Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-05

DICK up nCtIe on tD0 outer c0goS. lne5e
is . good deal to be learned by watching
people, when you don't talk to them and
this is common occupation of all Springs
visitors with which to improve the shining
hours. 1t is not the best way but it is bet
ter than to 60 to sleep.
met Mr.. James McDOugal, lumber
merchant of Baltimore Of high respecta-
bility, relative Of Mrs. B. J. Nc
Cram, Of Lancaster, and one Of
the genial class of Springs visitors
who become generally known and
popular. Mr.. McDougal has been an ar
don't Republican dcmoniac condition he
reached after starting in life as an Old
Line Wing, and passing thence through
the purgatory Of Douglas Democracy.
Mr.. McDougal lost forty thousand and
sOme odd dollars by tho rebellion, - cir
cumstance which may account for some OF
his bitterness against tho rebels. They
say he was in danger Of being lyncl,cd in
the unpatriOtic atmosphere Of Baltimore in
the earlier days Of the rebellion fact
which l can readily believe, for he evil
IDENTIFY is brim full Of strong opinions and
plain language and has no disposition to
check their overflow. IIc told mo some
thing which you will bc glad to hear and
which am surprised that We never read
before.
When Mr.. Lincoln issued his Emanci
patton prOclamatiOn-I believe that was
the occasiOn-a dcputatiOn of citizons from
Baltimore went on to Washington to con-
gratulatc him. Mr.. McDougal was Of the
number. They speedily got through with
their address at tho White House, a.d
were about to leave, with the declaration
that they would not further trespass upon
the presidents valuable time.
Take seats, boys, take seats, exclaimed
Mr.. Lincoln, rs he rang for chairs to bc
brought in, ''it would be strange if could
not spare half hour or IN hour for con-
versation with friends who have come from
Baltimore to sec me-
! And the visitors sat down and
spent nearly an hour in conversation. Pres
emily the subject of Generals came up and
various opinions were expressed rs to who
was the ablest officer on our side. When a
great many opinions had been given, Mr..
Lincoln, said:
| "Gentlemen, in my Judgment, you have
not struck the right man YETI
And of course all were anxious to hear
him name the man and asked him to do so.
He said: /:
cit is General Hancock"
their surprise and one of them ventured to
say that he feared Hancock was too rash.
EYES," said Mr.. Lincoln, $50 some of
the older generals have said to me, ant!
have said to them that I have watched
General Hancock's conduct very carefully,
and have found that when he goes into
action he achieves his purpose and comes
out with smaller list of casualties than
any Of them. Bold he is, but not rash.
Why gentlemen do You know what his
record was at West Point
And Mr.. Lincoln went to his
book shelf and, taking down an
army register, showed the position
in which Hancock had graduated, and
that, furthermore, in a class that was one
of the most distinguished that had ever
graduated at the military academy. Con-
tinuing to speak of him in the highest
terms, he further said:
81 tell you, gentlemen, that if his life
and strength are spared, 1 believe that
General Hancock is destined to be one OF
the most distinguished men Of the age.
Why, when go down in the morning to
open my maitland arise at four o clock
l declared that do it in fear and tremb.
ling lest l may hear that Hancock has
been killed or wounded"
Was not that remarkable narrative
to take from an absolutely trustworthy
source in the quiet valley by the Bedford
Springs, and is it not a waving plume in
Hancock's hat? Mr.. Lincoln's prediction
comes true in this hour that finds Han
cock at the summit of his highest possible
ambition and his estimate Of him has
come be shared by every intelligent reader
of the great letter to Sherman, which ap-
pears, coincident with Lincoln's stamp, to
fasten upon him the highest fame.
The seaside resorts seem to be growing
in popularity at the cost of those in the
mountain. The shore is filled this season
with hundreds of thousands of visitors,
while by these Bedford Springs, most an
cient and renowned of life-giving foun-
tains, but few hundred sit down to quaff
the healing waters. The Bedford season has
has not been brilliant, because of the lack
ing crowd. Its quietude suits the aged,
who most do congregate there, and the
children, who can be happy anywhere that
their life is free, but is hardly SO agreeable
to the charming daughters who have gone
from home to see and to be seen, and who
need not mineral waters. Neither do the
sons but they glide from under the pa
ternal wing and spend their summer vaca-
tions as it suits them. The poor daughter,
though, cannot be out without chaperOn :;
and so it comes that the girls at the Bed
ford Springs have few brothers of other
girls, of appropriate age, to regale their
eyes upon, and few of their own, of any
age, to do duty as very poor substitutes.
Truly at these mineral mountain springs a
chapcron il hardly needed, so light is the
temptation to levity.