The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-09-18
THE GRANT FAMILY.
A Tolcdoan Visits the Long Branch Cot
tage-TravelIer's Tales by Fred-His
Description of European Gambling
HeIIs and Turkish Harems.
Correspondence Of the Toledo tOhIo) Blade.l
LONG RRAScH. August %.

Correspondence Of the Toledo (0hlol Blade.l
LONG BRANCH, August %.
It was your correspondents pleasure,
short time since, to spend an evening at the
Presidents. Fortunately there were nc
formal visitors present, and the Presidents
family (except'Nelile and Ulysses Jr., who are
still absent in Europe) were seated on the
veranda, at the rear of the cottage. where
could be distinctly heard the monotonous
surging of the waves, as they break upon the
shore. General Grant Sat on one side of me
conversing with his neighbor, Mr.. John +.
Henry, while on the other side sat Mrs. Grant
and Lieutenant Fred and o Mrs. Newman,
who ia staying at the Presidents. 4 little
beyond, Mrs.. Grants aged father, Mr.. Dent,
| dozed i'm the solt light of the waning moon.
Mrs. Grant never tires OF hearing FREQ reiate
| the scenes and incidents of his travels IN
europe with General Sherman.
Ibid you visit Nice 2" asked Mrs: New"s sn,
| visited MANY of the places where Fred mas
been. - ,.
30. yes," said Fred, 81 visited Nice, and
went Into some of the gambling houses there.
| Americans generally bet larger sums of money
than people of any other nation. l saw one
American, one evening. who bet an amount
eunal tx, eight thousand dollars and won, and
then asked how much money there was In the
bank; and, when told there was an amount
equal to thirty thousand dollars, he bet an
| equal amount against It, but our party did not
walt to see the result. The government &C.
casIonally makes apparent Efforts TO suppress
| gambling, but, ss 1t is o very great source OF
revenue, they do not WORK very earnestly III
the matter. At another time, l saw an
| American and q Scotchman, who were both
| very light and who said they would go Into
| ONE of The banks and break 1t. They were as
| 1000 as their word, and then they went out
| TO get q drink, and, In the meanwhile, the
bank got started again, and they went back
| and broke it q second time; and then they
went out for another drink, and went back
and broke the bank q third lime."
t.Oh, oh % said Mrs. Grant, who seemed to
| think this story smacked q little too much OF
| the sea to be strictly true.
sits a fact" said Fred. "fhey broke the
| bank three times"
Then Mrs. Newman related some experience
of hers, giving an account OF a trip IN one OF
| those little European steamers, when she was
| thrown out of an upper berth In her state-room
during q rough sea.
"Teil us some more Of what you saw" said
| Mrs, Grant. ''Tell us what you saw ID
Turkey"
1W6at about the harems ?" I asked.
"In0 QaESmb," bdlu cEcu, BIG tuV o"WS
| our 'household;' that Is, they comprise oil tue
members of the family, aud all the servants,
| &c. Every Turkish house Ia divided Into two
| parts-that which Ia devoted to the harem or
! family, and which Ia held sacred, no stranger
| being allowed to enter II; and the other part
OF the house Is devoted to the reception OF
| visitors. or course we could not visit tnaC
| part of the house devoted to the harems, e4-
| cept In one or TWO Instances, when the occu-
pants were all taken out and We were only
| allowed to see the empty rooms"
Mrs. Grant has never visited Europe, out
she has a most intense desire to do 80. She
kept continually asking Fred to tell what ne
cav, and Fred, with o good nature Wnich was
pleasant to gee, and which spoke volumes lot
his flial regard, compiled pleasantly ano
cheerfully. 49,
Presently Jesse Grant came in and made one
more of the family group. Mr. Grant told him
that some acqualntances OF his were going 10
Lehigh to attend school
''Lehigh, Pa F he asked.
swell. I want to go to boardiDg.sShool, too.
Fred and Nellie aud Ulysses have oil been to
boardinp.school, and / want to 60, too. You
went TO poarding.school, didn't you, ma? p
Eyes. TOR seven years." said Mira. Grant.
asked Fred II he went down about the ho-
tells often.
mot often" said he. ''They stare at q fell
low 80 I didn't like it. / sometimes go down
the avenue for o drive, though"
asked Mrs. Grant when she expected her
| daughter to return.
HAbout The first of October, " said she.
II suppose she enjoyed her visit to the
| Queen very much !" /,
Eyes; both her visit to the eneen of England
and to Madame Theirs, wife OF the President
of France"
/ asked the President how much longer he
would probably remain at the Branch, and he
replied : - MI.
| White House is undergoing repairs. They are
reroofpg 1t, and, as the copper has to be rolled
| out as wanted, It Ia q slow process"
The P~res,dent.has two large Newfoundland
| dogs, which are weekly caricatured In Frank
Leslie's paper as bull pups. The stables be-
longing TO the Presidents cottage are directly Guy
| almost entirely hidden by the surrounding
| shrubbery. He has two colored attendants,
| one of whom is driver and the other acts az
| footman, and both wear q livery Of white, and
| alt together on the drivers box when the car
rage is driven out.