Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-03-10
70o Semi Weekiy STANDARD.
nrN AND INK PORTRAITS.

.bo mass of rubbish in the "Diary of
r'O ~ .be London Times correspondent, we ex-
tract the following:
",'' s;r. tba hubbub and phiz drinks and constant
i..in, n Wiard's the reader is permitted to foi-
SPW WT RuSsal to the aristOcratlc Seciusioh Vi Tue
loS @ M unnsa The servant who took the guests
Nhi'c r. beleye that the gentleman was in
na G He was, says the Diary, particularly lnquls-
's" .s to nv right to be there at all for sald ne,
iHe nnne hut members Of the Cabinet and their
''is , and daughters dining here to day, Eventual
" W. roIoxed instructed me how to place my NAT,
n.y. would be exposed to no indignity. and IN.
81 me that was about to participate In pran-
E.I opiovment of no ordinary character Mr.
lanes having been thus conclated, the reporter
raS led TO the receptlonrooh
Mrs. Lincoln was already seated 10 receive her
- She is of the middle age and height of
s,0sS Jarsneratinc to the em6onlpOint natural
PT Iar Years her features are plain, her nose and
1o,ntb of an ordinary type, and her manners and
.re,rance ho1ncly stiilened, however, by the con-
rass that her position requires her TO Oe some
.S;D, more than plain Mrs. Lincoln, the wife o.
tba IlIoois LAWYER; she is profuse IN the WORD SIT,
-. -. instance which is now almost an Ameri-
n,Dism confined to certain classes although it was
O1cp as common in England. Her dress shall not
.rempt to describe, though it was very gorgeous
and highly colored. She handled Ian with much
energy, displaying a round, we'll proportioned arm'
and was adorned with some simple JewelTy MIS-
lincoln struck me as being desrOuS Of making her.
saf agreeable; : and | own | was agreeably dlsap-
no;n,ed IS the seceSsionist ladies at Washington,
had been amusing themselves by anecdotes which
copId scarcely have been founded on fact
The portrait of the host is thus given in another
chapter: =,
Soon afterwards there entered, with shambling,
irregular, almost unsteady gait, TALL ianK' lean
man considerably over six feet IN height with Stoop
ing shoulders, long pendulOus arms, terminating III
hands of extraordinary dimensions, which, ho~e'cr
we're far exceeded in proportion by his feet lie
We dressed in an ill-tling wrinkled suit OF black
which put one in mind Of an undertakers UNIFORM
At funeral; round his neck rope OF black SILK
war knotted IN a large bulb, with flying ends pro-
letting beyond the cOlaS OF his coat; his turned
down shirt collar disclosed sinewy, muscular yei-
INV neck and above that, nesting IN great mass
o black hair, brstling and compact like run OF
mourning pins, rose the strange quaint face and
head covered with its thatch of wild republican
hair Of President Lincoln. The impression pro-
uced by the size of his exremitieS, and by his hap
ming and wide projecting ears, may be removed by
tbeappearance of kndlness, sagacity, and the aWk-
ward jrhOmmie of his face; the mouth IS absolute
IL prodgious; the lips, struggling and extending
almost from one line of black beard to the other,
are only kept in order by two deep furrOws from
the nOstril to the chin; the nose itself-a promi-
nent Organ-stands out from the face, with an in
ouiring, anxious air. as though it were snufing for
some good thing in the wind; the eyes dark, and
deeply set and penetrating, but full of an express
sion which almost amounts to tenderness; and above
them projects the shaggy brow, running into the
small hard frontal spa e, the development of which
can scarcely be estimated accurately, owing to the
Irregular docks of thick hair carelesSly brushed
across it.