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Prison Life ofMr, Davis.
The following extraota are from a work
just issued by Dr. Craven, formerly Post
Surgeon at Fortress Monroe, and form a
vivid picture of the incarceration and
treatment of the distinguished prisoner:
Mat 21, 1865?The proccssiou into
the fort was under the immediate inspcc
tion of Major General Hulhck and Chas.
A. Dqna, then Assistant Secretary of War:
Col. Pritchard of the Michigan cavalry,
^ who immediately effected the capture, be
iog the officer in command of the guard
from the vessel to the fort. First came
Major General Miles holding the arm ot
Mr. Davis, who was dressed in a suit of
plain Confederate gray, with a gray slouched
bat?always thin, and now looking
mnoh wasted and haggard. Immediately
after these catne Col. Pritchard accompanying
Mr. Clay, with a guard of soldiers
in their rear. Thus they passed through
files of men in bluo from the Engineer's
Landing to the Water Buttery Postern ;
nnd on arriving at the casemates which
had been fitted up into cells for their incarceration,
Mr. Davis was shown into
casemate No. 2, and Clay into No. 4,
guards of soldiers being stationed in the
colls numbered one, three and five upon
each side of them. They entered; the
heavy doors clanged behind them,' and in
that clang was rung the final kaell of the
terrible, but now extinct rebellion.
Being ushered into his inner cell by
General Miles, and the two doors leading
thereinto from tbo guard room being las
?u tened, Mr. Davis, after surveying the pro
mises for some moments, and looking out
0 through ti e embrasure with such thoughts
passing over his lined and expressive face
as may bu imagined, suddenly seated him
self in a chair, placiug both bauds on his
knees, and asked one ol'thc soldiers pacing
up and down within his cell this significant
question: "Which way does the embrasure
face r
The soldier was silent.
Mr. Davis, raising his voice a little, ic
pea ted the inquiry.
But again dead silence or only the
measured footfalls of the two pacing sentries
within, and the fainter echoes of the
four without.
Addressing the other soldier as if the
first hud been deaf aud had not heard him,
the prisoner agaiu repeated the inquiry.
But tho second soldier rcu ained silent as
the first, a slight twitching of his eyes only
intimating that he had heard the question,
but was forbidden to speak.
"Well," said Mr. Davis, throwing his
hands up and breaking into a bitter laugh,
P* "I wish my men could have been taught
your discipline !" and then, rising from his
chair, commenced pacing back and forth
before the embrasure, now looking at the
silent sentry across the moat, and anon at
the two si'ently pacing soldiers who were
UIB CUIUJ'UIUUIIO IU IU? CiWCIJIUlC.
His sole reading matter, a Bible and a
prayer bo< k, his only companions those
two silent guards, his only food the ordinary
rations of bread and beef served out to
the soldiers of the garrison?thus passed
the first day and night of the ex-President's
confinement.
On the morning of the 23d of May, a
yet bitter trial was in store for the proud
spirit?a trial severer, probably than has
ever in modern times been inflicted upon
any one who had enjoyed such eminence.
This morning Jefferson Davis was shackled.
It was while all the swarming camps of
the armies of the Potomac, the Tennessee
> and Georgia?over two hundred thousand
bronzed and laurelled veterans?were pre
paring for the grand review of the next
morning, in which, passing in ondless sue
cession before the mansion of the President,
the conquering military power of the
nation was to lay down its arms at the feet
of the civil authority, that the following
scene was enacted at Fort Monroe :
Captain Jerome E. Titlow, of tho Third
Pennsylvania artillery, enteicd the prisoner's
cell, followed by the blacksmith of the
fort and bis assistant, tho latter eanying
in his hands some heavy and harshly rattling
shaokles. As they entered, Mr. Davis
was reclining on his bed, food placed
near to him tho proceeding day still lying
untouched on its tin plateneai his bedside.
"Well 1M said Mr. Davit, as they entered,
slightly raising his head.
