The New-York Tribune Newspaper, June 16, 1866, Page 8

8 . £ Lias JEFFERSON DAVIS. | RIS PRISON LIFE AT BORTRESS HOROE, Gpinious on Secession uud Beeonsiruction. i Hie Bstimates of the late Mr, Lincoln and President Johnson, B e A Befense from the Charge of Cruelty to Frisoners, NS S e FRISONER'S DEWAND FOR A TRIAL, THE PRIEO ] Joux 1. CnaveR. Burgeon Uni Phyvician of the Carleton, Pablisher, New-York. The writer who is first to make the prison life of Je ®on Davis trensparent, professes to have undertaken tagk in the same epirit of humanity with which he more than once bound up the wounds of a Rebel soldicr, To this, intelligent and liberal men will not care to object, ©ven if some unhappy comparisons might be made. Dr. Craven is willing to oecupy the same relation toward a fallen foe us that which Dr.Barry O Meara bore to Napoleon ot 8t. Holena. There is a greater difforence, however, be- tween Joflerson .Davis and Napoleon Bonaparte than be- Bween Surgeons Craven and O'Meara. Col.Craven's elogant- Yy published volome is fairly axd clearly written, and is an sttompt made in evident candor to give the people of the North an unprejudiced view of the personal life of Jeflo son Darie, he author appears to be equally gressed with a respect for the intellectual aud individua charaeter of his subject, aud with considerate pity for his fecble physical condition. Tho book is on undisguised plea in the prisoner's belalf, aud, it 1s pre- _sumable, has been written with the eneouragement of the friends of the prisoncr, if uot the countevance of oficors of the Government. A petition for a sick man is to be expected from etor above all men; ajust and mag- panimens public is anxions to hear even au ioformal de- fonse from the p 1 himself. On grounds of taste, we Dave to regret ch that t thor bas put bimself too far forward iu the attitude of pleader, and bas departed fvom the bonudary of sitople and dignified statement upon which the priconer might be content to rest his case, to give expression to certain candid, but unnccessary politi- ca) views, We question elso the wisdom of publishing, probably with the consent of the wife of the prisoner,a private Jetter of Mre. Varina Davis, which, little educated 8& the Norihern public may be in the school of pride, they will decm an incitement to pity rather than to respect of Samily misfortunes which, on the whole, are not as grea® ®e those borne by m er Rebels. Mr, Davie's first remarkable appearance before the read- «erit in the character of aresistant, On the 23d of May, the third day of his i t, be underwent bein, 4n irons—* a trial acverer,” says, Dr. Craven, “than bas ever been infiieted npon apy one whohes enjoyed such eminence.” Captain Titlow, of the ird Peunsylvavia Artillery, was sent to see it performed. TOW MR. DAVIS WAS PUT IN IRONS. “WWeN i enid Mr. Davie as they centered, elightly raising Die hoad. 1 lave an unpleasont dut Piflow; and s Le spoke, the wsbackles from bie assistant, Davis leaped instanily from his recumbent attitude, a flueh poasing over bis face for a moment, and then Lis coudtevanoe growiag }vid and rigid as death. He for breath, clutehing his throat with the thin fingars of bis right hand, and then resovering Limeell elowiy, ‘while Lis wasted figare towered up to'its full kiglt—ncw pearing to swell with indiguation and tben to shrink with $ohor, aa ve glanced from the captain's fuce to the shackles— e said slowly and with a laboring chest: "My God | yo cannot bave beeu sent to iron me 1" «&uch hre my vrders, Sir,” replied the officer, beckoning the ‘blaeksmith to approach, who stepped forward, u b adiock and preparisg tbe fotters o do their oftice, tters were of heavy iron, probably five efghthe of au inch thickness, and connected Lg.lin by & ehain of Bke weight. 3 belleve they are nuw io the possession of Major-Gen. #id will foria an interesting relic. " Thia is too wotistrous,” the prisoncr, glaring hur- roand the room, & if for some wWespon Or means of il " and, Capt.in, that you let me see the ‘eommanding officer. Can be prewad tuat such shuckies ax o secure the safe cusiody of aweak old man, 8o replied Cept. Titlow; *Lis wive are from him.” josed Mr. Davis, eagerly; ou ez " said the officer, *and admit m to sabmit ow 1 most OoF , M. 0! to perform, Sir.” enid Capt. somior blacksmith took the orders are from Washingto) “Put he can telegraph,” interp +thero must be some mistake. No svol ontrage as E:M me with it on record in the history of pations. to ':’l:{ruph, and delay until he suswere.” M lers_are peremptory, of vo Gelny. For your own sake, let me adrise With paticnce. As a soldier, Mr. Davis, you execute orders.” “‘These are not orders for & sokdier,” shonted the prisoner, Tosing all coutol of hrmweif. * They are orders fur 4 jallor for & bangmav, which no soldier weariog & wword” should wccept | tell’ you the world will ring with this dis. ace. Tbe war is over; the Bouth 18 conquercd; I ve no looger any country but Americe, and it is for the honor of Ameriea, a6 for my own horor and life, that 1 agaiust this de Kili me ! kill me " be eried, asionately, throwing kis erice wide open and exposing Lis ‘nat, “rather than wflict on me, and on my people throngh e, this inenlt worse than desth, - your duty, blacksmith,” said the officer, walking to- R hie embrasare ax if not caring to witness the perform- ance. “It only gives iucressed pain oa all Eides 1o protiact this iuterview. At these words the blackemith advanced with the skackles, g.l nflns that the prisouer bad oue foot npon the ebair near bedeide, his right bend resting on the back of it, the Brawny mechanic wade aD attempt to siip one of the shuckies ankle #0 raised; but, as if with the vebemence and which frensy can impart, even