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ATE.A.LIE.
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voice, the tears rolling down her white face.
"1 would wish to be dead, and with mamma,
if it was lot for the children, but I love
them, and they love me." •
"Love you I Just listen to her I The
I saw her first carrying it great fat baby, little vampires that nick her lifeblood.
apparently heavier than herself -a -a thhis The tyrants that get her mere beatiage than
small faxed girl, looking about ten years. old, I San GOUR1) 1 And, madame, you hear her
but, as I afterwards found out, nearly thir- say she lovas them?"
" yes, , they do love me," the eighed.
then. 'I alien always think Nathalie win'
stunted by a perpetual baby burden, for her 1 o Monsieur Pierre, they are all 1 haveialn
aunt; with who the lived, had a fretment the world. Tante Poiron is not alwaYai
edditiou to her family, and Nathalie had arm. She has seal days, you know, and is
nursed babiee since she was seven yea's.eld' kindabut then, you see, she has so many
About that time her mother died, and the' chilerene site has .no love tat spare ear me."
little orphan was thrown upun the tender " That's certain. end sure, Pierre mut-
mercies of her aunt. toted in hie heavy beard, but we hod reaohed
Madame Poiron was stout, red-faced, loud f the/farm-house.; and he ,lifted Nathalie oue
voieed, and with one ruling passion that all tmaaat
"Farewell, madame, and thank you, she
said, as he bore her into the house.
I thought often of Nathalie during the
and set her household their tasks, but as next few weeka. I heard her ankle was
that was impossible, she contented herself sprained, but that she was doing well. I
with beginning at dawn, and grinding and did not venture to call, for it was evident
driving SE no slave-driver in the ante -bel- that Madame Poiron had taken an invetiree
him days ever ventured to do. dislike to me. But I was glad to see the
Her husband was 5 farmer arid miller little girl walking out one morning with the
near the little town of Mspleton ; her two baby in her Arms. I hurried forward and
eldest sons worked in the fteith With the intercepted them. Nathalie was thinner
other laborers, and woe to any of them who than ever, but her eyes—lovely eyes they
did not obey the imperious dame. 811° did were—brightened at sight of me.
not' spare herself, for 'constant eraployment "Are you quite well, Nathalie ?" I asked.
was her religion ; but she had a frame lik e ti my foot bade me a little, madame, but
iron, and the strength of a strong mar. I can walk, It is the firet time I could
As for Netball°, had it not been for the carry Bebe—sweet Bebe?" kissing enthus-
babies she was required to keep. out of the liassioally the pasty faced infant. ' We are
way, she would have been driven to the going to have a fete in the woods, Bebe and
grave • by tasks impossible for her puny X " showing me 'Oldie package she held in
frame to perform. •one hand. "There is a slice of pie and a
As it was, he ate her hurried raeals with piece of cake and 0 madame, will you not
the everlasting baby on her lap, whom she eosin to ourfete ?"
was expected to feed at intervals, and at. I said I would, but I must run home fiat
tend to the wants of the twins, about two for something. That something was an
years old, who sat beside her. She was addition to the tea-party. in the shape of
•then driven out, with the three childern, some fruit I had just reoetved. It wits good
to be kept out t f the way until dinner -time. to the the delight in Nathalieat eyes, when
I treat the little one well 1" Machme I laid my contribution before her.
Poiron would say to her gossips. "She is "0 Bebe 1 Bebe ?" she screamed, dap.
my poor sister's child, and I have pity for ping her hands, "bananas, Bebe 1 Oranges!
her. I work myself, I work my children; and lovely white grapes 1 Oh, they are too
but for Nathalie, all she has to do all day beautiful to eat 1"
long is to play in the womb with the little When the repast was over, Nathalie
ones. It is play, play all the time for her, wrapped what remained in her apron for
and eat and drink of the beat." Bebe and the twins.
Madame Poiron believed faithfully what "You look quite happy, Nathalie," I
she said. said.
