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Capt. Titlow; and as he spoke the senior blacksmith
took the shackles from his assistant.
Davis leaped instantly from liis recumbent at
titude. a flush passing over his face for a moment,
and then his countenance growing livid and rigid as
death.
He gasped fpr breath, clutching his throat with the
thin fingers of bis right hand, and then recovering
himself slowly? while his wasted figure towered up to
its full height—uow appearing to swell with indigna
tion and then to sliriuk with terror, as he glanced from
the captain's face to the shackles—he said slowly and
with a laboring chest:
“My God ! You cannot have been sent to iron
me!”
“Such are my orders, sir.” replied tlie officer,
beckoning the blacksmith to approach, who stepped
forward, unlocking the padlock and preparing the fet
ters to do their office. These fetters were of heavy
j iron, probably five-eighths of an inch in thickness,
and connected together by a chain of like weight. I
believe they are uow in the possession of Maj. Gen.
Miles, and will form an interesting relic.
“This is too monstrous,” groaned the prisoner,
glaring hurriedly round the room, as if for some
weapon, or means of self-destruction. *T demand,
Captain, that you let me see tlie commanding officer.
Can he pretend that such shackles are required to
secure the sate custody of a weak old mau, so guarded
and in such a fort as this ?”
•*lt. could serve no purpose,” replied Captain
Titlow: “liLs orders are from Washington, U3 mine are
from him.”
“But he can telegraph,” iulerposed Mr. Davis,
eagerly; “there must he some mistake. No such out
rage as you threaten me with is on record in the
history of nations. Beg him to telegraph, and delay
until he answers.”
“My orders are peremptory,” said the officer, “and
admit of no delay. For your own sake, let me advise
you to submit with patience. Asa soldier, Mr. Davis,
you know I must execute orders.’*
“These are not orders for a soldier.” shouted the
prisoner, losing all control of himself. “They are
orders for a jailor—for a hangman, which no soldier
wearing a sword should accept! 1 tell you the world
will ring with this disgrace. The war is' over; the
South is conquered; I have no longer any country hut
America, and it is for the honor of America,
as for' my own honor and life, that 1 plead
against this degradation. Kill me! kill me!” he cried,
passionately, throwing his arms wide open, and ex
posing his breast, “rathe? than inflict on me, and on
cried three times a week
ninth, or longer period, will
,| ,rf>(] Hire.-fourths of table rates.
Advertisements twice a week, two-thirds of
ek, one-half of table
i- i ;,- i as special notices will
it advance on table rates,
f a transient character, not
1 be continued until ordered
urged accordingly.
iriv contracts, except for space tit table
• in id.--and. in contracts for space, all
cents per square for
business notices, for indi-
my people through me, this insult worse than death.
“Do your duty, blacksmith,” said the officer, walk
ing towards the embrasurp, as if not caring to witness
the performance. “It only gives increased pain on all
sides to protract this interview.”
At these wordp the blacksmith advanced with the
shackles, and seeing that the prisoner had one foot
upon the chair near his bedside, his right hand resting
on the back of it, the brawny mechanic made an attempt
to slip one of the shackles over the ancle so raised;
hut, as if with| tlie vehemence and strength which
frenzy can impart, even to tlie weakest invalid, Mr.
Davis suddenly seized his assailant and hurled him
half-way across the room.
On this Captain Titlow turned, and seeing that Davis
had backed against the wall for further resistance,began
to remonstrate, pointing out in brief, clear language,
that his course was madness, and that orders must be
enforced at any cost. “Why compel me,” he said, “to
add the further indignity of personal \ iolence to the
necessity of your being ironed
“I am a prisoner of war,” fiercely retorted Davis;
“1 have been a soldier in the armies of America, and
know how to die. Only kill me, and my last breath
shall be a blessing on- your head. But while I have
life and strength to resist, for myself and for my
people, this thing shall not be done.”
Hereupon Captain Titlow called in a sergeant and
file of soldiers from the next room, and the sergeant
advanced to seize the prisoner. Immediately Mr.
Davis flew on him, seized his musket and attempted
to wrench it from his grasp.
Of course such a scene could have but one issue.
There was a short, passionate scullle. In a moment
Davis was flung upon his bed. and before his four
powerful assailants removed their hands from him.
the blacksmith and his assistant had done their work
—one securing the rivet on the right ankle, while the
other turned the key on the padlock on the left.
This done, Mr. Davis lay fur a moment as if in a
stupor. Then slowly raising himself and turning
round, he dropped his shackled feet to the floor.
The harsh clank of the striking chain seems first to
have recalled him to his situation, and dropping his
face into his hands, he burst into a passionate flood of
sobbing, rocking to and fro, and muttering al brief
intervals: “Oh, the shame, the shame!”
It may here be stated, though out ol' its due order—
that we may get rid in haste of an unpleasant subject—
that Mr. Davis some two months later, when frequent
visits had made him more’freo ot converse, gave me a
curious explanation of the last feature of this incident.
