Show ONE OF JEFF DAVISS SLAVES t ak i x tiie THE DRY GOODS MARKET the cincinnati cincinnat gazette in its dry goods market report says among tile the buyers from the south there came an ex slave siave of jefferson davis who purchased quite freely for his store at daviss bend miss formerly the plantation of his hia master and thus while the traitor master is held a state prisoner in fortress monroe his former property and chat tel in company N fit tit h his two sons late honorably discharged from the gunboat service is selling goods as a freedman his name mame is montgomery ho he 12 is fifty three years of age and is as gooda good a representative of the intelligent black r man a an as can be found helas he was jeff jerf s slave over twenty years and served him as a carpenter and machinist on his and his brothers plantation of two thousand acres ohp entire two thousand acres he informs us are being cultivated in cotton by his former fellow bond me men who he says are working industriously triou sly and more effectually than under the former rule c |