The New York herald., 1865-05-15
DETAILS Of the FLIGHT.

That Je Day vould eventually be captured has been
for time foregone conclusion In which the public
have thoroughly acquesced that the official announce
ment that lie Is 10 the hands OF General J. H. Wilson
will be received with few demonstrations OF JOY The
event has BEEN so long anticipated has fails m STILL
born TO the greater acts Of tho assassi
nation the peace he capture Of Je
Davis" is an announcement which, two years ago,
would have been considered startling indeed but when
the people saw that Lee Johnston and Dick Taylor
had been unable escape tho combinations OF General
Grant, they felt that there ie fear that DAVIS would
succeed The combinations by which the rebellion has
been destroyed Of the Mississippi find gratifying
completeness in the capture Of the arch traitor himself
Davis began his fight from Richmond on the night Of
April and by the morning OF the Sd had succeeded in
doing by rail what Lee could with his armyin fact
reach Danvie and got beyond Grants lines He was at
DanvIe the 9th OF April anxously awaiting the ap
pearance OF Lee, and employing himself in indng
Wild wordy and windy proclamation in which he vanly
promised what he could hopo TO perform. He de-
clared there reason 10 be discouraged and that
he had no intention Of abandoning the cause. He got
the OF the surrender of Leo O'Clock night
on April g. and daylight the next morning he left In
private conveyance for Greensboro, N c. Here he
malned for several days He prominent through
his Secretary Of War, Breckenridge, in arranging tho
terms OF the Sherman Johnston armstice In which
as dipomatist. He remaned at Greensboro
during the time that elapsed in which agreement OF
sherman and Johnston submitted the authorities
at Washington, and If confdent the terms would no
be accepted, DO employed himself In organizing de.
tachment OF cavalry under Generals Wade Hampton
and @. Dibbrell, escort for himself his family
staff and treasures to the Of Florida the Trans
Mississippi Department On the receipt Of the intei-
gence that the admnls ration not TO be duped into
the acceptance Of the terms Of the Sherman Johnston
arinislice be promptly dccamped from Greensboro and
continued 'his light"
His from Greensboro 10 Irwinsvile, Georgia. is
not distinctly known On April the 26th he left Char.
lote, escorted by about three thousand cavalry The
mon were mostly Kenuckians and Texans. Davis
made a. z speech y Charlotte before leaving, In
which, X ks Usual style, he promised to
have larger army in the field than ever very
He had with him train Of about twen
~ wagons His escort mere desperadoes and ad-
venturers, many OF whom were formerly under John
Morgan. He crossed the Savannah river short
distance above Augusta May 2, and at Powell.
tom Hancock county on May 8. In the mean
time vengeance, the wings Of lightning, was
pursuing him By means OF tho rebel telegraph wires
tho Presdeu, elegraphed his proclamation, accusing
Davis Of being n league with the assassns Of President
Lincoln to Gcpera Wilson al Macon Ga. General VIII
scattered handbils describing Davis through
out the country and started hts cavalry in search OF the
culprit The result or the search is thus n,odestly
nounced By General WILSON,
MACON, Ga May 12-t1AM
Lieutenant General S. GRANT Hon. SUMMARY
WAR, Washington, ID c. -
Ihavc the honor report that at daylight OF Che 10th
instant Colonel Pritchard commanding Fourth Michigan
cavalry, captured JeH Davis aud family, with Reagan
Postmaster General Colonel Harrison Private Secretary
Colonel johnson, Ad.dcCamp; Colonel Norris, Colonel
Lubbock, Lieutenant Hathaway, and others. Colonel
Pr,chard surprised their camp Irwinsve, in irwin
county, Ca seventy miles southeast of his place
They viii be here TO- night and will be forwarded
under strong guard without delay.
! win send further particulars at once.
j. II. WILSON, Brevet Major General.
The dispatches from General wilson winch pub.
Iish elsewhere giye in detail the rest of the story