Robert Morris, Jr., Esq., attorney and counsellor at law, is a member of the Essex county bar in Boston.  Mr. Morris has also had the commission of magistracy conferred upon him, by his excellency George N. Briggs, recent governor of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, a high honor and compliment to an Attorney; the commission usually being conferred on none but the oldest or most meritorious among the members of the bar.  He also keeps the books of one of the wealthy rail road companies, a business almost entirely confined to lawyers in that city.  Mr. Morris is a talented gentleman, and stands very high at the Boston bar.  He sometimes holds the magistrate’s court in Chelsea, where his family resides, and is very highly esteemed by the whole community of both cities, and has a fine practice.

Macon B. Allen, Esq., attorney and counsellor at law, is also a member of the Essex bar.  He is spoken of as a gentleman of fine education.

Robert Douglass, Jr., for many years, has kept a study and gallery of painting and daguerreotype in the city of Philadelphia.  Mr. Douglass is an excellent artist—­being a fine portrait and landscape painter, which art he practised before the discovery of daguerreotype.  He is also a good lithographer, a gentleman of fine educational attainments, very clever talents, and highly esteemed in that city.  Mr. Douglass has been twice to the West Indies and Europe.

J. Presley Ball is the principal daguerreotypist of Cincinnati, Ohio.  Mr. Ball commenced the practice of his art about seven years ago, being then quite young, and inexperienced, as all young beginners are, laboring under many difficulties.  He nevertheless, persevered, until he made a business, and established confidence in his skill; and now he does more business than any other artist in the profession in that city.  His gallery, which is very large, finely skylighted, and handsomely furnished, is literally crowded from morning until evening with ladies, gentlemen, and children.  He made some valuable improvements in the art, all for his own convenience.  There is none more of a gentleman than J. Presley Ball.  He has a brother, Mr. Thomas Ball, and a white gentleman to assist him.  Few go to Cincinnati, without paying the daguerrean gallery of Mr. Ball, a visit.

The great organ of the “Liberty Party” in the United States, is now conducted by one who requires not a notice from such an obscure source—­we mean Frederick Douglass, of Rochester, N.Y.  His history is well known—­it was written by more faithful hands than ours—­it was written by himself.  It stands enrolled on the reminiscences of Germany, and France, and in full length oil, in the academy of arts, and in bust of bronze or marble, in the museum of London.  Mr. Douglass is also the sole owner of the printing establishment from which the paper is issued, and was promoted to this responsible position, by the power of his talents.  He is a masterly letter writer, ably edits his paper, and as a speaker, and orator, let the scenes of a New York tabernacle, within two years, answer instead.  Mr. Douglass is highly respected as a citizen and gentleman in Rochester.