Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-04-11

" hat il meant. Here was the rebellion put
down in the field, and starting up again IN
the cutters: we had fought 1t as war, now
we had to fight il as assassination Lincoln
was killed on the evening of the l4th OF April
] was busy sending out orders To stop re-
Cruting, the purchase OF supplies, anu 10
muster out the army. Lincoln had promised
to go TO the theater. and wanted me TO go
with him. While was with the President a
note came from Mrs. Grant saying that shS
must leave Washington that night. she
wanted to go to Burlington to see her chll,
dren. Some incident of a triffing nature mao
rlade her resolve to leave that evening
was glad to have il so, as did not want TO go
10 the theate-. SO I made my excuses TO lin-
coin. and at the proper hour we started Tor
the train. As we were driving along feha-
sylyania avenue Il horseman passed US on
gallon. and back again around our carriage,
looking into it. Mrs. Grant said: There is
u man who sat near us at lunch to-day. with
some other men. and tried TO Overht0r our
conversation. He was so rude that we left
the dining room. Here he is now riding after
US | thought il was only curiosity, nut
learned afterward that the horseman was
Booth Ii seemed that was 10 have been
attacked. but Mrs. Grants sudden resolve TO
leave changed the plan. few days after l
received an anonymous letter from man
saving that he had been detailed TO XIII me,
that he rode on my train as far as Havre de
Grace, and as my ear was locked hA failed TO
get in. He thanked God that he had failed
| remember that the conductor had locked
our car but how true the letter was cannot
saw learned of the assassination AZ was
passing through Philadelphia: l turned
around. took q special train, and came on 10
Washington. 1t was the gloomiest day OF
my life.
General Grants family relations were very
pleasant. He loved his wife and thought
everything of his children. During the war
Mrs. Grant managed all of the money mat
tiers of the family. and after il she had
large say in what was to be done. When
visiting Galena a short time before hss fall-
ure General Grant said: MY wife runs our
New York house. and no other woman in the
universe could do il better than she give
her $l.0O month and ask no questions. 1
do not live in anything like princely style,
but there are but few men who are com
PEELED to keep up the appearances that CIR
cumstances have forced upon me OF iate
years. that have more to be proud OF than
myself. and leave it all to my wife, who runs
our household affairs herself, keeping the
sirictest account of expenses and superin-
tending every department of the family es-
tablishmept."
Grant had no money making sense, ana his
friends tell me that he did not love money
for moneys sake. He never boarded any,
give to friends in need The poverty OF ms
early life is well known. but it will be sur
prising to many TO know that at the BEGIN
ing of the war Mrs. Grant was refused credit
for groceries at Galena. The story is that
Grant had gone from Galena to Springfield to
get captaincy in regiment then being
organized. and in his absence Mo. Grant
went to one of the Galena shops and asked
for a barrel of flour on credit as sh,.0ad no
money. Her request was refused. when q
bystander who was also merchant. ap-
preached and told her she could have any
thing she wished from his store This kind
ness in time of need was never forgotten by
Grant. and after he became President he be-
ttowed substantial favors upon this good
hearted and patriotic grocer.
General Grant had salary of $40 a month
while he was in this leather store at Gaena
and lived in a small brick house. and kept
one servant Mrs. Grant lately characterized
III. t,,p.. hannipSf narlOH
In after years Grant received great deal of
money. but he spent a great deal. and while
he was President he entertained magnifi-
Gently. Had he gone out of the White House
at the close of his first term when his salary
was only Sa50p. he said lately that he would
have had to borrow money to pay his debts
and take him out of Washington. Fortunate
investments gave him the funds for his tour
abroad and had he not beeE hlti by sharpers
he would have continued well OF to his death.
General Grants love for his father was
shown by his treatment of him while he was
President. He also cared kindly for his
mother, and she had "A great influence upon
his life.
