EDITORIAL. THE father of General Grant tell a lie about the cherry-tree, has been giving the world some and he carried that same coninteresting sketches of the boy- scientious truthfulness with him hood of his distinguished son, and with eminent propriety, has selected the New York Ledger as the organ of communication. throughout life. We have no similar account of the unimpeachable veracity of young Ulysses, but we are told how he was ridThe incident which seems to den by a monkey. The story goes have attracted the most attention that, in early manhood, he had the in these interesting, not to say monkeys so bad as to compel his affecting, recollections, is the rid- retirement from the U. S. Army. ing in a Circus of a very vicious Only six weeks ago, the Abolition pony, by the future hero of Bel- papers were teeming with statemont and Shiloh. The showman ments that the renowned warrior was very confident that the pony had the monkeys again. Truly, could unhorse any man or boy, just now we are a monkey-ridden who would risk neck and limbs people,-all of which was typefied upon the back of the furious and pre-figured by the scene in beast. But the young soldier sat the Circus, thirty years ago. there with all the composure of General Butler, amidst the spoils of Mr. — -'s pantry. The denial of General Sherman that he burned Columbia, S. C., The showman, annoyed to find was followed by his biography, that his favorite pony was about from the pen of a member of his to be foiled, gave the wink (very Staff, exulting in the pillar of unfairly, as it strikes us, though cloud by day, and the pillar of fire Grant, the father, does not com- by night, which accompanied plain of it,) to a mischievous mon- "The March to the Sea," and givkey, to get on the boy's back. ing pictures of the bummers at But all the scratching, biting, their infernal work. Now, we and pushing of the monkey, afore- have a statement from one of said, could not disturb the serene Sherman's own army, establishcomposure of the young champion ing all that has been charged upon of the ring. He remained master the General, and which he has so of the situation. vehemently denied. We copy tiser. GEN. SHERMAN IN SOUTH CARO LINA. The moral of the story is very from the Savannah (Ga.) Adverinstructive. It shows that the germ of greatness is to be found among boys, who are to leave their impress upon the age in which they live. George Wash- nati, literateur, Bohemian, and ington, when a lad, would not withal a man of decided clever "Mr. Whitelaw Reid, of Cincin ness, has been writing a book nous records of the march. He about what Ohio did in the re- did, indeed, say that he would not cent civil war. He is a pronounc- protect them in stealing "woed Radical, and writes from this men's apparel or jewelry." But stand-point, so far as the South even this, with no whisper of punand the questions at issue in the ishment attached, he said, not in struggle, are concerned. Of course general orders nor in approval of he has much to say of Sherman the findings of some righteously and Sheridan. As a matter of severe court-martial, but incihistory, and for future reference dently, in a letter to one of his where people are called upon, per- officers, which never saw the light haps, to forget the past, we de- till two years after the close of the sire to put on record the summing war. He rebuked no one for such up by this friend and fellow coun- outrages, the soldiers understood tryman of Gen. Sherman, deeds that they pleased him. Was not in South Carolina. We submit it South Carolina to be properly without comment: punished? This was not war. It was not even revenge of a wrathful soldiery, for it was practiced, not upon the enemy, but upon the left at home. There was, indeed, one excuse for it-an excuse which chivalric soldiers might be slow to plead. It injured the enemy-not by open fight, where a million would have been thought full match for less than a hundred thousand, but by frightening his men about the situation of their wives and children.” Before his movement (from Atlanta) began, Gen. Sherman begged permission to turn his army loose in South Carolina and de- defenceless "feeble folks" he had vastate it. He used this permission to the full. He protested that he did not wage war on women and children. But under the operation of his orders, the last morsel of food was taken from hundreds of destitute families, that his soldiers might feast in needless and riotous abundance. Before his eyes rose day by day the mournful clouds of smoke on every side, that told of old peo- The reception given to Sergeant ple and their grand-children driv- Bates and his Flag throughout en in mid-winter from the only the entire South seems to be an roofs there were to shelter them, by the flames which the wontonness of his soldiers had kindled. With his full knowledge and tacit approval, the greater portion of his advance resolved itself into bands of jewelry thieves and plateeloset burglars. Yet, if a single soldier was punished for a single outrage or theft during that entire movement, we have found no mention of it in all the volumi anomalous and almost unaccountable event, but it is really susceptible of an easy explanation. We do not believe that the honors showered upon the gallant Sergeant by city and town authorities, and the enthusiastic gathering of the people to welcome him, are meant to show the love of the people for the "old