Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-03-18
The Lincoln aud the L,ncolness.

Russell, the. correspondent Of the Lon
don Times, in his Diary" of his %sojourn
in Doudledom, gives the following pen
and ink protraits of AJrahom ]. aud his
Yankee Quecn'of the White House. Rus
sell Lad been invited to dine, and thus re-
quiles the h"spi,aliv, Of his entertainers.
lie says:
Mis-. Lincoln was already seated tb re.
ccive her guests. She is of the middle
age and height, of Il p%lumpness d~egenera-
ting Ia the cmbompoint natural to her
years; her features are plain, her nose
aud r:,"ulh of All ordinary type, and hel
u.nncrs and appearance holneIy, s%titfcn-
cd, however, by the consciousness that
her position requires her to be something
more than plain Mrs. Lincoln, the wife
Of the Illinois lawyer; she is profuse i'll
the usc of the word "%sir," in every in
stance, which is now almost an American
ieul confined to certain classes, although
it was oncc as common in England. Her
dress shall not describe, though it was
very gorgeous and highly colored. She
handled a fan with much energy, display
ing a round well-proportiuned arm, and
was adorned with some simple jewelry.
Mrs. Lincoln struck me as being desirons
of making herself agreeable and | own
! was agrceably disappointed, as the seces.
siouist ladies at Washington had been
amusing themselves by anecdotes which
could scarcely have been founded on
cts.
The portrait of the host is thus given
IN another chapter:
Soon afterwards there entered, with a
sIlalubling, irregular, almost unsteady
gait, a tall, lank, lean man, considerably
over six feet in height, with shopping
shoulders, pendulous arms, terminating
in hands of extraordinary dimensions,
which, however, were far exceeded in pro.
portion by his feet. He was dressed in
an ill-fitting wrinkled suit of black, which
put one in mind Of all undertaker's uni.
form st q funeral round his neck u rope
of black silk was knotted in a large bulb,
with flying ends projecting beyond the
collar Of his coat ; his turned.down shit
collar disclosed a sinewy, muscular yellow
neck, and above that, nesting in a great
mass Of black hair, bristling and compact
like Il ruff of mourning pins, rose the
strange quaint face and head, covered
with its thatch of wild republican hair,
of President Lincoln.
The impression produced by the size OF
his extr, mites, and by his Tapping and
wide-projecting ears. may be removed by
the appearance of kindness, sagacity,
and the awkward 6onAommie of his face;
the mouth is absolutely pr~odigious; the
lips, struggling and extending almost from
one line Of black beard to the other, are
only kept in order by two deep burrows
from the nostril to the chin, the nose it.
self-a prominent organ-stands out from
the face, with an inquiring, anxious air, as
though it were sailing for some good
thin! in the wind the eyes dark and
deeply set, are penetrating, but full of all
expression which almost mounts to ten
derness and above them projects the
shaggy brow, running into the small hard
frontal space, the Development Of which
can scarcely be estimated accurately,
owing to the irregular locks of thick hair
carelessly brushed across it."