General Grant knew nothing about money
II is said that when he was boy he was a
good Judge of horse flesh, but this has since
been denied. as far as ability to buy and sell
i concerned.
The first money he ever earned was a five.
penny bit. or six and quarter cents, which
pc got for CARRYING a trunk from hotel to a
boat landing. His cousin james helped him
heavy. and suppose the money was divided
between the two. Afterward il is said that
his father set him to driving the horse which
ground the tanhark. This work was very
tiresome and young Ulysses would hire
some other boy to do il for a few cents and
go off and make dollar or more with his
fathers horse and wagon. He soon went 20
West Point, however, and began his military
career losing all sight of money-making.
When he left the army to go into business
he proved a failure. A 81. Louis paper, in
n, I n : ma RI pf sa tirna
ago. says: Grant after throwing up his
commission in the army, while serving in
Oregon, came to St Louis. and there was an
understanding between his father and his
wife's father thar he was to be set up as u
farmer. Dent agreed to furnish the farm,
and old Mr.. Grant was to stock it. Later on
ey-Captain Grant found himself settled in a
log house on the Gravois road. The stock.
consisting of a lot of potatoes. came along
later in the season. They were unloaded,
left on the levee, and froze This was the
start in life Grant got as a farmer.
Left TO his own ndevelopement of sgricultur-
al tastes, he took to hauling in wood and
selling it, Ii was when the farming expert
ment had proved a failure and Grant had
been refused the appo' ointment of surveyor,
for which he made application to the County
Court, that he moved to the city. and went
into the real estate and brokerage bushes IS.
The firm was Grant * Boggs. The junior
partner was relative of Governor Boggs,
and also connected with the Dent family.
They opened an Office on Pine Street. just
above second. ana some property was put
into their hands. Captain Frank McGarra-
han and other old real estate men remember
the firm from attempts at transactions with
them. and from the utter lack of ideas on
business matters which Grant showed.
Phil Ferguson. who was then publishing a
paper. tells of going to see Grant about the
purchasing of a job office which had been
put in the firms hands to sell. He found
the senior partner not at the Office, but after
q search. aud when he did so, il was with no
satisfaction. Although they had the prop
erty and il was for sale, Grant was unable TO
present the terms or the condition of the
stuff so that the printer could form any con-
ciusion as to what he was trying to buy OF
what he was expected to pay forit.
In short. the senior partner was without
business sense. In few weeks the real
estate and brokerage firm of Grant h Boggs
was classed with the past, and the senior
went to Galena TO join his father in the tan
merry.
AS to his financial circumstances at the time
of his first term in the Presidency the same
condition prevailed and il was only owing
TO his increased salary that he was able TO
take h 5 trip to Europe. While he was on
this trip he wrote from Russia to . friend
in Philadelphia, as follows:
.-On arrival here l found a large mail in
which was letter from you. inclosing q
paragraph about Mr.. Murphy's bankruptcy,
and my losses in real estate. So far as | am
concerned there is not one word of truth in
this statement. 1never owned or purchas I'd
piece of real estate in New York City in my
lie. l never owned any property in New
Jersey, except the two houses at Long
Branch, which l now own. in my life. l
never held piece of property m my life that
/ remember of on which owed anything.
What have-not much-is paid for: / have
sold nothing to payup my debts. My farming
experience in Missouri was expensive, and
sold out and gave away my stock and rented
the farm. That was several years ago. Had
| gone ont Of Office at the end of four years,
when Ihy salary WAS S25 90 year, would
have been compelled to sci. something
quue an amount-uU nave carried me out OF
Washington. But. with my private income
and increased salary. came out at the end
OF eight years free from debt and without
having incurred any loss anywhere in speed
lation.H
General Grant will leave mSny material
memories of himself and his career. The
modest little frame house in which
he was born will be a point of
curiosity TO all travellers along the
Ohio River. A Little One-story and
a-garret of house with door i'll its
center leading directly into the sitting-room
zimmerman and kitchen all in one iS still