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Of the officers on the Confederate side, Mr. Davis
spoke in high terms of ilenerai Lee, as a great soldier,
and pure, Christiim gentleman; also, inapraise of
Bragg and Pemberton, though the two latter, from un
avoidable circumstances and the hostility of the party
opposed to Mr. Davi3, bad not been accorded tie po
sition due to their talents by public opinion in either
Colonel, under his orders, did not feel at liberty to ■ a vagt charnel-house, with the black nlnmes of
grant this request. They were all taken to lffa c0 “. ; political death nodding between it and the suai.
therefore, reaching it in four days, and from the ora "And yet this should not be, "'continued Mr. Davis
''• r e ™ “ rrie T ‘ l i!?. 1 . 1 40 Augusta—Mr. Dpvis thank'ng | “if your authorities at Washington be Wise. The at-
* r * uted him " nth aU i $“1* cartaiu . St ®f. 3 *° *eparate.fro M tlie old con-
lederation, m which their rights under thofundanitu-
’ roved abortive., and
th ^ C °“ r , t ^ y ^ 8 i ble JS ‘. he , 8itUat i' 5n - . , |,cu 1 „u«, ul . lu unua
The party transferred to Augusta consisted of Rea- i tal law had been violated
; ection. Pemberton made a splendid defence of Vicks- gau, Alexander H. Stevens, Clement C. Clay, two of thev bein- coerced back under T the : Bemrit
burg, and might have been relieved it the officer com- his own aides and private secretary, Mr.-. Clay, his wife rae nt by military force, their rights wSwtteCouSi*
manding the army sent to relieve him (General John- j and ionr children, four servants and tiiree paroled - - • i oueii
sou) had not failed to obey the positive orders to at- I men, who bad generously oflfered their protection to
lack General Grant which Mr. Seddon, then Secretary j Mra. Davis during hor journey. Breckinridge had
of War, had sent. It the same officer, who was upheld j been with the cavalry brigade, which bad been the
in command by the anti-administration jiarty, bad t scort of Mr. Davis, anil did not come up at Washing-
vigorously attacked Sherman at Atlanta when directed, ton. He and Secretary Benjamin had started for
•fOi! J’lilNTING,
I :i,every style, neatly and promptly done.
JEFFERSON DAVIS IN PRISON.
Scenes and Incidents of the Life
of the Ex-Confederate Presi
dent in the Casemate at
Fortress Monroe.
llvtnt. u from flic Diary of the
Post-Snrgeon.
RIGORS OF HIS CONFINEMENT.
Opinion* o*
Sorifil
Coiifedei'i
Pol it lea 1
ite Leader
A flair*.
[continued]
.Mr. Davis o-t Gen. Butler and Dutch Gap.—He de~
•lirsthut Secession was. Treason.—His Opinion of
Gran', McClellan, Pope, and other Union Officers;
also of Bragg, Lee, and Pemberton.—His Flight
from Richmond, and A rrest.
Jane 16.—Called on Mr. Davis with Capt. Jerome
L lit low, officer of the day. Found him continuing
t improve in general health—much stronger than ho
had been on his arrival. Complained ol‘a stricture or
tightening of the chest, accompanied by a dry cough.
Ordered him to exercise his arms by swinging them
back and forth horizontally twice or thrice a day.
Standing at the embrasure, the white sails of a
passing vessel suggested the trade and commerce of
the James, for the mouth of which it appeared steer
ing. Together in fancy we reascended the banks of
the river, with which Mr. Davis was familiar, lie
asked the fate of all the beautiful plantations along its
shores; of Brandon, belonging to the Harrisons,on the
south bank, a place Geu. Butler had harried; of West-
over; and beautiful Shirley on the north bank, just
opposite Bermuda Huudreds, belonging to that noble
Virginian of the old school, Mr. Hill Carter. Told Mr.
Davis it was the only one left standing, in all its
beautiful antiquity, of the palaces that once lined, the
James. Carter liud been kind to the wounded of Mc
Clellan's soldiers and had taken no part in the war,
though very possibly a Southern man in sentiment.
His place consequently had been not only spared from
idcursion, but guarded with jealous care by daily de
tails, and was the green spot in the desert made by the
movements oi contending armies.
Talking of Gen. Butler, said Mr Davis, with a smile,
Richmond owes hnu something, if only for giving it
the best ioke of the war. He referred to the Dutch
Gap canal, considered as a war-measure, lor as a com
mercial one, improving the navigation of the Jame9,
it was full oi advantage. It was a task imposing great
hardships upon many thousand soldiers
the fortunes of the war would have been changed, and
.Sherman hurled back to Nashville, over a sterile and
wasted country—his retreat little les9 disastrous than
Napoleon’s from Moscow. He did not do so, and was
relieved—General Hood, a true aud spirited soldier,
taking his place—but the opportunity was then gone ;
aud to this delay, more than to any other cause, the
Southern people will attribute their overthrow, when
ever history comes to be truly written.
Bragg's victory over Kosecrans at Chickamauga.
Mr. Davis regarded as one of the most brilliant
achievements of the war, considering the disparity of
the forces. The subsequent concentration of Grant
and Hooker with Bosecrans,' and the victory of their
combined forces at Lookout Mountain, was the result
of an audacity or desperation which no military pru
dence could have foreseen. So confident was Bragg
in the impregnability of his position, that immediate^
after Chickamauga he detached Longstreet, with
10,000 men—about a third of his entire force—to make
a demonstration against Knoxville, thus indirectly
threatening Grant’s communications with Nashville.
Bragg’s position was finally carried by the overwhelm
ing numbers of the enemy. The opponents of his ad
ministration censured Bragg for detaching Lougstreet,
but the subsequent events which made that move
ment unfortunate were of a character which no pru
dence could have foreseen, no military calculation
taken into view as probable.
All such reflections were idle, however, concluded
Mr. Davis, and he must not be again betrayed into
their indulgence. Success is virtue and defeat crime.
