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

if not in some other respects. was re-
marketable Lafayette was denied the
use of knife or fork, lest he should
commit selfdestruetion. 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 Governor at
first answering that he was not III
enough vet the illustrious prisoner
was at length allowed to take the air
sometimes on-foot, at other times in
a carriage, but always accompanied by
an officer with drawn sword, and two
armed guards.
Mr. Davis then narrated, with great
spirit and ,S5ifiHfspes the efforts made
Dr. Eric B6llmann, of Hanover. and
Mr., Huger, of South Carolina, to eff
feet Lafayette's liberation Mr.. Huger
was a y Oull2 Vi 11uguGnOC
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 fsom captivity by their ex-
eTtions, sogether with his re-arrest
and the capture and terrible punish
ment inflicted on his rescuers-all
these points Mr.. Davis recited with q
vividness which made each feature in
the successive scenes pass before the
mental eve as though lin the unrolling
of a panorama Hager and. Bollmann
were heavily ironed areAnd the neck,
and chained to the floors Fl separate
dungeons, in utter darkHEss. Once
every half an hour the Austrian OIL
Ger of the day entered, flashed a dark
lantern into their faces to identify
them and tc see that they still lived,
and then carefully examined every
link of the chains binding &heir necks
to the floor andg shafkli6g their feet
and wrists. This ire nc lasted for
six months, the prisol s Icing almost
skeletons when final o Htaining their
release, which was s&cured by the re-
presentations of General Washington,
the powerful advocacy of Mr. Fox and
the Liberals in the British Parliament,
and the humane sympathy of the
Count Metrouske, 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 recommitted, 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-
ters, near the main sally port, and in
which nearly eveY officer of the old
army was for SONG months quartered
after quitting West Point, and before
being assigned to general duty else
where. Il is a 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 a 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 a sliding panel in which the face
OF 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
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 being selected, General |
Miles gave orders to the Engineer De
oartment for their speedy conversion
rom quarters to q prison, the piazza
being prolongated and raised by a flight
ii steps, so that access to the ram
parts could be had by Mr.. Davis with
)ut descent to the ground tier, which
invariably caused a crowd to collect,
With its usual unpleasant attendants of
staring and whispering commentaries.