The Placer herald., 1856-02-23
Picture of u. S. Senators.

mercial, writing from Washington the 4th
instant, says:
looked in upon the Senate to-day, Gen
Cass is a ponderous old fellow, with a mas
siye head which he covers with a rusty old
brown wig, and keeps opening and shutting
| his mouth, and sucking his breath, between
his teeth, as if he constantly tasted something
| disagreeable. John NJ. Clayton is more
enormous than Gen. Cass; and his face though
far, is magnificent He is the best looking
man in the Senate, and laughs heartily at in
teryals of from two to five minutes. His
hair is white as snow, and his big eyes glisten
all the time with Intelligence and humor
Seward is about as stalwart in appearance
as a pair of tongues. He does not weigh
more than an hundred pounds. His hair
is short and looks dead, and his eyes are
hidden behind a pair Of splendid gold spec
tacles. His face is thin, pale and wrinled,
but lis lines are firm, and he appears to be
what he s-a man of restless and intriguing
intellect. Senator Butler, OF South Carolina,
is the thicllest at the wasteband, though not
comfortably heavy. His face is bright, and
his hair, which he wears long, and in singu-
lar confusion, is white as newly washed
lambs wool. Hales appearance indicates
that he has been literally fed on fat pork and
buttermilk. Pugh looks younger when
among the old bald, or whte-headed and
big-bellied Senators than | ever before saw
him. A majority of the Senators have naked
patches on the top Of their heads, and quite
half of them are the opposite Of slender.
/ They chew tobacco very much as other folks,
so far as could discover, and Immediately
after adiourning, several Of them lit cigars,
and leaning back appeared to feel comforta
! bic.
HoEsE FLESH FOR FooD.-I'he French are
adding to their dietetic regimen by inuodu-
cling new articles of food. One of their
latest gastronomic innovations is in the use
Of horse flesh 1t is only a few months since
no less person than M St IIiIaire, Protes
sQr of Zoology at the Garden of Plants,
threw the weight Of his high authority on
the side Of this aliment, not as de27ier
resort for a furnishing people, but as whole
some and sayery meat, deserving TO be
ranked along with the choicer commodities
Of the butchers stall. The editor of the
Union Medicdle gives an amusing account of
dinner TO which he was invited the other
day, by NJ. Renaut, Director of the great
Veterinary School at Abort. The object
proposed was a comparative test Of the
qualities Of beef and horse flesh served up in
three standard forms in which they are
employed by the French people. lst.
BoaH'o0, (water containing the juices of
meat that has been boiled in it, much used
by the French as soup) ID. BouiW, the
meat thus boiled, and which is invariably
the second dish served up at the tuJte d6ote
Sd. RoH,Noast) The horse flesh served on
the present occasion was from an animal
which, after % years Of faithful service, had
the misfortune to be attacked with paralysis
of the postcrior limbs, lie was, however
fat and exempt from any other signs of
disease Thus far the conditions were not
The most favorable; a younger animal would
have promised better results. The J0att{oa
was declared excellent, rich, sayory, aromatic;
the jouHH not so good, but on the whole
quite eataba; the yoG oecasioncd an 'eXpo-
SION of satisfaction. Nothing could be finer,
more delicate or tender; and the .fllst ranked
with "Ies viandcs de luxe les fus recherches."
The editor Of the Union MedicaIe waited in
GOOD faith twenty-four hours before writing
"A line, that he might be able to declare that
he wrote without the slightest "remorse Of
Digestion" The conclusion is that horse
of twenty-three years old nay furnish "a
superior 6ouilion; good and very eatabe
douili, an exquisite roti, and doectable
fllet."