• It was during one of thine "play" times a Happy ? ah yet', madame, there is nahne
that I first made the acquaintance of Natha- happier than I am to -day. Only think, I
lie. I had been walking through the pretty can walk again and nurse Bebe. I love all
little woodland which surrounded the town the children, but Bebe is a real angel of
of Mapleton, where I was spending the h„,,aa el
summer with a friend. Suddenly I came I eat there wondering over that starved•
upon two stout, stolid -looking children, young life whose only modicum of sunlight
looking more like Dutch dolls than anything was putty-faoed Bebe. What was happiness
else. Their laps were full of flowers, an after all! A poor all -treated waif, whose
in front of them was lying the baby, crow- daily, bread wee' ffavoied ' by harsh words,
ing and kicking up ite heels, sat there under God's blessed sunlight and
Natlialie was going through a kind of °allied herself happy. I gave up the prob-
acrobatic pertormance for the amusement of ems. • • , .
her charges, while the twins gravely stated Several weeks passed, and although I was
at her with their big expressionless blue often on the watch, I eaw nothing of Nath.
eyes. I have seldom seen any one so active alio. The house where my friend and I
and daring as Netball° was, as she sprang boarded cominandeda full viewof the Poiron
from one grape•vine to another, and danced farm ; for some days none of the men had
kind of pas seui on them. 'I been working in the fielde, and the loud
I was hidden behind a clump of bushes, voice of Madame Poiron was silent.
where the children did not see me iebut I "What is the matter over at Poiron's I"
noticed the little girl's face was pale, and I asked our landlady, Mrs. Blake.
big drops stood on her forehead from Mrs. Blake turned very red and looked
fatigue. Whenever she stopped th rest, the confused.
Dutch dolls set up a howl. " Well, the truth is, I didn't like to tell
"0h, hush, Maned°, hush, Marie, or you, ladies, for I thought you might get
Tante Poiron will ccme after us I Then scared, and there 'ain't a bit of danger, tor
she will not let us come here any more. 1 there's no communication between the farm
am going to play again for you. leew looks and any house in town. They've got small -
look, and gee me fly 1" pox there bad. Nearly all the • family are
She made it spring to a high vine, which down with it. Old Poiron caught it from
hung far above theme° on which she was a tramp. Two of the children will die tin
sitting. She imbued it, and fell to the night, and they say the old madame can't
ground. In a moment I was beside her, nae. There te no oneato attend them but
and lifting her up. • one of the boys and little Nathalie."
"Are you hurt ?" I asked, /4 Sim liana sick,•tben ?" I said relieved.
"I don't• know," she said, rubbing her "Nathan° ? no. Old Dargan who has
head. "" My head hurts, but at has hurt beenthere—he's had small.pox himself—told
me all day. 0 Bebe, don't oryl" The baby ma,
aBlake,. the child goes from one to the
wise yelling at the top of its voice, and the other with Bebe in her arms. Bebe has
chorus was swelled by the Dutch dolls, who small -pox, too, and she never puts it down."
were frightened by my sudden appearance. I cannot ex -press all I felt when the next
" Dottie cry, my darling! Thalie is coming da-
y I saw the funerals leave the cottage—
boone of the sons and one of the smaller chit -
yon."
She rose to her feet, and sank down again dren, Mrs. Blake did not know which. Then
with a sharp cry. a few days afterward the hearse stopped
"Ah,. nay foot is broken! I cannot walk I again, and two small white coffins were
What will Tante Poiron say! What shall brought out. They held the poor . little
do? Oh, what shall I do ?'' Dutch dolls.
'Yon will do nothing but lie here till I After that, I heard of the gradual recovery
come back," I said. "It is a short walk to of the other patients and that Nathalie did
your aunt's, and I will go and tell her, so not take the disease. Nearly a month daps
that she can send for you. Perhaps these ed, and I was preptring to leave Mapleton
children will let me take them home," 33011,' when, in one of my walk s, I came' sucldezily
as I approached the twins, they threw them- upon Nathan°, leading her aunt by the hand.
selves flat on their backs, and, yelled as if 1 ce Oh, I am so glad- to see you madame r
had been the Giant Blunderbore, ready to she cried. "We are taking a little walk,
eat them up. Tante Poiron and I. She is getting quite
",They don't like strangers 1" Nathalie saameagah,a,
gasped. "0 madame, I must try to walk !" "I am glad to see you out," I said. "1
But as she raised herself, she sank back al- heard how ill you were."
most fainting with agony. I walked rapid-, tt Is it the kind oity lady, 'Thane ?" she
ly to the house, and, as I neared it, saw asked. "1 am blind, madame. I live,
Madame Pekoe in the front yard, washing yes; but never to see again 1 Helpless,
some clothes. I knew her well by sight, useless, ah 1" With a gran she threw up
and as .1 called her name, she raised her her gaunt arms and her face torn and
monstrous, dripping arms from the suds, ploughed by the .dread disease, full of des -
and turned to me. Bak.
