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
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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.