HIS PRIVATE LIFE.



  Every photographic artist knows that sun-pictures
depend much for their truthfulness to nature upon the
marked features of the object sought to be portrayed.
Smooth faces and regular lines of landscapes are seldom
caught in their full reality. This is because there are
certain accessories to truthful delineation always wanting
in such cases. It is impossible to secure, from the living
face, the aspect of unrest, which frequently gives to it
its greatest charm, its most distinguishable feature. It
is the same with a certain class of inanimate objects.
A regularly laid-out garden, or a smooth wall of bricks
or granite, never makes a pleasing picture. In the case
of the garden, the accessories are wanting of sunshine
and cloud, fragrance, and the constantly changing lights
and shadows produced by more or less commotion in
the atmosphere. In the other case, however grand and
noble may be the structure exposed to the eye, there
are lacking the surroundings which are necessary to fix
in the mind the ideas of fitness, comparison, propriety,
and the like. The nearest approaches to exactness that
have resulted from the photographer's art are to be
found in the pictures it has given of old faces, old
ruins, and other strongly marked aspects in the domain
of nature.
  In treating of the private life of Governor POWELL,
one must feel that the difficulties he has to encounter
are equally great with those of the photographer when
he attempts to reproduce on his prepared paper the
exact features of a landscape that presents no aspect