The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-06-06
a virginian's Account of his Visit TO For

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q Virginians Account of his Visit TO For
TREs5 MONROE.
The Richmond Examiner gives account, as fur
nished BY Virginia gentleman, of visit to Old
Point, with some interesting particulars relative 70 Mr.
and Mrs. Davis
Soon after landing, and while walking By the fort,
our narrator had the pleasure Of observing Mr. Davis
between II and y o'clock il the forenoon taking his
customary walk upon the ramparts of the fort From
that distance he looked weak and enacated and used
cane for support His suit the old familiar gray
in which he often appeared to the citizens of Rich
mond, as his erect form srided back and forth through
Capitol square to and from the presidential mansion
and his Office in the customh0Rse. His hat the
broad brimmed felt, also familiar to citizens and
which he always in taking lis rides to she lines
around Richmond.
Subsequently the gentleman had pleasant inter-
view with Mrs. Jefferson Davis at the residence of Dr.
Cooper, the post surgeon. He found Mrs Davis : at
home, IN an apartment comfortably though not ele-
gantly furnished and she did not seem to want for
/ anything Tier conversation was the same that so
often charmed visitors when she, the wife of the pres
ident Of brave nation struggling for their liberties,
dispensed the couees and inequalities Of the Presi
dental mansion She spoke freely and feeingly of
the health eff Ar. Davis. Though weak from long
confinement and want of change of air, his general
health she thought, good and his spirits had re-
FlFeu SillCc HtU BepA permitted 10 YIS't dIu We
nigh him.
Mrs. Davis spoke warmly and frequently of the
kindness of DR.. Cooper also of all the officers of
the fort and post. She dressed in black silk, her
usual toilette in Richmond, and without ornament,
and seemed happy in the privileges allowed. Her
youngest daughter, George, is with her, beautiful
little girl with somewhat OF sadness III her eyes and
face The other children Jetfey and an older daueh-
ter are in Montreal Canada. Mrs Dayiss old dining
room-serpaut Frederick who waited the presiden-
al mansion, is also with her. lie says lie never in
tends to leave her. and is exceedingly faithful and at
entive, almost anticipating Der wants. He accompa-
MED Mrs Davis and the children in their journey to
Charlotte, n. C., previous TO the fall OF Richmond,
and needless of the aurements Of the yankees, has
remained true to the end. The southern people will
not forget this faithful negro who, though freedman
by the result OF the war; elects to remain the trust
worthy servant still.
Mrs Dayiss nurse, Mary, is also at the fortress in
attendance upon little George. She, too is very de-
voted and attentive to the wants and health of her
mistress, by which name she yet addresses her. Mrs.
Davis, in the of conversation spoke kindly and
feenglv of the sympathetic expressions of the south
ern people and their coincidence expressed for herself
and husband touching the situation in which the lat
ter had been placed by the untoward fortunes of
She expressed desire to see some of the leading
southern newspapers and in this connection alluded
to the Richmond Examiner expressing her gratilca-
ton at its altered and socned tone of comment upon
+ tue pN pIGSueBL OF IlllS we CldiHl no credit
Davis is prisoner not fcon, and long as it is
attempted to make him one, he will find in this jour
nal a champion and defender to the last
In the course Of Of Mrs. Dayis's recent inter
views with her husband Mr.. Davis expressed himself
as much relieved and graed by the fact that an in
dictment against him had been foand. He now hoped
for a speedy trial. he was easy in his mind as to the
result Mrs. Davis Of the opinion that the i'm
provements in his spirits though apparent from her
first coming, had increased since the announcement Of
the finding of the indictment against him.
4 Some OF the unpcasantness and petty annOrances
that have made Mr. Dayiss prison irksone to a
great Gagged mind like his have been done away with
by the authorities at Washington Mrs. Davis is per-
mittcd to visit him at any time from 10 A. NJ. to P.
NJ aud after 4 P. NJ to the hoGr OF closing the gates
which is o'clock,
The CirIL RIGHrs BILL.-The National Inteligen-
Ger SAYS that suit has been instituted by a negro
against the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company for
refusing to sell him ticket for passage in irst-cas5
car 1t also SAYS that the editor of the Chronicle
has set the social example of receiving negroes at bis
mansion where lie entertained them in the style oil
luxuriance usual with him" These, as that paper
justly says, are among the particular results of the
enactment Of the civil rights bill Nothing IS wanting
to establish these results bat the adoption of negro
suffrage At least the republican party believe.
and so Mr.. Wendell Phillips declares in a late speech
from which the IntelIigencer quotes this extract
Negro suffrage means a score Of negro congress.
sitting in the house Of representatives 1t means
coored merchants in New Orleans and colored sena-
. tors in Carolina. 1t means negro representatives
sharing in making railroad laws aud other laws II
means social equality and that where the souther-
ner met the question. Social equality follows hard
on the heel Of the baotbox and the south knows it,
and she ressts negro suffrage for what must fol
low it.n
A comparison of this with the following extract
from speech Of Mr. Lncon's, shows the wonderful
progress that public opinion las made in the direction