Daily national Democrat., 1861-03-20

English writer for great occasions When
the Senate is deeply stirred upon some ques-
ton, rumor runs around the bench that
Bulwer Lytlon will address the house
Every seat is filed and the listeners resign
themselves TO what is after all. however,
only chequcred enjoyment. The orators
seat, in opposition or in office, is on the front
bench. usually next to NJ Disraei The stran.
ger in the gallery sees tall, thin, altenuated
figure come up to the table. The face is
pale, the eye speaking and intelligent the
hair abundant on the head, lip and chin. but
neither artistically arranged nor carefully
tended; the attire ca eless not to say shabby.
The features are eminently arstocralic and
intellectual. The hearty cheer that greet-
him is succeeded by respectful silence and
strained attention, the reason for which i.
soon seen. Nature, SO bountiful to him in
oratorcal gifts, has denied him the faculty
of clear and distinct utterance. Now vou
miss II word, then sentence. Sometimes
those around him catch a happy allusion,
which is scarcely understood toy those at
whom the shaft is aimed, but who are sepa-
rated from the speakers table. Whether the
defect be one Of the palate or tongue or lips,
it would not be easy to say; bot those who
sat opposite him at public dinners, when he
harangued large audiences have found it i'm
possible to follow him throughout, although
sitting il front of him at dista- ce of only
five or six feet To listen to Bulwer Lytton
is therefore one of the most tantaliNng of
oratorica cnjoyment5 All that is heard
sharpens the zcst to hear more. OF SO care
fully considered and highly elevated an ora
ton you would not willingly miss one word
In moments of veXation in which admiration
is largely interminSled, you ask yourself
whether a dcmosthenic regiment of pebbles
and seashore ought not to have been pre-
scrbed for the young politician If any is
heard, why not all? The singer who bites
his words is made to practice with a cork
between his lips Why are inarliculate
sounds so provokingly mixed up by this ora
tor with audible words of weight and wisdom
which give us pause" even when they do
not carry conviction His gestures confirm
vou in the belief that this versatile genius
never thought it worth his while to 90
through the drudgery of preparation for
parliamentary ana political life. He often
gesticulates with his spine makes low sala-
ans to the door, and will neither learn grace
from Disreali, nor dignity from Gladstone
Yet all these defects are swallowed up and
lost in the pleasures which his brilliant sallies
and pointed apothegms produce.
PIcrURE OF AN ANGRY SAVAGE The rage
ola civilized man, in comparison, is like the
tos,ings of Il restless GaLe a savage fully
developed physically and morally-is eXhib-
tied The forehead is suddenly filed with
wrinkles; the large nosrls distend and
smoke; the staring evehalls grow red, and
y.ith t,rril,1, =,
stretched into a murderous and dsdaiuful
grin; the whole body quivers with eXcite-
ment; every muscle is strained, and the
clenched fist seems eager to bathe itself in
the blood Of him who has aroused this dem
on Of fury.--EVj and tie fyia"s.
FEAeFrLM SUDDEN DErn w G are PINNED
to have to record the death of one of our
most esteemed fellow citizens, Alden Sears,
Esq. who died very suddenly on Friday last.
of an attack Of apoplexy. The deceased
had been unwcl for some few days previous
to that on which he died, though not so much
as to give his family or friends any cause
to supqo.e that his end was near At the
time of the attack he had Just returned from
A visit to some of his ncighhors, as he entered
the door. he told his wife that lie felt faint
and made an effort to reach chair, but
could not, falling iusensiOlc 10y its side.
Assistance was promptly on the spot Dr.
Schmidt. assisted 10y DR.. Whalry did all that
skill and experience could suggest, but with
ont avail the deceased never resumed CON
Sciousness, save for an instant, when as the
do tors were about TO blee1 i'm, lie opened
his eyes and inquired, "What are you going
to do?' They told him he turned on his
side and died without .ruggle about an
hour after he was attacked AIr Sears. who
was between sixty and seventy. was one of
the most Ingenious outerprisiuY Industrious
mechanics in the country, clue to this state
from Vermont, in 1919, and was universally
respected Col'"iJia Times, lGH inst.
The Losr VESSEL RrrunzlD For some
lime back good deal Of anxiety has been
felt in regard to the safety of the ship Hunts
vile, Captain Leamap, which sailed from
Coronel L. c., Sc, enty-two days since. Over
twenty days ago a vessel arrived here from
the same point laden with coal This ship |
had sailed three days before the Huntsville |
and on her arrival the cargo was found to be
very hot, and it was presumed that had She
been out few days longer, her coal would
have iguited and the vessel have been iuevi-
tably destroyed. AS the Huntsville had a
similar cargo her owners despared of her
safety. Yesterday moruing one of her own
ers offered to sell out his interest fer ST.
coo but failed to find purchaser For sew
eral days asst her owners have beseiged I'm
derwriters TO insure her; but none were found
to take the handsome premiums which they
offered, Yesterday, however, she came in as
sound as a dollar, to the great relief of all
the parties nterested.-,S +. CdU .Noudau
Arrivals at the u. s. Hotel.
STOKES SlIIELDS...... .........PR0PRIETORS
March, Is sci