Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-08
MRS, JEFF, AND MR, JEFF
Mrs. JeH. Davis Arrival at Fortress
M0nEOe-Her Meeting with her Illus
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Fsrtreus Monroe. May Sd, Cor. N. Y. Herald
Mrs. JEFF. Davis arrived here this morn
ing. Her youngest child, a sprightly
girl, twenty months old, a colored man
servant, possessing the stslwart form and
fierce moustache of a Russian grenadier,
four trunks of immensely large proper
tions, and a travelling basket of the
largest pattern, bore her company. Upon
landing, she went to the Hygeis,Hotel, ad-
jacent TO the wharf, and without stopping
to change her travelling dress, or ever re-
moving her bonnet, breakfasted and then
sent a message inside the fort %announc-
ing her arrival and the permission from
President johnson she bore with her to
visit her husband. Meantime the news
of her presence at the hotel spread rap
idly, and a retinue of anxious persons
o gathered about to get a LOOK at her.
With admirable imperturbabilty, not TO
say an agreeable e%quanimity of temper
probably the result, to some extent of
past similar experiences-she submitted
to the painful necessity of being gazed at.
Time, that old and stern teacher of wis
dom, and unerring revelator Of the muta-
bilities Of earthly dynasties and hopes,
has very sensibly changed her from the
naughty and defiant woman she was a
wear ago. Her tone is more subdued, her
manners more quiet and reserved, and she
does not seek to shine as resplendently in
in flashing diamonds and costly laces.
She has a much older look-the look of a
woman who has long borne the burden of
grief and waged war with conflicting
doubts and hopes. But a poor student of
physiognomy is he who does not still read
in that face and penetrative glance of
those eyes a power of will and determin-
alton as strong ard pertinacious as life IL
self.
At half-past eight o'clock Lieutenant
Fessenden, Fifth United States Artillery,
waited upon her to escort her inside the
fort. Her child accompanied them. She
was taken to General Miles headquarters,
who received her with every politeness
and consideration due her position. IN
der other circumstances she might have
striven more sedulously, perhaps, to evoke
the most favorable impression possible
upon the custodian of her husband, but
her great anxiety was to proceed at once
to her husbands place of confinement
and see him. She wanted to see how he
had borne his imprisonment, whether he
was sick or well and learn all about him.
She was not long kept in anxiety. Mr..
Davis had been apprized of her coming.
Within fifteen minutes from the time of
her admission to the fort she vas with
him in Carroll Hall. Lieutenant Fessen-
den still bore her company. She has re-
manned with Mr.. Davis all day and took
her dinner with him. An officer has been
constantly in the same room. Their
meeting was a tender and affecting one,
as such a meeting must naturally be after
such a protracted separation, and particu-
larlv under the circumstance attending
their separation. And we let the curtain
drop over their talks of the past their re-
alizations of thepresent and hopes for the
future. She confesses finding Mr.. Davis
in better health than she had expected /;
but still AYERS that he is much feebler
than when brought here. She is every
way satisfied with the treatment he has
received, and acknowledges that every
thing, saving his restoration to liberty,
has been done for him that could be. To
DR.. Cooper, his medical attendant and ad-
wiser, she is specially thankful and gives
the unqualified credit of keeping him as
we'll and cheerful as he is. It is not
known yet whether she will stay at DIR.
Cooper's during her sojourn here or at the
Hygeia Hotel. 1t is also not known yet
how long she will remain here.
Mrs. Davis eft Montreal on Monday at
three P. NJ. She has travelled night and
day TO get here.