General Grant As He Is

Knowing that the people are anxious to see our most illustrious Lieutenant General - the most marked man in the world at this present juncture - as he is, and as he acts in every-day life - the following compilation is made and is believed to be autheutic : GEN. GRANt's MILITARY FAMILY. The officers, in r.umber ten, who compose the staff of the Lieutenant General, eonstitute his military family. When his headquarters were at Culpepper, these niessed with the General - the expenses of the mess being equally divided among them all. The hero's table was furnisheJ with no exquisito achievements of art in Sevres or Dresden china or glass, but his eups and trenohers were of the humblest aud most solid earthen ware, better to stand the mi-haps of a march or the infringement of an occasional bullet than the fragüe plots whence Miss McFlimsey convc3-s into her delicate anatomy the vianda which coustitute her daily pabulum. As for the fare itself, it was of the plainest. HIS BILL OF FARE. A chop, with a cup of ccffee, for breakfast; a bic of roast beef, with potatoes and " hard tack," confrunting a dish of pork and " greens," served for the 5 o'clock dinner, concluded without pastry or dessert. A cup of tea and a bit of bread and butter, at 8i o'cloek, inished up the day. GEN. GKANT IN CAMP. Gen. Grant, 'm camp, wooed " tired nature's sweet restorer " in a plain campcot, as often without as with a mattress. When he rose in the morning his toilet was briefly made with the assistanee of a tin wash-basin, a plain crash towel, a diminutive looking-glass, and a horn comb. His clothes, it is said, were worn threadbare, and were kept in moderate order by one servant. His aversión to display is well known, and it has led to some unfortunate mishaps on the part of daiutly drcssed, new-fledged Brigadiers, one or two of whoin, in a spirit of wholesome mischief, the General has caused to dismount from their well-appointcd carriages, and plod by bis side through ruts, tnud-holes, and briars, over log and brush heaps, until they had sufficieutly observed the point of the joke. HE NEVEK SWEARS. General Grant never swears. He has never been heard, by any one in camp, to ive utterance to a profane word. He rarely laughs ; and, unliko another distinguished personages, takes no interest in Joe Millensms. He has a certain Bort of grim humor, which not untrequently breaks forth in the practical manner related above. AND SELDOM DRINKS. While we are not informed that the general is a teetotaler, be is a very températe man ; he permits wine or distilled liquors at his mess table, but rarely, f ever, indulges himself in " the ardent." HIS BAGOAGE WIIEN ON A TRAMP. When Gen. Grant made the celebrated cnmpaign which resulted in the fall of Vicksburg, his baggage consisted of a very moderate supply of underclothing, a brair wood pipe, a teleseope, a comb, a toothbrush and clothesbrush. OEN. GRANT AND OEN. MEADE. During the campaign, thus far, the beadquarters of tho Licut. Geueral and of Gen. Meade have been invariably estabiished in close proxinnty to eac.h other, for obvious good reasons. The respective staffs, and the Generáis thernselves, in action, are always to be found in eompany. The imuiediate command of the army devolves upon Gen. Meade; the general supervisión, of course, rests with the (Jommandor-in-Chief. Constantly in consultation, each is f..miliar with the opiniocs of tho other, and of course alike and simultnneously informed as to every evolution of corps, división, or regiment, every niovement of the enemy, every reverse or success, temporaiy or final, lt would be diflicult to say wbo really commands the irmy. - While Gen. Grant iudicates the strategie couibinaüoDS und rnovements, he loavee khcir egecgtioc te Gcd. Meade. UK VENTURES AN 0P1N10H. An incident is related of the Lieutenant General which evinces clearly tlio marvelous equanimity of the man. It was after uightfall of that bloody Friday. Hill's corps had made their furious and temporarily successful charge upon the left wiug cotnnianded by the gallant Hancock. The front of the iron Seeoud Corps had been broken, stfagglers were rushing to the rear. Au aid galloped up to the spot where the Lieutenant General and General Meade were seated, their backs agaiust the same tree, and infonned them that theeneuiy had brokou through our line, and tbat the corps was completely cut up and would be destroyed, unless supports were iramediately hurried to tho front. The two Generáis consulted together a few moments in a lowtone; au instant of silence ensued, and then the General said, deliberately and emphatically, " I don't believe it." This opinión, which is de.stined to be come historica], was proved correct by the events which followed. Hancock reoovered froni the first shock, gathered up his noble corps, held his own, and in less than half an hour had beaten back, with awful slaughter, the furious enemy. HIS IMPERTURABLE CO0LNES8. On Sunday morniDg, wbile the air was Slled with howling missiles from the rebel and Federal artillery, which actually seemed to be posscssed with an nsane frenzy, and desirous of retrieving the time lost in its enforeed restraint heretofore, a rebel shell dropped within a few feet of the spot where General Grantand General Meade were standing, and buried itself in the earth. The lormer evinced not the slightest agitation ; Dot even an extra whiff issued from his inevitable cigsr. He nskcd for a pocket oompass, which was furnished him, and cooly walking forward, he deliberately examined the course ol the shell, thcreby discovering the location of the battery whence ifc came ; and in five minutes the Federal shot and shell were dropping thickly among the rebel artillerytnen, who had so nearly (ieprived the great army of its great commander. OXÍ-Y " FBELS " OF THE ENEMY. On Thursday evening, while a large number of our wounded men, gathered at a particul-.ir point, were lying on the ground, awaiting transportntiou, sotne ono who cnrne among them related a con versation of General GraDt with some of the veterans of the Army of