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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY,
JEFFERSON DAVIS IN PRISON.
Scenes and incidents of the Life
of the Ex-Confederate Presi
dent in the Casemate at
Fortress Monroe.
Extracts from the Diary
Surgeon.
of the Post*
RIGORS OF HIS CONFINEMENT.
Opinions of the Confederate header on
Social and Political Affairs.
Southern Non-Beltigei'ents.—The Ant-Lion and its
Habits.—Mr. Davis on the Ft it tire uf the Southern
Hlacks.
August 24 f 7t.—Visited Mr. Davis with Capt. Titlow\
officer of the day. Found him slightly better in body
and miud. Expressed hope that no sensational re
ports of his illness had appeared in the newspapers to
alarm his wife more than necessary. His hope was
taint, however. The swarm of newspaper correspon
dents, more than quadrupled by the war, no longer
finding food for their pens in camps or on battle-fields,
had to 9eize every item of the slightest interest and
swell it into importance by exaggeration, in order to
retain their employment. Spoke of the superior liter
ary and inventive powersjof our correspondents during
the war. To contrast the dry official report of some
affair of outposts or the skirmish line, iu which half a
dozen men on either side had been killed or wounded,
with the wonderfully enlarged and intensely colored
mil-age of the same appearing some few days subse
quently in the Northern Press, formed an amusing
and amazing study, giving one a higher ideal of man's
imaginative power. The Southern press, on the con
trary was snort of printers, short of paper, and all
other requisites for exciting journalism, infcomuch
that latterly only the meagerest skeletons of events
could appear; aud even official documents, and de
bates of the highest consequence had to be brietly
epitomized.
Mr. Davis said the press of the South had enjoyed
more liberty and given more trouble to its gov
ernment tnau that or the North. Properly conducted,
its power wa9 an important adjmrct to the machinery
of war; but engineering it was a complex study, call
ing for special education in it9 professor. The only
men still remaining vindictively belligerent and anx
ious to perpetuate trouble in the .South—so far as he
knew, and as their words could reach—would be
found iu the small-fry of little country editors, and
certain classes of civilians who liad been exempted
from military service by special legislation, the pur
chase of substitutes, or the procurement of details. It
wa* the non-belligereut9 of actual conflict who had al
ways been and would remain most ferociously hellige-
of, -eutnUity mineral patronage, or offices io be
ailed by popular vote ; ana aut.u auiuio «uuiu jjjLSJ
be alio* cd by our people to the exclusion of those
tearless and honorable men, who—hating fought,
failed, and accepted defeat—were now only anxious to
vr&n*- -il ?Mnfai Houvemra aud legacies of the unfor
tunate aud unavailing H iruc.
Observing me brusu away with my foot some crumbs
scattered near his bedside, Mr. Davis asked me to de
sist; they were lor a mouse he was domesticating—the
only living thing be had now power to benefit. The
drawback to this compauiouehip was, that the crumbs
called forth a swarm of red ants as well as the mouse;
aud he suggested, with a smile, that a few ant-lions
should be caught and brought in from the beach.
Placed in a cigar-box, with seme fine sand and a lump
of sugar, or a few dead locusts, to attract the ants, they
would soon rid him of his insect visitors, and afford
though on a small scale, the nearest approach to sport
be could now have.
Finding my curiosity excited, Mr. Davis then de
scribed the ant-lion with much minuteness and pleas-
mt humor, saying it was next to the bee as an inter
esting study in natural history. It is about the size
of a small, elongated pea, three legs on each size, a
lorceps proportionably immense arming its head, and
between these nippers a sharp stiletto, which can be
drawn in or thrown out at pleasure. It is found all
along tbe Southern coast, and would seem to have a
difficult problem in supporting life. It is painfully
slow of movement, always walking backward and
dragging its forceps along the ground behind it; while
the ants, on which it chiefly preys, are extremely ac
ta e. Nature, however, has compensated by subtlety
what the ant-lion lacks in action. It digs a funnel-
shaped hole in the fine sand of the Southern coast,
circular at the top, of an inch diameter and an inch
m depth. At the bottom it secretes itself in the sand,
only its forceps protruding. These pitfalls are located
about an inch or so from the stems of shrubs or tufts
of grass—the ants blocking to these latter, because
finding in them a species of grass-louse called the ant-
vow, which the ant milks by suction as its favorite
iood, the cows not resisting less worse befall them,
and not appearing injured by the process. While the
ants are thus hastening to their food, some one of
them will approach the brink of the ant-lion's pitfall,
and instantly the fine sand of the edge gives way, pre
cipitating the unwary traveller to the bottom. Here
be is seized by the forceps, and firmly held, while the
stiletto is driven through his body. His juices are
soon sucked dry by the secreted monster of the cave,
aud then with one jerk of the forceps, the carcass is
fiung up and out two or three inches beyond the edge
o! the funnel—a distance as much as if a man were
thrown one hundred and fifty times his length.
Should the ant, when first tumbling, escape the grasp
A the forceps, and . seek to clamber out of the trap,
tue ant-lion foils the attempt by jerking little jets of
**nd on the body and across the path of his ilyiug
victuu, who 19 soon stunned, bewildered, and
iwtiug his loot-grasp on the slippery sides, falls back
a helpless prey to his destroyer. Mr. Davis, when on
the coast of (ieorgia, many years ago, had often spent
hours in watching them, and their whole performance
could be wituessed by placing one iu a cigar-i^jx half
filled with fine sand, and dropping in some Sugar or
a dead locust to attract the ants. The ant-lion would
fiot l* in the box half a day before commencing to
his livelihood by digging out his trap. So great
the habit of subtlety iu this insect, that when.
moving from place to place, it always burrowed along
just a little beneath the surface of the sand; and he
had heard, if compelled to cross a stone, log, or other
' o*truction, that it seized a rdiip or leal with ita
lorceps, thereby covering its body, as it slowly and
pamtully toiled backward. This, however, he could
fiot verify from personal observation.