"What does madam want?"she asked, '
"Oh hush, Tante 1" Nathalie cried.
curtly. "Am I not here to help you, and do all
"Your little niece has hurt herself.yonder on want ?"
in the wood. She bas either sprained or "Yes, it is so," the woman uttered,
broken her ankle. She cannot walk." quietly. "The one to whom I was cruel
"Oh, the miserable creature 1" cried the and unkind, God has given me my sole
woman. "Forever and forever doing some- stay. I tell her to go and be. happy. She
thing wrong 1 And nothing to do but amuse shall have money to live where she chooses,
herself all day 1 Has she hurt my children ?" but elle says, 'No 1 No I"' •
turning upon me fiercely. " Letwe you and Bebe 1" Nathaliel-cried 1
"No, but she is badly hurt' "Never 1 With you is my home aa long as
"Saints be praised it is not my angele ? you want me."
Nathan() is a stubborn, ungrateful girl. The woman, still weak and nervous, burst
And now to lay herself up, and leave me all into tears, and her little nieae led her away.
to do 1 Pity she hadn't broken her neck at my problem was solved. If Nathalie was
once 1" happy in loving and serving a little child,
" You aught,to be ashamed of yourself, what will be her degree of felicity to find
Madam Patron 1" I cried, indignantly. "If herself necessary to a whole family—her
you do not intend sending help to the poor duties manifold, but sweetened by the love
abild, I will do SO." and trust for which her faithful little heart
"And where does madame think I can get hungered. I;
help? Call the men out of the field at this
hour, and lose so much time? No; if any one Not Quite Sure of Himself.
goes, I must!"
Magistrate (to witness)—You do solemnly
ti... She stocie off, and I followed her, for some- , , , „
swear, Mime Rastus, that the evidence you
how the idea of a dove in a 'vultures claws
pursued me when I thought of poor, trembl.
ing little Nathalie borne in the arms of the
unfeeling giantess. When I reached them,
else had the girl by the arm, and had lifted
her to her feet.
"None of your airs 1" she cried. "11 yon
try to walk, you can. You are pretending.
Stand up 1"
I caught the child as she fell back, and at
that moment I taw a man whom I knew well
coining down the road in his cart.
"Ab, here is Pierre Lagrange 1" I cr ied,
joyfully,. "1 know he will take the child
home."
Pierre VMS a good, humane fellow, more
than willing to do a kind act, and lifteo
Nathalie into his cart at once. Madame
Poiron, growling like .h bear, had taken h• T
self off With the baby in her arMe, and thi
Dutch dolls toddling after.
"But then this le a bad besmears for pal •
Nathalie," Pierre said, as he jogged aim g
"That old fire -cat la going to give you hard
them" Mum." "And did you say that,I was out ?
E• I never have easy times, Monaletir "Vis ; / lied yez were out to iverybocty but
Pierre," she atisteered, With het tiatient Misther Sampson."
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around her should earn their salt by con-
stant work.
She would have liked to ria• at midnight,
are about to give shall be the truth, the
, na , but *0 en
Witness—Y e'es yo' Ho h • dd t I scarcely a paltry three hundred on be,
found to do Ian reverence.
whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
yo' awe' me on a mailer Bible; De size ob It is an interesting question whether the
(let book, sah, makes de ole man nervous law ought not to proceed seabed brutal
'deed it do. ' wife tcirmentors, merely because the wife re-
fuses to make complaint. A case in point
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MISOEfalfiANEQUS,
There is one thing about which all the
moat reputable literary orgeniams the
United States appear to be of substantially
one mind, and that is their hostility to
" Tnistsa° These. modern trade phenomena
are regarded on all hands with suspicion nnd
in many quarters with strong aventionl
They have been driven to make plausible
efforts at self-defence end justification, but
they cannot root out the growing convictioa
that they are evil thiagsaanclapt te beconSis
intolerable among free people.
