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Congress, are devoted to hard work upon bills, letters, and other dry and laborious details, which often keep the President employed far into the night. He is represented as a most assiduous worker, never affixing his name to a paper whose contents he has not carefully investigated. With such habits, it is not to be wondered at that the man suffers occasionally from neuralgia; but this ailment has not increased since his undertaking the duties of Executive. His much smoking, which is often alluded to, seems to be, as in many cases it undoubtedly is, a necessity, or, at least, no bane, of his physical system; just as, in other cases, it is a rank poison.

GRANT AT CHURCH.

Grant is a regular attendant at church, to which he walks, when accompanied by his family, through the church—the Metropolitan Methodist—is about a mile distant from the White House. His dress has nothing noticeable about it; his aim being evidently to follow the style of his fellow citizens, just as that of his rival in the present political campaign has been to be unlike the rest of mankind in affecting a long white coat and a general studied negligence of attire. Grant is by no means a showy person in a crowd-his short, stooping form and downcast look and the general commonness of his mien failing to seize the eye of the passer-by.

GRANT'S INTELLECT AND TEMPERAMENT.

When we consider U. S. Grant's mental and

moral characteristics, we discover more which pertains to the great general and succesful President. And even of these it is probably the perfect balance of all, rather than the special development of any one, which has brought their possessor such uniform success. Grant's temperament is a combination of the various orders, though perhaps the phlegmatic predominates; and his intellectual qualities seem constructed, like his physical, for enduring great and long-continued pressure. Those who have been much with him have almost incredible accounts to give of his capacity for carrying on several mental operations at the same time; as of hearing a report from an officer, and writing simultaneously an important order on a totally different subject; and of retaining in his mind all the details pertaining to a great battle, without a past event misplaced, or a singular particular of his plans crowded out or jostled in the least. His mathematical mind seems never to become confused, and his impulses are so balanced by judgment as never to step in and upset the plans which his calculation had arranged.

A TRIBUTE FROM AN ENEMY.

Some of the points of General Grant's character are thus sketched, apparently from life, after careful study, and we reproduce them here with especial relish, since they were endorsed, (if not written), by Mr. Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun, who has since, for reasons which the

public understand pretty well, become one of the most unscrupulous of Grant's traducers:

"There is no noise or clash or clamor in the man; his voice is as quiet and orderly as a woman's, and his language judiciously chosen. He was never heard to give utterance to a rude word or vulgar jest ; no oath or fierce, fiery imprecation has ever escaped his lips. No thundering order, no unfeeling or undignified speech; and no thoughtless or ill-natured criticism ever fell from him. When angry, which is rarely the case, or, at least, he rarely shows his anger. he speaks with well-ordered but sbudued vehemence, displaying his passion by compressed lips and an earnest flash of the eye. But it must be said of him that of all men he is the slowest to anger. He has been heard to say that under the severest insult he never became indignant till a week after the offence had been given, and then only at himself for not having sooner discovered that he had been insulted or misused. This arises rather from an unconscious self-abnegation than from any incapacity for choler.

"It is precisely this quality which has made him so successful in the personal questions which have arisen between him and his subordinates. They have usually mistaken his slowness for dullness or a lack of spirit, and have discovered their mistake only after having become rash and committing a fatal error. Grant is unsuspicious and pure-hearted as a child, and as free from harmful intention; but he is stirred to the very depths of his nature by an act of inhumanity or brutality of any sort; while meanness, or ingratitude, or uncharitableness, excites him to the display of the liveliest indignation. He is not slow in his exhibition of disgust for whatever is unmanly or unbecoming."-Dana's Life of Grant.

The same writer goes on to dilate upon Grant's habits, tastes, and mental characteristics; and though the picture is apparently tinted with warm personal admiration, it cannot be said, by those who know the subject, that it is over-drawn.

"Grant's personal habits and tastes are exceedingly simple; he despises the pomp and show of empty parade, and in his severe simplicity and manly pride he scorns all adventitious aids to popularity. He lives plainly himself, and cannot tolerate ostentation or extravagance in those about him. His mess was never luxuriously, though always bountifully furnished with army rations, and such supplies as could be transported readily and easily in the limited number of wagons that he permitted to follow his headquarters. His appetites are all under perfect control. He is very abstemious, and during his entire Western campaign the officers of his staff were forbidden to bring wines or liquors into camp. He has been represented as one of the most