The New York Herald Newspaper, November 5, 1867, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, 4 ESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1867.-TRIPLE SHEET.| THE GALLOWS. EXECUTION OF A NEGRO IN VIRGINIA, LARGE ASSEMBLAGE OF BOTH RACES. Entense Feeling and Excitement Among the Blacks. £XECUTION IN INDIANA. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Loxexouro Court House, Nov. 1, 1967. Since the emancipation of the negro, instead of ad- vancing in the civilizasion which he acquired as & slave he bas relapsed not only into barbarism, but the most foarful excesses of crime, outrage, arson, murder of the most brutal character and incendiarism being the peca- Liarities that avo distinguished the negro as a free man. For and it mignt now be anid for years, the press of the country, North as well as South, has teemed with reports of tho basest horrors and most re- yolting in the momory of mam perpetrated by the newly enfrancliised Africas, The place from which your correspondent writes is abupdamt tm fllustrations of this characterist eof the negro, Several murders of 8 mysterious and aggravated nature bave occurred hero, the perpetrators in numerous instances being negroes, as the v were mainiy whites, About nine milea from the pl im which 1 now write there occurred a mysterious murder, Why it was or how it was nobody can tell; but one morning about the hour of six, in the month of Jnly, the body of a negro was discovered tying inthe midst of some bushes not far from the public road, ‘Tbe brutal and ind nor in which the murder bad been committed at once identified it as being the work@f a neg : to the possibility of the murd but to the present it has been « y to discover the rea! perpetrators of the deed. The general supposition is, however, that some sable lover of the Afric ivance, despatched the vegro, tue mode being the staving in of his skull with avaxe, iu (he most bratat and manner possibie to rel This infamous ma puzzled the efor bost detectives who W on. now the affair js shronded gh to give through the intl tors, perambu- Tating angels an lamp, not of the jaw tor one of the most atro on record. Atthe hour of forty minut 2», M. the scaffold ree tances of the murder are that on the morn- ember 28, 1508, Mehertin dépor, a_ station on the Richmoud and Danville Railroid, in Lunenburg was ihe scene of @ most brutal and shocking inurder, committed by a freedman nained Isaac Yarbo- Tough aud his accomplices, Bedford sand Boatman Roo (lormeriy es), upon the person of @ white citizen uf the panty, named Samuel S, Rowlett, On the night of the 27th of December, 1866, a Christmas party was given at the house of Mr, —-——, about four miles from Meberrin, To this party young Rowlett Went, returning about two o'clock on the moraing of the 28th to the depot, where he was loyed by Biron Wall, of this coun’ aud barkeeper in & smail tore abo om the railroad depot, Oo the same iden was a party, the mar were at depot, in the house of Squire Taylor, a freedman, en- waxed in playing cards with a nan named ‘Bob Seott. The game continued untit all hours of the 28th, Scott winning all the mo the coat 23 and hat of the sal tho fate of his money, Jeft the house about four morning of fhe him, taking ‘wit 238¢h, calling to B bin nm axe, whi rv a ection of Mehorrin. Og getting Roe remarked that the direction : he way home, Isaac replied he knew it, he was going down to the gr , adding tat he was going to This intimidated His ac no’ accompany to go to Thoy then whore they w found the Dut the tha slept. The by sixteen foc sixty-five miles from Rich Lunevborg and Pr: Kdward 5 Was Used Gs 4 grocery, where articles usuail in the country were kept, and whore, a hands patronized it, Liquor Was ono of the siaples The depot presents a poor abd meagre appesrar nothing save a lew wooden hi sone in which this murder was committe human babita li 18 eurrounde: stunted oaks ouly relieving the sp. the cabins, occasioned by the Tailyead depot, The one in which the murder was committed is pitation about fourteen by sixteen feet, roughly tt a simail bi weather boarded, with a sbinged roof sur one miserable story, Here the y dispensed the wares and sold ti qnors of his yer, and here he slept at to protect er's property. To emai! door of this grocery Isaac proached, and knocked. — The solitary inmate wa 4 who was there and What replied he wanted a drink—«cet . nd opened the door, ‘this paruicu! fatisfying their thirst, he embers on (he heart, whe the mucderer, struck him a deadiy which he bad, spread. ing bis braios expiring, cried out, “Ob, he fell dead upon tho hea of Isaac, «then, in bratat shook it, and said, thy ook stoi of Rowh ter and riled (pe drawer about seventeen or i 2 The murderers then separated, Bedford returning to th Isaac and Boaiman gong toa piace ¢ threo miles irom Meberria, ! place they jeft and went Lo Green Bay, meeting on the way a negro ea! who drank with them out of a bucket of wh Isaac had purchased at Scvocela’s with the While the negro Wright was king Ieaac murdered inau, bef and then all was #t1il; Bodtord, the accomplice lee, took hold 4 Wright, ay wach the stolen pisiol and remarked, “Yes, by God, I go wall armed, too." Wright then offered to buy the pratol; Isaac deciined to seil, but he loaned it to him fora pe riod. Toe whole party alterwards met at Green Bay, when Boaiman advised the negro Wright to give Isaac back the pistol, as ne did not como by it honestly. This circamstance—the atrocious wurdor being dis; covered—at once fixed suspicion upon thq «uilty par- ties, which caused the arrest of Isaac, Noatman and Bedford. Shortly atterwards, however, boatman con- fossed the circumstances of the murder, as above mar raied, Isaac also made a statement, in which ne denied that he killed Row! t Bedford, his accomptice, did. The three were thon committed to the jail of Lue nenburg county, alter # fair inquest by a coroner's jury, for trial, where they remained jor a coaeiderable period, until at length they planned an © which was suc- coastal ac called to the jatier at midnight, saying he was fick ; jor opened tue door, when both he and Bedford sprang upon the jailer and threw him to the floor, having previously broken the chains from their rms. They then rushed from joner room, in which they were confued, secured tn of, opened the outer door, locked it, and taking 0 n Liberty, leaving 0 jailer a prison , and made sure veverance, however, sue. atily that the mu tants far and wide, and Kit secu oneded, and the jailer erie had escaped, arousing the inba causing instant pursul ied country to no Every moans was adopt ro thoir apprehension, rowards being offered ation on the ratlroad beiug notified by telegraph, but to no avail. Boatman, the third and least implicated accomplice, was confined fn another cell, and did notescape. Isaac was subse- quently arrested im an adjoining county by Captain Cohvotly, tbe agent of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and so- erreiy lodged in jail for trial om the 26th day of Septem- ber, 1867. Gn the Ist day of ‘eptember Inst Isaac was put upon his trial in the Cirew!t Court of Lanenburg, and upon the evidence of Boatman, his accomplice, was convicted of nrurder in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged on the Ist day of November, 1867, ag the just atonement of his horrible acd atrocious crime, He heard hw sentence ‘with the utmost composure, and exhibited # cold indif. ference bis fate, sho clearly the cailous nature of the negro morderer, which amazed alt beholders and stamped him as a wretch whose heart was capable of apy crime, Boetman Roe, too, procured bis release by turn- Ang State's evidence, but he goes forth to the world with the mark of Cain upon him. Thus ends one of the bloodiest tragedies that ever stained ( nnais of crime. The victim, Howlett, was a young man of resp ° parentage and unbicmisned character, and hia death cast & deep gloom upon the community in whieh he lived, Intense excitement was caused by the shocking and inhuman bucchery by which bis life was taken, taken as {it was in cold blood, without @xcuse OF provocation, to glut the insatiable thirst of a negro for white blood and the sordid love of money. His blood siaked the saynge’s thirst, but it orfed to Heaven for venreance, aud to-day vengeance Was meted out, Inall tbe annals of human barbarity the ‘“deop jon” of this foul aud atrocious murder has xo ‘THE DAY OF THR EXKCUTION, the Ist of November, was ushered in by ® bright and cloudless sky, Nature, in ite Nop gt garb, in eka to clime, seeming to partake of the more delightfu aove of declining pty Lanenborg, with its few houser, one hotel, Court House and jail, looked happy ‘one beneath ihe rays of a pleasant aud cheerfully werm san. Butin the midst of all a aivom was to be observed everywhere—a sadness rested uj countenance. White and freedman by the horror of an execution, tended rescue of the scaffold’s v! yen MSS jot a n> i beaut. jail, seated upon ti only furniture the manacied by the ani cape, a guard being const m afforded. He was strongly cies 00 ‘account of bis previous es- tantly in the adjoining room, on a clean white shirt, ved and bis hair being combed wit appearance was that of e hardened tance, and with @ horribie guilt, exhibiting no sign of ‘olve to broach nowwing of the following conversation will show :— “Good morning, isaac, How are you?” 1 undersiand to-day ts your last."” dey tells mo,'* «Have you repented of your crime, Isaac?’’ Tclare fo’ God I never krtled dat man.’” in two hours you die,” oss; but I'se am innocent men,”” “+ How old aro you, Taaact”” ” in a surly tone, “Are you married ?” T’s@ got @ wile and two children, ’* “Who did you belong to when a siayo?” “Mr, Yarborough, who lives in dis county.” “How do you hike him, <es hima bery well, boss. He's a good Were you ever whi when a slavet’’ “Vory weil, Isaac. % A “What were you whipped then for? I don’t zactly ’member."" “When did you marry?” “Bout three years ago,"? “Who did you marry?” “I married a woman on a plantation near Massr’s.'” “Have you seen her since you were imprisoned?” “No, boas, I ain’t seen ber of the children.” “Do you wish to see them, or do you think they will come Lo see you to-day?” “Dey’l hardly come, and I doa’t care "bout seein’ » do you think you will live after to-day??’ “You don’t think you will bo rescued 2?” ; I tinks 1’) live in heaven,”’ bo do you blame for your execution to-day ?”” “T blames two white men, whol tiaks put Boatman up to git evidence agin me,” d the conversation with this imperturbable criminal, who bore in his looks and aspect a deopset and hardened demeanor, which left a revolung aud hor- ribie iropression that humavity, even in the African, shouid be atrociousty base and go thoroughly inured to s this wrevch, Who soon reached the scaifold, rudely constructed for the occasion ia the re and was scarcely high enough to give » sufficient fall to the victim, ensuring death soon after- ‘At forty minutes past twelve P, M. the prisoner tly pinioned by a was conducted from the the assembled crowd made his appearance, summoned by the Sheriff to the entrance of the prison yard, whore the scafluld was erected. This was tho ex- citing Ume of the occasion, as from expressions of negroes @ rescue was anticipated, and as will be deduced from the conversation of the murderer he evidently did not expect to yield up his life that day. adauitted to witness the horrible scene, tho prees but your correspondent were present, the Rich- mond papers being totally ignorant of this execution. About fifteen persons, mostiy constituting a sammoned at without wasa large crowd of being perched upon surrounding housetops, trees, aud every imaginable elevation that would enabie them to witness the scene, No rescue was attempted, and the cr:minsl, accompa- red clergyman and the Sheriff, steadily steps of tue scaffold and Continued to ex- ind. ference which Cuaractonized Lis whole ‘The sevtence was read by the Sheriff s asked if he had anything to say, The colored preacher ne peculiar mauner of his race, giving the listening whiles @ solemn w. c. This ended, the black cap was put ou. the and at tea minutes to one P. M, the drop jenced executioner, and d between heaven and cap was placed on him, however, he his innocence and hoped to meet He gave two spas- y; the neck was not broken, and ten usion be was not dead, ver, the attendiag physicians, Drs. Gave and May, pronounced him dead by strangulation, and tho body was cut down. No members of guard, were withi both races, the bis imprisonment, aud the pfisone to whlch he rep. feil by the hand of an exp Ivaac Yarborough was suspen: en in heaven, Execution of Milron White, at Andersonvilie, Ind., for the Murder of Dantel Hoyppas. lad. (Nov, 1), Correspoudeuce of the Cincin- To-day has-witnessed tho execution of the murderer thereby the stern demands of Preliminary to it it is proper to refer y Leonnected with the history of the m, as weil as ot tho tragedy iteelf. We begin, iuereiore, with tne early history of tie mur- of Dauiel Ho] the matters of inter murderer aod big vic Milton White was horn in this county about the year 1844, and % said by his father to be ueariy twenty-four years of age, aichough his own impression is that no His paronts were Amoricans, His fatagr is still live from wis plice, and has always joranl man, a mere biank, so far as acy veneitt’ be has been twenty-tive years old. old residents of this county. done or aay instruction which was a derived (rom the roughest and most un school—(aat of experience. 8 most ervel disposiuon, ress by Mr. Will y lor toriuring animals aud mal < property that he gaye up the undertak! was shown by catching ebickens and turn- g them joose again a‘ter breaking their legs, or catting off their bilis; cuiting the Webs trom the feet of docics and patting them in tho water; cutting off the logs of sheep, defacing and ruiming harness, grain sacks, &c, He grew up without a trade, and dependent upon his Ab the age of twenty-one he sold himself asa substitute for a drafted man at New- tuto the Fity-ninth Indiaoa regiment, with he moutha, Whea ho was s Me married soon after, aud at the time of the commission of the crime for which he pad the penalty with his life to-day, White Mved about threo miles southeast of Audevson, with his wife and two At an early age he Whon a boy he was mB, Allen, a farmer, vat so-gre: any labor tor sustevance, Which he remained aboat ¢ Daniel Hoppas, the murdered man, was about twonty- five years of age at the time of ni quiet, inoffensive ana kind boarted man; had always Dut was strictly temperate, and He vasa Germa: " nd most worthy w ian, and one Ciuld, lived but a short distance beyoud Woiie’s residence, A wight or two previous to the 7th of April last Mr, Hoppas lost some moat from bis smoke boase. & neigabor trac | arms, were anything but pleasant iook ng and atirac y he started to Andersoa to gota search Warrant, afer having seen White and charged the Althe railroad junction tuey saw PAS Sont Sweareager forward to talk with him, While he rpmained behind. They talked together sed, ‘Dan, you go home with ay house for the meat.’’ r down the rail- ike, about naif a mile distant, ‘They passed the {t the track and waked south, ouse, Walking ou opposite sides of the road, Pass ing the second house, White was watking about a rod Directly after they mot the two Alien boys, They talked with them a fow minutes and passed ssing some bars to a Wood pasture on their nearest one, All this Ume they seomed to be in good humor, and no bad feeling was shown. were the last persons who saw the two men together behind Hoppas. Danvel Hoppas did not return home, and his wife at dusk went to a netghbor and intormed him of her fears. Several mon were svon together, and kaowing the sus- picions agalnst White concerning the theft of the meat, they went to his house and aroused im. He pretended to be very soundly asleep, but finally opened the door. Mr. Stanley sard to. bim, an T think you killed bim.”