Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-04
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WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, March 3.-Coin in the
Treasury, SOS, 747, 260 20 currency In the
Treasury, SIC, s53. $40 CA debt, less cash
in the Treasury, s.. 544. $50. 904 5S de-
crease in debt, SI08,6S7 So.
This morning the committee appoint
ed by the subscribers in New York,
headed by A. P. Stewart, waited on
| Grant and completed the purchase Of his
house for presentation to Gen. Sherman,
by handing him a check for $50, 900. The
committee subsequently, obtained N in
terview with Gen. Sherman, when
Stewart, holding in his hand the sub
scription papers, deed and bill of sale,
addressed Sherman as follows
1t is q great pleasure to me to be the
medium of presenting this voluntary
subscription Of your friends and fellow
countrymen. X there ever was an
instance of the pleasure being greater to
give than receive, this is certainly that
one. 1 assure you, this msy be accepted
without any feeling Of obligation on your
part, as il is contributed in the sincere
belief hat your noble and effective SER
vices in behalf OF our country in her hour
OF peril, can eve be compensated, and
we trust thst the kind Providence
who has in the past watched
over, guided and protected you
on the battlefield and in camp, may
bless you with long life, and that you
may enjoy the reward OF a faithful peo-
pie to q public servant, from 8 free and
happy people.
Mr.. Stewart then handed Gen. Sher-
mar the subscription list, deed and bill
OF sale, remarkiDg that the balance Of
the subscription, now amounting to
nearly S100, coo, would be forwarded
to him within a few days, and after the
shall have been obtained, of a
few gentlemen who desire to contribute
by adding to it, and that q portion of
this sum had been subscribed by some OF
Sherman's Boston friends, whose names
would be added to the list.
Sherman RppeSred to be much affect
ed, snd replied that this noble act OF
kindness YVES entirely unexpected by
him, until within q few days past and
that in view Of his coming to Washing
ton, he had been engaged in making sr-
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propOrtionate to his income, and in an
humble but modest style, and o; course
this gift would enable him to live in q
different manner from that which he
had contemplated and he assured the
gentlemen that It should be held by him
for the special benefit Of his family and
the education OF his children, and be-
yond this purpose, he intended never to
touch one dollar of it.
At noon the Presidents private recep-
ton room was thrown open to an i'm
mense throng. The President shook
hands with all OF the visitors, many Of
whom seem much affected being person.
al friends.
This morning Bishop Sirapson, Rev.
Drs. Puncheon and DeHassee, and Mr..
Pierce, of Boston, and Messrs. Emmery
and Ncrment, together with some Ia
dies, were admitted to an interview with
Grant, when the Bishoppresented to him
q splendid gOldhesded cane from some
lsdies of Baltimore, the wood OF which
was cut from the estate Of Lafayette, in
France.
Grant, in expressing his pleasure with
the gift, said he hoped never to have oc-
caslon to use it, because if he took it out
with him be might Internationally
it somewhere.
A delegation of negroes also called to
pay their respects to Grant. They were
from Nashville, and represent the ne.
sroes Of Tennessee generally. One of
them is 3 County Commissioner or
Judge, and another a Justice Of the
The President has issued his farewell
address 70 his fellow-citizens. In 1t he
at great length his entire ad.
ministration, and vindicstes the policy
adopted by him. He says the bitter war
was waged on the part of the Govern.
ment to vindicate the Constitution and
the Union, and IL he has erred in
trying to bring about a more speedy and
peace, and to extinQuish the
heart burnings and enmities, and to pre-
vent trouble in the South, which re-
,srded the national prosperity of the re-
yion iniuriously affected, together with
.he whole country, he is quite content to
his case with the more deliberate
augment of the people and with the
future.