Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-10-05

markable canoe expedition along the hunting grounds
of untameable savages, kept by Mr.. Trowbridge. We
copy an entry made on the morning after the expec
ted attack In speaking of the friendly interference
OF Mrs. Johnson the diary says:
" This influence and the courage that never knew
tear on the part of chief has saved probably hun
oreds OF lives, and given us peaceabe entrance to
country whose territory skirts inland sea cock
tensiue with the Baltic, and which must before long
be added by cession to the millions upon millions of
acres already composing Uncle Sans farm"
We should have before mentioned that on the fol-
lowing afternoon a council was held the amende
honorable made, and the treaty signed.
Personalities of LlteratI.
JERRoLD.
Douglas Jerrold we'll known contributor to Punch,
and editor of various publications, is of about
fifty years of age and in person is remarkably spare
and diminutve. His face is sharp and angular, and
his eye of grayish hue, Hei probably one of the
most caustic writers of the age, and with keen sensi-
bty he often writes, under the impulse of the mo-
ment, articles which his cooler judgment condemns.
Although believer in hydropathy, his habits do not
conform to the internal application of Adams ale.
His Caudle Lectures have been read by every one
In conversation he is quick at retort-not always re-
fined. He is husband and grandfather.
MACAULAY
The Hon. T. B. Macaulay is short in stature,
round and with growing tendency to adermanic
disproportions. His head has the same rotundty as
his body, ard seems stuck on it as firmly as pin
head. This is nearly the sum of his personal de-
fecs all else, except the voice. (Which is monoto
nous and disagreeable,) is certainly in his favor
His face seems literally instinct with expression his
eye, above all, full of deep thought and meaning
AS he walks, or rather struggles, along the street,
he seems in state of total abstraction, unmindful
of all that is going around him, and solely
pied with his own working mind, You cannot help
thinking that literature with him is not pro-
fession or pursuit, but that it has almost grown a
part of HIMSELF though historical problems or ana
lycal criticisms part of his daily and intel
lectual food.
correspondent of the Tribune writing from Not
tingham, England says: 81 have seen Bailey, the au-
thor of 'Festus His father is proprietor of the Not
tingham Mercury, and the editorial department rests
with him. He is a thick set sort of man; of
stature below the middle size; complexion dark, and
in years about eight-and-thirty His physognomy
would be clownsh in expression, if his eyes did not
redeem his other features. He spoke of 'Festus,'
and OF its fame in America, of which he seems very
proud. In England it has only reached It's third ed
tion while eight nine have been published in the
United States.
DE QUINCY.
He is one of the smallest-legged smallest bodied,
and most attenuated efigies of the human form d.
vine, that one could find in crowded city dnring
days walk And if one adds to this figure clothes
that neither ashionably cut nor fastldousy ad-
justed he will have tolerable rough idea of De-
Quincy. But then his brow, that pushes his OBJ
struslve hat to the back part of his head, and his
be turned inward, sounding the depths of his imagi-
nations and searching out the mysteries of the most
abstruse logic, are something that you would search
week to find the mates TO, and then you would be
disappointed. DeQuincey now resides at Lasswade,
a romantic rural village, once the residence of Sir
Walter Scott about miles from Edinburg,
Scotland, where atfectonate daughter watches
over him. and where he is the wonder of the country
people for miles around
LAMARTINE.
arfin ic- LODI
prim looking man, with long face short, gray hair,
a slender figure and suit OF black. Put pen be-
hind his ear, and he would look like g confidential
clerk Give his face more character, and he would
remind you of Henry Clay. He has fine head
phrenologcay speaking-large and round at the
top, with spacious forehead, and scant allotment
OF cheek. Prim is the word, though. There is
thing IN his appearance which Is ever so remotely
suggestive of the romantic. He is not even pale
and as for rolling shirt collar, or Byronic tie, he
is evidently not the to think of such things
Romance in fact, is the article he lives by, and,
like other men, he chooses to " sink the shop" at
least when he sits for his portrait.
DUMAS,
On the contrary, is burly fellow His large red,
round cheeks stand out till they to stretch the
very skin that covers them and it looks as smooth as
polished apple. His black crisped hair is piled
high above his forehead, and stands divided into two
unequal masses, one inclinng to the right and the
other to the left His eyes are dark and his mouth
!
person is large, and his flowing mantle red He is
gentleman to lay bare his throat and look romantic,
not Byroncay So but practically. Yethe looks good
humored and like whose capacity for physi-
cal enjoyment is boundless. His negro blood is evi
dent enough to one who knows he has it; but it
would not be detected by who knew it not 1t
appears in the peculiar rotundy of the man, and all
his parts. 1t crisped and heaped his hair it made
him dress up in flowing red to have his portrait ia
ken But his complexion is only shade darker than
the average. The portrait reminds us for moment
of the late Thomas Hambln, the actor.
EUGENE
Is neither prm nor burly He is of large frame,
over which loose black coat is careessly buttoned
Complexion light, eyes blue, hair once black pow
pepper and salt, whi>kers vouminous, eyebrows black
and thick, good forehead, and the lower face ample
This conveys better idea of the mans appearance
than French passport But the truth is, Sues
countenance and figure have of those peculiar
tiles which make description impossible. He looks
in his portrait like comfortable, careless elderly
gentleman, taking his in easy chair and easy
coat. He does not look like an authorizations sell
dom do. His air is rather that of prosperous cti-
Sue is only fortyfve years DID, but he has lived
fast and looks ffty-fve. Lamartine is sixty-three
and would easily pass for ftythree. Dumas is fifty,
and co uId get credit for thirty-eght
{ SOURCE OF SMILEs.-Dr Franklin having no.
ticed that certain mechanic who worked near his
othce was always happy and smiling, ventured at
length to ask him for the secret OF his constant cheer