to the weakest invaiid, suddenly scised bis ssseilant and burled bim balf- room. — g acrose 'Ha this é:;t. Titlow turped, and seeing that Davis bad ‘backed againet the wall for further resistance, begau to re- inting out in brief, clear lwgg-{o. et fhig fln'u news, and that orders mns‘ nfo¥esd =t dny ‘mw‘%‘ d, **t0 add the forther indig- pity of perechal neceesity of your being ironed 1 “'1 w & prisoner of war,” fercely retorted Davis: 1 have been & so.dicr in the armies of America, and know Low to die. Ouly kill me, azd ng Inst breath shall be a biessing ou your Deed. Butwhile I fave life sud strengib to resist, for myscll and for my people. thie thing shail not be done.” in 8 sergeant and file of soldiers Herenpon Capt. Titlow aliea from the next room, and the sergeaut sdvauced to seize the fsoner. Immediately Mr. Davis flew on Lim, scized bis !-kot a0d atempted 1o wrench it from Lis grogp. Of course such » scene could bave but oue issue. There was y nate scuffle. u & moment Davis was Bong v, bie bed, and before bit r powerful aessilants rom thefr hends from him, the blacksmitk aud his aseist- ant bad done their work—one securing the rivet on the right sokle, while the other tarved the kev 1u the padlock on the Jeft. 18 done, Mr. Davis lay for & m me 't as if in stupor. Then wlowly reising Huself abd turcing round, bo dropped bis phackled feet 1o the floor. The hareh clazk of the strikin ‘soeins fust 1o bave recalied Lim 10 Lis sitnation, an o his face iuto Lis hands, he burst into s paseionate ‘sobbiug, rocking to and fro, and muttering at brief rvale: “Ou, Lhe shate, the shame !” On the 24th, the doctor found bis patient feverish and emaciated, suffering from great imitation of mizd and | Pody, and & chronie neuralgia which hed destroyed the sight of his right eye. Too wesk to bear Lis shackles, they were teken off in four or five days by advice of Lis physician. In Juue be was permitted to walk on the raw- parts for an Lour every day, though too ill at first to stand more than balf en hour, and in August, whil fTering from erysipelas and a carbuncle, was reoved to isoie | comfurtable quarters st Carroll Hall. His prison fare, if ©ot chaice enough for one iu bis sensitive ill Lealth, was fwproved by supplies from the doctor's table. Under prison regulatious he was pot allowed 10 ue a knfe eud fork, aud ull bis letters were inspected by the Govermment. ¥rom June to November, which closes the volnne, we Dear Lis complaints of deteromating Lealth, asd his frequent protest against the rigor and indignity of his freatment as the bead of six millions of people, axda i prisouer refused impartial trisl. We must believe thatif, | a8 appears, Mr. Davis hae been o shattered invalid during | the whole of his inearcerstion, imprisonmcut ie the orst puniskiment that can be d out to him., We turn to a more agreeable, if not sltogether satisface fory ehapter of persamal cherseteristics. The p Uustrated to us as proud, spirited, penetrative, with b ter than cyclopedise kuowledge of the practical depart- ments of learnivg, sud occasionally as & wan of bitter fe | { { Mrabilious type, oees is not the want of will, wmany subjects, fiom war and showing (says Lis doctor) ‘a Ruowledge. The geolog; of his section appesr his attention.” When e speaks of the is with something lke exict kuowic ready memory and o perception of details us wo! features. Coustantly e alludes to the S o “my people.” ¢ General Miles, saken chierge of his dlotbing, end seor of linen twice & weok enoegh. 1t mig His nerves are fn exce n s to art und varied aud practical y and all p bave in turu £ g cts o claimed war, & 08 gos ern pe cospluined; * 1 ed to thiuk g ol shusetts.” T lic Bouth be ¢ ¥ | wnd sristocracy. " Blsth i fore important, perbaps, 1k S In dhe bonx | 10 raising stock, Do ek g men,’ A | 18 what Dr. Craven calls 4 solemp iuteresting : North, “ 1 st of § ) ce 1 T y | with regurd 1o 11 te Reesident 1 = b figat, wud second peiucsiess, eliroutery, sad the arts | DAVIS ON MR, L LN oF b demsgoguy, Llsewhao & thy RNe cellaty 011 OF Ma, ool b bt ook, bob ‘k\»;“g Vs o i | oathe disub; | be left to pro e — ‘Northern traits, capped by & Southezn portrait of Ber jumin Franklin—*the incarnstion of the New-England characte Regarding the mem ert 1 try, ¢ his Cabinet, be spe Jacobin, & destro build ;" of Benjamin as his ablest and most faithful counselor, though at first believing, with Mr. Seward, that the ecrisis would be over in pinety days; and of Pope Walker, Memninger, and Reagan, sometimes with far less compliment, but with perfeet plainuess and unreserve. Toombs was “al- and the Rhetts of South owy and hoat aks t ubs a8 “‘a born & impracticable and restl attitudo of ec negative—never at Lome save when in tradiction,” He describes Foote ag a man of “no se- count or credit—an inveterate hunter aud inere politician.” Of Jackson sud Siduey Johnson, aud of Leo aud Bragg, he speaks with enthusinsm, tenderness and respect; considers the victory of (Chickamaugs as one of the most Lrilliant of the war, and imputes the fall of Vicksburg and Atlauta to Gen. Jo. Johuston. ‘When Secretary of War, he considered MeClellan the abiest officer in the army; but thought he b been promoted “too rapidly for his own good.” Fope “wgg a kind of American Gascon, but . with good scientific attainments;” Sumner and Sedgwick, gallant snd able soldiers ; Funter (one of his most det mined enemies during the war), * the soul of integrity, intrepidity, true Chrigtian picty and honor.” Grant wus a great soldicr, beyond doubt, though of a new school; “but if he had not started with an cnormous account in hank Lis checks would have been dishonored before the culmination was reached.” Tho visit of Mies Auna Dickinson to