Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-20
ABOUT GRANT.
what One Of hts Relations Says
About the Late PFesidsnG.


what One Of his Relations says
About the Late President.
3ath's Letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer.l
Meeting a relative of ex-President
Grant day or two ago, asked
about that mystic mans intentions,
as follows:
"How long will the President
remain in Europe ?"
"Indefnitely. He expected when
he went away to stay a good while,
but thought he might have to fight
home-sickness. | hear that he is
very well contented at least better
off in mind than he thought to
have been. Grant is studying and
learning civil institutions. He is
the only President we ever had who
was not too old or too obstinate to
go to school again after he had ad-
ministered the government as long
as Washington"
Will he come back In a year I "
cit is entirely indefinite. | am
sure he will not come back while
this quarrel between the party and
Hayes goes on. He doesn't want
to be mixed up in it. You may
make up your mind that while there
is a conflict inside the Republican
party here Grant will keep abroad"
"Do you know what he thinks
about the muddle ?"
"No. He wouldn't tell me if he
did. He is a stout party man by
nature, but approves Of the South
ern policy of Hayes. He gave the
civil service people-Curtis, etc.
a chance, and found them a id
set of hypocrites and fools. But /
Suspect he is studying civil service
administration on the other side"
Where are his children ?"
"Jess is with him. Buck is in
a law office in New York. Fred is
out with Sheridan. Nelly is with
Sartoris' family in the south Of Eng
land"
"How does Nelly feel about liy-
ing all her life over there ?"
{" She likes the United States the
best. So does Sartoris. But he il
now the oldest son, and his parents
are old. They both have to stay
there. Nelly has had two children
-one is living"
! Whom does Grant depend or
for society in his more lonely tray.
els?"
"Badeau is with him a goot
deal. Grant finds him sound anC
useful"
"Yet he is, by profession, a news
paper man?"
"That doesn't matter. Gran
got to like a good many newspapel
writer's before he left here. H,
found the Bohemiaps more reliable
than those wearing a little brief au
thority. And the respectable mer
Of talent got to like Grant. O.
course, the detectives, pimps anC
pretenders didn't like him."
"How came he to take fancy t
Badeau ?"
"Grant is very strong for MAJ
if his sympathies are aroused. Ba
deau was on the staff of T. W. Sher
man-not Tecumseh-that Sher
man was very rough on Badeau, anC
Grant gave the young fellow relic
on his own staff. AS soon as hi
| got there Porter and Babcock tool
a dislike to hum and undertook tt
drive him off The big-natured
Justice of Grant was aroused and
| his sympathy excited. He fount
Badeau faithful and made his for
tune"
"You mean by helping him ant
promoting him2"
"Yes; he gave him the valuabl,
original materials of his life instea(
Of trying to make some profit on
of it himself. He sent BadeaU
consul to London, where he mar
ried a lady of property" @
"Does Grant keep his older faitl
in Babcock ?"
T" Grant is silent on that point
but l think not. / think the de
velopments of that trial at st
Louis staggered Grant. think h,
saw that il his confidence had no
been abused he had not been tolt
the truth"
els the President Independent
! Of the world ?"
"He is comfortable. His want
never were great. He has natur
ally fair, medium, bold bushes
pluck"
D." Will Grant come back her
and let any of the old crowd NEE
him 2"
"Not one. He won't give on
of them a chance There are peO
pie now crying 'Gnntv Grant,
, who would not get within gunsho
E : Of him if he had any inhuenc
| again." GATH.
t Hemcnway's BOY on Eagles.
! The American eagle is the hrges
and powerfulest bird in the world
s but he is smaller than an ostrich
{ which is more Of q hoss than a bir(