He had been speaking of suicide, and denouncing it
as tlie worst form of cowardice and folly. “Life is not
’ike a commission that we can resign when disgusted
with the service. Taking it by your own hand is a
confession of judgment to all that your worst enemies
can allege. It has often flashed across me as a tempt-
remedy for neuralgic torture; bat, thank God! I
May 26th.—Called with the officer of the day, Capt. ! how far, Mr. Davis was responsible for the cruel treat- !
James B. King, at 1 P. M. Found Mr. Davis in bed, ! menonr boys. !
complaining of in tense debility, but could not point to ! Thus feeling,* I congratulated him on the change, |
any particular complaint. The pain in his head had | observing that my promise of his soon feeling better i
left him last night, but had been brought back this < was being fulfilled, and he must now take all the exer- j
forenoon and aggravated hy the noise of mechanics ] cise that was possible for him, for cm this his future •
employed in taking down the wooden doors between i health would depend. Captain korte, too. joiue.i in j
his cell and the exterior guard-room and replacing I my congratulations very kindly, and spoke with the
these with iron gratings, so that he could at all times ) frankeourtesy of a gentleman ahd soldier,
be seen by the sentries in the outside room as well as i Entering then into conversation *upoa optics and i
Hotels.
ST. CHARLES SALOON,
acoustics, Mr. Davis spoke on both subjects, but more
by the two-‘eilent triends,” who were the unspeak
ing companions of his solitude.
Noticed that the prisoner’s dinner lay untouched on
its tin plate near his beside, his meals being brought
in by a silent soldier, who placed food on his table and
then withdrew. Had remarked before that he scarcely , w
touched the food served to him, his appetite being . of beauty,’ first discovered to men by Hogarth, belli]
B Y A. STAMM, Bay Lane, rear of Post Office.—
The best Liquors, Ales, Wines. Segars, Ac.,
always on hand, including a choice article of SELT-
less than three dollars for each
charge of fifty | never sought my own death but once, and then when
~ All transient Advertisements must he paid in
It I IN T ING,
id promptly done.
mmi DAVIS IN PRISON.
completely frenzied and not master of my actions.
When they came to iron iue that day, as a last re
source of desperation, I seized a soldier’s musket and
attempted to wrencli it from his grasp, hoping that in
the scuffle and surprise, some one of his comrades
would shoot or bayonet me. ’
On the morning of May 24tli I was sent for about
half-past eight cightA. M., by Major-General Miles,
was told that State prisoner Davis complained of being
ill, and that I had been assigned as bis medical at
tendant.
Calling upou the prisoner—ibe first time I had ever
seen him closely—he presented a very miserable and
afflicting aspect. Stretched upon his pullet and very
Sr-Dies and Incidents of the Life
of the Ex-Confederate Presi
dent in the Casemate at
Fortress Monroe.
11mu the Diary
Surgeon.
■ I Hi* CONFINEMENT.
of the Confederate Leader on
ial and Political Affair*.
: New York World j
t-.ry of fL- imprisonment of Jefferson Davis,
• v ihe surgoou of llie post, who for the first
in.'iitbs of that imprisonment professionally
i the fallen President of the Confederate
:u,J dedicated to the Secretary of ilie Treasury,
in no ordinary fashion to the attention of all
. s. Without attempting to-day to review the
: ..ally, and contenting ourselves with this
latnimnt of its authorship and of the circum-
Mider which it appears a statement which
with it ample demonstration to every capable
niid person of its authenticity and iinpartial-
proceed to lay before our readers such co-
, from its pages as will enable them to
, i . grave interest and value.
LIFE
IEFFEKSON DAVIS BEGINS.
May 21, 1865.
procession into the fort was under the imme-
i:-l ectum of Maiur-General Halleck and Charles
. then Assistant Secretary of War; Colonel
:. i -i. < i the Michigan cavalry, who immediately
■ Mlic capture, being tlie officer in command of
. ;; ,rd. from the vessel to the fort. First came
! •.. neral Miles holding the arm of Mr. Davis,
...i- dressed in a suit of plain Confederate gray,
, i .v slouched hat—always thin, and now look-
i . h wasted and very haggard. Immediately
; r- came Colonel Pritchard accompanying Mr.
• i\:ilia guard ot soldieis in their rear. Thus
: . \ through files of men in blue from the
..i s Landing t • the Water Battery Postern;
i. arriving at the casemate which had been fitted
• . lb n>r their incarceration, Mr. Davis was
mi into casement No. 2, and Clay into No. 4,
t soldiers being stationed in the cells num-
d one. tl.i* • and live, upon each side of them.
■ •V entered : the heavy doors clanged behind them,
,1 m that clang was rung the final knell of the terri-
but now extinct rebellion.
p. mg ushered into l-.i< inner cell by General Miles,
i ;L* two doors leading thereinto from the guard-
being fastened, Mr. Davis, utter surveying the
<tib for some moments, and looking out* through
embrasure witli such thoughts passing over -his
awl and expressive face as may be imagined, sud-
enly <« .in himself in a chair, placing both hands
.i iiis knees, and asked one of the soldiers pacing up
d down within his cell this significant question :
A bicli way does the embrasure lace Y* - r< -
. lit* soldier was silent. ‘
Mr. Da vis. raising his voice a little, repeated the
uquiry. " _ .
i .t a. .on dead silence, or only the measured loot-
! iIn*, two pacing sentries within, and the fainter
i i the lour without.
