Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-29

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This sullenness Of his swarthy fea-
lures was intensified by his raven
black hair, worn long and cut
squarely around the neck. His
forehead is wide and high; his per-
ceptive organs prominent, giving
him strong intellectual appear
ance, and which is added to rather
than detracted from by his broad,
massive Jaws--indicating intellect
backed or reinforced by enormous
physical powers. For a long time
he sat on the bench with one leg
crossed over the other, head bowed
a little forward, and motionless as
if cast in bronze, save a twisting in
and out Of each other of his white,
shapely, slender hands. | may ex-
cept another motion, but which was
SO slight as to escape notice, unless
one like myself were watching him
with close attention. This was in
his eyelids. They are very large,
and drop over his eyes like two great
curtains. Ordinarily they were
down, cohcealing the whole eye
but now and then they would rise
quickly for a short distance, and a
thin background Of intense black
would flash out upon the audience.
Until he rose to speak, had it not
been for this nervous twisting and
untwisting of his fingers, and the
occasional raising of his eyellds, he
might have passed for chiseled
marble or a casting OF sternest
bronze.
Whether he were posing or not,
cannot say; but even il he were,
he shows himself an artist of the
highest power. Nothing could
have been arranged more striking,
nothing which so bristled with sa-
lient points and mysterious sug-
geStions Of power, but of secrecy,
dark and unyielding as that of the
grave. Not only these, but cum
ming, thoughtfulness, endurance,
obstinacy, and everywhere a mystic
rious something which defes read
ing, which makes the face enig-
matical, sphinx-like, and renders
abortiye all attempts to penetrate
through the swart and sullen mask
and read what lies beneath. When
he arose to speak he seemed to be
powerful figure, y little above the
medium stature, lie wore a frock
coat, buttoned about his waist, and
which displayed to good advantage
Il strong rather than graceful
figure. There was a table in front
Of him, and to this he walked, SO
that he stood with Il half face to
the speaker. lie commenced his
address in a low, but yet not indiS-
tinct, and withal u rather musical
voice. His head was thrown for
ward, his eyes were fixed on the
table, and his manner was singu-
larly hesitating. He appeared to
be laboring under a painful embqr-
rassment. His voice had a tremor
in itj he seemed to stumble over a
word here, and to catch at some
other one there. His hands and
arms were incessant in a species of
nervous shifting, The fingers
would rest for q moment on the
table. Then the arms would be
clasped behind his back, only to
remain there q moment before
swinging by his side, or being
moved forward again to rest upon
tie table.
He was as uneasy with his feet
and legs a' with his hands. He
moved NJ first ipcpssantly-now
forward, now back, then poised
upon one leg and then upon the
other He was so uneasy; he so
twisted, and swpng, and rocked;
his utterance was so broken and so
hesitating that one might almost
fancy that he was about TO break
down.
Nevertheless, all this time it was
the eye and ear which took in these
developments. Beneath the senses
was aconyiction that all this was Of
no account, and despite them he
was moving forward swiftly and ir-
rosistibly. And such was the case.
His ideas were clear, logical in their
arrangement, and his words fitted