St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-27
The Day Passes Very Quietly at the Grant
Cottage, Few Prominent Wis.,
itors Arriving.
"reminiscences of the Dead Soldier--Earnest
Request of His Faithful Old
Ooachman.
Gen. Burnett's Reply to Ex-President
Hayes Regarding the G. a. r.
Monument.
A Statue Of Grant to be Erected in
Chicago--Descriptio ofthe
Casket.
The HEROIC Dead.

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the Grant cottage have been whispering
since morning. \ suggestion was casually
made to DIR. Newman to-day, while break
fasting, TO the effect that he should conduct
morning Sabbath service, but the reverend
gentleman gravely declined. Since Gen.
Grants death he has been unable to
speak of his dead friend without emo
ton and to have stood where
he did two weeks ago to-day, delivering his
discourse on The Value of Character while
Gen. Grant was alive down at the cottage,
seemed well-nigh impossible to DR.. New
man. So the day has been one of QuietneSS,
with some visitors and some prominent ar
rivals. Gen. Horace Porter and the Japan
ese minister. Kuki, arrived here to-day.
The desk at the hotel Office has been
draped with emblems of mourning, and the
two guideOns brought to-day by the detail
of eight men from the u. ). Grant post, G.
\. r., of Brooklyn, Senior Vice Com
mander johnson commanding, These eight
men arrived at noon and Immediately took
up their duties as private body guard, two
of them being constantly in attendance at
and inside the cottage, the reliefs being on
duty three hours each. This
PRIVATE BODY GUARD
will not displaee the Crider post of Sara
tOga, who first came. and who will remain
until the removal. patrOlling the cottage on
all sides. The states of Maine, Ne': Lamp
shire, Vermont Connecticut. New York,
Michigan. Wisconsin and New Mexico are
represented in the persons of Grand Army
veterans now camped on the mountains.
a company of infantry from Fort Porter,
near Buffalo, under command of Brevet
Mai. Brown, has been ordered here by Gen.
Hancock to take proper part as guard of
honor to the remains of Gen. Grant. They
are ordered to report to Col. Roger Jones,
inspector general and acting adj
jutant general, who will arrive
at Mt McGregor tomorrow. Gen. Horace
Porter and Col. Fred Grant will start down
the mountain at IL o'clock tonight by spe-
cial train. A special train of the West
Shore road will await them at Albany TO
convey them to New York. where they will
arrive at a. III. tomorrow. On reaching
New York Gen. Porter and Col. Grant will
meet Mavor Grace and Gen. Hancock, with
whom the details of the final ObSeQuieS will
be arranged. Gen. Porter is the pOSSesSor
of the flag of Gen. Grants last headquar-
tiers. which was displayed at AppOmatox.
The flag was presented to Gen. Porter by
Gen. Grant, and by Gen. Porter has been
loaned to the Union League club Of New
York for use in its
DISPLAY OF MOURNING
made i'm honor of Gen. Grant. Gen. Porter
this afternoon saw the plaster mask of the
dead generals face, made within half an
hou- after his death by Karl Gerhardt, the
sculptor. Gen. Porter held the mask in his
hands and studied it minutely and in silence
for some moments. THAT is most perfect,
he finally said, and then touched point on
the right cheek and added, ''there Is even
the mole or wart on the generals face"
The message sent by Gen. Grants old
cOachman, requesting that he might drive
the hearse, was as follows:
Executive Mansion, Washington, d. c.
Gen. Horace Porter: As the dear generals
old coachman for years can you not aid in ar
ranging that 1 should drive for him for the
last time at the funeral? / want To do some
thing in his honor and would like TO do that.
ALBERT HAWKINS.
Gen. Porter will bring this message to the
attention of Grants family, and it is quite
likely the cOachman's request will be
granted. Gen. Porter said: There was
most devoted attachment for Gen. Grant on
the part of this cOlOred man, and the gen
eral thought much of him. He is most
faithful fellow, and black as a coal"
Il have heard many persons since his
death comparing Gen. Grant with the great
generals of history" observed Gen. Porter
this afternoon while chatting quietly with
the writer,r but to my mind the fact that
such comparisons are sought to be made
best proved that Gen. Grant was most un-
like any of them. No." added Gen.
Porter ''he was cast in different
mould from any of the historical
generals. L think he was the most
ready man l have ever known.
10 him, xx-bila htrctr ar,H
asked for letters upon some subject, and
instead of putting it off. Gen. Grant would
always Immediately write what was re-
auested. and it would be clear and compact
as though done by some laboring man who
had studied it out and revised it twice. L
recall an instance of Gen. Grants readiness
i'm emergency on the night of the second
day of the Wilderness fight, when Sedg-
wick'S corps had been broken and Shaller
and Seymour captured. Gen. Grant sat in
his headquarters and listened to
the fast coming reports of per-
plexity and trouble. but he turned
to one and another, and talked off his or
ders with as much precision and display of
Judgment as though he had been study
ing that unexpected situation Tor two
months. and all who saw him watched and
listened
AND WONDERED.
And again Gen. Grant was called upon to
give hearing, Unexpectedly, in a case he
had not before heard of. The case in
yoIved a quantity of cotton, and in its
decision il also involved questions
OF international and maritime law,
and also of contraband laws and
cotton in foreign bottoms. Well, the law
yers came before the general and argued at
length, and when they had done he turned
and rendered decision that left no room
for further argument, so clear and cOgent
were its points. Afterwards one of the
LAWYERS came to me and asked where that
man, meaning the general, had studied law.
But / told him Gen. Grant had never
studied law and his comprehensive grasp
and information were facts that
I could tell nothing about.
Did Gen. Grant ever grow nervous or ex-
cited do you ask? / never saw him angry
but once, and that was when he saw a
brutal fellow clubbing a horse over the
head. The general seized the man, told
him he was brute and punished him for
impudence. of which he was guilty to the
general. but never heard him utter an
oath nor any approach to it, and / was
with him nine years without ever being
away from him more than two weeks.
Grant was
4 SPLENDID RIDER.
and fiue whip as well. He could ride
forty or fifty miles and come in perfectly
fresh and tire out younger men. He was
much attached to little horse that was
called JEFF Davis" because he was secured
on JEFF Davis plantation. He was an easy
animal to ride, and was easily guided
through ins and Onts, but when fording
streams 'tJeff'' was at a disadvantage.
There was, besides, a noble big
bay-colored fellow named Cincinnati,
which Gen. Grant used to ride.
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