[From the Army and Navy Journal, May 18.] • ,TRE VIELIJASZI N 41. the discharge (on bail) of Jefferson Davis from Fort Menree, a lame and impotent conehision rounds efrwhat,at best has been a shabby and disgraerul affair. ,The fair :commentary; on the release of Jefferson Davis (if; as' is Nob alge; he shall be discharged in ‘`Novient -1)0), will be that treason is not• a crime, or. if it be one, is so trivial a- Weakness that it.must not be' punished=-the 'well known oratorleal utterance of Senator Andrew Johnson to the eontrar:y not withstanding. As the case stands, we are all abashed with :a conviction that the great gulf fixed of old betwitt "loy . altyl .and. "oathbreaking" has been somehow filled up, so that the ancient landmarks are gone, and the wily crime committed by the Confederacy Was -the crime oti:not achieving success. The stk. years'' career now f•OnSinn ulated have added to Jefferson Davis abundant celebrity. without clothing hini in the least with historicgreatticss. The true hero of our day, the figure which will ever hereafter loom ..up above others in enduring suprentacy;. is that ungainly, uncomely one of,-the martyr President, the rival as the fee of . Jefferson Davis, and between Witoni and Davis, and between whose- disciples and adruirersand those of Davis, =there Can never be any . joint-propriatorship of Of glory and honor. Davis Nxias physic catty safer, indeed,. in underinAning , the .epubllo than Lincoln in Saving it. The work of the latter cost him his life it. the moment - of success, by The liand I of an emissary of the rival cause r $ ;Mr. Davis walks, free and• untram. rtielled, and is not called-to account fnr' his career. It is some satisfaction, hOWever, to know that. Ir. Davis will kC!), down to histor -, though unwhipped of justice, at leastngilded by any mis leading romance. The inisympathetie and arrogant, elements in his tempera : raent ill-fitted him] to carry a nation with him by the h force,of personal devo tion. ave been - whatever romance might ', n thrown around him by the -.;" 'failure of his cause was entirely removed • by the very prosaic? embarrassing, in . :-fact ludicrous, circumstances of • his overhauling and capture in qeorgia.i Perhaps, also, this present quiet way of his disappearing from'the stage of his tory is practically better tham the cere mony of a State trial, which could not have failed, to increase his notoriety. The career of Jeff' Davis as President commenced - in February, 1861, thus an tedating that of our own President Lin - coin; •it substantially ended, four years later, on the 2d day of April, 1865. On that fatal Sunday, Lee's courier hastily , 'entered St. Paul's Church, in Rich mond, and calling out the Confederate Pr. 0,4- 1 dent, told hini' the ddom ofhis capital. The sarnE night Davis be an his new role as' fugitive'from justi 1- Flying to Dansville, he had the m nstrous con ceit and hardihood to make'', a "procla mation," on the sth of April, announ cing that "we-have now entered upon a new phase orthe struggle. Relieved from the necessity of guarding partieu 'A tar points, our army will be free to move ffrona point to point, to strike the enemy 'ln detail, far from.his base!", Poor Jeff! Reading his proclamation now, the whole tide of four, years' mendacity by which' the Confederacy was so long floated floods back • dpon the. memory, ( and and again tvq•lare surrounded by those famous "blessings in disguise," in this same manifesto, `II will never consent," said,poor Davis, "to abandon to the enemy one foot of the soil - of cony one-of the States -of the Confederacy. .. Virginia shall be held and defended, and no peace ever, be made • with the infamous invaders of her territory." And so forth, and so on, • "wit 4 uncon quered and unconquerable, • hearts." Four days later, Lqe bad -surrendered, and Davis and his baggage had lied in continently from Danville to Greens boro. On the 18th of April Davis' fled. from Greensboro, via Charlotte, aeroSs South- Carolina. On the 9th of May he reached the little historic tOwn of Ir -winsville, Georgia, and there, next - morning, he was captured by colonel Pri,tchard's 4th Michigan, while at tempting to escape to . the spring, dis guised as his