President Grant's Latest Present

The luck that attendn President Grant n he way of gifts has just received a new exempliiication of its vitality in the shape )f a present whioli is itow on its way to Washington, if indeed it has not alroady reached that city, Tkis last additiou to tlie President' testimoniáis is a large and magnifieent desk, oioven feet high and of four 8tories, arehitecturally cousidered. It is the handiwork of Mr. Frederiek E. Sclmltze, of Bozetuau, Mou., a village of souio HOÜ inhabitants situated about 100 miles irom Helena. It is built entirely of cedar and pine, 900 feet of the former and 200 feet of the latter having been used iu its construction. There is not a nail or screw used in it, end it was all made by hand by Mr. Schultze and nis aon Fritz, who have been engaged on it for two years. It consists of 4,109 sepa rte pieces, and weigbs the goodly weight of 2,300 pounds ; is of the most ingenious design in the matter of the ornamental woik upon it, and is inlaid and of the finest polish, The triumph achieved in this specimen of offico architecture is found in its building plan A rock at Wild Kivcr furnished the model to the bnekwoodsman wdo erected it. Thore íb a bookstand on each side of the first story and a place for a sent. The second story couiprises a secretary, which is coniposed of three revolving cylinders which, a spring being touehed, may be turned round, exposing a mirror, six drawers, pigeon-holes, iukstand, &c. In the fourth story is r library ready for books, while the fourth story which is merely a faney pieco of vork, is an arcli, which can be rerolved so as to show either bidé. The desk has been pronounced ono of the fin est pieces of workmunship in the world, and an accomplished gentleman named Beek has proceüded to Washington to caive it on its arnval