In Memoriam.

GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT.

The Society of the Army of the Cumberland can place in the records only a faint expression of its profound sense of loss to our living companionship, to our country, and to the world, in the death of GENERAL U. S. GRANT on the 23d day of July, 1885.

To his comrades remains the grateful part to bear willing testimony to the many and marked manifestations of his courage, patriotism, patience, fortitude, fidelity, and exalted sense of duty.

Called, by an overshadowing national peril, from an humble station in private life, he led to complete victory the armies of his country, was twice chosen our Chief Magistrate, and died our chief citizen.

He did so much to shape events and impress the times in which he was an actor and leader, that any attempt here at elaboration, or even epitome, of his career would be a vain ambition.

In his circuit of the world he was its honored guest, and the most eminent of earth were proud to claim him peer. Not even history, as it shall be written in the full light of what have been, are and shall be the blessings to mankind from his unostentatious discharge of simple duty and exalted trust, will fully measure his stamp on the world and the destiny of our race.

If any be found to call him weak in small things, yet the crucial test of great trial found him the incarnation of strength, and all attempts at disparagement will but prove that he was a grand man, intensely American, and Great.

His memoir is written in the warm affections of his countrymen, and his fame is secure beyond detraction and above all eulogy.

In Memoriam.

GENERAL JAMES BLAIR STEEDMAN.

STEEDMAN.-Died, in Toledo, Ohio, October 18, 1883, JAMES B. STEEDMAN, late Major-General U. S. Volunteers, aged 66 years, 2 months, and 10 days.

JAMES BLAIR STEEDMAN was born in Chillisquaque Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, July 29, 1817. His parents were of Scotch descent, and both died while he was a boy. They were in very limited circumstances, and, at their death, left two sons and a daughter. JAMES, being the oldest child, was obliged, after their death, to struggle, as best he could, for their support. Of course he could gain only a common school education. At fifteen years of age he was apprenticed to a printer, in a country newspaper office in Lewisburg, Penn.-The Lewisburg Democrat. In two years he became an efficient printer, and, when seventeen years old, went west. He was at work in the office of Prentice's Louisville Journal when the Texan war broke out, and he joined Sam Houston's army in Texas. Afterward, he returned to Pennsylvania, and was in charge of a gang of hands working on the public improvements in that State. His success in this line emboldened him to seek contracts on his own account; and with that view he removed to Ohio. Before obtaining any contracts, he bought a printing office at Napoleon, Henry County, and became publisher of the North-western Democrat. While thus employed, and before he was twenty-one years old, he married MISS MIRANDA STILES, who had lately moved to that village from New

Jersey. When, soon after, the contracts on the Wabash and Erie Canal were let, STEEDMAN was awarded one of them. He afterward engaged in a series of similar works. He was, also, one of the contractors for building the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad.

While so occupied, he still kept up his newspaper, and became one of the leaders of his party in that region of the State. He was elected for two terms, in 1847 and 1848, a member of the lower house of the Ohio Legislature. The next year, when the gold fever broke out, he crossed the plains to California, led by the same energetic spirit of adventure which always characterized him. He soon returned to his old home, and, in 1851, was elected a member of the Board of Public Works-a position for which his previous training had well fitted him. He was re-elected, and served for four years on the Board, during three of which he was its President.

In 1857, after a protracted and vigorous contest, he was elected Public Printer by the Congress of the United States, and proved an active and efficient officer. In 1860, he was chosen a delegate to the National Democratic Convention, which first met at Charleston, South Carolina, and afterward adjourned to Baltimore. The rupture in this convention was the immediate precursor of the civil war which followed. STEEDMAN adhered firmly to DOUGLAS throughout the long and bitter struggle. On his return, he was nominated for Representative in Congress from his district; but was defeated. He had moved to Toledo-and there, in 1859, began the practice of the law. He was making his mark in his profession when the war began.

He had, for some years, been interested in military matters; and, in 1857, was elected Major-General of the old Fifth District of Ohio State Militia. He was commissioned as such by the Governor, July 8, 1857, and held the office until he took the field, at the head of a regiment, in 1861. He was also, at this time, the publisher of the Times-the only Democratic paper in Toledo. While a member of the Charleston Convention, in 1860, he took a sail about the harbor, and, looking at the flag floating over the forts guarding its entrance, he took an oath that secession hands should never tear down the flag