Oroville Daily Butte Record

A Washington correspondent of the Charleston Mercury thus describes the personal appearance of Mr. Buchanan, formerly and at present:

I remember the appearance of Mr. Buchanan in olden times, when Jackson was President, when he was broad, firm, strong, and energetic in appearance, and quick in motion. He is now quiet in his movement, gentle in his manner, and seemingly conscious of the necessity of constant care of himself, as well as of everything else. His features are longer, and his skin has that soft white appearance, which we only see in elderly persons of temperate life and abstinence from out-door exposure. The pictures represent him as having a crooked neck, but this proceeds only from a difference in the foci of his eyes, which he ought to have had remedied by the optician in early life. The eye of lesser power he advanced toward the object he looks upon, and of course depresses the opposite side of the head. I often pass him in the evening hours, within or near the Presidential gardens. His honors rest so easily upon him, that those who talk with him, like himself, forget that he is President, and they think only of the urbane gentleman.