This is the philosophy of life—at least the only one
the great masses of mankind feel ready to accept. Woe
to the conquered is no le9s a popular cry in the nine
teenth century than when the barbarians first yelled
it as they swarmed with dripping swords to the sack
of Rome.
Mr. Davis then spoke of the circumstances attend
ing his flight from Richmond.
On leaving Richmond he went first to Danville, be
cause it was intended that Lee should have moved in
that direction, falling back to make a junction with
Johnson's force in the direction of Roanoke River.
Grant, however, pressed forward so rapidly, and swung
so far around, that Lee was obliged to retreat in the
direction of Lynchburg with his main force, while his
vanguard, which arrived at Danville, insisted on fall
ing back and making the rallying-poiut at Charlotte, in
North Carolina.
In Danville Mr. Davis learned of Lee’s surrender.
Immediately started for Goldsboro’, where ho met and
had a consultation with Geu. Johnson, thence going on
South. At Lexington he received a dispatch from
Johnson, requesting that the Secretary of War (Geu.
Breckinridge) should repair to his headquarters near
Raleigh—Gen. Sherman having submitted a Disposi
tion for laying down arms which was too comprehensive
in its scope for any mere military commander to decide
upon. Breckinridge aud Postmaster-General Reagan
immediately started for Johnson's camp, where .Sher
man submitted the terms of surrender on which an
armistice was declared—the same terms subsequently
disapproved by the authorities at Washington.
One of the features of the proposition submitted by
Gen. Sherman was a declaration of amnesty to all per
sons, both civil and military. Notice being called to
theiactparticulUrly, Sherman said, “Imeau just that;”
and gave as his reason that it was the only way to have
perfect peace. He had previously offered to furnish a
vessel to take away any such persons as Mr. Drvis
might select, to be a freighted with whatever personal
property they might want to take with them, aud to
go wherever it pleased.
Gen. Johnson told Sherman that it was worse than
useless to carry such a proposition as the last to him.
Breckinridge also informed Gen. Sherman that his
proposition contemplated the adjustment of certain
matters which even Mr. Davis was not empowered to
control. The terms were accepted, however, with, the
understanding that they should be liberally construed
on both sides, and fulfilled in good faith—Gen. Breck
inridge adding that certain parts of the terms would
require to be submitted to the various State Govern
ments of the Confederacy for ratification.
These terms of agreement between Johnson and
Sherman were subsequently disapproved by the au
thorities at Washington, and the armistice ordered to
cease after a certain time. Mr. Davis waited in Char
lotte until the day aud hour when the armistice ended;
then mounted his horse, and, with some cavalry of
Duke’s brigade (formerly Morgan's) again started
southward, passing through South Carolina to Wash
ington, in Georgia. At an encampment on the road,
he thinks, the cavalry of hi9 escort probably heard of
the final surrender of Gen. Johnson, though he him
self did not until much later. Being in the advance,
he rode on, supposing that the escort was coining af-
. and must
have been inspired by Grant’s similar attempt to | ter
efianqe the coarse ot the Mississippi at Vicksburg. If | As with his party he approached the town of Wash-
successtul the canal ouly avoided one battery, Fort ■ mgton, he was informed that a regiment, supposed to
* , ’ J lave heen carried by a resolute j belong to tho army of Geu. Thomas, was moving on
»iw nor i an - °J , us understand what adequate the place to capture it, in violation, as he thought, of
* ,trC CoA - ^^ 1 ^ L ‘d by it when coqppleted.^ 'Ihe * ^u. Sherman's terms. On this he sent back word to
’ ”” L*L e in2JbSJZya lry_ ^ c o r t to move j
»ain- t . l.wni Dutch ijdu to Richmond, was too shallow
tor guu-oouts; was paved wiui lurpeuvea,
sirut ted iu every conceivable manner. Besides, the
works h; Chapin’s and Drury's Bluffs would still re-
Florida, expecting to escape thence to the West Indies.
There was no specie nor public treasure in the train-
nothing but his private funds, and of them very little.
Some wagons had been furnished by the quartermas
ter at Washington, Georgia, for the transportation of his
family and the paroled men who formed their escort,
aud that was the only train. Mr. Davis had not seen
his family for some months before, and first rejoined
them wt%n he rode to their defence from Washington.
June 23d.—I received the following letter from Mrs.
Dans:
Dated Savannah, Ga., June 14th, 1865.
Dr. Craven—My Dear Sir : Pursued by dreadful
pictures thrown before me every day in excerpts from
Northern correspondents, and published in the daily
journals, in which the agony inseparable from defeat
and imprisonment is represented to have been height
ened for my husband by chains and starvation, I can
no longer preserve the silence which I feel should be
observed by me, in your failure to answer my letter
oi the 1st inst. Can it be that these tales are even in
part true? That such atrocities could render him
frantic I know is uot so. I have so often tended him
through months oi nervous agony, without ever heal
ing a groan or an expression of impatience, that I
know these tales of childish ravings are not triie-
would to God I could believe that all these dreadful
rumors were false as well!
But there is something about them which convinces
me that they are not altogether false. You must have
been kind to him, else he had not told you of his suf
ferings. Will you not, my dear sir, tell me the worst J
Is he ill—i9 he dying ' Taken from me, with only
ten minutes’ warning, I could not see any one
to whom I could say say that he was quite ill;
indeed, suffering from fever at the hour of our separa
tion. He has been much exposed to a Southern sun
in malarial districts, and I dread everything from an
attack of illness in his depressed condition, even were
the humanities of life manifested to him. With a
blaze of light pouring upon the dilated pupils of eyes
always sensitive to it; chains fettering his emaciated
limbs; coarse food, served, as the newspapers describe
it, in the most repulsive manner, without knife, fork,
or spoon, “lest he should commit suicide,”—hope
seems denied to me; yet I caunot reconcile myself to
that result, which for many years must have been his
gain. Will you only write me one word to say that he
may recover > Will you tell him that we are well —
that our little children pray for him, and miss his
fatherly care—that his example still lives for them.