•Ev cr> conversation of tins kind with Mi . Davia re-
* -died the saying of some eminent writer whose name
ha* escaped me, that “it is a noble thing.to know how
take a country walk,” or words containing that idea,
t»ut more concisely and vividly expressed. Educated
b> the microscope and habits of observation, we be-
«whir afraid of treading on some of Hod’s beautiful lit
he things at every step.
a uqusi ‘loth.—Called upon Mr. Davis, accompanied
by Captain Greason, of the staff of Major General
MJes, officer of the day. The Captain gave me an or
der from General Miles, allowing state-prisoner Davis
fi- have a knife and forkwitli his meals hereafter. Mr.
Bavis was pleased, but said he had learned many new
asf- s to which a spoon could be put when no other im-
plemcnt was accessible. In particular, it was the best
peach-peeler ever invented, and he illustrated as he
"poke on a fruit that lay on his table. Denying him a
kinie and fork lest he should commit suicide, he said,
"as designed to represent him to tbe world as an
atrocious criminal, so harrowed by remorse that the
oblivion of death would be welcome. His early
shackles had partly the same object, but still more to
degrade his cause.
i'risoner’s health very delicate, but the erysipelas
subsiding. Asked could he soon resume his walks iu
the open air ? The change of spene being a great de
light, aud the exercise improving his sleep.
He referred to an account he had been reading of
*fi attack on a negro named Davenport, in Connecti-
cat » for marrying or living with a white woman. Also,
T b e New York riots, in. which mobs rose suddenly
upon the blacks, hanging them to lamp-posts and
roasting them at slow fires. Tbe papers bore evi
dence, from all sections, of increasing hostility be
tween the races, and this was but part of the penalty the
Poor negro had to pay for freedom. The more political
equality was given or appproached, the greater must
become the social antagonism of the races. In the
oouth, under slavery, there was no such feeling, be-
efifise there could be no rivalry. Children of the
white master were often suckled by negroes, and
•ported during infancy with black playmates. Old
enough to engage in manlier exercise, it was under
Diack huntsmen the young whites took their first les-
•on» in field-sports. They fished, shot, and hunted
together, eating the same bread, drinking from the
■••ns cup, sleeping under the same tree with thier
fiegro guide. In public conveyances there was no
• oa jl exclusion of the blacks, nor any dislike en-
* e _**dered by competition between white and negro
tfibar. in the bed-chamber of the planter’s daughter
u was common for a negro to sleep, Of half attendant,
fifilf companion; «*d while then flight be, as in
•u countries and amongst all races,* individual in-
***nce« of cruel treatment, he was well satisfied that
t^eween no master and laboring dneses oo earth had
■o kindly and regardful a feeling subsisted. Hfc sup
pose otherwise required a violation of the known laws
of human nature. Early associations of service, affec
tion and support were powerful. To these self-interest
joined. The horse we hire for a day may be fed or not
fed, groomed or not groomed, when returned to the
livery stable. The horse owned by us, and for which
we have paid a thousand or fifteen hundred dollars, is
an object both of pride and solicitude. His grooming,
stabling, and feeding are cared for. If sick he is doc
tored, and cured if possible. When at work, it is the
owner’s interest that he shall not be overtaxed.
That attainment of political equality by the negro
will revolutionize all this. It will be as if our horses
were given the right of intruding into our parlors; or
brought directly into competition with human labor,
no longer aiding it, but as rivals. Put large gangs of
white laborers, belonging to different nationalities, at
work beside each other, and feuds will probably break
out. Endeavor to supplant a thousand Irishmen
working on a levee or canal by a thousand Germans
ready to accept lower wages, or vice versa, and milita
ry power will be required to keep the peace. Eman
cipation does this upon a gigantic scale and in the
most aggravated form. It throws the whole black race
into direct and aggressive competition with the labor
ing classes of the whites; and the ignorance ot the
blacks, presuming on their freedom, will embitter
every difference. The principle of compensation pre
vails everywhere through nature, and the negroes
will have to pay, in harsher social restrictions and
treatment, for the attempt to invest them with
political equality. To endow them with the ballot by
Act of Congress was impossible, until the trunk of the
Constitution, already stripped of many branches once
full of shade and pleasant singing-birds, was torn up
by the roots. Each State had the privilege of deciding
the qualifications of its own citizens; and some of tbe
States moot clamorous for universal negro suffrage, in
the South, where such a measure would send unlet
tered blacks to both Houses of Congress, and pass the
State Legislature and judiciary altogether into their
hands, themselves refused the ballot to the negro,
though not numerous enough in any district to decide
the majority of a pound-keeper.
Took issue with Mr/ Davis on the labor question
What necessity for competition in a country so vast,
and only partially developed, as the South ? The re
lations of the races would adjust themselves, under
the laws of supply and demand, and the whites still
owned their old plantations and other property, which
was their capital; and to this the labor of the blacks
would have to bow. White labor could not long* re
main, nor to any great extent, in competition with
black. It had accumulative energies, guided by in
telligence, which must soon lift it into the employing
class; while the blacks, if so incapable of thrift as he
seemed to think, must remain hewers of wood and
drawers of water for ever. The antagonisms of so
violent a revolution in the labor-system of toe South
were natural, but must soon fade out. There never
had been any desire North to give the negroes social
equality; but our pride, not loss than sense of justice,
demanded that there should be no political bar to
their improving their own condition to equal that of
the whites, if they possessed the capacity for such
elevation. As to the outrages upon the blacks in New
York, they were the work of a iew abandoned and
maddened wretches—men certainly not representing
nor belonging to the party in control of our national
destinies. It was a riot to resist the draft, and the in
offensive blacks became objects of vengeanco, from
the democratic cry that the war making the draft
necessary was a “war for the nigger.” 'The case in
Connecticut was a protest in violent and illegal form
of certain turbulent whites against the intermarrying
of the races. It wat lawless, of course, and one of the
rioters had lost his life at the hands of the black, who
was held justifiable. Nevertheless, the sentiment
that prompted the attack—one of the opposition to
such deteriorating interminglementa—was all but
universal, and offered sufficient guarantee that toe
dominant race would never suffer material injury to
its blood or character from the political equality of the
negroes.