"I have an unpleasant duty to perform,
sir," said Captain Titlow; and as he spoko
the senior blacksmith took tho shackles
from the assistant.
Davis leaped instantly from his recura
bent attitude, and then his countenance, d
growing livid and rigid as death. a
He gasped for breath, clinching his i
throat with the thin fingers of his right ?
hand, and then recovering himself slowly, h
while his woste4 figure towered up to its j
full height?now appearing to swell with t
indignation and then to shrink with terror, f
as he glanced from the captain's face to the n
shackles?he said slowly and with a labor- t
ing chest: c
"My God I You cannot have been sent t
to iron me?" d
"Such are my orders, sir,*' replied the a
officer, beckoning the blacksmith to ap- p
proach, who stepped forward, unlocking o
ihe padlock and preparing the fetters to n
do ihcir office. These fetters were of
heavy iron, probably five-eights of an inch
in thickness, and connected together bv a
chain of like weight I believe they arc
now in the possession of Major General r
Miles, and will form an interesting relic. s
" This is too monstrous," groaned the 0
prisoner, glaring hurriedly round the *
room, as if for some weapon, or means ol 1
self destruction. " I demand, Captain, that ?
you let me see the commanding officer. .
Can ho pretend that Buch shackles arc re- 1
quired to secure the safe custody of a weak 11
old man, so guarded and in such a fort as 0
this ?"
" It could servo no purpose," replied *
Captaiu Titlow; "his orders are from Wash F
ington, as mine are from him." u
" Hut he can telegraph," interposed Mr. l'
Davis, eagerly; there must be some mistake v
No such outrage as you threaten mo with
is on record in the history of nations. Beg 11
him to telegraph, and delay until he an P
swers." "
" My orders arc peremptory," said the v
officer, "and admit of no delay. For your 8
own sake, let me advise you to submit 1
with patience. As a soldier, Mr. Davis. ?
you know I must execute orders." 11
" These are not orders for a soldier," u
shouted the prisoner, losing all control of
himself. "They are orders for a jailor? 8
for u hangman, which no soldier wearing
a sword should accept! I tell you the ^
world will ring with this disgrace. The n
war is over; the South is conquered; 1 c
have no longer any country hut America, v
and it is for the honor of America, as for 11
my own honor and life, that I plead against 0
this degradation. Kill tue ! kill me 1" he s'
cried, passionately, throwing his arms wide c
open and exposing his breast, "ra'hcr than ^
inflict on me, this insult worse than death." ^
" Do your duty, blacksmith," said the s
officer, walking towards the embrasure as ^
if not caring to witness the performance. ,u
" It only gives increased pain on all sides P
to protract this interview." P
A? >L. J- ??-- LI -L
ixi wuius niu uincKsmun ad van? 11
ced with the shackles, and seeing that the I
prisoner had one foot on the chair near Sl
his bedside, his right hand resting on the 11
buck of it, the brawny mechanic made an 0
attempt to slip one of the shackles over s!
the ankle so raised; but, as if with the vc '
hcmcnce and strength which frenzy can u
impart, even to the weakest invalid, Mr.
Davis suddenly seized his assailant and 11
hurled hiiu half way across the room. 0
On this Captain Titlow turne 1, and a
seeing that Davis had backed against the ?
wall lor further resistance, began to remon ^
strate, pointing out in brief, clear language,
that this course was madness, and that or
dors must be enforced at any cost. ''Why
compel me," lie said, "to add the further ?