• The Duke of Marlboiough, to make assu
Slime sure, has got himself safely • married
,again according te the Eognah formula, On
either side ot the Atlautic, therefore, is there
any rectson why the new Duchess ehould
ever feel ashamed of her relations to the
British aristocracy, so far as legal grounds
are concerned? And of course, every one
will hope that she will continue peesonally
so attractive that on no other grounds will
she ever rue the day the& placed her among
the peeresses of England.
So Brother Jonathan means to show his
molars on this Fishery business, does he, by
sending some of his war ships to protect the
" right's" of his fishing boats in our waters.
Well, as long as he doesn't grind these teeth
too ferociously we don't need to mind. No
tux of gettieg rattled over it. That is about
all his warvessela are good for, anyway, and
we must not complain if he finds some such
police work for them to do. Hurry up year
minotaurs, Brother, and for their protection
is might be well to tend along a dynamite
gun or two if you have them handy.
The political Ahabs in the American Con-
gress seem determi aed by force or fraud to
get possession of . the Canadian Naboth's
vineyard. They begin to talk retaliation
very freely even to an extent which may
provoke war. The average Yankee politi-
cian has ever been a bully, with strong re-
liauce on stalwarb cheek and bluff. Their
claims on our fishing .grounds are quite un-
reasonable and they virtually. threaten war
if we venture to defend our rights. Bub we
are of British blood, and come of a race not
used to being frightened into surrender.
The terrible alma:lent that happened at a
comparatively recent date, on the Boston
and larovidence R. R., is 'said to have coat
the road already about a million dollars, on
account of "damages" alone, to say nothing
of the losses in the destruction of their own
property. A million dollars would have
built a good few sound iron bridges. That
is something that will bear reflecting on by
managers of other roads which cling to their
old rotten wooden structures, thet have
stood the wear and tear of a quarter of a
century perchance, or even more. Penny
wise is eometinies pound foolish, as the Bos-
ton and Providence has found out.
The city of Washington has recently taken
a step whuili might very properly be imitated
by every city on the continent, and we trust
that Toronto will not be the last to do so.
This step was the appointment of three
women to serve as matrons in the police
stations of that city. The laudableness of
such a measure needs no words to make it
plain. This evidence of advanced humanity
has been clue in large measure to the efforts
of the women in the District of Columbia.
Here is room for eome humble self.denying
work on the part of Toronto ladies which we
hope will be taken pc.ssassion of to good pur-
pose. Police matrons ought to be regarded
as essentially necessary adjunota of the ma-
chinery of the law in every well regulated
city. '
It is the genial but plain spoken Auto-
crat 'of the Breakfast Table who says that
"pride in the sense of contemning Others
less gifted than herself deserves the two
lowest circles of a vulgar woman's Inferno,
where the punishments are amall-pox and
bankruptcy. She who nips off the end of
brittle courtesy, as one breaks the tip of an
icicle, to bestow upon those whom she ought
cordially and kindly to recognize, proclaims
the fact that she comes not merely of low
blood, but of bad blood." Women of tlais
kind are neither so few *nor so far between
as oould be wished. Their affectations of
gentility only serve to e how their essential
vulgarity in a stronger light. And in no
way does their "low" blood reveal itself
more clearly than in their bearing towards
those whom they are pleased to consider
their social inferiors.
Cable cars get out of order, sometimes, as
all terrestrial things are apt' to no. This
happened in Chicago the other day. A car
got stuck" and the implied contract on
the part of the comp.any to carry the passen-
gers as far on their journey as its line could
do, was not carried out. Chicago people,
however, are not easily baulked. That
partieular car load at animate was not, for
they went in w body to the Company's
office and severely demanded back their
nicklee for infringement of csontract. The
officials however, were from Philadelphia
and could not be bluffed. The doors were
locked, and the angry petitioners had event-
ually to walk home or pay another tackle.
Such occurrences are unpleasant at any time
and on a broiling summer day test one's
philosophy pretty severely, but as a rule
it is best to submit to the inevitable, with
as good a grace as possible.
Boulangiem as a thing to conjure with
has evidently lost its power in France. M.