Mr. Davis said no argument could make us agree,
for we occupied different planes of observation.—
There could be no problem of tho negro at the North,
for they were too few to be of consequence; and each
census showed their number diminishing. It was in
tho Cotton States, where they equalled, and in many
districts largely outnumbered the whites, that the ad
justment of relationship would prove impossible
under such ideas as now threatened to prevail in the
Federal Government. As for himself and his people,
they were now only passengers in the ship of State-
no longer of the crew, nor with places on the quarter
deck; and must take, he supposed, whatever decisiou
of the question the powers that had lifted themselves
above the Constitution might see fit to impose.
Mr. Davis on Fenianism—Highly Important—His
Views of Reconstruction.
August 26th.—Called upon Mr. Davis, accompanied
by Capt. Evans, 3d Pennsylvania Artillery, officer of
the day. Health slightly improved, and spirits de
cidedly more cheerful.
Mr. Davis said his imprisonment bad one advantage,
giving him time to re-read Bancroft's History of the
United States, and read Macaulay’s History of England
—the latter something he had long wished, but could
not find time for. The system of settlement and con
fiscations under. Cromwell, in Ireland, was precisely
what his people were now threatened with. The cry
then was, “To * * * * or Connaught!” whither an
attempt was made to drive and herd together the
whole people. Whole estates, and even counties,
hy ordera council, oa no other
piea man that the proprietors were either of the Iri«n
{files SB HBfolftV'TRnCflufrbfV fify* \a
peat itself in the United States, the cry only varying
to read, “To * * * * 0 r Mexico I” and the locality
changed from Ireland to the South. There was no ex
tween the conquering forces of Cromwell and the Irish
there were essential differences of race, religion,
habits, laws, and hopes. There had been war for cen
turies, and no promise of future tranquility on less
rigorous terms. Were the rapes the same, though
controlled by different ideas; their religion, habits,
and laws almost identical, and with only a single in
ternecine war to interrupt the harmony of their joint
occupation of tho continent—there was toe further
parallel that both countries suffered for loyalty to what
each regarded as the rightful government; Ireland, for
devotion to the Boyal Family of the Stuarts; and the
South, for its fidelity to the principles defined by the
Constitution of 1787.
KThe present Fenian movement for Ireland was a
mrce to make angels weep. The last attempt was in
1848, when toe population of Ireland was more
than a million larger—the movement originating at
home, and all Europe in a convulsive and volcanic
condition. History gave no example of an oppressed
race that had accepted exile, returning with success
to liberate their native laud. The aristocratic refugees
of the French revolution, indeed, got back to their
country, but only under the swords of a combination
in which England, Austria, Russia, Prussia, aud the
Germafi States were enlisted, with their whole military
resources. It was a mere catch-penny clamor of de
signing demagogues in its cis-Atlantic aspect; nor
could he see that in Ireland there was organization, or
even a vigorous purpose to accomplish the object pro
posed. England's control of the sea was absolute, at
least so near home, against any less combination than
the navies of France and America. To land men or
arms in any sufficient quantity in Ireland, would re
quire some desperate sea-fights by navy with navy,
and a transport fleet, costing for vessels and their
equipment not less than some hundred millions. The
men engaged in this matter must be either fools or
rogues. He had no special cause to love England, nor
dislike; but such impracticable and pigmy threaten-
ings of her empire would be ludicrous if not too .sad.
Against the rocks of her coast, storm-clouds of a
thousandfold the Fenian power had dashed with
clamor of waves and mist of spray, but next morning
the sun shone bright again, the air was calm, and only
in a shore strewn with wrecks could evidence be found
of any past commotion.
Asking Mr. Davis what were his views in regard to
toe reconstruction ot the Union, he spoke pretty
nearly verbatim as follows: this report not being con
densed as with other conversations, but taken down
in full from memory, immediately on my return to *
quarters:
“We could not otherwise define reconstruction,
than a5 a renewal to and by all the States, of all the
rights, privileges, ditties, immunities, and obligations
prescribed and recognized by the Constitution! or
original compact of Union. There were several pos
sible alternatives to this plan of reconstruction :
“1st Consolidation : the swallowing np of all State
governments by the General Government, making the
whole country one State, only divided into provinces
for easier administration, but connected as one entity
of policy and power.
“2d, Territorialism; the control of the Southern
States by a Congress and Executive representing only
the Northern States—that is colonial vassalage and
government by aathqgity of greater force.
“3d. By open subversion and usurpation to estab
lish a despotism over North and South, while yet pre
serving a certain Republican form.
“In replying to one who served through the war for
no other purpose, as you avow, than to defend and
maintain toe Union as defined by toe Constitution,”
continued Mr. Davis, “there can be no necessity for
considering any other policy than that of re-establish
ing the relations of all the States and their citizens
to each other and the United .States Government.
“Every man’s experience must teach him that
quarrels between friends are best bealed when they
are healed most promptly. The alienation wnich was
at first a pain, becomes by time habitual, and the
mantle of charity being withdrawn, the faults of each
become more and more distinct to the other, and thus
toe bitterest hates naturally spring from the ashes of
the closest friendship.
