The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-10-07

9pmark the children's grAves,l ,Bef0
they came to the marble works,
n said suddenly, as though anxious /
7 have it off his mind, Ihaye had Il
2 baby, taken up and buried by Harr
Land I have been looking at q stone I
b ihi$ fathetj you would ike to have one
: -fAhd sthe46 WAs q fine, large piece :,
fildfb16 ct Sside for Susan's judgmen
~ nd ffe IND tile blocks were Of Il
NE Ah6f turV vein. In awhisper, 1
fth6x NGif64 - give the final order, ht
husband soSi e the baby had no nam
s. hut fzW0uld like to have Susan, o
n the stone. z And thus it was.
ffIef next ye6f b little boy was bori
and his mother named him " "Philip,
but his father added "Henry" as b
part in the naming of their only son.
Whom we bless, We love-"
,asiFfsk A4Y8e ENCLOSURES. !
A Ch6racferistic Letter from the ven
!. sasile Author Of the WOOdbine Allu
sion. Who Psisl Grants SubscriF
tiOns.
lCinenbsd esmmescial Now YORK Special
james Fisk has written the follow
I fing:lettAr to the Sun :figT oqI f
To the Editor ofthe Sun
7y3D DEAR SIR: I notice in you
1 issue of this morning an article headet
II tEeneraf Grant Euchered, which read
as follows: - Tie. President went t,
Long Branch on the steamer Plymouth
Rock, oii Tuesday last, and on goin,
| off the, boat, exhibited q pass on tn
New Jersey Southern railroad; but, a
Admiral Fisk had given orders not Il
pase;Anyio of General Grants family OF
any boats of the Narragansett Steam
ship Company, his railroad pass wa.
repudiated, and the Presidents fart
was demanded, notwithstanding hi.
right bower Colonel Tom Murphy
tried to push him through. John Hoey
of the Adams Express, hastened te
Grants rescue, got him G ticket and he
passed along.' 80 - - = -
l'lyThis order, now going the rounds
OF the papers, is SO different f,Om the
real orders issued to the commander
Eofsteam me1 owned by the Narragansett
Steamship Company, that 7 am COM
PEELED, IN justice, not only to the corpO.
ration 1 represent, but also, to the indi-
yidlAla gainst whom the garbled order
appears to be specially aimed, occupy
ing the exalted position of Chief Mag
istrate of this country, tolay before the
public the genuine order, and to give,
atthe same time. my reason for its is
sue.i Gpbat there was any intention on
the part of the subscriber to this letter
that the President of the United States
or any of his family or staff, while trav-
ing on the steamers of the Narragansett
Steamship Line, should not be treated
with greatest courtesy as ladies and
gentlemen, is entirely erroneous. The
simple truth, aud the whole truth, is
that an order was issued to allow them
the privilege of paying for such accom-
modations as they might call for, and
this is the beginning and ending of the
order. L issued an entirely different
one, you will observe, from that copied
into your journal from the Boston Tran
script. My reason for taking this
course, viewing, the matter in COM
mon sense light, was that was weary
of furnishing free transportation to the
President and his many relations over
sea end land, as did to great extent
last summer, particularly as I had not
the satisfaction of knowing that the ci-
Whites extended were appreciated,
never having been thanked for the ef-
fort / had made in the matter. On re-
viewing the transactions of the past
year found that 1 had not only furn-
ished large amount of free transporta-
ton, buE that + had been allowed the
great privilege of subscribing to Mr..
~ 81, Tn hn fin
ment of the gold speculations of the
fall of 1889, in which I supposed and
still believe the President was part
ner with US, find the following item
charged to my account:
"'One half OF, Grants subscription to
the Rawlins fund, five hundred dollars
"Tke circumstances are simply these:
A subscription was started for the wild
ow If the late lamented Rawlins. The
President placed his name at the head
of the list for one thousand dollars. Mr..
Gould followed for a. similar amount,
and their signatures were followed by
others for various sums. Mr.. Gould,
having himself paid the amount set
opposite his name, was called upon by
an agent Of the President to advance
the money for his, the Presidents sub
and this he did, taking 1t for
granted that this disbursement was part
and parcel of moneys passing through
the hands of Mr.. COrbin. was, of
course, charged my proportion, but L
should never have found fault with this
nor, ould I have even 'mentiDped it,
were it not the manner which the Pre-
sident, gossipped about me in the fall Of
1859. Why he did SO after what had
done for him is only known to- Him
who makes the apples round. Taking
all the circumstances of the case into
and feeling not like Mic
awber, waiting for something to turn
up, but, to a certain extent, broken in |
spirit, 1otbeing even thanked for what |
had done, / determined, after quietly |
with my own heart, to re- |
store my peace of mind by hencefOrth |
treating the President of the United
States, and all connected with him, as
becomes the high position he occupies !
1t the head of this great nation, ignor-
ing his treatment of me, and never, for |
one moment, assuming that l deserved
any thanks from him or bear the slight
st resemblance to agentleman. q
"The resulted this determination was
The issue of an order that whenever the |
or any of his family or staff,
on any of the steamers of the |
Narragansett line, they should be treat
I'd with the greatest respect, but not |
lpon any other footing than that of
adies and gentlemen. That the arti-
lies reported in your paper as having
)een sent to the Boston Transcript |
lsovx nsf To v<u
% make political capital, there can be
10 doubt, and for some few days there
nave been whisperings that it emanat-
ID from one upon whom the President
las recently bestowed the most lucra-
i've Office in his gift, in spite of the no
orious fact that this lucky individual
las steadily voted the Democratic tick
It for the last twenty years.
Mr.. Editor, beg of you, in justice
o myself, to make this letter public.
live me the advantage of having one
ide of the story read. L trust that
cme will believe, if not many, that
low, in.my waning years, the best part
# my life having been given to the
ervice of the public, am determined,
10 matter what treatment I may re-
Give personally, shall never forget
he duty I owe to the public, the cor.
,oration whose. interest I represent,
nd to myself, and I shall take care
hat, no matter who may be travelling
nder our charge, they shall, one and
IL, be treated with the utmost courtesy
nd consideration. 8 |
"The Republican press endeavors to
make party capital out of this, instead
f placing nay order before the public
S it was actually issued; an order I
ill .oxr in c0nolusion xulich xuas |