\ddr. <s«ng the other soldier, as if the first had been
i and had not heard him, the prisoner again re
ed his inquiry.
• t tin* .-ccond soldier remained silent as the first,
. dit twitching of his eyes only intimating that he
: iml tin question, but was forbidden to speak.
V.. II, said Mr. Davis, throwing his hands up and
.ihmj into a bitter laugli, “I wish my men could
b.-en taught your discipline!” and then, rising
in ln< chair, he commenced pacing back and forth
• i »r. the embrasure, now looking at the silent sentry
the moat, and anon at the -two silently pa-
:11 -..idiers who were his companions in the case-
] much emaciated, Mr. Davis appeared a mere fascine
of raw and tremulous nerves—his eyes restless and fe
vered, his head continually shifting from side to side
j for a cool spot on the pillow, and his case clearly one
j in which iutense cerebral excitement was the fii*9t
I thing needing attention. He was extremely Ues-
i ponclent, his pulse full and at ninety, tongue thickly
I coated, extremities cold, and bi3 head troubled with a
i long-established neuralgic disorder. Complained of
j his thin camp mattress and pillow stuffed with hair,
' adding that he was so emaciated that his *skin chafed
I easily against the slats; and. as these complaints were
| well founded, I ordered an additional hospital mat-
‘ tress and softer j>illow, for which he thanked me cour-
| teously.
“But I fear,” he said, as, having prescribed, I was
' about taking my leave, accompanied by Captain Evans,
Third Pennsylvania Artillery, who was officer of the
day; “I fear, Doctor, you will have a troublesome and
unsatisfactory patient—one whose case can reflect on
you little credit. There are circumstances at work
outside your art to counteract your art; and i suppose
there must be a conflict between your leelings as a
soldier of the Union and your duties as a healer of the
sick.”
This last was said with a faint smile, and I tried to
-cheer him, assuring him if he would only keep quiet
and endeavor to get some rest and sleep, which my
prescription was mainly addressed to obtain, that he
would he well in a few days. For the rest, of course
a physician could have no feelings nor recognize any
duties but towards his patient.
Mr. Davis turned to the officer of the day, and
demanded whether he had been shackled by special
order of the Secretary ot War, or whether General
Miles had considered this violent course essential
to his safe keeping V The Captain replied that he knew
nothing of the matter; and so our first interview ended.
On quitting Mr. Davis, 1 at once wrote to Major
Church, Assistant Adjutant-General, advising that the
prisoner be allowed tobacco—to the want of which,
after a lifetime of use, he had referred as one of the
probable partial causes of his illness—though not
compliiiuingly, nor with ativ request that it be given.
This recommendation was approved in the course of
the day; and on calling in the evening I brought to
bacco with me, and Mr. Davis filled his pipe, which
was the sole article he had carried with him from the
Clyde, except the clothes he then wore.
“This is a noble medicine,” be said, with some
thing as near a smile as was possible for bis haggard
and shrunken features. “I hardly expected*?it; did
not ask for it, though the deprivation has been se
vere. During my confinement here I shall ask for
nothing.”
He was now much calmer, feverish symptoms stead
ily decreasing, pulse already down to seventy-five, his
brain less excitable, and bis mind*becoming more re
signed to his condition. Complained tiiat the foot
falls of the two sentries within his chamber made it
difficult for him to collect his thoughts ; but added
cheerfully that, with this—touching his pipe—lie hoped
to become tranquil.
This pipe, by the way, was a large and handsome
one, lnade of meerschaum, with an amber mouth
piece, showing by its color that it had seen “active
service”"ior some time—as indued was the case, hav
ing been l»is companion during the stormiest years of
bis late titular Presidency. It is now in the writer's
possession, having been given, to Jam by Mr. pav
1 I... ,1.0,. II i nui«l»il nunTl 5W flm oniv tbim. .
t matter, a brtrie and prayer book,
nmpauions those two silent guards, bis only
i v rations of bread and beef served ont
til , - Idiers oi tho garrison—thus passed tbe first
:.v i.a night "I the ex-President’s confinement.
non mb, nans was manacled.
the morning of the 23d of May, a yet bitterer
- .a store lor the proud spirit—a trial severer,
i r .bablv, than has ever in modern times been in-
, ii*d upon anv one who had enjoyed anch eun-
Lbis morning -Jefferson Davis was shackled.
