The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-07-03

tation. He is large in frame and feshy,
his face much wrinkled, and his hair nearly
all gone. His voice is good, but he is not
calculated to be the leader in a Democratic
Convention. The "noise and confusion"
perplexes, annoys him. He is not accus-
toned to be interrupted and badgered on all
sides.
Mead, of Virginia, fine specimen OF the
old school Old Dominion gentleman, is sir.
ting near the central aisle, in the eastern d.
vison of sents, and some twenty chairs from
the Chairman. He is large, handsome,
dressed richly, and is courtly in style, and
says that which he has to say, we'll, but not
with overwhelming power. He too, is op-
pressed with the develish din around him, aud
there is Paucity of bright sandy hair on his
round and placid head. Hon. McMullen, Of
Virginia, is large man who speaks hu!rid.
ly, and with a singular flutter in the large
volume of sound which he emits, and who
does not often happen to hit the nail on the
head in his remarks. There is evidently a
large amount of self complaccncy buttoned
away under his spacious yellow vest
Childs ofConnecticut, sitting in the south.
west part of the Hall, is q charming old fe.
low. Good humor and good will toward men
have doubtless giistened in his broad face for
more than three score years aud the wrinkles
worn there, have been made by the flow Of
the milk of human kindness. But when.
ever he rises to speak, it seems to be
matter of conjesture whether some
fUll-fed, large hearted, old style Metho-
dist preacher has not strayed down from
Indianapolis, and got into the Convention in.
stead of the Conference. There is twung
very like that to which we are accustomed
from the Methodist pulpit, in his utterances;
and on Tuesday he produced quite sensa-
ton in the Convention, by calling on Dele
gates to 'give their experience" His voice
is full, and has a ponderous gurgIe, and rolls
about the Hall with triumphant appreciation
OF itself and the sentiments it delivers, III
| every toIe5 ehu eWtlio up llhc the HlCl'
low blast of keel botman's horn, of the
kind Of which Gen. w. o. Butler sung
amid the storm Of plandits sure to come.
To the right Of the Chairman, (near the
aisle) well back may be seen that world
wide celebriety, Soule. He would probably
weigh one hundred and eighty pounds, and
is very slightly round shouldcred, but his
limbs are stright and handsome. His white
vest curves comfortably outward, showing a
moderate appreciation in the past Of good
things to eat,andthat good digestion had wait
ed on appetite. The expression of his face is
quite French, but this is Il Napo'eonc sense.
His lower jay is firm as iron, aFrenchmaE' =
vague polite smile, fingers and plays OH his
lip, and he has bcaluing eye, and fore
head not huge at oil, but rounded ont and
scanned, and paled with thought and the pas
sion OF many war within the brain OF which
it is the index, and wear and tear of many a
rude shock, amid the contertions of the
world AS lie turnsshis head, his eyes CLEAN
with flash that might we'll incite apprehen-
sions in foe. Therein shines the fire o!
the filibuster, of the man who shot the
French Minister at the Court Of Madrid, and
incurred the bitter personal enmity of the
French Emperor and Empress, which Paris
letter writer's soy he still enjoys. His once
black and heavy hair, now thin and slightly
silvercG, is brushed back straight and close
to the scalp, revealing completely the fine
outlines of his head. AS yet he has not spo-
ken a word ia Convention.
On the extreme ght Of the Speaker, near
one Of the pillars the gallery, Jno. Petit
of Indiana, (who was labelled for time and
eternity by Col. Benton) looms up at FIRE.
quent intervals, short but thick, brief yet
enormous - looking like a giant sqeeaed
dowa in Gabriel Rayel's magic man press
When he rises, he presents broad patel
of bald head, a quecrly arranged, big fat face
vast belly, and legs like those ofan ele
plant. His voice seems to roll up from
some boundless and thunderous region, ant
reverbate solmemnly above the tumult like
; booming of monstrous bullfrog amid {
concert OF frogs of far inferior wind privi
leges. Immagine a bull-frog played upor
by steam whistle, and you have it. Anc
that which he says is TO the point, and poten
too. His thunder is not an empty sound
but roars with veritable significance.
One of the most active men in the Hall j:
Richardson, of illinois,, a tall, firmly built
coarse featured man, who stoops slightly
and with anxious, unhinching gaze regard
! every movement of the slightest importance
! He is the right bower of Douglas, was tn
} champion of the Nebraska Bill in the House
, vet was reelected, and was the regular Dem
ocratic candidate for Speaker OF the Hous
; last winter. There is evidently larg
amount of that quality which we call hu
. manity in the man and he is working fo
! Douglas with the most intense devoton.-
/, His face does not shine with the interior in
|, spiration of victory. His smiles are onl
skin-deep, and there is something ofsorrow
and weariness with unrequtted toiL in ever
Q deep line that seams his face, out Of whic
? his great Roman nose stands like promon
: tory, defying sea and sky with all thei
Q storms. Briefly said, he looks like picture
!. OF Black Hawk, only his costume is that {