HASZARIYS GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 2.

BIOGRAPHY.

.iaItitoLn. Dououis Jannoux, a w_ell-known co_ntri- butor to, and editor of, various publications. is ii man about fifty years of age, fwd, In person, is remarkably spare and diminutive. His face is sharp, angular, and his eye of a grayish hue. He is probably one ofthe most caustic _writers ofthe I_Ig0. “ml. Wllll keen sensibility, he often writes, under the impulse of the moment, articles which his cooler judgment condemns. llis Caudle Lectures have been read by every one. In conversation he is quick at retort—not al- ways refined. He is a husband and a grand-

father.

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'I‘he Hon. T. B. Macaulay is short in stature, round, and with a growing ten- dency to aldermanic disproportions. His head has the same rotundity as his body. His face is literally instinct with expressi- on: his eye, above all, full of deep thought and meaning. As he walks along the street, he seems in a state of total abstraction, un- mindliil of all that is going on around him, and solely occupied with his oivn working mind. You cannot help thinking that liter- ature with hiin is not a more profession or pursuit, but that it has almost grown a part ofhiinself, as though historical problems, or analytical criticisms, were a part of his daily and intellectual food.

BAILEY.

A correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune, writing from Nottingham, England, says: “ I have seen Bailey, the author of‘ Fes- tus.' His father is proprietor of the Not- tingham l\.lorcury, and the editorial depart- ment rests with him. He is a thick-set sort ofa man; of ii stature below the mid- dle size; ciimpli-.\ion dark, and his years about eight-and llllll_\'. He Spoltu of‘ Fes- tus,' and of its faini- in America, of which he st-oiiis vi-ry pr-and. In England it has only ri-iiclieil its third edition, while eight or nine have been pUlJll.~lit‘tl in the United States.”

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He is one of the smallest-legged, smal- lc-st-bodied, and innst attenuated efligies of the liunniii form divine, that one could find in it crowded city during a day's walk. An if one adds to this figure clothes that are neither fashionably cut, nor fastidiously ad- justed, he will have a tolerable rough idea of l)e Quincey. But then his brow, that pushes his obtrusive hat to the back part of his head, and his light grey eyes that do not seem to look out, but to be turned in- ward, sounding the depths of his imaginati- on, and searching out the mysteries of the most obtruse logic, are something that you would search a week to find the males to, and you would be disappointed. De Quin- cey now resides at Lasswade, a romantic rural village, once the residence of Sir \Valter Scott, about seven miles from Edin- burgh, Scotland, where an affectionate daughter watches over him, and where he is the wonder of the country people for miles around.

LAMARTINI.

Lamartine has a fine head, phrenologi- cally speaking—large and round at the top, with a spacious forehead, and a scant allot- ment of check. Prim is the word, though. There is nothing in his appearance which is ever so remotely suggestive of the ro- mantic. He is not even pale, and as for a rolling shirt collar or Byronic tie, he is evi- dently not the man to think of such things. Romance, in fact, is the article he lives by, and, like other men, he chooses to sink the shop, at least when he sits for his portrait.

A good editor, a competent newspaper conductor, is, like a general or a poet, born __not made. Exercise and experience give facility, but the qualification is innate, or it is never manifested. On__ the London

l - ll the rflvf move- d l papers, a _ g , N o _ . POebB, Glllylll, ‘

sad .. I . have been tried, and , ifdlle . W, might say all; for, ‘after a lsplay_of brilliancy, brief, but grand, they died tut literally. Their resources were ex- mugd. -I I can,” said the late editor of e Timcgto Moore, " find any number of ,n at‘ genius to write for me, hijt very mm on. inuol‘ common sense. The

“ Thunderers" in the Times, therefore, have so far as we know, been men of com- mon sense. Nearly all successful editors have been men of this description. _ Camp- bell, Carlyle, Bulwer, and D’Israeli failed; Barnes, Sterling, and Philips succeeded, untl l)eLane and Lows succeeded. A good editor seldom writes for his paper—h8 reads, judges, selects, dictates, directs, alters and combines: and, to do all this ivell, he has but little time for composition. 'l‘o write for a pit or is one tliing—to edit a paper another.-— ndon D. Post.