It was while all the swarmiug camps of the armies
: tie IMtimiac, the Tennessee and Georgia—over two
■ iIidral thousand bronaed and laurelled veterans—
!••• preparing for the Grand Beview of the next
i; riling. 111 which, passing in endless succession be-
■ r> i In mansion oi tbe President, the conquering
iitarv power of the nation was to lay down its arms
ibe teet of the Civil Authority, Uiat.the following
■ u* was enacted at Fort Monroe:
1 niitain Jerome F„ Titlow, of the Third Pennsylvania
UlJery, entered the prisoner’s cell, followed by the
'.ii-ksuiith of tbe fort and his assistant, the latter
. rr\ mg ill his hands some heavy and harshly-rattling
-hackle*. As they entered, Mr. Davis was reclining
c his bed,. feverish and weary, after a sleeplesa
“Ik t. the food placed near to him the proceeding
ill lying untouched on its tin plate near his
• said Mr. Davis, as they entered, slightly
raising b,?“^
"1 have dl '
and its acceptance insisted upon as tlio only thing he
had left to offer.
upleasant duty to perform, air," aaid
Happening to notice that his coffee stood cold and
apparently unlasted beside liis bed in its tin cup, I re
marked that here was a contradiction of the assertion
implied in the oltl army question, “Who ever saw cold
coffee in a tin cup?’’ referring to the eagerness with
which soldiers of all classes, when empaigning. seek
for and use this beverage.
“I cannot drink it,” he remarked, • though fond of
coffee all my life. It is the poorest article ot tho sort X
have ever tasted; and if your government pays for such
stuff as coffee, the purchasing quarter-master must be
getting rich. It surprises me, too, for f thought your
soldiers must have the best—many of my Generals
complaining of the difficulties they encountered in
seeking to prevent our people from making volun
teer truces with yonr soldiers whenever the lines ran
near each other, for the purpose ot exchanging the to
bacco we had in abundance against your coffee and
8U fold him to spend as little time in bfed as he could;
tiiat exercise was thP best medicine for dyspeptic pa
tients To this he answered by uncovering the
blankets from his feet and showing me his shackled
ankles.
• It is impassible for me, poctor; I cannot even
stand erect. These shackles are very heavy; I know
not, with tlie chain, libw many pounds. It I try to
move they trip me, ao4 b& ve already ab raded broad
patches of akin from the' parts they touch, cau you
devise no rpeans to pad'or cushion them, so that when
I try to drag them along they may not chafe me so in
tolerably ? My limbs have'so little flesh on them, and
that so weak as to be easily lacerated.” * rf
At sight of this I turned away, promising m see
what could be done, as exercise was th4 chief medical
necessity in his’case; and at this moment the ffirst
thrill of sympathy for my patient was experienced.
That aftentogn, at an interview sought with Major-
General Miles, my opinion was given that tbe physi
cal condition df State-prisoner Davis required the re
moval of his shackles, until such time as his health
should be established on some firmer basis.,* Exer
cise he absolutely needed, and also some alleviation
of his abnormal nervous excitement. No drugs
could aid a digestion naturally weak and so impaired
without-exercise; nor could anything in the pharma
copoeia quiet nerves so overwrought and shattered,
while the continual irritation of the fetters was coun-;
terpoising whatever medicines might be given.
•‘You beljeve it, then, a medical' necessity?” que
ried General Miles. * . ,
'« “I do most earnestly. ^ j
“Then I will give the matter attention;” said at this
ointfbr the present the affair ended.
t
'*• • en
feeble at best, and his digestion out of order. I the rule with her in every variety of production.
Quitting him, called on General Miles, and recoin- i no leaf, liower, tree, rock, animal, bird, fish or shell
mended that I be allowed to place the prisoner on a ! that uature has produced, can a straight line, angle,
diet corresponding with his condition, which required jortwo lines exactly parallel be fouud.”
light and nutritious food. Consent was immediately i . Speaking of how greatly the powers of the singt may
given, and I had prepared and sent over from my | be increased by practice, Mr. Davfs upheld the theory
quarters some tea and toast for his evening’s meal. i that the brain, too, was also enlarged in its capacities.
Calling about 7 P. M„ found Mr. Davis greatly im- 1 both physically and intellectually, by continual labor
especially the former," w~ith great famiUaritv' lie- KR'S-WATER, directly importedfrom Heraaglhum,
fearing to the undulating waviiby which both light | “ nd * he *P t0 ' , I 5 ht ? e , W ’ nes -
and sound are conveyed, he remarked: j 1-UNlH etery day at 11 » clock. m!2-ly
■‘With what admirable perversity nature hag avoided ye a nmn Tt n tt TV n VI
alljAight ^es and angles—the mrve.^r waving ‘line jjjfl. iiliKKllj HOUSE)
proved, the tea and toast having given him, he said,
new life. Though he had not complained of the fare,
he was very thankful for the change.
He then commenced talking—and let me here say
that I encouraged him in this, believing conversation
and some human sympathy tlie best medicines that
could be given to one in his state—on the subject of
the weather.
How lias the weather been —rough or fair ? In this
huge casement, and unable to crawl to the embrasure,
be could not tell whether the weather was rough or
smooth, nor how’ the wind was blowing.
“All my family are at sea, you are aware, on their
way to Savannah; and I know the dangers of going
down the coast at this season of the year too w’ell to
be without intense alarm. My wife and four children,
with other relatives, are on board the Clyde, and these
propellers roll dreadfully, and are poor sea-boats in
rough weather.”
