JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Evening Post, Issue 221, 23 October 1865, Page 2

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

There is not anything further to report concerning the expected trial of Mr. Jefferson Davis, who still remains incarcerated in Fortress Monroe, and is said to have improved in health since he has been permitted to walk upon the ramparts. It was reported that General Richard Taylor, who is a son of President Zachary Taylor, and a brother-in-law to Mr. Davis, had been permitted to visit him ; but the report does not seem to have been credited. A special Washington despatch to the New York Tribune says :—: — "Notwithstanding the various stories set afloat in regard to the ill-treatment of Jeff. Davis, it is positively said that he is treated with the consideration due to a noted prisoner of State by the commandant at Fort Monroe, He is allowed to take frequent walks on the ramparts, and is permitted to choose his own food. The stories that his cell has been guarded by a score of bayonets ; that in his promenades he is attended by a battalion of soldiers ; and that he is limited to the army rations, are as ridiculous as they are untrueThe treatment of Jeff. Davis is Christianlike and humane, and just such a<< a generous and dignified Government can well afford to bestow upon one who is no longer its enemy but its prisoner " Although Jefferson Dftvis is shut up in Fortress Monroe, he still has friends who are determined to see that he is fairly dealt with. A meeting has been held in New York, at which some of the principal citizens were present, and it was resolved that money should not be wanting to provide him with counsel, an office which Charles O'Connor has i publicly accepted. ! It is now stated that Mr. Jefferson Davis will never be tried, but will be permitted to leave the country, and that President Johnson has positively decided not to try him by a military court. Among the recent pardons granted by the President is that of Bishop Lynch, of the Roman Catholic Church of South Carolina. The bishop resides at present in Rome. Recent letters received from Alexander H. Stephens, in Fort Warren, Boston* state that his health is very precarious from the rigorous confinement to which he is subjected. He does not complain of unkind' treatment, but of close imprisonment.— Home News.