The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-04

sarv General g. John left US TO find their way Lees
headquarters and there gather consolation or oncr IT,
II was close on midnight and 70 the dense darkness
Of the nethcr earth stood ont the bold brightness Of
the upper air." Cooped up IN that train, with the dim
lights Of gassss station nitting here and there ON tho
platform one could avoid feeling the touch OF doom
sending s dreful spasms 10 his heart Tho wind grew
bolder and boder and each gust had dolssome melody
Spirits OF the uncofnned slain,
Sudden blasts OF triumph swelling 'sy
Came that night n misty tain
Rushing round oar marrow Aweliing
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da.ntsd; izisassd trsssuts A. hs sssvs,iag
specacics which completely encased MS eyes It was
course possible detect how lar the ndexes Of
the soul" betrayed Whist passing within him He
spoke little and only BY way Of question Colonel LIB
book Of Texas the most loquaoious Of his party
To him 1t seemed that tho part Of an aiddecamp was
not fully performed II he did not say much and hustle
more be doing or seem be doing great DEAL and he
discharged the imagined duty fairly II bright and
calm, he thought and all the usual portents denoted
good luck To which wag too pertinently replied from
Coleridges ballad Of s'SIr Patrick Spens'':- st'a
i8rsM Late late ycstreen. saw the new moon,
2 raf With the old moon in her arm; rf7fW
nr And fear; fear, my master dear, u s.ll5 "a
" We shall have q deadly storm. a8
On went from this hating place abreast Of Peters
burg-on without exactly knowing how affairs stood
10 the battle That the Southside road-long disputed
prizehat the avenue OF escape was unnvcsted felt
pretty certain in the security Of this knowied many
gradually yielded TO Sleep and asked the god of dreams
ess them with sweccr visions than reality Indeed
there several who suspected that the whos Ling
dream, and made comical efforts TO it
comcal yet serious efforts Few could comprehend tho
calamity which oocasoncd this flight few could grasp
II In it's details its effects. Among these few Mr.
Mcfarland, the Richmond bank President gentleman
once pronounced by the Richmond E~aminer as ''the
exquisite soul in Virgins" He bore the horrors
Of the flight with fashionable bravery, became tho
venerable exquisite he Individually was. He was among
the last to pay tribute TO Somnus and Mr. Benjamin
among the Alst Had Mr. mcfarland the faintest idea
OF the sackng and scrmmagng the distractions and de-
strucons at that very time going in the city Of his
love, he who had much personally at stake there,
would have been the most miserable Of all in that misery
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~ HOW THE ooNsPRAroRs LOOKED sr
Among the earliest TO evincc somnoence and 10 give
audible evidence of It's force wero two distin-
guished preachers, who saw 1T 10 quit the
nocks they had often aroused. These were
Messrs Duncan and Burrows; both eminent each
in his way. 1t was amusing and yet It melan-s
choya passing practical paradoxto note tho efforts Of
the famous who held the central portion Of the
presidential carl TO avert or ward Off sleep All were
long since drowsy yet few cared to be caught mapping
Benjamin whitfield his cigar till midnight, and was soon
after midnight whitfield OF by Morpheus Mallory doscd
with a ood-humored smile playing on his features-a
sue made the peasanter BY the Pickering light which
fell indirectly on him. Trenholm was by himself, an
invalid, attended by his wiroths only Cabinet officer
who had or needed the gentle care of sswee woman
Attorney General Davis took an occasional pull at
brandy bottle which was kept by Harrison and others to
arrest the progress or discomfort il not of drowsnes
Reagan ohewcd his tobacco and ruminated in lonely
way The only ono of all the throng who seemed as COM
pared to the rest very king IN dignity. even to the
resistance of seep was Jefferson Davis; yet was he
sad and sobered looking one Ia ss.sfr
Ny Godl II was q melancholy thing y b.
ror such man, VINO woula iull fain preserve
FOR All his 6rhtins brethren Oh nv God
It weighs upon the heart, that he must think
Mnat upfosr ana VIVA. strife may now DC chasing
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