He then explained with great clearness of detail, and
evidently having studied the subject, why the dangers
of going dowm the coast in rough weather were so much
greater than coming north. Going down, Bhips had
to hug the shore—often running dangerously near the
treacherous horrors of Cape Hatteras; while in run
ning north they stood out from land to catch the fa
voring gulf stream, to avoid which they had to run in
shore as close as they could when steering south.
He appeared intensely anxious on this subject, re
curring to it frequently, and speculating op the pro
bable position of the Clyde at this time. “Should she
be lost,” he remarked, “it will be ‘all my pretty
chickens and their dam at one fell swoop.’ It will be
the obliteration of my name and house.”
“Mrs. Davis, too,” he continued, “has much to con
tend w'itb. Her sister has been very ill, and her two
nurses left her while here, aud she could procure no
others. My only consolation is, that some of my pa
roled people are on board, and soldiers make excellent
nurses. Soldiers are fond of children. Perhaps the
roughness of their camp life makes the contrasted
playfulness of infancy so pleasant. Charles of Sweden,
Frederick the Great, and Napoleon, were illustrations
of this peculiarity. The Duke of Wellington is the
only eminent commander of wnom no trait of the sort
is recorded.”
Talking of propellers, aud how badly they rolled in
rough sea, 1 spoke of one called the Burnside, for
merly stationed at Port Royal, of which the common
remark was, that in every three rolls she^went clean
round. ^
“Once,” I added, “when her captain was asked what
was her draught of water, he replied “that he did not
know’ to an inch the height of her smoke stack, but it
was from the top of that to her keel.”
This, and other anecdotes, amused the patient for
some quarter of an hour; and whatever could give
his mmd a moment’s repose w’as in the line of his
cure.
As I was leaving, he asked had I been able to do
nothing to pad or cushion his shackles ? He could
take no exercise, or but the feeblest, and w r ith great
pain, while they were on.
To this gave an evasive answer, not knowing what
might be the action of General Miles, and fearing to
excite false hopes. No such half-way measures as pad
ding would suffice to meet the necessities of his case;
while their adoption, or suggestion, might defer the
broader remedy that was needed. On leaving, he re
quested me in the morning to note how the wind blew,
and the prospects of tbe weather, before paying him
my visit. Until he heard of his family’s arrival in
Savannah he could know no peace.
May 27Lh.—Called in the morning with the officer of
the day, Captain Titlow. Found Mr. Davis in bed,
very weak and desponding. He had not slept. Had been
kept awake by the heavy surging of the wind through
the big trees on the other side of the moat. Appeared
much relieved when I told him the breeze was nothing
like a storm, though it blew north-easterly, which was
favorable to tlie ship containing his family.
He expressed great concern lest his wife shouldjhear
through newspapers of the scene in his cell when he
was ironed. Would it be published, did I think ?
Aud on my remaining silent—for I knew it had been
seut to tlie newspapers on the afternoon of its trans
piring—he interlaced his fingers across hi9 eyes, and
ejaculated; “Oh, my poor wife, ray poor, poor girl!
How the heart-rending narrative will afflict her!”
He remained silent for some moments as I sat be
side his bed; and then continued, extending his hand
that I might feel his pulse:
“I wish she could haye been spared this knowledge.
There was no necessity for the act. My physical con
dition rendered it obvious that there could be no idea
that fetters were needful to the security of my im
prisonment . It was clear, therefore, that the object
was to offer an indignity both to myself and the cause
I represented—not the less sacred to me because cov
ered with tlie pall of a military disaster. It was for
this reason I resisted as a duty to *ay faith, to my
countrymen, and to myeelf. It w*s for tbin reason I
courted death iron} the muskets of the guard. The
officer of the day prevented that result, and, indeed”
—bowing to Capt. Titlow—“behaved bke a man of
good feeling. But, my poor wife l I can see the hid
eous announcement with its flaming capitals, and can
not but anticipate how much her pride and love will
both be shocked. For myself I am resigned, and now
only say, ‘The Lord reprove them!’ The physical in
He pointed to the large brains of nearly all who have
been eminent in pursuiteinvolving mental labor, con
tending that as the labor of the tailor develops the
muscle* of the right thumb and fore-finger, those of
’the delver the* muscles of the leg, and so forth, so the
increased exercise of the brain increased its size.
There was a fault in bis parallel, he knew, or rather
what appeared to be a fault—that we can establish no
analogy between the mental anil physical phases of
existence. Still it was certain that labor enlarged all
organs involved in it, so far as we had means of judg
ing; aud that while we did not kuovy how the brain
acted in its reception or emission of ideas-^helher
purely passively, or with some physical action, how
ever slight—we did know for certain that the brains
of all great intellectual workers were much larger, on
the average, than were those ot men pursuing differ
ent callings.
Remarked that, with these ideas, lie must to a great
extent be a believer in phrenology; to which he as
sented, while at the same time protesting against the
charlatanisms which had overlapped, for selfish pur- i
poses of gain, what of truth there was in the science, *
Before the matter could be properly tested, the anato
my ol the brain should be made a speciality, and
studied with all the assistance ot innumerable sub
jects for many years. But tbe nieu who now put
themselves forward as professors of the science had
probably never seen the inside of any hram—cer
tainly not of half a dozen—in their lives*.
