The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-01-20
Old I'ecnmseb.

The Cincinnati Enquirer prints the
| following:
The other day, as I was turning the
corner of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, en-
countered General Tecumseh Sherman.
"Why," said he, 'sdo You live over here?
Come In aud see my room. He took
me into the same room Zach and Billy
Chandler had used for conducting Hayes
Presidential campaign parlor in front,
dark passageway and bath beneath and
bedroom back, on small. dim court.
General" said I, "you are in good
| looks and spirits for the hard knocks you
have received. !"
'Oh, yes,D said Sherman, II am just
as tough as pine knot. Never felt bet
ter in all my life. You know am going
to have rest. Yes, I am going out of
the military service. ] look forward to
it with great joy. My wife wants me to
go. [ am tired of the incessant changes
in men and events at Washington City.
| No stability, social life all cut up
1 change, change, change. We are going
to st. Louis. Some of the family live
there. have my own house there. I
always liked the st. Louis people. They
are warm, affectionate and spirited
people. I tell you, / have got good
| house there"
'.Do they retire you with full pay Gen
eral?'
"Yes, full pay. Even my horses-I
keep them, too. Congress has been
very liberal and square with me-
'What does the pay of the General
amount to?p
About $15, 900. l can live in st.
Louis, guess, on $1,000 month, and
that will leave me $4,000 year to spend
on my children. think can do that.
I am not rich man, you know"
well, General, st. Louis is rather
smoky, dingy city-hot in the summer,
too
"Well, that may be true, but shall
Mountains will be my camp-up there
about Helena, Montana, where it is high
and lovely. can drop down to Florida
in the spring, Or to Texas St. Louis is
very central. I think I may live ten
years in comparatively active life. ]
will be with my people, can see my old
companions and friends, and breathe the
breath of some freedom
"Your son -in-law, Commodore Fitch,
out there, is very we'll spoken of. +"
"Yes, he's hard working man, smart
and very successful. He has built up 9
large and safe business. I expect he
may be a rich man.
All this time the General was giving
some instructions about visits to his
daughter Rachel and putting his name
in autograph copies of his memoirs.
Said I: General Sherman, a friend
called at my house last night and though
!; you were sure to be the next Republican
candidate for President"
"Now, about that" said General Sher
; man, "you see I cannot be fool enough
to decline what is not offered to me; bu
what do [ want to turn from the pros
} pect of rest and peace at last for period
| of years to the delusion of four years II
} an office that is just hell. That's wha
, it is, continued the General emphatic
/ ally. cit is hell What did Genera
: Harrison get out of it? Nothing but
} month of misery. What did Genera
: Taylor get out of it? Twelve months O
misery. What did Grant get out of it
| Do want to resign this competence
? Congress has bestowed upon me for fon
years of hell? What did Hayes get ou
of the presidency? What did Garfielt
get? Take them all within your memory
) Nothing but worry, trouble misunder
standing"
> "Well, General Sherman, people viii
> talk. They don't care anything abou
your comfort if they can elect you
'That's>so. They will talk said tn
General.
continued by saying that Gen
eral Hancock stood no worse for having
; run for President two years ago.
/ II told Hancock, Sherman said. ''tha
) he got out of the mess just in time t
!, save himself"
"Are you sixtvfour yet, General Sher
MANI"
''I was born in February, 1920, I am
nearly sixty three. The law retiring u
all at sixty four approved Of I thinl
/ it is good law
did you pass any of your youth il
Ohio?''
"Why, yes; I stayed around Lancaste
till was sixteen years old. My fathe
, died when was about nine, and m
wife's father brought me up and put m
into the army. General Grant is tw
years younger, or of the age Of M
: brother. John Sherman"
The General then went on to speak O
: the Hoyt family, which he had met Of
his first visit to New York City when
= boy, and had become nearer them b.
, family ties. I believe the General wa
, disposed to talk with full freedom to me
: but other persons coming in led me t
postpone the matter for the present. FL
!: does look magnificent, and for his ag
: he is as fghting-like man as eve
. found. He talks quick, quaint, and
: should Judge is not looking as far ava
: from the Presidency as his speech i'm
me further than ] have printed.