Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-08-09
John c. breckenridge mt Home.

HOW MANY NEGROES He HAs-wuAT SORT OF
WHISKY HE DRINKs-WHo lie MARRIED.
now MANY CHILDREN HE HAs-wMAT SORT
! or SLAVES lie HAs-oLD BOURBON &c. &c.
&c.
ELECTROMAGNETIC ofthe New York IIerald.l
Since his return from Washington the
| Vice President of the United States hns
taken quarters at the Phoenix Hotel in
this place. His family are there with him
although Mrs. B. is at this time on visit
to her relations in Georgetown, KY. There
is not man living who enjoys greater
degree of personal popularity than John
G. Rreckinridge, while his family relations
are of the most influential, as well as the
most pleasurable description. The Breck-
inridge family are of themselves power
IN the State. By marriage, Major Brock
inridge allied himself to q most worthy
and estimable family, whose connections
Nre among the highest of the genuine
Kentucky .nobleSse.
He married daughter of Rhodes Burch,
Esq, q prominent citizen of Scott county.
beautiful. They have FIVE children, three
boys and two girls; truly happy family.
Mrs. Breckenridge is regarded now as one
OF the most elegant and fascinating of
kentucky's fair daughters, while the gall
liant Major himself stands Saul among
the handsome men of the State. His form
IS tall and erect, his micn commanding
dis features are remarkably expressive,
and marked by the clear lines of good ma
ture, combined with a happy and social
temperament. His eyes would be charm
ing in any man or woman, but in his own
head they are the lights that bespeak q
warm and generous soul, the indexes of
| brilliant intellect, and Mt the same time
nF a RI \
breckenridge is almost too good looking
to be President, for all womankind would
then be i'll danger of falling in love with
him, and then what would the people say?
Major breckenridge ownstwo slaves; house
servants. He is not, however, we'll assured
OF the fact, whether he owns them or
they own him, although they arc as
likely boys as you will find south
of Mason and Dixon's line. They adore
him as kind and good master One of
these boys is named Sam. He is lusty
! fellow, and is allowed every liberty con-
SIstent with his position of servitude.-
Inc Vice President is member of the
Presbyterian Church-an outside pillar
thereof. Mrs Breckinridge is a member
OF the Baptist persuasion. They are both
regular attendants upon church, but the
Mayors public duties prevent him giving
that attention to religious exercises which
his Judgment and natural instincts would
lead him. He is a devou. man and a
Christian, and never uses prof,ne lam
guage, although he chews tobacco. Strict
in his religions procliviLies, he does not like
to talk politics on the Sabbath, although
he does not think he is breaking the Dec
alogue by inviting friend to take little
pure Bourbon on the holy day He keeps
the best Bourbon in Kentuck, but uscs
very little of it himself-rurely, unless af-
tiicted with the Kentucky diptheria. In a
recent interview with him, the CONVERSE
ton turned upon the natural productions
of Kentucky. OF course, whisky was in
trodnced-the subject, mean. Major
Breckinridge, with bland smile, observed
tnat there were two things Kentuckians
felt proud of, and those were their native
inclination to invite friend to take a lit
tie Bourbon when he entered their homes.
and to take little more before he left -