A DAY AND NIGHT OF REST. GENERAL GRANT KEPT INDOOR BY COOL WEATHER.

General Grant has slept indoor nearly all day. He did not appear outside at all until 3 o'clock and after that his visits to the porch were infrequent and brief. The weather was an excuse for confinement, rather than the disease. A hard rain fell in the morning and was followed by cool weather. Yesterday on the porch it was noticed that the General's eyes were clear, and his face no longer so pallid. Mrs. Grant and the family were with him on the porch for a good spell yesterday.

The night was hardly better for the General than usual, but he had several hours of good sleep after daylight and he emerged from his room at 11 o'clock. The pains of rheumatism added to the pain of the cancer all night. Such sleep as he was able to obtain was after midnight, forced upon by a large injection of morphine. Between midnight and dawn he required the almost constant attention of his nurses. A good deal of coughing and pain accompanied is wakefulness. The coughing awoke Dr. Douglas, whose room is separated from the General's by another, and some of the family also heard it from their rooms upstairs.

Having made a start at the revision of the proofs of his history, the General set about to work on that today. He occupied probably an hour or so in writing, taking the work up by piecemeal. The day added several pages of manuscript to part of the proofs he wished to amplify. Most of the, however, was given to rest. Once, when he came out and was walking across the porch, two visitors approached and saluted. Taking the General's recognition as an invitation to join them, they actually went up the steps. The General passed along without stopping and disappeared in the office, leaving his wood-be visitors to ruminate on the porch until the monotony of it led them to retire.

Governor Pringee of Vermont and General French, of Saratoga, who were companions in the war, met for the first time in 20 years today. They came up to pay their respects to the General, and did exchange military salutes with him. Colonel Grant told them the family was hurt over the publication of the annoyances to the General by the callers on the porch. The Colonel afterward requested that it be said, on his authority, that it was the desire of the family to save the General from the common run of visitors, but that he was pleased to see visitors the other day. The effect of the distasteful publication, however, has been to spare the sufferer social infliction's, however well meant, and since then he has slept better and has enjoyed himself more than in all the rest of his visit.

A big wood fire blazed in the hallway during the evening. Severe coughing came upon the General toward evening, when it was feared he may have caught cold. A homelike group formed around the General before the fire. Dr. Douglas was with them. More than two hours was pleasantly passed this way before the General was ready to go into his room. he said to the doctors, speaking huskily, but so that he was easily heard, that he felt he had passed a comparatively easy day. It was 9 o'clock when he retired, and he was asleep a little after 10 o'clock, when Dr. Douglas then too retired.