The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-03-10

Star, furnishes the following interesting facts
respecting the present House of Representatives
in Congress:
There are in the present House of Represen.
| tatives one hundred and twenty-five new mem.
bers, one more than moiety of the whole num-
Der of which it is composed.
From Maine the new members four; from
New Hampshire three; from Massachusetts
three; from Connecticut six, the entire delega-
ton; from Vermont one; from New York
twenty eight from Pennsylvania fourteen; from
Delaware one; from Maryland three, from Vr-
ginia eight; from North Carolina three; from
South Carolina four from Georgia eight; from
Kentucky seven; from Tennessee FIVE; from O.
hio eight; from Lou isiana two, from Illinois
two; from Indiana six; from Mississippi two;
rom Alabama two; from Missouri one, and
from Arkansas one.
There were in the last House one hundred
aud sixty-six lawyers; in the present ,here are.
believe, one hundred and 6Ity.two. In both
instances the legal profession came in for their
full proportion OF the burdens of conducting the
affairs of the nation. A very patriotic class Of
gentlemen are the lawyers.
The average ages of the members of the last
House were thirty. seven and half wears; the
eldest, J. @. Adams, being seventy.one years,
and the youngest, Mr.. Stanly of NJ C. beng
twenty seven years. They maintain their rela.
tive positions in this respect in the present House
the one being the Oldest and the other the
youngest person belonging to it. The larges
person either in the Inst or the present House is
ID. II. Lewis. His weight is considerable over
four hundred pounds. He g withal gentle.
man Of almost as gigantic mind as person.
The latter however, is sounwieldly as material.
y to impair his usefulness as n legislator. 1t
is with the utmost difficulty that he performs
any bodily exercise, and Congressional life i'm,
upon the physical rs we'll as the mental facul
Ties. think activity of the body tends vastly to
the Development Of the iowers ofthe mind
Mr. CHADwIoK-SIR: The following lines are
from the pen of the Hon. H. NJ. BRAcKENRIDGE.
They speak the language ofthe West with regard
to the next Presidential election. If you think
them worthy of place in the Caledonian they are
at your service.
Freeport, Penn Jan. 1910. T.G.
RIsON AND LIBERTY.
The banner OF Freedom unfurl to the breeze,
From the stumble, of safety, Columbia awaken,
To triumph more on the land and the seas;
The cnuse of the sires shall ne er by their sons be
forsaken.
Sons of Freedom arise,
Let your shouts reach the skies,
And resolve to maintain the Freedom ye prize
Then inscribed on our flag be HARRIsoss name,
And liberty, union, ana law we proclaim
Our trade, like a wreck, is keel up on the shore;
In the silence Of death see our workshops reposing;
Der the lands of the despot triumph no more,
While the spoilsmen destruction their schemes are
disclosing
Our Freedom they've sold,
To get silver and god
Our children in bondage and slavery to hold
Then inscribed on flag be HARRIsoN's name,
Democracy, union, and law we proclaim.
Oh, say, we brave of the far spreading west,
Where is the low d chief who met the foes dread
invasion;
His name both in peace and in shall be blest,
While the stars still in friendship unite a nation
Then think it no shame,
That he led you to fame,
When the Lion subdued lay crouchd on the
Thames.
Then inscribed on flag be HARRIsoNs name,
And liberty, union, and law, we proclaim.
Tho content with his cot and few of ground
And despislng the wealth got by base speculation,
His heart there to glory has ever been found,
He's himself, like the Roman the gem Of the nation
Give old Tippecanoe,
The just fame that is due,
To honesty, valour, and worth we are true.
Then inscribed on flag be HARRIsoN's name,
AS chief of the nation, loudly proclaim.