* iy with him tho balaace of the night, White going to bed again and appearing to sicep soundly. Io the morning they started in search of the body, and found itin the wood tot, Wha.te’s house, “Yos, there he is,'’ and pointed tows The body was lying in marsh, evidently pounded fnto the “ Dan Hoppas is missin; He denied it, They with the face ‘bp heavy blows back of the head, and a club was afterward found about four feet the spot, a heavy oF im jeneth, which bad evidently been used 19 commit ting the foul crime, as the bair and blood still clung The Coronor’s jury implicated White, and 0 very great, coupled with freq Ho was guarded, hower: pary examination was held before . justioe of the peace, who commitied bim for trial, The trial took place about the middle of August, in the Cir- cuit Court, with Mr. Henry A. Broase, of Kokomo, om ay oe Prosecution was in charge of se au Horn, of Tipton, prosecuting attorney, assis: Caivin D, Thompson, of Anderson, The defeace was conductéd by Howell D. Thompson aod James W. Stans- bury, both of Anderson, Hoth the prosecation and the do- fence were ably conducted, and she trial lested about three daya The jury were out one hoar and twont} there being no question as to his guilt, the occasioned by tne question of cided, should be the gallows, fenced by the judge to be banged on the 20th of Sep. rse of the trial and ab upon bim the prisoner ace as to the result, amd sat Aa the time for bis execution drew near a petition was quietly circulated among a fow who are op infliction of the death penelty fot fentence to imprisonment for life, hor, when absent in Obio, he ¢ Ist of November This, it was de~ bsequently he was son- During the wh the time sentence was Manifested » stolid indi’ calm and unmoved. commutation of his Roaching the Gover- nied a respite until the in order that he might have time to Investigate the merits of the case, an: was any foundation for the assertion of insanity or im- becility which was urged ass night since Governor Laker y. sutiafed himself as to-his tn has, very properly, declined to tarther in culiar authority, but decided to let the lnw take ite | Yesterday he was visited by his wife, who doos not feom to have much love for him. No signs of affection were manifested, and the matier of chief concern to her seemed to be bis ,dischargo from the army, for which jew, no doabt, to ge'ting a email trensury. Sho also wished to know if he “siept warm," His father also called upon but manifested no sorrow of alfection, ‘The prisonor bimasif ud was O8lr oxCied Ww tears ar to see if there lea for leniency, eliigence and sanity, and eho aaked him, witt tum from Unele Sam’ him and bid bim note, nor any feeling jymained uamoved, And yet the few questions addressed to him ssemed be fmakly answered, and onee or mod softened with been a inithful tor to thinking somewhat U; lic faith he claimed to have attached bis Tropes, bus he seemed trom his manner to take it as a drowning man Svortly after my call upon him last night ho was visited by Mr, Mobo, the County Peshry who bad been well acquainted with him ia his early years. Mr. Mobn corroborates ail reports as to the malicious cruelty and miscnief whieh bave been ope of his characteristic traits of character, He speaks of him as having ex- hibited at ali times a low species of cunning and treach- ery. When once cowed be had no further courago to resist, and could be 1ed about like @ whipped spaniel. At no time, however, could he be trusted, for no one knew when he would betray @ trust. To Mr. Mobo be made a confession, if such it vould be called, tbougn It is uamistakably @ vile fabrication, showing this upon ts face. he principal portion of thia confession, as given to his own words, is as {ollows:— Atter I was mustered out I went to my father’s and covid not get along very well, Ithon went to John R. ‘Stevenson's and lived with him a while, While there I ‘wanted to join the Campbailite Church, but my fatuer Was jawing at me ail ‘ho time, 1 had quit swearing aud hunting on Sunday, Atter I got married J weat to John ‘Milis’ a while, and then to Charlie Mossen. Did not get aiong very woll with him. I then moved to my own place, On the day that Hoppas was murdered my clock got out of fix. I came to town to get a verge tor it, Going back I met Dan Hoppasa and John Swearenger at the junction, T sat down by Daniel Hoppas, I did not think there was anything wrong untl Swearenger told me that Hoppas had some meat stolen, and thought it was at my house. I told him it Was not at my house, ead to come back ‘and search it with me, Swearenger did not go back with us, As we went on to tho woods pasture be proposed going through the woods, as it was the nearest way to my house, We mot Charlie Mossen, and Charie toid him he had been teiling some tales of him and his wife. Hoppas toid him he bad not. Then he began quarrelling with him and both, Then Hop- pas told him that if I did not have sense enough to tako him up for bis threats he would do it for me. ben Hoppas started to come back totown. Mossen picked up wciub, Hoppas started to run and knocked him down and bit him three or four blows with tbe club, While be was striking him Iran up and was going to shoot him with a revoiver, but it suapped and I failed, ‘Then he mado up with me and toid me not to tell. He told me he would cive me $1,000 not to tell. He tried to put me off with $800, teling me it was $1,000. told bim it would nos do, We then went to Stanley's aud then home, Wuen I got vome my wife asked me what was the matior. I told her nothing It was haif- past eleven o’ciock when I got home, @fter the ciock fixer got my clock fixed my wife wanted mo to go \o Hugh Stevenson’s with her, but 1 would not go. My sister-in-law when she came in asked moe what was the matter with me, I to'd her nothing. About two.o’click next morning Mr. Stanloy came toy house and took me to town, It wiil be seen that he attempted to throw tho guilt upon @ man who stands so high in the estimation of the prope of the county tuat not a soul would believe him. ith no corroborating circams.ance Waatever the geu- Uieman could have had no possibie motive, while be had @ motive tu trying to injure au invoceut man with wuom he had not lived pleasautiy, as is well Known; while be himself confesses the fact. The coufession answers another purpose, bowover which 1s that.of showing bis opportunitics of becoming a bolier wan, and completely reluting the cialms of bis would-be {friends who sought to have his sentence com- muted on account of never having had any religieus in- struction, Other scraps of confession have been let out ‘rom time to time to feow prisoners aud otuers, woich tended to sbow bis guit, A s.ster-in law wo lived with him bas cuntessed since the tial thas when Waite returned Lome to dinner on the day of the mur- der he said he had knocks mnan down and hurt his band, aud rd thas Dan Hoppas would never acceso Qi Meat again, Sue cays, tuo, at a now bulcuer knife, which Was found lyiag ca a whet sione on the night of tis arrest, was suarpened to kili any one who caine ibere to disturb him, Other sivoag maiters Connected with tie evideuce aud veucing pirougly to corroburate it throughowt ieave ne posstbie doubt of his guiit, and there is probably not a sane man iu Madison couuty who has even a shadow of a beliet of his Innocence, Unéer the c.rcumstances, therefore, it seems