The Lake County star., 1877-06-28
1aRANT's OCEAN VOYAGE.

|GRANT's OCEAN VOYAGE.
sinr .tl ~ 9"s lsc,N fg4
How He FoUaHT OFF HEA-SICKNEss
AND ENJOYED HB CIGAR.
= A correspondent Of the World gives
some incidsnts Of Gen. Grants ocean
trip, - fnalQws ihi. bns ~ iTeH ~ !,
The sea was quite smooth. and all
went well until the noon Of the 6atur-
day allowing the sailing. The rous-
Ing ,-JorDvell son Ehe Delaware had
scarcely ceased TO be the theme Of an
animated conversation In which every
body chstted while few were heard.
The Authenticated passenger had
sOlaced himself by thinking that the
sea was not such Q gmerciless element
after all, when d sturdy mariner along
the deck shouted, "Hold fast there!O
The warning came too late, for in, an
instant the deck presented . most re-
markable sccne-a Heterogeneous mass
Of barber' poles, boots, shoes, pocket
handkerchief, plaid shawls, hpddled
up and screaming humanity and cane
seated chairs, all Of which seemed to be
In desperate hurry to reach the lee
sCuppers and there to lie. The reason
was, Of course, that huge wave had
suddenly broken over the vessel amid
ships. Drenched specimens Of the
genus homo were next seen to emerge
from the writhing and the fiuttering
mass and to assist the Trailer sex to re.
gain their feet. ~,
This wa an enemy which even the
great General himself could not with
stand, for IL transpired afterwards that
he shot forward from his deCk chair
on 10 the one xAoing him--his boots
both landing none too lightly on the
extended corporation Of young
bridegroom. The General was un-
hurt, however, and seemed to enjoy
the fun immensely. After dinner ON
Saturday evening, hestrolled, or rath-
er rolled-for the chip was rocking un-
comfortably-up the saloon stairs to
the cOmpanion-way. and to Q small
around it. "I've Just laid the founda-
tion for o good smoke" observed he,
quietly enscUnsing himself I'm . COR
ner. IA bowl Of soup, plates Of fish,
corned beef and cabbage, pastry, fruit
and . glass of champagne Is not q Lad
meal It alto my mind, !" he continued
lighting Q Manila, BY and by, when
darkness set In, and ali that could be
discerned In the dimly-lighted COM
-panion-way was the red glow Of q dog
en- cigars, the head steward appeared
and obseQuiOusly requested that we
would adjourn to the smoking room
further at. s'It IL only ON account OF
the ladies below, assure YOU" con-
cluded the fhnctionary. "Well, boys"
said General Grant, with his charac.
teristic tsrsenees, 1--WE must either stop
IL or go-I'll 60; and suiting the ac-
ton to the word he led the way along
the deck 70 the smoking-roOm.
Mrs. Grant 10 as good sailor as the
General-that is, sho sis.s not been sea-
sick, but was very nervous all the time,
and passed most Of Il In her state room.
Occasionally, when the General look
ed the picture Of content over his cigar
In the smOking room, and sometimes
while rec0unting thrillingly inter-
esting incident Of the war, steward
would come with q message from Mrs.
Grant that she wished to see her hus-
band. The latter would obey the sum-
mons, and on re-entering would say,
"She wanted to see II 1 was still alive,
not having seen me since breakfast
time, and Thought i might have been
washed overheard Or, on another
occasion, ''Mrs. Grant says the sea has
been coming over her windows, and
she cannot imagine how we can exist
under water.n A laugh was always
INDUCED In at his expense,
On Monday morning the General
RECALLED us with an account OF his ex-
periences while dressing, which al
though common to all or US, were
made very ludicious by one incident:
1.-THE ship was laboring one side very
heavily said Gen. Grant, .'and /
tried to pull on my pants. just as l
had succeeded in inserting one leg
about half way, and was gracefully
balancing myself fowl-like on the 9TH
er, the deck Of the Indiana stood up
on end, and I found myself chased
about the state room by six or seven
valises, hair-brushes and parcels. In
vain I tlied to regain my feet or to
catch hold of the side of the sleeping
berth. Again and again the ship
plunged about until / found myself
clinging to O washstand In q corner of
the room. I held on to thia for dear
life, and then the first thing did was
to look UP to see IL Jesse was awake,
for he Is o good caricaturist, and would
have had me down ON paper, and up
In the smoking room before would
even have time to dress myself. But
a. IL happened, Jesse was still fast
asleep, and then surveyed the scene
calmly until found . good way to
raise myself up. Jesse Ia very quick
with his pencil, and does not hesitate
to expose his fathers peculiarities."
General Grant passes the day some
times in reading, oitener In smoking,
and occasionally varies the nlOnetOny
with game at Boston," but never
for unOnev