Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-06
General Grant Held in Quarantine
Below New Orleans.

The New Orleans P.cayune of Friday
has special dispatch from Pointe ala
Hacbe, dated June I'd. which says:
The steamer City of Merida. Capt
Mcintosh. from Vera Cruz and Mexican
ports, arrived at quarantine station,
with Ger. Grant and Capt. Eads among
her passengers, at 3 o'clock this morn
ing. where she will be detained for sew
| enty-two hours.
'Gen. Grant and Capt E4ds were
much vexed at the quarantine detention,
but the officials were very strict, and
would not allow any but acclimated PEG.
PIE to leave the station. Capt. Elds
| desired to stop at the jetties, but Capt.
| Mcintosh could not permit it.
Capt Eads says his concession is
the most liberal grant ever made by the
Mexican Government, and very favor
able to the United States. His mission
was a complete success.
Ger Grant is greatly irritated over
the Conkling affair and eagerly reads all
dispatches. He says Conkling has been
shamefully treated, and should be re-
elected to the Senate He thinks the
gated by the White House influence, but
not by Garfield.
"He afiirms his letter to Senator Jones,
of Nevada, but will take no hand in the
fight.
"He prOnounces untrue Gov. YOung's
statement Of his connection with the
United States National Bank and the
Marine Bank, and says there is no truth
in the story about his lost jewelry.
ellis mission to Mexico was highly
successful. He got all the concessions
he wanted, the only opposition being
from rival subsidized railroads
''Gen. Grant will go to st. Louis, Ga
lena and Chicago, after leaving New Or
leans"
Commenting on this dispatch the Plea.
ylne says:
s.Our correspondent who has inter
viewed Gen. Grant on board the City of
Merida, now living at quarantine, states
that be IS much irritated about the turn
of affairs in the Conkling case, and re-
cards the downfall of that stalwart as the
great misfortune of the century. 1t is
but natural that the ex President should
feel chagrined at the victory OF the ad-
miuistration over the Utica statesman.
There is a point of resemblance in
the two men. and strong bond of sym
pathy. Conkling is filed with Self-con-
ceit. and has held power until arrogance
and self assertion became his most con-
spicuOus traits. Grant, while naturally
less egotistical, was elevated by circum-
STAGES to a lofty position, and fiattered
into the conviction that he was really
great man. and destined to be ruler
ALWAYS. It was but natural for him to at
I, 10 fhnncon6a
endeavored to have him seem and assert
"But the fiat of the world is now that
neither of them were statesmen, and both
of them poor politicians. Their public
careers began widely apart; their power
and influence in public affairs practical
w ended together. The Grant cam
paign was really the beginning of the
end of Coukling's career as Republican
leader. Neither he nor the ex-President
seem TO have ever realized the magnitude
of that blunder, nor do they yet under
stand fully the lesson of the Chicago
Convention.
"Ac0viescence and silence might have
softened the verdict there passed, and
the American people could perhaps have
FORGIVEN the henchman for his zeal and
the master for his ambition, but both
have acted in a manner since to JUSTIFY
The harshest criticisms that could have
been passed.
"Of course Grant is irritated now.
He feels that the New Yorker has gone
doxn with the third term on his back.
He has luggsd arougd in his knapsaek
the fostering corpse until it beeame IN
tolerabIe, and nov he is cast into the
sea with the load upon him. Grant
very naturally does not wish to see
either the load or the bearer disappear
beneath the waves. He would like to
save 10th. or at all events be on hand to
take possession of the body when it is
washed ashore"