astound- ing tuat he should, on tue very eve of his execution, make @ Statement so udmistakably (alse, and tiac bo should go, as be actually did, 19 the gallows wito hes and false 'staiements upoa his lips. Tue most rational wad surely the most cbarilabie supposition is thai he cherigied a strong conviction, eveu to the last moweat, thai be would yet have bissenience comiuted. Taw view of the cage seows sirenginened by words he bas Tet drop from use to t.me upon the subst. Jn # cordance With the juagment of the Court, an ep- closure, gsome twenty fect in height, was erected by tne Surf, previous (0 whe time fiseu originally for bis exe- toa. ‘This is situated about half a mile wost of Lue jail in an open wuod, kiy lined wich underbrasa, enclosure is ubout forty fect-square, and is avout forty rods {row tho uighway leading weet, ' Watuin this 18 tho scuiluid, about twelve feor square aud about seven ieet from tho ground. A fligiut of steps leads to the pli form, at st Side Of Which stuuds u large oak tree, luo this, about sevea fect frat tito Lvor, the crossbar is morticed, ihe other end being suppored by av uorigut pece of timber, Aiong tue west side a seat extenus A row of seats also extunds around the imside of the enclosure. 4: an early hour this morning the peopte began to pour into wa in immeuse numbers, Every road was lined, before ten o'clock, with wagons, buggies aod boreemea. Wahole famiiies came, including evoa the women nd children, and before noon it 1s safe to say that thero was a crowd of people in Anderson such as was hover seen belore, although the execution was to take place Wikuin ihe enclosure, aud it was impossible forauy bai the favored few specitied by saw to witness ik, still the whole of Madisun county, almos., seemed de- termined 10 see all that was io be seen, aud to be ab Joas. sacistied that White was bung. 1o the credit, however, of tue mtelligeut aad refined people of tue county, it suould be said that the crowds woo came to Wiluess ive execution represenied (Le ige horadt portion of the population to @ very great extent, Tue womeu especially, who were out in large numbers, and many of whom carried stall chidren in tuer ve in appearance. In truth, I did not see a wownn to-day whose face it wouldive a pleasure to be fatniliar witd, And this crowding to 860 @ spectacte of this kid, oa their part, was a wio0st disgusting scene. Many of them mast have come a great distance too—provably twouty miles or more, Vimting the jail at eleven o'clock this morning, it was ascertained thas the prisoner bad siept but ijctio, if any, last night, but bad desparcbed bis break ast witu a good petite. Soon afver tuat hour whe pries: arrived and went to bis coil, A guard of one bundred and iifty men, armed with muskew, had beea detaiied as guards, haif of them being stationed at tho jail and hail at the gal- lows. the Mayor bad issced & prociamation closing the driuking saloons, but quite frequently a task woulda flash in the suo, and (hero was evideniy somo wowkey acaitered about the crowd. The jurvmen and twelve witnesses, eummosed to wituess the execution, mbers of tbe press aad a fow ol Wore admitted to the jail building, aad about baif-past twelve o'clock the Sheriff led them to the door of the cell of the cendewed, It was unlocked aud be ‘was brought out, dressed in a o itof biack. The Tope, furaished by the Sherif of ii ton county, Ohio, was produced, the no slipped over his head and bis arms pinioned. The cell was then Closed and locked, and slowly the procession of death passed out to the wagon, in which a box cont pln walnut collia wi Biready placed. Upon this tue prisoner, Father Crowley, the Sherif and ‘wo othor men seared themseives, and tue w: moved on within an enclosure of armed men, and fol- lowod by those boldimg tickets, four abreast. Tne march through the dust was tircsome and uupleasant, but ar awenty mina past one o'clock the enclosure was entered and the door closed, The prisoner at once as. Cended the scaifold, attended by the priest aud Sheriff. The death warraut was read to him, and to the question whetber be hi thing to say, im response he said he had not, Kneeling tere beside his confessor, he repent- ed after bim the Catholic serviee in a firm vorce, except, Perbaps, towards the end, when a stight tremor was per- ceptible. Ail being readiness, he shook hands with those who were around him, bidding them goodoy; the noose Was Acjasted to his neck, bis arms were strongly Pinioned, the biack cap was tied over his head, and at a to two o'clock the slight rope which heid the Was severed with one blow of the hateuet, pod the unfortunate man was taunched into eternity. @ tall Of five feet dislocated the neck, and not a struggle, nor even the quiver of a Onger, followed. In eghteen min. utes the aitending physicians pronounced hi , and in twenty-seven minutes trom tne falling of the drop he was taken down and piaced in his coffin for burial, Au, Nromt Wirn 4 Scoosonst.—On Wednesday night, about nine o'clock, a siranger—an ili-looking fellow— called at the house of a widow woman, near Richwood station, on the Atiantic and Greas Western Railroad, and asked to stay all n: The woman indignantly re- the fellow deliberately locked jutting the key in bis pocket, be told e was doiermined to stay ali night and mber, as he was almost worn out; in order to prevent any surprise hi be under the necessity of securing her aod her chil bed— there being two in the room—and he would take the other, The widow and her children then iaid down with = their hing on; and jailer, after placing bis revolver and an axe on a table at the head of the other bed, !aid down to rest, after threatening to shoot his prison°rs if thoy shoald attempt to get out of bed, She was too badiy searet to sleep much. About four o’clock in the moraing the fellow awoke and di- rected the widow to got him some breakfast as soon as she possibly could. Of course she obeyed, and after cong hearty breaffast the scamp thanked his hostess and, bidding her good-by, he lef the house, and rushed out into the woods near by and disappeared. This man 48 gaid to answor exactly the deseription of the man who ‘was arrested at Urbana the next oe ‘24th, on suspicion ir, Hertaier. as ge H 2 “of being one of the murderers of (Oke) Journch covered a method of manut guid for A chemist in Magnolia, Pike county, Mies, bas dis- facturing goldem vwrituhg, JEFF DAVIS. OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF HIS CAPTURE. JEFF ARRESTED IN WOMAN'S APPAREL. REPORT OF MAJOR GENERAL J. H. WILSON: ene Davenrorr, Towa, Jan. 17, 1867. Brevet Major General Jouw A. Rawzivs, Chief of Staff United States Army, Washington, D. ©. :— Gexunal—As @ matter of historical interest and in justice to my late command, the cavalry corps of the Military Division of the Mississipp!, I have the honor to submit the following report of the pursuit and capture of Jefferson Davis, and to request that the same may be made @ part of the official records of the War Depart- ment. This report is prepared from the original in- formation in my possession, together with the official reports of the officers serving under me in the closing campaign through Alabama and Georgia. It will be remombered that afier the capture of Selma and the passage of my command to the south side of the Alabama its march was directed to the eastward, by the way of Montgomery, Columbus and West Point, to Macon. On the evening of tho 11th day of Apnl, 1865, one of my officers brought im copies of the Montgomery papers of the 6th and 7th, contain- ing the first nows which had reached mo of the operations of General Grant about Peters. burg, and from which, making allowance for rebel coloring, I supposed he had gained a decisive victory. Is was stated that Davis and the rebel government