the fort serves Mr. Davis with a text for an old-fashioned discourse on female lecturers, Miss able telent, but the talent oness than most of the mild We shall not D ngon has ‘an unden her of a Meenad or Pyth virgins who worshiped Vesta,” &e., &e. stop 10 inguire wh 1 the South during the war. Mr. Davis, of course, gives o different version of his escape from that of the newspa- pers; and his opinions with respect {o friend and foe have the appearance of eriticism, though sometimes of preju- dice. At times ho shows the solicitnde of n good husband and father, and for many days reads bis Bible and prayer- book. What will interest most the péople of the North are Mr. Davie’s views of Lis own sitoation, On the ques- tion of his trial, he #ay WIAT DAVIS THINKS OF HI§ TRIAL. “If the veal purpose o the matter Do to tost the question of seogssion by trying certain persons conpected therewith for treason, frow what cluge or clas leeted be dravu E From those who called the State Convention those who, in their repeetive conventions, patsed nance of secessiont OF from the authon trine of te rights? _ Or from who, being absent from heir S the event, but oD Its OCCUTTe roed o tieir hon sanre the fortunes of their States us o duty giagee t OF from those officers of the Staios v b on public serviec, were called home by the ordine turning, joined their fellow-citizens in State eervice, and fol lowed the coarse due to that relati “To the lust olaes 1 beiung, who sm the object of greatest rigor. Thie can aply be explitned on the supposition thaf, | Liedr i been most kovored, 1, thercfare, excito most revenge- fal feelings—for how elec cai it be acco | *1did not wish for war, but peace. missioners to negotiate defore war commer nd Fubse quently strove my uttermort to soften the rigors of war; in every pause of confliot seeking, it possibls, to treat fur jesce. Numbers of those slrealy practicaily pardoned ore those who, at the beginning, urged that the black flag should be hoisted, and the struggle made oue of desperation. | “Believing the States to be cach sovereign, and veluntary, 1had lea: s the Fathers or th a State could ¢ m of Fove all which bud previcusly existed; and my o obedience to this conseientions couviction universal doetrine of the domineut Dex North previous to Seccs font Did not of that party, in the sau They prenesed and g Therel, their union Constit 1 mly er Was Lot th B o the chief subject of 1he_ex | 1e of faiross and o decent respect , deprive iim of the means peedfal 10 A preparail which must deprive his v It the doctr f St | the gentus of A v than | q I of 0 touk up his teaching spriakled on the Rutne cup which Lother dsank. * gride bin, it must full. Noue covld be fsuit heaped on Lelpicssness bus the. pesjetrators. degraged by unmerited 1le o would cowe that our_people be ssbamed of Bis t wont. For bimself, the soffcriog®Pe was undergoing would do bizo good with the people of the South. Even tiNse who Lad opposed hiw would be kot sileat, if ot won over by pub ilo sympatty.’ Mr. Davis denies t gecession I8 treagon, and quotes Burke's iguorance of ‘ Low at indictment st & whole peapie can be framed,” and Vattel's dictum that when a Dation saparates into new parts, each setting up a govern- | ment, their quarzel should be settled as ** though it were & difference between two separate nations.” Approving the story policy, hie remarks that i it bad not been for | the liberal policy of Grent, “my people would Lave con- tinued the war a year longer, Nor, Jobnson, Le believes, being a Southern an, can- | 1ot do as much for the Sonth as would Mr. Lincoln prob- | ubly, had he lived. He respects the Prosident’s * integ- } rity and greatly original force of charscter;” touclies upon bis ** morbidly sepmtive pride,” as a ** Demoerat of convie- tion and self-gssextion,” while * sitting with associat many of whom be knew pretended to aristocracy,” and | finally eredits Lim with fuitbiulvess o his word, and “u | courage which took the form of augry resistance if urged to do anything which wight clask with Lis convictions of duty.” * But for Lis decided attitude agaivst secession he would probably Lave been given the place of Mr. Stephens on the Presidential ticket of the Confederacy.” Jt will be remarked that this portrait is carefully toned. = e MR DAVIS'S TIEWS OF RECONSTRUCTION. ”"'f,? map 6 experience must teach bim that quarrels be tween frisnde are best healed when they are healed most ;rmnpfl]. Tue allenation which was at firet a pain, becomes me habitual, and tbe mantle of charity being withdrawn, the faults_of cach become more aud more distiuel 10 te other, anl thus the bitterest hates patwrelly spring from the ~ashios of the closest friendship. It is therefore, probably to be regretted that so muc bas occorred fn the work of reconstruction, be of the euhancement thereby of the difiiculties the v-{ of specdy an cordial reconciliation. | Tuis opiufon s quaiified os *probuble,’ because of my want of recent intercourse with the peop'e. ' A stort time before the close of the war, the idea was infased into my people, 6 you a6 well aware, that if they would cease rosistance, e Usion would be restored, and ull’ their iights of person and in Toperty respected, rave the mn[-en{ eld in slayes, which wonid be & question for the courts. have no doubt that the very large mojority—of the Southern people ac- roposed wettlemeni with single purpose and would, if confidingly and_generously treated, Lave buer now indusiriously engaged in ropairiug thoir wrecked fortunos without &ny thoeght of again resistiog or obstructing the General Government n ite urdlw{ fuuctions. @ * How far the public wealth would by this course have been Snvnuefi"buxu ic expendltures lessened. may be messured by many hundred willlons of dollaye. 