Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-03-04
FYRST TTSTT TO TIE C.aPITOL.
From the correspondent, ofthe New York Come
mercial ADVERTISE, dated

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$3.50 The life Of a member of Congress
appears TO nae to be ore OF perfect Incidence
1t is said. and probably with tlnth. that the
chairnen of committees are Obliged to work
hard; bat the members at large are most re-
fined Iazy---The House meets at IL O'Clock
the first hour is consumed IN the consider
alton of resolutions, l. G., member RISES ana
presents a resolution that the committee on
claims he instructed to consider the right oil
placing Thomas Nokes on the pension roll
after this il disposed Of with due gravity, a
mother rises with another resolution of sum-
lar import, and then anc.her, sad yet .-a%...-
err The Speaker then informs the House
that the hour for resolutions has expired, and
the special orders OF the day are called. the
house spends half hour in. the selection, and
c onsidering the right of priorlty-at last it
picks ont question OF contested election, and
about O'Clock the discussion begins. The
Honorable gentleman OF Tennessee" OF
whom have spoken, then lets the darkness
out on the subject, but courteously gives way
to his honorable friend from Maine TO move
an adjournment. And sic &c cBteris for five
DAYS Of the week, when on Friday tired of
its labor, the many headed body adjourns O.
yer to Mondiy for Tepose. This is really
scarcely a carricatured narrative. The truth
is. the object of most Of the members is to
protract the session Who will blame them?
They live in luxurious boarding houses, and
have Just enough of politics and intrigue, to
create gentle excitement, and keep course
of life from stagnating into enaai--there IS
wine for the courtiy--iobacco and whlskey
for the acknowledgements furnishes them
with newspapers, and is not the per diem al
lowasce eight dollars? He must have stern
views of hun,an nature who would upbraid
the honest member for not rejecting such
pleasure.
have detained you long enough in the
'.House," and now pass into the SENATE.
amdisposed to consider the Senate witA more
good nature, and perhaps because 1t is more
courteous to strangers. They nre not kept
in dirty gallery but are admitted below
But the Senate is really superior; the remark
made before in comparing the New York
legislator with the House being applicable
here-there is not more talent in the Senate,
but there is less bold and obtrusive dullncss.
Calhoun. the President, is an interesting
man. He is tall and thin, with dark com
plexion, black hair, and penetrating eye
He answers rapidly aud Interestingly; and as
President of the Senate, though without
much dig1ity OF manner, dispatches business
with great rapidity. iie looks to be only for
ty-two years old. There is no doubt that
there is d serious schism in the cabinet, part
ly created perhaps by tho rising OF adverse
interests, but principally by 'what lost Mark
Anthony the world" Ichoose only to aiude
to this .tetc,viD.a eensa bslii,' and save lurth-
or explanation Till we meet; but II is working
here with terrible effect, and from the Presi-
dents House to the Cabinet-the two Hols-
es and the City, is dividing all into two une-
quail parties. II is a matter OF amusing re-
Election producing, in the democratic govern
ment Of great republic. effects which one
would think could oEiy proceed from 1t i'll the
Courts OF Louis l''h or 18th. MIR. Calhoun
is drawn into this vortex.
Among the Senator's Webster is 'sfaclle
princeps-there is no doubt Of this. In the
late discussion with Hayne, he, Webster, ne
yer appeared mole superior. But he is the
great man not only here, but i'll the Supreme
Court-depend upon it, whateter the Jack
son scribblerS may say OF him, all here allow
his intellectual supremacy.
was much Disappointed in Benton. Of
Missouri, who is altogether feehler spirit
then | had anticipated. lie is man appar
emily between forty and fifty years Of age,
rather above the common size, with brown
yeliowish hair, blue eyes and an a9ualine
nose Ills ayowed political principles are
bold enough to satisfy any degree of apprc-
! tensions; and he puts them forth in debate
with entire explicitncss; but he is absolutely
feeble IN manner, and insipid altogether as
speaker. heard his reply to Webster: it
was great efnt-he tried to be sarcastic
and fiSurative, but was tame, duh and tedi-
GUS
Rowan, of Kentucky, is much ADLER man
than Benton. He is fine looking man
rather advanced IN years, very large IN per
son he speaks tolerably well; but his prin-
clples are most extravagant. lie advanced
the other day in an elaborate speech that the
State is the only judge of the constitutionality
of its own laws; that it is to be presumed the
state will never violate the United States
constitution. but if il does violate it, there is
90 remedy for the United States. Tribunals
have no right to decide or interfere.
The Supreme Court of the United States,
is of course a great object of interest The
two new Judges are very respectable men,
and the Court has gathered strength perhaps
by the Infusion Of new democratic blood into
it. They are both intelligent looking men,
probably not very learned in the law, but il
these days let us say, ''Good bless the giver,
nor look the gift horse in the mouth" Mar
shall looks still well--there is a quiet dignity
IN his manner, which is very impressive. Il
is cheering in this evil world 20 observe the
universal respect and afTcctionate regard
which follow bin. II is said that in a pos
lhumous work of Mr.. Jefferson, charges
have been advanced against the Chief JUS
bee What the charges are have not hears, |