had already gone to Danville, but that their cause was not yet lost. On the 14th and 15th information was received confirmatory of Lee's defeat and the evacuation of Richmond. It was also reported that Grant was pros ing the rebel army back upon Lynchburg. From these facta, together with the many rumors from all quarters indicative of unusual excitement among the rebels, I became convinced that thoy had met with a great disas- ter im Virginia; but, as » matter of course, I could obtain no definite or reliable information as to its extent or the probable course that would be adopted by the rebel government. I assumed, however, that they would either endeavor to concentrate their forces in North Carolina and make further head against our that they would disband and ende@vor to sa selves oy flight, In either case it was clearly the duty of my command to close in upon them by the line upon which it was moving with the greatest possible rapidity, 80 as to join in the final and decisive struggle or to assist in the capture of such important persons as mixut seek safely iu ilight, Accordingly our march from Mont gomery to Macon, @ distance of two bundred and thir'y- five miles, was made in less than six days, and incladed the passage of Lhattahoochie and Fiiat rivers and the capture of the two fortified towns of (olumbus and West Point, In order to cover toe widest possible front of operations and to obiatn such imporiant information in regard to rebel movements as might enable us to act advisediy, detachments were sent off to the right and left of the mata column, At Macon we were arrested by the armistice concluded betweeu Generals Sherman and Johustone; though not wll after the city had fallen into our possession. During my conference with Generais Cobb ‘and G. W. Smith, on the evening of the 20th of April, 1 received the first reliable information in regard to Leo’s survender and the course of events in Virginia. Tue situation of my command was peculiar. Origt- nally organized as a corps under General Shei the commanding general of the Military Vivision-of the Mis. sissippi, and not having been.transcerred, it still formed a legitimate part of his command, whorever he be be, Genera! Shermangwith the main bod: his at was at that time in North Carolina, moving north w: Be‘ore leaving North Alabama ve bad instructed me to report, with my entire corps, except Kiipatrick’s division, to Major “General George H. Tnomas to assist in the operations against Hood, It was the intention of Gevera: Sherman, however, as devel- oped in frequent conversations with me while lying at Gayiesville, Ala, in October, 1864, that as soon as Hood could be di-posed of aud my command couk! be reorgan- ized and remounted I should gather together every maa and horse ‘hat could be made dt for service and march through the richer parts of Alabama and Georgia for the purpose of destroying the raisroad commurications and supplies of the rebels and bringing my command into tho theatre of operations, towards which ail of our great armies sere moving. In the campaign termiovating at Macon T had yy moved under the direct instruc tious of General Thomas, but with ihe “‘ampiest latitude of an indepeadent commander,’’ transmitted through bum from G eral Graut in person, Ltound myself cut of from ail communication with thease generis, but liable to recowe orders from either or all of them, and from the Secretary of War in addition My first duty was, clearly, to take care of the public in- teresis and reconcile orders afterwards, shouid tuey come in conflicting ‘erms from dillerent directious, To anticipation of a fant break up of the rebel forces, I bad airendy deteriniued to keep a sharp look out for Davis and the feading authorities, As soon as I me satisfied by reliable informauts from Goperal Sherman that ne bad actually conciaded an, armistice and iotended it to apply to my commaad, I felt bound io Odsorve it, bat only upya tue condition that the revels should also comply with its provisions in equal good feith. One of these provisions was that neither party should make any caanges in the station of troops during the continuance of the armistice; while remaiming in camp iy command was therevore kept on the alert and reaty to move im any direction. Having heard from chizens, however, that Davia was making ois way towards the South with an escort, I direc my com- mand to take possession of tt scouts iu ail directions, in order that 1 m ght receive timely notice of the rebel movements, The armisi ce was declared nuil and void by the President; but at least one day before I bad been advised of this through Gone- ral Thomas aod General Gilimore, { received from Gone- ral Sherman a cipher despaten informing me of the for- mal termination of hosthites by the surrender of Gene- ral Jehoston and aii the forces uuder his command east of the Chattahovchie, ‘This was on tl day of April, I had already taken pre autions to prevent persons of —_ importance from eecaping by the railroads, and immodiately upon the receipt of the final surrender 1 made dispositions of my command for the purpose of takiag possession of the important points m Georgia and parolliog the rebel pris- oners, who might have to pass through them in order to reach their homos, I folt certain tuat ts and his Cabinet would eadeavor to escayo to the west side of the Mississippi rivor, notwithstanding the ariunise surrender id therefore gave instructions to the ent detachments of my command to took out for and capture him aod all otner porsous of rapk or authority in the rebel government. On the 28th of April brevet Major Geaeral Upton was ordered with a detachment of his division (the ~econd) to proceed by rail to Augusta, while the balance of the division, under Brevet Brigadier General EK, F. Winslow, was ordered to march by ihe most direct route to At Janta, @ regiment undog Colone! B, B. Eeglesion having been sent by rail to that piace immediately after the recoipt of General Sherman’s telegram. General E. M, McCook, commanding the First division, witn a detach- Ment of seven buudred men, was directed to proceed by ral to Albauy, Ga, and mareh thence by the most direct route to Tallahassee, Fis, whilst General Croxton, with the baiance of the division, was held at Macon, with orders issved subsequently to ‘*aich the line of the Ocmuigee river from the mouth of Yellow crock to Macon, . Brovet Brigadier General R. H. G, Minty, comman di the Second divistion—General Long baving beea wound at Selma—was directed about the same time to send de- tachments to Cuthbert aad Eufaula, and to watch the line of the Ocmulvee from tho right of the First division to Abberille, aod as much of the Flint and Cuattahoo- chie to the rear as practicable, ostensible and prin- cipal object of this disposition of troops was to secure prisoners and military stores and to take possession of the important strategic points and lines of communica- tion; Dut the different commanders were directed to keep @ vigilant wateh ‘for Davis aud other members of the rebel government. The (rst direst information which I received of Davis’ movements was on the 23d or 24th of April, from acitizen who had seen him at Chariotte, N. C, only Unree or four days before, and had jearned that he was on his way, with @ train and an escort of cavalry, to the South, intending to go wo trans. Mississippi Department. This information was re- garded as entirely reliable, and bence the officers in charge of the different devachments afterwards sent out were directed to dispose of their commands 60 as to lave all roads and crossings vigl- lantly watched, It thought at first that Davis would cali about bim a select force and endeavor to escape by marching to the westward henge = the billy country of Northern Georgia, To prevent this Eggleston