Please tell him not to be anxious for us; that kind
friends are with us, aud that (hose who love him have
adopted us, too. Do uot tell him, please., that we are
not permitted to leave here; for the present, we can
do very well, and then I expect, every day, a permit
to leave this city for one more healthy. Please try to
cheer him about us for we are kindly cared for by the
.Southern friends who love him here. Will you not
take the trouble to write me, only this once V Can it
be that you are forbidden ? Else, how could a hus
band and father, a9 I hear you arc, refuse us such a
small favor, productive as it would be oi such blessed
comfort ?
My children shall pray for you, and perhaps tho
prayers of “one of these little ones” may avail much
with Him who said, “Suffer them to come unto me:”
and that which you have done for another may be re
turned to you with usury in some less happy aud
prosperous hour. With the hope of hearing from you
very soon,
I am, sir, very respectfully
And gratefully, yours,
Varina Davis.
tution at once return, aiul revive with their submis
sion, unless that instrument shall be deliberately and
openly repudiated. Such was the absolute spirit of
Geu. Grant’s; negotiation, upon which ; Gen. Lee sur-
endered; and such both the spirit and letter of Gen.
rherman’.s proposals to the General Be was contending
Sainst” (Geu. lobnso ii's nume not mentioned*, “it
was also embodied in all the declarations of vour
Government and late president in all their public acts;
and I think my people would have fought more des
perately, and continued the war much longer, though
hopelessly, had it not been for this expectation.
“But even apart from this—apart from all pledges of
faith or obligations of constitutional law,” Mr. Davis
went on, “and looking on the matter only in the light
of future expediency, let us see how tlie ‘case stands.
In the better days 1 of the Roman empire, when its pos
sessions increased, and conquered countries came iu a
few years to be integral, and even zealous members of
the imperial system, it was the polidy of conciliation,
following that of military conquest, which achieved
the desired results. Certain laws and restrictions of
the imperial government were imposed—so much an
nual tribute, so many legions to our military levies,
aud obedience to all such laws of the Central Govern
ment as may be issued for your control. But within
these lines, aud with these points conceded, the em
pire strove in all minor and domestic matters to con
form. in so far as might be posssible, to the former
habits, customs, and laws of the people absorbed, and
the independent governments superseded. Even their
peculiarities of morals, manners, and religious views
were studied and respected, when uot conflicting with
the necessities of the empire; their leading men were*
justly treated, and no efforts were spared to make the
u«w uiui-r miuga Bit uguuj ai ursi, anu evenph
anti}’ in a few years, on the necks of the subjuga
Diseases of the Fje— Guards Removed from ike
Prisoner's Room—Mr. Dads takes his first Walk
on the. Ramparts—The Policy of Conciliation —Mr.
Davis on Improvements in Ixtml mat yaval
Warfare.
, : - - —..Jgatea
provinces. Generosity is the true policy, both of na
tions aud individuals. ‘There is that maketh himself
rich, yet hath nothing, there is that maketh hini3elt
poor, yet hath great riches.”" While my people are
held as conquered subjects they must be to you a
continued source of expense and danger—a country
penned together with bayonets. Let the past bo ex
punged, if you please; we have nathing to blush for in
it, aud nothing to regret but failure. The necessities
of the Northern treasury aud public debt,” Mr. Davis
thought, “would, before long, compel us to do justice
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Mr. Haris then spoke of the immense improvements
June Hth. -Called on Mr. Davis, accompanied bv
Captain Titlow, olficer of the day. i >u entering found
the prisoner, for the first time, alone in his cell, the
two guards having been removed from it in conse
quence of my report to Major Geueral Miles tbal tlieir
presence was counteracting every effort for quieting
the nerves of the patient. Mr. Davis remarked that
the change had done him good, his last night’s sleep
having been undisturbed. Ho complained of his eyes
and a throbbing pain iu the back of his neck, asklug
me to give the matter particular attention, as similar
symptoms, at the same season last year, in Richmond
had been followed by a severe billioue remittentT
lever.
Mr. Davis spoke of the injurious effects ot reflected 1
light upon tin
in the art and practice of war which the recent strug
gle had developed; this in connection with the pro
gress of work on the Rip Raps, some iron clads he
had seen in the roadstead, aud the fifteen-inch Rod
man guns which now stand t-« barbette on each bas
tion of the fort.
England’s naval supremacy he considered lost by
the invention of iron clads, these converting the con
ditions of maritime warfare from a question of
dexterity aud persouui-1 into one of machinery,
and in machinery the Americans could have
no superiors, while iu all other qualities they were at
least the equals of the British. The science of naval
gunnery had also been levolutionizciL the new prin
ciple being to concentrate into a single crushing shot
the former scattered forces of a broadside. Thu prob
lem of the ironclad was to attain the maximum of of
fensive power while exposing the least possible and
most strongly armored objective points to the projec
tiles of the unemy; aud in such plans of our irou-clads
as he had lately seen, these desiderate seemed to have
been very nearly attained. For crossing the ocean,
however, and lor cruising on peaceful stations, our
vessels lay too low in the water, cither for safety from
storms, or for the comfort aud health of the crews
and officers. If onr present vessels had in them vast
wells, which, when empty, would cause the hulls to
float eight or ten feet above the water,
and which, on boing fllled when going
iuio action, would reduce them to their present
level, he thought no grander instruments of
belligerency could be imagined. Wooden bottoms,
with armored sides aud armored turrets, he could not
but think would prove the best. The enormous
weight superimposed, coupled with the rollings of the
sea, must soon chafe aud wear away the rivets
and plates of an iron bottom, no matter how
carefully secured; while wooden hulls sat more
easily on the water, and both avoided ehating
aud obtained greater speed by their capacity
of yielding a little. Even the sea in its laws,
concluded Mr. Davis with a smile, teaches the. policy
of conciliation—of concession; vessels making head
way as their lines conform to the resistance of the
oceau, and have some power of yielding to the pres
sure of the billows. To attain the greatest speed, we
should take for model the swiftest.flsli, aud conform
to that as much as circumstances would permit; aud
in this connection lie referred approvingly to the ci
gar shaped vessels of Mr. W'nans, of Baltimore.
