Daily Mississippi clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-05-17
Mrs IpH. Davis.
MIS- en-. DaNlSs
Tier 1rrirai at Fortress Monroe ami IN
terUjetg 7rith her HuaJaHd

Mrs JEFF. Davis.
Ter Irrirai at Fortress Monroe ami IN
teryjetg 1rth her HuaJaHd
Correspondence Of the New York World
FORTRESS MONROE, May ,.
Mrs. jeff Davis arrived here this
morning. Her youngest child,
sprightly girl, twenty months old. a
colored man servant, possessing the
stalwart form and fierce moustache of
q Russian grenadier, four trunks of
immensely large proportions, and
travelling basket of the largest pat
tern, bore her company. Upon land
ing she went to the Hygeia Hotel, adj
iacent to the wharf, and without stop
ping to change her travelling dress,
or even removing her bonnet, break
tasted, and then sent a message inside
the fort, announcing her arrival and
the permission from President John
son she bore with her to visit her
husband Meantime the news of her
presence at the hotel spread rapidly,
and a retinue of anxious persons soon
gathered about to get a look at her.
With admirable imperturability, not
to say an agreeable equanimity 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 wisdom, and I'M
erring revelatOr Of the mutabilities Of
earthly dynasties 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-
splendentlv 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 q poor student of
physiognomy is he who does not still
read in that face and penetratiye
glance of those eyes power of will
| and determination as strong and per
tinacious as life itself
At halfpast eight o'clock Lieut.
Fessenden, 9th United States Artille-
~, waited upon her to escort her in
side the fort Her child accompanied
/ them She was taken to Gen Miles
| headquarters, who received her with
every pohteness and consideration
| due her position. Under other cir
| cumstanceS she might have striyen
more sedulously, perhaps, to evoke
| the most favorable impression pos
| sible upon the custodian of her hus-
| band, 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 appraised of her com
/ ing. Within fifteen minutes from the
| time of her admission to the fort she
was with him in Carroll Hail Lieut.
/ Fessenden still bore her company.
| She has remained with Mr. Davis all
/ dav. 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
/ protracted separation, and particu-
| larry under the circumstances attend
ING their separation. And we let the
curtain drop over their talks of the
/ past, their realizations for the present
and hopes for the future She con
/ fesses finding Mr.. Davis in better
| health than she had expected; but
still AYERS that he is much feebIer than
when brought here. She is every
/ way satisfied with the treatment he
has received, aud Acknowledges that
everything, saving his restoration to
liberty, has been done, for him that
could be. To Dr. Cooper, his medi
cal attendant and adviser. she is
specially thankful, and gives. the IN
qualified credit Of keeping him a.
well and cheerful as he Is. 1t i moi
/ known vet whether she will STAY at
| DR.. Cooper's during her soiourn here
or at the Hygeia Hotel Tits also. not
known yet how long she will remain
here. 1t
| Mrs Davis left Montreal on. Mon
day, at s p, IN. She has travelled
night and day to get here.
FORTRESS Monroe, May A.
Mrs. jeff Davis has taken up her