Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1855-12-28
Car. Of the Iaguirer and CAroaicle.
syAsHlaaros,, DEc. u, 1855.

the past week by some rich debates, IN
which me nlbers took occasion 10 yentilate
their poi itics and patriotism 10 their own
Infinite satisfaction. A dull member WIS
rarely permitted to get far on in his de6ni-
. tions vi ;hout being Interrupted BY some
awkwar question, which generally had the
happy effect Of drying him up. At times
the Wit and rcpartee popped ever the louse
like efervescing ginger beer IN June. y
few of TIE speeches have been good, but
the Ina jority execrably bad. If any indi-
cation of the future can be bad from what
we have seen in the short period since the
meeting Of Congress, before an organiza-
ton has been effected, the number of
deaths fpolitical) viii astonish the sexton.
Several have been unceremonicusly carried
from the field during the week, and if eve.
heard from again it viii only be in the
way of very faint spiritual rappings. They
won't make good ghosts. Greeley, who al
ways looks at things in philosophical way,
very sensibly suggests in view of the num-
Der, and TO eeonomize space as much as
possible, that they be stuck in the Congress
sioual burial ground endwise, like driven
piles.
What strange i1mble of discordant po-
litical and social elements does the House
present Repub!canism, Democracy,
Know Nothiugism, Mormonism, Passional
Attraction, Fnlibustering, Fourierism, aud
nearly every other ''ism'' and "asion" has
its representative on that floor. Any one
but hopeful and enthusiastic disciple of
democracy would despair Of harmony in
this strange political omniun gatherum.--
! The elements are just Dow SO mixed up that
! Shakespeare himself could not name the
nan for Speaker. was in the lobby the
other Gay when Gildings made one of his
Asual haraugIes against slavery. Ee had
considerable difficulty in obtaining the floor.
Again and agaip he essayed to catch the
eye Of Tie clerk, which eye pertinaceousiy
refused to be "caugbt.n Determined not
| to "give it up so - be plated himself di-
rectly in front of the Clerks desk. ami
thus gained his poiut, and "pitched a.
! He is man OF large muscular frame, With
a very slight ttpdency to corpaloacy. Ills
face is marked with an ugly scam. and IS
not ut al, progressing. His mspner is ex-
ceedingiy unpleasant. He has . way Of
lashiue himself into a rage by striking his
legs, which sends his coat faps bobbing ap
| and down Lie shirt on q clothes line 10
high wind. His ordinary tone of voice re-
serobles the grating sound Of sharp got
cross cut saw When aroused, he reminds
you of one of SRIREs' four-horse power
;hreshing machines in full operation. Gid
dings is the emhodiement Of Northern abb
litiousinl, and whenever s outhern members
Wish TO make an emphatic deuulsciation of
the north, they sum it all up 10 Gtddiogs -
I believe him to be an earnest, Sincere man,
and bis bold way Of sending homo thrusts
at Southern members, and his quickness IN
repartee, make him a formidable Antagonist
The extreme hatred in which he is held IS
the best proof that be is far from being dec
pissed.
The speech Of Giddings brought ouEa
Virginiau, named hcMulen, who reminds
ne very much of ''Sloggius,' with the bro
ken nose, black eye aud bull dog. He iur-
ously avowed his determination TO dissolve
the Union if the North would repeal the
Nebraska Kansas bill, and TO hold on to
the capital If the nor:h undertook to take.
it, it must be over bis dead body lie
was very loud in bis denunciaticn of the
Republicans. In the excitement Of the
moment, he no doubs imagiaed himself
Virginia 0verseer fourishiog tbe lash over
pack Of plantation Digsers.
You have beard Of the chap who went
about making temperance lectures, aud took
With him his drunken brother to show the
effect Of intenperauce. Whenever nor
thern member makes speech on the evils
Of slavery, Mr. McMullin, or some other
southern wembe. is always ready to sford
in his own person. al illustration Of the
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