The Jeffersonian Democrat

A Tribune special says: Notwithstanding the various stories set afloat in regard to the ill-treatment of Jeff. Davis, it is but just to the authorities to state positively that he is treated with the consideration due a noted prisoner of state by the Commandant at Fortress Monroe. No officer has been or is stationed in his cell; he is allowed to take frequent walks on the ramparts and is permitted to choose his own food. The stories that his cell is guarded by a score or more of bayonets, that in his promenades he is attended by a battalion of soldiers, and that his diet is limited to the army ration, are as ridiculous as they are untrue. The treatment of J. D. is Christian-like and humane and just, such as a generous and dignified Government can well afford to bestow upon one who is no longer its enemy, but its prisoner.