The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-05

song for you, song for me,
OF low and pleading melody
Then up and toll with smiling face;
TO fail or falter is disgrace.
The kindly word. the noble deed,
Make sweet the burden" Mouths to feed"
THE COMING MAN,
General Grants Views and Tone about
the SOuth-SharP Talk.
A correspondent Of tho st. Louis Democrat
reports the following conversation between
General Grant and q Southerner:
General said the senator, ''Ju lge
wished to see you few moments and consult
with you in regard to the improvement Of the
levees of the lower Mississippi. We wish the
United States Government to endorse, and
thus guarantee, the bonds OF the Htate Of
Louisiana for the restoration and improvement
OF the levees."
81 hope the government will not do it, the
anco that WAS was not It. only decisive and final on
that subject, but almost stunning.
But, General. urged the senator, eve only
wish the United States to endorse the bonds,
go that we can sell them without a ruinous
discount, giving the United States ample Sc
curity for the entire amount, so that it would
|. be impossible for the government to lose a
cent in any emergency"
Again Grant quickly interrupted, s'I never
knew government to become responsible for
any amount that it did not ultimately have to
pay. You now want the endorsement Of the
bonds. II that is given, you will soon want to
legislate for the payment OF the bonds"
General" said the senator, ''you are too
hard on u.s."
.'While we are discussing on all sides," said
Grant, chow the national debt is to be paid,
cations"
terposed the senator. 'sThe levees are abso-
lutely necessary"
sT know all about the levees," he answered.
served IN that country when young man,
and had something to do myself with the
breaking Of those levees.'
But" said the Judge, smillions Of acres of
the best land io the world are subject to over
flow;" y. :, 49,. .
water,' said Grant, ''untn their owners are
willing that Northern mon and Northern capt.
tai should come in and protect and impreve
them. Northern men with ample capital are
ready to make garden Of your State, and you
won't let them do it. Your large landholders
are as hostile to the United States Government
to-day as they have ever been; and If that gov
ernment should rebuild their levees it would
not change them particle. know no way
the government could have adopted for re-
building the levees bat to have confiscated the
lands of those engaged in rebellion and used
the proceeds to restore the country. AS that
was not done, nothing remains bat to set your
negroes to work and invite in and welcome
Northern men,"
General. said the Judge, 'the negroes
won't work.
''Won't work." Grant quietly replied, ''they1l
work if you'll pay them for it,
Am not right ?" he sdded. SIS there not
amounts in most sections Of the State to
practical exclusion OF them from the agricul-
tural interests Of the country Is there not
an unwillingness to divide up the lands and
sell in small parcels to those who might immi-
CRATE; and is there not q general tendency to
secure the services Of the negroes without
prompt and adequate compensation p
%ps N ess y tsh the h Il %Hqgs hgs there is
"Then," said Grant, 81 think you will have
to build your own levees, or wait under water
until you are willing mon should come in who
will build them"
GRANTS POLICY AND CABINET.
The Cincinnati Commercial, paper usually
careful in it's statements, says:
Notwithstanding General Grants reputation
for reticence, it is we'll known that he has al-
ways been in the habit of talking gate freely
Of matters that he was called to consider, when
he thought the timc to talk had arrived. It is
not out Of character, therefore, for him to be at
this time expressing himself without reserve
upon questions of 'publie concern. That he
has been doing 50 there is no question.
;, It is true that he has declared very plainly
that, in his Judgment, the Tenure-of Office bill
should be repealed. He thinks it would be
Impossible for him or anybody else to success
fully administer the Executive Office WITHOUT
power promptly to remove an officer for ineff-
ing ing the SLOW motions Of the ssaate. His idea
~. INA. A. :. Lie there should be ON end Of the
Tenure-of-office bill. as it is, the Civil Service
bill Of Mr.. Jenckes, Of Rhode Island, or some
thing like it, should be enacted. The general
pend upon merit; to give greater security in
place to compe..ssu5 end honest mon; but to
IN axe the Chief Executive responsible for their
competency and honesty. There are not many
who will dispute that the President elect is in
this looking in the right direction.
AS to the Cabinet, it may be called certaiu
that Mr.. E. B. Washburne, OF Illinois, wants
place in it, and will get the Secretaryship Of
If it is assumed that Grant sympathizes strong
ly in those peculiar and ardent efforts to save
the peoples money, by which Washburne's CO.
reer in Congress has been distinguished, and
lobby. Those best informed do not think there
will be change in the War Department..
There is no more competent man for War Min
lister in the country than General Scho6eld,
and he is on terms Of the closest personal
friendship with Grant 1t is conjectured, and
something more, that Grants Secretary Of the
Navy will be a naval officer, and Admiral David
ID. Porter is very confidently named as the
man. It will be remembered that he and Grant
were, during the war, long and intimately as
sociated in combined military and naval enter
prises.
General Grant, during his visit to New York
city, has been sounding some Of the eminent
men OF that place as to the Secretaryship Of
the Treasury. That he was at pains to gather
opinions is pretty clear. How influential those
opinions may be is another matter. But we
may add that the most weighty New York
opinion favors Mfr. David A. Wells for Secretary
OF the Treasury. That gentleman has certainly
displayed extraordinary knowledge Of financial
topics, and honestly earned national fame
It is certain that Grant will not look aaong the
politicians for Secretary OF the Treasury, and
Chat Mr.. Wells will be backed by his excellent
tinction.
Last and not least, there is something moro
than mere gossip as authority for the assertion
Adams as maa admirably calculated by eda
cation, experience, aud temper for the manage
msnt Of eur relations with foreigA powers
and one we'll known friend Of General Gran