I was delighted to have an opportunity to properly represent the actual state of affairs, and got Mr.Guthrie to go with me across to Jeffersonville, to meet the Secretary of War and escort him to Louisville.

The train was behind time, but Mr.
Guthrie and I waited till it actually arrived.

Mr.Cameron was attended by Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas, and six or seven gentlemen who turned out to be newspaper reporters.

Mr.Cameron's first inquiry was, when he could start for Cincinnati, saying that, as he had been detained at St.Louis so long, it was important he should hurry on to Washington.

I explained that the regular mail-boat would leave very soon--viz., at 12 M .-- but I begged him to come over to Louisville; that I wanted to see him on business as important as any in Washington, and hoped he would come and spend at least a day with us.