“It is therefore probably to be regretted that so
much delay has occurred in toe work of reconstruc
tion, because of the enhancement thereby of the dif
ficulties in.th&wayof speedy nnd.cordial reconcilia
tion. This opinion is qualified as‘probable.’ because
of my want of recent intercourse with the people. A
short time before the close of the war, the idea was
infused into my people, as you are well aware, that if
they would cease resistance, the Union would be re
stored, and fill their rights of person and property
respected, save the property held in slaves, which
would be a question for the courts. I have no doubt
that a majority—a very large majority—of the Southern
people accepted this preposed settlement with single
ness of purpose ; and would if confidingly and gener
ously treated, have been now industriously engaged
in repairing their wrecked fortunes, without any
thought of again resisting or obstructing the General
Government in its ordinary functions. -
“How far the public wealth would by this course
have been increased, too public expenditures lessen
ed, may be measured by many hundred millions of
dollars. If it be true that much ha9 been lost, moral
ly and materially, by delay, it would seem that true
waged toe war of the Revolution, to have and to hold
a government founded on toe consent Of toe governed
They consulted and compromised with each other. U.
establish a voluntary Union. If that idea is to be fol
lowed, confidence, generosity, fraternity, and not test-
oaths, disabilities, and armies quartered in toe inte
rior, musk be relied upon to restore the Union apd
make it re-effective for the ends for which it was
formed.
“ Reconstruction,” continued Mr. Davis, “cannot
properly involve or be made to depend on those social
problems which have arisen from the sudden disrup
tion of the relations existing between the white and
the black races in the Southern States. These prob
lems belong to the several States, and must have
treatment according to the different circumstances of
each. No general rule can properly be made applica
ble to all, and it will prove unfortunate if toe subject
is controlled by distant and bat poorly informed,
if not prejudiced authority. The self-interest of in
dividuals and communities, together with the demand
for labor so far exceeding the supply, may safely be
left to protect the laborer.
The public actions of the Southern State Conventions
furnishes conclusive evidence of the desire of the South
ern people to resume their position in toe Union ; and
it must strike all observers with surprise, that ybile
those who strove ad desperately to leave the Union,
are now so earnestly endeavoring to reassiune their
places in it, it is the very men who sent fire and
sword to destroy them, or compel them to return
who now bar the door and deny them readmissiou t<
that very condition to which it was throughout the
war proclaimed to be their first and last duty to re
turu. Solitary reflection,” concluded Mr. Davis, “has
given me no key to the mysterious origin of thia
change in Northern opinion, which 1 find evidenced in
every newspaper that reaches me ; and perhaps my
own sad state has tinged with its gloom toe vista of
the future, if, thus alienated, disjointed and adrift,
tbe country should be visited with such trials of for
eign war, either with France or England, or both,
are now so often suggested in toe public journals
America, and their extract* from toe Europam press.'
This conversation impressed me much, and has
been recorded with peculiar care, Mr. Davis delivering
it with great deliberation and earnestness, as though
the subject were one upon which he had been re
fleeting. It is as nearly as possible reproduced in hit
own words, without abridgment, and perhaps, be
of some suggestive value—perhaps of none. Let the
wise of tho land determine.
[To be Continued.)
W1UJJMKUIU,) MJJ UOlttf, II Would BOCIU U1M UOD
policy indicate, the promptest action in what is term
ed Reconstruction. The North says we hare done
evil, and when bidding os ‘cease to do evil’ should not
prevent ns ‘learning to do well.’ This can only be
done by removing all’ impediments to the exercise of
State function* and the re-enjoyment of «uch civil and
political rights a. are left os in the Union.
“Each House of Congress ia judge of the election
and qualification at ita own members. The Constitu
tion has settled the'question of representation. A
constituency may lose lie rights for a time by select-F,
lng ineligible peiwons to be its representatives ; hot
the right of representation is not impaired thereby,
andAhe mistake or abuse may be remedied by m m
election. Test-oaths are evil continually, and only
evil. They restrain those honorable men who require
no fetter., while men of a different class will either
tabs them perjurioualy or with s ‘mental reservation.*
All hlaSoey has proved them ineffectual and some
thing wot sa
'■Oso: fbrsfkthers emigrated to a wilderness, find
Hydrophobia and the Dog War In New
York.
Coroner Gamble held an inquest at No. 183 West
H7th street, on Thursday lest, on the remains of
Andrew Fries, who died on Wednesday evening of
hydrophobia, by the evidence, it appeared that on
the 4th nit., the child was in front of the house with a
n urse, when a dog came by and bit him on tbe calf
of the leg aud also on one corner of bis month,
physician was called in, and dreaeed the wounds,
which healed in about a week; hut, from the time he
was bitten, the boy was restless at night end did not
act natural. About a week ago he complained of pain
where he was bitten, and grew worse until Sunday
night, when he became delirious, and was . seized
with spasms. Ou Wednesday evening he died. A
verdict was rendered that the boy died of hydro-
phobia.
The dog war now rages in New York, and is con
ducted in a most economical and systematic manner.
They have a dog gound, where fifty sent, ia paid for
very dog brought in, and where the dogs ere con
fined several hours, during which they may be re
deemed by their owner*. In an account of this pound
tbe Newa says persons losing dogs may rslaas* them
on the payment of two dollar, before four o’clock on
the day on which they are taken.. Since the opening
of the pound about eight hundred dog. have been se
cured and drowned. Before the and of the week from
one thousand to fifteen hundred ft' |he .animals
will be dead. ••• : .*•
At four o’clock the first dogs are pot into Ike smpty
tank for drowning. The tank ia about twelve feet
long, eight feet wide, and seven feet deep, and will
hold four or five hundred animals, according to their
size. They are put in through a door in the slat
work top of the tank, and sre piled upon each other
until tlie depth of the mass is probably fonr fast. It
takes three hundred dogs to fill .up the tank to this
point. They are drowned with Croton water.
Half or tbe dogs that get into the pound are taken
there by one man, who is s sort of dog-broker. The
pound keepers do dot deal with boys. This broker
took just one hundred and fifty animals there on
Monday, and one hundred and forty-nine Tuesday.—
The urchins who supply nim with dogs get thirty to
forty cents of the fifty cents the city pays to the
broker. Other men sre engaged in the business, but
boys do most of the catching and stealing.