indignity of personal violence to the nc h
ccssity of your being ironed." o
" 1 am a prisoner of war," fiercely re- 9<
torted Davis: "1 have been a soldier in u
the armies of America, and know how to si
die Only kill me, uud my last breath p
shall be a blessing on your head. Hut p
while I have life and strength to resist, tl
for myself and for my people, this thing c
shall not ho done." J
Hereupon Captain Titlow called in a sl
CAPtrAnnf anrl fil/* A-"? *
ovi6V??II ? <<? u? vi nuiuma 1IUI1I IIIU I1CXI
room, and tko sergeant advanced to seize h
the prisoner. Immediately Mr l>uvis flew ti
on him, seized his musket and attempted o
to wrench it I rem his grasp. a
Of courso such a scene could have hut u
one issue. There was a short, passionate si
scuffle. In a moment Davis was flung up- h
on his bed, and beforo his four poweilul
assailants removed their hands from him, if
the blacksmith and his assistant had done ; <j
their work?one securing the rivet on the j
right ankle, while the other turned the a
key on the padlock on the left. tl
This done, Mr. Davis lay for a moment , p
as if in a stupor. 4Then slowly raising h
himself and turning round, he dropped b
bis shackled feet to the floor. The hursh n
clank of the striking chain seems first to tl
have recalled him to his situation, and d
propping his face into his hands, he burst tl
into a passionate flood of sobbing, rocking si
to and fro, and muttering at brief inter- a
vuls, "Oh, the shamo, the sha.ne !" ; si
It may hero be stated, though out of its t<
duo order?that we may get rid in haste e
of an unpleasant subject?that Mr. Davis tl
some two months later, when frequent vis- p
its had made him more tree of converse,
!;ave me a curious explanation of the last tl
eature of this incident. tl
lie had been speaking of suicide, and I
[enouncing it as the worst form of cowrdice
and folly. "Life is not like a comuission
that we can resign when disgusted
irith the service. Taking it by your own
land is a confession of judgment to all that
our worst enemies can a'lego. It has ofcn
flashed across me as a tempting remedy
or neuralgic torture; but, thank God, 1
icver sought my own death but cnce, and
hen when completely frenzied and not
uaster of my actions. When they came
o iron me that day, as a lust resource of
lesperation, I seized a soldier's musket and
tteiupted to wrench it from his grasp, ho
ling that in the scuffle and surprise some
ne of his comrades would shoot or bayonet
ac."
A Sad Story*
Some time during the fall of 1861, the
?th rcyiment of Arkansas volant** * ??* -
ivcd at Bowling Green, fvy., and were nsigned
to duty as a portion of the army of
Innervation under (Jen. Buckner, at that
imc occupying that placo. Among all
he gay young officers collected there, no
ne was more Ilnttcred or envied than Capt.
I , of the above numed Arkansas rt gincnt.
Polished and insinuating in his
nanncrs, of undoubted wealth and position,
ouragcous and intrepid to a degree, be
ras a universal lavoritc with the men, and
then we add that he possessed a faultless
icrson, a cultivated mind, and an abuudncc
of assurance, it is scarcely necessary
0 add that he was tho pet and idol of the
romen. ?
Prominent in the galaxy of beauties that
locked each evening to witness the dress
uradc of the various battalions, was a
uughter of gallant old Barren county,
rhotu we will call Miss Ida S , whose bright
inilcs and manifold graces had already tir. d
he hearts of more than one of the brave
fficcrs stationed upon this lookout ul the
nfant republic. In an evil hour she fell
ndcr the eye ot tho irresistible Captain
1 , and in time?to make a long story
hort?it was noised about that a marriage
ras on tho tapis between the aforesaid
ashing Captain and Miss S . So the
lontlis wore on until February, when the
oropnny to which Capt. B. was attached,
ras ordered to Fort Henry, and, by agree
rent?it being understood that the father
f Miss S was opposed to the match?
be proceeded to Men phis to nwait his
otniug, upon which event the by menial
not was to be tie 1. There could be no
oubt in the mind of the innocent and un
liervnof i?.r? nC 4 ' '
Uo|>vv>tu^ ?" ui >"v *iuin ui ut'i lovers
cclaratious, and she acceded to his wishes,
rriving here and stopping at one of the
rincipal hotels?her affianced having suplied
her with a sufficiency of cash lor her
imnediate wants. At the battle of Fort
lonekon Captain IJ distinguished him
df by his reckless bravery, escaped capare,
and reached Memphis, where he, with
thcrs who made their way out of the net
pread by the wily foe, were made lions of.
lis visits to his betrothed were resumed,
nd all bade fair for a happy marriage.
