The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-01
CONVERSATION WITH GHN GEAS1
Small Comfort for conservative
ST. LoUIs, December 80.

ST. LOUIS, December 30.
nrominent citizen OF this city, just
from Washington, describes hall
hour interview with Gen. Grant, which
shows some of the characteristics or the
President elect i'll stronger IIEht IMAM
ANYTHING that has been said or written
in a long time. During the c"nVers"-
tiou u Senator and Judge from LOUIS
iunu we're introduced, VINO came 10 con
arIt with the General i'll regard to the
government endorsing som" Sal"
honds for the Improvement OF the
Ievees in LOuisiann.
The General said he hoped the gov.
erunent would not do 1t, and ADDED
HwhiIe we are discussing on all sides
how the national debt Is to be paid, L
shall oppose any increase OF the nat
ional obligations. l never knew
government to become Responsible LOT
uuv amount that it did not ultimately
have To pay .,
A fter some further remarks, designed
to win the Generals favor, thc Judge
said millions of acres OF the DpSl lahu Ill
the world are subject to overflow.
Gen. Grant replied: LET them over
flow and let them stay under water uH-
ill their owners are willing that Norm
ern men and Northern capital ShOuIh
come in and protect and Improve them.
Northern men with ample capital are
and Won won't let them do II. Your
large land holders are as hostile To the
United States government to-day MS
they have ever been, and If the govern
ment should rebuild their leNeeS' ~
would not change them particle. L
know no way the government conIu
have adopted for rebuilding the leNees
but to have coutiscated the lands OF
those engaged in the rebellion, aud used
the proceeds 10 restore the country. AS
that was not done, nothing remains but
to set your negroes TO work AM Invite
iu and welcome Northern men.
"General," said the Judge, 1.-The ne
proes won't work"
won't work." Gen. Grant quietly
replied; they'll work if you pay them
| for il. Am not right ?" he added :
us there not such hostility to North
eru men that it amounts, IN most sec
| tiOus OF the State. to political eHclu,
sion of them from the a9rlculturMa al
| interests of the country? Is there not
an uuwillingness to divide up the lands
and sell in small parcels to those whe
might immigrate? And Is there not d
! general tendency to secure the services
of the negroes without prompt, ade'
| Uuate compensation! z!
81 must say" said the Judge, th"I
there is more or less of truth IN all these
| points" ,,, 49,;
Then" said Grant, 81 think you VII
! have TO build your own levees or wall
under water until you are willing men
! should come in who will build theu'
THE Appropriations Committee O
Congress at their session Wednesday
examined the legislative and E&ecu'
tive appropriation bills. The estimates
of the various bureaus OF the depart
ments for pay of clerks and for e1pen
ses. were rigidly scanned, and 1t was
agreed that several hundred clerks IL
the Treasury, Interior, and other de
partments, should be- cut Oft. This re
auction is deemed possible. in view O
the fact that large amount of business
arising out of the late war, such n
bouuties, pensions. &C., has been mostl!
disposed OF. .
HOMER is supposed to have been tn
first to notice the Grecian bend in tn
following lines from the tenth BOOK O
the Iliad; -....,,
"Io hero the wretched Agamemnon StanIs
. The unhappy general OF Inc GTectdn G. Dan.i Sn1I
Whom JoYe DEGREES with daily cares u 's"''