The Portland daily press., 1873-08-27
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG.s7.1sza.
The President in New Hsmushire.

on Monday morning Aug. 18th in a speci
Pullman car, arrived in Portland ut III
O'Clock, and proceeded directly 10 North
Conway, the latter journey being accom-
pished i'll less than two hours. Hon. Charles
P. Kimball, of Portland, escorted the Pres,-
dent to the Kiarsarge House. Ex-Gov.
Stearns as the representative of New Ham,
shire received the guests. A drive to Echo
Lake, Dianas' bath and ether points of inter-
est in the vicinage occupied considerable
portion of the afternoon. At six O'Clock a
state dinner was served of which the follow
ing persons partook: Gen. Grant, Miss
Grant. U. s. Grant, Jr. and j. r. Grant
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine, Walker Blaine an En-
mons Blaine. Mr. and Mrs. II. S. Osgood
and Miss Annie Morrill, of Augusta. Gov.
Stearns, Gen. Babcock, Hon. Chas. P. Kim:
ball. Stanley I. Pulien, L. B. Smith and
Clarence Hale of Portland Miss Alrichs of
Pennsylvania and NJ. Bailey of New Yolk.
TIE banquet was creditable to the manage
ment of the Kiarsarge in the tastelulness of
TIE appointments, the excellence and variety
of the courses, and most of all in the graceful
manner in which it was served. Indeed the
department of the attendants quite prepared
us to believe the story that was current all
through our tour to the mountains, that stu
dents from Dartmouth, tempted by the OPP
portunity to earn money in their vacation
and at the same time to breathe the invigor-
ating air of this healthful cline and to get a
view, incog of the fashion able side of human
nature, had assumed the disguise of walters,
and were thus combining profit with recrea-
tion. Whatever may be our opinion as to
the good taste of their selecting an occupa-
ton, the menial element of which has made
it especially distastesul to Americans, the in
novation has the merit of enhancing the
comfort Of travellers materially. In fact these
fine looking and well behaved amateurs per-
form their duties with pro mptitude, COLI
tesy and cheerfulness, which gives a new
charm to the pleasures ofthe table. They do
their work so well that the average guest,
long accustomed to find stupidity and not un-
frequently lurking tendency to insolence,as-
sociated with this thankless employment is
apt to turn with look of grateful surp rise to
the polite young man who is unobtrusively
doing everything in his power to anticipate
mis- wants and make the meal enjoyable. One
cannot help feeling that if this sort of thing
goes on, the line of demarkation between the
served and the serviUor will ev entually be.
come indefnably small and thus another bar
rier to social equality will be swept away
INT Ioct ha 6iSriy,loc of Do1opapa,v oh
tremble at this threatened invasion of their
cherished privileges, beg them to find COLI
ISOLATION in the fact that college students are
n It numerous enough. nor college vacations
sufficiently long to justify apprehensions of
an actual revolution in the social system on
which they revolve with such conscious
lustre.
But while am digressing, may as well
acknowledge, that though by no means SEN
sitive as to the kind of labor in which young
men may elect to engage, provided it be hon
est, my sense of propriety did undergo mo-
mentary shock. when saw a handsome di-
vinity student of the Episcopa. church, dis
rensing ginger ale. soda water and other H.
nocuous beverages from behind the Kiarsarge
House bar. Even the assurance that he was
rigid temperance man and of morals as ir-
reproachable as his destined calling would i'm
ply, did not quite reconcile me to the un-
abashed readiness and skill with which he
mixed and served, not merely the mild refec-
tions most in vogue at that respectable inn,
but even in extreme cases stronger and less
harmless compounds, for which / fear his
genius in their concoction begot an appetite
, among his customers. 1 was relieved at be-
ing informed, that when the season was over,
he proposed to stake orders of a different
kind, and bestow his spiritual ministrations
| upon the souls instead of the bodies OF thirsty
way-farers.
The President entertained portion of his
travelling companions after dinner, with ta-
| milar dissertation upon political topics. This
episode was fitting supplement to, and not
less interesting than his discourse on military
Gnemes, on the Friday evening previous, al
tue island Of North Haven. am only sorry
Z am restrained, by obvious considerations o.
propriety from making notes of this instruc.
tive conversation. II furnished clue to the
processes by which Gen. Grant became inter
ested in, and educated up to affails of State.
| Evidently, when the war was over, it was the
farthest possible thing from his thought or
| his ambition to take any part in political
affairs. But the tragedy at Washington
which wrought the double calamity
of depriving the nation of the services o.
Lincoln and subjecting it to the capricious
temper of johnson, rendered the presence o
the commander-in-chief at the capital ne
necessity. johnson signalized his advent Il
power by most savage disposition toward
all the leaders of tn, rebellion. He "breath
ed forth threatenings and slaughter" and 81
intense was his thirst for the blood of trai
tors, that there was for time danger that h,
! would imperil the honors of the Republic b.
disregarding the parole which had formed OF,
| of the conditions of the Confederate surren
der. The country Knows already with wha
successful persstency Gen. Grant averted
this disgrace. Mr.. Seward also had an hon
orahle share in the better sense which pre-
vailed over the headstrong passions of the
uDdlsciplined politician whom an accident
bad invested with the supreme executive
power.
! We all know what followed. The same
johnson, who clamored so Justify at the out
set for vengeance, became in a few months
! the patron saint of the rebels. He who hat
promised to be the Moses of the Southern
| blacks, proclaimed himself the Saviour of til,
| Southern whites. His wrath abated not
but it was now all turned against Northern
radicals. If what he facetiousy termed hi
"polcy' had prevailed, we should have had
new oligarchy founded oo the ruins of tha
which, having slavery for its base, crumblet
| to atoms, when that giant wrong was ov>r
thrown. Practically Johnsonism meant res
! toration.
1t was natural that the quiet, thoughtful
| soldier, who represented as the head of th'
army the patriotism aud valor which had res
cued his country from the conspiracy OF trai
tors, should view with intense concern the
/ work of reconstruction. To have gver
1 the whites exclusive political control II
| tho connuered States would have beer