But who shall account lor the wayward
ess of destiny or the fickleness of fortune,
r ior the frailty of humanity i One after
nothcr his fair promises were violated,
nc after another the joyous hopes ol her
uturc were clouded, and?she fell. .
'(> what nia_\ man without him hide.
Though angel ou tlie outward si?lo!"
The false lover?the perjured man?ho
'ho had wrought this ruin?returned to
is regiment, leaving her the frail victim
f his duplicity and lust, to brave the con
sequence of her weakness or seek a Lethe
ndcr the dark waves of the turbid Missisippi.
She has not yet taken the fatal
lunge, and the gilded walls and loathsome
lcasurcs of a bagnio arc her home, and
be daily and nightly scenes of her sin
ursed life, here in the Christian city of
lcuiphis, within a stone's throw of the
i i r \ - i o- i? ?
ice pica ci vuvairy aim 01. rants.
IIr?, tlic author of her ruin?lie, who
as brought the dregs ol the cup of shame
0 the lips of an angel, and the gray hairs
1 a pious father to the grave in sorrow, is
respected citizen of a neighboring State
nited to a fair woman who, perhaps, little
aspects the load of sin that lies upon the
cad of hiui whom she calls husband !
Such is a faint picture of real life as it
i even now in our midst.?Munphis Ar
ks, June 5.
Those of our readers who paid sufficient
ttention to our story of ''Truth Stanger
ban Fiction," in Thursday's paper (re
uhlished in y< stcrday's (bizc tc under the
cading ''A Sad Story"), will probably
c interested to learn that the unfortuatc
victim, having procured a copy of
bat isstio and seen tho account published,
oubtlcss became partially deranged from
be reflection which a perusal of her own
id experience was calculated to produce,
nd proceeding to the whart boat of Johuin
& Wright, foot of Adams street, yes
srday, mado a desperate and almost suoessful
attempt to drown herself. Through
bo efforts of various persons who were
resent, her rash design was frustrated.
U seems that while a number of genlemen
were standing ohatting together on
be above oaraed wbarf-boat a woman
j closely veiled, came hurriedly on board,
and passing around to a secluded place,
removed all her clothing, except a few articles
not necessary to name,' and plunged
ntudly iu the swift flowing river. Instant
efforts were made *?y every person to rescue
the unfortunate from a watery grave,
and finally, after many attempts, a young
man succeeded in extending a pole within
her reach, which, wc need scarcely say,
was seized upon with avidity, and she was
brought to shore, more dead than alive,
and terribly frightened. She was placed
in a vehicle and conveyed to the city hospital,
whero a course of kind treatment
soon restored her to calmness, and she declared
that she was the person referred to
in our yesterday's article.?[/Vow the
Memphis Argiit, June 8.
^Treatment of Hydrophobia
A dog, which showed signs^of rabies,
recently escaped from Mr. Iliggs, of Trescott,
communicating the disorder ?/.
dogs, and doing other mischief. About a
month ago a servant girl in Mr. lliggs'
service was tying up the dog, when thtf
aniuial bit her on the right thumb. She
experienced no serious results until Tues
day week, when her thumb, aud chest became
considerably swollen, accompanied
with great heat, pain, redness, stiffness and
numbness, the arm being so stiff that she
wa9 almost uuable to move it. Mr. Iligg*
sent for Mr. Pope, surgeon of this town,
who saw the girl on Thursday and found
her evidently suffering from hydrophobia,
the result of the bite of the dog. On Friday
uight she became very ill, biting and
tearing at almost everything near her, utid
suffering much from convu'sion9. She repeatedly
declared that she heard tho dog
growling at her ; indeed, she displayed all
i the symptoms of this dreaded disease. As
| surgical writers on the subject do not lay
! down any specific mode of treatment in
ca.cs of this kind, Mr. Pope determined to
cause profuse salivation in the patient,
with the view of neutralizing the poisonous
character of the saliva or hydrophobia.