ExcrriifKNT at Dayton, Ohio.—Tbe Cincinnati 0a-
zette says:
Considerable excitement has arisen in Dayton over
the removal by the trustees of the Woodland cemetery
of an offensive inscription on a tombstone. The
monument in question was that of J. K. Bollmeysr,
the Copperhead editor of the Empire, who was killed
In a fight about fonr years since. The inscription was
as follows: “He fell by the hand of an assassin—a
martyr to the cause of the liberty of speech sod of the
press'." On learning that such an inscription was to
be placed on tbe monument, the trustees forbade its
being admitted into tbe grounds. This they had a
right to do under the limitation to Which lot pure ha-
sers are subject, viz: that a majority of the trustees of
the cemetery association may remove any monument
bearing an indecent, offensive or improper inscription.
The stone was, nevertheless, erected without their
knowledge. Ou discovering that their directions had
been disobeyed they notified the widow of Boltateyer
thstihe monument must be taken down. She re
fused to comply with thatr wishes or to . erase the in
scription. They therefore performed the work them
selves, putting the stone in s safe place, subject tq the
order of the widow. Tne secession sympathizers are
naturally very angry over the matter: hot the trustees
very properly hold that no lot owner has s right to in
sult the convictions of the mass of the other owners.
They have, at aU events, only exercised a right con
ferred upon them by law, and which is posasMOd by
all similar corporations.
On Saturday night the Copperheads of Dayton held
a meeting, pursuant to an inflammatory call, worded
as follows: “The grave of the murdered BoUmeyer
has been desecrated I The tombstone avectsdto hi.
f by his wife and orphan boy, tue haem elan-
ty token down and lanfefl sway, if not ds-
stroved.” Vallaediugham mads tbs apescb on the oc-
canon, ohdmlng that Bollmaysr waes “martyr to free-
dem it speech and the jnn,” Hunhilini'wrs
Mtme of the n-ostoas as enjast, though t
acoofdaees with thmr p*
.
i to pay for a monument suitably
ihfeis of Boll may.
Appeal of the Ltdlti’ Memorial Associa
tion for Confederate Dead Intoned at
Oak-wood Cemetery, RlrkusOad. Vir
ginia.
TO JHE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH
“The Ladies’ Memorial Association for Confederate
Dead of OakWood,” near Biehmood, Virginia, am or
ganized permanently on the l»«h of April, laid, for
the purpose of rescuing from, oblivion the namm and
graves of the gallinl Confederate dead who strap »t
Oakwoqd Cemetery, - - •
Thia‘cemetery, situated one stile east of the city,
contains sixteen thousand Confederate soldiers’
graves—a larger number than any other in the South,
inctnding representative dead from .very Southern
State. .....
The graves sre in a neglected condition, the names
of the occupants marked only by rude places of board,
carelessly and slightly put in the-Oarth. Tho grounds
are desolate and unenclosed. The Common Council
of the city nf kiohmend has undertaken the work of
enclosing tile cemetery, andbas made the requisite ap
propriation for that purpose. .
The work of love, gratitude and duty which this
Association protHWes for itself is this: Pint. To turf
each grave and mark it with a neat wooden head-
board, upon which is to be inscribed the nmu of the
■occnpsnt, his State, regiment and company, and other
information iu regard to him. Secondly, To lay out
out aud decorate the grounds, aud to redeem them
flrom their present condition of utter cbetrlessness
and desolation. And Thirdly, At some future day,
when the finances of the Association shall permit it, tc
replace the wooden head-boards with enduruw marble,
and to erect a handsome monument for escki State ol
he South, commemorating its dead. To- ejreot this
purpose, it is necessary to appeal to ths people of the
South for. pecuniary esaistauce. The Assentation Is
poor, the people of Richmond are poor, and the work
to he dime is for the honor and credit of the entire
South. It would be ah indelible shame and an ever
present disgrace if, having the power to honor our
desd, to perpetuate their names and memories, and
to preserve and protect their graves, our people
should suffer them to' lie neglected and forgot
ten, until the frail record of their name., death and
burial places are totally destroyed, by decay, and the
task rendered impossibly.. How. many families
throughout the 96dth have representative! sleeping
at Oakwood Cemetery? How many rnothea sod sis
ters, and fathers and brothers, and frunda. would be
soothed aud gratified to know that their brave dead
were honored, and their graves oared for and tended ?
Could the people of the South look upoo the lonely,
desolate and neglected graven no appeal would be ne
cessary. The silent rebuke of these forgotten heroes
would reach the hearts and consciences of every Chris
tian man and woman of tbc Hooth The V*.f~istiTti
not for a day bra year; it la not The rvil-g fine
an hour, ortho ephemeral creators of a momenmty
impulse. It is permanently organized, with already
two hundred and fifty active members. It will know
no rest until its purposes are successfully audfully
schieved.
In this work of piety and love, the Association sol-
emnly pledge its honor to tbe people of the South to
apply, faithfully and economically, the funds which
may be contributed.
Editors friendly to the purpose of this Association,
will confer a.favor by copying into thsir papers this
appeal.
Contributions urgently solicited.
Mbs. M. H. Smith, President.
Mrs. A. R. Courtney, Secretary.
The Radicals and the Fenians.—It is rumored
that since the late visit of President Roberts, of the
Fenian Brotherhood, to Washington, it has transpired
that definite and conclusive proposals wars made both
to Roberts and several other high Fenian functiona
ries tint-accompanied him, whereby tbe influence of
those gentlemeu is to be exercised in tbe approai
politics! campaign in opposition to the Administra
tion. As a past consideration far this proposed organ
ized adherence to the anti-administration party, the
Brotherhood are pointed to the resolution introdneed
in the House..a day or two since, by. Gov. Boutwell, of
Massachusetts, expressive of sympathy with the late
movement on Canada.
This peculiar sympathy for ths Irish has all grown
np in Massachusetts since 1855, whan Know-Nothing-
ism ruled in that Stats, and when Irishman wars pro
scribed and disarmed as soldiers. “As a peat oonsid
oration,’’ this recollection would, it wouldJseem, not
be very persuasive of Fenian votes.
