The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-03-04
When Grant was ssBroke."

lounge 2"
"You need not do that" was the an.
swer; "here is dollar for your lodg. |
ings."
II am greatly obliged, but will save
the dollar by sleeping on the lounge"
So this man who was shabby and
penniless slept on rickety old lounge
in back Office in San Francisco, (for
he had no place in which to lay his head)
and the next morning said he had slept
well. He added, with a pleased look,
that he had saved his dollar. Ten years
later this shabby and penniless man,
having changed his fortunes by bis own
exertions and consummate genious, re.
ceived the surrender of General Robert
E, Lee, for the shabby man was no other
than Ulysses 8. Grant.
The story was told few evenings ago
: by General w. H. L. Barnes to an as.
semblage of army and navy officers, act.
i've and retired, representing the regular
and volunteer service.
"At the age Of 80 years." said General
Barnes, "when he (Grant) had attained
the rank Of captain, and while serving
with battalion Of his regiment in Ore.
gon, he resigned his commission. After
his resignation, he came to San Francis.
co, intending to take passage by steamer
to New York. Captain Richard L. o.
den was atthat time clerk in the Office
of the UnNed States quartermaster at
San Francisco. Some time after my ar.
rival in California, he told me story
concerning Captain Crane, the entire
accuracy of which have no reason to
question, which illustrates very clearly
the condition in which he was at that
time"
General Barnes, who has been making
study of all that appertained to Gen.
eral Grant, gave Captain Ogden's story
for the first time, which he (Barnes) re.
Gently copied from Captain Ogden's diary
the narrative, in Captain Ogden's words,
running as follows:
''As was about closing the Office q
shabbily dressed person came in and in.
quired for Major Allen, quartermaster,
who had just left. didn't, at first, recog.
nize him, but on asking if I could attend
to his business with the major he pro.
duced a certificate for per diem service
on court martial, which, of course,
identified him. The certificate entitled
him to about $40, but was incorrectly
drawn and virtually void, of which fact
I informed him, and also that we were
destitute of funds wherewith to pay in
any case, whereupon his countenance
fell and look of utter despair came
over it.
! "He turned to leave the Office, then
hesitated a moment and, turning back,
asked me i'll would allow him to sleep
on an old lounge in Major Aliens room,
'for, said he, 4 have not cent to my
name ] said, You need not do that.
Here is 81 for your lodgings He re-
piled, Il am greatly obliged, but, with
your permission, will use the dollar for
my dinner and breakfast and the lounge
will save me the dollar So he slept on
a rickety, old lounge and found him
there when went to the Office early in
the morning, and when said, You had
hard bed he said oh, no I slept well
and saved my dollar"
Some account of the straits to which
Ulysses 8. Grant was put on this occas'
ion of California interest has been made
heretofore, but the full particulars are
it is believed, now told for the first
time. A few days later than this Grant
had left San Francisco, but not to re-
turn again until he had been the victor.
ious leader of the army of the United
States in the greatest war of modern
times, and president and fresh from the
honors which the crowned heads of the
world delighted to bestow upon him,
once more passed through the Golden
Gate, which he had last gone out of in
penury.
"He told me that the certificate" 90
runs Captain Ogden's diary, in continu'
ance, twas matter of much importance
to him, as he had depended upon it to
pay his steerage passage East, and with
out it I can't do it, was so struck
with his look of detection that said
We'll, will cash the certificate person
ally and can send it back to Oregon TO,
correction. His face frightened up all
at once and, signing the usual voucher,
he said, i am greatly obliged to you TO,
this favor, and now must 60 and ge,
my ticket"
SIT occurred to me that could helI
him in that direction too, possibly, and
said, i will 60 to the Office with you
and may get you some concession.