On Friday, about twelve o'clock, a large party of ladies and gentlemen assembled at the U.S. Consulate-General to bid farewell to General and Mrs. Grant, who with their suite were about to start on their journey northward to Tientsin and Peking. Beyond tim: the ordinary adieus and cordial expressions of thanks, speechmaking was very properly ignored, and at precisely 12.45, the General's party, accompanied by Mr. H. D. Bailey, U.S, Consul-General, and othermembers of the Reception Committee, embarked on board the steam-launch Lily, which had been kindly placed at the disposal of the distinguished party by Mr. C. P. Blethen, and amid the thunder of a royal salute from the guns of the Ashuelot, started for that vessel, in which they were to take passage, and which was lying some distance higher up the river. Steam having been got up some time before, a start was immediately effected, and General Grant bade a final adieu to Shanghai, accompanied by the Monocacy. It being uncertain whether the Monocacy would return to Shanghai, Mr. Blethen sent the Zily down to Woosung in order to bring back those who accompanied the party.
Both the General and Mrs. Grant expressed themselves in the highest degree pleased with Shanghai and its environs, through the Hongkew portion of which they drove on Friday morning with Mr. Blethen. Of the reception accorded them here, they spoke in the most flattering manner, describing it as one of the happiest incidents of their two years' tour—one indeed that would live long upon their memories, Arrived at Woosung, the last farewells of all wore exchanged, the parties separated, and so ended the greatest gala week known in the records of the "Model Settlement."
As General Grant's visit has naturally led to more or less conversation as to the rank which he at present enjoys, it may not be amiss for us to state that according to the laws of the United States he roceives, as ox-President, the same military and naval honours as the President actually in office. At the present moment, ho is the only American living, with the excoption of President Hayes, who is entitled to a salute of twenty-one guns, Apart from this, General Grant, before ho became President, was General Commanding-in-chief of the armies of the United States, and by a law passed after the American civil war, all officers who had served against the rebellion were privileged for the rest of their lives to retain the titles, to wear the uniform on public occasions, and to receive the honors of the rank which they held on their retirement from the service.
General Grant's present military rank would therefore be equivalent to that of a Field-Marshal in Europe. Wo understand that when he visited Her Majesty in England, he wore his uniform of Commander-in-chief.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.