The Last New York Harder.
The New Tork Sun gives the following description
of a most revolting murder which occurred in that
city on Wednesday last. The scene described by the
Sun would afford a fine subject for wood-cut illustra
tion in the “Police Gazette," or "Harper’s Journal of
Civilization." The Sun says:
No. 129 Prince street, the scene of the bloody affair
—a short account of which was given in the Sun ot
yesterday—lias for several years past enjoyed a most
memorable reputation among the residents In that
naighborhood, being much frequented by that debased
class of females with which the neighborhood abounds,
a number of whom occupied furnished rooms in tho
building. Among the occupants of this brothel was
a young woman of prepossessing appearance, twent;
one years of age, and familiarly known to the neigi
borhood as Kate Smith, but whose rightful name was
Lucy A. McLauglin. For several months past, and
prevlons to the recent Fenian border troubles, the
murderer, Jerry O'Brien, a young man nineteen year*
of age, has been unremitting in his attentions to
"Kate," frequently visiting places of amusement and
driving to Central Park in her company, and sharing
her room with her for weeks together. An enthugiaa-
tic Fenian, 1 O’Brien joined the movement against
Canada, and while absent,feeems to have been ousted
from the affections of the girl by one Jesse Smith, .
brother, as reported, of the notorious Theodore Allen,
of bounty broking fame. Incensed at her perfidy,
O’Brien, upon his return, determined upon her chas
tisement, and encountering her upon a public tho-
rouglifare on Saturday evening last, inflicted severe
injuries upon her with a bludgeon, for which cowardly
assault he was arrested, but Kate foiling to appear
against him, he was subsequently released. Not con
tent with the flagellation inflicted upon the girl,
O’Brien, desperately jealous now, resolved upon
more bloody method of revenge. Ascertaining,
through a "pal,'*, that the victim he sought was
alone in her room, and arming himself with a large
butcher-knife, purchased for the murderous pur
pose from the stand of a fish-monger on the
corner of Greene and Prince streets, and simi
lar in construction to those employed by fish-
mongers, O’Brien, late on Wednesday afternoon,
noiselessly entered the dwelling, to which he had s
night key, aud stealing softly up stairs to the third
story, entered the room occupied by the doomed wo
man, whom he found in the act of dressing. He
first commenced upbraiding her in the most infuriated
manner for her alleged perfidous conduct, and from
words the cowardly ruflian proceeded to blown. The
piteous shrieks of the terrified girl, which now rang
through the house, soon alarmed tbe household, who
rushed to the apartment occupied by Kate, and bursting
the door, found her prostrate upon the floor, imploring
most piteously for mercy, while over her, clutching with
one hand the throat of hia victim, while in the other he
aon^jeri'iu tlie very act of cle«VXd^‘tfle r W8Anfi)t>tffd
terriuio weapon.. w.»k
women of the house, instantly rushed upon the mur
derer, and, seizing his arm, averted the intended blow
while several girls hurried Kate from the scene. Find-
lalaaaovU aDwul 6W Ito UtlMUKl Off DIM AUtOUdcU ■» MJ-
tim, with a spring the ruffian broke from the grasp of
the woman who bad seized him, and, darting into the
hall-way, soon overtook his victim at the top of the
stairs leading to the first story. With a powerful
lunge, accompanied by a savage yell, he instantly
plunged the weapon Into the back and completely
through the body of the unfortunate girl, and with
such tremendous force aa to precipitate her down the
stairs to the floor below, the momentum of the blow
also causing tbe murderer to lose hiB balance, and
descend headlong upon the body of the victim of
his fury. Surveying for an Instant the bleeding
corpse of tbe woman, as if to convince himself of the
thoroughness of his work, the fiend, drawing the
weapon from the dead body before him, turned it
upon himself, inflicting a gash In the neck, and was
about to repeat the stab, when the timely arrival of
Opts. Mills aud Miller, of the Police, who bad been
summoned immediately on the commencement ol the Dunff fir WlluAII Di>afKni>a
affray, put an end to the bloody work. O’Brien was * Itlll 06 ll“ltil A»I WUlCl Sj
immediately conveyed to the Eighth Precinct Station
House, where an examination of his wound was made,
and surgical aid being found necessary, he was short
ly afterwards removed to Bellevue Hospital, where
he will remain until he sufficiently recovers irom
tbe effects of his injuries to be removed to the City
Prison.
PnonABLE Spbkadinu OF tub Wab.—The London
Times of the 7th remarks : “Now the great tempest is
rolling round to the point where the first wrong was
done. It is all for Holstein that Siieaia la menaced ;
but it is terrible to think how the atom may spread.
In the rear of Italy stands France, and in the rear of
Austria stands Bussia. It is even said that the design
of Italy against the Adriatic Provinces of Austria ha**
suggested some political concert between .the Emperor
and the Sultan ; nor does anybody seem to doubt
that the war which begius upon the Baltic may ex
tend to tho Black Sea."
In the Court of Coiflmon Pleas of New York, on Fri
day morning, tbe following well-known gentlemen
were empanelled as a special jury. The wealth thev
represent is enormous; some es»’ - -V -f4,9“ 000.000:
Amt Frfefeiaotph. Msmjr «. ^xy^rlse L. Tlf-
will,* s. ACor, Uriah Heuartchet John J.
Cisco, Francis Skiddy, Alexander T. Stewart, Henry
A. Hurlburt. Thomas. A. Wilmerding, Bradiah John
son, Edmund H. Miller, John D. Wolf, Augustus Bel-
SOUTHERN
Importing and Manufacturing
DRUG HOUSE
Wo. 23S KXZfO S'
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS
AND
Muuufactnring* Chemists.
No. 238 KINO 8TREET,
Fourth door above Market at.
Charleston* 8. C.
