The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1893-09-22
GENERAL LEW WALLACE.

Il
just now people in literary
circles are having much TO say
about Gen. Lew Wallace and his
writings. Whether his new book
will prove to be as popular as
ben Hur'' remains to be seen.
But the indications are that &c
viii be given a wide circulation.
] had the honor of being paired
off with Gen. Wallace in the
triulnphal march of the Indiana
delegation after the re nomina.
ition of President Harrison at
Minneapolis. He seemed to be
filed with life and almost re.
Ijuyenated upon that occasion. /
found his company delightful as
had previously found his writ.
ings. Once when the crowd
started a Joyous campaign song,
the General ceased his converse.
ton and joined in with the jubi-
liant choristers. Gen. Wallace
has recently written a brief &c.
count of his life which was pub,
llshed in Ho1pe,ss WeeI:lp and is
reproduced belowfor the perusal
of TELEGRAM readers. S. r. X.
4 was born at BroolsvilIe, Frank
lin County, Ind, April 10, 1927, OF
family that was originally, to my
best information, settled in vir-
ginia. AT the time Of the Reyolu-
tion it comprised four brothers, Of
whom one died in the hulks-the
British prison ships of New York
harbor-two were killed in battle,
and the fourth, my great-grand.
father, settled after the war in
Pennsylvania. My grandfather went
to Cincinnati shortly after II had
been founded, and established there
the first newspaper Of the place, the
Liberty Hall Gazette, which after
wards became the Cincinnati Ga.
zette, and is now the Commercial
Gazette. My father had boyish
inclination for the military profess
sion, and in order to crafty 1t my
grandfather made application for an
appointment to West Point, and in
voked for it the powerful influence
of Cen. William Henry Harrison.
The general had made a like applica.
tion, as 1t turned out, on behalf Of
his own son from the same district,
but on hearing my grandfather's
statement he withdrew his own APP
plication, leaving the field clear for
my father. That was an obligation
which, as you may suppose, neither
my family nor his descendants were
likely to forget. When Gen. Harri-
sons grandson Benjamin established
himself two generations afterwards
as o lawyer in Indianapolis, the re-
suit Of it was warm friendship be-
tween us, especially between him
and my elder brother, whom, when
he became president, he appointed
postmaster Of indianapolis.
AS there was no immediate ca
reer in Indiana, nor even an immedi-
ate livelihood for an artisteor a nov
elist, and as my necessities were i'm
mediate, / cast about for humber
and more gainful trade. In some
way / had contriyed to acquire o
good handwriting, and / applied for
work as q eopyist 70 Robert Duncan.
the clerk of the county. He at once
turned me loose upon the records,
with instructions to copy them az
my convenience, and at what seemed
to me the princely pay Of ten cents q
hundred words. With the first
eleven dollars ! bought gun.
Meanwhile I had become some
what sobered with time, and though
l had not relinquished the military
ambition which there did not seem
any way Of gratifying, read law
with my father, and was in the way
to establish myself as practitioner
when the news came OF the outbreak
OF the Mexican war. at once set
to work to organize a company,
succeeded within a short time.
and the canfaincy wac offa,.ad