Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-02-24

sI4 Fl A + Y ss..s ,is I Igtis ss, ss4,
l.6yettsvie hnheralded and On fda. one cold af
| iernoon, at about 3. O'clock, attended only by an
| Irish servant, picked ulia Leesburg, Making him
| self known TO Lente0ant Sprague, OF the Ninth
! New York Cavalry, who was on duty at that time,
\ he was at once mounted troopers horse and
sent 10 Brigadcr General Devins' headquarters.-
lie manifested much satisfaction at arriving within
our lines in safety, having Travelled without inter
ruption OF any kind, from. Richmond 10 Char
iuttcsyc, then across the country through Mad-
son Court House 10 Guipcper Brandy Station, (hN-
ING an interview with Joha Minor Bolts at this lat
ter pace) Lccsburg, Point Of Rocks aud lioyetls-
Vile making the last i've miles OF the distance on
foot: a pretty good walk one would say, Tor a man
CT wears old, with Snow upon the ground. W bile
detained for several days by order Of the Govern
ment at LOyettsyille, though nomnally prisoner,
there was no ink SOME restraint placed upon his
lions; he seemed DESTROYS however, of attracting
as little public attention as possible, but expressed
his opinions freely to all who conversed with him,
being specially guarded all the time as to giving
information about military affairs. Still, IL was
uute eyid ent he thought rebeldom on its last legs;
otherwise, il is believed, lac never would have en-
tered our lines, notwithstanding repeated assertions
of his salways having been Union man ~ He GER
tainly rs not an ardeGi admrer OF Jefferson Davis.
Like some antiquarIans in the loyal States, Mr..
Foote lalors under the haucination that there can
be peace without more hi OOdshcd; that, because the
DeOpla of the South are heartily tired of the war;
are ready to return their allegiance upon the best
that they are only kept from this step ow by the
obtainable eIms, and with or without slavery
military power, but il allowed time, they would
eventually overthrow this despotic power now
welded by Davis in peaceable way to enable them
10 do SO, there must be cessation OF hostillueS,
and to secure that was the social mission OF the
tx Senator.
Mr.. Foote thinks the United States the greatest
nation on earth and could not say enough IN praise
of President Lincoln, Gems. Graut, Sherman, Thorn
a. and Sheridan and all of the Union armies In bulk;
head and shoulders above ALL however, towers W IA
IL Scward--but for him the Southern COntederacy
would have been recognized long ago. now there was
no hope for such result. Such II man viii be an
excellent Union scentin Europe where II is reported
he has gone The most important fact OF all let drop
incidentally by Mr.. Footc, was that theie arc seVe-
raj members IN the rebel Congress, and large ma
iority of the Southern people who agree with him
in his estimation OF Davis "the usnrper."
In his opinion, no one at the South to day, not
even JEDI. Davis expects to succeed III establishing
a Southern Conederacy hut, at the last moment
the rebel leaders will be missing, aud subsequently,
turn up in some other part of the world. G~ip, he
SAYS, will cheat Louis Napoleon in the Sonora affair.
The above is the substance of what | gather from
persons who conyersed with Mr.. Foote at Loyetls-
Vile, while waiting for the Government 70 decide
what 10 do with his ease.