was directed to watch tho country in all di-* rections trom Atlanta, Brovet Brigadier General A. J. Alexander, with the second brigade of Upton’s division, Daving reached Atlanta in advance of th vision, was directed eral Winslow to scout the country to the ‘north as far as Dalton, or until be should meet the troops under General Steedman in that region, On be- agioning his march from Macon Genoral Alexander was authorized to detach ao officer aud twenty picked men, disguised as rebel soldiers, for the pu of trying to obtain dofinite information ‘Baris’ moves ments, This party wae piaced under the command of Lieutenant Joseph 0. Yoemaa, First Ohio cavairy, and atthe time acting inspector general of the le. Verbal instructions were also given to other bi and division commanders to make similar detach- ments, General Croxton was directed 0 send ® small party toward ‘aliedega, by the route w) which he bad marcbed from that place; while Colonel Eggleston was directed to send a party by rail to West Point, By those means it was believed that all considerable detach of rebela would be ba gi hended, and such information might be obtained as would énadje us to secure the principal rebel leaders if they should undertake to pase through, the country in = other way than as individual fugitives, in declaring tho armistice of Sherman gull and void the Secretary of War had directed that my commaud should resume active operations and endeavor to arrest fugitive rebel chieis, 1 accordingly notified him and General Thomas by telegraph of the dispositions I had mado, and that i had no doubtof eccomplishing the de- but having forwarded the records of my to the Adjutant Ger quired by army regulations, and having boen denied copi the documents relating to these matiors, I can~ w fix the exact dates of those despatches. After arapid march towards the upper crossings of the Savannab river, in norimenstera Geormia, Lieutenant Xor- time, but ai his yy into three or four detach- “wg oi definite in: on of his movements, for twenty-four hours was unsuccess- Dara bed. Peliagutobed ls idee of ro ints alabonmas vis his oing In aud would probably try to reach the Gulf or Soush Atlantic coast and escape by sea. Couriers were sony with this information to Genera! Alexander, and by him duly tragsmisted to me at Macon. The same conclusion bad already been forced upon mo by information derived from various other sources, aud from gitives, however small, to traverse that rezion by the ordinary roada This must have been clear to the rebels. From these circumstances I became convinced that Davis to work bis way southward into Florida, With the view of intercepting bim in this attempt, I directed the " of the Ocmulgee river to vatched with renewed vigi- Brigadier Genera! Croxton to 5 his division and send it, under iis best officer, with orders to march @astward, via Joffersonville, to Dublin, on the Oconee river, with the greatest possible speed, scouting the country well te the northward, and leaving detachments at the moat imporiant cross roads, with in- strictions to keep a sharp look out for all detachments of rebels, By these means it was hoped that Davis’ line of march would be intersected and his movements dis- covered, in which event the commanding ofilcer was in- structed to follow it, wherevor it might lead, until the fagitives should be overtaken and capiured. General Croxton selected for this purpuse the First Wisconsin cav- airy, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Heory Hamden, an officr of a experience and resoiution, During that day and the next the conviction that Davis would try bre imto Florida became 60 strong that I sent for Minty, commanding Second division, and in person directed ‘him to select his best regiment and order } to march without delay to the southeast ward aiong the right bank of the Ocmulgee river, watch- ing all the crossings between Hawkiasville and the mouth of the Ohoopee river, In case of dis- coverit the trail of the fugitives they were direct to follow it to the Gulf coast, or tilt wbey should overtake and cadiwure the party of whoin they were im pursuit, General Minty selected for this purpose bis own regiment, the Fourth Michi cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Benjamn’ D. Pritchard, am excellent and dashing officer. In the Meantime Gegeral Up'on, at Augusta, bad sent me despaica advis me to oiler a reward of $100,000 for the capture of Davis, urging that the Secretary of War would approve my action and that it would induce even the rebeis to assist in making the capture. Not caring, however, to assume responsibility of committing the government in thia way, | authorized him to issue & prociamation offering a reward of $100,000 to bo paid out of such money as might be found in the possession of Davis or bia party. Lhis was done and copies scat- tered throughout the country as early as the 6th of May. As soon as it was kuown at Atlanta that Davis’ cav- alry escort had disbanded, General Alexander, with five hundred picked men and horses of his command, crossed to the right or northorn bank of the Chattahoo- chee river, occupied all the fords west of the Atlanta avd Chattanooga Raiiroad, watched the passes of the Altoona mountains and the main crossings of the Etowah river, and with various detacoments of his small com- mand patrolled all the main roads in that region day and night, uoulhe received nows of Davis’ capture in an- otner quarter, % The tual disposition of my command may be described as follows:—Major General Upton, with parts of two regiments, occupied Augusta, aud kept a vgilant watch over the country in that vicinity, and informed me by telegraph of everything imporiant which came under his observation. Genera! Winslow, with toe larger part of that division, occupied Atlanta and scouted the coua- try in ali directions from that place, General Aiexan- der, with five hundred picked moa, patrolied the coun- try north of the Coattanooches, while detachments oce cupied Griffin and Jonesboro, ciosery watching the cross- ings of the Ocmulgee and scouting the country to the eastward, Colonel leston, commanding tne post of Atianta, had also sent detachment to West Point, to watch the Alabama line in that quarier General Croxton, with the main body of the First divi- sion in the vicin'ty of Macon, had sent a de achment under my direction to the mountain region of Alabama, marching by the way of Carrolton to another through Northeastern Gsorgia towar jor bh Carolina, and was also engaged in watching the Ocmut- gee from the right of the Fourth division to Macon, and Jn scouting the “country to his front and rear, General Minty, commanding the Second diviston, was rcouung the country to the southeast, watching the lower cross- ings of the Ocmulgee, and Lad smail parties at all the in portant poison the southwesiera Raliroad, and in Western and Southweatern Georcia. Detachments of the Seventh Pennsylvania cavairy occupied Cuthbert, Eufauta, Columbus and Baiobridge, and kept a vigilant toh @ lower Flint and Cnattaboocies. hile Cook, with a detachment of hig division at Albany and 700 men between there and ilahassco, Florida, was scouting the country to tho north and east- ward, we also had rail aud ielegraphic communication from’ my headquarters at Macon with Atlauta, Au- gusta, West Point, Milledgeville. Alvany and Ku- faula, By inspecting the map herewith it will be seen that my force of nearly 15,000 cavairy, well mounted and Vigilant, wers occupying a well dohaed and almost continuous line from Kingston, Georgia, to Talla- hassee, Florida, with detachments and scouts well out ia all directions to tue front and rear, From this it will be difficult to perceive how Davis and his party could possibly have hoped to escape. From thetime they were reported at