Referring to the stories that, were probably being
circulated about him in the Northern papers, and the
falseness of such stories in general, Mr. Davis in
stanced what he called the foul falsehood that he hud
preached aud effected the repudiation of the Missis
sippi bonds.
“There is no truth in the report,” he said. “The
event referred to occurred before 1 had any connec
tion with politics—my first! entrance into which was
in 1848; nor was 1 at any time a disciple of the doctrine
of repudiation. Nor did Mississippi ever refuse to ac
knowledge as a debt more than one class of bonds—
those of the Union State Bank only.”
“To show liow absurd the accusation is.” continued
Mr. Davis, “although so widely believed fliat no denial
can affect its currency, take the following facts. I left
Mississippi when a boy to go to college; thence went
to WesfcPoint; thence to the army. lu 1S35 I resigned,
settled in a very retired place in the .state, and was
wholly Unknown, except as remembered in the neigh
borhood where I bad been raised. At the time when 4-
the Union Bank bonds of Mississippi were issued, sold
and repudiated -as I believe justly, because their issue
was in violation of the State Constitution—1 en
deavored to have them paid by voluntary contribu
tions; and subsequently I sent agents to England to
negotiate for that purpose.”
Recurring then to the subject of optics and diseases
of the eye—which appeared a favorite with him—Mr.
Davis descanted on the curious effects M -belladonna
on the iris and crystalline lens; stating mat, though a
valuable remedy when only us d as such, it tended to
coagulate and produce cataract iu the latter when Used
in excess—as witness the number of cases of this kind
of injury amongst the ladies of Italy and Spain, where
the article was much used as a toilet adjunct. He
spoke of the beautiful provisions of nature for the
protection of this organ, illustrating by the third trans
parent eyelid or membrane which all diving birds drop
over the eye'when darting swiftly through the air or
water, thus protecting the delicate organ from being
hurt, while allowing a sufficiency of light to
guide them. He could not believe that 4ny living
things as a class were deprived of the joy of sunlight;
and while the microscope had thus far found no or
gans that we - could recognize as of sight ra many
classes of living things—shell fish, worms, aud so
forth—he believed that they must in some manner
be impressible with the alternations of lightjand dark
ness. It had so long appeared a question with him
whether his own eyesight could be saved, that he had
given this subject much attention—or rather reflec
tion ; and he quoted from Milton with great pathos
several passages on the subject:
Oh, dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon-
Irrevocably dark ! total eclipse without the hope of day
Aud again:
Nor to these idle orbs doth sight appear
Of sun, or moon, or stars, throughout the year,
Or man, or woman. Yet 1 argue not
Against Heaven’s hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right ouw T ard.
{To be Continued j
PHILADELPHIA.
T HU suBSCHIFHKn having leased this favorite
Hints', it has been
KKFITTKD AlVli HEFliBNISBED
IX AN ELEGANT MANNER,
Anil is now Prepared witn the Moat i*er-
fecl Appointmenta for tbe Reeep*
lion of lineals.
'flu- first position among first-class Hotels will bu
maintained in the future, as In the past.
ie!2 tt UAKBRj* FARLEY.
HOME CORRESPONDENCE Of THE
NEWS AND HERALD.
Scriven County, Ga„ June 17,1680. ^
Messrs. Editors:—In accordancqiwith your request
THE VERANDA HOUSt,
A T WHITE I’LI'FF, wili
Monday, the 9th
l ■- open on aud after
lor rbe accommodation
ot Boarders, transient or permanent. ,
The subscriber, from his lon<» experience in the
hiisi :es9. eau safely sraarantee the comfort of those
who ma> give hint a rail-
mv3fitr MOSES M. BELISARJO
LIVE OAK CLUB HOUSE
No. 3_ UKOUOK STKKicr,
Charleston, South Carolina*
G now open for ihe accommodation of transient an
permanent guests.
Ulioif-est ldt|iioi-s, Wines, Ales and Began
Termt
all tr
02 per Hay.
PETER JONES, Proprietor.
CHARLESTON HOTEL,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
T HIS populai and well Known Hotel, situated in the
business portion of tbe city, haa been newly fur
nished t hroughout by the present proprietor, who has
been sixteen years connected with the establishment.
m2C-t! W. WHITE, Proprietor.
Port Royal House,
HILTON HEAD, S. €.
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Miscellaneous.
GEORGIA STATE DIRECTORY.
For 1866 and 1867.
BY CAPT. JOHN C BRAIN, OF
SAVANNAH, GA.
