The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-05-08
rHE BEGINNING OF EsEvhATs0Ns
Statements of sea. Dayis' Coaehsnnn.


WASHINGTON, May 5.-The following state
ment, dated Yesterday, on the Rappahannock,
has reached Washington:
A coiored man came in to-day from the other
side OF the river,aud represented himself as Jeh
Davis c0achnan. From aneXaminaton OF him
this is probably the truth He reports scraps
Of CONVEX saton overheard while driving Mr. and
Mrs Davis N the carriage, and between Mr
Davis and those who came to see MN MT
Davis and Gen Joseph +. Johnston mad some
heated discussions about the latlers retreat
from Manassas. Davis disapproyed OF it, and
ordered Johnston to make a stand at Gofdon-
willie johnston declined to do this, and offered
to resign, land was even indisposed to 60 to ofk-
town Mrs Davis said she thought this very
bad in him (Johnston) to be unwilling to help
Gen. Magruder.
The coachman overheard a conversation be-
tween Johnston and the wife OF Davis the
former (Johnston) saying, if he had not lett
Manassas Mcclellan would have come out
against him and cut him all to pieces.
Mrs Davis read an article in The Richmond
Examiner to her husband, saying that It was
part of the Yankees plan that Generals Banks
Mcdowell were TO form a junction III Lou or
Caroline county, and move down on hlchmond
Davis remarked he thought that was SO, but
his Generals would take care OF them.
The coachman overheard conversation be-
tween Davis and DR.. Gwin, formerly Senator
from California. Davis said that he had sent
General j H. Anderson from North Carolina to
resist the march OF the Eederais from FREEZER
icksburg, and delay them long enough for hlm
to see the probable result Of the contest before
Yorktown so that if that was likely to be TN
successful, he would have time to extricate his
army fl ON the peninsula and get them into
Richmond aud out of Virginia that otherwise
theY would all be caught.
The coachman represents that Mrs. Davis
said that the Confederacy was about played out,
and that if New Orleans was really taken, she
had no longer any interest in the matter, as all
she had was there that it was great pity that
they had ever attempted to Aold virginia, ana
the other non-growing cotton States, and that
she said to Mrs. DIR. Gynnes daughter OF Col.
JAS Taylor, U. S Commissary General OF Sub
stance who was very anxious to get to Wash
ingtou, where she has one Of her children, not
to give herself any trouble, bnt only to stay
where she was and when the Yankees came to
Richmond she could go.
The coachman says that 1Ir. and Mrs. Davis
have all their books, clothing and pictures pack
ed up, ready to move off; that there is much
outspoken Union feeling in Richmond that,
having been Ii waiter in hotel there,he knows
all the Union men Of the place. and that the
Yankees are looked for with much pleasure,
more ny the NhlLes IMAM even the coioIeu peo-
pie Confederate money is not taken when it
can BE- avoided. Mrs. Davis herselfwas refused
when she offered ten dollar Confederate note.
Many Of the Richmond people wish the Union
troops to come, as they are half starved out
The bank and government property is all pack
ed up ready for removal to DanvilIe, near the
North Carolina line.
Gen. Johnston did not think they would sue
coed at Yorktown. The coachman overheard
the rebel officers say if they failed at Yorktown
and New Orleans they would leave Virginia.