Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-05-31

ions or Gen, Grant on any subject OF
which he PROCESSES TO have sufficient
knowledge to express an opinion. All
through the war, whether in the field or
among his friends while away from mil
itary duty, he has spoken so coolly, APP
parently with so much candor, and free
from selhshness, that we have instinct
lively put implicit reliance in his utter
ances,
The Editor OF the Lewiston (Me,l
Journal, who we believe is a graduate
of Dartmouth College, and who has been
for several years Speaker of the Maine
House Of Representatives has recently
had an interview with Gen. Grant, at
Washington, and gives in his paper an
interesting report Of what the General
said on the situation of affairs. The
General intimated that it would perhaps
have been better for the country had the
war continued for year longer, ex-
planning and adding further observa-
tions on the state OF the country as fol-
lows
"There were some parts of the country
where our armies had never trod, par
tiCularly Texas, which needed to feel the
blighting effects of war TO bring their
people to realizing sense of the enor-
nifty Of their crime and the necessity
of q thorough repentance. 4 find said
he, that those parts of the South which
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those which have been within our lines
and have therefore escaped the rebel con-
scription and taxes, are much less dis
posed to accept the situation in good
faith, than those persons which have
been literally overrun with fire and
sword
Referring to the temper Of the South
ern people, he remarked that they are
much less disposed now to bring them
selves to the proper frame of mind than
they were one year since. "A year ago
said he, they were willing to do any
thing; now they regard themselves as
masters Of the situation. Some Of the
rebel generals, he added, ARE behaving
nobly and doing all they can to induce
the people to throw aside their old pre-
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the changed condition of things John
ston and Dick Taylor particularly, are
exercising good influence; bat, he ad-
ded, Lee is behaving badly. He is con-
Quoting himself very differently from
what had reason, from what he said at
the time of the surrender to suppose he
would. No man at the South is capa
Bile Of exercising tenth part OF the in
tiuence for good that he is, but instead
of using it, he is setting an example of
forced aCquiesCenCe so grudging and per-
niciOus in its effects as to be hardly re-
allied.
The men who We're in the rebel arm
les, said Grant, 'aCquesCe in the result
much better than those who staid at
home. The women are particularly Bit
ter against the Union and Union men,
'Of course he added, there is some Bit
terness Of telling among all classes, but
/ am satisfied that it would soon die out
if their leading men had not somehow
got the idea that treason after all was
not very bad, aud that the Southern
cause, as they phrase it, will vet tri-
umph, not in war, but in politics.. In
my judgment said Grant, the tone Of
certain men and certain papers at the
North, is such as to do incalCulable
mischief in making the late rebels be-
lieye that they are Just as much entitled
TO rule as ever, and that if they will
only stand by what they are pleased to
call their "rights, they will have help
from the North. This significantly
added Grant, is only playing over again
the inCipient stages Of the rebellion
He was confident that the large MAORI
ty Of the Southern people would smOth-
er their resentmcnts and become good
citizens, if these mischief makers at the
North (the cOppeTheadS) would only let
them alone. If he had the power, the
first thag he would be to seize the New
York News and kindred sheets, which
are giving the South so dangerous an
idea Of their own position and rights.
Troops, said Gen. Grant must be
kept in ali the principal points in the
South for some time to come. This will
be necessary u repress the turbulence
ola class OF the South very dangerous to
all well disposed persons and also to
protect the rights Of the freedmen, who
are looked upon with deep hatred by
very large proportion OF the people.
CLERKS IN WAsHINGToN.-Then number
of male clerks employed in the Treasury
Department, as reported to the House on
Wednesday, is 1866; females 439. or
the former 547 served in the Union ar
my. The only person employed in that
Department who served in the rebel ar
my is a brother-in-law of Senator Ora
gin of New Hampshire, who was recon-
mended by Mr.. Cragin, and who says he
was always Union man, though draft
ed by the rebels in Texas.
| The SPANISH DEFEAT AT CALLAo.-
Full accounts Of the fight between the
Spanish squadron in the South Pacific
and the Peruvian shore batteries at Cal
lao are highly Creditable to the bravery
and pluck Of Peru. The Spanish fleet,
reinforced by the frigate Almanac soon
after the commandment of Valparaiso,