Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-07-08
Our Delegates.frem Califoria, sc.

Some anxiety prevails in this quarter to
know the history, and character of our new
Representatives from California,-and we
seize upon thefollowiug graphic little sketch,
! as possessing sufficient interest to meet the
wishes of our readers in reference to our
new Senators, and the two members from
the golden shores of the Pacific. .s-r ,-..
William M. Guin, one Of the new Sena-
tors from California, has national reputa-
ton for experience and sagacity as a poll
tician. That is him in conversation with
Mr.. Cobb; for the House will not be called
to order for half an hours He is shade
or SO beyond fifty; with large. athletic
frame; iron grey hair; a prominent nose !;
and keen, resolute, yet benevolent express
ion Of countenance. Gwip is enthusiastic
in his likes, and DR.. Johnson would have
called him @good hater.'' His life has
been an eyentful one, and his career in Cal
ifornia has been scene OF trial and tri-
umph from the first. The slender man now
approaching him is his collea que, Col. Fre-
mont. He looks. badly, and should seek
repose and restoration at once. Quite a
taciturn, one would hardly take him. Cor
the adventurous pioneer whose labors have
reflected SO much credit upon the country,
and attracted so much attention all over
the world. Fremont has one rare and val
liable merit, especially in a public man.
He isia good listener, and knows, how to
keep his own counsel. The person now
approaching the group, with broad brim-
med California hat on his head, is Mr.. Gil
bert, one of the two members of Congress
from our golden sister of the Pacific. He
is the principal owner and editor of the
leading newspaper in California, the Alta
Californian, and only few years ago, was
journeyman compositor in the Office of the
Albany Argus. He is said to be quite rich
at present. He is not more than thirty has
fresh and pleasant countenance, and is
kind-hearted and unobtrusive gentleman. &.
Why, here is the remaining member of
the California delegation, Mr.. Wright.
There is character in his face, You see
there the energetic business man. He has
amassed great wealth in a short time, in
California, and will, no doubt be a useful
member Of the National Legislature. Look
at these four closely, and you will see the
types of those national characteristics which
have made our people superior in the art of
self-gorernment, and our country prosper
Gus and happy. Gwin personifes the sa-
gacious and intrepid statesman, who fore
sees the success of an untried policy, and
boldly stakes his all upon the issue. Ere
mont that lover Of the dangerous and doubt
full, which in order to secure the triumph of
science, coolly risks his own life in the at
tainment Of objects for which posterity will
bless him. Gilbert, the youth of our age,
and time. which looking forward, and new
er backward, pursues the path of fame and
wins the prize. Wright, the intelligence
and the energy of those vast business inter-
ests which found cities, build rail roads, e.
rect steamships, and open new paths of
trade. A few years ago, all these men
were pursuing their avocations in other re
gions, but destiny has, in the course of its
resistless operation, placed in their hands
the interests Of that Minerva of States,
which, springing into being in a day,
is destined, probably, to change the
fortunes Of nations themselves, and to extend
.hesthe7 theatre of progressive christianity
and civilization. Pennsyluanian.