Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-05-25

JEFF. Davis md Party.

and m0ustache ralner close cut, ana al
most white, was walking along the space
between the deck-cabin and bulwarks,
and stopped for a moment TO caress a
little girl very indifierently dressed, and
then passed In at the gangway door.
These were Jefferson Davis and his
daughter. Once on board, he seemed to
be the observed of all observers. He was
seated in corner, his wife, plain
looking lady, dressed in black, by his
side and the two were engaged in per-
using papers which had been brought
them. His hat was drawn down pretty
well over his eyes, so that only when he
lifted his face, could much expression be
noticed. No one wished to be introduced
TO him. at least | saw no disposition of
the kind. For myself, nothing could
have induced me TO touch his blood-red
hand. Two of his children, boy and
girl, looking to be about six and seven
years of age respectively were about
everywhere, seemingly unconscious Of
the intense interest concentrated upon
their sire. From what could see and
learn from other sources, these men have
no proper appreciation of the position
in which they are standing. Davis,
himself, it is asserted, has no idea that
anything beyond Punishment will be his
lot
A soldier searched JEFF. Davis immedi-
ately after his capture, and found some
specie, and fine silver-mOunted revolv-
er, a present from London company.
While he was searching, Private Secre-
tary Harrison came up, and in very
indignant tone said "Ain't you ashamed
to treat our president 500" president
hell y. said the soldier. whats he
president Off"
THE REST OF THE PARTY.
MIR. Stephens looks old. He has the
same stoop, the same parchment-like
face, the same keen eye and the same
fragile form that characterized him years
agO-only he looks older. Always a
gentleman, and bred scholar, his con-
versation is intensely interesting. His
manner was subdued, but not that of
prisoner. He conversed freely, desiring
Information upon many points, and can
wasting without reserve, reconstruction
and the treatmCut of the subdued South,
in the way exactly as itstruck his mind,
never evincing the lea. 1t care or anxiety
respecting himself person, oily.
Z. Z. Clay was not captured, Out Wro~
to Gen. Wilson that, having 'earneo
that reward was offered for his al, "re-
hens!on as an acc0mpliCe in the assas
sinatiOn OF President Lincoln, and feel
ing entirely innocent of such a charge.
he would at once give himself up for |
due examination and trial.
Gen. Wheeler asked and expected to he |
paroled, under the armistiCe granted by |
Gen. Sherman, out Col Pritchard could |
MT see it Instead of accepting the |
terms OF the armistice and laying down
his arms, the general undertook to keep
up the war, fighting his way through |
the country, and the colonel decided !
that his case must be settled by higker
than his authority.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald gives the following Dissertation
Of Davis and family:
JEFF. Davis, of whom we at 10 A5u,.,
awe heard so much and oo., ', GO It'll IittIa
or the past four years "a man about
Tx feet in height. ,her 10 Loan n' and fI' not
If the hn'' hgures by any means L
shour'. v.aKe him to be somewhat above
lii'yy years of age, prematurely gray. He
has full whiskers, rather stunted in
growth, and, like his hair, sprinkled
with GRAY. His gray eyes lone of which
is blind) have an underlined and unfath-
omable look, and bis moTth. of the Gre
clan mould, is occasionally jerked out
of all proportiorl by sepulchral laugh
or forced sElile. He is confined to his
bed G great deal of the time, and it re-
quires all the nursing Of his strong
nerved wife to keep him from giving
way to dependency. He is a pltitul
sight, and the last man one would have
supposed to be a fit subject for Presiden
tial hOnors.
MRS. DAVIS AND CHILDREN.
Mrs Davis is the second wife OF the
ex-President, by whom he has had four
children. The eldest is smart little
black eyed girl, Maggie, of some four.
teen summers, and the next boy, about
twelve or thirteen, who goes by the
euphonious cOgnOmen of Young JEFF"
He is chip from the old block, and we
would suppose from his actions and tenn
per, shown ON various and sundry OCCa-
sions, that he too, like his traltorOus
sire, would in after days be fit for Urea
sou, stratagem and spoils." The next
is a smart little fellow, with bright eyes
and faxen hair, too young to have the
least appreciation of his condition and the
fourth is nursing child. Mrs. Davis
is a member of the Howell family, of
Georgia and has great many relatives
at Augusta, She is a pretty woman, Of
probably forty years of age. When
first saw her, at Macon, and cOnversed
with her on the cars, | thought her
pretty and agreeable; but to look at her
now it seems as though twenty years
had been heaped upon her head in one
snort week Her pride and vivacity have
torsaken her, and truly she is but the
| wreck of her fermer self.
MISS HOWELL,
her sister, is young lady hardly out Of
her teens, if we are to judge from her
| appearance. She has black hair and
! black eyes, with a Tuddy complexion,
and very little of that modest demean-
or which characterizes our Northern
bellies. In fact, she is cOarse-cOarse in
| features and coarse in demeanor. This
is not much to her detriment, however,