PRATT, IS. W. WILSON. I P. B. WILSON,
iGraduate of Phils.
stloUteS.J |College of Phar-
re and Ml-j macy, A Chemist
areas. I ItoS. O.Ord. Dept
The Proprietors are Native Geor
gians,
mum in
DB.UOI, OBBMZOALI,
DRUGGISTS’
a25-8ra
HUNDRIBg.
SEALS, SEAL PRESSES
Cancelling Stamps.
T HF undersigned are receiving ordera for hSALB
and SEAL PRE3-E3, suitable for ihe use of
County Offiren Notaries, Societies, Lodges and
Business men gOBamUy.
We are also prepared to furniah Cancelling and
Business Stamps of any pattern at maker's price*.
Send for a circular.
ESTILL A BROTHER,
New* Dealers.
Bull street, next to the Poet Office,
lei Savannah.
PULASKI HOUSE
SHAVING AND HAIRDRESSING
SALOON,
Ball Street, Corner of Bryan.
fttHE BEST ARTISTS BMPLCftSD. BATHING
*ons attached, with hot and cold water. Far
ing Goods, ToRet Artidef, kc:, Ac,, for talc,
jeil-lw B- VTAMM, Proprietor.
Ca?h for Wheat.
<» nwt iBM mat gfltar*tot
I Quito M*fe«w flMrtnerifltorRime» etod
Bay attest.
ST. CHARLES SALOON,
B Y A. STAMM, Bay Lane, rear ot Poet Office.—
The best Liquors, Alee, Wines Scgsra, fee.,
alwayi on band, including m choice article of 8ELT-
ER’S WATER, directly imported from Ueraagthnm,
Nassau, and the best of Rhine Wines.
LUNCH every day at 11 o'clock. mlt-ly
LA PIERRE HOUSE,
PHILADELPHIA.
T HE SUBSCRIBERS having leased this fovorile
House, it has been
REFITTED AND HE FURNISH ED
IN AN ELEGANT MANNER,
And Is now Prepared tvlta the Moat Per-
*«t Appointments for the Recep
tion of Uncats..
Tkii first position among first-class Hotels will bo
maintained in the future, as in the past.
BAKER jt FARLEY.
THE VERANDA HOUSE,
A T WHITE BLUFF, will he opcu on and after
-XL. Monday, tbe 9th tost., (or the accommodation
of Boarders, transient or permanent. -
The subscriber, from his long experience In the
bu8i'lee8,can safely guarantee the comfort of those
who may give him a call-
mySS tf MOSES M. BELISARfO.
LITE OAK
No: 32 GEOHGB STREET,
Charleston, South Carolina,
ia now open for the accommodat ion of transient in
permanent guests.
Choicest Liquors, Wines, Ales and Segws
XL RATS ON EASD.
Terms,
aUtf
SB per Say.
PETER JQNE8, Proprietor.
CHARLESTON HOTEL,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
been sixteen years connected with the establishment.
ro-6-tt W. WHITE. Proprietor.
Port Royal House,
HILTON HEAD, S. C.
RIDDELL A
E. S, BIDDELI.
]n3-tf
Piomiiois
h. r. Slice.
Miscellaneous.
GEORGIA STATE DIRECTORY.
For 1866 and 1867'.
BY CAPT. JOHN C. BRAIN, OF
SAVANNAH, GA. .
T HI3 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 men in the S ate of Georgia, as well as
the private residences in all the cities, and will he the
most exten-ivo and complete directory ever pub
lished. No business man should be without it, and
none should foil to advertise In it, as it is doubtless a
splendid medium through which to communicate
with substantial classes itirouchont tlie country.
Iu the City of New York aione the publisher has
nearly five hundred stib-n-i ibi-rs, and that list Is daily
on tho uifruiso. The price of conscription is within
the reach o’ every business man. however limited hie
means. The advertising terms are likewise reason
able. .
Oenonl Aorent. J, Orris Lea.
Depot, roar ol l’oit xifflce, each day for the next
week, after the hour of one P. M. m}30-lm.
Emigrants Can be Supplied
WITHIN TEN DAYS.
T HE undersigned are prepared to supply Planter*
and other parties who may be in want of WHITE
LABORERS, and have made necessary arrange
ments In the North to fill auy orders for agriculture
Laborers, Wooden*.'.rs, Mechanics, etc., within Ten
or Twelve days fromt he day the order is given here.
The l-aliorera are to .ns received by the Employers
on arrival of the steamer here, and transported to
the points where they are wanted at Employers’
expense, and the Employers have farther to pay a
certain sum per head in advance, partly as security
and partly for covering the expenses in bringing the
Emigrants from the North to tuis port.
The rate at which Farming Laborers can be se
cured will average about $150 per year, the Employ
er* finding them.
For further particulars apply to
WM. MORV1LLE fe CO.,
Jones’ Block, Bay street.
One door East of Barnard street,
savannah, Ga.
REFERENCES:
Jackson A Lawton, savannah.
John W. Anderson A Son, Savannah.
Solomon Cohen, Savannah.
Jno. C, FerriU, Savannah.
Nlcholls, Camp <£ Co., Savannah
Geo. A. Cuyler, Savannah.
W. R. Fleming, Savannah.
John Screven, Savannah.
Brigham, Baldwin <tCo., Savannah
Savannah National Bank Savannah,
ml
LIFE INSURANT GO.,
Of New York City,
No. 8Q Bay &Btre c
SAVANNAH, GA.
Policies Issued and Losses Paid
AT THIS OFFXOB.
CREDITS
Given to holders of Mutual Policies of
CO PER CENT.,
if desired, when the premium amounts to
$50 or more, and ia paid annually.
DIVIDENDS
made to holders of Mntual Policies as follows:
PAID IN CASH,
APPLY ON PREMIUM NOTES, or
ADDED TO THE POLICY.
The latter or REVERSIONARY DIVI
DENDS declared by thia Company in 1805
were trom FORTY-FOUR to ONE *UN-
DRED AND TWENTY PER CENT., ac
cording to age.
Tfln Year. Non-Forfeiture,
ENDOWMENT,
AND
Life Policies
Issued by this Company.
