Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-29
JEFF. DAVIS.
How He Lives-HIs Religious Expert
ence-Hfs Reading-Mrs. JEFF.

Fortress Monroe Correspondence N. 7. Herald.l
JEFF'S. ABODE.
For the matter of his present abode, it
is most comfortably if not luxuriantly
furnished. A neat white Counterpart
covers his bed, a drugget is on the floor,
the table has a cloth cover of beautiful
pattern, there are pictures oil the walls,
and the room is redo!ent with the deli
cious perfume of flowers gathered in taste
full bouquets. Of course in all this may
be seen the presence and loving care of
Mrs. Davis; but before she came he
wanted nothing to make him comfortable.
Boxes of the very finest liquors and cigars
have been sent to him and, in fact,
there are those who claim that he is the
best cared for and most comfortably stu
ated person in the fort. 1t is my opinion
that he would be glad to change places
with even the least of them.
HIS CAREFUL HISTORICAL PURSUITS.
For a long while past his f~avorite read
ing has been history. l am told thai he
has read the whole of Bancroft's History
of the United States and Macauleys His
tory of England, and is now busying him
self on Gulzot's History of Civilization
and Hallam's Middle Ages, and all this
with q large amount of light and miscel-
laneous reading thrown in. He is un-
scrupuloHsly neat in his dress, which, by
the way, has far less of the confederate
grey about it than formerly, and when he
walks out he is careful to go out gloved
and carrying his light
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES.
n,4bnr CraaI affect &c n rnar ~ .-.---
experience on Mr.. Davis has been the re-
ligious change in him. 1t is true he at
tended church pretty regularly before or
during the war; but it was reserved for
his coming here TO become a full and reg
uiar communicate. At one time he suf-
fered u good deal of mental and spiritual
disquiet on account of the unsettled state
of his religious affairs but his old Rich
mond pastor, after two or three calls,
cleared up his doubts and dispelled his
uneasiness on the subject. For some time
past this same clergyman has called pref
ty regularly every month on him and ad-
Ininistered to him the sacrament and
other religious rites of the Episcopal
Church. L have gone into this religious
history here, so that those who anticipate
or may desire the hanging of Mr.. Davis
may have the consolation of knowing the
fact that he is prepared tn advance for it.
MRS. JEFF.s MANNERS.
As for Mrs. Davis, l regret to be obliged
10 state that her conduct and bearing to
the officers of the fort and others has
hardly been such as entirely becomes a
woman in her position. She came here
through courtesy. Her permission to re-
main in the fort was an act of courtesy.
To some officers she is agreeable, and to
others she spits out her secesh sentiments
with unsparing tongue, and applying to
them personally epithets not only obnox-
iously disloyal, but very unlady-like, to
say the least. 1 regret, as I have stated,
being obliged to write this, and only
hope its effect will be a change in her
manners, if not in her views. She is not
Queen of the South now, and her q~ueenly
airs are not in good taste. These com
plants have reached me several times,
but until now l have foreborne to refer to
them, wishing first TO ascertain their cor
rectness, which 1 have done.