The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-13

Confederate chiefs riding the high horse
and insisting on terms that are utterly,
glaring!y inadmissible. Hence, VIC shall
be less annoyed than many others on
learning that Mn Blaif's mission has
wholly failed, and that he is returning
defeated to Washington. We have very
little hope of hearing, for the present,
anything else.
We pray the loyal millions not to flag
nor pause in their efforts to raise their
respective quotas under the President's
last call We sincerely trust that none
of these will ever be required to fire a
shot; but it is not on that account less
important to raise and equip them Nay,
if this levy were to-day embodied and
ready to take the field, we should feel
quite sure that they would never be
wanted tIere-that peace would be Sc
cured SO promptly as to leave nearly all
of them on this side of the Potomac and
| the Tennessee. Were our ability to
crush promptly and thoroughly the re-
bellion obvious and unquestionable, we
| should soon see it collapse and vanish
SO let us speedily fill up the new requi-
sition, and we may confidently trust that,
in one way or another, our long dis
tractcd, devastated country shall soon
rejoice in the return of welcome peace.
A telegram from Washington, dated
the 9th, about the same thing, says:
Francis p. Blair, ST., went IN his
second mission Of peace to Richmond on
Saturday. lis son, Montgomery Blair,
did not accompany him. Passes from
the Confederate. authoritics-civil and
military delay in the receipt of which,
at Grant, headquarters, had induced Mr..
Blair last week to- return to Washing
ton)-had been transmitted to him here,
and will enable him to continue his
journey to Richmond without Interrupt
ton. lie is doubtless in that city. It's
known here that Mr. Blair will propose
to the Davis Government scheme of pa
cification, resting fundamentally on a
return OF the rcbcllious States to the
Union. Whatever political and moral
advantages may be derived to us from
this tender of the olive branch, no hope
is entertained here that Mr.. Blair's mis-
sion will have the success of initiating
negotiations for peace. The condition of
reunion will be fatal to his, or any other
ENJOYS, labors.
George d. Prentice, of the Louisville
Jouynat, who has been in Richmond for
over month, the envoy ofthe treaC1erous
Unionism Of Kentucky, on his arrival
here through our lines, of which he
seems to have the run, reported to Ken
tuckians in the house of his own sympa-
tbies that the jeff Davis Government
had conclusively resolved to free and arm
the slaves; that two hundred thousand
of them would soon be equipped and put
in the field to fight us, under the stimulus
of the promise Of their own liberty and
that Of their wives and children, and of
a proprietary interest in the soil. In this
desperate war policy, intelligent men hear
jeff. Daviss reply to Francis z. Blair's |
proposition for peace.
A "REMINISCENCES OF THE CHICK AHoMINY |
Lincoln, on Monday, in answer to a !
resolution Of the House, communicated |
the report Of Colonel Thomas NJ. Key,
giving an account Of the interview be-
tween himself and General Howell Cobb,
on the 18th Of June, 1862, on the banks
Of the Chickahominy. The report is adj
dressed to the Secretary of War. Colo
nel Key says:
am instructed by Major General
Mcclellan to report to you the substance
Of an interview held by me with the
Hon. Howell Cobb, now acting as bri,
5adier- general i'll the rebel army at Rich
nond. was ordered to proceed with a
lag Of truce to the bridge crossing the
Jhckahominy on the Mechanicsville
Dad, where would be met by General
Cobb, for the purpose of conference
With regard to an exchange of prisoners
ny instructions being to learn the views
If the rebel Government and report them
o Major General Mcclellan.
Making arrangement for second
Meeting, also received permission to
converse with General Cobb upon the
General subject of the existing contest,
informing him, however, that all such
was purely personal, and
lot in any respect of an official repre- /,
entative character.
Il went to the place appointed, and
vas met on the bridge by General Cobb. /,
We availed ourselves, as suggested by
Mcclellan, of the shelter of a
title hut made by our pickets, few feet I
rom the bridge, and talked together for
everal hours, the conversation being
arried on chiefly by him. =
In regard to the exchange OF prison
rs, ne exhibited written authority from
General Lee, commander of The whole 4
rmY of the Confederate States !