Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-02
Ben. Shermars an Unhappy OIan.

Gen.. Shermss an Unhappy Dian.
Gen. Sherman. IL n very unhappy man.
A. hgh army officer who knows him well
declares that he in not what he sssms in
his stuff and hearty interviews. I'm the
first place, he really hates to giveeup his
position at the herd Of the army. 1t has
been'h his sole occupation against thu mel
ancholia of bitter domestic ~disssyoint-
ment. He is the very life of certain
Washington circles. He has ~alwaysbeen
the hero of every soeial f~estivity ~alllover
the country. 1t is not true that he is
tired Of Washingtuu, and that lie is
anxious to go to st. GnNis. Soldier like,
he puts, a good face ON the matter, bat
this blu4fness does not conceal from, his
friends ybhe deep seatsA chagrin that pseys
upon him. One day several years agohe
came dancing ~througethe war department.
with an open dispatck,iM his hand. He
had tears of joy in his,irank eyes. Bse
message was from a prominent lawyer.in
st. Louis, who said, ''Your boy Tbm
has just been admitted 10 the bar of st.
Louis. He passed IA splendid examination
He is certain of a brilliant future"
This news made Sherman so hapEy
that he had to show it MI over the de
partmentl,
"My brave boy said he. chow
pluckily he has worked The old man
can let down now. He will look after
his mother and the girl when / have 10
60" 1t is,a rare in these days that a
fathers heart can go. ont III such enl
thusisam over his boys success.
J The next day after the, receipt of this
5 dispatch tho general received a crushing
blow. 1t was the information that his
1 son had renowned his legal career and
was to rejoin,the order sf Jesuits. Tie
main weight'of tht blow was owing to the
a fact that this. news canae to him from
4 strangers. His wife,. p fanatic in tie.
+, Catholic faith, had, led, the boy to WITH
y draw his confidence from his father be-
s cause of his. being outside the Catholic
o church. If the boy had come to his
l. father and said; Father, / nave CONE
pleted my preliminary education as a
y lawyer, but all my inclinations are towaJ
II the church." the general would have ccn-
ksented to his going; bu5 to have his boy,
his pet, cast off the ties. of affection and
renounce him without a word nearly
broke Sherman's heart. Those who know
rs him best say that this blow aged him
vt fully 20 years. He has never since been
lie the same man. In hissletters to his nse1
n relatives and friends he complained in
ir bitter terms that he had been betrayaG
Or in his own household by a mercifas'
Of church.
,g Mrs. Sherman is u pale, stony-faess
I'd woman, who has the nsOst passionate nm
ne bition for the advancement of her church
no She is one of its most active agents, an,
mn ,a ia a., laraaA with tho arIfhOr1f1n
IA at Rene. Gen. Sherman made a strxg
no tirement from the army. He proposes
in heights, where he ceSld have enough lam
he about him to occups him, hut Mrs. Shel
nd man was determined to 90. to st. Lstns
srs where the Catholic church las n widera All
ire powerful field in..which she could have
Ike most influential and leading position
m, Nearly all Of General Shermanls oil
es- friends in st. Loais are dead. he dii
ms likes the place, and if he goes thare h
a will only vegetate. AS great a gener'
of as he,is, he has to bend to the iron wi
of his wife, or else openly separate frol
be- her, a thing he would not think OF dom
II a on account of the children. When h
'un boy joined the Jesuits, Sherman made h
/, a win. Considering the unhappy mood |
an. then, this was most significant. To hic
our his sorrows, he has put on a mask OF fiji
,ct- pant levity wholly out of keeping vii
of the real character of the man Some
md his remarks would indicate that he is
self man of impulse wholly defisient III d
the judicial temperament. Yet it is said
any him at the wal department that when
, to grave question comes up requiring caI
,ed, full attention he instantly shows what
rd' really great and brilliant man he is. I
at passion for the stage is said to have col
ing, from his desire TO avoid the religious d
own c%ussions at home,
nat During the last ten days of his stay
TO-, " Washington the general has been sc
to walking with his hat carelessly SLOUGH
rice over his ewes. The figure which
and been so erect has within the last
rice months learned to stoop. Those "
can have approached him with the idea of
is is being gloomy have always been repel
the with some rafting bit of brilliant CT
ilk indicative of the highest spirits. WI
Id he is settled in st. Louis Mrs, shern
very believes that she will win him from
two frivolities of this life, and get him TO
giti- salvation in the holy Catholic chm
tent The general is growing old. In the q
mar regions of st. Louis he may falt a p
ssful to his wife's persistence and to the $
poor of peace go through the form OF JOIN
,ents the church. Up to the present Il
pork Sherman has gotten along without
had religion whatever. He said recently:
nply think | do not need any priests cru
lind; with which to hobble the rest OF