Charlotte till their fina: capture I was kept informed of thoir general movemeu(s, and was enabled thereby to dispose of my command in such @ mauner as to render the capture moraily certain, As reported by General Winslow, ru- mors came in from ali directions, but by carefully weigh- ing them the truth became suificientiy manifest to enable me to act with confidence. It isto be regretted now, however, that the hurry of events preciuded the use of written orders, In nearly every instance my in- struc/ions were given verbally to the division command. ers, and by them in tara travsmitied verbally to their subordivates, >uch-written despatcbes and orders as were given are preserved in the records pertaining to the cavalry corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, now on file in the Adjutant General's office, 1m pursuance of my instructions to General Croxton, heretofore recited, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Hamden, with three officers and one hundred and fifty m the First Wisconsin cavalry, left on, Ga., on tl ing of May 6, 1865, and marched rapidly via Jeffersonville towards Dublin on the Oconee river, At Jeilersonviile Colonel Hamden left one officer and thirty men, with orders to scout the country in ali directions for reliable information in regard to the route of Davis’ flight, With the balance of his command he continued the march all ol and the next day about seven P. M. reached Dublin. During tho night and day he had sent out scoute and small parties on all the sido roads in the hope of finding the trail of the party for whom he was looking. Nothing of importance occurred until‘after he bad bivouacked for the nicht, fhe white inbabitants of that place expressed entire ignorance and indifference in regard tothe movement of important rebels, but were upusualiy profuse in tuelr offers of bospitality te Colonel Hamden. This, with the conduct of the col- seems to have been of the most explicit Ual character. He bad heard the lady cali Davis’’ and ® gentleman nee. Davis,” and said that Mi vis bad not river at the regular ferry had gone about three miles | as small flat boat, afd rejoined near the outskirts of the town, and that gone townrds the South together, The colored m ite Mr, Davis as mounted on a fine told his story so circumstantially that could not help believing #t The up and examined; bat either through stupidity or de- sign succeeded in withbolding whatever he knew in re= gard to the case. But in view of the facts elicited, after detailing Lieutenant Lane and sixty men to remain at Dubiin and to scout the country io all di- rections, Colonel Hamden at an early hour in the morn- ing began the pursut of the party meationed. Five miles south of Dublin be obtained information from @ woman which left him no room to doubt that he was on i 3 i gs A g E, BE the track of Davis in person, He hed a mee senger to inform General Croxton his for. tune, aud pushed rapidly in pursuit, trail led southward through @ region of pine forests and gan to fall, jon wheels upom the sandy soll were ; ® citizen was pressed and compell guide till the trail was again discovered. ‘was continued with renewed vigor, but tracks were agair lost in the waters of the swamp bor- dering on Alligator Creek, the pursuing again delayed till « citizen could be found to guide them to the road upon which the trail was again visible, Col onel Hamden reports tois day to have one of toil to both men and horses; they bad marched forty miles through an almost trackless forest, much of the way under the rain and in water up to their saddie-girths. They bivouacked after dark on the borders of Gum Swamp, and during the night were again drenched with rain. Before daylight of the 9th renewed their march, their route leading almost southwest through swamp and wilderness to Brown’s Forry, where they crossed to the south side of the Ocmuiges river. In his anxiety to ferry bis command over rapidly, Col- onel Hamden allowed the boat to be overloaded ; plank near the bow was sprang loose, causing the boat wo yo and as ee vor barat to make repairs lighter boatloads vo carr This prolonged the crossing, nearly two hours, Colonel Hamden iearned from the ferryman that the party he was pursuing had crossed about one o’clock that morn- ing and wore only a few hours ahead of him on tho Fowd leading to Irwinsvilie, At Abbeville, 4 village of three families, he halted to feed, and just as was re- newing bia march he met the advance party of the Fourta Michigan cavalry, Liewtenant Colonel 1. D, Pritchard commanding, moving om the road from Haw- kinavilie, Ordering “his detachment to continue its march, Colonel Hamden rode to meet Colonel Pritchard and gave him-sach Information in d to Dav! movements as he had been able to + This wes E ial ill it roads that region, He had mot gone more than three miles be- fore be obtained such additional information in regard the party as convinced bim that it was his duty to join in the pursuit, Io this he was clearly right, and had he done otherwise would nave been censurable for neglig- the tain. This is not intended to reflect upon the conduct of Colonel Pritchard, for it is believed that ghis omission Was simply an oversigit which might haW® occurred to ‘any confident and zealous officer. In ing out the plan which he had adopted, Colonel Pritchard selected from his regiment seven officers aad oue hundred and twenty-eight men, and at four o'clock began the pursuit, lease the balance of his regiment under command Captain Hathaway, with orders to picket the river and scout the couvtry in accordance with previous instrac- Uons. The route pursued by Colonel Pritchard led down the river noarly twelve miles to a point opposite Wil- eox’s mill, thence southwest for a distance of eighteen miles, through the pine forest to Irwinsvile He reached this piace at one A. M, of the 10th, and by representing his command as the rear guard of Davis’ he succeeded in learning from tho citizons that @ party he was searching for had encamped that night at dusk about a mile and a half out on the road towards Abbeviile, Having secured a negro guide, he tumed the bead of bis coluinn towards that place, and after moving to within a half mile of the camp, halted and di mounted twenty-five men under Lieutenant Purinton, ‘This party were directed to move noiselessiy through ihe Woods to the north side of the camp, for the purpose of gaining a position in ite rear and preventing the possi- bility of escaps. In case of discovery by the enemy, they were directed to begin the attack from wherever they might be, while Colonel Pritchard would charge Upon the camp along the main road, Lieutenant Purin- ton having reached the point assigned him without ex- citing an alarm, the attack was delayed till the ‘iret sppearance of dawn, at which time Colonel Pritchard put his troops in motion, and continued his march to within a few rods of the camp undiscovered, Having assured himself of hia position he dashed upon the camp without delay, and inafew moments had secured tts occupants a effects, and placed a guard of mounted. men around the camp, With dismounted sentries at the tenis and wagous, No resistance was offered, because the enemy had posted no sentries, and wore, therefore, taken com- pletely by surprise. Almost simultaneously with the dash of Colonel Pritchard and his detactimoent sharp firing began in the direction of Abbeville, and only hort distance from the camp. .Tuis turned out to b engagement be- tween the party under L.eutenant Purinton and the de- tachment of the First Wisconsin cavalry, which, it acems, had followed the rebel trail the night before till ‘Vt was no longer distinguisable in the dark, had gone ioto camp only two or three miles bebind the party they had been pursuing so long, and hag renowed the pursuit as Soou as they could see to march. Both Colonel Pritchard and Colone! Hamden were in- formed that Davis bad b3en reported as having with him a well armed body guard of picked men variously estimated at m ten to ty. They therefore expected desperate resistance, and henca in the collision which occurred the men of both detachments seemed inspired by the greatest courage and determination. It was several minutes before either party discovered they were fighting our own people inatead of theenemy. In this unfortunate affair two men of che Fourth Michigan were killed and ono officer wounded, while three nen of the First Wisconsin were severely and several slightly wounded. 