"how Grant Marched Against Mark Twain."

The New York Sun calis attentioii to the curious fact that Mark Twain's article, in the lecémber (Jcnliiry, eiililled, "Ttie Private History of a Campalgti that Kailed," íb, by au odd coincidenoe, 11 conteuiporaueouii supplement to chapter 18 iu the tlrst toIuiiio, jusi nriuled, of General Grant's niouioirs. ft apposre that the only time that General was really M-art-d was when he had to meet the littíe army in which nis future piihlitsher waa :i private. At Palmyra, Grant, then a colone!, was ordered to move against Col. Thomas Marris, who was wild to bc encamped at the little town of Klorldü, somt) twenty-tíve miles away. to liis inemoir8 Geu. Orant telln how nis heurt kept eettlng liilier and higher aH he ippioached the enemy, until liu feit it in his thruat, but whe:: he reached a point where he expocteil to sec them atul tound they had fled, hia heait resumed ils place. Mark Twain was one of the "encmy," und that he and his fellow-soldiers were qually friglitened appears iu liin frank confession in the December Century. The diflerenee between the two goldiera was tbt Mark Tvvain wan thrown into Kuch trepidatioD that he then and thi-rc abandoned foruver the pinfusion of ai in-, whereas General Granl ïn-nlc on that occasion the discovery that the eminy was as mueh afraid of liim na be had been of them. "This," says General Grant, "was a view of tlit questlon I had never taken before, but it was one I uever forot afterward. Krom that event to the close of the war, I never experienced tn'pidation upon confrontluff an encmy thoufrli I always feit more or less anxlety."