Kanawha Valley Star

The Vice President

'Irenaeus' of the New York Observer who is traveling at the South, was lately a guest at a wedding in Lexington, Ky. where he met the Hon. John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States. He thus describes his person, manners and domestic state:

John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States was one of the guests at the wedding. The rough portraits of him that stared every body in the face last fall give but a poor likeness of this extraordinary man, who at a youthful period of life unexampled has been called to preside over the most august body of men in this country. His form is tall, erect and commanding; his countenance thoughtful: his manners smooth and graceful, and his conversation indicates a sober, intelligent and thinking man. With a lovely and accomplished wife and sweet children, he resides in a modest cottage, but one story high, shaded deeply with old trees, a little way out of town. I could not but admire the simplicity of our republican institutions, when I saw that this great people have come to this embowered cot to find a man to preside over its Senate, and perhaps to fill its chair of State.