flag" and the admiration for the gentle party now in power. Such professions of attachment to flag and rulers traveler. It strikes us as being would argue either profound hy- impolitic, if not ridiculous. He pocrisy or as great fickleness as ought to be allowed to pass along that of the old negro-traders and quietly like any other modest inbrutal masters, now changed into dividual. It is not for an enslavlovers and worshippers of "the ed people either to rail or to apman and brother." Moreover, plaud. The former will be conwe utterly and scornfully rebuke strued to mean rebellion, the latthe base insinuation that these ter will be regarded as sycophancy. demonstrations are intended to deceive and hood-wink the "loy able charges against those infinitely better than themselves.Honorable birth, purity of character and integrity of life, so far gainst slander, serve as shining targets for its poisoned shafts.The man, the most revered in a community for his virtues and his talents, will be precisely the man to be dragged before a Military Commission upon the charge of some ignorant negro or renegade white. One of the saddest results of the al North" as to the true senti- military domination over the South ments of the South. Sergeant is the subjecting of the better Bates has thrown himself trust- classes to the persecutions of the fully and confidingly upon South- low, degraded and vicious, who, ern honor. An unarmed and a to prove that they are "truly loyhelpless man, he passes through al," bring monstrous and improbforests and swamps where crime could be committed and no eye to behold or tongue to tell of it, and yet he is as safe as though surrounded by legions of soldiers.- from constituting safe-guards aHe has made a chivalrous appeal to Southern chivalry, and therefore the response has been enthusiastic. Another element in the Sergeant's favor is the universal feeling all over this desolated land that the old enemies of the South are now in open rebellion against the Flag he bears, and against the Constitution framed by our com- Dr. T. J. Charlton, of Savanmon ancestry. The Jacobin reb- nah, Ga., bears one of the most els at the North attribute the honored names at the South, and cordiality to Bates on our part to he has borne himself worthy of a wish to demonstrate the false- his lineage. Notwithstanding his hood of the Preamble to the Re- social position and high character, construction Bill. This is very he was actually arraigned before absurd: for not a single individu- a Military Commission on the al in the United States believed charge of poisoning two prisoners that Preamble to be true; least of all did those believe it true, who drew it up and voted for it. Their sole object was to justify their severity to the European world. We have no sympathy with the fuss and parade made over the in the city prison, of which he was the attending physician. He was, of course, acquitted of so absurd a charge. The grievous wrong is that any gentleman was to be similarly tried for imaginary offences. We append the Resolutions of the Georgia Medical Society: "SAVANNAH, GA., March 5th, 1868. To the President and Members of the Georgia Medical Society, Savannah, Ga.: Your committee appointed to report upon the case of Dr. T. J. Charlton, who has recently been arraigned before a military commission, beg leave to submit the following: Whereas, it has come to our knowledge that Dr. T. J. Charlton, a member of our organization, has been charged by parties and tried by a military commission for Murder, though subsequently exonerated from said charges by the commission; and "Resolved, That if such unjust and outrageous charges are to be brought against members of our Society, by irresponsible parties, we will in future refuse to attend colored people who are unknown to us, and irresponsible. "Resolved, That we are willing, as a humanitarian body, to render professional services, as we have always done, to paupers, white or colored, but we must have security against gross injustice and damage to professional and moral reputation. Reputation for skill and intelligence is usually acquired by years of hard labor and assiduous attention to our profession and "Whereas, this member of our its duties, and we cannot consent time-honored organization is a to have it tarnished by such proman of professional and social ceedings as were carried out in merit and intelligence, and so re- the case of Dr. T. J. Charlton, garded by his professional breth- without a serious and earnest proren, and by the community in test. which he was born and reared; and Respectfully submitted, Attest: ROBT. P. MYERS, M. D., Recording Sec. G. M. S." "Whereas, the parties who brought the charges are disreputable and irresponsible, we most earnestly offer this as a protest against such illegal and un-called for action on the part of the military authorities; that it is the opinion of this Society that charges of such character should be submitted to the decision of civil courts, if entertained at all; and "Whereas, we, as a body, have for the past three years given gratuitous medical services to the indigent freedmen, as well as whites, your committee would ment, of this Magazine. recommend the passage of the following resolutions: It gives us great pleasure to state that Gen. Henry R. Jackson, of Savannah, Georgia, so distinguished as a soldier, scholar, and poet, has kindly consented to take charge of the Poetic Depart |