Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

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$4,000 in night.
There are many large betters here, but
none with half the nerve, and may add,
few with half the fortune, since his income
is 5000, 900 per year. He plays for excite
ment rather than for gain. Faro is grand
passion.
An Hour with Grant--His Views upon
Various Matters.
The editor of the Lewiston Falls Journ.
al, now at Washington, recently spent an
hour in the studio of the Maine artist, Sim.
mons, in conversation with General Grant,
and gives an interesting statement of the
opinions expressed by the leading man Of
tie country, upon "men and measures. -
We make afew extracts:
The general, who was dressed in plain
black civilian suit, had hardly removed his
hat from his head before he took cigar
from his pocket, lighted it and began to
puff out wreathes of smoke. 81 am break
ing off from smoking" remarked Grant.
"When I was in the field smoked eigh.
teen or twenty cigars day, but now 1 smoke
only nine or ten !'
"There were but two failures in toe Vir.
ginia campaign of "a which ought to have
been successes" said Grant, sand those
were the failure to capture Petersburg when
We crossed the James, and afterwards at
the mine explosion" "But," added Grant,
"it was all for the best that we failed in those
two instances, for, had we succeeded at Ell.
ther time, Lee would have at once been
obliged to abandon Richmond, and would
have been able to secure a safe retreat into
the interior of the South, where he would
have prolonged the contest for years. Our
failures then, and the determination of the
Rebels to hold on to their capital, gave Us
time to extend our left Southwark, to bring
up Sherman from Georgia, and thereby
made it impossible for Lee to escape"
The conversation turned to the Virginia
campains of 1864 and 1866. 81 notice."
remarked General Grant, "that Mr.. SWIM
ton has published a history of the CAM
paigns in the Old Dominion, in which he
takes the ground that I gained nothing,
but, on the contrary, lost many valuable
lives uselessly, by moving my army from
the Rapidan direct towards Richmond,
rather than by taking it around by water to
the Peninsula, as Mcclellan did. This"
observed the General, ''is a revival of the
exploded theory referring to the Mcclellan
policy] of subduing the rebellion by peace
measures. A half million troops might
have been kept within sight of Washing
ton till dooms day, and the rebellion would
have fourished more and more vigorously
day by day. Fighting, hard knocks only,
could have accomplished the work. The
rebellion must be overcome, if overcome
at all, by foroo, ito roaourooH dastroyAd,
its fighting material obliterated, before peace
could be obtained"
Referring to the temper of the Southern
people, be remarked that they are much
less disposed now to bring themselves to
the proper frame of mind than they we're one
year since. GA year ago." said be, "they
were willing to do anything; now they re-
gard themselves as masters Of the situation.
Some of the rebel general" he added, care
behaving nobly, and doing all they can to
induce the people to throw aside their old
prejudices and to conform their course to
the changed conditions of things. Johnston
and Dick Taylor, particularly, are exercis.
ing good influence; but" he added, "Lee
is behaving badly. He is conducting him.
self very differently from what l had reason,
from what he said at the time of the surren-
der, to suppose he would. No man at the
South is capable of exercising tenth part
of the influence for good that be is; but,
instead of using it, be is setting an example
of forced acquiescence so grudging and per-
nicous in its effects as to be hardly reali-
zed."
In reply to question as to whether he
was not surprised as to the suddenness Of
the collapse of the rebellion, Grant said
that be was, although he had always sup.
posed that when it did break down it would
go all at once. ~ thought, however," he
remarked, "tbat it would hold out another
season, and I am not sure" he added,
"but that it would have been better for the
country if it had. There we're some parts
of the country where our armies had never
trod, particularly Texas, which needed to
feel the blighting effects of war to bring
their people to a realizing sense of the
euormity of their crime and the necessity of
a thorough repentance. I fud," said he,
"that those parts of the South which have
not felt the war, and particularly those
which have been within our lines, and have
therefore escaped the rebel conscription and
taxes, are much less disposed to accept the
situation in good faith than those portions
which have been literally overrun with fire
and sword"
CONGRESS WARNED.-The Constitu
tionaz Union, published at Washington, in
its issue of Wednesday contains an article