Davis's specie- train, of six to thirteen million dollars, was reported to be moving south from Goldsboro' in wagons as fast as possible, found plenty of willing ears, though my army of eighty thousand men had been at Goldsboro' from March 22d to the date of his dispatch, April 26th; and such a train would have been composed of from fifteen to thirty-two six-mule teams to have hauled this specie, even if it all were in gold.

I suppose the exact amount of treasure which Davis had with him is now known to a cent; some of it was paid to his escort, when it disbanded at and near Washington, Georgia, and at the time of his capture he had a small parcel of gold and silver coin, not to exceed ten thousand dollars, which is now retained in the United States Treasury-vault at Washington, and shown to the curious.
The thirteen millions of treasure, with which Jeff.

Davis was to corrupt our armies and buy his escape, dwindled down to the contents of a hand-valise! To say that I was merely angry at the tone and substance of these published bulletins of the War Department, would hardly express the state of my feelings.

I was outraged beyond measure, and was resolved to resent the insult, cost what it might.

I went to the Wayanda and showed them to Mr.Chase, with whom I had a long and frank conversation, during which he explained to me the confusion caused in Washington by the assassination of Mr.Lincoln, the sudden accession to power of Mr.Johnson, who was then supposed to be bitter and vindictive in his feelings toward the South, and the wild pressure of every class of politicians to enforce on the new President their pet schemes.