Daily Mississippi clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-07-07

OF Magdeburgh and Olmutz. Indeed,
the parallel between their prison lives,
ifnot in some other respects, was re-
markable. Lafayette was denied the
use Of knife or fork, lest he should
commit self destruction. He was con-
fined in casemate, or dungeon, of
the two most powerful fortresses of
Prussia first, and then Austria. While
in Magdeburgh he found friend ia
the humane physician, who repeatedly
reported that the prisoner could not
live unless allowed to breathe purer
air than that of his cell; and on this
recommendation-the Governor at
first answering that he ''was not i'll
enough yet"-the illustrious prisoner
was at length allowed to take the air
sometimes on-foot, at other times in
q carriage, but always accompanied by
an officer with drawn sword, and two
armed guards.
+ Mr. Davis then narrated, with great
spirit and 'pie-' ness, the efforts made
by Count IONS folendal, assisted by
DR.. Eric Bo1lmann, of Hanover, and
Mr.. Huger, Of South Carolina, to eff
feet Lafayette's liberation. Mr.. Huger
was a young gentleman of Huguenot
extraction; and Lafayette, upon land
ing near Georgetown, South Carolina,
accompanied by Baron De Kalb, had
first been guest of Major Huger, the
father of his rescuer DR.. Bollmann's
visit to Vienna, where he remained six
months, lulling suspicion by pretend
ing to study or practise medicine; his
there meeting with young Huger, and
the mannerin which these two eau
tious, but daring men, mutually dis
covered to each other their similarity
of object; the code of signals which
they gradually established with the
prisoner, and his final rescue for some
brief hours from captivity by their ex-
eItiOns, together with his re-arrest,
and the capture and terrible punish
ment inflicted on his rescuers-all
these points Mr.. Davis recited with a
vividness which made each feature in
the successive scenes pass before the
mental eye as though 'in the unrolling
of a panorama. Huger and. Bollmann
were heavily ironed arEnd the neck,
and chained to the floors - separate
dungeons, in utter dark Ess. Once
every half an hour the Austrian Off
Ger of the day entered, flashed dark
lantern into their faces to identify
them and to see that they still lived,
and then carefully examined every
link of the chains binding heir necks
to the floor andy sha2 II their feet
and wrists. This try II lasted for
six months, tho priso s cling almost
skeletons when finall q laining their
release, which was .s&cured by the re-
presentations of General Washingto
the powerful advocacy of Mr.. Fox and
the Liberals in the British Parliament,
and the humane sympathy of the
Count Metrouskie, who welded pow
erful influence in the Austrian court.
Lafayette, however, even in his second
Imprisonment, was never shackled :;
and though treated with the utmost
cruelty, no indignities were offered to
his person, save that he was robbed of
his watch and some other trinkets on
being rccommitted, reduced to a single
suit OF clothes, and stripped of every
little comfort that had been previously
allowed him, save such ~betterments of
food-his regulation diet being bread
and water-ss were certified by his
medical attendant to be necessary for
the support of life
After quitting prisoner, proceeded,
by invitation of General Miles, and in
company with that officer, to make an
inspection of the fort, for the purpose
of selecting more healthful quarters
for the state prisoner. Decided that
rooms in second stsfy of the south end
of Carroll Hall would best suit-a
building long used. as officers quar-
tiers, near the main sally-port, and in
which nearly ever oficer of the old
army was for som nonths quartered
after quitting West Point, and before
being assigned to general duty else
where. II is tradition in and around
Old Point Comfort that both Grant
and Sherman occupied in their day the
very chambers selected for the second
incarceration of Mr.. Davis. AS with
the casemate there were to be two
rooms used for the prisoners confine-
ment In the outer one a lieutenant
and two soldiers were constantly sta
toned on guard, having a view of the
interior chamber through a grated
door. Opposite this door was a win
dow heavily grated, and with senti-
tinel continually on duty before it,
pacing up and down the piazza. OPP
posite the window door leading into
the corridor, but permanently fastened
with heavy iron clamps, and in this
door sliding panel in which the face
of a sentinel was continually framed
by night and day, ready to report to
his officer the first sign of any attempt
on the prisoners part to shuttle of this
mortal coil by any act of self-violence.
1t was of this face, with its unblinking
eyes, that Mr.. Davis so bitterly com
planned in after days; but this is an
ticipating. The prisoner, as was said
OF Lafayette, is perhaps not sick
enough yet, and has to suffer some fur
Their weeks of exposure in his present
easement
The rooms Icing selected, General
Miles gave orders to the Engineer De
partment for their speedy conversion
from quarters to prison, the piazza
being prolongated and raised by flight
OF steps, so that access to the ram
parts could be had by Mr.. Davis with
out descent tothe ground tier, which
invariably caustd crowd to collect.
with its usual unpleasant attendants of
staring and whispering commentaries