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Gex." Grant.?The Xatlonal Intelligencer publishes an excellent biographical sketch of Lieutenant-General Grant, and a discriminating analysis of his brilliant qualities as a soldier, from the pen of an intimate personal friend of the General. We copy the following paragraphs from the article : "The press lias conceded that Gen. ! Grant is the best executive and admin-1 istrative officer in the army. His department has certainly been conducted with remarkable ability and skill. Gen. j Lander once said he was the best fight-1 ing General in the world. Gen. Halleck l says he is'the best field officer in the ser- i . vice. Gen. Farnsworth says he is no carpet knight. Gens. Logan aud Blair j say he has strategy and more military genius and caution than any other offi-! cer. All these eulogies, coming from such high authorities, do no more than . justice to the man, and prove the appre-: eiativc capacities of their authors. The amount and varied duties and labor de-: ' volving upon a General with such a command as he has is incalcuable, and yet it j is said by his stafF, several of whom are j flrst-ckfcs lawyeis, that he has never made , a mistake or blunder or made a decision i that needed revoking. His military cor- j respondence has cost the government fur j less than any other commanding Gen-! eral who has done one-half the amount [ of service. * Besides, no other one has been in hall j so many engagements. He has partici-t pated in thirty-one battles, fourteen of ; them in Mexico, wlrle he held no higher rank than a lieutenant, and seventeen ' during the present civil war, in which j he wa* Commanding General, and has j never been defeated. If he ever is de-1 feated, it will only be when no possible j human agency con avoid it, and then it, will be a terrible and bloody defeat to our arms. He has been sworn in and commissioned thirteen times as a mili- j tap' officer?probaUy holdiug more com-: missions for brave and meritorious con-; duct than any other man ever did. During his recent battles Gen. Grant i has captured many thousand prisoners, \ tour hundred and seventy-two eannon, and an incalculable amount of small arms j and military stores ; and it is wonderful! how few men and little property he has : lost in comparison to what he has des-1 troyed and taken. Such has been the ; -fi/lplitv. ahiliiv and Datriotism with I which he h:is discharged his every duty j that he ha; never been removed, super- { seded, or complained of, but constantly promoted in rank, and his command in-' creased- After these great and crowning: triumphs, sparkling like diamonds along j his military* way, is there one to be found j who will attribute the result of his sue-' cess to accident ? Rather sa5* that a pro-! , tecting ProrkJence has watched over and j guided hhn throughout hi* bRlfiaiytand glorious, career, and donbtl?6s lias him in i reserve a so means to accomplish other1 great purposes. Steel Boilees.?Some interesting cs-] ; pet iments have been made in Prussia ; with steel steam boilers, on account ot; which has been published in Dbvjlcr a \ Polytechnic Journal- A steel boiler of * the egg end chape, four feet in diameter and thirty feet in length, without flues, i was tried. 1 had a steam drum two leel j in diameter and two feet in height, and j the plates were one-fourth of an inch in i thickness. Beside it there was placed another boiler, similar in every respect, excepting that the plate3 were of iron : 0.414 of an inch in thickness. The steam i boiler was tested by hydraulic pressure; up to 105 pounds on the inch, without leakage, and both the iron and steel J boilers were worked under a pressure of j 05 pounds on the inch for about-one year | and a half. During this period the steel boiler I generated twenty-five per -cent, more steam than the iron one, and when they were thoroughly examined after eighteen months' practical working, there was less scale in the steel than in the iron boiler. The former