Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-18
The guteIIigeueer.



The life-of Juliusl C@1Gr, Hs written and
Just published by the Emperor Napoleon,
contains this graphic picture of "the mob.
blest Roman of them all: :"
To these natural gifts, developed by a
brilliant education, were Joined physical
advantages. His lofty stature and his fiue-
IL moulded and we'll proportional limbs,
impaired to his person grace which dis
tinguished him from all others. His eyes
were dark, his glance penetrating, his com.
picking coiotless, and his nose straight and
someRhat thick. His mouth was email
end regular, and the lips rather full, gave
~ the lover part of his fece an expression
of kindliness. while his breadth of fore
head indicated the development of the in
teilec!ual faculties. His face was full, at
least, in his youth bat in the busts which
were made toward the close of his life, his
features were thinner, and bear the traces
Of fatigue. His voice WAS sonorous and
vibrating; his gesture noble, and an air of
dignity pervaded his whole person. His
constitution, which at first was delicate,
grew robust by sober living, and by his
habit Of exposing himself 10 the iucIemency
Of the seasons.
Accustomed from HE youth to manly
exercise, be was a bold horseman, and he
supported with ease privations and fatigues.
Hahitually abstemicus, HE health was not
weakened by excess of labor, DOR by excess
of pleasure. Nevertheless, on two cocoa.
EioDsf once at Cordova and then at Thapsus,
he had a nervous attack, which was erro-
neously thought TO be epilepsy. He paid
particular attention to his person, shaved
with care, or had the hairs plucked out
he brought forward artistically his lair &c
the front Of his head, and this 10 his more
advanced age served to conceal his bald
ness. He was reproached with the affec'
tntion Of scratching his bead with only on'
fuger for fear of derRuRing his hair. Hi
dress was arranged with exquisite taste
His gown wac generally bordered with thC
lShclam, ornOmented with fringes to thu
hands, and WAS bound round biz Ioius by 1
sash loosely knotted-a fashion which
distinguished the elegant and efFeminatt
youth of the period.
But Sylla WAS not deceived by this shoV
of frivnlity, and he was wont to recon
mend that people should have AN eye OF
that yOuug man with the flowing cash. H
had a taete for pictures, statues aud gems
and be always wore on his finger, in mem
DRY of his origin. a ring on which was en-
Rravrd the figure of an armed Venus. T.
sun up. there were found in Caesar. phys
icAlly ard morally, two natures Which ar
rarely combined in the same person. II
joined aristocratic Righteousness of persol
10 the vigorous temperament of the col
der; the gracss of mind to the profundit,
OF thought; the love of luxury and of tn
arts to a passion for military life 10 all it
simplicity and rudeness. In a word. h
Joined the elegance of manner which SO
duces, to the energy of character whicI
commands. Such was Caesar at the ag
OF Is, when Sylla possessed himself of tn
Dictatorship. He had already ATTRACTED
the attention of the Romans by his name
hiH wit, his engaging manners. which wer
go pleasing to men, and still more so, per
bars. to women. (Liv. H., cap. i,)