The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-07-27
ALLQUIET ON THE MOUNT
PARsoN NEWMAN SICK AND SAD
Consequently There Were No Services
Neutrality-suspicious. About Funeral
Arrangements - Gen. Por-
ter's Recollections, Etc.
No Sermon on the MOUND.

NO sermon on the Mount.
MI. McGREeoR, July S6.--A cool
breeze has swept over the mountain
to-day and the tall pines that bend |
above the Grant cottage have been
whispering since morning. A sug-
gestion was casually made 20 DR.. |
Newman to-day, while breakfasting, |
to the effect that he should conduct |
the morning Sabbath service, but the |
reverend gentleman gravely declined. |
since General Grants death ha hiss |
been unable TO speak OF his dead |
frend without emotion, and 20 have |
stood where he did two weeks ago de- |
llvoring his discourse on the value of
character, while General Grant was
alive down at the cottage, seemed well |
nigh impossible to Dir. Newman; so |
the day has been one Of quletneSs with
few visitors and some permanent ar
rivals.
General Horace Porter and tho Ja-
panese minister, Kuki, arrived here
to-day.
The desk at the hotel office
has been draped with emblems
Of mourning and two guidons were
men from the u. S. Grant Post, Grand
Army of the Republic of Brooklyn,
Senior Yice-Commander Johnston
commanding. Those eight men ar
rived at noon aiW Immediately took
up their duties az private body
guard, two of them being constantly
IN attendance at and inside tho cot
tage, the reliots being on duty three
hours e8ch. This private body guard
will not displace the Wheeler
Post, OF Saratoga, who first came
and who will remain until the
removal, patrolling the cottage on all
sides. The States of Maine, New
Hampshire, Virginia, Connecticut,
New York, Michigan, Wisconsin and
the Territory of New Mexico are rep
resented in the persons OF Grand Army
veterans now camped ON the noun
tain. A company of infantry from
Fort Porter, near Buffalo, under Ccm-
mand of Brevet Major Brown, has
been ordered here by General Han
cock, to take proper part es a guard of
honor to the remains of General
Grant. They arc ordered to
report TO Colonel Roger Jones,
inspector general, and acting adiutant
general, who will arrive at McGregor
| tomorrow.
General Horace Porter and Colonel
Fred Grant will start down the noun
tain at IL p. m. tonight by special
train. A special train of the West
Shore road will await them At iAlbeny
to convey them to New York, where
they will arrive at o'clock tomorrow
morning. On reaching New York
| General Porter and Colonel Grant will
| meet Mayor Grace or General Han
cock, with whom q programme OF the
| final obsequieB will be arranged.
General Porter is the possessor
of General Grsnt's last headquarters
| flag, which was displayed at Appomss.
toX, The nag was presented 10 Gem
eral Porter by General Grant and by
| General Porter has been loaned 20 the
Union League club Of New York for
use in its display of mourning made
| Of General Grant. General Porter this
afternoon saw tho plaster mask OF lta
dead generals face, made wit Y i,'i.iis1f III.
an hour Gltor his destb' Inv
Karl -. G0rhaTat ---> the sculptor.
Gsheral Porter held the mask
in his hands and studied
| 1t minutely and in silence for some
minutes; "That Is most perieot,n no
| finally said, and then touched a point
on the right cheek and added: "rhero
even is tho mole or waTt, on the gen-
\ eraPs face"
| TIE OLD GOAOHMAN WANTS 10 DNINR
THE HEARsE.
The message sent by General Grants
old coachm0n, requesting that no
| Executive Mansion, Washington, ID. c.,
| July 2j.-To General Horace Porter:
| AS the doar generals old coachman
FOR years, can you not aid in
arranging that / should drive for
him for tho last time at the funeral2
| want to do something in his honor
and would like to do that.
| lSlgnGd.l ALBERT HAWKINS,
| General Porter will bring this mes.
sage TO the attention OF General
Grants family, and it il quito likely
tho coaohman's requst will DO granted,
General Porter said: "rhefo was a
most devoted attachment for General
Grant on the part of this colored man
aud tho general thought much of him.
lie is most faithful fellow and as
black as coal"
GRANT AS A GREAT GENERAL.
81 have heard many persons nince
his death comparing General Grant
with the great generals of history,D
observed General Porter this after.
nooni while chatting quietly with tie
| tho writer, "but 10 my mind the fact
that comparisons arc sought to be
made, b0st proves that General Grant
was most unlike any OF them"
| mo" added General Porter, aha
was cast in q different mould from any
of tho historical generals, /
think no was tho most
ready haV0 eyer known,
Persons have como 20 him
while busy and asked him FOR leltors
upon some subject and instead of put.
! ting IL of, General Grant would most
always Immediately write what was
requested, aud II would be as clear nni
compact as though dono by a lltorarg
man VINO studied II out and revised Il
twice. recall an Instance Of General
Grants readiness In emergencies. On
me night OF the second day of the VIII
Ierhess nyntt when Sodgwick's corps
h2d been broken and Shallnr and Sev
mOur captured, General Grant sat in n,
he eadquarters and listened 10 tho fae.
coming reports Of perploxity and
trouble, aud no turned TO me and an.
| other and talked OF his order with AZ
much precision and display of iudg. |
mont as though he had been studvinp |
that unexpected situation for two !
months and oil who saw him watched |
and listened and wondered.
"And again,General Grant was called |
upon to give a hearing unexpectedly !
IN q case no had not before |
heard The case involved the |
value of cotton, and In
It's decision it also involved |
the questions Of international and ma
ritime law, and also contraband laws. |
and cotton IN foreign bottoms. Well, |
the lawyers came before the general |
and argued nj length and when thev |
had dono ho rendered decision thai |
gave no room for further doubt, eo |
clear and oogent were tho points. Al. |
terwards one OF tho lawyers came 10 |
me and asked whore that man, (mSan. |
inR tho genetaD had studied law9 but |
l told him that General grant had !
mover studied law and his comprehen- /
sivo grasp and Information We're facts |
that could toll nothing about.
"Did General Grant ever provv
nervous or excited, do ysu ask?
~ never saw him angry but once and |
that was whom he saw a brutal follow |
clubbing horse ON tho head. irhe
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