The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-07-19
Grant IN England.

| Inc following letter TO the New iOrl
lVortd, received from an Englishman O
distinction, as familiar almost with tn,
United States as with England, has beer
minded in for publication. 1t opens th'
way, no doubt, for an interesting series O
social revelations:
LONDON, June 80.
! Well, General Grant has come ant
gone, been !ioniZcd, dned and wined Il
his hearts content, and beyond, another
link has been forged in the chain whcl
binds together the two great branches o
the AnglO-Saxon race-I believe that.
the proper way Of putting it-but, as al
ways happens on such OCCASIONS there il
disagreeable under left bchint
of tales told out of school which sup
pose will be sure to find their way to tho
light of day sooner or later.
Perhaps, therefore, there is no objec
ton to my telling you that people were
not universally delighted here with tht
cx- Presidents ways, and that they were
pretty universally disgusted with the
ways of some of the people vino made
social capital for themselves out Of his
visit or belonged to his suite. In the
first place, his silence at most of the din.
ners which he attended was something
APPALLING. On two occasions he literally
never spoke one word from the soup to
the salad. AT another dinner he almost
broke up the company by objccting 10
allow the Duke of Cambridge to take
precedence Of him-this, doubtless, o.,
the instigation Of Picrrepont.
Worst of all the stories current, how.
ever, is that in the Princess of Wales
drawing room at Marlborough House he
pulled out an enormous cigar and was
going to light it, when somebody stepped
up and prevented him. However, he
must not be too hardly judged for this,
for when Mr.. Seward was here, twenty
years ago, and was taken by Mr.. Dallas
in full dress, with rutfied shirt-to a
private concert ut buckingham Palace,
he insisted on injecting himself with the
fumes of huge Havana just before he
went in, in spite of civil hint from Mr..
Dallas that the Queen had Il strong per-
sonal repugnance to the smell of tobacco.
Moreover, it is we'll known that poor dead
Mrs. Thornton, the excellent housekccper
of Windsor Castle, never got over the
abominable conduct of Victor Emmanuel,
who, visiting the Castle when King Of
Sardinia, insisted on smoking all night
in bed, and thereby, as Mrs. Thornton
used to say, "poisyned" the beautiful
green satin hangings of his room.
The "tricks and the manners" of the
ex-President. however, probably would
not have annoyed people so much had it
not been for the insufierablc way in
which he was compelled to drag the
minister and the whole Picrrepont con-
nection about with him wherever he
vent. He was incensed at this himself,
and openly expressed his satisfaction Mt
getting out of Cavendish square. Gen.
Badeau was another bob on the Presi-
Dental kite which tapped unpleasantly
in peoples faces and it is Il great pity
that some kind friend had lot advised
General and Mrs. Grant to send that
young hopeful, their boy Jesse, to school
before them in some cool and healthy
part of Switzerland. On the evening of
the dinner at Windsor this misguided
lad, by way of making himself agreeable
to the Queen, went up to her Majesty and
affably attempted to open a conversation
with her by saying: DWELL ma'am, your
Majesty, l hope your newspaper don't
write about you in your country as ours
do about my father and mother"
grieve to say that the interesting CONVEX
sation thus began never went any further.
The young gentleman, l believe, still
lives, and I hope is not beyond learning.