--—-The .N'cw York Home Journal says: —“ VVe observe, this winter, a gradual improvement and return to common sense, in the mode and article of apparel. The laws of our physical nature and our climate, require us to dress in heavy and warm ma- terial—particularly in the cold season. There is an instinct gratified, then, as well as a fashion, in the present rage for furs. Some days the pedestrians of our streets present the appearance, almost, of a colony of beavers moving over the pavement, or a zoological collection freshly imported. Furs are becoming universally used, for ladies’ cloaks and victorines; for gentlemen’s gloves, caps, coat-collars, cuffs and muf- flers. They add beauty to the garment, and become more appreciated as their rari- ty increases. Better than all, they pre- serve warmth and health. We welcome, therefore, the Esquimaux and Rocky Moun- tain invasion"’

Tm: “ANci.o SAxoN.”—We have re- ccived the second number of a News and Literary Paper, just started in Boston, bearing the above title. It is neatly “ got up" and excellently printed. It is under the able Editorship of Dr. Bartlett (who formerly conducted the New York ./Ilbion) and is intended to promote British Colonial interests and to cherish International rela- tions and good will. \Vhen fairly under tway, we believe it is destined to have it ‘wide influence, and we wish it complete succcs'

themselves.

'I‘si.i;r:it.iriiiNo.—'l‘lie Telegrapliing of_ the l’rosident’s message entire, to four of ‘the Boston papers, was transmitted so ra- | iilly that, although 500 miles distant from ‘Vashington, the message delivered to Con- gress, at noon on Monday, appeared entire in Boston papers of Tuesday morning. Eight hours time were occupied in its transmission from New York to Boston.- Canada Paper.

Mniaiiios or FANNY FsaN.—We have the pleasure of announcing that our gifted , contributor, Mrs. Sarah ayson Eldridge (renowned and admired as Fanny Fern), was married, on Saturday, the 5th inst., to Mr. James Par-ton, well known in literary circles as the author of the Life of Horace Greeley.—JV'. Y. Ledger

Mmuoru Larraa.—A New England gen- tloman in California, who corresponds with a young lady of this city, sent her a letter, which arrived in the mails of the George Law, on the 28th ult. , and which comprised one hundred and forty-six pages of letter paper.—Fall River Nara.

Norman Gusto or noise Wear.- The recent cold weather has been quite as severe in the western states as in New England ; and it appears that persons who go from Maine to Illinois. Wisconsin or Kansas, to escape the rigors of our north- ern winters, gain but little b the change. The weather reports from t c West say that the mercury has been from 10 to 20 below zero at many points in the great West, below our own latitude. At Frank- fort, Ky., seven degrees further south than Bangor, the mercury was 16 below zero, one day last week.—Bangor Courier. , g -———oooo—-—-

'i-Q, Citnarni. Wirit.—-A pleasant, cheer- ; . _ . .

fat’ is as a rainbow set in the sky, whylter husband's mind is tossed with scorn‘ and tempests; but a dissatisfied and fretful wife, in the hour of trouble, is like one of those fiends who are appointed to

torture lost spirits.

A niscovsav IN PERU-—A suiioun or now. The Hon. Thomas Ewbank communi- cates some interesting information relative to recent discoveries in the excavation of Peruvian tumuli. It was received by Mr. Ewbank, from W. Evans, Esq., engineer ofthe Africa and Teens Railroad in Peru. Mr. Evans states that in making excava- tions for the rail roads at Africa. hundreds of graves are demolished, in which are numerous Indian relics. The excavations are seventy feet deep, and as the soil is loose sand, as the work proceeds, every- thing from the top comes sliding down- dea Indians, pots, kettles, arrow heads, &c.——Amonw other interesting mortuary relics, an ndian was started out of his resting place, rolled up in a shroud of gold. Before Mr. Evans had knowledge of the incident, the workmen had cut up this inag- nificient windin sheet and divided it among ith some difiiculty Mr. Evans obtained a fragment, and despatclied it to Mr. Ewbank.

r. Evans notices as a very remarkable fact, that in hundreds of Indian skulls which he has examined, not one has contained a decayed tooth. Mr. Ewbank thinks the weight ofthe entire shroud must have been eight or nine pounds, and had it been pre- served, would have been the finest speci- men of sheet gold that we have heard of since the times of the Spanish conquest. In some eloquent remarks upon the prescr- vation of souvenirs ofthe departed, and the futility of attempting to secure the great dead from contact with their native earth, Mr. Ewbanks says it is the form or feature, and not the body or substance, of the dead, that should be preserved, and adds:

“ The mummies of Eg tare quarried for fuel, and, whether those of the Pliara- ohs, their wives, their priests, or their slaves are split open and chopped up with the same indifference as so many pine logs. The gums and balsams used in einhalming them have made them a good substitute for bituminous coal; and thus the very means employed to preserve them have lice-nine the active agents for their dissipation. So it is, when the material, of cofiiiis have a high marked, value; they are then seized as concealed treasures, and their conlmls cast out as rubbish. Like heroes in the Eastern hemisphere, the desceiidnnts of Manco Capoc were sometimes, if not always, entombed in such, and with consi- derable treasure beaides in vessels of gold and silver; hence we learn how the Spanish conquerors sought for, often found, and as often plundered rich Incan sepulchrcs.”

