Daily national Democrat., 1861-03-26
Nps T,xco,Y,s pr,s,v., Annr,p,xct

Mas. LTNCoLN's PERSONAL APPEARANCE -
The Washington correspondent of the Bull
letin, writing on the 26lh of February, says:
| know the ladies are anxious to know what
sort of person the new mistress Of the w hite
House is. | had a glance at her last eve
ming, and certainly found her proposes
sing, goodlooking parsonage, who is likely
to honor the high station to which she has
been called Howard" the travelling cor
respondent of the NewYork Times ian old
Californian, by the way), seems to me to
have hit the mark pretty fairly, in The fol-
lowing graphic and characteristic portraiture
of the Presidents wife. He says;
Certain metropolitan journals, with hatch
cts to sharpen, have errOneously attributed
to Mrs. Lincoln the features of Juno the
form of Venus, and the wisdom OF Min
erva. This we cannot indorse nor can we
agree with certain other INSCRIPTIONS news
paper men who accuse Mrs Lincoln of all
That is coarse, ungenial and unrefned. Mrs
Lincoln does not chew snuff, does not dress
IN 0Wre style, does not dress a la ZoudUe
does not use profane language, nor does she
on any occasion, public or private kick up
shindies. These negatives are necessary, be-
cause the alternatives of these propositions
have been sent broadcast throughout the
land Mrs Lincoln. as she appears to the
humble and somewhat peripatetic individual
who represents on this occasion the dignity
of the rimes--is a middle-aged lady Of
WELL say forty, or perhaps thiriy-eght years
of age.
On the top of her head. the place where
the hair ought to grow-the hair d0eS grow,
and very luXuriuntly. too, of a dark brown
color and elastic fibre Her head is large
and well developed, presenting the organs of
hrmneSs and language in Il highly developed
and well matured condition. Her forehead is
broad her eye clear and intelligent. and
rather blue than gray; her nose is we'll
not to put too fine point on it-not Gre
clan; her mouth is large, well shaped. and
capable of great expression, while her chin
rounds gracefully, balances properly, and
goes, in quiet way, towards the endorsing
of our opinion that she is "a decided-not Oh
stinale-womdn. Her form inclines to stout
ness, but it is well fashioned and comeV,
while her hands and feet are really beautiful,
indicating, as does the well shaped ear, that
she has come from race of people who were
well born. Her carriage is good her man
ners are pleasant her greetings are atfable.
and, without loubt, her intentions are cor
rect That Mrs. Lincoln goes to the White
House, versed in the goodly knowledge of
housewifery and substantial living, rather
than skilled in the cunning tricks of politics,
and 6(dSed with the eXcitements of WASH
ington life is "A feature for congratulations.
rather than for deprecation. She started with
Mr.. Lincoln when he ives poor young man
W tn no more idea of being called to the
Presidency than of being II clnnibal she has
pursued quiet, home life, rearing and edu-
eating happy family, cheering the man of
her choice he passed through the stormy
scenes of life, and content. if in all things
she made, what few women do make good
wife and a competent mother. She has been
suddenly called TO fill an unaccustomed po-
siton To it she goes, taking with her her
sound snbstratum of common sense, her nat
ural tact, the great aidrr of US all the es-
teen of all who knew her at her old home,
and the best wishes of every decent woman
in the land