In regard to the improvements in ordnance, he
-poke at great length, displaying not merely a very
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, i . inmercially, the canal might be of great value to
,;iliuioad. The loop of the river which it cutoff—
about seven miles in length—formed the shallowest
and most intricate part of its navigation from “^Vnd'i^ily; noZhavm g “s e en them since they had
XUS | , ^ , , * a, RofnM Flit, nnm llo.
.cached its destination—at least the cavalry never
came; nor did he sec them again, nor any of them.
Thinking they were coming, however, and not apyre-
henCling any molestation Trom tlie Federal troops,
even if occupying the same town, he entered Wash
ington, and remained there over night—no troops ol
the United States appearing. Here he heard ol his
, , , , „ i left Richmond, more than a month before hi9 own de-
nap Canal, and throwing a dam across the rivet jus ^ Thpv had iust lelt tllu towa before his arri-
u-low the higher lock, the water up to Richmond
lmvht be permanently raised two feet and placed be-
. < -ud tidal influence, thus allowing vessels of ten or
eleven feet draft to reach the city in all stages of the
tide,while at present vessels drawing even eight or nine
ieet can only with extreme difficulty be brought up at
nigh tide. Commercially, the canal was good; but a9 a
war-measure, ol no value.
Mr. Davie said it was contrary to reason and the law
i nut: -ns, to treat as a rebellion, or lawless riot, a
movement which had be en the deliberate action ot an
entire people through their duly organized State
. ovarumtiits. To taK oi treason in the case of the
’Uth, was to oppose an arbitrary epithet against the
parture. They had just left tlie towu before his arr
val, moving South in company with his private secre
tary, Col. Harrison, of whose fidelity he spoke in warm
yes, thence diverging to the plie-
lumena of the mirage, and the illusions of vision 1 observant knowledge of all 'the changes in modern
arising iorom an over-excited conditiou of the optic artillery aud projectiles, but also of the science of
nerve, or peculiar conditions ol the atmosphere. The I metallurgy as applied to tho production ot ordnance,
mirage on the deserts of Egypt and Arabia was chiefly | lie discussed the atomic theory, or relationship of
observable in the afternoons, when tho sands were j particles, aud the effects on iron fibre of different mo ‘ u -
thoroughly heated, thus producing a different me- I temperatures and treatments ash' hammering roll- ; able
dium ot atmosphere close to the earth, and cauaine I m- “^{entiin I C »P‘
nance while he was Secretary of War. The Swedish |
and Russian iron had been reputed be9t, but the
thought experiment would prove thm the iron of the
Shenandoah Valley and the Kaatern Tauneaaee, when
properly treated, would be at least as good, if not su
perior, i’or thi9 climate. In the ^redegar Iron-Works,
an enormous amout of work had been done, and many
T Hlrf valuable work of reffereace will be published
on or about the 1st ^ day of July next. It will
embrace the exact location of every business and
professional nun in the .S ntn of Georgia, as well as
the private residue*: in all the. cities, and will be the
most oxtriiM'-,; and complete directory ever pub
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none should fail advertise i» ir. as it is doubtless a
splendid medium thron^h which to communicate
with substantia). class * Girou^hont the country.
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fliffitefedHthe ‘appearance of this so common jfhg {
as the result of natural iaWSr’fl’Sarly all the mysteries a
of the earth on which ignorance in preceding ages had
foandud lt» Mvi|>«r»titiorii» and magicians built up a
belief in their reputed power. The injurious effects
of the whitewash upon the walls of his cell to his eyes,
he attributed to tlie double refractive power—doubly
injurious—of all salts and crystallized minerals not re-: improvements in puddling and casting introduced;
taining the form of the original cube, the regular octo- J but the continued ana ever-increasing necessities of
hedron, etc.; and of all these substances, the carbo- : the war, as the blockade became more effective, made
nate of lime possessed the double refractive power 1 rapidity the one thing needful, and much of the work,
uTost eminently, and was, therefore, most injurious to j more especially of late, had been rough aud defec
tary, COL Harrison, oi wnose naeiuy ue spoae iu waiw tne sight. ‘ tive.
terms, and accompanied by a small party of paroled ( ^ Ir D ^ vig said t j, at rea ding continually the same ! Rifled guns he had been at first inclined to favor,
men, who, seeing them unprotected, had volunteered , t ype j n hi9 Bible and Prayer-book bud become a se- j and for certain classes of service at long range, they
to be their escort to Florida, from whenqe the family, , tax upon his sight, of which he had often com- must always remain the best. For tearing ria -
not Mr. Davis himself, intended to take ship to Cuba, j pi a j ne( j to lnc before; but what was he to do? Utter ; stroying forts of masonry, the results at Pulaski and
Mr. Davis regarded the section of country he was | fiction for a mind so bU9V as his had been was im- | Sumpter had demonstrated thoir value; but as earth-
inaction for a mind so bu9y as his had been
Sumpter had <
sea. He believed the terms of Johnson
still in force over all the couutry east of
hoochie, which had been embraced iu Johnson’s im-
anthonty of all writers on international law. Vattel
deducesVrom his study ol all former precedent—and
all subsequent international jurists have agreed with
bun—that when a nation separates into two parts,
ea.il c oiming independence, and both or either set-
t.fig up a new government, their quarrel, should it
me to trial by arms or by diplomacy, shall be re
garded and settled precisely as though it were a
ouiVrence between two separate nations, which the
divided sections, de facto, have become. Each must
«.• tr\t: the laws of war iu the treatment of captives
in battle, and such negotiations as may from
Line to time arise shall be conducted as between in-
ii’knt ami sovereign powers. Mere riots, or
• n piracies for law lass objects, in which only limited
.: .u iu ns of a people are irregularly engaged, may be
pi pc rly treated as treason, aud punished as the
public good may require; but Edmund Burke had ex-
Lau-Ud argument on the t-ubject, in his memorable
pLrast-, applied to the first American movement lor
.rulependi nee: “I know not how an indictment against
- whole people shall be framed.”
