The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-29

,fiort to derive consolation from the
assistance Of a divine power,
but at last lost all hope and came to the
conclusion that "lt Ia only those who can
trample on every principle Of honesty
and honor that can succeed In llie."
This suicide, committed In an apparent
cool and rational manner, is one Of the
saddest commentaries on utter dispair
on record.
A RrronTER of the New York Mail and |
Express met Tom Ochiltree one after
teTnoon this week in the corridor OF the
Fifth Avenue Hotel "rhisis Mr. Ochil-
treeg" "Pish, | am inoog. Don't call
my name aloud. | AM just here for n
day or so from Saratoga" replied the
famous Texas Munohausen. "What
have you been doing'n 81 have been
keeping beck seat while everybody
else was coming TO the front with some
thing about General Grant. | was at
Mount McGregor ut the funeral services.
expect knew General Grant better
than most men. led the 3OG contingent
from the South who endeavOred to noml.
nate him. Then when he returned from
his trip around the world accompanied
him through the South. Grant never
forgot how | ratified up those 3OG solid
votes. From that time our Intimacy
began, lie told me when the cry OF
Casarism and third term was raised he
only desired TO be President again that he
might bring about sectional harmony.
lie was sincere and had no other mo-
tive. When ! went to Europe he gave
me two open letters of introduction.
They acted like magic. Palaces flew
open to me, princes bowed, kings re-
ceived me and prinoesses sought my
company. The world wondered at my
reception. Now, mind, will not be in
teryicwed. Remember, my policy at
present is to let others come to the front.
II is a mistaken idea that l seek pub
LEFTY. am naturally modest and re-
retiring. Witness my silence within the
past few weeks when all the world was
trying to talk" "Will you go into poll
tics AGAIN." "No. | retired of my own
yoliton. can carry my district when
ever desire. Galveston goes for me by
large majority, and one or two speeches
in the outlying counties carries every
thing for me. have dozen or so inyi-
tations to 90 yachting and shall spend
the next three weeks on the ocean,"
Or GREATEST public interest among the
contents of the September Century are
General Grants article on 1.-The Siege of
Vicksburg;" the forcible frontispiece
portrait, after photograph taken when
General Grant was President with which
is given a facsimile of his first signature
on the army pay-aooount as general
Retiredn); and communication from
General Grant, dated Mount MoGregor
June %, which is printed with "Memo-
randa on the Civil War" and in which
he withdraws what was said by him in
in The Century Of last February in re-
Wallace and General McCook at shiloh"
An editorial in "Topics of the Time" ex-
plains why General Grants article on
Vioksburg is printed without illustra-
tons, and also that the subject will be
resumed, with pictures, at another time.
A supplemental article OF great interest
in the same number is "a WOman's
Diary of the Siege of Yicksburg," which
-, To- ,sfa ,r ma
and anxieties suffered by the besieged.
The Memoranda on the Civil War"
besides General Grants communication,
embrace, "Who Projected the Canal at
Hamilton; "The Charge of Cookies Cav
airy at Gaines Mill, in reply to General
Fltz-John Porter, by General Philip
st. George Cooke, with "Recol-
lections Of Participant in the
Charge" by Rev. W. IL. Hitch
cock; and a continuation of the discus
sion in regard to general Beuregard's
Courier at Bull Rum" by Major Camp
bell Brown. Wendell Phillips Garrison,
in an illustrated paper, describes the
Prudence Crandall persecution OF 1888,
and the encouragement given by William
Lloyd Garrison to the brave school
mistress who wished to educate ''young
ladies of color" The article is very
suggestively entitled Connecticut in
the Middle Ages" Lieutenant Sohwat-
ka's paper on 1.-THE Great River OF
Alaska" which has special interest, is
profusely illustrated. 1t describes the
journey Of the Government party of eX-
ploratlon commanded by him over the
coast mountains of Alaska into British
Columbia and their raft journey from the
head-waters OF the great Yukon river
down to the ruins Of Fort Selkrk. Mr.
Howels continues his charming and
beautifully illustrated Italian papers
with second article on "Panforte di
Slena." Miss Alice Maud Fem describes
the pastoral attractions Of England in Il
paper entitled, Among the Red Roofs
of Sussex" which her father, Harry
Fem, has prolusely illustrated. Edmund
G. Stedman completes his important
series Of papers on American poets with
an article on the younger writers entitled
"The Twilight OF the Poets" G..
w. Gable takes up the discussion ex-
cited by his paper on "The Freedman's
Case in Equity" with foroible rejoin-
der entitled "The Silent South" Short
essays of general interest in "Toplcs Of
the Time" are "Huddling in the Town
and Living In the Country" "Some