The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-27
SHERIDAN.
HIS srRAGEr1c MOVEMENTS IN ST. LOUIS
[St. Louis Republican, 22d.l


Lieut. Gen. Sheridan wore healthy look
on his countenance Tuesday, and particularly
Tuesday night. He did not look like man
who had recently oeen subject to the malari-
GUS influences of climate where 1.-THE at
mosphere is impregnated with assassination.
On the other hand his appearance indicated
that the proconsular duties of his late posi-
ton in New Orleans has agreed with him.
But there was q subdued glamour in his mill
tary eyes, his rotund but martial body moved
about the Lindall with softening swagger,
and his short but soldierly legs oscil-
lated with lack of fire and vigor, all of
which suggested man whose occupation was
not only gone, but had been suddenly
snatched away from him, SO to speak. And
yet nothing seemed to be the matter with the
Lieutenant General of our armies. He car
ried well-fortiied supper table by direct as
sault on the main line of works. in fine style.
Then he deb0uched in column down stairs and
drew lines of decentralization around small
private table which had an armament of cut
glass, and which he reduced by regular siege
approaches. Then the Lieutenant General,
having vanquished all the forces of the
enemy in his customary dashing style, de-
ployed by division into the parlor, where a
dress parade wound mp his campaign in an
appropriate blaze of glory.
The br:lliancy and success of the Lieuten-
ant Generals strategic movements at the Lin
dell were so out of keeping with the subdued
glamour of his fine military eye, the softened
swagger of his rotund but martial body, and
the tame and spiritless oscillation of his short
but soldierly legs, that our reporter sought to
ascertain the cause of the incongruity. The
inquiry was prosecuted under many difficult
ties, such as nearly always beset the seeker
after warlike information, and the information
NIL Ia Al,ovo 1tor Ia
altogether unofficial.
But it was ascertained with some clearness
that one great underlying cause Of the Lieu
tenant Generals melancholy state was the
failure of the Force bill to become law.
The hero of the hour seems to have set the
affections of his soul upon the Force bill.
While that measure of advanced civilization
was being showed through Congress by his
comrade-in-arms, Major General Bottled"
F. Butler, it seems that the CORY imagination
of the Lieutenant General reveled in the
prospective sweets of those duties which
he modestly intimated in his celebrated ban
ditti letter s'would devolve upon me-"
Visions of courts-martial, military commits
sions, lettres de cachet, and gray-headed ban
ditti kneeling upon collins in front of files of
soldiers, seem to have filled the sanguinary
but patriotic dreams of the hero. The disap-
pointments then which the failure of that
measure of enlightened Christian statesman
ship entailed upon the expectant conqueror
can better be imagined than described. It is
not at all strange that he should have sunk
under its crushing weight. The crimson Wis
| ions which he had INDUCED in vanished
from his mind, but left their notified shadows
upon the end of his commanding proboscis
and their incarnadined reflection were mir.
rored against his cheeks.
| But the Lieutenant General should not for
ever despair of winning any new laurels.
New Hampshire bids fair to prove an inviting
field for his peculiar talents in the course of q
few weeks. 1t may become necessary fol
Grant to guarantee a Republican form of gov.
eminent to that distracted and Democratic
State, and in that event the Lieutenant General
can be sent to Concord under sealed orders.
to take command of the disposable forces OF
marines, and see that proper Republican
imsjority is seated in the New Hampshire
Legislature
Our reporter did not inquire as to the state
Of the Lieutenant Generals courage, but took
it for granted that here, as at New Orleans,
che was not afraid" If there was any "as-
sassination in the atmosphere at the Lin
dell last night, our reporter was unable to de-
tect its odor, and his impression was that
the only death to which the Lieutenant Gen.
eaal was exposing himself was Of a gradual
and lingering, but eventually certain kind