But for Mr. Lincoln's untimely death, Mr. Davis
thought, there could have been no question raised upon
the subject. That e\ent—more a calamity to the
5m uth than North, in the time and manner of its tran-
spiring—nud inflameu popular passions to the highest
pitch, and made the people of the section which had
their chief now r seek as an equivalent the life ot
the chief of the section conquered. This wa9 an im
pulse of passion, not a conclusion which judgment
■ r justice could support. Mr. Lincoln, through bis
entire administration, had acknowledged the South as
a belligerent nationality, exchanging prisoners of war,
• stablishiug truces, and sometimes sending, some-
• mes receiving, propositions for peace. On the last
ct these occasions, accompanied by the chief member
ot his cabinet, he had personally met the Commis-
s.-’Ut-rs appointed by the Southern States to
negutiate, going half way to meet them, not
lar from where Mr. Davis now stood : aud
negotiations of General Grant with General
i-*«\.iust preceding the latter's surrender,_ most dis*
i.u.iiy and clearly pointed to the promise of a general
amnesty; Gen. Grant, in his final letter, expressing
the hope that, with Lee’s surrender, “all difficulties
f t :ween tlie sections might be settled without the loss
*: another life,” or words to that effect.
i my question what he thought of Gen. Grant, Mr.
L»a\j« replied that he was a great soldier, beyond
doubt, but of a new school. If he had not started
wi h an euormous account iu bank, his checks would
ti«vc been dishonored before the culmination was
reached. A: Shiloh he was defeated the first day, and
•• .uid have been destroyed or compelled to surrender
' . it morning, but lor Buell's timely arrival with a
tresh and weii-disciplined reinforcement, the strength
o: which had been variously stated.
When Secretary of War, he thought McCleban the
ablest officer iu the array, and had employed him on
two important services—as Military Commissioner in
the Crimea, and to explore a route for the Pacific Rail-
r a j—both of which duties had been discharged in a
lULunrr to increase liis reputation. He organized the
Army of the Potomac admirably, but it required a
• on m an dor »»f more dash to wield ihe weapon in the
and. McClellan’s caution amounted very closely to
Giindity—moral timidity, for he was personally brave.
Gti his' first landing in the Peninsula there had been
only 7.ut*o troops to meet him, aud these he should
Lave rushed upon and overwhelmed at whatever cost.
* huuouk, aud wishing to spare the blood of his men,
Lc commenced a regular siege at Yorktown, giving his
enemies tune to concentrate sufficient numbers
and drive him back. As a magnanimous enemy he
inspected McClellan, but thought he had been pro
moted too rapidly for his own good—before he hud
opened ;n command and gained tlie experience requi
site for the supreme position. Had he been kept in a
subordinate capacity the first tw o years of the war,
n«*!ug from a division to a corps, and thence to com-
maiid :n chief, he would have been the greatest of our
soldiers. He had the best natural gifts, and the high
est intellectual training, and was just beoming fitted,
«*h l the best fitted, lor his position when removed.
Had Le been supported by the government he might
have token Richmond two years earlier, and it was
w;th joy Mr. Davis heard of his removal after the
Laities of South Mountain and Antietam. Such sacri-
acet of officers to the ignorance of an unwarlike people,
anxious to find in him the scapegoat for their own
iack ol discipline or endurance, were unavoidable in
the every stages of any popular war.
Pope, while Secretary of War, he had never been
idne to make serviceable, aud Pope held his own gal-
His mind was not less inflated than his body.
He was a kind of American gascon, but with good
scientific attainments. Sumner and Sedgwick were
gallant aud able soldiers—excellent - commanders in
action, courteous and reliable in all the relations of
bie. Hunter, of whom 1 ai-ked him specially as one
of my old commanders, was his beau ideal of the mill*
gentleman the soul of integrity, intrepidity, true
GLrisuan piuty and honor. Mr. Davis had long been
aasociabrd will, him, both in the service and socially,
Federal service, with a few’ members of his staff,
passed unattended over the railroad, a lew miles from
the place, en route for Augusta, to receive the mus
ter-rolls of the discharged troops, and take charge ol
the immense military stores there that fell into Geu.
Sherman’s hands by the surrender. Gen. Upton was
not interfered with, the couutrj being considered at
peace, though nothing could have been easier than
capture, had Mr. Davis been so inclined.
At this very time, however, a division ol
cavalry had beeu sent into this district, which had
been declared at peace and promised exemption from
the dangers aud burdens of any further military op
erations within its limits, for the purpose of capturing
himself and party: and this he could not but regard
as a breach of iailh on the part of those who directed
or permitted it to be dune, though he did not wish to
place himsell iu the condition of one who had ac
cepted the terms of Johnson’s capitulation or taken
advantage of the amnesty which bberman had offered.
But the district in which he then found himsell had
been proinisod exemption from lurtlier incursions,
aud he did not think himsell justly liable to capture
while W’ithiu its limits—though he expected to have
to take the chances of arrest when once across the
Chattahoochie. ,
Hearing that a skirmish-line, or patrol, had been ex
tended across tbe country trom Macou to Atlanta and
thence to Chattanooga, he thought best to go below
this hue, hoping to join the forces of his relative,
Lieutenant-General Dick Taylor, alter crossing the
Chattahoohie. He Would then cross the Mississippi,
joining Taylor’s forces to those of Kirby Smith—of
whom he spoke with marked acerbity—and would
Lave continued the fight so long as he could find any
Confederate force to strike with him. This, not in
any hope of final success, but to secure for the South
some better terms than surrender at discretion. “To
this complexion,” said Mr. Davis, “had the repudia
tion of Gen. Sherman’s terms and the surrenders of
L6e and Johnson, brought the Southern cause.”
