Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-06-09

-. - - 1919 cR REMAINING n the seF-
ties, oso endeaFored % effscf eombi-
naslon among the older and more efao-
ient men, but they bad failed In thar
,.ttenpt. The Official Postal Gusas for
nay contains . notes over the sigma
safs o. ne POSTMASTER General that ef-
nclen. ena honsst railway elsrkp, Who
have nos turned their etteufion t1x.rd
political scrvicI dusiag their labors-
need have no fsar OF being disturte5
The effect OF that declaration in re-
Rard % postal clerks and their reten-
ton said the Postmaster General
mas never been departed from in a nm
ale instance. ] bslleve one mist Re wa
made, bat when discovered Il. I re-
scored sue mNa 70 the ssrvios. There
oave been very considerable numker
OF removals made bat think that not
les tnan tbiee-q1arsers, or perhaps
nine- sensns, were made because Of inef-
ncaenoy, becslnse they were not good
elefks, because they we're what ID known
N tne eerylos e. 'deadxood.' A very
limited pefcentage have been removed
oeoa1se they we're Partisans. Il il mot
unukeiy that many clerks, who were re-
moved Tor irefficieney, have reported at
tnsif localities that thsy were removed
for partisan reasons. bot the truth 10 as
! have stated. An examination i1st
completed sd US that during the
mortss Of April and March the morale
Of rs seFviss has greatly improved and
better results have never been obsaiusd
in an examination.
Gen. Grants Henseirs.
NEW YoIEx, Jane e.-The Commercial
4drersfser Publishes nearly q page OF
extracts from Gen. Grants Personal
Msmoirs,T which will be published
within few months. The first volume
~ compleiied, and the second is nearly
50. The extracts given show the work
20 be written IN sturdy and terse Anglo
Saxon, with here and there q touch OF
qaiet hrimoT. The dedic stiou il
fac simile Of the Generals manuscripts,
and IL a. follows:
"Thesb volumes are dedicated TO the
American soldier and sailor.
70. 8. GRANT.
"Nsv York, May 9, 1886"
He keRins by saying that be Is Of
American stock on both sides for many
generations. Matthew Grant, from
whom hs IL descendant in the eighth
generatioa, reached Dorchester, Mass,
In l631 from Dorchsstef, England. His
great grandf ithsr, Noah Grant, held q
commission in the British army. and
bis grandfather, also called Noah,
served in the war Of the Revolution.
de gives an account Of hia boykood
and his appointment Co West Point
through the infiuence Of Hon. Thomas
Morris, Congressman from Ohio tells
the circumstances under which he frst
saw General Scott and President Van
Buren, contrasts tue eersonal charac-
| f..r sfu r.f La I'D r~ ~f< 4.
and gives copy of his letter to Adm
tant General Thomas, dated at Galens,
Illinois. March "a. 1861, oasring his ssr-
Woes TO the United States, and suggest
ina that he considered himself CON, O.
tent 10 take command of q regiment
This letter was never replied to, and
'Ras for long time lost amsng the pa
pers Of the War Office.
speaking Of his first battle in the
Civil var, he says: As We approached
the brow Of the hill from which 1t vas
expected We could see Harris's camp
and possibly ind his men ready formed
70 meet rs. my heart was getting higher
and higher until it felt TO me IS though
u was in my throat. would have Civ
en- anything then to have been back In
Illinois, but had not the moral courage
to halt and consider what TO do. kept
right on. when ve reached point from
which the valley below was ia full
view, halted. The place where Harris
had been enoamped fes days before
was stili there, and the marks Of the re
cent encampmsnt we're plainly visible,
bat the troops we're gone. Ny heart
resumed It's play. Il occurred 10
me 80 enee that Harris bad
been a. much afraid OF me a. had
been Of him. This was view Of the
question that bad never taken before,
bat it vas one never forgot afterwaFd.
From that event 10 the close Of the war
I never experienced trepidation upon
confronting an enemy"