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Extract from the Richmond Correspondence of the London Herald.
[dated Richmond,January 5th.]
The public papers of this city announced a few days previously, that the President would be glad to receive visits from his friends between 12 and 3 o'clock on New Year's day.
Having gone to the Executive Mansion with the family of my old friend, Hon. Mrs. Henry, a distinguished Senator from Tennessee, I found on my arrival, the steps and halls of that building crowded with fair women and brave men. A charming girl from Louisiana, expelled from her father's roof tree by the barbarous soldiery of Gen. Banks, was my special companion on the occasion; and her presence having quickened into a subdued startle the gallantry for which the well-bred gentlemen of the South are so remarkable, threw over the circle around us a decidedly courtly grace.
The President stood in an elegant room with Mrs. Davis on his left.
His Excellency — for the occasion — was one of state — was dressed in a suit<