Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-12-01
from the N. o. True Delta
Personalities Literati.

JERROLD.
Doro,as ,IerroId a well known contributor to
Punch, and editor of various publications is man
about fifty years of age, and in person Is remark
ab,v spare and diminutive His face is sharp an
gular, and his eye Of graysh hue. He Is prooa-
by one of the most causc writers OF the age, and'
with keen sensibilty he often writes under the
impulse of the moment articles which hls cooier
Judgment condemns Although believer in ny,
dropathy, his habits do not conform to the internal
application of Adams ale. His Caudle Lectures
have been read by every one. In conversation ne
is quick at retort-not always refined. he Is
husband and grandfather.
MAcAULAY.
The Hon. T. B. Macaulay is short in stature,
round, and with growing tendency to aidermanic
dsproportions His head has the same rotundlty
az his BODY, and seems stuck on it as firmly as a
nn.head. This is nearly the sum of his personal
defect; all else, except the voice (which is mono
touous and disagreeable) is certainly in his favor.
His face seems literally instinct with expression
bis ewes. above ALL full of deep thought and mean
inc As he walks, or rather struggles, along the
streets, he seems in a state of total abstraction,
unmindful of all that is going on around him, and
solely occupied with his own working mind. You
cannot help thinking that literature with him is
not mere profession or pursuit, but that 1t has
ancst grown part Of himself as though historical
problems or analytical criticisms were part OF bis
daily food.
A correspondent of the Tribune, writing from
Nottingham, England says: II have seen Bailey,
the author Of Festus' His father is proprietor Of
the Nottingham Mercury, and the editorial depart.
ment rests with him. He is thick set sort Of
man; of stature below the middle size; COM
plexion dark, and in years about eight and thirty.
His physiognomy would be clownish in expression
If his eyes did not redeem his other features. lie
spoke of Festus, and of its fame in America, 81
which he seems pround In England it has only
reached its third edition, while eight or 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
divine that one could find in crowded city during
days walk. And if one adds to this figure
clothes that are neither fashionablyscut nor fasti
diously adjusted, he will have q t0lerably rough
pushes his obtrusive hat to the back part Of hi
head, and his light grey eyes, that do not seem tt
look out, but to be turned inward, sounding the
depths of his Imagination 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. De Quincy
now resides at Lasswade, a romantic rural village
once the residence of Sir Walter Scott, about
seven miles from Edingburg, Scotland, where an
affectionate daughter watches over him, and
where he is the wonder of the country people fol
miles around
Lamartine is-yes, young ladia positively
prim looking man with long face, short gray
ho;r clap1or md fnfh al 5#&H2sf a
pen behind his ear and he would look Ike a
&C confidential clerk. Give his face more character
and he would remind you of Henry Clay. He has
fine head, phrenologically speaking-large and
round at the top with a spacious forehead, and a
scant allotment of cheek. Prim is the word
though. There is nothing 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 not the man to think
Of such things Romance, in fact is the article
he lives by, and, like other men, he chooses to
s'snk the shop" at least when he sits for his
portrait.
On the contrary, is hurley fellow. His
large red, round cheeks stand out, till they
seem to stretch the very skin that covers them,
His black cripsed hair is piled high above his
forehead, and stands divided into two unequal
masses, one inclining to the right and the othe,
to the left. His eyes are dark and his mouth
sensuous, but not to the degree of vulgarity
His person is large and his flowing mantle red
He is gentleman to lay bare his throat an
look romantic, not Bironically SO, but piratia
eslly. Yet he looks good humored and like d
nan whose capacity for physical enjoyment is
boundless. His negro blood is evident enough
to one who knows he has it; but it would not
be detected by one who knew it not. Itappears
in the peculiar rotundity of the man and all his
parts; it cripsed and heaped his hair; it made
him dress up in flowing red, to have his portrait
taken. But his complexion is only shade
darker than the average. The portrait reminds
US for q moment of the late Thomas Hamblin,
the actor.
EUGENE SUE,
Is neither prim nor burly He is man of large
frame, over which loose black coat is carelessy
buttoned. Complexion light, eyes blue, hair once
black, now pepper and salt, whiskers voluminous,
eyebrows black and thick, good forehead, and the
lower face ample. This conveys no better idea of
the mans appearance than French passport But
the truth is, Sues countenance and figure have
none of those pecularties which make description
possible. He looks, in his portrait, like comfort
able, careless elderly gentleman taking his ease in
an easy chair and coat. He does not look like an
authorizations seldom do. His air is rather that
Of prosperous citizen Sue is only forty-fve years
old, but he has lived fast, and looks like fty-fve
Lamartne is sixty-three and would pass easily for
6ty-three. Dumas is fifty, and could get credit for
thirty-eight.
OLD AaE-N P Willis makes the following
just remarks upon the present state Of things
among us, in regard TO old age:
''The neglected portion of the great Ameri-
can family is old age-we are sorry to say
Not that we as q nation are disrespectfu1 to the
old, or that they are denied or grudged any
thing. We perform the negative duty to them,
by avoiding all which shall occasion to them
offence or deprivation-but we do not perform
the positive duty Of assiduously seeing that they
occupy, always and only, the places Of honor
ana prominence nor. more particularly, do we
study to contrive, untiringly and afectionately,
now 70 comfort. strengthen. cheer, and recu-