The Portland daily press., 1871-07-24

NV York Commercial Aduertiser gives the |
public sight of the General OF the Armies as
a citizen, as we'll as his opinion on matters of
public interest. Gen. Sherman stopped at
Saratoga but a day, and then was away on his
business:
Gen. Sherman, all sun burnt and dusty, and
fresh from the plains, got in unannounced on
late train at night. AS he came up to the Con-
gress Hall office to register he did look like the
homeliest Except Gen. Spinner man in Amer
lea. His struggling red beard radiated ID
thousand directions, his soiled buster was but
toned to bis neck, and bis old souched ar
my hat looked too seedy for anything. March,
ing straight to the Office, carry his own car
pet bag, he seized a pen and scrawltd,
wv. T. SHERMAN, WIFE AND FAMILY
"Any room, sir?" he asked of Southgate,
who, with the rest in the Office, didn't recognize
the General of the United States Army.
Got foui th-story real" said Southgate.
IAN right" said the General sm'hns and
dropping his bags-@hen Fred Anderson,
brother of Gen. Robert, and several others
who recogn Sed the General, stepped up to
shake hands,
"What, Gen. Sbermaur' exclaimed the
clerk "Here-here, General; we've got a
ground floor front-VaDdeTbilts ROOM" and
Southgate hustled up half dozen porters, who
bessie ed the General with brush brooms and
negro politeness, till be reached his ROOM
knew the General in Memphis in war time,
and as he started for his room, "All right"
said he; well have talk in the morning."
sHERMAN'S TALK.
This morning l met the General early and
strolled down to Congress Spring, and then
around the Park. He was vivacious and spark
ling as Hathorn water, and walked and talked
like boy. AS George Alfred Townsend said
of Miles O'Riley, "there's splendid boyish-
ness always about Sherman He is always
ready with pun, a sarcastic repartee, or a
strong thou2ht-a gerry David with the tongue
and the pen too.
"Do you remember how 1 managed those
Charleston rebels when they wanted to pray
for jeff Davis in the churches?" asked the
| General as we stroled along.
"No. Howl"
"Wby, said L, Yes! pray away-he needs itr
and id it, if they didn't get mad and 60
away and pray for Lincoln"
Been * killing good many Injuns out West
mo; the papers kill more people than we
| do. Why, if we killed half as many Injuns as
the Herald does, we'd be short of hjunsP"
| 81 see Parker has resigned?'
| "Yes; we We had so many dishonest Indian
Commissioners that Congress resolved to stop
the frauds, and they corked up the Indian Blu
reau so tight that poor Parker had nothing to
do but now and then sign his name, and frank
envelopes for the department.
| They say he is rich?''
| mot bit of it," lsaid the General, indig.
nantly. Parker never made one cent out Of
his Office. His record is pure as snow"
Your friends were little disappointed
when you refused to have your name used
Presidentially," I remarked.
mo, not my friends. They want me to stay
where am. General of the army for life /.
better than President tor four years. Gran
| regrets now that he ever lett the army, and SO
do l, except that he has done good work al
| President"
"Do you think it policy to elect Gran
again?"
''Of course lido. Why not? He knows the
ropes now-he has become acquainted with thu
dutes-acquainted with thousands of public
men, and ten thousand good-for-nothing White
House bummers, who do nothing but harrass
new President for the first year. He has jus
got where he can tell a good man at sight
Humbug men always get the best credentials
| every Congressman signs their recommends
tions at sight, and many of them deceive new
| President These party frauds are pretty much
| played out, and Grant is enabled to dea
| squarely with true men. Experience and &C
quantance is the stock in trade of good
| President"
"Who will win in '72?"
"There is no question in my mind" said the
General enthusiastically. "Ill bet on Gran
against the field-two to one.'
| who will run against him?"
"There won't be any body run but, not beins
politician, can't guess for moment who
will be nominated
Hancock"
swell, he may be tempted to run. Hancock
| you know, disikes Grant personally and il
| would be an immense triumph for MIN to ge
where he could rank him. Grant ne0er showed
| any dislike to Hancock. He went more thar
halfway to conciiiate him year ago; but there
is clique in Washington, social clique which
| manipulates Hancock and keeps up the feud
| Women have more to do with it than men,"
| What do you think of the Ku Klux bill?"
Good bill, sir!'' 1t has already stopped
good many outrages. The fact that the Presi
dent has power to send troops into any State
| to quell disturbance, IN itself, is enough tt
brighten the disturbers of the public peace''
But John Quincy Adams says the bill is an
absolute surrender of the principle of free gov
ernment-placlng in the Presidents hands the
power, through that and the Election Bill, to
| raise himself to the Empire"
IAN stuff How ridiculous to talk about a
man raising himself to the Empire in this
country! Such man, after declaring for the
Empire, might hold regiment OF soldiers in
the White House yard for just one day, and
then the people would put him in the Potomac
river. Why, they shut up Napoleon at Stras-
bourg, and ducked him in the sea at Boulogne
| for just such nonsense"
But in '52 he did ride to the top, after all %
| YES, but France was not composed Of
| States-sovereign States, as far as each State
controlling its own troOps-and every Cover.
nor, Democratic and Republican, matching
| lealOusly his own state militia. We are moi
| France. Let some crazy President declare
himself Emperor and intreuch himself in the
| White House yard with the whole regular
army- $4,000 fighting men-around him
and no would it take Governors Hoff-
man, JV,E11 Randolph, Geary, and Claflln,
| and the rest, to surround and capture the
| whole concern? No, SIR said the General
| Indignantly; when President declares I'm
| peridAsm, every Governor will have to be in the
mess TOO, and when that shall be the case, the
country will be too rotten to be worth preserv-
ing"
Adams calls the Ku-Klux bill Grant s
negro policy" 1 remarked.
"All humbug again 1t is a law making il
possible to arrest and disperse unlawt ul gangs
of rascals, black or white, in any of the South
ern Sta Ito imprisOn them and try aud
punish TN Grant don't have any negro,
| nor German, nor Irish policy. His policy is to
protect all6tizens; remain at peace, ecOnom
ize and try and pay the debt. Al this stuff
and talk about Imperialism in America is a Ii
bel on the good sense of the people, and Adams
ought to have too much good sense to talk
such foolshness."
We now brought up at Congress Hall, and
the General went in to an early breakfast. He
was surI Ounded by charming family of chill
dren, and looked the picture of good, quiet,
honest, sensible citizen, as he is. Always radi-
cal, but pretty sure to be right, toe General is
bater OF humbugs-a hater of impossible theo-
rles-a hater of long, empty takers He puts
more sense into one sentence than some men
will get into ten. The Generals galaxy of
children about him were in a roar of laughter
dnrinp hrna kfast-fha Gonorol nc f,,nnu os !