The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-04


something more than fnstian and bonn
hast suggestive of something more
than war with Mexico or aNpiratical'
expedition on Cuba or Nicarauga in the
interest and for the spread of slavery.
Neither Wendell Phillips or. the late.
editor of the late Charleston Mercury
will now call it n "fiaunting lie." On
the contrary hundreds and thousands of
earnest, sincere. people, men, women
and little children, will in spirit of
gratitude to God, look up to its rustling
folds and hail the sight as the "free
hearts home and hope" and will
sing and say as they never did before,
20 long may it wave
Der the land OF the free and the home of the
brave" s
We can all feel to-day, that hither by
its symbolic power we have come to the
conclusion of long, weary and ex-
haustive struggle, and here around its
standard we can raise our Ebenezers
and recognize that we are chosen and
reserved and saved by good Provi-
ldence for some great purpose. We can
confess our belief in, and our fealty to
those true and pure principles of free
dom and free government which we
had so nearly forgotten, or so nearly
discarded in'the days that are gone.
WE shall soon forget that there is
such a man as jeff. Davis, unless Sec
rotary Stanton lets up II little and allows
the news-gatherers to visit his distin-
guished captive. He might at least
indulge the curious public with week
| ly bulletin as to the health and spirits
of the great rebel, and his success in
killing flies, which is said to be his only
amusement. 1t appears that he has
lately been granted the favor of pen
and ink, for n letter from him to his
leading counsel, Charles O'Conor, of
New York, is said to have been inter-
eepted and retained by the government.
Mr.. O'Conor has been refused permis-
sion to see Davis.
The controversy as to the disguise in
1 Which Davis was taken is renewed.
The eminent Baptist divine, Rev. DIR.
Fuller, of Baltimore, who accompanied
Chief Justice Chase on his recent ex-
Iploration, writes to the New York Err.
d'niner and Chronicle that he has exam.
ined the testimony in the case impair.
tinlly, and that he believes that Davis
was i'll bed when Col. Pritchard,s
] squadron surrounded the tent, and that
he arose and dressed himself hastily
throwing shawl around his shoulders
and was thuscaptured. The New York
World also has statement, the truth
of which is vouched for by Col. Lub.
book and Col. Johnston, aids to Davis,
who were captured with him, and who
are now in Fort Delaware, which is as
follows: Iif0 -Ui1=6i !
me cavalry were in possession 81
the camp for nearly half an hour before
they seemed to find out whom they had
captured, when some one shouted,
We've got old jeff or some such
words. When taken, he wns in his
dresslng-goWn in which he Ind slept,
ana acted with the dignity which ali
VINO knew anything of him, friend or
Zoe, would have expected. He was
treated with perfect respect by his cap
toFS' no scene of any sort taking place,
n ny. none OF the prisoners heard any
thng OF the pettfcoat story until they
learned 1T from the northern papers on
their arrival mt Fortress Monroe"
But Major Hudson, of the 4th NTichi-
gan cavalry, who participated in the
capture of Davis, confirms the original
account. It is but few days since that
he told the whole story before the Chi,
cago board of trade He stated thu
when taken, Davis had his ,wife's wa
terproof on his person us u skirt, ant
that large shawl was thrown over hi.
head, to answer the purpose Eat once o
bonnet and n disguise. He had ,
bucket on his arm, and was attended
by negro woman; and Mrs. Davis re
quested that "poor old mother might
be permitted to go to the spring fol-
some water" In this plight he wa:
captured while endeavoring to pass Tho
the guards.
The original story of the capture i,
also confirmed by Mrs. Ellen Bond
the colored woman who was with Mrs
Davis Mt the time, and is now at Fort.
ress Monroe. She tells the correspond.
ent of the Philadelphia Inquirer that
Mrs. Davis threw herwater-proof cloal;
and shawl over Davis, and appealed to
her to take him out of the tent and en-
deavor to secure his escape. She led
Davis forth, but was at once confronted
by our soldiers who took him into Gus
tody.
/ = THElowerbody orthe New Hampshire
Legislature has ratified the amendent to
tho Constitution prohibitingslaverv. bv