Mo Extra Charge for Sontberii Residence
Insurance Comp’y
OF SAVANNAH
Are prepared to take
Fire Rists on Reasonable Terms.
A t their Office, 11T Bay Street.
H- W. MERCER, President.
J. T. Taoirae, Sec.
II. W. Mercer
C. 8. Hardee
William Banter
A. 8. Itartridec
A. Porter
R- Morgan
J. Stoddard
J. T. Thomas
W. Remsh.-u t
F. L- Guc
H. A. Crane
A. A. Solomons
M. Hamilton
W. W. Gordon
my7 l:
Directors :
M. S. Cohen
J. Lama
J. W. Nevitt
D G. Purse *
A. Fallarton
J. McMalior.
L J. Gutlmartm
F W. Sims
G. Butler
B. Lachlison
K P. Claton, Augusta
J. W. Knott, Macon
B. P. Ross, Macon
W. H. Young. Columbus
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TIIE DDEA.T
Life and Accident
INSURANCE COMPANY
New Orleans*
Capital,
- $300,000
REN. JAMES LONDSTREET, President.
ABI PBKPABID O
TAKE RISKS
IXleasoztAble T ormm.
WILLIAM C. COSENS, Agent,
mv2i-tf At Marine Bank.
S. B. HARRINGTON,
te-
t*.
i
Y.
Directors:
Henry Brigham, President Merchants’ National
B
irpl^rson&Dfir.!;] S:r.ii‘i
BDGSs:rfnK?(uu:,3:.ri-u
WEST 18 r -S T BET7&8AVE : NEW .
for the city for the above well known anu „„
perior Ale, (warranted to stand in any climate), are
now prepared to supply the same lu package* to suit
purchasers.
aplS Smo CUNNINGHAM. PURS* * CO.
GREAT SOUTHERN
PM WARIKM
AND
JejwtforPrinters’Snpplies
210 Bay Street, Sarannab 6a,
>LATNFH A BOSWORTH keep constantlyon hand
.. a laige stock vt Ledger, Writing and Wrapping
Pipers, of all sizes and weights; also, Binders' Booda,
Card Boards, Printers.* Cards, Envelopes, Twine* and
Printing Inks
Having had long experience in the business, s«f
buying onr goods in large lull direct from the manu
facturer? enables us to compete with New York
prices.
Agents for Wade’s celebrated Printing Inks; Agent*
i this city lor the Bath Paper Mills.
Tbe highest cash prices paid for all kinds of paper
ock.
Colonel Wm. 8. Rockwell.
H. A Crane, of Crane * GrayblH.
John D. Hopkins.
A. A. Solomons, of a. a. Solomons A Co.
JE. A. Soullard.
B. J. Moses, of Brady, Smith A Co.
Fred. M. Hull, of Holcombe A Co.
M. A. Cohen, Secretary Home Insurance Co.
A. WILBUR, Ueneral Manager
WM. ft. BOYD, Agent.
Dr. E. YOMOK, Ixamtatag Phyilriaa.
Dr. fl. D. ARNOLD, Ceasaltlag Physlc’n.
Jel-tf
LEXINGTON, VA.
FlfHE BOARD OF VISITORS will meet at the Vlr-
X glnia'Military Inatitate on the J7th of Jnne. tc
of Cadet*. Applications for State
' will be made to the un
ite usual testimonials
HE LAWYERS' TEST (OATH.
1 Jutted States District Court
Southern District of
Georgia.
Argument of
HON. HENRY S. FITCH,
XT- 8- Attorney.
IN PAMPHLET FORM.
PRICK S'TBT’KRN CENTS.
For sale by
ESTILL A BROTHER,
Boll street, corner. Bay line,
8CHRBINKB Ac SON,
Congrew street,
And
COOPER, OLCOTTS A FARKELLY.
NOTICE.
Y the Ordfi
...... es age* between is and » years, and
In the aee ot Slate Cadet applicants, must satisfy
th* Bciira hf their Inability to meet the expento* ot
the Inritfutwo.
_ for admission must be able to read and
And to perform withfocfllly and accuracy
rations ot the four ground rule* of
reduettoh, of simple and com; bund
nafl or vulgar ana decimal tract tons.
w>u
Without charge.
Bvery arrangement haa hafin made by tbe Board
of Visitor* to maintain the high Scientific character
0pe ^ 0# “*
operation ■
.ive syKem of discipline and Instrac-
xercised of the Institution will
ut* on the 4tb of July. The
1 Off -the nth of Jane.
completed. The public
aftMee exercises.
wilt be
Afignsta Cosetitutiomlist
and send MU to this office
J. W. &TEELE,
(LateStcdeABarbankJ
11 MerduBte’How, Hilton He»4,8o. Ca
' AM comer King and George ate-, CharlesUm,
fifed Betafl
EVERY VARIETYIOF
FURNITURE
IS SELLING GOODS
Lower Than Any Other House
IN SAVANNAH.
die-
ic.
*90
360
170 .
190
800
•el.
f-;
HOTELS AND STEAMBOATS
FURNISHED.
PARLOR SETS, extra well upholstered.
FINE BED ROOM SETS, Walnut and Ma
hogany.
- '
COTTAGE BED
variety.
ROOM SETS, of every
DINING ROOM and LIBRARY SETS.
MATTRESSES, BOLSTERS and PILLOWS
of all kinds.
r - -
*
LZ±_
! s
\ ; > m V
u
I s
Is
KITTLE’S FOLDING SPRING BEDS and
MATTRESSES, the beat Bed in use,
and WARRANTED SUPERIOR to all
others.
LACE AND GAUZE MOSQUITO CANO
PIES, end CANOPY FRAMES.
WARERQOMS,
KUtary and Saval Clothing, iyg BrOHgfaUm StlWt,
FURNISHER f,GOODS,
Oaito ftoM Gluaeaa, Qautiet* Gtove* *o.**c