Flognet's sword -thrust proved too much for
the bit of by-play Which has been for months
past verging on the sericecomic. M. Bon.
langer's ignominious defeat in the Depart-
ments of Dordogne and Ardeohe, where he
had thrown himeelf into the contests in a
spirit of bravado, makes, in alt probability,
the end of the noisy but inglorious oareer
from which'so much was expected by the ex.
citable crowd which is ever ready to follow
at the heels of a demagogue. And now to
cap the climax of his humiliation the con
velem/at General's reappearance on the
public street, though carefully heralded and
studiedly demonstrated, fails to create more
than the slightest ripple in the streets of
excitable Pans. Here the curtain drope,
probably forever unless some unforeseen
incident should bring him another Oppor-
tunity. But yesterday and half Paris'
would have rushed to do his bidding, now
File It Away for Future Use. occurred at a town in an Ilastern Stat the
other day. A brute of a fallow', in a drunken
"Paps,"said a bertutiful girl, "young fit assaulted his unfortunate wife and gouged
Mr. Thia • • h h '
M . tle has written me a note in w ic her eye out. Her other eye he had gouged
he asks me to be his wife." '
out under similar eircurnstances about a
"Written you a note? Why in thunder year before. No steps were taken against
didn't he dome himself ?". him on that oceasiors, however, 13ecattee the
"Ib would have been pleasantsr that way, woman refused to lodge a complaint. Now,
no doubt, pepa, but stpposo he feels a little what ought to be done in the mole of a man
timid, and. besides, papa, think how much like that? ChM it be seriously thought that
wore binding a not;e ia." . .
the law gives a Men 'Or prescriptive right
to oommit atrocities likethat on a woman
"Remember, Bridget," said Miss' Clara merely because the is his wife? Surely he
'that I am out to everybody but Mr SauTP- le an offender against the majeety of the
4oh." A little later Bridget answered a ring law itielf which should not depend for the
at the door. "Who was it, Bridget ?" baked avengemeet of its sacred character, so rath-
Miss Clara, " Young Miather Beaunentinp, lessiy insulted, tnerely on the well of the
Woman in the eaee. By a cited o that
kind, not the direot sufferer onlY is injured,
but the whole ceminunity, and the lavo
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could descend with all its tenorts on the
head of a being so lost to all sense of man-
hood es husband must be who would treat
his wile so inhumanly. The New York Suns
commenting on the case °lei= that such a
man would got no more than his deserta by
being 'sentenced to imprisonment for life,
We 'incline to agree with the Sun in this.
The Montreal eorreepondence of a daily
contemporary made mention a few days ago
of the attempted suicide of a girl of fourteen
for the extraordinary reason that her father
would hot let her keep the company of some
young fellow whose acquaintance, he had
made. Because of this life had lost ita light,
and the darkness of death seemed the only
resource that was left. These suicides and
attempted 'suicides of children, which appear
to be so lementably common now.e..days,
are among the most interesting in melan
choly and painful way, of all the sad and
painful studies of moral pathology. How '
young creature, just entering on life, catch-
ing glimpses through the half revealing cur-
tain, of long vistas of hope-empurpled years,
and full of every impulse to cling passion-
ately to existence, how such a one can
nevertheless deliberately choose the dark -
MSS and joylessness of death, is a mystery
which looks in vain for an explanation
which oan satisfy the mind. No other
young animal ever does such a thing. To
be sure these infantile suicides are excep-
tions. So are adult suicides. That does
not lessen the mystery, however, of those
OEMS which do happen. Most of us are -
only too glad to live as long as ever we oan,
and if we are not too religious, we are too
cowardly to take such liberties with the
future as may be involved in a too violent
recoil from the evils of the present.
Though first expectations may in some
oases have been disappointed there is never-
theless, in the present state uf the crop pro-
spects as a whole, throughout Ontario,
abundant reason for the liveliest gratitude
to the Giver of all good. There is every
likelihood that there will be abundance for
man and b iast, and that when we celebrate
our anneal day of Thanksgiving we shall
be able with full hearts to ee.y that in 1888 also
the Lord has been very good to us. Prosperi-
ty ia thegeneral, however, ahould not be allow-
ed to blunt our sensibilities to failure in the
particular. Unfortunately for many farm-
ers in different parts of the country. who
will find it hard, it may be, to join m the
general thanksgiving. Things have nob
gone well with them during the season,
"The showers of heaven have been withheld
from their fields or have come when they
would tend to do harm rather than good.
