Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01

| ITaunl1)RGt progress OF j. O0ClS from For
t"ess Monroe to Richmond.
The ''srorrswooD, R!cHnoND VA,
| May 13. 1857.
In Castin retrospectin glance back
ard over the pathway of the past, kin
see many mistakes wich | hev made |
hevn't alluz made the most NV opportoo-
nities-I hev doubted when doubtin was
cine, and 1 hev stood on the brink and
feared to lanch away on Jordons on the
tother side of which wuz pelf and profit
Our fore site isn't alluz ez good ez our
hind-site.. am sasisfed that the great
est mistake l ever made in all my life
wuz not plungin headlong into the war,
ez Confedrit Major Genral, distinguish
ed in myself for crooelty toward Fedral
primers, and bein at the close nv the
fiatrisidle struggle reserved and embrac-
ed ez long lost, though somewhat fro
ward brother by the Northern people,
and NV course bein the object of sympa-
thy ez a marter by the Southern people.
In this sitooashen man hez to strings to
to his bow. He brings to his support
the two extremes. He fetches together
Horris Grealy from one side and General
Boregard from the tother-they embrace
and standin onto both their shoulders he
hez wat may be called !. soft thing Nv it.
/ wuz led into these train NV refeck-
shuns by the experience hev he'd with
our sainted cheef, jeff Davis. L cum to
this city on secret mishun, the princi-
pal objeck Nv wich wuz to see that every
thing wuz done for the illustrous man
that Good be done, on the occasion NV
his contemplate trip to Richmond and
that the arrangements shood be ez per-
feet ez possible. Partickerly wuz | to
see that everything caikelatid to jar into
his sensitive feelings be removed-every-
smellin or scein. 'qs.,I ~. .,s,.-I
The great man he'd consentid to CO.
He he'd bin, he felt, illegally deprived nv
liberty-unconsto oohnelly in fact-and eff
he shood consult his own feelins he wood
remain, but to forgive wuz divine =
Vewin these perseedins in the lite NV an
apology herwood go. ,sasas.-ii-aa al
The day, he'd arrived. The steamer
wuz at the Fortress carefully prepared to
receive its illustrous burden. 1t had
been thoroughly cleaned and fnmigated,
the cabins he'd bid nooly furnisht, speshl
altrashens made for the President and
party. There was Yoonited States Off
GERS and sojers abord, but out NV respect
for the feelifls NV their illustrous s'prizner
ez he is, technically called, they keep
themselves out NV site, that the color NV
their uniform might not awaken unpleas=
ant reflections. So perfect, indeed, wuz
the arrangements that the railin NV, the
boat wich wuz or1gnelly bloc, wuz XIV
cred with grey, cloth, and the eagle
figure head NV the craft wuz sawed off.
This was sejested by eminent Conser-
vative NV Moo York, who ,hez a large
Southern trade which he didn't prejoodis
by his course durin the war. The ladies'
cabin wuz originally assigned TO the par
ty, but. a female passenger had no more
regard for the comfort NV the narter' than
to die on the passage, an they were de-
priyed NY 1T, n. The Conservative mer4
chant insisted that the corpse shood be-
thrown overheard, but, Mr. Davis, witha
magnanimity wich wuz alluz character:
istic NV him refoozed. ''No'' sed he, '1et
her rest there. 1t is but one more at
tempt to break my sperit." Isl
ALI, the way fHp thef-Wuz the most
tetchin deferenee shown him. At every
landin the people were assembled to greet
him, and ez they salootedhim, he acknol-
eyed it with show Nv condesensheTI
never saw off the stage He conversed
bnt little on the passage up. Ez the boat
was5a s~Eepin past pintsI made historic
by the events NV the great struggle, his
eye, wood brighten, eff they wuz sch
pints ez a aConfedrit Good take pride in, /
or dim with teers eff they was sich pints
ct which ther he'd bin reverses. 4
04SM arrived 1at Richmond at last The
most considrit preparashens had been
made for his resepshen. There wuz no
irons onto him-the only guards in site
wuz them wich he'd bin detailed to keep
the crowd from annoyin him, and car
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