL" JACKsoN's GRAVE.
1 visited the grave of Jackson,
which is still without a monument,
but covered with boquets, the daily
offerings of the thousands who cher
ish his memory. The name of "Stone-
wall' Jackson is a household word in
Virginia. He was an extraordinary
man, and terribly in earnest as a SOL
dier. He had no reputation before
the war, but was thought insane by
some. and only held a subordinate
professorship in the Institute His
family have gone to their relatives in
North Carolina. ". H. G.
Pulling ones self up by the breech-
es,' is an old phrase, to express the
of attempting to accom-
plish an impossible feat; but Judging
from notice in the Albany (New
York; Argus, of a new invention to
weigh floating boats and their car
goes, We should jndge that the next
thing to pulling ones self up by the
bTeeches has been accomplished
The apparatus is called Reim's
Boat Scale, and is placed atpOn the