Dodgeville Chronicle

Jeff. Davis Successor.

The negroes on Jeff. Davis' plantation seem to be getting along very well without the "kind care" and paternal regard of "old massy." A correspondent who recently visited the plantation tells us what he saw: The buildings all remain as they were when Jeff left, except a few negro quarters that have been torn down. An old negro that used to be one of Jeff's slaves now leases the plantation for ten thousand dollars a year, and hires a hundred and fifty hands to work it. Not a white man is to be seen about the place. Strange as it may seem to Mr. Davis, his old slave is making money fast, and feels as proud as any white man. 'Libin in ole Jeff's parlor dese days.' The whole plantation of several thousand acres is planted to cotton, which appears very promising; and from this one plantation cotton enough will be produced to run a mill in Lowell for several weeks. 'We jist lets ole Massa Jeff make political speeches, an' we'll see dat de cotton grows,' said the darkey who showed us about, and who had a queer habit of showing the whites of his eyes whenever Jefferson Davis was mentioned. 'Golly, who'd s'posed dat dis chile would ben free an' libin on dis yer plantation wid my Dolly dar? Yah! yah! yah! ole Jeff's cum to grief, shuah. He'd be hoppin' mad, dough, to see dis yer nigger here. Yah! yah! yah!' We left him laughing on the shore, and moved off to the boat, moralizing upon the mutability of human events.