The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-06-01

sky. Everything was profoundly silent.
jeff was undoubtedly dreaming of his
former greatness, and the entire party
were wrapt in the somnambulent EN-.
brace of Morpheus, when they were
suddenly startled by the yells of the
soldiers, and awoke too late to. make
preparations for even feeble resistance.
After the officers and men in the "Ay"
were safely under guard, which occupied
some time, corporal went to the door
of the tent occupied by defunct royalty,
and ordered them to come forth and
deliver themselves up. Mrs. Davis ap.
peared at the door and said -
"Please, gentlemen, do not intrude
upon the privacy of ladies. There are
no gentlemen here, and you will oblige
us greatly by giving us time to Dress"
can right, madame" said the little
corporal 1--WE viii give you time to make
your toilet, and then you can take ride
to Macon for your health" ( 5
A guard was placed around the tent,
and the readers imagination must draw
from the deaouement what transpired in.
side. After half hours interval, the mo.
notiny outside only being broken by the
demands fthe guard to "hurry up"
there came to the door Mrs Davis and
Miss Howell, leaoing an apparently de.
crept old lady, dressed in a1dds $ morn.
ing 'crapper, with a tight hood on her
head and her face coveredDiM a small
veil. The cold LADY," could walk only
with great difficulty, buttottered through
the door of the tent with tin nail on
her arm. 'N .','i' 'n'>.ft Aet,
Soldier, l suppose you have no OBJ
lection to letting my old mother go to
the spring Tor some water for us to wash
with?" said Mrs. Davis, 800 lHs "
"Wall, | reckon 1 have some little
objection to letting that. old lady GO"
said the corporal. ,"She wears boots
don't she ?" and with the point ofhis sa.
bre he raised the frock, discovering a
large, coarse pair of calfskinl boots
While the corporal was discovering and
exhibiting the cloven fo6t of the beast,
another soldier stripped the veil and
hood from off his face, and 10 the
great ass which has so long been hidden
heath a'lion's skinLJeff. Davis stood
botore them, in all his phsillanimity. and
in his true character, before tho light Of
which Henry VIII. pales, and Richard
III. rise in the scale Of human greatness.
When JEFF. saw that he was fairly
caught, and would be delivered into the
hands Of his enemies, he waxed exceed.
ing wroth, and rallied ont at the soldiers
whenever opportunity offered. He FIRE.
quently made use of such sneering re-
marks as-4-t seq @'t 'e'H"
@"Valorous soldiers, indeed, TO make
war upon women and childrehp ~
thought the Yankee government agGs
a little more yalorous than to send its
soldiers to steal defenceless women and
children out of their beds at night" &c.
Mrs. Davis ironically remarked chat
she "was not aware that an old woman
and four children were of omuch value
as to be escorted by three hundred SOL
diers through the country"
JEFF, READS THE PRocLAMATIoN.
{iIhayeg previously mentioned the ef.,
feet produced upon Davis by the Presi.
dents proclamalion offering a reward of
one hundred thousand dollars forhis ar.
rest. / have often tried to imagine the
terror OF Belshazzay when he read his
doom in the! handwriting on theawall, or
the horror of the. murderer ehen the
hands Of the officers Of the law are laid
ruaely upon him! Such, but in vastly
magnifed degree, must have been the
feelings of Jeff. Davis when he read She,
proclamation. As hiseyes glanced oyer
the fatal lines ] liaye thought that he
must have cometo the first realization.
of HE condition. He trembled like AN
aspen leaf dropped the paper from his
hands and sank into reyeries and snllen.
ness. His wife picked up the paper,
read its, contents audably, and they all
burst into tears. s8s i V ", ~ 5.,s,..
AT aAooNAND EN- ROUTE. B. gFa
Colonel Pritchard and escort arrived