Mr. Stratton, the father of the world re- nowned Gen. Tom Thumb, died at his residence in Bridgeport, Conn., on Frida evening last. His mind had been disorder- ed for seine time. It is understood that he has acquired a large amount of money by the exhibition of the little general, which will now be divided between the widow, the renowned dwarf, and his two married sisters.

Fivs Times NIARBIID.-—A few days since an old man of sixty-one years applied at the ethos of the city registrar for his fifth marriage certificate. His intended bride is but twenty-four, it being her first marriage certificate. This is the only case within the knowledge of the present regis- trar of a fifth marriage. Last year one man applied for his fourth marriage certifi- cate. and during that year, more men were married for the third time than females. There is, however, a woman in this city of about forty years who is now living with her sixth husband. She was first married at the age of thirteen, and when fourteen was a widow. At the expiration of her third year, she was married to her third husband. She has but three cliildren.— Boston Traveller.

In the United States there are six thoii- sand brokers and six thousand barbers, but the census does not tell which class do the most shaving.

Tho telegraph wiro between Boston and Pawtucket, on the New ork ine, was broken in fifty-mam places by the ice on Tuesday last.

It was very unhealthy at Porto Rico, by thelust intelligence. Cholera was raging fearfully.

l\IA1'iiiiuoiviAi. Sins.-—\Vlienever you see a lady and gentli-inan alone in a cab, each looking out of a different window, be con- viiiced that they are perfectly harmless-.. for they have been married some months at least.

In a case of slander, a dignified sileiico is generally the most expedient course to pursue; a vague suspicion of being slander- ed cannot be well answered, and the person who listens to slander, and condemns you unheard, is self-condemned in doing so, whilst you, from ignorance of the particu- lurs ofthe charge, cannot reply.

During a late agricultural fair, a place was wanted for the trial of horses, and a man offered the committee and spectators free admission to his grounds for that pur- pose. The crowd rushed in, but, when the sport was over, it cost them sixpenco each to get out.

lxcassivs Poi.i1'sivr:ss.—A cahman, “bowing to the storm," during a heavy shower ofhaill

Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all (ha company, you please none; it you flatter only one or two ,yoii affront the rest.

A i\Iiiioss’s Hcuu-.—'l‘hc heart, the pure, warm, social heart of a maiden may be said to be as the tiirtle-dove, which pines in the absence of its mute, and fills the wilderness of the world with its solitary monnings. It wnits but to see its destined counterpart, to tremble and palpitatc; iind ifits first emotions are not rudely jostled aside, or overpowered by the destruction of conflicting objects and the variety of oppos- ing temptations, they will become the go- verning principle of existence during the whole life ni love.—Kuiiingsniarke.

Q,Ul-1S'l'l0l\'S I-‘OR CAllD-PI.AYEIlS.—- Is it legal to play the knave?

ANOTHER Riciir Max IN The Riem- PLACE.-—\Ve understand that the direction ofthe City Electric Telegraph has been entrusted to Alderman Wire.

Woiu.oi.v \Vr:iu.-rn.—Thers isa burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, andn burden ofaccount at last to be given con. cerning them.

Tux Haieirr or lnona-ri'ruoa.—Scared individual dodging infuriated Bull behind a tree: You ungrateful beast, you, you wouldn't toss a consistent vegetarian, who never ate beef in his life, would you? I; that the return you make

Which is was Wnxna Ssx!—Femalsg are called the weaker sex, but why? If they are not strong, who is? When men must wrap themselves in thick garments, and encase the whole in a. stout overcoat to shut out the cold, women in thin silk dresses, with neck and shoulders bars, or nearly so, say they are perfectly comforta. blot \Vhen men wear waterproof boots over woollen hose, and encase the whole in India-rubber to keep them from freezing, women wear thin silk hose and cloth shoes, and pretend not to feel the cold. When men cover their heads with furs, and then

complain of the severity of the weather,

women having an apology for a bonnet at the back of their heads, ride or walk about in north-east winds, professing not to suffer at all.

DoN"r QUARRIL.-—0nO of the easiest, the most common, and the most perfectly foolish things in the world, is to quarrel- no matter with whom, man, woman, or child—or on what pretence, provocation, or occasion soevsr. There is no kind of necessity for it, and no species or degree of benefit to be derived _from it. And yet, strange as the fact may be, theologians guarrel, and politicians quarrel, lawyers

octors, and ministers qiinrrel, printers and editors quarrel, the church quarrels, and the state guarrels. nations, tribes, and

corporations quarrel, men, women, and M : children quarrel, dogsiqand catsflliirdsi and-. beans quarrel, about ‘all V0901!!! ofthipgg, .

had on all manner of occasions.