The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-01

Correspondence OF the New York Times
A Glimpse into Fortress Monroe Details of Car.
roll Hall---Eyery day Life of Jefferson Davis.
Recent Full and Unreserved Expression Of
his Opinion on the Craven Book.
RICHMOND, VA, Wednesday, July IL
Nothing is more difficult than for the news
paper correspondent to gain even transient
view OF the inner life at Fortress Monroe. as
the Government has issued an imperative
order for the exclusion of his craft from the
precincts of the Fortress.
The public must hear about the prisoner
at Fortress Monroe; they expect it, and de-
mand it at our hands, and not being able
ourselves to see Jefferson Davis, we are driven
to the necessity of deriving our knowledge
OF MIN from those who have the privilege
A gentleman of this city of the highest
standing and character has recently had
very extended interview with Davis, having
spent an entire day with him in the fort. and
what L have to say of the prisoner is derived
from this entirely trustworthy source.
THE PRESENT CONDITION
OF Davis is far from healthy. He has that
peculiar sallowness that is the inevitable re-
suit OF long confinement, and his nervous
irritablity under restraint has naturally
enough taken off and keeps off what little
h iesh ne ever had. He has no appetite, and
1t was noted the other day as remarkable
event, that he ate the whole of crab at
one meal. The constitution of the man
seems gone, and DR.. Cooper said as much
when, being asked why he did not build nm
his patient promptly, he replied that there
was nothing to build on. Whether this state
OF affairs is result of his confinement is at
least problematical. A man of seriously i'm
paired health for years before he was taken
10 the Fortress, and sufferer from nervous
disease, 1t is the prevalent opinion that the
rum that came upon his ambition would
nave brought him to precisely the same
physical condition without any confinement
at ALL he was not the man to sheer it AWAY
IKE benjamin; OF work it away, like Lee
and johnson !; or philosophize it away. like
stephens. Whatever might have been. the
PLAIN, simple truth is that Jefferson Davis il
suffering at Fortress Monroe from the same
nervous disease to which he was for wears
constantly subject at Richmond and at
Washington 'N' "'
That "glaring light" is in the adjoining
room ON small table in its centre. The he'd
Is thus In the shadow, and the direct lioht
does not reach Davis at all; and it is onIv
after it has traversed the half of one large
room, the whole of another, and been reflec.
TED back from the opposite plain white wall
OF his room, thatit has any power to annov
the prisoner. His eyes are very weak, and
the light doubtless does annoy him more
than it would any man living but General
Miles, conceiving it his duty to have the pri-
soner always in sight of the sentinels, it is
difficult to imagine any plan by which he
can make the light less offensive than it is
under the present arrangement; but the
more sensible course undoubtedly would be |
to dispense with sentinels altogether. and
leave Davis at night, as at day, to his parole
Mr. Davis does not complain of being dis !
turbed by the noise of the sentinels.
BY day, Mr.. Davis is at entire liberty nm
ger parole within the limits Of the Fortress
and generally spends the most of his time in
the apartment of his wife, who has had one
OF the classmates assigned her. He Il is at