The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1862-05-13
STATEMENTS OF JEFF. DAVIS, COiCmMiN.
Mrs. jeff. Says 'sthe Copfedcracy is Played
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WAsuINGToN. Nav :

WASHINGTON, May 8.
The following statement, dated Yesterday
on the Rarpahannock, has reached Washing.
ton:
"A coIored man came in to-day from the
other side of the river, and represented him
self as jeff. Davis coachman. From an ex.
animation Of him this is probably the truth.
He reports scraps of conversation overheard
while driving Mr.. and Mrs. Davis in the car
rage, and between Mr.. Davis and those who
came to see him. Mr.. Davis and Gen. Jo.
seph + Johnston had somo heated discus
slons about the latter's retreat from Manassas
Davis disapproved Of il, and ordered Johnston
to make stand at Gordonville. Johnston
declined to do this, anl offered to resign, and
was even indisposed to 90 to Yorktown. Mrs.
Davis said she thought this very bad in him
(Johnston) to be unwilling to help Gen. Ma.
gruder.
The coachman overheard conversation be.
tween Johnston and the wife OF Davis; the
former (Johns,on) saying, if he had not left
Manassas Mcclellan would have come out
against him and cut him all to pieces.
Mrs. Davis read an article in the Examiner
to her husband, saying that j, was part of the
Yankees plan that Generals Banks and Nc
Dowell were to form a junction in Louisa or
Caroline county, and move down on Rich
mond. Davis remarked, he thought that was
so, but his Generals would take care Of them.
The coachman overheard conversation be-
tween Davis aud DR.. Gwin, formerly Is Scna
tor from California. Davis said that he had
sent General J. X. Anderson from North Car
oina to resist the march Of the Federals from
Ii,
for him to see the probable result of the con
test before Yorktown, so that if that WAS Ike
" to be unsuccessful, he would have time TO
extricate his army from the peninsula and get
them Into Richmond and out of Virginia hat
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 Ia
ken, she had no lonocr any interest in the
mattel, as all she had ",,c there; that it was
great pity that they had ever attempted to
hold Virginia, and the other non growing cot.
ton States, and that she said to Mrs. Doctor
Gynnes, daughter Of Col. james Taylor, U.
5. Commissary General Of Substance) who
was very anxious to get 10 Washington, where
she has one Of her children, not to give her
self any trouble, but only to stay where she
was aud when the Yankees came to Richmond
she uld 90.
The coachman says that Mr.. and Mrs, Da
Wis have all their books, clothing aal pictures
packed up, ready to move of; that there is
much outspoken Urion feeling in Richmond; {;
that, having been waiter in hotel there,
he knows all the Union men of the place; aud
tn the Yankees are looked for with much
pleasure, more by he whites than even the
colorei people. Confederate money is not
taken when it can be avoided. Mrs. Davis
herself was refused when sue offered ten dol
lar confederate note. Many Of the Richmond
people wish the Union troops to como, As they
are half starved out. Tho bank and govern
mort property j. all packed up ready for ro.
moyel to Danyi'lc, near the North Carolina
line.
General Johnston did 70. thuk they would
succeed at Yorktown. The coacAmau over
heard the rebel officers say if they failed at
Yorktown and New Orleans they would Icayo
Virginia.