The Press., 1885-04-09

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 TO-DAY k the anniversary of the snfren der of Lee to Gen. Grant at AppomatoN. To-day the death of the great general IS hourly expected. How fitting that on so memorable day he shall peacefully sur render to the all-conquering foe and find . release from the suffering that for weeks has given thoughts of him place i'll every sympathetic bosom.
 NEXT week, beginning onWelnesday, the first Nj. E. conference ever held in Tolland county, assemblies ill Rockville. The occa- sion will attract visitors from all the coun- try about. of the Methodist and other de- nominations. This the New England) conference embraces the districts of Nor wich. Providence and New Bedford, and in territory that part of Connecticut lying east of the river. the state of Rhode Island, and the section of Massachusetts lying east of Rhode Island, including Cape Cod.
 IT has been touching to know and read of tender solicitude felt the past fortnight for the hero Gen. Grant, while. face to face with all-conqnering Death. Lost Sunday most fervent appeals went mp to the Throne from nearly every pulpit Git seems safe to say from every pulpipi in the country, in be- half of the suffering soldier. In every town and city anxious inquiry has beeu made for latest bulletins from the chamber of suffering. The streets about his residence in New York are often densely thronged with 8 quiet sympathetic mnltiende, eager for news from the sick room. Carriage af- ter carriage has called, with flowers cards, and messages of sympathy, or bearing friends whose intimacy or kinship admit them to the presence tf the sufferer All over the landrespectful deference has been paid to the sad inevitable event. We read of deferred social and pleasure gatherings. at the national capital and elsewhere. thus postponed that no jar may be made on nerves tensioned to bear great prospective grief Grant has no enemies tO-dsy, ,pOlit- teal or military. Little is though of save the nations debt of gratitude to it's brave and successful defender In many towns and cities arrangements were made last week to toll the bells and put flags at half mast whenever the end might come.
 GEN. LAwTON of Georgia. who had been nominated by the president to be minister to Russia was objected to by Senator Ed munds, in executive session, aud his name has been withdrawn. The ground of ob- lection was the clause of the constitution which reads, ''No person shall hold any office under the United States who, having previously taken an oath as an officer of the United States to support the constitu- ton of the United States, shall have en- gagged in insurrection and rebellion az ainst the same, or given atd and comfort 10 the enemies thereof. But congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such disability" The Georgia senators claim that Gen. Lawton's oath taken was merely one of fallegiance-not an obligation to support the constitution. Secretary Bayard is understood to be of opinion that pardon granted by President Johnson has removed Lawton's disability, and if President Gle veland, who is digesting the matter, arrives at the same conclusion, Gen. Lawton will be appointed. But if this position is correct, why has not Pres ident Cleveland power to restore, by his pardon, Jefferson Davis or any other reb- eI to full citizenship? His prerogatives in & # oe l. predecessors.
 A DISPATCH from Berlin. dated yesterday, says The belief hitherto entertained in official circles that peace would be main- fained between England and Russia has undergone a distinct change. Dispatches from St. Petersburg say that the Russian war party is getting the upper hand, and that the czar has agreed to appoint Gen. eral Gonrko and General Kouropotkiue to the leading commands in the Afghan cam paign i'll the event of war. Each will le d corps of 5O,0OO men. The governor of Caucasus, General Dondonkoff- Korsakoff. takes a staff of military surveyors to Merv to report upon the progress of the massing of the troops and the condition of the con- missariat. He will command the third |" my Oo1PSs
 Washington Letter: The prevailing concern over General Grant last night caused many curious glanees to be cast on General Rosecrans. Perhaps Rosecrans has been Grants bitterest enemy. in public and private he has sneered at Grants achievements and attacked his character. He has always held himself to have been badly used, and certainly the l 1,n&x, Rosecrans's friends were curious to see 1 how far he would soften toward dying mau. Nobody, however, had the bold ness to ask hlm anything about the sub- iect. But it could not he kept out of the conversation. Somebody in a party in which Rosecrans was brought it mp, then hesitated, shifted uneasily. glanced ner, vously at the general, and finally stepped out. Everybody waited in uncomfortable suspense. At last the -whiskered, red-faeed, bluff old fellow blnrted out :: Y1n Al