T HIS valuable work of reference will be published
on or about the 1st day of July next. It will
embrace the exact location of every business and
professional man in the S ate or Georgia, as well as
the piir ue resid-nrim in nil the cities, and will be the
most exleii-ivii and domi.hue directory ever pub
lished. Xo lui-inesa in.iti should he without if, and
none should 1 iii to advertise in it, as it is doubtless a
splendid medium through which to communicate
with substantial clauses throughout thceountry.
ill flo- riiv of New Yolk alone the publisher has
nearly five hundred subscribers, and that list ia dally
on the mcri.iis;- The price of subscription is within
the reach o’ it Tt Im iness rn-.u, however limited his
mean .. The advertising to; m-, ar. lifcewist reason
able.
f'aid i-b dn and Ids General Agent, J. Orrio Lea,
of Ch.ileston, may In conferred w ith at Estili’s News
Depot, rear ol t’osi. office, each day tor the next
week, after the m-ur ■ : one p. M mySO-lm.
to planters for artioiea m relation to crops, etc., I will
give vou a brief statement of the prospect in this sec
tion of the country ; but, like the reports from many
sections of the cotton-growing States, the prospect is
anything but encouraging. Although planters bare
made great efforts to plant large crops of cotton and
convenience of these things I still feel (clanking his . to cultivate them well, yet all are now convinced that
ankles together slightly under The bed clothes, I hut ... . .. .... ,
their sense of humiliation is gone. Patriots in all j ‘heir most moderate expectations will not he realized,
ages, to whose memories shrines are now built, have j In the planting aud cultivation ot their crops, farmers
suffered as bad or worse indignities. j nave labored under many difficulties. Iu the first
He thanked me for the breakfast that had been j ]a ce cotton seed was very scarce, aud in agreat rnany
sent him, expressing the hope that I would not let my ' 1 , . ’ , , ’ .....
wife he put to too much trouble making broth and } cases we have neon compelled to use the seed ol cot-
toast for one so helpless and utterly wretched \ ton made four or five years ago. A great deal of this
•I wish, Doctor,’ said he “I could compensate you | 8ee( j was entirely useless, and crops were replanted
by getting well; but my case is most unpromising.—
Your newspapers,” he went on—this with a grim
smile—‘‘should pray for the success of your skill. If
you fail, where will their extra editions be—their
startling head lines ? My death would only give them
food for one or two days at most; while my trial—for I
suppose I shall he given some kind of trial—
would fatten for them a month’s crop of lucrative
excitement.”
Finding the conversation, or rather his monologue,
running into a channel more likely to excite than
soothe him—the latter being the object for which 1
was always willing to listen dnring the fifteen or twen
ty minutes these interviews usually lasted while he
was seriously ill—I now rose to take my leave, gently
hinting that he should avoid such thoughts aud topics
as much as possible. J
He took my remark in a wrong sense, as if 1 had
been hurt at his saying anything that might cast a
reflection on the justice that would be dealt to him
by my government, or upon the style of journalist iu
Northern newspapers. But I explained that nothing
could be farther from my thoughts; that my counsel
was purely medical, aud to divert him from a theme
that must're-arouse the cerebral exciteipent we were
seeking to allay.
Called again at 8 P. M., same day. Mr. Davis still
very weak, and had been troubled with several laint,
uot’exactly fainting spells, hiB pulse indicating ex
treme debility. He said the nights were very tedious
and haggard. During the day he could find employ
ment reading (the bilile or prayer-bork being seldom
out of his hand while alone), hut during the night bis
anxieties about his family returned; and the foot
falls of the sentries in the room with him—their very
breathing or coughing—continually called back his
thoughts, when otherwise aud for a moment more
pleasantly wandering, to his present situation. He
had watched the weather all day with intense interest;
and had been cheered to observe from the slant of the
rain that the wind appeared to continue northeast, so
that he hoped his family were by this time in Savan
uali
Then went on to say that he feared, after he had
been removed from the Clyde, hi* wife must have suf
fered the annoyance of having her trunks searched—
au unnecessary act, it seemed to him, as, of course, if
she had anythiug to conceal, she could have got rid. of
it on the passage up.
On my remarking, to soothe him,that no such search
was probable, he said it could hardly be otherwise.
He had received a suit of heavy clothes from the pro
peller; and General Miles, when informing him of the
fact, had mentioned that there were quite a number
of suits there.
“And so. Doctor,” he went on, “you think all the
miserable details of my ironing have been’ placed be
fore the public? It is not only for the hurt feelings of
my wife and children, but for the honor of Americans
that I regret it. My efforts to conceal from my wife
the knowledge of my sufferings are unavailing; and it
were perhaps better that she should know the whole
truth, as probably less distressing to her than what
may be ths impressions of her iears. Should I write
such a letter to her, however, she would never get
Diuoer of Steel Collars.—We mentioned the
other day that young men had been poisoned by the
arsenic contained in the enamel of steel collars being
absorbed into their systems. It seems the steel collar
also lias its dangers for tbe wegrer. The inventor of
steel collars iJ an Englishman of the name of John
Smithson. Smithson, who is six feet.high, went re
cently to a tavern in Oxford street, London, where the
doorwav is so low that he was obliged to stoop to enter
tlie house The act of stooping caused the points of
the steel collar which the unfortunate man had on to
be forced into his neck, and Smithson fell to the
ground, uttering a terrible cry. He was raised up,
overed with blood. A doctor was immediately sent
for, who pronounced the wound to be a most serious
one, and the life of the patient in imminent danger.