wife's "old mother,' with a shawl over his head and a tin pail in his hand. It was the farce after the tragedy, and the world rang with laugh ter,which forever destrOyed tb,—,,,,...., orAt - r. Jefferson Davis' exploits. ' #e was conducted (in male attire)' to Fort Monroe on the 19th of May, and served out nearly two years there be - fore "freedom of locomotion," as his eotinsel expressed it, Was granted. A desperate eflbrt was formerly made by - most of the newspapers of that humane and gentle nation Which has lately taught is how to treat rebels' in Jama ica iThd India. to manufacture sympathy for Jeff Davis. What space the En glish papers could spare from e. using the atrocities of Andersonville, _l43„by, and Belle Isle, was filled with pictures 'of the horrible tortures of Jeff - Davis - at Fort Monroe. He was allowed ne bohks, . and was going to die! i He was dwiti= 'Wing away perceptibly under inquisi torial. tortures—the Americans -were 'barbarous to their captives ! Had one tithe of the honors that anguished the fourteen , thousand brave boys of ,the North who, in tWoyears, died at One single prison in the South, been inflicted on Davis, he would long ago have gone to encounter them in the next world. But Davis, despitd the innuendoes of the Saturday Review, waxed better and better in health—not only lived, but "thrived . " und6r Yankee barbariqes.. The questionof Davis' trial °proba bly ended. Between President and titipreme Court, between 6 . 3,11 and mili tary tribunals, it has been batted to and fro like a shuttleetiek between, battle dores, till now the play is over. We do not propose to say anything elaborate on a subject which it is now almost use less to discuss. Nevertheless, it may be Set down as true that thetime was when the summary, but fair, trial by court- Martial of Jefferson Davis would have 'been applauded as an act of justice ,throughout the land. The President once said, in Memorable words, that "it was time the peopleof the United States should learn that treason was a crime." The boot appears to be on the ether leg. The people think that they are the only people who do know that treason is a crime. With the final discharge of Jefferson Davis, however, the questioil of treason will probably go undecided into history-. Or, if it 'be exhumed at some 'distant day, it'will appear insome dry, legal diction, interesting as a. pro fessional opinion, but taking no vital hold as a fact upon the people of the Republic. The Ev.ening' Telegraph, in an article upon th e importance of selecting a safe man for Vice Presidency, nialtes this good point upon Andrew Johnson : We (want as good a man for Vice _President. Above all, he should be. a man concerning whose political fidel ity there is no doubt. Our, political system obliges all parties to repose con fidenceln tho men they nominate.— We hold that the breach of this con ' fidence is about the highest - political crime that a man can commit. What, for instance, would be thought of a Presidential Elector, elected by a cer tain party, as all our Electors, are, for the express purpose of voting for the ' distinctly specified nominees of the party, who should betray- his trust, and vote for the opposing candldates Would not every honest man Aespisei and'execrate him ? Would an shal- t low, hypocritical *pleas of " • above pat," " the good of the coun try," and all that, avail him anyth hag ? But wherein would such treachery as this be less glaring or fess odious than that which was exhibited by Andrew Johnson in deserting and betraying the Republican party, by joinhig the Deinocrats ? - The Atlantic cable Of 1866 has ceased working, and the disaster is attributed to damage done by an ,iceberg which grounded,olV the harbor of Heart's-Con tentoOn Vie evening of the 4th instant, 'and is supposed to have broken ti e ea bk li .( The cable at that point t .s in abo2t sixteen fathcans of water. %ht. igitatov. WELLEIBORO, RENN'A.. WEDNESDAY, „MAY, 290867. 0 I .1 7 t, 0 :1;1 40 . THE CROPS.—Thursday and Friday of last wea. we devoted to a flYing, visit to ToWanda, via. Waverly. The mud was deep hence to Tiogri c and the clouds lachrymotte. Every Where we observed about - the same backwardness as reigns hereabout. 14