the Potomac, which diverted them momentarily from their pain. The remark wns made to the General, that tho fighting had been very severe, when he replied, coolly, ihat " he had only been feeling of tho enemv up to that time." The poor lows who were groaning loudest forgot tlieir anguisb ar;d laughed at the originality of the idea ; and the reply aeerued to inspire them with oven greater confidence than bcfore in General Grant. IIOWUEUECEIVES"0UHS0üTIIEKNIFI!IENDS." At the gallant charge of Haneock's corps on Thursday, whieh rcsulted in tho capture of an entile rebel división with iU commander, the latter (Maj. General Johnson) was broughtto General Grant's headquarters. General Meade, who had been an old aequaintance of the eaptured Confedérate General, shook hands with him, and then introduced him to General Grant. " Formcrly of the Sixth Infantry ! " inquired the Lieutenant General. "Yes," ri'plied General Johnson. "You, General Grant, I believe, were of tho Fourth, and we were both in the same brigade." After some inquiries of a personal characf.er, for of course military etiquette prevented reference to any other, the Lieutenant Geueral ordered that Johnson should be mounted in a manner befitting his rank, furnished with an appropriato escort, and sent northward. HIS STAFF NOT EXEMPT FIIOM BULLETS. Gen. Grant's aids has been very frequently required, during the late battles, to exposé themselves to the fire of the cnemy at close range. Asa consequcnce, sevoral of tliem have been killed or wounded. Geu. Getty, cooimanding '2d División, is wounded, also Lieut. Fox, of his staff. This rather cxplodes the gencrally received idea that the staff of the commander-in-chief are in no dangcr. - At least, however true the cssertion may be regarding Borne other eommauders, it is evident that no one need desire a p.'sition ou General Grant's staff as a íueaus of personal safety. HIS LOVK 1'OH TUE WEED. Shortly after the conqueror of Vicksburg received the appointinent of Lieutcnant General, he called at the war office, in Washington, to seeGen. Halleck. At that time, an order was in force which forbade smoking in tho building, and thö sentries were instructed to permit no violation of it. General Grant approached the door eonfideutly, cigar in mouth, expecting, doubtless, to pass without, questiou ; but the veteran soldier on guard knew his duty better. Bringing his pieeo down to a charge, he barred the general out, and intormed hini, respectfully, that he couldu't go in and keep his cigar ! The lieutenant general is to good a disciplinarían to dispute such a poiut ; so he yielded, threw tho obuoxious weed away, and went in. After his departare, an order carne down from Gen. Halleek resciuding the order about smoking, so far as it affected army offieers. UB DON'! KNOW WHAT IT 18 TO BE BEATEN. Aft er the battle of Pittsburg Landing and General Grant's complete vietory ai that point, Gen. Buell, u thorough noldier began eritisizing in a friendly wy the impolicy of iiis having fought a battlo wiih the Tenueissee river behind his meu - "Where, if beaten, could you have rctreated, Geueral? " asked Buell. "1 didu't meau to be beateu," was Grant's sententious reply. " But suppose you had been defeatod despite all your exertions? ' " Wïll, tliero were all the transpnrts to carry tho remains of the coinmand across tho river." " But, General," urged Buell, " your wbole transporta could not contaiu even ten thousand men, and t would be impossiblo for thera to mako moro than one trip in the face of the enemy." " Well, if I had been beaten," said General Grant, pausing to light another cigar as he spoke, "transportation for ten thousand men would have been abundant for all tbat would be left of us." This nneedote is eminently charaetcristie, the data for the proper appreciation of it beiug that Graut had about 50,000 men over the river. GENERAL OUANï's EQUANIMITI'. Gen. {Jrant maiutains perfect coolness when the battle rages hottest. He never suffers hinrself to get exeited. In bis mouth is nlways to be seen the inevitable cigar, when it is not the briur-wood pipe; and he wlilttïes like any Yankee, of wliich he is by no means an ill-specimen. When the ordorlies and aids rido up and deliver their various tnessages as to how the battle is going in this quarter or that, he sits and looks tip calmly into their faces, his own countenance a pioture of hnperturbability. When tbose around hitn are most exeited, ho betrays the least expression of all ; in fact his face is a puzzle to everybody. But we may be assured the mind is working within. He must be aware both of the character and geuius of the man against whom he is operating, and of the great results which hang on the issue of his present endeavor. Few men living could carry the immense responsibility which appears to set so lightly on his shoulders. We oulj pray they may be broad enough and strong euough to bear safely the whole burden. KNOWS nOW TO MAKE PR0PO8AI-S. Like most men Gen. Grant has made his proposals, matrimonialty and otherwise. We do not know the nature of the former with the Lieutenant General, but we are left to imagine they weie froer from sentiment than with most youog meu. We judge so from the character of his military proposals. At the opening of Gen. Grant's military career at Port Donelson, he sent a proposition to Gen. Buckner, who requested a eessation of' hostilit es after two day's fight ing, in these words : " I propose to move immediately upou your works." We have had but few other propositions from him till now, when he mak es another, after six days' fighting : " I propose," says he, " to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." Both of these proposals are very cool, but terribly dotermincd. A SEXTENTIOÜS OUDER " PILE IN THE MEN. The Second Vermont Brigade. Gen. Wright's corps, on Tuetday captured n line of the enemy's rifle pits. General Wright, at 9 o'clock, went to licadquartors and reported their gall ■intry, asking lor instructions whethor they should liold it. ' Pile in the men and hold ït at all hazards," was Grant's reply.