11 it be true that much has been lost, moraily aud materialy, by delay, it would seem tuat true policy ludicates the prompiest sction in what Is teroed Revoustraction. ‘The North says we have doue evil, and whea bidei1g vs * cease 10 do evil” shouid not provent us *learning to do well.' This can only be done by removing al impediments | 10 the exercise of Sta‘e functions 1 the re-enjovinent of suck civil wud potitical Fights as ere | us in the Unjon. “ Eael House of Congress ia judge of tho election and qualif- cation of its own members, The Constitution Las settied the | question of reprosentation. A constituency may loso ite rights 0r o tiime by seiecting ineifgible persons 10 be ita Representa tives; but ilc) right of represcutation is not impaired thereby, and the mistako or abuse n.&y be remedied by s ew election. Test onths are evil continunlly, and oniy cvil. They restralo those hororable men who require no fetters, while men of different class will cither take them perjurfouslr or with “menta) reservation,’ Al bistory Las proved them lueffeetusl and somelhirg worse. “Our forefatmers emigrated to a wi'lerness, and waged the war of the Kevoiution, to bave and to hold 8 government fosnded on the couscaf of I v consulted aud comprombsed with i & voluutars Union. 1€ tuat ides is fraternity, and not the governed. T onch other o esta! be followed, confiter [ ba relied npon to restore the L s n and make it re-effeciive ni¢ for 116 ends for which it wae formed. « Reconstraction,” continued Mr, Davis, fuvolse of be mude to depend on th bave arisen frota the sudden disruption of the ing between the w States. cannot properly | wocial probiems which relations exist- bite and the black in the Bouthern These problems belong to the several States ¢ necording to the different circimstan 7 properly be mude applicablo to all, 1 ¢ unfortunate if the subject 18 controlied by bot poorly-tuformed, i yjudiced authority. of indiyidual: tiee, together with Izhor w0 far exceediug the » ot the labarer. us of the Sontlicrt ‘UL the domand itis the very or compel them readmi oughout the war proclaimed rolurn, Solitary redec cive 1o the i) ete f whieh I fiud evi ) pertaps my | 1 to return, on to that very to 0w snd state hes i thus slienated, disjointed, n visited wiy i trinls of forel, Exeland, or Loth, ss are now s often » of A wud their ext Carolina were *“men whose lives were expended in the | amount of that talent was discovored | | pses should the persons sose | | | " | ishment followed, tes, were unoonuceted with | | that would release bis peopie from their burden. N seut Com- | | | surrender the blacks at once to the protection and eontrol | in whick they had ineurred defeat.”” | character and aitis have not been misconecived. The | us Lis own only wituess. gord or adwm but paying & simple and sineers tribute & goodness of character, bovesty of purpose, and Christian desire to be faitkful to i€ 10 auch light as n hi od freedom from the early part of ‘:h'- ; bat c against bis s as his wultiplied eares o d behin Mr. Lincoln during bis first term stood an infinitely more | objectionable and less scrupulous = snccessor (Mr. | Hamtin); and the blow that strack down the President of the United States would place that enccessor in power. When Mr. Lincoln was reinanguratad, the osuse of Lin people was Lopelcss, or very neariy so—the struggle ouly Justifiable in eon- tivuance by jie better attitnde for obtatning terms; and from no ruler the United States could have, might terme 20 gever | ous have been expected. Mr, Lincoln was kind of heart, natur- | ally longing for tie gory avd ropose of o seco; spent in peace. Mr. Jobnson, being from the South, dare not | offer such liberal treatuent; bis motives would be impugned. In every embittered national struggle, proposals wasioate Judgw 4 Jab {his Tival Tepreaentatives were common, ewavsting from dit | ferent classes of men, with diffcrent from spies of tbe encmy, wishing to obtain evide jow smen proposals would be "reoeived; from fanaties, religious o patrictie, be- lieving the act would prove scoeptable to Heaven; from luna- tics, driven mad by sufferings counected with tue and from boastful asd often cowardly desperade gold and notoriety by aitempiog, or promisiog to attempt, the erime, At the time it cccurred, Mr. Lincoln's death, even by patural causes, would bhave been a seriona injury to the | prospects of the South: but the manner of his laking-off, Irengy.ng the Northern mind, was the last crowaing calamity of a despairing and defeated. thongh righteous canse. Prodently, we think, Mr. Davis forbears to recall his own bitter denunciations of Mr. Lanceln ifi the erisis of tho past struggle. 1f his spoeches be reported right, ho too held his great antagonist up to the ridicule of the Sonthern people. But language euch cs the foregoing may go fr to cast suspicion on the evidence given in the | assassination trigl, especially that in relation to the telegram received by Davis at Charlottesville, annourcing Mr. Lincoln's death. It was affimed by an eye witness that Davis then exulted over the murder; but others who wero with him at the time declare that he hieard the news in silence, and singularly without one comment. Mr. Davig's brief explauation of the erueltios practiced towsrd prisoners in the South will reawaken a peinful intercst. Wo are content to remark that he fails es yet 1o account for the monstrous measure of the eriwes perpe- trated at Andersonville and Salishury: DAVIS ON ANDERSONVILLE. There was food in the Corfederacy, but mo means for its ders hiding it after the currency had bo od; and, if colleote en eawo the dilenlt, "Their railronds were overtaxed, and | the rolling-stock soon gave out, They could not feed their own troops; and prisoners of war ia all couutries wul ages have bad caose of complajut. Some of bis peopie confined in the West and at Lookoot Polut lad been nearly sturved st certain times, though he well koew, or weil believed, full prison rations had been ordered and paid for in these cases. Herd men togother 1n idieness within an inclosure, their wrws takon from thet, their orgauization lost, without - ment for their time. and you will find it difficult to keep thom in good health, They were ordered to receive precisely the e rations given 10 the troops guarding them; but dishonest Commissaries tnd Provost-Marsbals were not confined to an; people. Doubtless the prisose oth sides often suffe; that the oflicers e mIgLt gEOW Tich; but whorever such d L onpt Nirttrop. did the poorly obeyed or Dbest they could, he belioved; but buth we; conded by their subordiutes, To bold esponsible for nnaothorized privations was both ¢r A abwurd He isaued order after order on the subject, and, conscious of the extreme difficulty of feeding the piisoners made the wost libe- | raloffers for exchange—almost Willing to accept any torine excharge, GTErIIenL— erick the a8 her however, was the policy adopied by the Federa jast as Anstria, in ner later campaigns agalost Fre Gireat, refnsed to exchange; hor ealculation being. the popuation was five times more numerous tian Pruss: y wuld be a wise measare, That 1t may have been pra the South ‘was, he was not agh inhuman, situated o epared to deny; but pr bie for evils which no power sn whick alimost any couoe Our final extract shows that Mr. Davis's judgment of the ro is materially different, in one respeet, from that of some of the reconstructionists who waste their crocodile | sorrows over his extinetion: WRY1S ON TilE NEGRO AND IS CAPACITIES. Speaking of the pegroes, Mr. Davls re ked, as regards their futur ont, uuless jeentionsncas and d them. But remainicg on the 0d for wages, they wore n doc ther differing from the Tudinbe, like the latter. Their laber was noeded; snd though thoy could not wuliiply so fast in freedoia as wuder their former wholesome testraints, be #aw 0o good argutent for their P 4 not likely o ¢ I have recovered the s, or perhaps less, the Sonth Jecrniary losses of the war. 1 s hod Jitto capital in misnn sctures, 1ta capital wes o lavd sod neg The land re- tive as ever. The negrocs remain, but their o had b be paid for. o, A been the profa of cost for fuod, elothing wud walns; and with this, snd ot ported and such Nortbern of the Boutheru s prospesity. It will interest, and possibly dis forergn-born citizens to hear that Mr.Davis regurds Feulaue ism as “ a farce to wuke angels weep.” We bave further persoual views of Buchavan and Pierce, and once t} State prisoner alludes to the ¢ tinkle of Mr. Seward s bell. In Mrs. Davis's letters to Dr. € n, pwe read that the prisoner s faithful colored servant bravely knocked down a wen for speaking i1l of his masmer, which should prove, wo thiok, to Mr. Davie's satisfaction, the capacity of colorsd men for suffrage. In these letters, which are gracefully and piquastly written, the child of the prisoner isheld up to sympathy as haviug on told by s spiteful woman from Maine that his father was *‘a rogue a liar and an assasein,” who would “* soon be banged, taught by boys iu the streets to sing We'll hang Jeb Davis on a crab apple tree.” To add to these insults, & negro soldier once leveled his gun at Mis. Davis's daugliter to shoot ber for callivg him * uacle Mr. Davis, of course, believes that it would be better to 1 hant sc me of o of the States, and Las, it mey be supposed, no particular liking for Abolitionists and philauthropists, to whom he attributes the * irregularitics” of the newro. Under the law of compensation, he thiuks the negrocs must sufer for their freedom. Ho was sorry for the poor negroes with bis whole hoart The future might possibly better their couditivi—in the nexs geverntion, not in this; but to him, the freed slaves seomed like e-bred birde enjoying their fis r but certain |.a v a terrible penalty for it when night and Wister came, and ¢ hey koew neither whore to find food or shelter, DAVIS ON TIE SOUTHERN LVADERS. Alluding to some of the Southern leaders who had fled to Mexico, Mr. Davis eaid their fight was “an act of cownrdico—an evasion of daty only to bo excellad by suicide. They had been instrumental in bringing the ovils of military subjugation on the people, and should remain to share their burdens. The scheme of o political settlement in Mexico was preposterons in prac tice, . . No settlors could be imagined less fitted for the requirements of a new colony than a body of em- Dittered politicians, still sore and smarting from a conflict Tudependent of its interest us o story of enptivity, some consideration is due to what we have no doubt ie a consci- entious report of thosayings of o man at least noteworth| 1t muy be said of many men that they are Loth Letter and worsa than they seem, and Mr. Davis is a phenomenal ex- ception to the general rule of distinguished men, if his reader of Dy. Craven's book may learn by suggestion some of the best and the worst of Mr. Davis's iutellectual traits; and we are disposed to give feir hearing to Dr. Craven's assurance, that * Mr. Davis is remarkable for the kindll- uess of his vature aud his fidehty to bhis friends,” is too large, if for mno other reasou than that human nature, sud especially with great popnlar loaders, is too vast an cetato to bo given wholly to evil of mind und morats, Many things, however, firmly rewain, for which no account has been given, aud which canaot Vo explained away by a diary in which Mr. Davis figures P —— CITY NKWs, s Mugt: AT CENTRAL Park.