St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-30

friends recently remarked of him: 'He is
not as rich as some people think him to be-
One of the generals sons, Colonel Grant,
] has made considerable success as a broker.
His Office is in the same building with that
of his father, but instead of being away up
in the sixth story, is on the ground floor.
General Grant enjoys the best of health and
bids fair to live to ripe old age.
General Sherman, whose age is sixty-four,
seems much older than Grant. He appears
as venerable as man of eighty, but his
figure is erect and as straight as a gun-bar-
rel. General Sheridan, who was only thirty
| years OF age when he was made a major
general, has just passed his fifty-second birth
day. He is in fair health, and an efficient
commander of the army-useful in peace as
well as in time of war. Poor Fitz John Por-
| ter, who has been regarded by his friends as
one OF the worst-abused men who ever fought
for his country, does not enjoy good health.
| He stoops when he walks, and his hair is as
white as the driven snow
| During portion of the war no generals
name was more prominently before the pub
lie than that of General George B. McClel-
Ian. He was an officer of undoubted energy
and ability, but he had to contend with IN
fortuitous circumstances. After the war,
and until recently, he took an active part in
politics. He is now able to spend the re-
mainder of his days, if he so desires, in ease
and well-earned enjoyment.
a correspondent of provincial paper has
described him as erich rotund and round
shouldered, with the activity of his life over"
Generals Pleasanton and Rosecrans reside
Washington. Generals Hawley, Logan and
Slocum are still in politics and serving the
| ,Errr i,, a;,- 3
capacity" The same correspondent also
writes: ''Sickles is New York lawyer
Stoneman is governor of California. Double
day is in New York writing a book. Hum
phreys, Hunter and Crittenden, on the retired
list in Washington. Fremont, no longer
rich, lives in New York. Mcdowell is on the
retired list. Buell. is in business in Ken
lucky. Banks is United States marshal. Han
cock, Schofeld and Pope are major generals
in the army, and Howard a brigadier. Scho-
field succeeds Sheridan in his late command
Gilmore, Parke and Weitzel are in charge
of lighthouses and Notifications. Grierson
is commanding a colored regiment in Tex
asn
The writer of the above is slightly in error
in regard to the residence of General Ere
mont. Instead of living in this city, Gener-
al Fremont resides on Staten Island. He is
indeed in somewhat pinched circumstances
financially. Senator C.. L. Macarthur, of
Troy, recently wrote of General Fremont:
''He is one of those kind of men who can
not keep riches, and is bound to be poor
periodically. no matter how much fortune
favors him. He has had opportunities to be
the richest man in the United States. The
vast Mariposa estate properly handled would
have made him worth double the wealth of
the richest Vanderbilt. Trenor w. Park paid
Fremont out of the Mariposa estateS1, $50, 900
in single payment, and yet Fremont man
aged to get rid of it all within year, and
then became again impecunious. Trenor
W. Park went to California a poor boy, but
died worth probably $40, 900, 600 or S12, 900,
900. Fremont in the Mariposa estate and
in other things, had such opportunities of
wealth as no other American ever had. And
yet, sad to say, he is destined to die poor
man.