The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-20
Selections.
A GLIMPSE OF JEFF. DAVIS.

81, 1856 GLIMPSE OF JEFF. DAVIS. t
We clip the following from the cor
respondence of the Buffalo Express, a
radical sheet:
We left Montreal yesterday for
this place, and as we entered the car
and took our seat we saw face oppo-
site us which looked hatefully familiar
two men facing two ladies, their tray
cling companions. The face we speak
of is one which once seen cannot easily
be forgotten. A grim, emaciated face,
with eve cold, stony and cruel. 1t was
JEFF. Davis with his wife and two
friends on their way to attend the com
mencement of the seminary at Lennox-
vile, on the G. T. Road, where their
children are being educated.
Mr.. Davis appeared to be in the best
ofspirits: in fact we fancied the pres
ence of that smirk of satisfaction which
q malefactor may well wear when he
has outwitted the ministers ofjustice q
es.aped their tolls. But little notice
was taken of this notorious parsonage
until our arrival at Sherbrooke, a sta
ton few miles west of Lennoxville.
There the news of his approaching adj
vent had been heralded days before
AS we reached the station, crowds OF
men, in white shoes, with fiery red
faces, and flaming sidewhiskers, were
seen trooping down towards the de-
pot, and with such precipatancy as to
scatter their HIS promiscuously behind
them. jeff. Davis! Jeff. Davis!' below
ed the mob, intent on getting a glimpse
of his amiable visage from the car win
dow. Failing in that, the mob entered
the car in two detachments, each en-
tering simultaneously the opposite end,
and thus blocking each others way,
and producing a scene of confusion
much easier imagined than described.
At last few leaders of the rable, dis
tinguishable by more fervid glow in
their puffy cheeks and a more gener-
GUS development Of side-whisker, urged
their way up to Jeff, and after prolong-
ed salaams, and expressions such as
sssAppy to see you Mr.. Davis" COW is
your 'elth?' &C., prevailed upon him to
show himself at the rear platform of the
car and address few words to the gap
ing crowd. His appearance was the
signal for three lusty cheers. The
speech was a mere formal express
sion of his thanks wishes for their
happiness and prosperity
tions on the Confederation scheme-a
hope that the Provinces would always
be Independent, except of the tie that
bound them to the mother country, &C.
Its conclusion was greeted with
another round of cheers, and the de-
parture of the train with still another
Had jeff. Davis been the saviour of their
country, those friendly Canadians could
scarcely have been more demonstrative
deed, the toadyism, sycophantic spirit
manifested by the leaders was nauseat-
ing in the extreme. two or three
Americans OF board the train could
scarcely restrain an expression of their
disgust and Indignation.
GAIL honor to that one stalwart voice
of dissent reared out, by some return
ed soldier Individually, %, that had
few men to stand by me, and good
stout roper The speaker stood not
ten feet distant from the arch Rebel
We sought him out and found that he
hailed from Minnesota big, bearded,
rough backwoodsman-and that he'd
as lief shoot burned Rebel as an In
gin.'
CAT Lennoxtown jeff was the recip-
itent of similar honors. He relieved
us of his presence at this point, getting
into buggy, with his daughter hold
ing the reins. He was driven off amid
loud hurrahs, and frantic waving of
hats and canes"