Consequently there will be greeter straining.
than perhaps ever before to make ends meet
ID an honest way. The mortgage will be a
heavier burden. There will be additional de-
privations, more rigid economy, life will per-
haps lose a little more of that light of which
it has all too little at the best of times. There
will be some cases at least of this kind, for
ID not a tew districts the harvests has been
poorsand sorely disappointed and discouraged
hearts have been the result. Towards all
such it is everyone's Christian duty to extend
cordial and, where possible, active sym-
pathy,. In the North-West matters look
especially rosy a.nd hearts are beating loudly
there with hopeful anticipation. Tee hearts
of us who live m Ontario can rejoice with
them, not less in friendly 'sympathy than
from coneideratione of self interest, for we
know that one part of the country cannot be
exceptionally prosperous without every other
part of it sharing in that prosperity.
Real humour is a delightful thing and to
be real it must be natural. Forced humour
is not really humour but merely a coarse
imitation. Pure and healthy humourous
writing is a good thing to read, both for
body and soul, if kept in due moderation.
Most people like a good laugh now and then.
It oils the wheels of life. Humour being. so
popular, and real, born funanakers bung
well Me as dome,. one might almost say, as
born poets, there is a great temptation for
ambitious soribes with some talent at writ-
ing to try their hands at humourous compo-
sition. At times they eucceed fairly well;
generally, however, their attempts are fail.
urea. This can easily be forgiven if their
straining after effect has not led them into
sheer vulgarise:la which is too often the case.
There is a coarse sort of pleasantry too
current in the press jast now which
is very offensive to cultured, refined
men and women. It injures their self-re-
spect to read it. Of course it is is easy to
say that they should leave it alone then.
Yes, but if it comes in their daily paper,
which aims at being thought a model of
decorum. There was a ease of this quite
recently. There is no need to particularize
very closely. The writer was describing
a country ball at a time when Canada was
twenty or thirty years .younger than it is
now. The sketch was nitereisting enough,
but a coarsely realistic deseription of the
" hugging -matches" that gem to have been
oommon enough features of mush gatherings,
valgarized the whole thing to refined minds.
The true humorist wouldthave mingled the
warp of pleasing ideality with the woof o
his realism, and would not have descended
to such coarse literalism in detail.
One by one the great actors in the bloody
real-life drains of twenty five years ago,
are paste ig away to meet the o'd comrades
and the former fees wheats souls fled shin/.
daring out of life amid the demoniac Imams
of the battle fields of the South. General
Sheridan, the '0 Little Phil!' of affectionate
familiarity, is the most recent removal.
Thia lsrilliant cavalry commander was one
of the many Ohio men to whom the Ameri-
can War efforded the requisite test cif sthe
metal that wag ie them. and opporrunities
to rise t o high positions. He was born ia Per ry
County in 1831, end graduated from West
Point AJacletra in 1853. The greater part
of his inilitarflife from that tinie nntal the
outbreak of the war, wag spent on the western .
plaine, in p'olien duty against the Indians.
At the commencement of the war, he WaS
appointed 1,arter.Dtfaster of the Western
I ivision, and in May, 1862, he became Colon-
el ot the aetsonct Mitaugan Clavalry. So well
did he imp ove the opportunities afforded
him, that 'a rhos in rank was . In
July, 1862, 'or a Cavalry action at ORBS-
vdle he wa imade a Brigadier.Gene ,a1 of
Volunteers, and by December of the
frame year he had attained the dignity -
of
MajoeGeneral of the Volunteers. In
April of 1864 he was appointed Cavalry
Commander of the Army of the Potomac,
and by August of the same year was pro-
moted. to the Command of the "Middle
Military Division." In September he was
made Begedier General of the regular army
and MajoeGeneral in the following Novena- ,
ber. it is unnecessary to particularize ,to
any extent the brilliant service which he
did for the North. Suffice it to say that he
teasel great assistance to Genet Grantin the
operations around Richmond, and that the
energetic and effective way in which he pur-
sued Lee on his retreat from Richmond had
not a little to do with the surrender at Ap- •
pomattox. In March, 1869, he was made
Lieutenant•General; and then Commander
of the army on Sherman's retirement in
1883. Not long before his last ninon he
was honeured by having tho lapsed dignity
of General of the Army oonferred on him
by Congress.
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