New-York tribune., 1885-08-13
WALKS AND TALKS IN THE CITY.

Senator Euss told me yesterday that ho rode out to
Riverside Park tho funeral procession Tor "eneial
Grant be frequently overhead people along the hne Of
march ponting HIN out as Mr. Blaine. am not
Mr. Blaine by long ODDS" said the senator and havo
never thought looked ike him presume NO have a
like general contour of face and to extent the same
shape OF whisker bat or Blaine grayef than l. nucu
lighter In complexion and his nose Is certainly PROM
inc mt enough no one need take mine for H.
Vice President Hendricks had nobody assigned 20
ride In his fourh horse carriage lie told hs piNA'o
secreary General Hughes East to invite some Senator
present not a member OF The Senate Committee East Is
an Indania politician. vith an eye single to politics
IIe fonnd that the only Democratic Senator present.
not on tho commttee Eustls. He had started on
to ind him. when newspaper friend OF me vice
President sad 70 Mr. HendIl;k, oaIss an am ne css %
recalled East sent for Senator Biar. OF Ncw-Hap
shire. THIS was scarcely TWO OF "a KIND.
In the st. Louis delegation of sixty General Oar ie
NJ Frost He commanded the Union troops In the
affair OF Camp Jackson at NJ. LOUIS. where the fret
bloodshed took place In the Civil War. channcey l.
Filey was also in tho delegation They had special
chr which railroad men say was the most handsomely
draped OF all that came iniosNow-fork
Governor Cameron OF virginia was the only Governor
NJ State gno rode on horseback at the head OF his
troops lie accompanied ty his personal stan
headed by General " ID. Groner. The party came fron
Norfolk by the Brsakwater which was chartered
from Old Dominion Line for tho trip at cost"i ,d
stonewa Brigade Band IL gave us services rec Ihl
the original band atacnen 70 lno nas, Iesinc' VI
General Joseph i. Johnston made great Impression
by his quiet unsssumng manner and the bonevolenco
of hs appearanco George W. Chilis told me that when
General Johnston called on Colonel Frederick Irht or
the first tme the latter related what his father hhu
said about OF his operations at Vicksbnrg cener
Grant told by Mr. Childs regarded Johnston rs the
ablcst Southern commander. Senator Sherman told mo
JOluatDu.
Nebraska. who with General sherman said to me;
The retreat OF Johnston from Paterson springr oi.
lowed by Sherman, the most mastery piece OF WORK
In the entire Iebcon Johnston had less than 10000
men Sherman had G5, 900 to 1000 when ho started
out We fought every day for hundred days, each time
on q new field Johnston's forces went back step ny
ngdtng grit In tho face OF daily defeats We never
captured 80 much as wagon. All they lett Us was
worthless aud thrown away.
I VIVA chatting with General Johnston Sunday when
no commented on the fact of NewYork men being
known to tine entire country the why the DEM
ocrats had 30 long here for Presidential candidate
IL comes Think from metropolitan press, which Is
copied M over the country until all come to know
yolr public men almost well rs yon know them your
selves Then this state Is now the recognized political
battle ground"
In the conversation. tho fact that army officers ore
practically dsfranchscd up and the General sad
Tint comes about from their being detailed 10 distant
posts None OF them lose their citizenship, but
they seldom get home to vote General Hancock though
he has lived 40 long HewYork that you count him ~
a New Yorker holds citizenship In Iennsylyania Gin my
time I'm the army only and that vote caused
some surprise. II IN the contest between Franklin
Pierce and General Scott Although was In the army,
voted for Pierce had personal feeling against Scott,
but saw that surrounded by bevy OF natterers
VIII had his and attention ia way that wonld have
been the country II he had been elected Pres
idcnt"
Thirty odd years ago, John NJ Langston. starting from
Chilcothe, Ohio where Rutherford H. Hayes had just
married his estinabe wiie-to see Mr. Hayes knocked
at the door OF Neil House in Columbus a night and
sought the accommodations OF traveller. He
denied because OF yellow skin. on Monday morning
ex-Prcsident Hayes and ex-Minister Langston met In
tlIs corridor the Fifth Ayenue Hotel Mr. Langston.
by invitation went breakfast with Mr. Hayes. 20 much
has the black advanced In thirty years by General
Grants sword and Abraham Lncoln's procla nation.
that the presence these two gentlemen at the same
table excited no comment whatever