John H. Jones reunites with wife Elizabeth Matthews

A Colored Enoch Arden.
RICHMOND, VA., February 9.---The elite
and cultivated of Richmond colored so-
ciety was thrown into a flutter to-day by
a strange scandal in their circle. John
H. Jones, an intelligent and educated
mulatto, was the favorite servant of Jef-
ferson Davis. He was married in May,
1863, to Elizabeth Matthews, a beautiful
quadroon, the property at the time of
Judah P. Benjamin. The marriage cere-
mony was performed in John Jasper's
Church, Mr. Davis and Mr. Benjamin
both being present. The bridal couple
were emancipated by their respective
owners in a few months after their mar-
riage, but John did not leave his master
till after the evacuation. Then, however,
he went to Florida, leaving his wife be-
hind, and by his energy and business tact
amassed, it seems, a considerable fortune.
In the mean time--that is about eighteen
months ago--Elizabeth, thinking her hus-
band dead, wedded Daniel Walton, a colored lawyer of this city. This morn-
ing her first husband returned, expecting
to find his wife faithful and true, but to
his grief he saw himself turned out in the
cold. He at once instituted a suit in the
Chancery Court for divorce. This even-
ing he met lawyer Walton and cowhided
him in the presence of a party of friends.