—The Central Park Commissigners announce that if the weather is fine there will b wusie ou the mall st the Park to-day ock p.m , by Central Park Band, under the leadership of 1. B. Dodworth. The following is the programme: PART 1 1. March=¥ur Konig und Vaterlan 2, Overture to Aliessandro Stradel 4y Waltz— 1a Dan 4 Quastet sud chorus from Die > oere Von Weber Gustay Schidt ang to the Winds. .. oo L B Dodws £ry Wives of Wisdson, & . 7. Yolka...... . . Grand Seiection (rou Luelio WV Wellsee - Strna .Coota < Casnidy a Movi ers favorablo (e ng the Summer lay evealng, the & of merclants and « urday g gentiemen will doliser adli Horace Greeley, Richard O'Gorman, # o'ele torm to be | CONSTITUTION LIFE SYRUP A positive and specific 1emedy forall diseases originating from oy IMPURE STATE OF THE BLOOD, wnd for all (beveditary) Dig. EASES transwitted from PARENT TO CHILD. L No. 95 Che"ry.st. with one Frank sed Bi'a in the abdomen witha “he assailant then flad, The # New-York Hospital. where (30,TO THOMAS R, AGNE , Grognwich and urray-sta., wi T S e S e s B 10 to MACFARLAND™ Book Btore, corner X Twenty-third st. aod Broadway. there you will Gndail the N2 W BOOKS of the day wod all thw old Standerd Worke and, wlso, eholce ' nd Seoteb biationery. NATIVE WINES, STILL AND SPARKLING. 60 Cherry-st., querreled at | Marcoria, and the latter | uflicting o severs wou; —— STABBING AFFRAY Berwees ITALIANS.—On Thurs- | day night last a quazre! ocenrred in the hellway of the premises No. 10 Roso-st., between two Itulians nemed Demetriva Car. vardivs and Pando Dormo, which findlly resulted in a fight, in which Dormo stabbed his opporent in the left breast with o dagyer, inflicting a dangerous wound. Afler the stabbing the asseilant fled, but was porened by Michacl Fyrank, who wit- s 2iTaalty, knd Ofiade Mafubof Qho Fourta Prestees, | A, lewe sesginse et SR WIRES BURIQOPECIA, ¥ A0, after a short clase, was captured by them, and taken o [ VETUGGL Cone'to the trade, tha Station-House, The wounded man was removed to the FREDC. 8. COZZENS, No. 7) Warren-at. SCROFULA, New. York Howpitol, where e now lics inw it Teanditi. g o Be B e Yestordny Coroner Wildey was notified to take the ante- 2 mories Cuarciuion of Ca o ik, b statement ool /41’4 PH YR STRUMA, GLANDULAR orated the accouat givea above, Tho Jury rendered a vardict that }I'f‘k“""r il iy & wib ot | yeemyvg UNDERGARMENTS ULCERATION, KINO'S EVIL, withh & dirk kn.fe, at the hande of Pagio Dormo, on the 14tk day ] d 1 .7 On the rendition of this verdict, the prisoner 2 B ERYSIPELAS, SALT RHEUM. \ of June, 1= This taint (WEREDITARY and ACQUIRED), filling Jife with unteld mis 'Yy Was commitied to the Tombs to await the result of the wounded man's injuries. The accused is a native of Italy, aged 44 yoars, and resides at No. 27 Ouverst. young men near the store of Meesrs. James and Thomas Kydd, at No. 201 Eighthave, They and us their actions were surpieious, two of them were taken into custody, the others making their escape. The prisoners gave their namee o3 Jobn Rivingion and James Garland. | 14 e ssion of Rivington was found a *'jimmy. ad previously thrown away a bag contaimiog Durglar's tools. A similar bag wi nd” in the yard of the pre: o, N A Eighth ave., by Arthor Develin, It was subsequently that the shuttern of the store had becu bored, and a bar ro moved. The prisoners were yesterday committed for trial by Justice Dodge. e FATALLY INJURED.—An inquest was yosterday held by Coroner Wildey, at No. 21 Thompson-st., on the body of Edward Klein, who died from the offect of injuries receised on other boys jumped upon n freight-car, which, with several others, was being drawn to the Hudson River Railroad Depot by a dammy engine, At the corner of West and Cannl#ts, the decensed feil beneath the wheols of the ear, which a over im, causing death some time oftor. The jury, reide o a verdiet of accidental death, sud recommended thiat i futurs the company employ brakeucn to ride on vach car and prevent persons from geitivg o them. Deceased wos aged 12 years. e o [Anvouncements.] “Wiar Cax I Do Besr!"=Men stumble iuto wrong pursuits and wasle half their life fo & stroggle agalust disep- potutment and failure. Every man of common sense can do some- | thing useful, ard bo vuccessful, if he find the sight place. PunEvol- | 001 should be ted. Written charts, with sdvice, given daily by Fowskm k WetLs, No. 309 Brosdway, New-York. ks L WrAT CoNsTITUTES A FORTUN 1t 18 now & little over foor years. savs the Rev. G, W. Lt it s XY 600D FORTUR o get one of your wachi It other | e ighbor ** Max."” has ascertained that the cli- t b 1 to pereoss of bis tempersment, W' take KiNT'8 EANT 13 | | — The great Broadway burglary would bave been pre- yruted had the premises beon proteete with the BURGLAR ALAEM TELEGRAPH. [t canuot be bivken through without an eler E. Houes, No, 294 Biosdway. it | Suoes.—Ladies’, Misses' and Children’s Shoes and Slippers. ve pieasate trips, Spec teken. Genta', and boys' boot ety J. ¥, Wrrngus Fourth-ave., above Tweuty-eigh Boots, ! orders No. W6 o Tuwrkisa Batns, No, 13 Laight-st., are again open 1o the public, enlarged and improved. Hourv: Gents, 6 to® @ i, 1 Wep w; Ladies, 10 to 12a w. Sunds Gents, 10 120, NEW-JERSEY NEWS, —— ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED.