New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-09

colonel Fred Dent Grant, the Generals eldest son. Is
president of the Texas Western Railway, hfty-three
miles long.
During recent conversation, V. X Stevenson, one
of our most enterprsng real estate men, said: when
the war broke out a small boy and was the
Confederate West Point at Marietta Georgia where we
had about six hundred cadets My father subscribed TO
100000 of the Confederate loan at par He lost all his
negroes and am glad OF IL. Although was on the OPP
poste side perfectly satisfied with the result and
is everybody else Of good that have talked TO.
our ladies in the South gallant the that
they really made believe could with wheat
| straw and whip every invader across the lines. My
grandfather after the Federals got into Chattanooga be-
came patriotic that he wrote my father letter that
ought to be taken out OF the military school and sent 20
the battlefield My father merely Enclosed the letter to
me without any remarks. and thereupOD went to the
commandant Of the Academy and asked my discharge
going to enlist in the ranks to be to the front
enlisted in Irish regiment entirely composed of rail-
road labOrers aud started for the battlefield Of
Chckamauga in box cars every soldier being possessed
OF q cantecn filed with NewOrleans You can i'm
agne what diabocal in that car fighting all
the way along. but regarded quite young hero
We had terrible battle and IN the excitement had
time 10 think II got out however who my father was
and was put on the stan OF named Benton Smith,
who was only twcnty-three years Old and General"
Benton Smith," resumed Mr.. Stevenson, being called
the boy general concluded that he have staff
trcly OF boys. He prodigy of audacity and cOur-
age. but his high, nervous nature at last MIN out
and not long ago he unatc in padded cell I'm Ten
ncssee. He always kept his aides right up to the 'front.'
| and saw that unless something happened / should be
shot. just before the big battle at Atlanta where
Mcpherson was Killed. Smiths brigade reinforced by
Georgia regiment nearly thousand strong. went TO
hospital the morning Of that battle where pile
OF legs and ampuated and it made me sick at the
stomach being quite another lesson of the war, aud find
] ing of aides with several canteens of peach
brandy, asked him to let have some to settle my
stomach and drank the whole Of IT, Smith then ordered
to lead the Georgia regiment into the battle. was
blind drunk charged my horse right the Federal
ramparts; he had both eyes shot out and both knees
broken and went mp that rampant could hear the
Yankees cry all down the lne Don't shoot that boy
! My life was really saved by my youth 1t that
| charge, as / have understood" said Nr. Stevenson.
which led to McPherson's death. was twice promoted
for galantry the battlefield and upon my soul it
nothing but that peach brandy"
Said I: "what other battles did you go into ~
! in the fight at JOnesbOrOugh, where We were badly
whipped, and then went TO Tuscumba, Alabama, and
continued with Hoods invasion of Tennessee. At the
battle OF Nashville had the good fortune to be captured
aud sent to Fort Delaware for good many months
There my mothers brother Judge Catron, OF the su-
prcmc Court, sent me 500 month Toward the close
Of the my father with r. T. Wilson, OF this city, Mr.
Evans president Of OF the Wall Street banks, and one
other established Line OF blockade from
Wilmington to Liverpool and they put their profits IN
bank I'm England. So when came to New-YOrk found
my father quite comfortable. and I have been but
thrty-six hours in Tennessee since the closed"
Rambling through an old boOk-stand found recently
the autobiography OF Geneycve Ward the actress and
former prima donna, who is relative believe Of Sam
ward This book published twenty years and is
dedicated sontag The motive Of the book described
as series Of garbled sketches and misrepre
sensations. 1t that Madame Geneyieye Guerra
bella, she Is here called is the daughter OF Samuel
Ward and granddaughter OF Gideon Lee Mayor OF
New-York and that the age OF three years she went
with her parents 10 Europe precocious and settled
down at Florence under ROssui 10 study music. rich
NcwYOrker applied tor her hand and was Endorsed by
her parents, but the sutOr twenty years her
senior the young lady preferred Russian Count whose
brother the dc-dc-camp of the late Emperor Alex
auder who fell under the blows Of the Nihlists. The
Count scoundrel and after marrying Geneyieve at
the American Consuls m Nice he undertook 10 consum-
mate the nuptals without appendng The Russian mar
raee ceremony The Prussm Minister at Turin warned
Mrs Ward that marriage not celebrated in the Greek
Church was not legally binding Russian subject
The bacd Count pursued the mother and daughter TO
Paris, bat his character becoming known the bride made
MP her mind that ne should conclude hs marriage with
her legally and she would then dismiss him forever.
The late General Dix espou,ed the cause Of Geneyeve
Ward aud wrote Minister at 81. Petersburg.
Thomas seymour. that the lady must Doe rghted She
accordingly proceeded 10 Russia during the Crimcan war,
ridiu- e part the way -ledses through the deep
SHOWS and IN the Court circle she made the acquaintance
of Der husbands brother honorable man, who himself
went the Emperor and asked for justice This interest
INK matter T. not referred TO, that can lind, in the late
Life of General DIX by In, son. The false Count was
summoned back 90 Russia lie offered the altcrna-
tive OF marrying Miss Ward going TO siberia and PASS
Ing his estate over to her lie chose the marriages II was
celebrated in the Cathedral Of Warsaw by the Arch
bishop. the lady wearing deep black she turned her
back upon the bridegroom 40 the altar proceeded I'M
mcdilrly to her carriage driven To the station and
left Russia and never but once her husband more,
when De attempted force her to live with him. but she
pas. ii him over the French police She then appeared
IN OPERA first in Milan finally in Paris and continued To
sing until r voice altered when she adopted the tragic
stage
About seventeen months ago made the tour Of the !
b0okbnders Of Paris with NJ BonavcuuIe, who annually
ransicks Europe for mssIs tine engravngs and rare Old
books Tor the benefit Of the wealthy men in NcwYok
We place not far from the Pout Ncuf, where
we a.ccnded two three flights Of stairs and TO
without any sign, and within found two young
men who understood OF the third fourth genera
ton of b0okbnders in that family. All their work
done By hand. the designs original the gliding first de-
signed before hcug put the leaves, and individual
books costing for their bindings alone 5000 one book
OF this class the binder said belonged 10 Mr. Hawkins Of
New York, whom | conceived To have been perhaps
Colonel Rush Hawkins. The majority OF these places
however the University side OF the Seine, and
sometimes consisted OF two three upon court
or facing the where the binder I'm solitude pursued
hi, craft II from the love OF IL merely, his few tools
and pipe dispersed before him Then went 10 cheaper
binderes where from two to three francs book Is
csed and OF these places far back in the Latin Quar-
ter seemed Of prodigous extent and had numbers of
wagons hand taking away the books In this single
element Of binding the French draw TO themselves |
millions of francs annually from other countries. They
are artists in the practical well the beautiful things
OF lifc and with originality employ also economy.
The son Of ChiefJusce Waite who is brOher-in-law
1nurett nrnsldent the Brio cnne horn