The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-06

t great pHtte III e4pected 1t WILLIAMSBURG,
40 the rebel troops, particularly those OF
Magruder's, have mutinied O, several
occasions. .@zssithip two weeks g 900 Of
his men threatened 70 lay down their arms
unless they received food and clothing.
Three rebel Lieutenants, two Sergeants
and twenty men we're captured the other
side Of Yorktown and brought in.
| Since the Sd over 20 deserters have
come in, and they report their army a.
thoroughly diihearteAaA and demoralizsd.
The honor Of first entering the enemy's
works belongs 10 the 73d New York reg
iment. IT, sTaxss rspgep left as our
forces wee nlleAncing. kS
A large foreeA ofthe enemy's Is report
cd captured four miles beyond York
town.
Rcports by Jeff. Davis, Oeachman.
lA 4 Washington, May 8. f.
The following statement dated yester-
day on the Rappshannock has reached
Washington. A colored man came in
to-day from the other side of tie river
and represented himself as Jef. Davis,
coachman. From an examination Of him
this ID sprobsbly the truth. Re reports
scraps asf oonvsysation overheard while
driving Mr. md Mrs. Davis in the car
rage and between Mr.. Davis and those
who came 10 see kim. Mr.. Davis and
Gen. Johnsoa had somes Aated discus.
sions about the lstiers retreat from Manas-
sas. Das,s disapsovsd pf Il md ordered.
johnson to make = stand at Gordonsyille.
johnson declined to do this and offered
70 resign and WAS even indisposed to 20
TO YerkseslA. NsA Dssis said sshe
thoukht this very bad in him Johnson
to be unwilling to help Gen. Aagrnder s.
The coachman overheard u conversation,
between Johnson and the wife of DAVIS,
the former saying If lie had not leitl
Manassas Mcclellan would have come
out against him and cut him oil - pieces.
Mrs. Davis rcd an srtisle from tho
Examiner to her huAband, saying that II
wan part of the Yankees plans that Hen-.
Banks and Mcdowell Vera ~ form
junction in Louisa or Caroline Co., and
move down on Richmond. Davis re-
marked he thought that was so, but his
Generals lo1A take gareaof them.
The coachniara overheard Converse
ton between Davis and DR.. Gwin, form
Essly IL S. Senator, from California Mr..
Davis said that he had sen. Gen j. r.
Anderson, from North Caroline, to resist
the march Of the Fcderals from Fred
sericksbnrg and delay them long enough
for him to see the probable result Of the
eonasst before yorktown, 90 that il that
vas likely 70 be unsuccessful he would
have time 70 extricate his army from the
Peninsula and get them into Richmond,
and out Of Virginia, and that otherwise
they would all be canght 10 IIl
The coachman represents that Mrs.
Davis said that the Codfeleracy was about
played out, and thai il New Orleans was
really taken she had nd longer any interest
in the matter as all she had was there
that it was great pity that they had ever
attempted TO hold Virginis, and the othsf
non growing cotton States, and that she
ssid to Mrs. Dr.. Gwyn, daughter Of Col.
Jas. Taylor, U. s. Commissary General Of
Subsistence, who Was very anxious to get
to Washiagton where sne has ones Of her
children, mob to give herself any tfeubae, !
but only to stay ~hsve she was aud when
the Yankees came to Richmond she could
60.
- The councilman says that Mr.. and Mrs =
paYn hsxnf all thor books, clothing Isnd
pidirss packed up ready to move off !;
that thero a much ontspoksn Union feel-
iaszfn Richmond that, having been
waiter in q hotel there, he knows all the
fuaion men Of the place, and that the
Yankees arsloeked III with much pleas
4lss, more BY tie whites than by even the
..colorsd people. ~ . - 81 II 81 78a M
III Confederate money is not taken when
III can be avoided. Mrs. Davis herself
was refua@A whom a,e Oalseda ten dollar
oonfedefsts rod. ] Many u shaR Richmond
people wish the Union troops to come, d
they are Milf staSvsd lc4t.s The Bank aud
aoss1nlnknx pSpnelty II al pscked up for
dcn6saI TO Danville, near the North Car
-6aikA Inns ssdsu y sahps h ,sa " bsi,ss sra1
Fl GIN. johnson did not think TREY &OAldi1
sucSskd at Yorktown. The coachman
overheard the rebel officers say II they
failed It Yorktoss and NeH pflsanA they
would leave Virginia.
stss4I FnoM gnEN aMR4sEAM -.
49, 81. Lquia, May s.
.dlsatssf I'M No. sl sss I soulh, ~ho ~ IT.
l& okisans whom usAsst arrived, saysI
ka$ 49, nkxst - agkRregeIm nAlfNs0f