The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-07
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EsrABLIsHIsa 4 oAPTrAL n!
Having nothing else to do, and confident
10. no news was good news M: paYs
solved on estabIishing his capital: An
z~ecutiye Office was rented, and the PreAi-
sngs aids ses 10 work opening md Feierr-
10 letters. General Cooper started a war
epartment and Mr.. Mallory an office for
be a Judge Reagan seized the. ma
onie Hall for a post office department and
sd chiefs of buresus TO go on with pubic
Captain Lee-the generals
,rotber-vent through the usual red tspe'
am of an order and detail office for the
,avv and found himself Don as busy as
,vef he was in Richmond. Attorney
General Davis and Mr.. Benjamin rested
and foreign affairs we're in allegiance.
NEw REBEL TREASURY OPERATIONS
MI. Trenholm opened the Treasury at
me of the banks and delighted al Dan
Vile resident and fugitive, by Offering
Mexican silver for Confederate notes
dollars for onel That struck me-
as a si9nifcant commentary-the govern
ment in the market TO depreciate its wi
currencyl About $4,000 in silver WIS
thus disposed of in the course of two days.
This course of the Treasury Secretary
though most acceptable as an sccommodAT
ton. had the effect of ~neutralizing the good
Impressions produced by the Presidents
proclamation.
sEMMEs IN HIS GLORY, MAKING A BIG DIS
PLAY ON NOTHING. lHH -aHi7ist
Morning, noon and evening on the 4th
of April no news and every sign OF build
ing. or arranging, rather, q capital Ellgl-
ble structures were impressed iOr some sort
of decentralization Office. Admiral Semmes
nut all his navy-ofieeTs and men-into
one grand brigade for the defence OF the
new Richmond. He was dubbed a-blgs-
dier general az well as admiral, and as
signed to the batteries. Much fuss andno
little fustisp was the immediate consequence.
Guns were mounted, sighted and tested on
al the knobs around the city. 5toHemHn
was expected. Two of the men, escorted
by five mounted confederstes, were passing
in triumph through the city. 6emmes
would be- ready in a dsy to give Stonemsn
q stunning reception Every fugitive was
70 be put in service if he Was capable Of
carrying q gun At least ten thousand
muskets and a goooly artillery force were
thus thus TO hold the new capital against
all new corners. Things looket brisk and
bright; only not a word yet from Lee or
Breckinridge.
AN ENCOURAGING STORY.
Lste on Saturday evening, the 9Th, a
handsome story crePt out and blOomed all
over the CITY. A dispatch wRs said TO be
received-indeedj Captain Lee, the Gen
erals brother, told mel was receiyed-and
it read thus: t..-- .-.
We have ~fquarely beaten the Ysnks IN
two days Eight. Lee is all right with his
army well in hand. 2
BREcKINRIDGE.
This sent q thrill through the city, and
when Sunday came, with fine, clear wealth
er, the new capital looked happy, hslcyon
| as such 3 delightful fiction had q Sunday
to bssk ina day on which only persons
connected with him troubled Mr.. Davis =
it fourished without exposure.
Here is the diverse AMI truer picture:
TIE STORM BURSTS. 3r-
cobR~sGs s RsegiEfpff fl MNsSAtm5R6fdF s 81 i tH Ba svse 4Ri
ton wal q nothing when compared witt
the dismsy depicted on every face in Dan
willie as soon as that news leaked out. lie
had been whipped. Well, he can recove
from the blow. But Lea had surrendered
Impossiblel What Lee surrender /
Robert E. Lee do any thing The yer!
tbought seemed absurd. Yet the fact wa
SO; and slowly and reluctantly it had I
be credited. Gloom the denseet was abroad
and in harmony with its horrors the SIX,
poured out its torrents, making Dapvill
the most miserable place l ever dragget
my feet through.
sKEDADDLING FROM DAHYILLE.
Mr.. Davis was at the depot by half-paf
five o'clock. Mr.. Trenholm, who was yer,
Ill, was carried there in an ambulance
MI. Mallory rode about the city, issuin
orders and doing hard work, to secure III
transportation of all thst was most yalus
BILE belonging to the navy. At the depo
amid s crush little inferior to that in Rlct
mond eight days before, Judge Reagan 81
BSe SSif5i% c 9 t5RRRdf on s s6%s a soR B BAs
and the Attorney General squat on a VS.
lise. Confusion was supreme, and 1t wa
half an hour before there was order enoug
to enable the Presidents train to receiy
its e%vacusting freight. ST.
h IEHosPTTALITY OF GREENSBORO.
In Greensboro as in Dsnville, the nsvi
store was well packed. fortunately it wal
for in Greensboro, as not in Danville, tn
people were inhOspitAble. The home {
The hying President was q railroad ca
Not q soul offered the slightest %courtes,
Mr.. Trenholm alone, being very III, VS.
rendered the shelter of a house. and b
was taken to Governor Moreheads. A
the others, Cabinet and staff, roomed an
mesled in the cars.
1t rained furiously in Greensboro, aud
more pitisble sight you cannot well in
agine than that presented by our "disti
guished" party resisting the drainage
lesky cars. saa fa5r
THE CoEFEDERACY ooPED UP IN A CA
1t wouIu HaVv b~4a- ludicrous, if il wei
less provocative of painful reneCsio4a-
think of the whole rebel government COO
ed up in those miserable cars. And the
and thus, for five days, Jefferson Davis, b
Cabinet and staff, with other high official
we'd. Colonel Lubbock acting as as SO
Of forsging officer, and General Stuart
c Gterer, and fare rather better than cam
are was the result of their efforts. 1
Here, on the slope of a little hill, net
the railroad, Johnston and Besuregal
held q conference with Davis and BreCl
enridge. tiaA
JOHNSTON REFUSES TO OBEY DAVIS oRDEl
To FIGHT. 70 IA
Neither Johnston nor Bssuregsrd b
trayed 8 trace of dependency. It was OIL
vious, however, that they regarded Il
struggle IS over. Mr.. Davis felt muC
concern, and rather showed it. He di
trusted Johnston, but relied on Breckel
ridge to foil him in any untimely NOV
Johnston was instructed TO fight. He di
not approve the order, and disputed NJ
OaIyit { wisdom but its POa0er oVsr his aetlof
He left the hill st last undetermined as
his future course, reserving TO himself
right OF decision in accordance with tt
development of events. Mr.. Davis ss
him no more. He had gone to his arm
headquarters, near Hillsboro. Besuregsrt
whose headquarters were in q railroad ca
not far from our train, we often saw aiteI
ward. fsH @ SEX ntT
GETTING OUT OF GREENSBORO. yes
It now became necessary for the whol
party TO take to wagons, but the whole Hl
thority of the Presidential character va
insufficient, after four hours effort to pr
cure Jefferson Davis, for himself and part,
more than three ambulances. Tell it NJ
in Gath I am ashamed to tell il any
where, aud do not yet comprehend ID