Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-09
MANY VISITORS AT mcGREGoR.


 MANY VISITORS AT mcGREGoR. A Catholic Priest and the Mexican
 Editors Call On the Illustrious
 Patient.
 MT. McGREGoR, July 8.-This afternoon remarkably active one for General Grant. He sat out of doors quite while. The train in the middle of the afternoon brought large number of people, some of whom passed the house and saluted. Rev. Edmund Didier, of St. Vincent's Roman Catholic church, Baltimore, went directly to the cottage and having obtained permission to speak to the general he conveyed to him expressions of interest and sympathy. The general seemed touched and replied in writ ing:
 q regret very much that cannot converse even in a whisper"
 ''We are praying for you, general" said Father Didier.
 ''Yes,' the general wrote, ssI know and feel very grateful to the Christian people of the land for their prayers in my behalf. There is no sect or religion as shown in the Old or New Testament to which this does not apply. Catholics, Protestants and Jews, and all the good people of the nation, of all politics as well as religions and of all na- tionalities, seem to have united in wishing or praying for my improvement I am a great sufferer all the time, but the facts you have related are compensation for much of it. All I can do is to pray that the prayers of these good people may be answered so far as to have us all meet in another and better world. Icannot speak even in whisper"
 When the general had written this he signed and dated it at the request of the priest. The meeting was hardly over when a special train brought the excursion of Mexican editors Their arrival was announced to to the general, who deputed Colonel Grant to invite them to the cottage. They were presented by E. H. Talbot of the Rail way Age, the general standing to receive them. MT. Delinda, secretary of the excur sion, then stepped forward and made an ad- dress. The general sat down. The address. which Editor Clark of the Two Republics in terpreted, was follows:
 F'In the name of the visiting committee of Mexican journalists who visiting this this 4Lg. great 4, country ,, desire to to near to a great friend of Mexico without coming to pay their respects. The hero of Richmond, he who broke the chains of slavery in order that the iron of the chains around the slave might be made into rails for the progress of the country and thus unite the two republics by bonds of steel, he who has done so much to make the two re- publics one union living together in harmo- n.y."
 While the general was writing a response the party stood on the porch, Mrs. Grant receiving the ladies of the visitors. The general replied as follows:
 ''The great interest in Mexico is dated back to the time of the waS between the United States and that country. The inter est was increased when four Euro pean monarchies attempted to set up their institutions on this continent, selecting Mexico, 8 country adjoining the United States. It was an outrage on hu- man rights for foreign nation to attempt to transfer her institutions and her rule to the territory of a civilized people without their consent. They were fearfully pun ished for their crime. I hope Mexico may soon begin an upward and prosperous de- parture. She has the element of success; she has the people; she has the soil; she has the climate; she has the minerals. The con quest of Mexico will not be an easy task in the future"
 Then Dr. Mendezobal stepped forward and conveyed to the general the sympathy and respect of Jose Maria Mata, ex-minister from Mexico. The general made brief acknowl- edgment. The party then withdrew and Dr. Douglass took the general to his room He bore up well during the meeting, but when the excitement of it was over be showed great fatigue,
 Dr, Douglass applied treatment to the gen eral when he retired, which did not fail to produce early sleep which has not been inter rupted up to midnight.