Mr. Davis left Washington accompanied by Post
master-General Reagan, three aides, and an escort of
ten mounted men with one pack-mule. Riding along,
they heard distressing reports of bands of marauders
going about the country stealing horses and whatever
else might tempt their cupidity—these rumors finally.
maturing into information which caused him to
chango his course aud follow on to overtake the tram
containing his wife and family, lor whose safety he
began to feel apprehensions.
This object he achieved after riding seventy miles,
without halt, in a single day, joiDiug Mrs. Davis just
at daylight, and in time io prevent a party lie had
passed on the road from stealing her two fine carriage-
horses W’hich formed particular attraction for their
greed. “I have heard,” he added, since my impris
onment, that it was supposed there was a large amount
of specie in the train. Such was not ihe lact, Mrs.
Davis carrying with her no money that was not per
sonal property, and but very little of that.”
Having joined bis family, he travelled with them
for several days, in consequence of finding tlie region
infested with deserters and robbers engaged in
plundering whatever was defenceless, his intention
being to quit bis wife whenever she had reached a
safe portion of the country, and to bear west across
the Chattahoochie. The very evening before bis ar
rest helwas to have carried out this arrangement, be
lieving Mrs. Davis to be now sale; but was prevented
bv a report brought in through one of his aids, that
a nartv of guerillas, or highwaymen, was coming that
n&ht to seize the horses aud mules of his wiie’s train.
It was on this report he decided to remain another
night.
Towards morning he had just fail en into'the*deep
sleep of exbauitiuu, wLeu ws wife s faithful negro
servant, Robert, came to him announcing that there
was firing up the road. He started up, dressed him-
self and went out. It was just at grey dawn, and b}
the imperfect light he saw a party approaching tne
camp. They were recognized as Federal cavalry bj
the way in which they deployed to surround the train,
and he stamped back into the tent, to warn his wile
that the enemy w ere at hand.
Their tent was prominent, being isolated from the
other tents of the train; aud as he was quitting it to
find his horse, several of the cavalry rode up, direct
ing him to halt aud surrender. To this he gave a de
fiant answer. Then one whom he supposed to be an
officer asked, had he any arms, to which Mr Davis
replied: “If I had, you would not be alive to ask that
question.” His pistols had been left iu the holsters,
as it had been his intention, the evening before, to
start whenever the camp was settled; but horse, sad
dle, andholaters were now in the enemy’s possession,
and he was completely unarmed.
Col. Pritchard, commanding the Federal cavalry,
came up soon, to whom Mr. Davis said: “I suppose,
sir, your orders are accomplished in arresting me.
You can have no wish to interfere with women and
children; and I beg they may be permitted to pursue
The Colonel replied that his orders
capitulation j iD{? it ou one co ior when wearv with another, and be better; but with iron-clad ships, all future engage-
the Chatta- j rh ® nffinff tho forms on which it ‘had been employed ; ments must be within a te* hundred yards, and then
ith the most ' the slow, crushing shot of the heavy smooth bore was
aud with him— * the thing needed. For chasings blockade-runner or
the other seriously crippling a living ship, the rifled guu; but for crush-
changing the forms on which it t
, with every object of nature. Even
mediate command; citing as an evidence ot this, that , j iea itliY, sight was a delicate organ
while he was in Washington, General Upton, ot ithe ^ gi{yllt ot oue eve | 03 t and that of t
impaired—peculiarly so. The pupil of the eye was , ing in the sides or turret of an armored vessel, the
constructed to expand or contract in harmony with heavy thirteen or fifteen-inch shot from a smooth
each change of light, or color, or different form of ob- j bore, propelled by slow-burning jowder would be
ject; and to employ the vision continually on oue size I most efficacious. Quick burning pewder strained the
0 f type he believed must be injurious—at least on no guu too much by its shock, hurled out the projectile
other theory could he account for the fast-growing before the powder behind it had hem hall developed,
alteration of his sight i iiud also wasted not less than a third of the charge be-
—. .. . , . . fr . nnATlt . v pm ,versed before lore the process of combustion had lme to take place.
On this subject we ka£frequent ^ ^ i Ho spoke of Capt. Dahlgren and Its experiments ic
ordnance while he (Mr. Davis) hadoeen Secretary of
War remarking that, rightly or wroigly, the Captain
SSStamM^.-*“• jsftggjyvs J?S^iW^rS3!“olJB#fS
the useiul arts h ’ ’ j spoke approvingly, regarding its aiilling process as
very thorough in each branch. j t j ie true one; but for perfection *f elaborate work-
Representations in regard to the need Mr. Davis nian8 bip au( f detail no guns hehal ever seen were
stood in of different pabulum, both for his eyes and ; sll p er j or to some of those received torougb the block-
mind, had been previously made by me to Major- f rom England. It was a mistake, however, to be
General Miles, and had been confirmed, I rather be- j toQ m i uute m wa r. War was a roigh business, aud
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l aii
from the necessities of his ease, appeared to have :
pretty thoroughly studied the art of the oculist.
lieve, by Colonel Pineo, Medical Inspector of thu De- j r01l _j l t 00 i 9 would carry it through,! there were only
partment, who had visited .Mr. Davis in my company ; .^ enl y (1 f tliem, and in the hands of anything like a
<i,„ iqii, .v*’ Fin’d tnianlli liavinct H. liillJ and inter- m -X*
on the 12tli of this month, having a long and inter- j ; ufflcienc y G f proper men.
esting conversation with the prisoner—a tact which p rom time, the prisoner rceived books and
should have been mentioned at an earlier date; but as - neW gp aper8 freely, chiefly reading if newspapers, the
the conversation was oue in which I took little part, i ^ ew y or k Herald, aud of books, listories—Mr. Ban-
the brief memorandum in my diary escaped notice t .. rnft appearing hi9 favorite Ameriqn author. I recom-
until revived by tho fuller notes of this day s ! mended him to be very moderated first in his'open-
view. It was upon tho day of Colonel Pineo s visit, air exerc i ge> gauging the amount of exercise to his
also, that Mr. Davis mentioned having heard that my j filren gth; and from this time forwad Mr. Davis went
littie daughter, moved by sympathy, had volunteered out every day for an hour’s exercis, the weather and
as his housekeeper, and superintended the sending of j ^alth permitting.
