New-York tribune., 1872-10-12
ONE OP GRANTS C1LLERS.

ONE OF GhANIo CdLhISisc'
That violent and extraordinary Rebel, Col.
Mosby, has been paying friendly visit to the
tenant of the White House. This will be
lacerating news to those Of the Doctors
friends at the North who hold that all Seces-
sionists have committed the objectionable sin,
and are to be treated accordingly by the
politically piOus. We are compelled to record
that Mosby seems to be upon excellent terms
with the Chief of the Grant tribe. lie was
conducted politely to the Cabinet Chamber,
and furnished probably with one of the longest
of the official regalias. After this, the talk
commenced, and is duly reported by the cor
respondent Of an eminent Grant newspaper IN
Boston, who, for all we know, may DC MosDy
himself. The Doctor said be was pleasantly
astonished by the result in Pennsylvania, and
Mosby told him never to mind that, but to
lust wait till he heard from Virginia. am
" not Indifferent" responded the Doctor, to
" the hopes that you suggest" "The bloody
{" chasm is a humbug," said the gallant
Colonel. "Fact Strip replied the Doctor;
and so the conversation ended
Now, if we were disposed to treat Grant as
his henchmen have treated the Liberal party,
we might ask what the great man was doing
| in such dubious company, chatting, smoking
and possibly drinking with the remorseless
MOsby, whose war-recOrd reminds US OF Claver-
house without any of that dragOons chiyalry
or refinement. Moreover, how happens it.
that the reformation of Mosby is not for
moment questioned in the fastidiOus haunts OF
| the Administration Why is this brand
pucked from the burning pufed into a shin
| ing light while all the other brands are de-
clared to be disreputable cinders and ashes
How is this Republic to tOtter along for
great while, when its political head makes
much of Mosby and admits him into that
sanctum sanctOrum the Cabinet Chamber!
There this philosophical rough-r;der was
pleased to observe that "the bloody chasm
sis a humbug" He should know; for
when its existence was patent to the
eyes and the nOstrils of mankind, of all the
devils there weltering, not one was madder
with the wine of war than this same Col.
Mosby. He should know tho topography of
this charming assure. 1t is barely possible
that he suffers under sort Of reversed nos
talgia, and hates the locality which he is ac-
tually pinirg for. Did the old Union agree
with the old Confederate soldier, that any
amount of hacking and hewing, Of lombard
Ing anu WOulu De DclJtI lDdU lu6
tedium of these piping times of peacep
Infinitely extensive has been the virtuous
ullalOo raised at the political support which
Mr.. Greeley has received from men who were
once Disunionists, but who now avOw their
loyalty. Mosby we take it, is a sweet amiable,
and altogether unique exception. But then be
spoke such charming words while he tarried
in the Executive MansiOn If he had come in
with horns and a tail, breathing burning
birthstone, and had uttered prophecies Of such
good cheer as we shall presently notice, he
would have been as welcome to His Excel
lency as a donation of the very finest IIayanas.
For it appears that on this occasion Mosby
said unto Grant, 81 guarantee you
from Virginia as unexpected a majority
"as you have received from Penn
"sylvania.n Then the Doctor answered
and said unto the Colonel, 81 am not indif-
ferent to the hopes you suggest" Not in
Different We guess not much as the slangy
folk say Not he, nor his man servants, nor
his maid servants, nor his oxel and his asses,
of which last mentioned he has quite as many
as poor Job, only they are mostly of the other
gender Indifferent, indeed Is a wretch on
the gallows Indifferent to pardon? Is
hungry man Indifferent to bread and cheesef
Is moneyless man Indifferent to cashl Is q
thirsty man Indifferent to tppe7 Is game
ster Indifferent to the stakes7 Indifferent
quOtha!
But we will not dwell upon the subject. No
body, it seems, must treat Southern men like
gentlemen except the Doctor and his devotees-
Mosby, with the smell of Rebel fire upon his
garments, is welcomed to the White House
SO are all the old COnfederates who bend the
knee to the Doctor, and prOphesy pleasant
things. AS for the reprobates who "go for
"Greeley," why they are of another Sort Away
with them Don't speak to theml Don't
shake hands with theml Don't smoke with
them the cigar of reconciliation Don't dram
with them the goblet of forgiveness
The citizens of Chicago Wednesday feted the
anniversary of their great fire with general TO