evaporates 11.GG cubic feet of water per hour 4 the iron -boiler 9. S7 cubic feet. The quantity of coal consumed was on an average 2,706 pounds for the steel one in twelve hours, and ul.972 pounds for -the iron boiler. The i 4 X plates of the steel boiler over the fire were found to be uninjured, while those of the iron ones were about woru out. In Prussia several worn-out plates of Iron boilers have lately been replaced with steel,'which, it is stated, lasts four times as long. As steel is twice as strong as iron, thinner plates of the former may be employed for boilers, and more perfect riveting can be secured A greater quantity of steam can be secured. A greater quantity of steam can also be generated in the steel boiler on account of its thin plates, and thus fuel may be economized. Such steam boilers should engage the attention of all who make and use steam boilers for engineering and manufacturing purpose. I'oliteness to Women. llarvers Monthly "EasyChair" dis cusses politeness to women, and puts the following on record : Jn Mr. Hunt's lately published "Life of Edward Livingston" there is a passage from one of Livingston's speeches or letters in which he expresses his pride that a woman may travel from one end of America to the other without insult And there is no doubt that we are the most truly courteous of people, Jean Crapeau to the contrary notwithstanding. But it is perhaps no less true that that courtesy is more sorely tried by th>- beautiful sex than in any other land. Within two or three days this Easy Chair has seen a woman come into a car at Springfield, Mass., where the train stopped for dinner, look around and de iberately place herself in the seat where a bag and traveling shawl told, as if some one had spoken, that some gentleman had left the seat to diae, and would presently return, In a few minutes he came to resume his place, looked surprised, asked the woman if she would please hand him his shawl, which she did. then takinc his bag looker! around for a seat, and as I afterward discovered, was obliged to push on to the smoking-car before he found one. At another time a gentleman stepped out of the car for a moment, leaving his shawl, and, returning in less than live minutes, he fouad a man and woman comfortably ensconced in it. Upon his polite request the woman rose and handed him his shawl; but in neither case was there a single word -of explanation or apology fcoaa either of the offenders. As the Easy Chair looked on and saw the boorishuess of the woman and the tine j courtesy of the men?for in neither instance was there the least apparent ill-; humor or abruptness upon the n_a i's i part?he could not but wish that his' good old friend of the Berkshire Hills I bad been there, who waited, when his i seat had been taken in a similar way, un-; til the offending woman asked, curtly, | ' What are you waiting for?" and then i owcti'rtVfyl wifli tn'/ipf (Mirl riAliln Annrfnow i UW V4VTAJ " * VAA V Wit* tl/OJ f | "I am wailing to bear you say, 'thank j you/ madam." For be did not mean , that the fine laws of behavior should be outraged in bis presence without a fit rebuke: This is the very point of complaint, that a seat in- a car, however crowded ; the car may be, and however convenient | the sent for a tra'weUer making a long ! jour.iey, is held to beeomnion property, however its possession may be marked Let, then, either of these women?and their name is legion?who may chance to read these lines, ask herself how she ; would like to return to a seat, in which she had left her bag or shawl for the purpose of retaining it, and to find it occupied without a word or even look of rec-1 ogmnon. vv e ao not indeed ouy a spe-: ciiic seat in a car, but common courtesy ! allots tbat one to us which we occupy or ! have designated as our*. ?A mild form of insanity, known as | the Sanitary Fair mania, is prevalent in New York, and a correspondent breathes forth in -one of the papers his laments, because he has not seen his wife, who is : suffering from this disease, in three week*. ?Letters from Europe report that all kinds of titles of nobility are to b? con- ; ferred, by Maximilian, on the secession- i ists who will attend him from Paris to Mexico. Dr, Gwin is to be a duke. A Six Foot Joke.?Five six-footers, no-! companied by Representatives Alley and Goucth of Massachusetts, called upon the President a day or two since, and were introduced. Six-footers from Mass-; achusetts seemed to astonish the Chief: Magistrate, who, after carefully survey-1 ing the tall specimens of the Old Bay State, exclaimed, "Are you all from Massachusetts.'" "All," was the sim-i I ultaneous response. " Why, it seems to ' me," responded the President, glancing at the short Renresentiitives. 4t that i , Massachusetts always sends ber Utile men ; ' to Congress. . ?A few days since, Gen. Rosecrans i! was dining with his staff at one of our .hotels?He unfortunately tasted of the I Tennessee butter, when lie immediately i arose and saluted the plate before him, remarking: ' Gentlemen, that butter out I ranks me!' W. H. Holde*, Esq., the Conservative 1 editor of the llaleigh Stanford, is now a candidate lor Governor of North Caroli- j ua, and a bitter contest is said to be raging between him and ^Gov. VjlJ.ce, who is a candidate fer re-election. Advices from the Army of the Pototnace state that the rebels have lately been busily engaged in constructing riflepits on the south bunk of the hapidan, at Raccoon Ford. A farmer on the Upper Kennebec, Me., who had lost his sheep by abduction for many years offered a notorious sheep I stealer $25 a year to let his flocks alone. j That worthy, however, only smiled and > stud "No, Squice, I think I can do bet-1 t r'" ? | Fatal Bites.?An officer of a N. Y. f regiment died last week from the bite ol a rat, and a wealthy farmer in Connecticut died from the bite of a pig. ?Advertising for a wife, says a cotemporory, is just as absurd as it would be to get measured for an umbrella. ?W hat is everybody doing at the Rame time ? Growing older. advertisements" New Firm ! 0HABLE8 N. BELLOWS respectfully Informs 1 the people at this Post that he has associated j himself with Mr. v. A. Rtan. at No. 8, Sullen' ' RoW, where we intend to keep an assortment of j ? ? * j . 17.,a urj UOOtlg auu lk'iwuj;, uwji" ojiu uuu??, ?? .o , and Caps, Groceries, Can Meats, etc., etc., at i wholeeaJt) and Retail. The above goods were , purchased for cash in New York, and can bo ob- j tamed of as ataa reasonable rates as at any store^ ! in the Department. Y. A RYAN, C. N. BELLOWS, Port Royal, April 16th 1864. The Ice Tickets are now ready, and ca* b? obtained at tho Bookstore of Thk New Bouti | Building. Tickets are issued for ten, twenty ! thirty, fifty and one hundred pounds. Geo. \Y. Joii.vsox, Agent ; WANTED.?Good, sound Horses and Mules, t Address, stating Particulars, to 'PLANTER,' ! box No. 1. P. O., Hilton llead. It JJEW PHOTOGRAPHIC ESTABLISHMENT. ; CARTE-DE- VISITES, LAllGEPHOTOGRAPHS | AND | , PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS of all descriptions made equal to thoso of tbe first artist's north. Also AMBROTYPES and MELAJNOTYPE8, taken at the Gaujuit us the Heap of No. 23, Sutlkk's llow. We shall spare neither pains nor expense in our Pictures, and will guarantee satistaction in all cases, 78 BONHAM A HEADING. I ICE! ICE!! ICE!!! I TAKE PLEASURE IN INFORMING THIS ' Post, that I aiu now ready to supply their ) wants for Ice, every morning through the year, delivered at such places as they may designate, j Tickets for sale ut the Bookstore in The New j South Building, next to the Post Office. Parties j , wishing Ice by the ton or half ton, can be supplied without delay, by addrcsaing the subscriber, Box No. 9, P.O. I have afioat, ready to be delivered irom on board Schooner "Gersh Ban-1 ker," une ttunorea xoup. 83 C. A. VAN ZANDT. ! JJAGLE OYSTER AND DINING SALOON.Ix the bear or Post Office, and No. 32. SrTLEn'8 Row. The Subscriber would respectfully inform the 1 military and