Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-08-27

Of speech and only sits still and listens.
BE knew our object was visiting rebeldom,
and one morning l said to him:
"Gener ], you know JEFF. Davis. Tell
Us, how we shall approach him2 what shall
we say to him2'
! Drawing one leg over the other, and
dih ing his snoStri6 in a way peculiar to
70 himself he answered:
Do you really want TO know? Well,
I'll tell yOn, and throwing himself into an
attitude he gave Us, for half an hour, an
imaginary conversation with the rebel
leader, peTsonating irst him and then the
Colonel and myself and doing US so ad-
mirably that l almost fanoied we ourselves
were actually spesking. AS he was about
concluding, General Meade entered the
fronttent, and as he rose TO receive his vis-
itor,-and still speaking as JEFF. DAVIS
finished Us as follows; "t i"t
Il Now gentlemen, I've said my say, and
II you don't clear Out, and take your Yankee
notions to some other market. I'll hang
you 70 the frst tree-I will, as I'm Chris
tianp -- H' II .-l-
Afterwards, when listening to the much
more serious words of the rebel leader, I
had often to smile as General Buffers in
imitable personation of him REQUIRED to
nei and when again, late at night, we re-
turned from the rebel lines, and, stiff with
hard riding, and exhausted with fatigue
and illn-ss, 1 staggered into his isnt and
threw mysef on a COT in corner, al
most died with laughter when the Colonel
reeounIed tc hun The Richmond interview
III was 81 ike the advance representa-
tion he had gwen uE II We had known
JET. Davis as General Butler knows him,
! very much question cur having gone 10
Richmond. s-~rf-z
The hext morning the hag-of-truee of.
q ee4 Cal4io into camp win a dISPGGCE, VI
which the following is = copy:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
RIoHAoND, Va, July Il, 1854.
10 the Officer eofnma,sfi,,g the u S. forces
at Desp Bottom, Va:
Sir'-A communication from Lieutenant
General U. s. Grant 10 General K. E. Lee,
requesting shat --- Esq. and Colonel
James F. Jaques be allowed TO meet the
undersigned at suoh place between the
lines OF the two armies as may be desig-
mated. having been referred 10 the War
Department, am directed to request YOU
to notify Lieutenant General Grant that 1
will be in attendance at some convenient
point between Deep Bottom and Chafin's
Bluff (say at Mrs. Grovsr's) on Thursday
the l4th inst, at one o'clock p. NJ; to re-
fceive any communication the above
named parties have to mike. fE5F
ResPeoEfully, your obedient servant,
ROBERT OULp
ID .,.-s. Agent OF Exonange.
20 At the appointed time, we rode up to
Mrs Grpver's, a modest plantation mansion,
about midway between The two armies, on
the James river. Our Southern friends
we're not there; but IN the edge of a grove
Of oedars few hundred yards distant we
saw white dag flying. GaIIoping rapidly
across the intervening wheat-held, we soon
caught sight Of pair Of fhorses hitohed to
an open twO-seated wagon, and near It saw
three gentlemen seated on a log IN the shade
Of huge tree. These gentlemen arose as
We approached, and one Of thsm-a courts-
Gus, middle-aged men, in Panama hat
aud suit OF spotlesS white drillings-said
to Major Nulford, the Union Commission
er, who accompanied US fETT1 II
{" I'm glad to see you, Major. IL sorns
time since we met"
-. Yes it Is. I've come now to deliver to
you these gentlemen, to be shot or banged
whichever you like" EaA 80
The Judge-for it was Judge 0uld-
laughed, and then intrnd,raoS - = l-i.,-a--
Pan1loin1l7-Captaln Hatchj Of the eOommission,
ana Major Henniken, Of the rebel War
Department, .lT -. y ~
Some unlmportant conversation followed,
and then, saying we would like to speak
with him privately, we led the Judge into
-he grove Of cedars. There we opened our
business. He listened with interest but
expressed the opinion that Mr.. Davis would
'etuse to see us unless we produced creden-
tals from our GoYernmsnt ra----7.-5 ~
" We have none, said the Colonel, In
lls earnest wayi "but We must see him
We only ask hearing. Then he NAV
hang or shoot Us if be likes.' a,i n9yf
Hang, but hear F" answered the Judge.
"Thst is what you mean ?"
aYes,h said the Colonel, 1--WE have
hat to say which Mr.. Davis ought to hear,
nd we are willing to risk our lives to say
We'll" said the Judge, aI viii bear
'Our message to the President, aud meet
,ou mere agaln-when ~
"To-morrOw, at this hour, If you like"
That may be too early. Suppose we
ay the.next day, Saturday, at II o o'clockn
+" Very we'll Saturday let it be-" And,
eDountlng our horses, we rode back to |
General Buffers camp.
We remained there the following dav. |
nd on the morning of Saturday, the I6tb !
July, Just as the Boston bells were SOUND
ig nine, taking him by the hand, We said
, him: " ~
Good by. If you do not see us with
ten Gays, you viii know we have gone
If l do uot see you within that time,n
rep led "Pll demand you; aud If they
ont produce you both, body and soul I'll
Ks TWO for one-better men thad YOU are
aud hang them higher than Haran. |
y hand on that. Good BY"
How the interview with JEFF Davis rs-
Ilted, all know