1; is dificult, under the circumsiances as detailed, to perce.vo wow this accident could have Deon avoided. Colonel Hamden certainly had no weans of knowing and no reason to suspect that tne party whow he found in his front were any other tan the rebels had been pursuing, whilst Colonel Prichard claims that he had cautioned Lieutonant Purinton par- ticularly to keep a alarp look out for the First Wisoon- sin, which he knew would approsch from that direction, The hurry with which my command was subsequentiy mustered out of service and the absence of the pria- rT) officers prevented an investigation of the details of this affair, aud tne circumstances which led to it. As this late dav nothing more can be said of them thay what ts con:ainod in the offi:ial documents alreaay sub- mitted, except that not the slichtest biame was ever in- tended to be cast by me upon Colonel Hamden, as teems to have been assumed by the commission convened by the Secretary of War for the purpose of awarding the priz® offered for the captare of Davis. During tie firing of the skirmish referred to the Adjutant of the Fourth Michigan, Lieuienans J. G. Dickinson, after having looked to the security of rebel camp and sent forward a number of the men who had straggled, was about to go to the front himself, when his attention was called by one of the men ‘io ‘three persons dressed in female attire,” who bad ap- Parentiy just leit one of the large tents near by, and were noving towards the thick woods, He started at once toward: them and called out “Hait,’” but, not hearing him or not caring tw obey, thoy continusd to move off. Just then they wero confronted by three men under direction of Corporal Munger, coming {rom the opposite direction, Tue Corporal recognized one of the persons as Davis, advanced carabine and demanded his surrender. ihe three persons haited, and by the actions of the two who afterwards turned out to be women, ail doubt as to the identity of the third person was removed, The individuals (hus arrested were found to be Miss Howell, Mrs. Davis and Jefferson Davis, Aw they walked back to the tent trom which they bad tried to escape Lieutenant Dickinson observed thas Davis’ high top boots were not covered by his disguise, gbich faet probably led to his recognition by Corporal unger. As the frionds of Davis have strenuously de nied that he. was disguised as a woman, it may not be improper to specify the exact articles of ‘woman's apparel which he had upon him when fret seen by Lieutenant Dickinson and Corporal Suoger. Tv former states that be was one of the three persons reseed ip woman’s attire,” and bad ‘a black manile Wrapped about bis head, through the top of which couid be geen locks of his hair.” Captain G. W. Law Fourth Michigan cavairy, who pubiished an account the capture in the Atlantic Mon'hly for September, 1665, sta‘es exolicitly, upon the testimony of the officers present, that Davis, in addition to his fall suit of Com- federate gray, bad on ‘a lady's watetproof (cloak), oo at the waist, with a shawl drawn over the ead, and carrying a tin pail.’’ Colonel Pritchard says in his official report that he received from Mra. Davia, on board the steamer Clyd off Fortress Monroe, ‘a waterproof cloak or robe,” which was worn by Davis as disguise, and which was identified by the men who saw it on him at the time of the capture, He secured the balance of the disguise the next day. It consisted of a shawl, which was identi. fied in @ similar manner by both Mra. Davis and the men. From these circumstances there seems te be no doubt whatever that Davis sought to avoid capiuse by assuming the dress of a woman, or that the ladies of the party endeavored to pass him off upon bis captors a one of themselves. In addition to Davis and his family Colonel Pritchard's detachment captured at the same time John H. Reagan, rebel Postmaster General, Colonel B. N, Harrisan, vate secretary, Colonels Lubboce and Johnsoo, a de-camp to Davis, four inferior officers and thirten pri- vate soldiers, besides Miss Howell, two waiting made and several colored servants, AS soon ag breakfast could be prepared Colonel Prichard, preceded by Colonel Hamden, bego his waren, Prisoners and wagons, for Macon about one hundred and twenty miles to the northwes of Ir- winsville, The next day he meta courier witt copies of the Prevident’s proclamation offering # rovard of $100,000 for the capture of Davis. This procismation had been received and promuigated by me on he 9th, and hence the officers in pursuit of wis wee fn no way inspired by the promise which it contained. They performed their part from a bigher sense of dity, and too much cannot be awarded to Colonels Pitchard and the officers and men of thér who participated ia the pursuit. ColoneiPri ard arrived at Macon on the afternoon of the Bth and reported at once with his prisoners at corps hadquar (ers. Arrangements bad been already made, wider in- structions from the Secretary of War, for forvarding Davie to the North, via Atianta, Augusta andSavaa- nat Colonel Pritchard, with a detachment of ment, was directed to deliver his prisoner safely n' charge the perwoe of Clement ©. Clay, drs fer moss ar lemen| it. fOr winse ar- Feet a rowntd had ‘leo. been. offered’ by: the Penidenk without delay. A. H. Stepi Upton at Crawfordvilio same time, and also placed in charge of Brevet Major General Upton was charged withmaking the necessary arrangements for forwarding the sisonors aud escort safely to Savannah, im the department of a General Gilmore. ite were sucoss(ully carried out and the prisoners delivered at Forires Mon- Toe for safe ‘on the 22d of May, My command bad also arrested Me itatiory, te robet Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Hill, Senator and Jéeeph B. Brown, Governor of . mY yh pte 0 andioomba mani to escape ravelling alone and es rpdiy as possi tb former baving passed through Taiibassee, im, only @ few hours before the arrival ofGenerat McCook at that place. Immediately after the captore of Davis th small detachments and scouting parties of my com wore assombled by their respective Brigade and Divison Com manders, and alter paroling the bulk of the forces amounting to about 69,000 mthat had jerviag Eesrguesstos art enaeteed ma ‘were ordered to be muster From the foregoing narrrative it will be seenhat the first perfectly reliable information im to the movements of 1) Joseph ©. Yoeman, of General Ai der’ ; actually pursued by Davis and his party afte leav' Washington was first discovered by Liou Hamden at Dubiin, and that the eapture waectually made one and a baif miies north ‘4 at dawn of Way 10, by Lioutonant Colonel Beamin D. Pritchard, with adetachment of seven officernud one post eg and tWenty-eight mon of the Fourthiichigam valry, Tuese facts should have boon fully develosit before this time, but owing to the disoandmeut offay com. mand it was Impossiole till quite recently to Main the reports of subordinate officers, Colonel Pritcird made his report, by my orders, directly to tho Sqetary of War, bet omitted, til tast month, vo vend 0 6 copy. Golonel Hamden’s report, endorsed by Cynel