The Shasta courier., 1858-09-11
NUMBER 81.
Interesting Reminiscenc nccss

Gen. Sam Houston is said to be the only
member of the present Congress who was also
a member thirty-6ve years ago, when Edward
Everett formed OF three hundred cunstitut-
ing that body"
There are some slight inaccuracies in this
statement, although not material The Con-
gress in which Gen. Houston and Mr.. Everett
were members together was that of 1857.
more than thirty years ago, but not thrty-fve,
and the whole number of members was 26i, and
not 300. 1t is of that Congress that Gen Hous-
ton was the only one that is member of
this Congress. But he is far from being the
only surviving member, and there is at least one
member Of this Congress who was in Congress
long previous to 1925. Mr.. Crittendcn, the ven-
erable Senator from Kentucky, was in the SEN
ate in 1917, more than forty years ago. Hous-
ton left Congress in 1927, and did not come
hack TIL ls46, having been not only out of Con-
grcss, but the most part out OF the Union.
brought back, if all accounts of his anti-annex-
alton coquetry with England be true, rather
against his own will.
Congress contained great many men who
have since acquired great reputation, and occu-
pied the highest positions in the country Four
of its membcrs-Van Buren,, Harrison, Polk and
Buchannan--have since been elected President.
Two-Richard NJ. Johnson and W. r. King
have been Vice Presidents. The presiding off,
| Ger Of the Senate was J. &. Calhoun, then in the
zenith of his popularity and in the highest yigor
OF his intellect. The eccentric Randolph occu-
pied the seat which, at the close of the term
was filled by John Tyler, afterwards President
Daniel Webster was in the House. and Hugh l..
White in the Senate-men whom large masses
devoted friends unavailingly strovc to elect to
the Presidency. Benton, then n giant among
orators and statesmen, was in the Senate so
was Hayne, of South Carolina who died so young
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superior AS a debater in the Senate, afterwards
Secretary of State and Minister to Spain Louis
McLane, who became, successfully, Secretary OF
State and OF the Treasury, and Minister to Eng
| land; Levi Woodbury., afterwards Secretary OF
the Navy, OF the Treasury, and Justice of the Su-
prcme Court of the u S. In the House, besides
McDullie and Hamilton and Philip p. Barbour
men who have left great regulations unconnect-
ed with public station--there were Edward Liv-
ingston, of Louisiana, Secretary of State and
Minister to France; Vim. G. Rives, of Virginia,
also Minister to France; Andrew Stevenson, OF
Virginia, Minister to England; and, though we
name him last, not the least conspicuous there
Mr. Everett himself, whose name had become
widely known for ripe scholarship, and who be-
came successfully, Minister to England and Sec
rotary of State.
1t was a remarkable body which included
these men. Very few Of the members survive.
and of the whole list President Buchanan Is the
only one now in public life, excepting General
Houston, of the Senate. Mr.. Buchannn was.
however, man Of mark then. Gen. Houston
was only known for some eccentrici,ies, which
soon after made him notorious, if not famous
and his titles to distinction, whatever they are
were earned on another field than in the coun.
ellis or service Of the United States
DISSERTATION OF THE HOUSE WHERE Burns WAS
BoRS.-Thc dust of Alexander might perhap.
be found stopping beer barrel but the even
is not likely if the dust were known TO be Alex
andcr's. lie might come there by accident. bu
scarcely by intention. The worst of us have
still some reverence for departed greatness We
do not put heroes in bung- holes, knowing then,
TO be heroes, and bung-holes to be holes for
bungs. Other bungs do as well, or in fact bet
ter, and heroes may have other and better uses.
Scotland, however, is convicted criminal in
this respect, and she requires Improvement
IN her taste. She has n national idol-a Mooch
that dcyours her children, and to this said Mo-
loch she dcyotes the memory Of her wise men
and prophets, her hero warriors and her bards
If she can found no other monument, she can
found II Esprit shop" and pour libations of
liquid fire down the throats of the liviag out of
honor to the illustrious dead 4" In this house"
says an inscription on little cottage, not far
from Ayr. Robert Burns the Ayrshire poet
was born" and on the same cottage, at the other
side of the open door, is Inscribed the announce
mcnt in similar, though larger letters, that the
said cottage is I" licensed to sell spirits porter
and ale" What Goths or Vandals, we should
like to know, licensed the birth place Of the poet
for such purpose No wonder that strangers
from other lands come to Scotland and brand
her as the most drunken country in Europe
which fortunately Is not true-when we present
to their amazement tue Wallace Tower public
house, and the cottage where Burns was born.
converted into mean, contemplate road d-side
drinking shop-in which man or woman of
taste would set a foot for fear Of desecratng a
cheri3hed association. Magistrates who grant
such licences the barbarians of Scotland
those who bring Scotland into disrcpute, and
defime her before the wcrld.-Gtasgow Common
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FRExcH BELLE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
Madame de Genlis, in her memoir, describes
the training she underwent to fit her for Paris
| ian society in the last century:
| ' / had two teeth pulled out I had whale
bone stays that pinched s1e ,erribly my feet