Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-02-03

Jim heard gentleman ask Mr.. Davis at
the table, where Alexander Stevens was,
who has not attended Congress this ses!
sion, and who is said not to hare visited
Mr.. Davis house or office for over a year.
Dayis replied that he had heard that Ste
phens had gone to Europe, but had not
thought it worth while to enquire what
had become of him, il. lm.
Jim accompanied Davis in his recent
tour around the Confederacy, and describes
the following scene as having occurred on
the summit of Lookout Mountain. Look
ing down one bright day from the lofty
eminence commanding clear view into
four States and very distant view into
fifth, Davis saw the Yankees almost be-
meath his feet across the valley, working
like beavers on their fortiications. i
: have them now, said he, in just the trap
| set for them TO which Lieutenant
General Penberton, who was sitting on
horseback beside him replied Mr.. Davis,
you are Commander Chief. and you are
here. You think the enemy are in a trap
and can be captured by vigorous assault.
| have been blamed for not having ordered
a general attack on the enemy when they
$ were drawing around me their lines'of
decentralization at Vicksburg. Do you
: now order an attack upon those troops
down there below us, | will set you my
life that not one man of the attacking
v column will ever come back across that
valley, except as prisoner. '..
u When Davis was passing through
North Carolina he only stopped at Will
mington to consult General Whiting.
While there he was pressed by numer-
:. ous delegation of Confederate Office hold-
e ers to stop in Raleigh for consultation
20 with Gov. Vance. This he angrily de-
}. clined
> 1t appears that the health Of Mr.. Da-
j, Wis is rapidly breaking down under his
# neuralgia attacks, insomuch that he can
# no longer use his only one good eye by
candle light. He continues his old habit
after dinner of stretching himself on the
:, the carpet before the fire in a room other
4 wise unlightcd, and it is fast becoming
- dangerous for any one to approach him.
" Always of violent and fretful temper
Is this is becoming greatly aggravated by
re- his misfortunes, and jim describes him OIL
one occasion as Ainging about the chairs
in and furniture when so disturbed. About
r fonr weehs ago a pistol exploded in hi'
a room when he was loading it, and thu
at whole family rushed up, feeling confident
IN that, as they had decided. he had commit
ID ted suicide.
r. Jim says that Mrs. Davis, in conversa
, ton with female friends, frequently talk
Sc of the Confederacy as hopeless, and il
Of loud in regrets for the. lost pleasures o
ch Washington.
,ic There is no forage except in the Mis-
We sissippi Department, and the ALLOWANCE
It's for Mr.. Davis two horses is two quart
lie of corn each per day, on which says Jim
d. they are growing thin. Not long ago Mr.
en- Davis received a present of twenty tur
to keys the food for which now comes fron
ia the corn rations Of the quadrupeds, ma
xt king them still thinner. A turkey, Jir
N. says. lasts the family three days--roaste
nv or boiled the first day, cold the next, an
is hashed the third.
mt Mr.. Davis receives no company-ha
ia no wine in his cellar but has several keg
cir of brandy, sent from blockade-runners a
OF. Wilmington. Jim says that Mr. Davi
az told him that the Yankees had killed a.
,ut the people whom they found on his Mis-
,a. sissippi plantation, and that they wei
all found lying higglety pigglety in
It's hole. their legs and arms cut of, and,
ng some cases. their heads bloody and bea
om en- protruding from the ground. Jim say
I'VE he believed this story until one of h
RS. fellow servants, who could read, told hi
lad it was a lie to deceive them. Then Ji
YER determined to leave When he did lea,
her he was hidden in hole in the earth
en- Charles City for three days before he W,
Sed found by his wife, the last fema
De. slave owned by Mr.. Davis in the pres
ssa dental mansion. Jim wore an over cou