The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-02-03
REPoRTs FROM RICHMOND.

says that Davis, in private conversation.
urges the abandonment Of Virginia by the
rebel Government, but General Ice opposes
it, and says that in such event Virginia
soldiers will lay down their arms. A Wash
ington dispatch to tho New York Tribune
gives the following items of information, as
communicated by" Jim"
The cupola roof OF tho Presidents house
leaks badly, he says. so that during the re-
cent rain-storm all the tubs from the kitchen
had to taken up to save the ceiling of the
lower floors. Mrs. Davis, who often says
that if they had known how it was going
they never would have left Washington
with her consent, was calling Massa Davis 8
attention to the state of the roof, and asked
him to send to the Quartermastcr's Depart
ment and have it repaired. Massa Davis,
who has grown very petulant and irritable
of late, replied Il reckon we will be out
of this before another rain.storm. Don't
fuss yourself and fret mo about these tri'
ncs"
The talk il not about going to Columbia,
:. C., but to some city in Georgia. Jim heard
u gentleman ask Mr. Davis ut tho table,
where Alexander Stephens was, who has
not attended Congress this session, and who
or office for over year. Davis replied,
that he had heard that Stophons had gone
to Europe, but had not thought it worth
while TO inquire what had become of him.
Jim accompanied Davis in his recent tour
around the Contederacy, and describes the
following scene as having occurred on the
summit of Lookout Mountain. Looking
down one bright day from the lofty emf
nence commanding a clear view into four
States, and very distant view of the fifth,
Davis saw the Yankees almost beneath his
loet, across the valley, working like
beavers ON their Qualifications. 81 have
them now" said he in just the trap
set for them" To which Lieut-Gen. Penn
berton, who was sitting on horseback be-
side him, replied Mr.. Davis you arc
Commandor-in-ChieG and you are here. You
think the enemy are in u trap, and can DO
captured by vigorous assault. have
been blamed for not having ordered gen.
eral attack on the enemy when they were
drawing around their lines of circumvalla-
tion at Nicksbu urg. Do you now order an
attack upon those troops down there below
us, and | will set you my life that not one
man of the attacking column will ever
como back across that valley, except as
prisoner
When Davis was passing through North
Carolina he only stopped at Wilmington, to
consult with General Whiting. While
there he was pressed by numerous dele
CATION of Confederate otlico-holders to stop
in Raleigh for consultation with Governor
Vance This he angrily declined 1t ap-
pears that the health of Mr.. Davis is rap
idly breaking down under his alsia
attacks,i in So much that he can no longer use
his only good eye by candle light. He
continues his old habit after dinner of
stretching himself on tile carpet before the
fire, in room otherwise unlighted and
it is fast becoming dangerous for any one
to approach him.
Always of violent and fretful temper,
this is becoming greatly aggravated by
misfortunes, ant, Jim describes him on one
occasion as ninging' about the chairs and
furniture when so disturbed. About four
weeks ago a pistol exploded in his room
when he was loading it, and the whole tam
lily rushed up. feeling confident that, as they
had long decided he had committed sui
eide.
jim says that Mrs. Davis, in conversation
with female friends, frequently talks of the
Confedcracy as hopeless, and is loud in re-
grcts for the lost pleasures OF Washington.
There is no forage except III the Missis-
sippi Department, and tho allowance for
Mr.. Davis two horses is two quarts of corn
each per day, on which, says Jim. they are
growing thin. Not long ago Mr.. Davis re-
ceived present of twenty turkeys, the
food for which now comes from the corn
rations of the quadrupcds making them
still thinner. \ turkey, Jim says, lasts tho
family three days roasted or broilcd the
first day, cold the next, and hashed the
third.
Mr. Davis receives no company-has no
wine in his cellar, but has several kegs of
brandy sent from blockade runners at VIII.
mington. Jim says that Mr. Davis told
him that the Yankees had killed all the
people whom they found on his Mississippi
plantation, and that they were all found ly
ing piggIety pigglety in hoIo, their legs
and arms cut off, and, in some cases. their
heads bloody and beaten, protruding from
the ground. jim says he believed this
story, until one of his fellow-servants, who
could read, told him it was lie to deceive
them. Then Jim determined to loave.
When he did leave, he was hidden in a
hole in the earth at Charles City for three
days before he was found by his wife, the
last slave owned by Mr.. Davis in the Pres
dential Mansion. Jim wore an overcoat,
and in it the autograph name of Mr.. Davis
and the date 1860. How do you keep your
coat SO guod?" we asked. "Oh, golly Massa
Davis gave il to me a year ago, and knew
| might never get another, so took care of
it," lie had on his feet new but very coarse
brOgans of untanned leather, which "Massa
Davis got from the Quar- termastcr, and he
tod me to take caro- of them, for they cost
$50.
The utmost distress prevails in Richmond
thprn thou
three beeves killed in the city per day for
private consumption. Fresh beef was about
S4 pound, whom he left. For string of
each, he paid Sl3. Oysters were S25 a quart
as they could only be obtained in the night,
on account of the Yankee occupation of the
James river with gunboats.
The negroes are forbidden to go near
Libby Prison, and he believes there are
black soldiers coufned there, as he has
seen them at a distance.
Beauregard is known to have black pris-
oners at Charleston, who are reported to
he subssted on the minimum ration that
will support life. lie says the lower two
thirds Of Charleston is now uninhabitabe
and in ruins. Jim says he has not yet
heard anything about arming the negroes,
and remarked "If they only armed us
they would see on which side these poor
niggers would be-"
Jim says that at the time of Meade's ad-
vance across the Rappahannock and fight
at Mine Run, Lee had made every prepare.
ton to fall back, having only 10000 ragged
and dsheartened troops with him. Davis
sent out all the clerks and employees of the
Quartermaster's Department, with axes and
shades IN black nm the MpChanicsVilIa and