The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-27
GRANT AS A FENIAN.
An Irish Detective Shadow
ing the EX-President.
HEAD CENTRE U. S. GRANT.
American Students at Dub
lin University.

DUBLIN, Jan. g. 1879.
Your correspondent this evening uninten-
tiOnal actor in a which is of the most
singular incidents connected with General Grants
Irish visit That the Irish police labor under sort
of chronic about Fenianism, which makes them
see in every American who visits these shores
possible emissary from some of the New York organ
izations, is well known But could have
supposed that this hallucination could have any
scope for exercise i'll connection with the late Presi
dent and the distinguished persons who
company him. Even the fertile imagination of de-
tectvo trained by long of successful State
trials. could scarcely have deserted any vestige of
material for weaving suggestion of danger to the
British Empire in the appearance of men whose
identity--even although personally unknown to
him-was too well defined by host of circumstances.
However, it is tre saying that reality transcends
romance Here is a verbatim record of bold facts:-
INTERVIEWING THE HERALD CORRESPONDENT.
The steamer conveying away the General from
these shores scarcely in motion when man
up to the HERALps representative, who
watching the vessel fast receding from the Carlisle
pier. Slightly bowling. he said
II beg your pardon. sir. but I believe you
with General Grant-at least this in reply look
OF surprise) you came down in the train with him
from town. and were with the Generals party
by total stranger. But he FASTENED to relieve
by telling me he member of the police force.
and had down especially to watch the party Off
1--WE obliged to be PARTICULAR he added. and
went ONT was perhaps too anxious to observe
General Grant probably will never him
again. and did not take sufficient notice of the others.
The gentlemen who with him were, believe.
General Noyes. General Bed. do not remember
his name exactly
CoRnEspoNpENr-General Badeau.
DErEcIIvE-Yes, that is it. Who was the fourth
gentleman sir? You were speaking to him at the
of the carriage directly after you got Of the
train.
CoRREsPoNDENT-The HERALD correspondent.
DETEcTIvE-Oh! I Then there General
Noyes. That is the gentleman with black whiskers
and mustache the tallest of the party. He wore q
white iauffier.
COBls:sPoNDENr-True; would not have remem-
bered it had you not recalled it.
DETfcTIvE-Yes sir; are obliged to watch
people pretty sharply. Then there General
Bad what is this his name is?
-Badeau
DErEcTvE-Oh yes. He is the Consul-the short
stout in spectacles. And that all beside the
General himself.
CoRREspoNpENr-Tha is the whole party.
DErEcrIvE-Now. sir. they all exactly the
same persons who came here the other day?
ConREsroSpENr-Last Friday morning?
DETECTIVE Yes, sir do not remember rightly
the morning they came.
conference.-the Friday they came.
DETEcrvE-well. sir. were there more than the
four that morning. and were these they?
CoKaEspoNpENr-Of course; they were all the very
same persons.
WAS THERE A CONSPIRACY?
pleasantly enough tonight and seemed agreeable
cheerful. The other morning they seemed quicter
morc reserved); did not speak much. But suppose
they tired and cold after their journey, and the
country was new to them.
CoRREspoNDENT-Probably. But all four the
very persons who came that morning.
DETEcrIvE-Thank you sir You we have to
be particular as we must enter down that the same
parties persons) who came the other morning went
away this evening.
THE SOUR MYSTERIOUS STRANGERS.
need not continue the conversation the remainder
being OF general character. The nature OF the
detectives interest in General Grant and his friends
was now transparent. he wished to be assured. on
what he considered reliable authority that the four
persons who arrived at kingstown last Friday morn
ing were, in truth the persons whom they repre-
scented themselves to be. He desired to be in posi-
ton to report automatically to his superors that
none of them Fenian emssaries masqueradng
as American generals. Hence the repeated Inquiries
as their identity, in order to be satisfied that
who members of General Grants party
had disappeared somewhere in the country to carry
spiracy, while his place taken by some other
member of the brotherhood DESTROYS of return
ing to America. and protng tor this purpose of the
convenient disguise of American general, friend
and companion of General Grant.
To all who are even vaguely acquainted with the
Generals character the notion OF u Fenian agent
travelling in his company. and sheltering himself
under the disguise of of his friends. is comic in
the extreme The acquaintance of General Moves
and Badeau ought to be highly amused at the idea
that they might possibly have been only travested
Fenians.
But the incident has another side. II is plain the
British government cannot feel satisfied with the
when its police agents suspect that every chance
visitor from America may be the disguised emissary
of a revolutionary conspiracy. Englsnd's conscience
tells her that has right To expect the Irish in
America will bear her friendly feelings.
UNIVERSITY INCIDENT.
An international Episode" dealing with n matter
not quite so airy or generally delightful as that with
which Mr.. Henry James. Jr.. has been amusing and
instrucing the readers of the cor1ru Mogd-,pe nor
yet quite grave that which has recently been
the subject Of weighty correspondence between Mr..
Evarts and Mr. Welsh is full progress in the Dub
lin University, and promises to furnish incidents and
topics of reflection which will fully Justify all the at
tention that any one may be inclined 70 bestow upon
it. The question at issue IL, whether native-born
American citizen. who has never been naturalzed i'll
Great Britain is eligible for prizes and emoluments
i'm the university? The has arisen out of the fol-
lowing circumstances
.roUsD,rroS SCHOLARSHIP"
on Monday. June IL. 1878. being the morrow of
the feast of the Holy Trinity the great annual fcst-
val OF the University OF Dublin under the charter of
the founder. Queen Elizabeth. the result de-
clared of examinations for "foundation scholar
ship" which were held some days previously. The
privileges are not worth very much if appraised in
money But the distinction has always been highly
valued. both because the honor ranks next to the
Fellowship and also because the examination IL OF
high standard, so that successful answering is
great feather in the cap of candidate. On the
sion. nearly seven months ago, Mr.. Swift Payno
johnson declared elected to the solitary vacant
scholarship and made the prescribed declarations
and signed the roll Previous TO the examination. at
the time of his being announced the successful com
petitor no objection had been made 20 his eligibility
THE CLAIM CONTESTED.
Some time aftcrward u became known TO Mr..
Lucas, who second in order of merit, and who
but for the superior answering of Mr.. johnson
would have obtained the scholarship that the latter
by birth citizen of the United states, and had
not been naturalized In Great Britain this country
Mr.. Lucas at contcnded that Mr. johnson was
fatally tainted with inegibility and he addressed a