The New York herald., 1877-10-26
the prisoners. The Turks will now find .
lion in the path between Sofia and Plevna-
A eossiping Interview with Tweed.

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lion in the path between Sofia and Plevna.
A Gossiping Interview with Tweed.
| The HERALD has succeeded in doing o
rather difficult feat in procuring frank and
almost garrulous interview with William M.
Tweed in his prison. There is quite con-
trast between his conversation in this inter-
view and his testimony in his several ap-
pearances before the committee ofAldermen.
His testimony dealt with public matters hav-
ing legal or political bearing, but what
he says in this piquant interview lifts the
curtain on the personal trials, experiences,
hopes, fears, tastes, opinions, yicissitudes
and "reminiscences of the man himself. 1t
exhibits rather his human than his political
side. There was always q vein OF geniality
and good fellowship in this noted felon, as
there generally is in successful American
politicians. Besides buying men with money
or offices he had power OF attaching
them to him by the stimulation or the reality
of generous qualities, nnd his fidelity to
friends and associates is attested by the
long silence he maintained under GOODNESS
and desertion when he held so many repu-
tations in his power. An attempt was
made in the interview to bring out the hu-
man side Of his character and call forth the
sentiments and views Of man who has SO
long been cut of from the sympathy OF his
fellows, and whose experience is invested
with oil the romance of gigantic politi-
cal crimes followed by remarkable
I,,Jx,, .y<~ trih h1,fin
The interview affords curious study OF
remarkable specimen of human nature
which has gone through more extraor-
dinary series Of experiences than ever befell
a man whose sphere Of action was SO linn
tied. It is fund of interesting personal
gossip by person who has seen moro of
some phases of life than any Of his con-
temporaries.
Tweed expresses his opinion very freely
about Sweeny, Connolly, Hall, Hoffman.
Tilden, Judge Davis, Judge Church. Jay
Gould, Jim Fisk, Horace Greeley and many
other notabilities. He got on very we'll
with Sweeny because they were SO different
in their social habitudes He accepted Con-
molly rs IN associate because he found him
SO strongly intrenched with the Irish. He
thinks Hall is crazy. He gives curious
but not q very fattering picture of
Mr.. Tilden He was fond Of Jim
Fisk's bo,liomie and abundance of
only phrase Of his that is remembered,
"Gone where the woodbine twineth." He
thinks jay Gould altogether the ablest
fnancier in America. He says that Hoffman
was never approachable with money and
that he was SO fastidiously careful of his
reputation that he sometimes failed to help
the Ring when he might have done SO with
perfect safety. He draws q picture of Horace
Greeley which is more amusing than true,
for. although Mr.. Greeley may have enjoyed
good breakfasts and been fond Of long talks,
there is no man living or dead who ever saw
him drink wine.
Tweed describes the successful diligence
with which he studied the Spanish language
after his escape from prison, tells the name
of the sea captain who gave him away at
Santiago, with the attendant circumstances,
and describes the kind Of life he intended
to live in Spain if he had not been cap
tured. He tells what the Metropolitan Hotel
cost him and explains his project Of making
it sort Of national democratic club We can
not allude to all the topics Of conversation
which was various, exclusive and unreserved,
and which flowed freely in almost every
channel which our interviewer suggested. It
was like fireside talk by very communi-
IL - kof.
be called important it cannot but be re-
garded, taken as q whole, as q remarkably
free picture of most singular life.