Grant's Retirement

The iollowing article, based on a telegraphic dispatch announcing the passage by the senate of the Grant retireinent bül, is from the pen of George C. Bates, forn:erly of Detroit, and subsequently United States district altorney for Utah, who was at one time an iutiinate friend of Geu. Grant, bas knowu him for many years, and is a warm admirer of bis military genius: The above act, passed by the senate, will meet with the hearty indorsement of every man, woman and child of these United otates, provided congress shall so ameiid it as to offer a premium to every respectable Journal of the United States if they will nerer again utler or publish bis name. Let him retire from public lite, public kuowledge and public mention. To those of us who kuew U. S. Grant as captain of infantry in 1848 49-50 and so on; those who saw him at bis downfall and disgrae in California in 1853; in his extreme poverty and degradation of St. Louis in 1855-56-57, and then scan his splendid uprising, his br.lliant deeds of arms from 1861 to 1865- to all his true and real tïiends his final retirement will be a most happy end to his checkered career. That his military successes entitled him to lbo heartfelt grati tude of our whole people, to the presideney, to a fuud of fortune to make bis old days happy, is most true. Richly die he earn all these, but he has been fully paid, generously rewarded, and had he not been Graut, on his return from Eu rope he would have gone quietly to Ga lena and settled down there like a digm fied old hero. But he has become a mere slave to money-gelting, money-begging omceseeking, aud impudent intermed dling with the administratinn at Washington, and hasdisgraced himself by seek ing the appointment as a cabinet minister to President Arthur of oae of the most corrupt, dishouest mining jobbers ever ii Colorado, simply because connected with him by marriage. Grant himself and al his sous want to live on the government use its means, its offices and honors for selfish purposes, and all his old and true friends are tired and si:k of him. Like the horse leach and barren womb, he cries, give, give, give. The people are tired of him; let him be retired and hii nime be stricken from our jouruals, unti h e got's henee, to be no more. Then Ie us give him a Chinese funeral, and leave him with his virtue, his faine and ui good dee Is, for the next generation to re memoer and reveré. We have had euough of him - more, too. A. J. Suwyer will defead young Bycrart. Geo. S. Knight at the opera house next Tuesday in "Baron Rudolph." Prof. M. L. D'Oge will addiess ihe Hahneinaun society neit Wednesday evening. Thos. J. Keech went to Detroit yesterday on business connected with the teltphone exchauge. Miss Matilda Mangold of Grand Rapids, is in the city visiting friends. iáhe is the guest of Mrs. Henry Krause. E. B. Hall & Bros, huye been given permisión to put in a pair of scales in front of their office oo Huron street. Ex-Senator Hodge of Concord.Culhoun couuty, was in the city yesterday aud had his eyes operated on by Prof. Wilson. The Toledo railroad company should be made to respect the laws aud live up to what is required under the ordiminces of the city. Aa orcbestra wil! lead tbe singing at the niission Suuday school, Sunday afternoun at 3 o'clock in McMahou'B hall. Come oue and ail. A. W. Hamiltouhas purehased of the Watson estáte the stock of the Chase publishing company; also Dr. Cuaae's interest in tüe Chase receipt book. The council last eveuiug voted to submit to the tax-payers at the election in April, the question of raising $20,000 for a new city hall and engine house. Everything around the university ie in full blast. Work on the new library will soon couimence in earnest, and the building pushed rapidly to completion. Prof. W. W. Beaman has been appoiut ed a metnber of the board of couuty examiners of schools, to flll the vancancy occassioned by the death of Zelotes Truesdel. O. O. Sorg has purchased H. J. Brow & Co's stock of paints and oils, and in tends to do a big business this summer. Mr. Sorg also has a new advcrtisement ia to-day's paper. The Detroit Evening News says tlie malpractice case of Amelia K. Hayes agaicst Prof. Douald Maclean has been stricken from the docket of the United States circuit court. We never thought the case would come to trial. Excursión to California. - Arrangements have beeu perfected for a great and popular excursión to California. The parly will be composed of ministers, educators, scientists, business men, health and pleasure seekers. They will leave Chicago May the 8th, by a special train of Pullman paluce cars, via the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy íailrjad tu Kansas City; from there the route will be via the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe aad Southern Pacific railways to San Francisco, returning via the great Central and Union Pacific roads to Omaha, thence to Chicago via the great trunk line, thtj Chicago & Northwestern railroad. The party will visit, ainong other poiuts of interest, the mines of New Mexico and Amona, the city of Santa Fe, the Los Vegas hot sprints, the orauge groves of Los Angeles, San Diego, the ghastly, gurgling geysers, the stately "sequoia" or big trees, Yosemite Vaüey, tían Francisco and Salt Lake City. At San Francisco the party will disband and return home at pleasure within the limit of the ticket, ninety days. 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A bitter Ufe is better than a blighted one, and it's unless to break off aa engdgement if a heait breaks with it. Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and setting of the sun.