Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-08-06
ANECDOTES OF LINCOLN.

ANECDOTES OF LINCOLN.
Some Extracts, OF Special Interest and
Value From the "Reminiscences"
saw him coming to business, riding
on Vermont avenue near l. street. He
always has company of twenty. five
or thirty cavalry, with sabres drawn
and held upright over their shoulders.
The party makes no great show in uni
forms or horses. Mr.. Lincoln, on the
saddle, generally rides a good-sized,
easy-going gray horse, is dressed in
plain black, somewhat rusty and dus-
ty; wears q black stiff hat, and looks
about as ordinary in attire, etc., as
the commonest man. A Lieutenant,
with yellow straps. rides at his lett,
and following behind, two by two,
come the cavalry-men in their yellow
striped Jackets. They are generally
going at a slow trot, as that is
the pace set them by the one they
wait upon. The sabres and accoutre-
ments clank, and the entirely unorna-
mented coTtege as it trots towards
lIayfayette Square arouses no sensa-
ton, only some curious stranger stops
and gazes. I see very plainly Abraham
Lincoln's dark brown face, with the
deep cut lines, theeyes, ETC., always to
me with a deep latent sadness in the
expression. We have got so that we
always exchange bows, and very cor
dial ones.-Walt Whitman, Extract
From Note Book.
In 1862 the people OF New York
were appreh.nsive o. a lombard
ment by some OF the Confederate cruis-
ers. A delegation OF fifty gentlemen,
representing in their own right $780,
100000, was selected to visit
Washington, and have an interview
with the President, and induce him to
'" 0o"i rb he P committee ens t call:
ed at the appointed time, and were
introduced as gentlemen Representing
500, 100000 in their own ri ht. :"
Mr.. Lincoln heard them attentively,
evidently impressed with tn" hundred
millions" and replied as follows:
"Gentlemen, l am, by the Constitu-
ton, Communicating Chief of the army
and navy of the United States, and
as a matter Of law T can order any
thing done that is practicable to be
done but as a matter OF fact, I am
not in command of the gunboats or
ships Of war-as g. matter of fact.
do not know exactly where
they are, but presume they are active
ly engaged. It is impossible for me-,
in the conditions OF things to furnish
you with a gunboat. The credit OF
the Government is at a very low ebb.
Greenbacks are not worth more than
forty or fifty cents on the dollar, and
in this condition of things, it I was
worth half as much as you gentlemen
are represented to be, and as badly
frightened as you seem to be, would
build agunboat and give it to the Gov
eminent" The gentlemen who accom-
panied the delegation says he never
saw one hundred millions sink to such
insignificant proportions as it did
! when that committee recrossed the
threshold of the White House, sadler
but wiser men. They had learned
that money as we'll as muscle WAS a
factor of war.-Lawrence Weldon.
Requests for his autograph signature
were a. source OF annoyance to Mr.. Lin
coin, who often had to sign his name
twenty-five or thirty times a day.
When DR.. R. Shelton Mackenzie, OF
Philadelphia, called at the White
House and asked for the President S
autograph, Mr.. Lincoln said: "Will
you have it on a card or on a sheet OF
paper?" iii the choice rested with my
SELF, said the jovial Doctor, "1should
prefer it at the foot Of a commission
Mr.. Lincoln smiled and shook his
head asifhe did not see it in that light,
but he Shutdown and wrote a few pleas
ant lines, adding his legible signature,
IA. Lincoln. Ben: Perley Poore.
Some of the Californians very unwise-
| ly sought the accomplishments OF their
purpose by assailing both the public
and private character OF the Oregon
Senator BAKERY who was an old friend
OF the President. The anger Of Mr.
Lincoln was kindled instantly and blaz.
ed forth with such vehemence and in.
tensity that everybody present quail.
| cd beforeit. His wrath was simply ter
tible, as he put his foot down and told
the delegation that Senator Baker was
his friend; that he would permit nc
man to assail him in his presence, and
that it was not possible for them to
accomplish their purpose by any such
methods.-George w. Julian.
Lincoln is a witness for the man
William Shakespeare against those
hostile and Illogical critics who
deny to him the authorship
Of the plays that bear his name, be-
cause they cannot comprehend the
way of reaching such results without
the aid OF books, teachers and univer.
stiles. \ ** BY the processes of reason
employedto show thatShakespeare did
not write Hamlet" it may be proved
that Lincoln did not compose the
speech which pronounced at Gettys
burg. George S. Boutwell,.
When Mrs. Stowe called to see Lin
coin toward the close of the war, she
says she spoke of the great relief hi
must feel at the prospect of the early
close OF the war and the establishment
of peace. And he said, in sad way
"No, Mrs. Stowe, l shall never live to
see peace; this war is killing me-
Henry Ward Beecher.
The Extraordinary Treaty.
The correspondent of the Boston
Journal telegraphs that paper: The
following is believed to be an accurate
statement of the facts as to. the pro