Year: 1869

an examination at the Naval Acauemy at
Annapolis, and next week will be there again
on the occasion of parting ball to Mrs.
Admiral Porter, with the Admiral's retire.
ment from the concern. Thence the General
will go to West Point, where one Of his boys
Is studying the art of war; but what will be
the next point honored by the Commander-in-
Chief we cannot tell. The Bostonians will do all
they can to induce him to honor their great
Peace Jubilee with his presence, and as there
would be (''Let us have peace'D a certain fit
ness of things In his attendance, they may
prevail. There was report that General
Grant had hired cottage at Long Branch for
week or two in July or August, but this
hint was doubtless only flyer thrown out by
the hotels. 1t is well known, however, that
his visit to ''the Branch" in 1867 was huge
enjoyment, from the splendid drives of that
locality and the fast trotters behind which and
his cigar he daily secured the country for a
circuit of twenty, thirty, or forty miles. He
did not patronize the surf, except as locker
on, and it is popularity of Western men
that they do not readily take to salt water.
Nightly he was the lion of grand ball; but
this to him, after long drive, was rather in
the line of duty than the line Of enjoyment,
true as it is that


None but the brave deserve the fair.


II was expected that the President would
assist in laying the last rail and in driving the
connecting golden spike of the Pacific Rail-
In hot fho hopo hoo n
been entirely abandoned of still per-
suading him to make the trip to
Sacramento during the summer, though
we believe he has expressly stated that such
an extensive holiday excursion among his
Indian and Quaker friends this year will be
entirely out of his power The Grand Army
of the Republic would like to take him on
tour of inspection of the Southern cemeteries
of the Union soldiers slain in the late war
but this, though it might be useful expe-
dition, would be rather too much for relaxation
and recreation in consequence Of the enthu-
siasm of the rejoicing Africans. Sometime
ago it was rumored that splendid steam
yacht, neatly equipped and lavishly supplied
with pipes and cigars, was lying in the stream
at Washington, awaiting the Presidents COM
pany, for pleasure trip to the West Indies,
on the track of the late Secretary Seward. We
presume, however, that the present Secretary
of State has made such representations to his
chief of the mixed up and unpleasant con-
dition of things in several Of those islands just
now as to lead to the indefinite postponement
of this adventure. Again, we have heard
something of scheme to decoy General Grant
to the fishing banks of Newfoundland, and
even to


The pitiess coast OF Labrador,


as delightfully."- cooling excursion in the heats
of the dogdays, when Pennsylvania avenue
glares and flames in the sun like the desert Of
Nubia; but we believe that the General has
his Western ideas of the New Dominion, and is
not partial to Goldfish, salt or fresh. Nor do
we think that he will take run for few days
of quiet to the Virginia White Sulphur, for
there he may be seized and appropriated by
all the generals Of the late confederacy after
the manner of the con6scation Of General
Rosecrans. He ought to have summer fur
Tough somewhere; for II 1t be only an excur-
sion to Galena, around by the lakes and
Chicago, and back by the Ohio river and across
the Alleghanies to Harper's Ferry, II will do
him good.


1t may be objected to this trip that 1t covers
the route by which Andy Johnson went swing
ing round the circle in September, 1866.
In August and September the White House,
from the malaria of the steaming flats of the
neighboring Potomac, is not a salubrious habi-
tation. This indicates the time when it should
be abandoned; but September, looking at
Johnson's unlucky example, would be q
hazardous month for Presidential tour,
touching either Pennsylvania, Ohio or Indi-
ana, in view of their coming October elections.
Indeed, in this view of the subject, includ-
ing the troublesome politicians, there are so
many drawbacks to Presidential excursion
in any direction, unless undertaken sab rosa
and made in the night, that il may be argued
that beyond little raid here or there Gene
raj Grant will spend this summer at the White
House or at the Soldiers Home (among the
breezy hills north Of Washington, the retreat
of Lincoln in that season "when the dog star
RACES" and the unwelcome ague steals with
the soft south wind through the honey-suckles
into the Executive Mansion.


But this view will hardly apply to General
Grant. lie has distributed the spoils he has
established the doctrine Of equal rights to all
colors; he has arranged the business Of the
government with the several departments |;





and he may, and we think he will, enjoy him
self till the return Of Congress. Having no
favors to ask, no explanations to make, no
questions to answer and no politicians to fear,
he may go where he pleases, and stay or
leave at his own convenience. Accordingly,
we incline to the opinion that during the next
six months he will be frequently found taking
his morning drive and smoking his afternoon