Year: 1867

LONG BRANCH, August 26.


Having noticed in your issue Of yester-
day the arrival at Long Branch of Gene
raj Beauregard, who held command in
the late Confederate army, was induced
to seek, see, and converse with him. I
found him quietly ensconsed in the vicinity
of the Mansion House, where he was sur
rounded by few select souvenirs of other
days, and in his conversation expressed
himself feelingly and frankly in relation to
that trying ordeal through which the coun-
try had passed, and the equally terrible
one through which it is now making its
transition. / found the General to be in
manners, person, and appearance fair
representative descendant Of the Hugue-
nots. He is rather below the medium
height, and Of slight but muscular ply
sique. l had the pleasure of meeting him
in the winter of 1851 on board hat-boat
on his way to New Orleans to be one of
the counsel in an important case between
prominent members Of the ton, which
many Of the disciples of Blackstone may
get remember. His locks were then raven
black-now they are touched with the
frosts of time. He is sanguine of the fu-
ture if conciliatory measures be adopted,
and that the Government will for ages pre-
sent an undivided front, standing as mo-
nument of terror, and receiving the homage
of an appreciative world.


When interrogated in relation to Mexi-
can affairs, he very frankly disclaimed
having at any time sympathised or en-
couraged the Austrian-F French alliance for
the possession Of Mexico, and looked upon
the invasion as ethiopian idea, generated
in the brain of Louis Napoleon. He also
entertained hope that there would yet
arise one that would in time bring out of
chaos the distracted elements now exist
ing in Mexico, which would eventually
become an integral part of the American
| Union. He spoke Of General Grant in
very complimentary terms, and pronounces
him thorough military tactician, but in q
square stand-up fight, with equal numbers,
he considered Lee his superior.


| In making allusion to some of the gene
rails connected with the late rebellion,
Stonewall Jackson came in for share oil
comment, as among the faithful defenders
of the Confederate cause, although at
times he was led to believe that through
rashness and rccklessness he sacrificed
unnecessarily the lives OF many southern
soldiers. He cherished the hope that
through the instrumcntality of President
Johnson and the conservative reconstruc.
tion policy inaugurated by Him the Go
rernment would be again restored to it!
primitive purity, as transmitted by tho
fathers of the republic. The General, in
conclusion, expressed q desire that the
American people in future would, in the
language Of Clay, know no "North, nc
South, no East, no West," and that they
were of one common family, pledged, fol
veal or woe, in support of the only true
system Of government extant, and that the
past should be forgotten while we cling tc
the shelter Of the same old vine and fig
tree, away from kingly misrule, where no
thing can make us afraid. He trusted tha,
at no distant day Congress would gently
Weld TO system of reconstruction III ac'
cordance with the wishes of majority O
the people Of the several southern States
This agreeable interview with one Of the
most distinguished among the generals O.
the late Confedcracy terminated much too
soon. SEASIDE.