civic t'entlemen of this Department, 1 that he keeps constantly at his Restaurant the j very best material the market affords. Northern j Oysters received by every st.uiuer, including Poultry cf all kjtds. If cols at all hours. !. S3 V. I.ONfi. | j CONDEMNED STEAMER FOR SALE. TTTILL be sold at Public Auction to the highest Vl bidder at 12 o'clock, noon, on Monday, th# 16th day of May, 18C4, the United States Steamer DARLINGTON, with the Boilers and Machineery as she now lays at this place. Sale to take place at the Steamer. Tcrins Cash. Delivery immediately, JNO. H. MOOKE, L'apt. end A. Q. M. Asst. Q. M. Office, Beaufort, S. C., Mar. 19, 1864. FOR SALE .?Five Cases Bologna Sausages, in foil 33 cts. jht lb.; without 30 cts. per lb. Cases extra. W. C. MaRshaix, 14 2d Avenue, New York. 77* Photographs, ac.-the suBscniBEns are now prepared to take Photographs, Cartes do Visile, Melainciypes, Views, Ac., Ac., at Beaufort, S. C., near the Arsenal; on Folly Island, 8. C., near headquarters ; at Jacksonville, Fla., in Masonic Hall. Will open in a few days at Hilton Head, over the office cf the Palmetto Herald, next south of the Theatre, in a new building soon to be completed. The rest of work guaranteed. NONE BUT FIRST CLASS ARTISTS EMPLOYED Stercoacoptic Views of Camps, Landscapes, Buildings, etc., taken on Folly and Morris Islands, Baufort, S. C., and Jacksonville, Fla., now lor sale by mar. 12, tf. SAM. A. COOLEY, k Co. DR. W. M. WALSH, Office No. 13, Sutler's Row. A full supply of Drugs, Chemicals and Patent Medicuics. Aug. 29, 1863.-tf a flTlT in OAl'VIVtl fix. V ? Mi, WAX l.liT, IWI PttiC UJ C. W. Dennis & Co., No. 4, butlers Row. r IBS LIFE, SCENES, ADVENTURES, SONGS, SERVICES, AND SPEECHES, of Private Miles O'Reilly, 47th N. Y. S. VoU. . "The Post of Honor is the Private's station." With comie illustrations by Mullen. Price $125, JUST RECEIVED AT THE UNION SQUARE STORE, next to the Post Office, the following military publications. We are constantly receiving new books as fs6t as they art issued. Orders for books promptly executed. PATTEN'S INFANTRY TACTICS: compiled agreeably to the latest Regulation from the War Department, irom standard military authority, liy Lieut. Col. Geo. Patten. PAPERS ON PRACTICAL ENGINEERING. Official report of the siege and reduction of Fort Pulaski, Georgia, February, March 11 v Usm*? l\ k MV* Tft.fWI, *VWf A'; UMIIII* U Cy U. a. Vois. THE C. S. A., and the BATTLE of BULL RUN. By J. G. Barnard. - ^ and the Practice of CourtsMartiaL By Capt. 8. V. lie net, Ordnance Department^. U. 8. Arxny.THE ARTILLERIST MANUAL compiled from various source#, and adapted te> Service of the United States. Illustrated by engravings. By Brig.-Gen. John Gibbson, U. S. Vols. MANUAL OF INTERNALRULES AND REGULATIONS FOR MLX-OF-WAli. By Com. U. S. Levy, U. 8. N. HISTORY OF WEST POINT, and its military importance dining tlic American Revolution, and the Origin and Progress of the United States Military Academy. By Captain Edward C. Boyntoa, A. M. We have also on hand Photographic Albums, Drawing paper, Bristol board. Crayons, variegated, llegui&tion Bails, White Gloves, Hosiery, Spelling Books, Arithmetics, Slaps of Geo.,4la. and S. C., Cribbago Boards, Playing Cards, Carmine Ink, Photographs In great variety. Linen Handkerchiefs, Tin Money Chests, Fancy Dressing Cases, Magnifying Glasses, Marine Glasecs, Charm Compasses, Razors, Razor Straps, 4c. 4t, Drinking Cups, Tooth brushes, Pocket Combs, Glass lukstands, Llunk Books, all kinds Sharing Soap, Mathematical Instruments, Book Knives, Ivory, __ Perfumery, Gold Pens, Stool da. Big Lick Smoking Tobacco, Solace Chewing v Meerschaum Pipes, Briar Wood Pipes, Cigar holders, Dominoa, Checkers, Elastics, Cork 8crews, Razors, Razor Streps, Tape measures, Scissors, Pocket Knives, ROUND NOVELS. Jrokeu Celutnns?Was He Successful?Lieht em Shadowed Paths ? Peculiar ? lues ? Wh 9, Hoc and Sword?My Farm at Edgewooa ?Tales from the Opera?The Black Plume?Border and Bastile? Queen Mab, ete., etc. J?9zru H. 9RAIW.