The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1860-02-24

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Personal Sketches.
SENATOR TooMBs-Senator Toombs Of
Georgia, is daguerreotyped as as a tall,
swarthy, burly, rather corpulent, crowned
with shock of dark brown hair, Jagged,
as haystack struck by lightning pendant
as drift of seaweed flung up to be sun.dried
on some rock by the last billow of temp
est. The whole head is massive and lion
like the forehead broad and low the eyes
dark, large, and lusterless, except when ex-
cited by passion-the lower lids having a
nervous fullness and bagginess Ito coin
word) as if filled with unshed tears; the
nose not large, but standing out in bold re-
lief; the mouth passionate, powerful, and
voluptuous; already development of what
will be in old age pelican sack of double
chin; the complexion sallow and change
able the throat massive and muscular not
bad face to look at, and very suggestive
one to study. The man has duration of life
in his organization, and will probably be
public character of eminence- ripen-
ed but slowly-for the next twenty-five or
thirty years. Never having heard him speak,
it only can be inferred from his physique that
his voice is deep, rich, double-base, of the
rumbling, roaring, muttering kind and that
his diction would naturally be sluggish,
level, and hoarse at first--men of his nature
requiring to lash themselves into excite
ment by the sound of their own sentences,
before the seals of Solomon can be uplifted
from the deep and moody abysses of passion,
out of which their full storm of rhetoric has
to be invoked.
SENATOR DAvIs.-Senator "Jef' Davis,
of Mississippi, is nervously built man, of
middle height, thin, quivering, full of ex-
citable emotions, with a forehead of inn,
mense capacity and breadth sparkling and
very deeply set gray eyes, one of which has
been almost destroyed by the anguish of tic
doloreux; hooked nose, slender and with
nostrils almost transparent; a mouth vigo-
rously sinewed and channeled at its Sides a
delicate, thin lower face betraying the pangs
of physical ailment in every tracing checks
hollow and wasted as if by dyspepsia, and
no resources visible to sustain the man at
his present height of labor and power except
the unconquerable spirit of rule, and an in.
tellect which shines out in pervading luster
through every lineament and gesture, A
prematurely gray haired, prematurely wrin-
kled mana chivalrous, high nature, turned
to bitterness by agonies of the body and the
disappointment of cherished hopes court
eous, cultivated gentleman, whose wit is a
rapier, drawing blood wherever it touches !;
whose fancies are never so rich as when they
place some more prosperous rival in ridcu-
lous or humiliating position. A soldier of
undoubted galantry, a scholar of high attain.
ments, always frank and kind to those be-
meath him-always naughty and malicious
to those who can presume to be his peers
no wonder that Jefferson Davis longs for
disunion, as the only means for giving him
that ascendency which his ambition hungers
for, and which his talents could then COM
mand no wonder that he should almost
bitterly hate Douglas, who is, to say, the
least, his peer in intellect, and who possesses
in addition those popular qualities
electricity evoking the personal devotions of
multitudes-which Davis must keenly feel
that he himself does not possess.
SENATOR LATHAM.-Mr. Latham the
newly elected Senator from California, is
native of Columbus, Ohio. He is the son
of the late Bella Latham, for many years the
Postmaster of this city, and one of its most
respected citizens. His brother, VIM. H.
Latham, lately deceased, was a Colonel in
one of the Ohio regiments in the Mexican
war. Milton S. Latham is about thirty
three years of age, of medium height, we'll
made, pale, smooth face, ample brow, blue
eyes and light hair. His manners are free
and hearty. His elocution popular and
graceful, and his personal address the beau
ideal for man of the people. His Friendships
are sincere add enduring.
LORD MACAULAY.-The personally of the
deceased historian Macaulay is sworn under
100000. His income was larger than the
sum represented as the interest of this
amount, from the very considerable proceeds
of his minor works-the Lays of Rome, the
Essays and Encyclopedia articles. Of an
income of about $4,000, 1 have been not
astonished, but deeply impressed, by the
information--on unimpeachable authority
that not less than G1 800 proves to have
been spent annually in acts of charity and
munifcent generosity. Those who best knew
Macaulay must have been peculiarly panied
by the imputation of" want of heart" made
against him in the obituary article of the
Daily News. In truth, such charge could
only have been made by one who did not
know Macaulay, but judged him from out
ward acts, perhaps unsupported, ill explained
or misinterpreted. Macaulay, with consid-
cradle reserve of character, combined an
almost feminine susceptibility and tender
ness. His intercourse with women and
children showed the utmost sweetness of
disposition, and playfulness and affection
ateness never found when heart is wanting.
MADAM HowARD.-A Madam Howard,
celebrated for her intimacy with the French
Emperor previous to his marriage, and on
whom he bestowed handsome income, i'm
mediately previous to that event, afterward
married the son of Sir John Treawny, the
Welsh Baronet and now, after separation
| of some time from her husband ION whom
she had settled by contract about $4,000
Year, the lady is taking measures to secure
divorce. Unless the case is hushed up, it
will bring up past circumstances not at all