(To be Continue^)
his meals. Beautiful as woman’s character always
was. iu its purity, grace, delicacy, and sympathetic |
affliction, Ybat’he^reaUzed “ow mnch’hff! natoresteod , »Tue Fbmdmes’s ItoREAD re Gbffis-The Frf.ed-
in need lit tlie support of his gentle counterpart. Then. ' ai£N Di;:;ousce lx- 'Ve hat e noticd the election, by
mckiu” no a volume of prayer from the table, be said: j the freedineu ol Gnifin, ot two am-Bureau delegates
"Doitor my literate me this. Another, which she to the Equal Rights’ Convention :oon to be held in
B w in ray vilise. I have since received. Pray pre- j this city. The (inflit. Star ot the 1th, says that quite
sent this with my love and grateful regards, to your | an excitement was created the day efore by toe arrest
little Anna, aud say, though I may never have an op- ! of George Pitts and Henderson ick. the delegates
Dortnnlty to thank her mvself, my children will a£ e ! elected. It appears that the disanointed candidates
to“allher blessed. “ i and their friends reported to themreau that George
measure to his uiiwillingness to bend to anything
mean or sinister. He was rash, impulsive; a man of
action rather than thought; yielding to passions which
Ae regarded as divine instincts or tniticaf—the nx-
temper of a devotee or fanatic.
Macon, and he would have to do so, though grieved
to inconvenience the. ladies. Mr. Davie said his wife’s
party wa» composed of paroled men, who had com-
mitted no act of war since their release, and hi—- 1
bey mi|bt fee permitted to go to their homes; bi
day rise up
And now to have done with this digression aud re
turn to my interview of June !Mth.
While the State l risoncr was yet speaking of the
troubles of his sight, Major General Miles entered,
with the pleasaut announcement that .Mr. Davis was
to be allowed to walk one hour each day upon the
ramparts,aud to have miscellaneous reading hereafter
books, newspapers, and such magazines as might be
approved, aticr perusal at headquarters—an improve
ment of condition, it must be needless to say, very
pleasing to the prisoner.
and Henderson had made remarkso their oonstiuents
very disrespectful to the Bureau aQriffin, which was
tlie cause of the arrest The ircstlgation drew a
large audience, both white and lack. The Deputy,
who claimed to be tbe “temporty President of tbe
Bureau,” was disposed to carrythiug.-^ with a high
hand, us he denied to the prisoers the right to be
heard through their counsel, Col.Nunnally, and also
said he would “be damned” it l would allow the
negroes to speak disrespectfullyol bis Bureau, or
words to that effect; but he was lther overruled by
City Marshal Johnson, who seems thave considerable
T1..1 afternoon Mr Davis took his first walk in toe , authority in this hermaphrodite cow. The prisoners,
TUat • "^mrfnn Fortress Monroe; Major Gene- I however, seemed to be pretty HI able to defend
°P ei i^ ir 81,,ce ent H l T ! i ! 0 him in one sidp the officer of i themselves, both making speecln, and posted with
the da 5 CS 0 n U the r other, and followed by four armed !. authorities, drawing rounds of appnse from the an-
my regret, for the remarks of the prisoner on regain
ing so much of his liberty, aud looking upon scenes
formerly so familiar, under happier circumstances,
would beyond doubt have been of interest. I only
noticed that Mr. Davis was arrayed in tbe samo garb
lie had worn when entering liis cell—indeed General
Miles hail possession of all his other wardrobe; and
that while his carriage was proud and erect as ever,
not losing a hair’s breadth of his height from any
stoop his' step had lost its elasticity, his gait was
feeble in the extreme, and he had frequently to press
liis chest, panting in toe pauses of exertion. The cor
tege promenaded along tlie ramparts ofthe South front.
Griffin Burea in particular, but agist the Bnrean in
general, aud that they were willg to trust to the
fairs of the country and their old lister, and friends
tor justice, and thought the Bureanystem, although
well intended in tlie outset, had bet abused, and had
a tendency to create disturbances stween the races,
when it was to tbe interest of hot white and black
that they should all he friends, le freedmen who
brought the charges either tailed] appear, or gave
different versions from the first rejits to the Bureau,
and George Johnson summarily disused the prison
ers, who triumphantly retired amiit the plaudits of
, who composed nine-tchs of the blacks,
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United States District Court
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Georgia.
M- Davis oftcm stopping and' pointing out objects of ! their friends, who composed mne-tths of the Blacks,
interest as ifgiolngntoitoisceiicos of the past, and j and pretty much all tfie white pede present. Au-
making' inquiries of the present. He was so weak. I ansta citron,cle.
however, that the hour allowed proved nearly twice
“WAn and Ruvons or War.”—Ifiere is anythiDg
•” thcV, " —
too much for him, and he had to be led back with only „ war and of war” they, the world has
hall his offered liberty enjoyed. : never neon nearer a colapse than joitow. The smoke
June 25th.—Visited prisoner with Captain Evans, 3d , |l( . battle has scarcely . been clred, the fields
Pennsylvania Artillery, officer ot the day. Mr. DJI 16 1 where Fenians and Kanucks met idreadful conflict,
much better, and with spirits greatly improved. The ! upou tbe yi a i ns of Mexico, never ydree from hostile
application to the back of bis neck had immediately j Jlul( i^ the Mexicans are fighting fax and the Im
relieved the pain, and hia sight was less wavering. He
no longer saw the cloud of black and amber motes
rising and falling before his sight. The nervous and
painful twitching oi the eyelids had also in a great
measure ceased. Of all diseases, lie most feared photo
phobia, having seen so many cases of it, and beard it
was the keenest agony of which the human nerves are
susceptible. Injured as liis sight was, he knew such a
disease must resultin total blindnsss. “Not that I ex-
perialists. A little tarther down onjie map, we find
the Peruvians waging dire war wit the Spaniards,
with Chili to help. Then jnst over fe way, the sons
of Paraguay ore measuring arms wi those of Brazil
and the Argentine Confederation, prk war clouda
hover over all Europe, and from ev« quarter, in that
unsettled region, comes the cry: fc-pere for battle I
The life blood of Russians and Bnharrians is flow
ing in a commingled stream. The mgs of the armies
pect many pleasant things to look out upon, Doctor, ; Q {- dji n a have been brought to requisition to
but that I need my sight for my defence, which must | .ri^hten off the Mangolians and thtartars with whom
also be toe defence of the cause I represented, and ( , h t neMme n are now at war:ai
which my sufferings hive been aimed to degrade.”
