The morning after he arrived, Jack, a servant of a neighboring family, came into the breakfast-room, with a waiter filled with dishes, which he deposited on the side-board.

'Master and Missis send their compliments, and want to know how the family is, and how Mr.Grant is this morning.' Now they had never seen Mr.Grant; but they knew that he had arrived the night before.

'Well, Jack,' says Mrs .-- --, 'I see you have got some good things for us.' 'O, not much, Missis; but they thought you and Mr.
Grant would excuse 'em for sending it.' So there were deposited on the breakfast-table, 'big hominy' in one or two shapes, rare fish, puff-muffins, and several dishes which called for Jack's interpretations.

'And Master says, shall he send the carriage round for you this forenoon?
and he will call himself.' The evening talk was interrupted by a black woman, all smiles, bearing a waiter of ice-cream and other refreshments, from another house; and so the visit was a succession of surprises from families who, at the South, count each other's guests their own.

Mr.Grant was a strong anti-secessionist, and he spent much breath in arguing with the people in private.