The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-29

AND fom nlss DEM IIom zoiiums spread,
And Masss Bob. you think 'em ketchin's
From the Chicsgo Times, 18th.
Another Hnserview-&srant Makes
Some Moro Disclosures.
The General, in response to question as
TO his opinion Of matters between France
and Prussia, said that neither party under.
stands war as he understands it. -,..-
Here the reporter Of the Times ventured
to assert q cordial endorsement Of the re.
mark Of his EXcellency.
"Permit me, General" said Mr.. Scam
mon, "to ask you to point out what you
conceive to be the chief blunders OF the
campaign thus far!"
"France," said the General, as he light
ed fresh cigar, "made biunder in com.
mencing war upon people OF equal size
and strength. The true way to make war
is to always have three to your enemy's
one. An illustration of the fact was given
OF Shiloh. The enemy there was within
third as large rs my own force. Hence the
disaster which befell me-
"But. General" said the reporter, "have
YOU no faith in maneuyring or in strategy,
Whereby inferiority in point OF numbers
can be equalized by superiority OF brains",
NNone whatever. Sherman played that
out in his march to the sea. You see, the
Confederacy was mere shell, and that Is
why he met with such success. He had nc
opposition. My own experience proves
this. In all cases where l attempted any o.
these new-fangled operations was beaten, =.
Here Mr.. ColfaN, with a very sMasf
smile, inquired as to what the General
Thought should be done by Napoleon.
"Mv idea" said the General, els that ne
should get Butler and Banks to command
army corps in the Prussian forces. linen
he should conscript every Frenchman that
can carry musket and send him i'll. Prus-
STA has only thirty million inhabitants, while
France has forty millions. This is clear
difference in favor Of France OF ten mil
lions. Now, let Napoleon keep hammerlng
away at the Prussians if it takes all sum-
nfer. am Of the opinion that the superior
activity of the French, aided by their
chassepot, their elan, their traditions, ana
their superior navy, will enable them TO XIII
a PruSsian as often rs they can a French
man. Hence it is clear case that il Ma
p,leon hammers away till all the Prussians
are killed off he will have ten millions left:
In other words, his cats tail is the longest"
"What is YOUR opinion of Napoleon per-
sonally?" asked Mr.. Joseph Medill.
"He is a great man. He smokes always,
and never saws anything. He was once in
humble circumstances. He was never,
however, in the hide business, except, per.
haps, so far as hiding himself is concerned"
Here General Dent broke into uproarious
laughter. He afterwards remarked to our
reporter that he was hired TO laugh at
Grants jokes, and, he added, he tiattered
himself he was doing very extensive busl-
Ms ON very limited capital.
General Grant putfed stoicallv until Dent
had finished laughing, and then he re-
sumed:
Napoleon is my model. I have stood
before his portrait by the hour trying to
mould my countenance into the stony mex
pressiveness that characterizes his. / am
not certain but that shall initiate his coup
d etQt. IIe rose from obscurity to be q
President. So dbl. He rose from Presi-
dent to Emperor, and if don't follow suit
it will be because Congress took the trump
out of my hands when it reduced the
army"
"Wen, now, General, tell us what you
think of the Prussians," said MIR. Greene
baum"
-"Don't like EN- he responded senten-
tiously.
"Why not, your EXcellency?"
DWELL, don't. They want offices TOO
much. Why, have had more than hum
dred thousand applications from Dutchmen
for office, whose recommendation was that
they fought NIT Sigel.' AS voters, l have
no objection to them. During the war
they stole everything so that native had
no chance"
The General proceeded to comment on
Prussian strategy. He did not like it, he
said. They were in too much of a; hurry.
Here, now, in less than month they have
hardly million men in the field, which was
shorter time, he said, than he required 10
move his army from Fort Henry to Donei
son, distance of only thirty miles. rms n
celebrity, he remarked, is destructive OF al
precedent. The Prussians have gone lui
Their in ten days than he went IN ten mohth
when moving on Richmond.
He further thought the PruSsian move
blunder. In place of going to Paris oy way
of Metz they ought to cross the Jane'
river and 20 around by way OF PETERSBURG
There is neither dignity nor sense LII thu
way of rushing straight at Paris with bli
army. The Prussiau leaders ought to hole
on and see who is going to be the next Pre-
sident. This making war for war SAX
was not, in his opinion, the true principl
of warfare. All wars should have the higl
and beautiful object of returning the mel
Of ones party to Congress, and the election
Of ones candidate to the Presidency.
At this moment it was announced tina
lunch was ready, and the party broke up.