The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-09-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr.. Weed, the venerable editor of the Alba
ny Eoening Journal, in announcing the uomi-
nation in the 2lst Onio district, thus remarks of
Mr.. Giddipgs, and refers to the past:
|" So ends the long service of the Father of
the House. Failing health compels his with.
drawal from the scene Of his labors. The
twenty years that have passed over him there
have whitened his head and bent bis shoulders,
bat they have never found his voice falterinp
or his heart wavering in the struggle for Free
dom. Dies
Z" Every chair in the old Hall of Representa-.
tives must be fraught with memories of the
past to the Senior Member He has seen
generations of shortlived politicians rise. fall,
and become forgotten. He has seen faithful
pubic servants removed to other trusts, and
many to another world. Round the entire
circle of the Hall, his eye fails to find single
member who sat there when he entered it, and
who has sat there with him since. Adams has
gone to his reward. Ogden Hoffman, Charles
Ct. Anterior, Leverett Saltonstal, Edward Cur
tbs, Barnwell Rhett Dixon r. Lewis, and many
others, are also gone the way of all the earth
Hunter and Bell are transferred to the Senate;
Wise to the Gubernatorial chair. Brown is
dispensing the patronage of the Post Office De-
partment. Clifford wears the ,silken iudicial
robe OF the Supreme Court. Stanly has gone
to that then terra iDcognita, California. Tru-
man Smith, Cooper, Weller, and Williams,
after exchanging Representative for Senatorial
honers, are departed from the Capitol. Corwin,
after brilliant career as Governor, Senator,
and Secretary, is proposing to return again to
the field of his early distinction. Picksns and
hopkins have been trying the pleasures of
Foreign Courts. Briggs and Lincoln are ex-
Governors. Granger and Cave johnson are
ex-Poetmasters General. Strong and Marvin
are on the New York bench. Moses 81. Grin
nell, Christopher Morgan, and Thomas Kemp
shall, are still colahorers in the good cause, as
OF yore, though no longer companions in Office.
Like changes have altered the aspec. of
the Senate Chamber. Clay, Webster, Benton,
and Calhoun, then in the zenith of fame, now
live only in history. Buchanan occupies the
White House. Pierce has lately left it. William
r. King became Vice President, and died
abroad. The grave has closed over Silas
Wright and Honest John" Davis. Walker
has had his ups and downs with every turn of
the wheel of Fortune, and is now Ex-Governor
of place that he then had never heard Of The
only chair that retains its old occupant is that
filled by John ]. Crttenden, the veteran of the
Senate, as Giddings is of the House.
Empires have risen and fallen Kingdoms
turned into Republics, and Republics into
Kingdoms six new States have entered the
Union, and three new Territories have been
brought under our flag Presidents have gone
up like rockets, and come down like sticks
Compromises have been made and broken
war has followed peace, and peace again sue
ceeded war; trade hes expanded and collapsed
parties have risen, fourished, and decayed Z
platforms have been built and torn down again
since he took a seat in the Hall of Representa-.
tives but during all these changes, Joshua R.
Giddings has proved alike faithful to friend and
fearless to foe. His successor can have no
higher ambition than to leave as unhlemished
q record"
A correspondent of the NJ y Erening Post,
from the Adirondack region, says:
"On Follensby Pond, beautiful lake tf
three miles in circuit, is eneamped party Of
Boston gentlemen, whose character and &C,
quirements have given to their sbanty tie
name the Philosophers Camp. knowing some
of the gentlemen at the camp, and being con-
missioned by Martin to carry up stores, we paid
them visit, and found the party consisted of
Professor Agassiz, Ralph Wal 10 Emerson, Pro-
lessor Jeffries Wyman, James Russell Lowell,
Mr.. Holmes, Mr.. StilIman, Mr.. Binney, Mr.
Hoar, and DR.. Howe, with ten guides. A head
land overlooking the blue expanse of the waters,
and overhung by the mountains, had been se-
lected for camp, and an excellent spruce COW
cred shanty had been built for the visiters, and
and tent raised for the guides Ere OF
trunks of trees formed the beacon by night
and the pillar of cloud by day, while an Aneri
can flag waved in sublime ostentation over ths
roof. The camp was q permanent one, and
its arrangements complete. A buschery, where
deer and fish were cut up, and the offal buried, |
a kennel for the hounds, landing for boats,
and q covered kitchen for preparing the dinnel
were portion of it's accompaniments.
The habits of the philosophers were as vel
arranged as their camp. At daybreak they al
bathed in the lake, and then separated for the
different pursuits of the day. Agassiz caugh
bugs and water insects with An industry ant
enthusiasm that astonished the guides, who
are more bent on getting rid Of the same in
sects than in securing them. Sam Cunning
one of our guides, who saw him, initiates hin
manner very successfully, running around, az
if endeavoring to catch some imaginary inject,
which he at last secures, either in the air or in
his mop of hair. and then, as he pinches him
between the thumb nails, exclaims, "a we're fine
specimen of q boog-vere.' DR.. Wyman col
lects specimens of the anatomy of the wild ami
mails of the district, and the distendej stomacht
Of deer may be seen, inflated with wind, and
tied up with threads, between different trees
like huge spiders, waiting to entrap you
Holmes shoots and writes, Emerson reads and
watches Stillman fish; and when the day's
amusements are ended, the supper dispatched
and the whole party are gathered around tn.
big FIRE, earnest in their talk and lively expires
SIGN, it would not be amiss to affirm that NJ
other such coterie of minds Is assembled a
one hearth side, from the land of the chivalrg
to where the fisher bats his angle and tht
hunter twangs his bow on the larchen bauh
of the Temiscouta."
Rev. William Butler, an American missioa.
airy of the Methodist church in India, has d
Gently sent home box of curiosities, GATHERED
during the rebellion. Among them are foir
Hindoo idols, well executed in marble two
marble slabs, venerated as bearing the print pf
Mohammed's hand and foot, miraculously in
pressed in them an elegant copy of the Korsp,
illuminated and annotated, and a cap of stae
belonging to one of the princes of Delhi, IF
velvet and gold. Mr.. Butler takes moe
favorable view of the present state of affafs
and the prospects of the immediate re estsb-
lshment of British supremacy, than We hate
seen elsewhere. he is located at Bareilly, In
the very heart of the rebellious district, and his
seen the commencement and suppression of tie
outbreak, and his views are therefore entitled
to great weight. he says that England's "a.
premacy is being fast accomplished, and that
probably on basis of greater psrmaasnse than
ever. His letter Was written in June, at Nyiee
Tai, whittier he removed for safety, at he
height of the rebellion:
The country is settling down to its uaal
quietude. The organized resistance which is
manifested in few places, and which is Oily
becoming feebler, interferes very little with The
ordinary course of public business and The
general tranquility. Persons at distance ban
hardly realize this, but SO it is. never ew
the Grand Trunk road so crowded with daf