—DBetween 12 aud 1 rdoy worning, Willinm Jones, a band on board the steams ying at the Cunard Dock, Jersey City, aceldentally foll overboard and was drowned hefore assistance could be rendered. The body was recoverod about dayiight, | and an inguest beld by C r K ¢h resulted ina i death by drown o'elock ¥ IT1CAL —The Democracy of Hudson City held night at John Leitz's, on Peacon-ave., | ratie etub for the Fall cawpaizn. The | fol owing otfie 14 were elected; Prexident, Jion. G. 1. Van | Reipor; Vice Presidents: Jus. L. Baldwin, M. C. Brown, | Jas. M. Wilson, Al Frene! J. J. Gafuey; Treasarer, Thouw mgers Arvived. ND HAVANA=In Philip Cowen. M. i A i ie, Joi wife and two Hote, wife, 3 ehildren and servant: 6. Moseas, Geo. Youug, W Mrs. E. Phelan a1 2 F. G. Muller, wile and servant ; ten. P. Miracds, B Hidug, T. € Ketie Holluway, 1sd b ssrvante; M Holiy, M. an —in aud wife, F. D 1obwon 11, Ramp 8 ¥ M KINGSTON, Latest Ship Newn, ARRIVED ston (Jem.) Jape 6 T lat. 34 03, long, 72 3 seriog N rd, Kawell, Liverpoot May 19, with mdse, end 43 pam. fand & Frothinghom. June &, in /st 43 5, loug. 63 05, signaled ip Hisds rom Genos for Quebec, 2 dave out; ., i 4, long. 81. ship Hemisphers, from Liverpool for New Vork ; 11th Inwt. i lat, AL 22, bog. 04 40, stensanbipe Fuiton and Bracilian, both boaed E Bhip Avia lh-m,'). ndeborst, Brewen 27 days, with i T 16 daye, with 723 pase. to Rug e Bros Vrig Tab Cain (ol ¥ srmonth, Me.). Btoring. Ne on & Co. The T. B, was 0 daye N of Hstterss e wugar, ke, to reit with light winds and Sehr. Willisn 8. Baker (of Gloncestar), with fruit to J. &T. bound in o the Chesape s York, 10tk lust. ; schre. Lo Belr. Orlor, Hadwin, Hartford. Echr. J. Randolph, New-Bedford fer Ellsabetbport !‘lI.r E. ). Scott, I“' hlauv.lm.r for Ron olil’. R i wrato Holyoke b Marra; 4 G oadwi, ,‘ llh—lh;»" for N-y' Haven. r e 8. T‘.‘:\"flhnn., Satterly, Baitinore. Hulve. Geargetown, D. C. #.J. Hoyt, Cramer. Baltimore. . John Lonthal!, Martin. Virglnia, - My Parker, Pasker, Vicgluia. . Atk Wetwore, Lipplucott, Gearzetown, D, C. P 1o How! Britieh b ot & e. 2ud Scla. BELOW. One hip and one bark, the vames of which Luve not yet been sacer- talsiod. DISASTER. The sleop Belle of Cape Au (of Reckport) trom Eligabethport, bound t Fastern port, while passing throngh Hell Oate this mern Tog (without pilot). struck on Hailetts Point, knocking & hole in her bl{“ull!. She was taken (0 Woolsey s Dock, where she now Lies ful of water. SPOKEN, 44 80, Yong. 50§, eckz. Syren (of Boston), Deveresux, with 380 guiot Juve 8, fo lat. 42, fioh. loug. 81, ship Hewiispbere, from Liverpool for ) ND—At Sunset. € i A — . 5 i B S l) SRMANENT AND WIDE. IS THE BEST EVIDENC| GOODNESS OF BRANDRETI'S PILLS. They should be tu overy fanily, ready for use on the st symp of disease oecurivg. This method will often save lte. REMEMBER TUE CHOLERA MUST BE TREATED AS'A POISON. Aud your ssfety dewmends It shoold be got rid of without delsy. COLDS, RECMATISM, ASTHMA, PLEURISY, DIARKRHEA AND COLICS, In fuct all sickness, is the consaguence of ACTIVE IMPURITIES IN THE BLOOD. Obsorve wy nawe Ui the Goverament Stamp in white letters. B. BRANDRETLL _Bold by Drugglets. 1)081‘!‘0N EM Owing to the finponfbility of o grund ex SHE vlolln; the mechanical effects the , vor, RA BUISLAY FAMILY, which was to have been prodaced at the KEW BOWERY THEATER on Baturday, Juue 16, 1666, the mavager bas been compelled to post- pone ita Brat represcntation tll 3 MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, AN Hekots fnsned for Saturdsy Afterucon or Fvealog will be cotved on Monday,or the wovey wil be refunded on application the Box Office MU KETO N A WITH A 1o be wutroduced & T PORTABLE FIAMES. 0. L & J. B. KELTY, No. 447 Broadway. PIDEMIC, o DIET. {INDIAN CORN, i UK. uf digestion, and o de MMER four und most nutritions FOOD. GROCE ' SATIN DAMASKS, BROCATELLLS. n s 4 4 t o o " w . i N BRAY'S PATENT n LENO, Beat fu use s MUSLIN, G L k), B. KELT Naw at No. 447 Broadw tow Grsnd ot FIITE MUSLINS, PURCHASED A JRE THE ADVANCE ¥ Godfrey Gunth nes Brooks, I . Kuapp wnd Morris Phili - o, Joseph Beaeb, Simon Stern, | ! SERIOUVS STABDING AFFRAY.~—On Thursday worm- fuk, Eraacigco Waisliow oy Linlian sllor, boardics w No. | FOR 7 JHHTING FOR 25 TING, EQUALLY SUTIA FOR 51e T AR GOOD § EXTRA FINE, 44 5 RTING Y PINE FINK ..» AUAS, BLALK SULK AND GUURS FUR BUTS WEAK ool ArrEMrTED Burerary.—Early on Friday moming Officers Butcher and Fulbl, of the Sizteenth Precinet, saw four ere watohed for some time, Wednesday last. On that day decessed and e number of FOR HOT WEATHER. VANDERLIP & TAYLOR, (LATE A. RANKIN & €0.) No. 96 Bowery, No. 939 Broadway, No, 165 5th Avenue, "OR. 22 (URES SCROFULA. Dr. H. ANDERS'S 10DINE WATER eores Scrofals 1N 411 178 wAmizoLD youis, ULozns, CaNczns, Sypuim, Saur Kuecw, ke I8 sets upon the Heany, Liven, Kipweys sad Digrerive ORGANS Amost powerfol ViTALizixo AGENT and Restomamive. Cirenlars free. Forsale by,J. P. DINSMORE, No. 3% Deyt, N. Y., a0d by oll Draggista. WISTAR'S BALSAM o WILD CHERRY, ONT, OF THE OLDEST AND MOST RELIABLE REMEDIES IN THE WORLD FOR COUONS, COLDS, HOARSENESS, BRONCIIITIS, 1t Qiseases of the THROAT, LUNOS and CHEST. FOR MALE 0 Pey-st., New Vork. , Projrietors, Boston. . TREET. « FOWLF, & Aud by Droggints and Apottiecirle IRON IN THE BLOOD. Ty quantity of § 7E to the who! LUKA OF &Y CO- The PERUVIAN SYRUP supplies the nece in the blocd, giving STRENGTH, VIO and eystem, Thus fortibed, there Js no danger of ous disence. Rold by all druggists. J. P. DINSMORE, No 36 Deyst. N. Y. 0YS CLOTHING EADY MADE CLOTHING. A Large and most compleie Stock of R s of SPRING OVERCOATS, WUSINESS AND DRESS SUITS. (whole or in part,) BOYS' CLOTHING of every deecription, ENTS' FURNI-HING G00DS, ke., &e. FROM 10 TO 4 PER CENT BELOW FORMER PRICES, PRICE CLOTHING WARE- cornar ogposite Sun Bullding SUMMER CLOTHING. wd most complete Stnck of READY MADE CLOTHINO, B SPRING 04 ERCOATS. BUSINESS AND DRESS 08" CLOTHING of every deseription, DS, &e., ke, ' BELOW FORMER PRICES, UN® PRICE CLOTHINC \\'A'R“ Foil ot Sy GENTS FUR FROM 10 10 4) PER € : MAN & BURN \'() ADVANCE IN PRICES OF CLOTHING. TRAPHAGEYN, MUNTER & CO, Now, 6%, 