Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-10-03

Citing to and iro through the Hail. A call
for ]. division sets the whole House to passing
through tellers like the supernumeraries in a
theatre Il ching round a side scene, or the pas
sengers d New Jersey steamboat showing their
tickets. le magnificent chandelier pours its
rich and lsss ant light from the dome, the marble
pillars reaEsE cir majestic proportions around
whilst the les are thronged with closely
packed aud ~ The ladies' gallery resembles
the floral de gartment Of horticultural fair. The
fast huttering fans are not unlike the wings of
lowering butterflies fitting over them. The con.
trasts of bright colors the rich costumes, glitter
ing Jewels, bright smiles, and animated gestures
divert the dull gaze from the absorbing objects
which surround, and we look with admiration I'D.
on the purity and beauty that surveys-perhaps
redeems-the turbid scene that spreads below
them. Yet the beautiful creatures have assem-.
bled for the purpose of Witnessing the annual
"scene." They look upon the area below with
the interest which inspires senoras and senoritas
OF Madrid or Seville, at bul-fght, chastened, il
is true, by humanity, and refined by intelligence.
They SIT with great patience waiting for the anti
cpated disturbances. Some listen to the confu-
sion OF tongues with that intense gravity which
we have sometimes seen them manifest at a lee
ture upon "Researches in Radiant Heat" "a dis
course upon lnhnitesimal Proportions" or "the
Integral and Differential Calculi." To the fair
spectators the proceedings are about as ineligible
as the debates of Menomnee council
Behold very small gentleman rises under
great excitement his voice is of that style cha
racterized by the Apostles as crying ia the will
derness, Tor no man seems to regard him--yet it
is voice OF lamentaton. So far as we can trans
late his very earnest pantomime, he protests against
the injustice of the House. Speaker evidently
sympathlzes and endeavors to procure him hear
inn 1et th-
threatens to "call names;" his uniformly placid
temper is becoming somewhat frayed at the edges;
knock! knock knock The Rochester damsels
are utterly outdone-the Speaker works with his
mallet like truak maker--confusion somewhat
less; small gentleman rectes at the top of his
volce-punctuated with strokes OF the mallet-
an extremely hard case--poor woman and family
of children seeking relef-grandfather seems to
have been fool enough to advance money during
the revoluton-motion to suspend the rule-ayes
consist of that of the patron, very much expand
ed and prolonged; with few others very faint,
perhaps with sympathy. war of noes follows
Ike the roar OF Niagara, or any thing you like in
Osslan. Poor woman goes down ditto; small
children, small gentleman very indignant appa-
rently consoled by the still small voice of fat
gentleman in rather thin suit of hair and sum-
mer clothing. The locomotive of legislation tears
along other gentlemen telegraph the Speaker ;
bevy of most respectable widow ladies' in weeds
of woe appeal, like the distressed danes of CHI
valry, to the justice and generosity of the House
Motion to suspend. The patron knights of these
ladies' gescuate most CALAMITY in their behalf :;
they illustrate all those rhetorical diagrams which
we see in SCOTS Lessons of Oratory. Clerk is
seen reading at the risk of his lungs; Speaker
enforcing his remarks with the mallet which he
now f1ourishes from the force of habit 1t ne.
Their adds to nor diminishes the tumult. Question
on suspension-ayes little stronger than before
negative roar, if any thing, more ferocious.--
Widows disappear from the strife; a few shreds
of black lace, and a fragment or two of fashiona-
BILE morning caps float fora moment upon the ad-
vancng surge of legislation ; and these merto-
rious claimants appear no more--till the next
session. Surely, if the fair spectators in the gal
lery could have known the unfeeling indignities