The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-09-09

thought should be done by the Freuch.
"My idea," said the General, '.is
that they should get Butler and Banks
co1hmand army crops in the Pr9ssian
forces. Then they should contcript
every Frelichmaa that can cary a
musket and send him in. Prussia has
on!f 10000, OOO Inhabitants, while
France kas over 40, 600 90. Thisis a
cloar difference iu favor of France oil
100000. Now let France keep
hammering away at the Prussians, il
it takes all summer. / am of the
| opinion that the superior. activity OF
the French, aided by their chessepot.
their clan, their traditions, and theil
| superior navy, viii enable them to
kill Prussian as often as they can Q
Frenchman. Hence it is clear case
that if France hammers away tl
all the Prussians are killed of, he will
have 100000 left. In other words
his cats tail is the longest"
"What is your opinion ofNapole0n
personlly ?" asked Mr.. Joseph MOdill'
s.He is great man. He smokes al
ways and never says anything. lie
| was once in humble circumstances.
He was never, however, in the hide
business, except, perhaps, SO far as
hiding himself is concerned. -
Here Gen. Dent broke into uproar'
| ious laughter. He afterward remark
ed to our reporter that he was hired
4 to laugh at Grants jokes and he add
| ed, he. fiattered. himself he was doing
q very extensive business on a very
limited capital.
Gen. Grant pulled stoically until
Dent had finished laughing, and he
resumed: Napoleon is my model.
l have stood before his portrait by the
hours, trying to mould my counten-
ance into the stony inexpressiveness
that characterizes his. / am not GER.
| tain but that shall initiate his coup
etat. He rose from obscurity to be
President. So did. He rose from
President to be Emperor and if L
don't fellow suit it will be because
Congress took the trump out of my
hand" h. .,
aWell, now, General, tell us what
YOU think of the Prussians, said Mr..
Greenbaum.
sDon't like 'em," he responded sem
tentiously. 1870 "a
"Why not, your Excellency?"
"WeiI, l don't. They want office too
much. Why, have had more than a
hundred thousand applications from
Dutchmen for Office, whose only re-
commentator was that they fought
NIT Sigel.' AS voters, l have no OBJ
lection to them. During the war they
stole everything, so that a native had
no chance The General proceeded
| to comment on Prussian strategy. He
did not like it, he said. They were
too much i'm hurry. Here, now, in
less than a month they have hardly a
million men in the field, which was
a shorter time, he said, than he requir-
ed to move his army from Fort Henry
to Donelson-a distance of only thirty
miles. This CELEBRITY, he remarked,
| is destructive of all precedent. The
Prussians have gone farther i'll ten
DAYS than he went in ten months
when moving on Richmond.
He further thought the Prussians
move blundcr. In place OF going
toward Paris by way of Metz they
| ought to cross the James river and go
| around by way of Petcrsburg. There
are neither dignity nor sense in the
| way ofrushing straight at Paris with
a big army. The PruSsian leader
ought to hold on and see who is to be
the next President. This making war
for wars sake was not, in his opinion
the true principle of warfare. Allwars
should have the high and beautiful
object of returning the men of ones
party to Congress, and the election OF
ones candidate to the Presidency.
At this moment it was announced
that lunch was ready, and the party
| broke up.