This is u course of procedure not often
| pursued, but its beneficial effects were soon
apparent. On Sunday the convulsions and
spasms from which the poor girl also suffered,
had ceased, and there now appears
to be every prospect of her ultimate rccoveiy.?English
Paper.
Impatient Hearers.?One Sabbath
morning the ltcv. Richard Watson, when
: engaged in preaching, had not proceeded
far in his discourse, when he observed an
individual in a pew just before him rise
Iro-u his scat, and turn rouud to look at
the clock in the front of the gallery as it
the. service were a weariness to him. The
unseemly act called forth ti e following rebuke
: "A remarkable change," said the
j speaker, "has taken place among the peo,
pie of this country in regard to the public
| service of religion. Our* forefathers put
their clocks on the outside of their places
of worship, that they might not be too late
in attendance. We have transferred them
to the inside of the house of God, lest we
should stay too long in the service. A sad
i and an ominous change !"*
^ ?
Is Animal Food Necessary.?Mr.
j Curling, seventeen years agent on the Devon
r-tato in Ireland, says: "There arc
I G,'i^O persons on the estate. They are en,
ergetic, moral and well behaved. I do not
remember a crime in seventeen years, not
I even so n.uch as stealing a chicken. They
: are contented, graceful people?grateful,
even, lor fair play. Out of GOO farmers,
deduct City, und the rest do not sec a
wbeaten loaf, or small meat, except at
Christmas and Faster. Thev have been
i brought up to this custom. One tenant
! on the Devon estutc 1 have seen sit down
i to potatoes, buttermilk and Indian meal,
I who purchased at a recent sale i?10,0UU
j worth of property, and did not have to borrow
a shilling to pay for it. 1 believe this
i to be the usual mode of living in Liuicriek.
How Salt I'ish Should be Freshened.?Many
persons who are in the habit
of freshening mackerel or other Rait fish,
never dream that there is a right and a
wrong way to do it. Any person wh?> has
I seen the process of evaporation going on
at the sa t works, knows that the salt falls
| to the bottom. Just so it is in the pan
1 where your mackerel or whitcfish lies
I soaking; and, as it lays with the skin sidu
! down, the salt will tall to the skin and
there remain, when if placed with the
I flesh side down, the salt falls to the betted)
of the pan, and the fish comes out frcsh|
ended as it should be. In the other case,
it is nearly as salt as when put in. If you
do not telievo this, test tho matter for
yourselves.
An old lady who recently visited Oneida,
N. Y., was asked on her return if the canal
passed through that village? She paused
u while and soswored, "1 guess not; I didn't
seo il; and if it did it must have gone
through ia the night when I **"83 asleep.'1
From the La Crotse Demo crat.
Lca?l him not Into Temptation. -
Blustering, drunken Ben. Wade, sub*
united a joint resolution to the Senate a
few days since, which was referred to the
Committee on Military Affairs, authorising
and directing the Secretary of the Treasury
to pay to General (we should say M^jor
General) Benjamin F. Butler, otherwise
' "the Beast," of the moral militia of miser*
1 able Massachusetts, the sum of sixty thou'
sand dollars, "in trust," as President of the
I Board of Managers of the a??
ilum for Disabled volunteers.
We object! We vote "nay" sixty thou*
, sand times. What?trust tho most notorious
thief in the United States with
560,000? Who will go security for him?
Who will make good the threescore thousand
dollars if Benjamin Butlers on them,
and stows them away with the spoons, silver
plate and gold ? That is what we want
to know. Benjamin may be honest?we
have heard within a few weeks an affinna'
tive answer to the question, "Can an Ethiopian
change his skin ?" but wo must oonless
to a doubt concerning tho inflexible
rectitude of the Haynau of Now Orleans.