400, AND 402 BOWERY, Junetion of Third wnd Four! NOW OFFER of bels SPRING STOCK st LOWER PRICES than the 1y f g00ds hes been offered sinée 1960 BUSINESS SUITS, €18, 823, AND $30. BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING ot wase sl ves., ’ BARGAINS FRENCH CHINA DINNER SETS, TEA SETS, VASES, &c. DAVIS COLLAMORE & (o, No. 470 BROADWAY, ~ BARGAINS GENTLEMENS & BOYS CLOTHING. ut our stock of SPRING AND SUMMER fces, to make 1ooms for extensive witers- portunity for Ueutlensen eud Boys to re- ammer. BROKAW BROTHERS, No. 62 Lefuyette-place and No. 34 Foustheve Opposite Cooper In We are closing o CLOTHING at very & tious in g, Venisl thelr warde e, I. B. WALRAVEN No. 686 BROADWAY, OFFERS AT RETAIL, LINENS, LACE CURTAINS, WINDOW SHADES, N BEAUTIFUL STYLES. ALL ITS VARI FOR SALE bY A. DRAPER, No. 573 NASSAU-ST,, one door from MAIDEN-LAN B ENGH SELEFASTENING BUTTONS T by any in the cloth They can be chasged aud as they never pull off they are the only reliab e 5 FOR MEN'S AND BOV'S CLOTHING. BUITONS FOR LADIES, clot BUTTON In a mo or oo g them By having several difforent st eriug e appestes AN w of the ARMY AND NAVY Tu order to It the | k. Fioos R R T R THE GREATEST AXSORTHENY AT LOWERT PRIEES, ery, inby all ueual modical remedies fnearable. RHEUMATISM. 1f there is any disease in wiich the Coustitution Life Syrup 19 ereign, it is in theumatism and its kindred affections. The most tense paine are “imost instently aleviated—snormous swellings are reduced. Cases, chironic or vicarious, of twenty or thisty yeary stanl ing, bave bees cured. 1 NERVOUSNESS, NERVOUS DEBILITY, SHATTERED RERVES, ST. VITUS DANCE, LOSS OF POWER, CONFUSION OF THOUGHTS, EPILEPSY. Thousands who have sufred for years wil blese the day on which they read these lines. Pesticulerly to weak, wufering ww—-fl \lis medicive piove sn loestimable blessing—directivg thelr footuteps to s Tope which fulfills more than s promilses, MERCURIAL DISEASES, ROTTING OF BONES, PAD COMPLEXION, ACHPS IN BONES, FEELING OF WEARINESS, DEPRESSION OF SPIRITS. 1‘1 CONSTITUTION LIPE BYRUP purges the system entirely uithe evil offects of MERCURY, removing the Bed Presth, the Weak Joiuts eud lhufllehh'hfllhl.d(‘-hx sure to produce. It kardens Spongy Gume and secures the Teeth & SALIVATION, CONSTITUTION LIFE SYRUP Erudiccten oot sud brakch, i} Eragtive Disesses of the Skia iss | ULCERS, PIMPLES, BLOTCHES, aud all other diflicaitien of thls kind, which so much dlafigare the ot ward appearpce of botls wales and fomales, oiten making them custing object to themeclves end their Gicads. E CONSTITUTION LIFE SYRUP \\ CURES ALL SWELLING OF THE GLANDS, Eitlier of the Fece, Neck, or Female Breast, aud should be tekes s soon a8 the swelling s detected, (s preventiog thels breaking, sad prodacivg tronblesome Discharging Borgs, wiich disfigure so -m-; of the yoanger portien of the comwunity, from six to twenty years of bject to Discharges trom the Esrs, These cases 407s age. Yong clildren aro very which depends upon a Scrofalous constitution. cover by taking a few dosss of the Life Syrup. Al sciefu! persons sufleriug from General Debility, Emaclation, Dyepepsia aud Dropey of the lisbs, shdosien, ud in the fermele, Dropey of the ovazies and womb, generelly sccompanted with Tullvy mation end Ulcerstion of the Uteres, are permanently eured by Cou- atitution Life Syrup. The disease known s Goitre or Swelled Reck, the Life Syrap will semove enticely. The remedy should be faken for eame time, us the disesse Is ex-eediasly chroule and stubborn, md will not be removed 'flan eatrs effort. Fumors of the Ovacies, Tumo:s of the Breast, and sweiling of other gends of the body, will be cowpletely reduced without resorting to the huife, or operations of avy hind. Y ¥ lleptic Fits, Sympathetic cr Orgavic Diseases of the Heert, ae polpitation, Diseass of the Valves, producing s grating or filing seend, Dropey of the Weart Case and all the affections of this important orgar (persous suffering from wuy acule pa'u i the region of the heart), ik be greatly relieved by Constitation Lile Syrup. BROKEN-DDWN AND DELICATE CONSTITUTIONS, sTrranixG ymon L¥oisrorTioN 10 FXEaTIoN, PALY 1x vaR Back t Loss or Munony, Forznonines, Hoxnon or Caaxiry, Fran o1 Disease, Dixxess o7 Visioy, Dy, Hor Sxiw axp Exvanume, Waxt o Siesp, Restoessyses, Pave, Hacgand Coutavascs, AXD Laswitoos o T ® MosevLan Syoren, all require the wid of the CONSTITUTION LIFE SYRUP. R FOR ALL FORMS OF ULCERATIVE DISEASES, Either of the Nosz, Tmnoar, Toxes. Spise, Fonaumap or Scais, no remedy has ever proved its equal. MOTH PATCHES upon the feuale face depending upon the dis eased sotion of the liver are very unplessan <0 the young wile sud wother, Afew botiles of CONSTITUTION LIFE SYRUP will cer- Jest the secretion, aud remove the deposit which is dicectly under (4 shin, Diseases of the Liver, giviog sise (o Languor, Dissinees, ludiges tion, Weak Stomach o5 wo ulcorated or cancerons condition of hst organ, accompanied with burlng or other inpleasant symptows, wil e relieved by the we of CONSTITUTION LIFE SYRUP U 9 At cryenar Buoop Prawrmye Acesy, vas Lis Sraer ORLD- STANDS UNRIVALED BT AN PREPARATION 1N ¥/ THE RICH AND POOR sre lisble to the same Zseascs, Natore and Selence Dave wede e CONSTITUTION LIFE SYRUP for the Lenetit of wli. PURE BLOOD produces healthy men and worien; uid if the eonstitad nd early desth are the revait. 2on fur $6. in youth, dise Price, $1 25 per botll one-ball ¢ l) WM. 1. GREGG, M. D, SOLE PROPRIETOR, NEW-YORK. MORGAN & ALLEN, Wholessle Diuggiste, Agents, No. 6 Clif s, New York GEO. €, GOODWIN & Co., Boa J. H. REED & Co., Calcago. COLLINS BROTHERS, 8¢ L L D. PARK, Cine INSON, HOLLOWAY & Ca., F BARNDS, WARD & ¢ BARNES ITENRY & HOSTETILE. SMITA & VEAN. b pratho ek