Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01

more considerashen wuz showed. Davi,
1 bein averse to walkin up stairs, a suit O
rooms he'd bin prepared fol! him on The
| first floor, and the presence NV Gen. Bur
ton, NV the Fedral army, bein obnoxou,
he wuz assigned by the Ex-President 6
room at the further end of the corridor
His nerves bein very sensitive, heavy
mattin wuz laid down in all the halls, and
the servants NV the house wuz especially
directed to wear list slippers and go on
their tip toes. as f7fe> -t 't'l,..t
! wuz invited to hiz room and wuz
favored with few minits conversashen
with the furst Nv Amerikens, and, wen
he dies, the last. Glancin out Nv the win.
der his soft grey eye rested on the ROOT
Nv Libby. Lies lies sed he angrily.
Wat speshl lies hev 700 reference to
askt 1. .gaT as f,is:rse
Them wich wuz publisht in the scurri-
lous reports Nv the Committee Nv un-
constooshnel Congris regardin the treat
ment Nv primers in Libby They assert
ed that the offsers died becoz they he'd
but ten feet by two, for sleepin, washin,
cookin, and eaten. They he'd that space
and wat more wuz necessary Why
give 'em room to cook wen they hedn't
anythin to cook? Wherefore loom to
eat eff they hedn't anythin to eat No,
its false. 1t wuznt the crowdin that per-
doost the mortality. =
Only wunst wuz his buzzum rung. He
wuz standin at the winder, gain out up
on Richmond, his mind revertin to the
time wen it wuz the Capital NV his Con-
fedracy, when a percession passt with
moosic, and flags and banners. With a
shrek of angish he buried his head in
the curtins, and wept aloud. I rusht to
the winder. 1t wuz ez l feared. Film
slowly by wuz percession Nv niggers
who hed'past that way perposely. Mersi-
ful Heaven sed he, hez it come this? And
he wuz very reserve and deprest the rest
Nv the day.
The next day the President wuz taken
to the Court. Ez he entered the room
and glanced proudly over the awjence, it
wood hev bin very difficult to hey decid
ed whether he wuz a goin to try the
Court or the Court him. But repressin
hisself he took his seat. Techin solissi-
TODD wuz displayed in the Court room
for his comfort "A crack in the winder
casin let in draft NV cold air he shud-
dered and shudder run through the en-
tire assemblage The shudder Nv the
Conservative merchant from Moo York
wuz trooly. artistic. Cotton wuz calld
for, when the Conservative 1ner chants
wife tore off one NV her buzzums and
stuff the apertoor Wuz ther ever more
techin sacrifS ? The President wept as
he beheld it. On assertainin the tempera-
toor wich best sootid his system, a ther-
mometer wuz brot, and the room wuz
kept at that percise degree
There wuz sum trifn legal formalities
gone through with, and the Presidents
counsel made motion that he may be
admitted to bail There wuz stir in
the Court. "Make it million" sed one,
so that the craven North shal see how
we kin take keer NV them we love but
Underwood, with the meanness charac.
teristic NV the man, fixed it at 100000
and brisk ez bees, Schell, a Moo York
Dimocrat, several Richmond Dimocrats] !
and Horris Greely slept forward and sign
ed it. Ez Horris did it l coodent restrain
III ocll HO DuOIllI INV CCOiS L 1Oil
on to Greeley's buzzum and we embrac-
ed. Ez he hedn't his specticles on he
sposed it wuz Davis hisself, and he bust.
id into teers also, and there wuz one wv.
the most strikin tabloos ever exhibited.
] got away before he diskivered his mis-
take. -,.f. ..
Here wuz the endin NV our troubles
the consurnmashen NV our hopes. Davis
is free. The pent-up-emoshens NV the
people fonnd vent. Ez he slept into the
street the people crowded to the carriage |
which contained us and rent the air with |
cheers. We reacht the hotel, and after
embracin his wife, a season Of religious
exercises wuz held. The clergyman who
he'd charge of Davis piety doorin the
war wuz present, and he offered prayer.
He prayed fersehtly that the Lord wood
forgive the people of the North tor the
wrong they he'd done our sainted7 he'd,
that hewould forgive eff possible, the late
head Nv the Fedral Government who he'd I
opposed him and the glorious coz, and ct
Divine mercy Good stretch SO far that he
wood forgive the Colonel nv Michigan
cavalry witch he'd hunted down the Saint
who wuz now in our midst, and made NV
him a captive He prayed for forgive
ness for the. reckless men NV the North
who invaded Virginy for the noosepa I
per condukters who he'd opposed him
who is now with us, partiklerly Horrls
Greedy who he'd this day, in some meas
ure atoned for his previous shortcomfns.
He prayed that the blessins NV Heven
might rest first upon the city Nv Rieh7
mond, then upon the balance NV Virginy
and afterward upon the rest ofthe South
ern States and he wound up with, fer
vent appeal that the Ethiopiars,, wich
eoednt change their skins, might see the.
errors of their, ways, and return to their
normal condishen., After this the Presi-,
dent received his friends.
II am not permitted to give more nv the
Presidents plans than this ,'e He viii re-
main in seciooshen, and will take no part
politics until after his final ae-
quital in November. He don't feel at /
liberty to take hold NV the, Government
SO long as there is evena tecknikle charg I
agin him. Our friends in the Northern
States, who expected him to take the
stump in their behalf this fall, will be dis /
appointed. ]. return to-norrer to, Ken
tucky. = ,,-.,.''..''. 's...,.sT 80 is -.
.3 az PkrRoLEUM V. n AsBY, P. NE.
Wch is Postmaster,) and Professor in the Ham and |