When we take an observation of that
unprepossessing countenance, those flabby,
hanging cheeks, the muchly cooked eyes,
i wc tremble for the safety of those thousands
of dollars. We once heard of a man
"dowa East" whom a neighbor would not
trust with a worthless pieco of hoop iron,
not an inch square. Desirous of entertaining
n charitable opinion of all humanity?
even of the Massachusetts kind?eandor *
compels us to observe that we wouldn't
trust the heroic cxpioder of the powder
boat and originator of the Dutch Qap
Canal with the scales scraped from a piece
ot hoop iron.
It may be constitutional weakness with
Benjamin?he may not be able to conquer
it htlf Itnnnofw 1- *"* " * *
..vuwvjf is iiia -poorest bolt." The
word was not contained in his primer when
he went to school?his optics were so awry
that he couldn't hear the minister preach
it when he visited the "God save the Com*
rnon wealth" meeting house?and on his arrival
ut what should have been years of
discretion, ha was spoiled for a man,
| but a mighty nice graduate for a College
, of pickpockets?the "Artful Dodger" could
have gone to school to him, and learned
dexterity aud thoroughness in "going
through" a house or a victim.
For a long time lie had no great opportunity
to display his peculiar talents?then
the war came, and irom being a despised
and pettifogging lawyer, he blowbed into a
first class brigadier general; from thence
to a major generalship. While some brig,
adicrs stole cotton, others pianoes, some
libraries, others silk dresses, Benjamin
"went" for spoons and plate. His hearing
became so acute while residing in New
Orleans that people went down into subcellars
and muffled their dollara in cotton
Lefore counting them, and his gimlet eyes
penetrated the thickest stone or brick walls,
and discovered at a glance, just how much
plate a "disloyal" family possessed, and
what it would be worth in Lynn, Masaa1
ehusctts. You could not humbug him as
to the quality of the plate. He could tell
Gcruiau s?! *cr as easy a3 he could a "loyal"
man, and could detect a counterfeit dollar
from a genuine as quickly as sound travels.
llis brother attended to the cotton and
sugar departments of the business, and the
worthy Butlers turned numerous "honest ,
pennies." But when the war terminated,
Benjamin, tho surviving partner ol the
firm, returned home to declare that after
all his "pickings and stealings," he was a
poor man?that lie had sacrificed his JortII
tie fn ??* " ' *
. n. .no njumry : i\ nard position,
truly.
We feel for Benjamin?all "loyal" people
will feel ir hiui?as he would feel for
our spoons and silver things, if thero was
i only a "military necessity"' or opportunity
for him to do so. If he is poor, now, it
may bo an inducement for him to bo honest?if
he is honest lie will be happy?if
happy, virtuous?why, then, tempt the illustrious
champion "Beast" with chanoes
to defraud soldiers out of 600,000 '{
Can it be expected that one whoso stony
I heart was steeled against tbo sorrows and
j sufferings of helpless women in a conquered
city, will consider, or care for sick, orip|
pled or worn-out men. If lie must have
j anything send him u package of tracts
concerning "The Dying Thief"?"Honesty
1 the Best Policy"?Tho Reformed and
Conscience-smitten Spoon-Stcaler." Give
him benefit of clergy?opportunities to
preparo for eternity. The devil docs not
want him, and "the Beast" needs much
moral improvement to prepare him for the
fellowship of the saints. Give Bon. a
chance, and save tho Treasury $60,000.
A justice in an Eastern town, better
versed in law than Gospel, not long sinoe
married a couple in this way: "Hold up
your hands. You solemnly swear that you
will faithfully perform the duties of your
; offico, jointly and severally, aooording to
i your be6t skill and judgment, so help you
' God That's all?fee one dollar "
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