Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-07-27
A cooKNEy SKETCH OF THE SENATE.


The Loodon Morning Chronicle has a cor
respondent at Washington, who, IL is sus-
peCted Is nobody less than y. Z. Willis
tn" following bears the Willis imprint all o.
yer: ~ o. Be
Il did not arrive in Washington Till after
the discontinue TO the war party and in
the calm which succeeded there was no ora
tory awoke. passcda morning in looking at
the Senate in deliberate session., however. To
one who came with travellers experience
oil disappointment in the looks of great men,
this body OF Senators would, think. seem a
rare collection ot Impressive physiognomies
Indeed you have but TO know the oulcals
through which men pass to arrive here, To
know that most OF them are spirits (geod or
bad) OF mark undcniable. and even where
Nature has neglected, as she sometimes does
TO repeat the inner seal upon the outer man,
these trying ordeals have done it lcgibly Tor
her. They nave all the look OF men who have
done more than their share of thinking aud
struggling, hoping aud fearing; though on the
laceS oi some OF the least noble and worthy
one iinds Byron's recognition OF hose who
have
'Sinn'd in some other world, and this is
HEIR
You have seen Webs,erin England, and al
though his "0lympian front is the finest in
the Senate, yet this is the only company in
which ever saw him where he stood suppos-
ably among his fellows" Mr.. Allen, the
lhrdse OF tn war party, who speaks with
bloody hands LITERALLY knocking OFF the skin
from his knuckles By beating his desk in last
ar9ument) looks like cross between Will
am fitt aud au angry cockatoo-a tall, peer
my wedgenosed, cadaverous, thin lipp'd spec
linen oi irrascble limiditv. lie walks with
"A rpaI -
pably IN every thread he veaves, has the tow
OF his mental rope walk fastened TO the Presi-
dental chair. Mr.. Ci,tenden, OF Kentucky.
whose able crushing OF this fire work comet, a
lew days since. was so much relished By men
oi all parties, is man OF middle stature aud
plain exterior, butwith presence Of thorough
honesty and inevitable penetration. He is,
perhaps, the most generally respected and es-
teeined member OF the Senate. Mr. Dallas, |
The Speaker, Ia CT deUuRi bel hOmme) is man |
ol dignity aud ability. but with his small reg
llar features, and massey white hair, he looks |
IKE promoted Antiuous in the chair and
Wig oi Rhadamanthus. There are several We
y elegant men in the Senate. Mr.. Archer
Ind Mr.. Haywood, more particularly, and
mere are two or three OF the elder members
Who, seated in the House oil Lords, would re-
Any look pickedby nature 10 grace the coro- |
nets oil dukes-Ashley, OF Arkansas, for exam
pie, and Maugum, OF Carolina---both men of
great natural arislocracy ol presence.
Mr.. Calhoun is by much The most singular
looking man in the Senate. Great Siatenan.
exemplary man, and honest patriot as he is,
he looks, al the first glance, like a phrenzied |
indian prophet, breathing after supernatural
conflict. lie is tall and thin. His hair and |
beard are grey, wiry and neglected. His sal |
low complexion aud scanned features are i'm. |
pressed with seli-relianCe, and superiority |
mTc lorgeiiul than distlainiul of others He !
sits IN The Senate, likq a LuciGcr, whose |
thoughts OF rebellion had been oycrSru,ed-- /
powerful and spolless, but still broodiug and
dreaded.
Mr.. Cas- l. another OF the Senators of whom
you have lately heard great deal. He is I
large, fine looking man, with the air of enc
porn 10 authorIty'--a stamp from nature.
that has been recognized in his present prom
tnence, as candidate for the Presidency. 49,
Benton, OF Missouri, whose late unexpected
accession irom the Fifty four fortics" TO the
"forty mines threw such important weight
INTO lhe peace party, * stiiiencd and Tpsc
likeness OF Louis Philippe. Houston, late
PRESIDENT OF Texas, is a powerfully built,
breadthy, frank featured man, who looks in
dlgenous TO prairie, aud born to popularity
WIN the uprorlous. Heappears ia the street,
wearing loosely on his shoulders, a Mexican
blanket Premonitory symbol (some saw of
the annexation" upon the promise OF which
ha IS to base his claims To the Presidency.
These arc the Senators whose names have
been promlnentln the late question so inter
esling to England. Perhaps the news OF the
coming debates may give occasion for mention
OF Others hereafter.
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