Asked him how he had enjoyed his walk on the pre
vious afternoon. He said the sense of breathing air
not drawn through ’Iron bars was a glorious blessing,
only to be appreciated by prisoners—one oftoe thous
and common blessings which must be lost before we
•wise them. The varieties of Tiew and' animation of
the scene had stimulated and reinvigorated his eyes;
but his feebleness had been excessive—partly arising,
• V. rtw/il AmAHrinfl Tiflpfltr
Xhe hiepeoplefronfthe Southern front, it seemed to bis ’ trictT was unconstitutional.
Ohinesomen are now at war: and tat, bnt not least,
succeeding the shock of battle ’hich rocked this
country from centre to circumferce, comes the war
between the defenders of the ustitntion aud the
blatant, wicked-hoartad dupes ofbaticism. Sorely,
the end Is fast approaching, anctoe day is not far
distant when' he that is on thfaonsetop shall not
come down fo securVhis housebc goods —A ugusia
Chronicle. .
—The District Supreme Gowlt Washington de
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Argnment of
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COOPER, OLCOTTS & FARRELLY.
NOTICE.
VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE,
LEXINGTON, VA.
T
IHE BOARD OF VISITORS will meet at the Vir
_ ginia Military Insdtntq on the 27th of June, to
make appointment? of Cadets. Applications for State
and payoadef appointments willbe made to the un-
derefgsedr^ecetnpanied with the usual testimonials
of good inGral character.
Candidate* for appointment most be exempt from
bodily disease,.ot ages between 16 and 26 years, nnd
in the case of State Cadet applicants, must satisfy
■he Board of their inability to meet the expenses of
the Institution.
Uandtdhtes for admission most be able to read and
write well, sad to perform with facility and accuracy
the vai Ions operations of the four ground roles of
arithmetic, of redaction,' Of simple and com; omul
proportion, and ofvnlgar and decimal fractions.
State Cadets (one for each Senatorial District) will
be eapplicd with board apd tnition without charge.
Every arrangeiqpnt has been made by the Board
ol Visitors to maintain-ttie high scientific character
of the Institute, andto ptit In Tall operation Its well
tried and distinctive system of discipline and Instruc
tion.'
SOUTHERN AND WESTERN
Life and Accident
INSURANCE COMPANY
ew Orleans*
Capital,
$300,000
GEN, JAMES LONGSTREET,President.
ARE PREPARED O
TAKE RIHKS
HonsouaKlo Torma.
my2i-tr
WILLIAM C. (’0SBN8, Agent,
At Marine Bank.
THE OGLETHORPE
The graduating. axerclBes of tbe institution will
,ke place at the institute on the 4th of July. The
take
examihmtJoi
any wtllcommence on the 27th of Jane,
and be Continaed daily until completed. .The public
are respectfully invited to all of these exercises.
For all farther Information, application will be
made to the Superintendent.
FRANCIS H. SMITH,
Superintendent.
Augusta Constitutionalist please insert six times,
and send bill to this office. may2S^6t-w.
J. W. STEELE,
(Late Sleek) ft Burbank,)
11 Merciunts’.R«w, Hilton Head, So. C t
And corner King ana George Ate., Charleston,
,LS the attention of Wholesale and Retail
ftALI
V 1 chasers to hia superior stock of
Military and Naval Clothing,
gY the Ordinance passed by the City Council on
the 27th day of December, 1366, toe .ti
gross sales pr Avery description of merchani
wares, upon freight and passage money pa;
this city, and npon horses and mules, Are,
be paid monthly. The undersigned h
ceive the above tax for the past monfl
myl.tf City
FURNISHING GOODS,
Watches, flMnli u, Facay Goods, and Plated
Ware, Swords, Sashes, Belts, fiflRmerica, Boots
.Gauetiafa, Gkivm, *c,!*c.
Claret Wine.
IQQ CASBB FINK CLARET WINK tor sale by
K. W. MARSH ft CD.,
as*.. •
Corner Whltakerand Congress streets.
Insurance Comp’y
OF SAVANNAH
Are prepared to take
IFire Bisks on Reasonable Terms,
At tbeir Office, 111 Bay Street.
H- W. MEBCER, President.
3. X. Thomas. Sec.
H. W. Mercer
C. S. Hardee
William Hunter
A. S. Hartrhlge
A. Porter
R. Morgan
J. Stoddard
J. T. Thomas
W. Remshart
F. L. One
H. A. Crane
A. AL Solomon,
M. Hamilton
W W. Gordon
mrTAf -
Directors:
M. S. Coken
J. Lama -
J. W. Nerttt
D G. Puree
a. Fnllarton
•J. McMahon
L J. GuUmartin.
F. W. Sims
G. Butler
ft. LachUsoa
E. P. Clatou, Augusta
J. W. Knott, Mason
B. F- Bow, Macao
Wi H. Young, Columbus
Rockland Lime
FRANCIS COBB’S MANUFACTURE
- *-
7AA BBLS flat quality, now landing.
* vV For ml* by
RICHARDSON ft BAKNAHD,
]•*-« Stoddard’s Lower Kang