Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-09-04
PEN AND INK TRAITS,

Mrs. Mary J. Wiudle, in her "Pen and
Ink Sketches of Life at the White Sulphur -
drawn in the Richmond Enquirer, gives,
among others, the following descriptions:
owe take up our pen delicately and rev.
erently, dear reader, and beg you to note
that modest, quiet looking individual with
glasses. His person is slender almost to
emaciation, looking as if he had not long to
live and yet probably he will live to bury
nine-tenths of those who make this remark.
His face is inelegant, but keen and speaking
giving an idea of decision, promptness, and
great mental refinement, as we'll as individ-
uality of character. He strikes one at first
sight as man of thoughtful and reflective
habits. Amid this clamorous, thronging,
undulating multitude, he seems perfectly
calm and abstracted, and appears altogether
absorbed in his reflections. But approach
and draw him out in conversation. Hear
him plunge with ready huency into political
and administrative details. His views are
original and striking, his style chaste, and
his entire conversation exhibits unquestion-
able proofs of polished and vigorous mind
of the highest order. Literature, history,
public economy, questions Of national securi-
ty and progression all these subjects he is
equally at home. And yet his modcsty pre-
vents this mental superiority from being dis
agreeably felt by any one. This gentleman
is known throughout the country as the ac-
complished editor Of De Bows Review,
which bears his name. Mr. Vattemare, the
distinguished French scholar, has said, that
as statistical writer, Mr.. De Bow has no
superior in any country.
"The gentleman who HIS just entered be-
spattered with soil, so that an agricultural
chemist would infer the rural produce of the
country from an observation of the state of
his boots, is the remarkable Texan Ranger,
Major McCulloch. This gentleman seems
quite unconscious that he is at all amusing,
and looks the picture of the profoundest
melancholy, while every one within hearing
are holding their sides. He has dry, SOL
emn, historical way of reproducing the pre-
posterous things he has heard or witnessed,
which is absolutely irresistible. He embel-
fishes very little, but he brings out the ridicu-
lous points to admiration, and in the most
artless way in the world, more as if he was
talking to himself than trying to entertain
others. He seems to possess comic talent of
a high order. How many smiles this gen.
teman has had wasted on him-enough to
stir the very stones to feeliug-and yet he
coutrives to dodge the whole artillery, and
pass on. Is his heart so hinty that the ar
rows rebound?
"Thc individual 1T the window-pointing
to clear rent in the clouds, throug h which
the sun has just issued-is Mr. Venable, ex-
member of Congress from North Carolina
the warmest of friends, the most attractive
of companions This gentleman exercises
in his own State all the influence arising
from eminent ability and high integrity -
While in Congress he served the South best
by making Southern talents useful, and
Southern worth conspicuous in his own per-
son. In conversation he dashes out his
opinions like fire brands, little caring where
they alight. And yet this turbulent tem-
permanent has no insensibility, for kinder
heart never beat"