The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-06

go IL po0t without STINT for 1t aOrds pleasing OPP
adroit upon the velocipede It Is ten miles irom
anywhere to anywhere. Sit down anywhere, there
with equIpagcs naunt the fact in your face An old
gentleman who blulred the cabman on his fare re-
marked as he got on at the West End
''Well, here am at ast'
Eyes said cabby, "and that's where ,yon'i stay
ifyou don't like tobe paying hack hire"
grow like trees, for meanness or the want OF meansf
To hire teams The law Of gravity presses DOWN
aa ATM spa. as On sG Off
other PEDESTAL but there you will take root again,
Nonsensel' saws an injured property colder;
"onlnibuses are going TO and iro every little
while" -
who comes to the seaside to be dragged about In
inrrequent omnlbusesf The place was sown like
SEED py "a! dp In one s t1 rurow
cottages; 1t has come to stay; 1t has beautiful
course, and the vices are tolerated; big steam
w. created Brighton: the actors like IL; many line
ladies leave It every fall with regret; Miss Ceres
her tasselled head at old innamed Neptune suing
for her on the beach below. No seaside place has
such beautiful driving over the back country Jersey
roads,
THE PRESIDENTS COTTAGE.
The President is the proprietor Of two houses
not that is the expression OF his neighbors, who see
no evil in It, gentleman within stones throw
Of the President said to me -
ave all understood at the time that the cottage
was gift by the Branch people most heavily inter
the spirit or enterprise was fresh here, Grant was
universally popular and all thought tnat ne Wouia
yS ns paSs ns ts NoSoay
baines him In any sense for accepting this volun-
As an advertisement for Long Branch the prcsi-
dent has not been wholly the success expected.
Bis indispostion to be anybody's Hon and want OF
left him to the exclusive company Of the compare
lively few whom he thoroughly knows and under
attends He seser Sas In goo hons sU@e
2 certain amount q daily ollcial business.
life 1t is about equally the source OF his popularity
with consderate and sympathetic people and OF
their heroes to be brisk, risky and eniIveners Of
their species Notable persons call once on him
while here. With cronies, thoroughly broken in
he talks as fast as anybody.
Grant 70 no G nn6a;stood and tnero ia no
problem in him. masculine man, made proini-
nent late In life, when, his originally sturdy,
little o nothing ~ Nervous or sangne about him.
any more than q breakorin OF wild horses or q
cavalry, sergeant He is aware Of all his defects
and ashamed OF none Of them. He appreciates
sHsIS's thinks Smss sSua the equal o, @
He sA resents As an s injury real IS' or suspected,
and turns his face from On acquaintance not
lie Is unabls to be l eSSc in any way even to tie
extent Of acknowledging an error, but he does not
twice blunder over the same ground. He has no
neatly adro lie cannot Be called Lee. Selfish but he
words. lie is honest without being nice and
HE JUDGES MEN LIKE HORSES,
wards persuaded to admire what he had rejected.
He is Industrious, without being ardent, and his
habits are as good generally speakng as any;
used, put he must choose the people to do
it. He can be- dnttered, but not too
SS snand y nSey Hs People Secosnnes Nothing
below him or above him. and in that sense is o re-
publican he Is not social animal min Res men best
poverty and rules the country as II he thought it
old enough to help itself aud did not require to be
This appears to me, who have heard all the testI-
monies about him and seen him go from Appomat-
asm about the President. He is not capable of
being great, system-comprehendlng, inspiring
commemorate his administration; but he s simple,
natural no tyrant and no prctender. Perhaps the
worst the country suffers from his control is the
sense OF the commonplace diffused from such o
ruler and, at this period particularly, the want OF
more indignant hand and keener insight, to light
itself, after the example OF the late prongate, II
patriotic, war.
Colonel John Hay, journalist lately compared
potes with Gen .rGl Horace Porter upon the relative
Grant is s perfectly Certain" said Porter. HE
never was more confident in his llfe'
Greeley is perfectly SERENE" said Hay. "He
never was half so confident"
THAT'S queer; but you know Grant never sees
anybody but those who come on errands Of assur-
~ suppose that must be the class who see Mr.
Greeley" said Hay.
Horace Porter has been good deal assailed since
he took table at Grants side, for there a
'break up' In Grants staff after he arrived at his
highest distinction, the Old stan, which drank wiis
key, with tansey In it, falling back for the new staH
which drank champagne on ice, kept secrets and
all the regulation buttons. The new stan, led
by Porter and his friend Babcock, proved close and
faithful and got the dsdan OF the 1rowsy men
gentleman, Is quietly popular with the majority
Of folks is Of good extraction and good bearing and
has made the best OF General Grant He Is rat
Ting story teller, remembers all things, regulates
his head to Its capacity and has delightful family.
put we live In an age which demands proofs TO
call man In public life "a scoundrel" only means
that the eXcaimer has no love for the exclaimed
against. OF the same purport are newspaper ex-
carnations against the newspaper folks across the
way. We never butter the watermelon OF the man
In the same business with 0uisel; he requires TO be
O scoundrel to make our position tenable. Horace
Porter occupies no more inferior relation to his
President than David Humphreys and the best of
the secretaries Of Presidents gone before.
SPARE THE LADIES.
II Is remarkable thing that detraction has
prove the liberal republicans to have the cleanest
tongues for Mrs. Greeley an invalid for years, has
every respect OF temperament her husbands OPP
posite-flank, outspoken, with high spirits and q
love OF society which pulls her husband along and
conpes many friend for him. Not great beauty
she mas carriage and the Dent sociabliy-those de-
lightful, confdug, genial and kindly Dents, who
have bpen more inaligned for less offence than any
collateral connection Of President-and only tile
meanest spirit could make imputations upon o lady
SO agreeable, not to say alluring.
NELLIE GRANT. LIKE MISS IDA
Greeley, is sparkling girl, and she is Dent all
over.
s.rhe only reaaon opanst Creelev,s election that
| know off, said q devout Greeley man on the Con-
tnenta piazza, us that the politicians will be call
ing his daughter Ida Miss Ider, as If IL rhymed
with snyder Now, we won't have anything that
rhymes with Snyder near the Presidency
THE CANISTER OF THE BRANCH.
Within half a mie of the Presidents two cot
tages, and around the West End turn toward
Hoey's in q large lot stands the "Club House,
caed--the club consisting OF Chamberlain and
pricn McGrath and tleir seYeral eaunTriea