ULYSSES S. GRANT ENJOYING MORE COMFORT. GENERAL GRANT FEELING MUCH STRONGER

Only one person was awake in General Grant's house between 11 o'clock Wednesday and daylight yesterday. That was the White nurse, Henry. The General slept like a child. He coughed frequently, but not enough to rouse him. He has almost eight hours of continuous sleep. The family slept until the General awoke.

When the General did wake up his mind was clear. He left the chairs in which he slept unaided and walked across the room. Nourishment was brought it and he partook of it heartily. The family joined him later in the morning in the sick room, chatting and laughing with the patient. Dr. Shrady heightened the good humor by saying that he regarded the General's condition as being so much improved as to not require constant medical attention.

The General enjoyed his family about him and they talked of anything but medicine and sick beds. The anniversary of the surrender came up as something to divert the General. Mrs. Grant sat at the library window with her son Jesse near her. They looked out at the street with serene faces. Mrs. Sartoris kept nearer the General and Colonel Fred passed in and out of the sick room, watchful for a change in his father. Care was taken not to weary the General, and the conversation was ensued with constant regard to his comfort and pleasure. The General seemed to enjoy every minute of the conversation, though he talked little himself. For the most part he pay back against his pillows with his eyes closed.

The General's system now requires morphine to quiet it. He has not been without it for more than we few hours. During the past week it has been the purpose of the attendants to control reports from the sick room, though there has been no reason to doubt the accuracy of any report. If the doctors were to be the only sources of information, as is it believed they wish to be, it would not yet be known that General Grant never sleeps except under morphine, and that he is kept quiet and relieved from pain by enforced applications of cocaine. He has been "better" at various times only in he sense that his decline has been stayed because of drugs.

In his strongest moments he is only able to take a few steps. The doctors have even warned the family against letting him see or hear the more often. It was reported indirectly from the sick room that he sleeps from 16 to 18 hours a day under the influence of morphine. Except when asleep or cocaine is in his throat he is in great pain. Of course the doctors don't let that last long, but they often have trouble examine the throat because of the acute pain. When the pain of the cancer becomes nearly intolerable, he submits to the sharper agony of an examination.

Senor Romero left the house at 4:30 p.m. and said: "The doctors keep him dosed with morphine, because otherwise the pain would be unendurable. The cancer is progressing still." When the General woke up at about 4 o'clock. he left his chair and moved slowly across the room, cheerful and somewhat refreshed. At times in the afternoon and evening he exhibited signs of restlessness, but overcame this when drugs were administered. General Grant has received several letters offering sympathy and anxious inquiries regarding his condition from General William T. Sherman and General Philip Sheridan.

The following facts about General Grant were obtained from someone who is intimately acquainted with his case and in every sense trustworthy: "The pain in the General's throat is relieved by constant applications of cocaine. His faculties are clear. He would be able to direct any army in the field as far as his mental condition is concerned. He shows the effect of confinement. His face is full, but there is a sinking in behind the ears from a loss of blood. His arms and limbs are thin and he has lost flesh, but he is not emaciated. There was a gleam in his eye today that I have not seen for a month, but his eyes are no longer bright."