The Conservative

The most noticeable feature of Grant's public character is utter heartlessness and scandalous disregard of those public observances which a decent regard for propriety and public opinion would impose upon one in his high position. It is recorded that when one of his staff, not long ago, fell from a train opposite West Point, and was killed. Grant did not stop over even one train, but jumped aboard and went to New York, leaving the mangled remains of his old friend and companion to be cared for by others. And a few days ago, when the remains of the most illustrious sailor of the Republic—the peer in all heroic qualities of any man who ever wore a sword in the Old World or the New—were borne to the grave by thousands of his sorrowing countrymen, the chief of the State would not spare even a few hours from his chosen recreation of bumming around the watering-places, to pay the last tribute of respect to the departed. It is almost impossible to conceive a human mind so desperately mean—so utterly incapable of lifting itself above petty spite and miserable malice, as Grant's has proved itself in this latter case.—Cin. Enq., 29th inst.