New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-20

tighten his face as when he false teeth later u Life
and Stuart and Rembrandt Peale painted him. In that
early picture Of the elder Peale you see the bounding
spirit the ardent hunter the patriot and young captain
that time subdued to our old Washington. Nn-a.ac0
not every day every week."
Talking on the Mount Vernon steamer with Mr.. q. O.
Robbins, now aged seyenty-three, who patented ior
Abraham Lincoln nearly forty ago buoys TO raise
steamboats, shoals by imitation, he said
pointing to two gentlemen who were near by: Ihero
two OF the most prosperous the District OF 20
lumbia has produced: Ex-Mayor Matthew G. Emery and
Samuel Norment Both are at the head OF banks Both
pillars Of the Metropolitan Methodist Chnrch
Emery came from New-England to Washington In 1889,
and has been dealer In stone Norment went from
Virginia Arkansas settled in Washington years
before the war; and has always been sagacous citizen
He was a firm Union man in the SOLITARY so in bis
family. Emery is probably worth a million"
heard George B. McCleans speech on the great in
jures inflicted upon him by Abraham Lincoln and Jehovah
Mcclellan was deeply in labor before he spoxe He
chewed the cud OF his lesson with timd and working
face like the imperfect boy who feels the birch
overhanging him. He had been years coming to the
meeting and this year uncertain whether TO come or
not and put of till his arrival seemed like wigginss
Storm the more anomalous because predicted. At the
very moment he entered Sherman saying to
friend: little things you the causes OF failure
in great things. Mcclellan is not here. He was in
decisye-hello! Is that George u. Mcclellan Yes, IT
must be-"
As the two men, Sherman and Mcclellan sat side by
side, Mcclellan within the larger disk OF shermans
stronger profile turned to General Schohed and said:
"They look like Napoleon and Josephine on con."
might have said Caesar and Cornelia Yet the feminine
member of the duumvirare got up and made the most
immodest and egotiscal address ever heard 1t was
like Louis Napoeon's landing at Boulogne with the
stuffed eagle and beginning proclamation; We, otner-
wise uDcle being called hereunto assume the Gov
and Christian and order pie to be the
public diet for year" Not word for any other man.
reference the sacrifices OF the people, the help OF
God or the bloody OF Lincoln waiting for that lit
tie fellow redeem promise and get up and strike
somebody The yells of the unthinkng sOldery merely
showed that grows wise that the hurrah
power will be quantity, especially after the wine
has come on.
asked General schoheld at the banquet in Washing
ton what town in Illinois he spent his youth In. Free
port" he said Then you may have known the Guiteau
family a. did. They very respectable people.
The only of feeble queer wits this Charley,
who killed Garfield went to school with some OF tho
older persons of that family Mrs scoyille was very
sweet, interesting ScOyille came there and
taught school, and afterward married that girl the
brother of Charles the assassin John. and he was
wel-baanced man. The family was conspicuous
churches and charitable bodies"
Said 1 to General schofeld: You knew General
Nathaniel Lyon well a. Yes, was his chef-of-sta at
Wilson's Creek, where he was killed" :" Give me, II you
will. an idea of his character" Lyon would not
have maintained, l think the remarkable prestige he
obtained when he died. He very intense. lie hated
men who differed with HIM on political questions. He
was bloodlhrsty The administrative elements Oh
character were not well balanced in him, though his
zeal was extraordinary. As 10 bravery, he had In ex-
cess. l do not think the campaign he msde showed
ability to plan campaigns As you intimate General
Lyon the class OF John Brown ana the Military
zeaots rather in the line of sklful commanders
Resuming upon General schofeld, asked him about
General FRANZ sigel sigel had commanded an army
at one time in Europe" he said the army OF the Ger
man Republican Confederation, and had Fought against
disciplined troops. We conceded much to him at the be-
ginning But he did nothing whatever In MISSOURI 10
Justify the extravagant reputation he had gotten The
plans at Wilson's Creek. where Lyon lost his me- were
his rather than Lyons and they not good sus-
pect that he praised by his German friends III ex-
recitation OF performances they believed him capable OF
and OF whose fuhlment we cav nothing. After we re-
treated from Springfield to Rolla ssel commanded in
| LYONS place awhile without much real warrant, ana
finally surgis became indignant at the assumption and
demanded that sigel be subordinate TO him. siGcl pro-
posed to leave a vote OF the officers There's enc
objection that said surgs, with the strength OF char
acer you might expect from such man; you might get
majority and then might have to order ONE OF your
| majority to be shot.
| General schofeld said TO that William Tecumseh
Sherman had more genius than any man lie ever knew
1t consisted intellectual to find something
to say and something do. lie had been nearly around
the world and to everything I'm this country but never
was at II loss for some new observation or speech In
action he was the same could find more routes to do
any thing by than any body else. His mind was work.
shop suspen led and he was loaded to the mzze
with moral courage General Schoheld said Of McClel.
Ian that it phenomenal how he retained at all times
under all changes of opinion and all lapses OF time III"
| affection of the Army OF the Potomac.
| The Presidents sister, Mrs. Hanesworth not only
| made amends for his absence from the Army OF tho
Potomac meetings by coming alone but she sent for the
sneaker and bard to her box and thanked Them
The officers OF the society hardly overlooked tie Pres
idrpts slight Robert Lincoln during the illusions TO
his ather Wednesday night drew back in the box anu
was deeply moved opinion is settling to the view that
| the ablest General of the war was Abraham Lincoln
| John Chamberlain, whose wife has been playing in
Newly ork with her old devotion. when she was Mrs.
George Jordan rapidly getting possession OF the row
built in 1869 at Fifteenth and sts., Washington, for
| hotel purposes. He has Fernando Woods house
and Thomas Swanns, and will probably get Blhlnes,
Iuckingham > and the other. Wizards Hotel has been
reet for five years the widow and her brother-i-aw
of the late Joseph q. Cooke.
AT the Army of the Potomac reunion the orator, MAJOR
| Mctiunis was the Democratic delegate from Montana
NOW six times elected lie mad been Minnesota private
soldier of Irish parents He said: The South made the
best fight for tn, worst cause ever made In history
He compared the Border states like Maryland, behind
the capital, to the friends OF Catalina III Rome being
referred by their Southern friends when these
said Traitor! 60 but l return" lie said 1t would
take greater army than put down slavery TO Impose 1t
on the South again. that secession was not only an at
tack ON our Union but the principle OF government
| everywhere and he would leave to sophisca lawyers
the twisting OF Constitution 10 make The least defence
oft He apOogzed for the Government at Washington
removing generals who would fight, and said that
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