Show JEFF DAVIS in obscurity and poverty A southern view ef of his career upon leaving prison air mr davis came home via augusta he wae was received at that city with great enthusiasm thusia sm and introduced to an immense crowd by the hon hen henry W willard says the atlanta OZ constitution ution he ile made a abort short address and then resumed bia his way home he has lived in obscurity and it is ie greatly tobe to be feared in poverty hia his plantations yielded but little income the additional estate left him hirn by mrs biro dorsey dors ey has paid but little better the rents from hie his lands lauds are constantly diminishing and the chances are that the great confederate leader is poorer now than he has even been before steps were once taken to raise raise a fund for him but he be kindly but firmly averted the bands of those engaged in it as soon ad as be he became aware of what was being dune he held that iso long as the widows and orphans of confederate soldiers were in want he had neither the right nor the wish to take one dollar from the bounty that ought to fin find d its way to them his rue and fall of the con waa singularly unsuccessful as a pecuniary pecunia rv venture published in very expensive shape it found few fem purchasers the elaborate care with which it was prepared and the tremendous research on which its smallest facts were based consumed several years he ile was compelled to ask advances from the appleton while engaged in this work and it is doubtful if the amount paid him after the book was issued amounted to it stands however an unanswerable defense ot of the southern raue a monument nt to the southern love of constitutional liberty and in this it matits merit the utmost ambition ol 01 its author mr davis ha has been north only once since the war he went to canada just before his book appeared that be he might inight register it i there in season and thus secure the english copyright his ris trip through the north was quiet and af al most uneventful though some small indignities were put on li him air davie davis has preferred to live in retirement in nothing he lie has I 1 done or said has he lie lowered in the slightest degree the dignity of his ilia I 1 high position accepting the reverses of life with uncomplaining fortitude he baa has held his condic convictions I 1 unchanged and unmodified in defeat as in victory his great I 1 nature and his golden heart have been equal to all demands in peace pence or in in war bo be epati stands ds tho unchallenged i challen ed and beloved chief fis among his people |