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

Ihe following letter to the New York
tYcrtd, received from an Englishsuan OF
distinction, as familiar aImost vith fj,e
United States as with England, Laa been
handed in for publication. IL og,enz li,e
way, no doubt, for an interesting eeriea nj
social revelations: y
-, :, LONDON, June so.
Weil, General Grant has come and
gene, been lioni1ed, dined and wined to
ms heart,s ecEtent, and beyond, another
INK has been forged In the chain which
BINDS together the two great branches of
the Anglo'Saxou race-I believe that's
the proper way of putting it-but. as al.
ways happens on such occasions, there is
disagreeablc under-current left hahind
OF tales told out OF school which sup
pose will be sure to find their way to the
ilght CT day sooner or later.
Perhaps, therefore, there is no obiec-
tion to my telling you that people were
not universally delighted here with the
ex- President's ways, and that they we're
pretty universally disgusted with the
ways. of some of the people who made
social capital for themselves out of his
visit or belonged to his suite. In the
iirst place, hiasilence 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 objecting TO
allow the Duke Of Cambridge to take
precedence Of him-this, doubtless, on
the ins*igation of Piey.epont.
Worst of all the stories current, how.
ever, is that in the Princess of Wales
drawing room at Marlborough House he
pulled ont On enormous cigar and was
going to light 1t, when somebody stepped
up and prevented him. However. he
must not be too harshly Judged for this
for.when Dir. Seward was here, twenty
years ago, and was taken by Mr.. Dallas
in full dress, with ruffied shirt-to n
private concert at Buckingham Palace,
ne insisted on injecting himself with the
fumes of q huge Havana just before he
went in, in spite of civil hint from Mr.
Dallas that The Queen had strong per-
sonal repugnance TO the smell of tobacco.
Moreover, it is we'll known that poor dead
Mrs. Thornton, the excellent housekecper
OF Windsor Castle, never got over the
abominable conduct of Victor Emmanuel,
who, visiting tho Castle when King Of
Sardinia, insisted on smoking all night
in bed, and thereby, rs MIS-. 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 insufferable way in
which he was compelled to drag the
minister and the whole Pierrepont con-
nection about with him wherever be
went. He was incensed at this himself,
and openly expressed his satisfaction at
getting out of Cavendish square. Gen.
Badeau was another bob on the Presi-
Dental kite which tapped unpleasantly /
in peoples faces; and it is n great pity /
that some kind friend had not 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
10 the Queen, went up to her Majesty and
afiiably attempted to open q conversation
With her by saying: "Well ma'am, your
Majesty, l hcps your newspaper don't
write about you in your country as ours
10 about my father and mother"
5::eve to say that the interesting CONVEX
,ation thus began never went any further.
The ycnns gentleman, believe, still
ives, and hope is not beyond learning.