The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-10
Mrs. JEFF. Davis.

FORTRESS MONROE, May 3, 1866.
Mrs. jeff Davis arrived here thi:
morning. Her youngest child, a spright
ly girl, twenty months old, a colored
man servant, possessing the stalwart
form and fierce moustache of Russian
grenadier, four trunks of immensely
large proportions, and travelling bas,
ket of the largest pattern, bore her
company. Upon landing she went to
the Hygiea Hotel, adjacent to the
wharf, and without stopping to change
her travelling dress, or even removing
her bonnet, breakfasted and then sent
q message inside the fort, announcing
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 rapidly, and a retinue of anx-
ious persons soon gathered about to get
look at her. With admirable imper-
turbability, not to say an agreeable
equanimity of temper-probably, the
result, to some extent, of past similar
experiences-she submitted to the pain
full necessity of being gazed at Time,
that old and stern teacher Of wisdom,
and unerring reVelator of the mutabili-
ties of earthly dynssties and hopes, has
very sensibly changed her from the
naughty and defiant woman she was a
year ago. Her tone is more subdued,
her manners more quiet and reserved,
and she does not seek to shine as re-
splendently in flashing diamonds and
costly laces. She has a much older
look-the look of q woman who has
long borne the burden of grief and
waged war with conflicting doubts and
hopes. But a poor student of physiog-
nomy is he who does not still read in
that face and penetrative glance of
those eyes q power of will and deter
mination as strong and pertinacious as
life itself
At halfpast eight o'clock Lieutenant
Fessenden, Fifth United States Artil-
lery, waited upon her to escort her in
side the fort Her child accompanied
them. She was taken to General Miles
headquarters, who received her with
every politeness and consideration due
her position Under other circum-
stances she might have striyen 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 anx-
iety. Mr. Davis had been apprized of
her coming. Within fifteen minutes
from the time of her admission to the
fort she was with him in Carroll Hall
Lieutenant Fessenden still bore her
company. She has remained 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 particularly
under the circumstances attending
their separation. And we let the cur.
tain drop over their talks of the past,
their realizations of the present 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 ac
knowledges that everything, saving his
restoration to liberty, has been done
| for him that could be- To Dr. Cooper
his medical attendant and adviser, she
is specially thankful and gives the un-
qualified credit of keeping him as well
and cheerful as he is. 1t is not known
yet whether she will stay at Dr.. Cooper
during her sojourn here or at the Hy.
geia Hotel 1t is also not known YET
how long she will remain here.
Mrs Davis left Montreal on Monday
at three pm. She has travelled night
and day to get here.-C5r. ~ 7. Herald