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Distinguished Southerners.

--The Wilmington Journal thus describes General Beauregard and Jefferson Davis : ‘"Gen. Beauregard has not a single Anglo-Saxon feature in his face. The whole tone of his countenance and attitude would lead any one to expect him to speak in some of the languages of Continental Europe. It is a French face, but of the style of Cavaignac or Lamoriciere. It is of the solid type of Frenchmen. Mr. Davis looks young for his age, which is well over fifty. He might be a preacher, for any fire eating expression about him. But for the square and straightly opened eyes, and habitually closed mouth, firm as iron, no one would suspect Mr. Davis of being the civil and military leader of a great movement."’

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