.yi//i.Lig, Man -juth.- At 11 a. u. this morning was
sitting on the porch in front of my quarters when
Capt. Frederick Korte, 3d Pennsylvania Artillery, who
was Officer of the Day, passed towards the cell of the
prisoner, followed hy the blacksmith. Tliis told the
story, and sent a pleasant professional thrill of pride
through my veins. It was a vindication of my theory,
that the healing art is next only in its sacredness and
power to that of the healers of the soul—an instance
of the doctrinal toga forming a shield for suffering hu
manity,’which none were too exalted of powerful to
disregard. I hastily followed the party, bukremained
in the outer guard-room while the smith removed the
shackles. Did not let Mr. Davis see me then, but re
tired, tliiukiug it better the prisoner should be left
alone iu the first moments of regaining so much of his
personal freedom.
Called again at 2 p. m. with the Officer of the Day.
Immediately on entering, Mr. Davis rose from his
seat, both hands extended, and his eyes filled with
tears. He was evidently about to say something, but ’
checked himself; or was checked by a rush of emo-
tions, and sat down upon his bed. That! was gratified
by the change I will not deny—and let those in the
North into whose souls the iron of AndersonviUe has
entered, think twice before they condemn me. The
war was over; the prisons on both sides were empty.
If by ftgor to Davis we could have softened by a de
gree the sufferings of a single Union prisoner, 1, for
one, would have said let our retaliation be so terrible
as to bring the South to justice. Buttnow, up suffer
ings of his could recall the soak tbathad fiercer the
bodies that .were wasted and wlrer-stricken. - Ttjrphld
not be retaliation to secure justice, fant mars ignoble
vindictiveness to further ’torture this unhappy and
shattered man. -Besides, os his medical adriam, I
could know him hi no other capacity; mad it theBve
maimed to be prMd—remain* yet to t)e proved i that
he was In any nMHfcr of
horrors v*e dtp
that Tiriofi, and hia other
s, stole the Modkfcd other
use; and time rqnst de> *
■“‘“tbS IajEo out See
CSiTX&vS
■ S-WA
ain and again. Indeed, few have obtained a good
stand on this account; and, iu fact, the cotton planted
under such circumstances, even on our richest land,
has a very sickly hue, and seems, in a great measure,
devoid of that vitality which we were once accustomed
to see. To add to these discouragements, tlie heavy
rains which fell a few weeks ago have materially in
jured our crops.
But one of the most serious difficulties tiiat is pre
sented to us at this time is the conduct of the lreed-
men. Although a great rnauy planters have given
them a very liberal interest ill the proceeds of their
crops as the strongest incentive to stimulate their in
dustry, yet, as the warm season is advancing, they
have measurably slackened from work. Indeed, we
find it difficult to induce them to do’ anything likes
reasonable day's work, even when their greatest exer
tions are necessary to prevent a failure of the crop.
They seem to be careless and indifferent to their own
interest, and utterly regardless of the future. Such,
in brief, are some of the difficulties with which we
have had to contend. But all are fully alive to the im
portance of a cotton crop this year, and planters are
making every exertion to meet these difficulties,
knowing, as they do, that it is almost the only source
of rev.-uue, and Die only way to reernit the exhausted
energies of the land. There is. however, no doubt hut
that many, instead of relying upon the uncertain con
tingencies of a cottou crop, will hereafit-r turn thei r
energies and capital to other channels of industry.
A Planter.
Emigrants Can be Supplied
WITHIN TEN DAYS.
T HE undersigned are prepared to supply Planters
and other narties who mat be in want of WHITE
and other parties who may be in want of WHITE
LABORERS, and have made necessary arrange
mems in the North to li'l any orders for agriculture
Laborers, Woo.lci;" rs, Mechanics, etc., within Ten
or Twelve days fromt he day the order ia given here.
The Laborers are to .,e received by the Employers
on arrival of the steamer here, and transported to
the points where they are wanted at Employers’
expense, and ihe Employers have further topaya
certain sum per head in advance, partly as security
and partly for covering the expenses in bringing the
Emigrants from the North to this port.
The rate at. which Farming Laborers can be se
cured will average about. $150 per year, the Employ
ers finding them.
For farther particulars apply to
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Jones’ Block, Bay street,
' One dofir East of Barnard street,
Savannah, Ga.
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W. K. Fleming, Savannah.
John Screven, Savanniili.
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H. A. Crane, of Crue ft Graybill.
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A. A. Solomons, of A. A. Solomons a uo.
E. A. SOULLARD.
K. J. Moses, or Brady, Smith A Co.
Fred. M. Hull, of Holcombe A Co.
M. A. Cohen, Secretary Home Insurance Co. .
A. WILBUR, General Manager
WM. R. BOYD, Agent.
Dr. K. VONGB, Exainlnlag Phydcla*.
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GEN. JOHM B. GORDON,
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General Agent,
SAVANNAH, GA.
SOUTHERN AND WESTERN
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